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Before a teenage group of emergency responders was unleashed across the campus of College of the Redwoods-Del Norte recently, they were told two things: There has just been a catastrophic earthquake and three people are still missing on this campus.
Class members, from left, Cole Ives, Tori Wilderson and Cynthia Gil check out a "victim" during disaster training. Del Norte Triplicate / Bryant Anderson
The high-schoolers, trained as Community Emergency Response Teams (federally organized first responder certification), broke off into smaller groups to search for the missing persons, which in this practice emergency scenario were mannequins hidden under bushes and decks across CR's campus by the students' teacher, Melody Pope.
Pope, who teaches health career-related classes at Del Norte High School, reminded her students to follow the protocol they've learned by searching in groups of two.
Soon enough a group of students, armed with CERT backpacks filled with emergency supplies, found a body (mannequin), evaluated its condition and placed colored tape on it to indicate the health status: red indicating life-threatening injuries in need of immediate care, green meaning the victim has minor injuries ("walking wounded," Pope says), yellow meaning unconscious or in need of urgent care, and black meaning dead.
"We saved a life today," said 18-year-old senior Cole Ives with a knowing smirk as he held the body in his arms.
Jokes aside, the CERT program is a serious community asset.
"We have a couple of young men that will be joining the Search and Rescue team" after they graduate from Del Norte High School this spring, Pope said. "How nice is it for them to walk right out of high school and help the community by joining that sort of team?"
CERT classes were first developed and implemented by the Los Angeles Fire Department in the wake of the 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake; the idea was picked up by FEMA and classes were made available nationally in 1993.
Training students via CERT classes is part of Del Norte High School's 2-year-old HOSA program, Health Occupations Students of America, a student organization for youths considering futures in the medical field. Del Norte High students who express an interest in working in the medical field can take HOSA classes and even earn some college credit via a partnership with College of the Redwoods. The CERT classes were added to the high school's HOSA program this year.
"We just added CERT because it seemed like a perfect fit. It seemed almost a shame to not add it to our health career classes," Pope said.
In March, a Del Norte High HOSA class competed in the HOSA State Leadership Conference in Sacramento where more than 250 California schools were represented. Del Norte HOSA students were able to receive training while there, and they competed in a variety of activities, including CERT emergency scenarios similar to the recent simulation conducted at CR.
Seventeen-year-old junior Hailey Hulse took second place in the Medical Photography competition by telling a story with photos of Crescent City medical care, including a doctor's visit and Cal-Ore Flight. It was the first time a Del Norte HOSA student placed in the competition.
"I pretty much would've been satisfied with top 10. It was my first year and I didn't know what I was doing," Hulse said. "I was very overwhelmed. When I got off the stage and my teacher came over and gave me a big hug, I was very happy."
Hulse's silver medal sends her and the entire Del Norte HOSA class to Nashville in June for the HOSA national leadership conference. All of her HOSA classmates get to come along to cheer her on and attend training and workshops as they support Hulse competing on a national platform.
The students' CERT training came in handy in a real-life, person-not-mannequin scenario while they were in Sacramento for the state competition. A group of Del Norte students witnessed a woman flip over her bicycle's handlebars after hitting a train rail, face-planting into the pavement.
The students ran to a nearby restaurant to get gloves and towels, then started administering first aid.
When their teacher arrived, the students ribbed her for missing the scene.
"'Where are you Ms. Pope? We're over here administering first-aid!'" Pope remembers the students telling her.
"It was great to see some of the training that they had put to use so easily," Pope said. "They were right on it. They were assessing whether it was in need of immediate treatment. It was really rewarding to see them use some of the skills we had taught in the CERT class."
The classes are also available to adults in the Del Norte community. Dozens of Del Norters will receive their CERT certification in a Crescent City class Thursday, and more classes are scheduled for the future.
"It's great for the community and it's great for kids," Pope said.


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Vietnam is moving forward in resolving the dispute using its principle of "Peace and Cooperation," but the U.S. is holding naval exercises in the region.
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News, views and events detailing the Black presence in the Americas.
This website is designed to keep you up to date on Life in the Black Americas.
Boricuas vs. Nuyoricans—Indeed! A Look at Afro-Latinos
By Miriam Jiménez Román
"[Puerto Rico's] reluctance to engage racism as anything other than an imported
'gringo' problem is consistent with the exceptionalist posture typical throughout Latin America, where the myth of
racial democracy has continued to dominate national discourse despite well-documented evidence to the contrary," the
scholar Miriam Jiménez Román writes in her article Boricuas vs. Nuyoricans—Indeed! A Look at Afro-Latinos in ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America.
"Puerto Rico, identifying as culturally 'Hispanic,'
has looked for its models to an increasingly Europeanized Spain and to other Spanish-speaking countries. The prevalent tendency
is to ignore the neighboring Caribbean islands, full of 'negros de verdad,' and instead to focus on a Hispanoamérica
ostensibly full of mestizos, indios and blancos—all bound by the same reluctance to acknowledge its strong African roots.
"Puerto Rico as a 'Latin' country exempts itself
from racism even as it distances itself from its Blackness, identifying 'real' Blackness as somehow inconsistent with
Hispanic history and culture—or with history and culture, more generally. This perspective has become the official line,
made real by repetition rather than concrete experience or the historical record. The contradictions have provided space for
and encouraged the creation of a Taino revival movement overwhelmingly composed of second and third generation stateside Puerto
Ricans who, by laying claim to indigeneity and thus the most 'original' roots, propose to out-authenticate the islanders.
It is a view that leaves unexplained why a people ostensibly so proud of their racial mixture overwhelmingly reject mixed
race classifications. Revealingly, and to the consternation of many, more than 80% of islanders self-identified as white
in the 2000 census.
......."[I]t is this understanding of a
de-Africanized mestizaje that many Puerto Ricans cling to when they first arrive in the United States.
"It permits a scenario in which Puerto Ricans, defined as neither Black nor white,
arrive in the United States devoid of racial prejudice only to be accosted by it in their new home. Puerto Ricans are presumably
taught racism in the U.S. and forced to choose between Black or white identity, to the detriment of their 'true' cultural
selves. This perspective, prevalent in the scholarship produced since the 1930s, is also expressed in the autobiographical
novel Down These Mean Streets, the dark-skinned Piri Thomas anguishes over being 'caught up between two sticks.'
Yet, it would be more accurate to say that Thomas and the others are actually stuck between the myth of racial democracy with
its implicit preference for a bleached mestizaje, and the reality of African descent as a liability. The choice, if choice
there were, is not between Black and white but between the myth of race-free color blindness and the reality of anti-Black
racism. It is this fundamental contradiction that provided fertile ground for new ways to understand race."
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is warning that "[r]ising food, energy
prices and global financial uncertainty demand new action to advance U.N. development goals in the Americas.
"Top United Nations experts on Latin America and the Caribbean warned this week that global
economic shocks could throw some 16 million people of the Americas into extreme poverty, threatening important gains toward
achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the region. Concluding a two-day meeting at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the regional directors of 13
United Nations agencies promised joint action to ensure continued progress on the MDGs in the Americas over the next two years.
" 'Latin America and the Caribbean have made real advances toward fulfilling the MDGs, particularly
in areas like infant mortality, hunger and poverty reduction,' said PAHO Director Dr. Mirta Roses Periago. 'But not
all groups have benefited equally, and the new global developments are a real threat to our progress. We need to mobilize
and coordinate development action among U.N. agencies and the region's governments to continue to fight poverty and promote
sustainable and equitable development.' "
Visit www.afropresencia.com to find listings and links to areas where you can find out
about upcoming events, as well as links to articles, photos and videos on Life in the Black Americas.
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by Miriam Jimenéz
Román (Editor),
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The book focuses
attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from Latin America
and the Caribbean. The presence of Afro-Latin@s in the United States (and throughout the Americas) belies the notion that
Blacks and Latin@s are two distinct categories or cultures. Afro-Latin@s are uniquely situated to bridge the widening social
divide between Latin@s and African Americans. At the same time, their experiences reveal pervasive racism among Latin@s and
ethnocentrism among African Americans. Offering insight into Afro-Latin@ life and new ways to understand culture, ethnicity,
nation, identity, and antiracist politics, The Afro-Latin@ Reader presents a kaleidoscopic view of Black Latin@s
in the United States. It addresses history, music, gender, class, and media representations in more than sixty selections,
including scholarly essays, memoirs, newspaper and magazine articles, poetry, short stories, and interviews.
By Karen Juanita Carrillo
The proof of any group's importance
to history is in the detail, a fact made plain by this informative book's day-by-day documentation of the impact of African
Americans on life in the United States. One of the easiest ways to grasp any aspect of history is to look at it as a
continuum. African American History Day by Day: A Reference Guide to Events provides just such an opportunity.
by Karen Juanita
View from Chocó: The Afro-Colombian past, their lives in the present, and their hopes for the future is an introduction
to the lives of Blacks in Colombia. Afro-Colombians live in a resource-rich yet remote region of Colombia. They only recently
won recognition as one of that nation's distinct ethnic groups. But Colombia's on-going civil war has led many Afro-Colombians
to reach even farther than their nation's borders for recognition: many have made their way to the United States as refugees
and as political activists working for peace in their homeland. The View from Chocó introduces the lives and
struggles of a too-long neglected community of Colombian Blacks.
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If you have a model of a tunnel or a long bendy pipe, or something like that, is there any neat way to calculate a path through the tube? Imagine I have a model a bit like this:
Such a path clearly exists, but how to usefully process either the vertices alone or the polygons/edges using them to calculate it?
Calculate a path based on a 3D model
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Well, if you have a pipe made of consecutive rings, then average the positions of all vertices belonging to each ring and you get a point in the middle of them all. Repeat for whole pipe, connect the midpoints and you have a path through.
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Nicky Henderson's seven-year-old ridden by Barry Geraghty claimed the Champion Chase but not as easily as the billing of hot favourite at 1/9 implied.
Andrew Lynch set the early pace on Sizing Europe and the old adversaries did battle with three fences to jump.
Lynch went for his whip as Geraghty eased alongside but it was not enough as Sacre galloped to the front with two fences to go.
A delighted Geraghty acknowledged the crowd as he crossed the line with Sizing Europe five lengths in his wake.
Having won the Queen Mother Champion Chase at the Cheltenham Festival and then Aintree's Melling Chase, the win completed a festival hat-trick which, considering Henderson felt his horse was not at its best, left the trainer delighted.
Henderson said: "He was at his best at Cheltenham, he wasn't quite as sharp at Aintree and wasn't as sharp today.
"He didn't do anything wrong. He was clean and confident and fair play to Sizing Europe, who ran a hell of a race.
"To do all three (Cheltenham, Aintree and Punchestown) is very, very hard and he's had to work harder today than he has in the past," added the trainer.
Punchestown results:
3 Zest For Life 4/1
12 Lord Hawkfield 14/1
13 Ma Chara 25/1
3 Jezki 2/1
6 Ted Veale 12/1
9 Il Fenomeno 16/1
14 Sizing Machine 7/1
19 Enchanted Forest 16/1
10 Saint Gervais 20/1
5 Sprinter Sacre 1/9 F
4 Sizing Europe 6/1
3 Moyle Park 7/4 F
25 Wrath Of Titans 9/2
10 Classic Move 10/1
7 Badgerfort 9/1
6 Mount Benbulben 14/1
7 Tofino Bay 9/1
5 Lyreen Legend 8/1
14 Very Wood 7/2 F
13 Value At Risk 20/1
11 Some Hawk 9/1
16 Western Boy 8/1
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CSU-Pueblo cuts won't be as deep as feared
Colorado State University-Pueblo President Lesley Di Mare has announced that the school will cut fewer positions than what was originally estimated.
CSU-Pueblo officials said this morning that they will be cutting 22 positions rather than 50, which was originally projected.
Officials said 19 jobs that are currently vacant will remain vacant.
In an email to staff and faculty, Di Mare thanked them for helping to devise a plan to balance the budget.
"I would like to recognize the time and effort that so many individuals have expended both to share their passion for this university and to assist me in devising a plan to balance our budget deficit that will affect fewer individuals than we originally projected," Di Mare said.
The financial picture of the institution shows that $3.3 million needs to be cut from the budget.
CSU system Chancellor Michael Martin and Di Mare will meet with students, faculty and staff today at 3 p.m. to explain the cuts and the budget challenges.
The open forum is scheduled to be held in the Occhiato University Center Ballroom.
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BYU football: Cougars cruise past Bengals; TCU up next
Ravell Call, Deseret News
PROVO — After a string of close games this season, and heading into its showdown with TCU next week, BYU got exactly what it needed, and expected, Saturday against Idaho State.
A dominating 56-3 victory.
The Cougars scored touchdowns on eight of their 13 offensive possessions, racked up a season-high 572 yards of total offense, and held the Bengals, a Football Championship Subdivision opponent, to a mere field goal on a sunny, warm afternoon at LaVell Edwards Stadium.
"It is a real step forward in my opinion," said coach Bronco Mendenhall. "The outcome is what I would have hoped. We scored a lot of points on offense and didn't give up many on defense. I think we still gained momentum going into the last four weeks of the season."
BYU (6-2) won its fifth consecutive game while ISU dropped its fifth straight contest.
Quarterback Riley Nelson showed, once again, why he is the Cougars' starter — completing 11-of-17 passes for 215 yards and three touchdowns. He also rushed seven times for 62 yards and another touchdown.
"We came in with high expectations," Nelson said. "In most aspects, we met those expectations."
Wide receivers Cody Hoffman and Ross Apo tallied almost identical numbers. Each had five catches for 71 yards, while Apo had one touchdown reception and Hoffman had two.
The Cougars wasted little time setting the tone as linebacker Kyle Van Noy blocked a punt that gave the offense the ball at the ISU 15-yard line. One play later, Nelson threw a screen pass to Apo, who raced into the end zone to put BYU up, 7-0.
The Bengals responded with a 19-play, seven-minute drive that resulted in a field goal. That would be all of the scoring for ISU.
The Cougar offense cruised for most of the game. BYU drove 99 yards in 1:54 on its final drive of the first half, capped by a 7-yard TD pass to Hoffman.
"He's so consistent," Mendenhall said of Hoffman. "He has such size and ranges and uses his body so well. If Riley puts the ball anywhere close to him, he has a knack for getting the football."
On BYU's first drive of the second half, Nelson took over on the Cougars' 9-yard line and promptly fumbled the first snap into the end zone. He picked it up and got to the 3-yard line. From there, Nelson completed a 57-yard pass to JJ Di Luigi, marking the Cougars' longest pass play of the season en route to a 91-yard drive that culminated with a 19-yard scoring pass to Hoffman.
"We were backed up I don't know how many times," Nelson said. "That drive where I fumbled in the end zone we were able to overcome that and go down and cap that drive with a touchdown. To show resiliency and sustain long drives despite the field position we were given, it's really encouraging."
At that point, BYU led 42-3, and Nelson's work for the day was done. He was replaced by backup Jake Heaps.
"I think he played about how he has been playing the past couple of weeks," Mendenhall said of Nelson. "Once you get him moving, that seems to be when bigger plays start to happen, once he's outside the pocket or avoid the rush. With that, it changes the defense's mindset because you have one more player to defend. And when he pulls it down to run it, you just don't have enough guys. That's very frustrating for an opponent. He has the ability to create that — it's inherent to who he is."
Yet Mendenhall has refused to name Nelson — who has started the last three games — the starter for the rest of the season, explaining that he's taking it week-to-week.
Not that Nelson minds.
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Nice room, friendly and helpful staff
My spouse and I treated ourselves to a night out on the town and selected the Madera to stay in. It's the perfect location, a few blocks from the south entrance to the Dupont Circle metro stop, close to the downtown business district and in a very nice neighborhood.
The lobby is tiny, only room for the small front desk so don't expect a grand entrance. However, the hotel has been completely renovated in the Kimpton tradition so everything is sparkling clean and just a little on the funky side, but as one other reviewer said, it's tastefully done so that even people who don't like "trendy" design will feel comfortable.
Our room was spacious and spotless, with very heavy curtains that kept out all the light and street noise. The bed was beautifully made and comfortable, with a down comforter and wonderful pillows and sheets.
The bathroom was brand-new and spotless, with plenty of hot water and water pressure (great massaging showerhead too!) We didn't use the high-speed internet access or the CD player, although both are provided at no charge.
All in all, it was a great experience and if we decide to stay in town again, we will choose the Madera. We also had dinner at Firefly, and the food was quite good, and the menu was tailored to the season.
Highly recommend, great service, value, and location all with style!
We stayed at the Hotel Madera in Jan. 2003 for 2 nights and we liked it so much that we went back for 3 days in Jan 2004. It was my 30th birthday and they upgraded us to a suite(!), a large room with a long couch, 2 chairs and a treadmill. The concierge was very helpful and had arranged for flowers to be there before we arrived. They also confirmed our dinner reservations and received a long fax and seemed happy to do so. We really liked the hotel. The design and furnishings are modern, but not so modern or trendy so that a non trendy-type person would feel uncomfortable. The location is terrific, right by the Dupont metro (and shops if you don't want to pay mini bar prices). I loved the Aveda bath products. And the wine hour is a terrific idea! Wish more hotels would have it. The only negatives I see are parking is rather expensive (though it is expensive in this area in general, and they weree kind in cleaning our salt-covered windshield), and I wasn't as thrilled with Firefly as I would have liked. It has a fun atmosphere and was great to meet friends for drinks at (we did that both years), but we though the food could be better, or at least less expensive for what we got. Ask for the back room if you want to hear the people you're eating with.
I loved it...
I booked the Hotel Madera after reading all of the other positive reviews posted at trip advisor. When I arrived, they did not have a king/non-smoking room available, which was what I booked. They upgraded me to a smoking suite, which was fabulous. Very spacious and clean. The mini bar was stacked with Belvedere and Kettle One vodka (my favorites). I had dinner at the restaurant connected to the hotel, which was very good (and boy, can they mix a good dirty martini)! The bed and pillows were very comfortable. The room had a computer terminal with internet access that was free of charge. I would definitely recommend this hotel and I would also go back. The only complaint was the heating/cooling system was really loud and I had to close the bathroom door to mute the sound.
Wonderful, great service
I stayed here for three nights. The desk service was very accommodating and worked hard to please. The staff had my bag out of my taxi before I even noticed! I did have two disappointments - 1. room service doesn't begin until 7:30 am though they advertise breakfast beginning at 6:30.
This is difficult if you have an 8 am meeting. The staff did everything they could to accommodate me, but after day one, I opted not to rush.
2. two light bulbs blew out in my room and housekeeping didn't replace them. Otherwise, the room is lovely, they supply a great robe, have a coffee maker, iron, magnifying mirror, iron, etc. all the amentities that make it a comfortable place to spend a few days. They also serve wine in the late afternoon and have a 24/7 computer terminal if you don't bring a laptop. The rooms are hugh. One colleague even had a room with a treadmill. Mine had a balcony. It's a superb location. The restaurant is pricy but great food and plenty of other places in walking distance. Less than 2 blocks from Dupont Circle. And, they take dogs. Who could ask for more?
Perfect Dupont Circle location, etc.
My husband and I stayed at this hotel in the wake of Hurricane Isabel. The staff could not have been more accommodating. The hotel even refunded our pre-payment for the one night that we couldn't make it into Washington. Our room was excellent -- interesting decor, great view, well-maintained. Our only regret was not having time to visit the hotel restaurant, The Firefly, which had an intriguing menu and fashionable crowd. We plan to stay at The Madera again when we travel to Washington. The location is perfect for us -- the rest was icing on the cake.
Great location, wonderful rooms, friendly staff...but...
We started off badly. Although the room was confirmed 3 times before arrival we were given a king instead of 2 queen beds. Then, only a very stinky smoking room was left. We stayed in the king. BUT, from then on the staff was absolutely wonderful, the rooms large and very clean and comfortable. The beds were very comfortable and the sheets ironed!! The location, 2 blocks from the Dupont Circle metro, was ideal. They have a free computer and printer available for guest use. Great for confiming airline reservations! I would absolutely stay there again. Just make sure of your reservation siting previous mishaps. Eat at the Cozy Corner across the street for breakfast. Very good and reasonable.
A must-stay!
Great design, great atmosphere and great service. We were greeted with a complimentary glass of wine and had no problem when we needed a cab at 4:00 a.m. from the hotel. A little tough to find, but it will be a well-kept secret.
Cramped, a bit Crude, but Classy at the Madera
A friendly botique hotel in the heart of Dupont Circle, extremely close to the Red Metro line. The service was a bit unpolished (no newspaper delivered one morning, two the next) and the rooms extremely small (I couldn't even find room for the bathmat in the bathroom!), but tastefully decorated and quiet.
Great location, comfortable beds
This boutique hotel has a great location, 2 blocks from the Dupont Circle metro stop. Great restaurants and shops are walking distance from the hotel. There is no lobby to speak of, and no swimming pool, so I would not stay here during the summer. The decor is different - black, brown, taupe, modern looking decor. The beds are quite comfortable with triple sheeted beds and duvets. We had a deluxe room, very spacious. The toilet/tub shower are in a very, very tiny room. The sink and dressing area is more spacious with a lot of closet space. Great restaurant in the building - the Firefly. It's very crowded, make a reservation. Avoid the overpriced continental breakfast, go to Cosi's by the metro stop instead. We got a great rate for the quality of the hotel, I think we got it from an online special at the hotel website.
Large rooms, cold water.
The hotel has been open for less than a year so it is very clean with employees who don't know much about the area. The decor was nice, the room was quiet but light leaked in through the curtain and door waking us up early. The shower was only warm, not hot enough to steam up the room, as I like. Beware of the mediocre continental breakfast, which is $13, a person. We thought the muffins and muddy coffee were free until they told us otherwise at checkout. The location is excellent but there are better choices in the same area.
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Our first night in D.C. we went into the city for dinner in Georgetown. It was a neat area to walk around and lots of good restaurants. We went to the National Mall and thought we would get a quick glimpse of the Washington Monument and Lincoln's Memorial at dusk. It seemed like we walked forever but we did get to see the memorials as well as a peek of the White House.
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You heard your stomach grumble. You hadn't eaten in three days, ever since you ran away from your last master. He was a mean man who had inherited you from his old aunt. You loved his aunt; she was a sweet old woman with at least seven other cats.
Two of which ran away two weeks before you did. Three had died because your mast beat them to death, and the other one was still living with him.
You smelled food and your stomach rumbled; quickly you sprinted to the sweet aroma. There you found a plate of strange looking biscuits. You happily ate until you heard the sound of the angry human it belonged to.
"What the bloody hell happened?" The human had bushy eyebrows and green eyes. You mewed pitifully trying to make him understand you were sorry. His face softened, "Why you poor thing." He picked you up and you winced feeling him touch your bruises and cuts.
He took notice of this and brought you inside his house. You squirmed, the last time you were in a house you were being abused.
"Who are you?" asked a tom with the same bushy eyebrows and green eyes as his master.
You whimpered, "Please make him put me down."
The green eyed master put you on the table and left, the tom got up on the table and patted your head with his paw, "Don't worry, my master is nice. He won't hurt you, now what is your name?"
"Umm," after a long time of being beaten and called a bunch of mean named you had forgotten yours. "I don't know."
He frowned, "Alright then, my master will give you a name."
You smiled, "Ok, what's your name?"
"I'm Iggycat, my master's name is green eyes." He licked one of your wounds on your neck. You sighed and nuzzled closer purring.
"Oh, Iggycat," said green eyes, "I'm going to take care of his wounds." You didn't notice the male forum of the word until later. "Now hold still. You need a name don't you? How about (favorite boy name)."
Your eyes widened, he thought you were a boy. You hissed.
Green eyes flinched, "Ok, I guess not, (second favorite boy name)?"
"I'm a girl, tell him I'm a girl," you said to Iggycat.
Iggycat went red under his white and brown fur, "Y-you're a girl?"
You nodded, "I don't want a boy name!"
Iggycat nudged his master's arm and then moved you to roll over revealing your gender. Green eyes eyes went wide and then he went as red as his cat, "A girl?"
You nodded rolling back to your stomach, "Thanks."
"How about ___________?"
You mewed happily.
Green eyes took care of your wounds and left you with Iggycat. Iggycat snuggled close to you and fell asleep. You slept next to him and for the first time for a long time you felt safe.
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....iggycat looks like a dog sorta
Meanwhile: my cat is meowing for the D if u know what i mean. But she is nice when shes in heat tho. o.o
i know what you mean :3
Dat picture...it killed me.
Man That happened to me once. This dude that I'm friends with now had a name guessing game with me and he started listing guy names... I was annoyed.
soo cute glomps iggy :>
Lol " you're a girl?! "
Me: no I'm the ginger bread man >.>'
Me: no I'm the ginger bread man >.>'
England: How about Edward?
Me: My Eyes Widened, He Thought I Was A Boy. I Hissed.💢
England: *Flinches* Ok, I Guess Not, Calvin?
me: I'm A Girl, Tell Him I'm A Girl!!!💢
England (Finding Out Later): 💧😳 A Girl?
Rose: Finally He Figured Out😤💢
Me: My Eyes Widened, He Thought I Was A Boy. I Hissed.💢
England: *Flinches* Ok, I Guess Not, Calvin?
me: I'm A Girl, Tell Him I'm A Girl!!!💢
England (Finding Out Later): 💧😳 A Girl?
Rose: Finally He Figured Out😤💢
Narneko does not approve of being called a guy XD
Its amusing how the English cat is a Scottish fold
Singapore cat doesn't approve of the name Dylan.
Ely-cat i thought he would be called britain cat
I am Vaticat Kitty (Vatican City) fear me for I have a Russian wolfhound slavr
You'd think iggycat would call England 'Eyebrows'...or maybe that's just me...
I had the same experience I called that every cute cat I saw was a girl which were 50-50
How did he know to name me Jolcat?
Cute and adorable.
For my cat, everyone who meets him for the first time thinks he's a female. Every single one of them.
Well... Uh adorable awkward!! It was soooo cute
We have a dog, i like dogs more than cats and everyone thinks he's a girl because my sis calls him princess and you can't see becasue of his thick coat.
Spikes my bff
OMG! I love cats too and I also can't have one! I know the feeling bro!
I do the same thing Arthur don't feel bad! I always call an animal I see for the first time the wrong gender sometimes xD Very cute!
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*Finishes story and starts reading description* REQUESTED BY YOSHIKI?!?!?! Dafaq...
I KNOW RIGHT?!? At first I was like, "Hey. He looks familiar." *Cry plays: Corpse Party flashback* "BUEKGUAFRJSGAIDGWJFVXH Yoshiki Kishinuma. DA FEELS T^T. (Another Corpse Party fan )
XD I know! ;m; It still remains my favorite game ever
WHY MUST SEIKO DIE?!? That pervert shall remain in my heart forever. XD I love that game so much. The storyline is very interesting and kinda sad. Wait. Kinda? ITS SO FAHKIN SAD! ;n; My favorite characters are Satoshi and Naomi. You? (I named my two OC's after them cuz that game is just TOO cool. XD)
X3 I know, WHY MUST ALL THE PRETTY ONES DIE?!?!? But my favorites r Yoshiki and Ayumi :3
I like Morishige too, but he just HAD to go insane on us! (Even then he was still cool.) And the way Seiko died was very depressing. R.I.P. Seiko Shinohara, Morishige (forgot his last name), Mayu Suzumoto, and the teacher. (It's been so long. Ima watch Cry's playthrough again to refresh my memory.)
X3 I've been watching the English subbed anime, it differs from the game though :/
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Wearing No. 35, a University of Louisville basketball superstar caps off a brilliant, record-setting collegiate career by leading the Cardinals to new heights in the NCAA tournament.
Sound familiar?
During the UofL women's historic 2008–09 basketball season, which ended April 7 in the NCAA Finals, comparisons between senior three-time All-American Angel McCoughtry and Cardinal legend Darrell Griffith were discussed by fans and covered in the local media.
First, there was the number—35. And then, of course, there were the numbers. McCoughtry surpassed Griffith's 2,333 career points to become the all-time scoring leader in Cardinal basketball history. She's also the women's all-time leader in rebounds, steals, free throws and field goals.
But the parallel between the two was not complete until the women's team upset the University of Maryland in the NCAA Elite Eight to earn the program's first trip to the Final Four. It was at that point that Angel—like "Dr. Dunkenstein" before her—took her team higher than it had ever soared.
In his 1980 senior season, Griffith guided the men's team to the school's first NCAA National Championship. This year, McCoughtry led the women's program to its first Final Four in school history, winning a school-record 34 games along the way.
Led by McCoughtry and fellow senior Candyce Bingham and the game plans of second-year coach Jeff Walz, the Cards' tournament run was nothing short of magical. After getting a disappointing No. 3 seed in the NCAA tournament draw, the 7th-ranked Cards embraced the role of underdog and played with a dramatic sense of having something to prove. They beat Liberty and host LSU in the first two rounds of the tournament, then No. 2 seed Baylor and No. 1 Maryland to reach the Final Four at Scottrade Center in St. Louis.
They weren't finished.
Overcoming a very shaky start in the national semi-final game—even going down 16–2—the Cardinals staged a frantic early second half comeback to overtake another No. 1 seed Oklahoma and eventually win 61–59.
That earned them a matchup with their third consecutive No. 1 seed in Big East rival Connecticut—a team that whipped them twice earlier in the season—for the national championship. The Huskies, who finished the season 39–0 and were the nation's top-ranked team all season, were too much for the Cardinals, winning the title game 76–54.
"They're a great team," McCoughtry said after the game. "I think to beat them you have to play a perfect game, and unfortunately we didn't do that.
"We don't have anything to feel ashamed of. We have been making history all year. We did something special."
Griffith, who now works for UofL as special assistant to the president, was one of the team's biggest fans.
"My niece played for the women's team back when I was at UofL," recalled Griffith, shortly before leaving for St. Louis to watch the women play in the Final Four. "To see all the excitement surrounding the program and how far it has come over the years has been phenomenal."
Griffith remembered how he felt heading into his senior year at UofL. "I had made a commitment when I came here to bring a championship to this city and to this university. I had just one year left.
"So I did everything I could to be the best player I could be and leave it all out on the court. Fortunately, it worked out for us."
McCoughtry had made a similar commitment going into her senior year. She wanted her team to make history. She wanted her team to make it to the Final Four. They almost surpassed even her goals by winning the whole thing.
"Nobody expected us to do this," McCoughtry said after the Oklahoma game. "We don't have one high school All-American on this team."
Who needs a high school All-American when you're flying on the wings of an Angel?
Going into the 2008-09 men's college basketball season, the Big East was being touted in the media and by coaches, players and fans as perhaps the most deeply talented conference in the history of college basketball.
"It's great for the fans," joked University of Louisville coach Rick Pitino at the time. "It's not so great for the coaches."
Led by senior co-captains Terrence Williams and Andre McGee, the Cards (31-6) were more than up for the test, taking UofL fans on a wild ride while winning the university's first Big East regular-season (16-2) and tournament championships.
In February and March, the team reeled off 13 straight victories—their longest streak since reaching the 2005 Final Four—and ascended to the first No. 1 ranking in The Associated Press Top 25 in school history. It was the season's final regular-season poll and the Cards entered the NCAA Tournament as the No. 1 overall seed. But like the previous season, the team's Final Four dreams fell one game short. After knocking off Morehead State, Siena and Arizona in the first three rounds, the Cards went down to eventual national runner-up Michigan State 64–52 in the Elite Eight at Lucas Oil Field in Indianapolis. It was the Cards' third Elite Eight appearance in five seasons. Pitino admits he didn't expect the Cards to post a 16-2 record in the rugged Big East and win the league tournament.
"It took an incredible amount of hard work and extraordinary effort to do what we did," Pitino said. "I think I'll look back and say this was one of the most overachieving teams I've ever coached."


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'better Than Sex' Cheese Ball
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My friend brought this for a potluck dinner we had at work. Needless to say, "it did'nt last long." Warning:it is very addictive. Also, if your on a 'low carb' diet it's great on celery instead of crackers.
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- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese (low fat or fat free can also be used)
- 1⁄2 cup butter
- 1⁄2 cup chopped green olives (spanish)
- 1⁄2 cup chopped green onion
- 1⁄2 cup chopped walnuts
- Soften (do not melt) the cream cheese and butter, then mix together in a bowl.
- Mix in green onion and olives.
- Form into a ball with your hands and roll the ball in the chopped walnuts.
- Chill for 2 to 3 hours or overnight.
- Serve with crackers or celery.
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I left off the nuts, so the pretty christmas colors showed! Also added just a few drops of hot sauce...not enough to change the color! So darn good, I didn't want to take it to Christmas party!But Santa is watching, so I was a good girl and shared.To RAVE reviews! Thank you, Robin!
While my husband didn't like it very much (said it wasn't sharp enough on flavor) EVERY person in my apt complex adores it, and is always begging me to bring it to functions. :) Something this quick and easy to make, that tastes this good, is high on my list.
I've made this twice, not as a ball but as a spread in a shallow dish, topped with the nuts. I've found 1/3 cup green onions is enough, that's 1 bunch. Everybody loved this and I've been asked for the recipe. This makes my can't-miss file.


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Okay, I did a little research and I think I may have a way of getting the glitched 'Grease Monkey' achievement, at least if you haven't already attempted to do so (or can delete your profile and retrieve a pre-DarkVoid profile from Live... if you've been connected since playing, you may already be screwed!)
I did not get it the first time, as I was simply upgrading and playing through. However, I knew from the forums that it apparently saves the gun info in your profile, so I disconnected myself from LIVE (fully unplugged the Box), played, glitched. I deleted my profile, reconnected to redownload my LIVE profile, disconnected again, and then performed the following steps.
First, I went and grinded 141,600+ tech points. I suggest a little bit over just in case. That is how much it will cost to upgrade all your weapons and your jetpack. I then did 2-4 again, topping off my points in the first section with the ships before the drop troops came in the second part of the level. After fighting several, I went to one of the boxes in the area to upgrade. I then performed the following steps:
1) I equipped the Liberator in the first slot (I think it was already equipped).
2) I bought the first upgrade, then after a few seconds, bought the second.
3) I then swapped the first slot to the Magnetar, and repeated step #2.
4+) I repeated #2 for all the guns, specifically doing the top row from left to right, then the bottom row from left to right.
5) After upgrading all the guns, I then went and did step #2 on the jetpack.
6) I got the warm fuzzies upon seeing that damn achievement pop up.
I don't know if there's any specific case for upgrades in the first slot vs. second slot, or order of the slots. It may be that just upgrading all at the same time works. Additionally, it may be that there's a separate issue causing the thing to glitch.
One thought as a programmer myself, and this is all conjecture, is that the 'upgrade' status is kept separately from the 'Upgrade Count'. The Upgrade count is checked for 14 upgrades bought (6 weapons + 1 jetpack, * 2 upgrades each)... and the upgrade count is only saved at a checkpoint. So if you quit and/or die, the upgrade count is < the actual # of upgrades. And as the upgrades themselves are saved in your profile permenantly... well, you may never get to the 14, causing the glitch. As I said, conjecture, but could explain the problem.
I'm not about to go and try to harvest tech points on another run just to test it some more; if you try this out, post here stating whether it worked for you or not.
this is all great as long as u havent glitched out already ive give up up on a fix now so im not gonna get the last 2 ach's and its a shit sandwich for me. really annoying after all the grinding done for the tech points.
While this may not be of much use to anyone I figured I'll put it out there all the same.
I picked up the game on April 12th and there was a title update there (oddly enough I forgot I pulled my ethernet out for my PS3 and did the first few missions offline) and finished up with 1k score on two afternoons later.
I upgraded my equipment a few times, both at the beginning of a mission and through the use of in game boxes. After I finished the game I needed roughly 80,000 tech points to complete grease monkey and spent a few hours farming it at Chapter 2-4 on casual (I did the first and only playthrough on Hardcore). Once I had enough tech points I quit out and reloaded up the same chapter on Hardcore and upgraded all of the items (in no particular order) at the weapon locker starring at you in the beginning of the level. I didn't delay my timing and I didn't make sure they were in any particular slot.
As I said for what it's worth I thought I'd give my experience which this horrible achievement. I may have simply been one of the lucky ones and dodged a bullet here. Or the title update made it less glitchy (perhaps the key was doing the last upgrade in game). I feel for those that did get hit with this shitty bug as I would have been right there pissed as you were if I had that happen. Best of luck guys and thanks to Bahaumaut for doing his very best to alleviate some of the problems people are having with this game.
I just got this game and haven't played it, so let me get this straight:
1. Start up game not connecting to LIVE or playing online
2. Play until 2-4 (or do I have to play farther to get all the guns?)
3. Farm the points and upgrade all at once like you said
4. If it doesn't pop, delete/recover profile and try again
Just wondering cause I'll defnitely try this to help confirm. Replaying would be lame, but better than a glitched achievement.
It's probably okay to connect to Live starting up, at least to get the one title update. Any patches are probably needed given some of the issues with the game. The key is that the game saves some stuff, like the weapon upgrades, to your profile, but other stuff isn't (like whatever it does to ID you bought all the upgrades; I assume it's a # counter). Because some stuff gets put into your profile without you being able to remove it, this can cause the 'permanant' glitch on grease monkey.
So you can get the title update, but when you're going for the grease monkey achieve, make sure you disconnect completely (remove all wired/wireless connections to your 360) so that your online profile is pristine. This way, if something happens and your achieve doesn't unlock once you get all the upgrades, you have the ability to blow away your local copy from storage. Reconnect to Live, do a recovery (this will take several minutes, unfortunately), and attempt again. Just be careful to delete your profile and not all the associated content with it; it gives you the option if you have to go that route.
As an aside, there appears to be a new feature with USBs being a storage medium. No clue if you can use it to store your profile and/or use it as a backup. If so, it might be another way to protect us from the problem.
Alright, thanks a ton for the clarification. I'll try this and post my results :)
Well, good news and bad news. Good news is I got the achievement. Bad news is I can't confirm the recovering method since I got it my first try. Never upgraded anything until I got enough points for all of them, went offline, upgraded at an in-game box, and did the order you described in the original post and it popped just fine. So at the very least I can lend credence to that upgrading method. Still, this is obviously the way to go to avoid this glitch, so big props for the heads up :D
I did the same thing and it worked for me :-). Got my 1000 thanks to these tips. I did what the achievement guide says. I made sure i had 145000. After i had enough money. I saved. Copied my savegame and profile to memstick. Loaded game - Upgraded weopons all in slot 1 , upgraded jetpack and achievement popped :-)
Thanks again for the tips.
I pretty much did the same as RadiantViper. I played through the entire game while connected to xbl on hardcore without every upgrading/swapping any weapons..I would just immediately close that screen when it came up. Once I finished and had 144600 tech points, I quit the game, disconnected from XBL, loaded the game, loaded episode 2-4, went right for the box, upgraded everything as you posted and the achivement popped with no problems.
Honestly, I think you can skip the disconnecting from XBL part. I think as long as you never upgrade at all until you have enough tech points to do so all at one time, you should be good to go.
I did it this way: I upgraded the Opressor once during a mission and the Liberator once before a mission (did continue to finish the mission though), then the Jetpack again twice during a mission. Then I went on to complete the game (everything so far on hardcore) and grinded my tech-points on casual. Once done I shut off my Xbox, unplugged the ethernet-cable, loaded the game back up and upgraded the rest of the weapons in chapter 2-4 with difficulty set to hardcore again. Achievement unlocked just fine.
You probably don't need all these safety measures as it should be enough to upgrade the last weapon ingame but you can never be sure... anyway thanks to the OP for the idea of recovering your profile. That made it less ...thrilling :P
just to make things clear - I don't have to farm all the tech points, and can freely upgrade my stuff anytime in the game baring in mind that the last upgrade has to be done during the chapter and not in in-game menus, righ ?
Suppossedly, but thats what i did and it glitched on me
that means the risk of glitching is really high when not buying the upgrades at once. oh well I'd have to stick to the instructions Bahaumaut posted.
is it really hard on hardcore without any of the upgrades ?
still I might want to go through the game on easy just for this achievement and then get back to hardcore for any others.
Honestly, once I upgraded everything, I tried playing some levels for a bit to see how much 'easier' the upgrades would make it..and to be honest, It didn't feel much different....so I am not sure how much the upgrades really help.
i got mine with no problems not 1 achievement glitched on me so i was lucky.dunno if this helps but i upgraded my weapons before a level instead of the upgrade box
So what OP is saying is upgrade the weapons in the first slot only? Ok... we'll see if it works!
Hmm. Okay, thanks.
I just got the achievement today and I can explain in detail how. I played this on medium, never went to easy for tech points. I used the beginning to switch guns but never upgraded from there, I bought upgrades every now and then but never on the last gun.
I only had 2 achievements left to get before grease monkey. I saved up enough to get the rest of the upgrades in one lump sum I went to go play on prison break and used the box there swapping all my guns out one by one first with the level 3 and shooting them first, then followed by upgrading them to level 2 and shooting them real quick then with the last gun I just fully upgraded without taking it out of the box.
Seems when I would always swap the last gun out of the box and into my hand it woud have to have a small loading screen I didnt want this to mess with the achievement so I upgraded it last and in one lump sum taking a guess and it worked maybe the last gun ( sorry forget what you call it)
I also didnt ski[ any scenes when in time for the upgrading that is all I can help with just upgrade the last gun last and shoot all your guns first before upgrading
the achievement unlocked first time for me. played through the game on medium, grinded until i had enough tech points and upgraded everything in 1 go. i upgraded between levels and kept swapping everything into slot 1. glad it did work!!
i think the glitch was patched....i unlocked it without any problems....and i seriously think that all you had to do was always upgrade at the upgrade screen before a level....not during a level.....and it worked for me....
My game completion glitched but not this one. Followed your steps..
1. finished the game hardcore
2. farmed 145k on casual
3.loaded 2-4 on hardcore
4. upgraded in game L->R in slot 1 top row, bottom row then jetpack
Just finished the game on Hardcore, without upgrading anything. I've racked up 100k so far, and I'll get the rest of those points today. i'll upgrade everything all at once offline and see what happens
EDIT: Ok so I got this cheeve today. I'll add it here for clarity.
No upgrades on weapons or pack at all
I farmed 2-4 to 150k tech points to be on the safe side.
I disconnected from Live, just in case it glitched and could recover my GT and try again
Loaded 2-4 again, skipped the cutscene, and ran straight to the weapons chest right in front of you.
I had the machine gun in slot 1, upgraded to level 2, waited 5 seconds, and upgraded to level 3
Waited 5 seconds
Swapped the machine gun for the next weapon (middle-top), and upgraded in the same way
Repeated for all the weapons, and then the Rocket Pack
Cheeve popped as soon as I level 3'd the Rocket Pack.
So I can't say whether the glitch is fixed, but I can say this method worked. Its just as likely the upgrades needing to be done at the same time, as it is that you need to leave a pause between each upgrade so you aren't doing it too fast, and confusing the save system.
Thanks to those above for their help, a dodgy achievement and its good to get everyones ways of how it did and didn't work.
weapon upgrades are saved to your profile. once its glitched its glitched forever.
So, when I got this game, I've played it never connected to Live at all. Everytime I play this game, I make sure that I'm not connected at all (cable removed / wireless router removed as well). So, if I understand correctly, as long as I never connect to Live while playing this game, I should be ok? I'm not close to beating the game yet, I put the game down for a while to play some other titles. I'm going to go back and try to get this all done. I really hope that what I'm doing is right ... everytime I put the disc into my 360, a part of me on the inside is scared to death. I really hope I don't get it glitched ... >_<
I did it exactly as Bahaumaut described...
Played through the game on hardcore, without upgrading anything.
After that, I replayed some episodes to get the missing achievements and grinding tech points.
When I got about 140.000 tech points I upgraded all my weapons and jetpack as described...
And voila - the achievement appeared :)
Just starting to play this game and i see that should be cautious about that achievement.
How long it would take me if i play until 2-4 on casual where could farm all the needed points to get that achievement done and then play without sweating in fear for glitch on hardcore and upgrade whenever i want.
going through on casual till you get to 2-4 won't take you long. less than 4 hours probably.
I am already in that mission.. few question off topic here. If i play on casual first then all upgrades will transfer to hardcore also? Missed few journals too, can i pick them up on hardcore playtrough or must collect all of them in casual now with replay missions?
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Situated in the transboundary belt between Montenegro and Albania, Lake Skadar is the largest freshwater reservoir in Southeastern Europe. Because of the wide range of endemic, rare or endangered plant and animal species it supports, Lake Skadar and its extensive adjacent wetlands are internationally recognised as a site of significance and importance (Ramsar site). Within the last 10 to 20 years, Lake Skadar was exposed to intensive pollution. For the assessment of the ecotoxic load of the sediments sampled in Lake Skadar, a triad approach was recently applied. Overall, a complex spectrum of ecotoxic loads was elucidated. The aim of the present study was to use plant-based bioassays for assessing the sediment quality of Lake Skadar in order to facilitate and complement the triad test battery. The newly developed sediment contact test with Myriophyllum aquaticum and the aquatic growth inhibition test with Lemna minor were applied to native sediments and pore water, respectively, allowing the investigation of different toxicity-effects caused by particle-bound pollutants as well as pollutants in the interstitial water. This investigation is the first application of the novel sediment contact test with Myriophyllum aquaticum to lake sediments.
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Both plant assays were shown to be reliable tools for the evaluation of the eco-toxicological risk potentials of pore water and solid-phase sediment. They should become a complement to the standardised test battery generally used for comprehensive hazard assessment.
KeywordsBioassays Lake Skadar Lemna minor macrophytes Myriophyllum aquaticum native sediments pore water sediment contact test sediment toxicity
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- 2. Federal Institute of Hydrology, Am Mainzer Tor 1, 56068, Koblenz, Germany
- 3. Institute of Hygiene, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 324, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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Margaret "Margie" Brunner
November 24, 2013
Brunner, Margaret "Margie"
Surrounded by her family on Sunday, November 24, 2013, of South Hills.
Beloved wife of the late William Brunner; loving mother of Linda (Steve) Novacek, William (Janet) Brunner, and Kimberly (Brian) Evans; devoted grandmother of Steve (Lisa) Novacek, Richard (Lori) Novacek, Daniel Novacek, Deana (Doug) Read, Jessica (Scott) Schreiner, Jeanine and William Brunner, and Brian and Nicole Evans; great grandmother of 9; sister of Edward Krumblis; daughter of the late Daniel and Margaret (Kirik) Krumblis. Friends will be received at the John F. Slater Funeral Home, Inc., 412-881-4100, 4201 Brownsville Road, Brentwood 15227, on Tuesday from 1-8 pm. Funeral prayer on Wednesday at 9:15 a.m. Mass of Christian burial in St. Sylvester Church at 10:00 a.m. Please send condolences to www.johnfslater.com.


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