text: Paul Hughes' legend has grown as possibly the greatest baseball player to swing a bat at Boston State College. Whether it was his majestic home runs, such as the 480-foot blast at Bowen Field, which was the longest homer hit there, or the fact that major league scouts would routinely attend Warriors' games to see him play. Hughes was a stellar center fielder, covering enough ground to play all three outfield spots during a game, but could also swing the lumber with a .323 (71-220) career batting average to rank among Boston State's all-time greats. He was the catalyst of the 1960 team that won the New England Teachers College Conference Championship and advanced to the NAIA National Tournament, leading the squad with a .383 batting mark and a school-record 20 runs scored as a sophomore. He helped the Warriors to a 35-18-1 (.657) record over his four-year career from 1959-62 and batted .300 or better in each season, while being named a Captain for his senior campaign. Hughes graduated in 1962 and is Boston State's career leader in run scored (49), triples (nine), runs batted in (51), slugging percentage (.588) and games played (54). Hughes spent summers among the league leaders in various semi-pro leagues in such places as Nova Scotia and South Dakota and after his graduation played in the legendary Boston Park League. He earned his masters degree from Boston State, while teaching and coaching baseball at Oliver Ames High School for 20 years and has spent the last 20 years as a Training Manager for Stone & Webster, the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is also a recipient of the laboratory's legendary Milestone Award for establishing the first college degree program for nuclear reactor operators.


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Fast-growing wildfire forces evacuations near the town of Weaverville in Northern California
WEAVERVILLE, Calif. – A fast-growing wildfire in Northern California has forced the evacuation of about 150 homes near of the historic town of Weaverville.
State fire spokesman Daniel Berlant says the fire was sparked Sunday afternoon near a highway west of Weaverville. It rapidly grew to a little more than 1 square mile, or 650 acres.
Berlant said gusty winds and extremely dry conditions were fueling the flames.
He said 150 homes north of the town were threatened by the fire.
Firefighters were hampered by the winds and the steep terrain.
Weaverville is at the base of the Trinity Alps Wilderness area in Trinity County.

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UPDATE: The House voted 148-1 to suspend rules so it can take up the water measure Wednesday. The lone "no" was Rep. David Simpson, R-Longview
Throwing another curve into budget negotiations, the House decided Tuesday to wait another day to consider the proposed constitutional amendment to create a water funding structure.
The move will require suspending rules and pushes efforts to finalize a budget deal perilously close to the May 27 end of the legislative session. House leaders said they plan a vote to suspend rules this evening, in advance of the planned vote on Wednesday.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands, huddled with other senators and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst before Williams charged down the steps of the Senate dais and headed to the House. He spoke with a group including Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, then left.
Days after legislative negotiators announced a budget deal, action has stalled while the House and Senate try to finalize details. House Democrats have said they want to ensure that an agreed-upon extra $200 million for public education is added by the Senate to a supplemental spending bill, as promised.
That supplemental budget measure, House Bill 1025, also will be the vehicle for $2 billion in funding for water infrastructure – assuming the House passes the separate, now-delayed measure, Senate Joint Resolution 1, to set up the constitutionally dedicated structure that will hold the money.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie, said Tuesday evening that Republicans and Democrats have told him they want to see what is in HB1025. He noted there are many moving parts to the budget agreement, and he said the Senate is adding amendments and substitute language during floor debate.
"We met with the Senate this morning about House Bill 1025. We have not seen that bill yet," Pitts said. "We would like to have an opportunity to review that bill."
Asked whether House leaders had informed the Senate about the planned delay, Pitts said, "By the reaction, I don't guess we did."


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Team Australia
Welcome to Team Australia
Team Australia is the Sydney based ORMA 60 trimaran owned and skippered by renowned yachtsman Sean Langman and is also the name given to the racing team behind this extreme multihull. Team Australia's design and speeds are like nothing else seen in Australian waters. Team Australia weighs in at 5.7 tons and has a length and beam of 60 feet. Setting passage and race records is the team's raison d'être.
In February 2013, the radical multihull set a new record of 29 hours 52 minutes and 23 seconds for sailing the famous stretch of water between Sydney and Hobart. This passage record has now been ratified by the World Sailing Speed Record Council. Over the 630 nautical miles, Team Australia averaged 22 knots and reached a top speed of 39.6 knots.The former French-owned trimaran was repeatedly raced hard across the North Atlantic and won the doublehanded Transat Jacques Vabre from France to Brazil.Team Australia's base is Noakes Boat and Shipyards North Sydney where it is expertly maintained and prepared for all planned Southern Hemisphere passage and race records.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
McGriff Pennance, Overestimating Overbay, and the First Base Pantheon
In the midst of a bit of preemptive nostalgia for the presumably departing Lyle Overbay, we shot out a quick tweet last week speculating on the order of the pantheon of Blue Jays first basemen over the years: "Carlos, Olerud, Upshaw, Lyle. Right?"
Boy, were we wrong, and didn't you let us know it. We got dozens of responses that night (which we didn't see for another day or so) quite rightly haranguing us for leaving out Fred McGriff from that list. It was an honest oversight from a tired and overworked lad who had barely thought the notion through before he tossed it out.
That oversight shouldn't be regarded as a slight towards McGriff, nor should it be interpreted as an indication of our lack of regard for his contributions to the Jays. You might not remember it, but in the eve of last year's 17th/18th Anniversary Notalgia Orgy for the World Series teams, we made a bit of an impassioned plea for recognition of McGriff's part in the team's success in the late '80's.
Still, the backlash against our omission of McGriff (as well as John Mayberry, which is another good point) got us to thinking a little more about that pantheon of first baggers.
Looking back over the history of the team, there were really only six players who held down the position for any length of time: Mayberry, Upshaw, McGriff, Olerud, Delgado and Overbay. (Shea Hillenbrand and Eric Hinske need not apply here.) And a casual look back at their numbers (mostly OPS and OPS+) suggest that in our rush to canonize Lyle, we may have inadvertently underscored his underwhelming performance in comparison to those other names.
Here's what you get when you take that glance.
Career OPS as a Blue Jay:
Delgado - .949 (in 12 years, 1423 games and 6018 plate appearances)
McGriff - .919 (5 years, 578 games, 2322 PAs)
Olerud - .866 (8 years, 920 games, 3689 PAs)
Mayberry - .802 (5 years, 549 games, 2102 PAs)
Overbay - .800 (5 years, 693 games, 2731 PAs)
Upshaw - .762 (9 years, 1115 games and 4172 PAs)
OPS+ as a Jay:
McGriff - 153
Delgado - 142
Olerud - 130
Mayberry - 119
Overbay - 111
Upshaw - 104
(We'd love to supplement this with WAR as a Jay, but we haven't quite figured out that trick. Yet.)
So on that cursory look, you'd almost be left with the impression that Overbay rates as the second worst regular first baseman in the franchise history. (And don't even get us started on how Willie Upshaw has somehow become a legend in retrospect. We love the guy, but we clearly have no perspective on him.)
But don't get us wrong: We're not calling Overbay a bad player, and we're not going to go down the road of calling him out for not being a bigger power threat because "you gotta have that from your first baseman, right?" Lyle's greatest strength was his defense, which is hard to account for, though our memory tells us we'd rate him at the top of the list. (With a caveat that our remembrances of John Mayberry are vague at best.)
Still, looking at the top line numbers for those six guys, it's hard not to be left with the impression that our affection for Lylo and our desire to push him as one of the greats might have something to do with his historical proximity, and our desire to want to think kindly of him as we send him out into the world.
13 comments:
- Darren Priest said...
Wow, glad I can say I watched the greatest 1B the Jays ever had. Is not signing Delgado the actual biggest blunder of the Ricciardi years?
- August 25, 2010 at 10:54 AM
- Peter D said...
Not signing Delgado may not be the biggest blunder for Ricciardi, but you combine that with not trading him earlier and not offering him arbitration, and you may have a case.
- August 25, 2010 at 11:02 AM
- NoisyFlowers said...
Are you really sure Overbay's defense was better than Olerud's?
- August 25, 2010 at 12:41 PM
- Patrick said...
According to Baseball Reference:
WAR as a Blue Jay (may include some time not as 1B)
Delgado: 33.8
Olerud: 21.2
McGriff: 18.9
Overbay: 12.6
Upshaw: 10.5
Mayberry: 2.9
- August 25, 2010 at 3:00 PM
- Patrick said...
@ NoisyFlowers
Again by Baseball Reference
Total Zone Rating per 1200 innings (career, not just with Jays):
Overbay: 9
Olerud: 7
Upshaw: 5
McGriff: -2
Mayberry: -2
Delgado: -3
- August 25, 2010 at 3:08 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Interesting that Olerud's WAR puts him ahead of McGriff.
And if you consider those defensive metrics (which might be entirely made up), I think you could safely put Overbay in 4th, ahead of Mayberry.
- August 25, 2010 at 4:01 PM
- Darren Priest said...
The WAR vs TZR kinda says it all re: Overbay sucks. I like Overbay (I guess), but Delgado is the archetypal 1B that everyone wants. Not everyone gets to have a Delgado, though.
- August 25, 2010 at 4:18 PM
- Patrick said...
Quick food for thought:
Olerud 35.2
Delgado 34.3
Delgado 10.4
Hinske+Overbay 11.8
Not saying letting Carlos go for nothing was smart, but the loss of production wasn't as bad as one might think. And hardly worse than dumping Olerud was.
- August 25, 2010 at 6:42 PM
- Patrick said...
I should admit that the Olerud/Delgado comparison isn't fair. It really was those two versus Carter (WAR -1.2 in his last year with the Jays)
- August 25, 2010 at 7:02 PM
- Beleaguered Sports Fan said...
Olerud's tenure is so nebulous that it's easy to overlook his eligibility into the pantheon. He started out in the great spending spree of '06, and obviously expectations died down after the decline of B.J. et. al. He managed to linger long enough to be part of the great optimism of '10 (but it never felt like he was part of that group). And in between, there's this solid body of work. The only knock against him for me is the Pearl Jam intros. I can't think of the word "Overbay" without hearing "at home drawing pictures...of mountaintops..."
- August 26, 2010 at 12:05 AM
I meant Overbay :)
- August 26, 2010 at 12:13 AM
- Alex said...
Delgado could have DH'd too from 2005-2009 or so
- August 26, 2010 at 1:23 PM
- eyebleaf said...
Fantastic post. Not looking forward to seeing Delgado in a BoSox uniform.
- August 27, 2010 at 1:04 AM


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His legal arguments were subtly presented applications to specific problems of a classic liberal philosophy which, in turn, was grounded in his belief that law must take its authority from what ordinary people would recognise as moral virtue....
Perhaps Dworkin's greatest achievement was his insistence on a rights-based theory of law, expounded in his first and most influential book, Taking Rights Seriously (1977), in which he proposed an alternative both to Hart's legal positivism and to the newly minted theories of the Harvard philosopher of law John Rawls....Read the whole thing. Click on the Dworkin tag to see what we were saying about him while he was alive.
He remained an unapologetic, indeed proud, liberal Democrat, unshaken in his loyalty to the New Deal tradition set by his hero Franklin D Roosevelt, even as such ideas became less and less widely held. It is possible that this shifting of the political centre of gravity under him deprived him of a more prominent career as a public intellectual.
When I went to law school beginning in 1978, at NYU — where Dworkin taught — nothing was taken more seriously than "Taking Rights Seriously." That was just before the outburst that was Critical Legal Studies, in a time and a place where we were expected to believe that rights were real. Shame on you if you suspected they were inventions of judges.


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Watch a Young Kanye West at Jermaine Dupri's 1998 Birthday Party
Wow! A 14-year-old video interview of a young Murda Ma$e and Kanye West recently surfaced online and it's mind-boggling to see. Filmed during Jermaine Dupri's birthday party in September 1998, Ma$e and Yeezy looked like teenagers at a high school dance.
Ma$e, who was the prince of Diddy's Bad Boy Records at the time, was being interviewed by Coodie (of directing duo Coodie & Chike) about his new rap group Harlem World. After dodging questions about rumors of sexing Brandy, Ma$e passes the mic to a young and almost unrecognizable Kanye.
Even back then 'Ye was dressing real fly with his circular gold frames, dress shirt and blazer. Kanye seemed happy as a clam and enjoying the spotlight, which is totally unlike him today. He grabs the mic from Coodie and goes on to shout out Harlem World and his homies from Chicago. "Chi-town represent. Somebody from the crib made it down here, boy!" he yells.
If you didn't know, Kanye produced a couple of tracks on Harlem World's debut album 'The Movement.' The song Kanye references to with Nas is called 'You Made Me" and is track No. 2 on the album
After their debut album, Harlem World disbanded and was never heard from again, while Kanye went on to become a world famous super-producer. Check out the the humble beginnings of Mr. West. You gotta love the Internet, folks.


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iPhone 6s Cables
お持ちの iPhone 6s モデルを選択:
iPhone 6sで使用されているパーツ:
iPhone 6s Lightning Connector and Headphone Jack
This assembly includes the lightning connector, two microphones, and the headphone jack, and is compatible with all iPhone 6s models (not iPhone 6, 6 Plus, or 6s Plus).
Lightning to USB Charging Cable
Charge or sync lightning port equipped portable Apple devices
iPhone 6s Home Button Assembly
This assembly includes the home button and home button cable and is compatible with the iPhone 6s.
iPhone 6s Front Camera and Sensor Cable
This cable assembly includes the front camera, secondary microphone, ambient light and proximity sensors.
iPhone 6s Audio Control Cable and Brackets
This cable connects the volume buttons and vibrate/ring switch to the logic board. It is compatible with all iPhone 6s models (Not iPhone 6, 6 Plus, or 6s plus).
iPhone 6s Front Panel Assembly Cable Bracket
Fix a loose connection causing a malfunctioning display, digitizer, or camera by replacing a bent or missing metal bracket securing the front panel assembly cable connect...
iPhone 6s Upper Cable Bracket
Fix a loose connection causing an unresponsive volume or power button by replacing a bent or missing metal bracket securing the audio control and power button cable conne...
iPhone 6s NFC Bracket
Fix your phone's connection to near-field communication with other devices for contactless payment systems or for sharing photos and files by replacing a damaged or torn ...
The successor to the iPhone 6, the iPhone 6s was formally announced by Apple on September 9, 2015 and released September 25, 2015. Notable features include 3D Touch, Live Photos, the new A9 processor and M9 coprocessor as well as the Taptic Engine, previously only seen in the Apple Watch. The iSight camera is now 12 MP and sports the ability to shoot 4K video while the FaceTime camera has been upgraded to an impressive 5 MP.
Apple estimates that the iPhone 6s provides "up to" 50 hours of audio playback, 14 hours of talk time on 3G, 10 hours of Internet use on 3G, 10 hours of Internet use on LTE, 11 hours of Internet use on Wi-Fi, 11 hours of video playback and "up to" 10 days of standby time.
There are three models of the iPhone 6s. Model A1633 is sold in the US optionally locked to AT&T or offered unlocked, contract free for several carriers like T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint. Model A1688 is sold in the US for Sprint and Verizon or for T-Mobile with a nano-SIM, and for a wide variety of carriers in Canada, Europe, Asia, and elsewhere worldwide. Model A1700 is sold for mainland China.


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1835 … James Snowden was born in Cowling, West Yorkshire. His parents were James Snowden and Elizabeth Ogden. He is the brother in law of my 2nd great grand uncle.
1853 … Dinah Dawson was born in Cowling, West Yorkshire. Her parents were James Wright Dawson and Mary Thompson. She is my 2nd cousin 3x removed.


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It isn't a full-blown gadget, just a LUA script. I took basic measurements of various acoustic guitar body shapes and set up the LUA script to create the bezier curves using ratios or percentages. This allowed me to experiment with the shapes using more of a mathematical approach.
It assumes the project is 24x24 with the XY datum position in the center of the material. It is set up to do one body design, but I have other shapes in the comment section.
To run the script:
1. Open a new project 24x24x0.5 with the XY datum position in the center of the material
2. open the LUA script using Notepad or Notepad++, or some other script editor
3. In Notepad Select all the text of the LUA script using Edit/Select All or <ctrl>A
4. In VCarve or Aspire select Edit/Paste or <ctrl>V
I've attached a ZIP file with the LUA script and a CRV job with 5 different shapes with the associated molds, forms, and spreaders for the waist and upper and lower bouts.


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I came across a post made by Jeff Hoogland on his blog back in March. I never was much of a KDE user myself, but I recall how fast and stable it was in early Sabayon 3.
If you didn know it yet, KDE 3 has been removed from Gentoo Portage tree a while back. Same goes for Qt version 3 and the qt3 useflag.
Being removed from Portage tree does not mean it isn't available anymore, actually, it still is and is being maintained too!
Everything got moved out tree into the sunset overlay.
I went ahead investigate what it would take to get it running on a current Sabayon 6 installation.
Sync Portage tree and add the sunset overlay:
emerge --sync
layman -a kde-sunset
Now I noticed that so far the only "big" change would be that I needed avahi from kde-sunset overlay. Since kdelibs:3.5 has a dependency on avahi with qt3 useflag.
Look at /etc/portage/package.use and add the qt3 useflag to the avahi entry so it looks like this:
net-dns/avahi howl-compat mdnsresponder-compat dbus gdbm -gtk python autoipd -qt4 qt3
Now we can go ahead and merge kde-base/kdebase-startkde. I tend to always install this one instead of kde-meta. It makes a nice minimal KDE installation.
Remember that you can use Entropy to install additional build tools, to keep as much insync with Entropy.
emerge -av kdebase-startkde:3.5
And there you have it!
Notice the :3.5 I used here. This is NOT a version it is a SLOT.
If you later want to install additional KDE 3.5 programs, e.g. ksnapshot or konsole do it like this:
emerge -av konsole:3.5
emerge -av ksnapshot:3.5
For Entropy users:
Mask avahi, otherwise Entropy will pull in the Entropy version (without the qt3 flag enabeld/available)
equo mask avahi
Finally sync Entropy database, so it is aware of the changes you made:
equo rescue spmsync


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One very important decision you'll have to make when you begin offering your second home as a vacation rental is whether you'll allow guests to bring their beloved pets along with them. It's so important, in fact, that virtually every VR-advertising site you sign up with will prompt you to answer the question: Pet Friendly, Yes or No?
But it's actually a bit more complicated than that. And whatever you decide, your stated "pet policy" will definitely cost you bookings. It has happened to us on numerous occasions.
Saying No to Fido and Fifi
The pattern is always the same. We clearly state in all of our online listings that we do not accept pets—which is undoubtedly why pet owners wait until everything else has been agreed upon before saying, "Oh, by the way, we have a small, well-behaved [fill in the dog breed] that never barks or causes any trouble." It's always the last thing they mention, usually after two or three email exchanges or phone conversations, as though it just occurred to them to tell us about their four-legged traveling companion.
A recent refusal to accept a guest's "precious little housebroken toy Maltese" cost us a four-week booking. On the other hand, it may have also spared us from having to deal with "accidents" on our Oriental rugs, claw marks on the upholstery, gnawing of chair legs, and heaven knows what regarding our pillows and bedding.
There's also the fact that establishing such a policy (and sticking to it) undoubtedly makes our property more attractive to prospective guests with animal allergies. Pet dander—especially from cats—can cause eyes to water and throats to itch, even when the animal is no longer present. (Alfred, who also gets hay fever, can attest to this.) That's why the vast majority of VR owners who advertise their properties as being "Pet Friendly" really mean "Dog Friendly." They welcome dogs but refuse to accept cats (and most other types of pets, for that matter).
Surviving and Thriving with Pet-Friendly Vacation Rentals
For our rather elegant Colonial Williamsburg-style VR property, we've decided that a strict "No Pets Policy" works best for us. But we have some friends who've taken a completely different approach and been enormously successful with it.
Rick and Debbie Scali are dog lovers. They have two Miniature Schnauzers and wouldn't dream of going on vacation without them. "We've traveled with our pets for years," says Rick, "and some of the places we stayed were less than clean. It was obvious by the smell that they allowed pets. We vowed when we started our vacation-rental business that all of our homes would be both pet priendly and squeaky clean."
In 2003, the Scalis launched their VR business, Easy Street Vacation Rentals (www.easystreetvacationrentals.com) in Destin, Florida. Today, with four properties of their own and another 20 they manage for other owners, Rick and Debbie promote their site as offering the "largest selection of quality pet-friendly vacation homes on the Emerald Coast." They get lots of repeat business and great reviews.
What's the secret to their success? As Rick and Debbie explain at their website, "It helps to have great housekeeping personnel who do a thorough cleaning after each visitor. In the seven plus years we've been managing our pet-friendly accommodations, we can count on one hand the number of "pet issues" we have had. And our non-pet-owner guests cannot tell we're pet friendly by the look, the smell, and the condition of our homes."
A Range of "Pet Friendly" Possibilities
We've presented the two ends of the spectrum on pet policies: We accept no pets of any sort at our vacation-rental property. Rick and Debbie Scali not only allow pets but actively market the properties they own and manage to dog lovers.
Is there anything in between? Sure! You own the property, so you can set the policy. For example, you might want to accept dogs, but only those that weigh less than 25 pounds. You'll also want to consider whether to place a limit on the number of pets you will allow your guests to bring. It isn't uncommon for pet owners to have not one but two dogs, because they like to play together.
Whatever the details, it's very important to create and present a clearly worded pet policy for your vacation-rental property. (Click here to read the one the Scalis have crafted for their Destin properties, and here for an excellent article on what to cover in your pet policy.)
Spreading the Word to Pet Lovers
One final point: If you decide to welcome pets to your VR property, be sure to update your listings on VRBO.com, HomeAway.com, or whatever sites you're currently using to promote your property. You might also want to consider seeking out and creating listings on sites that cater to pet owners, like PetsWelcome (www.petswelcome.com), PetFriendlyTravel (www.petfriendlytravel.com), and DogFriendly (www.dogfriendly.com).
Happy Renting!
Alfred and Emily Glossbrenner
Alfred and Emily Glossbrenner are the founders of FullyBookedRentals (www.fullybookedrentals.com), a website focused on helping new and experienced VR owners advertise, market, manage, and make money from their second homes. They also own and operate a very successful vacation-rental property in Bucks County, Pennsylvania (www.buckscountycottage.com).


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As Greg Johnson was dealing with a serious illness in his family, the thought came to him, light as a feather, that along with his grief and worry, he was feeling bolstered by something powerful, but unexpected.
Gratitude for all that this family member had taught him. Gratitude for the love and support expressed by close friends and colleagues.
Then another realization dawned. That gratitude had grown up in an unlikely place. It had a lot to do with a class he had recently taken that allowed him to look at his life in a fresh way.
The class, called "Creativity and Personal Mastery," is taught by Srikumar Rao. It's been known to change lives, as Mr. Johnson and many others can attest.
Though dealing with the family illness has been tough, Johnson says, "The idea of being grateful for so much is just coming naturally." Speaking of Dr. Rao's class, which Johnson took last year, he adds: "It's changed my approach to my job and my life."
That Rao's course leaves a deep impression on students is fitting, since it was a student who changed Rao's own life. The college professor was trudging along in the early 1990s doing unsatisfying academic work at a not-famous university and was, as Rao concedes, "really feeling sorry for myself."
One day a student came up to ask him a question. With his usual candor, Rao says he thought at the time, "What a stupid student."
Subsequently, Rao learned that the student was holding down two jobs, as well as attending classes. His disdain turned to compassion.
"I thought, 'I should be grateful,' and realized it was my job to see if I could truly excite her and the other students," he recalls.
In the wink of an eye, a professor was reborn. Rao has gone on to have extraordinary success developing and teaching the class, which his students just call CPM.
Rao became something of a rock star in the world of MBA programs, taking his course to Columbia Business School in New York in 1999, and subsequently to the London Business School in England and the Haas Business School at the University of California, Berkeley. In each place, the course made waves and generated extraordinary testimonials.
Last year, Rao moved his class into the private sector, with no full-time affiliation with a university. His students today are often already established in corporate America, at a point in their careers when Rao figures his approach might have maximum impact.
The class is about forging new attitudes and ways of thinking, embracing new "mental models," he says, and ultimately reaping rewards of greater happiness in both work and personal lives.
In Johnson's case, one of those lessons began when Rao presented a segment on gratitude. Johnson recalls hearing that everybody has a choice of how they react to events. There are always things worthy of gratitude, no matter how seemingly dire the situation.
Discussion and small-group exercises followed – a standard method in the class, which usually numbers about 30 people. The students were asked to identify two or three things each night for which they were grateful.
"We were told to really think about it, let it really resonate, not just tick them off," Johnson says. Each student was to pay close attention the next day to "how this changes you, and how you experience other people, and how they experience you," he says.
Others have felt similar stirrings in their lives. "It definitely has changed my definition of success," says Randall Shuken, a top executive at MasterCard Worldwide. Mr. Shuken took the three-month course last spring and found it a welcome immersion in deeper ideas about career, service, personal goals, and even identity.
"It allows you a moment to stop and not let events and expectations control you," he says.
Rao himself has a corporate background. He worked in the executive ranks of Warner Communications and Data Resources before moving full time into teaching.
Over a dinner of Indian food one evening, he talked about his own motivations. "Most large companies are toxic places, and it's my vision to make them less so."
The course syllabus demonstrates the breadth and depth of the ideas Rao explores in his class. Readings range from Kahlil Gibran to George Bernard Shaw to the Bible to legendary college basketball coach John Wooden.
Patrick Barwise was instrumental in bringing Rao's class to the London Business School in 2005. At the time, Dr. Barwise chaired the school's marketing department. The assessments he received about Rao's class were "exceptionally high," he said in a recent e-mail exchange.
A self-proclaimed skeptic of self-help programs, Barwise became convinced that "this wasn't snake oil." After seeing the class in action for four years, he says, "the course met my high expectations."
Rao, author of "Happiness at Work," as well as an earlier book, "Are You Ready to Succeed?" wants students to become aware of the "mental models" that habitually frame the way they think about almost everything.
He explores the "if, then" model, as in, "If I had more money, then I would be happier"; or "If my boss were nicer, I would enjoy my work." That model is flawed, he says, because it always puts some external condition – the "if" – in control of the outcome.
Students praise the class for devoting ample time to exercises and tools they can use. Rao's course even has its own alumni association, so "graduates" can seek out others for support. "He actually gets students to challenge the status quo, to look differently at career, job decisions, and life in general," says Adam Berman, who heads the New Leadership Development Series at Berkeley's business school. Mr. Berman asks Rao to speak at Berkeley. Students leave with "a new way to define success and failure," he says.
If Rao's concepts sound simple, Johnson says, that is because basic truths often are. "My biggest takeaway from the class is that all the most important things in life are simple," he says. "But they are not necessarily easy."
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Virtualization: Enabling Availability and Efficiency in Higher Education
Imagine a school where computer labs are obsolete. Imagine if every student had their own personalized workspace, without having to rely on their school's computers. Imagine if schools or colleges could avoid upgrading, maintaining, and housing thousands of computer units; network administrators could update programs and information available on every student's device with the click of a button, and students could use their personalized desktops at anytime from anywhere. Many institutions around the world are beginning to embrace technologies that transform this dream into a reality, and often times, this transformation is one made out of necessity.
I'm currently third year student at the University of Oregon and a Cisco intern. I support Cisco's Education Marketing Team. While at Cisco, I've been able to observe many forward-thinking higher education institutions and compare their initiatives to my own education experiences. The following passage notes the successes had by two higher education institutions when implementing virtualization programs into their IT systems.
The current economic crisis has sent large numbers of students to community college for job re-training or as a lower-cost alternative to traditional four-year colleges. This massive influx of students has put enormous pressure on technology supporting these systems. MiraCosta College is one of those. A 20,000-student institution located in Southern California, MiraCosta recently struggled to provide students with specialized software programs for their coursework, and these programs were only available in the school's computer labs. Due to the increased number of students, many individuals were unable to schedule lab time. The college implemented a virtualization program to allow students to access a personalized desktop from campus, home, or around the corner at a coffee shop. Installing Cisco's Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI) based on Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) enabled the institution to consolidate server space and virtualize nearly 95 percent of the campus. Students now have anytime access to all of the programs that they need. They don't need to go to a computer lab to obtain access. Plus, the school has actually saved money by consolidating server space, and they are now able to centrally manage the formerly dispersed system.
"This technology has really enabled us to meet next-generation student needs. We strongly feel that we are moving into a new era of technology infrastructure and computing."
Steve Schultz- Technical Services Coordinator, MiraCosta College
Tennessee is another state strained by an increase in community college demand. Volunteer (Vol) State Community College in Gallatin needed to provide better access to resources for a growing number of students. Concurrently, the state passed legislation that reduced community college appropriations by 15 percent, and additional legislation called for delivery of remedial and developmental courses in math, reading, and English. System officials needed to find a way to make more school desktops available for incoming students while drastically altering the curriculum…all with a decreased budget.
Chief Information Officer, Brian Kraus, set out to find solutions for these imperatives. At the time, Kraus was told by his technology provider that the implementation of a virtualized initiative was financially, out of the question. After attending an informational presentation by Cisco, Kraus implemented Cisco VXI based on Cisco UCS at Vol State College. The result was a major consolidation of servers which drastically reduced IT costs. Additionally, virtualizing desktops on the campus made it simple to update the curriculum and online content for the teachers and students. As a final benefit, the campus was able to accommodate the growing number of students.
Both MiraCosta and Vol State were able to provide more students with necessary resources while exponentially decreasing their costs.
As students continue to demand more technology in their college courses, and the enrollment levels continue to rise, education officials are being forced to evolve into a new era of technology. Often times, by re-evaluating a school's technology system, administrators are able to achieve the best of both worlds. They can create a more robust and scalable network that acts as a foundation for other technologies, and they can reduce costs.
When it comes to technology, students are easy please. They are not all that concerned with servers, routers, switches, data centers, virtualized desktops or anything else of this nature. They don't care about what kind of technology allows them to access the internet, download information or use programs. Students want one single thing: to access the tools and information they need for their courses, when they need them. Technologies such as the Cisco VXI enable students like myself to access applications and files whenever I want on the device of my choice..
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PhoneyC is a low-interaction client honeypot designed to allow researcher to quickly and easily identify and analyze malicious websites and their malware. We hope to be adding DOM emulation and automated shellcode detection using LibEmu this summer, amongst other features, to help improve detection and performance.
Primary Mentor: Jose Nazario
Student: Geng Wang
Our final goal is to do all kinds of obfuscation perfectly, extract the suspicious part and leave it for further analyzation. This requires us to make our honeypot as closely to a real browser as possible while running scripts.
May 23rd: Make sure the new honeypot is ready for most regular webpages. (It is half ready now!)
July 6th: Work on all deobfuscation means, innerHTML and so on.
August 10th: Implement more detection scripts.
Our work mainly focuses on DOM simulation. I believe the following is the most important for deobfuscation, but we also do lot more so that our program can handle normal web pages. We will not list them here.
Our code can be found at:
1. DOM tree generation. Read more »
The code is like this:
class unknown_obj(object):
def __call__(self, *arg): return unknown_obj()
def __getitem__(self, key): return unknown_obj()
def __getattr__(self, name): return unknown_obj()
The three methods are: __call__ for function calls (*arg means arg is the argument list), __getitem__ for the visit to members using '[]', such as a[3] and 3 is the key, __getattr__ just like we mentioned, for any visit to members using '.'. So almost every kind of codes is legal to an object like this. For example: Read more »
There are of course more of them, but we only list which will bring
confusion to our code. Note that the current version is based on IE,
not FF, since its more vulnerable.
I don't know how to write HTML in this blog, so i hope i can make them clear without examples.
1. Both in IE and FF, we can use the ID of a DOM object to call it. But we cannot always use 'document.id' to call it. In FF, document.f (f is id of a form) is undefined, but in IE, document.i (i is id of an image) and some other DOMs is undefined. Read more »
It seems that there was some problems in this blog system, and i was busy with my final exam, so i haven't written blog a long time since the project starts.
But the work has been going on. I've been spent some time studying on the language faculty of javascript, and comparing it with python. Though this two are both scripting language, python is somehow much stronger. We'll see this from the differences between the setter/getter function and __setattr__/__getattr__ method in python.
First, let's see what's in javascript. Use the example from mozilla website: Read more »


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STScI, 29 September - 01 October 2009
A 3-day workshop at STScI on "pearls", "feathers", and "spurs" in spiral galaxies. The workshop brought observers together with theorists and modelers, and focused primarily on substructure in and between spiral arms and what it can (and can not) tell us about spiral structure and the processes of massive star formation in disk galaxies.
Attendance was limited to about 30 participants, by invitation.
Issues addressed concerned the apparently disparate approaches taken and the different assumptions made by theorists and modelers of star formation in spiral arms, and the fundamental question of what exactly is it that observers measure. The intention was to provide a forum for debate on the theoretical issues, to become aware of the state of the observations, and to consider the observational consequences of theory.
Specific issues of interest in and near spiral arms include:
- Morphology and kinematics of "feathers" and "spurs".
- Gradients in stellar populations.
- Regularity/periodicity in the incidence of OB associations along arms.
- Appearance and excitation of atomic and molecular tracers.
- Physics and modeling of gas flow.
- Organization and triggering of star formation.
The aim was to move on from the general qualitative principles of spiral structure and star formation formulated about 40 years ago towards a quantitative picture of what happens to the ISM when it passes through a spiral arm, and how we can interpret observations of the various tracers involved. To this end the workshop aimed to draw together detailed observations on flow fields and locations of gas and star formation tracers (CO, HI, dust, IR, UV, radio continuum) in several nearby grand-design galaxies, combine this with physical models of what controls the motion of the ISM and what excites the tracers observed, take stock of recent computational modeling efforts, and consider the next steps both for observations and theory.
The workshop took place in the John Bahcall Auditorium at STScI from about coffee-time Tuesday, 29 September through to the end of the afternoon on Thursday, 01 October with a break to attend the STScI Colloquium on Wednesday after tea.
The oral presentations were intended to serve as (mini-)reviews of the subject.
A "poster session" provided the junior author of each poster with an opportunity (2 minutes + 2 slides) to advertise.


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August, 2011
- Domestic travel – Meenal and I took a vacation in Ladakh. May be one of the most beautiful places we've ever seen.
- Clothes – we didn't take enough warm clothes to Ladakh thinking that it'll be warm. Surprisingly we found good American and European brands for outer wear at very good prices.
- Groceries – My mother-in-law started giving us lots of fruit every time we visited and she refuses to get paid for it. So it won't be happening any longer.
- Utils – I started using a smaller room for hanging out and the air conditioning bill went down. Also, we made fewer international calls since we were traveling for 10 days.
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Air Canada suspended activity related to the implementation of a new reservations system under development with ITA Software.
The carrier recorded a second-quarter impairment charge of C$67 million (US$61.9 million) related to the development of the system, dubbed Polaris.
Air Canada suspended activity related to the implementation of a new reservations system under development with ITA Software. The carrier recorded a second-quarter impairment charge of C$67 million (US$61.9 million) related to the development of the system, dubbed Polaris.
Mike Russo, Air Canada's chief financial officer, said the decision came after several months of reviewing all ongoing and planned capital expenditures. "We had projected close to $40 million [US$37 million] in additional capital expenditures, most planned for 2010" in connection with the new system, he said.
Air Canada will continue working toward the implementation of certain components of the solution, such as shopping and Web fare technology, Russo said.
The news came as Air Canada reported net income of C$155 million in the second quarter, up from C$122 million in the second quarter of 2008. The increase was boosted largely by foreign-exchange gains. But it reported an operating loss of C$113 million, compared to operating income of C$7 million in the second quarter of 2008. In addition, passenger revenue decreased by $396 million, or 16%, from the second quarter of 2008 due to a decline in yield of 8.9% and a drop in traffic of 7.9%.
Air Canada and ITA Software signed a contract in September 2006 for the development of a new-generation system to replace its legacy RES III system, which was managed by IBM. The transition to the new system originally was envisioned for 2007, with a rollout of airport modules in 2008. But, as is often the case with transitions to new systems, the original schedule was overly optimistic.
In April 2007, Air Canada said the developmental work on ITA's side would be completed by the fall of that year. Little news on the project was forthcoming after that point. Calin Rovinescu, Air Canada's chief executive officer, emphasized that the carrier has "a great relationship with ITA. They've done great work." He said Air Canada will revisit the Polaris project in the future, "but since we don't know when that future will come, we took the conservative approach of writing it down."
He said the implementation of the Web and fare components would result in some cost savings, as would "other improvements to our existing reservations system." Cara Kretz, ITA Software's vice president of corporate communications, said the reservations systems can be used for any other airline. "There are nuances and specific features designed for Air Canada, but we're not building a one-size-fits-all system," she said.
"It's completely flexible and configurable, and you can make changes as you go." Kretz said ITA is talking to other airlines about using the system. "We are actively engaged with them and providing live demos," she said. The company is not planning any shift in focus, she said. "We have a clear strategy, and Air Canada's announcement doesn't change that at all," she said. Kretz added that ITA is not planning any headcount reduction. "We are well capitalized, and we will continue to hire as planned," she said.


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Jimmy James was born February 27, 1922 and rose to be with the Lord on December 30, 2012 at home with his family
Jimmy James was born February 27, 1922 and rose to be with the Lord on December 30, 2012 at home with his family. He was born in Apalachicola, FL., to the late Imanuel and Annie James. He moved from Apalachicola in 1951 to Port St. Joe where he lived the remainder of his life. He retired in 1985 from Basic Chemical Company as an electrician. After his retirement he moved on to one of the loves of his life, shrimping and his bait business where he became known to many as J.J. or Captain J.J.
He was preceded in death by his wife of 60 years, Iris Lovett James and his two grandsons, Brandon James Brogdon and Benjamin Ferrell Whitfield, Jr.
He leaves behind to celebrate life and to mourn his passing, three daughters, Dianne Brogdon, Margo Marion (Raymond) and Vickie Whitehead; his grandchildren, Traci Marion, Bryan Brogdon, Brandi Brogdon, Nikki Whitfield and Michael Marion; his great-grandchildren, Bubba Brogdon, Baily Brogdon and Brandon Brogdon; and two sisters, Elaine Fitzgerald of Georgetown, SC, and Ann Estes of Crawfordville, FL.
Jimmy was a much loved man who touched the lives of many and became known to a great many people during his lifetime. He will be missed by many.
Following Jimmy's wishes, Memorialization will be by cremation.
There will be a memorial service on Monday, January 7, 2013 at 3:00 PM ET at Oak Grove Church in Port St. Joe.
Those who wish may make donations to Oak Grove Church in Jimmy's memory.
Cremation services provided by Comforter Funeral Home.


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Kansas House approves bill barring union pay deductions
Kansas legislators have given final approval to a bill barring public employee unions from deducting money from members' paychecks to help finance political activities.
A 68-54 vote Tuesday in the House sends the measure to Republican Gov. Sam Brownback, who's expected to sign it. The Senate approved the measure last week.
Proponents said the bill would protect members of public employee unions from having part of their pay funneled to candidates or causes they oppose. Supporters also said state and local government agencies processing payrolls shouldn't be entangled in such transactions.
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It's a little too early in this election year to declare democracy the big winner in 2008, but early returns are certainly encouraging.
The stunning turnout by Democrats at Jeffco's party caucuses Feb. 5 — 10 times the turnout during the last presidential campaign in 2004 — is an indication that long-apathetic voters are beginning to dip their toes in the puddles of populism that have somehow survived the last eight years.
And in many precincts, the puddles overflowed.
"I am a clock without hands
I'm walking through the midnights
Counting all the moments
Of the loves I've left behind."
— Nanci Griffith,
"A Clock Without Hands"
Hannah Hayes
The survival of our planet depends upon a large-scale shift in consciousness. Increasing the number of miles per gallon a car is required to achieve isn't going to create enough change. If you are not already embracing a responsible 21st-century lifestyle, the journey might be uncomfortable at first, but it's absolutely necessary. Reversing global warming and gearing up for sustainability requires steering outside of those double yellow lines and parking in an entirely new spot.
The first three weeks of the 2008 legislative session have been anything but dull. Of course, the vast majority of press coverage has focused on newly minted state Rep. Doug Bruce, R-Colorado Springs, author of the Taxpayers' Bill of Rights (TABOR amendment).
Hannah Hayes
Martin Luther King Jr. said, "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." Single-payer universal health care is the best way to dig out of the corporate mess we have now. Taking the profit out of health care will bring the greatest benefit to the largest number of citizens, and allow the U.S. a path to regain dignity in another area where we slip and slide so badly.
I was a teenage dinosaur.
Actually, I was in my early 20s when an old-school managing editor by the name of Gale Baldwin told me I'd just become the editor of a weekly section that would target readers in the 6-to-11 age bracket.
"When I find a well-drawn character in fiction or biography, I generally take a warm personal interest in him, for the reason that I have known him before — met him on the river."
— Mark Twain, in "Life on the Mississippi"
Brad Bradberry never met a person he didn't know, or with whom he couldn't navigate a long, meandering conversation. While some people collect objects, Brad collected people: childhood friends, rivals, Rotarians, fellow publishers, bosses, employees, customers.
From the time I was diagnosed with cancer about 14 months ago, I wondered what the subject of my final column would be and when I would write it. Well, I'm no closer to a subject and have been wondering how much longer I could hold out, but now the time has come.
Like everything else during my life, I have put it off until the last minute.
It was Sunday a couple weeks ago and, as always, I found myself at 8 a.m. in front of the TV watching one of those weekly news shows. The discussion, as always, involved the presidential race, and as I took a swallow of coffee, it occurred to me that I was completely wasting my time given that I will not be around to vote next November.
When I first came down with cancer and began the chemo routine, I never thought twice about the color pink. Now I notice every woman who comes into the chemo lab decked out in a pink hat with matching pink scarf.
I understand that the color pink has come to designate those with breast cancer, which leaves out men for the most part. But today I wonder whether pink is confined to breast cancer. Do some of those women running around with pink hats have colon cancer? Or lung cancer?
There are days, and then there are days. I had a day last Saturday.
It all started with my grandson's 6th birthday party. My wife, who takes such things very seriously, spent at least two days running around finding party favors, candy, decorations and other assorted junk. By Saturday morning, you would swear we were in the home party business.
It's getting tougher and tougher to write this column. Not because I have cancer, but because I simply don't get around much anymore. I seldom stop by the newspaper, so I have little idea of what's going on ee you know, the background stuff. Oh, I still read the paper, but nothing beats hanging around the newsroom, or talking with friends. That's where the really good ideas come from.
Seldom is the force of government more concentrated than at the moment a district attorney decides whether to pursue a case against a defendant. We hope our prosecutors are men and women of sound judgment and unimpeachable integrity, and for the most part they are. But every so often a case exposes how vulnerable our system can be to an unprincipled individual.
When the thermometer indicates it's 80 degrees on the Front Range in October, the chance of snow within 24 hours approaches 50 percent. Odds reach 100 percent if the Broncos are playing at Invesco Field on national TV. It's a given. You know it. I know it.
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Worldwatch Paper #165: Winged Messengers: The Decline of Birds
Tailspinning Bird Populations Highlight Biodiversity Crisis
Washington, D.C.—Bird populations around the world are plummeting faster than ever before, and human factors—from population growth to habitat destruction and climate change—are at the center of this demise, reports a new study from the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based research organization. Human-related factors are threatening 99 percent of the most imperiled bird species and contributing to what has become the greatest wave of extinctions since dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago, according to Howard Youth in Winged Messengers: The Decline of Birds.
"Declining bird populations mark not only the loss of unique species," says Youth, "but also the unraveling of delicate natural balances. Birds are valuable environmental indicators because they warn us of impending problems through their waning or flourishing populations."
With twelve percent of the world's bird population—almost 1,200 species—facing extinction in the next century, Winged Messengers outlines an array of phenomena that is accelerating this demise. These include:
- Habitat
loss: Deforestation rates from 50,000 to 170,000
square kilometers a year pose the single greatest overall
threat, jeopardizing 85 percent of the world's most
threatened bird species. While forest re-growth initiatives
offset the net losses, for many native animals and plants,
simplified plantation monocultures are no substitute for
more complex natural forests.
Roads and power lines frequently cut through forests, fragmenting them, increasing the chance of fatal collisions, and providing pathways for predators, competitors, and exotic plants. Intensive hunting often follows when roads cut into forests.
- Alien attacks: A rise in global trade and travel over the past century has led to an acceleration in the introduction of exotic (non-native) species. Exotic species—including snakes, rats, cats, plants, and insects—now menace a quarter of globally threatened bird species.
- Chemical threats: Large oil spills threaten many seabird populations, but small, less-publicized daily tankers also kill birds. Terrestrial habitats also face threats from oil and natural gas exploration, and transport via pipelines. Worldwide, pesticides kill millions of birds on water and on land.
- Hunting, Capture, and Fishing: Illegal hunting and poorly regulated laws lead to the killing of millions of birds around the world. Birds can be loved to death too: Almost a third of the world's parrot species are threatened with extinction because of the pet trade, and long-term habitat loss. Longline fishing also claims hundreds of thousands of seabirds—23 species now face extinction—when they are inadvertently hooked on baited lines and drowned.
- Climate change: Recent evidence of earlier bird migration and nesting in some species seems to indicate early effects of global warming. Scientists fear that in coming years climate change will alter vital bird habitats, from tundra to subtropical coastlines, even pushing some localized species towards extinction.
Efforts by governments and private organizations to reintroduce bird species paint a bright future for some jeopardized species, but careful wildlife management can go awry, says Youth. Habitat restoration can be complicated when tree or shrub species have vanished, soil is compacted, water tables have dropped, or chemicals have poisoned an area. Costly projects may yield only marginal results, not fully compensating wildlife for habitats lost.
And while restoration efforts are important in some areas, the best way to preserve biodiversity, says Youth, is to not let species and their complex habitats become endangered in the first place. "While we need protective legislation in some areas, often just the full implementation and enforcement of already established international laws and agreements would go a long way toward saving the world's remaining bird diversity."
Youth says that new alliances are proving fruitful in documenting existing species and preventing further species losses.
Conservation biology—a new approach to natural habitat protection that blends biology, conservation science, economics, and the mutual engagement of conservationists, communities, and business—has changed the focus of biodiversity protection. This new approach factors in not only protected areas for conservation, but also adjacent lands, water resources, and the people who inhabit and use them.
Biodiversity protection can be combined with money-making ventures, bringing enterprise and environmentalism together. Shade-grown coffee is one such initiative. Growing coffee in the traditional way beneath a tropical forest canopy protects natural habitats, providing shelter to resident and migratory birds and using fewer chemicals than those grown on pesticide-heavy "sun coffee" farms. Organic farms and those using integrated pest management also provide more diverse food sources and safer habitats for birds.
Scientists are also tapping into one of the world's fastest growing outdoor hobbies, bird-watching, as a means for heightening conservation efforts. Growing ranks of birders are providing a powerful infusion of eyes and ears that assist scientists in monitoring bird populations and mapping out the world's most important remaining bird habitats.
"The actions needed to ensure a secure future for birds are the very same ones needed to achieve a sustainable human future," says Youth. "Wildlife conservation must be worked into and be compatible with rural, suburban, and urban planning efforts that improve the prospects of the world's poor while making our cities and industries safer for all living beings."
"Birds provide us with food, inspiration, a link to nature, and an alert system for detecting environmental ills, but today, this feathered resource is in great need of human attention."


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- 1 Blaine
- 2 In the games
- 2.1 Fame Checker
- 2.2 Pokémon
- 2.2.1 Pokémon Red, Blue and Green
- 2.2.2 Pokémon Yellow
- 2.2.3 Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal
- 2.2.4 Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
- 2.2.5 Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver
- 2.2.6 Pokémon Stadium
- 2.2.7 Pokémon Stadium 2
- 2.3 Quotes
- 3 Artwork
- 4 In the anime
- 5 In the manga
- 6 In the TCG
- 7 Trivia
- 8 Names
Blaine | Discussion | Nominated on {{{3}}}
| Blaine
カツラ Katsura
|"The Hotheaded Quiz Master!"
Art from HeartGold and SoulSilver
|Cinnabar Island
|Trainer class
|Gym Leader
|Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Silver, Crystal, FireRed, LeafGreen, HeartGold, SoulSilver, Stadium, Stadium 2
|Leader of
|Cinnabar Gym
|Volcano Badge
|Specializes in
|Anime debut
|Riddle Me This
|English voice actor
|Michael Haigney
|Japanese voice actor
|Toshiya Ueda
Blaine (Japanese: カツラ Katsura) is the Gym Leader of Cinnabar Island's (later the Seafoam Islands') Gym, known officially as the Cinnabar Gym. He hands out the Volcano Badge to Trainers who defeat him. He is a highly intelligent man who uses Template:Type2 Pokémon.
In the games
Blaine's title is "The Hotheaded Quiz Master." His strategy is to incinerate challengers with his rough and ready Fire-type Pokémon. To reach Blaine, challengers have to answer a series of quiz questions about Pokémon. Blaine only takes off his sunglasses when thinking up new quiz questions.
When he once got lost in a treacherous, freezing mountain range, he was guided out of the mountains by a Moltres. Apparently, this is what inspired him to train Fire-type Pokémon. Blaine is a native of Cinnabar Island, and has lived there since before the Pokémon Lab was built. He is apparently on good terms with Mr. Fuji.
In addition to the Volcano Badge, Blaine gives out TM38 (Fire Blast) in Pokémon Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, FireRed, and LeafGreen. In HeartGold and SoulSilver he gives out TM50 (Overheat).
In Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal, and their remakes, the volcano on Cinnabar Island erupted, destroying the town, and leaving Blaine and his Pokémon homeless. Blaine relocated his Gym to the Seafoam Islands, and remains there a whole year after the volcanic eruption back on Cinnabar. He plans to rebuild his gym one day.
He is able to be rebattled in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, after collecting his number at any time on Tuesday. He is found on Cinnabar Island. A call to him on Tuesday afternoon will arrange a rematch. In HeartGold and SoulSilver, Blaine has added Gym Trainers and a puzzle to the gym, unlike in Gold and Silver where Blaine stood alone in a small room.
Fame Checker
This is a list of the Fame Checker's information on Blaine in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen.
- Gym Sign - Blaine
- What does this person do?
- "Cinnabar Island Pokémon Gym Leader: Blaine The Hotheaded Quiz Master!"
- Cinnabar Gym - Blaine
- Favorite kind of Pokémon?
- "My fiery Pokémon are all rough and ready with intense heat! They incinerate all challengers!"
- Cinnabar Gym - Super Nerd Derek
- Favorite kind of Pokémon?
- "Our Leader, Blaine, became lost in the mountains but good. Night fell and a fiery bird Pokémon appeared. Its light allowed Blaine to find his way down safely.
- Cinnabar Island - Woman
- What is this person like?
- "Cinnabar Gym's Blaine is quite the odd fellow. He's lived on the island since way before the Lab was built."
- Cinnabar Gym - Photo
- Family and Friends?
- "It's a photo of Blaine and Mr. Fuji. They're standing shoulder to shoulder with big grins."
- Resort Gorgeous - Pokémon Journal
- There's a rumor...
- "Blaine is said to remove his dark shades only when he is thinking up new quiz questions."
- Message from Blaine
- From: Blaine
- To: [Player]
- "My Fire Pokémon! They'll become even more powerful!
- And now, a quiz. How many kinds of Fire-type Pokémon are there?"
This listing is of Blaine's Pokémon in the video games he has appeared in.
Pokémon Red, Blue and Green
Pokémon Yellow
Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal
Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver
Gym match
Second battle (rematch)
Pokémon Stadium
Round 1
Round 2
Pokémon Stadium 2
Round 1
Round 2
Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow
- "Hah! I'm Blaine! I am the Leader of Cinnabar gym! My fiery Pokémon will incinerate all challengers! Hah! You better have Burn Heal!"
- "I've burned out! You have earned the Volcano badge!"
Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal
- "Waaah! My Gym in Cinnabar burned down. My fire-breathing Pokémon and I are homeless because of the volcano. Waaah! But I'm back in business as a Gym Leader here in this cave. If you can beat me, I'll give you a Badge. Ha! You'd better have Burn Heal!"
- "Awesome. I've burned out... You've earned Volcano badge!"
- "I did lose this time, but I'm going to win the next time. When I rebuild my Cinnabar Gym, we'll have to have a rematch."
Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
- "Hah! I'm Blaine, the red-hot Leader of Cinnabar Gym! My fiery Pokémon are all ready with intense heat! They incinerate all challengers! Hah! You better have Burn Heal!"
- "I have burned down to nothing! Not even ashes remain! You have earned the Volcano Badge."
Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver
Cinnabar Gym
- Before battle
- "Hey, you! My Gym on Cinnabar Island was burned down by the eruption! But I will not give up! Take a look at this cave. We have turned it into a Gym, and I am still acting as a Gym Leader! I will give you the Gym Badge if you manage to defeat me! Are you ready? Here we go!"
- After sending out last Pokémon
- "I'll show you the spirit of my cave Gym!"
- During battle
- "We can still do it!"
- When defeated
- "My spirit has not been defeated!"
- After being defeated
- "Awesome. I have burned out... Take this Volcano Badge!"
- "Here, I will give you this, too. It's called Overheat! It has a slight drawback, but it's powerful and well worth it!"
- "I did lose this time, but I'm going to win next time. When I rebuild my Cinnabar Gym, we have to hold a rematch."
- "My Fire-type Pokémon will be even stronger! Just you watch!"
Fighting Dojo
- Before battle
- "You keep your word. That's a good thing, kiddo!"
- After being defeated
- "Waaah! If I had known this Dojo was going to be available, I wouldn't have needed to rebuild my Gym. Wait! I still did, didn't I?"
Pokégear Registering (Cinnabar Island)
- "I'll never give up until the day I've rebuilt the Cinnabar Gym! Why not exchange numbers!"
- Yes: "Hmmm... We should be able to battle on Tuesday evenings!"'
| Headshot from
Pokémon Red and Blue
| Headshot from
Pokémon Yellow
|Official artwork from Pokémon Red and Blue
| Official artwork from
Generation III
|Artwork from the Guren Town Gym Theme Deck
|File:Y Blaine.png
|File:Blaine 02.png
| Blaine's sprite from
Generation I
| Blaine's sprite from
Pokémon Yellow
| Blaine's sprite from
Generation II
| Blaine's sprite from
Generation III
| Blaine's sprite from
Generation IV
| Blaine's VS sprite from
Generation IV
| Blaine's overworld sprite from
Generation IV
| Blaine's artwork from
both Pokémon Stadiums
In the anime
Blaine appeared in the episodes Riddle Me This and Volcanic Panic.
Blaine ran the Cinnabar Island Gym until the island started to become crowded with tourists. Instead of serious challengers, the Cinnabar Island Pokémon Center started to fill up with freeloading vacationers. Fed up with this, Blaine closed the Gym and opened up a hotel near the island's volcanic hot springs, disguising himself with a wig, a fake mustache and sunglasses. He also disguised his voice to be softer and lower pitched than normal. Blaine likes to make up riddles even in inappropriate situations.
When Ash, Misty, and Brock met Blaine, he told them several riddles. Misty deciphered the riddles and eventually the trio found Blaine's hotel, and underneath the hotel in a volcanic cavern was the Cinnabar Island Gym. Ash challenged Blaine to a Gym match, but was easily defeated. After the battle, Team Rocket attempted to steal Blaine's Magmar by freezing it with guns that projected beams of ice. Magmar broke free in the end; however, the sudden cooling of the walls in the lava cave caused the rock to begin to crack, indicating that the Cinnabar Island volcano was going to erupt.
Ash, Blaine, Misty, and Brock used their Water-, Rock-, and Template:Type2 Pokémon to dam the cracks in the walls with boulders. During the emergency, Ash's Charizard and Blaine's Magmar gained an interest in the other's strength, each wishing to test it in battle. Blaine agreed to a rematch with Ash; due to the internal damage of the volcano, it was held on the volcano's crater. At first, Magmar and Charizard were evenly matched, but Charizard's ability to fly gave it an advantage. It lifted Magmar high into the air and used Seismic Toss, slamming Magmar into the volcano. The Spitfire Pokémon was knocked out, and Blaine was defeated.
This listing is of Blaine's known Pokémon in the anime:
| Ninetales was Blaine's first Pokémon used in his battle with Ash. Despite its beautiful looks, Ninetales proved to be an incredibly powerful Pokémon, knocking out Ash's Squirtle with a single attack. Ninetales was recalled when Ash sent out his Charizard.
Ninetales's only known move is Fire Spin.
|Riddle Me This
|Voice actors
|Shin'ichirō Miki
|Rachael Lillis
| After Ash chose Charizard in his battle, Blaine countered it by choosing Rhydon. Charizard refused to fight the Ground-type Pokémon, so Rhydon went up against Pikachu in its place. Blaine doubted the Electric-type could defeat Rhydon, but Ash encouraged Pikachu to use Rhydon's horn as a conductor of electricity that eventually caused its defeat. This battle sparked a now well-known Internet meme in the Pokémon fandom, as Rhydon is usually immune to Electric-type attacks.
Rhydon was seen again in a flashback in Bad to the Bone, where it was defeated in a Gym battle by Otoshi's Marowak.
Rhydon's known moves are Horn Drill and Fury Attack.
|Riddle Me This
|Voice actors
|Katsuyuki Konishi
|Katsuyuki Konishi
Magmar is Blaine's final Pokémon and his powerhouse. In the first battle, Magmar easily defeated Ash's Pikachu. After the battlefield was wrecked due to Team Rocket's influence, Magmar and Ash's Charizard ended up gaining a respect for each other and wanted to test their strengths against one another. This was done in Ash's rematch with Blaine on top of Cinnabar's volcano. However, despite Magmar's powerful attacks including Fire Blast, Charizard managed to come out on top.
|Riddle Me This
|Voice actors
|Katsuyuki Konishi
|Eric Stuart
Voice actors
In the manga
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
Blaine was a former member of Team Rocket, joining because of his interest in science and conducting experiments on some of Red's future Pokémon, namely Gyarados and Eevee. He was first seen (albeit without a speaking role), studying and generating Mewtwo under the Rocket Game Corner. But after hearing of Red's clashes with Team Rocket, like protecting Mew from them, Blaine left, attempting to make up for his evil deeds. When Red reached Cinnabar Island, Blaine was under attack by members of Team Rocket and their newly captured Moltres, on loan from Sabrina.
Blaine had his Rapidash carry Red to his Pokémon Lab, while Red let Blaine use his Gyarados to hold off Moltres in return. At the Pokémon Lab, Red was able to revive an Aerodactyl from a fossil. Aerodactyl helped rescue Blaine and defeat Moltres.
Later, Blaine asked Red to help him in Cerulean Cave. While he was working under Team Rocket, Blaine combined some of Mew's DNA with his own to create a hybrid Pokémon named Mewtwo. Some of Blaine's hand was infected with Mewtwo's DNA, and thus he was able to track the synthetic Pokémon. Because of this, Team Rocket attempted to abduct Blaine to review Mewtwo's whereabouts. Using the Master Ball, Red was able to capture Mewtwo for Blaine after Blaine tried and was seriously injured in the process. This is when Blaine revealed why he quit Team Rocket. He saw Red's compassion for Pokémon in the Rocket Game Corner and it made Blaine realize that he created two monsters, Mewtwo and himself. He then decided that he didn't care what Team Rocket would do to him, but rather that he needed to catch Mewtwo and help it. It was then suggested by Red that he needed to show Mewtwo compassion because all that it knew about humans was cruelty and arrogance.
The psychic bond between Mewtwo and Blaine limited them both. If they were apart for too long, both would begin to become ill. Blaine worked for several years trying to find a way to sever the bond without hurting either of them. He then appeared during the Yellow chapter as one of the "Good" Gym Leaders of Kanto. After Super Nerd Miles was defeated, he used Growlithe's Odor Sleuth and deduced that Red must have been at Mt. Moon. When Miles was being lifted away by Agatha and her Gastly Blaine tried to use Growlithe's Fire Blast to knock it out, only for it to almost kill a Caterpie had Yellow not saved it.
He was then seen back on Cinnabar Island training with Camper Ivan using Mewtwo to practice their connection using a disguise. Yellow then finds out that it was Blaine and that he was simply wearing a disguise because he didn't know who was watching. He then hears a message from Brock reporting that he found an ice sculpture of Red in Mt. Moon. He then travels to Cerise Island with Yellow (albeit by different routes) and Mewtwo, revealing that that was what they were training for. He then runs into Blue and sees several Pokémon, believing them to belong to the Elite Four, but actually belonging to Lt. Surge, Koga, and Sabrina.
During the Cerise Island incident, Sabrina's Spoons of Destiny paired Blaine and Yellow together in the fight against the Elite Four. They intruded on Lt. Surge and Bill's battle with Bruno. They were blocked out by a strange barrier, however, and were kept out since Bruno did not wish for anyone to interfere with their battle. Together, they confronted Lance. However, the bond between Mewtwo and Blaine proved to be their undoing, and they were defeated, leaving Yellow to face Lance alone.
Later, during the Masked Man's plot in Johto, Entei chose Blaine to be its partner. The healing power of Entei's flames was finally able to cut the link between Mewtwo and Blaine, and the two were free to live their lives apart from each other. Yet, Blaine's corroding hand still served as a reminder of his past with Mewtwo, as demonstrated in the FireRed and LeafGreen chapter when Mewtwo was facing off against Deoxys.
Although he's serious for most situations, he also had his comical moments. Blaine had his mustache burnt when he was training and had to use fake ones. Sometimes, he may also use riddles to lighten up dark atmosphere.
This listing is for Blaine's Pokémon in the Pokémon Adventures manga.
| Growlithe is Blaine's Pokémon that was usually seen in searches. He first used it to find the cloth of Super Nerd William after he got possessed by a Gastly.
Growlithe's known moves are Flamethrower and Fire Blast.
|As Gastly as Before
| Rapidash is Blaine's mode of transportation. He first used it to battle the Moltres that Team Rocket had captured with little success, and had it help Red reach his laboratory, where an Aerodactyl could be resurrected from the Old Amber he had acquired earlier.
Rapidash's only known move is Fire Spin.
|Holy Moltres
| Arcanine was first seen along with Rapidash battling with Team Rocket. Nothing was known about it at the time as it only made a brief appearance.
None of Arcanine's moves are known.
|Holy Moltres
|Blaine's Mewtwo
Mewtwo was created by Blaine in a Team Rocket hideout using a small sample of Mew's DNA and Blaine's own. After it was fully cultivated in the Pokémon Lab on Cinnabar Island, it went berserk and demolished the place before settling in the Cerulean Cave (where it wreaked havoc in the northwestern sector of Cerulean City). Eventually, Red caught word of it and reached the cave out of curiosity before nearly being killed in its psychic tornado. Blaine made a valiant attempt to kill it at all costs, knowing that if he, the only one with the ability to function as a "Mewtwo Radar" was defeated, the world could come to an end. Although this succeeded in eliminating its tornado, the mutant itself still survived, only to be caught with a Master Ball that was thrown by Red in an ingenious maneuver. Mewtwo then went on to be a trained Pokémon belonging to Blaine and fought against Lance in the Yellow chapter, though Blaine's failing health held it back from winning. After it was released a year later, it partnered up with Red much later on to free Deoxys from Giovanni's hands.
|Tauros the Tyrant
| Blaine was chosen by Entei to be partnered up for his extensive knowledge of the Fire-type. In return, it offered its help in erasing the painful genetic connection between him and Mewtwo, allowing it to finally be freed. After Blaine, Misty, and Lt. Surge had been injured fighting the Masked Man in the Indigo Plateau, it was partnered up with Silver instead, and went back to the wild after the villain was defeated.
Entei's known moves are Flamethrower and Fire Blast.
|Vs. Slugma
In the Pokémon Zensho manga
Blaine appears in Cinnabar Island. He tells Satoshi about his gym on Cinnabar. Satoshi meets up with him and they have a battle. Blaine uses Arcanine and Satoshi uses Charmeleon which results in Satoshi winning the battle. As a result, his Charmeleon starts to evolve into a Charizard. Blaine explains that he was in Seafoam Islands and his Fire Pokémon were hurt. While he was there, he remembers seeing Articuno fly away. Blaine uses his Charizard to capture the Articuno that has been flying around the island.
| Arcanine is Blaine's battling Pokémon. It went up against Satoshi's Charmeleon and lost.
Arcanine's only known move is Fire Spin.
|Cinnabar Island
|Blaine's Rapidash
| Rapidash and Ninetales were shown in the Cinnabar Gym when Satoshi enters it.
None of their moves are known.
|Cinnabar Island
|Articuno is a Legendary Bird Pokémon that flew by to Cinnabar. After Satoshi's gym battle with Blaine, Blaine decides that he wants to capture it so he has Satoshi help him out. It was a tough fight between Satoshi and Articuno as it was able to freeze his Pikachu but it was taken out by Jigglypuff's Sing, allowing for Blaine to catch it.
|Cinnabar Island
In the TCG
There is a Theme Deck named for Blaine in the Gym Challenge expansion. It has two versions, English and Japanese.
|Blaine and the Volcano Badge.
|Blaine throws a Poké Ball.
|Blaine gambles.
|Blaine in an outrage.
|Blaine quizzes a challenger.
|Blaine quizzes Brock.
|Blaine's updated VS art.
This listing is of cards mentioning or featuring Blaine or his Pokémon in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.
|Set no.
|Blaine's Moltres
|Gym Heroes
|Blaine's Growlithe
|Gym Heroes
|Blaine's Kangaskhan
|Gym Heroes
|Blaine's Magmar
|Gym Heroes
|Blaine's Charmander
|Gym Heroes
|Blaine's Growlithe
|Gym Heroes
|Blaine's Ponyta
|Gym Heroes
|Blaine's Tauros
|Gym Heroes
|Blaine's Vulpix
|Gym Heroes
|Blaine's Quiz 1
|Gym Heroes
|Blaine's Last Resort
|Gym Heroes
|Blaine's Gamble
|Gym Heroes
|Blaine's Arcanine
|Gym Challenge
|Blaine's Charizard
|Gym Challenge
|Gym Challenge
|Blaine's Ninetales
|Gym Challenge
|Blaine's Charmeleon
|Gym Challenge
|Blaine's Dodrio
|Gym Challenge
|Blaine's Rapidash
|Gym Challenge
|Blaine's Charmander
|Gym Challenge
|Blaine's Doduo
|Gym Challenge
|Blaine's Growlithe
|Gym Challenge
|Blaine's Mankey
|Gym Challenge
|Blaine's Ponyta
|Gym Challenge
|Blaine's Rhyhorn
|Gym Challenge
|Blaine's Vulpix
|Gym Challenge
|Blaine's Quiz 2
|Gym Challenge
|Blaine's Quiz 3
|Gym Challenge
|Cinnabar City Gym
|Gym Challenge
|Blaine's Typhlosion
|Pokémon VS (no English release)
|Blaine's Magcargo
|Pokémon VS (no English release)
- Although Magmar appears as Blaine's signature Pokémon in the anime, he only has one in Generations II and IV, with it not even appearing in his Gym team in Yellow (which went as far as giving Lt. Surge only Raichu to mimic the anime).
- This may be due to the fact that Riddle Me This aired only a month prior to the release of Pokémon Yellow, by which point Yellow was likely in the final stages of production.
- This is somewhat circumvented in HeartGold and SoulSilver where in the first match he has a Magmar and in the rematch he has a Magmortar as his signature Pokémon.
- Despite the Arcanine evolutionary line being his signature Pokémon in Generation I and III, Arcanine is no longer in his party in Generation II and its remakes.
- Even when the player battles Blaine in a rematch, he still references his "Cave Gym" as if the battle's taking place there.
- He is the only Gym Leader that battles outside a building for their first battle.
- Blaine is the only Gym Leader to have a Gym in two different locations.
Design differences
Blaine has two separate character designs. The first one is from early Sugimori artwork for Pokémon Red and Green Versions. He is depicted as a bald man with light red hair to the back and side of his head, with no mustache and no sunglasses wearing beach clothes. The old design was reused in the anime (as Blaine's real look) and very briefly in the Pokémon Adventures manga (as a disguise after his mustache was burned).
Later, in Pokémon Blue and outside-Japan Pokémon Red and Blue Versions the artwork was revised and he started to be depicted as an older man with a mustache, and no hair on his head, wearing sunglasses and labcoat. Despite the artwork changes, his new design was used in all Generation I main series games, including the Pokémon Red and Green Versions. This means that Blaine's design was probably changed very late in the production of Red and Green, since his official artwork and his in-game sprite are completely different portrayals.
The reasons for changing the design is unknown; however, the Fame Checker in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen explains why he doesn't always wear sunglasses: "Blaine is said to remove his dark shades only when he is thinking up new quiz questions."
In Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, Blaine is shown wearing a hat. He wears more sophisticated clothing than his previous lab coat. He also sports a cane that resembles a question mark.
|カツラ Katsura
|The Japanese name for the Japanese Judas tree. Katsura is also a word for "wig" (鬘). From 火 ka ("fire").
|English, Italian, Spanish
|Sounds similar to blaze or flame.
|Similar to the word ustion, burn.
|From Greek πυρ (pyr), fire.
| 강연 Gang-yeon*
대머리박사 Daemeoribaksa*
| 강연 (gang-yeon) means "lecture".
대머리박사 means bald expert (or bald doctor) which describes his look and wisdom.
|Chinese (Mandarin)
|夏伯 Xiàbó
|From 夏 (summer) and 伯, uncle (or a respectful term for someone older).
|Blaine's Pokémon
|On hand:
|Adventures only:
|Pocket Monsters only:
|Zensho only:
|Gym Leaders of the Kanto region
|This game character article is part of Project CharacterDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each character found in the Pokémon games.
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Failure For The Win: The Video/
We learn more from failure than we do success. As a community however we only publicize our successes, and we hide our failures. We should take a page from the world of science, and realize successful experiments can only come about by the collective sharing of failure. The Vimeo Festival gave Ed Burns and I an opportunity to get that ball rolling last weekend. If you missed it, tune in, here.


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HOUSTON (AP) — Nolan Ryan has been released from a hospital and will rest at home for a few days before returning to work with the Texas Rangers.
The 64-year-old Ryan — a Hall of Fame pitcher and CEO of the AL West leaders — checked into a Houston hospital on Sunday after experiencing discomfort while at his home in Georgetown. Tests taken Monday showed no new problems related to a heart condition for which he already was being treated with medication. Doctors decided to keep treating him with medication, and sent him home Tuesday.
Ryan had a double-bypass operation in 2000 and has a family history of heart disease.
He had been scheduled to join the team Tuesday in Anaheim, Calif.


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