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2013-03-19 3:59 PM
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Artemis - 2013-03-20 5:42 AM

Just finished my first run in 3 weeks!!

Not pretty - I felt like a Biggest Loser contestant the first day on the ranch - but it was faster than I felt and I didn't have any pain.  Soreness and numb toes, yes.  Pain, no.

Yay. Yay!!! I did a gassy-penguin run today and it was great!



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Man, I am really craving some poutine. 
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Asalzwed - 2013-03-19 3:04 PM Man, I am really craving some poutine. 

Yum!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Artemis - 2013-03-20 5:46 AM Oh, Yanti, can you PM me an address so I can send Mutti a package?  

You are a saint.

You have no idea how much she will appreciate that, but we'll try to convey it.

2013-03-19 4:08 PM
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Asalzwed - 2013-03-19 3:04 PM Man, I am really craving some poutine. 

Yum!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just Google image searched poutine and saw one with bacon and a fried egg on top. I want that. 

 

 

2013-03-19 4:08 PM
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Artemis - 2013-03-20 5:46 AM Oh, Yanti, can you PM me an address so I can send Mutti a package?  

You are a saint.

You have no idea how much she will appreciate that, but we'll try to convey it.

Pics or it didn't happen



2013-03-19 4:11 PM
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Asalzwed - 2013-03-20 6:04 AM Man, I am really craving some poutine. 

You know, if you say that kinda fast and slurry it sounds like ...

2013-03-19 4:12 PM
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TriAya - 2013-03-19 4:11 PM

Asalzwed - 2013-03-20 6:04 AM Man, I am really craving some poutine. 

You know, if you say that kinda fast and slurry it sounds like ...

So, how I am after a few beers. And yes, want some?

2013-03-19 4:13 PM
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Asalzwed - 2013-03-20 6:08 AM
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Artemis - 2013-03-20 5:46 AM Oh, Yanti, can you PM me an address so I can send Mutti a package?  

You are a saint.

You have no idea how much she will appreciate that, but we'll try to convey it.

Pics or it didn't happen

My mom has the BEST BOOBS on Earth. I really wish I could post a pic of them.

2013-03-19 4:16 PM
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Artemis - 2013-03-20 5:46 AM Oh, Yanti, can you PM me an address so I can send Mutti a package?  

You are a saint.

You have no idea how much she will appreciate that, but we'll try to convey it.

Pics or it didn't happen

My mom has the BEST BOOBS on Earth. I really wish I could post a pic of them.

I believe it

2013-03-19 4:19 PM
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Asalzwed - 2013-03-19 5:04 PM Man, I am really craving some poutine. 

Mmmmmmm, yeah, the good stuff with curds.  (drooling)



2013-03-19 4:28 PM
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Asalzwed - 2013-03-20 6:04 AM Man, I am really craving some poutine. 

You know, if you say that kinda fast and slurry it sounds like ...

So, how I am after a few beers. And yes, want some?

Always.

2013-03-19 4:38 PM
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TriAya - 2013-03-19 4:11 PM

Asalzwed - 2013-03-20 6:04 AM Man, I am really craving some poutine. 

You know, if you say that kinda fast and slurry it sounds like ...

So, how I am after a few beers. And yes, want some?

Always.

I sure hope you can make it to WI. 

2013-03-19 5:25 PM
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TriAya - 2013-03-20 3:11 AM

I can tell the Manatees. I haven't talked to anybody about anything.

My dad has about 30 different bank accounts. Maybe more that we haven't found. Some are connected with the company; most aren't (although a lot of company monies went through them anyway). His general manager and personal assistant (GM winds up playing PA a lot too, my dad's old-school CEO idiot ... ) have somehow "lost" his credit cards, passport, proof of birth, etc. and claim that they have never had anything to do with his personal financial accounts or statements (really? my bed-bound, wheelchair bound dad picked himself up and walked to multiple banks located across one of the world's largest cities every day?).

They're small potatoes--they're just in the way and making things a lot more tedious and difficult. They'll get French fried in due time.

One of the banks my sister and I went to (they'd sent an enormous flowerboard--that was a good clue!), the THREE top guys--director, VP of Operations and VP of Customer Service--met us at the door and ushered us into the bank's boardroom (yeah, y'know, big glass-topped teak table, leather chairs, portraits of the owners on the wall, blah blah), served us refreshments, and proceeded to tell us exactly what my father's relationship with them had been, what financial instruments he had, ballpark dates and amounts.

As I said, it's all going to take a while to sort out, and maybe August is too soon (considering family obligations and taking Mutti to Germany, etc.), but I could bloody well pay myself to the moon and back a few times if I wanted.

It is an EXTREMELY weird feeling to know I now have the freedom and means to go wherever I want and do whatever I want. For the rest of my life.

HOWEVER ...

the truth is, that was always the case

I so ope you didn't wear thongs (sorry flip flops) to that meeting
2013-03-19 5:51 PM
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Muskrat37 - 2013-03-20 5:00 AM
Asalzwed - 2013-03-19 12:45 PM
cdban66 - 2013-03-19 2:38 PM
KansasMom - 2013-03-19 3:30 PM

Short update:

I signed my contract for next year, so I am here for another year (at least). I am actually okay with that but my husband is still pressuring me to find another job in a friendlier climate. (What? You don't like 85 one day and 35 and snowing two days later??)

My #1 son got hired on at Subway. I can't believe how excited I am about this. I think I am more excited than he is. He offered to buy me a helicopter to make my job easier. I said, "Really??? You would do that? Because that would make parenting soooo much easier for me."

#2 son might pass 6th grade. Woohoo!! (Dolt! He's the brightest kid in the class. He's run into the first teacher who isn't impressed with his dashing good looks and winsome personality. She's going to make him work for it.)

#1 son has his first soccer game on Saturday morning. Oh, yeah. I'm the coach! He wants me to promise that I will be his soccer coach forever and ever.

Husband is finishing up his last week at the miserable job. He flies out Sunday morning to Palo Alto for a week of training. Then back for two days and out to Maryland for another week of training. Then I'm in Chicago. I get back and he flies out somewhere else. I keep reminding him that this is good stress.

I'm back on my running streak. I'm not going to set a time limit/goal for it. I'm just going to run every day I can. I feel finally healthy. Completely off antibiotics and taking just 10mg of lisinopril a day. My blood pressure has been crazy low, like 95/48 with a pulse of 45.

Did anyone read the WSJ article TriGirl (?) posted in COJ on "Reasons You're Not as Successful As you Should Be? I printed it out and have it taped to the wall of my office. I've got to get out of this professional funk I'm in. I love my students and teaching, and I don't mind grading when I get around to it, but I can't get excited about all of the political garbage going on. Still . . . I'm going to ask my boss for my old admin job back. I may wait to do it until June, however. I need to get my head on right before I do it.

Thanks for being here. All of you. I appreciate your kindness, humor, and inspiration.

I'm with you on the funk part. I gotta figure this out. Ann has OK'd me taking a week of vacation to go to bike mechanic school. I'm not sure it will help, but it would sure be fun.

Finding the good and accepting the rest. We should all do so. 

Be careful what you ask for.... You just might get it.

Sooo, professional funks don't go away eh? Wink

What's with the pro funks?  (sounds like a cool band name)... I am in one too...

It must be the time of year for professional funks. I nearly told every one that they could take their job and put it where the sun doesn't shine yesterday (insert appropriate expletives) and trust me when you work for a Christian organisation that is not going to end well.

So tonight I have a board of directors meeting and one of the schools in our system has written a letter to the board "expressing their concern over the delay in them receiving their financial reports." They have done it very nicely saying that they feel that I am overloaded and the board needs to look at that, but it still feels a bit like a kick in the guts, especially when you have been working 12-14 hour days. So depending on tonight's outcome I might be hitting the job adds tomorrow.

I know most of you are sleeping now but I hope when you wake up you have a fantastic day filled with blessings and peace from God and that there won't be so much cr@p going on that you can't see them.
2013-03-19 6:00 PM
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rrrunner - 2013-03-18 12:39 PM Well, I booked my massage appointment Undecided. I explained my training situation to her, and my hesitation to get a massage, and the fact that I'd felt comfortable with her last summer after a race. She's seems good with all of that.

Good job!  :-)

Now I just have to figure out if I'm supposed to tip her...

I do

Me too.

me three

Being a massage therapist, I love you guys.

Let me get this straight. You're SDA, single, into endurance, and a MASSAGE THERAPIST ...

You do know I may have recently come into a sizeable inheritance and am looking for someone with a U.S. citizenship as I'll likely be taking on German (exchanging the U.S. for Indonesian) ...

lol

I have missed the last several pages, but something tells me this quote block just caught me up!  

BTW Yanti, I'm single, not SDA, not a massage therapist, but I love to trade massages that usually lead to fun adult activities later..

Just thought I would throw my name in the hat of 'mericans you may be considering! LOL   Of course - you would have to get Jo's permission first...  

granted.

WTF... I thought you would fight a little harder for me than that!  Or maybe there is an ulterior motive here.  Didn't someone say threesome about 275 pages ago?  What, you thought I would forget that conversation? 

I got no fight today!   Anyway I'm fighting for Yanti not you....Smile but if we have to do the threesome I'm in...



2013-03-19 6:03 PM
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Asalzwed - 2013-03-19 4:04 PM Man, I am really craving some poutine. 

I had to google an image of it and then had to check the ingredients to be sure I was seeing what I thought I was seeing. I was. Yuck. You can have my share. lol

2013-03-19 6:05 PM
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Hey Manatees - woke up feeling flat and fat this morning, my cold is back - thought it was gone but bang it returns.  Got OWS tonight we are being filmed for an ad tonight I think for Swisse...I'm not sure I just had to think - oh lipgloss for swim.  Suck it in for the wetsuit shot!

Job funk - I'm in!  This job is well paid, easy and stress free, people are great.  Location is pretty good.

So why the itchy feet to move on.  I am unfulfilled.  That part of a job is very important.

BUT I'm not jumping ship for any old thing.  I need something that is rewarding.  Doesn't have to pay as well as this one.

2013-03-19 6:08 PM
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StaceyK - 2013-03-19 5:51 PM
Muskrat37 - 2013-03-20 5:00 AM
Asalzwed - 2013-03-19 12:45 PM
cdban66 - 2013-03-19 2:38 PM
KansasMom - 2013-03-19 3:30 PM

Short update:

I signed my contract for next year, so I am here for another year (at least). I am actually okay with that but my husband is still pressuring me to find another job in a friendlier climate. (What? You don't like 85 one day and 35 and snowing two days later??)

My #1 son got hired on at Subway. I can't believe how excited I am about this. I think I am more excited than he is. He offered to buy me a helicopter to make my job easier. I said, "Really??? You would do that? Because that would make parenting soooo much easier for me."

#2 son might pass 6th grade. Woohoo!! (Dolt! He's the brightest kid in the class. He's run into the first teacher who isn't impressed with his dashing good looks and winsome personality. She's going to make him work for it.)

#1 son has his first soccer game on Saturday morning. Oh, yeah. I'm the coach! He wants me to promise that I will be his soccer coach forever and ever.

Husband is finishing up his last week at the miserable job. He flies out Sunday morning to Palo Alto for a week of training. Then back for two days and out to Maryland for another week of training. Then I'm in Chicago. I get back and he flies out somewhere else. I keep reminding him that this is good stress.

I'm back on my running streak. I'm not going to set a time limit/goal for it. I'm just going to run every day I can. I feel finally healthy. Completely off antibiotics and taking just 10mg of lisinopril a day. My blood pressure has been crazy low, like 95/48 with a pulse of 45.

Did anyone read the WSJ article TriGirl (?) posted in COJ on "Reasons You're Not as Successful As you Should Be? I printed it out and have it taped to the wall of my office. I've got to get out of this professional funk I'm in. I love my students and teaching, and I don't mind grading when I get around to it, but I can't get excited about all of the political garbage going on. Still . . . I'm going to ask my boss for my old admin job back. I may wait to do it until June, however. I need to get my head on right before I do it.

Thanks for being here. All of you. I appreciate your kindness, humor, and inspiration.

I'm with you on the funk part. I gotta figure this out. Ann has OK'd me taking a week of vacation to go to bike mechanic school. I'm not sure it will help, but it would sure be fun.

Finding the good and accepting the rest. We should all do so. 

Be careful what you ask for.... You just might get it.

Sooo, professional funks don't go away eh? Wink

What's with the pro funks?  (sounds like a cool band name)... I am in one too...

It must be the time of year for professional funks. I nearly told every one that they could take their job and put it where the sun doesn't shine yesterday (insert appropriate expletives) and trust me when you work for a Christian organisation that is not going to end well. So tonight I have a board of directors meeting and one of the schools in our system has written a letter to the board "expressing their concern over the delay in them receiving their financial reports." They have done it very nicely saying that they feel that I am overloaded and the board needs to look at that, but it still feels a bit like a kick in the guts, especially when you have been working 12-14 hour days. So depending on tonight's outcome I might be hitting the job adds tomorrow. I know most of you are sleeping now but I hope when you wake up you have a fantastic day filled with blessings and peace from God and that there won't be so much cr@p going on that you can't see them.

Sorry, Stacey. I hope the meeting goes better than you think it will. I'm saying prayers for you.

2013-03-19 6:10 PM
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KansasMom - 2013-03-19 6:03 PM

Asalzwed - 2013-03-19 4:04 PM Man, I am really craving some poutine. 

I had to google an image of it and then had to check the ingredients to be sure I was seeing what I thought I was seeing. I was. Yuck. You can have my share. lol

Don't knock it until you try it! I too was skeptical (as I am with most Canadian things Wink  but was soooooo pleasantly surprised! 

2013-03-19 6:13 PM
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StaceyK - 2013-03-19 5:51 PM
Muskrat37 - 2013-03-20 5:00 AM
Asalzwed - 2013-03-19 12:45 PM
cdban66 - 2013-03-19 2:38 PM
KansasMom - 2013-03-19 3:30 PM

Short update:

I signed my contract for next year, so I am here for another year (at least). I am actually okay with that but my husband is still pressuring me to find another job in a friendlier climate. (What? You don't like 85 one day and 35 and snowing two days later??)

My #1 son got hired on at Subway. I can't believe how excited I am about this. I think I am more excited than he is. He offered to buy me a helicopter to make my job easier. I said, "Really??? You would do that? Because that would make parenting soooo much easier for me."

#2 son might pass 6th grade. Woohoo!! (Dolt! He's the brightest kid in the class. He's run into the first teacher who isn't impressed with his dashing good looks and winsome personality. She's going to make him work for it.)

#1 son has his first soccer game on Saturday morning. Oh, yeah. I'm the coach! He wants me to promise that I will be his soccer coach forever and ever.

Husband is finishing up his last week at the miserable job. He flies out Sunday morning to Palo Alto for a week of training. Then back for two days and out to Maryland for another week of training. Then I'm in Chicago. I get back and he flies out somewhere else. I keep reminding him that this is good stress.

I'm back on my running streak. I'm not going to set a time limit/goal for it. I'm just going to run every day I can. I feel finally healthy. Completely off antibiotics and taking just 10mg of lisinopril a day. My blood pressure has been crazy low, like 95/48 with a pulse of 45.

Did anyone read the WSJ article TriGirl (?) posted in COJ on "Reasons You're Not as Successful As you Should Be? I printed it out and have it taped to the wall of my office. I've got to get out of this professional funk I'm in. I love my students and teaching, and I don't mind grading when I get around to it, but I can't get excited about all of the political garbage going on. Still . . . I'm going to ask my boss for my old admin job back. I may wait to do it until June, however. I need to get my head on right before I do it.

Thanks for being here. All of you. I appreciate your kindness, humor, and inspiration.

I'm with you on the funk part. I gotta figure this out. Ann has OK'd me taking a week of vacation to go to bike mechanic school. I'm not sure it will help, but it would sure be fun.

Finding the good and accepting the rest. We should all do so. 

Be careful what you ask for.... You just might get it.

Sooo, professional funks don't go away eh? Wink

What's with the pro funks?  (sounds like a cool band name)... I am in one too...

It must be the time of year for professional funks. I nearly told every one that they could take their job and put it where the sun doesn't shine yesterday (insert appropriate expletives) and trust me when you work for a Christian organisation that is not going to end well.

So tonight I have a board of directors meeting and one of the schools in our system has written a letter to the board "expressing their concern over the delay in them receiving their financial reports." They have done it very nicely saying that they feel that I am overloaded and the board needs to look at that, but it still feels a bit like a kick in the guts, especially when you have been working 12-14 hour days. So depending on tonight's outcome I might be hitting the job adds tomorrow.

I know most of you are sleeping now but I hope when you wake up you have a fantastic day filled with blessings and peace from God and that there won't be so much cr@p going on that you can't see them.
North American manatees are still awake - it's anywhere from about 4:15 to 7:15p over here. Sorry to hear about the job stress and I hope things go in the manner that will make you. The happiest!


2013-03-19 6:18 PM
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StaceyK - 2013-03-19 6:51 PM

It must be the time of year for professional funks. I nearly told every one that they could take their job and put it where the sun doesn't shine yesterday (insert appropriate expletives) and trust me when you work for a Christian organisation that is not going to end well. So tonight I have a board of directors meeting and one of the schools in our system has written a letter to the board "expressing their concern over the delay in them receiving their financial reports." They have done it very nicely saying that they feel that I am overloaded and the board needs to look at that, but it still feels a bit like a kick in the guts, especially when you have been working 12-14 hour days. So depending on tonight's outcome I might be hitting the job adds tomorrow. I know most of you are sleeping now but I hope when you wake up you have a fantastic day filled with blessings and peace from God and that there won't be so much cr@p going on that you can't see them.

Stacey, I think that sometimes management gets into a rut of continually asking for folks to add a "little bit" more to the workload. After a while you end up with people that are burnt out and the replacement ends up being 2 people after the original one has left. We are currently looking for someone here to take some of the load off our shoulders. Sometimes it feels like they are telling me that I'm not doing enough, but I think they are trying to thank us for doing so much for so long. Or maybe that is just my hope.

Maybe in your case they'll see the 12 hr days and figure out that the answer may be more hands to make the workload easier.  I hope so. 

2013-03-19 6:20 PM
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TriAya - 2013-03-19 1:11 PM
Asalzwed - 2013-03-20 2:59 AM
TriAya - 2013-03-19 12:58 PM
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Asalzwed - 2013-03-19 1:28 PMAwesome. So a Kopps date it is?

Also on my list (if I have time) Maria's pizza, maybe skating the oval, apparently there is a mechanical chili pepper,Milwaukee Brewing Co, and the Milwaukee art museum.

ICE CREAM DATE!!!!  Sounds great!  The race is down by the art museum, so you'll see that.  Visiting the lakefront park is cool too.  Oval is very fun! You can also run outside the oval loop, which is nice in the summer.  We've done the Sprecher brewery tour.  It's fun brewery tour because they have soda for the non-drinkers and designated driver.  

I do not know about a mechanical chili pepper.  

I'll push those children right out of my way.

BWAHAHAHA!!!  I want to go on that date with you too.

Apparently they have a live cam for it, so all the other Manatees can watch.

OMG done and done! 

SOOOOOODAAAAAAA

August. I think I can come in August.

FOR REAL!?!?!?!?!?!?!

I can tell the Manatees. I haven't talked to anybody about anything.

My dad has about 30 different bank accounts. Maybe more that we haven't found. Some are connected with the company; most aren't (although a lot of company monies went through them anyway). His general manager and personal assistant (GM winds up playing PA a lot too, my dad's old-school CEO idiot ... ) have somehow "lost" his credit cards, passport, proof of birth, etc. and claim that they have never had anything to do with his personal financial accounts or statements (really? my bed-bound, wheelchair bound dad picked himself up and walked to multiple banks located across one of the world's largest cities every day?).

They're small potatoes--they're just in the way and making things a lot more tedious and difficult. They'll get French fried in due time.

One of the banks my sister and I went to (they'd sent an enormous flowerboard--that was a good clue!), the THREE top guys--director, VP of Operations and VP of Customer Service--met us at the door and ushered us into the bank's boardroom (yeah, y'know, big glass-topped teak table, leather chairs, portraits of the owners on the wall, blah blah), served us refreshments, and proceeded to tell us exactly what my father's relationship with them had been, what financial instruments he had, ballpark dates and amounts.

As I said, it's all going to take a while to sort out, and maybe August is too soon (considering family obligations and taking Mutti to Germany, etc.), but I could bloody well pay myself to the moon and back a few times if I wanted.

It is an EXTREMELY weird feeling to know I now have the freedom and means to go wherever I want and do whatever I want. For the rest of my life.

HOWEVER ...

the truth is, that was always the case

This reminds me of when my great uncle died. He had accounts in lots of different banks in lots of different names (apparently the FBI was always trying to take his money ). I don't think his wife and children ever found it all. It is no fun dealing with all the financial and other junk while grieving. I'm sure your mother is thrilled to have you and your sister to lean on.
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rrrunner - 2013-03-19 1:18 PM

Random thoughts...

I forgot my utensils so I am eating corned beef and cabbage leftovers with a plastic knife

We are headed to Denver this weekend for my MIL's 80th birthday party and I have to figure out what I am going to bring (she has a serious sweet tooth so I am thinking home-made Ding Dongs and Twinkies)

It appears that our weighted geographic center is in... South Dakota

WOW, I am really impressed by everything in this post!I've always wanted to go to South Dakota .
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Subject: RE: Mental Manatee Mentors Part 3--CLOSED
cdban66 - 2013-03-19 1:20 PM
rrrunner - 2013-03-19 2:18 PM

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I forgot my utensils so I am eating corned beef and cabbage leftovers with a plastic knife

We are headed to Denver this weekend for my MIL's 80th birthday party and I have to figure out what I am going to bring (she has a serious sweet tooth so I am thinking home-made Ding Dongs and Twinkies)

It appears that our weighted geographic center is in... South Dakota

Fudge that. I now vote for Orlando. I'm a big Disney fan.

Or any cruise ship other than Carnival. Evidently, I've forgotten about the race part.

Orlando! I think I can make that meet up!
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