Premio nacional de historia. En esta ocasión dedicado al sacerdote y antropólogo Gregorio Smutko (1931 2001).
Ya está abierta la convocatoria al premio nacional de historia. En esta ocasión dedicado al sacerdote y antropólogo Gregorio Smutko (1931 2001) como reconocimiento al magistral esfuerzo del misionero, quien profundizo en el estudio de los pueblos del Caribe nicaragüense.
El certamen es promovido por el Banco Central y corresponde al bienio 2007-2009. Debido a los estragos del Huracán ‘Félix’ fue pospuesto hasta ahora.
Los trabajos deben responder a una correcta interpretación y calidad científica. Libre de prejuicios político-ideológicos, pues solo una valoración cada vez más certera y adecuada de nuestra experiencia histórica conduce a un sustancial aporte en el mejoramiento del quehacer político, social, económico y cultural de nuestro país.
En consideración de que Nicaragua es un país multiétnico y de diversa cultura, persisten, por distintas razones, dificultades para una comunicación directa entre las regiones Atlántico y Pacífico. Por lo tanto, el certamen nacional de historia del presente bienio será dedicado a la investigación de la Costa Caribe, con la idea de que sean sus resultados un sustancial aporte para un conocimiento más específico e integral de esta parte del territorio nacional.
Considerando que se debe reconocer el magistral esfuerzo del sacerdote y antropólogo Gregorio Smutko, el concurso llevará por nombre “Gregorio Smutko 2007-2009”, bajo las siguientes bases:
Los trabajos versarán sobre un tema específico de la historia de la región del Caribe de Nicaragua y deberá ser un esfuerzo profesional totalmente inédito, incluyendo su difusión en medios electrónicos y presentación en eventos, de lo contrario serán descalificados.
Se recibirán a partir de esta fecha hasta las cuatro de la tarde del día 15 de julio 2009, en la subgerencia de la biblioteca “Roberto Incer Barquero” del Banco Central de Nicaragua.
Deberán estar orientados en cualquiera de las dimensiones de la historia: política, social, económica, cultural, etc. En términos temporales las obras se centrarán entre los antecedentes del establecimiento de los ingleses en el siglo XVII y la última del siglo XX, y serán presentadas impresas en papel Standard Bond numero 40, tamaño carta a doble espacio, escrito en computadora solo en el anverso y con una extensión mínima de 225 paginas, sin incluir mapas, gráficos, cifras, notas y bibliografía. El tipo de letra a utilizar deberá ser Arial número 12.
Las obras deberán estar debidamente paginadas y encuadernadas, junto con el original de la obra deberán entregarse dos copias impresas en papel y un CD-Rom en formato Word o programa similar. Los autores podrán ser nicaragüenses o extranjeros, sin considerar el lugar de su residencia y podrán presentar sus trabajos de forma individual o grupal en español o lenguas originarias de las etnias de las regiones atlánticas siempre que adjunten una copia en español.
La propiedad intelectual de cada obra pertenece a su autor, a excepción de la obra ganadora cuyos derechos de edición original serán propiedad del Banco Central de Nicaragua. Los trabajos serán firmados con seudónimo. Se entregarán en un sobre cerrado que indicará en el interior el nombre y dirección del autor o autores y en el exterior el seudónimo.
El Banco Central imprimirá la obra premiada en una edición de 600 ejemplares y cederá 100 copias al autor. El premio consistirá en US $ 4,000.00 (cuatro mil dólares netos) y un diploma de reconocimiento que será entregado por el presidente del Banco Central de Nicaragua en sesión pública el día 30 de octubre de 2009, fecha en que se conmemora el 22 aniversario de la autonomía caribeña.
El jurado podrá conceder menciones especiales en número no mayor de 3, a aquellos trabajos que por su originalidad tuvieren méritos suficientes. Estas menciones especiales no tienen dotación económica ni obliga a la publicación de las mismas. Las obras presentadas serán evaluadas y falladas por un tribunal integrado por reconocidos profesionales nacionales y extranjeros cuyos nombres se conocerán al momento del fallo.
No podrán participar en este concurso el personal que labora para el Banco Central de Nicaragua y de igual modo los participantes no deberán tener ningún tipo de relación consanguínea o de afinidad con cualquiera de los integrantes del jurado. Los concursantes además de aceptar las bases de este certamen deberán acatar la decisión del jurado, la cual es inapelable.
Más información en: http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/variedades/18724
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sábado, 21 de junio de 2008
martes, 30 de octubre de 2007
Blue Energy gana en la primera etapa !!!
From: Mathias J. Craig
To: Mathias J. Craig
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 12:52 PM
Subject: Thanks to our incredible Warriors of blue (please forward on)
Dear Warriors of blue -
We appear to have won our category in round 1 (although we are awaiting official word from CNN)!!!
What can I say? The past week has been a humbling, eye-opening experience. A week ago I had no idea that we could mobilize such a powerful, distributed, global network and that so many people cared about blueEnergy and the work we are doing. I am in awe of our supporters' dedication and follow through. You all fought hard, with the mouse click as your weapon. Truly, thank you to each and every one of you.
There are a few people I would like to thank specifically:
My lovely wife Lorelei for her tireless devotion and efforts; Phil Stupak and Leah Nelson for co-leading our "get out the vote" campaign; my brother Guillaume for turning all the ideas into reality; All of blueEnergy's volunteers and staff and specifically the entire Bluefields office; Maricela and Galio in Managua; Matt Flannery from Kiva.org; Jesse K., the MonkeyJumpers and the Seattle crew; The blueEnergy France office organized by Lâl, Michèle, Colette and all; Bruce Noda, Ashley K., Nathaniel, Auburn, Jessica, Rachael, Edwin, Harley, David and Maria Matson, Sam and Jane and the entire Bay Area crew; Ashley R., Sara and the rest of the New York crew; Richard, Linda, Pam, Candy, Crystal, Debbie, Taylor from the extended Klein family and their LA teams; William, Locey, Randy and everyone in Chicago; Hilary Pfeifer and her blogger community; Brian W., Big Guy, OE, Darin and Liz and the entire Eugene crew; The Bluefields Sound System.
I am no doubt forgetting some important people in my state of fatigue - please don't take it personally... I'll probably remember after a long sleep!
Nicaraguan Pride and Voters
I was particularly surprised and impressed by our ability to mobilize practically all of Nicaragua. Maricela, Galio, Guillaume, Julie and our friends at the Bluefields Sound System lead an impressive push to get the word out in all the major media channels including the three largest Nicaraguan newspapers, multiple radio stations and several of the biggest cable news television programs. By framing the vote as a vote for Nicaragua, many were drawn to participate, both from within Nicaraguan and by Nicaraguans living abroad. Through all the media blitz I was occasionally mistaken as a Nicaraguan and called a "Nicaraguan Hero", which while incorrect, was an honor.
Voting Process and Experience
The system CNN setup for the vote was deeply flawed. I don't want to get into all the details here, but the key point is that allowing multiple votes per person is not a very democratic, or fair, or representative, way of running a "Viewers' Choice" type of award. I complained about this to CNN at the very beginning of the voting and they assured me this was intentional and we just had to deal with it. I also had reservations about them throwing $25k out there for us to compete over. That is a lot of money for any severely underfunded nonprofit (like blueEnergy) and doing that is a bit like throwing a juicy stake in the middle of a pack of starving dogs and telling them to behave. In my opinion, it would have been better to have the winner selected by committee so as to not have nominees directly competing with each other. None-the-less, the situation was handed to us as it was, and I am very proud of how we responded and rose to the occasion.
About Josh Sundquist and LessThanFour.org
As most of you know our primary competitor was Josh Sundquist and his organization LessThanFour.org, a support network website for amputees. Being a social networking site, they had a distinct advantage at the beginning of the voting. They mobilized quickly and took a dominating lead early. Through Lorelei and Phil's efforts and that of many, many others, we were able to mobilize a response relatively quickly and we started to creep onto the radar. Throughout the week the lead kept switching and it was quite tense. It was clear from reading blogs on their website that they very much expected to win, as they assumed none of the other nominees could challenge their established network.
As we neared the weekend we began to build a small but certain lead. Going into Saturday we had a 1000+ lead, by Sunday evening we had a 3000+ lead, and by late Sunday we had a 4000+ lead. You could feel the tension and desperation mount on their end as they saw their chances slip away. Sunday night, when the vote seemed out of reach to them, some really terrible things were said about me and blueEnergy on the LessThanFour.org website by members who were incensed that we had taken the lead and assumed that we were a fraudulent enterprise. I was shocked to say the least. There were posts on their website as well as emails directed at me personally that were vulgar, threatening and just totally outrageous. Most of the anger originated from a woman who's 4 year old daughter had lost a leg. She couldn't understand why we would chose to help poor people in Nicaragua instead of her daughter. Her pain and anger over her daughter's loss is understandable; though clearly it was a mistake to direct that frustration and anger at me. As I read the emails coming in last night, I thought about an appropriate response. Before I had a chance to reply, I received an apology from Josh Sundquist. He was as shocked as I was that one of his organization's members would go off like that. His apology was sincere and heartfelt and at the end, he congratulated me on our certain impending win. I mention all this because I think it's important to separate Josh from all of his followers, who he doesn't have complete control over. He fought a clean fight and it's unfortunate that some of his people made comments in the heat of the moment that they will probably soon regret.
I am proud that we resisted responding in kind. As far as I know we are not responsible for any negative posts, phone calls or emails directed at Josh (although we have been accused of that by others).
Lessons Learned
1) I married wisely
2) blueEnergy has an amazing global network of friends, volunteers and supporters
3) We can win round 2 if we organize better, rest our mouse-clicking fingers and avoid mobilization fatigue
Capturing the Momentum and Bottling Up The Energy For Round 2
We are the presumed winners in our category in round 1, although we still await an official announcement from CNN before we make an official announcement.
In preparation for round 2, we need to solidify our support base. So many people forwarded our plea on to their networks, which proved quite effective this time around, but leaves us without an ability to reach out to these people directly. When you are done readying this message, please forward it on to the same people you asked to vote for us, so they'll know their help was appreciated. And PLEASE encourage them to subscribe to our email update list so that we can contact them directly when needed in round 2 and beyond. The link to subscribe is: http://blueenergygroup.net/lists/?p=subscribe . You can continue to send them personalized messages relating to us, but it would be great for us to have a way to connect with them directly as well.
Rest now so we can gather strength just in time for round 2!!!
Cheers,
Mathias
--
Mathias J. Craig [in Eugene, OR until Oct. 30]
Executive Director and Co-Founder
--------------------------------------
blueEnergy
http://www.blueenergygroup.org
local people, local materials, local energy
--------------------------------------
22 Margrave Place, #5 / San Francisco, CA 94133 / USA
email: mathias.craig@blueenergygroup.org
alt. email: mathiascraig@gmail.com
office: +1 202 744 5840
mobile: +1 415 509 0155
fax: +1 801 730 9576
To: Mathias J. Craig
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 12:52 PM
Subject: Thanks to our incredible Warriors of blue (please forward on)
Dear Warriors of blue -
We appear to have won our category in round 1 (although we are awaiting official word from CNN)!!!
What can I say? The past week has been a humbling, eye-opening experience. A week ago I had no idea that we could mobilize such a powerful, distributed, global network and that so many people cared about blueEnergy and the work we are doing. I am in awe of our supporters' dedication and follow through. You all fought hard, with the mouse click as your weapon. Truly, thank you to each and every one of you.
There are a few people I would like to thank specifically:
My lovely wife Lorelei for her tireless devotion and efforts; Phil Stupak and Leah Nelson for co-leading our "get out the vote" campaign; my brother Guillaume for turning all the ideas into reality; All of blueEnergy's volunteers and staff and specifically the entire Bluefields office; Maricela and Galio in Managua; Matt Flannery from Kiva.org; Jesse K., the MonkeyJumpers and the Seattle crew; The blueEnergy France office organized by Lâl, Michèle, Colette and all; Bruce Noda, Ashley K., Nathaniel, Auburn, Jessica, Rachael, Edwin, Harley, David and Maria Matson, Sam and Jane and the entire Bay Area crew; Ashley R., Sara and the rest of the New York crew; Richard, Linda, Pam, Candy, Crystal, Debbie, Taylor from the extended Klein family and their LA teams; William, Locey, Randy and everyone in Chicago; Hilary Pfeifer and her blogger community; Brian W., Big Guy, OE, Darin and Liz and the entire Eugene crew; The Bluefields Sound System.
I am no doubt forgetting some important people in my state of fatigue - please don't take it personally... I'll probably remember after a long sleep!
Nicaraguan Pride and Voters
I was particularly surprised and impressed by our ability to mobilize practically all of Nicaragua. Maricela, Galio, Guillaume, Julie and our friends at the Bluefields Sound System lead an impressive push to get the word out in all the major media channels including the three largest Nicaraguan newspapers, multiple radio stations and several of the biggest cable news television programs. By framing the vote as a vote for Nicaragua, many were drawn to participate, both from within Nicaraguan and by Nicaraguans living abroad. Through all the media blitz I was occasionally mistaken as a Nicaraguan and called a "Nicaraguan Hero", which while incorrect, was an honor.
Voting Process and Experience
The system CNN setup for the vote was deeply flawed. I don't want to get into all the details here, but the key point is that allowing multiple votes per person is not a very democratic, or fair, or representative, way of running a "Viewers' Choice" type of award. I complained about this to CNN at the very beginning of the voting and they assured me this was intentional and we just had to deal with it. I also had reservations about them throwing $25k out there for us to compete over. That is a lot of money for any severely underfunded nonprofit (like blueEnergy) and doing that is a bit like throwing a juicy stake in the middle of a pack of starving dogs and telling them to behave. In my opinion, it would have been better to have the winner selected by committee so as to not have nominees directly competing with each other. None-the-less, the situation was handed to us as it was, and I am very proud of how we responded and rose to the occasion.
About Josh Sundquist and LessThanFour.org
As most of you know our primary competitor was Josh Sundquist and his organization LessThanFour.org, a support network website for amputees. Being a social networking site, they had a distinct advantage at the beginning of the voting. They mobilized quickly and took a dominating lead early. Through Lorelei and Phil's efforts and that of many, many others, we were able to mobilize a response relatively quickly and we started to creep onto the radar. Throughout the week the lead kept switching and it was quite tense. It was clear from reading blogs on their website that they very much expected to win, as they assumed none of the other nominees could challenge their established network.
As we neared the weekend we began to build a small but certain lead. Going into Saturday we had a 1000+ lead, by Sunday evening we had a 3000+ lead, and by late Sunday we had a 4000+ lead. You could feel the tension and desperation mount on their end as they saw their chances slip away. Sunday night, when the vote seemed out of reach to them, some really terrible things were said about me and blueEnergy on the LessThanFour.org website by members who were incensed that we had taken the lead and assumed that we were a fraudulent enterprise. I was shocked to say the least. There were posts on their website as well as emails directed at me personally that were vulgar, threatening and just totally outrageous. Most of the anger originated from a woman who's 4 year old daughter had lost a leg. She couldn't understand why we would chose to help poor people in Nicaragua instead of her daughter. Her pain and anger over her daughter's loss is understandable; though clearly it was a mistake to direct that frustration and anger at me. As I read the emails coming in last night, I thought about an appropriate response. Before I had a chance to reply, I received an apology from Josh Sundquist. He was as shocked as I was that one of his organization's members would go off like that. His apology was sincere and heartfelt and at the end, he congratulated me on our certain impending win. I mention all this because I think it's important to separate Josh from all of his followers, who he doesn't have complete control over. He fought a clean fight and it's unfortunate that some of his people made comments in the heat of the moment that they will probably soon regret.
I am proud that we resisted responding in kind. As far as I know we are not responsible for any negative posts, phone calls or emails directed at Josh (although we have been accused of that by others).
Lessons Learned
1) I married wisely
2) blueEnergy has an amazing global network of friends, volunteers and supporters
3) We can win round 2 if we organize better, rest our mouse-clicking fingers and avoid mobilization fatigue
Capturing the Momentum and Bottling Up The Energy For Round 2
We are the presumed winners in our category in round 1, although we still await an official announcement from CNN before we make an official announcement.
In preparation for round 2, we need to solidify our support base. So many people forwarded our plea on to their networks, which proved quite effective this time around, but leaves us without an ability to reach out to these people directly. When you are done readying this message, please forward it on to the same people you asked to vote for us, so they'll know their help was appreciated. And PLEASE encourage them to subscribe to our email update list so that we can contact them directly when needed in round 2 and beyond. The link to subscribe is: http://blueenergygroup.net/lists/?p=subscribe . You can continue to send them personalized messages relating to us, but it would be great for us to have a way to connect with them directly as well.
Rest now so we can gather strength just in time for round 2!!!
Cheers,
Mathias
--
Mathias J. Craig [in Eugene, OR until Oct. 30]
Executive Director and Co-Founder
--------------------------------------
blueEnergy
http://www.blueenergygroup.org
local people, local materials, local energy
--------------------------------------
22 Margrave Place, #5 / San Francisco, CA 94133 / USA
email: mathias.craig@blueenergygroup.org
alt. email: mathiascraig@gmail.com
office: +1 202 744 5840
mobile: +1 415 509 0155
fax: +1 801 730 9576
viernes, 26 de octubre de 2007
Invitacion a votar por Blue Energy - Monkey Point
Amigas, amigos,
Les re-transmito el mensaje de Mathias Craig para que participen en votar a favor del proyecto de Blue Energy implementado en Monkey Point.
Deposite su voto en: http://www.cnn.com/heroes
Atentamente,
María Dolores Álvarez.
----------------------------------------------
Amigos y Amigas:
Solicito su VOTO en el sitio web de CNN Heroes para Mathias Craig (basta visitar el link siguiente: http://www.cnn.com/heroes). Por favor seleccione a Mathias Craig como el candidato de su preferencia y vote! Su voto ayudara a la labor que blueEnergy realiza instalando sistemas de energía renovable -turbinas de viento- en las comunidades de la Costa Caribe de Nicaragua.
El programa CNN Heroes culminara con una trasmisión en vivo conducida por Anderson Cooper con Christiane Amanpour desde el Museo de Historia Natural en Nueva York el próximo 6 de Diciembre, los héroes nominados y seleccionados por el publico, por el mayor numero de votos a favor, recibirán un reconocimiento especial y un premio en efectivo.
La votación en la categoría Community Crusader -gente ordinaria haciendo cosas extraordinarias- en la que se encuentra Mathias Craig esta en linea y termina el próximo Lunes 29 de octubre. Agradeceremos que reenvie este mensaje a su familia, amigos y colegas solicitando su apoyo. Para mayor información sobre este proyecto le invitamos a visitar el sitio web de blueEnergy.
Vote for Mathias Craig and blueEnergy
----- Original Message -----
From: Mathias J.Craig
To: Mathias J. Craig
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:48 PM
Subject: Help blueEnergy win the CNN Heroes Viewers' Choice (Public message to send out to friend, family for CNN Heroes vote)
Dear Friend of blueEnergy -
It has come to our attention that it appears that voters can vote multiple times in the CNN Heroes Viewers' Choice Awards. Our key opponent, Josh Sundquist, appears to have been using this method to compete with us, while we were under the impression that only two (2) votes could be placed per computer. It is a very tight race and we need your help to spread the word to get voters mobilized. Please use the message below to get this new information out to your networks in support of blueEnergy's efforts. Time is of the essence and your help is most appreciated!!!
***********************************
Dear Friend of blueEnergy -
Thank you! Your support for blueEnergy over the past week has been truly humbling. When blueEnergy was first nominated as a CNN Hero, no one thought that a small nonprofit company serving rural Nicaragua would stand a chance of winning the Viewers' Choice Award. And yet here we are in a tight race to win the first round of voting. Earlier today blueEnergy had a 500 vote lead over the next closest nominee. But then something happened.
Another nominee began to circulate an email to his supporters. In it he writes:
Please consider spending five or ten minutes each day voting . . . It's really quick—you can easily vote 100 times in less than 10 minutes . . . To vote, just put a checkbox beside my name and click "Vote." To vote again, just click "reload" in your browser. NOTE: It takes about 15 minutes for your votes to show up in the vote tallies. But don't worry, they all get counted!
I must admit -- that email shocked me. I had assumed that CNN wanted the voters to abide by the idea of one person, one vote. But apparently I was wrong. CNN has been unable to assure me that there is a system in place to limit people to one vote per person. Apparently, people are allowed to vote as often as they like!
So I am asking you one more time to please vote for blueEnergy, and in the process, for Nicaragua. And then vote again.
To act, go to: http://www.cnn.com/heroes and select "Mathias Craig" then click "Vote!" at the bottom of the selection area. If you have time to vote multiple times, please do so. All you need to do is refresh the page.
The second round of voting will be between the finalists of each category (6 finalists in total) and will run from November 12 - 26; if blueEnergy makes it that far, we'll need your support a second time. The prize at stake is $25,000 and publicity at the CNN Heroes special finale live broadcast with Anderson Cooper on December 6th. I don't need to tell you how much this would mean to blueEnergy. If you've always wanted to contribute to blueEnergy but just haven't had the financial resources, you can have a bit impact right now by investing some time in getting the vote out for blueEnergy.
Thanks in advance for your support!
Cheers,
Mathias
***************************************
Feel free to translate this message into French and Spanish and please forward it on to all. This vote means a lot to blueEnergy and your support is most appreciated.
Cheers,
Mathias
--
Mathias J. Craig [in San Francisco]
Executive Director and Co-Founder
--------------------------------------
blueEnergy
http://www.blueenergygroup.org
local people, local materials, local energy
--------------------------------------
22 Margrave Place, #5 / San Francisco, CA 94133 / USA
email: mathias.craig@blueenergygroup.org
alt. email: mathiascraig@gmail.com
office: +1 202 744 5840
mobile: +1 415 509 0155
fax: +1 801 730 9576
Make Mathias Craig and blueEnergy the CNN Heroes Viewers' Choice by Voting Here: http://www.cnn.com/heroes
Les re-transmito el mensaje de Mathias Craig para que participen en votar a favor del proyecto de Blue Energy implementado en Monkey Point.
Deposite su voto en: http://www.cnn.com/heroes
Atentamente,
María Dolores Álvarez.
----------------------------------------------
Amigos y Amigas:
Solicito su VOTO en el sitio web de CNN Heroes para Mathias Craig (basta visitar el link siguiente: http://www.cnn.com/heroes). Por favor seleccione a Mathias Craig como el candidato de su preferencia y vote! Su voto ayudara a la labor que blueEnergy realiza instalando sistemas de energía renovable -turbinas de viento- en las comunidades de la Costa Caribe de Nicaragua.
El programa CNN Heroes culminara con una trasmisión en vivo conducida por Anderson Cooper con Christiane Amanpour desde el Museo de Historia Natural en Nueva York el próximo 6 de Diciembre, los héroes nominados y seleccionados por el publico, por el mayor numero de votos a favor, recibirán un reconocimiento especial y un premio en efectivo.
La votación en la categoría Community Crusader -gente ordinaria haciendo cosas extraordinarias- en la que se encuentra Mathias Craig esta en linea y termina el próximo Lunes 29 de octubre. Agradeceremos que reenvie este mensaje a su familia, amigos y colegas solicitando su apoyo. Para mayor información sobre este proyecto le invitamos a visitar el sitio web de blueEnergy.
Vote for Mathias Craig and blueEnergy
----- Original Message -----
From: Mathias J.Craig
To: Mathias J. Craig
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:48 PM
Subject: Help blueEnergy win the CNN Heroes Viewers' Choice (Public message to send out to friend, family for CNN Heroes vote)
Dear Friend of blueEnergy -
It has come to our attention that it appears that voters can vote multiple times in the CNN Heroes Viewers' Choice Awards. Our key opponent, Josh Sundquist, appears to have been using this method to compete with us, while we were under the impression that only two (2) votes could be placed per computer. It is a very tight race and we need your help to spread the word to get voters mobilized. Please use the message below to get this new information out to your networks in support of blueEnergy's efforts. Time is of the essence and your help is most appreciated!!!
***********************************
Dear Friend of blueEnergy -
Thank you! Your support for blueEnergy over the past week has been truly humbling. When blueEnergy was first nominated as a CNN Hero, no one thought that a small nonprofit company serving rural Nicaragua would stand a chance of winning the Viewers' Choice Award. And yet here we are in a tight race to win the first round of voting. Earlier today blueEnergy had a 500 vote lead over the next closest nominee. But then something happened.
Another nominee began to circulate an email to his supporters. In it he writes:
Please consider spending five or ten minutes each day voting . . . It's really quick—you can easily vote 100 times in less than 10 minutes . . . To vote, just put a checkbox beside my name and click "Vote." To vote again, just click "reload" in your browser. NOTE: It takes about 15 minutes for your votes to show up in the vote tallies. But don't worry, they all get counted!
I must admit -- that email shocked me. I had assumed that CNN wanted the voters to abide by the idea of one person, one vote. But apparently I was wrong. CNN has been unable to assure me that there is a system in place to limit people to one vote per person. Apparently, people are allowed to vote as often as they like!
So I am asking you one more time to please vote for blueEnergy, and in the process, for Nicaragua. And then vote again.
To act, go to: http://www.cnn.com/heroes and select "Mathias Craig" then click "Vote!" at the bottom of the selection area. If you have time to vote multiple times, please do so. All you need to do is refresh the page.
The second round of voting will be between the finalists of each category (6 finalists in total) and will run from November 12 - 26; if blueEnergy makes it that far, we'll need your support a second time. The prize at stake is $25,000 and publicity at the CNN Heroes special finale live broadcast with Anderson Cooper on December 6th. I don't need to tell you how much this would mean to blueEnergy. If you've always wanted to contribute to blueEnergy but just haven't had the financial resources, you can have a bit impact right now by investing some time in getting the vote out for blueEnergy.
Thanks in advance for your support!
Cheers,
Mathias
***************************************
Feel free to translate this message into French and Spanish and please forward it on to all. This vote means a lot to blueEnergy and your support is most appreciated.
Cheers,
Mathias
--
Mathias J. Craig [in San Francisco]
Executive Director and Co-Founder
--------------------------------------
blueEnergy
http://www.blueenergygroup.org
local people, local materials, local energy
--------------------------------------
22 Margrave Place, #5 / San Francisco, CA 94133 / USA
email: mathias.craig@blueenergygroup.org
alt. email: mathiascraig@gmail.com
office: +1 202 744 5840
mobile: +1 415 509 0155
fax: +1 801 730 9576
Make Mathias Craig and blueEnergy the CNN Heroes Viewers' Choice by Voting Here: http://www.cnn.com/heroes
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