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ResourcesBy Perry Glasser
Trend: Rooting Out Rogue IT
Two weeks after Bruce Goodman settled into his new job as CIO for Humana Inc., his bosses came to him with a problem. There was this little information technology project, see, that a business unit had independently begunoff the radar screen of the IT departmentand guess what? It was spiraling out of control, millions of dollars over budget and months past its deadline. Could Goodman help? The Louisville, Ky.-based healthcare company's accounting department had taken it upon itself to beef up a basic billing system so it could process payments from many more customers.
But the technology wasn't working. "They used an outside consultant to build it, and then it became a runaway project when a key person left," Goodman recalls. And that was just the half of it. The people testing the new system had been using hypothetical numbers. When fed actual customer names, addresses, dates and amounts owed by thousands of clients, the new system simply shut down. "It was designed to all the wrong specs," Goodman says. "In the real world, it simply could not work." To turn things around, Goodman says, he had to wrestle with a beast that was projected to take a year to develop, but ended up taking three years to fix. Meanwhile, he says, "the $9 million budgeted for the project skyrocketed to a total cost of $30 million" before it was all over.
Sound familiar? Humana is not alone. Many CIOs get stuck cleaning up the mess of ill-fated "ghost IT" projectsthose "shadow" technology projects that result when a business unit goes off and self-finances a technology project under the radar of the CIO, and frequently without the green light, cooperation or knowledge of the rest of the company. The resulting duplicate projects, systems that won't scale across the company and ill-designed initiatives can bleed a company white, wasting enormous amounts of time and money. In these anemic times, such underground activity is being frowned upon as never before. "It's a different ball game now," says Unisys vice president and CIO John Carrow. "Given the sheer cost of technology, you just can't afford to have everybody doing their own thing anymore."
Just ask UPS CIO Ken Lacy. He says UPS partners, on the fringes of the UPS extended enterprise, "sometimes feel there are ways to get around us in IT," perhaps believing they can do IT projects more cheaply and quickly than Lacy's corporate IT shop. "Somebody can say, 'I can do this for $150,000 when it would take Ken Lacy $1 million to do the same job,' " he says. The trouble with that? "Most of the time," Lacy says, "when people go out on a limb, they'll end up spending that $1 million they said they could save by going outside [the IT department], and then still not have the ramp-up they need" to make the project work on a larger scale throughout the corporation. In those cases, Lacy says, he is called in to redo the project, often at many times the original dollar cost, and at the expense of time that could have been spent on other initiatives.
Blind No More
Blind No More
Sure, "ghost IT" isn't a new phenomenon. During better economic times, says Chell Smith, vice president of technology services for Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, CIOs could occasionally afford to turn a blind eye to such rogue projects. In the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, for example, where rule-breaking is thought to increase the odds of innovative breakthroughs, IT executives have often been known to look the other way.
But those days are over. In these cost conscious times, ghost IT is being forced out of the shadowsincreasingly viewed as more of an absolute no-no rather than a tolerable exercise in well-intentioned ambition. Indeed, in many companies, ghost IT is being seen as a symptom of poor technology management and a sign of chronic communication problems between IT and business units. Worst of all, some company executives interpret ghost IT as a sign the CIO has lost control of costs and technology projects. "CEOs are very dependent on the CIO to manage and explain costs, and make them transparent," says David Mark, principal and leader of McKinsey & Co.'s North American IT management practice. Adds Bill Zollars, CEO of the Overland Park, Kan.-based freight company, Yellow Corp.: "IT decisions are strategic decisions, central to the business strategy. 'Rogue IT' is a sign that all is not right in the IT department, and, maybe, out of whack a bit throughout the company."
Indeed, some CIOs are finding themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place, with too few resources to meet too many demands, and without sufficient input from higher-ups, in some cases, to make the tough trade-offs required.
The result? Some CIOs tend to make high-impact decisions in a vacuum, triggering credibility problems that can snowball. "In extreme belt-tightening situations, where there is an unrealistic expectation to contain the overall cost of IT, a CIO can feel as if he or she has no choice but to effectively say 'yes' to everything a business unit wantsand that sets up business units to be disappointed because [there aren't enough] IT resources to do all projects well," says Bob Gold, a vice president and practice leader for strategic information technology management at Balanced Scorecard Collaborative Inc., a technology strategy consulting group. "The next time, a disappointed business unit is going to be more tempted to go it alone."
And yet it's precisely in skittish economic times that ghost IT threatens to haunt CIOs' cost-cutting efforts the most, says Gold and others. In some cases, business units turn to rogue projects in desperation; "it's a survival move," Gold says. Adds Gartner EXP group vice president Ellen Kitzis: "The argument for ghost or guerrilla development is that some business units can't wait for the big technology decisions to get made. Their markets are changing very rapidly, competitors are making really significant moves fastand IT has to keep up in order to serve them better."
To be sure, rogue IT can't benor, some say, should bestamped out completely. But how much is too much? Gartner's Kitzis suggests CIOs work to keep such projects to a minimum if they want to keep their jobs. "You can't let [ghost IT] happen too often. If everything becomes guerrilla development, you get anarchy. That's where good IT governance has to come in." Rogue IT, says Harvard Business School professor Richard Nolan, "makes the need for IT and business to cooperate on strategy more important than ever."
How pervasive is rogue IT? Off-the-book spending on technology projects could amount to the equivalent of as much as 5 to 15 percent of a company's total IT budget, estimates Bobby Cameron, principal analyst at Forrester Research Inc. Even the best-run companies, he says, spend the equivalent of between 5 and 10 percent of their total IT budget on ghost IT projects. And it can get worse than that. "An auto industry OEM, for example, can run about 30 percent shadow spending," Cameron says. BSC's Gold adds that doesn't include the cost of failed rogue projects that end up in the lap of the CIO "to untangle the mess."
Giga Information Group Inc. vice president Marc Cecere, who has studied 150 IT operations, says between 100 and 150 IT people with "half again as many business people" work in the typical rogue shop at a large corporation. "That's already a few million dollars of waste right there," he says. But that's not all. Unless rogue IT projects are able to scale, they're all but useless.
Consider the insurance industry. After cutting costs, integrating data is an insurer's second-highest IT priority, Cecere says. Without data integration, "the company cannot present its customers with a single face." When rogue IT shops generate bad data, "bad in format and bad in truth value, it can't be rolled up and collected," Cecere says. Rogue IT may cost a company its ability to leverage whatever knowledge the rogue systems gather, and damage its relationship with customers.
Data Chaos
Data Chaos
Rogue IT also can present technology incompatibility problems. Cecere says he recently consulted for a global media corporation that had six rogue IT projects under way, each involving 10 to 30 people. The different divisions all had similar business needssales, marketing, procurement and so forthbut each rogue shop was devising its own technology solution. At this company, the integration of systems to track license fees and retail products was crucial to maintaining and reviving products' lifecycles, but the rogue shops made integration nearly impossible; data was chaotically distributed and stored in different projects hidden in different divisions. Cecere estimates it cost the company $1 million for each rogue system, but many times thatperhaps as much as five times moreto fix the problem with a successful, final integration. If that wasn't bad enough, "The rogue systems did not scale," Cecere says. "What they did was break, so add another few million dollars for repair and added maintenance."
Rogue IT also can cause a credibility gap between the CIO and the rest of the company. Cecere says rogue IT projects may fuel a perception that the corporate IT shop isn't good enough or fast enough to get the job done. Cecere recently consulted for a large finance company that had "at least two tiers of rogue shops" that gave lip service to corporate IT standards. "They were creating systems for business functions in the different units because they believed corporate IT was fiddling with silly things like architecture instead of helping run the business. 'To heck with standards, we have to get checks processed,' was the rogue shop's attitude," Cecere says.
Besides hurting cost control and credibility, ghost IT haunts security initiatives. Ever since Sept. 11, says CGE&Y's Smith, corporate executives have been "becoming more concerned with unauthorized IT projects not under the control or accountability of the CIO, and worry that they might pose a security threat to the entire organization."
Just in case you are sleeping too well, think about how rogue 802.11 wireless LAN projects can proliferate through the corporate sales force. Cheap and convenient, a shadow-IT project taken up by a sales team could broadcast your organization's most valuable data into the local Starbucks, an open door to road warriors and rival corporations. Still not convinced? Ask Best Buy Inc.last year, a customer stole transaction data from two of the electronics store's cash registers, taking a Wi-Fi card he had just bought inside to his car in the company's own parking lot, where he used it to crack into Best Buy's unsecured wireless LAN. Rogue IT projects often skirt around corporate best practices: In this case, a more secure VPN could have helped to keep predators out.
What to do? First, don't hide from the problem. Learn from it and start working to minimize ghost IT with new governance policies and strategies. Centralizing IT spending and security policies is one way to start. Good IT management these days, says Unisys CIO Carrow, involves "resource control. You can speed up or slow a project if you have control of your resources."
But when an organization gives discretionary funds to business units, such as sales or marketing, these groups can afford to end-run corporate IT. They might hire an outsourcer who feels no allegiance to any central IT governance, for example. Without a central IT governance group backed by senior business executives, expect business units to begin to commission independent IT projects. Putting an end to ghost IT demands strategic CIO leadership, says Gold, and a dialogue with business units seeking to go their own way, so as to help ease the risk of costly missteps later. In addition, CIOs who can negotiate for more power over the purse stringsas well as a seat at the executive tableare finding their efforts can help limit runaway projects.
More Leadership Required
More Leadership Required
Trouble is, not all CIOs are up to the jobor think they are not, though many of them know that leadership is more important than ever. In February's CIO Insight survey, on the CIO role, 43 percent of top IT executives said leadership ability is the most important personal attribute required for success in their current positionan indication, respondents said, of just how tough a year it's been. In last year's survey, "business understanding" was named the CIO's most important personal attribute.
The February 2003 survey also cited "cost and budget pressures" as the top concern that "frustrates" IT executives most about their jobs: 78 percent of top IT executives said the CIO's job was more difficult this past year than previously.
What does leadership mean in this case? Telling higher-ups they simply can't have the technology-powered business strategies they've ordered without providing the funds required to get themor, if cuts must be made, then asking business executives to help make the tough IT-business trade-offs that let a company downsize effectively and still execute strategy. "Accountability needs to be set up, and shared," says Kitzis. "CIOs can't do it alonenor should they."
Gold goes so far as to suggest organizations that allow CIOs to make tough spending cuts on their own are giving CIOs too much power. Such decisions, he says, need to be made in tandem with top-level business executives. "IT decisions are inseparable from business decisions," says Gold. Yet today, especially in tough times, CIOs are being put in the position of deciding who wins and who loses in the race for scarce resources, he says. "Let's say you have three business unitsA, B and Cand each one has a business strategy that requires 40 units of IT resources to accomplish," Gold says. "The IT organization has only 100 units of resources to dole out. The aggregate demand on the IT organizations equals 12020 units more than IT has to give."
So what happens? Who should decide which of the three business units gets the most funding and which one takes the most cuts? "If the organization says it wants all three of those business strategies to be executed, and all three of those strategies require IT, then all of a sudden the CIO may explicitly or implicitly be in the uncomfortable position of having to pick and choose and make a decision about which is the most appropriate business strategy," Gold explains. "The CIO is, in fact, being empowered to make a decision alone that should be made jointly with the enterprise-level executives." Gold says this situation often "creates a political minefield for CIOs. There's no political cover for him or her to say 'No, I'm not going to fund your project.' "
Learning Opportunity
Learning Opportunity
Susan Weiner, who covers Web governance strategies for Giga Information Group, suggests that a smart CIO might do well to view the ghost IT subculture at his or her organization as a "learning opportunity" to find out where the IT organization is perceived as falling short. This gives the CIO a chance to "find out what's broken and take back control," she says. Weiner suggests CIOs might ask: What problem is the ghost IT project solving? What barrier is being eliminated by doing it as a rogue project? What organizational processes are in the way of going through normal channels to get it done?
In addition, Gartner's Kitzis says, CIOs should not wait for help to fall into their laps. CIOs facing tough spending decisions should start inviting business inputand finding ways to share decision-making across the company. "There are wise CIOs and there are bumblers," says Kitzis. "The bumblers, the disconnected ones who rarely talk to the business side, are taking the biggest risk of all in this downturn because they are trying to make all the tough trade-offs in a vacuum. They're trying to figure out how to make multiple constituencies happy and stay out of trouble and keep their jobs at the same time. But these people, in the end, will not be successful. Wise CIOs will make business leaders partners in their decisions."
Of course, it can help a lot if the CEO is in your corneror, even better, if you are the CEO. Yellow Corp. CEO Zollars, for example, is unusual in that he personally attends to IT governance discipline. In his company, IT is a distinct division, a business within a business. There are 10 executives, including himself, on what he calls the "One Yellow Team." The group meets for half a day each week without fail. "That kind of continuity of leadership is needed not just in IT. But for IT, it can be critical," says Zollars. "We avoid handing strategy off to technology. That's dangerous because intentions get misinterpreted."
But even when the CEO is involved in cutting technology costs, it's not easy to negotiate changes in the way IT spending decisions are made. Unisys' Carrow recalls three challenges when he pushed to centralize IT governance at Unisys: "Business unit presidents did not want to see their IT operations gravitate to central control. IT people suddenly learned they had to walk between business units and strategic demands coming from the executive committee that set policies, standardization and processes. Our unique systems in Latin America and Africa had to be shut down and people on the ground had to readjust their work life to standard systems."
Taking Control
Taking Control
But Carrow made a convincing case to Unisys CEO Lawrence Weinbach, and got the backing throughout his push to be able to make the tough callsand stick to them. The payoff? "Five years ago our IT shop had 1,300 people; now we have 850, and we are running better systems." Did this completely wipe out rogue IT at Unisys? No, Carrow acknowledges. "There is some leakage," he says. "There's always resistance because individuals want to make their marks." But the problem has diminished considerably.
At Boston-based FleetBoston Financial Corp., Joe Smialowski, vice chairman of operations and technology, remembers having to get similar buy-in from higher-ups to attack the ghost IT problem, which he said was costing the company millions of dollars, though he was unwilling to put a specific price tag on the problem. When the bank changed from a holding company intent on growth through M&A activity to a customer-service-oriented institution, data sharing became the center of CRM strategy, and ghost IT a more serious threat. In the bad old days, as legacy systems from Shawmut, Bank of New England, BankBoston and other acquisitions collided under the Fleet tent, shadow IT ran rampant.
To stop the flow of lost money, Smialowski in 1999 established an Executive Tech Council, which meets three times each year and includes about 20 people who make policy, explore cooperative procurement and establish technology standards. Fleet brings in key personnel from Argentina and Brazil to participate. The Architectural Review Board, a subset of the larger group, ensures that all designs and technology make sense and can be leveraged throughout the company. FleetBoston now gets the sharing and discipline it wants. Smialowski believes it's a lot tougher to get a shadow-IT project off the ground because FleetBoston's Resource Allocation Process (RAP) requires sign-off by a centralized IT governance group. "There is no way to spend money when you have centralized control of the purse strings," Smialowski says.
At Humana, not only does CIO Bruce Goodman now control the purse strings, he employs a strict system for IT governance. After having to fix that first billing-project-gone-awry, Goodman vowed there would be no more clean-up missions under his watch.
Goodman requires that all proposed IT projects be scored based on set criteria, and must reach a specific threshold to be approved. Projects get the green light based on how well they do in a variety of formalized categories: Cost/Benefit Analysis, Strategic Alignment, Competitive Position, External Customer Impact, Negative Impact, Regulatory Requirements, and Risks to the Project. Today, he says, ghost IT has been minimized considerably. "If you've got good governance in place, you can head it off," he says.
Now, when he comes across a ghost IT project gone awry, Goodman says he asks two important questions of business managers in trouble: "You want me to do what? You want it when?" For Goodman, having the power to say "no" is the best way to convince business units not to strike out on their ownand give up the ghost, right from the start.
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How to Quit Drinking Alcohol?
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If you have been thinking about the question, how to stop drinking alcohol on your own, then this article gives you some tips for you to work on.
Write your reasons for cutting down or stopping:
Why do you want to drink less?
- There are many reasons why you may want to cut down or stop drinking.
- You may want to improve your health, sleep better, or get along better with your family or friends.
- Make a list of the reasons you want to drink less.
Talk to your doctor. If you choose to start the path to recovery alone, bear in mind that alcohol withdrawal can potentially be deadly.
Change your attitude about quitting.
Don't put yourself with people or in situations where you're likely to drink.
Drink a lot of water.
Water will help keep you hydrated, make you feel better, and help flush out toxins from your body. Men are advised to drink 3.0 liter of water a day, and women are advised to drink 2.2 liter. When you drink, sip your drink slowly. Drink slowly. Take a break of 1 hour between drinks. Drink soda, water, or juice after a drink with alcohol. Do not drink on an empty stomach! Eat food when you are drinking.
Antabuse, or disulfiram as it is also known, was the first medicine approved for the treatment of alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Antabuse is prescribed to help people who want to quit drinking by causing a negative reaction if the person drinks while they are taking antabuse.
Product Information
Disulfiram tablet
What is this medicine?
DISULFIRAM can help patients with an alcohol abuse problem not to drink alcohol. When taken with alcohol, this medicine produces unpleasant effects. This medicine is part of a recovery program that includes medical supervision and counseling. It is not a cure.
What should I tell my health care provider before I take this medicine?
They need to know if you have any of the following conditions:
- brain damage
- diabetes
- heart disease
- kidney disease
- liver disease
- psychotic disease
- recently exposure to alcohol or any product that contains alcohol
- seizures
- taking metronidazole or paraldehyde
- under-active thyroid
- an unusual or allergic reaction to disulfiram, pesticides or rubber products, other medicines, foods, dyes, or preservatives
- pregnant or trying to get pregnant
- breast-feeding
How should I use this medicine?
Take this medicine by mouth with a full glass of water. You must never take this medicine within 12 hours of taking any alcohol. The tablets can be crushed and mixed with liquid before taking. Take your medicine at regular intervals. Do not take your medicine more often than directed. Do not stop taking except on your doctor's advice.
Overdosage: If you think you have taken too much of this medicine contact a poison control center or emergency room at once.
NOTE: This medicine is only for you. Do not share this medicine with others.
What if I miss a dose?
If you miss a dose, take it as soon as you can. If it is almost time for your next dose, take only that dose. Do not take double or extra doses.
What may interact with this medicine?
Do not take this medicine with any of the following medications:
- alcohol or any product that contains alcohol
- amprenavir
- cocaine
- lopinavir; ritonavir
- metronidazole
- oral solutions of ritonavir or sertraline
- paclitaxel
- paraldehyde
- tranylcypromine
This medicine may also interact with the following medications:
- isoniazid
- medicines that treat or prevent blood clots like warfarin
- phenytoin
This list may not describe all possible interactions. Give your health care provider a list of all the medicines, herbs, non-prescription drugs, or dietary supplements you use. Also tell them if you smoke, drink alcohol, or use illegal drugs. Some items may interact with your medicine.
What should I watch for while using this medicine?
Visit your doctor or health care professional for regular checks on your progress.
Never take this medicine if you have been drinking alcohol. Make sure that family members or others in your household know about this medicine and what to do in an emergency. When this medicine is taken with even small amounts of alcohol, it will produce very unpleasant effects. You may get a throbbing headache, flushing, vomiting, weakness and chest pain. Breathing and heart problems, seizures and death can occur. This medicine can react with alcohol even 14 days after you take your last dose.
Never take products or use toiletries that contain alcohol. Always read labels carefully. Many cough syrups, liquid pain medications, tonics, mouthwashes, after shave lotions, colognes, liniments, vinegar's, and sauces contain alcohol.
Wear a medical identification bracelet or chain to say you are taking this medicine. Carry an identification card with your name, name and dose of medicine being used, and name and phone number of your doctor and/or person to contact in an emergency.
What side effects may I notice from this medicine?
Side effects that you should report to your doctor or health care professional as soon as possible:
- allergic reactions like skin rash, itching or hives, swelling of the face, lips, or tongue
- changes in vision
- confusion, disorientation, irritability
- dark urine
- general ill feeling or flu-like symptoms
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- loss of contact with reality
- numbness, pain or tingling
- right upper belly pain
- unusually weak or tired
- yellowing of the eyes or skin
Side effects that usually do not require medical attention (report to your doctor or health care professional if they continue or are bothersome):
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- dizziness
- drowsy, tired
- headache
- metallic or garlic taste
- nausea, vomiting
This list may not describe all possible side effects.
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Six people have been indicted in connection with a shooting that left a small boy seriously wounded.
Khyren Landrum was shot in the upper thigh March 20 while playing in the street following a barbecue. The 4-year-old left the hospital in a wheelchair.
His mother said the boy's recovery has been remarkable, and he's back in school.
A grand jury returned indictments against Rashid Lattimore, Shaquille Smith, Masai Williams, David Alexander, Masai Torbert and Antonio Huff.
Each man was indicted on two counts of felonious assault, and four of them were also indicted on at least one count of possessing a weapon while under a disability.
Five of the six suspects have been arrested on various unrelated charges since the shooting, prosecutors said, and remain jailed. Only Huff remains at large.
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The Huffington Post Media Group and the Oprah Winfrey Network are today launching a site the pair of media giants had announced in May, called — no surprise — HuffPost OWN.
The latest niche destination in a wide-ranging rollout for the AOL-owned HuffPost sites — there are almost 70 now — will focus on inspiration.
In a press release, the pair said the new section on the huge online publishing platform will provide "practical advice and ideas to help users find motivation, inspiration and fulfillment."
For example, one featured story today is titled "Mantras to Get You Through a Hard Week," while another advises "How To Find 7 More Hours In Your Day." (If I found one more, I'd be happy.)
And, of course, my personal favorite: "When Holding a Grudge Can Be Good for Your Health."
There's a lot of wish fulfillment on HuffPost OWN, too, with Oprah's Favorite Things — her gift giveaway efforts that turned into a phenom — as a major element on the site, including Favorite Things trivia and a video mashup of the best Favorite Things moments from "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
The dedicated version of the Oprah.com site on the Huffington Post platform has a range of social and interactive offerings, and has integrated access to the HuffPost audience, which is much larger.
The content is supplied by writers and producers of Oprah.com, which will continue to operate independently.
In a blog post, Winfrey waxed poetic on the concept for the site:
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How was Sergio's slider today? In his blown save against Oakland (June 10), Sergio threw 38 pitches in the 9th, 3 of which were sliders. 1 of the 3 sliders was a strike; it also was a swinging strike.
Today, Sergio threw 15 pitches in the 9th, 7 of which were sliders. 3 of the 7 sliders were strikes (42.86%). 2 of the 7 were swinging strikes (28.57%).
Strike-zone pictures for today's outing from MLB Gameday. 1st batter:
#3 was a slider. Result was a fly out on pitch #4 (fastball).
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#4, and #5 (swinging strike) are sliders. Result was a strike out on pitch #5.
3rd batter:
#2 (behind #4), #3, #4, and #6 (swinging strike) were sliders. Result was a strike out on pitch #6.
Steve Stone said in the beginning of the 9th that in Sergio's blown save against Oakland the release point of his slider wasn't the same with the release point of his fastball and batters could determine when a slider was coming and not swing at the slider, but wait for a fastball. Pitch F/X has graphs for both outings.
June 19 (today) against Arizona:
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Automatic Model Generation, part 1: Parallel
CHP is based on CSP, a formal process calculus. CSP has a model-checker, FDR (among other tools), that is free for academic use for dealing with CSP. It would be great if we could take our CHP programs and prove them correct using FDR, e.g. prove them deadlock free. To properly translate a CHP program into its CSP model requires full semantics-based processing of the program's source code, including all the functional parts (including tackling things like writeChannelStrict c undefined). But what if, at least for simple programs, we didn't need to go to these lengths?
In this multi-part guide, I will introduce a technique to generate CSP models from CHP programs without source code analysis. The programmer would make one small alteration to the imports of a program and then: instead of executing properly, the program would spit out its own CSP model which we could feed to FDR. This technique involves redefining the CHP monad and all the CHP primitives so that the program spits out its model rather than actually executing. The technique is very limited in some regards, and I'll try to point out the limitations as we go along. But hopefully it will be interesting to show what you can do by redefining your monad (see also: the Concurrent Haskell Debugger, and the Beauty in the Beast paper). Explaining my technique will take several posts — for today, I will focus on the definition of the specification type, the CHP monad — and redefining the runParallel function.
Specification Type
We start by defining a type to represent a CSP model. An introduction to CSP can be found in a previous post, but if you know CHP then the CSP model type has a fairly straightforward correspondence to CHP code. The type of the specification is as follows:
data SpecItem' proc comm = Par [Spec' proc comm] | Alt [Spec' proc comm] | Call proc | Sync comm | Stop | Repeat (Spec' proc comm) deriving (Show) type Spec' proc comm = [SpecItem' proc comm]
The main Spec' list type is a chronological sequence of processes in the model. The types are parameterised by proc (the type that identifies a process) and comm (the type that identifies a communication/synchronisation). We will explain these types in a future part of the guide; for now, we will use the opaque types ProcessId and CommId:
type SpecItem = SpecItem' ProcessId CommId type Spec = Spec' ProcessId CommId type SpecMod = Spec -> Spec finalise :: SpecMod -> Spec finalise f = f []
The SpecMod type is a function that modifies a specification. We will compose several of these functions while building the model — and at the end, we can use the finalise function to turn a SpecMod function into an actual Spec, by applying the function to the empty sequence.
Redefining the CHP monad
These specification types are used in our redefinition of the CHP monad. The main part of the new CHP monad is a monad transformer CHPSpecT that permits building of specifications on top of an existing (book-keeping) monad. The monad is as follows:
newtype CHPSpecT m r = CHPSpecT {runSpecT :: forall b. (r -> m (b, SpecMod)) -> m (b, SpecMod) }
For those of you playing monad transformer bingo at home, CHPSpecT is effectively the unrolled version of forall b. ContT b (WriterT SpecMod), and will later be used on top of StateT. As with ContT, the monad instance itself makes no reference to the underlying monad, so it is surprisingly simple:
instance Monad m => Monad (CHPSpecT m) where return x = CHPSpecT ($ x) m >>= k = CHPSpecT $ \c -> runSpecT m $ \a -> runSpecT (k a) c
The road to hell is paved with monad explanations, but here goes. The r -> m (b, SpecMod) item takes a value of type "r" (for red) and gives back an item of type "b" (for blue) along with a specification modifying function. We can envisage that item as follows:
The values pass left to right in the top half (turning red to blue), while the model actually passes in the opposite direction. Our models are effectively built backwards, with each SpecMod function modifying all future specifications to produce a current specification. We can now diagram our CHP monad as follows:
Given a circled value of the aforementioned type r -> m (b, SpecMod) (the lambda is used to indicate that this is an argument), a CHP item will give back something of type m (b, SpecMod); this is drawn on the right as a blue item with a straight left edge (to indicate it has no input), paired with a specification-modifying function. You can pick all sorts of holes in these diagrams, but I hope they will be useful in explaining various uses of this monad as the guide continues.
CHP Monad Helper Functions
The CHP monad itself has no real logic involved; all the logic is actually captured in other functions, two of which I will introduce here, beginning with finSpecT:
finSpecT :: Monad m => CHPSpecT m r -> m (r, Spec) finSpecT = liftM (second finalise) . flip runSpecT (\x -> return (x, id))
The finSpecT function is used to run the CHPSpecT transformer; it returns a value and a model. Once it has the return value paired with the corresponding model-changing function, it makes the latter into a model by finalising it (applying it to the empty specification). The result of this latter operation can be visualised below; the composite item has an unmodified return value, but has its specification-modifying function applied to the empty specification (the empty list):
The second function is addSpecT1:
addSpecT1 :: forall m r. Monad m => m (r, SpecItem) -> CHPSpecT m r addSpecT1 m = CHPSpecT $ \k -> m >>= apply k where apply :: (r -> m (b, SpecMod)) -> (r, SpecItem) -> m (b, SpecMod) apply k (x, s) = liftM (second ((s :) .)) $ k x
The addSpecT1 function encapsulates the logic for sequencing; it takes a monadic action that gives a return value paired with a corresponding single specification item, and turns all that into a CHPSpecT item that adds the item to the model. The diagram is below; the addSpecT1 takes a parameter (the outermost lambda) and gives back a CHP item that takes an inner continuation parameter (the lambda inside the box). The value of the outer parameter is passed to the continuation, and the specification item of the outer parameter (a trapezoid named "s") is adjoined to the front of the result of the specification-modifying function of the continuation:
Parallel Composition
For parallel composition, we take each branch of the parallel composition and finalise it into a specification (using finSpecT), then add the Par constructor and join it on to the front of future specifications:
runParallel :: [CHP a] -> CHP [a] runParallel = addSpecT1 . liftM (second Par . unzip) . mapM finSpecT
We can again diagram this:
Hmmm, hopefully that makes it clearer! The finalised parts of the parallel specification (which were run sequentially — no need for actual parallelism during model generation) are shown on the left: their return values are formed into a list of values (following the arrows at the top of the diagram) that is passed to the continuation, while their models are put into a list with a Par constructor (following the arrows at the bottom of the diagram), and this is prepended to the sequence from future models.
We can now given an example of the model generated for a program with parallel composition. This example is particularly simple, as I don't want to use features that I haven't yet explained. Here is a plain CHP program, that synchronises on various barriers in parallel:
import Control.Concurrent.CHP syncOn :: [String] -> CHP () syncOn = mapM_ syncOnIndiv where syncOnIndiv :: String -> CHP () syncOnIndiv name = do b <- newBarrierWithLabel name enroll b syncBarrier p :: CHP () p = runParallel_ [syncOn ["a", "b"], syncOn ["c", "d"], syncOn ["e"]] main :: IO () main = runCHP_ p
This program will compile, and can be executed normally. To get a model of this program, rather than executing it, we only need change the top and bottom lines; we import a different module, and change the outermost-call to runCHP_ to specify:
import Control.Concurrent.CHPSpec ... processes as before main :: IO () main = specify True p >>= putStrLn
The program will again compile (against a different library), but this time when it is executed it will output the following model, ready to be read into the FDR model-checker or another formal tool for CSP:
channel a channel b channel c channel d channel e main_1= (((a -> b -> SKIP) ||| ((c -> d -> SKIP) ||| ((e -> SKIP))))) main = main_0
In the next part of the guide, we will examine exactly how these models are printed — and after that we will cover model generation for CHP's other primitives.
April 13, 2010 at 12:54 pm
You can probably simplify, that is conceptually clarify, the definition of the new CHP monad by using an operational style as for example described in my article The Operational Monad Tutorial.
In fact, it should even be possible to use one and the same monad for both execution and model and delegate their differences to two interpretation functions.
April 13, 2010 at 2:56 pm
"make one small alteration to the imports of a program" sounds like you are providing two shallow embeddings of the CHP DSL in different modules. Did you consider providing one deep embedding instead and implementing the two current (and possibly other) "semantics" on top of it? A concrete representation of the CHP combinators may also allow for optimizations being performed before execution.
April 13, 2010 at 5:59 pm
Hello Neil,
I've been following your blog for a while and I just want to give you
credit for introducing people to CSP and blogging about CHP.
You mention the use of 'FDR (among other tools)' and actually
I'm involved in two of the 'other tools' as part of my PhD thesis.
(The ProB tool of Prof Michael Leuschel and a complete-Haskell tool,
which does not have a fancy name yet.)
The CSP-M parser of the our CSP-M tools is also available on Hackage
(CSPM-Frontend) and I plan to put the rest of the source of
Haskell-CSP-tool on Hackage as soon as possible
(It is just too unpolished at the moment).
I have been thinking about using CHP as a plug-in for my tool
and also about implementing to GUI of my tool based on CHP.
It meight also be interesting to include some the functionality of
my tool in CHP.
So maybe we can start some cooperation.
Regards Marc
April 14, 2010 at 12:51 pm
IIRC, functions (like the second argument of monadic bind) are not reified even in deep embeddings. Yet deep embeddings seem useful (I never used one myself). The packages 'control-monad-free', 'MonadPrompt', and 'operational' may be interesting starting points. The latter is accompanied by a MonadReader article (Issue 15: The Operational Monad Tutorial) which explains how to implement different "interpreters" on top of a single representation of a DSL.
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The team(s) are definitely living up to their potential. These are things that were predicted if you read the Channel9 threads on Photosynth etc.... It's amazing how quickly the team is putting everything together to match the vision. Good job, high praise for you all.
I would likve to praise this as well. Bing maps is getting better and better. I still find the performance of the silverlight version lacking at times. It is not as smooth as it needs to be to be "wow, that is perfect / impressive beyond anything else out there". I can't smoothly drive around a city using street side. Plus the underground city in Chicago freaks the maps out. One moment I will be top side, then all of the sudden I am on the under city.... Multi layered roads not tested?
Worldwide telescope is still best viewed through its fully featured program.
Please Channel 9, address the topic of Bing censoring its search results at the direction of the ( unelected ) government in China. Google is doing the right thing by pushing back against restrictions on the individual's access to information. As it is, I cannot in good conscience use Bing.
Laura, I'm sorry to tell you this but the "name a star after me" thing is a scam.
They are not affiliated with any international body that names stars. They just publish it in their own material and say "look, it's named after you (according only to us)". It would be exactly like me picking up rocks and charging people money to name them and giving them an "official" certificate that it had named it after them.
So I trust you are also not doing business with any other company that plays by the rules China lays down in order to operate there.
I'm sure it's possible to rationalize that a search engine is different than shoes or computer parts but that's a shaky distinction. A company could only do what Google is doing if they don't have much to lose. If Google was splitting the market share with Baidu there is no way they would pull out. As it is they had a very small percentage of the search market.
Compare that to everything MS has in China both now and going forward. It would be irresponsible of them to have to pull Windows, Office and all the rest just because they didn't filter Bing; and Bing has a smaller share of the search market share there than Google.
"... So I trust you are also not doing business with any other company that plays by the rules China lays down in order to operate there. ..."
Granted, I don't have the guts of my convictions to switch to programming google and Linux applications. I don't see the need to not do business with China. ( If the US would only balance its budget it would not have to do things contrary to its morals and beliefs, like disrespecting the Dalai Lama, at the direction of China. )
I see a search engine as much different than other goods and services. The search engine is what people use to get information. If Microsoft works with the Chinese governemtn to censor that information, that is just terrible.


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I love this postcard of St Michael's Mount, Penzance, which was posted to Mrs W J Vice of 222 Clarendon Park Road. Not because of the picture, but because of the message from Hannah expressing her very English dissatisfaction with her holiday. Listen to this:
The weather is just as dull as it was at home. Not much sea and rather a dirty brown. Did you come here as well as Swansea? I forget! There are some nice public gardens but small. Went to the Baptist Chapel twice yesterday. Yours with love Hannah. Penlee Villa, Redinnick, Penzance.
Poor Hannah! I've been to Penzance once and it was lovely, although the sun was shining and I've never been a fan of large public gardens.
Mrs W T Vice was Mary Eliza Vice (also nee Vice, 1857-1927), wife of William Thomas Vice (1862-1942), originally a corn miller from Blaby but by 1911 manager of flour mills for a biscuit manufacturer. They had several children: Samuel (1886), Dorothy Martha (1888-1954), Gladys Mary (1890), Hilda Geraldine (1894-1931), and Marjory (1893) who died in infanthood. All except Dorothy lived at 222 Clarendon Park Road in 1911. I have no evidence for this, but suspect that the Hannah of rubbish holiday fame was William's unmarried sister Hannah Eliza Ann Vice (1854-1928). Virtually all the Vice girls – no pun intended – remained unmarried, and almost the whole Vice family returned to their native Blaby to be buried in the cemetery.
It's a pity Hannah didn't enjoy her holiday more because it was probably the last one she took for a long time. The postcard was sent on 1st September 1913, not long before the onset of World War. My mother in law is off to Penzance in a few weeks – here's wishing her blue skies and a sparkling sea. Regards, Elizabeth.


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March 21, 1918
Dear Mother and Father:
Our company is on guard again and as I have charge of the guard house I am writing this from there. We have twenty one prisoners here now. A couple of them are men I knew then I first came here. Most of the prisoners are here because they took a vacation without permission. It is to "be expected" that right after pay day some men who cant get passes will go anyway.
Usually the punishment consists of a little stay in the guard house and a fine of anything up to fifty dollars. The prisoners aren't so awfully bad but they just haven't got sense enough to behave themselves. Most of them are young boys from eighteen to twenty one. Some of the prisoners complained to me that one of the men needed a bath so badly that he was a nuisance to the rest of them. I investigated and found out that he needed one all right so I sent him with a guard to scrub up.
I have been relieved for a little while so I am writing now at my own desk where I have better light and a better pen. We had a meeting tonight of the sergeants. We have meetings once or twice a week for the purpose of discussing various things in connection with our work. At present they think they want to have a banquet somwhere, either in Junction City or Manhattan. It is hard to find a good place to have those things as there is no place in either town that can really put up a good banquet. At first it was thought that we might have ladies present but that idea has been given up. I don't care a great deal about a banquet myself but if the other men want it I will do whatever they decide.
Next Tuesday evening I am going to Manhattan to spend the evening with the piano teacher I met there some time ago. We played one evening a few weeks ago and spent a very pleasant evening. Some time I am going to make another trip to Topeka. When I do Professor Boughton, the piano teacher at the college and I will spend a little time playing. I get so little chance here to play with a piano that I am always glad to go somewhere where I can play.
When I got back here this evening I found Mother's letter waiting here. I was glad to get it and the music clippings. I wish I could hear some good music around here once in a while. None of the towns down here patronize concerts at all. Kreisler gave a receital in Topeka three years ago and it was a financial failure. I see that Kreisler has retired until after the war. I hope it won't be very long before he will be able to appear again.
The weather has been so fine the last week that grass and trees and bushes have begun to turn green. In some places the grass is quite thick. On Sundays especially, I often wish I had my Betsy here. Last year at this time I used to ride around every Sunday. Perhaps if we are here a while yet I may get a chance to get away and sell it. I really wish I had sold it last year when I had a chance. I don't know what they are selling for this year or whether they are hard to get or not. I see a number of new ones running around so I guess Ford is still turning them out the same as ever. There are a lot of Fords here in Kansas but not so many as in Iowa. The state of Iowa has the largest number of automobiles for its population of any state in the union and I guess most of them are Fords.
It has started to rain a little bit tonight. That is the first moisture of any sort that we have had for a couple of months. The rivers around here are very low for this time of year. Usually they are up high and overflowing their banks, causing quite a little damage.
Our company is still plugging away at its drilling and classes. It has improved a lot lately and has turned out to be a very fine organization. The men have shown a lot of improvement in their work and themselves and the company is being run with a good deal of system. We are known around the camp for being a good company and other companies often come to us for advice and information and copy our ways of doing things.
I understand that five new evacuation hospital companies are being formed here. I also understand that Ft. Riley is going to be turned into a cavalry camp in a couple of months and that all medical organizations will be sent to some other camp. I don't know whether we will be here by then or not. I wouldn't mind going somewhere else for a change if we had to stay in America that long.
Well, pretty soon I must go back and take care of the poor prisoners. So good night.
Love from
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The CW is looking to add another DC Comics character to its stable of superheroes. The network behind Arrow is now developing the script Hourman, based on characters that first appeared in 1940.
Hourman centers on a "brilliant yet troubled" pharmaceutical analyst who discovers that he can see glimpses of tragic events about to occur one hour into the future. "Determined to win back his ex-wife and son, he heroically prevents these tragedies from unfolding, finding both purpose and redemption along the way," the network says.
Dan Lin (Gangster Squad) and Jennifer Gwartz will executive produce through their Lin Pictures production company at Warner Bros. TV. Michael Caleo, who most recently executive produced NBC's short-lived Ironside adaptation, will write the script.
Hourman is just the latest in a string of superheroes in development at the CW. The network is also adding The Flash to Arrow this season, with an eye toward a spinoff. Outside of the DC universe, The CW also recently started developing the script The Avenger, based on the 1939 pulp novel series, to be executive produced by Neal Baer (Under the Dome).


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HIV/AIDS News
Statement from Claude Lenfant, M.D., Director, National Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute, on AZT and Cardiac Damage in Infants
Since 1994, Zidovudine, or AZT, has been the officially recommended therapy for preventing the maternal to child transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) throughout the industrialized world, and its use has been associated with a sharp decline in the incidence of AIDS in children. In the U.S., the drop in pediatric AIDS during this period has been more than 60 percent.
However, several recent studies have suggested that the use of AZT to prevent the spread of HIV from mother to child may result in cardiac abnormalities in children. Now new data from an NHLBI pediatric AIDS study provide reassuring evidence that AZT is not associated with any significant negative clinical effects on the heart. These data show no significant differences in cardiac function between children exposed to AZT and those not exposed, regardless of their HIV status.
The data are from the NHLBI's "Pediatric Pulmonary and Cardiovascular Complications of Vertically Transmitted HIV Infection (P2C2) Study." They are published in the paper on "Absence of Cardiac Toxicity of Zidovudine (AZT) in Infants" that appears in the September 14, 2000 issue of the "New England Journal of Medicine".
Although observational data suggest that other agents may prevent maternal to child HIV transmission, controlled studies of these agents have not been conducted, and we know little about their safety profiles. One such agent, nevirapine, has been suggested as an effective therapy in countries where pregnant women have limited access to prenatal care and may benefit from a simpler regimen.
Until such time as another agent is identified that can match the record of AZT in preventing maternal to child HIV transmission, the new data strongly suggest that the benefits of using AZT outweigh any possible cardiac risks to the infant, and physicians should continue using this therapy to treat pregnant women with HIV.
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Rock group Aerosmith had been in the news in the last year with lead singer Steven Tyler's rumored departure from the band and his new role as "American Idol" judge. But it looks like the dust has now settled as the band is now looking ahead towards the future. In fact, Aerosmith guitarist Brad Whitford told Billboard.com that he sees the connection with "Idol" "a good thing for the band" and is looking forward to the band possibly appearing on the show.
"I keep waiting for that phone call," Whitford ssaid. "I haven't heard anything yet, but my guess is... certainly if I was a producer on that show, I'd want to see that happen. I think it could be cool. It would be a great way to introduce [Tyler] to the show and to the audience that watches that show."
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"That's what the band has been talking about. Obviously we'll have to work a little bit around Steven's television schedule, but he's ready to do it and he's pretty confident he can do this record, so hopefully we can get some of that new music out next year."
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Axium snack factory damaged by blaze
Axium Foods, located in South Beloit, Illinois, produces snack foods for private-label customers as well as under its own brands. The firm was founded in 1960.
Quick reaction
President Jerry Stokely told FoodProductionDaily personnel inside the facility when the fire struck at 5:30am on Sunday, January 5, were able to help get the fire under control.
"Our team responded to the fire by following our emergency protocols, performed emergency shutdown procedures and evacuated the building," he said. "First responders from the city fire department arrived in a very short period of time."
Stokely added the South Beloit Fire Department quelled the fire and released the building back to Axium Foods management approximately two hours after they first arrived on the scene. Also, despite the scope of the fire, no one was injured.
"Given the amount of activity, this is truly amazing," he said. "We wish to express our gratitude to the brave fire fighters that responded in our time of need; they are truly appreciated."
The cause of the fire has yet to be determined. While South Beloit fire chief Ken Morse estimated damages could run up to $2m, Stokely said it is too early to tell the actual extent.
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Axium Foods expects to return to partial production (approximately 80%) on January 9, Stokely told FPD. He added bringing the facility back to full production could take a few weeks longer; the sub-zero temperatures hitting the Midwest have also been a factor.
Staff at the facility are still in the process of assessing the extent of the damage, the effects of which appear to be confined to one processing line, according to Stokely. Technicians from BMS CAT, a Texas-based disaster restoration company, are aiding with cleanup and equipment recovery.
Setting priorities
Stokely told FPD while Axium Foods is working hard to get back up to full speed, its top priority is its people.
"Our first order of business is to ensure the safety and security of our team members, and our second is to meet the obligations to our customers," Stokely said. "This is an especially busy period for our retail partners, and we will do everything to ensure they receive their orders."


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Identity thieves may be living large—watching HBO, running the AC nonstop and taking long showers—all on your dime. Learn about utility fraud and how to protect yourself in this Q&A with Brett Montgomery, a fraud operations manager at IDentity Theft 911′s Resolution Center.
What is utility fraud and how does it affect consumers?
Utility fraud comes in several flavors. The most common involves the opening of a fraudulent account — for cable, electricity, water or gas — in a consumer's name without their knowledge. One reason this type of fraud is so common is that it's so easy. Very little information is needed to open a utility account — a name, phone number, and service address are usually enough, and in any case, the service address belongs to the criminal. It's really much too simple.
Another reason utility fraud is so prevalent is that it takes a long time to discover. In most cases, there's no way for the victim to know that an account has been opened in his or her name. The fraudulent account often is opened with another service provider in another city or state—and even after an account goes to collections for nonpayment, it can be months or years before a collection agency can track down the supposed account holder. By that time, the criminal is long gone.
What can consumers do to protect themselves against utility fraud?
This is a tough question because the crime itself is so easy to commit. In general, we give the same advice for utility fraud as for other forms of account fraud: Don't expose your personal information, and watch your accounts and credit reports for anything suspicious. Shredding bills and other documents before you dispose of them is especially important. A lot of the information used in utility fraud is simply pulled from the victim's trash.
But the truth is that while you can take measures to protect yourself, this crime cannot be prevented. We have had cases where consumers who regularly check their credit reports still had no idea that accounts had been opened and services rendered in their name. Why? Because the accounts aren't reported until they reach collections — and even then, they have to find the consumer before they can report it.
Because so little information is required to open the account in the first place, connecting those dots can take a very long time. To make things worse, the criminals are using their own address as the service address, so collection notices go to the criminal, not the consumer. The result is that the victim remains in the dark.
What are the different types of utility fraud?
Cable accounts are actually the No. 1 type of utility fraud we see, followed by the opening of fraudulent household electricity and gas accounts. We see fraudulent accounts being opened with all the major cable providers — Dish, Comcast, DirectTV — and at this point, they know us well.
These cases can be tricky for consumers to resolve, because you really have to know the process. It can be hard for a consumer even to get to the right department. Dealing with the documentation and other requirements for getting the fraudulent account removed can be confusing and time-consuming for the average consumer.
One fact worth noting is that utility fraud hits about 15 percent of senior citizens.
How are these cases resolved?
Trying to clear it up is difficult. A consumer basically needs about twice as much information to clear their name as they would need to open an account in the first place. To do that, there are three documents that are essential from the point of view of the utility company:
- A police report to show that the crime has been reported.
- A sworn affidavit from the victim attesting to the facts in the case.
- Proof of a current utility service with the dates of service.
Beyond that, the more documentation, the better. We recommend when notifying the utility company that you ask them, "What do you need?"
Most utility companies are satisfied to have the consumer complete the standard affidavit provided by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). But some utilities require that the consumer use their own form for the affidavit.
Are there other utility-related scams that people should know about?
The AARP has a solid list of utility scams that's worth checking out. One common scam uses spoofing software to manipulate the information that appears via Caller ID to make it look like the call is coming from a utility company. When you answer, the caller tells you that your account is past due, then offers to have you take care of it right then and there — all you have to do is give them your credit or debit card information. Needless to say, if your bill really was unpaid, it will stay that way.
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