Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: July 19th through July 25th

July 19, 2015 JanF Community 157

Welcome to The Moose Pond! The Welcomings posts give the Moose, old and new, a place to visit and share words about the weather, life, the world at large and the small parts of Moosylvania that we each inhabit.

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So … what’s going on in your part of Moosylvania?

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59 Comments

  1. Good morning, Motley Meese! The week begins …

    It is 72 degrees in Madison WI, on its way up to 83. Partly cloudy skies are in the forecast.

    Have a great day, all y’alls!!

  2. Up for my early walk. Actually woke up at 4:10, but I wasn’t gonna get up. Dumped some more tea powder into my tea. Sigh. Got church after the workout, then cooking. Back later.

    • I was following that on Twitter and it was … something. The Eclectablog post does an excellent job of explaining but I suspect it was not well received in some quarters. Trite as it may sound, the truth hurts.

      I just finished an opinion piece by one of Obama’s campaign staff talking about “grassroots candidates” and one sentence jumped out:

      … the most liberal voters tend to tune in sooner and engage more actively, giving an initial boost to progressive candidates.

      That also seems to be what is fueling the primary wars on the lefty blogs … everyone is engaged! Political wonks are determined to make 2015, when there are no elections, exciting and what better way than to set one’s hair on fire?

      White liberals really need to understand what #BlackLivesMatter means. I think that O’Malley understood after it was explained to him. I am not sure that Sanders, because railing against Wall Street is the cause of his life, is able to set that aside long enough to understand. BLM is about survival at the deepest level … fear for one’s life in a society imbued with institutional racism. You cannot fix that by raising the minimum wage and breaking up big banks.

      • I’ve been following the whole thing since I figured out what was going on (still haven’t watched the video) and I think it is a lot of people talking past each other and not listening. Shoot, POTUS talks about race and people get mad because he said the wrong thing, or didn’t say something, or used the wrong tone.

        Bill McKibben said in February that Sanders is an imperfect messenger and tends to get in his own way. I think that is right. I think, given his background (I can’t mention he marched with MLK because folks on Twitter tell me they’re so over hearing that) he was caught off-guard. Did he respond in a good way? Doesn’t seem like it. I think the proof will be in how, if at all, he does address these issues.

        One of the more interesting things to me was the reaction on Twitter and it reminds me why I had drifted away for awhile. People get so pissy. And it is only July 2015. I think I like us better as incumbents.

        • THIS!! “it is only July 2015”. People need to get a grip or they will burn out.

          One of the things that I see is that those disappointed that President Obama did not spend all his political capital on throwing banksters (and torturers!) in jail are pouring all their anger into the #LeaveOurBernieAloooooone movement. He has become the symbol of something elser: the ticked off left-of-the-left whose unicorn was never delivered.

    • Thanks for the link. Will read it later when I have the time to absorb it. Off the top of my head (always a mistake to share random thoughts), after skimming some orange diaries last night, I had to wonder if I were young and black would I have been one of the protestors fighting for the lives of my community. I hope that I would have been engaged. Am not sure what the fall out of this will be but I hope, hope, hope it will lead to a better future for those whose very lives are, literally, at stake. Hard to believe that some say, with a straight face, that we live in a post racial society.

      • Portlaw, I saw a diary Over There by Nate Silver that stated for black people, living in the USA is equivalent to living in a war zone like Sudan. And so it is, unfortunately. Hope that diary is still there, I want to read it later today.

        • I did not think that Nate Silver still posted on the GOS (his username was poblano when he posted there). I wonder if it was someone reporting on this piece from his FiveThirtyEight.com blog: Black Americans Are Killed At 12 Times The Rate Of People In Other Developed Countries :

          Among countries with an HDI of .850 or higher — these are the 31 most well-off countries in the world — the U.S.’s rate of homicide deaths, 5.2 per 100,000 persons, is easily the highest. The next-highest are Brunei (2.0), Finland (2.0) and Israel (1.9). And the U.S. homicide death rate is more than three times higher than neighboring Canada (1.5). […]

          Extending on an analysis by the academic Kieran Healy, I calculated the rate of U.S. homicide deaths by racial group, based on the CDC WONDER data. From 2010 through 2012, the annual rate of homicide deaths among non-Hispanic white Americans was 2.5 per 100,000 persons, meaning that about one in every 40,000 white Americans is a homicide victim each year. By comparison, the rate of homicide deaths among non-Hispanic black Americans is 19.4 per 100,000 persons, or about 1 in 5,000 people per year. […]

          But there’s no other highly industrialized country with a homicide death rate similar to the one black Americans experience. Their homicide death rate, 19.4 per 100,000 persons, is about 12 times higher than the average rate among all people in other developed countries.

          Instead, you’d have to look toward developing countries such as Mexico (22.0), Brazil (23.6), Nigeria (20.0), Rwanda (23.1) or Myanmar (15.2) to find a comparable rate.

          • Jan, you’re right—it wasn’t Nate Silver, it was David Gershon’s post about Nate Silver’s remarks. A friend helped me track it down on GOS. I never can make heads or tales of the “Search” function on GOS. It never returns any results for me.

            But what a devastating truth to face about this country! I’m going to be interested in the autopsy results on poor Sandra Bland. I do not believe for one moment that a young woman all excited about her new job would kill herself while incarcerated.

          • I hope they get the facts on the Sandra Bland case. Here is a Vox-plainer about her arrest and incarceration. It includes an interesting comment by an expert on jail suicides who pointed out that it is not unusual for those incarcerated, even for a minor offense, to feel overwhelmed by the loss of control:

            The mere trauma of sitting in a jail cell can be overwhelming, and this is particularly true for someone who has never been in one before. And that could explain the suicides by people who aren’t facing serious charges.

            “That it was an arrest for a minor crime may not matter. In fact a sense of injustice can only add to the emotional damage. Someone may be sitting in a cell for longer than they were supposed to be. So the walls start closing in. There’s the uncertainty, of not knowing when you’re going to get out. There’s the loss of control. You’re cut off from family and friends. And it’s all beyond your control. That can be really difficult, especially for someone who hasn’t experienced it before.”

            If it turns out to be a suicide, what a horrific thing it would be to be driven to the point where you considered ending your life: all over a “failure to signal while black”. :(

    • Going to read your link on what went down at Netroots, Denise, after I come in from weed pulling. It’s going to be 98 F. today, so I have to get out there soon. :)

    • Doesn’t sound like Bernie Sanders “thinks on his feet” very well. But mostly what it sounds like is unacknowledged “white privilege” is the monster in the mirror at NN. Yes, ALL lives matter – but until Black Lives, N.A. Lives. Brown Lives, Female Lives matter as much as White Lives that’s the wrong answer.

  4. Today is the anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 – which is the subject of my Sunday musings at orange.

    Got to go grab some oatmeal before I settle in to diary tending

    I see that Republicans are finally slamming Trump – not for his racism and xenophobia – but for dissing John McCain

    • Yes, and thank goodness Democrats wasted no time pointing out the hypocrisy of the GOPer defense. As John Nichols said in a Tweet: “RNC: ‘There is no place in our party or our country for comments that disparage those who have served honorably.’ An apology to John Kerry?” And an apology to Max Cleland? :::crickets:::

      The good news, for us, is that Trump will simply be energized to ratchet up his attacks. The base of the Republican Party loves him and is probably still angry that John McCain wouldn’t attack Barack Obama for his “muslimness”! So the establishment Republicans are saying “this shall not stand!!” while Trump continues to eat their lunch (first in two weekend polls, second in two others).

      Leonard Pitts:

      • In my 20s in the 1970s – in ’77 I was taking a break from “politics” as I’d spent a lot more time and energy than my husband approved of (!) helping to get Jimmy Carter elected the previous year. In my youthful ignorance I thought ERA and the renewed demands weren’t necessary – that if we’d just use the 14th Amendment (any person…) we wouldn’t need ERA. Unfortunately Courts earlier, then, and now all seem to want to rule, without coming right out and saying so, that women are not “persons”. Sigh.

  5. Good morning to all at the Moose Pond! Drink up, drink up, it’s going to be a scorcher today in Northern Virginia. It’s already 81 F. at 10 a.m. on a cloudless day, going up to 98 F. or so they say.

    Breakfast is finished, got to get out and pull weeds before coming in again. A friend I haven’t seen in 55 years (since I left Little Rock) is coming to visit tomorrow. Do you ever get moods in which you think, “I wonder what happened to so-and-so” and start Googling? That’s how I reconnected with her—she put her full name on Facebook, including her maiden name. She lives three hours’ drive from me.

    Worried sick about my DIL. On Friday when she went for a prenatal checkup, the doctors detained her for 5 hours. They didn’t like her blood pressure and are worried about pre-eclampsia. The baby is due Aug. 2, but they will induce labor in 5 to 7 days to forestall any crises. We’re having dinner with them tonight. If my fingernails weren’t already short I’d be biting them to the quick now!

    The news from Connecticut is better. My cousin, who was hit head-on by a drunken driver at 3:30 a.m. a month ago, is talking, breathing on her own, asking for visitors, and eating tons of potato chips. She has been moved to a rehab facility but will go back to the hospital for surgery next week. We are all so deeply thankful for everyone’s prayers.

    Got to get dressed in my anti-bug and sun outfit (jeans, long-sleeved shirt, socks, hat) and pull some weeds. Will come back later to drink at the Pond. Meanwhile, everyone have a good day!

    • Best healing wishes to your cousin Diana.

      We will be celebrating our granddaughter’s 13th birthday this week, She was born over a month early and I’ll never forget how frightened we were to see her fly away in the helicopter to University Hospital in Seattle because her lungs weren’t developed enough for her to breathe on her own. May everything be well with your DIL and the new baby.

      • Thank you, princesspat! So glad to hear your granddaughter is now 13 and well over her rocky start. My younger son was born a month early and they didn’t think he’d survive. Today he is 40 and the father of Miss Pink Cheeks and Babylicious. :)

        • My youngest sisters, now 56, were “7-month” babies. They didn’t weigh 6 lbs together and spent their 1st 6 weeks sharing an incubator. Nobody told us just how “iffy” their survival was – I was 7-1/2 when they were born and was only anxious about how soon they’d be home. So. It is concerning, but positive outcomes are not only possible but probable.

  6. Good morning, it’s 65 and sunny in Bellingham today. The afternoon will be warm as a high of 83 is expected so I’ll have another nice evening outside watering the garden. I was surprised to see it was nearly 10:00 when I came indoors last night.

    Summer evenings bring this song to mind, My Favorite Time Of Light, by Over The Rhine……

  7. Heat index 105 in Fay., AR at 1:24 CDT. Happy Sunday in July. :) Managed to get some encroaching grass pulled out of some flower beds while watering the nursery stock (the only things I water – establishment water – are trees and perennials in their 1st 2 years) this morning but the heat index was already close to 100 by 9 – so, have done my inside work – cooking and cleaning – and that will be that for the day.

    Sending healing energy to the Meese-kin in need. Am heading over to teh Orange to see what the BLM v. Bernie hollering was about. Trish told me the Berniebots are having hysterics that anybody dared say nasty things to/about St. Bernie. I, a Hillary supporter, find that rather amusing in concept. I’ve had the class v. racism discussion with Dr. Gordon Morgan while he was still with the department, partly because there is some truth in it but mostly because Dr. Morgan loved to start those kinds of arguments so I did my best to oblige. :) Here’s some truth – it’s a class issue but it’s also very much a racial issue if only because the percentage of POC people in “that” class is way above what would be the statistical norm if race wasn’t involved. Off to read stuff. Have the good afternoon. {{{HUGS}}}

  8. Good morning, meese! Monday …

    It is 66 degrees in Madison on its way up to 84. Party cloudy skies are in the forecast.

    Reading about the dustups and disses over the weekend was entertaining but in the grand scheme of things, what candidates say and how they act adds to the narrative of their candidacy but watching each micromove is not very productive. Here is a challenge for each candidate: talk to this 10 year old boy who watched the KKK rally in Columbia SC on Saturday and explain to him what you will do to make his America different.

    Tell him that the haters won’t win, tell him that he won’t be shot and killed walking in a white neighborhood, tell him that he won’t be pulled over for “driving while black” and tased for saying “hey, man, what did I do?”, tell him that he will get a good education, tell him that if he keeps his grades up he will be able to get into college (and pay for it), tell him that he will be called back for a job interview whether his name is Jamal or Johnny, tell him that he can buy a house and live in a safe neighborhood and that his kids will have a chance at the American dream, too. Or at least tell him that you will fight to make that kind of life possible for all Americans and will make it the most important issue in the 2016 race. If you can’t do that, then “delete your account campaign” … because you are missing the point about what the Democratic Party stands for.

    John Kasich, the governor of Ohio who won re-election in a landslide because the Democratic candidate imploded, will enter the GOP presidential race this week touting his electability, bringing the total to 17 on the R side. I spent 5 minutes and 12 seconds that I will never get back watching his campaign launch video. It is a fictional account of an intrepid man (with a grating smirk) pushing back against big government spenders and turning the deficit into a surplus! And he can do it again!! Gawd … I want to go hide until August 2016.

    See all y’all later.

  9. Good morning, Meese. Hoping to hear good news from Diana about her DIL and cousin. Hope all is well in the pond and beyond.

    • How are you doing, Portlaw?

      You appear to be back on your computer after your time in iPhone hell. That must mean some progress. Do you have PT visits or do you have to travel to rehab? I would think that would be a challenge, getting to and from when you are not moving as well as you would like to.

    • Here is something positive in the news, Portlaw. Some people sense that there is some movement on President Obama’s stand on the death penalty. There is not much he can do to end the federal death penalty but he does have a bully pulpit:

      A long-time associate and mentor to President Obama says the president is “close” to opposing the death penalty but not quite there yet — and needs to be pushed to do it.

      “He’s not there yet, but he’s close, and needs some help,” said Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., a law professor at Harvard University and prominent death penalty opponent who taught the president and First Lady Michelle Obama when both were students there. The legal scholar said he was planning on meeting with his former student next month and would confront him about the issue then.

      The article goes on to describe the slow but steady movement away from the death penalty and the blatant racism inherent in its application:

      Between 1977 and 2000 across Pennsylvania, murder cases involving a black defendant and a white victim resulted in death penalties at nearly five times the rate as cases in which the defendant was white, the victim black, according to figures from the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, D.C.

      The numbers suggest that jurors are acting on “a visceral fear response, unrelated to the severity of the crime,” said the center’s executive director, Robert Dunham.

      “The risk in a death penalty case is that a jury may be sentencing a defendant to death not based on what he or she did, but because of conscious or subconscious fears that result from the defendant’s race,” he added.

      A subsequent study with Baldus’s data from Philadelphia found that black defendants with stereotypically African features — such as as a broad nose, thick lips and dark skin — were about twice as likely to receive death sentences in cases with white defendants. … Of the 24 death sentences imposed in Philadelphia in the 21st century, just one was given to a white defendant.

      It also reminds us of the insane requirement that only jurors who are capable of voting for the death penalty (“death qualification”) are even chosen for capital crime juries. Look what it does to the jury pool:

      Death qualification tends to exclude black jurors from capital cases, since though about 55 percent of all Americans support the death penalty, and the same share of blacks oppose it.

      I would like to see the president come out against the death penalty as the encore to his criminal justice speeches and initiatives last week.

  10. Good morning to everyone at the Moose Pond! A glorious morning, headed back up to 97 F. again. Currently it’s 75 sticky degrees under sunny skies.

    Dear Goddess, glad I didn’t watch the Kasich vid! Thanks for doing that so we don’t have to, Jan. Stopped by Over There yesterday to read Denise’s Seneca Falls diary, but did not stay long. Every other diary was about Bernie. This morning I read in the WaPo that he is against waiting periods to buy guns.

    We had dinner with Elder Son and DIL last night. It turns out that the specialist who saw DIL on Friday and wanted to induce labor then and there is paranoid or something. DIL’s regular doctor told her that when the test results come back from the lab on Tuesday or Wednesday, she’ll assess the result. If it’s not favorable, DIL will have the baby on Wednesday. “Everything was absolutely fine until the ninth month,” DIL said. The pregnancy is now at 38 weeks. The doctors have ruled out pre-eclampsia but DIL has itchy feet and hands, which apparently is not a good sign.

    Well, that’s enough family chitchat. Sorry, but it’s on my mind. We did weed the front yard yesterday and nearly brought on heart attacks, it was such a horrible experience. There are still a few to pull, but on the whole the place does look better.

    Must pick up Miss Pink Cheeks in half an hour for camp, so will close now. Back later!

    • I hope that your DIL’s regular doctor’s assessment is correct but the wait must be agonizing. Good luck to her and to you recovering from the weeding!

      I complained on Twitter to the person who had the Kasich video in her stream and she said she never watched it through to the end! Real nice!! I may turn out to be the only person in America with the fortitude to get through it. I think it is important to know who our possible opponents are and, from the sounds of it, Kasich has found a sociopathic billionaire to support his run. That’s really all they need. Add a few lies, a smirk to tick off the libruls, and, voila, GOP candidate for President of the United States! His kickoff is tomorrow, the 21st, I believe.

  11. Cuber!!! Yes, Diana, I do remember that. Plus, I was born in New England and it was how people there talked! :)

    US, Cuba restore full diplomatic relations after five decades

    Just past the stroke of midnight, the two countries reached a new milestone in the historic thaw that began with a breakthrough announcement by U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro on Dec. 17.

    Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on Monday morning will preside over the raising of the Cuban flag for the first time in 54 years over a mansion that will again serve as Havana’s embassy in Washington.

    The symbolic event will be followed by a meeting at the State Department between Secretary of State John Kerry and Rodriguez, the first Cuban foreign minister on an official visit to Washington since the 1959 Cuban Revolution.

  12. Ah, lovely Monday. But – it’s the anniversary of the Viking lander on Mars so my Twitter feed is full of those amazing pictures. I remember how exciting it was — actual pictures from another planet! And then this interesting article came up, dunno why today: on the Drake equation & length of civilizations. The Drake Equation is one formula for figuring out the probability of ET life. “L” is the length of time a civilization is detectable. This is an article from last year, no idea why someone tweeted about it today, though it is really interesting.

    Anyway, have as good a day as Monday can be!

  13. Good morning, 63 breezy and partly cloudy in Bellingham today. The grand girls will be here soon so we’ll find something fun to do. They have a busy schedule, so they enjoy some quiet time after they arrive and that’s fine with me.

    I’ve finally started reading Gardens of the Moon, by Steven Erickson. The series has several books and was highly recommended but it’s complicated so I’ve had trouble getting started. Yesterday so warm I stayed in the cool basement and read while I tended the laundry. It was a good day!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malazan_Book_of_the_Fallen

  14. And for more news

    UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Security Council on Monday unanimously approved a resolution that creates the basis for international economic sanctions against Iran to be lifted, a move that incited a furious reaction in Israel and potentially sets up an angry showdown in Congress.

    The 15-0 vote for approval of the resolution, 14 pages long, was written in Vienna by diplomats who negotiated a landmark pact last week that limits Iran’s nuclear capabilities in exchange for ending the sanctions.

    Iran has pledged to let in international monitors to inspect its facilities for the next 10 years and other measures that were devised to guarantee that its nuclear energy activities are purely peaceful.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/21/world/middleeast/security-council-following-iran-nuclear-pact-votes-to-lift-sanctions.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

  15. Hi Meeses – 85 with a heat index of 96 at 10:32 CDT in Fay., AR – ‘spozed to be pretty much like yesterday which means we’ll hit triple-digit heat index in an hour or so. “They” say we’re going to have rain tomorrow and Wednesday but no decrease in temps. Just what I needed, a steam bath! Lurked over teh Orange yesterday – oh the Berniebots are upset! And in full white-splainin’ mode about how BLM should have… (been more respectful toward their white god) and then it would have been OK – really twisting themselves into pretzels to not sound racist. heh. I did enjoy the Seneca Falls diary although I didn’t comment there considering how many comments there already were. These days I mostly only comment in the pootie diaries.

    Hope everyone and their kin are enjoying good – or at least better – health today. {{{HUGS}}}

  16. hmm – the site wasn’t letting me post comments – trying again

  17. Last week was the week between classes and it is always the fastest week to fly by. Tomorrow I start Energy and the Environment. Started reading one of the books and I’m scared. Literally had Greek in it. :)

    Vermont has had more thunderstorms in 3 days than the entire 8 years I’ve lived here. I blame Bernie. lol But today was darn near perfect.

    • Nice to see you, Happy inVT! Although it sounds like VT in not such a happy place right now. I hope you are not in danger of being flooded.

  18. Good morning, meese! Tuesday …

    It is 61 degrees in Madison on its way up to 79, mostly sunny skies in the forecast.

    Busy day here so I can’t stay long. I am going to put up a post for discussion of the #BlackLivesMatter #BernieSoBlack issue. I want to make sure that meeses have a place to discuss these issues without it leaking too much into the morning chit chat. These issues can be part of what progressives chat about over coffee but when it is something we could possibly have differing opinions on, a separate post might serve us better. That is only my two cents and I am open to discussion.

    See all y’alls later!!

    • Your twin skunks remind me of the old Doublemint gum commercials. :) And I agree that an issue this important needs it’s own space.

  19. Good Morning, Yes, Jan, I am back on my computer, free from the constraints of my iPhone. Yay! Am still home bound with a Physical Therapist coming to me. Next week, however, I go back out!
    Being home means I get all sorts of phone calls. Yesterday got robotic calls telling me to oppose the Nuclear Deal with Iran and contact my people in Congress. So I wrote to them and told them to support it and soon. There is a lot of organized opposition to this deal. Am beginning to get nervous.
    Hope it’s a good day for all in the Pond and beyond.

    • It’s too late for those opposed. Not only did the UN vote 15 to 0 to approve the deal but Germany is already working on setting up trade deals with Iran! So the Republican presidential candidates who are running on the platform of bombing Iran on their inauguration day in January 2017 might want to explain how they are going to avoid bombing our allies who are there selling stuff to the Iranians. It must suck to be them.

      I am on a Do-Not-Call list so I don’t get those calls. Plus Wisconsin is so polarized, the robo people know better than to waste their money trying to change anyone’s mind. One-term Senator Ron Johnson will vote how Mike Lee and Ted Cruz tell him to vote and that will be one more campaign issue for Russ Feingold. :)

      I am glad you get to go out next week … yay, normalcy!!

    • Good for you, getting to go out soon! I’m sure you’re looking forward to that.

    • Glad to see you’re back and in more or less good shape. And yes, robocalls are irritating. I hang up on them as soon as I realize it is a robocall. As to the Iranian deal, there’s not a whole lot the Senate can do about it as far as stopping it. They can approve or disapprove certain points, but it’s an international agreement but not actually a treaty so it doesn’t require ratification. (As best I understand it anyway.)

  20. Good Tiu’s Day morning, Meese! It’s slightly cooler today, 75 F. under cloudy skies, going for a high of 93 F. with thunderstorms. Don’t mind storms if they’re going to cool things off.

    May I remind all present that on this day, the sixth day of Hecatombeon in 354 BCE, the slave Herostratus burnt the Temple of Diana at Ephesus so his name would be remembered in history. It is said the Goddess Herself was in Macedon, helping to deliver the baby who would one day be known as Alexander the Great. There! Don’t you feel better now? As for Herostratus, the Ephesians fixed his little red wagon but good.

    Nothing much to say this morning except that today might be the day little Mohammed Abdul, as the expectant father calls him, appears in the world. Then again, he may not be born until Friday.

    Hope all is well with everyone—if time permits will come back to read posts. Babylicious has started a horrible new habit of shrieking at the top of his lungs, with the result that I tremble all day and can’t focus on anything.

    • Ouch!!

      I hope that Mohammed Abdul has a safe and uneventful entry into the world.

    • I used to babysit a baby that did that. I wondered where he got the energy, and that his voice never gave out. My sympathies!

      • Oh noes!!! I had already sent a Tweet out about that and now do I look foolish!!!

        :)

    • Holding the good thought for the new grandchild, whenever he gets here. Know where you’re coming from on the “can’t focus on anything” due to the shrieking – one of my cats has been loudly protesting summer (windows are closed) for the last several weeks to the extent that I can’t concentrate on anything I’m trying to do at home.

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