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Rivera-Cashner battery working for Padres
By Scott Miller / Special to MLB.com
SAN DIEGO -- The more Andrew Cashner looks like an ace, the higher the stock soars for backup catcher Rene Rivera.
Rivera has been behind the plate for all three of Cashner's starts this season, including the Padres' season opener two Sundays ago against the Dodgers. He is not destined for the top job -- that belongs to Yasmani Grandal, especially as Grandal eases into being able to play back-to-back days following knee surgery last year.
But Rivera's place on the roster has perhaps never been more secure than it is now, given the way he is working with the Padres' budding ace. Though manager Bud Black will not formally say anything about Cashner having a personal catcher, it is difficult not to believe what the eyes see watching these two work together.
"Rene is a good catcher," Black said Saturday afternoon. "He catches everybody well. He's a good defensive catcher. That's not exclusive to Cash.
"But specifically to those two, it's been proven that there's been a great deal of success with those two statistically. That's hard to ignore."
Rivera, 30, is a six-year veteran who has bounced around since 2001, from the Mariners' organization to that of the Dodgers, Mets, Yankees and Twins before arriving in San Diego last year. He has big league time in Seattle, Minnesota and San Diego, but it would be hard to argue that he has previously clicked the way he is right now with Cashner, who calls Rivera's game-calling ability "incredible."
Among other qualities, Black and Cashner on Saturday each raved about Rivera's ability to "stick" pitches. Others refer to that as "framing." Time after time during his one-hit shutout Friday night against the Tigers, Cashner hit the outside corner for called strikes. Rivera's glove was waiting -- and still -- each time.
"He's got good hands," Black said. "There's a skill-set involved with that."
Black said Rivera's "ability to stick a fastball, slider, especially with pitches with movement … with Rene, we've seen this developing the last two years. I think he's really taken it to heart."
A year ago, the Padres pitched to a 3.00 ERA in games when Rivera was behind the plate, and since the start of the 2013 season, Cashner's ERA with Rivera as catcher is 1.43.
The Padres are making no promises, but it is increasingly difficult to imagine Rivera not being behind the plate for Cashner's starts.
"It's a long season, but I like what I've seen," Black said Saturday afternoon. "They seem to be in sync as far as pitch selection."
Most other things, too.
With shutout, Cashner gives energy, reliability
SAN DIEGO -- Most folks around Petco Park were still raving about Andrew Cashner's one-hit, 11-strikeout shutout in a 6-0 win over Detroit on Friday night, and that's certainly no surprise.
Cashner became the first pitcher in the Majors to throw a shutout this season, and going back to last September in Pittsburgh, the big right-hander has fired one-hitters in two of his past five starts.
"He made a lot of big pitches even when it was 2-0," San Diego closer Huston Street said. "He didn't have a six-run lead the whole game, which adds to the significance of it."
Opening a 10-game homestand, and knowing the Tigers were starting Justin Verlander on Saturday and Max Scherzer on Sunday, the Padres knew they needed a big game from Cashner, and he answered the bell.
Not only that, Cashner, at 235 pounds, went first-to-third on Everth Cabrera's seventh-inning single to right and then scored on Chris Denorfia's 6-2 fielder's choice, sliding home ahead of the throw.
"He wants to help the team win any way he can," Street said. "Bunting, sliding home for a big run … he's hustling. He's a baseball player.
"When he takes the mound, it gives us energy."
Padres get rare in-person look at Miggy
SAN DIEGO -- Attracting attention this weekend in San Diego is a rare Miguel Cabrera appearance. Though he has played 17 games in Petco Park (.246/.306/.308, one home run, three RBIs), it's not as if he comes around every summer.
Though San Diego fans were eager to see him, the Padres, of course, are viewing things from a different perspective.
"It's interesting, because those kind of thoughts really do go out the window when you're competing against somebody," outfielder Will Venable said. "Everything is stripped down to, 'We've got to get this guy out, we've got to catch the ball, we've got to make this pitch.'"
Having said that, Venable acknowledged that it was a completely different story when he happened to see the Tigers on television. Then, Venable said, you bet he stops what he's doing to lock in on Cabrera's plate appearances.
"I'm watching his approach, his at-bats, what it is he's doing," Venable said. "He's the best. He's fun to watch. For everybody, he's fun to watch, but especially for a baseball player who understands how hard it is to hit.
"You've got to stop and check him out."
Worth noting
• On the first night of his injury rehabilitation assignment, outfielder Cameron Maybin went 1-for-2 with an RBI double and scored a run for Double-A El Paso against top Arizona prospect Archie Bradley. Maybin, 27, landed on the disabled list last month with a ruptured left biceps tendon.
• Veteran Jeff Francoeur, recently signed by the Padres, is in El Paso, too.
"Setting a great example" for the younger players, manager Bud Black said. "He plays with energy. He still has some bat speed. And he has a great arm; he's already gotten a couple of assists."
Scott Miller is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Calderdale Council's newly led Conservative Cabinet has voted to overturn parking charges in Calderdale tonight (Monday).
The controversial parking charges at ten currently charging district car parks are set to be removed, as well as the removal of evening parking charges between 6pm and 8pm in Halifax Town Centre for on and off street parking.
The decision to overturn parking charges comes just two weeks after the Labour group were ousted after a vote of no confidence.
The motion of no confidence came following the former Cabinet's refusal to reverse parking charges, which had been backed by full council in February.
Councillor Scott Benton, Deputy Leader of the Conservative group, said: "We are progressing these amendments and charges will hopefully be removed as soon as possible."

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NBA TV presents "The Dream Team," a documentary about the 1992 USA Olympic basketball team, on Wednesday, June 13.
It's hard believe it's been 20 years since the 1992 USA Olympic basketball "Dream Team" — probably still the greatest single team of athletes ever assembled — won gold at the Barcelona Games. It's even harder to believe there was a time when the greatest basketball players in the world weren't eligible for Olympic competition, since the U.S. couldn't field pro players while other countries could. While the USA was dominant for years fielding teams with college kids, the rules changed for the '92 games and NBA players became eligible. The USA assembled 11 NBA greats (and one amateur, Duke's Christian Laettner) to play in Barcelona and forever change the world's view of basketball.
On Wednesday, June 13, at 9pm ET, NBA TV presents The Dream Team, a 90-minute documentary looking back at that historic team of basketball greats. With never-before-seen footage, interviews with all 12 members of the team and lots of inside stories revealed, The Dream Team presents the full inside story of that legendary team.
With basketball now a global game and the NBA comprised of the best players from around the world, it's also a nostalgic look back to another era, when the USA still ruled the sport and the greatest players set aside their differences (and their financial interests) to play for national pride.
Press release with more details from NBA TV below:
NBA TV Celebrates The 20th Anniversary of USA Basketball's Dream Team
Film to Feature Exclusive Interviews with All 12 Members of 1992 Historic Hall of Fame Team, Never-Before-Seen Footage, and Untold Stories
Definitive Documentary to Premiere on Wednesday, June 13 at 9 p.m. ET
NEW YORK, May 17, 2012 – NBA TV will celebrate the 20th anniversary of USA Basketball's iconic team, which captured the attention of fans around the globe, when the network premieres NBA TV's "The Dream Team" presented by Right Guard® on Wednesday, June 13, at 9 p.m. ET.
Narrated by writer/director/producer Ed Burns, the film will be the definitive documentary of the historic 1992 USA Basketball team, featuring recent interviews with all 12 members, including Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and Charles Barkley.
The 90-minute documentary will showcase never-before-seen footage and untold stories of how the most dominant team ever assembled returned USA Basketball to glory, while turning basketball into a global phenomenon.
The world had rarely seen a frenzy as the one the Dream Team created when it arrived in Barcelona, Spain, in July 1992. The Dream Team featured 11 future Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame players and three future Hall of Famers on the coaching staff, including head coach Chuck Daly.
NBA TV's "The Dream Team" presented by Right Guard® will take viewers on a behind-the-scenes journey into the selection of the team, the dynamic personalities, the legendary team-building experiences in training camp and exhibitions, and ultimately its rock-star-type unveiling in Barcelona.
NBA TV's "The Dream Team" presented by Right Guard® will include:
· Exclusive one-on-one interviews with the entire Dream Team: Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler, Patrick Ewing, Christian Laettner, Karl Malone, Chris Mullin, Scottie Pippen, David Robinson, and John Stockton, as well as assistant coaches Lenny Wilkens, Mike Krzyzewski, and P.J. Carlesimo
· The Team's only loss, as documented through rare footage from USA Basketball's film library, and the untold story behind what has become part of basketball legend
· The Story of the greatest game never seen, featuring exclusive footage from 20 years ago in Monte Carlo when Magic and Jordan went head-to-head in practice
· How The Team was chosen: the story behind the selection process for the Dream Team's roster
· Many other exclusive interviews with those connected to the team.


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A proof assistant.
Flow Caml [03-Jul-2003, version 1.03, Beta]
A prototype implementation of an information flow analyzer for the Caml language.
OCaml light [09-Nov-2007, Alpha]
OCaml light is a formal semantics for a substantial subset of the Objective Caml language. It is written in Ott, and it comprises a small-step operational semantics and a syntactic, non-algorithmic type system. A type soundness theorem has been proved and mechanized using the HOL-4 proof assistant, thereby ensuring that the proof is free from errors. To ensure that the operational semantics accurately models Objective Caml, an executable version of the semantics has been created (and proved equivalent in HOL to the original, relational version) and tested on a number of small test cases.
pa_polymap [19-Oct-2007, Beta]
This is a tiny module combined with a camlp4 extension, which allows you to define polymorphic mappings, where the type of the data depends on the key.
Saffire [31-May-2005, Alpha]
Saffire is a static analysis program that detects bugs in programs that use the OCaml/C foreign function interface. Saffire works by performing type inference across both OCaml and C to make sure that values are used consistently across the language boundary. For instance, if a OCaml passes a record to a C function, that C function should not treat the data as an integer. Saffire also tracks what C variables point into the OCaml heap and ensure they are always registered with CAMLparam/local before any allocation functions are called.
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The income gap in the U.S. is as wide as it has been in almost 100 years, according to a new study by UC Berkeley, the Paris School of Economics, and Oxford University. The study, based on Internal Revenue Service statistics, reports that although the Great Recession hit the top 1 percent hard, the wealthy recovered more quickly than other income groups. The L.A. Times reports:
The 1929 stock market crash that preceded the Great Depression, followed by World War II, reduced an earlier national income gap for decades. But it began to grow again in the 1970s, and has widened since.
Saez attributes the trend not just to technology and job outsourcing, but to the reduced power of progressive tax policies and unions, along with "changing social norms regarding pay inequality."
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Sunderland Select Board member submits resignation
ANDREW McKEEVER
Manchester Journal
SUNDERLAND -- The former chairman of the town's Select Board, who remained a member of the board following his ouster from the leadership position last December, has resigned and left the board.
Joseph Boutin, who was first elected to the select board in 2011, and was in the third year of a 3-year term, submitted a letter of resignation to the board on April 8. His resignation was formally accepted by a unanimous vote of the other four remaining members of the select board during their meeting Monday, April 15.
The board will now post a notice of the vacancy on both the town's website as well as the Front Porch Forum, an online discussion and news group website. The person who ends up occupying the seat will serve out the remainder of Boutin's term, and the seat will be up for grabs during March Town Meeting next year.
Boutin's one-sentence letter announcing his resignation from the board and all board committees he was serving on was read at the meeting by Board Chairman Mark Hyde and accepted without any comment.
The board then resumed its meeting and moved on to other business. In a telephone interview conducted April 16, Boutin elaborated on his reasons for stepping down from the board, saying that he felt his views on issues were no longer being given a fair hearing by the other members of the board.
"It became obvious they didn't want my input in any area, particularly in my area of expertise, which is building construction," he said. "They were shutting me out with anything I could offer and .... it seemed like a waste of my time to try to strive for the vision that I have."
One of the areas of controversy that marked Boutin's time on the board was the construction of a town office building for Sunderland.
Boutin was a critic of a plan to finance the construction of the new facility by including the remaining cost of the structure into the town's overall budget in 2011. That year he ran and won a seat on the select board, but has remained a skeptic on some of the approaches that have been taken with regard to the new building.
Last month, during town meeting, voters in Sunderland authorized a $351,000 bond proposal to finance the construction of the town office. The town had been salting away money in small increments for the better part of two decades, and has about $159,000 saved up towards the construction of the town office, which is reckoned to cost about $511,000.
The 20-year bond is currently being processed through the state's bond bank. Final approval is expected later this summer, but some preliminary engineering work is already underway at the site of the new office on Sunderland Hill Road near the town's municipal garage.
Last December, Boutin was ousted from his chairmanship post when he voiced his concerns about the town's apparent difficulties with regard to getting the word out about various issues confronting the municipality through letters to the editors of both The Journal and the Bennington Banner. These issues included the plans for the design of the new town hall, but also other areas such as the rebuilding of the Kelly Stand, a federal roadway that connects Sunderland with Wardsboro on the other side of the Green Mountain range that was badly damaged during Tropical Storm Irene.
The road has been closed since the August 2011 storm, but renovation work is planned for this summer.
Other board members were not pleased, however, when Boutin expressed those opinions without discussing them first with them, arguing that as the board's chairman, he needed to consider that his views would be interpreted as those of the select board as a whole.
Boutin was also removed from the post of emergency coordinator for the town at the Dec. 17 meeting where he was voted out as chairman and replaced by Mark Hyde.
On Tuesday, Boutin said he wanted to include as many people as possible in town government, but didn't think other members of the board were "interested in that."
He also disagreed with the way the board was managing the town hall project, he said.
"They were dealing with things like they were putting out a fire, instead of a broader approach," he said Tuesday.
As a self-employed master carpenter and someone who had managed large commercial projects, he felt he had some expertise to offer the town in this area, but didn't feel that knowledge was being put to good use, he said.
Hyde, the board's chairman, said in response to an e-mail seeking reaction to Boutin's resignation that "Joe was a valued member of the board and his contributions will be missed."
In other business, the board reviewed plans for the reconstruction of the Kelly Stand and also heard an engineering update on some site work underway at the location for the town hall. The board's next meeting will be held May 6, at 7 p.m. The board holds its meetings at the Sunderland Elementary School.
If you'd like to leave a comment (or a tip or a question) about this story with the editors, please email us. We also welcome letters to the editor for publication; you can do that by filling out our letters form and submitting it to the newsroom.


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Jobs & Opportunities: Feb. 24, 2014
LSAC writing competition – chance to win $5,000
The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) Diversity Committee is hosting a writing competition to promote diversity in law schools and the legal profession.
There will be three winners (1L, 2L and 3-4L) who will be eligible for cash prizes of $5,000. Submissions must be received by 5 p.m. on Thursday, May 1, 2014. To learn more, read the LSAC Writing Competition Memo.


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Hiring the best talent is one of the most mission-critical challenges all companies face. But finding that talent can be expensive, time-consuming and stressful.
That's why more and more companies are turning to social media to help find their next employee. In fact, more than 90% of recruiters are using social media to find, source and connect with talented candidates.
It makes sense: social media makes it easy to connect with a huge number of potential candidates. Over 1.4 billion people across the world use social networks, with the highest percentage of users aged between 25-34. As well as being a good place to find recruits, having a social presence makes your company more attractive to younger candidates, who today expect to be able to conduct all their business relationships online.
It's also a low-cost avenue, often costing nothing more than your time. And there are no geographic barriers – you can discover a potential candidate in Cape Town as easily as Cologne or Croydon.
You can use social to find specific candidates, to drive people to your hiring pages or to start building relationships even before positions are available.
One thing social should not be used for is harvesting as many CVs as possible. It's best used to interact with your potential candidates; watching how they behave in social channels; learning more about them than you ever could from a résumé. And it's often used as a complimentary channel to existing and traditional sourcing methods. Ultimately, it's about saving you time, energy and money interviewing the wrong people.
When used right, social is a powerful tool that could speed up the process of finding your next hire.
The best recruits tend to come via recommendation – after all, 'it's who you know'. And, today, social media has greatly expanded the pool of people it's possible to know. So, how do you use it to help you win the war for talent?
The most obvious places to start are the big three: LinkedIn, Twitter & Facebook. However, for some positions, it's worth checking out more specialist networks – eg Behance for creative people; Xing for mainland Europeans; Github for technical people. The more focused you can be, the more likely you are to find the right person. Using a social listening tool like Radian6 can make it easy to find the right networks and track relevant activity on them.
Two out of three professionals have a LinkedIn account, which is why it should be your first stop. Start by looking at the people you rate personally. Look at their connections; see who they've worked with in the past, check out their recommendations – the perfect candidate could be just one connection away. Post details about your opening in your own status, as well as on your LinkedIn company page and in the jobs sections of the LinkedIn groups you belong to. The trick is to get your network to work for you. Don't forget to check who's looked at your LinkedIn profile recently and look back – the ideal candidate might be doing his or her own research.
Of course, your network includes the readers of your blog. Use it to promote job openings and you're talking to people who already engage with your company. We did it for also ourselves on this blog post – including an infographic showing the benefits of working at salesforce.com.
It's surprisingly simple to find people already working for your competitors. By using the advance search on LinkedIn you can see who is working for companies in your sector and living in the right part of the world. Check what groups they belong to and join those groups – that could open up access to even more potential candidates (passive candidates won't be looking in the job ads and recruiter pages). It may be that you're already connected through someone else in your network, so you can simply send an invite. The same can be done with a simple search on Twitter. And because Twitter is an open forum, you can start to follow them without them having to accept an invite.
Once you've identified the people who match your perfect candidate profile, it's time to find out more about them. It's not stalking; it's just taking a look at how they present themselves in a public forum. If they're on Twitter, who they follow and what they post will reveal a huge amount. Likewise, if they have a personal blog. You can also check for any LinkedIn groups and blogs they follow and comment on. All of this information is public and will help build a clear picture of whether they're the right fit for your company, both in terms of skills and personality.
Now you've got to know more about your potential candidates, draw up a long list of people who might fit the bill and start making contact. You can start by connecting with them on LinkedIn, friending them on Facebook or following them on Twitter. If they connect in turn, you can then use InMail in LinkedIn or Direct Messages on Twitter to make direct – and private – contact. Be discrete about making contact in a public forum. If their current employers see they're chatting with you, it could raise some eyebrows.
Now that you've connected, you can essentially begin to interview before even getting to the interview stage, speeding up the process and saving you time interviewing the wrong people.
The bottom line: you can't ignore social media in today's competitive talent race. And you can be sure that your competitors aren't ignoring it either. Get out there and start listening, searching and engaging in the right social channels and you'll spend less time, money and energy finding the perfect candidates.
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HOUSTON - James Harden sank an off-balance jumper with 4.5 seconds left to lift the Houston Rockets to a 96-95 win over the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday night.
Harden scored 18 of his 29 points in the second half as the Rockets rallied from three down in the final minute to snap a four-game losing streak to their state rivals.
Tony Parker scored 23 points, including 10 in a row to put San Antonio ahead with just under 2 minutes left. The Spurs led 95-94 when Harden got the ball from Omer Asik, drove to the free throw line and hit the winning jumper with Tim Duncan in front of him and Kawhi Leonard behind him.
Duncan missed a jumper from the wing just before the buzzer sounded.
Chandler Parsons scored 20 points and Asik grabbed 14 rebounds for the Rockets. Duncan had 17 points and seven rebounds for the Spurs.
The teams could potentially meet in the first round of the playoffs, with the Spurs atop the Western Conference and Houston currently sitting at No. 7.
Their last matchup of the regular season had a postseason feel, with the lead changing hands nine times in the third quarter before Houston finished with an 11-4 spurt to lead 74-67. Harden went 6-for-6 from the free throw line and scored 12 points in the quarter, attacking the basket more than he did in the first half.
Rockets backup forward Greg Smith had the highlight of the game early in the fourth, throwing down a one-handed dunk over Tiago Splitter for an 81-74 lead. Carlos Delfino, Parsons and Jeremy Lin all missed open 3-pointers over the next three minutes and Splitter flipped in a hook shot and a reverse layup to keep the Spurs close.
Parker, in his second game back after returning from a sprained left ankle, then pushed San Antonio in front with his individual scoring spurt, including a fadeaway jumper over backup point guard Patrick Beverley.
Parker finished 7-for-13 from the field and also had seven assists.
Harden struggled early, missing his first four shots, including a would-be layup that Danny Green swooped in and blocked from behind. Duncan scored seven of San Antonio's first 15 points. Beverley hit two running jumpers to end the first quarter then sank a 3-pointer early in the second quarter to put the Rockets up 25-20.
But the Spurs continued to bottle up Harden, sometimes using the 6-foot-11 Duncan to guard him.
San Antonio surged back in front with a 23-7 run, highlighted by a pair of Leonard dunks. Harden sank a 3-pointer with 1:03 left in the half then fouled Green behind the 3-point line at the other end. Green made all three free throws for a 46-41 Spurs lead.
Harden went 2-for-9 from the field in the first half then hit his first two shots in third quarter to help Houston move in front. Lin tried to throw an alley-oop pass his way, but Parker fouled Harden and he hit the floor. He sank both free throws for a 59-56 lead.
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Discussion in 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine' started by WesleysDisciple, Mar 1, 2013.
Any ideas how Dukat, went from being a Military dictator, to being a religous fanatic?
I think it has to do with his obsession with Sisko, his need to keep up with and hopefully outdo the one man who he's fixated on as his rival. Some fans have expressed their dissatisfaction with Dukat's blaming Sisko for everything (even blaming him instead of Damar for Ziyal's death), but to me it makes very real sense in a twisted, irrational way: Sisko has everything Dukat wanted, and is stealing Dukat's life from him; therefore, Dukat must become more like Sisko. Sisko succeeded where Dukat failed; part of that was by having the support of the Prophets. Dukat therefore will now be emissary for his own group of wormhole aliens, and readdress the failing.
We could also say that briefly hosting a pah-wraith in Tears of the Prophets changed him entirely, made him a puppet of the pah-wraiths, but that cheapens his character to such an appalling extent I'd much rather explain his actions in season 7 in terms of his pre-existing personality, which I think it can be.
Because the writers decided to turn the most complex interesting villain in Star Trek history in to a 2d evil cartoon.
That too.
Yeah, a large part of it was the desire to curb the "Draco in Leather Pants" phenomenon, but I think the pah-wraith arc still makes sense in terms of how Dukat thinks, regardless.
I would also add Dukat's obsession with Bajor in general and his guilt for the occupation and his part in it, as well as his guilt for beloved Cardassia participating in it. I would argue that all of that came to a head and drove him to madness. The pah-wraith took advantage of that.
His obsession with Bajor and the Bajorans which cost him everything. Twice. The second time it sent him insane, though I'm still not a fan of when Sisko calls him pure evil and the writers go out of their way to hammer this point home.
Just today, I acted like Sisko and thought about Barack Obama is pure evil for what he's doing to Bradley Manning.
In the same way, I feel a certain visceral unwillingness to excuse his behavior in this case -- in addition to drone killings in the Muslim world. I just feel it the way Sisko felt it, regardless of whether they have good traits like being good fathers, etc.
Good point RE:Obama, but ultimately I'd take Obama over many other world leaders past and present. I certainly wouldn't call him pure evil! Same with Dukat, he was an evil man, but he made some interesting points about himself throughout the series. In his eyes, he was a saviour to Bajor and a good thing for it, fighting with his commanders on Cardassian to abolish child labour and offer the Bajorans the carrot etc. Great character, and while I wish he died in Waltz, I didn't mind his descent into madness even if the whole Kai Winn part was really boring and iffy.
Dukat was just an opportunist who decided that making use of the pah-wraiths would be a good way for him to get power.
I think that's a little simplistic. Dukat was always a very complex character, I think that just saying that he was opportunistic isn't giving him enough credit, just like Sisko saying he was evil is too simplistc. Yes, he was an opportunist, and yes, he did bad things, but by the time he turned to a being a cult leader, the man had a very broken mind. Perhaps he did believe in the pah-wraiths to some extent, if only that they were the only aliens he knew of that could emiminate the Prophets and remove their influence.
I agree that his rivalry with Sisko had a great deal to do with it, as well. He wanted to be perceived as the hero of Bajor, and when Sisko took that place, without having to do anything but show up to the party, he may have felt cheated. Ruling the pah-wraith cult, however small it might have been, was his way of trying to attain the position he felt he deserved.
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Freedom is like a well-tended lawn. The work is never done.
You would think that we could rest comfortably on our First Amendment, for instance. It's been there since 1791. It's almost in the American DNA.
Yet, the fundamental human rights recognized by the First Amendment are neither globally accepted nor secure.
Did you know that you could be charged with a crime for expressing the "wrong" opinion even in Western Europe?
And as news reports put it, a recent judicial paper on the press in Britain "urged Parliament to pass a law creating a new voluntary regulatory body for the country's newspapers."
While participation in the regulatory agency would be voluntary, Prime Minister David Cameron spoke for many when he cautioned, "For the first time we would have crossed the Rubicon of writing elements of press regulation into the law of the land."
Such a law is strictly forbidden in the United States, thanks to the First Amendment, which says in whole: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Even so, our free speech rights often are in peril. Lamentably, some of the most active battlefields in continuing struggle to retain the right of free speech are on college campuses. The political correctness movement has led over the years to restrictive, and quite obviously unconstitutional, speech codes aimed at eliminating speech that offends someone, particularly those deemed to be in protected classes.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (www.thefire.org), for instance, features a "speech code of the month" – last month, the speech code from the University of North Dakota, which is so vague that, as FIRE puts it, "is so vague that students have no way of knowing whether their speech or expression might inadvertently run afoul of the policy."
While preventing harassment, racism and sexism is an important goal, it's still constitutionally dubious to outlaw "offending" people.
This is not a mere academic concern. These cases involve real people and their right to free speech. Washington Post columnist George Will recently highlighted one case in which a student-employee at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) was actually rung up for racial harassment for quietly reading a book – one that celebrated the defeat of the Ku Klux Klan at Notre Dame University.
The book in question was said to be available in the school library.
Student Keith John Sampson's record was ultimately cleared, but not without a titanic public relations and legal battle.
We shouldn't have to fight so hard for rights enshrined in our Constitution since 1791, but there it is.
Nor is everyone in politics a fan of the First Amendment. U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., was recently quoted as saying, "We need a constitutional amendment that would allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations."
Here's to your "so-called" freedom of speech. Long may it live.


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DETROIT - Day two of the 99.5 WYCD Downtown Hoedown kicks off Saturday.
The weekend-long 99.5 WYCD Downtown Hoedown, presented by Ram Trucks, Coors Light and Coca Cola, will once again turn the expansive grounds surrounding Comerica Park into country music central from Friday, May 31 through Sunday, June 2.
"We are very excited about bringing the WYCD Downtown Hoedown back to the Comerica Park grounds for a second year. This is an iconic event and this location offers us the opportunity to enrich the overall experience while staying in Downtown Detroit," noted Debbie Kenyon, Sr. VP/Market Manager for CBS RADIO Detroit. "In addition to another fantastic lineup at this years' Downtown Hoedown, we can offer the best of everything on the user-friendly grounds surrounding Comerica Park. There is great line of sight to see the performers, easy access to concessions, plentiful restroom facilities and people feel very safe in this area. Plus, there are opportunities to take a break in the shade of the Comerica Park Concourse and enjoy some of the great local talent on an additional stage inside the stadium."
The official 2013 99.5 WYCD Downtown Hoedown main stage artist lineups:
Friday, May 31 (5 – 11 p.m.):
Maggie Rose
Katie Arminger
Parma Lee
Drake White
Uncle Kracker
Saturday, June 1 (2 - 11 p.m.):
Joel Crouse
Emerson Drive
Blackberry Smoke
Craig Morgan
Jake Owen
Sunday, June 2 (2 – 11 p.m.):
Casey James
Aaron Lewis
Phil Vassar
Joe Nichols
Keeping with tradition, local bands from the Motor City are invited to submit their band's information at WYCD.comfor a chance to be 'picked to play' at this year's 31st annual 99.5 WYCD Downtown Hoedown.
The WYCD Downtown Hoedown is again offering a limited number of 3-day weekend passes, for only $30, which go on sale Friday, March 8 at 10 a.m. and while supplies last.
Weekend passes are available at all Ticketmaster locations, ticketmaster.com, or service fee free at the Joe Louis Arena and Fox Theatre box offices and Hockeytown Authentics in Troy. Advance individual day tickets will go on sale Friday, March 15 at 10 a.m.
A portion of the ticket proceeds will benefit Defeat The Label charity that promotes a bully free society without social labels and stereotypes.
Debuting in 1983, the annual event has played host to such legendary country artists as Hank Williams, Jr., Brenda Lee, Tanya Tucker, Mel Tillis and Willie Nelson, revered megastars Garth Brooks, Reba McEntire and Big & Rich, and today's most popular breakout country and crossover bands like Rascal Flatts, Lonestar and Lady Antebellum.
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With over 600 million active users, Facebook is
an industry juggernaut. It recently snatched
the title of most-used website from veteran search giant
Google Inc. (GOOG), who is faced
with antitrust and privacy accusations.
Not surprisingly, Google and Facebook have been
increasingly butting heads as both companies try to encroach
on each other's online territories. But even amid that backdrop,
Facebook's latest move may seem particularly shocking and audacious to some --
it secretly hired a public relations firm to trash Google, spreading
questionable attack stories about its rival.
I. Google -- a Social Network?
The story began when Google announced a tool
called Social
Circle, which essentially transformed the company's popular Gmail email
service into a social network. Previously, Gmail users could see
information about their friends only. With Social Circle, friends of
friends also became visible, and new types of information were presented.
Among that information was content from Facebook.
Much like Google did with its Google News syndication service, it merely
mastered scraping/collecting this information -- it was not hosting the first
hand posts.
Ultimately, Google's ability to grab Facebook
users' data so easily, is largely thanks to Facebook's own permissive design,
which exposes a great deal of information without careful configuration of your
account settings. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, recently gave the now
infamous opinion that users'
just don't care about privacy.
But Facebook did care
that Google was taking its info and using it to create a new social network of
sorts. A Facebook spokesperson is quoted by Business
Insider as saying, "We are concerned that Google may be
improperly using data they have scraped about Facebook users."
(Google responded that it was unaware of this
concern and was looking into it.)
II. Secret Attack
Now if that were the end of the story, Facebook
would be seemingly in the clear. But those remarks came only after the
company executed a very different kind of strategy to attack its foe.
Facebook hired Burson-Marsteller, a veteran
58-year-old PR firm. The company's CEO, Mark Penn, had worked as a
political consultant for former U.S. President Bill Clinton and was the chief
strategist for Hillary Clinton's failed 2008 presidency bid. The firm
itself was among the best known firms in Silicon Valley.
But with their reputation on the line they
amazingly agreed to participate in an audacious scheme to try to stir up the
online news community, spreading questionable stories accusing Google of
privacy violations.
Completely forgetting to mention Facebook's
concerns about its proprietary information being scraped or the fact that it
was working for Facebook, Burson-Marsteller employees reached out to their
journalist contacts and tried to sell them on a story that Social Circle was
violating users' privacy.
They wrote:
[Social Circle is] designed to scrape private data and build
deeply personal dossiers on millions of users—in a direct and flagrant
violation of [Google's] agreement with the FTC. The American people must be
made aware of the now immediate intrusions into their deeply personal lives
Google is cataloging and broadcasting every minute of every day—without their
Now bear in mind, all Google was doing really was
exposing secondary users' information -- similar to what Facebook does on a
daily basis. And the service was an opt-in, with only customers choosing to
participate having their info shared. In other words, Facebook's agents
glossed over the real story -- that Facebook was unhappy with Google for
scraping its data -- and instead manufactured a largely contrived story about
"privacy" violations.
That scheme seems particularly ironic, given
Facebook's own glaring
privacy issues of past and present.
III. Plan Blows up in Facebook's Face
Like most ill advised schemes, the plot by
Zuckerberg and Company (or more likely, Facebook PR boss Elliot Schrage)
did not play out well.
Among those they contacted was Chris Soghoian, a Ph.D candidate
at the University of Indiana and famous tech blogger. No stranger to
controversy Mr. Soghoian was intrigued by the supposed story, so he dug into
But as he investigated the story, he smelled a
rat. As he said, Burson-Marsteller was "making a mountain out of
molehill". So what was their real agenda?
He was determined to find out. He began
probing the firm about who had employed them to share this information.
Burson-Marsteller refused to say. So Mr. Soghoian published the entire dialogue between
him and the PR firm online.
At that point Burson-Marsteller perhaps should
have seen the writing on the wall and decide to cool off the current attacks
and plot a new campaign. Instead, though, they chose to forge ahead,
going for bigger fish.
The campaign really imploded when former
CNBC tech reporter Jim Goldman, and John Mercurio, a former political reporter,
pitched the story to USA Today.
The publication investigated the claims and, like
Mr. Soghoian, found them to be mostly untrue. At that point they became
suspicious. Why was this PR firm pushing so hard?
They tried to get information from the firm,
itself, but their contacts clammed up. Writes the publication,
"After Goldman's pitch proved largely untrue, he subsequently declined USA
Today's requests for comments."
USA Today published a story
revealing that a top-level PR firm was attacking Google in an apparent smear
campaign. The story was now drawing some real attention. But no one
knew who was truly behind the campaign. Fingers initially pointed at
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) or Apple, Inc. (AAPL) -- rivals of Google's in the smart phone,
search, advertising, and operating businesses.
But eventually several publications discovered
that it was Facebook who paid off Burson-Marsteller. That development was first
reported by Dan Lyons of The Daily Beast.
The full story of Facebook's campaign has
now been exposed and the tables have turned. For some -- particularly
those who watched the unflattering portrayal of the site's leadership in the
movie The Social Network -- these developments may
not surprise. But for the vast majority of the public, this comes as
quite a shock and represents one of the internet's golden boys losing a bit
more of its luster.
And all of this just goes to show -- secrets
seldom stay secret in the internet era --
particularly juicy corporate ones. Perhaps Facebook has learned this
lesson, which -- of all sites -- it should have known already.


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Dick Allen on 1st, Eddie Collins Moved to 2nd in whitesox.com's All-Time 9 Fan Poll
For those of you who read my blog yesterday, I made my selections for whitesox.com's All-Time 9. It's a poll created for all of us to name our personal Sox starting lineup based on single-season hitting stats.
To help us in the process the Sox site offers a list of candidates for each position. As I mentioned yesterday, I was confused about the omission at first base of Dick Allen's 1972 season and the fact that Hall of Fame second baseman Eddie Collins was listed as a first baseman. Well, I woke up this morning to find that the mystery has been solved. Allen is now on the ballot and Collins is in his rightful place at second.
With this monumental issue solved, we now can enjoy the day without a cloud of confusion hanging over our heads :-).


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The report released by Arkansas State Police says Sidney Randall was hit more than once in head and that her DNA was found under the fingernails of her now-dead stepfather — John Cornell.
State Police Sgt. Scott Pillow told The Jonesboro Sun all evidence points to Cornell as the killer.
Randall was last seen alive March 9. Her mother awoke to find Randall and Cornell missing from their home. Cornell arrived shortly afterward and told his wife he would file a police report.
Cornell was found dead March 11 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Randall's body was found in the river May 18.


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copyright the Chronicle January 29, 2014
by Joseph Gresser
NEWPORT — A Barton woman pled guilty to first degree arson Tuesday in the Orleans Criminal Division of Superior Court.
Rebecca R. Ray, 21, apparently settled the score with an informant who helped police arrest her boyfriend for heroin trafficking — by burning down the informant's house.
Judge Howard VanBenthuysen deferred sentencing in the case for three years.
Ms. Ray is the girlfriend of Matthew R. Prue, 34, of Barton who, with his brother Louis A. Prue II, 40, of Newport was arrested on July 10 for selling heroin, said Morrisville Detective Jason Luneau. The brothers were charged with selling 26 grams of heroin in a controlled buy carried out at the Subway in Orleans, he said.


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Read the full story here Web Link posted Monday, January 7, 2013, 1:07 PM
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Arrest in decades-old murder case
Original post made on Jan 7, 2013
Read the full story here Web Link posted Monday, January 7, 2013, 1:07 PM
a resident of Sylvan Park
on Jan 7, 2013 at 2:00 pm
Wow, I bet this dude was caught by surprise! 28 years ago, great police work I hope the charges stand and he gets life. RIP Saba.
a resident of Rex Manor
on Jan 7, 2013 at 3:57 pm
Well done, MVPD and everyone else that made this happen! It is very important for society that murderers and other criminals are held accountable for their deeds.
a resident of Sylvan Park
on Jan 7, 2013 at 4:08 pm
I agree Martin, this guy has been living with blood on his hands for 28 years. Who knows what the story is but no way should this women have been treated this waym I hope the family can now find closure.
a resident of Monta Loma
on Jan 7, 2013 at 7:17 pm
AWESOME detective work by MVPD and SC County law enforcement!
a resident of Monta Loma
on Jan 8, 2013 at 4:47 pm
The state will probably spend 500k on his trial and everything else and he will probably go free in 5 yrs.
a resident of Cuernavaca
on Jan 8, 2013 at 6:07 pm
Another paper reported that the fingernail DNA evidence was submitted in 2010. I would assume that the DNA scan in the system should be pretty fast with modern technology? Why did 2+ more years go by? Did they identify the guy right away, and then spend time building a case?
a resident of Shoreline West
on Jan 8, 2013 at 8:36 pm
I think you've been watching too much CSI. The technology is not as fast as on TV, and the labs are understaffed and have long backlogs. Typical time to process DNA is several months, so I can imagine that a low-priority cold case might have to wait a couple of years.
a resident of Rex Manor
on Jan 8, 2013 at 11:13 pm
Before you get too deeply engrossed in your retribution fantasies, here are some items to consider.
He has been charged, and is being held in custody.
He has not been tried for this in a court of law.
He has not been found guilty of the crime for which he has been charged.
a resident of Monta Loma
on Jan 9, 2013 at 2:33 pm
@ backoff!
Here is the fact "a DNA profile from Girmai's fingernails, the release said. That profile was matched with Garcia, a convict who had not previously been linked to Girmai."
What more possible evidence do you need?
If he is not convicted then our justice system is totally Flooped up.
a resident of Monta Loma
on Jan 10, 2013 at 11:39 am
@Fact: DNA is not perfect. Recent evidence shows cross contamination is a real problem.
On top of that the tests have become too sensitive. They can detect DNA in places you'd never expect to see it. The problem is people's DNA is everywhere. Some DNA experts has said this is causing people to be falsely accused.
So the presence of DNA by itself does not, and should, convict someone of murder.
a resident of Monta Loma
on Jan 10, 2013 at 2:56 pm
If you read it says "fingernails", plural, meaning it was not just in one finger, but many. So how does one have that much dna somewhere where it shouldn't be. Assuming they tested all fingernails.
a resident of another community
on Aug 16, 2013 at 2:39 pm
Wow! He was a close family friend! Unbelievable! Never thought that he would have such thing in mind to do something like this.
a resident of Stierlin Estates
on Sep 26, 2017 at 11:01 am
Due to repeated violations of our Terms of Use, comments from this poster are automatically removed. Why?


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Discussion in 'Miscellaneous' started by thestrangequark, Sep 25, 2013.
Bowler hat for the win.
Written like that, it sounds as if you are wearing nothing but the hat, which begs the question: where (on your body) are you wearing it?
Jeans, teal tunic with black floral pattern & brown breading, plus my brown Merrells with the buckle.
The head, of course. Anywhere else would be obscene!
^Indeed, but it wouldn't be if it fell off.
The hat, I mean, if the hat fell off
Jeans, blue tie-dyed top, black sweater, black tie shoes w/ 2 1/2"heels, silver earrings. Until I few minutes ago, I was also wearing a newsboy cap and carrying my black Coach bag.
Something different this day: longsleeved red top with a white T-shirt underneath (both 1 size smaller than my last T-shirt), and a smaller pair of black joggers. On top of all that, the grey knitted jumper.
I'm normally used to cold weather, but I seem to be more sensitive to it this year.
^Down a size? Congrats!
Here are the past couple of days, since I've been too busy to post lately.
Today, this fabulous turquoise windbreaker over a black and grey autumn ensemble. Yeah, my tights are tartan, bitches!
And yesterday, a blue sweater ($14 at Nordstrom Rack!) over a black pencil skirt, and a little polkadot hair bow:
This morning I went for a stroll in the park with a short-sleeved T-shirt. Not a run. Or a jog. Not even a power walk. A stroll. And I sweated. On the 8th of November.
The weather is making my autumn clothes useless. Damn.
^And autumn clothes are the best clothes too! I feel for you, man.
I agree. Not so cold you have to wrap yourself up in layers, and not so hot you'll hate anything warmer than a T-shirt. And I really love scarves.
On the other hand, I do like winter weather (which around here means lots and lots of rain and occasionally snow). It makes my collection of hats even more awesome than usual. I haven't used a umbrella in years, and I feel a better man for that.
Two-toned blue shirt from Coldwater Creek. Hubby says it looks like a Trek uniform. That must be why I like it so much.
Mine got himself a green t-shirt with a black yoke, it's like a sciences uniform from a universe where the colors are slightly off.
Today I'm wearing my aqua peasant blouse and dark gray pants, light tan socks (I no longer care about socks matching) and the usual gray clogs. Would far rather be in yoga pants, but I showed up to work, and so I have to be presentable. I give it a week or three before I have to wear the maternity pants.
I love this combination. My colors!
Speaking of which, my new iPhone 5s is now wearing a gray and (mostly) white Otterbox case. That's my fashion update of the day.
I have on four layers of clothing tonight. Is cold.
Jeans and a teal v-neck. It's not cold at all here.
Jammies and a bathrobe (Trek blue -the red and gold ones are in the washer) and a pair of the socks mum knits
Very nice on a cold and damp night.
Black Shorts and a Doctor Who t-shirt
Short sleeve lavender nightgown with cheery butterflies all over it and pink plaid undies.
A big, soft blue and white scroll pattern bathrobe. I love that it's finally cold enough to wear my big, comfy robe.
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JEFF is an explanation facility framework written in Java. Explanation facilities date from the era of expert systems (ES), where they were used in order to provide an explanation about the inference process. The explanation they provided was supposed to clarify how the ES reached its conclusions or why it asked some question during fact acquisition. Nowadays, traditional ES development environments ("shells") have been replaced by rule engines (RE) and business rule management systems (BRMS), which seem to lack explanation facility functionality. JEFF was created in order to remedy this.
The PostgreSQL extension for CLIPS Expert System provides access to a PostgreSQL database from the CLIPS environment by exposing a number of CLIPS functions. CLIPS users who are familiar with SQL should not have much difficulty in learning how to use the additional functions to interact with the database from the CLIPS environment.
An Init System for Linux with a unified configuration file
The grand-daddy of all Empire games.


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Photo gallery: Families head to the coast and country parks to enjoy the sunshine
PUBLISHED: 15:40 16 March 2014 | UPDATED: 18:12 16 March 2014
A sunny Sunday has topped off a bumper couple of weeks for East Anglia's tourist destinations, as families head out to enjoy the spring sunshine.
Many visitor attractions around the region were reporting higher than average visitor numbers for this weekend, and for last weekend too.
The shops, junior farm and other attractions at Wroxham Barns proved a popular draw, with director Ian Russell saying local people were getting out and about, while visitors were also coming to the area for weekend breaks.
He said: "Over the last fortnight we have done double the amount of business we did over the same period last year.
"It certainly augers well for Easter.
"The weather is a lot to do with it but I think people are genuinely wanted to get out and enjoy themselves. They are being careful with their money, but they are able to do it."
Sheringham park saw hundreds of families arrive to enjoy a walk in the grounds stretching out across parkland, woodlands and cliff top.
Volunteer Pat Rudrum said the car park was full. She said: "We are very busy because it is warmer than usual – last year's weather was awful at this time.
"A lot of people come here look at the flowers and walk their dogs."
Nick Dickson, manager at Brandon Country Park, said visitor numbers had increased dramatically after a slow start as people ventured out to make the most of the park's setting in Thetford Forest.
"We were scratching our heads when we first opened at half 10 because it was quiet, but clearly people have stuck their head out the window and seen that it's a lovely day.
"Now it's absolutely heaving, our car park is full and it's buzzing. Spring is in the air," he said.
Debbie Rizborough, of Norfolk Broads Direct and Broads Tours, said it had been a busy Sunday in Wroxham. She added that it boded well for the start of the holiday season.
"We have had a really good day. It is still very early in the season, but with the warmer weather coming earlier it gets people in the mood to go out and about. It is nice to see a lot of families having ice creams and day boat hire has been nice and steady.


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"The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business."
"The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness and the right to worship God according to the dictates of one's conscience."
"Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference. They would like to jump down into their stomachs and digest the food and shovel the shit out."
"The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible"
"I think perhaps it's a relationship that's not marked by a great need to interfere with each other all the time,"
"Only-child parents try to run interference on virtually every level in every facet of a child's existence, and that's really not fair because it really leaves a child open for all sorts of disappointments -- major disappointment. If you don't get a child involved early on with as many peer situations as possible, you're in deep trouble."


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The page protectors that are compatible with this album are:
We R Memory Keepers 12 x 12 (10 pack)
We R Memory Keepers 12 x 12 (25 pack)
We R Memory Keepers Six 4 x 6 (10 pack)
We R Memory Keepers Six 4 x 6 (25 pack)
The quality of this album is poor. The stitches are very long on the outside and I anticipate that they will break or come unstitched. The inside binding paper is starting to come unglued and the faux leather is poor in quality. The only good thing about this album is the color. It is bright and cheery - perfect for a Christmas album. So it will do until I can find a better one.
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5 Things You Missed On Instagram Last Night: Kevin Hart Gets Grown And Sexy
You can only scroll through Instagram with one eye open like CBS for so long. Eventually you've gotta stop thumbing. Here's what you missed while you were catching Zzzs last night
Kevin Hart putting in work
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Get in the spirit: Lots of community events are planned this weekend for the holiday season. A few selections:
• Arlington: Hometown Holiday is Saturday in downtown Arlington. You'll find music, food, horse-drawn wagon rides, a gingerbread house competition, photos with Santa and a lot more. Click here for more details.
•Holiday on the Bay, a Port of Everett event, includes family activities today at the Waterfront Center,1205 Craftsman Way. Kids can decorate gingerbread cookies from 2 to 4 p.m. while "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" plays onscreen. It's free; register at www.portofeverett.com. The Christmas tree lighting takes place on the plaza outside from 4 to 5 p.m., with cocoa and hot cider and music by Mariner High School choir. Santa arrives by boat at the 12th Street Dock. The lighted boat parade will line up and take off for Mukilteo at 4:30 p.m. and return for viewing from 7 to 8 p.m. at the 12th Street dock.
• Marysville: The city celebrates with Merrysville for the Holidays and an Electric Lights Parade at 6:30 p.m. There will be food, a bonfire and an outdoor concert at 7 p.m. The parade begins at the Marysville Municipal Court and continues to join the other festivities at Comeford Park. More info here.
• Mill Creek: Santa is coming to town on Saturday. There will be a parade on Main Street at 3:30 p.m. and a community tree lighting 4:30 p.m. at City Hall. There will also be real reindeer, horse-drawn carriage rides, Dickens carolers, face painting, live music and cookie decorating. More info here.
Santa and pony: All Breed Equine Rez-Q of Marysville invites the public to meet the animals at the rescue organization's farm. Families can have photos taken with one of the ponies and Santa Claus. Pictures are printed on site and cost $15 for a 5×7 and two wallet-size photos. Or for $5, a digital copy can be emailed. Proceeds benefit the nonprofit horse rescue group. The open house and photo session is set for 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at 2415 116th St. NE. Candy canes and hot cocoa will be served. More info here.
See the Stealth: The lacrosse team's second training camp of the season is this weekend. Fans can watch both veterans and prospects practice at 9:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. on Saturday at at Soccer First Indoor Sports in Arlington. Camp continues at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday at Comcast Arena. Fans can attend practices for free on both days.
See the "Nutcracker": There are several performances, including a narrated version great for younger kids, this weekend at different locations. Check out our story to find one that works for you.
Read with a dog: Read aloud to a friendly canine listener at the Snohomish Library at 11 a.m. Saturday. The community-based literacy program Reading with Rover helps kids strengthen reading skills and improve reading confidence. It's free, but children must have a caregiver with them.
See two great bands: Daydream Vacation joins Everett band I Will Keep Your Ghost for what our music blogger calls a must-see show Saturday night at the Anchor in Everett. Read more about it and sample some music clips on our What Radio? blog.
See the lights: The Lights of Christmas at Warm Beach Camp in Stanwood are open on Saturday and Sunday from 5 to 10 p.m. In addition to the twinkling lights you'll find treats, live music, storytelling and theater performances, Nativity scene, petting farm, pony and train rides. You can also meet Santa and Bruce the Talking Spruce. Find more details here.
A Christmas Carol: Share in a treasured tradition with the Historic Everett Theatre's performance of A Christmas Carol. In this holiday favorite, the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future give the miserable Ebenezer Scrooge a lesson in the true spirit of Christmas. The show runs Friday through Sunday. Read more in our roundup of theater events here.
Shop local: The Mukilteo Lighthouse gift shop will be open from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday and again on Dec. 8 and Dec. 15 for holiday shopping. The gift shop carries lighthouse clothing, ornaments, license plate holders, mugs, cards and more. Gift wrapping is available. Proceeds support maintenance of the lighthouse and grounds.
Visit Leavenworth: The little Bavarian-styled village really knows how to do Christmas. The tree lighting is on Saturday, along with a parade, music, food, wine, live theater and tons more. Find more details here.
Dine in style: Take a look at our recent dining reviews to find something delicious.
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Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, December 13, 2012, 8:18 AM
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Council compromises on housing fees
Original post made on Dec 13, 2012
Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, December 13, 2012, 8:18 AM
Comments (12)
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Dec 13, 2012 at 9:14 am
Thanks for great coverage again Daniel! This is exactly why I've loved this Council so much! The art of public debate and compromise on a significant public issue. In real time, before your eyes, as a governing body takes the recommendation from staff and slowly fashions it into a compromise. The limits are pushed - how you tell, 4-3 decision, amendment, switching sides, those who are for BMR in fact voting against 'this measure'. My hat is off to Macias and Means, who have different spheres of interest, but have both improved the process of "the public's business" in Mountain View.
S.N. is one on the three new Trustees of the MVWSD (elementary schools) and is still in favor of a small general parcel tax to support BMR. Several good school teacher families have taken advantage of this program and so have been able to stay in our community and continue teaching our children.
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Dec 13, 2012 at 9:46 am
"The need for affordable hostage has increased dramatically in the last 10 years, said city planner Linda Lauzze."
I really doubt she used the word hostage
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Dec 13, 2012 at 9:48 am
"I suffer form no delusions of grandeur but I wish I had some patronage to get a vote here or two," he said, referring to scenes from the movie "Lincoln."
Form no delusions? IS there an editor in the house?
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Dec 13, 2012 at 12:28 pm
It's pretty bad when the newspaper has so many typos! Here's one short paragraph:
"The need for affordable **hostage** has increased dramatically in the last 10 years, said city planner Linda Lauzze. In **2011,** only 33 percent of the city's households earned less than 80 percent of the **regions'** median income. A decade later, 84 percent make less than 80 percent of the area's median income, she said."
Should be "housing," "2001," and "region's," I think.
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Dec 13, 2012 at 1:36 pm
Sorry folks. The wrong version of the story got in. It's been updated.
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Dec 13, 2012 at 2:06 pm
@Editor, Now just get rid of the silly comments and this would be an excellent article.
"I suffer from no delusions of grandeur but I wish I had some patronage to get a vote here or two," he (Mayor Kasperzak) said, referring to scenes from the movie "Lincoln."
"Minimum-wage workers would need to work 164 hours per week to afford to rent a two-bedroom apartment" in Mountain View, said resident Bruce England.
Bryant said. To say we're afraid people won't make more offices here -- that makes absolutely no sense to me.
Joan McDonald of Advocates for Affordable Housing said the cost of the fees would not be passed onto renters because the market drives rents, not development costs
"I want units -- the money is too difficult to handle," said council member Siegel,
a resident of Sylvan Park
on Dec 13, 2012 at 2:54 pm
How insightful of Ms. Mcdonald to acknowledge that the market drives rents. Next epiphany might be realizing the futility in trying to prevent that.
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Dec 13, 2012 at 5:36 pm
Classic liberal thinking.
Unlike the Federal government, companies cannot just print money; they must pass their costs onto the consumer. Raising taxes increases the cost of goods and services in Mountain View provided by those companies being taxed.
a resident of another community
on Dec 14, 2012 at 10:46 pm
@Editor: Thanks for this article! I attended the session and I think it's a good description. On the other issue that was debated and decided on that evening (McKelvey Park), will we get an article as well? I saw one in the Mercury News, but have not seen anything by the Mountain View Voice yet. Thanks!
a resident of Monta Loma
on Dec 16, 2012 at 10:31 pm
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The statistics Linda Lauzze gave are unbelievable, so I checked them. They're wrong. Here's how I checked:
1. I went to the US Census Bureau's American Fact Finder (Web Link)
2. I selected topic: People - Income & Earnings - Income/Earnings (Household)
3. I selected Geographies - Place Within State - California - Mountain View city, Claifornia. Also select your basis of comparison. Linda Lauzze was vague (what is "area"?) so I guessed "Metro Statistical Area - San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont CA Metro Area" and "San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara CA Metro Area".
4. I selected B19001 - household income in the past 12 months (in 2010 inflation-adjusted dollars)" from the "2010 ACS 1-year estimates" dataset.
5. I hit view.
This showed me a table of incomes. I plugged it into Google Spreadsheets and added a column with a cumulative count to find which bracket the 50%ile and 84%ile incomes were in. In 2010, Mountain View's 84%ile income was in the "$150,000 to $199,999" bracket. The San Francisco metro area's 50%ile household was in the "$60,000 to $74,999". The San Jose metro area's 50%ile household was in the "$75,000 to $99,999" bracket. (Okay, there are error bars on this, so it might be off by a bracket or so. Doesn't change the final answer.)
So could it possibly be true that in 2011 (a decade after 2001), 84 percent [of Mountain View households] make less than 80 percent of the area's median income? No. The 84%ile Mountain View household makes somewhere between $150,000 and $199,999, not somewhere between $48,000 and $79,999. It's not even close. I refuse to believe that so much changed between 2010 and 2011. Is there some reason to believe the American Community Survey has a systematic underreporting of low incomes in Mountain View but not in the broader area? Or is it that I'm using the ACS data incorrectly? (Maybe "Income & Earnings (Household)" is counting the total household income of each person within a household, essentially weighing large households more than her statement - but that would probably throw the conclusion off in the other direction if anything. Or is she using some underhanded definition of "area"? (I tried using posh Los Altos Hills as a basis for comparison. Nope, she's STILL wrong.) No, this just can't be right.
I'm hoping that the Mountain View Voice has completely misquoted her so completely as to change the entire meaning of her statement. That would be less disturbing than the City Planner being so grossly incompetent as to make decisions based on complete nonsense. Even if it were "just" a misquote, it's disturbing that apparently no one's noticed. Didn't that smell wrong? Mountain View is not the slum of the Bay Area. There are low income households here, and it's great that we're offering subsidized housing for them, but they're not most of the city; the dramatic increase she's talking about simply didn't happen. It's important to understand this stuff to know how much subsidized housing to offer and how large the subsidies should be.
a resident of Monta Loma
on Dec 17, 2012 at 12:36 pm
Aha! There's a video of the actual council meeting online. Linda Lauzze was misquoted quite badly.
The bottom bullet on her slide read "In 2001, 33% of worker households in commercial jobs earned less than 80% AMI - by 2012 the percentage had increased to 84%."
A woman [from context, either Linda Lauzze or Regina Adams] said "a comparison was done on low-income households working in the commercial sector, using data from the 2001 and 2011 nexus studies. This data showed that in 2001, 33% of these worker households earned less than 80% median income, and by 2011, this percentage had increased to 84% of the worker households."
The Voice turned this into "The need for affordable housing has increased dramatically in the last 10 years, said city planner Linda Lauzze. In 2001, only 33 percent of the city's households earned less than 80 percent of the region's median income. A decade later, 84 percent make less than 80 percent of the area's median income, she said."
By dropping the important qualifiers "low-income" and "commercial sector" [which I believe means something like "retail"], the Mountain View Voice turned her words into a dramatic statement which is completely wrong. They also may have mixed her up with someone else. Two people were presenting: Administrative and Neighborhood Services Manager Linda Lauzze and "senior planner" Regina Adams.
Always interesting to see how accurately news is being reported. And a relief to see that our city is making decisions based on real data rather than dystopian fantasies.
a resident of The Crossings
on May 31, 2017 at 3:27 am
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Director Chris Weitz has confirmed to HitFix.com that Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Bon Iver will be contributing all-new tracks to the film "Twilight Saga: New Moon."Read the rest here.
"I selfishly want to put songs in by artists I love. And some the cast and crew also happen to love," says Weitz. "I think [Bon Iver] is fantastic. He says he wrote it for the film, but who ever knows if it might just be something laying around in his cupboard."
Weitz mentioned that he will be listening to Yorke's new track tomorrow (July 24) and "unless it's sounds of him belching, I think I'll put it in."
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Chris Weitz Confirms Radiohead Musicians to Contribute to NM Soundtrack
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Across the Pond #14: Report from Europe
IMC Rating Gets a Possible Reprieve
I wrote about the loss of the IMC rating last month, and the issue is not going anywhere for a while. However, there is a glimmer of hope on the horizon for U.K. IMC-rating holders. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has indicated that it could be in favor of preserving the IMC. Opinion is divided across Europe on the safety of the license, with many states believing that in order to fly in IMC conditions, pilots should have a full instrument rating (IR).
Speaking at a briefing in London at the end of last month, Eric Sivel, deputy head of flight standards at EASA, said that the U.K. CAA had fought hard to keep the IMC rating during negotiations with EASA's governing committee, which is made up of representatives from all 27 states of the European Union.
From February, EASA is due to cover Flight Crew Licensing, which had previously been under the jurisdiction of individual national authorities. There will then be a four-year limit to change to new pan-European licensing rules, which will come into effect in March 2012.
U.K. accident statistics support the notion that the IMC rating saves lives, rather than persuading its holders to fly in dangerous conditions. Many British pilots feel that the present European IR for private pilots is onerous, requiring some 300 hours of ground school and aimed at those wishing to pursue careers as commercial pilots. At GBP12,000 (approx $24,000), it is also much more expensive than the equivalent U.S. IR, which comes in at around GBP5,000 (approx $10,000). The current IMC is priced at around GBP2,250 (approx $5,500).
Suggestions to resolve the issue include a simpler Euro IR for PPLs, or possibly a new European IMC rating. Eric Sivel is urging private pilots to get involved in the discussions.
Britain's AOPA Invokes Human Rights Law to Save BCPL
AOPA U.K. is calling on human-rights legislation to save the restricted Basic Commercial Pilots License (BCPL), the ticket that allows British flying instructors to earn money for their skill. The BCPL is under threat because of the new EASA legislation outlined above. The license is due to disappear, along with all other national licenses, and be amalgamated into new pan-European ratings. However, AOPA argues that because the 400 to 500 instructors flying on the license in the U.K. will automatically lose their jobs, the new regime will contravene European human-rights laws, which state that every citizen has the right to work and that employment cannot arbitrarily be taken away. Writing in British AOPA's GA Magazine, CEO Martin Robinson said, "The Treaty of Rome, the Treaty of Amsterdam, every European major treaty enshrines this principle. You are protected by law from being forced out of work, and if EASA persists with this course, it will be acting contrary to European law." Situations like this provide just one of the many reasons why it's worth joining AOPA, to give a united voice to GA pilots throughout Euroland.
Clean Sky Launch for Europe as AgustaWestland Pledges Greener Helis
Brussels launched its "Clean Sky Program" on Feb. 5. The new research program, based on applying joint technology-initiatives within the European Union, aims to create sustainable air travel by encouraging the aeronautical industry to develop and produce cleaner, greener and quieter aircraft. One of the founding members of the working group, Italy's AgustaWestland, has announced that it has committed to investing in technologies and processes that reduce the impact on the environment in all phases of the life-cycle of rotorcraft, from manufacturing, through operation, and up to disposal. There are no further details yet, but watch this space.
New Euro ATC System Development Starts in Earnest
In news that is going to reshape air traffic control in Europe forever, NATS, the U.K.'s air traffic services provider, has awarded a contract worth GBP47 million (approx. $94 million) to Spanish IT business Indra to build the next generation of flight data-processing equipment. In what is a major step towards creating Europe's new air traffic control system, NATS and Indra engineers will work together on this complex and technically demanding project. Other European countries are also analyzing the new system, called iTEC-eFDP (interoperability Through European Collaboration -- european Flight Data Processing). The project is designed to operate within the overall iTEC-eFDP framework being developed jointly by NATS and Indra with the Spanish air navigation service provider, AENA, and its German counterpart, DFS.
The system can also slot into the SESAR project, which is aimed at harmonizing air traffic management across Europe by 2020. The European Commission and Eurocontrol, the co-coordinating body for air traffic in Europe, drive SESAR. NATS' Supply Chain Director Chris Odam said, "We have a strong business collaboration with Indra that is highly valued by both organisations. It is this breadth of activity and the already strong personal relationships between key players in our organisations that will make our working together a success."
NATS manages some of the most complex and busiest airspace in the world and handled almost 2.5 million flights last year. It provides air traffic services at 15 airports in the U.K., including Heathrow and Gatwick. Indra is one of Spain's leading IT companies with 22,000 employees and customers in more than 80 countries across Europe and Latin America.
Mustang Sallies into U.K.
Cessna's new Citation 510 -- a.k.a., Mustang -- moseyed into the U.K. in style at the end of January. London Executive Aviation, Britain's largest private jet operator, took delivery of the first of its order of 10 Mustangs, which it will offer for charter in the U.K. The new aircraft will enter in mid-February, meaning that LEA will become Europe's first Mustang fleet-operator.
The Mustang will make its presence felt elsewhere over the next few months. Farnborough based start-up Blink is Europe's largest Mustang customer, having taken 30 of the type. The air taxi operator is due to get its first aircraft this May.
VLJ Integration Platform
On the VLJ theme (although Cessna denies that the Mustang is a VLJ, referring to it rather as an "entry-level" jet), the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA), along with several manufacturers, has become involved in European VLJs Integration Platform (VIP), launched at the beginning of the month. With business aviation one of the fastest growing sectors in Europe at around 10 percent per annum, the introduction of VLJs is a welcome addition to this healthy growth. Eurocontrol's studies show that there are about 440 VLJs currently on order for operation in Europe. Of these, at least 230 are expected for delivery by the end of 2010. The majority of the aircraft are expected to be used for air-taxi type work.
Eric Mandemaker, CEO of the EBAA said, "The EBAA feels that a forum such as VIP is a positive development for business aviation in Europe. We are convinced that the services that these additional air-taxi operators provide will only enhance the business travel industry in the region and the travel options open to customers."
Diamond Just Keeps on Growing
In product news this month, Diamond Aircraft Industries has announced that it has expanded to South America, where it will start to sell its single-engine DA20 and DA40 aircraft, as well as its popular twin, the DA42, and its Airborne Sensing portfolio range. Globe Connect International will distribute the products in Brazil, whilst Aviaservice International will take care of business in Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Aruba Bonaire and Curacao. Diamond now has a presence on every continent.
Future King's First Solo
And finally, proving he's no different from any other pilot, Prince William was snapped sporting a huge grin after his first solo. On Jan. 17, eight days into his intensive RAF course, the prince did his first solo circuit at RAF Cranwell in a Grob 115E Tutor.
He said afterwards, "God knows how somebody trusted me with an aircraft and my own life. It was an amazing feeling, I couldn't believe it." In a scenario that will be familiar to many, he explained how it happened. "I was doing a few circuits going 'round and 'round, then Roger my instructor basically turned round and said, 'Right, I'm going to jump out now' and I said, 'What, where are you going?' He said 'You're going on your own,' and I said, 'There's no way I'm going to do that,' but he said I was ready for it and jumped out. The next thing I knew I was taxiing down the runway and I was sitting there saying, 'Oh my God, this is a bit odd ... there's no one in here.' Going solo is one of those things. If you had a list of the top 50 things to do before you die, it would be in there."
His instructor, Squadron Leader Bousfield, said, "To get William to go solo is fantastic. He's worked very hard and has coped marvelously to pick it all up and that's been backed up with some natural talent in the air. He's got good handling skills and learns lessons really quickly and keeps hold of those lessons, which makes it easier for the next time we're in the air."
Prince William is actually in the British Army, ranked as a Second Lieutenant with the Household Cavalry's Blues and Royals. However, he is on attachment to the RAF, where he is known as Flying Officer William Wales -- equivalent to his Army rank.
His father, The Prince of Wales, earned his wings more than 35 years ago.
For more aviation news and information from Europe, read the rest of Liz Moscrop's columns.


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Concho Parts With Deal Maker
Energy producer Concho Resources Inc., widely viewed as both an oil-patch acquirer and a potential takeover target, has parted with a top executive whose roles including dealmaking.
The Midland, Texas company said late Tuesday that Steven Pruett left Concho "to pursue other career interests." Pruett joined Concho in February and held the title of senior vice president of corporate development.
Concho said in February that Pruett would be responsible for its business development, capital markets activity and investor relations.
"Steve has been a dedicated employee of Concho and we wish him the best in his future endeavors," Concho Chief Executive Tim Leach said in written statement. "We presently do not intend to search for a replacement for Steve, as I am confident that we have the right team to execute on our long-term plan."
Concho representatives did not respond Friday to requests for comment. Mr. Pruett wasn't reached for comment.
The move comes as Concho this month was among those that bid on Yates Petroleum, according to a person familiar with the sales process. Yates is a closely held energy producer that enlisted bankers to pursue a sale of the company before the start of next year when taxes could be more onerous, the person said.
Occidental Petroleum Corp. was another bidder for Artesia, N.M. based Yates. However, Yates is not entranced with any of the offers received thus far, putting a sale in doubt, this person said.


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Adele Steps Out With Newborn Son, LeAnn Rimes Slams Brandi Glanville for "Ridiculous" Feud: Today's Top Stories
Golden Globe winner Adele steps out with her newborn son in Beverly Hills, while LeAnn Rimes and Brandi Glanville continue to clash over Glanville's sons: See Us Weekly's top stories from Thursday, Jan. 17 in the roundup!
1. Adele Steps Out With Newborn Son Post Golden-Globes Win
Adele is back on mommy duty! Days after winning the Golden Globe for Best Original Song, the "Skyfall" singer stepped out with her baby boy, 3 months, and a pal in Beverly Hills.
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The U.S. Navy announced July 31 the award, to Boeing Defense and Security Systems, of a $1.8 billion firm fixed-price-contract for the procurement of 13 Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) Lot 4 P-8A Poseidon Multi-Mission Maritime aircraft.
"This new contract will deliver the next lot of LRIP aircraft to the next squadrons scheduled to receive their initial P-8As," said Capt. Scott Dillon, the Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Aircraft Program Office's (PMA 290) program manager. "I am proud of the P-8A team for this significant milestone, job well done. The P-8A program is meeting all cost, schedule and performance parameters in accordance with the approved Acquisition Program Baseline."
Dillon also added the program office is actively using the six test aircraft at Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to conduct both ground and flight tests, and flight crew training in support of Initial Operational Capability this fall. In addition to the ground and flight testing, Harpoon missile testing in support of the first Navy P-8A operational deployment is on track for the winter deployment.
The Navy also announced in a report July 1, the P-8A program passed Initial Operational Test and Evaluation, and was found operationally effective, operationally suitable, and recommended for fleet introduction.
As of last month, the Navy received nine P-8A LRIP aircraft, which fleet operators are currently conducting training on, flying, and preparing for the aircraft's first-ever operational deployment. This year, the Navy's patrol and reconnaissance community's deployment cycle will see the P-8A actively participating in missions. Until transition to the P-8 is complete in 2019, P-3C Orion and EP-3 Aries II squadrons will augment this first P-8 deployment to fulfill global maritime patrol and reconnaissance force requirements.
The first fleet squadron in Jacksonville, Fla., Patrol Squadron (VP16), has received all six LRIP Lot 1 aircraft and completed their P-3C to P-8A transition. As VP-16 continues preparations for the first operational P-8A deployment in December, deliveries of LRIP Lot 2 aircraft are continuing to progress and the second squadron to transition to the P-8, VP-5, is on track with their training and qualifications.
"With nine P-8As already delivered to the fleet, the future of the Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Community has begun to take shape," said Rear Adm. Sean S. Buck, commander, Patrol and Reconnaissance Group, which oversees the policy for manning, training, and equipping three Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Wings, 18 operational squadrons, a fleet replacement squadron and subordinate activities. "Our young Navy men and women are excited to see the modernization of the force."
Source: Naval Air Systems Command
Date: Aug 1, 2013