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Defamation lawsuit against a MP FProtection District Board member Virgina Chang Kirlay won't be dismissed.
Original post made by Susan Smith, Woodside: other, on Jan 23, 2013
" judge has tentatively ruled there's enough merit to a defamation lawsuit against a Menlo Park Fire Protection District Board member that it won't be dismissed.
The Oct. 11 suit filed by John Woodell -- a San Mateo County Democratic Committee member and the husband of Menlo Park Council Member Kirsten Keith -- alleges that Virginia Chang Kiraly defamed him by telling people he stole numerous campaign signs when she was running for a seat on the fire district board.
Kiraly filed a motion Nov. 26 in which she denies making any such statement and calls Woodell's lawsuit "frivolous." In arguing for the suit's dismissal, Kiraly said it "seeks to chill legitimate public discourse" related to the contested 2011 fire district election.
In his Jan. 18 tentative ruling, San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Raymond Swope said Kiraly failed to significantly show the "challenged cause of action is one 'arising from' protected activity." In addition, Woodell's lawsuit "demonstrated a probability of prevailing on his defamation claim," Swope wrote.
Woodell's lawyer, Seth Rosenberg, said Tuesday he was "obviously quite pleased with the judge's analysis."
Comments (15)
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Jan 23, 2013 at 7:43 am
Why can't these people who want represent us behave in a responsible, Adult manner? I would have thought this sort of behavior would have been 'shaken out' in high school, and because it wasn't, we all get to endure the babyshambles of the current Chang-Kiraly circus... Menlo Park Fire has had many probems over the years, and it looks poorly when their elected officals behave like this, well, it just feels old and expensive.
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Jan 23, 2013 at 4:08 pm
Career politico -- Circus is a good word to describe this situation. Not to mention that the other elected person, Rob Silano, was heavily supported by the union, and there still isn't a contract.
I agree the FD has had its share of problems -- union lawsuits, grievances, etc. This Kiraly lawsuits just adds to the ongoing drama there.
a resident of another community
on Jan 23, 2013 at 4:20 pm
Sometimes people say things that probably should not be said. Very, very rarely, a person files a lawsuit over it. This will wind up being very unpleasant situation.
It's bound to happen sometime with the Almanac blogs, with all the anonymous attacks going on. Someone will wind up filing a lawsuit naming a "John Doe" defendant, and taking discovery to determine who posted it. That's why I suggest the Almanac prohibit all anonymous postings that attack or criticize any named individual. Anonymous postings should be limited to expressing opinions about issues, not people.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Jan 24, 2013 at 8:09 pm
Woodell should be asked how it is that his phone just happened to be right next to where one of Kiraly's sign had been removed.
Neither party seems to like or even respect each other. But grow up! Make nice and move on.
There are far more important things that need attention.
a resident of another community
on Jan 24, 2013 at 8:48 pm
Today's Daily Post reported that Woodell provided phone logs the PD and DA to identify who might have taken his phone.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Jan 26, 2013 at 3:03 pm
Career Politico: There still has been no ruling, so I wouldn't celebrate w/the Keith and Woodell too soon!
Grow Up!: if you're being sued, you must respond. Woodell and Keith started this whole mess. Kiraly had no choice but to legally respond.
News: Saw the same article. It mentions an email that implicates Kirsten Keith, who was vice mayor at the time. She apparently also talked to the Glen Rojas, the former MP City Manager and her subordinate, about her husband's case.
Carrer Politico: If anyone is involved w/this "circus," it is Keith and Woodell! Why can't they just put this behind them and move on? As a citizen of Menlo Park, I would like to hear Keith's explanation in all this. The Post pointed out that there had been no evidence of her involvement before an email from Rojas to Woodell that shows that Keith talked about this incident to Rojas.
She must be involved with this somehow, or her marriage must be a sham. How can a married couple carry this ridiculous situation so far without each knowing about this? I think it's time for Keith to answer some questions as to her involvement.
Still wondering what the end game is for Woodell and Keith. At the end of the day, if there's any victim, it's Kiraly, since it was her sign that discarded in Bernstein's yard, with Woodell's cell phone next to it! I doubt Kiraly asked that her sign be discarded and found next to Woodell's cell phone.
a resident of Atherton: Lindenwood
on Jan 26, 2013 at 4:18 pm
Lawyers who defend a malpractice victim who has the wrong kidney removed = BAD
Lawyers for these bozos = GOOD
@Bob: 'This Kiraly lawsuits just adds to the ongoing drama there.' How is this related to the actual fire department and firefighters?
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Jan 27, 2013 at 12:15 am
Career Politico, the phone may have ended up in a ridiculous location, and this lead to a stream of news articles and the Kiraly lawn sign being shown repeatedly on the television news... days before the election. If the expiation (for the phone's journey) involves evidence of criminal activity by a third party, it would not be appropriate to make that information public.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Jan 27, 2013 at 8:59 am
Cautionary Tale: This is exactly the problem with Woodell's lawsuit. The First Amendment protects political speech and freedom of the press. Based on the Daily Post's recent article and the Almanac's coverage of this from the beginning, Woodell and Keith, it seems to me, want to control what is said about them, how people perceive them, and when "caught," exert their influence to cover up their wrongdoings.
I've read many nasty things from posters like "Susan Smith," who posted this original posting, about Kiraly and have seen mean postings about Bernstein in TS, too. No, I'm not saying "Susan Smith's" original posting is nasty, but the headline is misleading and wrong, since the judge has not given any ruling- read carefully. My point is that you don't see Kiraly and Bernstein suing people for the ugly things that are said about them.
If Woodell and Keith want to play in the political arena or "circus," as Career Politico characterizes it, then I agree with Grow Up! that Woodell and Keith should grow up! They should either expect people to exert their First Amendment rights and, at times, be critical of them or get out of politics! Can't have it both ways!
This cellphone incident is a classic example of Woodell and Keith needing to grow up! Had Woodell not brought up this incident again, many people would have forgotten it. Now, people will remember this, and it may affect Keith's future political career negatively. If she's somehow involved with this as Think! points out, then she does not deserve to be in elected office or in any position where she might abuse her authority. Instead of Woodell having to "explain" things now, I think it's Keith's turn, especially she since is in elected office!
And, no, I don't think either of them is innocent! I think it's because they are both involved with this that they want to "fight" this so that they are perceived as being innocent. As they say, "where there's smoke, there's fire." With Keith's "explanation," if they come, I'm sure the stories will continue to pour out! How many more lies will we hear now? OMG... don't sue me for defamation, Kirsten Keith and John Woodell!
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Jan 27, 2013 at 4:04 pm
Connecting the dots, if any of the current council members will "roll over" based on anonymous town square comments, they are not capable of negotiating union contracts in closed session.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Jan 27, 2013 at 5:48 pm
Options: you make no sense whatsoever. However, if you want to go there, how about starting with Keith's lack of ethics and integrity. She is a current council member. According to the Daily Post, based on a public records request from the MPPD, it looks like she spoke with the city manager about her husband's cell phone incident. In response to you, without a strong sense of integrity or ethics, I do not believe Keith is capable of doing anything with integrity behind closed doors, let alone represent the residents of Menlo Park.
As Think! says, it's time for Keith to answer some questions as to why she was even talking about her husband's incident with the city manager. What was she trying to influence? That really is the issue for me.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Jan 27, 2013 at 10:10 pm
Connecting the dots, I took another look at the Post article, it doesn't say anything about a public records request from the MPPD.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Jan 27, 2013 at 10:41 pm
Options: The article is on page 30 of the Daily Post from the January 24 paper. The email implicating Keith was obtained from a public records request made of the city, not MPPD. My mistake- sorry! You'll have to read the paper to read the quoted email correspondence between Woodell and Glen Rojas, Menlo Park's former city manager. Rojas mentions that Keith mentioned Woodell getting phone logs to MPPDm as well.
Again, what else did Keith say or do to influence Rojas, who, according to his email, gave it to the police chief or Rojas' subordinate?
Hmmmm... methinks that Keith should be answering questions about her undue influence on the city manager and police chief. Sounds like Kelly Fergusson's Brown Act indiscretions!
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Jan 28, 2013 at 6:46 pm
Connecting the dots, you describe the email correspondence as between Woodell and Glen Rojas, suggesting that Woodell sent the email. The article clearly states the email was to Woodell from Rojas, not the other was around.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Jan 29, 2013 at 9:38 am
Options: You're missing the point. The point is that Keith, as MP's Vice Mayor, was taklking to the city manager about her husband's cellphone incident. Woodell was, too. How many people in their position would have the city manager's ear about a stupid case like this?
Again, I would like to hear Keith's explanation as to why she was even talking to the city manager, who was communicating to his subordinate, the police chief, about her husband's personal problem? Is Keith somehow involed with this incident, too? You have to wonder!
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I feel the urge to teach! Pretty funny. Well. I would so much like to try it... I think I wouldn't suck at it (but I never really tried before) and I really love sharing my knowledge, more so in an interactive way. I will surely try to apply for teaching some practice classes for Unix next year. Teaching Programming practice classes could be interesting but OTOH I hate the idea of having to deal with massive amounts of Pascal code. Teaching Internet would be just boring, I guess. And teaching Discrete mathematics practices would be well over my head, at least so far. So my only hope for now is an unofficial thin-circle lecture on efficient bash (well, readline applications in general) and vim usage I was offered to someday hold on the campus. ;-)
I've been playing with Gentoo again. I've made my first ebuild, filing few bugs along the process. The ebuild tool is really awfully confusing for a newcomer. For some funny reason I kept writing /usr/share/portage instead of /usr/portage, so after some encouragement from #gentoo-bugs I decided to change my PORTDIR and see what will break. ;-)
There are some other rough edges I'm slowly discovering; on my TODO list I have an implementation of emerge -T which is like -t but shows the dependency tree with some asciiart, not just indentation (I find the indentation pretty hard to process by my optical brain centers). Also, when I'm doing a big many-packages emerge, I would like the summary of all package "installation notes" to be printed at the end, not scattered during the process where it is extremely unlikely I will ever read them. In the longer term, I want to investigate how well are the binary packages supported etc. I hope to finally learn at least some of the Python along the process. ;-)
BTW, in order to get dvifb to work, I had to restart gpm from inside the chrooted Gentoo system. But don't ever do that through the "standard" way - that will cause the dependencies to be triggered, it will happily remount your fstab (causing live filesystems to be remounted, bypassing the safety checks somehow) and so. I will try to make the system pretend those things were already done so that I can slowly restart all the stuff inside the Gentoo chroot so that I'm sure everything works when I do the final switch. I might try to switch bind to Gentoo tomorrow and also build my custom qmail ebuild (without dependencies on the other djb stuff like daemontools, which I dislike a lot).
Another BTW - if you also hate the bind9's host utility, you may find my comparison chart against bind8's host useful. On the new Gentoo system I just installed some standalone host utility whose output seems to be rather bind8-like. There are some glitches though, i.e. -al might not produce a valid zone. I might do some patches. ;-)
I will have to investigate all this funny trackback stuff, RSS feeds etc. (But it looks like at least those of my blog entries also forwarded to Advogato should have RSS feeds. Note however that I forward only articles which have prevailing technical contents which might be interesting/useful for the Advogato audience.) This weblog site could do with some CSS facelift, too. (Note to self: Remember to check why root.cz's CSS causes everything to be centered in ELinks.)
Also, please feel encouraged to tell me about any grammatical errors or awkwardness I will commit - please help improve my English! :-) (I will have to once write up about me, writing, English etc.)
Dum-tu-dum-tu-dim-ta-dum-dwamm-dum-tu-tam-dam. I should go sleep. Now.


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Princeton and PPPL share in $25 million nuclear arms-control project
Posted April 10, 2014; 01:00 p.m.
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has named Princeton University and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) as participants in a new $25 million, five-year project to address technology and policy issues related to nuclear arms control. The project will include a unique process that Princeton and PPPL are developing to verify that nuclear weapons to be dismantled or removed from deployment contain true warheads.
Princeton and PPPL will join a consortium of 13 universities and eight national laboratories in the project, called the Center for Verification Technology and led by the University of Michigan. Funding from NNSA, a semi-autonomous branch of the DOE, will include a combined total of $3.5 million over five years for Princeton and PPPL for their research on verification. This research was first launched in 2011 with a seed grant from The Simons Foundation of Vancouver, Canada, that came to the University through Global Zero, a nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating all nuclear weapons.
"This is an excellent example of collaboration between Princeton and PPPL on scientific issues of great public interest," said A.J. Stewart Smith, the University's vice president for PPPL. "This research benefits from the close integration of the main campus and PPPL."
Physicists Alexander Glaser, left, and Robert Goldston display the non-nuclear test object that will serve as a target in their research. (Photo by Elle Starkman, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
As part of this project, Princeton and PPPL are developing a "zero-knowledge protocol for nuclear warhead verification" — a system to confirm that a putative warhead actually is one without measuring classified information that could lead to nuclear proliferation if the data were to be leaked. The research fires high-energy neutrons at a test object containing non-nuclear materials. This target, called a British Test Object, will be used to test the validity of the novel approach to verification.
"The goal is to prove with as high confidence as required that an inspected item is a true nuclear warhead while learning nothing about the materials and design of the warhead itself," said Robert Goldston, a professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton and a fusion researcher and former director of PPPL. He is developing the zero-knowledge protocol with Alexander Glaser, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and international affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Both physicists are associated with the Princeton Program in Science and Global Security.
Princeton also leads a key research thrust of the consortium called "Treaty Verification: Characterizing Existing Gaps and Emerging Challenges" that is part of the NNSA project.
"Our work in this area is meant to inform and guide the technical research that all the other groups are doing," said Glaser. "So we are in an excellent position to help make the overall project a great success. It is an exciting opportunity to be part of this effort."
PPPL is managed by Princeton University for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, which is the largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States.


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A little news regarding the upcoming European Lisp Symposium is enough excuse to repost the Call for Participation, particularly since the Early Registration Deadline is approaching (it's this Thursday, 22nd April). António Leitão has managed to resurrect an Explorer Lisp Machine, cannibalising parts from a second, and some of the applications from yesteryear (or rather two decades ago) will be demonstrated at the Symposium.
May 6-7, 2010, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Registration for the 3rd European Lisp Symposium (ELS 2010) is now open at the Symposium website. The early registration period lasts until Thursday, 22nd April.
The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for the discussion of all aspects of the design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp dialects. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate.
As well as presentations of the accepted technical papers and tutorials, the programme features the following highlights:
Kent Pitman of HyperMeta Inc. will offer reflections on Lisp Past,
Present and Future;
Pascal Costanza will lead a tutorial session on Parallel
Programming in Common Lisp;
Matthias Felleisen of PLT will talk about languages for creating
programming languages;
A TI Explorer Lisp Machine, having been unplugged for the best
part of two decades, will be demonstrated;
- there will be opportunities for attendees to give lightning talks and demos of late-breaking work.
- Symposium banquet (included with registration)
- Excursion to Sintra (optional, Saturday May 8): for six centuries the favourite Summer residence of the Kings of Portugal, who were attracted by cool climates and the beauty of the town's setting.
Christophe Rhodes, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
António Leitão, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
- Marco Antoniotti, Università Milano Bicocca, Italy
- Giuseppe Attardi, Università di Pisa, Italy
- Pascal Costanza, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
- Irène Anne Durand, Université Bordeaux I, France
- Marc Feeley, Université de Montréal, Canada
- Ron Garret, Amalgamated Widgets Unlimited, USA
- Gregor Kiczales, University of British Columbia, Canada
- António Leitão, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
- Nick Levine, Ravenbrook Ltd, UK
- Scott McKay, ITA Software, Inc., USA
- Peter Norvig, Google Inc., USA
- Kent Pitman, PTC, USA
- Christian Queinnec, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
- Robert Strandh, Université Bordeaux I, France
- Didier Verna, EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, France
- Barry Wilkes, Citi, UK
- Taiichi Yuasa, Kyoto University, Japan
Registration is open at http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/ and costs €120 (€60 for students) until 22nd April, and €200 (€120 for students) afterwards.
Registration includes a copy of the proceedings, coffee breaks, and the symposium banquet. Accommodation is not included.


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The lubrication channels can be zones, separated by shut-off valves, or complete lubrication systems with separate pumping centres and lubricants. Configuration can be set in the field by the user interface. Pressure switches, pressure transmitters or piston detectors can be used in both channels. The user interface is alphanumeric touch screen display.
Technical features:
Lubrication channels: 2
- Operation temperature: 0 to +50 °C
- Operating voltage range: 93 to 132 V AC, 186 to 264 V AC
- Casing: 380 x 300 x 210 mm (w x h x d), painted RAL 7035
- Protection class: IP65
Interfaces: Alphanumeric touch screen display and RS-422 Modbus port
- SKF Doser monitors can be connected to SKF ST-1240-GRAPH-COMO
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- Automatic pump change (Dualset)
Grease spraying with air monitoring
Condition monitoring features:
Up to ten CMPT CTU units can be interfaced with lubrication control center SKF ST-1240-GRAPH-COMO.
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House Democrat pushes $1.60 cigarette tax hike
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — An influential Minnesota House Democrat touted her bill Thursday that would more than double the state's cigarette tax, saying she's motivated by public health concerns and not additional tax money.
The proposal from Rep. Ann Lenczewski of Bloomington would increase the state's tax on a 20-pack of cigarettes by $1.60, from $1.23 to $2.83. That's projected to raise an additional $440 million for the state treasury over two years. But Lenczewski said the main argument for the tax hike centers on studies showing higher-priced cigarettes encourages habitual smokers to quit and discourages others from starting.
"The one thing that potential new smokers are most sensitive to is the price," Lenczewski said. "Young, new smokers are most sensitive to prices, and most likely to quit if they feel they can't afford the habit."
Gov. Mark Dayton also is proposing a smaller increase of 94 cents per pack. Minnesota's taxes and fees on cigarettes have not gone up since 2005, and various proposals to hike them are strongly supported by a coalition of health, business and other advocacy groups. But efforts to do so have been complicated by arguments that such tax hikes hit poor people hardest, as well as the difficult political climate in recent years regarding tax increases.
Peter Dehnel, a pediatrician and the medical director of Blue Cross Blue Shield Minnesota, cited studies showing that smoking-related illnesses cost Minnesota $3 billion a year in public health spending.
"To lower that, we have to increase the cost of tobacco. There's really no other way to do it," Dehnel said.
Representatives of tobacco manufacturers and wholesalers said raising the cigarette tax would hurt both wholesalers of the product, and mom-and-pop retailers for whom cigarettes still make up a big part of their sales. Hardest hit would be store owners near the borders with Wisconsin, Iowa and the Dakotas, which would all have lower cigarette taxes than Minnesota if Lenczewski's proposal comes to pass, said Tom Bryant, executive director of the Minnesota Wholesale Marketers Association.
"A tax increase like this will devastate small, family-owned businesses in the state," Bryant said.
Rep. Bob Barrett, R-Shafer, said he agreed with the public health aims of the bill but raised the criticism that cigarette tax hikes disproportionately hurt lower-income people, who are both statistically more likely to smoke and less able to afford tax increases. Barrett cited his own father, who he said had a two-to-three pack a day habit and died of lung cancer at a young age.
"I grew up poor, very poor," Barrett said. "He didn't have money for cigarettes, but he always had cigarettes. An increase like this, at that time probably would have meant another $2,000 a year out of our household income."
The House Taxes Committee, which Lenczewski chairs, reviewed her proposal but did not vote on it. She said it is likely to be included in a broader tax bill that will get more debate later in the session. There are also cigarette tax-hike proposals introduced in the state Senate, but Democratic leaders in that chamber have so far been more reluctant to back them.
Adam Houtkooper, a 29-year-old technical college student and smoker, was at the Capitol Thursday for a different hearing. He said he was opposed to a cigarette tax increase, calling it "legislating morality through taxes."
But Houtkooper, a smoker for eight years who said he's tried to quit several times and usually only smokes a cigarette or two a day, acknowledged a higher price for a pack could affect his habit — or at least his cigarette buying patterns.
"I would probably smoke less, but I wouldn't stop," Houtkooper said. "Honestly, I'd probably just buy cigarettes whenever I visit family out of state."
Associated Press reporter Kyle Potter contributed to this report.
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WREN – A Smithville woman lost her life following a one vehicle accident Sunday, April 28 in Wren, according to a press release from Monroe County coroner Alan Gurley.
According to the statement, Trina Kay Pace Bishop, 43, was dead at the scene of the accident that occurred at 8:37 p.m. on Wren Cemetery Road.
Bishop was a backseat passenger of a 2006 Chevy sports utility vehicle driven by a friend. According to Gurley, the driver of the vehicle lost control and struck a tree causing the vehicle to roll over. Bishop was wearing a seatbelt.
Her 16-year-old son was also a passenger of the SUV and was taken to the North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo with minor injuries and later released, according to the family.
The driver of the vehicle was also taken to NMMC. Her condition is unknown.
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office is investigating the accident.
Gurley added that Bishop's daughter was Jessica Pace, who lost her life at age 18, to Smithville's April 27, 2011 tornado.


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I would like to discuss a concept/mechanic I had for a while (it's full of holes and questions). It's for some sort of space empire building strategy (like 4x, but not necessarily, anyway, that's less important, I think this concept can be used in various games).
The whole premise is that the player should make only important/interesting decisions and all/most micromanagement should be either eradictated or automated. This topic is a question how to achieve it.
1. Fleets organization
I thought like this: the player can have around 6 fleets (each colour coded (red, yellow, blue, orange, etc) and individualized (history, banners, special abilities), also each fleet has an admiral). Each fleet is made of 2-6 flotillas, these are numbered and colour coded (example: 1st red flotilla, 2nd red flotilla, 4th blue flotilla).
Fleet is an administrative/organizational unit only, it does not appear on the map, only flotillas are the units the player can move around.
The fleet decides of the composition of the flotillas, all flotillas (within same fleet) share the same ships composition. Flotillas are also identical in size (within same fleet, red flotillas can be smaller than yellow flotillas for example).
So, basicly the player decides on the ships composition, upgrades, etc on fleet level. And decide tactical/operational stuff (where it should be, whom to fight, when to retreat) on flotilla level.
2. Imperial decisions (the player)
Generally, I want the player to be able to say "I want red fleet to be made of the best ships with elite crew; the blue one should have all ships with ionic shields because I want them to fight with Xelthars who have these nasty ionic weapons; the green fleet should be made of average ships and it should be the biggest fleet since it will serve as my standard fleet; and the yellow fleet should be made of all leftovers we have". Then the game should act accordingly and build ships and allocate these between flotillas and reinforce and maintain until player's wishes changes
As I see it, there would be two "fleet standards", the one the player asked for and the one that was delivered at the moment (just like in a real life, fleets constantly under change/rebuild/upgrade).
3. Crew as the bottleneck (assumption)
I feel that this system would need a limit of total ships that are active (produced and assigned to flotillas). Like based on population of the empire (100 pop = 1 ship manned). And the ships probably should be treated more like "weapons" that you "equip to crew" (typically the player would have quite a lot outdated ships that are not put in any flotillas and just are stockpiled). But that's just my light assumption, feel free to ignore it.
4. Construction of ships (most of the questions are here)
Now the harder question, how to handle construction of ships for the setup in 1)? Obviously, the traditional "click a factory/shipyard on planet X and set a queue of ships to build" would not work here.
Probably this system should have these properties:
- the player decides a total budget for military
- the player decides what to build in what proportions and in what priorities and which fleet should get it
- the game should build all these ships as desired by the player (most likely not ideally what asked for, just overall similar) under the budget constrains and then deliever it to flotillas
- the game should handle all replacements (units lost in battle) and upgrades (replacement of old ships to new models)
- the player should have some saying in form of important decisions like "obsolete this ship and don't include it in any fleets even if we have these already stockpiled" or "start producing the Dreadnought MK75 now" or "do not produce this model of the ship yet, even through we have it researched" or "produce first destroyer class ships because we need these the most"
So... how exactly such auto ships build system (algorithm, UI, etc) should work/look like?
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Carmakers Encouraged To Implement Safer Navigation Systems
A recent article in the New York Times highlighed the potential dangers of dashboard entertainment and navigation systems and their potential to distract drivers.
The federal traffic agency, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, is strongly encouraging carmakers to consider designing and implementing navigation systems in a safer manner. The NHTSA has suggested a list of voluntary guidlines in order to help manufacturers develop and adhere to safer standards.
The article mentions that even though many dashboard navigation and entertainment units are voice-activated, they still do require a bit of hands-on use, thus posing potential safety risks.
While the aforementioned proposed guidelines are not mandatory and will not eradicate all distracted driving, the NHTSA is taking a step in the right direction and their efforts have been recognized and praised by other federal agencies such as the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and the Governors Highway Safety Association.


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Nasrein Fazal is the General Manager of Internal Audit at Malaysia Airports.
She holds a Bachelor of Accounting (Hons) from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. She is a Chartered Accountant (CA) registered with the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA), and a Chartered Member of the Institute of Internal Auditors Malaysia (IIA).
She was appointed to her current position in July 2005. Before joining Malaysia Airports in 1998, she was the Finance Manager of a subsidiary of the Sime Darby Group and, prior to that, she held several senior positions in the Finance Division at SIRIM.
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Shares of chip technology designer ARM Holdings (ARMH) today fell 94 cents, or 2%, to close at $47.64, despite a bullish note from FBR's Christopher Rolland, who initiated coverage of the stock with an Outperform rating, and a $62 price target, writing that "the industry has found a new standard, and ARM should benefit through outsized growth in license and royalty revenues over the next decade."
Rolland, who also has an Outperform on shares of Intel (INTC), and a $27 price target, thinks ARM will make only limited incursions into the PC market with the help of its licensees, such as Nvidia (NVDA) and Qualcomm (QCOM). But he thinks the company's technology can take meaningful share of the server market, through the rise of so-called microservers, for which Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and Applied Micro Circuits (AMCC), and many other licensees are developing technology:
For PCs, we believe ARM will eventually (perhaps around four years) capture approximately 10% of PC units, primarily at the low end, as Microsoft further improves its operating system (OS) for ARM. But this may only account for roughly 30 million units at a moderate ASP and, therefore, may hold only a few percentage points of total revenue. For servers, we expect the overall market for microservers (ARM and x86) to ramp from almost nothing today to close to 20% of the overall server market in 2018, accounting for $2.3 billion in silicon revenue annually. While x86 will capture the majority of microservers near term, we project ARM will gain momentum further out to capture more than 50% of the microserver market (10% of total server market) by 2018.
Here's how Rolland sizes that market:
We have done our best to size the various segments of the server market over the next few years. In short, we expect total server units to grow at a five-year CAGR of 5% through 2018, while we believe microserver units should grow from almost nothing today to almost 2.5 million units annually by 2018, growing at an outstanding 82% CAGR from 2014 to 2018 (albeit off an incredibly small base today). We believe that microservers could capture almost 19% of the total server market by 2018, driven in part by a further shift of Web-centric applications to the cloud. There are two main drivers for this expansion: (1) workloads will likely become more transactional and Web-centric over time; and (2) we expect further movement of on-premise equipment to the cloud, supported by Intel's belief that half of all servers will be sold into datacenters in 2014 and beyond. Our estimate of the increase in microserver addressable workloads can be seen in the exhibit below.
That could lead to total ARM-based share of the microserver market of 57% come 2018, versus 43% for Intel's x86 architecture. Here's a graph of the potential market growth:
That all depends on ARM bringing to market its new "A57" and "A53" CPU designs, and help from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM) in competing with Intel's 3-D transistor technology:
Companies like Applied Micro believe these cores can run at speeds up
to 3.0 GHz; this implies significantly better performance than its predecessors. The core will be available for designers in late 2013 with processors coming to market in 2014. It should also be noted that ARM has teamed up with Taiwan Semiconductor to produce v8, 64-bit server chips at the 20 nm process with plans to shrink to 15 nm soon after. In April 2013, at 16 nm, TSM has taped out
its first Cortex A-57 processor that employs its first FinFET technology similar to Intel's, helping to drive further performance and energy efficiency.
Here's Rolland's run-down of the "opening cast" in the microserver battle:
In other ARM news, Bloomberg's Tim Culpan, Ian King, and Brian Womack this afternoon report that Google (GOOG) is considering designing its own chips using ARM's technology, citing a single unnamed source.
Apple (AAPL) already has a so-called "architecture license" to design the "A" series microprocessors it uses in its iPhone and iPad.


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The Stoica Brothers Earn a Pair of Finishes at SUPERKOMBAT Targoviste
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If there are two names on the SUPERKOMBAT roster I wouldn't mind seeing a lot more of, it would certainly be the high-flying Stoica brothers, Andrei and Bogdan.
Some of the most talented Romanian kickboxers in the game, the brothers competed side-by-side on SUPERKOMBAT's latest "New Heroes" event in Târgoviște. Easily the biggest and most technically skilled names on the card, Bogdan and Andrei took on Marsan Yohan and Zinedine Hameur Lain, respectively.
Bogdan made short work of his opponent, cutting Yohan with a flying knee only seconds into the first round. The ref called a stop to the fight moments later.
Andrei's fight lasted longer, but was equally one sided. The older Stoica brother abused Hameur Lain for 2 and half rounds, dropping his opponent with a nasty body shot in the second and pounding his arm with blistering left kicks throughout. Just when it looked like the Romanian would be content to coast to a unanimous decision victory, Andrei unleashed a brutal right hand that put Hameur Lain down and out for good.
I'd like both Andrei and Bogdan to face a step-up in competition in the near future, considering they've been absolutely plowing through mostly everyone SUPERKOMBAT has put in front of them. While Bogdan no doubt needed a warm-up fight or two after coming back from a nearly career ending moto accident, it's relatively clear he's leagues above the level of talent he's been facing.
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Attacks on the rise in India's Orissa state
Everything, it seems, is growing in India. Bucking global trends, India's media are expanding rapidly, reaching into the hinterlands following a wave of development and growing literacy. Industrial development is expanding, with explosive growth of mining and natural resource extraction. In Orissa state, historically poor and restive, these two trends are colliding, producing a spike in media attacks, according to a new report by journalist Geeta Seshu.


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Faced with a campaign asking him and seven other Republican legislators to quit the controversial conservative lobbyist-legislator coalition ALEC — the American Legislative Exchange Council — House assistant majority leader Andre Cushing, of Hampden, says: "If they can give me a reason why this is harmful to the state, I'll consider it."
One reason ALEC is harmful, says Rachel Talbot Ross, NAACP's Maine director, is what she calls the organization's "racist ideology and agenda."
Based in Washington, DC, and funded by corporations, ALEC promotes free markets and limited government, but has ventured into social policy that organizations such as the NAACP and Color of Change see aimed at African-Americans and Hispanics: sponsoring voter-ID and other "voter suppression" laws, harsh laws targeting immigrants, laws promoting lengthy prison sentences, and "kill at will" gun-lobby laws.
ALEC and its 2000 legislator members nationwide have been besieged since news surfaced that it was behind the "stand your ground" gun law that at first sheltered black teenager Trayvon Martin's killer from being charged with a crime in Florida.
In Maine, Cushing and other ALEC legislators have had their email boxes filled with messages urging them to quit ALEC. They were generated by Maine's Majority, a small progressive organization responsible for the "61%" bumper stickers (noting the percentage of voters who didn't vote for Republican Governor Paul LePage in 2010).
Cushing says he attended ALEC's national conference in New Orleans last year, with airfare and hotel costs paid by taxpayers. He feels it's useful for him "to interact with colleagues in other parts of the country." Cushing says he hasn't sponsored ALEC-created bills.
Senator Richard Rosen, of Bucksport, says his email box has been "flooded" with anti-ALEC messages to the point of "harassment." Rosen is the group's state legislative chairman. He expects to continue to be active with ALEC at least through the end of the year, when his chairman's term is up. He, too, says ALEC provides useful interaction with legislators in other states.
ALEC is influential in the state. Maine's Majority has published online a report, "Who Is Writing Maine's Laws?" that lists many bills taken up in the State House — some successful, some not — that it says ALEC has written (see the document at tinyurl.com/WhoIsWritingMaineLaws).
The latest citizen-initiative drive for a bill to limit state taxing and spending powers, announced April 15 at a Tea Party rally in Lewiston attended by LePage, originated with the group. At the rally, an ALEC official lamented attacks by "liberal bullies," according to the Kennebec Journal.
The controversy over ALEC, though, has caused a number of high-profile corporations to announce they have severed ties with the group, including Coca-Cola, McDonald's, and Blue Cross and Blue Shield — as well as the Gates Foundation. Under pressure, ALEC recently disbanded its Public Safety and Elections Task Force, which developed "model" bills on social issues.
Rosen, the Appropriations Committee chairman, thinks it "wise" that ALEC is moving away from social issues to concentrate on the "core economic issues" that drew him to the group.
Republican Senator Christopher Rector, of Thomaston, says he also plans to continue as a member. He likes to gather information "from as many sources as I can."
Despite his association with ALEC, he notes he voted against the bill passed by his fellow Republicans to end same-day voter registration. Opponents called it a voter-suppression effort and succeeded in getting it overturned in a people's-veto referendum last year.
"We will not let up!" in demanding legislators cut ties with ALEC, Talbot Ross says.
For more on ALEC, see "99% vs. 1% — on the Left," by Lance Tapley, March 7, 2012.
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JANESVILLE ---Thomas "Tom" J. Bushaw, age 78, of Janesville, died on Wednesday, March 20, 2013, at St. Mary's Janesville Hospital. He was born in Janesville on Jan. 20, 1935, the son of John and Julia (Courtney) Bushaw and his stepfather, Stan Cole. He graduated from Janesville High School in 1954, served in the U.S. Army for 6 years, including 3 years in Germany, and was one of the first Satellite Trackers. Tom married Evalee J. Tuck in First Baptist Church, Beloit on Oct. 25, 1958. He had been employed by Gilman Engineering for 25 years, retiring in 2006. He was a member of the VFW Post 1621, the American Legion in Footville, 32nd Red Arrow, and the Machinist Union. He enjoyed woodworking, fishing, hunting, traveling, going to military reunions and was an avid fan of the Packers and Badgers.
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Looks like I will be arriving early Thursday morning. I have to leave the Cape and head home no later than noon on Sunday to attend my daughters' dance performance. I need three solid days to fish.
Juro. Can we do a phone tree similar to the Boneclave setup? It saved me three years ago when I only knew a few people. I will be happy to help out if you want to post a cell phone number list the way we did for the Rhoddy Clave.
We should post directions to Nickerson State Park camping as well. I have never been but may do Thursday night there.
Phil Sheffield
|Another meeting place is Larry's PX just East of the hotel on Rt 28 heading towards Chatham. It's an early morning breakfast spot. Often I would meet follow memebers there. I will be there around 6:00am on Fri. FishHawk
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|Keith, I will have to check out the hot stove. I see a lot of cars there so it must get a good following.
|Rip Ryder
Once at the Stone Horse you can take Deep Hole road, across from the hotel, and follow to the end which is Red River Beach. There is usually some good action off the jetties on the incoming. If you want to recon the Rip Ryder you can check my website for directions from Chatham Center to the Refuge.
From the Stone Horse go East on 28 till the rotary at Chatham center and then follow the direction from the web to the refuge. If your looking for a place to grab something to eat after landing head west on 28 back towards Harwichport center (approx 1 mile) and look for the Hot Stove sports bar and pub. Good food and cocktails cheap. It will be on the left next to Cranberry liquor store, parking lot is located there also
That should keep you busy till everyone arrives.
Capt Keith
Pete -
Stone horse is on route 28 so just take a left from the driveway and keep going. It comes to a "T" at Shore Rd, take a right. Go 100-200 yards and the mecca will open before your eyes. You can park there between 4pm and 9am every day and it's a great spot for warming up as well as hooking up.
If you feel adventurous, walk to the right and keep the fly low and deep on the sand. If there is any current you should find them. Otherwise walk over the sand to the inside basin called the "tub" and there should be fish there too especially at low tide in the deep bucket at the top end.
Or go back on Shore road to the north and try the accesses to Pleasant Bay (check mapquest etc). I suggest Minister's point, the Cowyard for starters.
But you don't have to go that far - along Rte 28 closer to the Stone Horse there are many accesses to the Nantucket Sound shoreline which is always good in spring and fall. Head back toward the mainland a bit and look for Red River, Herring River, Bass River and try your luck around the high tides or start of the outgoing at the river mouths.
As the date approaches we should post estimated arrival times if you are looking for someone to point you in the right direction.
|Adrian... I remember it well... Penguin yelling at me to reach down deep in my soul and mind and "survive"... " John, don't be so wimmpy just get back in the yak"...But Pete "I can breath"...Pete.."well breath for God sake"... Roop, " Pete, how will he know how to do that", and Roop and Penguin coming to my rescue since I could not get back in the yak and then stripping down bare skined to warm up once I got on shore.... I know you guys were amazed at my physique... Towing me back.... outgoing tide....I loved it.... I said to penguin when we went out that my tri-balance yaK wil not filp over and then at some point I reach over to the front of the yak to release my spider anchor and I flip out.... Reminds me of old Doogue who left off Chatham harbor south to get to the mecca at 5 AM... yaks out about 5 feet and flips over.... we met him later in the day at the light house but .... I think he spent the day at at the Squire.... very dry by then... great guy! Ahhh Those were the days
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With the exception of Juro, I have never met anyone else that will be at the "Spring Fling". Will be arriving, depending on traffic, at Stone Horse by early Fri afternoon. Once there I have NO idea where Rip Ryder, the ramp or anything else is, including where there might be a place to "practice cast" and hope to tighten a line. Could someone who knows, create a map or directions and get them to the desk at the Stone Horse for anyone in my position? A list of both "Forum Name" and real name of those staying at the Horse, for all to use at check-in, might be helpful also. Are the plans to gather someplace Fri night before dinner?
Good points Phil!
We have three distinct points of coordination to use - Rip Ryder, Stone Horse and the Squire.
I will try to get a hat order together by then if I can find the embroidery digital file :eyecrazy:
Rip Ryder -
If you are showing up at the ramp ask Captn Keith where the gang went. We will all welcome fellow clavers in the spirit of the spring clave, just walk up and mention your screen name.
Stone Horse -
Most of us are staying there so we will keep some information up at the lobby. Maybe a little whiteboard or something. Years past we used a phonelist which worked very well. SAT PM DINNER is at the hotel dining area, after food is Squires down the road.
Squire -
Pretty much where the later action will occur unless you are tying or sleeping to get a jump on the drinkers in the am
We will be touring the Chatham Angler's Club at some point, need to coordinate with the Mayor.
Although I do not like to specifically provide fishing info, this time of year provides lots of situations:
- outer beach fishing, spring fish are in the suds
- flats fishing, dark backed and looking for a way out of the refuge in the shallows
- estuarys holding lots (and lots) of fish where there is bait and warm water
- herring runs for big girls
I would suggest targeting what you are interested in, and picking up the info from fellow clavers and even fish with them.
Generally it all works out pretty well informally but ideas are always welcome.
Good thought Phil!
I remember arriving for my first spring clave and got lucky running into Roop at the Causeway. As I recall, Penguin and Striblue were at the other end doing secret "special forces" style kayak rigging. I think John got wet that day
I plan to get to the Cape Thursday evening and fish Friday. Final decision will be dictated weather and tides.
If folks want to rendezvous in the squire that would be cool.
Spring Clave Fishing Options
I remember being somewhat frustrated driving to the Cape for my first real venture out into the cyber fishing world as a new member. I did not know any faces or names other than the computer handle names I had seen in posts over the winter leading up to the Spring Clave. I didn't know where to go so I just jumped on the Rip Ryder and headed out with a crew. I ended up fishing with Paxton and we had a ball at J Bouy. My new found obsession with the FFF was beginning to unfold.
With this in mind I'm sure some of our new members and old alike will be in the dark as to where to fish, what fly choice and who to buddy up with.
If you do not have someone to fish with and don't want to head out alone, here is your chance to ask for help.
We could gather Thursday and Friday night somewhere on a casual basis after dinner for cocktails to discuss plans for the weekend. Those who are new get questions answered and options filled.
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A wear-it-again bridesmaid dress used to be as rare and mythical as a golden unicorn, and the source of unending frustration. Thankfully, many dresses now are more casual and do actually allow for a wear-again option, and many brides are allowing their bridesmaids choose their own dresses, which vastly increases the odds that you can choose something with a wear-it-again possibility.
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If your goal as a bride is to choose a wear-it-again dress for your bridesmaids, I suggest you start with the end in mind, and pick a dress that isn't labeled as a bridesmaid dress. Choose a dress you can see your friends wearing to many events with some slight modifications. ModCloth and places like Nordstrom excel at this, but you can also find some great styles at bridesmaid shops. Here's one idea from Weddington Way, and another that I can see having a long life as a go-to-cocktail dress for any event, I also love this one from BHLDN. Here are few more ideas that come in several other colors:
Rita by Weddington Way | After Six Style 6613 in Azalea at Weddington Way | Jim Hjelm Style 5373 in Lilac from WeddingtonWay
Fabric is a huge consideration when assessing a wear-it-again possibility. Silk, satin, and some types of chiffon are inherently special occasion fabrics, but colored lace, eyelet, cotton, seersucker, jersey, or rayon can live other lives. Picking a dress with a print and texture is another way to make sure the dress will have a life after the wedding. Color is also a big factor, since a little black dress or navy dress can go places that a custom shade of lavender cannot. Style and length are is also something to observe, because there are just some silhouettes that seem bridesmaid-y like satin strapless or empire waist gowns. Naturally, there will be more opportunities to wear a cocktail dress again than a formal gown, and dresses with cap sleeves, long sleeves, and flowy modern shapes always seem more likely to be worn again. No matter what, there are some dresses that just won't lose the air of having been in a wedding. For those, I suggest you donate them to either Goodwill, to places that seek prom dress donations, or sell it on eBay. Perhaps another bridesmaid somewhere is looking for that exact dress, wishing she didn't have to pay full price!
If you're not there yet, and really want to repurpose that bridesmaid dress, here are my guidelines to get you closer to that goal. Here are two examples, that I thought were reflective of common bridesmaid dress styles. I'll show you how to rework one by one with dressing it up for a holiday party or winter semi-formal event, and the other by taking a black tie bridesmaid look and making it suit a beach wedding guest.
After the wedding. This red bridesmaid dress styled this way, can now go to a holiday party. You could even add a black shrug and sash to make it lose all traces of wedding-wear. Details:
Dress style D616 by Alfred Sung in Garnet at Weddington Way | Tom Binns Dumont Noir Crystal Earrings | Sabine Black and Clear Flower Necklace | Schutz Floralite Pump | Urban Originals Ella Striped Sequin Clutch
I've seen some suggestions that you can wear it again simply by "dress down" your dress by throwing on a cardigan sweater or denim jacket, with casual accessories. While I agree with some of this theory I'm not sure I know many people who would wear such a disparate mix of casual and dressy, or would have the kind of social engagements that would allow for it. I'd suggest that you embrace the idea you may not be wearing this bridesmaid dress out for weekend drinks; instead, you're going to have to wait it out and wear your dress to an event that is almost as dressy as the wedding you were originally in.
What kind of event would that be? For starters–another wedding, a holiday party, a dressy work or charity event, or a special date for Valentine's Day or festive social event.
If you don't mind making a little more investment, or are handy with the sewing machine, you can also tailor away some of the bridesmaid dress giveaways. Perhaps your tailor can take the hem on your strapless dress and use it to make some spaghetti straps, or take in the skirt so that it isn't as full. Another option is to change the neckline; add a deep-neck, or turn a squared off neckline into a more open scoop. If it just isn't working, perhaps you can have the seamstress add an overlay of some sheer fabric over the bodice to change the look (like this), or lop off the top and make the lower half a party skirt. Is there a big brooch, belt, or sash you can add that minimizes some of the cookie-cutter bridesmaid qualities? Can you dye the fabric? Keep thinking of ways to rework it, and you might surprise yourself!
You might be asked to wear this look as a bridesmaid in a formal wedding. See below for how you can wear it to a beach wedding as a guest later!
Jim Hjelm Chiffon Gown Style 5379 in Cobalt at Weddington Way | Givenchy Hematite Earrings at Macy's | Crystal Necklace by J.Crew | Blue and White Bouquet via Brides Photographed by Diane Fields Zeze Flowers | Strappy Stella Sandals by Ann Taylor
Even if you don't do a thing structurally, accessories can go a long way. While it can be easy to assume that you should dress down the accessories, I actually think dressing a dress up more can also work. Once your ditch the bouquet, at least some of the bridesmaid effect wears off, but you also need to counteract other "wedding standard looks" to remove any trace of bridesmaid-ness. By this I mean, if you were wearing small pearl studs, a pearl necklace and gold pumps, now pick the exact opposite of that : bold statement earrings, statement necklace, non-dyed to match shoes. Try some tights with closed toe pumps or flats. Adding an edgy geometric piece or layered necklaces, bracelets and rings can also take away from the softness of the look and make it more everyday.
With some beaded jewelry, dangling earrings, and a big, bold necklace, this dress is on its way to being less formal and more appropriate for wedding guest wear. Add some casual sandals, and a woven bag and this look is ready to take this former bridesmaid and make her a well-dressed beach wedding guest.
Jim Hjelm Chiffon Gown Style 5379 in Cobalt at Weddington Way | Alexis Bittar Golden Vine Earrings | Panacea Fringe Beaded Turquoise Necklace | Bamboo Stacking Bracelets from The Limited | Weave Around Blue Print Clutch | Snakeskin Wedges by Rachel Zoe
My last tip is about hair and makeup. A well-coiffed up-do is so often a part of a bridesmaid look, so if you can, wear your hair in a relaxed way, and keep your makeup more casual too. If all else fails, just throw on that denim jacket and work the mixed textures, but otherwise, I hope a few of your bridesmaid dresses might find a new life!
Until next time, Bayside Brides!
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NEW ALBANY – Beau Cummings and Rodney McKay had a pitchers duel rarely seen in baseball on any level here Friday afternoon and when it was over Cummings had hurled Blue Mountain College to a 3-1 win over Tougaloo College.
Cummings, a junior right-hander from Myrtle, went the distance for the Toppers in their first win of the season. He threw only 90 pitches in 9 innings and gave up four hits and struck out eight Tougaloo batters
The Bulldogs' McKay also went the distance and only threw 96 pitches, giving up five hits and also striking out eight.
Neither pitcher walked a batter in a game that lasted only 1 hour and 48 minutes.
BMC, now 1-3, got its first two runs in the first inning when Will Wallis doubled to drive in Trae Allison and then pinch-runner Thomas Russell scored when Zac Scott reached first on an infield error.
The Toppers got their final run when Brent Townsend was hit by a pitch, stole second and scored on an infield single by Allison.
Blue Mountain and Tougaloo play a doubleheader, beginning at 1 p.m. Saturday at BNA Park.


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By Tiernan Ray
Shares of Yahoo! (YHOO) today rose 25 cents, or 1%, to close at $26.64, after receiving a couple of price target increases from the Street.
Both notes seem prompted in large part by the release last week of the company's 10-Q filing for Q1, in which Yahoo! disclosed some additional information about the financial results for the December quarter of Alibaba Group Holding, the e-commerce giant in which Yahoo! holds a 24% equity stake. Those disclosures last week prompted some price target increases as well. Yahoo! stands to profit from the expected eventual initial public offering of Alibaba, and so its valuation is a constant source of interest to the Street.
Goldman Sachs's Heath Terry, who has a Buy rating on the shares, raised his price target to $30 from $27, after concluding that after an 80% year-over-year revenue increase for Alibaba in December, the privately held company is worth double what he'd previously thought:
Reflecting its continued growth acceleration, we are raising our estimated valuation for Alibaba to $70 bn from $35 bn, based on 8X our estimated 2013E sales. Comparable Chinese internet companies Baidu (BIDU) and Tencent (are currently trading at an average of 6X 2013E sales. Alibaba's 2010-2013E revenue CAGR of 75% is 1.4X the average CAGR for Baidu and Tencent. We note that for each $10 bn appreciation in the value of Alibaba, the implied value of the Yahoo! stock accretes by $1.25.
Terry also considers the company's Web stats, which, according to research firm comScore, are still declining, in terms of page views, but not as badly as in past:
According to comScore, total unique visitors to Yahoo! Sites in the US were up 11% yoy in April vs. an increase of 7% in 1Q. User engagement continued to decline however with total minutes/user down 6% yoy (vs. -12% in 1Q). Page views were up 2% yoy in April vs. down 5% in March and down 12% in 1Q. Yahoo!'s market share across its top segments continues to deteriorate, however the rate of decline somewhat moderated in April. Its share of US unique visitors was down 1.7% in April, vs. -1.9% in March and an average decline of 2.2% in 1Q13. The company's share of desktop page views was down 0.1% in April, vs. -0.5% in March and an average decline of 0.8% in 1Q.
And Cantor Fitzgerald's Youssef Squali also reiterates a Buy rating, and raises his price target to $30 as well, from $26, writing that the Chinese firm may be worth $70 billion, at least, and that an IPO could come in 2014:
Using a 40x EV/Revenue multiple on 2013 estimates, our base
case assumes that Alibaba's valuation is now $86.6B, up from $65.8B previously (calculated using 10x EV/Revenue). Our Bull case valuation (50x EV/EBITDA) is $108.3B (from $78.9B using 12x EV/Revenue previously) and our Bear case valuation (30x EV/EBITDA) is $65.0B (from $52.6B using 8x EV/Revenue previously). We are using an EV/EBITDA multiple for our Alibaba valuation point estimate and range, given the company's significant margin expansion in 4Q:CY12. See below for further details, including EV/Revenue and 2014 multiples/valuation.
Squali estimates the Alibaba stake is worth $12.48 billion to Yahoo!, or $11.26 per Yahoo! share.
Squali also is encouraged by what appears to be faster growth in Yahoo!'s U.S. Web visitor count, compared to Google (GOOG) and Facebook (FB), taking a more positive angle on comScore data than does Goldman's Terry:
PC unique visitors increased 3.8% Y/Y in 1Q:CY13, according to comScore's Media Metrix, faster growth than at either Facebook (+3.3% Y/Y) or Google (+2.2% Y/Y). For March, the most recent month available, global PC unique visitors increased 4.2% Y/Y. While mobile remains very nascent for Yahoo!, mobile minutes spent increased 18.8% M/M to 8.4B in March, according to comScore's Mobile Metrix. See below for comScore details [...] PC unique visitors increased 3.8% Y/Y in 1Q:CY13, according to comScore's Media Metrix, faster growth than at either Facebook (+3.3% Y/Y) or Google (+2.2% Y/Y). For March, the most recent month available, global PC unique visitors increased 4.2% Y/Y. While mobile remains very nascent for Yahoo!, mobile minutes spent increased 18.8% M/M to 8.4B in March, according to comScore's Mobile Metrix.


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Family: Talpidae, Moles view all from this family
Description Unmistakable, snout has 22 fleshy, tentacle-like appendages surrounding the nostrils. Pelage is dense, coarse, and ranges from blackish brown to black, with slightly paler undersides. Tail about as long as head and body, scaly, constricted at base, and covered sparsely with black hair.
Dimensions 132-230mm, 48-99mm, 40-85g
Habitat Cities, suburbs & towns, Swamps, marshes & bogs, Lakes, ponds, rivers & streams, Forests & woodlands, Meadows & fields
Range Plains, Great Lakes, New England, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Florida, Eastern Canada
Discussion Most aquatic of the moles, they forage both in the water, and in the usual mole tunnels. They swim by using the enlarged forepaws as paddles. Tunnels are about 3cm in diameter and range in depth from 3 to 60cm. Tails thicken in winter for fat storage. Animals are active year-round and both day and night. They are more active above ground than other moles, although aboveground activity is more common at night. May be gregarious or even possibly colonial. Prefers wet areas, including moist fields, meadows, woods, and marshes.


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The Political Declaration from the 2011 UN Summit on NCDs [2]is the foundation for future global action on diabetes and NCDs. It mandates the UN system to establish a Global Monitoring Framework for NCDs, including a set of global targets and indicators, and to strengthen multisectoral action on NCDs through partnership.
The World Health Organization (WHO) are leading follow-up activity to the UN Summit, and had to develop a 2013-2020 Global Strategy and Action Plan for NCDs in 2012.
We've seen landmark progress on this front, with WHO Member States supporting an ambitious and comprehensive Global NCD Framework [3], including targets and indicators. IDF and the NCD Alliance are leading global advocacy for a comprehensive approach to the three WHO processes to drive future action on the global diabetes and NCD epidemic.
We want to see three building blocks to a comprehensive NCD approach, which we call the 'Global NCD Framework':
- Global Monitoring Framework and Targets: the advocacy of IDF, NCDA and partners was crucial in securing the adoption of the landmark 25% by 2025 target [4] at the World Health Assembly in May 2013 and the final nine global NCD targets [3] agreed by WHO Member States in November 2012.
These targets will be the first ever global targets on NCDs, and all governments will be held accountable for reporting their progress. However, the reporting process for the framework and targets is undecided, and we are advocating to see national progress reported on the targets to the UN every two years. The Framework was officially endorsed by the WHO Executive Board in January 2013, and will be formally adopted by Member States at the World Health Assembly in May 2013. Read more on IDF's website here [3], download the full Global NCD Monitoring Framework here [5], and read IDF's article about the importance of the targets in Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice here [6].
2. Global Action Plan for NCDs 2013-2020: WHO's current Action Plan on NCDs has guided the response to diabetes and NCDs since 2008, and WHO are now developing the successor Global Action Plan in consultation with governments, civil society and the private sector. IDF and the NCD Alliance are engaging in WHO's consultations to define the GAP to ensure it drive real change for diabetes and NCDs over the next seven years. We saw many of our recommendations [7] included in the First Draft of the GAP, which was discussed at the WHO Executive Board in January 2013. You can read the NCD Alliance's summary analysis on the GAP on their website [8] and find out more about the consultation process here [9]. A revised draft of the GAP [10]was released on 11 February, to which the NCD Alliance submitted a formal response [11]with input from IDF.
3. Global Coordinating Mechanism for NCDs: The UN Political Declaration was clear that a whole-of-society and multisectoral approach is needed to tackle diabetes and NCDs. It also committed the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to provide recommendations [12] to governments on multisectoral partnerships for NCDs, which he delivered on the 19 October 2012.He proposes five models of global partnerships on NCDs that will be discussed by the UN General Assembly on the 28 November 2012. IDF and NCD Alliance have built on the Secretary General's third model, and are proposing a Global Coordinating Mechanism [13](GCM) for NCDs. The GCM would be a formal mechanism that can adequately address the scale, complexity and urgency of the NCD epidemic and have the power to: convene all stakeholders, continue political momentum and coordinate multisectoral action. WHO included concepts from the NCDA proposal into the 11 February version of the Global Action for NCDs (see point 2).
For more information, visit the NCD Alliance website [14], and read the two-page summary Shaping the Global Framework for NCD Prevention and Control [15].


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Family: Apiaceae, Carrot view all from this family
Description Native perennial. Fragrant. Height: 2-6'. Habit: stout & erect, with single smooth stem, alternately branched. Leaf: pinnately-divided into narrow, sharply-toothed leaflets up to 3/4" wide x 2" long. Flower: compound umbel, 1-5" diameter, of small off-white flower clusters. Fruit: dry ribbed oval containing 2 seeds. Fibrous roots.
Flower July-August.
Habitat Sunny marshes, wetlands, and shorelines.
Range With the exception of New Mexico and Oklahoma, found throughout the continental U.S.; Alaska; non-arctic Canada.
Discussion Very similar in appearance to the highly poisonous Water Hemlock (Cicuta maculata). Water parsnip is an obligate wetland indicator throughout its American range. Also known as: hemlock water-parsnip.


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Princeton sociologist Douglas Massey examined the impact of building an affordable-housing development in Mount Laurel, N.J., an upscale suburb of Philadelphia. The findings? The development had no negative impact on the surrounding area and brought significant life improvements to residents of the development. Read more.
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DOUGLAS MASSEY: I was attracted
to this project here
because it really provided a
model for how to do things.
Not only to desegregate American
society, both in
racial and class terms, not only
to provide decent housing
to people who didn't have access
to it, but also to
provide a program that promotes
the social mobility
of hard working people who
are just looking for
a way to get ahead.
If you give them half a
chance, they'll do it
And so we wrote the book,
Climbing Mount Laurel, to show
people how it could be done, to
provide a model for others,
to use low income house tax
credits, and to encourage
affordable housing developments
like this, not
only in the state of New Jersey
where it's currently
mandated by law, but all
over the United States.
I'm a social scientist and
I like to prove things.
And it's not good enough for me
just to say, oh, well, it
looks good.
Or give a few anecdotes.
I like to show beyond a
shadow of a doubt, and
that's what we did here.
We did a quasi-experimental
analysis to show that opening
up this affordable housing
project in an affluent white
suburb of Philadelphia had no
negative effects on the
surrounding community.
So this shows that, if you do
the development right, and you
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suburban ethos and you don't
stigmatize the residents,
everything works out fine.
And the people that move here
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struggle to move upwards in
the socioeconomic ladder.
They ended up with much higher
rates of employment and much
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Everybody was much better off.
And that's the reason we wrote
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project, put it in an affluent
suburbs, attract in low income
people-- low to moderate
income people who are
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Ballots and voters' pamphlets for the Aug. 6 primary election will arrive in mailboxes throughout King County this week.
King County Elections will mail nearly 1.2 million ballots on July 17. Voters' pamphlets are mailed separately by bulk mail and may arrive on a different day than ballots.
"Voters should watch for their ballot in the mail and contact us if they haven't received it by Wednesday, July 24," said Sherril Huff, Elections Director.
The county already sent more than 17,400 ballots to voters living overseas and those serving in the military to allow extra time for delivery.
"Ballot drop locations have been expanded to provide more options for voters to return their ballots," Huff said. "Voters can return ballots to any of 25 locations, including our three Accessible Voting Centers."
There is a ballot drop box in Burien on Southwest 152nd St. in front of City Hall/Library, 400 S.W. 152nd St.
The expanded locations now include 12 scheduled drop vans for the primary and general elections (up from three last year) to provide better service for voters.
There are also ten 24-hour drop boxes. Drop boxes are open 24 hours/day until 8 p.m. Aug. 6; vans will be staffed from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Aug. 3 and Aug. 5, and from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on election day, Aug. 6.
You can vote, sign the return envelope, and get your ballot back as soon as you receive it. Ballots can be mailed with a first class stamp or returned to a drop-off location.
Ballots must be postmarked by Aug. 6 or returned to a ballot drop box by 8 p.m. on election day. Ballots can also be returned to accessible voting centers during their business hours.
Voters' pamphlets are available online, at Seattle and King County libraries, and at the Elections office, 919 SW Grady Way, Renton.
Tips for voting:
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• Read the voters' pamphlet
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King County residents not currently registered to vote in Washington can register in person at the King County Elections office or the Voter Registration Annex through 4:30 p.m. on Monday, July 29.
For more information, visit the Elections website, or call 206-296-VOTE (8683).
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