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The Good Faith Defense in a TCPA Lawsuit
Many businesses know that calling the wrong party could mean trouble according to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). In broad terms, the law forbids cell phone calls without the consent of the called party. This recent blog post sets up a potentially frightening scenario for businesses — an accidental call:
It is possible that a business may contact a changed or recycled phone number. According to the Wall Street Journal, as many as 37 million phone numbers are recycled each year by telephone companies. It is equally likely that a customer could accidentally input an incorrected single digit when providing his contact information. If that incorrectly inputted cellular telephone number turns out to be an actual phone number assigned to someone else, should that lead to expensive class action litigation for a business that otherwise has all the mechanisms in place to comply with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)? Common sense says no.
The post includes case details that explain the good faith defense in a TCPA lawsuit, which generally defines the belief that a business was contacting the party it intended to contact, not someone with the intended party's old or recycled cell phone number. As the post explains, the defense is not bulletproof but still presents a strong argument for dismissal of a TCPA suit and, at a minimum, an argument against class certification.
Class Actions on the Energy Front
We recently wrote about the Dart Cherokee case — particularly about the pleading standard when it comes to the amount in controversy for the sake of removing a case to federal court. As evidenced by this Forbes editorial, legal commentators have also started taking note of the case. In the editorial, author Rich Samp argues that the U.S. Supreme Court should indeed get to the merits and, in doing so, should reverse the district court's very narrow construction of the amount in controversy requirement under the Class Action Fairness Act.
In other energy-related class action news, law watchers should be very interested in this lawsuit out of Illinois. The Land of Lincoln has evidently adopted a difficult permitting process before drilling can begin. Some landowners have taken umbrage and responded with a very creative argument: the state's refusal to grant drilling permits — which, the argument goes, has deprived the landowners of royalty payments — is unconstitutional under the Fifth Amendment. It will be interesting to see what the state court facing this argument makes of it.
Is the Aggregation of Job References Mass Credit Reporting?
Plaintiffs recently filed a putative class action suit against the networking site LinkedIn in California federal court. The claim, brought under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, raises questions as to whether the law should apply more broadly than just to the reporting of consumer credit. This Recorder story details the plaintiffs' theory of the case:
According to the suit, LinkedIn can mine the information provided by users of its professional networking website to find potential references for job applicants without the applicants' knowledge. Searches yield a list of the names and current job titles for potential references, along with the common employer they share with the applicant and time worked together. The complaint claims that these reference lists amount to a consumer report under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and that LinkedIn fails to abide by safeguards required under the law. "In essence, LinkedIn has created a marketplace in consumer employment information, where it sells employment information, that may or may not be accurate, and that it has obtained in part from unwitting members, and without complying with the FCRA," write the plaintiffs lawyers at Greenwald Davidson in Boca Raton, Fla., and the Law Offices Todd Friedman in Beverly Hills. Plaintiffs are asking for statutory damages for willful violation of the FCRA, which run from $100 to $1,000 per violation.
According to the suit, LinkedIn can mine the information provided by users of its professional networking website to find potential references for job applicants without the applicants' knowledge. Searches yield a list of the names and current job titles for potential references, along with the common employer they share with the applicant and time worked together.
The complaint claims that these reference lists amount to a consumer report under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and that LinkedIn fails to abide by safeguards required under the law.
"In essence, LinkedIn has created a marketplace in consumer employment information, where it sells employment information, that may or may not be accurate, and that it has obtained in part from unwitting members, and without complying with the FCRA," write the plaintiffs lawyers at Greenwald Davidson in Boca Raton, Fla., and the Law Offices Todd Friedman in Beverly Hills. Plaintiffs are asking for statutory damages for willful violation of the FCRA, which run from $100 to $1,000 per violation.
More details on this case are available here and here.
California district judge denies plaintiff's motion for class certification against Google for failing to meet the predominance requirement of Rule 23(b)(3)
On March 18, 2014, Judge Lucy Koh of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California denied the plaintiff's motion for class certification with respect to claims against Google, Inc. premised on its operation of Gmail and its Google Apps services. The plaintiffs in the multi-district litigation, In re: Google, Inc. Gmail Litigation, 5:13-md-02430-LHK (N.D. Cal. 2014), alleged that Google had engaged in unlawful interceptions of the content of their email communications through the use of various processing devices for the purpose of gathering data about users. Judge Koh, in rejecting the plaintiff's request to certify four different classes, with three subclasses of Google Apps and Gmail users, found that no class could meet the predominance requirement of Rule 23(b)(3).Noting that the predominance inquiry requires a court to wade into the merits in order to predict to some degree what issues will control the outcome of the case, Judge Koh observed that "the question of whether Class members have consented to the alleged interceptions has been central to this case since its inception." The so-called "consent exception" in each of the various wiretap statutes at issue made it lawful to intercept communications when a party (or all parties) consented, and consent could have been express, or implied from the circumstances. Judge Koh held that, because Google argued that each of the users had consented to the interception of their communications either expressly or impliedly (in light of user disclosures, news articles about interceptions, and other sources of notice about the practice), no class-wide adjudication was possible.The Court found that, particularly with respect to the fact-intensive determinations about implied consent, "individual issues regarding consent are likely to overwhelmingly predominate over common issues," because "there is a panoply of sources from which email users could have learned of Google's interceptions…." As a result, certification was denied as to all classes, because "a fact-finder would have to determine to what disclosures each Class member was exposed and whether such disclosures were sufficient to conclude, under the Wiretap Act, that Class members consented to the alleged Google interceptions of email." In concluding, Judge Koh closed the door on any re-filing of a certification motion by denying the plaintiffs' motion with prejudice, noting that they had already had three chances to succeed.
Second Circuit rules that equitable tolling principles do not apply to the statute of repose under the Securities Act
Last week, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court's decision, holding that the American Pipe tolling doctrine does not apply to the three-year statute of repose under the Securities Act of 1933.In re IndyMac Mortgage-Backed Securities Litigation, the Second Circuit found that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah that held that "the commencement of a class action suspends the applicable statute of limitations as to all asserted members of the class who would have been parties had the suit been permitted to continue as a class action" does not apply to statutes of repose. These statutes, in general, have an "absolute" three-year limitation that is stricter than the statute of limitations, which can be subject to tolling.The Second Circuit's decision resolved a split of authority within the Second Circuit, but other U.S. Courts of Appeals, including the Federal, Fourth and Tenth Circuits, remain split. For more, read the full decision.
Ninth Circuit Court expands period in which defendants can remove a case to federal court
Recently, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court's remand to state court under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) of a wage-and-hour class action when it rejected an interpretation of 28 U.S.C. § 1446(b)(1) and (b)(3) that says defendants can remove a case to federal court "only during the two thirty-day periods specified in those subsections," which are "thirty days after a complaint has been filed or within that same time frame after plaintiffs provide defendants with a document with facts supporting the removal of the case."In Amy Roth et al. v. CHA Hollywood Medical Center et al., the Ninth Circuit found that these two time periods "operate as limitations on the right to removal rather than as authorizations to remove" and that they "do not otherwise affect the time during which a defendant may remove" under the federal removal statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1441.The Ninth Circuit concluded that when 28 U.S.C. §§ 1441 and 1446 are read together, a defendant may remove a case outside the two thirty-day periods under 28 U.S.C. § 1446 as long as one of the two thirty-day periods is not triggered. For more, read the full opinion.
Choice of Law Decision Leads to Dismissal of State False Advertising Claims in Class Action Against General Mills
"Wow, I can help lower my cholesterol 10 percent in one month?" This and other statements on Cheerios boxes led the FDA to issue a warning letter to General Mills. Without commenting on the accuracy of the health claims in the Cheerios marketing, the FDA noted that if the cereal is intended for use in lowering cholesterol, then it's a drug within the agency's regulatory supervision. Cheerios boxes were relabeled, but that didn't stop the class action plaintiffs. Six complaints were filed by plaintiffs in California, New Jersey and New York. Apparently, all were filed in state court seeking state law remedies. The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation Committee consolidated the actions into one multidistrict litigation. For more, read the full story.
The End of Incentive Agreements for Plaintiffs?
Recently, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision that calls to task the unethical behavior of class counsel. As a result, class counsel was denied some of its fees and a serious blow to the legitimacy of incentive agreements was dealt.
In the consolidated case of Rodriguez vs. Disner, case no. 10-55309 (9th Cir.), the court held that due to the inherent conflict of interest created by the incentive agreement in place between the McGuireWoods law firm as class counsel and select class members, it would award neither incentive compensation to the select class members nor incentive fees to McGuireWoods.
The case arose out of an antitrust class action law suit brought by the plaintiffs against West Publishing (owner of BAR/BRI) and Kaplan. The plaintiffs alleged that these two defendants conspired to prevent competition and wrongfully monopolize the full-service bar review course market, all in violation of applicable federal law. Shortly before trial, the allegations were resolved and the case was settled. West Publishing and Kaplan agreed to pay $49 million into a settlement fund, with 25 percent of that amount set aside for attorneys' fees.
The twist here is that the original class counsel, Van Etten Suzumoto & Becket LLP (which later merged with McGuireWoods LLP), had entered into incentive agreements with five of the plaintiffs. Pursuant to these agreements, the law firm would apply for additional compensation for these plaintiffs, together with the concomitant attorneys' fees. Per the terms of the agreement, the law firm would seek incentive awards upwards of $75,000 per plaintiff.
For more, read the full article.
MERS class action dismissed in New Jersey federal court
The United States District Court for the District of New Jersey has declined a remand request and dismissed a putative class action filed by homeowners against HSBC Mortgage Services Inc. and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. In Napoli v. HSBC Mortgage Servs., Inc., Case No. 12-CV-222 (D. N.J. 2012), the plaintiffs alleged that HSBC and MERS fraudulently overcharged them and similarly situated foreclosed-upon borrowers by overstating the payoff amounts due on their home loans, and asserted claims for breach of contract and violations of the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act, the Truth-In-Consumer Contract, the Warranty and Notice Act, and the Uniform Commercial Code. The case was originally filed in New Jersey Superior Court and was removed by the defendants pursuant to the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA). The plaintiffs had been foreclosed upon and were facing the sale of their properties following judgment when they refinanced their properties immediately prior to sale. Plaintiffs alleged in their complaint that the loan payoff amounts that were ultimately refinanced had been overstated by the defendants by more than $6,000. They sought to recover their damages, trebled under the state statutes forming the basis for their claims. For more, read the full story.
Court says no way to cy pres: "Gift" stricken from class action settlement
Courts are questioning whether the trust doctrine of cy pres may be used in class action litigation to permit the distribution of unclaimed settlement funds to charities. While proponents argue that cy pres distributions punish corporate wrongdoing, deter future misconduct and deny "windfalls" to settling defendants, there is mounting concern that the process can erode public confidence in the bar and the judiciary. Of equal concern, leading scholars — and courts — believe that the process is simply unconstitutional.
A recent decision from the U.S. District Court in New Mexico is a case in point. In In re Thornburg Mortgage, Inc. Securities Litigation, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 107934 (July 24, 2012), the court struck a cy pres provision in an agreed class action settlement that would have made a local charity the primary beneficiary of a class settlement, while excluding some class members from participating in the settlement at all.
In re Thornburg Mortgage, Inc. Securities Litigation is the latest in a series of thoughtful cases addressing the flaws with cy pres awards, and striking them on its own motion. Settling defendants should not hesitate to challenge cy pres distributions and insist that residual settlement funds be returned at the close of the claims period. For more, read the full story.
Concepcion, collective-arbitration waivers, and the business of insurance: Arkansas Supreme Court says the McCarron-Ferguson Act reverse preempts the FAA
Following the Supreme Court's decision in AT&T Mobility, Inc. v. Concepcion, 113 S. Ct. 1740 (2011), it seemed clear that states possessed little power to limit the enforcement of arbitration provisions and class action waivers in consumer contracts. "Arbitration is a matter of contract, and the [Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA")] requires courts to honor parties' expectations." However, the Supreme Court of Arkansas, in its recent decision in Southern Pioneer Life Ins. Co. v. Thomas, 2011 Ark. 490 (Ark., 2011) identified what could be a significant exception to Concepcion: the business of insurance.
In Southern Pioneer, the Thomas's executed a credit application and a retail installment contract as part of the purchase of a new car. The credit application contained a provision calling for arbitration of "[a]ny claim or dispute, whether in contract, tort or otherwise…, which arise [sic] out of or relate to this Application, an installment sale contract or lease agreement, or any resulting transaction or relationship…." The related retail installment contract provided an option for the purchase of credit-life insurance coverage with Southern Pioneer, the entire premium for which was financed with the purchase price of the vehicle and wrapped into the life of the loan. The Thomas's opted for the insurance, but subsequently paid off the loan six years ahead of the maturity date. They then filed a putative class action, alleging breach of the insurance contract against Southern Pioneer and seeking the refund of unearned premiums from the date of payoff through the original maturity date. Southern Pioneer sought to compel arbitration pursuant to the arbitration clause in the credit application.
The trial court denied Southern Pioneer's motion, and the Arkansas Supreme Court affirmed, because the Arkansas Uniform Arbitration Act (the "AUAA") in effect at the time, and which recognized the validity, enforceability and irrevocability of contractual arbitration provisions generally, expressly did not apply to "any insured or beneficiary under any insurance policy…." Ark. Code. Ann. 16-108-201(b) (Repl. 2006). While recognizing that the FAA "would ordinarily preempt conflicting state law," the Court held that the McCarran-Ferguson Act (the "MFA"), [15 U.S.C. 1011, et seq.], "operates to bar application of the FAA and leave the regulation of the insurance industry to the states…." The MFA provides that "[n]o Act of Congress shall be construed to invalidate, impair, or supersede any law enacted by any State for the purpose of regulating the business of insurance…unless such Act specifically relates to the business of insurance…." 15 U.S.C. 1012(b).
The Arkansas Supreme Court's decision suggests that, while states may be barred by the FAA from either enacting or judicially enforcing laws or doctrines like the Discover Bank rule, as set forth in Concepcion (California's rule classifying most collective-arbitration waivers in consumer contracts as unconscionable, and therefore unenforceable), states are nonetheless free under the McCarron-Ferguson Act to place limitations or outright prohibitions on collective-arbitration waivers or arbitration agreements generally, if the limitation or prohibition is a law enacted by the state for the purpose of regulating the business of insurance.
However, the Ohio Revised Code does not specifically exempt the business of insurance from the enforceability of contractual arbitration provisions like the AUAA did in Southern Pioneer. As a result, Concepcion, and by extension the FAA, appear likely to continue to govern the enforceability of arbitration agreements and collective-arbitration waiver provisions in Ohio jurisdictions for the foreseeable future, including those found in contracts of insurance.
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Sometimes, you wanna feel like the smartest guy/gal/thing in the room. Of course, that would have to make the title 'Summa Iwakuma Laude' but I didn't like the flow of 'Summa Iwakuma'. My titles are ridiculous enough anyways, I don't need unintentional rhyme muddying the waters along with it. So we chose 'with great honor' rather than 'with highest honor'. We just replaced 'cum' with Hisashi Iwakuma…you better read that word in latin, perv! Not Hisashi, of course, since his name is in his native language of Japanese. So did I just create a new language? Jatin? Lapanese? Eh, I'll leave the Bennifers to Hollywood at this point. But really, Hisashi should make you feel like you graduated with honors from Sports Tech Fantasy University (GO STFU!) as his price of $9,100 on DraftKings puts him behind the big three 10K+ pitchers on the day but the Stream-o-nator says his start is the tops of his class on the day. I do think because of the bigger names on the slate, Iwakuma will have a slightly lower ownership than normal despite the fact his start is at home and against a whiff-happy team. Much like my pick up skills will be on the Razzball Radio Tour, the Twins strike out rates are at the bottom of the league already but when they step out on the road, they're even worse as they own the second worst K% while out Jack Kerouac'ing. So let's swing our tassel from one side to the other and walk down that aisle…ahem, I meant graduation tassels and the hat. Seriously! Well, whatever, you've graduated to the rest of the picks. Now get out of this lead and take your dirty mind with you! Here's the rest of the Razzball picks for July 7th contests…
Please, blog, may I have some more?Collin Cowgill
A lot of talk has been made about the Fantasy Baseball Overlord causing all of these injuries this year. What people haven't mentioned as much is the why. FBO was born in a small Jamaican village outside of Kingston. His family was wealthy from manufacturing fertilizer, though this came with a severe downside — the smell of manure. Knowing how cruel kids can be, it's no surprise they would pick on FBO. The school jocks, specifically the baseball players were the worst. Constantly mocking his ever-present stench, they nicknamed him Fecal Body Odor, or FBO for short. It got so bad that teachers and adults started calling him FBO. Eventually, people called him FBO without even knowing what it stood for. Rather than trying to shake the nickname, FBO decided to have it empower him. First, he tried to get into banking, thinking he could convince people it stood for Fixed Buyout. Then he got an internship with the Field Botanists of Ontario. Neither worked for him, but he did have some knowledge of voodoo from his Jamaican aunt and always harbored hate for baseball players, so Fantasy Baseball Overlord – or FBO, for short, was born. With that said, Adam Wainwright went for an MRI on his elbow and the FBO said, "Eat it, Wainwright!" The Cards are saying his UCL is fine and it's just tennis elbow. Hopefully this isn't game, set, match for him. He received a cortisone shot, and there's no word yet on a DL stint. Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
Please, blog, may I have some more?Hi there. It's me – the guy who vouched for Tyler Lyons in his last start, because let's face it; his matchup (on paper) was prettier than Kelly Kapowski on prom night. Sadly, the outcome of said start turned out to be more like Prom Night the movie, which I never saw because it looked awful, but I imagine it was a blood bath with an awful soundtrack. So yeah, anyone with shares in Lyons (there were a lot) had an awful night, and I got trolled a little (which I love). I'm not sorry though. All I can do is present useful data the best I can and let the cards fall where they may. You just gotta keep on keepin' on, you know? That being said, if you still can't forgive me for Lyonsgate, there are other awesome tools here at Razzball like Stream-o-Nator, Hitter-Tron, and the new DFSBot. Wait, did I just call myself an awesome tool? Whatever. As always, we've got you covered here, so head on over to DraftKings and use our promo link; it could lead you to $100K and probably a foursome at the bare minimum. Now, let's put this Lyons nonsense behind us and examine some key participants in tonight's short slate.
Please, blog, may I have some more?I'm going to be completely honest with you……. bear with me I've spent the past 8 years in sales this isn't something I'm used to. I loathe John Lackey. I hate his voice, I hate his face, I hate the way his mouth is always open as if it was some 24 hour 7-11, but most of all I hated the way he was overvalued in fantasy and reality during his time with the Angels. After posting a 6.47 ERA in 2011 I figured the man I mockingly call The Muppet was done, off to the land of Dontrelle Willis. Then after sitting out 2012 for the now mandatory Tommy John surgery he came back a different player. Keeping hitters off balance with great sequencing, Lackey was one of the big surprises for the World Champions last season. Thus far this season it's been more of the same (if not better). He enters tonight's game against the Tigers with a 5-2 record, a 3.57 era, and an 8.83 k rate, the highest of his career. In fact, outside of two rough outings back to back against the Yankees and the Orioles back in mid-April, he's provided a quality start each time he's taken the mound for the Sawx. The only thing that could derail his season is inappropriate text messages from a member of the media. Well that and Ian Kinsler and the Tigers. Over the years, several members of the Tigers (some of which will be covered later on!) have owned Lackey but none quite like Kinsler. In 39 PA's Kinsler has a 1.345 OPS with 4 hr's, 9 steaks, and a couple of steals. That sample size ain't small folks (that's what she said) and that OPS is huge! (that's what Bill James said…?) Kinsler is a must own at 2b in all lineups over at DraftKings. With a cost of $4,900 he's not cheap but I think based on his history he's well worth the premium price.
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Please, blog, may I have some more?Every time I hear Nate Eovaldi's name I think about the delicious Italian staple the Extra Virgin Olive Oil. I also think of Rachel Ray and her sick obsession for the stuff. Seriously, that woman puts it in everything. But thank goodness this isn't about her and I've probably already turned some of you off and you're heading back over to Grey's with all the other cool kids….Hi De Nacho Favre! Speaking of De Nacho, in the FCL I was commenting how I'm glad I drove a Honda but I'll never do it again. It was boring, like listening to Air Supply for the rest of your life. I like power at my feet, I haven't owned a car that wasn't a V8 in years. Now why am I telling you this nonsense and how does it relate to EVOO? Dude is not boring! He's damn exciting to watch, makes playing all this worth it. He went undrafted all over the place back in March but has been one of the best adds all season. The returns on him has given his owners a 2.86 ERA, 1.11 WHIP, 8.58 K/9, 1.79 BB/9, a realistic LOB rate, a high ground ball rate and low line drive rate. He also throws really friggin' hard with an average velocity of 95.7 on his four seam and 96.1 on his 2 seam fastballs. I also dropped him in one league a couple of weeks back. I'll be honest, I thought he was good but I've been waiting for the regression fairies to show up. They're late to the party. I see him as this year's Patrick Corbin, a great start but will die a slow death after the All Star break. The only saving grace is the velocity. He throws hard and that is always a plus. In case some of you have forgot, he was the centerpiece of the Hanley Ramirez to the Dodgers deal. The Marlin's know their talent. Ok, enough back story blah blah blah. He gets the Giants today at the their nice cushy ballpark. The Giants are the 11th worst team in MLB for K rate and have a couple of their bats banged up. Brandon Belt is on the DL, Pablo Sandoval is hurt and Hunter Pence has been stuck at the light switch all season. Nothing really scary there. We could say Michael Morse is playing and hitting but I say he's playing and looking ready to hit the DL. I have May 23rd on my Morse injury pool. *crosses fingers* Bottom line is he's my favorite pitcher of the day and anytime Matt Cain takes the hill the Giants lose. Stream-o-Nator likes Cain better and has Eovaldi 6th on the day. I say Stream has been partying too much with Hitter-Tron. I'm playing him in DraftKings contests today and if you did too then let's take a moment to hold hands over the internet.
Please, blog, may I have some more?The news is good, Allen Craig is in a walking boot and on crutches. Yay! Sorry, I should've said the news was good for people who don't own Allen Craig. *smacks forehead with palm of hand* Geez, I'm such a huckleberry! So, this means the new Cardinals first baseman is… Please, open door number one! Actually, all I see is his elbow. Could you open door number two, as well? Hmm, still missing his right side. Go ahead and open door number three, too. There he is… Matt Adams! I've teased Adams a lot about his girth and that ain't right, even if right and girth are anagrams. Adams isn't out of shape…if watermelon is a shape! The zaftig Madams will be playing first for as long as Craig can't and I'd grab Adams in all leagues where I needed power. He could hit five homers the rest of the way if Craig stays sidelined until the playoffs. As of right now, there's no word on how much time Craig will need. Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
Please, blog, may I have some more?Last year, the Buy/Sell brought you such brilliant ideas as "Eric Thames is gonna be a river running through your heart!" and "Brennan Boesch is more like Brennan Bauce." Buy/Sell, "You know, I don't point all of your crappy suggestions… A.J. Mass was talking about buying me an acre of land in Kentucky and letting me run around with all of his stolen base draft picks. I may take him up on the offer if you're not careful." So, this is the first Buy/Sell of the season. Every Friday there will be a new one. Buy/Sell, "Not if we continue to get along like this. Try me, 'stache. Try me." This week's lede pick is a new fave of mine who might not be worth owning by the end of April in mixed leagues, Jose Fernandez. Here's an overall note, in this fantasy baseball game that has chosen us, we want to take the risk right now in case someone breaks out. It would be great if we all drafted a team that we can coast to a championship with, but if that's true, your league isn't competitive. In any league worth its salt, you need to pepper in some risk. Tuck your head down and go head long into the risk tornado. Fantasy baseballers on the storm, Fantasy baseballers on the storm…Into this blog we are born… Fantasy baseballers on the storm! I'm not saying drop Wainwright after one bad start, but having guys like Jose Fernandez at the end of your staff is much better than guys like Maholm (assuming every one of your other starters isn't a risky upside gamble). You want guys at the end of your rotation that can do so much more than a 5th or 6th starter, rather than a 5th or 6th starter that is essentially a 5th or 6th starter. As for Fernandez, here's what I said the other day, "First thing I do when I have a prospect question is search the site to see what Scott, our prospect writer, said. What I found, was a whole Jose Fernandez fantasy. He didn't stop there, he also talked about him in the Marlins prospect preview post in October. There he said, "Fernandez broke out in 2012, posting a 1.75 ERA, a 0.93 WHIP, and a 10.6 K/9 between Low-A and High-A. The 20-year-old has legitimate ace-potential, and should find himself in the top-15 on most prospect lists this offseason. Now, if I were making a top-15 list of Well-Groomed Mustaches, Grey wouldn't make it. When I blow up his picture 1000% in my laboratory, I can see cheese microbes." Wow, Scott has a laboratory? That's awesome! So, the Marlins are an interesting beast. They sell off all of their pieces, but they promote within quickly. After watching that Showtime series last year about the Marlins. I'm 50/50 on whether they even know about the arbitration clock. Within their minor league system, they're run like, "We gotta make it to the playoffs this year!" From the major league level, they're run like, "Let's make sure we ship in our concession stands' Cracker Jack from Chile because it's four-hundredths of a cent cheaper. They pop their corn in yak oil." I'd absolutely grab Jose Fernandez in all leagues. He has the chance to be lights out and could go 160 innings. He has the stuff that could make him a top ten starter in all of baseball within a year. For this year, I'll give him the line of: 7-8/3.74/1.31/120 in 130 innings. Absolutely can be better. And worse. That's the rookie nookie blessing and curse." And that's me quoting me! A lot of people commented about his lack of experience. He hasn't thrown above High-A. Or as he calls it now, Bye-A. That shouldn't matter. His stuff will play anywhere. He hits mid-90's with a plus change and curve. Does it matter that a guy is 20 years old or 30 years old with his stuff? Chances are a pitcher is more likely to have that stuff at 20 with less miles on his arm. Fernandez will need to be lucky to win 10 games this year, but he could get a shizzload of Ks and have decent ratios. If he flames out, then you drop him for the next hot starter. Anyway, here's some more players to buy or sell this week in fantasy baseball:
Please, blog, may I have some more?Mike Trout who?! AL Rookie of the Year last year and runner-up for the MVP. He also had one of the best rookie years ever. I know, Random Italicized voice. I was being facetious to show my excitement for Bryce Harper. Like Bryce Harper is so good I've forgotten all about Mike Trout. He's the Angels center fielder. He's got a girlfriend, but I bet I could weasel my way in with my slanted words. Forget it, Random Italicized voice. Like you forgot Mike Trout? I hate you! Rudy's mentioned this before, but there's very few hitters that have top 20 overall potential. You have to be able to hit 45+ homers (Stanton, Bautista) without killing you in any category or be consistently excellent across four categories (Pujols, Fielder, Votto, Cano) or have the potential for your homers and steals to total 50 (Trout, Braun, McCutchen, CarGo, Jones, Kemp, Upton). It's slightly early to put Harper in that last group. But the potential is there, as he showed yesterday when Harper touched 'em all once, he touched 'em all Bryce. If you own him, I wouldn't let him go at any price. Anyway, here's what I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
Please, blog, may I have some more?Before you read this, I want you to go outside and look at the birds chirping. Smell the freshly-cut grass. Look up at the sun that your deity of choice made from a very large matchstick. Pat your kid on the head and tell them, "I don't love you any more today than I did yesterday, but let's act like I do because I won't see you for a good six months because baseball's back." One more time with caps lock bringing the enthusiasm, BASEBALL IS BACK. As frequent commenter, Eric W. said, "I keep getting excited for opening night Sunday, then have to remind myself it is the Astros vs the Rangers. It's kinda like getting to open one present on Xmas Eve and getting socks." Yay — baseball! It's the Astros vs. the Rangers. Okay, lowercase yay. But it's a rivalry that dates back to Sam Houston! Don't remember that? You should've rented a car at Alamo last night. Am I mixing up commercials? Eh, who cares? I'm excited! Texas is the largest state in the 48 contiguous states, it's just too bad baseball is its third most popular sport behind football and "shootin' empty Shiner cans." Whatever. Baseball is back and even Selig's badly-shorn toupee can't change that. Anyway, here's what else I saw this weekend in fantasy baseball:
Please, blog, may I have some more?Why hello there. This article will look at the position battles in each division. Today's topic, for the rare reader that ignores the title, is the NL East. By the way, I'm all in on non-Marlins pitchers in the NL East. Do any of those lineups look devastating? Not really. And you'll probably get a win each time they face the Marlins. Anyway, here's some of the position battles to keep an eye on in the NL East:
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"Is the 'theory of change' behind traditional journalism out of date?" Great question. It came from David Bornstein, a journalist and author of How to Change the World, the bible of social entrepreneurship — and it betrayed a distinctive social-entrepreneur view of the world: What's important isn't so much what journalists do, but how their actions operate within larger systems to create social impact.
This was at last week's sixth annual Skoll World Forum in Oxford, England — the place for A-list social entrepreneurs to see and be seen. We put together a session on "Tomorrow's News: Models for an Everyone-is-Media World," featuring Ashoka founder and CEO Bill Drayton, Knight Foundation vice-president Paula Ellis, and News & Knowledge Fellows Gregor Hackmack (co-founder of Germany's ParliamentWatch.org) and Sasa Vucinic (the guy behind the Media Development Loan Fund). The challenge: Could we get several hundred social entrepreneurs to crowdsource the future of journalism?
Back to Bornstein's question: "Do the new understandings into human behavior – i.e. that people are not 'rational actors,' that aspirational stories are more influential in stimulating action than critical ones – require that journalism rethink how free presses help societies improve?"
Yes, it does. "Someone has hit the reboot button on journalism," as Sasa observed, and the old theory of change is indeed a relic. The problem, obviously, is coming up with the new theory. We are, he said, caught in the metaphorical "five minutes" between the point when an existing, well-understood system dies and the moment when a new system becomes concrete and comprehensible. Which is to say, a lot of stuff is happening, and we have no idea where it all leads.
Well, no: We have some idea. We know that rapidly changing technology and the rapidly escalating needs of information users are together producing three central outcomes: the dramatic decentralization of information; an explosion of innovation in storytelling; and the emergence in media of a powerful participative culture.
We also know that this confluence has raised a bunch of questions around the values that will underly future news & knowledge systems. Like, how do we equip people with the tools and skills to be effective, responsible information participants — and what are the means of distribution for those skills? And as the web erodes human connection, how will we adapt our old skills around trust, or learn new ones? What will it mean for information to be trustworthy, and how will we know when it is? How will we guarantee that information flows freely — and having left behind the monopoly press, how do we ensure competition in whatever new marketplace emerges?
A new theory of change, to return to Bornstein, will depend on the answers to all those questions. (It also will depend on the answer(s) to the pesky question: How will we pay for this? Fodder for another Skoll Forum.)
The need for new trust mechanisms — that resonated with this crowd. "With the exponential growth in online media," asked one participant, "how do we address the blurring of the traditional distinction between facts and opinion? It's fact rather than opinion which in the long-run changes people's behavior."
Is it? Paula Ellis observed that information per se is far less important than one's relationship to that information. We rely on trusted sources to tell us which information is worthwhile and relevant to us. For several generations, those sources have taken the form of The New York Times, CNN, and the like. Now, as several folks pointed out, the pathway to trusted information wends through social networks: we're enabling new agents of trust – professional colleagues, friends, friends of friends, whomever we've decided to follow on Twitter to act as our personal editors. Which may be at once compellingly democratic and flat-out dangerous: the risk, we agreed, is that the crowd will accept and distribute information that's "just true enough."
Ultimately, though, such networks will play an even greater role in linking information to action. More and more, Paula noted, news will assume and inform action, becoming more of a continuum; information that's urgent and relevant will, in fact, activate communities. Which is what news, and journalism at its best, has always done; Paula's point is that the linkage is tighter than ever, that the cycle time from information to action is shorter, that the emergence of online communities represent a profound opportunity to elevate citizenship.
That phenomenon, of course, could go either way. We could see historically passive audience members transformed into active, effective citizens, joining in networks whose leveraging of truthful, trustworthy information strengthens and advances democratic society. Or we could devolve into an era of self-interested hype, propaganda, and tyranny.
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In winter, it becomes almost necessary to grab a muffler or scarf and wrap it around our necks to protect ourselves from the cold when we go outside. Clothing stores in all parts of the city have come up with a variety of fashionable scarves and mufflers to cater to our tastes. Whether it's a simple, monochrome cotton scarf or an expensive cashmere and silk scarf, these garments are always in high demand in the market, and not just during winter.
Personally, I find it easier to hang a scarf around my neck, rather than drape a long orna or shawl. Scarves certainly add decency to our outfits and especially during the warmer weather, they act as marvellous substitutes. They are smaller, easier to handle and goes great with T-shirts, fatuas, jeans, etc.
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Pacquiao-Cotto duel whets fight fans' appetite for action
A fight that whets fight fans' appetite for action.
This is how boxing experts see the showdown between pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao and welterweight champ Miguel Cotto on November 14 in Las Vegas.
"Maganda sapagkat isang direksyon lang ang patungo nito – paharap, patungo sa kalaban hindi umaatras," Filipino analyst Philip Ella Juico noted in an interview on GMA's Unang Hirit Wednesday.
ESPN.com's boxing writer Dan Rafael expressed the same view, saying the pairing between two of the world's most exciting fighters who are both at the top of their games has excitement written all over it.
"You got two guys who's gonna come to throw down. There's not gonna be a lot of dancing and moving," Rafael said on ESPN "Boxing fans wanna see action fights between top fighters (and) they've got it."
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While Pacquiao-Cotto features action, Mayweather-Marquez is largely viewed as a fight between two counter-punchers.
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"As a fight fan, hands down, it's Pacquiao versus Cotto. No disrespect to Mayweather and Marquez, they're both great fighters, they're both gonna be in the Hall of Fame, they both have a ton of skill. But I think what would get the juices flowing for boxing fans, at least it does for me, is the prospect of the action that we'll see (in Pacquiao-Cotto)," he said.
Pacquiao and Cotto, stablemates at Top Rank promotions, have agreed in principle to meet at a catchweight of 145 lbs with the Filipino superstar getting a 65-35 share of the PPV pie, according to Pacquiao's lawyer Jeng Gacal. - GMANews.TV
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By Janie Chang February 17, 2015 9:00 AM PT |
Many real-time services such as e-commerce, online gaming, and social media depend on cloud-computing platforms. Designing those services to be scalable and reliable, however, is a challenge.
Until now.
On January 23, 2015, Microsoft released Orleans, an open-source platform that provides a straightforward approach to building high-scale distributed computing applications. Orleans, available for download from GitHub, simplifies programming for developers by removing the need to learn and apply complex concurrency logic or scaling patterns. It was designed for use in the cloud and has been used extensively on Microsoft Azure.
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"When you program systems, it's the same. You identify the pieces involved, how they interact, build a model, and then you apply mathematics and programming. In reality, you spend a very small percentage of time writing code and more time figuring out why things don't work as intended."
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The project had two main goals. The first was to improve programmer productivity by making cloud-services development much simpler and faster. The second was reliable scalability. If Orleans could enable a developer trained for single-machine desktop applications to build services for the cloud, then Orleans would deliver huge productivity gains.
Project Orleans found that existing tools for building in the cloud didn't do much to simplify application development. Experienced developers still had to write code to manage systems resources. The researchers felt there was room for huge programmer-productivity gains if they could remove the need to code lower-level 'plumbing' that is difficult to get right.
The development team at 343 Industries for the popular game "Halo 4" (Xbox 360) felt the same way. In 2011, they were looking at building their own tools to simplify programming in the cloud.
"It was serendipity," Bykov says. "Tamir Melamed, development manager with the Halo services team, attended an internal presentation on a completely unrelated topic. He fell into conversation with Ravi Pandya, at the time an architect on Project Orleans. After some in-depth discussions between our groups, everyone realized that Orleans solved many of the issues the Halo development team at 343 Industries had been investigating. We decided to join forces."
The Project Orleans team had a lot to prove. Development for "Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary" (Xbox 360) was already in progress, and the game's release date, Nov. 15, 2011, was just three months away.
"Fortunately, the Project Orleans team at Microsoft Research is filled with talented systems engineers who combine principled, academic rigor with a pragmatic understanding of the value in developer productivity," says Hoop Somuah, principal software engineer for the Halo services team. "This was evident not only in the features of Orleans, but also in our interaction with the team. They really understood what it meant to work to tight timelines."
The two teams worked closely to meet the release date. They held daily progress reviews, resolved issues, and measured performance. The Halo team completed the release of "Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary" (Xbox 360) with a couple of weeks to spare—a testament to the productivity gains and reliability that Orleans delivered.
As further testament, the Halo team decided to build all the services for the 2012 release of "Halo 4" (Xbox 360) using Orleans.
Game developers achieved dramatic productivity gains, but as Bykov notes, the research team profited as well. The researchers gained insights that led to a significant contribution for Orleans: the concept of the 'virtual actor', an abstraction implemented by the Orleans programming model.
"We were able to build new services with ease and confidence in their scalability."
— Hoop Somuah |
The notion of actors, which can be described as concurrent computational entities, has been around since the 1970s. When programming within an actor model, developers must write code that manages actors explicitly: look up whether particular actors are already activated, activate them if necessary, and deactivate them.
"When we began working on scenarios for 'Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary' and 'Halo 4' for the Xbox 360," Bykov recalls, "we discovered that in a fast-paced environment such as this, where actors can be game sessions which are always coming and going, it was very challenging to write code to look up whether actors are activated, then activate or deactivate them. It was possible, but you ended up writing a lot of code.
"That's when we had our 'aha' moment. What if programmers could write code with the assumption that all the actors are always there? Then they wouldn't have to check whether certain actors have been activated, or create them, or deal with a situation when someone else tries to create the same actor at the same time. That would make application coding far simpler. We didn't come up with the term 'virtual actor' until later, but we developed the notion during our collaboration with the 'Halo 4' team."
This approach, described in the technical paper, Orleans: Distributed Virtual Actors for Programmability and Scalability, by Philip A. Bernstein, Bykov, Alan Geller, Gabriel Kliot, and Jorgen Thelin, solves a number of complex distributed-systems problems. The virtual-actor abstraction is a novel contribution that enables a simplified programming model that is both efficient and scalable.
"This simplicity ultimately also made these services easier to deploy, operate, and maintain on Azure."
— Hoop Somuah |
Anyone who has played "Halo 4" (Xbox 360) has relied on Orleans as part of the gaming experience. Members of the game's team confirm that they could not have achieved the scale and level of user interactivity they needed without Project Orleans.
"Orleans enabled us to build, launch, and operate the dozens of services needed to support 'Halo 4' (Xbox 360) with a relatively small engineering team," Somuah says. "The programming model was very approachable, and the virtual-actor concept provided a clean separation between our application logic and network-topology details. This, in turn, enabled us to easily scale up our services to meet our user load efficiently and with cost efficacy.
"We were able to build new services with ease and confidence in their scalability and even rewrote some of our existing services to achieve greater scale. This simplicity ultimately also made these services easier to deploy, operate, and maintain on Azure."
Project Orleans has been used in production at Microsoft since 2011. Although it is best known as the basis of the "Halo 4" (Xbox 360) services architecture, Orleans actually was designed for general-purpose cloud programming, and it has been used for other cloud-based applications within Microsoft.
Bykov cites the example of a single developer who built a real-time analytics-aggregation service in four days. The Project Orleans team worked with the developer for two weeks to test and tune the service, after which the service was approved for production use.
Bykov and his team felt ready for feedback from a wider audience.
"You don't need hundreds of servers to start reaping developer-productivity gains."
— Sergey Bykov |
During the Build 2014 conference in April, Microsoft announced a public preview of Orleans. The goal was to solicit feedback on developer productivity, especially comments regarding usability of the Orleans application-programming interface, and the virtual-actor model.
Positive feedback from the public preview led to the decision to release Orleans as open source. Businesses that run on cloud services require 24x7 uptime. Their developers and IT managers need the assurance of being able to access code and fix problems themselves, instead of waiting for vendor assistance. For this reason, open source has become the norm for cloud-computing tools. Furthermore, Project Orleans benefits from scaling out development to technical and academic communities, because users will have access to a diversity of innovations that Microsoft could not achieve on its own.
Bykov emphasizes that developers should be able to benefit from Orleans the moment they go from a single-server setup to a distributed system.
"The distributed runtime takes care of server failures, messaging, routing, single-threaded execution, and other system-level guarantees," Bykov explains. "You don't need hundreds of servers to start reaping developer-productivity gains." As a result, there has been a lot of positive feedback about the Orleans public preview.
"A programming model is how you think about a problem, the way you model a system, and only then the way you code," Bykov says. "Adopting a new programming model is inherently different than just using a new library to solve a specific standalone problem."
As the shift to cloud computing continues to change the way developers design and code, Bykov says it's rewarding to hear that users appreciate how Orleans is helping in that transition. "They recognize the value of not writing a lot of complicated distributed system code and compliment the simplicity, elegance, and power of the Orleans programming model."


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Daviess County road work
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The following is a listing of general highway maintenance and construction work in Daviess County for the week of Sept. 10-14, from the Missouri Department of Transportation.
Route 13 – From Hamilton (Caldwell County) to Gallatin; rumble strip installation, September 10; Route D – Pavement repair, September 12-14 ; Route Z – From U.S. Hwy 69 to U.S. Hwy 169 (Gentry County); pothole patching, September 13-14; Route TT – CLOSED
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