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Emigration To North America In 1847

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The year 1847 was a unique year for emigration. Famine in Ireland leads the list of reasons for the increase in the number of emigrants in that year. However, if one reads newspapers of the day other facts soon come to light.

There are reports of vessels leaving various parts of the United States and Canada (this will be used to describe New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Upper and Lower Canada) with supplies for Europe. For example, on March 4, 1847, the Constitution andSarah Sands had unfurled their sails, while at Boston, the Tartar sailed in April. These vessels were on their way to Ireland. A New York paper reported that in March some $1,250,000 of supplies a week were leaving from that port for Ireland and about $5,000,000 from all parts of the U.S.

On April 24, 1847, the vessel Morea was leaving Boston for Scotland with food stuffs for relief of the starving. There is also a report of the French government buying up thousands of pounds of food to alleviate the situation in that country. Reports also came from Holland, Germany and Switzerland about fever and hunger.

A report from England stated that the emigration of 1847 would probably go to 200,000 or 300,000 from Ireland alone. Government agents in other countries were also reporting large increases in the number of people heading to the port cities of the continent. Ships were being hired at an every increasing pace and Captains were carrying full compliments of passengers, some exceeding the legal limits. Some 6,000 Germans, the papers reported, were already at the ports of Breman, Harve and Antwerp preparing to sail.

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Just to add to the misery, the northern U.S. and Canada had a hard winter in 1846-7 and the snow and ice were causing delays for many of the vessels. There are reports of gales and of vessels being stuck in the ice for weeks. The Albion, from Greenock, for example, sailed on March 25, 1847 and on April 10 hit the ice about 40 miles off Cape Ray. The vessel did not arrive in Quebec until June 4, 1847!

Even knowing that they were to receive more emigrants than in former years did not prepare the agents in the ports of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Saint John, Quebec, and others for what was to come. By May 5, New York stated that they had already received 17,668 emigrants since the 1st of April. Boston had turned away a vessel, the Mary, carrying 46 passengers from Cork, Ireland because, “the city authorities would not suffer them to be landed, owing to their destitute condition, unless the master gave bonds that they should not become a burthen to the city.” Quarantine stations in various US ports were running out of space. In New Orleans they reported they were, “doing all in their power to make them [the emigrants] comfortable.”

Quebec began to receive emigrants in May as the ice finally left the St. Lawrence river and ships were able to make their way up to the city. Grosse Isle, the quarantine station, began to feel the strain within the first few weeks of May. On May 11, Mr. Buchanan, the Chief Emigrant Agent at Quebec, reported that “From the above statement it appears there are now on their way to this port, 31 vessels, having on board 10,636 passengers.” Before the year was out Grosse Isle would be completely overwhelmed.

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The Virginius, from Liverpool on May 28, had 476 passengers on board but, by the time she reached Grosse Isle, “…106 were ill of fever, including nine of the crew, and the large number of 158 had died on the passage, including the first and second officers and seven of the crew, and the master and the steward dying, the few that were able to come on deck were ghastly yellow looking spectres, unshaven and hollow checked, and without exception, the worst looking passengers I have ever seen…” wrote Dr. Douglas, Medical Superintendent at Grosse Isle, in the 1847 Immigration Report.

The fever they spoke of was Typhus Fever, more commonly known as “ships fever.” Typhus was spread by body louse and within ten days of a person being bitten they would start to show symptoms of high fever, pain in muscles and joints, cerebral disorders, and headache. By the fifth day, a dark-red rash with elevated spots would appear on the trunk and shoulders, spreading to the rest of the body. Delirium would often set in by the second week. If the patients survived to the third week, they would often recover but would soon have a relapse with high fever, from which they would recover very quickly. The death rate was often as high as 50-70 percent of those infected.

The Irish were in the worst condition upon arrival at Grosse Isle. “An eye-witness called it the Isle of Death, and found a strange contrast of beauty and suffering, of levity and sorrow”, wrote Guillet, in his book The Great Migration. One cabin passenger described the difference between the Irish and German immigrants:

…all of them, without a single exception, comfortably and neatly clad, clean and happy. There was no sickness amongst them, and each comely fair-haired girl laughed as she passed the doctor, to join the group of robust young men who had undergone the ordeal…As we repassed the German ship, the deck was covered with emigrants, who were singing a charming hymn, in whose beautiful harmony all took part; spreading the music of their five hundred voices upon the calm, still air that wafted it around….As the distance between us increased, the anthem died way until it became inaudible. It was the finest chorus I ever heard,–performed in a theatre of unrivalled magnificence….Although it was pleasing to see so many joyous beings, it made me sad when I thought of the very, very different state of my unfortunate compatriots; and I had become so habituated to misery, disease and death that the happiness that now surrounded me was quite discordant with my feelings.
Page 151 of Guillet but taken from The Ocean Plague by Robert Whyte.

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As the emigrants continued to cross the ocean the US ports began to reject vessels thus forcing them to make their way to Quebec or New Brunswick ports. It was not just the passengers who suffered as Boston reported the arrival of the Jas. H. Shepherd from Liverpool with 228 passenger of which 26 died on the voyage and 105 were ill upon arrival. They also reported that, “…part of crew sick and for the last 10 days has had but 6 men all to do duty.” In the end, Grosse Isle reported 9,572 deaths for the 1847 season and New York 703. (from Immigration Report of 1847)

With the terrible conditions on board ship some children arrived in Canada orphans. Others lost their parents, or remaining parent, at the quarantine station or on the way inland. Due to conditions on Grosse Isle, those in good health were removed by steamboats to Quebec and Montreal as quickly as possible, often leaving behind sick members of the family. This became such a problem that the emigrants began to remain at Montreal and Quebec instead of moving on to their destination. Mr. Buchanan, the Emigrant Agent at Quebec, took over some facilities to house these emigrants as they awaited word from Grosse Isle about loved ones and ads, such as this one, began to appear in the newspapers. Some of the orphans remained in the province of Quebec (partial lists) but some were sent on to Upper Canada. A list of 197 orphans and widows was kept by the Asylum in Toronto, set up specifically to care for the widows and orphans of 1847.

Quebec immigration increased from 32,153 in 1846 to 97,953 in 1847; New Brunswick reported 9,765 immigrants in 1846 and 16,251 in 1847; while that to New York increased from 97,843 in 1846 to 145,890 in 1847. Boston’s increase was 6,666 souls while Philadelphia doubled the number of emigrants. New Orleans went from 22,148 emigrants in 1846 to 40,442 in 1847. (The Ocean Plague, published in 1848) Between 1846 and 1847 the number of emigrants to America from the British Isles increased fom 125,678 to 251,834. (Carrothers, Emigration From The British Isles, p. 305.)

Surely the Government will not allow the feeling for the disasters attending the poor Irish in a foreign land to pass away with the miserable deaths of the victims? Will there be no enquiry into the causes, mediate or remote, which produced all this loss of human life? —into the modes of transport— the state of emigrant vessels— the abominations of emigrant agents, and all the etceteras which have become, and are, accessory to the deaths of the Irish poor? Out of 2,235 who embarked for Canada in those wretched hulks, called emigrant vessels, not more than five hundred will live to settle in America.

“From information recently given to us,” says the Quebec Gazette, “the quarantine at Liverpool is not only worse than useless as regards this country, but absolutely murders the emigrants intending to embark hitherward. We are told that from 15 to 16 hulks are stationed off the port for the reception of the refugees from Ireland, who, when sick or doubtful looking, are transferred to them from the Irish steamers and from whence, after a short probation, shipped on board vessels destined for Canada; and that, too, as may be naturally conceived, in a worse state than if allowed to proceed on their voyage at once. The passengers in the Triton were of this class, among whom disease appeared the day they left the docks. Her deaths before reaching Grosse Isle numbered 83, including all the officers of the ship and several of the crew; the master, also, being very sick.”

It can hardly be believed that affairs in Liverpool are conducted, as to the shipment of emigrants, as represented. The imputation is boldly made, and if untrue, an immediate contradiction is necessary. The report from the office of her Majesty’s chief superintendent of emigration to Canada, dated Quebec, 24th July, states the numbers of emigrants who had arrived this year there, were 56,855. In the same period of last year, 24,576 settlers reached the port, showing an increase this year of no less than 32,279. August 18, 1847 Cork Examiner

The following is an extract from the letter of an emigrant, addressed to one of his friends in this city, and received by the last mail from Boston. It contains a vivid and painful picture of the emigrant catastrophe in Canada. The letter is dated from the barqueBridgetown, lying off Grosse island, in front of Quebec, which, it appears, was converted to a vast burial place:–

We arrived here on the 22nd from Liverpool. I regret to tell you that fever broke out, and that seventy passengers and one sailor were committed to the deep on the voyage. There are several more ill. We buried six yesterday on shore. The carpenter and joiner are occupied making coffins. There are six more dead after the night. I cannot say when we can go to Quebec, as we cannot land the remainder of the sick at present, there being no room in the hospitals for them, though the front of the island is literally covered with sheds and tents.

The accounts from the shore are awful, and our condition on board you can form no idea of— helpless children without parents or relatives, the father buried in the deep last week, and the mother the week before,— their six children under similar unfortunate circumstances, and so on. I trust God will carry me through this trying ordeal— I was a few days sick, but am now recovered. Captain Wilson was complaining for a few days. It is an awful change from the joyous hopes with which most of us left our unfortunate country, expecting to be able to earn that livelihood denied us at home— all— all changed in many cases to bitter deep despair.
September 17, 1847 Cork Examiner

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Unpacking the “Mexican Suitcase”: The Mystery of Robert Capas Long-Lost War Trove >

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The mystery of the “Mexican Suitcase” has long had the makings of a fine tall tale. It is a Hemingway-esque story of vigorous expat men and women leading spare and often luckless lives in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, engaging in earth-shaking romances, throwing themselves into the fray with Republican armed forces, and bonding with native villagers. The difference between Hemingway’s yarns and this story, however, is that this one is true. Its protagonists are a small group of scrappy photographers whose work disappeared in 1939 as Nazi forces prepared to invade Paris and remained missing for almost 70 years, until it showed up at New York‘s International Center of Photography.

The 126 long-lost rolls of film feature some 4,500 snapshots of wartime scenes taken by the swashbuckling Robert Capa, the pioneering Gerda Taro, and the compassionate Chim (David Seymour) and are now finally going on display in the form of contact sheets and a digital slide show at “The Mexican Suitcase,” an exhibition curated by Cynthia Young at the ICP that will run through January 9, 2011. The works — which were stored in three cardboard boxes, not in a suitcase, it turns out — had a long and meandering journey to the midtown Manhattan museum, and represent a history that is only now being explained and understood.

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How Religious Diversity Enriches Our Lives

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How Religious Diversity Enriches Our Lives

The debate over the ‘Ground Zero mosque’ misses an important potential virtue of the project: what non-Muslim New Yorkers and visitors will gain from its presence.

The atheist son of nonpracticing Jews, I’m about as far from a Christian as you can get this side of paganism. And yet I love churches.

When I was a child, it was a Roman Catholic church—St. Augustine’s, the massive jumble of stone and wrought iron that takes up half the city block adjacent to that of my parents’ house in Brooklyn—that anchored my sense of place. On the return leg of car trips, St. Augustine’s spire appearing on the horizon told me we were almost home. The fence provided an outfield wall for Wiffle-ball games, and the bells chiming on the hour reminded me to get out of bed (not that it did much good).

The summer after my freshman year of college, I was showing off my neighborhood to a friend from out of town when she asked whether I had ever been inside the church. I was ashamed to admit that I had not. “Ben!” she exclaimed, with genuine horror at my lack of curiosity toward such a beautiful building that I passed every day. Ever since then I have made a point of ducking in every few years. I have stumbled upon masses in Creole for Haitian-American parishioners, and services in Spanish. I have yet to actually witness one in English, although they do occur.
I revel in my native Brooklyn’s identity as “the borough of churches,” from the imposing Gothic Episcopal and Catholic edifices to plain little Baptist storefronts and modest Pentecostal signs in Spanish.

One summer night many years ago, while walking home from work, I heard the most joyous music emanating, like an aural glow, from the basement of a church a few blocks from the house where I grew up. I wandered down in time to catch the very end of the African-American gospel choir filling the basement with their uplifting song. The moment they finished, I planned to leave, but the pastor was such a pleasure to watch—with his passionate and playful delivery a decided counterpoint to my previous experiences with clergy of all faiths—that I stayed.

Perhaps my favorite is Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights, its unadorned, modest New England Congregationalist architecture a striking, peaceful counterpoint to the Victorian grandeur of its surrounding neighborhood. Plymouth was the home of the great abolitionist preacher Henry Ward Beecher and a stop on the Underground Railroad.

And then there is St. Ann’s, the Episcopal congregation that incubated my progressive high school, and still lends its large and riveting, if somewhat worn-out, space to the school for major events. There, in the pews, under the stained-glass windows, were the sources of some of my fondest and most poignant memories of high school: a teacher leading us all in an acoustic rendition of The Wall by Pink Floyd at the annual Christmas assembly, a recent memorial service for a social-studies teacher who mentored me.

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Hamas Leader: Mosque Near Ground Zero Must Be Built

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Letter to the Jews of Rhode Island Applies to the Muslims of New York

George Washington sums it up.

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Letter to the Jews of Rhode Island Applies to the Muslims of New York

President George Washington’s

President Obama was right to express his views on constructing a mosque near Ground Zero, the site of the 9/11 catastrophe:

As a citizen and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country. And that includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in Lower Manhattan in accordance with local laws and ordinances.

The president is also right to oppose as he does the efforts by some to amend the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution to bar babies born to illegal immigrants from becoming citizens.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who was first to take up the fight to protect the legitimate rights of American Muslims to build a mosque near Ground Zero, was right and courageous to lead the way and point Americans in the right direction.

President Obama, according to the New York Times of Aug. 15, is now “faced with withering Republican criticism of his defense of the right of Muslims to build a community center and mosque near Ground Zero.” Those leading the charge against the president, according to the Times, “including Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, Representative John A. Boehner, the House minority leader and Representative Peter King of New York, forcefully rejected the president’s stance.”

The president’s position will be remembered by later generations of Americans with the same high regard as President George Washington’s letter in 1790 to the Jews of Rhode Island who built the Touro Synagogue in that state. Moses Seixas of the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, wrote to George Washington:

Deprived as we heretofore have been of the invaluable rights of free Citizens, we now with a deep sense of gratitude to the Almighty disposer of all events behold a Government, erected by the Majesty of the People — a Government, which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance — but generously affording to all Liberty of conscience, and immunities of Citizenship: — deeming every one, of whatever Nation, tongue, or language equal parts of the great governmental Machine: — This so ample and extensive Federal Union whose basis is Philanthropy, Mutual confidence and Public Virtue, we cannot but acknowledge to be the work of the Great God, who ruleth in the Armies of Heaven, and among the Inhabitants of the Earth, doing whatever seemeth him good.

President Washington responded as follows:

… The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent national gifts. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support. It would be inconsistent with the frankness of my character not to avow that I am pleased with your favorable opinion of my Administration, and fervent wishes for my felicity. May the children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and figtree, and there shall be none to make him afraid. May the father of all mercies scatter light and not darkness in our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in his own due time and way everlastingly happy. G. Washington

Let us not do again, albeit in different form and to a different group, what we did to Japanese-Americans during World War II when we rounded them up without cause. No Japanese-American was ever charged with treason, notwithstanding that they were placed in internment camps for the balance of the war.

I am a proud Jew. Proud of my religion and my culture. Columnist David Brooks, also Jewish and similarly proud, in a New York Times article of January 12, 2010, wrote of our people’s accomplishments:

Jews are a famously accomplished group. They make up 0.2 percent of the world population, but 54 percent of the world chess champions, 27 percent of the Nobel physics laureates and 31 percent of the medicine laureates. Jews make up 2 percent of the U.S. population, but 21 percent of the Ivy League student bodies, 26 percent of the Kennedy Center honorees, 37 percent of the Academy Award-winning directors, 38 percent of those on a recent Business Week list of leading philanthropists, 51 percent of the Pulitzer Prize winners for nonfiction.

We Jews also have our share of thieves, predators, child molesters, Ponzi-schemers, traitors and profiteers. Muslims have their share of great world accomplishments — the concept of zero, advancements in mathematics, medicine, chemistry, botany and astronomy. They also have their share of crazies, tyrants, homophobes, those holding hostile and irrational attitudes towards women, vilification of Jews, Christians, Hindus and other so-called infidels.

Let’s be calm now and not need the passage of time to bring us to our senses and years later apologize. Of course, those who suffered the loss of loved ones, and those exposed to the catastrophe of 9/11 have every right to hold opinions opposing the building of the mosque. They are grieving and rightfully enraged at anyone associated in any way with the 19 Muslim terrorists who were responsible for the deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans killed on 9/11, and all of us must sympathize with them and their feelings.

But Americans must never forget who we are and why our Founding Fathers and those who built the original 13 colonies came here. It was primarily to find and create a new country in which they could practice religious freedom, denied them in England. Jews found that freedom of religion in New Amsterdam, where the East India Company of Holland directed the first public anti-Semite in that city — its Governor, Peter Stuyvesant — to let them in, he first refusing to do so.

I believe we are locked in battle with fanatical Islam and will be for the foreseeable future. I do not believe the vast majority of Muslims, and American Muslims in particular, are fanatics or enemies of the American people.

Government should neither favor nor hinder the efforts of religious institutions, other than to protect their rights to engage in carrying them out as permitted under the First Amendment of the Constitution.

A final word on those seeking to end the concept of American citizenship by virtue of birth, led by Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC): Don’t they understand that the concept of citizenship by birth is one of the great American ideas of which we have been justly proud and which distinguishes us from many other countries and has served us well? They should not fear the Know Nothings, whose voices are loud, but whose numbers are small. They should not shame themselves by joining these violators of American values and traditions.

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Armenia’s lavash can only be found in Sheepshead Bay at Brooklyn Bread House

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Half-Full or Half-Empty?

lighteningFor most of my life, people have accused me of having a negative attitude. I can understand why this label has stuck with me because I do tend to have a dim view of things. But my argument against this accusation is that I’m not negative, I’m merely logically objective. Let me explain.

If you walk out your front door, look up at a beautiful blue sky, and see a tiny white cloud in the distance, then turn around and grab your umbrella, that’s being negative. However, if you walk out your front door, look up at a dark gray, ominous sky, hear thunder clapping, watch lightening flashing and the smell of rain is in the air, and then turn around and grab your umbrella, that’s being logically objective.

When you weigh evidence or circumstances carefully and ultimately come up with a conclusion, how could this be labeled negative? Is it my fault if careful scrutiny of various situations results in a negative conclusion? Should I ignore the facts and look at the world through rose-colored glasses?

I’ve had this conversation with two of my fellow workers. They both share an interesting philosophy. With every situation they face in life, they keep their expectations low. Consequently, they can never be disappointed—or so they say. But when a particular situation exceeds their low expectations, they consider it a windfall or bonus. Can you even imagine what it might be like facing life every day expecting the worst of everything?

My conversations with these colleagues have made me revisit my logically objective theory. Examining my attitude carefully, it’s hard for me to deny that maybe, just maybe I’ve been playing the semantics game. And there is such a thing as a self-fulfilling prophecy. So, perhaps if I ignored the dark clouds and thunder and lightening and the smell of rain, and tossed my umbrella in the dumpster, the menacing clouds just might yield to blue skies and lovely sunshine. Hmm. I think I’m going to give this a try. But don’t expect miracles. My umbrella has been a loyal companion for years and the thought of losing such a reliable comrade does cause me considerable angst. Can I hang on to my poncho—just in case?

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  1. poolagirl

    Yes, you definitely are more Eeyore than Tigger. If you Tigger lessons, just let me know! Don’t throw the umbrella away, just keep it in the trunk. It’s like insurance but never a prophecy. God, every now and then I say something worthy.

  2. Ken

    Well first off…menacing skies…really? Don’t you like live in San Diego now? Finally, it really doesn’t matter if the glass is half empty- or half full as long as there is a good 18 y/o single malt scotch in it!

    • Daniel

      The whole umbrella scenario was a metaphor. Perhaps I should have reversed it and grabbed my sun glasses.

      I prefer a Belvedere Martini.

  3. Donna Gaudino

    Sorry for your loss. I understand your pain as I had to put my dog Troy down just 3 years ago, he was my buddy. And as for your mom, she was a remarkable women and will never be forgotten. You also stirred up emotion in speaking about her as tomorrow my mom would have been 84. Wishing you peace in your heart during your sorrow.

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Moving pictures first came to Oxford in 1896 but for years remained little more than a fairground sideshow. It would be fifteen years before Oxford’s first purpose built cinema was opened. The little picture palace on Jeune Street survived just six years, closing at the height of the First World War. It remained there, an abandoned relic, for fifty-nine years until 1976 when two film enthusiasts discovered the decaying building and set about restoring it. With a dramatic new look, including fabulous ‘Al Jolson’ hands on its classical facade, the Penultimate Picture Palace became famous for challenging censorship and screening controversial, unusual and banned films. Closure under acrimonious circumstances in 1994 led to an unexpected change in fortune when the again empty building was occupied by political activists and run as a free cinema and community cultural centre. Now reopened and revitalized the cinema lives on as the Ultimate Picture Palace.

The Ultimate Survivor tells the story of this remarkable institution through interviews with cinema historian Ian Meyrick; former owners and some former Oxford students including Ian Hislop (Private Eye; Have I got News for You) and Mark Thompson (BBC Director General) who recall the cinema in its 1970s heyday. The documentary also explores the infamous attempted screening in 1988 of A Clockwork Orange which brought the cinema, its owners and the eminent science fiction author Brian Aldiss into direct conflict with the film’s mercurial director Stanley Kubrick.

With an evocative soundtrack,cutting edge 3d visual effects and a compelling narrative, The Ultimate Survivor offers an imaginative and colourful look at a previously untold aspect of cinema history

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Monday, January 09, 2006

Happy 1,000,000 Dave!

Syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker does not particularly like bloggers. Dave Olivera, an associate editor of Spokane, Washington's Spokesman Review does. His blog, Huckleberries, surpassed the million hit mark for 2005. Not bad for we Inland Northwest bloggers, many who consider ourselves family with Dave as our Blog Father. Congratulations!

I understand Ms. Parker's concern. There is a lot of vicious, self-serving and just plain deceitful blogging going on "out there". There are also a number of incredibly dangerous people using the medium. For example Joseph Duncan, who sits in our jail awaiting trial for the brutal murders of two adults and two children and the despicable abuse of a third child. He hosted a blog on, as do I.

On the other hand, in our little corner of the world, we pick up on the leads Dave gives us or offer our own, the result being spirited dialog presenting different points of view. For the most part we are civil, thoughtful and, in our way, contributing members of the community. For those who doubt this is little more than a fad, let me share with you some reading I've done over the past few days.

I finished a great book, Fat Man Fed Up, by Jack Germond. The thrust is how American politics has deteriorated because the voting public is so detached from the process it allows for candidates who are created by committee and have no convictions of their own to present. We've gotten what we deserve.

He also takes the press to task for their part - encroaching laziness.

The second read was the Spring 2005 issue of The Wilson Quarterly - much of the issue is devoted to the collapse of big media. Some rather eye opening statistics show the decline in newspaper circulation and broadcast news viewership. A telling one is that the median age of network news viewers is 60. Where are the young getting their news? They aren't. Apparently the line has been so blurred between "news" and "entertainment" that our young people are opting for the more exciting entertainment venues. Should this not be of great concern? Imagine if an uninformed and uncaring public should be lead into an unnecessary and unjustified war. What would happen to us if no one cared enough to monitor it?

It goes on to point out that many who could be contributing are locked out by the demand of even the smallest of markets for a journalism degree. This has enabled the migratory lure of the larger and larger market. No more neighborhood reporters but fresh faced kids just out of journalism school putting in time in cities where they can't pronounce the surrounding towns - what's more names of the cities and countries of the world - or their leadership. Remember Bush and Musharraf during his first campaign?

The question is raised as to which newspapers will be the first to recruit bloggers as paid reporters for their online versions with the best of them working in the print editions beside traditional reporters. When that happens, it was predicted, journalism professors will become an endangered species and the news will return to hard news - objective and informative - as it should be. As it must be if we as a nation are to survive.

I venture to say many of us here who blog wouldn't if it weren't for the exposure Mr. Olivera provides. In many respects Huckleberries is ahead of the curve and I expect it will remain so. To the best of my knowledge none of us are paid but Dave has his local stringers, opinion and feature writers contributing daily.

So rather than dismissing we little guys as bored wives or retirees or strung out youth or habitual discontents, maybe it's time the vaunted "professionals" out there take a closer look and nurture that which is good. I do believe as time goes on such a wave could stifle the majority of what's bad.

Bay Views said...

Well said...

someone named Dave said...

Hey, BRE...I like that term..."the Blogfather"...almost sounds like an Italian Gangster Movie featuring underworld bloggers. Instead of waking up with a horse's head in your bed, you wake up with a mouse. EEEEK!


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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Back Tracking

To the two people who may still have any interest in the "process" of tracking an ailment, I thought I'd give further explanation of why I opted to return to physical therapy for my back.

Look at the illustration. Every single one of those points hurts. Now, there has to be a reason for it.

First, why did I stop the acupuncture treatments? One is because my hubby did his own research and determined that six sessions should have made a large impact if it was going to. I had ten. Secondly, it was coming out of our pocket and being a financially astute individual, he felt it wasn't cost effective since we have to pay medicare premiums and medicare doesn't cover acupuncture.

So back to my physical therapist. I asked if he thought nutrition might be the problem as had been suggested. Though it might be a contributing factor, he assured me my problem was mechanical. I asked, if in his opinion, acupuncture would eventually fix it. He doubted it. What it did do was relieve some of the discomfort. Obviously nothing was fixed at all. Stopping treatment and the same old symptoms were back in a flash. If it had actually been working I should think they wouldn't have returned so quickly and with such intensity.

The premise, I suppose, is that what works depends on what's wrong.

So the poking and prodding began with a whole lot more owwws and ouches than I had remembered from before. "Hmmmm," says he. "I don't remember these areas being a problem."

Neither did I. Add to what I had already been working on - a car accident. It would seem hanging from your seat belt for a half hour can really mess up your alignment. That's what we determined. My lower left side is twisting one way; my upper right, the other and nothing is even. Tilt! And it all hurts.

We're going to try to fix it. I am cautiously optimistic. My husband is no longer complaining and insurance, which we are already paying dearly for, will cover it.

At this rate I should go back to school. I'm sure learning a lot about doing my homework!

Anonymous said...

I would like to comment on your back pain.I too was with pain so bad that it forced me to retire at 54. Last Jan I found a very strong pulse in my stomach, went to Dr, ultra sound, CS, and on Feb 28/96 underwent Abdominal Aorta Aneurysm times 3. had three. Not to scare, but when I hear back pain the Red Light comes on.
Just a thought.

Word Tosser said...

Some times you feel like one step forward and two steps back.
Sure hope the acupressure helps...

Ellie said...

About 2 years ago my back went out and I landed in the ER. It was so intense that I had to actually call an ambulance to come and take me out of my house. I had never had problems in the past but from then on it has been an issue. Finally I did agree to go to PT, this was after my left side started going numb. The issue was that I had sprained some back and hip muscles and had very weak muscles that needed strengthening in order to keep the back pain away. After attending 4 PT sessions, I had learned what excercises I needed to continue and until I fell recently things had been going great. So, I am a big time believer in the PT.

Best of luck with it, I know how difficult it can be.


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Collective Wisdom

One more day. Then it's all over except for the counts, recounts and challenges. Meanwhile, back on the campaign trail both sides are busy trying to keep the momentum among their followers at a fevered pitch. So are the partisan guests on the news shows. It has been interesting viewing.

I find it interesting how divided the nation is in a campaign that has promoted change and a united front. Not that it's unexpected. Each candidate has radically different approaches to the same problems. Hopefully the collective wisdom of the voters will be crystal clear. No more elections decided by the Supreme Court.

After the results are in and the complexion of the incoming Congress is revealed I will have something to say to them, especially the old war horses who have seemed distant from the Presidential side of things. The pronouncements made by Barney Frank and a number of others is bothersome. Are they deaf? But as I said, that's for an upcoming post.

I browsed some blogs this morning and found a couple of things of interest. One is how many are agonizing over the outcome. That's partially because there is no clear cut winner yet in sight paired with a desperate desire to see real change.

The other is how partisan and derogatory some of the posts remain. I've been watching the behavior of the members of Congress who are "safe" . I haven't paid nearly enough attention to the attitudes of the citizenry. Here I find many of us as guilty of the sins of partisanship to which we claim we want an end.

To have a preference and a strong one is good. I certainly do. But to have such vehement, scathing criticism of the opposition, at this point in time, is not constructive.

Obama has been claiming, on the economic level, that the trickle down theory doesn't work. That prosperity and change has to come from the bottom up. There is a broader point to be taken from this.

He, by the very nature of who he is and what he has accomplished, would seem to be the starting point for trickle down. He doesn't have the burden of his age nor his length of service to create questions about the sincerity of coming late to that mantra. However, I by no means believe, no matter his age and coming late to the "change" sound bite, that John McCain is any less sincere nor cognizant of the need for it.

To bring it full circle, however, it does have to start from the bottom. With us. We have to be willing to accept the outcome of this election and be willing to work with those we elect to achieve change or it will never happen. We are the ones who will have to shout, "Stop. Enough of the bickering. Get to the business of the people!"

Whoever wins will have the burden of leadership. No easy task. We will have the burden of keeping them on track. Again, no easy task; perhaps even the more difficult of the two. After all is said and done, if we lapse back into apathy, those who will take advantage will resurface and we will have gained nothing.

Two years of campaigning and millions upon millions of dollars spent. For what? Maybe there is some merit to the saying, "Lead, follow or get out of the way."

Margie's Musings said...

I certainly hope, no matter who wins that we will allow the winner to lead.

I think, for my opinion, that wisdom and a cool head is a lot more important then experience in this office. This is not time to be hot headed or make rash decisions. It is too important a time.

Sylvia K said...

Always lots of questions and who knows, at this point, what the answers are. We can only do what we can, each in our own way to bring about the change we all want so badly. It won't do any of us any good just to sit on the sidelines and whimper and bitch, lord knows there are enough of those. Hope you're feeling better.


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Forget The Handbook!

We have long known of the cultural divide between ourselves and the Afghans.  We've tried for decades to bridge it in our efforts to make the Afghans self sufficient against intruders, including ourselves.  I cannot help but wonder why.

President Karzai is quick to take us to task for our efforts.  I've complained about it for what seems an eternity.  Beyond that we get killed by those we train.  It's blamed on that cultural divide.

So what to do to make us more sensitive?  Produce a handbook for ready reference.  It is in the process of being reviewed for good reason.   The Wall Street Journal suggests there are some problems that should not be swept under the rug.  Never.  Ever.

Sure, I understand the Afghans might resent being considered gutless in combat and basically stupid.  After all, they are an uneducated lot.  I can even understand their resentment for having been found out for having colluded with and formed alliances with the enemies.  Whichever side does the best job of buttering their bread I would guess.

Such must be fairly common between cultures as different as our when being forced to work together when the will isn't there.  But it gets worse.  Far worse.  There is a list of taboo subjects like making disparaging remarks about the Taliban,  criticising  Afghans and just about anything Islam.  That too is to be expected.

But it gets worse.  Far worse.  Nix advocating women's rights.  Check.  Do not mention homosexual conduct.  What?  Do not criticise in any way, shape or form pedophilia.  WHAT?

That our soldiers are often solicited by Afghans for homosexual activity seems a bit off the Islamic path, but I guess you are what you are.  Bold though, don't you think?  What would happen if a GI accepted?

Worse though, is the wide spread practice of pedophilia.  Especially among the Pashtuns of whom Karzai is one.  Is his constant criticism of us an attempt to divert attention from these practices?  Too late.  It's out there.

They have gone so far as to defend it by claiming it's their segregation from women.  Whose fault is that? Their economy is bad and marriage is expensive.  If their President wasn't squirreling away our aid perhaps the economy would be better.  Then there is the romantic Islamic poetry that speaks to their infatuation with young boys.

We put up with an awful lot from the Afghans.  Their treatment of women and girls has garnered most of the headlines.  Now we must include the boys and the despicable  embracing of pedophilia.

I don't agree with President Obama about much.  I do agree with the withdrawal of our troops but it's imperative to bring all of them home.  Don't leave any behind.  Withdraw all financial aid. Let the Afghans fend for themselves and let the chips fall where they may.

We don't tolerate pedophilia among our priests.  We don't tolerate pedophilia by a football coach.  How can we in good conscience tolerate it in an entire culture?  Can we allow ourselves to be that hypocritical all in the name of a cultural divide?

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Margie's Musings said...

The Russians had the right idea. We should just pull out of there and leave them to their own devices and also while we're at it, take our money as well.


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rise and root

The Flame Haired Solstice Dreamer

Cold winter brings the Everfrost and jewels every tree
In a forest new as birth and old as old can be
A flame~haired dreamer wanders there and shelters from the wind
And spins her dreams around the trees to break the ties that bind
She takes her thread and spins anew and how the Greenwood smiles
As she spins a spell for freedom and for her spirit Wylde

The dreamer finds an ancient oak and shelters in his lee
In a forest new as birth and old as old can be
Tis summer now and birdsong weaves its magick through her spells
And humming bees drum drowsily in the foxglove's bells
The dreamer sits beneath the oak with yarn upon her knee
And spins and knits and weaves her dreams and sets her spirit free

"When birds fall from the sky and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people...shall come unto the earth from many colors, classes, creeds, who by their actions and deeds shall make the earth green again. they will be known as the warriors of the Rainbow"

Hopi Prophecy

~mists of lethargy~

i have been so lethargic lately~mentally lethargic~laying in my virtual hammock and whiling away the hours

i sit down everyday with my books and papers in front of me and what gets done?
a big fat nothing
not a bean

i think its an accumulation of feeling unwell, swmapy is unwell with a really bad back, waiting for squishy to arrive and i think a developing spring fever...

we have had cold, frosty nights and the days have given us wonderful sunshine, although still cold.
all kinds of flowers are pushing their way up through the earth and the trees are coming into bud.
driving out of the village two days ago we came across a herd of about 15 donkeys, obviously just been let out onto the forest after our particularly hard winter. i know it has been so bad that many people took their animals off the forest and so seeing the donkeys is a sure sign the worst is over and spring is springing.

i have struggled this winter

i have always been a winter girl, loving the cold and wild weather.
as a pale red head hot summers have always been difficult, i don't function well in the heat.

but now i think my personal wheel has turned and i now find myself craving some sunshine and heat~i am looking forwards to a lovely warm summer with endless blue skies and days spent out of doors.

my wanderlust is raising its head too with the coming of spring and the fact that the interior in our camper being finished is on the horizon.

it means getting away and sitting under the stars at some peaceful destination and we are hoping that this year we will be able to get away more than we have been.
the last two years our old camper had become so unreliable and so costly to run we missed a lot of opportunities to get away. now we have a reliable, very economical camper with a lot more room and as we are building the interior ourselves the layout is perfect.
and of course we will have squishy to introduce to the joys of camping~Cody slipped into camping mode really well and always enjoyed the freedom of being able to be outside all of the time and we hope squishy will be the same.

well now i have bird song (not traffic noise here just bird song~how perfect is that?!) and a mild breeze coming through the open window near me so its time to go get a breath of fresh air

~where ever you are have a good day~

Jackie said...

Oh me too!

I've always been a Winter baby-love the snow, love the rain, hate the heat and too much sun, but Oh, this Winter has been too much.

And it has definitely had a bearing on my well being.

I try to hurry Spring on by buying flowering bulbs for the house. The more Daffs I can squeeze in the better, just for the bright sunny yellow.

It will come soon. Won't it?

Can't wait to meet your new addition to the family.

miss*R said...

me too. I have always, always loved winter and the cold.. but the past few years I have yearned for the warmth... but when it comes in awful weeks and weeks of intense heat and humidity.. I begin to crave the cold again.. like my own personnal inner wheel :)

your summer time is coming and you will begin to warm up and will even find that the grief for Cody will lessen with the warmth xoxo

All things share the same breath~the beast, the tree, the man, the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

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rise and root

The Flame Haired Solstice Dreamer

Cold winter brings the Everfrost and jewels every tree
In a forest new as birth and old as old can be
A flame~haired dreamer wanders there and shelters from the wind
And spins her dreams around the trees to break the ties that bind
She takes her thread and spins anew and how the Greenwood smiles
As she spins a spell for freedom and for her spirit Wylde

The dreamer finds an ancient oak and shelters in his lee
In a forest new as birth and old as old can be
Tis summer now and birdsong weaves its magick through her spells
And humming bees drum drowsily in the foxglove's bells
The dreamer sits beneath the oak with yarn upon her knee
And spins and knits and weaves her dreams and sets her spirit free

"When birds fall from the sky and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people...shall come unto the earth from many colors, classes, creeds, who by their actions and deeds shall make the earth green again. they will be known as the warriors of the Rainbow"

Hopi Prophecy

my, it feels as if i have been away for ages, but in reality its been just a few days.

yesterday was my first full day out of bed, although this morning i am not feeling my best~it keeps coming back as if its the first day of my cold rather than the end.
swampy has now come down with it now but of course he has 'man flu'!

i will catch up with your blogging over the next day or two.

this week is the week for the new forest show~today is the first day and the weather has remained nice. we are going tomorrow so i hope the sun stays away.

it has been so hot and humid here for days now~yesterday was awful~i know its terrible to say that but it was~the sky was covered in dark clouds, but no rain fell and the heat was pretty much unbearable.
we had a fan going but the noise of the fan was just as bad as the heat!

it actually feels a little cooler today however although the sun is just starting
to burn through the clouds.

*i hope its cooler where you are today*

Nellie said...

Glad to see you back - I hope you're feeling brighter for your day out tomorrow xx

mel said...

ooooh!! so good to *see* you again -- i was getting quite worried....

lots of healing light to speed you along...

al hayball said...

this heat is SO oppressive mate.
keep your spirits up.

Laura said...

i'm glad to hear your feeling some better and i hope swampy feels better soon too! we've finally had a break from the heat...it's only in the high 80's now. :/

Kadeeae said...

Been very muggy here too, glad you're on the mend =)

Leanne said...

on the mend! thats good! welcome back!

Leanne x

Crystalrainbow said...

i'm glad to see you back :) take it easy and get back well soon x x x hugs x x x

dubgirl said...

glad to hear you are feeling better, take it easy x

Angelica said...

We miss the sun! Its been cloudy and rainy here in Wales for over a week now. Glad to here that you're more comfortable and feeling a bit better, healing blessings

Kath said...

Get well slowly...don't over-do it XX

All things share the same breath~the beast, the tree, the man, the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

Chief Seattle

Johney Gaul~1915

Johney Gaul~1915
1890-17 september 1918~France


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Hi, everyone!

Thanks so much for following my blog and commenting on my posts – it means the world to me! So I’m back today with a recap of my weekend.

Saturday started out normal, with me running (almost) late to work – usual. The good stuff happened when I got back.

 I finally saw the hubs and exchanged all our gifts. I’m not lying when I say I was nervous about him liking it – or them. I’m sometimes too sappy for my own good, but lo and behold, he loved all of them! Let me know if you guys want to know exactly what we did, but we are following the whole anniversary gifts (this year was paper).

Then after changing into something fancy we went out to eat at this really cute and cozy italian restaurant about 15 minutes down the road from us, in downtown Fairfax.

Dinner was fabulous, wish I remembered to take a picture. But the hubs had chicken and sausage (which he loved) and I had the Veal with pesto sauce. Holy molly that thing was fantastic! I couldn’t get enough. I am not one to clean up my plate at a restaurant, but I certainly tried on Saturday.

The place was a tad too fancy for us (we are a beer couple, and we definitely felt out of place not having wine with our meal), but we will definitely keep coming back.

We got back home and couldn’t resist stopping to get the same cake we had at the wedding (we are of the mindset that red velvet rules – when done right).

Can you say yummy?! And my flowers are simply gorgeous! Hubs knows not to get me roses (am I the only one to think they are overdone?) And if you’re wondering, he’s the Flyers fan in the house. ( I’m all for the caps. Gotta represent the city you live in!)

On Sunday I met up with a bunch of girlfriends over at an outdoor area near my house. It just happened that they were having an Art Festival – win, win! We definitely browsed around and enjoyed the 70 degree weather after our lunch.

Love these girls. And the space is perfect for families. They have this Water fountain where all the kids go and run in between the water streams. It was out of service yesterday, but I’ll post a picture later with it.

I came back later and met up with another great friend of mine from college who’s back in the area and we had a frozen yogurt moment. Her daughter is super cute and full of smiles. Can’t wait to see them again.

And now a picture of Aeris, just because.

(who can resist this little face when blogging?)

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Accompanied by his attorneys and police officers, Sheldon Silver left Federal Court on the morning of Thurs., Jan. 22, after being arraigned on an array of corruption, extortion and fraud charges. A bit more than a week later, he had been forced by his Assembly colleagues to resign the speakership.

Accompanied by his attorneys and police officers, Sheldon Silver left Federal Court on the morning of Thurs., Jan. 22, after being arraigned on an array of corruption, extortion and fraud charges. A bit more than a week later, he had been forced by his Assembly colleagues to resign the speakership.

BY KEN PARKER    |  Speaker Sheldon Silver being pilloried in the press for accusations of corruption, I felt it’s time to take a hard look at the allegations being leveled against Silver and see them for what they are: character assassination, pure and simple. Lost in the ruckus is all the good that he has done for his constituents and the State of New York.

That goodwill was shouted down by the rhetoric that has filled the air since news of the criminal complaint and the subsequent arrest became public.

The New York media could hardly contain its glee in seeing Silver being accused of “kickbacks.” One newspaper went so far as to say, “It was a pleasure to see Sheldon Silver in handcuffs. For his offenses against New Yorkers have long been criminal.”

The media took its cue from U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who exclaimed that he was on a mission from God to clean up Albany single-handedly: “These charges go to the very core of what ails Albany,” he said, “a lack of transparency, lack of accountability and a lack of principle joined with an overabundance of greed, cronyism and self-dealing.”

What is also lacking, however, is a single shred of evidence as to how “corruption in Albany” is connected in any manner to the charges brought against Speaker Silver. This is jury-pool tainting, fry ’em in the court of public opinion and damn the facts — basically, full-speed-ahead political one-upmanship.

As a constituent of Speaker Silver, I have a slightly different view of recent events. I cannot find the words to express the extent of my appreciation and gratitude for all that he has done for Lower Manhattan. Let’s remember, during his tenure as speaker, he had to deal with the first World Trade Center bombing, then 9/11, Superstorm Sandy and Occupy Wall St., to name just of a few the events that not only affected his constituency, but the world as whole.

He was able to get his constituency — my neighborhood, my community — the help it needed to put the community back together again after each of these events. Without his guidance and leadership, I am convinced that we in Lower Manhattan would not be where we are today.

I do realize that when you are in position of great power, people who are jealous of that power will try hard and long to knock you out. That is what happened here.

Let’s take a look at how the latest round of Silver-bashing got started. In an attempt to gain political leverage over the Assembly speaker, Governor Cuomo formed the Moreland Commission, the ostensible purpose of which was to root out corruption in Albany. By doing so, Cuomo sought to portray himself as a new Teddy Roosevelt taking on Tammany Hall politicians. In retrospect, one gets the sense that the Moreland Commission was formed so that Cuomo could ram his budget through the Assembly without having to deal with Assembly Speaker Silver. Political blackmail, if you will.

Bharara, a man eager to claim a political scalp to help support his own ambitions, grabbed the documents collected by the Moreland Commission when it shut down. This was his chance. If this case succeeds, he will probably be a big enough name to be considered for U.S attorney general in the next administration, no matter which party takes the White House. This naked ambition is all the more apparent after Bharara’s recent announcement that there may be more arrests.

It is perfectly legal for an attorney to accept referral fees for cases he does not work on — how those fees are paid is between the law firm and the attorney. There are many, many attorneys — especially in “of counsel” positions, like Speaker Silver — who do little work and receive millions of dollars in referral fees. This is the way the legal business is run.

Let’s also deal with the terminology here. Calling what Assembly Speaker is accused of doing a “kickback scheme” stretches the concept of a kickback. A kickback is what then-Governor Spiro Agnew did when he demanded that vending-machine operators in state buildings pay him 5 cents on every cigarette pack sold. That’s a kickback.

By leveling trumped-up charges of fraud, the sole intent of the powers that be seems to be to push Assembly Speaker Silver off of his pedestal, so that they can install their own person, who will be much more compliant to their wishes.

But the U.S attorney has a long way to go before he can hang the Assembly Speaker’s scalp on his wall. All I ask is that let’s have the trial (if it does not get tossed out before then) in the court and not in the public.

A man who has been a great benefactor to his constituents and the citizens of New York State deserves to be given respect and not have his reputation tarnished by scurrilous accusations.

While I expect nothing less from the media, the words and actions of the U.S. attorney are especially troubling and out of place. The lack of respect shown for the Assembly Speaker and the legal process that Bharara and the F.B.I. showed was shameful. There is a time and a place for U.S. attorneys to do their celebration dances. This is not one of them.

Bharara and the F.B.I.’s preening in front of cameras was a deplorable display, reminiscent of elementary schoolboys who had just gotten out of school for the summer. They brought shame to their agencies, agencies which I deeply respect and admire, and to those who appointed them to those positions.

In his 20 years as Assembly speaker and his almost 40 years as a member of the New York State Assembly, Silver did much good for his constituency and for the State of New York. His work — the public’s work — demands that he be given the proper respect, and not be subjected to the carnival atmosphere that the U.S. attorney and the F.B.I. created.

Paskar is vice president, Lower Manhattan Democrats


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