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My daughter is now 2yrs old and has been on an ng tube sinve Sept. 20th, 2009.
Does anyone have any advice on whether a ngtube ot gtube is better? We love that our ngtube is low maintenance compared to the gtube that our friends nb baby has. Theirs falls out all the time and they have to take their child to the er to get it fixed. EVERYTIME!!She has started eating some baby food by mouth HOWEVER none of the gi doctors that we have seen since the feeding tube was placed can expian to use WHY our daughter was put on a feeding tube in the first place, nor will they take the "liability" of taking her off the feeding tube. They do not wish for me to start giving her solid foods however they REFUSE to do another swallow study. So I have started her on baby food and she is doing fine on them. We have only known people with BAD experiances with the gtubs(all kinds). Also my daughter has already had 3 brain surgueries done within the past 6 months and doing another surgery just doesnt seem like a good idea to me for a while. (It would be small surgery for a normal child but for her would be very major)
If anyone has any input please let me know as we are scheduled to see a NEW GI doctor at childrens on JAN. 17th 2011 so I would appreciate any input before then. THanks
Why does your DD have a NG? Was she aspirating? What did the results of her last swallow study show? I have never heard of a child having an NG tube long term. In fact, our local hospital doesn't discharge with the NG. But as long as its working for you, that is great:) My DS has a G/J tube so if it does fall out (it did once) we have to have it replaced via interventional radiology. If a child has a Mic-Key Button G Tube, the parents can replace them on their own. We have been very fortunate that my son has had no issue with his stoma. His doctors always tell me that he has the best looking stoma site that they have ever seen. I guess that is a big benefit of the NG - no surgery/recovery required. If the NG is working for you and you like it, I would keep it rather than doing a surgery.
Could you ask your pediatrician to order a swallow study? Thats what we have done and she has written up orders for it to be done with a private practice speech pathologist that does swallow studies at our local hospital. I would think it would be wise to do one to ensure its okay for your daughter to eat by mouth.
I hope you find good answers and a plan for your DD:) Best wishes.
She NEVER had a swallow study before they put in the ng tube. Our er here is the WORST. They even put her on a ventilator at the same time and they didn't know what was wrong with her and her o2 level was staying at 100% and went down to 98% at the lowest. After that disaster I ALWAYS take her to Inova fairfax hospital. I made them transfer her there at that time and when we went to fairfax hospital noone understood why she had a feeding tube and ventilator placed at our hospital. The ventilator was removed immediatly but the refused to remove the feeding since they didnt no why she had one and they didsn't want the liability if anything happened. We went back to fairfax er about a month later and my daughter was having increased seizures that were starting to affect her daily routine. At that time they decided to do a swallow study(Meanwhile she was having multiple seizures an hour and continued to haver them during the swallow study). That was the only swallow that has been done. At that time it showed that she was having jerking movements during feedings(thats what her seizures look like) and they said that that was a big concern. And they decided to leave the feeding tube in. We started to see outpatient a gi doctor from the Inova Fairfax hospital who is horrible worst doctor I have ever had. He NEVER answered any questions, wanted to put my baby on a $60 per can hypoallergenic formula(when my baby has never had any allergies), and never been a very good doctor for us. We have FINALLY been able to make an appt with a GI doctor from Childrens Hospital which we will see in about 2 wks. I am hoping that they will be nicer there and answer some questions. ALL of my baby specialists are from Childrens and they are all wonderful.
My DDs had a g-tube placed at 4.5 months. We switched from the tube to a Mic Key button 1 month post op. If the button comes out (which it has), we put it back in ourselves. We do not go to the hospital. I prefer the button. Long term NGs can cause degradation of the nasal tissue passages. Frequent insertions can lead to oral aversions. With the button, you know it is in place. You can also put thicker feeds through the button since it is bigger. We do a blenderized diet with real foods (no formula) and it has worked well for our DD.
Is your child still seizing as much? If not, then I think another swallow study is warranted. If so, I can understand why docs want to keep a tube in place. They may not want to expose your child to more raditaion for a failed study.
I would say talk to the new GI and have him/her review all the medical records. I would not do a g-tube unless you were looking at long term use.
Goodness! I hope you can find a doctor who will explain things to you better :( I think the ng/gtube each have their merits and specific reasons for use. If your dd is going to need long term feeding assistance, a g-tube might be a better solution, but yes, it is a surgery! So, as pp have said, if this isn't a long-term issue the ng might be best.
I had no experience with g-tube then got a foster babe with one. I learned quickly! And within about a week of having her the Mic-key button came out, I raced to the ER in a panic. I didn't have an 'extra' and they didn't have any there that were tiny enough, so they had to use a foley cath in the stoma until the next day when they were able to locate a tiny one. We got an extra, they showed me what to do, and after that, whenever it came out, we just popped it back in ourselves--no problem! She took nothing by mouth due to a super tight Nissan procedure to keep her from aspirating, but the g-tube worked well and was very easy to use.
Good luck at your appointment on the 17th!
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I much prefer the G tube over the NG. Your friends that have to go to the ER to have them replaced need to give it a try themselves. It's really not hard at all. It's actually easier IMO than replacing an NG.
My DD had an NG tube for about a year and a half and then we gave up and switched to the g-tube. I love the g-tube SO.MUCH.MORE.
NG-tube is great for short-term use, but if long-term tube-feeding is in store, I say the g-tube surgery is worth it. Just my opinion.
I hope you get good answers from the folks at Children's. It would be great for you as a parent to understand the reasons why your child is being tube-fed, and to know whether oral eating is in the near future or a long-term goal... best of luck!
I much prefer the G-tube (or even GJ-tube actually) over a NG tube.
And I've actually never heard of anyone having a NG for that long before, here it's only used for short term (we're talking months here).
And I wouldn't use a NG for long term, I'd go with a G then, but that's me.
It's not hard to put a G-tube back in, at all. Really, my 7 yo. can do it on herself.
My DDs had a g-tube placed at 4.5 months. We switched from the tube to a Mic Key button 1 month post op. If the button comes out (which it has), we put it back in ourselves. We do not go to the hospital. I prefer the button. Long term NGs can cause degradation of the nasal tissue passages. Frequent insertions can lead to oral aversions. With the button, you know it is in place. You can also put thicker feeds through the button since it is bigger. We do a blenderized diet with real foods (no formula) and it has worked well for our DD.
Is your child still seizing as much? If not, then I think another swallow study is warranted. If so, I can understand why docs want to keep a tube in place. They may not want to expose your child to more raditaion for a failed study.
I would say talk to the new GI and have him/her review all the medical records. I would not do a g-tube unless you were looking at long term use.
I don't mean to hi-jack the thread, but I have been wondering about making your own foods for the g-tube.
My dd just turned 6 and has problems gaining and maintaining weight because she has Cystic Fibrosis. Her Dr's have discussed placing a g-tube before. If we do it I would much rather be able to do our own diet rather than the prepared formula. Would you mind pm'ing me with some info about the diet you do?
we blended food for a while. We got a vita mix and had a log of how many calories, protein, fat, etc he needed. Then I found foods and put them in the vitamix until he met those requirements, added water and blended. It took about an hour a day but wasn't too difficult, just a little labor intensive. For whatever reason, my son never gained weight on it despite putting plenty of butter and oils and such in it, so we eventually switched to complete pediatric which is a canned formula that is made from real food. He had issues with that too and eventually got put on an elemental formula and that's what he's on to this day.
We have a Vita-Mix and make DD's formula daily. It works quite well for us and for her.
We usually make a batch each night (about 48- 56 oz) and store it in a big huge glass jar in the fridge. She's on bolus feeds so we just pour out what we need for each feeding (about 8 -16 oz). It lasts about 24 - 30 hours and then we make more. We also have cans of compleat pediatric formula in case we are traveling or run out of homemade formula and don't have time to make more.
Our formula-making process is pretty low-maintenance because we're only making a daily batch that is kept cold and gets used up before any bacteria can grow. We just throw in what we think is a full day's worth of food for a 3 year old and whizz it up. For example, we might throw the following things into the mixer: some cereal, soymilk, berries (breakfast) + banana (morning snack) + can of soup, lettuce, tomato, dressing (lunch) + carrots, bell pepper slices, cheese slices, ranch dip (afternoon snack), spaghetti w/ meat sauce, green beans (dinner). We also add a bit of prune juice, more soymilk or rice milk or cow's milk or whatever, and lots of fruit juice. We slowly dial it up to high speed and let it run for a while (like, 5-7 minutes) so it all gets really really pureed. We throw everything in there (except bones!) and feed her whatever we're eating for meals. We do have to be careful not to let the mixture get too thick (beans, bananas, rice, pasta all make it pretty thick) or the Vita-Mix will seize up (and the formula won't push through the tube anyway). If that happens, we just split the mixture into two batches and thin it with liquid (and give her a bigger bolus since the formula is diluted).
She is slowly gaining weight. We could probably beef it up by adding more oil to the formula. Or using cow's or goat's milk more often (but that makes DD snotty, so we tend to avoid it).
I think a Vita-Mix or BlendTec is essential. Regular blenders will burn out right away.
g-tube over ng tube any day BUT mic key button is the BEST of all
good luck Momma
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no dude, the AMT mini-one button is WAY better than the mic-key IMO. But I prefer any kind of long tube instead of a button if you're using it a majority of the day. The extensions are annoying to deal with if the kid is just going to be hooked up all the time. We've had Mic-key long tubes, mic-key buttons, mic-key GJ long and button, depezzer tube, foley, bard straight tube, AMT mini-one, and a chait button (appendicostomy).
-The mic-key button annoyed the heck out of me and broke all the time.
-The mic-key long tube was very nice (but again, if we weren't using his tube all the time it probably would have been annoying because of the length) and since it doesn't have the same things the button does, mainly the anti reflux valve, it doesn't break nearly as often.
-The AMT mini one is much less bulky than the mic-key button and has held up much much better. I think we've had the same AMT button for 5 months now and it shows no signs of wear or anything. The AMT extensions are a much higher quality too and don't kink as much.
-The depezzer tube is annoying, doesn't have a cap, and is prone to cracking after a few weeks.
-The bard straight tube does not have any kind of anchor (this is what we use for L's J tube) so it has to be taped in. It's kind of annoying to have to always do tape changes, but it's much better than the risks of the roux-en-y surgery (you can use a balloon or non balloon button after that one). The only real weakness we've found is where the port head connects to the tubing, if the tube gets pulled and/or twisted often it begins to leak. It's the easiest tube to change because it doesn't have any kind of ridge like a tube with a balloon, so it slides right in easily.
-The foley's are okay but they also have to be taped in. They do have a balloon to hold them in place to a degree, but have to be taped. They just don't seem to be designed for long term use and we have had issues with balloons popping rather quickly. I think they lasted about 1 month max.
-The chait is fine, very low profile. It doesn't have a balloon, instead it has a coil inside that holds it in place. It's made specifically for the colon, so I don't know that it could be used anywhere else. The cap is very tight so it can be hard to open and close (not to mention that poo is often squirting out at you when you're trying to shut it, so that could contribute to that issue, lol!).
-The mic-key GJ long tube drives me batty. We went through about 1 a month because they would crack where the port head met the tubing. Kimberly Clark said that it wasn't their tube that was an issue but it was from high gastric pressure. In retrospect, this may be possible (at first I thought they were full of crap) because his stoma was not in the correct place and so the G portion was actually in the duodenum. I don't know if that could have caused the cracking or not, but it was a very frustrating problem since it has to be placed in interventional radiology.
-Mic-key GJ button I hated. I think ours most often lasted about 2 weeks. They tended to spin and displace the J portion of the tube. He also had issues with his stoma because of the bulk of the button (since it has 3 ports it's really big). He would blow a lot of bile and junk out around the stem of the button and it just ate his stoma up.
So there's my very long winded summary on all the different tubes we've tried (we did trial an experimental tube too, the ELF but I don't remember much about it so I left it out). I'm very pleased with the AMT mini-one and the bard straight tube is fine and gets the job done and is easy to replace. I don't think we'll ever change brands of buttons and I think this is the only button style g-tube I'll use. If we had to switch back to mic-key for any reason, I'd go with the long tube.
I loved the AMT mini button too! We used it before we got the GJ, and as a gtube, it's excellent, much better than mic-key imo.
But it doesn't have a J, or at least not here yet.
@MotherWhimsey, do AMT mini make GJ balloon buttons in the US yet? (If you know.)
That's my dream.
For now, Mic-key is the only available GJ balloon button here, and I don't like the long GJ's at all, I want the button and balloon. But we haven't had troubles with the mic-key GJ balloon button either. It's just that I prefer the AMT's.
But for a plain gtube, I'd go with the AMT mini balloon button for sure, as I said, we loved it.
I also much prefer the AMT mini one to the Mic-Key, and I definitely prefer a g to an NG.
I agree with the G being much better than the NG. We've only done the PEG tube and Mic-Key so I can't really speak to preference of types.
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Some more changes are coming to the Route 615-Route 2 interchange in Mentor in an effort to ease traffic flow.
City officials are seeking several modifications in the area after observing some alignment issues after work completed for the Ohio Department of Transportation's ongoing Route 2 lane addition and modernization project.
City Manager Ken Filipiak announced this week that ODOT has agreed to make the changes at no cost to the city.
Modifications will include:
-- Widening Route 615 northbound in front of Classic Chevrolet.
-- Installing lighting under the Route 2 bridge to improve visibility for motorists and pedestrians.
-- Posting lane designation signs on the bridge for northbound and southbound traffic.
"These were added to provide more positive guidance for motorists that are traveling through this area," said Amanda Lee, ODOT public information officer.
The road widening will resolve an awkward shift in the road for northbound traffic.
"This will eliminate the need for through traffic to keep right or change lanes," Mentor Engineer Dave Swiger said.
"It will also better align the existing northbound curb lane with the newly constructed pavement."
The lighting was omitted from the original plans, Lee said. Swiger said improving the visibility of lanes under the bridge will be of particular benefit in poor weather conditions.
The work is to take place this spring and be completed by July, Lee said, adding that ODOT is awaiting an official schedule from the contractor, as well as cost estimates.
The city will re-evaluate the 35 mph speed limit at the location after the modifications are made, Swiger said.
"At that time, it will be determined whether the speed limit will be officially changed to match the advisory speed of 25 mph posted during construction," he said.
About 35,000 vehicles travel the area daily.


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My face is in need of exfoliation.I used lotion on my face and it seems to have dried and almost created a 'second skin.' The dermatologist told me to use a 10% Neostrata AHA soothing cream, but it didn't help at all in removing the barrier. I have brown skin and I dont want to do a chemical peel for cosmetic purposes as i know there are complications, just to remove the barrier on my face.is there a REALY light peel that can help? Will like 5 or 10% salicylic acid peel be strong enough? Safe?
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Diagnose your problem before you get a chemical peel!
It seems unlikely that a reaction to lotion left a "second skin" coating on your face. You may actually have a skin condition, such as seborrheic dermatitis, that should be diagnosed and treated before you get a procedure such as a chemical peel. A chemical peel should not be done on skin with an active dermatitis or rash.
Peels for rejuvenation of skin
The concept of a lotion drying on your face to create a second skin is thankfully not a great concern. The skin is an amazing organ, and can withstand a lot of insults. If you feel that your facial skin is thickened or coated, then peels can help. There is no reason to be concerned about peels; if done properly and for the proper purpose, they are very safe and can rejuvenate your skin beautifully, without anyone being the wiser. Jessner's, glycolic and salicylic acid peels are commonly done by aestheticians, while TCA, in my opinion, should be performed only by physicians.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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Top 20 Songs: Week of July 7-13, 2013
Pop Evil have had a taste of the top and they're not ready to relinquish the No. 1 spot just yet. For a second straight week, 'Trenches' is the chart-topper on the Loudwire Radio Top 20 Countdown. But they could have some serious competition when it comes to earning a third week.
That's because the new Stone Temple Pilots track 'Out of Time' is knocking on the door, rising from No. 3 to No. 2 this week. Also, Deftones make a major jump inside the Top 10, as 'Swerve City' rises from No. 6 to No. 3. The other two spots in the Top 5 — Five Finger Death Punch's 'Lift Me Up' and Nine Inch Nails' 'Came Back Haunted' — remain in holding patterns at No. 4 and No. 5, respectively.
The one song that dropped out of the Top 5 — Alice in Chains' 'Stone' — is this week's biggest dropper, falling all the way from No. 2 to No. 7. But don't feel too bad for 'Stone,' as it had a steady run at No. 1 for a number of weeks.
Elsewhere on the countdown, there are two new debuts. Filter's 'What Do You Say' and Soundgarden's 'Halfway There' arrive back-to-back, claiming the No. 19 and No. 20 spots on the chart. Their arrival means it's time to say goodbye to Device's 'Vilify' and Black Sabbath's 'God Is Dead?'
Check out the full list of top 20 songs of this week's countdown below and be sure to tune in and crank it up to rock out to Loudwire Radio this weekend. To find out where you can hear the countdown, click on the red button below.
Loudwire Radio Top 20 Songs of the Week:
20. Soundgarden, 'Halfway There'
19. Filter, 'What Do You Say'
18. Heaven's Basement, 'Fire, Fire'
17. Three Days Grace, 'Misery Loves Company'
16. Halestorm, 'Here's to Us'
15. All That Remains, 'Asking Too Much'
14. P.O.D., 'Beautiful'
13. Shinedown, 'I'll Follow You'
12. Stone Sour, 'Do Me a Favor'
11. Sick Puppies, 'There's No Going Back'
10. Imagine Dragons, 'Radioactive'
9. Volbeat, 'Hangman's Bodycount'
8. Skillet, 'Sick of It'
7. Alice in Chains, 'Stone'
6. Beware of Darkness, 'Howl'
5. Nine Inch Nails, 'Came Back Haunted'
4. Five Finger Death Punch, 'Lift Me Up'
3. Deftones, 'Swerve City'
2. Stone Temple Pilots, 'Out of Time'
1. Pop Evil, 'Trenches'


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Lots of changes listed in the linked article, these are just the ones that jumped at me.
What I like:
- Increased the locking distance for Jets when locking on laser designated targets.
- Tank rounds will now instantly destroy Jets, Attack Helicopters, and Scout Helicopters.
- Using flares too early will no longer distract missiles fired at long range. The missile must be approaching the vehicle in order to reliably be distracted by flares.
- Reduced the direct damage done by helicopter gunners vs armor.
- Significantly increased the damage of Laser Guided Top Attack missiles.
- Slightly reduced the repair speed of the repair tool.
- Fixed a problem when locking on to two nearby targets, the locking should no longer jump rapidly between multiple targets.
- Slightly reduced the effective blast radius of the RPG and SMAW projectiles against infantry.
Increased the spawn protection time from 1sec to 2sec. The protection will still be immediately canceled as soon as the player moves or shoots.
No a fan:
- Reduced the total number of RPG and SMAW missiles carried from 5 to 4.


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A new version of the British citizenship test that includes questions on everything from Robert Burns to Monty Python has been condemned by a Scottish charity that helps asylum seekers.
From today, migrants will have to study for a new test that places a greater emphasis on British culture rather than practical aspects of life.
The Scottish Refugee Council said the changes would make the test much harder for refugees to pass, and called for the whole process to be reformed. The test, which is to take place at five centres in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Inverness, Aberdeen and Dundee, was introduced in 2007 and every migrant applying for citizenship must sit it. Candidates are given a handbook to help them pass, and must score at least 75%.
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The test and the handbook have been rewritten, removing questions on job interviews and public transport and replacing them with questions about British culture, history and values. New questions include "who is the patron saint of Scotland?" and "which admiral has a monument in Trafalgar Square?" Immigration Minister Mark Harper said changing the test and handbook was part of an attempt to ensure migrants are able to integrate into British society. The test will be introduced in March and the new handbook is available from today.
"The new book rightly focuses on values and principles at the heart of being British," said Mr Harper. "Instead of telling people how to claim benefits, it encourages participation in British life."
But a spokesman for the Scottish Refugee Council said the new test would make it harder for refugees to pass.
He said: "We did research with refugees on their views on citizenship, and it's clear that rather than this one view of what citizenship is, people think of it in different ways. Some of them are drawn to the idea of being a citizen of Britain but for others it's about getting out of a difficult situation. The process does not reflect this, and we've asked the Government to review it."
The council also believes the test does not reflect the different educational backgrounds of the migrants and that the changes will raise the barriers.
"This is not a direction we would go in," said the spokesman. "The minister says they have stripped out mundane information but we would say if you're a refugee you need mundane information; you're thinking about a new life. For the majority of refugees, it's about finding safety and security. The whole process has to be changed, not just the test."
Last year, 6414 tests, called Life in the UK, were sat in Scotland; 151,139 were sat nationally.
The new test will include questions on Shakespeare and Burns, Isaac Newton, Alexander Fleming and Churchill.
But it will also reflect modern popular culture.
The Government says the reforms are part of its attempts to reduce net migration to sustainable levels.


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SUPERMARKET bosses will hold a second public exhibition over plans for a controversial store next week.
Up to 13,000 residents in the Bishop's Waltham area have received a brochure detailing revised proposals for the store on the Abbey Mill site.
Sainsbury's bosses have also announced that a planning application will be submitted before the end of this month with building work starting as soon as September if the green light is given by council chiefs.
A number of changes have been made to the original plans submitted last year, including a new landscaped area between the store and South Pond, improved pedestrian linkage with St George's Square and a new design to allow the building to blend into the landscape of the historic market town.
Max Whitehand, Sainsbury's regional development executive, said: "We have listened to the community and have greatly improved our scheme, with significant additional investment proposed for the public realm, the design and materials proposed for the store and increased landscaping.
"In redesigning the building, we have pushed the limits of supermarket design. The result is a store that will be unique to Bishop's Waltham and will attract shoppers into the town to enjoy all its facilities.
"While we recognise that there is significant objection to our plans, we know that there is also significant support from within the community for bringing greater main food shopping choice closer to home."
The Bishop's Waltham Action Group, which was set up to oppose the plans, told the Hampshire Chronicle that residents should have been given more notice about the public exhibition.
Chairman, Tony Kippenberg, said: "They have known that they were going to hold this consultation next Tuesday since the end of May and, up until today (Thursday), they have failed to tell a single resident in Bishop's Waltham about it which I think is appalling given that it's our parish council that insisted they have it."
As part of the planning application, Sainsbury's bosses have agreed to help finance a £1.6m relocation of Bishop's Waltham Surgery to the Abbey Mill site if the supermarket is built.
The news follows Britain's Got Talent judge and former Bishop's Waltham resident, Amanda Holden, venting her anger over the controversial plans when she opened the town's carnival last weekend.
The former Swanmore School pupil has vowed to help those trying to stop the building of the new store.
The public exhibition will be held at Jubilee Hall, Little Shore Lane, Bishop's Waltham, next Tuesday, June 22, from 10am to 7pm.
Members of the Sainsbury's team will be there to discuss the plans and answer questions.
For more information, ring the Sainsbury's community information line on 0845 602 1151 or e-mail bwactiongroup.org.uk.


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It would be more than 14 months before bombings at U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania would explode across the conscience of a nation, and the world. And it would be more than four years before the perfect blue sky of a September morning would be rent by pillars of smoke rising from toppled towers in New York, from a charred building on the banks of the Potomac, and from a Pennsylvania field. With the horrific, irrefutable reminder that averting our eyes was no longer an option. And as Albright has acknowledged of late, there remain new lessons to be learned, as well.
Note to myself: Learn more about Islam
When former Secretary of State Albright was sitting down to write her memoirs, she found that she had scribbled in the margins of official minutes, or in notes that she had taken herself during meetings, a personal reminder: "Learn more about Islam."
In the years since she left office as secretary of state in 2001, learning more about Islam, and understanding the role of religion in international relations, is one of the tasks Albright has set for herself. A fruit of that labor is the volume The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs. Albright was in Santa Clara recently to address The Commonwealth Club / Silicon Valley, and during her visit, I had the chance to sit down with her to talk about politics and religion, Tomáš Masaryk and Nikita Khrushchev, and dumplings and stewed cabbage. (As for the last pairing: she is, after all, Czech.)
Her Czech birth also means that, while representing the United States of America as ambassador to the United Nations during the first Clinton administration, or as its diplomat-in-chief during Clinton's second term, she informed reporters, "Munich is my mindset." Munich has been invoked incessantly in American foreign policy since the end of World War II, generally as a synonym for "appeasement," and as a reminder of the dangers of showing weakness in the face of aggression. Though for Czechs, there's a little more to it than that. They weren't the ones who signed the pact; that was the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Germany.
"How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is," Neville Chamberlain said in 1938, "that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing." Chamberlain was, of course, speaking of Germany, Czechoslovakia, and the "quarrel" over the Sudetenland—about as far from London as New York is from Chicago, and the consequences would soon enough include the dismemberment of the 20-year-old nation of Czechoslovakia.
Reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic, and religion
Albright makes the case that a secretary of state has economic advisors; no one would argue the merits of understanding how the drumbeat of jobs and trade set the rhythm of the diplomatic dance. In addition to understanding that it's the economy, stupid, she has called for diplomats to receive better training in understanding religion, and for diplomats to have religious advisors.
After his career in the Czechoslovak diplomatic service, Albright's father, Josef Korbel, taught at a Jesuit university, the University of Denver, where he founded the university Graduate School of International Studies—and counted among his students a one-time music major and aspiring concert pianist named Condoleezza Rice. Madeleine Albright teaches at a Jesuit university, as well. But we don't wait until graduate school to begin teaching civics. So in addition to talking about needing to reform the training of diplomats and bureaucrats, in terms of understanding religion, I asked how Albright would say the education system reaching further down needs to be affected.
"I teach at Georgetown," she says. "There is a lot of religious education, and more people major in religion and study religion, even if they are in the school of foreign service. But there needs to be much more study of religion. The question is how to do that without making it seem to end the separation [between church and state]. And I think that it needs to happen in high school. We need to broaden the basis of what we study so that we have a better understanding of religion."
Which sounds very straightforward. But I took us back to the notion she's raised of having religious advisors. Especially under the current Bush administration, one can't help but wonder that there would be fairly widespread suspicion that ramping up the role of religion in informing diplomatic work is in fact an attempt to give foreign policy an ideological seal of approval by the Christian Right.
"I imagine there would be that suspicion," Albright acknowledges. But she is quick to remind that religious tolerance is a concern of the Right and the Left, and that while Clinton was in office, Congress created a commission to address issues of tolerance. "President Clinton sent Archbishop Theodore McCarrick and Rabbi [Arthur] Schneier and Donald Argue, a Protestant, to China," she said. "I had a religious advisor, Ambassador Bob Seiple"—who was the first American ambassador-at-large for religious freedom. "What has to be made clear is that this is not a derogation of separation of church and state."
Albright takes the Bush administration to task for going, as she says, "over the top" when it comes to invoking God as a "validator" for the actions of the United States on the world stage. She notes that the president's invocation of God is far from an anomaly; every one of his predecessors has invoked the Almighty. "There is a difference, however," she says, "in the way that God is part of what is happening at this stage in American history.… If we think that God is on our side, then anybody who disagrees with us is picking a fight with God…. That has influenced some things that are going on in world today."
In terms of her prescription for American diplomacy, to her Santa Clara audience she offered this passage from The Mighty and the Almighty:
Albright sets out to make four basic points in her latest book. First, and most important: "The United States needs to have a moral foreign policy," she told her Santa Clara audience. "We are a country that stands for a lot of things, including the fact that we are for diversity, we are for tolerance, a nation of immigrants, with a real sense of purpose." But how well does idealism jibe with realpolitik? "I always have found that kind of a phony division," she said, "because you have to do both. On any given day, I call myself either a 'realistic idealist' or an 'idealistic realist.' I do believe in a moral foreign policy but not a moralistic foreign policy. The difference is: moral is when you know your own values and you live by them; moralistic is when you go around lecturing everybody else."
Second, acknowledging the quality of the atmosphere in the capital these days—"toxic," said Albright—she has sought "issues on which Right and Left can work together." And in that work, the longtime advisor to Democrats has found an unlikely ally: Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas, a conservative Republican. Last November, the pair co-hosted a conference in Washington on "Bipartisan Action on Human Rights," with panel discussions on stopping genocide, protecting religious liberty, helping refugees and the displaced, and putting an end to human trafficking.
Third, Albright is quick to dismiss scholar Samuel Huntington's oft-cited argument that we are involved in a clash of civilizations. "I don't believe that," she said. "I do believe, however, that there is a battle of ideas going on…very serious questions that need answers—questions about justice and poverty and how we relate to each other, and how God is involved in our lives. Osama bin Laden and his ilk are terrible people, and if there is evil, they are evil; the purpose of trying to destroy innocent people is horrifying to us all. But they would be totally irrelevant if they were not in effect addressing some of those issues that need discussion in the 21st century. We need to talk about where we stand in this battle of ideas, and instead of saying what we are against, we need to be clearer about what we are for."
And fourth, "In the end it's the individual that counts. Our group labels in many ways artificial and sometimes temporary. I use my own life as an example: I was raised Roman Catholic, married an Episcopalian, and found out I was Jewish…. As a result of choices my parents made, my life is quite different. I might have ended up going to a synagogue instead of a church. If the Communists hadn't come into Czechoslovakia and my father hadn't decided that he had to leave and seek political asylum in the United States, I wouldn't have been an American…. The truth is that you can change your group, it can be changed on your behalf. In many ways the group identifications are artificial. Things that don't change are the centrality of the individual. A lot of people, when I raise this, say: being for individual is a Western concept. But it's not. Every single one of the Abrahamic religions, as well as philosophies and various other writings I have read, have in some way respect for individual and some interpretation of what we know as the Golden Rule, which is to treat others as you would like to be treated yourself."
That rule comes into play when you ask Albright (as one audience member did in Santa Clara) about the apparently declining role that moderate or progressive religious leaders seem to play in steering debates about faith. "You always hear more about the extremists," she was quick to point out. "We have a tendency to judge what religious activity is according to those making the most extreme statements and to make generalizations out of that. And we have to be very careful.… We have certain images in our mind, and we don't know about the peaceful aspects of Islam. You can read through Koran or the Old and New Testament and find some pretty bloodcurdling parts in all of them. But you can also find common themes of love and justice and charity and peace. We need to understand that that is present in all the religions. We would not want Christianity to be judged by the KKK or Judaism to be judged by the man who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin. We should not judge Islam by some of the most extremist statements. What needs to happen is that the moderates in all the religions need to be more forward leaning and express themselves better."
That's not to say it's simply a matter of putting extreme statements in perspective. "We can't make the moderates in some other religions speak out and work on reforming their religion," Albright acknowledged. "That has to happen from within."
Jesus, not Caesar
The first time I met Albright in person, it was when she was visiting her homeland. At the time I was working with Masaryk University and conducting research on the first decade of post-communist development of the Czech nonprofit sector. It was March 2000, one year after NATO planes had begun an 11-week bombing campaign against Serbia in an attempt to put an end to the slaughter in Kosovo. After visiting Prague and meeting with Václav Havel, Albright traveled to the city of Brno, where Masaryk University presented her with an honorary degree and the Grand Gold Medal of the University. Named for the founder and first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the university hosted the ceremony in the law school's grand hall—a building which, under Nazi occupation, was transformed into a place of execution.
While religion wasn't front and center in Albright's remarks in Brno, militant Islam was arguably at the core of a concern she did raise before the assembled crowd: Iran's construction of a nuclear power plant at Bushehr. What did this have to do with the Czechs? Less than it had before her visit. To the relief of the United States, Czech President Havel had just pledged to cancel the sale of cooling duct parts for the reactor from a Czech company to Iran. While Iran had (and has) repeatedly said that it was interested in developing nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, the United States has long maintained that Iran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons. "To keep the best technology from falling into the wrong hands, American firms are required to forgo many potentially profitable contracts," Albright told her audience in Brno. "But a similar responsibility rests upon the shoulders of all who pledged to defend the best interests of the Euro-Atlantic community." Indeed, one year before—just weeks before the bombing of Serbia began—the Czechs had officially joined NATO.
Albright herself was assaulted in the foyer of the grand hall after her speech—by a couple of anarchists howling against "U.S. imperialism." They threw a few eggs, though her bodyguards, as well as the university rector—a big bear of a man named Jiří Zlatuška (who also happened to have invented the first Czech word processor and found the first school of informatics in the nation)—shielded his diminutive guest from some of the projectiles. Naturally, the egg-throwing incident earned international headlines; and in one of the great all-time highs of Web journalism, CNN.com even carried a click-through to a close-up photograph of a broken eggshell on the floor. For her part, Albright took it in stride. "It's no big problem," the Czech press quoted her as saying. "It happens that some people wash their hair with eggs."
After establishing the state of Czechoslovakia, Tomáš Masaryk expressed his vision for a "New Europe" as one no longer ruled by great powers. "Jesus, not Caesar," he wrote, "is the meaning of our history and democracy." His contemporary George Bernard Shaw opined that Masaryk "should be the first president of the United States of Europe," while more than 50 years after Masaryk's death, Václav Havel spoke of restoring his concept of politics based on morality. Albright cites Masaryk's humanist philosophy as playing a fundamental role in informing her father's ideas—and, in turn, her own ideas—about right and wrong, good and evil. She also cites Masaryk's admonition that "war is not the greatest evil. To live dishonestly, to be a slave, to enslave, many things are much worse." And Masaryk did not even live to see the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, the second World War, the mass arrests of Czech students and professors, or the Holocaust. He died in 1937.
One of the conversations I've had at various times with Czech sociologists is about the role of religion in their country. Prague is the city of a hundred spires, and every village lays claim to its church. Statues of Catholic Saint Jan Nepomuc, his head surrounded by a halo of stars, mark crossroads throughout the land. And the motto of the nation is that of religious reformer Jan Hus: "Truth prevails." But a few years back, surveys marked the Czechs as the most atheistic people in Europe. Certainly the legacy of the Hapsburg empire played a role in that; the Church was allied with authority that oppressed aspirations for Czech nationalism. Forty years of communism played a part, too. So when Albright was writing this book and spoke with Havel, I wondered whether they wound up talking about religion in a formal sense, or more about ethics in general, whether religious or not.
"First of all," Albright says, "I think the Czechs are very confused in their religion. Bohemia was seat of Holy Roman Empire. And clearly the majority of people were Catholic. Then Jan Hus, a precursor of Martin Luther, burned at the stake—was a great national hero." Indeed, even the Communists did their best to turn Hus into a proletarian figure. And those statues of Jan Nepomuc that dot the land were put there as part of a post-Hus campaign to give the Czechs a home-grown Catholic martyr in place of a religious dissident.
"The interesting thing is, to be a good Czech, you had to be pro-Jan Hus," Albright says, "which didn't get you very far in the Catholic church. So, confusion. Also, a lot of mixed people: Prague was a very cosmopolitan city, it has the oldest Jewish cemetery—a very interesting kind of mixture."
In Albright's 1983 volume Poland: The Role of the Press in Political Change, she chronicled the rise of solidarity in 1980-81—which came on the heels of the visit by Pope John Paul II to his homeland. Noting her understanding of the role religion had played in Poland, she says, "In the '80s, when I went to Prague at a certain stage, there were various elements of the clergy that were helping us.… There was kind of a revived interest in religion, though never to the extent of anything that happened in Poland. It was very interesting to see that religion did not play that big a role.
"When I had my discussions with Havel, they were not really done on a religious basis but more on an ethical basis. I asked him about it, and did he believe in God? The way he put it was that he believed in 'the great eye,' that really we were being watched in terms of moral and ethical behavior. But I think he was very surprised that I was writing this book.
"Most of the Czechs that I know that are inteligentsia are not particularly religious. My parents were not religious. I don't know whether you'd call them an 'atheistic' nation, but they just are not actively religious, in contrast to their neighbors. The Poles are very religious, and the Slovaks are more religious.
"The interesting part is to go back and read Masaryk. In the conversations with [Karel] Čapek, he has a whole section on religion and the role that religion is supposed to play. I love Masaryk for many reasons, especially for that combination of religion and humanism. He is probably, the more I read about him, more religious than I knew initially. But I think that humanistic approach that he takes to religion is very appropriate."
Mr. K and Armageddon
Madeleine Albright graduated from Wellesley College in the spring of 1959. It was just a few weeks before Vice President Richard Nixon traveled to Moscow and, in a General Electric-sponsored model home, famously engaged Soviet Premier Khrushchev in the impromptu "kitchen debate" on the comparative merits of capitalism and communism. In retrospect, one of the characteristics that defined Mr. K, as some American journalists at the time took delight in calling Khrushchev, was that he believed in the system he was trying to reform—and propagate. So, I asked Albright, what kind of impression did Khrushchev make on her?
"It's in looking back at Khrushchev that he seems like such an interesting figure," she says. And in her face I see Albright take stock of the past half century as she begins to answer, and to explain that what we know now is not what we knew then. "At time that I was in college, people saw him as this vulgar guy who was at the U.N. beating his shoe and doing a little dance—and somebody that was more transitional, in many ways. In retrospect one sees more clearly.… I spent more time looking at him when I went to do graduate work, because I was at the Russian Institute, and taking a great course from Brzezinski in '63—an amazing course, comparative communism, which was really groundbreaking, because mostly people thought of communism as monolithic. We began to look at the differences. And what Khrushchev had done with the secret speech [in 1956] was something that was very interesting.…
"When I was in college it was very diferent--because Stalin had just died in '53, I started college in '55. People were just unclear about what Khrushchev was up to."
During the Cuban missile crisis, it seemed that what Khrushchev was "up to" was bringing the world to the brink of nuclear Armageddon. Get Albright talking about the influence of the Christian Right in politics and policies and, after she lauds the uplifting messages of Joel Osteen and Rick Warren, she also credits Christian missionaries with being among the first Americans to work toward helping alleviate suffering caused by the civil war in Sudan. But queried by one Commonwealth Club questioner, she warned, "There is a negative aspect to those more in the apocalyptic school who really are looking for the end of the world. What has been interesting politically is that some of the members of the Christian Right have in fact formed alliances with some of the Jewish-American groups, because in the Bible there is sense that the land of Israel, that particular area, belongs to the Israelis. And also the theory that Messiah will not come until Temple of Solomon has been rebuilt. There is some kind of a political alliance. But even this is not new.
"At end of 19th century, American Christians and some of the more Christian motivated groups had united with Zionists in order to talk about the need for a home for the Jews. The part that is worrisome in terms of policy is, if you really believe it would be better if the end of the world came, you then don't think enough about what to do before that happens and have some positive policies."
Give the Pope credit
Nikita Khrushchev presided over half of the chessboard during the darkest hours of the Cold War. When it came to ending that long twilight struggle, Lech Walesa has argued that Pope John Paul II doesn't get enough credit.
"I agree with Lech Walesa," Albright says. "I think that he really was one of the major reasons that communism ended." She recalls the Pope's first trip back to Poland and says, "It was very evident that the fact that the regime made a huge mistake by not taking the visit seriously. What they did was turn over all the logistics to the local parishes, so local parishes could feed their own networks, and they actually could do things. That gave them a lot of power. When the Pope got them all in the square, what happened was (while it's not an English sentence): He made them realize how many of each other there were. Because in a communist society, everybody was totally atomized. That was very powerful.
"His spirit continued, and he went back and forth. He did it in other countries—never quite to the extent that he did it in Poland. But he tried to have some effect on Russia. The fact is, they didn't want him there."
Pope John Paul II never made it to China. But Albright has mentioned that one of the great coming challenges facing China's leadership is how they will deal with the religion. I asked if she could expand on that.
"There are unofficial or kind of underground churches that exist. I don't know the numbers, but there are a variety of religious movements. We've now had this very interesting case about the bishop who has been named by the Chinese government; there is this official church. The same thing happened in the Soviet Union, with an official church. But I find interesting the extent to which there is a desire among the Chinese to join some religion. The truth is, that the Communist Party itself is so confused they now are saying they are basically Confucian. So there is this attempt to find something beyond just pragmatic politics."
What might have been
During Albright's visit to the Czech Republic in 2000, Václav Havel used the occasion to get in a dig at the Social Democrat government then in power. Here was Madeleine Albrightová, as the Czech press referred to her—a native daughter who had risen to the highest position of power in the United States that someone not born in that country can hold. And here was the Czech government composed entirely of men—apparently unable to find a single qualified woman to head a cabinet post. Havel proposed a solution: Albright would run for the Czech presidency when he finished his term in office. She declined.
That didn't stop her, however, from making the list of top 100 greatest Czechs of all time in a poll that was conducted last year. She was voted number 69, well behind top finishers Emperor Charles IV, Tomáš Masaryk, and Václav Havel—and behind current Czech President Václav Klaus (No. 18)—but ahead of hockey player Dominik Hašek (No. 73), tennis player Martina Navrátilová (No. 81), writer Milan Kundera (No. 85), and Sigmund Freud (No. 98).
Another superlatives that Czechs lay claim to is that, per capita, they drink more beer than any other people in the world. So, as one of the greatest Czechs of all time, what brew would Madame Secretary name as her favorite?
"I don't like beer," she admits, without hesitation. "I'm the only Czech that doesn't like beer. It's pathetic." Though, truth be told, she doesn't sound too embarrassed about it. And, instead of letting the question fall flat, Albright turns it on me: "What is your favorite Czech beer?" she asks.
It's a topic I'm more than happy to discourse upon. "A wheat beer that's only brewed in Brno," I say, "from the Pegas brewery." I know I'm not alone in my appreciation for the beer, and the pub, whose foundations date back to the 14th century. The one time I saw Havel in Brno, he was holding court at the brewery, which proudly displays on its Web site a photograph of a perfectly poured half-liter of wheat beer.
"We can talk about Czech food," Albright offers. "My favorite Czech food is fruit dumplings. We used to have these every Friday night, when there was fruit." And I can see in the eyes of Albright the Czech grandmother that she's tasting the memory. "It wasn't just the dumplings. It was the melted butter and ground nuts, and sugar—very fattening but very good. Or, alternately, somewhat less fattening, and equally something that I love, is the zeli, the cabbage. And the bread. And the pork…. It's all very greasy and good. When I say what I might have been, I might have just been a roly-poly little Czech, teaching history at Charles University."
Want to hear more from Madeleine Albright? Listen to her May 2006 talk in Santa Clara to The Commonwealth Club/Silicon Valley.
—Steven Boyd Saum is managing editor for Santa Clara Magazine.


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The 243rd anniversary of the Battle of Alamance, along with an 18th century living experience, is what visitors can expect this weekend at the Alamance Battleground, 5803 N.C. 62 South, Burlington.
The living history program will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at the battleground site. Patriots Day on Saturday will commemorate the Revolutionary battles at Pyle�s Defeat, the Battle of Clapp�s Mill and the Battle of Lindley Mill, along with a wreath laying ceremony from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. The program is presented by the Alamance Battleground�s Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution.
The Battle of Alamance was fought on the grounds of what is now the historic site on May 16, 1771, and the anniversary is commemorated with a wreath laying ceremony from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, presented by the Battle of Alamance Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. A covered dish picnic will take place following the ceremony and guests are invited to bring food and participate.
Militia units from Guilford and Johnson counties will be on hand this weekend and this family oriented event is rain or shine. Site manager Bryan Dalton said it will include artillery firing, musket demonstrations, open-hearth cooking, candle making and colonial toy making demonstrations, as well.
Admission is free, but donations are appreciated. The battleground is a state historic site, but Dalton said �funding is getting tighter.�
For those who have never been to the battleground or would like to return to the site, �it�s a good time to bring picnic baskets and spend the day,� he said.
For more details, visit nchistoricsites.org/alamance/alamanc.htm or call (336) 227-4785.
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Can any of you queens tell me what the difference is between a "Crown Princess" versus an everyday,run of the mill "Princess".
Sweden''s Princess married a commoner. Please advise.........
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err, she will be crowned one day?
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Crown Prince (or Princess) is the title of the next in line in such monarchies that use the title - they absolutely will succeed to the throne, if they live - no-one can be born to knock them off the spot. Their spouse shares the title so Crown Princess is historically usually the wife of the Crown Prince, but Sweden has a Crown Princess in her own right because they changed the law of succession to simple primogeniture - the eldest child of either sex succeeds the current monarch.
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I think that a "crown princess" is a daughter born to a king or queen whereas a "princess" can be created by marrying a prince, eg. Princess Diana.
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It means the heir to the throne.
Thread closed.
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No, r3 has it all wrong. The Crown Princess is scheduled to be the next Queen. She got the job in Sweden because she was born into the job. You can't marry into it.
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Really, r5?
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I just CAN'T wade into the other thread, but didn't we just hear she'd broken off with her fiance because he was a bit of a man-whore?
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Yes, really r6. We're talking 20 and 21st century Sweden. You can't marry into the Crown Prince or Crown Princess job - in today's Sweden. Once again, we're not talking about Catherine the Great or kings and queens in other nation, we're talking about today's Sweden. Can you deal with it, r6?
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Rub the sleep out of your eyes r5. I did write that a "crown princess" is born to it and that the garden variety "princess" can marry into the title.
R6 makes a point however. We can only hope.
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Crown Prince or Princess refers to the heir to the throne, or his wife.
In Sweden, Victoria is HRH The Crown Princess of Sweden as the heir, while husband is now HRH Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland (Victoria is Duchess of Västergötland in her own right). Usually, a husband does not share the titles of his wife, but in cases where a commoner is marrying a future monarch who is female, titles are usually granted so their children are born royal.
In Britain, the present Queen also married a commoner (technically, although Philip is actually more royal than The Queen). The day before their wedding, her father, George VI, created her future husband Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth and Baron Greenwich, with the style and rank of Royal Highness. Once she became pregnant, her father issued letters patent stating her children would be entitled to the rank and style of HRH Prince/Princess of the UK (rather than Lord/Lady as children of a Duke).
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In Britain, the present Queen also married a commoner (technically, although Philip is actually more royal than The Queen).
OK, I'm curious, how is Philip "technically" a commoner (was he ever removed from the line of succession?) and how can he be "more royal" than the daughter of a king?
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Five monarchies in Europe have eliminated male preference and do not adhere to Salic laws of succession: Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark.
In Sweden, HRH Vitoria is the heir
In Norway, HRH Ingrid Alexandra will be the Queen after HRH CP Haakon dies.
In The Netherlands, HRH Catherina-Amalia will inherit the thrown from CP Willem-Alexander.
In Belgium, HRH Princess Louise will inherit the throne from HRH Prince Philip.
Denmark is the only country where the firstborn was a male, so HRH Christian will take over from HRH CP Frederick when the time comes.
Of course Spain is still under Salic law, as is England. But it's interesing that the other major European countries with monarchies will eventually be ruled by females.
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He is *not* more royal than the Queen. He's Greek royalty and has Romanov blood, and never was a commoner. He's a lesser royal than Elizabeth, though.
r6: Catherine the Great was never a Crown Princess, with a view to inheriting the throne. You missed the point entirely. She took the crown upon her husband's death, due to intrigue and politics, and against the next in line to the throne (next after her deceased husband, that is).
Btw, Prince Daniel of Sweden won't be 'Crown Prince' along with his Crown Princess wife, just the way Prince Philip of England is not 'King of England', even though his spouse is the Queen. The male spouse of a female monarch must never be level with his wife, re titles and function.
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R11, he was born into the Greek royal family and also the Danish royal family. He grew up in exile in the UK. He changed religion, renounced his titles and allegiances to become a British citizen. I think this was so he'd be in a position to allowed to marry the then Princess Elizabeth.
I have no idea of the details. Regardless, he's a nasty piece of work.
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Share more with us r13 - expert. Who is your favorite Euro royal and why?
Which Euro royal seems to have the widest array of interests?
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r14, he's also cousins with Elizabeth, but removed by the nth degree.
His maternal grandparents were Mountbatten, i.e. Windsors. He has (some) English blood as well.
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R15: Queen Margrethe of Denmark is known and admired for her many talents. She is a gifted painter, makes theater costumes and she has also translated books from french to danish. She seems to be very intelligent and intellectual and is also very, very regal. She is also the only royal who can handle a glass of champagne, a cigarette, a clutch bag and at the same time shake hands with people. She's my favourite royal.
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But of course, r15.
My favourite (sorry, I prefer the BE spelling) Euro royal is Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, for the simple fact that he is very gay friendly. That should answer your second question as well.
Before he got married, and upon returning from his studies at Berkeley, he visited gay bars in Oslo, to show solidarity. You may say he was just posing, but he's otherwise a shy guy, and I believe the gesture was sincere. In interviews he said he felt gays weren't integrated enough into Norwegian society - one of the most liberal countries on earth, mind you.
He then married a single mother of one, a girl with a 'background', against strong initial resistance; they subsequently became one of the most popular royal couples in Europe.
He also slagged off the British press for going on his nerves about Prince William (he didn't attend one of Will's silly b-day parties while living in London).
He's great!
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r17 is not the expert aka me.
Thanks for sharing, though.
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His Royal Hotness Prince Carl Philip of Sweden should be Crown Prince and the future king. Gorgeousness should count royally for his degree of hotness.
Princess Victoria, you're beautiful, but get out of the way for your even more sexy and gorgeous brother.
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Philip's great-great grandmother was Queen Fucking Victoria. How in the world is technically a commoner in the UK?
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Is it true that Queen Margrethe sets aside one day each week to pursue the arts -- no official business allowed?
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OP - were you raised in a barn?
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R7, that happened to her younger sister, Princess Madeleine.
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R22: That's what I have read. And her husband is rumoured to be bisexual and have affairs with men and she is ok with it.
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Dronning Margarete is a riot! She also has the best sense of style, out of all the monarchs in Europe. He gown last night was amazing, yet not overbearing, i.e. she didn't upstage the bride (as Princess Madeleine - Vic's younger sister - was trying to do)
Margarete's hubby is kookoo btw..
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Why wasn't the Swedish royal wedding televised? I'm a news junkie, but even I could have taken a break from this disasterous oil spill and Joren van der Sloot.
This royal wedding would have been fabulous ton watch and a big hit in the U.S.
Why wasn't it on TV goddammit??!!
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I missed the wedding on television.
Who won?
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Camaroon was out in the first round.
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r27, Swedish television were streaming it online, and worldwide.
They had the monopoly on the broadcast, I presume.
It was shown on German national television, so the programme was available for purchase, I would think.
You can still see it, if you go to their website: svt.se, then click on 'svt play'.
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Will Vicki's fugly commoner husband become a King when her daddy dies and she becomes Queen?
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no, r31, as mentioned upthread, he won't be King.
He will be royal consort, and remain Prince and Duke.
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R31. Think of it in terms of Prince Philip of England. He remained a prince even when his wife Crown Princess Elizabeth became Queen.
Prince Daniel of Sweden will remain a prince when Crown Princess Victoria becomes Queen of Sweden.
Victoria is the Crown Princess as was Elizabeth. The royal lineage passes through them, not through their husbands since their husbands are not of the royal houses of each respective country.
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R33, I don't get it. A king can marry any trollop, and she'll become queen. If Sweden is allegedly so progressive, why can't Danny boy become king?
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Royal Experts...question if I may:
Suppose Crown Princess Victoria had married a Crown Prince of another country (in other words, he was due to become king of that other country), would he become King of Sweden instead of his king own country?
Or would Crown Princess Victoria become queen of that other country (thus relinquishing her future role of Queen of Sweden)? Or would Victoria retain her title of Princess (instead of becoming queen) of her husband's country? Afterall, Prince Philip didn't become King of England. Why would Victoria become queen of her husband's country?
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R35 : If Victoria of Sweden and Haakon of Norway would have gotten married, she either would have become crown princess of Norway and later queen of Norway (and she would have handed over the Swedish throne to her younger brother) OR Haakon would have handed over the Norwegian throne to his sister to become prince of Sweden.
Anybody can become a queen by marriage, but to become a king, one must be born into that position.
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OP, if you want this type of discussion, the term that you should have used is "Ka-Weens". please manke a note of it. Tia
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r34: A king/regining Queen is the superior, something you have to be born into. The Queens, "trollops", who are married into royalty are technically Queen consorts and not a Queen regant who is far more powerful.
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[quote]In Belgium, HRH Princess Louise will inherit the throne from HRH Prince Philip.
It's Princess Elisabeth R12. Princess Louise is the eldest child of Prince Laurent and she is currently nr 13 in the line of succession.
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England does not have Salic law. The Salic law, as interpreted by Clovis, did not allow females to inherit, thus daughters could never inherit their fathers' titles. Many European countries, especially France, adhered to the Salic law, but England never did. That is why Elizabeth I was a reigning monarch, but there has never been a reigning queen of France.
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R40 is quite right that Britain has never had the Salic law. It currently has a succession defined by Act of Parliament, which could be changed if people got their act together.
Catherine the Great isn't relevant at all. In 18th century Russia the reigning tsar or empress nominated their own successor. Catherine was a usurper, because she had her husband murdered and he definitely didn't nominate her - though, obviously she said he had and no-one was going to contradict her.
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r41, the case of Catherine the Great 'usurping' the throne is a bit more complex than the very abridged version you gave, as you probably know. It is not historically proven beyond doubt that she had her husband murdered, for one. And there are more aspects/questions of his and her reign that are constantly being debated by scholars.
In any case, she never was a Crown Princess - of the regnant-to-be variety - and that is the main point. Had she stayed away from the crown, she would have become Empress dowager after her husband's death.
Btw, Sweden may be progressive, but no royal house will allow a King beside a Queen regnant. It's a contradiction in terms. There is no 'King consort', and why should there be? 'Prince consort' already sums up the position.
There can be only one ruler.
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[quote]It currently has a succession defined by Act of Parliament, which could be changed if people got their act together.
The changes to the Act of Settlement to allow for date of birth rather than gender to dictate succession requires the approval of every country that has the British monarch as its head of state. As does the requirement that the Monarch not be married to a Catholic. That's the reason why the Act of Settlement has never been altered; it's just too much work.
Foreign leaders were also the reason why Edward VIII had to abdicate; although Churchill wanted him to stay even if he married his whore, leaders of the other countries in the British Empire refused to allow this and he was therefore forced to abdicate.
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None of these monarchs rule, with the single exception of Prince Albert (who is not, ironically, a King). They reign; the leader of the political party in power rules their respective countries, as they are all constitutional monarchies where the monarch has no day-to-day power and officiates in a predominantly ceremonial role. They're basically the world's best paid welfare recipients.
Monaco is the only absolute monarchy left in Europe.
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Wrong, r44.
Ever heard of Liechtenstein?
Both Monaco and Liechtenstein are unable to join the EU, because of their status as direct monarchies.
And yes, monarchs do rule -- depending on your definition of the term. 'Rule' as opposed to In any case, they do often have a vestige of power, especially in a case of a national emergency. The British monarch certainly does. She is also officially labeled the 'ruler of all her lands' (i.e. the British Commonwealth).
And in the NL, the formation of the new (potentially controversial) government was pending on Queen Beatrix' approval. She can demand further discussion before granting approval, for example.
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I meant to say: 'rule' as opposed to 'govern'.
To rule and to reign are essentially the same, in constitutional monarchies.
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Love you for saying that crown prince Haakon is your favorite, R18. Because of her background, princess Mette Marit is also VERY gay friendly. She has often supported the HIV/AIDS cause, and she has admitted that it's a cause she's very passionate about.. All to the horrors of the political right wing. Many thing she is too liberal and therefore of course "too political."
Crown Prince Haakon may not be as clasically handsome as prince Carl Phillip of Sweden, but I do think he's quite handsome still. Carl Phillip of Sweden looks like a puppy. Crown prince Haakon is more like a manly man, if that makes any sense.
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I hope Prince William's first born is a girl.
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[quote]To rule and to reign are essentially the same, in constitutional monarchies.
According to the Queen's own website, she doesn't rule the UK, let alone 'all her lands'.
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Being Royal today doesn't mean much. They generally have no, or very little, power in most monarchies today. Like here, our prime minister act as a president does in other countries. The only area I can think of where the royals still have some power is the laws. If I'm not mistaken the king has to sign a law before it can become effective, at least that's how it was when we got gay marriage. That said, most Royals today are just for show, like travelling, meet and greet with the people, doing humanitarian work etc.
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The monarch, at least in the UK, has 'residual' power to refuse consent to any legislation that has been approved by both houses of Parliament. However, they refuse at their own peril. The last British monarch to do this was Queen Anne. QEII would never be so gauche, but bonnie Prince Charlie will probably think he can exert some power when he comes to the throne. He'll learn pretty quickly that the freedoms he has to speak his mind as Prince of Wales will no longer be available to him as King.
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r10 probably means that Philip is the son of two royals (father a Greek royal, mother a minor German Battenberg, later Mountbatten, but still royal). Elizabeth's mother was a tried/true Scottish commoner, albeit a noble one (daughter of an Earl). It's of course all moot at this point.
Philip, who's parents split when he was very young, was batted around to different relatives who ended up raising him. The main caretaker was his maternal uncle Lord Mountbatten, who put him in British boarding school (Gordounston?) and got him a spot in the Brit navy...when Philip decided to become a brit citizen and fight for the UK in WWII, he changed his name to "Philip Mountbatten" in deference to his uncle and mother's family, although he was still recognized by royal courts as a Prince of Greece & Denmark. So he was, in fact, a commoner when he met and married Elizabeth.
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Oh yeah, and I just want to say one thing.. Whoever said that thing about gay marriage and royals and named the countries.. Portugal does have gay marriage, but Portugal is not a monarchy. They have a president as far as I know. So then we are down to Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Holland and Spain.
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Mountbatten = Mountbattenberg. They're Krauts, the lot of them.
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The Royal families of these countries have nothing to do with gay marriage rights. That is the responsibility of the government of the day, which is run by the elected party.
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Philip was hardly a top-drawer royal. His mother was morganatic as a Battenberg princess and his father spent most of his life in exile from Greece and broke.
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True r56 but his grandfather was 1st Sea Lord in the British navy and his grandmother Queen Victoria's favorite grand-daughter. His aunt was Queen of Sweden as well.
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I know, R55, but someone on this thread (or was it in a different thread?), asked what would happen if the crown princess/prince was gay. And they listed countries with monarchies and gay marriage and said they still could get married. My reply was to that, Portugal has gay marriage, but is not a monarchy, so it doesn't make much sense! On the other hand, countries with monarchies and gay marriage are Holland, Belgium, Sweden, Norway and Spain. I'm still not sure if the people would accept a gay prince/princess though, it has never happened before.
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r52, if she was from noble descent (daughter of an Earl), she was not a 'tried/true commoner'. Please.
Princess Diana was from a noble family as well, and no one would claim Prince Charles married a commoner.
By the by, the Queen Mother grew up at feudal Glamis Castle, in Scotland.
r47, I agree, he's manly looking. Easily more attractive than CP of Sweden, who looks too pretty-ish (and young) imo.
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In Belgium, HRH Princess ELISABETH ( not Louise) will inherit the throne from HRH Prince Filip (not Philip).
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[quote]There can be only one ruler.
We beg to differ.
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crown prince, heir to the throne of a kingdom or principality
prince not crown prince, title of nobility in close relation to a ruling family of a kingdom or principality (though not nec. the son of a rulling monarch or prince)
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THIS is a real princess.
(Sorry, but I just came across this and had it post somewhere. Prepare yourselves: I truly think it's a 45 second YouTube masterpiece...)
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r61, William and Mary were a singular case, because they came from a different country (the Netherlands), to take (i.e. rescue) a throne that had unexpectedly become vacant.
Neither of them were primed to inherit the English throne at some point, and neither of them had previously been English Crown Prince/Crown Princess, i.e. Prince(ss) of Wales.
We're talking about heirs apparent in this thread, and that is a very different category.
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Only aging queens-- and you know what I mean-- would pretend to know so much on this topic and argue it historically.
This is one of those many times that being gay is so fun!
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it's descendAnt, r65, spelled with an "a".
True nobility is well-educated, and knows how to spell.
Noblesse oblige!
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I stand corrected, R66! Second vodka.
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Beg to differ R64. Mary II was James II oldest child and until he contracted that unfortunate second marriage was Heiress Apparent.
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William of Orange was a big old queen. He had a number of 'favorites', the most infamous of whom was Arnold van Keppel who started out as a page boy and ended up an Earl.
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[quote]his grandmother Queen Victoria's favorite grand-daughter.
BITCH, how dare you! Grandmama's favourite granddaughter was ME! ME! ME! Not to mention my dear old mama was ALSO Grandmama's favourite daughter!
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Seriously you bumped a 1 1/2 year old thread for such a lame comeback?
WTH is wrong with you?
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Go fetch chickens and choke on one, impertinent peasant at R71!
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Her husband has one of the most terminal cases of gayface I have ever seen.
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This thread is more interesting than anything we've had in all the Newt-Mitt-Michele threads for the past 1 1/2 years. Thanks for the bump r70.
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Eugenia of Battenberg looks NOTHING Spanish... one would think living in a place all your life you would "become" part of it...
Plus... she does have bitch-face doesn't she?
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King Alfonso XIII was a handsome man, no wonder he had all that pussy
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Carl Phillip is the real star of that family.
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R73, so do half of the men in Sweden.
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Victoria is one of my favorite royals. It's great that she married who she loved. She's have said before that the throne comes first then love.
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A Crown Princess is a Princess who has won RuPaul's Drag Race.
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[quote]You missed the point entirely.
Gee, imagine that happening here on DL where nobody talks out their ass with impunity about shit they have no clue whatsoever.
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I had no idea that the Swedish had such dark features.
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Queen Silvia is Brazilian-German - the kids are mutts.
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The Swedish queen is Brazilian, but with German ancestry, if I recall correctly, R82.
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So what is the deal with the Mountbatten/Battenberg family? What was the name originally, and why did a part of the family seemingly emigrate?
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QE II ultimately sacked the Prime Mininister of Australia in 1975. The British Monarchy has a lot of political power. When push comes to shove those laws are there to be utilised - make no mistake.
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A crown princess is a female member of the royal family first in line to the throne. A princess is a title of nobility and, in some countries, not necessarily a royal at all.
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The origins of the Battenberg nobility are Hesse-Darmstadt in Germany. The British Battenbergs changed their name to Mountbatten during World War I to distance themselves from everything German.
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[quote]Mountbatten = Mountbattenberg. They're Krauts, the lot of them.
R54, "berg" translated to English means "mountain." Therefore, your silly post lists them as mountain Batten mountain. Still trying for that GED snookums?
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Public information campaigns often warn people about false and unreliable medical claims by juxtaposing "myths" and "facts." The effectiveness of such communications has rarely been assessed. We assessed whether people systematically misremember the "myths" (false information) as true, and to assess effects on perceptions of risk and behavioral intentions.
In an experimental study, participants read either a published CDC flyer on "Facts and Myths" about the flu vaccine, or a "Facts Only" version; a separate control group read no flyer. Participants completed the outcome measures either immediately or after 30 minutes.
Primary measures were memory for information about the flu presented in the flyer, ratings of perceived risks associated with the flu, and personal intentions to get vaccinated in the upcoming season.
After a delay of 30 minutes, participants who read the "Facts and Myths" flyer systematically misremembered myths as facts. Both versions of the flyer had the immediate effect of increasing intentions to get a flu vaccine, compared to the control group. After 30 minutes, however, participants who read the "Facts and Myths" flyer reported lower intentions to get vaccinated, compared to those who read the same flyer with no delay, and compared to all participants who read the "Facts Only" flyer.
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