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NM company's plans to open a horse slaughterhouse faces a series of setbacks

July 23, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

A New Mexico company’s hard-fought attempts to convert its cattle plant to a horse slaughterhouse was dealt a series of new blows Monday, with the state denying its wastewater permit and actor Robert Redford, former Gov. Bill Richardson and the state attorney general announcing plans to intervene in a lawsuit seeking to block a return to domestic horse slaughter. …read more

Jury selection begins in NM for last defendant accused in 2010 slaying of Oklahoma couple

July 22, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday for an Arizona inmate who escaped from prison and is accused of killing an Oklahoma couple who were traveling through New Mexico. …read more

Parents of dead NM woman struggle with acquittal

July 19, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

The parents of a New Mexico woman whose husband was acquitted of murder say they still believe former Albuquerque police officer Levi Chavez killed their daughter.

Joseph and Theresa Cordova told the Albuquerque Journal (http://bit.ly/13oAoz0 ) and KOAT-TV (http://bit.ly/18ozpjN ) on Thursday that the verdict is hard to take.

A Sandoval County jury on Tuesday acquitted Chavez of first-degree murder and evidence tampering in the 2007 killing of their daughter, Tera Chavez.

Joseph Cordova says he and his wife are disappointed but they don’t blame the jury because jurors weren’t allowed to hear some possible evidence about the alleged motive.

Do it yourself

Advice on New Install Pool Wiring

July 18, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

By n1ml

I need some advanced install advice for a New Hampshire home owner.
The plan is to mount an 8 circuit outdoor subpanel to the exterior of the home that will have the feed coming from the basement space into the back of the panel. The panel will feed a 240 vac pump, a pool light, a gas fired heater and one or two 120 vac outlets as required. There is a 200 amp panel in the basement about 40 feet away. Can #8 awg, 3 conductor with a #10 awg in NM cable be used (4 conductor NM) ? The breaker in the main panel will be a 40 amp 240 vac unit.

Source: DoItYourself.com

NM ex-officer cleared of murder, faces civil case

July 17, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

A philandering former Albuquerque police officer was acquitted of killing his wife, but his legal troubles aren’t over.

Levi Chavez still faces a wrongful death lawsuit from the family of his late wife — a case that likely will include testimony about an alleged motive and his wife’s fear of him that was prohibited at the criminal trial.

Brad Hall, an attorney representing the estate of Tera Chavez, said her family is evaluating all options on the case that had been put on holding pending the outcome of the criminal trial.

Defense attorney David Serna says he likely won’t represent Levi Chavez is the civil case.

Chavez did not answer reporters’ questions about the civil trial after Tuesday’s verdict.

Man stabs NM churchgoers, sends 4 to hospital

April 29, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

Just as the St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church choir began its final hymn, a man vaulted over pews and lashed out at the singers, sending four churchgoers to the hospital with stab wounds, authorities said.

Worshippers screamed as the shocking and chaotic scene unfolded Sunday with the attacker continuing the onslaught until he was tackled and held by church members for officers, who raced to the scene, police said.

Four parishioners were injured, including church choir director Adam Alvarez and flutist Gerald Madrid, police spokesman Robert Gibbs said. All four were being treated at hospitals and listed in stable condition.

Three other church members also were evaluated by Albuquerque Fire Department on scene and didn’t go to the hospital, investigators said.

Police identified the suspect as 24-year-old Lawrence Capener.

It was not immediately known what sparked the bizarre attack at the church on the city’s Westside. Investigators don’t yet know whether Capener had ties to the victims or whether he regularly attended the church, Gibbs said.

An off-duty firefighter and others at the church held Capener down until police arrived.

Madrid told KOB-TV that he tried to stop Capener by placing him in a bear hug but was stabbed in the neck and back.

“I bear-hugged him. We were chest on chest. I was wrapping about to take him down to ground, but I didn’t have his arms. I had just my arms around his chest, so his arms were free. So that’s when he started stabbing me,” he said.

Madrid said he thought the suspect was punching him. It wasn’t until other parishioners rushed the man, that Madrid realized he had been stabbed five times.

The choir’s pianist, Brenda Baca King, told KRQE-TV that the attacker was looking at the lead soloist. “I just remember seeing him hurdle over the pews, hurdle over people and run (toward) us and I thought, ‘Oh my God, this is not good,'” Baca King said.

Capener was questioned by police and faced felony charges, Gibbs said.

It’s not yet known whether Capener has an attorney.

From: http://dantti.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/new-network-kcm/

Linux

new network KCM

April 12, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

Stop me if you can

If you followed my last post about sessionk you might be wondering “what the hell…”, well I like to code on stuff I’m in need, about sessionk I hope soon I give it an update now that I have more or less the whole picture.

So what’s up with networking? If you didn’t see the new plasma network managergo take a look, the greatest thing about it in my opinion is to have new blood around, so when I look at it I decided I should stop complaining and do something I wanted for a long time.

There’s nothing basically wrong with the NM plasmoids, it’s just that for the use case I’m interested in no plasmoid will ever fit it. The Mom’s use-case. If you have non nerd friends, wife, kids, parents that use Linux you know that they will someday call you. And when they do you need some sort of script to diagnose why isn’t “Facebook” opening. My script is like this:

First click on the (hmm) icon that looks like (hmm) a dot with semi-curves next to the clock
– There’s none.
Ok then try to find one that is a square with a smaller square inside
– There’s none.
Maybe a square with a black empty square in?
– Ah ok…
– But it says the cable is not connected and I just plugged on the power
….
Do you have an wifi right?
– I have a Wifi…
…

As you can it’s hard to describe a plasmoid UI by phone, also the user might have removed the plasmoid from the tray or might be using plasma-netbook (I took half an hour trying to explaing where the K menu was till I figured out it was netbook edition…). Also the current Network Manager KCM only handle connections which means you must have a plasmoid if you want to manage network.

This is where System Settings comes in:

The user can’t screw the interface
The user can read labels like “networking”
It has regular buttons (not flat things that are transparent and hard todistinguish)
It offers the possibility of a more advanced user interface

With this new plasma-nm I felt it was just the right time for me to do this, more people active on looking at NM means people can fix your code and the other way too. Last week then I started this and at the same time I tried to give some Qt/C++ classes toJayson Rowe and we immediately feel that some parts of the API was hard to use, like the IPv4 class was giving you an Int, when I saw this I had no idea how to convert that easily to an string, luckly there is a QHostAddress class that I never had used but it turns out I decided to make libnm-qt actually return a QHostAddress, and I started lot’s of changes on the lib, among them a change on how to handle pointers which has fixed some crashes here.

And here is the first screenshot <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley"

From: http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/national/~3/edVd518IZow/

Plea hearing set in NM judicial bribery case

April 12, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

A change of plea hearing is scheduled for a retired Las Cruces judge accused of funneling bribes to former Gov. Bill Richardson for judicial appointments.

Attorneys in the case have declined comment on whether a deal has been reached to reduce the four felony counts pending against former state District Judge Michael Murphy. But documents filed with the court show prosecutors and the defense have agreed to have a new charge filed against Murphy — this one a misdemeanor count of misconduct by a public official.

The hearing set for next Thursday comes about a month before Murphy was set to go to trial on the felony charges, which were filed with promises by Special Prosecutor Matt Chandler and Gov. Susana Martinez for an aggressive investigation into what prosecutors implied was a long-running practice. No one else has ever been charged in the case.

Richardson has called the accusations “outrageous and defamatory.”

Has AMD Become the Perfect Stock?

April 10, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

Filed under: Investing

Every investor would love to stumble upon the perfect stock. But will you ever really find a stock that provides everything you could possibly want?

One thing’s for sure: You’ll never discover truly great investments unless you actively look for them. Let’s discuss the ideal qualities of a perfect stock, then decide if Advanced Micro Devices fits the bill.

The quest for perfection
Stocks that look great based on one factor may prove horrible elsewhere, making due diligence a crucial part of your investing research. The best stocks excel in many different areas, including these important factors:

Growth. Expanding businesses show healthy revenue growth. While past growth is no guarantee that revenue will keep rising, it’s certainly a better sign than a stagnant top line.
Margins. Higher sales mean nothing if a company can’t produce profits from them. Strong margins ensure that company can turn revenue into profit.
Balance sheet. At debt-laden companies, banks and bondholders compete with shareholders for management’s attention. Companies with strong balance sheets don’t have to worry about the distraction of debt.
Money-making opportunities. Return on equity helps measure how well a company is finding opportunities to turn its resources into profitable business endeavors.
Valuation. You can’t afford to pay too much for even the best companies. By using normalized figures, you can see how a stock‘s simple earnings multiple fits into a longer-term context.
Dividends. For tangible proof of profits, a check to shareholders every three months can’t be beat. Companies with solid dividends and strong commitments to increasing payouts treat shareholders well.

With those factors in mind, let’s take a closer look at AMD.

Factor	What We Want to See	Actual	Pass or Fail?
Growth	5-year annual revenue growth > 15%	(1.5%)	Fail
	1-year revenue growth > 12%	(17.4%)	Fail
Margins	Gross margin > 35%	35.8%	Pass
	Net margin > 15%	(21.8%)	Fail
Balance sheet	Debt to equity < 50%	379.6%	Fail
	Current ratio > 1.3	1.62	Pass
Opportunities	Return on equity > 15%	(111.2%)	Fail
Valuation	Normalized P/E < 20	NM	NM
Dividends	Current yield > 2%	0%	Fail
	5-year dividend growth > 10%	0%	Fail

	Total score		2 out of 9

Source: S&P Capital IQ. NM = not meaningful due to negative earnings. Total score = number of passes.

Since we looked at AMD last year, the company has dropped two points, as the company has gone from a profit to a substantial loss. The stock has also performed horribly, having lost more than 60% of its value in the past year.

Right now, AMD is suffering from the worst of two different worlds. On one hand, it hasn’t

Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance

NM school bus rolls over; driver killed, kids hurt

April 8, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

Authorities in New Mexico say a Mesa Vista school bus driver has been killed after the bus rolled over on the way to school, and at least two children were hurt.

KOB-TV reports (http://bit.ly/10LmJzH ) the bus rolled over Monday morning near Vallecitos. Authorities say at least two children complained of non-life-threatening injuries. It was unclear if there were any other injuries or what caused the rollover.

The Rio Arriba Sheriff Department and the New Mexico State Police are at the scene north of Espanola.

No further information was available.

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Information from: KOB-TV, http://www.kob.com

NM man pleads guilty to killing nun on Navajo rez

April 5, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

A New Mexico man has acknowledged he beat a nun to death with a flashlight during a break-in at her home on the Navajo Indian Reservation.

Reehahlio Carroll pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Friday in federal court in Albuquerque for the 2009 killing of 64-year-old Sister Marguerite Bartz. She served at St. Berard Catholic Church in the community of Navajo in northwestern New Mexico.

A judge accepted the plea but formal sentencing still needs to be scheduled. Carroll faces 40 years in prison without parole. He could have received a mandatory life term if convicted of the original charges that included first-degree murder.

Prosecutors say Carroll broke into the nun’s trailer home and attacked her when she confronted him. He was 18 at the time.

NM warns treasure hunters: Finders are not keepers

April 4, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

A collection of gold and jewels that a Santa Fe antiquities collector says he stashed in the mountains north of Santa Fe has generated so much interest from amateur treasure hunters that some have put their lives in jeopardy or been cited for illegally digging on public lands.

But authorities are warning people about more than being careful and following the law. They also note finders may not be keepers.

“If this treasure is buried, you would need to dig for it. And you can’t dig anywhere in a national forest without a permit,” said Bruce Hill, spokesman for the Santa Fe National Forest. “Even if it is not buried and it is just placed somewhere it becomes public domain.”

Ditto for state lands, according to Department of Game and Fish spokesman Dan Williams.

Fenn was asked if he had considered land rights before hiding the chest. He said in an email that much has been written about land laws.

“I’m staying out of those discussions, except to say it may be fun to redefine some of the terms,” Fenn said in the email.

The poem that Fenn published in his memoir, “The Thrill of the Chase,” to give clues to the chest’s whereabouts advises the treasure finder to “Look quickly down, your quest to cease, But tarry scant with marvel gaze, Just take the chest and go in peace.”

But authorities currently seem to be more concerned about public safety than ownership questions as publicity about Fenn’s claims to have hidden the 40-plus pound chest filled with gold coins, gold nuggets and ancient jewelry draws people to the northern New Mexico mountains.

Last month, a woman from Texas got lost in the mountains near Los Alamos overnight after seeing reports about the treasure on national television. But she was found safe the next day.

And Williams said the state plans to file charges against a man found digging last month under a descanso along the upper Pecos River last month. A descanso is a marker where someone has died or ashes scattered. Williams says the man told officers he was digging for Fenn’s treasure.

Forest officials are urging treasure hunters to check with their office before setting out …read more

Has Philip Morris International Become the Perfect Stock?

April 4, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

Filed under: Investing

Every investor would love to stumble upon the perfect stock. But will you ever really find a stock that provides everything you could possibly want?

One thing’s for sure: You’ll never discover truly great investments unless you actively look for them. Let’s discuss the ideal qualities of a perfect stock, then decide if Philip Morris International fits the bill.

Growth. Expanding businesses show healthy revenue growth. While past growth is no guarantee that revenue will keep rising, it’s certainly a better sign than a stagnant top line.
Margins. Higher sales mean nothing if a company can’t produce profits from them. Strong margins ensure that company can turn revenue into profit.
Balance sheet. At debt-laden companies, banks and bondholders compete with shareholders for management’s attention. Companies with strong balance sheets don’t have to worry about the distraction of debt.
Money-making opportunities. Return on equity helps measure how well a company is finding opportunities to turn its resources into profitable business endeavors.
Valuation. You can’t afford to pay too much for even the best companies. By using normalized figures, you can see how a stock‘s simple earnings multiple fits into a longer-term context.
Dividends. For tangible proof of profits, a check to shareholders every three months can’t be beat. Companies with solid dividends and strong commitments to increasing payouts treat shareholders well.

With those factors in mind, let’s take a closer look at Philip Morris International.

Factor	What We Want to See	Actual	Pass or Fail?
Growth	5-year annual revenue growth > 15%	6.6%	Fail
	1-year revenue growth > 12%	0.9%	Fail
Margins	Gross margin > 35%	66.9%	Pass
	Net margin > 15%	28%	Pass
Balance sheet	Debt to equity < 50%	NM	NM
	Current ratio > 1.3	0.97	Fail
Opportunities	Return on equity > 15%	NM	NM
Valuation	Normalized P/E < 20	20.43	Fail
Dividends	Current yield > 2%	3.6%	Pass
	5-year dividend growth > 10%	13.1%	Pass

	Total score		4 out of 8

Source: S&P Capital IQ. NM = not meaningful due to negative shareholder equity. Total score = number of passes. * Four-year growth rate.

Since we looked at Philip Morris International last year, the company has given up three points. Declining shareholder equity was responsible for part of the drop, but a big slowdown in growth, and rising valuations, also contributed. The stock has lagged behind the broader market, gaining just 5% over the past year.

Investors have …read more

Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance

Has Lorillard Become the Perfect Stock?

April 3, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

Filed under: Investing

Every investor would love to stumble upon the perfect stock. But will you ever really find a stock that provides everything you could possibly want?

One thing’s for sure: You’ll never discover truly great investments unless you actively look for them. Let’s discuss the ideal qualities of a perfect stock, then decide if Lorillard fits the bill.

Growth. Expanding businesses show healthy revenue growth. While past growth is no guarantee that revenue will keep rising, it’s certainly a better sign than a stagnant top line.
Margins. Higher sales mean nothing if a company can’t produce profits from them. Strong margins ensure that the company can turn revenue into profit.
Balance sheet. At debt-laden companies, banks and bondholders compete with shareholders for management’s attention. Companies with strong balance sheets don’t have to worry about the distraction of debt.
Money-making opportunities. Return on equity helps measure how well a company is finding opportunities to turn its resources into profitable business endeavors.
Valuation. You can’t afford to pay too much for even the best companies. By using normalized figures, you can see how a stock‘s simple earnings multiple fits into a longer-term context.
Dividends. For tangible proof of profits, a check to shareholders every three months can’t be beat. Companies with solid dividends and strong commitments to increasing payouts treat shareholders well.

With those factors in mind, let’s take a closer look at Lorillard.

Factor	What We Want to See	Actual	Pass or Fail?
Growth	5-year annual revenue growth > 15%	7.2%	Fail
	1-year revenue growth > 12%	4.1%	Fail
Margins	Gross margin > 35%	51.4%	Pass
	Net margin > 15%	23.7%	Pass
Balance sheet	Debt to equity < 50%	NM	NM
	Current ratio > 1.3	1.73	Pass
Opportunities	Return on equity > 15%	NM	NM
Valuation	Normalized P/E < 20	13.58	Pass
Dividends	Current yield > 2%	5.3%	Pass
	5-year dividend growth > 10%	13.9%	Pass

	Total score		6 out of 8

Source: S&P Capital IQ. NM = not meaningful due to negative shareholder equity. Total score = number of passes.

Since we looked at Lorillard last year, the company has kept its six-point score for the third year in a row. The stock hasn’t been as fortunate, though, falling by nearly 10% over the past year.

Lorillard has faced the same overall negative trends that the entire tobacco industry has had to deal with over the decades. Between high taxes and …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance

Has Solazyme Become the Perfect Stock?

April 3, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment