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Frisco righty gets ahead with six pitches, sound mentality
By Todd Traub / Special to MLB.com | July 17, 2012 6:00 AM ET
The Texas Rangers' right-handed pitching prospect made the jump from Class A Advanced to the Double-A Texas League this season to take his place in the Frisco RoughRiders' rotation.
Listed, perhaps generously, at six-foot and 183 pounds, Buckel relies more on his brains, and six quality pitches, than his brawn.
"I don't think baseball is a game about size," he said. "Baseball is a thinking game. It's about having talent and the ability to approach the game mentally. So I don't really think about size or weight or anything."
It's an approach that has worked so far. Buckel was 5-3 with 1.31 ERA at Class A Advanced Myrtle Beach to start the season, and with Frisco he is 1-3 with a 3.32 ERA.
"It's a new level," Buckel said of the Texas League. "Hitters are a little better, umpires are a little better, and fielders are a little better. So everything is just stepped up a notch. It's making that adjustment and saying, 'OK, you can't make these mistakes as much.' "
Buckel, out of Simi Valley (Calif.) Royal High School, committed to Pepperdine but passed in order to sign with the Rangers after they took him in the second round of the 2010 Draft.
"I wanted to play pro ball from the get-go," Buckel said. "I wanted to get into a professional atmosphere as early as I could -- professional coaching -- and I felt I was mature enough to take that step and not have to go through three years to get to where I am now. So far it's paid off very well."
He pitched just five innings in the Rookie-level Arizona League in 2010, then opened last season in the bullpen at Hickory in the Class A South Atlantic League.
He wasn't a reliever for long, and in 17 starts he went 7-2 with a 2.04 ERA, 104 strikeouts and just 19 walks for the Crawdads.
"It's a very happy place to be," Buckel said of the Rangers organization. "It's a good feel around the organization, and it's pretty awesome to be a part of that."
Buckel has rubbed shoulders with a few other accomplished pitchers, some in his peer group -- like his good friend Trevor Bauer, who went No. 3 overall to the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2011 -- and some seasoned veterans like San Francisco's Barry Zito, who taught Buckel his big-breaking curveball.
Buckel has been a Zito fan since 2002 after he saw him throw one curve to the Minnesota Twins. He was introduced to Zito at a private clinic through a mutual pitching coach.
"I think I was nine when I met him and I had to ask him, 'How do you throw your curveball?'" recalled Buckel, who went on to win a pair of Zito's spikes that were auctioned off at the clinic. "That was pretty cool."
Buckel was a Junior Olympics teammate of Bauer's, and they hit it off while hanging by the pool during a tournament in Arizona. As similarly sized pitchers with complementary thought processes, they stay in touch and compare notes during the season.
"We learned we only lived about a half hour away from each other, so we've stayed pretty close over the years," Buckel said.
In addition to his curveball, Buckel throws a fastball, changeup, cutter and two sliders. If you're a thinking man, he said, six pitches can come in pretty handy.
"The slider is a little bit slower, a little bit bigger break, and the cutter is more of a harder version of the slider with a little bit less break," Buckel said. "But yeah, using deceptive timing on the hitters -- each one of my pitches has a different [velocity] -- so being able to work in a range of 30-plus miles an hour, it's going to be very hard for a hitter to time."
Eating innings: The Arkansas Travelers played their 11th extra-inning game Saturday and posted their longest -- a 17-inning loss to Tulsa -- since moving to Dickey-Stephens Park in 2007.
Run aground: After going 7-13 against San Antonio and suffering a four-game sweep to the Missions in the last series at Midland, the RockHounds charged into San Antonio last week to win the first three games of a four-game set by scores of 13-10, 10-0 and, on Saturday, 16-4.
Singular performance: Frisco posted a season-high 19 hits, only three for extra bases, as it rallied to beat Corpus Christi, 11-7, at Whataburger Field on Saturday. Corpus Christi led 3-0 and 5-4 before Frisco took the lead for good with a three-run fourth.
Todd Traub is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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Henry Tudor, who had a weak claim to the throne, became Henry VII, founding the Tudor dynasty.
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The Tudor period is well-trodden ground in historical fiction and I admit I picked this book up wearily, thinking I knew it all.
His weak, thin, arms, and lopsided shoulders would have presented exactly the sort of impression that the Tudor writers gave him.
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I understood that you and Mr. Tudor were dining at the Glynns' to-night.'
By the time we have done with it—for all practical purposes—it will be a Tudor manor-house.
This treatise on the middle Tudor period is one of the most fascinating historical treatises in the whole range of literature.
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Kelly Rowland has a lot on her plate as a judge and mentor on this season of The X Factor.
The sexy singer has been bringing her A-game when it comes to style and sass on the singing competition show and her mentee, Jeff Gutt, just stole a spot in the show's final round.
This week, she took a break from her hectic schedule to stop by The Arsenio Hall Show. There, she dodged engagement rumor questions with grace and spoke candidly about the constant comparisons to her BFF, Beyonce.
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Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman Carrick Cook says the case began in September with the recovery of $300,000 in copper plates found in the back of a commercial vehicle during a traffic stop and later at a Marana warehouse.
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"The memory layout is always the same [for the recorded program]," says Mozilla. "The addresses of objects don't change, register values are identical, syscalls return the same data, etc."
Aside from making difficult-to-reproduce bugs easier to track down, Mozilla claims Rr can make the entire debugging cycle less painful. For instance, when combined with fuzzers, the programmer can see in detail how the fuzzed input causes a problem. Large projects -- like Firefox -- with a large roster of unit tests can have any individual failures generated by those tests sifted out and debugged on their own.
Mozilla claims the total amount of performance overhead introduced by using Rrr is relatively small, with slowdowns of around 1.25 to 3 times normal execution speed, with most of the slowdowns at around a factor of 1.2. The company claims Rr could in theory be made faster, but this degree of slowdown is more than acceptable for the work done with it.
Since Rr is a newly minted project -- currently a 1.0 release -- it's limited in many ways. The single biggest limitations are platform and architecture: It only debugs 32-bit Linux x86 processes, although a port to x86-64 is promised in the future. There's no word yet about whether Rr could be ported to Windows, but odds are it would require some major reworking. Haswell CPUs aren't supported yet, and ports to ARM are currently out of the question, since Mozilla claims that ARM processors don't have the needed performance counter features to support the program.
Also, Rr can only emulate a single core, so any programs with bugs that arise from multicore parallelism probably won't be debuggable with Rr. The same goes for programs that use shared memory, since Rr can't record anything outside of the process it's capturing.
Mozilla has released Rr under an MIT-like license, with the source available at GitHub.
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"…and then, when they suffer harm in Allah's cause, they take people's persecution for Allah's punishment;…"
But when they set out on Allah's path, when describing His religion, when talking about Islam, they are imprisoned or defamed. "they take people's persecution for Allah's punishment;"
This is the secret of the test. Allah sets out the secret of the test. Pain and suffering will come to those who preach the word. There is no other way for training, for depth of soul, for the moral values of paradise. There can be no other model of education.
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Money comes, opportunities comes, or when someone is imprisoned he is at once released or is very successful, strength radiates around him or he makes material gains.
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Allah says this is how hypocrites behave. We were Muslims and supported you and were always with you, they say. They portray themselves as supporting Muslims in order to make gains from Muslims.
"Does Allah not know best what is in every person's heart?"
Allah says I already know your characters. Allah says, I know what you did, and why.
11- Allah knows those who believe and He knows the hypocrites.
It is because of hypocrites that Islam does not rule the world. Hypocrites are a terrible scourge and difficulty. Hypocrites are one of the main elements of the test.
12- "Those who are unbelievers say to those who believe," You hear this a lot,'Follow our way and we will bear the weight of your mistakes.' They will not bear the weight of a single one of their mistakes. Truly they are liars.
Allah says that of course they cannot assume other people's sins. The sinner bears that burden. They will bear a burden as well, of course. The person who commits the sin bears the responsibility, but the person inciting them also bears one.
13- They will bear their own burdens and other burdens together with their own. On the Day of Rising they will be questioned about what they invented.


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Flavor Flav pleads guilty to domestic violence charges
Public Enemy rapper Flavor Flav will be heading to school for domestic violence prevention classes after pleading guilty to misdemeanor domestic violence charges in Las Vegas Monday.
In 2012 the emcee was accused of getting into a physical confrontation with his fiancée and her 17-year-old son, as well as threatening the boy while chasing him around the home with two kitchen knives.
The Las Vegas Sun reports that Flav -- born William Drayton Jr. -- accepted a plea deal that knocked the original felony charges down to misdemeanor charges of attempted battery and battery constituting domestic violence. Under the agreement, Flav will be on probation for the next year and will have to complete a dozen domestic violence prevention classes. Had he been found guilty of the original charges, he could have faced up to 12-years in prison.
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Sunday, December 11, 2011
Thankfully our hotel serves breakfast from 5:30 am, which meant that we were able to partake of some sustenance before our trip to Tortuguero.
There was a good spread at the buffet breakfast, but I found out that day that my stomach isn't awake before 7 am, so this is all I could manage to ingest.
At the lobby we met our group – 7 of us. A couple from Baltimore, a couple from Sacramento and his mother from OC, and us. Just 7. Our friends from Philly attempted to sign up for this same trip, same group and was told that the trip was fully booked. 7 people and this trip is fully booked. Interesting.
A big tourist bus was waiting outside the hotel, which means we were'nt the only ones going to Tortuguero. Our suspicion was right because after they loaded us and a few others in front of our hotel, we drove around San Jose picking up more passengers from different hotels and hostels, which wasn't a bad thing. It was sightseeing for free as I saw it. Nice to see the city streets not crowded in the early morning hours and the city waking up.
I like watching people go about their daily business.
The trip took us up and over the Continental Divide between the Pacific and Caribbean watersheds and thru the spectacular Braulio Carillo National Park. We saw changes in landscapes and vegetation. We were going down to the Caribbean coastal area and Tortuguero.
Our guide was Julio, he was pretty good with his spiel. I was not listening the whole time. I was letting my eyes drink in the passing scenery. Verdant lush green treetops, dense wooded areas, part of a forest/jungle also a national park, houses along the highway. Difficult to get some shots, some parts of the road were curvy and I was getting a little dizzy. I don't get car sick, but the airconditioning was weak and the bus was full. I wanted to sip water but I was afraid I'd pee. From the looks of it, there wasn't any place for pit stop.
A soda is a local restaurant where locals eat and where we had most of our meals as well.
Around 10 am we were pulling up into a gated compound. Beautiful garden filled with tropical plants and flowers and trees and ferns, all so green and colorful. We stopped at El Ceibo restaurant in Guapiles, midway from San Jose to Tortuguero. This breakfast – our second breakfast, we're hobbits – was again buffet style and was part of the package. Filled in on eggs and ham and rice and beans.
We gobbled down our food rapidly so we can have time to explore the surroundings and make a stop at the restrooms. It's so beautiful out there, clean air, butterflies fluttering about and birds singing and other unidentifiable bugs chiming in to the symphony of tropical sounds. Then another sound was distinct. There was running water somewhere. A little creek runs behind the restaurant, we got to take a peek. The orchids are simply adorable and are everywhere.
Apparently everyone in the bus with us would all be going to Pachira Lodge and we were loaded again after breakfast. I was so glad to be back to the comforts of the AC bus after that brief exploration of the garden because the sun was bearing down at full force and it's not noon yet.
The rest of drive to Tortuguero was more enjoyable for me, the sights of real Costa Rica. Houses along the way have their front doors wide open – which reminded me how we have them back in our province. I told my husband how the minute my mom wakes up in the morning, she would open our front door and then go to the kitchen and cook. That front door will not be closed again until we go to bed that night. Same holds true for everyone's house in the neighborhood. Oh how I miss those times, how safe we all felt.
We passed by banana plantation where we stop briefly to watch a guy pull bananas for packaging. We also passed by a pineapple plantation. We saw grazing lands and beautiful landscape. The road was unpaved and we were crawling at about 15 km an hour.
A drive by can you believe it!
Oh just a few short hours and we'll be in our destination for the day: Tortuguero or the land of turtles.
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oh, so lovely pics!ReplyDelete
A perfect place for vacation with family and friends especially this coming holiday season, Christmas!ReplyDelete
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You do know how to whet the appetite, Maria! :)ReplyDelete
very lush vegetation... just like the tropics ! Nice.ReplyDelete
What a great trip. You took some wonderful shots.ReplyDelete
Those are very vivid shots, considering you are in the bus. I always love your photos, in fact i want to get pointers from you since long ago. I always get mostly out of focus shots even if i am not moving. haha. I love also your narration, which make us feel we are with you. And your nostalgia about the old province here, that is exactly still how our province in Batangas is, opened in the morning till you sleep at night, rail-less windows, fence-less boundaries too! We even leave the house open when we go around the property. But now there are already some thefts of farm produce because there are people who are not born their, e.g. husbands of residents, guests of residents, etc.ReplyDelete
Your pics reminds me of home and your narrative; it's as if your describing a province in the south.ReplyDelete
Puerto Rico is like the Philippines. I'll feel at home living there. : )
Your fine description and pictures of this tour make me want to share in the buffet breakfast and the bus trip. Sounds very enjoyable.ReplyDelete
i love the houses. they're so colorfulReplyDelete
What a nice trip, Maria. The sequence of photos is so enjoyable, I like very much the flower and plant pictures too.ReplyDelete
Perhaps I love your photoblog because you have great series of photos of latin american cities that make remember my Peru.ReplyDelete
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apparently i have been absent here lately to have almost missed this post. ^0^ReplyDelete
Interesting tour p.c., i like the whole atmosphere of this place.
and can totally understand your morning blues. ^0^
haha, can't eat breakfast that early too,
i can only end up vomiting the whole thing.
but don't think i don't like the food though.
it looks tasty. ^0^
One thing I can never forget about Costa Rican meal is the preponderance of chicken, rice and beans.ReplyDelete
great photos. we're still deciding between puerto rico or costa rica. we've got some planning to do.ReplyDelete


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Remember people, it's a best guess. There is no conformation on anything speculated in this article. Yet, people will take any kind of information and twist it to create rumors...
Dont want to get hyped like 4S thinking it was going to be iphone5 and fail to the expectations created by rumors.
lol I don't really want the rumor mill to start up yet, but your last paragraph made this worth it I read at iPad 2's release how straining it would be to use the iPhone 4 's screen technology on a larger scale, so I guess this might confirm what we suspected then. I think they're looking for something much more energy efficient for big devices. But, I guess Apple greatly benefits from owning a cutting-edge LCD technology. If they make something that changes the game, they could own the market on phones, laptops, monitors / all in one computers, and perhaps even TVs.
When are we going to accept that the number 5 has absolutely nothing to do with with the upcoming 6th generation iPhone? Am I seriously the only one who sees that the "iPhone 5" name died the moment the "Lets Talk iPhone" event ended? We already have a 5th iPhone Mr. Swanson.
I hope they release at least one revolutionary device next year. They only problem is apple has an extremely stable platform and standardized device specs in terms of screen size, that any large departure in form factor will create a stratification in their phone and tablet lineup. But, to truly innovate and satisfy customers, something new will have to be done. Apple can only get away with an iPhone 4S every other year.
It's quite the game of tradeoffs.
This 4" screen is for the iPad3!
But 5 comes after 4 - i was surprised they called the 5th Gen phone the 4S but I wont be surprised when they call the 6th Gen the iPhone 5
I think it will be called the iPhone 4GTi
Does it matter what it's called? Until it is announced, calling it the iPhone 5 is as good as anything. They might call it the iPhone Poodle for all we know.
That said, this is a forum for discussion and speculation. Hell, that is what this article is all about. People should be free to speculate whether it will be called the 5, 25, or 5000 along with all of the other inspector gadget options people want to see in it.
Bah! I just cant see how people are arguing this? it hurts my mind...I'm just going to stop now and leave these as my parting words of the subject: No one here can put any name on the next iphone that is coming out...why are we doing it? when we need to speak about things like these that go unnamed it just easier and less confusing if everyone referred to them in their generations. then everyone knows what everyone is talking about (just like the iPods!!!!!!).
Good-bye cruel world...
iPhone - 1st Generation
iPhone 3G - 2nd Generation
iPhone 3GS - 3rd Generation
iPhone 4 - 4th Generation
iPhone 4S - 5th Generation
Bottom line, Apple will name the next iPhone the iPhone 5 and it will be the 6th iPhone released.
With WindowsPhone 8 coming out, I think Apple will have togo one better and call the next iPhone the iPhone 9.


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Haskell programmers publish a great deal of research at conferences, which are also great places to meet and discuss Haskell and its future. The following is a list of some of the conferences at which Haskellers and their research appears.
1 The Haskell Workshop
The Haskell Workshop is an annual workshop organized in affiliation with the International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP). The workshop is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) under the aegis of the ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN).
The purpose of the Haskell Workshop is to discuss experience with Haskell, and future developments for the language. The scope of the workshop includes all aspects of the design, semantics, theory, application, implementation, and teaching of Haskell.
2 The International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP)
ICFP (International Conference on Functional Programming) is an annual programming language conference. It is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery under the aegis of the ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN), in association with Working Group 2.8 of the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP).
3 Commerical Users of Functional Programming (CUFP)
The goal of CUFP is to build a community for users of functional programming languages and technology, be they using functional languages in their professional lives, in an open source project (other than implementation of functional languages), as a hobby, or any combination thereof. In short: anyone who uses functional programming as a means, but not an end
4 Principles of Programming Languages (POPL)
5 Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)
6 Implemenation of Functional Languages (IFL)
7 Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL)
8 Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS)
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10 Types in Language Design and Implementation (TLDI)
11 Trends in Functional Programming (TFP)
12 Principles, Logics, and Implementations of High-Level Programming Languages (PLI)
13 Types in Compilation Workshop (TIC)
14 Practical Aspects of High-level Parallel Programming (PAPP)
15 Federated Conference on Rewriting, Deduction, and Programming (RDP)
16 Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications (TLCA)
17 International Workshop on Functional and Declarative Programming in Education
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Leaf computing intrigues scientists, according to an article in Nature Science Update, 21 Jan 2004. Leaves take in carbon dioxide from the air through small gaps between cells on their undersides, called stomata, but these cannot be left open all the time or the plant will lose too much water vapour and dry out. In order to take in sufficient carbon dioxide without losing too much water, leaves open and close the gaps using cells on either side of the gap called guard cells. Scientists at Utah State University studied the pattern of opening and closing of the air gaps and found that the underside of leaves appears to be divided into patches where all stomata will be either open or closed. The patches seem to change from open to closed mode in patterns similar to distributed computing, which is a type of information processing that involves communication between many interacting units. The Utah researchers suggest stomata are acting like simple computers, responding to what the surrounding stomata are doing.
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Re: Gun to your head WR scenario
I think Cooks is the best WR listed and worthy of 17 even if it is on the high side for him. I dont like Lee very much, I think hes continually been mocked higher than he should be. Beckham is probably slightly better imo. I see both as fringe first rounders while Cooks i see as 20 +/- 5 type.-JAB
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Re: Gun to your head WR scenario
I have to go with Beckham if I'm choosing between all of those guys.
I like Cooks a lot too. I'd choose either of them before Lee.
Bekcham has nice size and can burn you deep, but he runs nice routes too. I think Cooks has the same skill set, but just slightly smaller (5'9" and change vs 5'11" and change).Disclaimer: The content posted is of my own opinion.
Re: Gun to your head WR scenario-JAB
Re: Gun to your head WR scenario
Nice video from Cosell on WRs:
Cosell on WRs (Part I of II):
Adams: great hands, strong after catch, uses body well, less explosive than some other WRs
Beckham: good route runner, sudden movement, explosive, better outside WR than Cooks, smoother than Cooks
Benjamin: naturally quicker than Evans
Bryant: most intriguing WR in draft due to speed/size combo, AJ Green/Justin Hunter body type, needs refinement, true vertical speed
Cooks: explosive, need to figure out how to use him, good RAC
Evans: fits new NFL WR prototype, soft hands, faster than you think, no pro routes from college
Landry: slot WR in NFL, physical, can catch, tough, RAC, good route runner, not explosive - but a player
Lee: can move all around, vertical ability, WCO (crossing) routes, smooth, fluid, deceptive movement, explosive
Moncrief: straight line fast, came from simple offense, NFL skillset, built like Andre Johnson, sleeper pick
Richardson: deep guy, good vertical routes, not big on RAC from lateral agility standpoint (e.g. compared to Cooks)
Robinson: said he likes him more and more the more he watches him, makes contested catches, smoother than Adams
Watkins: best since AJ/Julio, makes catching look easy
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I would be killed, because I think Cooks and Matthews will become stars. Can't choose.....
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Re: Gun to your head WR scenario
I think Cooks will be a T Y Hilton clone in his early career, but he'll develop into a faster Antonio Brown. I know some say little guys in the WCO don't mix, but T Y looked pretty damn good in a traditional WCO. And we will have Smith this year to tutor Cooks.
Honestly, I like Beckham, Lee, and Cooks. I'd be happy with any at #17. All will probably be at least solid #1B receivers in the league, but I think Cooks skillset is the kicker for me, especially him getting in and out of breaks so quickly.
Re: Gun to your head WR scenario
Without projecting the proven elements of a guy's game onto his unproven elements (such as route-running across the entire tree, competition faced, red zone targets, etc.), I think that OBJ is the best WR in the Draft. He's also a pretty good return man. Watkins, Evans or [pick your favorite] have higher ceilings, and may become better pros, but I have fewer question marks on Beckham than anyone else.
Beckham = a slightly more explosive, slightly quicker Greg Jennings--who has averaged 61 / 917 / 7 (despite missing a season's worth of games over his 8 year career + dealing with MIN's woeful QBs situation in 2013). Torrey Smith, FWIW, is on slightly better career curve than Jennings.
Not saying OBJ (or any other WR for that matter) will be the savior of the offense, but I'll happily take two "Greg Jennings" on my team...especially the young version, and with years between their respective mega-contracts.
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Description of GMD's Isentropic Trajectories
The GMD Isentropic Transport Model was first used in a study of flow patterns for Barrow Observatory, Alaska (Harris & Kahl, 1994). Isentropic trajectories account for adiabatic vertical motions that air parcels may experience en route to their destinations. However, in the near-surface layer an air parcel cannot always be traced isentropically because the isentropic surface on which it is travelling may either intersect the ground or be ill-defined in an unstable boundary layer. This transport model, therefore, calculates trajectories on isentropic surfaces until the specified surface descends to within 100 m of the ground. At this point, the model switches to a layer-averaged mode, where an air parcel is advected by winds averaged through the layer 100-600 m above the surface topography. These heights were chosen to diminish the effects of surface friction and to represent winds in the lower boundary layer.
Input to the trajectory model is in the form of 2.5 degree latitude-longitude gridded meteorological parameters and topography furnished by the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts or the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction. Most of the techniques employed in this model, such as the transformation from isobaric to isentropic coordinates, horizontal interpolation procedures, and the predictor-correction method for advection, derive from the earlier isobaric (Harris, 1982) and isentropic (Harris and Bodhaine, 1983) trajectory models. All trajectory models are subject to uncertainty arising from interpolation of sparse meteorological data, assumptions regarding vertical transport, observational errors, sub-grid-scale phenomenon, turbulence, convection, evaporation, and condensation. Five studies (Kuo et al., 1985; Kahl and Samson, 1986, 1988; Haagenson et al., 1987; Draxler, 1987) estimated average horizontal trajectory errors to be 140-290 km in 24 hrs. Trajectory uncertainties are also detailed in Merrill et al. (1985) and Harris (1992) and references therein.
Any given trajectory produced by this model should be reasonably representative of the large scale circulation, and as such, may be used to suggest potential source regions. However, this does not imply that a particular air parcel sampled at the trajectory destination followed this path.
Trajectories have been shown to be sensitive to the different types of gridded data from which they are calculated; for example, those from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) vs those from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). In other words, different winds as input will produce different trajectories as output.
The standard source of input data for GMD trajectories is ECMWF, however the "realtime" trajectories are produced from NCEP data. These trajectories are labeled "Preliminary - based on NCEP met data. "
Description of isentropic trajectory plots.
- The first line of the title gives a 3-letter ID and the latitude and longitude
of the destination.
- The second line gives the date (UT) of arrival.
- The third line of the title gives the potential temperature* of the transport
surface for the 00 UT and 12 UT trajectories appearing on this page.
- The fourth line of the title, if present, indicates that the trajectories
were created from NCEP MET data. If this line is absent, the the trajectories
were created from ECMWF Operational Analyses Level III-B Basic Consolidated
- The upper (large) plot shows the horizontal extent of the 00 UT (blue)
and 12 UT (red) trajectories. Symbols along the trajectories mark the number
of days back from the destination.
- The lower plot shows the height in kilometers along the 00 UT (blue) and
12 UT (red) trajectories. The X-axis gives the number of days back from
the destination.
- The tables to the right give the height, pressure, and temperature along
the trajectory for each day back. Day 0 indicates conditions at the destination.
* Potential temperature is the temperature a dry parcel of air would have if brought to 1000 hPa adiabatically. This quantity should be conserved during adiabatic transport.
Atmospheric Transport Data Formats
Isentropic Trajectories
The format for isentropic trajectories is one trajectory per record. Each record may be read with a Fortran formatted read:
read(IUN,1500)ITIM, IHR, THETA,
1500 format(I7,I2,F5.1,A3,I4,2I2,A1,5(81(F8.2,1X)))
Definition of variables in the read:
- ITIM - YYYYDDD (year * 1000 plus day of year of trajectory)
- IHR - 0 or 12 UT (arrival hour)
- THETA - potential temperature of isentropic surface
- OID - 3-letter identifier for the destination
- IYR - year (YYYY)
- IMO - month
- IDAY - day
- IFLAG - blank for backward; "F" for forward trajectory
- TLAT(I), TLON(I) - arrays containing trajectory latitudes and longitudes from
the destination (TLAT(1), TLON(1)) and every 3 hours back in time and space
to (TLAT(81), TLON(81)) which is the location 10 days back.
- PR(I) - pressure on the isentropic surface for TLAT(I), TLON(I)
- TMP(I) - temperature on the isentropic surface for TLAT(I), TLON(I)
- HGT(I) - height of the isentropic surface for TLAT(I), TLON(I)
Isobaric Trajectories
The format for isobaric trajectories is one trajectory per record. Each record may be read with a Fortran formatted read:
read(IUN,1500)ITIM, IHR, LVL,
1500 format(I7,I2,I4,A3,I4,2I2,A1,162(F7.2))
Definition of variables in the read:
- ITIM - YYYYDDD (year * 1000 plus day of year of trajectory)
- IHR - 0 or 12 UT (arrival hour)
- LVL - pressure level (1000,850,700,500)
- OID - 3-letter identifier for the destination
- IYR - year (YYYY)
- IMO - month
- IDAY - day
- IFLAG - blank for backward; "F" for forward trajectory
Atmospheric Transport References
Draxler, R. R., Sensitivity of a trajectory model to the spatial and temporal resolution of the meteorological data during CAPTEX, J. Climate Appl. Meteor. 26, 1577-1588, 1987.
Haagenson, P. L., Kuo, Y.-H., Skumanich, M. and Seaman, N. L., Tracer verification of trajectory models, J. Climate Appl. Meteor. 26, 410-426, 1987.
Harris, J.M., The GMCC atmospheric trajectory program, NOAA Tech. Memo, ERL-ARL-116, 30 pp., NOAA Environmental Research Laboratories, Boulder, CO, 1982.
Harris, J.M., An analysis of 5-day midtropospheric flow patterns for the South Pole: 1985-1989, Tellus, 44B, 409-421, 1992.
Harris, J.M. and B.A. Bodhaine (eds.), Geophysical Monitoring for Climatic Change, No. 11: Summary Report 1982, pp. 67-75, NOAA Environmental Research Laboratories, Boulder, CO, 1983.
Harris, J.M. and J.D.W. Kahl, An analysis of 10-day Isentropic Flow Patterns for Barrow, Alaska: 1985-1992, J. Geophys. Res., vol 99 (D12), 25845 - 25855, 1994.
Kahl, J. D. and Samson, P. J., Uncertainty in trajectory calculations due to low resolution meteorological data, J. Climate Appl. Meteor. 25 , 1816-1831, 1986.
Kahl, J. D. and Samson, P. J., Uncertainty in estimating boundary-level transport during highly convective conditions, J. Appl. Meteor. 27, 1024-1035, 1988.
Kuo, Y.-H., Skumanich, M., Haagenson, P. L. and Chang, J. S., The accuracy of trajectory models as revealed by the observing system simulation experiments, Mon. Wea. Rev. 113, 1852-1867, 1985.
Merrill, J.T., R. Bleck, and L. Avila, Modeling atmospheric transport to the Marshall Islands, J. Geophys. Res.,90,12927-12936, 1985.
A list of papers dealing with transport to the GMD observatories.
Halter, B. C. and Harris, J. M., On the variablity of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations at Barrow, Alaska during winter, J. Geophys. Res., 88(C11), 6858-6864, 1983.
Harris J. M., and Kahl, J. D. V., An analysis of 10-day isentropic flow patterns for the Barrow, Alaska: 1985-1992, J. Geophys. Res. 99(D12), 25845-25855, 1994.
Harris J.M., E. J. Dlugokencky, S.J. Oltmans, P.P. Tans, T.J. Conway, P.C. Novelli, and K. W. Thoning, An interpretation of trace gas correlations during Barrow, Alaska, winter dark periods, 1986-1997, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 17267-17278, 2000.
Mauna Loa:
Harris, J. M., Oltmans, S. J., Dlugokencky, E. J., Novelli, P. C., Johnson, B. J. and Mefford, T., An investigation into the source of the springtime troposperic ozone maximum at Mauna Loa Observatory, Geophys. Res. Letts, 25, 1895-1898, 1998.
Harris, J. M., Tans, P. P., Dlugokencky, E. J., Masarie, K. A., Lang, P. M., Whittlestone, S. and Steele, L. P., Variations in atmospheric methane at Mauna Loa-Obervatory related to long-range transport, J. Geophys. Res., 97(D5), 6003-6010, 1992.
Harris, J. M. and Kahl, J. D., A descriptive atmospheric transport climatology for the Mauna Loa Observatory using clustered trajectories, J. Geophys. Res., 95(D9), 13,651-13,667, 1990.
Halter, B. C., Harris, J. M. and Conway, T. J., Component signals in the record of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration at American Samoa, J. Geophys. Res., 93, 15914-15918, 1988.
Harris, J. M. and Oltmans, S. J., Variations in troposperic ozone related to transport at American Samoa, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 8781-8791, 1997.
South Pole:
Bodhaine, B. A., Deluisi, J. J., Harris, J. M., Houmere, P. and Bauman, S., Aerosol measurements at the South Pole, Tellus, 38B, 223-235, 1986.
Harris, J. M., An analysis of 5-day midtropospheric flow patterns for the South Pole: 1985-1989, Tellus, 44B, 409-421, 1992.


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A woman on a tour bus that crashed on the Cabot Trail on the weekend has died.
SYDNEY — A 70-year-old woman who was on board a bus that crashed near Neils Harbour on the weekend died Monday, says RCMP Cpl. Scott MacRae
Two other passengers, who were initially treated at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital in Sydney, have since been taken to hospital in Halifax. They are both in serious but stable condition. The commercial tour bus they were on went off the road Sunday afternoon approximately three kilometres south of Neils Harbour on the Cabot Trail.
A total of 21 people were on board including the driver. The bus involved is owned by Executive Coach Inc., a charter bus company based in Lancaster, Pa.
"All people were believed to be from the Lancaster, Pa. area on a tour of Nova Scotia, (including) the Cabot Trail and then back to the U.S.," said MacRae."We did receive calls from the U.S. Consulate (stating) if any of those people need assistance they can contact their U.S. Consulate in Halifax."
Lynn Gilbert, spokesperson with the Cape Breton District Health Authority, said Monday they treated 18 people involved in the accident at several island hospitals including the regional hospital in Sydney, the Buchanan Memorial Community Health Centre in Neils Harbour, Inverness Consolidated Memorial Hospital, and Sacred Heart Community Health Centre in Cheticamp.
As of late Monday afternoon, six patients remained in district hospitals — one in Inverness, one in Neils Harbour and four in Sydney. All six are in stable condition.
MacRae said a mechanical inspection of the bus was carried out Monday and the findings are under review.
"The cause of the crash is still under investigation," he said.
MacRae did not have any information about where the passengers who have been released from hospital are now.
Representatives from Executive Coach Inc. were not answering any questions Monday but the company did issue a statement to the media late in the day.
"We are fully co-operating with the authorities in the investigation of this accident," stated the company. "We are not in a position to answer your questions. We will respond to your questions at such time as we have determined that it is appropriate to do so."
RCMP have said the driver appears to have lost control of the bus near a turn in the road. The bus hit the shoulder of the road and rolled onto its side.
A number of emergency response teams responded to the scene including police, EHS paramedics and members of three local volunteer fire departments — Neils Harbour/New Haven, Ingonish, and Cabot.
In addition to hospital staff based at the Neils Harbour health centre, a call went out to any doctors and nurses who may be in the area at a cottage or on vacation. Among those who responded was Sydney-based Dr. Andrew Lynk, who was in Ingonish when he heard about the accident.
"There was about four other physicians in the community — one emergency room physician, one surgeon and two family doctors so I called them and we all hopped in our individual cars and came up to supplement and help the two doctors Dr. Ken Murray and Dr. Bernie Buffett there," he said, noting there were also some nurses in the area who came in to offer their assistance.
While most of the serious casulties ended up being transported directly to hospital Sydney, Lynk praised the work of it was still a very challenging situation.
"The staff at the Buchanan Memorial were great, very well organized and very cool and calm and professional," he said.
Lynk, associate vice-president of medicine with the Cape Breton District Health Authority, said the incident served as a reminder of the challenges, particularly in rural areas, of dealing with a major accident.


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Campos leads way in 'Dogs' one-hitter
Yankees prospect allows two baserunners in system debut
By David Heck / Special to MLB.com | April 6, 2012 6:44 PM ET
New York's No. 5 prospect allowed only two baserunners over six innings in his debut with the organization on Friday, combining with two relievers on a one-hitter in Class A Charleston's 1-0 blanking of the Rome Braves.
"The first inning, I was a little bit nervous," Campos said through a translator. "But I was able to handle it and keep pitching and keep going pitch after pitch."
The 19-year-old right-hander struck out three and walked one in his first start at Class A. He threw 42 of 65 pitches for strikes.
"The changeup and curveball were pretty good today," Campos said. "I was changing speeds for the batters and throwing strikes."
The Braves' only hit came in the fifth. After Edison Sanchez drew a leadoff walk, William Beckwith hit a ground ball through the right side to end the no-hit bid. Campos was able to recover by inducing a double-play ball off the bat of Chase Larsson, then getting another grounder from Felix Marte.
"I wasn't thinking [about the hit], about a perfect game or anything," Campos said. "I was just going pitch by pitch."
Signed by the Mariners as a non-drafted free agent in 2009, Campos posted a 2.32 ERA over 81 1/3 innings for short-season Everett last year. He fanned 85 and walked 13, earning a spot on the Northwest League postseason All-Star team. The highlight of his year came on Aug. 13, when he took a perfect game into the seventh inning.
Campos was acquired by the Yankees in January as part of the trade that sent Michael Pineda to New York for catcher Jesus Montero and right-hander Hector Noesi. When he first found out, he didn't believe it was true.
"I didn't know at the time because the only thing in the news was that Pineda and Montero had been traded," Campos said. "But one of my cousins told me that I was traded. I didn't believe it. I got online and started searching for it. I found out it was true and felt really happy. My family was happy, too."
Pedro Guerra and Philip Wetherell worked the final three innings for the RiverDogs on Friday, keeping the Braves off the basepaths and combining to strike out six of the nine batters they faced.
Charleston was paced offensively by Gary Sanchez and Mason Williams, the Yankees' No. 3 and No. 4 prospects, respectively. Sanchez went 2-for-3, while Williams smacked a pair of doubles out of the leadoff spot. Kelvin De Leon produced the lone run with a solo homer.
"I see a bright future for this team," Campos said of his highly touted teammates.
For the rest of the season, the native of Venezuela wants to focus on developing his pitches, with an eye on the higher levels.
"I want to continue working on the changeup and curveball. Work hard on every pitch, every day. Give a good effort every day. And, hopefully, I can get promoted," he said.
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UPLAND -- A longtime critic of city government has stepped down from his position on the City Council Advisory Committee.
Hal Tanner, who was appointed to the committee by Councilwoman Debbie Stone in January, recently submitted his resignation via email.
"I appreciate being selected; however, I do not believe that I can make a contribution to the common good," Tanner said in the email.
Tanner has been critical of city officials for years and has called for more transparency.
While on the committee, Tanner attended two meetings to discuss an administrative citation ordinance, ethics code and campaign contribution limits. He voted against the citation ordinance and abstained from the other two items.
"The absence of an open government ordinance and a meaningful code of ethics in Upland has influenced my decision to resign," he said in his email.
"I firmly believe that without these basic standards, the people of Upland will see a continuation of conduct which is contrary to the common good of the good people of Upland. "
Stone said she and Tanner had an agreement from the start of his service on the committee.
"If it did not work for him, I would completely understand and we would move forward," she said.
"Hal has his own reasons for resigning and I totally respect his decision. "
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UPI reported that discredited Unfit for Command co-author Jerome Corsi is pondering Senate run against Kerry, but left out key facts
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United Press International (UPI) reported on January 25 that Jerome R. Corsi, co-author of the book Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry (Regnery, 2004), "plans to move to Massachusetts later this year as the first step in his 2008 campaign for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Kerry." But the UPI report failed to mention Corsi's history of posting racist, homophobic, xenophobic, anti-Catholic, and anti-Muslim comments on the right-wing online forum FreeRepublic.com, which Media Matters for America revealed on August 6, 2004, and which was widely reported (by The Washington Post, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Associated Press, among others).
Corsi apologized for the postings in August 10, 2004, interviews with the Associated Press and radio host Sean Hannity, classifying his comments (which included calling Pope John Paul II "senile"; asking if Senator "HELLary" Clinton is "a lesbo or anything"; and calling Muslims "RAGHEADS" and "Boy-Bumpers") as "silly," saying he "thought they were jokes," and complaining that they were taken "completely out of context." Still, on the August 10, 2004, edition of MSNBC's Scarborough Country, Corsi's co-author, co-founder of the anti-Kerry group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (now Swift Vets and POWs for Truth) John E. O'Neill, distanced himself from Corsi, claiming that "[t]he co-author of my book, who is simply an editor and not really any sort of co-author -- there are stories in circulation about his e-mails where he made stupid statements in his e-mails." Media Matters discredited O'Neill's assertion that Corsi was "simply an editor and not really any sort of co-author" on August 12, 2004, and extensively refuted erroneous claims made in Unfit for Command.
Several newspapers, including the Boston Herald and The Washington Times, picked up the story on their websites. Unlike the UPI report, the Herald added that Corsi "had to apologize for inflammatory comments he made about Islam, the pope and Judaism," and that Corsi said criticizing him for his online comments is "like saying Shakespeare is responsible for something one of his characters said.'" Though The Washington Times article noted that "Kerry spokesman David Wade declined to comment, the Boston Herald said Tuesday," the Times failed to also note Corsi's controversial comments as reported by the Herald.
On October 1, 2004, Corsi became a columnist for conservative news website WorldNetDaily.com, where his columns have had such titles as "John Kerry and the politics of betrayal," "Iran -- John Kerry's next Vietnam?," and "Soros supports mullahs: The left embraces yet another enemy." Corsi is also the author of the upcoming book Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians, to be published in March by WND Books, the publishing division of WorldNetDaily.com.
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'No negotiations are scheduled, though the NHL has proposed a new meeting dynamic. Commissioner Gary Bettman suggested to NHLPA Executive Director Donald Fehr that owners and players talk directly without league or union representatives present. "Nothing else has worked," Daly told reporters. "The commissioner felt that we might as well propose something different."'
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Los Angeles Kings captain Dustin Brown said it best with a one-word tweet when he learned the NHL and its players association reached a tentative deal to end the nearly fourth-month-long lockout in the wee small hours of Sunday morning.
After a bitter labor impasse that began Sept. 15, the league and its players could be back to work as soon as Wednesday with the start of what's expected to be a very short training camp that might include one exhibition game followed by a regular season of 48 to 50 games.
The league set a Friday deadline to strike a deal or cancel the season.
It was the third lockout since Gary Bettman became commissioner in 1993.
This time, Bettman locked horns with Don Fehr, the players union chief.
They were assisted during a 16-hour session by Scot Beckenbaugh, a federal mediator.
"Don Fehr and I are here to tell you that we have reached an agreement on a framework for a new collective bargaining agreement," Bettman said during 2:30 a.m. (PST) press conference in a New York City hotel ballroom. "We still have more work to do, but it's good to be at this point."
Said Fehr, who stood alongside Bettman after the two were at odds for the better part of four months of failed negotiations:
"Hopefully, within a few days, the fans can get back to watching people who are skating, not the two of us."
For the Kings, it means they will get to defend their first Stanley Cup title this season after all. It also means they and their fans will have a chance to see the championship banner raised on opening night, possibly as soon as Jan. 15 at Staples Center, rather than waiting until next fall.
In the meantime, as Kings president of business operations Luc Robitaille said in a statement to fans: "There are many details we are working out regarding your tickets, the new schedule, resumption of payments, ticket printing and delivery. Please let us gather this information and we will have more detailed information for you soon."
For the Ducks and their fans, it likely means one final chance to see the 42-year-old Teemu Selanne skate for one more season. Selanne hasn't said if this might be the final season of his Hall of Fame career, which included a Stanley Cup championship with the Ducks in 2006-07.
Or whether he'll keep playing and playing.
There are many details still be be worked out, including the length of the season. When the league locked out its players for a similar length in 1994-95, the teams played a 48-game regular season that featured only games against conference foes, followed by a full round of playoffs.
It also remains to be seen who emerged victorious in a lockout that came on the heels of record profits of $3.3 billion for the league in 2011-12. Bettman estimated each day of the lockout resulted in revenue losses of between $18 and $20 million.
The owners and players agreed to a 50-50 split of all hockey-related revenue. The owners and players also agreed to drop the salary cap to $64.3 million in 2013-14 from $70.2 million this season.
The league initially wanted a $60-million cap and the players wanted it set at $65 million.
Player contracts will be for a maximum of seven years, or eight if a team is re-signing its own player, the first time in league history contracts have been limited in their length. The new collective-bargaining agreement will be for 10 years with either side able to opt out after eight.
"I am really happy that a deal was reached and we're all excited to get back to playing hockey," said Pittsburgh Penguins superstar Sidney Crosby, perhaps speaking for all of the league's players, who had grown weary of the extended break from the game.
As ever in any sports labor fight, the biggest losers were the fans and the arena workers depending on paychecks to make ends meet.
Unfortunately for fans, the league has had some practice in luring them back to arenas, having gone through two previous labor impasses.
"All of us that love hockey, first and foremost, are excited we're going to have a season," hockey analyst Barry Melrose said Sunday on ESPN. "Hockey fans will be back. Revenues have gone up every year after the last lockout (wiped out the entire 2004-05 season).
"The NHL has a lot of fence-mending to do, but the fans will come back."
The quality of play might not be quite as poor as some might initially believe, primarily because many players stayed in their home cities and skated in groups in order to stay fit. Some of the Kings rented ice at the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo, for example.
Others played in Europe, for better or for worse.
Anze Kopitar of the Kings suffered a minor knee injury while playing for Mora, IK, a Swedish club team, and will be sidelined for up to three weeks. Kopitar stayed sharp for a possible return to the Kings by scoring nine goals and adding 20 assists in 27 games.
"You have to get guys healthy and get on with the season," Melrose said. "A lot of things can go wrong with a shortened season. You don't have any time for mistakes."
Some fans and pundits might say the only mistake the NHL and its players made was not getting a deal done sooner. Then again, there didn't seem to be any sense of outrage among fans, at least south of the Canadian border, where hockey has lost some of its luster in recent years.
"They could have gotten here a lot sooner," Marc Ganis, president of Chicago-based sports business consulting firm Sportscorp Ltd, told The Associated Press. "They didn't hear a hue and cry from the fans, especially in the United States, when hockey wasn't played. That's very distressing. That indicates there's a level of apathy that is troubling. In contrast, in the NFL when there was a threat of canceling a preseason weekend, the nation was up in arms."


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Regarding the change from verb to preposition, I think the process was as follows:
"The wind notwithstanding, the house survived." Here "notwithstanding" is a (negatived) present participle, and "the wind notwithstanding" is an absolute (i.e. detached) clause. It corresponds to the Latin ablative absolute construction ("non obstante" is in the ablative case).
Word order in Latin is freer than in English, so "non obstante" would often (perhaps usually) be placed before its subject noun. Since "notwithstanding" was a formal/legal term in English, there would be a tendency for its usage to imitate the Latin word order. So one might say "Notwithstanding the wind..." (verb + subject). But this word order was unusual in the context of English as a whole, so ordinary people would tend to interpret "notwithstanding" as a preposition when it was placed first. Eventually, it achieved "official" status as a preposition.
"Withstanding" should be taken as meaning "standing firm". So "notwithstanding the wind" means "the wind not standing firm". The wind was "broken" by the house.
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