Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Parsley by Rosemary Morris
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Parsley
I spend hours in solitary confinement writing romantic historical fiction and reading historical nonfiction to research my novels. After long periods of physical inactivity work in my organic garden. where I grow delicious produce, provides fresh air and exercise.
Parsley is one of my favourite beneficial and tasty herbs. It provides essential minerals including iron and calcium and the vitamins A and C. This herb acts as a valuable carminative, tonic, aperient and diuretic and has many uses in the kitchen. It is difficult to grow from seed, but plants bought from a garden centre or supermarket thrive planted as an attractive border along a garden bed, in a herb bed or in containers. If it is not allowed to self-seed parsley produces abundantly and survives the winter
In times past herbs were depended on for culinary flavour and for their medicinal properties far more than they are today. I am as passionate about their use in an age when fast food is popular as I am about writing historical fiction.
Parsley is one of my favourite low maintenance herbs. It acts as a valuable carminative, tonic, aperient and diuretic.
During the First World War, after dysentery soldiers frequently suffered from kidney problems for which parsley tea proved useful. This herb has many medical uses and is particularly helpful for women. According to my research and practical it stimulates the appetite, helps digestion and elimination, soothes the nerves and helps with premenstrual tension and bloating. Taken every day it is useful during the menopause.
Some Vegetarian Egg Free Recipes
Souper A La Bonne Femme
To promote women’s good health.
3 tablespoons butter.
6 tablespoons flour
1pint/600 ml full fat cow’s milk.
1 vegetable soup stock cube
Half cup single cream
100 grams/four ounces finely chopped parsley leaves.
Melt the butter stir in the flour. Slowly add and stir in the milk and water. Add the soup stock cube. Bring to the boil. Remove from heat. Add the cream and simmer the soup gently without it coming to the boil until it thickens. Before serving add the parsley, and salt and pepper if needed. Serve at once.
Parsley Sandwiches
Sliced wholemeal bread
Butter
Cream cheese
Finely chopped parsley leaves
Sea salt or table salt
Black pepper
Spread half the slices with butter and the other half with cream cheese. Sprinkle the cream cheese with parsley, salt and black pepper on the other half of the slices. Cover them with the buttered slices, Cut the sandwiches into quarters and serve
Parsley Butter
3 ounces/75 grams of butter.
3 tablespoons finely chopped parsley
1 tablespoon lemon juice
Sea salt or table salt and black pepper
Use cool, firm butter not taken straight out of the refrigerator. Mix the ingredients in a food processor or blender. Chill the parsley butter until it is firm.
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Author’s Note. There are many recipes for parsley e.g. parsley dumplings, parsley tonic, fried parsley etc., to enjoy.
Novels by Rosemary Morris
Early 18th Century novels: Tangled Love, Far Beyond Rubies, The Captain and The Countess
Regency Novels False Pretences, Sunday’s Child, Monday’s Child, Tuesday’s Child, Wednesday’s Child and Thursday’s Child. Friday’s Child to be published this month.
Mediaeval Novel Yvonne Lady of Cassio. The Lovages of Cassio Book One
www.rosemarymorris.co.uk
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Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Strange 17th Century Thoughts by Katherine Pym
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During the
17th century in England an explosion of thought dominated. King
Charles II blessed the establishment of the Royal Society after his Restoration
and men enthusiastically dove into scientific experiments.
Plague Doctor's Headgear |
For medicine, plague doctors almost had it when they said all dogs and cats
must be killed to stop the spread of plague. They just did not realize rats
that penetrated wattle and daub walls, women’s kitchens and family bedchambers
might also carry the disease. Physicians bold enough to enter a plague house
wore protective coverings made of soft leather or canvas when visiting the sick,
their bird mask beaks filled with disease preventative spices, the types
generally unspecified. One master of his house contrived a system of pulleys
and tubes that would bring food and stuffs up to a family, with a blast of
gunpowder at the onset of sending or receiving goods. The wise patriarch quarantined
his family in their upper rooms and barred their doors in June of 1665. They
did not leave for months, even as the plague died down with colder weather. My
sources say the family lived to write of their experiences.
Women’s
reproductive process provided enthusiastic discourse. If virgins were pale and
listless, they had the green sickness, and the only cure, according to a 16th
century German physician, was to have sex. Once they conceived, their ailment would
go away.
Robert Hooke's Microscope |
If a woman was
sexually active and did not conceive, physicians considered her womb had lost
purchase and wandered about her body. One learned fellow declared a female
patient came to him complaining of severe headaches. He determined her womb had
wandered and lodged in her brain. He performed surgery on the luckless lady,
cutting into her skull. There is no evidence she survived.
When one
fell into an epileptic fit, the best way to revive him was to bend back their
fingernails.
For Science, the Royal Society provided a plethora of opportunities to study
nature and how things worked. There were lectures and experiments.
One such
experiment dealt a transfusion of blood between two dogs. Samuel Pepys wrote of
it in his diary: Nov 14, 16666: “A pretty experiment of the blood of one dogg
let out, till he died, into the body of another on one side, while all his own
run out on the other side.1 The
first died upon the place, and the other very well, and likely to do well.”
Boyle's Air Pump |
Robert Boyle
was a brilliant man, and the intellect behind Boyle’s Law: a law stating that
the pressure of a given mass of an ideal gas is inversely proportional to its
volume at a constant temperature. He created an air pump, which Robert Hooke
enhanced and performed experiments at the Royal Society.
From my
novel, The Barbers:
A tubular, metal vat sat on a tripod of sorts, and atop it was a
round glass chamber. Inside the chamber a little chick sat on the bottom,
looking bewildered. Its beak opened and closed but Celia did not hear it chirp.
To see if it was strangely dead, she tapped the glass. Its head moved.
Robert Hooke said, “Air is very important for all creatures to
live. See this here handle?”
Celia felt Deeping nod, and she did too.
“The base of it is attached to the metal cylinder. If you turn
this forward, it sucks air out of the glass chamber. Watch.”
He turned the handle, and the chick fluttered its wings a little.
As Hooke turned the crank, the chick’s beak opened and closed. The poor, little
bird sagged to the bottom of the glass, then it fell over, its little chest
pumping up and down. Soon, the chick stilled.
Hooke pointed at the glass globe. “The air has been pumped out of
the chamber. Now, I’ll reverse the action.”
He turned the handle backward, and the chick stirred. Its chest
went in and out, its breathing less labored. Hooke cranked the handle backward
until the chick gathered its wits, gained its feet, and perched once again on
the bottom of the glass chamber. It looked around, and chirped.”
NOTE: The animals used in most of these experiments died, their
carcasses thrown into the muck pile in the street.
~*~*~*~
Many thanks
to: The Barbers, Erasmus T. Muddiman by Katherine Pym, Samuel Pepys’ diary, and
Wikicommons Public Domain.
Author of historical novels set in 1660's London with one novel of the French Revolution.
Monday, June 3, 2019
The Who, What, WHERE, Why and When of Writing - Part 3
June 3 2019
When I started this series of blogs, my first thought
for Where was: Where’s the best place to write?
That question has as many answers as there are
writers.
Some people are more comfortable in their same chair
at their same desk at the same time every day from the hours of 9am to 5pm. I’m
not that dedicated to routine since I have a full time job, three kids, and my
life tends to be a bit chaotic at times. I’ve written in many places:
- At work on
lunch breaks.
- In waiting
rooms at the doctor, the dentist, the hospital, the massage therapist,
before and interview, while waiting to have lab work done, and so on.
- While cooking
dinner for three hungry kids.
- Out in the
park.
- While
camping.
- Out at the
lake.
- At coffee
shops.
- In writing
meetings.
- In my
backyard.
- With a kid or
cat on my lap.
- In a car (not
while driving!!)
- While waiting
for kids who were in karate classes or music lessons.
- Pretty much
any place, anytime, anywhere.
Where isn’t so much a restriction as just doing it. As
long as you have something to write with, pen and paper or a laptop, you can
write just about anywhere!
My second where I thought of while walking the other
day. Where do you want to go with your
writing?
Many people write for the sheer pleasure of putting
pen to paper and creating worlds that have never existed. Some writers look to
Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, Dan Brown, E.L. James and so on and see dollar signs.
Yes, it is possible to earn a living at writing. So I heard. I’m not there.
Yet.
As a single parent I’ve had to work full-time to get
my kids through school and be content with writing part-time to slowly build my
career. Now that I have eight books out, I can build a better social media
presence and work with my publisher (Books We Love!) to get more and more name
recognition.
Marketing is key!
For anyone who thinks they can write a book, upload it
to the Internet, then sit back and wait for the money and accolades to roll in –
surprise! It’s a full-time job to sell your books. Books signings, conferences,
and the like are all great for boosting your career. Word of mouth helps, but writers
want to create a fan base.
Those people who are excited to see when you’ve written
something new. But how do you do that? We’ll discuss that later….
Author of Wild Blue Mysteries, Gilda Wright Mysteries and
Glitter Bay Mysteries
Mom of 3 boys and 2 cats and a mouse we still can't find...
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Sunday, June 2, 2019
I'm Back!!
It's been a while since I've posted. I needed a break. It's difficult writing every day (or trying to) and doing a blog once a month. Plus we moved - that was a good thing. I love our new house - well it's hardly new 50 years old, but new to us.
It needed a lot of work before we could even move in and we only had a little over a week to do it. Thank God for kids. The house was filthy. I don't think there was a room that didn't have food on the walls. Seriously. I don't know if they had food fights or what, but we had to wash them before we could paint them Did I say wash? Scrub is more like it.
And the bathroom needed gutted. Believe it or not there was a big hole in the tub right by the drain. We had the house inspected before we bought it. We noticed the black spot in the tub. Just figured the enamel was chipped. The tub was disgustingly dirty. Talk about scum. Anyway, the inspector obviously didn't notice the hole either. He ran the water for almost 15 minutes to make sure it drained. Oh it drained alright. Right under the tub, We didn't notice it until I was done scrubbing the tub with bleach. My poor hands were red from scrubbing.
So, my son ordered us a new tub, and tried to save the tile, but that didn't work, so we got new tile around the tub and drywall in the rest of the bathroom. Apparently a pipe broke at some point and the bottom of the vanity was warped. So that had to go also. The only thing we kept was the toilet. Not that I mind, I love it.
I teased my son about putting in just a shower. Now I wish we had. I haven't taken a bath in several years, so a walk in shower would have been so much nicer. Oh well, live and learn. - Oh, that's the title of the 4th book in the Family Affair series, I've been working on, or trying to at least. Aunt Beatrice Lulu isn't cooperating too well. I guess she's upset because Ethel is writing it and not her.
Everything's not about Beatrice Lulu after all. Of course you'd never convince her of that. Her sweet husband, Ed, doesn't help matters. He worships the ground she walks on. At least most of the time.
If you've read the three previous books, you'll know how much trouble Beatrice Lulu gets into, and usually drags Ethel and Lottie with her. Ethel especially, because Lottie is busy babysitting grandchildren. I guess Ethel will never learn either, because she goes along with Beatrice Lulu's crazy adventures.
All in the Family, Book 1 in the series, introduces Aunt Beatrice Lulu, even though the book isn't about her. Here's an excerpt:
Usually Callie
enjoyed dinner with her grandmother. The judge never ceased to amaze her. She
kept a busy schedule, yet still managed to keep house and entertain regularly.
Where or how she found the time to clean, cook, and bake was beyond Callie.
Lately, though, Gram had been getting on Callie’s case almost as bad as her
mother and sister about getting married.
She pulled into
Gram’s drive and groaned. Not only would she have to deal with her grandmother,
mother, and sister, Aunt Beatrice Lulu was here. Not her favorite person. She
eased out of the car. May as well face the music.
Callie’s
grandmother greeted her at the door. “How’s the new Police Chief?” Gram’s smile
beamed with pride. One thing she’d give Gram credit for, she was proud of her
children and grandchildren.
“I’m doing
well.” Callie hugged and kissed her. “How are you?”
“Ah, you know
how it is. Busy. Jim Landry thinks I should retire.”
“Maybe you
should. Take life easy. You’ve certainly earned it.” Callie suppressed a grin.
Truth be known, Jim Landry was sweet on Gram.
“And just what
would I do with my time?” Gram put her hands on her hips and frowned at Callie.
“You young people think everything is solved by retiring.”
“Well, you could
travel. Or you could spend more time with Jim.”
Gram waved her
hand, but Callie caught the blush on her cheeks before she turned away. “Posh.
What makes you think I need to spend more time with Jim?”
“Well you’re always telling me I should get
married. Maybe you should consider it.”
“I was married,
remember? And to a very good man. No way could I replace him. Get married, the
very idea.”
“Gramps has been
gone a long time, Gram. And Jim’s every bit as good. He’s sweet on you, you
know.”
Commotion from
the other room saved Gram from answering. Callie followed her grandmother into
the living room.
Aunt Beatrice
Lulu sat in the middle of the floor. Everyone stared open mouthed, looking
scared to speak.
“What in the
hell are you doing on the floor?” Gram covered her mouth to keep from laughing.
“Are you okay? Do I need to call 911?”
“No. You don’t
need to call 911. Help me up, for God’s sake.”
“What the hell
are you doing on the floor to begin with?”
“I fell. What
does it look like?” Aunt Beatrice Lulu took the hand Gram offered.
“I can see that.
But what happened?”
At that moment,
Aunt Beatrice Lulu spotted Callie. Oh boy, here it came. Her nasally voice
grated on Callie’s nerves. Okay, it wasn’t her fault, adenoids or something
caused it, but it was still annoying. Sometimes Callie thought her aunt exaggerated
it. Maybe she didn’t, but right now it sounded worse than usual, and Callie
wasn’t in the mood to listen to her, even if she sounded normal.
Why couldn’t
everyone just let her live her life? What made them think they could tell her
what to do? Aunt Beatrice Lulu wasn’t the only one. Oh no, Callie’s mother, her
sister, heck even Jim Landry weighed in on what she should do with her life or
what man she should meet. Everyone was always setting her up with blind dates.
Beatrice Lulu.
What kind of name was that anyway? And don’t anyone dare shorten it to Aunt Bea
or Aunt Beatrice. Oh, no. It had to be the whole name, or everyone would catch
what for.
Callie
remembered when she was little-she called her Aunt Bea once. Wasn’t that what
Opie Taylor on
Andy Griffith reruns called his aunt? Callie thought it was cute. Lord above,
you’d of thought she’d put a curse on her aunt or something. She thought she’d
never hear the end of it.
That woman
ranted and raved for almost an hour about how her name was Beatrice Lulu, not
Bea, not Beatrice. It was the name she was born with, the name she was
christened, and the name she’d die with. It’s the name she expected people to
use. Obviously she was proud of her name, but did she have to go on so? Callie
never made that mistake again. No, ma’am. From then on she used her whole name
and so did everyone else. All except Uncle Ed, that is.
Callie would
never forget when her aunt met Uncle Ed. She about fell out of her chair laughing.
Aunt Beatrice Lulu stood there staring at him like she wanted to bash him over
the head or something.
Uncle Ed is a
big man. Big--like six feet six or more.
Most people are overwhelmed by his height. A giant of a man, he towered over
everyone and his shoulders, lord above, they were almost as wide as the
doorway. And he had this loud, bellowing voice that vibrated off the walls and
back at you. His black curly hair fell in a curl on his forehead, and bushy
dark eyebrows sat above the roundest, darkest blue eyes Callie’d ever seen. His
straight nose, mustache, square jaw, and creases at the corner of his eyes, as
well as his tan, gave him a rugged appearance. Sexy. Ruggedly handsome. Magnum
PI or the Marlboro Man.
Aunt Beatrice
Lulu didn’t look impressed. Not that Uncle Ed noticed. He just walked right up
to her. “Well, aren’t you a pretty little thing?” he said. “Bet you got a
pretty name to match.”
Callie’d never
heard anyone refer to her aunt as pretty before. Or little. Nothing about her
aunt was little. Okay, she wasn’t huge, but suffice to say she had some added
bulk. Nothing Callie’d call pretty about her. Aunt Beatrice Lulu’s nose was too
big for her face, her lips too small, and her squinty dark brown, almost black
eyes looked beady at best. She pulled her mousy brown hair so tight into a bun
on top of her head-Callie swore it pulled every wrinkle out of her face. She
usually sat with her arms crossed over her ample bosom and resting on her
paunchy stomach. Nope, nothing pretty about her. Portly, but not pretty. Obviously,
Uncle Ed thought differently.
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As the second youngest of six children, I always had a vivid imagination and loved to make up stories. I often sat and daydreamed about imaginary characters and lost myself in books and make-believe worlds.
My love of writing began as a teenager, but only recently pursued it seriously. With encouragement from fellow book-club members, NEORWA and my husband, I began writing and submitting my work.
Although Satin Sheets was my first published novel, I have over forty articles and stories published in magazines such as Good Old Days, Nostalgia, and Ohio Writer along with several online publications.
Besides teaching three writing courses for Long Story School of Writing, I taught a writing course at Cuyahoga Community College.
In my spare time, I enjoys spending time with my six children, fourteen grandchildren and great grandchildren. My hobbies include ceramics, knitting, quilting, and jewelry making. But after my family, my first love is writing. I reside with my husband of forty-eight years in Northeast Ohio. You can visit my website at: http://www.roseannedowell.com
Saturday, June 1, 2019
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Friday, May 31, 2019
Priscilla Brown considers carrots and cliffs
Men are off Cristina's essentials list during her working holiday at a luxury Caribbean resort.
But can the resort's zany charmer of a pilot break through her defences?
Carrots have received many mentions in literature. Grimm wrote a fairytale The Carrot King; Shakespeare mentioned them in several plays; Edward Lear in a limerick rhymed about a purchase of two parrots fed on carrots (the parrots who frequent my garden turned up their beaks at shredded carrot).
Real carrots for me are just another vegetable, arranged on a dinner plate or shredded onto salad, their colour cheering up the conglomeration of all that green stuff. Perhaps, like me, as a child you were told to "eat your vegies". If you did, something nice may come your way; if you threw a tantrum, you were sent to bed early. The old carrot and stick idiom.
Fiction writers use carrots as turn-the-page bait. A character wants something that's out of reach, but if s/he accepts the dangled "carrot", for example, adjusting behaviour, overcoming a challenge, telling the truth, the desired outcome may be attainable. We want the reader to worry about the character; will s/he get this elusive something, and if not, what will happen? Tension, conflict, suspense.
In One Thousand and One Nights, each night Scheherazade tells the king a story. Leaving it incomplete, she promises to finish it the following night, so that he, keen to hear the endings, abandons his plan to kill her. Carrots save her life.
Cliffhangers are similar to
carrots in that they encourage readers to continue with the story, eager
to know what happens next. Writers use a chapter or scene with a
dramatic climactic ending to raise the stakes for the characters: a
question or situation unresolved, a physical threat or sense of
foreboding or urgency, distressing information...scenarios which leave
the reader in suspense.
In Where the Heart Is, the cliffhanger is almost literal. After an evening of sexy dancing, the protagonists are perched on a dangerous cliff top. She badly wants to sleep with him, but won't until he reveals a secret she believes he's holding. He wants to sleep with her but won't because he's afraid of falling in love and she must return to her home country. The chapter ends with just three words from him, words which devastate her.
Enjoy the carrots and cliffs in your reading! Priscilla
Thursday, May 30, 2019
They say an army travels on its stomach. So do tourists. Margaret Hanna
Traveling
to a foreign country entails learning about the culture, and culture involves
food. What a feast for the senses!
Mexico: The best place to find food is in the market.
Sounds, sights and smells assault you at the entrance. You enter, dazed and
confused at what at first seems like a maze of stalls and people and “stuff.”
Take heart. The adventure awaits.
The
pineapple vendor selling thick, juicy, sweet slices for pennies apiece. I
bought one. Juice ran down my chin as I ate it. It was so good I had to have
another. And another.
The lady
selling blue corn tortillas. She patiently sorted through her stock to find
ones without any holes. If you have never eaten a blue corn tortilla, well, you
don’t know what you’re missing. They are so flavourful and aromatic, not at all
like the packaged tortillas you buy at the supermarket.
The fruit
vendor had piles of large green “things” I had never seen before. I asked my
friend, “Is that a squash?” “No, that’s a papaya!” (That was in 1987, before
such exotic fruit appeared in Saskatchewan supermarkets.) What a taste treat I
was in for. I think I ate half the papaya myself.
The mole
vendor (“mole” is a paste that you make into a sauce). Red, green and black
mole, ready to serve over chicken, enchiladas, fish, chilis rellenos, or
whatever else. Eat your heart out, ketchup.
Some
places, like the meat market, are not for the faint of heart. Sides of beef or
pork and freshly killed chickens with feathers, heads and feet still attached
hang in conditions that would give a Canadian food inspector a heart attack.
But you know that the meat you cook for supper was freshly killed that morning.
France: Just around the corner from our little hotel
was a little plaza with an open-air market. Fresh fruit and vegetables, good
cheeses, crunchy bread and bottles of unlabeled but extremely drinkable red
table wine, all relatively inexpensive. We often created our lunches from these
vendors.
We saw open-air
markets everywhere. Some operated every day, some only once a week. But
everything was fresh. Tomatoes smelled like tomatoes; peppers like peppers.
And the
bakeries. Oh my! The smell of freshly baked bread, the CRUNCH of a buttery
croissant that disintegrated into a thousand delectable crumbs, exquisitely
decorated petit-fours – how could one resist? Calories? Who’s counting?
Indonesia: An array of vegetables and fruits we had
never seen before. Alas, we spoke little Bahasa Indonesian; they spoke even
less English. We never did learn the names; that did not lessen their taste. Or
our enjoyment.
Ah, but
coffee! Powdered, not ground. Throw a handful or two thrown into a pot, pour
boiling water over. Let steep. Inhale the aroma. Drink. Hot, black and strong,
but never bitter. We have yet to find coffee that good anywhere else.
Newfoundland and Labrador: A food and cultural experience of
a different sort. We were traveling through Labrador with our truck and camper,
and arrived via overnight ferry at a small outport. We needed to restock our
fridge so we headed to the nearest grocery store. What a shock! There was
nothing fresh, only ancient vegetables and fruit – wizened apples, black and
shriveled cabbage, – and frozen meat encased in layers of frost. It brought to
mind the limited stocks we had grown up with in our small prairie town
groceries stores – one variety of apples (usually Macintosh), cabbage, head
lettuce (who knew it was called “Iceberg”?), onions, potatoes, maybe turnips
and parsnips, and four wan tomatoes in a cardboard sleeve with a cellophane
window. And we thought this was just fine because we knew nothing else!
How spoiled
we have become, with access to almost every variety of food in our grocery
stores, even if it wasn’t picked just yesterday.
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My grandmother, Addie, wasn’t sure
what she would find the first time she went to Mr. Haddad’s store in Meyronne,
for everything had to be freighted in, a two-day wagon trip if coming from
Morse or three days from Moose Jaw. As you can imagine, there was little that
was fresh. Here’s what she saw (from Chapter 7 of “Our Bull’s Loose in Town!” Tales from the Homestead):
“I knew better than to expect
shopping like in Toronto or even Dundalk; even so, my heart dropped when I saw
the Meyronne store. A false front wooden building with a sign on the front that
said, “General Store,” plopped out there in the bald prairie, no side-walk, no
street, not even a hitching rail for the horses, just trails leading off in all
directions.
We walked into the store and when my
eyes adjusted to the dimness, I was quite surprised at what I saw. Oatmeal,
flour, sugar, salt, tea, dried beans and peas, dry mustard, some canned goods –
I remember canned sardines particularly, – crackers, pails of lard, and some
dried apples, although they looked as if they had arrived last century. A
barrel of pickles and another barrel of salt pork sat in a corner. One shelf
held tin plates and cups, lamp chimneys and wicks, saucepans, frying pans and
matches. Underneath were pails, kegs of nails and bottles of kerosene. Behind
the counter, there were shelves of lye soap, liniment, Perry Davis Pain Killer
and Dr. Thomas Eclectic Oil.”
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