AbstractThe present invention, in one set of embodiments, provides methods, systems and software that may be used to generate and manage enforcement actions against domains that are potentially and/or actually infringing rights of a user. Merely by way of example, some embodiments provide methods for identifying one or more domain names potentially subject to enforcement activity by a user. According to further embodiments, methods are provided for obtaining domain information regarding potential and/or actual infringing domains for a user. In certain embodiments, the present invention provides methods for analyzing domain information concerning potential and/or actual infringing domains and generating one or more enforcement messages for sending to one or more parties associated with the potentially and/or actually infringing domain names.
Inventors:
Bura; Christopher J. (Pleasant Hill, CA), DeMartini; David A. (Bremerton, WA)
Having worked 1/2 the previous night, until 1:00AM, then gettng up again at 7:00 to continue forward with a large development project, I decided to reward my hard work with a little R&R at the top of the Olympic National Park. My friend Bill had the day off so we decided to meet up north of Poulsbo and ride the 80 miles to Port Angelas. The final destination, Hurricane Ridge 93 miles from our starting point.
Played my 2nd round of golf (ever) at Elk Run Golf Club yesterday. Joel, a really good golfer and co-oworker sponsored my play yesterday. Thanks Joel!
5th hole, Elk Run Golf Club.
Elk Run is a very interesting course. Not a lot of long holes, but there were a number of technical aspects to the course! One of which was the fact it winds through a housing development. Not a ‘Golf and Country Club’ but.. it’s more like a standard residential neighborhood with a golf course running where some of the blocks would be. Made for some serious out of bounds issues. I lost 8 balls on the front 9. My drive from the tee box is.. ‘variable’.
I’m really enjoying this game. It can be frustrating, but also rewarding when you hit a really nice shot. The 5th hole I drive straight down the fairway and within chip-distance of the green. I was in a great possition to PAR the hole, but my putting game (if you can call it a game) completely disintigrated. The upside of playing with a couple of good players, were a number of really helpful tips all day long, and by the end of the day I was making a some pretty decent puts.
On the way out to play, I picked up 3 ‘new’ 6-irons of various shaft stiffness and manufacture. I shot with the 6 instead of the 7 and 8 in a number of places (my game is not consitant enough for singular club selection to make that much of a difference) and Cleavland CG4 seems to be the one that’s going to work best for me. At $10 per club.. it was an easy investment in learning more about what clubs work well for me. I’ll sell off the others once I get my preference dailed in.
So, off to have brunch with my kids today, then to the driving range to work 100 balls with just the 6 irons. Need to work in my consistancy of swing. Received some great tips there as well, yesterday.
Golf.. frustrating and fun. I plan to play this game for a long time!
I was very excited to download and update my iPhone to the latest and greatest version 3.0. It has a lot of great new features in the updated, including cut & paste, network tethering (use your iPhone for mobile 3G internet), and something that is a real pain right now, MMS (Multimedia Message Service — an extension of SMS, which aka ‘texting’).
This would have been all well and good, IF AT&T had gotten off their asses and updated their network in time to support them! What is most unacceptable, is that EVERY other network provider in the world, supporting iPhone equipment, supports these features!
Here is a quote from AT&T:
“We will be offering a tethering plan and MMS for the iPhone,” Mark Siegel, AT&T’s spokesman, said by phone. “But we haven’t announced a date.”
“We plan to offer a tethering plan, but don’t have an announcement to make at this time,” the spokesman said. “We absolutely will offer MMS on iPhone 3G S and iPhone 3G with 3.0 upgrades in late summer once we complete some system upgrades that will ensure our customers have the best experience with MMS. These upgrades are unrelated to our 3G network.”
They have quite an excuse fest ramped up. I don’t buy it. AT&T has simply, again, shown it’s lack of vision and it’s “Were the Monoploy – tough **** attitude”. If only I had a choice for iPhone provider networks, I’d be gone yesterday.
Hey AT&T; You are lucky you are the only game in town.. for now!
This past Saturday, my kids and myself traveled to the Fort Lewis Military Museum to learn a little bit about the largest military base in the state of Washington. What I did not expect was to learn so much.
This is a continuation article. There seems to be some arbitrary (at least unknown, to myself) limit to the size of an article, and my full article, even incomplete, was too large to publish.
Also on display is an interesting collection of Cold War artifacts and hardware. A few photos of the rolling-stock located outside the building. I’m in the process of trying to identify some of these Soviet Block weapons systems, few of them had current placards.
US ARMY M60 Main Battle Tank ("Patton")
Soviet Block - unidentified medium tank
Soviet Block - unidentified light armor
US Nike-Hercules nuclear tipped SAM
US ARMY - unidentified APC
US ARMY - Honest John tactical nuke
US ARMY - MIM-104 Patriot SAM / missle defense
US ARMY - FAV (Fast Attack Vehicle) experimental
US ARMY - Pre HUMVEE experimental prototypes - both cancelled
US ARMY - Kawasaki Scout Bike (9th Infantry circa 1982)
Operation 'Just Cause' campaign map
US ARMY - Nike fixed possition SAM / tactical nuke
This past Saturday, my kids and myself traveled to the Fort Lewis Military Museum to learn a little bit about the largest military base in the state of Washington. What I did not expect was to learn so much.
Legion of Merit
Our family has a tie to the base via my cousin, a Lt. Col. whom deployed to Iraq in 2003 from Fort Lewis, following his unit’s activation, to support the 2003 Operation Iraqi Freedom. He received the Legion of Merit for his service, which our family is very proud of. Following his deployment, before his return to California, he spent some time with my family, showing us photos and stories from his time in ‘The Sandbox’. I thought it appropriate to give the kids some exposure to the great warrior traditions of the US ARMY and their family. Fort Lewis has continued to provide critical personal to the fight against terrorism overseas, with deployment of Rangers, MPs, Engineers and of course the STRYKERs
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So much history, so much to see, so much to read.
There is no way to due the museum justice without a multi-part article, and at some point later down the line, following another visit, I may just do that. For now I’ll cover some of the interesting things to be seen there in photos.
Artifacts and History from the Lewis and Clark Expedition through WWI
There is a complete section on the Lewis and Clark expedition, which was in fact, a military expedition to explore the west. Along with commissioned officers Lewis and Clark, the force consisted of volunteer US ARMY regulars. Within that section of the museum I learned about a confrontation between the US and Britain during the 1800’s over possession of the San Juan Islands, the nearly erupted into another war between the nations. Displayed is a map of the area showing positions of forces, along with a political cartoon of the time.
San Juan Islands - disputed territories
America vs. England - Standoff over Disputed San Juan Island territories
Also in the display was an excellent collection of rifles, pistols and other equipment related to the expedition.
The Fort Lewis Military Museum is occupies one of only two existing historical buildings at Fort Lewis that date back to WWI. In 1918, the Salvation Army constructed the 150-room ‘Red Shield Inn’ at a cost of $107,000, to accommodate the soldiers, his family and friends. After the drawdown following WWI, the Salvation Army sold the building to the US ARMY for the price of $1 (one dollar) on July 1, 1921. It remained in use by the US ARMY until a new Fort Lewis Lodge was constructed closer to the base’s Main Post Headquarters. The Fort Lewis Military Museum is the only certified US ARMY museum on the West Coast, and contains interesting and rare artifacts preserving the heritage of Fort Lewis and the US ARMY in the Pacific Northwest.
Getting to the Museum
The Fort Lewis Military Museum is located south of Seattle, between Tacoma and Olympia. Take exit 150 to enter Fort Lewis. The museum is located in North Fort Lewis, signs guide the way. Visitors without a current military vehicle registration decal and federal ID card must first obtain a Visitor Pass at the Main Gate Visitor’s Center. You will need to produce a driver’s license for each individual 16 years and order, as well as the current registration and proof of insurance for every vehicle entering the base. Those receiving a pass, and get directions to the museum from Visitor’s Center staff.
I was not able to find a lot of information on the aircraft communications time line past the first couple of days of the search. Of the information I was able to obtain, this is the short time line I was able to put together.
Following each, the ‘[#]’ links to the reference article where information was obtained.
0200 GMT – pilot sent a manual signal local time saying he was flying through an area of “CBs” — black, electrically charged cumulonimbus clouds that come with violent winds and lightning. [1] 0200 GMT – pilot reports turbulence [2]
0210 GMT – Autopilot had disengaged [1][2][3] 0210 GMT – Key computer system had switched to alternative power [1] 0210 GMT – Controls needed to keep the plane stable had been damaged [1] 0210 GMT – Alarm sounded indicating the deterioration of flight systems. [1]
0213 GMT – Failure of systems to monitor air speed [1] 0213 GMT – Failure of systems to monitor altitude [1] 0213 GMT – Failure of systems to monitor [1] 0213 GMT – Control of the main flight computer failed [1][2] 0213 GMT – Control of spoilers failed [1]
0214 GMT – Loss of cabin pressure [1] 0214 GMT – Complete electrical failure [1] 0214 GMT – Cabin in Vertical Speed [2][3]
The latest information on the wreckage and remains recovery:
A French nuclear submarine has arrived at the scene of the Air France crash in the ocean off Brazil to start searching for the flight’s data recorders.
The “black boxes”, which emit a locator signal for about 30 days, could be up to 6,100m (20,000ft) deep, on the bed of the Atlantic.
They could provide vital clues as to why the Airbus A330 crashed on 1 June.
Brazilian air and sea searches have now recovered 41 bodies from the plane, which had 228 people on board.
The submarine, and Brazilian naval and air forces, have a large and remote area of ocean to search.
Debris from the plane, which was flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, has been found some 1,000km (600 miles) north-east of the Fernando de Noronha islands. The islands are about 320km off the north-eastern coast of Brazil.
‘Very complicated’
French military spokesman Captain Christophe Prazuck said the submarine – the Emeraude – should be able to cover an area of 26 sq km each day. It has advanced sonar equipment on board.
“There are big uncertainties about the accident site, the ocean floor is rugged… so it’s going to be very difficult,” he told French radio.
“It’s going to be very complicated and we’re going to need a lot of luck” to find the plane’s data recorders.
The US is also joining the search, sending two sophisticated listening devices, which will be deployed on two large vessels hired by France. They will be towed in a grid pattern across the search area.
If the aircraft’s two black boxes are located, a mini-submarine called the Nautile will be sent down to retrieve them. The vessel, which has a crew of three and is about 8m long, is the same one which explored the wreck of the Titanic.
FULL ARTICLE: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8092715.stm
Then then there were three (less). One person out with flu, another had a technical issue with their bike and a third simply decided to pass.
Myself, I’m going. Tank bag arrived today. Smaller than I expected. HOWEVER, it seems well constructed and for a day bag.. I think it will be perfect. The SW-Motec mounting system is SLICK! I’m going to order a second larger bag for touring, and maybe I’ll upgrade to the 12v powered plate too.
A review on my new gear, new tank bag and the prospect of a weekend of riding with only a small tail pack and a smaller tank bag will work out.
Decided it was time to update the banner images. Removed a couple that were just not making me happy to see, when checking my blog, and replaced them with these:
Since the disappearance of Air France 447, an Airbus A330-200, (the exact same model of aircraft flown by Northwest Airlines, that I took to Amsterdam last month), I have been following the news reports pretty closely. A lot of speculation surrounds, what the call the doomed flight, but until they get the ‘black boxes’ this is mostly speculation. However there are some unique bits of data that the aircraft’s monitoring systems sent to AirBus (or maybe Air France, it’s not clear to me where the messages were sent) that the events leading up to the crash occurred over a 10-15 minute time period. Plenty of time for pilots to issue a ‘Mayday’ message if they’d had any indication of an impending problem.
From the various reports I’ve read, I’m going to start to assemble some timelines, and references to the article sources as possible. It will likely take me a day or so to get this collected. Once I have managed to do so, a follow-up message will be posted.
My prayers go out to the families affected, and especially the passengers on the fated flight. From what I have read so far, it would appear the aircraft broke up at altitude. I can’t image what that might have been like.
This past Saturday, my kids and myself traveled to the 
I have been following the news reports pretty closely. A lot of speculation surrounds, what the call the doomed flight, but until they get the ‘black boxes’ this is mostly speculation. However there are some unique bits of data that the aircraft’s monitoring systems sent to AirBus (or maybe Air France, it’s not clear to me where the messages were sent) that the events leading up to the crash occurred over a 10-15 minute time period. Plenty of time for pilots to issue a ‘Mayday’ message if they’d had any indication of an impending problem.