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How does the Connect-ED ® notification service work?
The Connect-ED service combines the power of the Internet with the pervasiveness of the telephone to give users an affordable and easy-to-use tool to reach out to their communities. Users record a voice message in their own voice using just a telephone or typing a message. In all, the multi-modal service helps officials reach out to students, parents and staff via:
- Voice messages to home phones, work phones, cell phones, and even emails
- Written messages to e-mail accounts
How many calls have been sent through the Connect-ED service?
Blackboard Connect is currently sending 25-30 million time-sensitive calls per month solely on behalf of government entities and schools via its Connect platform of services which include:
- Connect-ED for K-12 schools and school districts
- Connect-ED for Higher ED
- Connect-CTY® for municipalities
- Connect-GOV® for state and federal agencies
How many schools are using the service?
One in every six K-12 students are enrolled in schools using the Connect-ED service to send messages to students, parents and staff. Sites currently using the Connect-ED service include Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Sacramento City Public Schools, and Houston Independent School District. Blackboard Connect is prohibited from listing its clients without prior consent all clients quoted above can be mentioned as they have provided consent. If you would like to speak with any of the aforementioned clients, please contact Natasha Rabe at 818-808-1790 or via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Additionally, over 14,000 sites nationwide are using one of services, reaching 9 million recipients.
What is multi-modal communication?
With the Connect-ED service, school officials can reach their community members in their own voice (at landlines, cell phones, and via e-mail). During a time-sensitive situation, multi-modal communication is critical. It is the most comprehensive way to reach people in the environment they may be in at the moment an issue arises. Communication is sent simultaneously to all available contact points for each person.
How much does the Connect-ED system cost?
The service is based on an affordable flat per-student rate. Blackboard Connect does not quote rates for individual clients. Please check with the site for additional information.
How has the Connect-ED system been used?
The Connect-ED system has been used to communicate vital information when a critical situation has taken place. Additionally, some sites use the service for more routine communication such as holiday schedules, test day reminders, and to alert parents of important upcoming events or deadlines.
What if an emergency occurs and the school can't access the Internet to send a message?
Each user is given a personal, wallet-sized Emergency Messaging card. In case of an evacuation or power loss, school administrators can use the information on this card to send a time-sensitive notification to all their contacts or to a pre-determined emergency response team using just a telephone. Blackboard Connect maintains Client Care representatives to assist users 24/7/365 should alternative means be necessary such as encountered throughout both Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Wilma as well as regularly encountered when a snow day message needs to be sent.
Does the Connect-ED service require any additional equipment?
No. The only thing needed is an Internet connection and a telephone. Sites do not have to buy or maintain any special equipment, have special phone lines installed, or install any software applications or plug-ins.
How does the Connect-ED service get access to student and staff contact information?
Blackboard Connect provides an encrypted, online process to securely import a school's existing data into that school's account in a secure and reliable manner. The school maintains all data. They have full ownership over that data. Blackboard Connect also provides a system that allows schools to schedule automatic updates as frequently as they like, and/or they can add, remove, and delete individual contacts at their convenience.
Additionally, students, parents and staff are encouraged to ensure that their contact information is up-to-date so that the school can contact them should an issue occur.
Does Blackboard Connect share the school's information with anyone?
No. Blackboard Connect does not sell, lease, share, or rent personally identifiable information (names, addresses, phone numbers, etc.) to any companies or persons outside of Blackboard Connect or its service providers.
How long has Blackboard Connect provided this service?
Blackboard Connect's first client sent its inaugural Connect-ED for K-12 communication in early 2001 under the PACE brand. Since then, Blackboard Connect has delivered hundreds of millions of messages on behalf of schools and public officials.
How can the Connect-ED service reach thousands in minutes?
Blackboard Connect's mass notification engine supports the Connect-ED service. Blackboard Connect maintains access to tens of thousands of phone lines originating from multiple locations throughout the United States to ensure that its clients' communications are delivered quickly and efficiently. Moreover, Blackboard Connect employs sophisticated call throttling logic to identify the proper schematics needed to deliver calls based upon whatever congestion the local telecommunications providers are experiencing at the moment calls are being attempted. This is a crucial point of differentiation as compared to both auto-dialers and other ASP/Software as a Service competitors who lack experience delivering time-based mass notifications.
What is Blackboard Connect?
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA, Blackboard Connect Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBB) that provides comprehensive communication services specifically designed to enable rapid dissemination of critical information via multimodal communication, including voice and email. The Connect platform of services includes Connect-ED®, Connect-CTY®, Connect-GOV®, and Connect-MIL®. These SaaS (Software as a Service) solutions are used nationwide by Higher Education, K-12 schools, local government, State and Federal agencies, and U.S. military forces. Blackboard Connect designs systems specifically for each served vertical to ensure quick adoption by end-users. Blackboard Connect's services are developed with the assistance of end-users within each vertical and are regularly upgraded based upon requests made by a panel of industry-specific users and non-users ensuring that we are providing the best services possible.


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Why should the U.S. Government engage religious communities? That was the topic of discussion last week at the first ever interagency policy seminar on "Engaging Communities of Faith to Advance Policy Objectives" hosted by the Foreign Service Institute and the U.S. Institute of Peace.
Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs Maria Otero opened the seminar with these words: "Organized religion makes up the largest part of civil society around the world. Nearly 85 percent of people worldwide participate in a faith tradition... We need to engage with religious communities in order to have a holistic understanding of the factors at play in any given country."
Historically, the State Department and USAID have incorporated religious and community leaders in many aspects of our work. But Secretary Clinton has made this type of engagement a hallmark of how we do business in the first Quadrennial Development and Diplomacy Review, and President Obama has called partnerships with businesses, non-profits, and faith groups a "defining feature of our foreign policy." In fact, as early as her Senate confirmation hearing, Secretary Clinton insisted on greater coordination with religious groups, and so we have been working since the very beginning of her tenure to develop partnerships with faith communities on shared issues of interest such as conflict resolution, environmental protection, and health and development.
Most notably, the President recently formed the Interagency Working Group on Religion and Global Affairs (RGA) to increase the capacity of the U.S. Government for faith-based partnerships. As RGA Co-Chair Joshua DuBois, the Executive Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, explained last week, "faith leaders are among the most trusted members of their society around the world...and religious networks often reach places where we are not, especially in remote, difficult to access locations, and faith leaders often wield credibility that government actors lack."
Before last week's seminar, the RGA Working Group conducted a first-of-its-kind mapping process to determine what we are already doing to engage faith communities to advance our foreign policy objectives. Nine agencies and 167 embassies from around the world responded, and many reports conveyed a deep appreciation of how further engagement could advance America's foreign affairs goals.
There are numerous innovative examples showing how the U.S. government has partnered with faith-based institutions. Our USAID Mission in Madagascar works hand-in-hand with Christian, Muslim, and traditional religious leaders in 422 communes to share information to improve maternal and child health and support the fight against malaria and other diseases. Our Embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh, recently hosted a regional conference on "The Role of Religious and Community Leaders in Advancing Development in Asia" with over 60 interfaith leaders, political actors, and development practitioners from 14 Asian countries, and Embassy Vatican sponsored a landmark conference where interfaith leaders addressed specific development, environmental, and peace-building challenges and Joshua DuBois gave a keynote speech calling for new partnerships. And it's not just State Department and USAID officials who are developing innovative partnerships abroad; our Department of Agriculture has consulted with religious authorities and others in a number of countries around issues of importing and exporting kosher and halal meats, and Health and Human Services has worked with religious leaders to overcome suspicions about vaccinations as being antithetical to faith.
There were many more examples than I could list here. Yet while activities like these are deepening our relationships and improving lives around the world, we also found that much of our outreach was sporadic, focused primarily on ceremonial events, and all too often ad hoc and uncoordinated. Based on the success of last week's seminar, we will be integrating trainings on faith-based partnerships into other parts of our regular curriculum, and we are also pursuing new policy guidance and legal guidelines to give our diplomats greater clarity about engaging faith communities abroad.
From informing policy planning to influencing policy outcomes, faith communities are a key stakeholder in U.S. foreign policy -- as well as a potential partner for advancing America's objectives overseas -- and so we are taking new strides to engage with them, coordinate our efforts, and find new ways to work together. If you have ideas for potential collaborations, I would love to hear from you at firstname.lastname@example.com or @RobAtState, and I invite you to visit http://www.state.gov/partnerships and http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_partnerships to learn more about our work.
Russ B. in California writes:
I think we could better incorporate Islam in the world community if the Muslim community could figure out a way to establish a caliphate, Saudi Arabia could give up Medina / Mecca, and a City State of these two territories were established similar to what was done to establish the Vatican City.
Erken R. in Turkey writes:
Thanks for the advice
Eric in New Mexico writes:
@ Robert T. Lalka,
My cousin and his wife belong to a church group who are supporting an orphanage in Haiti, and in a small way they are making a contribution to supporting US policy in Haiti's recovery while making a big contribution to a few kid's lives, who would otherwise be out on the street.
Their pastor of the church, a young fellow they indicated, " Preaches tolerance for religious opinion.""Ah, not the kind of guy who's inclined to be giving a "my dogma's better than your dogma." kind of sermon you mean?"
They just laughed and noted their agreement.
Which stands in sharp contrast to the imfamous Quoran burning preacher who took that line of reasoning to incite violence and a clash of civilizations resulting in loss of life in the persuance of his "freedom of speech".
In fact, such action falls into the broad heading of "aiding and abetting the enemy in a time of war." as such provocation of a billion.3 Muslims around the world only help bin Laden succeed in calling for a "holy war" since this pastor has decided to initiate one, in many Muslim's eyes.
That this be the work of a "fringe element" not representitive of the American people or our values is lost on folks in their anger of the moment, and innoccent people have died as a result.
I can think of a number of Federal charges the Justice Dept might wish to persue without even being worried about violation of the individual's freedom to express himself.
I mean let's be objective about this, you don't see folks running around naked on K street in DC do you?
Somethings are just not done because it WILL get you arrested.
Even though expressing one's self isn't hurting anyone, and might if one we're so inclined to appreciate, be a sight for sore eyes if she was a "hot Russian spy."...(chuckle).
But how the State dept engages religious communities I think takes on a number of different dimentions, and part of that must be in the being intolerant of intolerance on a policy level, when one pissed-off preacher can put a monkey wrench in all the good folks are trying to do.
We have folks in harm's way as it is, and if a stop is to be put to our own domestic "bin Laden" wannabe's trying to start conflict among religions, then now is the time to stand up and do something legal about it.
As this directly affects the foreign policy objectives of the US, I don't doubt that the Dept of State would be weighing in on an interagency evaluation of this, including the NSC.
I believe under our Constitution, that it is only our elected government that can declare war for any reason, it is not in the pervue of any individual to, and one right under our laws cannot conflict with another or be invalidated thereby his freedom to express himself in commiting an "act of war" on another faith is punishable on the merits of his actions taken to instigate violence.
There can be no question that he was aware of what would result and it was done pre-meditatively.
Karzai's request for him to be arrested I think should be seriously considered, not only because they may want him extridited under their laws and I don't think we want to have to go down that road with the Afghan gov., but that just maybe if it can be demonstrated to the Afghan people that with "freedom of speech" in America comes along with it the responsibility to not be an idiot, I think we can unload buckets of trouble for our foreign policy goals in the winning of the war on terrorists.
The President obviously didn't think Ghaddafi saying he'd "show no mercy" was acceptable as a form of self expression, and he he helped save a lot of lives in Lybia as a result.
Apparently "freedom of speech" has its relative limits under our value system.
That's OK, the Constitition was designed to be a living document relative to its times, and there were a lot less pissed-off preachers around in the founding father's day, least they didn't have a global audience anyway.
If the Constitution is to be defended, then the ideals of religious tolerance contained within it must be enforceable under the law.
I don't know how else folks would go about that, but I'm not presiding over case law either, so my opinion is probably legally moot. But if "law is logic" as I've been told, then perhaps my logic is sustainable in a debate with those professionals.
So here I am excercising my "freedom of speech" in trying to inspire folks to think.
So keep up the good work and thanks for all the great links,
DipNote Blogger Rob Lalka writes:
@ Eric Thanks for your thought-provoking words. Lots of challenging ideas to struggle with, including national security concerns, freedom of expression and freedom of religion, and questions about who speaks for America on the global stage.
Picking up on a few of the points you raised, I wanted to make sure that you saw the Secretary of State's comments about this recent resolution at the UN:
Press Statement
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State
Washington, DC
March 24, 2011
The United States welcomes today's action by the UN Human Rights Council to further the international community's efforts to combat religious intolerance. The consensus resolution adopted by the Council today represents a significant step forward in the global dialogue on countering intolerance, discrimination, and violence against persons based upon religion or belief. We appreciate the leadership shown by the Organization of the Islamic Conference and member states on today's landmark achievement.
The United States strongly supports today's resolution, which rejects the broad prohibitions on speech called for in the former "defamation of religions†resolution, and supports approaches that do not limit freedom of expression or infringe on the freedom of religion. This resolution demonstrates a desire to move the debate on these shared challenges in a constructive and affirmative direction. Our divides can be bridged through an effort to listen to each other and to seek common ground. This resolution is a direct result of this type of engagement with the global community.
Today's adoption of this resolution by the UN Human Rights Council is an important statement that must be followed by sustained commitment. At a time when violence and discrimination against members of religious minorities is all too common, we urge the international community to continue to uphold the freedoms enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As I said last month in Geneva, we must support those who are willing to stand up on behalf of the rights we cherish.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
Mr. Lalka,
With specificity to incitement to violence, that's not a very "broad spectrum" of human vocalization or expression. The intent is well defined, and it's not compatible with the universal declaration of human rights.
As I see it, given the number of people offended and the potential for violence, it may behoove the UN to refer the fellow to the ICC under "incitement of genocide.", but getting him there is another sticky wicket.
As such, I doubt if what I'm suggesting as a dicincentive is inherantly incompatible with the spirit of tolerance US policy upholds, and if it is...,
Onward through the fog...stumbling on a clue.
Hope it helped in the larger UN debate.
Thanks for your reply, gives one faith in an interactive government it does.
Palgye in South Korea writes:
When you leave me out, or else I would like to continue coming.
DipNote Blogger Rob Lalka writes:
@ Eric Thanks for your feedback. Even in the midst of all of the sensational coverage last fall about Rev. Terry Jones, one of the things that inspired me personally was the leadership shown by people of all faiths, from all across America, who called for understanding, compassion, and peace.
In terms of the recent news, the White House put out this statement from President Obama after our exchange yesterday, which I wanted to be sure you saw: "http://j.mp/f8tngO""Today, the American people honor those who were lost in the attack on the United Nations in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. Once again, we extend our deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of those who were killed, and to the people of the nations that they came from. The desecration of any holy text, including the Koran, is an act of extreme intolerance and bigotry. However, to attack and kill innocent people in response is outrageous, and an affront to human decency and dignity. No religion tolerates the slaughter and beheading of innocent people, and there is no justification for such a dishonorable and deplorable act. Now is a time to draw upon the common humanity that we share, and that was so exemplified by the UN workers who lost their lives trying to help the people of Afghanistan.â€
Eric in New Mexico writes:
Mr. Lalka,
I know if I were to respond to every incitement to violence directed at me, I'd probably be spending 20 to life in the pinta.
And I fully agree with the President.
The problem is that the incitement by one fringe element pushing the buttons of another leaves the average tolerant Muslim or Cristian witness to the furthering of the dysfunctionality of the human condition, in reactionary mode.
I think a good case could be made for accessory to murder being that the incitement had a hundred percent probability of causing just such a violent reaction.
It is the Afghan gov.'s responsibility to direct their people's anger in more positive ways to such incitement, but it is the US gov.'s responsibility to bring charges on the citizen if there has been a violation of US law.
Personally, if I were presiding over the sentencing having a guilty verdict before me rendered by a jury for the legal aspects I cited earlier he may indeed be charged with, I think it would be fair to toss the man in a cell across the hall from Mohammed Atta, for as long as it takes for them to "work things out".
That would seem only fitting.
Best regards,
Eric in New Mexico writes:
@ Mr. Lalka,
(Correction): I meant to refer in my previous post "Khalid Sheik Mohammed" instead of Mohammed Atta...(chuckle)...my bad. Terry Jones would have to hold a seance with a oiji board to "work things out" with the latter.
Sorry, the coffee hadn't quite kicked in when I wrote that.
Dan in Washington writes:
"Based on the success of last week's seminar...we are also pursuing new policy guidance and legal guidelines to give our diplomats greater clarity about engaging faith communities abroad."
Sounds much-needed -- and long overdue! Good work.
Ronald in California writes:
How can RLW Nonprofit and Faith-Based Consulting get involved?
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Sigh. From time to time, leftists get up on their high horse, and think that they can come up with a single objection to freedom which completely smashes all arguments. Today's version of that objection may be found on elementropy, where it goes:
another question unanswerable by neoliberal economists: Who is our economy for?
I'm thinking that the author is not open to new light, but let me venture to answer today's unanswerable question:
An economy is for people who trade goods and services with other people. Consequently, any interference with trade goes against the best interests of the economy. Government regulation of trade counts as interference.
Now, readers of that blog may think I'm INSANE. That's okay. 240 years ago, nobody thought a country could exist if it didn't choose a religion for its countrymen. A country without an established religion?? INSANE! Of course, we now know better (although there are some fundamentalist religionists who still disagree). In time, we will be able to convince people that freedom of trade is a civil right along with freedom of association, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and yes, freedom of religion.
Not that I expect this one posting to change anybody's mind. It takes many drops to turn a wheel, singly none, singly none.


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Several film directors yesterday called on the public to join them in a nationwide anti-nuclear demonstration on Saturday.
At a press conference yesterday afternoon in Taipei, a group of directors led by Ko I-chen (柯一正) urged the public to express their concerns over nuclear energy by participating in the mass demonstrations themed "Halting the construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant for future generations."
The press conference was also attended by Taiwanese filmmakers Wu Yi-feng (吳乙峰), Leon Dai (戴立忍), Cheng Yu-chieh (鄭有傑), Chu Yu-ning (瞿友寧) and Huang Jian-wei (黃健瑋), writers Hsiao Yeh (小野) and Lo Yi-chun (駱以軍), and actress Liu Tzu-chun (劉姿君).
Despite being absent from the press conference, Taiwanese directors Zero Chou (周美玲) and Wang Hsiao-ti (王小棣) would also join the crowds taking part in the demonstrations, Ko said.
The upcoming anti-nuclear power rallies will be held simultaneously in Taipei, Greater Taichung, Greater Kaohsiung and Taitung on Saturday afternoon, with assembly points at Ketagalan Boulevard in Taipei, Aozihdi Forest Park (凹仔底森林公園) in Kaohsiung, the Civil Plaza (市民廣場) in Taichung and Sinsheng Park (台東市新生公園) in Taitung.
"Premier Jiang Yi-huah's (江宜樺) move to put a decision on the continuation of construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City (新北市) to a referendum suggests that the government is getting smarter, as it has cleverly thrown a political hot potato back to the people," Ko said.
The government has not only abdicated its responsibility to make major decisions, such as whether to put a halt to the plant's construction, but also shunned discussions related to nuclear safety, Ko said.
Ko added that even if the proposed referendum was passed, a substantial amount of money from taxpayers' pockets had been wasted on building the problematic facility.
Hsiao Yeh said he had spoken out against nuclear energy 20 years ago when the construction plan for the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant was being considered and now that he's a grandfather, the issue is still in dispute.
"For this reason, I have released an anti-nuclear declaration this year that has nearly 300 signatures from people in the artistic and cultural industries," Hsiao Yeh said.
Yang said he hoped that no catastrophic nuclear accidents such as the one that took place in Fukushima, Japan — where he had filmed — would ever take place in the future, "so future generations can grow up in a safe and secure environment."
Accompanied by his daughter, Cheng said that a small country like Taiwan should not use nuclear power and that he wanted to do something for future generations through his actions.
A veteran director who has produced scores of well-received TV drama series, Chu said he had too many dreams waiting to be fulfilled in the future and could not sit back while the nation sits on a time bomb.
Separately yesterday, Taiwanese film director Doze Niu (鈕承澤), movie producer Lee Lieh (李烈) and actor Ethan Ruan (阮經天) also pledged to hit the streets on Saturday to express their concerns over the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant.
Urging the government to ensure the safety of the plant before entering into discussions on the continuation of its construction, Niu said it was "preposterous" to complete the plant's construction simply because of the large amount of money spent on it.


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A great day for tow reasons: the visit of Madam Hillary Rodham Clinton to Algeria, and my birth day.
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To supplement the local rules, the following guidelines have been provided to ensure that the filing process is accomplished with ease and accuracy. For additional information or assistance, please call the Clerk's Office during office hours.
- Manually filed documents are filed in the Clerk's Office at the location of the chambers of the judge to whom the action has been assigned. We do not accept filings for cases assigned to judges or magistrate judges in the Oakland or San Jose division, per Civil Local Rule 3-2(b).
- This office will accept for filing the original and one copy of most documents submitted. The original will be scanned and filed in the electronic format. The hard copy will be disposed of in civil cases. We will conform as many copies as you bring for your own use. Related cases require an extra copy for each related action designated.
- The copy submitted with the original goes directly to the assigned Judge. No additional copies for the judge should be provided, unless you have been instructed to do so by court order.
- To facilitate the file stamping process, each original document must be submitted on top of its copies. In other words; group like documents together, as opposed to a set of originals and separate sets of copies.
- The case number must indicate whether it is a civil or criminal matter by the inclusion of C or CR at the beginning of the number. Miscellaneous and foreign judgment matters should also be indicated with initials MISC at the end of the case number. The case number must include the initials of the judge and/or magistrate judge.
- Documents containing hearing dates should include the appropriate judge or magistrate judge involved in a particular matter or before whom an appearance is being made. This is especially important when submitting Settlement Conference Statements.
- Documents are to be stapled or acco-fastened at the top. Backings, bindings and covers are not required. Two holes punched at the top of the original document will facilitate processing.
- Appropriately sized, stamped, self-addressed return envelopes are to be included with proposed orders or when filing documents by mail.
- Proofs of service should be attached to the back of documents. If submitted separately, you must attach a pleading page to the front of the document showing case number and case caption.
- There are no filing fees once a case has been opened, aside from the fee for a Notice of Appeal.
- New cases must be accompanied by a completed and signed Civil Cover Sheet, the filing fee or fee waiver request form and an original plus two copies of the complaint and any other documents. For Intellectual Property cases, please provide an original plus three copies of the complaint. Present new cases for filing before 3:30 p.m.
- Copies of forms may be obtained at no charge. They may be picked up in person from the Clerk's Office or with a written request accompanied by an appropriate sized, stamped, self-addressed envelope for return. In addition, copies of the Local Rules may be obtained, free of charge, in the Clerk's Office or by sending a written request, along with a self-addressed, 10" x 14" return envelope, stamped with $7.50 postage to: Clerk, U.S. District Court, 450 Golden Gate Avenue, 16th Flr. San Francisco CA, 94102.
- Two computer terminals that allow public access to case dockets and information regarding files at the Federal Records Center (FRC) are located in the reception area of the Clerk's Office. Written instructions are posted by the terminals. Outside of the Clerk's Office, electronic access to dockets is available through PACER (www.pacer.gov). To obtain information or to register call 1-800-676-6851.
- A file viewing area is located adjacent to the reception area. Files may be viewed in this area after signing the log sheet and presenting identification. Under no circumstances are files to be removed from the viewing room. (Hours for San Francisco are 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.)
- The Clerk's Office can only accept payment by exact change, check or credit card, made payable to Clerk, U.S. District Court. No change can be made for fees or the public copy machine.
- A coin/card operated copy machine is located in the file viewing area for public use, at twenty-five cents ($.25) per page. Personal copiers may be brought in at anytime during normal operating hours.
- Drop Boxes for filing are available when the Clerk's Office is closed.


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Derek North needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 120 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
First Baptist Church of Monterey
We have been on the Monterey Peninsula in California for 100 years. We are located near a landmark - Cannery Row and a few blocks from the ocean. We have served the community faithfully for 100 years. We are looking to revamp our message through a modern lighthouse logo. This logo would be used on the following: stationary, business cards,web page,t shirts etc. Next year is our 100 year centennial the logo will be translated into red white blue temporarily.
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Lighthouse, First Baptist Church of Monterey. Motto: "Proclaiming the LORD until He returns", 1910-2010, color scheme: burgundy, but can be translated into red/white/blue for our centennial. We like the image on: http://www.denisecolegraphics.com/a…d=10258252
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Martyred with nine other Christians during disturbances caused by the heretical Monophysites.
- c.483 at Alexandria, Egypt
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Molluscum Contagiosum in ChildrenMolluscum Contagiosum - Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment
What is molluscum contagiosum?
Molluscum contagiosum is a viral disease of the skin that causes small pink or skin-colored bumps on your child's skin. It is not harmful and usually does not have any other symptoms. The virus is inside the bumps and is mildly contagious. These bumps usually clear over an extended period of time.
What causes molluscum contagiosum?
Molluscum contagiosum is caused by a virus called the poxvirus. It is most common in children and adolescents, although it can affect adults.
What are the symptoms of molluscum contagiosum?
The bumps are small and are usually pink or skin-colored. Eventually, the bumps tend to have a small sunken center. The number of lesions a child has is usually between two and 20. The lesions usually occur in groups or clusters. They are not harmful, but may cause some cosmetic concern for the child if they appear on the face or other visible areas.
How is molluscum contagiosum diagnosed?
Molluscum contagiosum is usually diagnosed based on a medical history and physical examination of the child. The lesions are unique and are usually diagnosed on physical examination. Additional tests are not routinely ordered.
Treatment for molluscum contagiosum
Specific treatment for molluscum contagiosum will be determined by your child's physician based on:
Your child's age, overall health, and medical history
Extent of the condition
Your child's tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies
Expectations for the course of the condition
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In most cases, the lesions will heal without treatment over a period of six to nine months. Additional treatment options may include:
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Lionel Richie Joined by Darius Rucker + More for 2011 CMA Awards Performance
One of the night's most anticipated performances at the 2011 CMA Awards, hands down, was the collaboration between Lionel Richie and some of country's hottest stars.
Little Big Town took the stage with their four-part harmony as they sang 'Deep River Woman' with angelic tones. Richie made a grand entrance to the stage as he walked down the center catwalk, and the room — filled with country music's biggest stars — rose to its feet for the international superstar. The members of Little Big Town were beside themselves in amazement that they were sharing the same stage with the star, who will be releasing a country album in the near future.
With the end of their duet, Richie was joined by country and pop star Darius Rucker, who performed a soulful version of 'Stuck on You.' With the room still on their feet, the camera panned over the faces of the stars, including Tim McGraw, that were lit up and singing back the words to the song.
Rascal Flatts were the last act to share the stage with Richie for an amped up performance of 'Dancing on the Ceiling.' The hot country trio showed the room how to deliver an entertaining and electrifying performance with plenty of guitar and powerful vocal range from Richie and Flatts' frontman Gary LeVox.


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McDonald's "family favourites" by Leo Burnett
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McDonald's is launching the second part of its "family favourites" brand campaign with a 40-second TV spot. Created by Leo Burnett, the ad celebrates the excitement that the Happy Meal box brings to a child. It poses the question "What is it with kids and boxes?" and demonstrates that the Happy Meal box has its own sense of intrigue. It features observational footage, such as the smiles, concentration and shared pleasures that occur when a child plays with a box. The TV spot will be supported by a national press campaign. The work was created by Tony Malcolm and Guy Moore, and directed by Vince Squibb through Gorgeous. Post-production was by The Moving Picture Company.


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Mediterraninan foods is known to be a healthy to consume by every food lovers. If eaten for a number of years, it has been shown to reduce the risks of developing heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure (hypertension), type 2 diabetes, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. It's not just nutritiosu it also taste delicious. Here is a list of Mediterranian resto in Los Angeles.
Mediterranean Cafe
Gaby's Mediterranean
Mediterranean City Grill
Lusy's Mediterranean Cafe & Grill
Sidewalk Grill
Safir Mediterranean Cuisine
Chicken Maison - Healthy Mediterranean Restaurants
Hummus House
Layla's Cafe & Catering
Ta-eem Grill
Z Garden Mediterranean Cuisine
Byblos Restaurant
Gaby's Express
Sakos Mediterranean Cuisine
Open Sesame Mediterranean Grill
Mediterranean Kitchen
Gaby's Express
Cairo Cowboy Mediterranean Grill
Mediterranean Bistro
Crimson Mediterranean Cookhouse
Chicken Maison - Healthy Mediterranean Restaurants
Aristo Cafe
California Pita & Grill
Spitz Eagle Rock
Amer's Falafel, Glatt Kosher
Mantee Cafe
Ocean Cafe & Restaurant
Carnival Restaurant
KC's Mediterranean Grill
Olympia Kebab House
Babylon Mediterranean Restaurant and Hookah Lounge
Mashawi Grill
Tonir Cafe
Cedar House Restaurant
Panini Cafe Downtown
Pita Jungle
Zankou Chicken
Mediterranean Triangle
Arde's Bistro
Sesame Moe's
Wahib's Middle East Restaurant
Rosemary Grill
The Gate to the Mediterranean
Zayna Flaming Grill
Mediterranean Express Bar & Grill
Carousel Restaurant - Glendale
Kabab Grill
Flavor Mediterranean Restaurant & Lounge
Chicken Maison Rolling Hills Palos Verdes
Marina's Mediterranean Healthy Food
Knight Restaurant
Hummus Bar Express
Flying Sticks
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The Mediterranean Diet is rich in vegetables, fruit, peas and beans (legumes) and grains. It also contains moderate amounts of chicken and fish.


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- GP2, Malaysian Grand Prix, Race 1
Leimer makes winning start to GP2 campaign
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Fabio Leimer won the opening round of the 2013 GP2 Series after a tense race-long battle with Stefano Coletti and James Calado in Malaysia .
Leimer made a strong start from fourth on the grid to tuck in behind Coletti, who held first position after starting from pole. Calado fell back a couple of places to fourth and spent the rest of the race making back the two positions to eventually finish second ahead of Coletti in third.
The field was relatively well behaved in the first two corners with only minor contact, but Marcus Ericsson provided GP2's almost-obligatory first lap incident when he misjudged his braking for turn nine and launched his car over the back of Joylon Palmer, who had made a strong start from 22nd.
Once the race settled into its rhythm it became clear that tyre degradation would play a part and Mitch Evans was one of the first of the early front runners to stop for tyres on lap six. At the front Coletti held off attacks from Leimer in what would become a race-long battle for the lead.
Coletti was the first of the two leaders to pit on lap seven, which left him with 24 laps to complete on the hard compound - a factor that came into play towards the end of the race. Leimer and Calado, who was back up to third by this point, pitted on lap 10 and came out behind Coletti to rejoin battle.
Sam Bird took the lead as he had yet to pit, but his chances were dealt a blow when he received a drive-through penalty for overtaking under yellow flags. Combined with his pit stop for new tyres he dropped well outside the top ten, forcing him to mount an impressive fight back in the following laps.
Palmer also started on hard tyres and led the race for a brief period before pitting on lap 20. It was impressive performance considering his lowly starting position and he went on to finish sixth. Once all the mandatory pit stops had been made, Coletti emerged in the lead again but had Leimer right on his gearbox.
Leimer attempted a couple of failed moves and finally made a pass stick on lap 26 when he overtook Coletti around the outside of turn five. By this time it was clear that Coletti was struggling with his older tyres and Calado took advantage of his rival's problem by passing on the inside of turn one.
Outside the top three Felipe Nasr had a strong race to fourth ahead of Julian Leal and Palmer. Bird finished an impressive seventh despite his penalty ahead of Stephane Richelmi, Simon Trummer and Evans who took the last of the points in tenth.


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Five pioneering Finnish municipalities have achieved remarkable reductions in greenhouse gas emissions through a five-year project that will now be expanded.
The Carbon Neutral Municipalities (Canemu) Project was launched in 2008, targeting ambitious emission cuts to be achieved through collaboration between local authorities, businesses, researchers and citizens.
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GULLANE, Scotland, July 21 (UPI) -- Phil Mickelson roared to a three-stroke victory in the British Open Sunday with a sterling round of 5-under 66 that included birdies on his final two holes.
Mickelson strolled off the 18th green to the roar of the crowd after dropping in a 12-foot putt that virtually clinched his first British Open championship and fifth overall major victory.
He finished at 3-under-par 281, three better than Henrik Stenson (1-under 70).
"Today's round will be one of the most memorable rounds of golf I've ever played," Mickelson said.
Lee Westwood, who led after three rounds, was derailed by five bogeys Sunday en route to a 4-over 75 and a third-place finish for the tournament, sharing the third spot with Masters champion Adam Scott (72) and Ian Poulter (67).
Mickelson's 66 was the low round of the tournament and included a highlight reel of crowd-pleasing shots.
"I putted amazing today and hit it as well as I ever have," he said.
Mickelson, who won the Scottish Open last weekend, closed with birdies on four of his final six holes. He reached the 18th green in two with a fairway wood on the par-five 17th, then two-putted from 35 feet for birdie.
Three-time champion Tiger Woods, meanwhile, turned in a ho-hum final round, carding a 3-over 74 to share sixth place at 2-over-par 286 with Masters champ Zach Johnson (72) and Hideki Matsuyama (70).
The front nine had shaped up as a three-way battle between Westwood, Scott and Stenson before Mickelson began his late surge with a birdie on No. 13.
Scott opened the door for him by stumbling to four straight bogeys from No. 13.


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Clock Runs Out This Week on FEMA Housing Assistance
Time's up this week for approximately 700 New Jersey families receiving federal housing assistance.
In a report by the Star Ledger, the funding, issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will end for these families by Thursday. Approximately 600 New York families are also slated to lose their funding as the provision caps out at $31,900.
Families staying in temporary housing at the former Fort Monmouth mwilitary base and those staying in manufactured homes have until the end of August.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the state of New Jersey is said to be working with the families to find long term housing solutions.


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A little more than a year ago, University of Colorado junior Alyssa Countway got sober.
Since then, she's found a new community and place on campus to surround herself with other clean and sober students.
Countway is one of 50 students who regularly study and hang out at CU's new Collegiate Recovery Center, which opened inside the University Memorial Center in August.
"I was definitely looking for something like this on campus because I felt really alienated when I first became sober," said Countway, who's studying ecology and evolutionary biology. "It seems like everybody drinks, everybody parties. This is somewhere I could come."
The center opened as a place for people in recovery from substance use and other addictive behaviors to hang out, find a community and participate in sober activities. The only requirement for spending time at the center is 24 hours of sobriety, said director Danny Conroy.
Though CU already had Oasis, a network of sober students that met once a week, the Collegiate Recovery Center provides a physical space for sober students to spend time throughout the week. At the center, sobriety comes up naturally in conversation from time to time, but it's not the primary focus of discussion, many students said.
The recovery center, which is housed on the ground floor of the UMC, has a funky, calming vibe. The ceiling is covered in gray, noise-absorbing panels, and curtains flank the industrial glass door to the one-roomed center.
Comfy couches and chairs in cool grays and blues are placed near modern coffee tables covered with books and knick-knacks.
Relaxing instrumental music plays in the background. The fluorescent lights covering the ceiling are turned off. Instead, the center has various floor and desk lamps that emit warm, soft light.
"I love it," Countway said. "It's like a little hideaway from everything. You're away from the fluorescent lighting. You have comfy couches. It's something special, and it's really cozy."
The room is divided into small nooks and conversation areas where students can study or have private discussions.
Students arrive at the center because of a common piece of their identity, their sobriety, but end up treating it like a library or coffee shop where they can read, be with friends and chat.
"In Boulder, where it seems to be a heavy party atmosphere, this is a shining light for people who chose not to live that way," Countway said.
The design of the space helped draw students almost immediately, even though the university didn't advertise the new center, Conroy said.
"We thought two, three, four, five students this first semester would actually come here," Conroy said. "Within three weeks we had 50 students coming here on a regular basis. All day long, every day we have a string of people coming through, hanging out, utilizing the space, connecting, and it's 100 percent organic. We didn't force any of this; we just created the space, and word spread amongst the recovering community."
Conroy and his wife founded Boulder's AIM House 14 years ago as a transitional living facility for young adults. Many aren't necessarily at AIM House by choice, Conroy said, so the number of CU students who show up consistently because they want to is "amazing."
"It's not treatment," he said. "Everybody who comes here comes here willingly."
The center isn't trying combat the university's party-school image or shame students into not drinking or doing drugs, Conroy said.
It's a place for people who are already sober or in recovery to form a community and connect, he said.
"There's not a whole lot of ways for people at CU to connect, and you just don't hear about (a sober community)," he said. "The assumption is that it doesn't exist and everybody drinks, everybody goes out and it's actually not true."
The center is open Mondays through Fridays during the regular academic year for most of the day. On the weekends and in the evenings, the center hosts yoga, bowling, game nights and other activities.
For those who want to attend, the center hosts Alcoholics Anonymous meetings at noon three times a week, and it offers several 12-step meetings in the evenings.
Senior Arlene Pace, who's been sober for a year and a half, left Boulder for a year to get clean. When she came back this semester, she knew she needed to find a new community.
"I did all my using here in Boulder and at CU," Pace said. "I took a year off and went and got clean and then came back to finish my last semester here. I was living in fear about seeing old people.
"To find a community here of people who are clean and sober and to sort of surround yourself in a safety bubble of people who are clean and sober is really helpful. You feel as though you can come here, socialize, feel a part of something and then not get drawn back in by old behaviors and old people."
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Kidnapper Convicted
McALLEN, Texas – A federal jury sitting in McAllen has returned a guilty verdict against Miguel Angel Navarro, 36, of Hidalgo, on two counts of conspiracy to commit and committing hostage taking, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The verdict was returned following a four-day trial and less than four hours of deliberation.
The victim testified at trial and told the jury about the events that unfolded Sept. 25-26, 2012, during which she was forcibly taken from a University of Texas-Pan American parking lot and put in a vehicle occupied by Navarro as well as Milton Leonel Trevino and Onan Herrera-Sanchez. She was then taken to another location where she was transferred to a different vehicle and ultimately to the residence of Trevino, where she was held against her will.
Trevino, 21, of Pharr, and Herrera-Sanchez, 29, of Honduras, both pleaded guilty in the case prior to the commencement of this trial. Trevino testified for the government and admitted he and the others knowingly and intentionally conspired with each other to detain and make threats in order to compel another person to pay a sum of money as an explicit or implicit condition of the victim's release. Trevino admitted he assisted in the actual abduction of the victim and he guarded her while they waited for the ransom money.
The victim's father also testified and described to the jury about receiving the ransom calls, during which a demand for money was made in exchange for his daughter's release. He further testified that during the calls, he was told that if the money was not paid, he would never see his daughter again.
Navarro's former wife testified that at his request she assisted in transporting the victim from one location to another. She further claimed she was unaware of the kidnapping at that time, but suspected the female was the victim of the university kidnapping once she was made aware of media news reports. She further admitted she spoke to Navarro during the early morning hours of Sept. 26, given her concerns of his involvement in the kidnapping. At that time, he told her, among other things, not to worry and that they were just trying to get money.
The victim was eventually released physically unharmed by Trevino.
At the inception of the case, the defense claimed Navarro was not involved in the offense. After the testimony of numerous government witnesses, the defense attempted to discredit the witnesses and claimed Trevino and Navarros's former wife lied during their testimony in exchange for favorable consideration in connection with their pending charges.
Ultimately, the jury did not believe him and found Navarro guilty as charged.
Navarro and the others have been and will remain in custody pending sentencing, which is set for April 10, 2014, at 09:00 a.m. before United States District Judge Randy Crane. All face up to life imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.
The investigation was the result of a joint investigation by the FBI and the University of Texas-Pan American Police Department with assistance from the Edinburg Police Department and Texas Rangers. This case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Linda Requénez and Grady J. Leupold.


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PHOENIX (AP) - When told she could take the No. 1 spot in the world with a victory at Desert Ridge, Stacy Lewis plugged her ears and jokingly chanted, ``La-la-la-la-la.''
A few days and 72 exciting holes later, she was more than willing to talk.
Yes, the determined Texan who wore a back brace 18 hours a day for six years had jumped from third to first in the world with a comeback victory Sunday in the LPGA Founders Cup.
Diagnosed with scoliosis when she was 11, she thought back to her trying teen years.
``Every setback you have along the way, everything good that happens, it all happens for a reason,'' said Lewis, now 28. ``I couldn't have dreamed the kid growing up wearing a back brace 18 hours a day is the No. 1 player in the world.''
When the brace failed to correct the curvature in her spine, she had surgery to insert a rod and five screws in her back.
``That was just 10 years ago,'' Lewis said. ``That's not normal, that's not supposed to happen. I mean, I'm not, I'm really not supposed to be here. People with metal in their back, how do you play golf? I don't know. I don't know how. I don't know why I'm here.''
Coming off a victory two weeks ago in Singapore, Lewis won her seventh LPGA Tour title. She won the 2011 Kraft Nabisco and has six victories in her last 23 events, four last season when she was the tour player of the year.
``I'm having a blast on the golf course,'' Lewis said. ``To be No. 1 in the world, it's what everybody out here on tour is working for.''
She ended Yani Tseng's 109-week run at No. 1, and joined Cristie Kerr as the only Americans to top the rankings that began in 2006. Kerr was No. 1 for five weeks over three stints in 2010.
``It's crazy,'' Lewis said. ``That was my goal kind of since the middle of last year and I really didn't think it would be possible this quick. ... I'm going to have fun, I know that. I watched Yani struggle with it for too long and I'm going to go have fun.''
Lewis beat Ai Miyazato by three strokes, closing with an 8-under 64 to finish with a tournament-record 23-under 265 total on the cactus-lined Wildfire layout. Miyazato, three strokes ahead with six holes to play, finished with a 71.
The tournament turned with a three-stroke swing on the 16th hole, a day after Lewis was penalized two strokes for her caddie's blunder on the short par 4.
On Sunday, Lewis took a two-stroke lead with a birdie after Miyazato made a double bogey following an errant approach shot that left her with an unplayable lie in a desert bush.
Miyazato took a four-stroke lead over Lewis and Jee Young Lee into the final round when Lewis was penalized after play Saturday when it was ruled caddie Travis Wilson tested the sand before Lewis played out of a bunker on No. 16.
``I wasn't even mad at him because he didn't do anything on purpose,'' Lewis said. ``I just felt really bad for him just because all the stories were, `Stacy Lewis' caddie, Stacy Lewis' caddie.' The spotlight was on him and he never wants that. We were so motivated today.''
Miyazato was a stroke ahead on the 16th tee and seemingly in perfect position in the fairway on the 307-yard hole. But the straight-hitting Japanese star's pitching wedge sailed left, hit on the bank near the edge of the green and rolled into the desert bush.
``I hit the pitching wedge, but my instinct said that it was an easy 9,'' Miyazato said. ``It was a little bit indecisive and that's why I pulled my shot.''
Instead of playing again from the fairway, she elected to drop in sand in the desert, leaving her with an uphill shot with little green to work with. Her shot from the desert raced to the far edge of the green and she two-putted for a double-bogey 6.
``I decided I would take a drop almost like in a bunker position and I thought we had that little backstop behind the pin, so I thought I could make it stop a little bit more,'' Miyazato said. ``It was kind of a little flat when I dropped, so it was hard.''
Lewis, a 12-time winner at the University of Arkansas, found the right fairway bunker off the tee, hit to 15 feet and holed the birdie putt.
``I was shocked that she hit the shot she did,'' Lewis said. ``That is not like Ai at all. She's green, green. I mean, it's boring to play with her because she hits so many greens.''
Lewis added an 18-footer on the par-3 17th for her third straight birdie.
``To make those two putts I did on 16 and 17 was pretty unbelievable,'' Lewis said. ``I'm really speechless. I played great and I was super motivated from all that happened yesterday and just happy for Travis.
``Weird things happen when you play enough golf rounds and I told him that over and over and over again. He would have felt horrible if we lost by two, so that's why I just put the dagger in and made some more putts there coming in.''
When Lewis holed out on 18, she pointed at Wilson and hugged him.
``That's for you,'' she told him.
DIVOTS: Lewis earned $225,000 to push her tour-leading total to $526,364. She donated $50,000 to LPGA-USGA Girls Golf. ... Miyazato tied for second last year, a stroke behind Tseng. ... Angela Stanford was third at 17 under after a 68. ... Tseng shot a 70 to tie for 59th at 4 under. ... Lee, the second-round leader after opening 65-64, closed 72-72 to tie for fourth at 16 under.


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I left Thor and the family of Windfinders alone for a while to help FAIRTRANSPORT in an urgent operation to sail the Tres Hombres home across the North Atlantic, from Canada to the Netherlands.
The schoonerbrig Tres Hombres is an engineless sailing cargo vessel that transports rum and other good things from the Caribbean to Europe. On the way home from this years summer voyage to the Caribbean, the Tres Hombres had to escape from a major hurricane and ended up in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, instead of Den Helder, Netherlands. Actually, the Azores had been the last scheduled island stop on their way home, but that was exactly where hurricane Gaston went
They made it safely to Canada, but by now it was the peak of the hurricane season. At the same time, the normal autumn storm season was beginning on the North Atlantic, promising to get worse every month. Not the nicest time of the year to cross the ocean. But the cargo had to be delivered in France and the Netherlands, and the next voyage was scheduled to start from Den Helder in November (yes, 2016)
It was the second half of September; there was no time to lose. We went to Nova Scotia with an international emergency crew and Captain Arjen van der Veen (one of the original Tres Hombres), to relieve the old crew and bring the ship home. The cook and some of the trainees were still on board - and the precious cargo of rum, molasses, coffee and cacao. We borrowed some more salty sailors from tall-ship Picton Castle and Viking long boat Draken, and were ready to go.
What a phantastic challenge for a Windfinder! North Atlantic crossing with an engineless sailing vessel between hurricane season and autumn storms...
We would bring the ship home WHATEVER would happen.
Read the full story here:
Beautiful but dangerous: Our special friend Nicole on Oct 12, 2016. Satellite image credits: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team
See story above
Hamburg, Sept. 8, 2016
Enercons flettner rotor vessel E-SHIP 1 has won the first prize in both categories Wind Propulsion Innovation and Commercial Use of Wind Propulsion.
Launched in 2010 by German Wind Power specialist Enercon, the ship is used to transport wind turbine components. It has covered, so far, more than 320.000 nautical miles in commercial operation.
Flettner technology has proven effective and robust in commercial use, Enercon said. Depending on weather conditions, fuel savings of up to 15 % can be achieved. This can be considerably more in peak conditions; in a good wind the E-ship 1 can travel at speeds of up to 12 knots only using the flettner rotors. The other Enercon innovations a streamlined superstructure and hull and a specially coordinated rudder / variable pitch propeller combination optimized for sailing mode - have proven effective and resulted in further fuel savings. This, together with the use of practically sulphur-free marine gas oil and the use of SCR catalytic converters, mean that the E-Ship 1 sets a milestone in the area of green shipping technologies.
In the category Wind Propulsion Research, the winner is the University of the South Pacific with its Sustainable Sea Transport Programme.
Wind Propulsion Innovation Awards 2016
The first Wind Propulsion Innovation Awards recognise pioneering projects and technological innovation in the development of wind propulsion for technically and commercially viable solutions for the shipping industry.
The awards spotlight individuals and companies making a real difference in advancing wind propulsion as a low carbon, truly sustainable option for the worlds shipping fleet.
There are three categories in this years awards: - Wind Propulsion Innovation Award - Commercial Users of Wind Technology - Wind Propulsion Research Award
Below is the shortlist of finalists compiled by the judging panel of international shipping experts in July 2016.
The awards ceremony will be held at the SMM 2016 (Shipbuilding, Machinery & Marine Technology Trade Fair) in Hamburg on September 8, 2016, in the new A5 Green Propulsion Hall.
Wind Propulsion Innovation Award
Commercial Users of Wind Technology
Research Award
Windfinder Workshop - July 2016
One thousand participating ships ... so many wonderful things to do and to see!
We built a beautiful three meter model of a simple Windfinder - two light and flexible skin-on-frame hulls and a windmill drive with eight sails. Unfortunately, when the thing was ready to be launched, there was no wind, just no wind at all! So the experiments in the water are postponed to the next nice opportunity.
Anyway - we had a great time, met fantastic people, and built a wonderful thing that's waiting for the autumn storms. Many thanks to everybody who helped with lashings and sewing sails - and very special thanks to Jerry and Erik for all your help the whole week!
Thanks to the Embassy of the Netherlands for inviting Project Windvinder to the festival - and thanks to tugboat "Elbe" and her wonderful crew for the lift from Rotterdam to Brest (for me and all the building material), and tall ship "De Gallant" for the lift back from Brest to Amsterdam, for me and the little Windfinder...
Three days in the thundering heart of the Elbe": first parts of the little Windfinder taking shape And here is crewmember Stanley, at the lathe in front of Elbes 4 meter spare propeller, working on little Windfinders headwind drive (a 40 cm propeller driven by a windmill) Thank you!!!
More about the amazing and inspiring story of the Elbe, built in 1959 and once the strongest seagoing tugboat in the world: www.zeesleperelbe.nl
By order of the Embassy of the Netherlands, a 3 meter model of a basic headwind-driven Windfinder will be built and launched at the maritime festival Brest 2016, where the Netherlands are Guest of Honor.
With eight sails straight against the wind! Find out how this works, help building the boat and sewing sails, listen to stories of the life-size Windfinders on the ocean, and hear about our experimental boat building expedition of the coming years
The newer generations of Windfinders need no more wind turbines or ships propellers but they do sail straight into the wind; just wings and fins, grazing on an ocean of ideas. They live on headwind: on the doubts of all those people who do their best to keep thinking that this cannot be. If this was possible - WHY ARENT WE DOING IT ?
Imagine to find such a jewel in the middle of the ocean, no, dont imagine
- come with us and meet them in person!
Join us for a part of our Pacific expedition (sail with us) to help developing the fleet of real size, oceangoing headwind-driven vessels, or join one of our shorter workshops in harbors of Europe and America, to build and test smaller working models of the ocean versions. The models become part of the traveling Windfinder exhibition.
Harbor-workshop part 1: THE BASICS
Brest, Britanny, 13 19 July 2016
The workshop at Brest 2016 is the first in a series of harbor workshops that will accompany our ocean voyage of the coming years. Here you will learn (with your own hands, not in the computer!) what it takes to sail straight against the wind, driven by nothing but headwind. The boat we are building in Brest is the most basic version of a Windfinder: a windmill of eight sails, driving a propeller under water. To find out what works best, everything can be adjusted in our test model: diameter of the windmill, angle of attack of the sails, different shapes of sails, size and pitch of the propeller, tilt of the shaft
Other ways to turn headwind into propulsion will be explored in the next workshops.
No need to register just come and join!
Bring wind and ideas And spread the word!
An international association has been created to facilitate and promote
wind propulsion for commercial shipping worldwide.
LONDON 17 NOVEMBER, 2014: The founding members of a new association for the shipping industry have announced the establishment of the International Windship Association (IWSA), an association that will encourage, advise and advocate for the use of wind propulsion technologies in the shipping industry.
We bring together all industry stakeholders, experts, academics and NGO supporters in the development of a windship sector to shape industry and government attitudes and policies.
The objectives of IWSA include:
Network - create a clear sectoral approach, grouping like-minded organisations and individuals that can share ideas, skills, as well as technical and market information for the development of commercial wind-ships.
Promote promote the economic value of wind propulsion to the industry
Incubate - assist in securing funding streams, project collaboration, grant applications, research and the pooling of resources.
Educate - act as a central information hub for the wind propulsion sector, ship owners and operators, shipyards, ports, governments, equipment producers, the media, NGOs, and the general public.
Facilitate initiate the establishment of common approaches/criteria for all stages of wind propulsion projects, advise stakeholders and lobby legislative bodies on policies, activities, funding and incentives required to retrofit existing ships and build new commercial wind-ships.
What Windvinder is doing here: see HOW WE DO IT.


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text: On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Paul Johnson wrote: > I am wondering if anyone could point me to a paper on the scalability > issues of NOWs clusters or > Beowulf clusters using MPI. Im curious what kind of scalability people > see for clusters less than 10 nodes. > Any reference to a paper would be greatly appreciated. I've been doing > alot of scholar.googling but > havent found what Im looking for yet. There is a whole chapter on Amdahl's Law and scaling in my online beowulf book (and several online talks and white papers ditto). Look on http://www.phy.duke.edu/brahma or http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb under the Beowulf link. Scalability isn't a question of number of nodes per se, it is a question of the parallel speedup you observe as a FUNCTION of the number of nodes participating in the problem, the problem "size" (really all other parameters, not just size), the network characteristics, and the system CPU/memory/bus characteristics. The presentation I give is a simplified one that lets you see the general idea, but the reality is much more complex for some classes of problem. HTH, rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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I have a confession…I am a preserve addict. When I walk into any shop that sells a "homemade" preserve, I have to purchase it. I have things like Cherry & Guava Jelly, Pickled Habaneros, Pineapple Marmalade and something that is the star of this post…Pineapple & Gooseberry Jam.
So what do we do with jam…put it on toast? I am a little bored with that idea…I use jams to make sauces. One of these sauces is a quick sweet & sour sauce for my chicken stir fry. It goes a little something like this…
Pineapple & Gooseberry Sweet & Sour Sauce
makes 4 portions
2 tbsp Pineapple & Gooseberry jam (you can substitute this with Apricot jam)
½ cup spirit vinegar
1 tsp fresh ginger grated
¼ cup boiling water
Place all ingredients into a pot over medium heat. Let cook out and the ginger will infuse beautifully.
With a stick blender, blitz up to a pourable consistency. This can stay in the fridge, so make a whole batch for later use.
With my sweet & sour sauce, I made a quick Stir Fry.
2 chicken Breasts (optional or substitute with Tofu)
400g stir fry of choice
2 pks Two minute noodles (toss out the spice that comes with it!) – cooked according to packet
2 tbsp fresh thyme, chopped
olive oil
3 tbsp sweet & sour sauce from above
fresh chilies, chopped (optional)
Heat a wok until scorching hot. Fry off the chicken in a little olive oil, add vegetables, thyme and seasoning. Fry off for about 5 minutes, you want your vegetables to still be crunchy. Add the sweet & sour sauce, ensure the chicken and vegetables are coated in sauce. Add cooked noodles, toss and serve.
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VP, Chief Architect, Database Server @ EnterpriseDB, PostgreSQL Major Contributor and Committer
Monday, March 21, 2011
Working Toward PostgreSQL 9.1beta
Barring objections or unforeseen problems, I'm hoping to bundle an alpha5 release a week from today, on Monday, March 28. We haven't discussed the time line for beta yet, other than to hope that we'll be able to get there in April. I still think that's a realistic timeline, although there is quite a bit of work that must be done between now and then for us to hit it. In the meantime, if you're in a position to build from source, please keep testing and sending in bug reports. Thanks!
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- AnonymousMarch 21, 2011 2:19 PM
What are the problems with SSI ?ReplyDelete
I haven't seen much discussion if it lately.
Best Regards
Dan S
Dan, the only open I'm aware of with respect to SSI at the moment is the occasional "out of shared memory" errors someone was reporting. It wasn't clear where those were coming from, and it might not even have been SSI. But there have been a bunch of issues fixed already - thanks to you and Kevin Grittner for jumping on them as they came up.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 23, 2011 12:41 PM
I'm sorry I think you have mistaken me for beeing Dan Ports, I'm not.ReplyDelete
I am interested in SSI though.
The "out of shared memory" has a patch it seems:
But I haven't seen it beeing applied yet
Best Regards
Dan S


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McRae family Escort rally car up for sale
A MkII Ford Escort historic rally car tested by the late Colin McRae and raced to victory by his dad and brother is up for auction. It won't come cheap, but this is a pretty serious piece of history.
And just look at the thing. It's a 1977 Escort RS1800 Gp4 historic rally car, built by Prepfab Motorsport Engineering, and tested by the late, great Colin and his father Jimmy. And it's got pedigree too.
In 2006 Jimmy McRae raced it in the Roger Albert Clark Rally and won; the next year he took outright victory in the pre-1981 category of the 2007 British Historic Championship.
In 2008, Colin's brother Alistair raced this MkII in the Colin McRae Forest Stages Rally - a memorial event marking the sad passing of Colin in 2007 - where he drove to an outright win in the historic category. Consider this: Alistair was racing against people like Ari Vatanen, Hannu Mikkola, Malcolm Wilson and Bjorn Waldegard. All competent helmsmen, beaten by a little Escort.
We're told the car was treated to a full restoration in 2009, and competed in the '10 and '11 Rally Clasico Isla Mallorca. Should you wish to bid for this fine item, you will be treated to a 260bhp 2.0-litre 4cyl engine with Weber carbs, a ZF five-speed race gearbox, an LSD, Bilstein adjustable front struts, coilovers on the rear, 13in Gp4 wheels, roll cage, alloy arches, fiberglass bonnet/boot and even MOT and tax until May 2014.
How much you cry? It's expected to go for up to £85,000 at Silverstone Auctions' Race Retro sale on 22 February 2014. Time for a garage sale?
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Hello! I'm Casey from Casey York Design and I blog at Studioloblog.wordpress.com. I'm delighted to be publishing my first pattern with Moda Bakeshop. This charm-pack friendly pattern features colorful French macarons, which seem to fit well with the title of this blog. For the quilt pictured, I used Kate Spain's recently released Honey Honey collection, and I am in love with this line. The colors are so cheerful and springlike and work perfectly for the candy-colored macarons. I hope you enjoy this pattern and that you'll share your finished quilts with me through the Casey York Quilts flickr group.
If you'd like to see some of my other quilts, many of which I will be releasing patterns for this spring, please stop by my blog and say hi!
Backing: 3 yds. (or multiple fabrics to measure 44″ X 54″ for pieced backing)
Batting: 42″ X 52″ (1 3/4 yds 45+" batting, or one baby-sized package of pre-cut batting)
Step 1: Make the Appliqués:
Step 2: Assemble the quilt top:
Position the cookies about one inch apart, and finalize your layout before fusing.
Step 3: Finish the quilt:
Tip: bias binding will be easier to sew around the curved corners of the quilt than will straight grain binding.
Casey York


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Currency Analysis
By Paul Kavanaugh, PFGBEST
-41st straight week of net long US dollar bets
-Net Long US dollar bets rose by 22.78% from $22.13 billion to $26.73 billion according to CFTC data as of June26th data (source Reuters)
-Large speculators maintaining significant percentage of near all-time record net short Euro bets
-Large speculators increasing net short Swiss Franc bets by more than double
CFTC data released Friday June 29th shows large IMM currency speculators are still hold near all-time record net short positions in Euro, and have covered more that 95% of net short British Pound Sterling positions. The most recent Commitments of Traders data shows some significant percentage changes in speculative positions in the currencies from the prior week including the following:
Commitments of Traders Data
(Non-Commercial Net Position Data)
A minor 13.12% increase from 8,201 to 9,277 contracts net long of the Canadian dollar;
A massive 240.17% increase from 7,007 to 23,836 contracts net short of the Swiss Franc;
A nearly reversing 95.58% decrease from 17,153 to just 758 contracts net short of the British Pound Sterling;
A significant 69.99% decrease from 15,137 to just 4,542 contracts net long of the Japanese Yen;
A steady 13.33% increase from 141,066 to 159,880 contracts net short of the Euro;
And an important 37.56% decrease from 3,458 to 2,159 contracts net short of the Australian dollar, (following significant recent net short positions);
(Source CFTC.gov)
See what PFGBEST analysts have to say about the markets for MIDYEAR 2012...keep an eye on PFGBEST website to get the PFGBEST MIDYEAR Outlook 2012 coming soon!
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Owning a Pagani Zonda may be a pain when it comes to paying insurance or removing caked road salt from its intricate carbon fiber nooks, but it has its upsides, like doing 200 mph with the grace of a gazelle on drugs. That, and getting invited to Pagani owners' events to hitch a ride at insane speeds in the new Huayra on the twisty public roads of Sardinia with Horacio Pagani, who's totally cool in a polo shirt and shorts.
This is the life of Evo's editorial director Harry Metcalfe, a Zonda owner, and for the eternal gratitude of us Zonda-less multitudes, he turned on a video camera for the hissing, screaming, twin-turbo V12 ride. We learn that the Huayra sounds like a fine afternoon at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and that "the inspiration for the Zonda was a 24 Hours of Le Mans car. For the Huayra, it's an airplane at the moment of takeoff." It's a very educational video. Please enjoy.


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International News
Longer Looks: "Colonialism in Africa Helped Launch the HIV Epidemic a Century Ago"
March 1, 2012
"We now know where the epidemic began: a small patch of dense forest in southeastern Cameroon. We know when: within a couple of decades on either side of 1900. We have a good idea of how: A hunter caught an infected chimpanzee for food, allowing the virus to pass from the chimp's blood into the hunter's body, probably through a cut during butchering. As to the why, here is where the story gets even more fascinating, and terrible." (Washington Post, Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin, 2/27)
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|Growin Pretty Hair Francie
No I haven't fallen off the face of the earth....Not yet. I'd been uninspired lately so I picked up a doll that needed me. She had been needing me for quite sometime but I had pushed her away for two years and kept her in a place where I didn't have to look at her bitterly.
I got this doll from a late October doll show in 2011. I'm always in search of Francie dolls when I go to doll shows. Despite my current Poppy Parker doll obsessions, Francie will always be my one true love from the very mod and vintage era perspective.
There she was in her plain, see-thru white box, looking perfect for a doll her age. She even came in that metallic pink dress that was original to the Growin Pretty Hair dolls. So I decided to take her home. She is my very first Growin Pretty Hair Francie.
You can imagine my delight quickly turning into full-on dismay after I took her out of the box. I swear, all I did was very gently swing her left arm and this happened...
I almost cried. We were barely home an hour! I even contacted the seller from the show. As per usual, it's a final sale, happens to vintage dolls, blah, blah, blah! And as I said, after that, I hid her away out of bitterness.
And then last summer, a ray of hope came to me in the form of "The Last Glue". I saw a demo of it at the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition), asked the nice lady if it would work on a broken barbie doll. She confidently and quickly said: it will do the trick. I believed her after she glue a whole bunch of shite on her demo table.
The very first pic is her fixed arm knob. I'm waiting 8hrs or so to make sure everything is cool. So far so good. I will take an "after photo" once I put her arm back and cleaned her up a bit. Cross your fingers and toes that the Last Glue actually did the trick!