#the vet that works there graduated from my Alma mater

[pupkashi]

allergies got my ass 😔

[purplesurveys]

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Are you unhappy at the moment? I wouldn’t say that. I’m just a little hungry but it’s bearable. I *might* by seeing Gabie tomorrow since I have to bring Cooper to the vet again so I’m a little kinda excited for that possibility, but I’m not holding my breath. When was the last time you read a full book? That would be when I finished Justin Roberts’ memoir last May. Are you back in school? No, I am very nearly out of it. I just have to wait for an official memo from the college enumerating the list of graduates, but all of my grades are in and I’m pretty much out the door. Who did you last hang out with? Cooper, before he started getting rough and I had to place him back in his crate to calm down. Kimi’s also starting to get the hang of him too so he was in the picture, but was still mostly shy and just being a grouchy senior dog who didn’t like playtime haha. When's the last time you got in trouble with your parents? With my mom, a week ago. With my dad, I barely remember.

How many children do you want? One or two would be perfect.

Are your nails painted? Nopes. Do you need to take a shower? I kind of do because I’m feeling a bit hot and am sweating a bit, but I don’t take a shower until late evening and I don’t wanna break that routine. Have you ever watched Keeping Up With The Kardashians? I’ve watched the first three seasons and I will sometimes catch recent episodes when I’m staying at a hotel that has the E! channel, but I don’t religiously follow the show. Love the family though, I’ll admit that. Are you single? Haven’t been for the last four years. Do you have any career ideas in mind? For sure. I don’t have specific job titles in mind, but I do have paths I’m interested in taking. Do you have any gay friends? I have a ton of gay friends. In general, I have more LGBTQ+ friends than straight ones. Are you gay yourself? I don’t think so. I’m demisexual, which doesn’t necessarily mean gay.  Are you doing anything this weekend? No different than what the last four months have been, except this time around puppy-sitting is now a part of my routine. How many brothers do you have? One. When was the last time you talked on the phone? Last Friday. I brought Cooper to the vet for bloody diarrhea and the vet was making me pick between just taking a stool sample or have him tested for parvo altogether (which was gonna be considerably more expensive). Since I was bringing my dad’s money and because he’s the ~primary~ owner of Cooper, I had to call him a couple of times so he can decide what to do with him because I didn’t wanna make the wrong choice. Do you like Mexican food? I do love Mexican food but it’s honestly not a cuisine I find myself craving a lot, unlike Indian or Indonesian cuisine which I’m always down for. What time is it? It issssssss 6:50 PM. What's your best friend's pet's name(s)? Gabie’s family has so many dogs but I only know of four: Dash, Quincy, Harley, and Tofu. Angela has Hailey, Kennedy, and a black lab but I’ve forgotten his name. How many pens are in the room you're currently in? Two. Did you go to work today? No work, but school-wise I didn’t have to do anything either. When was the last time you were disappointed? Earlier this afternoon when I opened the fridge and there was nothing I wanted to eat. Do you wear clothes from your school? Yeah my alma mater loved having t-shirts for all events so I have tons of those left over. I wear them around the house now because it’d be wasteful to throw them away. As for my university, I do have a couple of shirts and hoodies because school prideeeeeee. Have you ever done Safety Town? I’ve never heard of that, so probably not. How old are you? How old do you act? I am 22. I have no clue how old I act actually. I have times where I have zero street smarts and get super ditzy and seem like a 12 year old lol but there are times where I have to step up and give my friends advice, look out for them, and basically be the mom that acts older than all of them. What size shoe do you wear? 6 or 7 works fine for me. When was the last time you got a splinter? I can’t even remember; it’s been a while. Have you ever walked into a wall? Not a wall, but I’m not ruling out walking into a glass door because I’m pretty sure that’s happened at least once. Are there any spiders in your room right now? There might be tiny tiny ones. Nothing big enough to send me away from where I am. Have you ever taken a picture while laying in the grass? As much as possible I don’t like doing that, so probably not.  What's your favorite number? I don’t have one. Are you old enough to buy alcohol? Yeah, for the last four years. Have you ever watched iCarly? Just a few episodes. I did make sure to catch the One Direction episode the same day it aired though HAHAHA agh man life was so much simpler when all I did was be a fucking fangirl without a care in the world.

What was your favorite class during your sophomore year of high school? I had the best grades in Asian history, but I personally loved biology because I had the biiiiiggest crush on my teacher (and so did everyone else). She was so pretty and so so smart and so sophisticated; I knew she was gonna be my favorite once she introduced herself and told us she took her grad studies in France haha. She was WAY too qualified for my school and I’m glad she knew that because she transferred to another job a year later. Who's your favorite Disney charater? Rapunzel, and Rex from Toy Story heheh. Are there any framed pictures of you in your house? Yes, by the stairs. My Prep portrait is also hung up in my room. Do you listen to music while you clean your room? Sometimes. Do you wear bandanas in your hair? I don’t think I’ve used a bandana ever since we needed to wear them on our hair for our Kinder 2 moving-up ceremony.

When was the last time you ate a banana? Last May when I was sick and I was trying every rule in the book to get better. What's your favorite word? ‘Poignant’ has always been a good candidate. Have you ever been on a blind date? Nope, not into that. Have you ever taken the eHarmony personality quiz? No. Do you need to shave? Not right now, no. I’ve just done that recently. Are you wearing makeup right now? Definitely not. Do you know anyone named Laura? Nah. One of my favorite bands is fronted by a Laura, though.

[markscherz]

Any tips for anyone who wants to be a herpetologist?

Okay so it turns out I get rather a lot of asks on this particular question, and rather than answer them all individually, I thought it would be sensible to compile numerous ones I have received in the last year or so into a single long post on the basics:

What you need to know if you want to be a herpetologist

Before I get into it, let me explain my credentials for those who are interested. @amandaderrick92​ asked specifically where I did my degree: I did my Bachelor’s degree in Zoology (Hons.) at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and then my Master’s degree in Ecology, Evolution and Systematics at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), Germany. I am now studying for a PhD at the LMU, in partnership with the Zoologische Staatssammlung München and Technische Universität Braunschweig. So I guess I am more or less qualified to talk about this, though I would point out at this early phase in my career that I am by no means the expert standard example person—I encourage you to ask other herpetologists about their background as well. Twitter is fucking full of them, and most will be only too eager to share how they got into it and how you can, too.

Herpetologist is an umbrella term

First off, I want to make it clear that to be a herpetologist, per se, says little of the professional day-to-day career of a person. Herpetologists may be involved in a wide variety of fields, from pure academia (Herpetology sensu stricto), to applied research, to bioengineering, to veterinary work, to zoo-keeping, to animal breeding, to ranger work, to pest control, to conservation work… the list goes on. In this post I will refer mostly to herpetology sensu stricto, that is, the study of reptiles and amphibians, which is largely an academic pursuit. One of the anonymous askers above mentioned a desire to avoid veterinary work—this is almost a guarantee unless you decide to undergo the arduous training to become a vet. Yet, I want to make it clear also that it is possible to be a herpetologist and not necessarily be an academic, as I know that the prospect of academia can be frightening to downright off-putting to some. 

How necessary is an MSc or PhD?

This brings us nicely to the issue of whether graduate level education is necessary to be a herpetologist. The answer is mixed, because, as I have just explained, herpetology, in the broad sense, is so varied and diverse. You can consider yourself a herpetologist even if you just do it in your spare time (I know a policeman who describes new species of snakes for fun). But for Herpetology sensu stricto as given above, generally I would say that at the very least an MSc will be required. The reason for this you will find below, but to summarise it, it is because your education by the end of your BSc is unlikely to have had much to do with herpetology, but rather will be general zoology. Focus on herpetological studies will have to come later. 

It is important at this point already to note that the term herpetologist is in fact an umbrella term even in the strict sense. Many herpetologists study epidemiology, conservation science, invasive species biology, behavioural ecology, taxonomy, evolutionary biology and speciation, biomechanics, histology, etc. It is a science without an explicit angle of study, similar to ornithology and other organismal -ologies. So if there is a specific thing you are interested in about reptiles and amphibians, you are really most likely going to wind up pursuing that, and not herpetology per se, in your academic pursuits. But more on that below.

I’m in highschool and think I want to be a herpetologist when I’m older… what can I do to make that happen?

I think about this kind of question remarkably often. Well, actually, I think of things that I could have done better in my own childhood that would have made my life easier today. Here are a few pearls of wisdom I have gleaned from this introspection:

• Buy and read a textbook on the topic of herpetology. This is something I never did (I have never owned a herpetology textbook, let alone tried to read one), and I regret it at least once a week. There are huge chunks of knowledge missing from what a herpetologist is expected to know simply because I never took the time when I was younger to sit down and read the book. Sure, I skimmed herpetological books all the time, but I never really internalised them. I cannot identify larval stages of tadpoles. I don’t know the first thing about the actual metabolism of reptiles. I only learned this year how a frog’s vocal apparatus actually makes sounds. Learning all this stuff too late in your career is possible, but a pain in the ass, so try to get it out of the way as soon as possible.

• If you like frogs, buy Duellman & Trueb 1986 Biology of Amphibians. It is unmatched.

• Learn to identify your local herpetofauna. Chances are, some exist. Go find them. And do so with a buddy. Herping is always best done with companionship, especially if you live in an area where dangerous snakes are common (read: most of the world except Europe, New Zealand, and Madagascar).

• Join your local herpetological society. In the United States, the umbrella society are the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR), the Herpetologists League, and the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. In the UK it is various branches of the Amphibian and Reptile Group (ARGs). In Germany and Switzerland it is the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde (DGHT). These societies are always full of enthusiastic people, many of whom are fully fledged herpetologists, and showing your own interest will most likely be greeted with encouragement.

• Get into the right area of study. Choosing what to study in college is intimidating, especially when you don’t quite know if you want to choose between something about which you are passionate, versus something that will keep bread on the table. It’s romantic to think that everyone can eventually find a way to make money doing the thing they love, but unfortunately, it is not always true. Choose your undergraduate education in a way that you find will suit you and keep you happy in the long run. But now I’ve said my part on that, let me get into the nitty-gritty of what you actually need to study to become a herpetologist:

Where and what to study to become a herpetologist 

Globally, there are numerous institutes where you can study to become a herpetologist, even if they do not explicitly say so on their curriculum websites. To accommodate the relatively broad global readership of this tumblr, I will try to keep this as general as possible: 

The most important thing to think about is the ‘subject’ of study. To make headway into herpetology, you should direct your studies toward organismal or evolutionary biology. Possible ‘subjects’ as advertised by universities might be ‘Biology,’ ‘Evolutionary Biology,’ ‘Zoology,’ ‘Environmental Sciences,’ and very very rarely ‘Herpetology’. Most programmes will not allow you to specialise explicitly on herpetology until your Master’s degree, and even then not really explicitly. However, you should know that you can and should tailor your Bachelor’s experience to your own interests, regardless of its official title. Though my degree in Edinburgh was in ‘Zoology,’ I was able to focus mostly on reptiles and amphibians and evolutionary biology!

Despite the broad readership cited above, I wanted to draw your attention in particular to just a few universities worldwide that are renowned for their zoological undergraduate programmes, or herpetological research (note that this list only includes institutes that offer tuition in English, hence the rather narrow geographical sampling): 

• The University of Edinburgh—I have to list my alma mater here for pride reasons, but I do so also because I think that my zoological education was incredibly rounded as a result of doing my Bachelor’s degree in Edinburgh. They have two appropriate courses, in Zoology and in Evolutionary Biology, and you can choose between them at the end of your second year. 

• Kansas University, Lawrence, Kansas USA—Kansas has a famed herpetological history, and currently is home to some great minds in herpetology, including John Wiens and Linda Trueb. 

• Villanova University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA—I highlight this university solely because of Aaron Bauer’s lab, which focusses on geckos. They do some really great research. This group is particularly good for Master’s work. 

• Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA—Home of the Losos lab, probably the most famous group working on evolutionary questions with herpetological systems in the world. 

• Bangor University, Bangor, Wales—This is one of the only institutes in the world that offers a bachelor’s degree in Herpetology (or ‘Zoology with Herpetology’). I have heard good things about the programme, and know a few graduates of it, but would not consider this a guarantee that it is better than other universities that only offer Zoology courses.

• University of Syndey, Sydney, New South Wales Australia—Home to the Shine lab, Syndey is apparently quite a good place to start off as a herpetologist. Plus, the reptiles in particular of Australia are really incredibly diverse and a great system for evolutionary and ecological studies.

• University of Manchester, Manchester, England—In terms of research and education, Manchester is a great university, ranked among the top in the UK. For herpetological interest, there is connection to The Manchester Museum, where a group works on frogs, focussed mostly on conservation biology.

(Für Deutschsprachige Studenten/-innen, würde ich Humboldt Universität Berlin, Ludwig-Maximilian Universität München, Technische Universität Braunschweig und Universität Trier empfehlen, obwohl viele anderen bestimmt auch super sind!)

So what do I need to get into a relevant course at a university/college?

To quash the questions before they come: prerequisites for the study of the above-mentioned courses in these institutes will almost certainly be advanced high-school level qualifications in biology and chemistry, and I can imagine that many would demand a tolerable mathematics grade as well. English language courses in high-school will not hurt in the least, especially as most work in academia is centred around writing and reading extensively in English.

Tips for non-speaking and non-vet work

As I have mentioned above, avoiding veterinary work is easy as long as you opt not to do it, but avoiding public speaking is actually fairly difficult. You see, although 99.9% of herpetological research is conducted in labs or in the field or whatever, occasionally it will be expected that you attend conferences, and there you will eventually be asked to give a talk, even if you do not volunteer yourself. Far more concerning I imagine is the fact that most academic careers require some degree of teaching. This is indeed something that is difficult to avoid if you do wish to stay in academia, but can be easily avoided with other herpetological career paths. 

Also, it should be noted by the American readers that the teaching obligation of graduate students outside the US is considerably lower than in the US, so it becomes practically optional until you are looking for a position as a post-doc or even professor somewhere! Case in point: I am trying my hardest to find an opportunity to teach, but so far it looks like it will still be months before such an opportunity presents itself.

General tips for someone who wants to be a herpetologist

• Networking is your friend. If you can, meet local people who have similar interests. Go to conferences and meet people from across the world who are interested in similar questions or animals to you, and start big conversations with them. Nowadays, it is possible to work on the most incredible collaborative projects, and it is smart to take advantage of those opportunities!

• Shocking though it may seem, there is no minimum age limit on conference attendance! If you find that there is a herpetological conference happening near you, sign up to go! I have been at conferences where there were 14 year-old students present, and they asked some great questions of the speakers! But beware at that age that there may be a lot of topics that the education system is not designed to teach you until college, so a lot may be difficult to comprehend! 

• Read as much literature as you can handle. Textbooks are great for basic knowledge, but when you get to a problem or animal you want to understand better, turn to the primary literature! Reading papers is not especially hard once you grasp the jargon, but getting hold of them can be. Join ResearchGate to get access to a lot of literature, and what you cannot get access to, you may find other ways to access…

• Learn to handle reptiles and amphibians. Do so with non-dangerous things, and with care and respect for the animals, ideally with the supervision of a more experienced person. This is really crucial for later work, and I always am exasperated by young students who clearly have never held a snake before but can identify dozens of them.

• Try to keep abreast of at least the major changes in taxonomy and understanding of the origins of reptiles and amphibians. 

• Wrap your mind around the fact that birds are reptiles, crocodiles are more closely related to them than they are to squamates, and tuataras are not lizards, but snakes are.

• Learn the word squamate, and try to use it and other technical terms in favour of more layman, less accurate terms. 

• Try to get a general impression for the families or at least orders of reptiles and amphibians. Don’t get into the embarrassing situation that you have never heard of gymnophiones or various obscure lizard groups. While depth of knowledge on one or two groups is almost inevitable, do not forget to try to glean holistic insights.

• Realise how often some evolutionary transitions happen, and what that might mean. Frogs repeatedly converging on the same niches. Lizards losing their limbs literally hundreds of times, from cordylids to geckos to anguids to skinks. Geckos re-evolving their adhesive toe pads repeatedly. 

• Try to read primary literature as it comes out, but know that at the early stages of your education, an understanding of what has come before is arguably more important than an understanding of what is going on now. Hence, read your textbooks!

And that is all of my advice for now. I am sure there are things I have forgotten, and I would be happy to expand this in the future—please let me know if there are any specific areas in which I can offer further help in urging you toward your herpetological career. And good luck!

[mrs-tall-librarian]

I feel like I'm in a bit of a quarter-life/identity crisis.

About junior year of high school (maybe even sophomore?) I decided I wanted to be a band teacher. This decision was spurred on by my discovering that I was NOT UP for doing dissections, which meant that vet school would be a big no thank you. I loved being in band and so I thought, "why not be a band teacher? It's fun and I'd get to pick music that's cool and that I like!" (this was my legitimate thought process, I clearly remember talking about that exactly with my best friend, in the library at school, after deciding it). What would it matter that I'd have to get in front of a class and public speak every day, even though I am an introvert who gets anxious at the thought of saying "here" during attendance? It's a fun and easy thing to teach and the kids will all behave because they chose to be there! (Hahahahhahahahahha....)

But that was that, and I was set on becoming a band teacher. College was TOUGH but I perservered and made it through, even leaving behind many people who seemed better equipped for this field. And I even got a job for the fall after graduating.

That's about where this blog came in. I documented my three years at that first school, and even though I remember all of the goos times now, looking back through this blog is hard evidence that I was not totally happy in that situation. A lot of it was the location, and the overehelming amount of work that came with the position (one person doing the jobs of two), but I know that some of it was also my personality. I loved my students though, and most of them really made me want to do my best and continue.

After three years there I really needed a change, most importantly for my mental health. I believe this is where I started losing my focus. I applied for other teaching jobs, willing to give it another chance at a bigger school, but when nothing ever came of it I was happy to be admitted to the music education graduate program at my alma mater. I went in without much plan other than to get my degree and sort of mark time until I could get another job. I just wanted out of my then current situation.

Grad school was great, and I felt much more preparer to take on another teaching job, but at the same time I was beginning to feel like maybe even though I was trained for it, teaching wasn't where I would happiest. When I couldn't find a teaching job I started looking into other things and that's when I came across the opening for the library page position. I had always wanted to work in the library, since high school. I figured this would be as good a time as any, so I applied, interviewed and then got the job. I was so nervous at first, and felt a bit odd doing a job that didn't fit my degrees. But I now feel like I've really found my niche. I absolutely love working at the library. It is the perfect atmosphere for someone like me. I still interact with and occasionally help or teach others, but it's on a much smaller scale, which is how I excell and feel comfortable. I go to work happy every day, rather than dreadful, as I did manuly days as a teacher. I have started looking into requirements for getting a more full time position, and maybe working up to being a true "librarian" someday.

This is where the conflict comes in though. I feel so much like I'm wasting my time if I'm not doing a job that uses my degree. And I feel very pressured from family to get back into teaching. Any comment of how much I enjoy the library is usually met with one about how much I must also miss teaching, and can't I wait to get back to it?

Very recently I came across a job opening, purely by accident, for an assistant band teacher position for the remainder of the 2017-18 school year. My first thought was that maybe I should apply. They seemed desperate for someone, and I'd be making more money in a job like that than my part time at the library. But I'm so happy doing what I'm doing with the library that I just can't bring myself to apply. I told my family about it before I really thought about it, and the pressure I feel from them to apply is high. I just don't think I can though. I want to continue the library path. But I also feel like I'm letting my past self, and everyone who ever helped me become a teacher, down. I feel like I'm giving up.

I do not regret my time in graduate school. I learned so much that I can apply to many other aspects than a music teaching job. And I certainly don't regret my first teaching job. It really made me grow up and become a much better and stronger person than I ever was before. But I feel now like I've found something I really want to try and can see myself doing for a long time. I'm just so anxious about doing what is "right".

This was rambly, so if you read to the end thank you. I mainly needed to just get my thoughts out but any advice if you've been in a similar situation is appreciated.

[howrv]

Wild and Wonderful

Fifty years ago, I left Charleston, West Virginia, leaving behind childhood and teenage memories.  One year ago, we left Nashville and began the journey of our lifetime, a lifestyle switch that required us to open our minds, letting go of possessions, community, and once again saying goodbye to friends and family.  This past month I was transported back to my former self with both pleasant and painful memories.  Visiting Nashville and Charleston in the same week was an introspective look back at my childhood and our Nashville home of 40 years.

Now a Junior High, my alma mater.

The occasion was my 50th Stonewall Jackson High School reunion in Charleston.  Yes, Stonewall Jackson… THE Stonewall Jackson whose likeness is disappearing faster than Cheetos at a Weight Watchers Convention.

Walking into that ballroom full of strange faces, I knew no one, but was familiar with everyone. Black and white yearbook photos of 17-year-old faces pasted to name badges triggered recollections of many who had not been thought of since graduation day. But a few of those badges had memories attached that were powerful.  One person approached me waving his cellphone saying, “I’ve tried to get hold of you.  You wrote something in my yearbook that was so meaningful to me.  I’ve never forgotten it.”  There on his phone was a photo of the handwritten message I had penned 50 years ago in the back of his yearbook.   There was also an old flame who told me I was a “really good kisser.”  I guess some people did remember me.

Becky and I visit the Capitol Building, home of my first job.

Becky and I drove through my old neighborhood, winding into the hills that triggered memories of the people, places and events that shaped who I am.  We walked around the Capitol Building where I worked my first job.  We visited my old church, drove past my elementary school and the place where my junior high once stood.  Interstates and elevated off ramps erased places where I played.  Paint peeled from our old house on Mathews Avenue.  The once manicured yards were much smaller than I had remembered and the white picket fence was gone.  Fifty years had not been kind to the old neighborhood.  

At a fiftieth reunion, everyone is way-past trying to impress.  The only bragging was about grandchildren.  Identities were not hung on what one did, which side of the tracks you lived on or what car you drove… everyone was on the same playing field along with the cheerleaders and football players.  There were designer clothes, some in their thrift-store best, and Becky and me in our REI finest.  There were school teachers, doctors, an ICE agent, social workers and military vets, mostly all retired.  Cell phones were busy recording faces pleated with age lines and proudly displaying grandchildren and even great grandchildren.

There in that room with dancing, conversing and celebrating, I found myself paralyzed by emotions.  These people were me.

At The Greenbriar

I believe every phase of your life requires that you let go of your past.  I have let go many times but the net gain has been the lessons of the painful and memories of the sublime.  My craving for adventure is what propels me.  It matters not which way I go, there seems to be adventure at every corner of the compass. Memories have taken me back but dreams will carry me forward.  There are too many places to see and more memories to make.

I was once again at home in West Virginia because Home Is Where You Park It.

[pikapepikachuu]

Cited in the Russia report 65 times, her notes became Mueller's Nixon tapes

The scribe keeping track of the President's actions was Annie Donaldson, McGahn's chief of staff, a loyal and low-profile conservative lawyer who figures in the Mueller report as one of the most important narrators of internal White House turmoil.

Former White House counsel Don McGahn, pictured with Donald Trump, in August, 2018.Credit:AP Her daily habit of documenting conversations and meetings provided the special counsel's office with its version of the Nixon White House tapes: a running account of the President's actions, albeit in sentence fragments and concise descriptions. Among the episodes memorialised in Donaldson's notes and memos: the President's outrage when FBI director James Comey confirmed the existence of the investigation into possible ties between Russia and the Trump campaign, Trump's efforts to pressure Attorney-General Jeff Sessions not to recuse himself from overseeing the probe and his push to get Mueller disqualified and removed as the special counsel. The Harvard Law School graduate's unflinching words - "Just in the middle of another Russia Fiasco," she wrote on March 2, 2017 - have cast the die-hard Republican in an unfamiliar role: as a truth teller heralded by Trump's foes for providing what they view as proof he is unfit for office. House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler has already signalled that he intends to subpoena Donaldson as a critical witness. Loading Donaldson - who lives in Montgomery, Alabama, where her husband recently got a job as a federal prosecutor - did not respond to requests for comment. She left the White House in December, both proud of her service and also somewhat stung by her experience in Washington, friends said. Those close to Donaldson fear she will be thrust in the middle of the building war between congressional Democrats and the White House. Some privately worry she could become a target of the President, despite having worked hard to help implement his agenda. "My only concern for her now is not getting too caught up in this Washington meat grinder, when she really did the right thing and cooperated as she was directed," said former Republican senator Luther Strange, who hired Donaldson to work in his law firm in Alabama. 'Getting hotter and hotter' As McGahn's chief of staff, Donaldson was charged with managing 30 to 40 lawyers in the counsel's office, getting White House policies legally vetted, keeping judicial nominations on track and working with McGahn on Trump's top priorities. Along the way, she did what virtually all lawyers consider a necessity: kept a record of decisions, disputes, and tasks left to do. Nearly every day, when McGahn emerged from the Oval Office or other West Wing meetings, she would take notes as he recalled significant discussions with the President and his team, according to people familiar with her role. In the case of Nixon, the discovery of his White House taping system provided unquestionable proof of his role in a coverup of his campaign's illegal spying on opponents, precipitating his resignation in 1974. In Trump's case, Donaldson's notes depict McGahn and others as worried that the President could be accused of criminal obstruction - and as seeking to protect him from his impulses. In an entry on March 21, 2017, Donaldson recounts how Trump told McGahn he was furious with the testimony that Comey gave to Congress about the Russia probe the day before, sounding as if he might fire him on the spot. The President felt betrayed that Comey had failed to do as Trump had asked: to tell the public that he was not personally under investigation. "beside himself," she wrote of the President. "getting hotter and hotter, get rid?" McGahn was so concerned that Comey's firing was imminent that the counsel's office drafted a memo analysing the president's legal authority to do so, according to the report.

Annie Donaldson's notes were used extensively in Robert Mueller's report.Credit:ninevms McGahn's lawyer William Burck declined to comment. That day, Trump repeatedly pressured McGahn to get the Justice Department to intervene, Donaldson later told investigators. McGahn then called Assistant Attorney-General Dana Boente asking whether officials could "correct the misperception that the President was under investigation", the report said. At one point, McGahn warned the President that some of the actions he took - such as asking Comey to let go of his investigation of Flynn - could make him vulnerable to accusations of obstruction of justice. "biggest exposure . . . other contacts . . . calls . . . ask re: Flynn," Donaldson wrote that day. White House aides who know Donaldson said they are confident her notes are an accurate account of events in Trump's White House. For her part, Donaldson is dismayed her confidential work product - documenting sensitive conversations with the President that would normally be shielded from public view by executive privilege - is available for all to see, colleagues said. Loading "I doubt she had any notion that these notes would ever end up in anyone's hands, let alone Mueller's," said one former White House official, who requested anonymity to describe internal dynamics. White House advisers expect records of their confidential advice to the president to stay private, probably for decades, until they are released for historical archives. Bob Bauer, who served as White House counsel to President Obama, said Donaldson's notes bring the unprecedented nature of the Trump presidency into immediate focus. "It is impossible to imagine that these extensive notes were taken for any reason other than to document questionable presidential conduct and the counsel's office response," Bauer said. "It speaks volumes to the extraordinary challenges facing lawyers in this White House, and it raises the question: If this is what is necessary for lawyers to do their job, then how is it a job the lawyers should agree to do?" Friends and colleagues said McGahn trusted Donaldson, who worked as his associate at Jones Day, to make tough calls without him and to lead a team of deputies with their own impressive legal pedigrees. He had once compared their work relationship to that of a football coach and a defensive coordinator, according to one colleague. They had walked through all the films and plays together for so long that Donaldson knew his mind. As McGahn drank from a fire hose of meetings, deregulation debates and legal disputes, Donaldson was known for her careful tracking of small details. She met McGahn each morning with a to-do list she wanted him to tackle, and she gave similar lists to deputy counsels and associate lawyers. White House aides praised her ability to get the often prickly factions within the White House to respond to her requests. She sought to make sure McGahn was included in meetings in which some Trump advisers tried to avoid the lawyer's input. She displayed a quiet confidence, often speaking toward the end of a meeting rather than first, and made her points slowly and precisely. "She has a true desire to get things done," her friend and former boss Katie Biber, who worked with Donaldson on the 2008 Mitt Romney presidential campaign. "She's not trying to get credit." Loading "Don may have been the White House counsel, but Annie is the glue that held this all together," she added. There was one major exception to her low-key ways: Donaldson's red Corvette, an older model that once bore the vanity plate "RLL TIDE" in honor of her alma mater, the University of Alabama. She parked the Corvette on West Executive Drive; other senior White House aides would spot it there when they arrived for work and still there when they headed home, as she often arrived at the White House at 7am and stayed until 9pm. "The entire West Wing knew it was her car. It was always there," said one former administration official. "You'd walk in on a Saturday and see it: 'Oh yeah, Annie's already here.'" An unsung hero Donaldson had the legal credentials to pursue a Supreme Court clerkship, but she was smitten with politics, friends said. She joined Romney's presidential campaign in 2007, and when he lost the Republican primary to John McCain, she applied to Harvard Law. At Harvard, she served as both an editor of the Harvard Law Review and executive editor of its conservative sister publication, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, a bastion of the Federalist Society. After graduating, she got a job as an associate lawyer at Patton Boggs, where she met McGahn. She worked for Romney's second presidential bid as a campaign lawyer in 2012, and then followed McGahn to work for him at Jones Day. There, she joined him in his work as legal counsel for the Trump campaign. At the White House, Donaldson played a significant role in helping push forward Trump's judicial nominations; a record 30 were seated on federal appellate courts in his first two years, double the amount of any previous administration. Loading "Annie is going to go down in history as a real unsung hero of the judicial nominations process," Biber said. But one nomination painfully singed Donaldson and her husband Brett Talley. Trump nominated Talley for a federal-district court seat in Alabama, but he was among a rare handful of nominees the American Bar Association rated "not qualified". Talley, who was a deputy in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Policy, had never tried a case in court. He withdrew his nomination amid questions that he failed to disclose he was married to a White House lawyer on public forms asking if any of his family could create potential conflicts. Donaldson had recused herself from his nomination. 'What about these notes?' After just eight months in the job, Donaldson would learn her notes were going to be turned over to federal investigators. Trump reacted angrily when he learned from a news report in February 2018 that McGahn kept a written record of their encounters, according to Mueller's report. "What about these notes? Why do you take notes?" Trump asked McGahn during a tense Oval Office confrontation. "Lawyers don't take notes. I never had a lawyer who took notes." (McGahn told investigators Trump was referring to Donaldson's notes, which the President thought of as McGahn's.) McGahn responded to the President that he keeps notes because he is a "real lawyer" and explained that notes create a record and are not a bad thing, according to the report. Trump replied: "I've had a lot of great lawyers, like Roy Cohn. He did not take notes." In the end, the President's desire for the investigation to come to a close ultimately led to the release of Donaldson's precise description of events. In an effort to speed up Mueller's review, then-White House lawyer Ty Cobb embraced a strategy of turning over all the administration's records to Mueller. McGahn privately warned that the approach would force him to divulge highly sensitive and privileged communications, and increase the chances that they would become public. His forecast proved true. 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CANTLON: PACK LAST FULL HOME WEEKEND OF PLAY

BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT - The Hartford Wolf Pack have a pair of weekend games in which they seek to snap a five-game losing streak against the Utica Comets Saturday night and the Binghamton Devils Sunday afternoon. The task got a bit harder on Thursday when defenseman Ryan Lindgren was recalled for a second time likely to play in either one or both of the Rangers last two regular season games against Columbus and Pittsburgh. You can just call them the Hartford Junior Wolf Pack for the final two weekends of play. In addition to Lindgren’s recall, the Rangers announced the signing of two more collegians and recent junior hockey signing to ATO deals and sent two players back to Maine. Pack added collegiate forward in Harvard’s Lewis Zerter-Gossage. A Montreal area native, Gossage completed his four-years at Harvard after playing two years of prep hockey at Kent School. Current New York Rangers head coach David Quinn and player Boo Nieve also attended the western Connecticut private school. Hartford signed a local Springfield college product, Shawn McBride, the captain of American International College (AIC) from the AHA conference. He will likely play this weekend as will Gossage. AIC knocked off St. Cloud State in their first-ever NCAA Division 1 tourney game in one of the biggest upsets in college hockey history. He is the second McBride to play for the Wolf Pack in team history. Brock McBride played eight games in the 2008-09 season but is no relation. He is presently an assistant coach with the Cornwall Colts (CCHL) one of the 10 Junior A leagues in Canada. The junior player is Jake Elmer of the Lethbridge Hurricanes (WHL). He was signed last month and arrives here after Lethbridge dropped a seven-game first round series to the Calgary Hitmen, four games to three. They lost Game 7, 4-2. Elmer had a goal and six points in that first-round matchup. Through 68 regular-season games, Elmer was third in team scoring with 81 points with a team-leading 39 goals. The Hurricanes finished second in the WHL Central Division with a record of 40-18-5-5 and second highest offensive output in the WHL with 268 goals. One of his junior teammates, Jake Lechyshyn, a Las Vegas draftee, is the son of former Hartford Whaler, Curt Lechyshyn, who tallied ten points in the series tops in the WHL. One of his opponents for Calgary the son of Ed Kastelic, another Whaler, in Mark Kastelic. Two players were returned to the Maine Mariners. Ty Ronning had four goals and five points in 23 games, and Terrence Wallin, who was returned for the third time this season, has just one assist in 23 games. The Wolf Pack have an influx of junior and college players. One of them has a Connecticut address, Ryan Dmowski. The East Lyme born forward, a veteran of four games, Dmowski played at UMASS–Lowell, but his hockey GPS has landed in various parts of New England. Dmowski played against UCONN at the XL Center back on November 16th tallying two goals in a 5-2 win over the Huskies. Dmowski garnered the game’s First Star and was on the ice for the opening shift. “I had about 40 friends and family in the stands that night. It was a good game and I liked playing here when I was with UMASS (Lowell). I loved the atmosphere, and so far, the crowd has been awesome to me and I am very happy to be here.” Finding his way to Hartford was something special. “It’s been amazing; a dream come true to go pro, and even more special being here in Hartford. (I'm) just thrilled to get the opportunity. To be honest, I never thought I would be back here to start my career in Connecticut. (It's) kinda crazy how it works.” He talked with Providence and a few other AHL teams, but the best opportunity came from the Rangers. His hockey road map started in Rhode Island at age seven. After school, his grandfather would take him to North Smithfield, Rhode Island. It's an hour away each time to begin his first skate lengths of hockey. “I would get out of school, and my grandfather picked me up or my dad (Dave). All the dedication we both put in was incredible, and all worth it so far,” Dmowski said with a smile. When he finished Bantam-level play, he headed in the opposite direction and played for the Springfield Junior Falcons program when after his freshmen high school year, he put a new address in the GPS for Gunnery prep school in Washington, CT closer to New York state than Connecticut. “To be honest, I had no idea there was a Washington, Connecticut until I went there,” Dmowski said with a laugh, who had a fellow Highlander (Gunnery’s nickname) Terrence Wallin, older by three years, just sent back to Maine on the Wolf Pack roster, “(It's) kinda weird we took about the same hockey path and wound up here.” He went to a few P-Bruins and Wolf Pack games as a kid, but he spent more time honing his craft and schoolwork. His adjustment to the Wolf Pack has been a stretch playing with a new line almost every game. “It's been a bit stressful, but part of being a pro, and I’ve been doing a pretty good job getting to know everybody and a new line this week too.” Pack head coach, Keith McCambridge had Dmowski with Bobby Butler, the vet, and newcomer Shawn McBride. Butler, Dmowski, and McBridge…sounds like a law firm. “It’s so different here. The speed is so much different just getting used to that now. I’m just trying to get the puck in and not rushing myself and taking my time and learning to keep my feet moving and developing that confidence I’m gonna be good to go.” McCambridge likes what he's seen so far. “He carries himself well. He is a big body, has played well with the puck, and he's handled several different situations well.” It's audition time for the 2019-20 Wolf Pack roster for Dmowksi and his GPS will be putting in another address for the summer. ‘My girlfriend is going to graduate school at Sacred Heart University (Bridgeport) so we're looking for a place between Hartford and Bridgeport now.” The pro hockey map Dmowski has just begun. NOTES: A story has been was broken by the Rangers long-time beat writer Larry Brooks of the New York Post on Thursday that Glen Sather’s stepping down as Rangers President. Sather's retirement makes an already complicated offseason going to be a palace of intrigue as to where the deck chairs will fall. With Sather’s departure, expect Jim Schoenfeld, who held the post as Hartford GM for 10 years and was a head coach for one and who has been Sather’s right-hand man, will likely also get a golden parachute by either retirement or might find another new gig. The question now is who will be promoted or hired to take the upper echelon reigns? Jeff Gorton, Sather's hand-picked successor, is the present GM. Will he make the move upstairs or add this role to his portfolio? Chris Drury, the present assistant GM, and Hartford GM, could he be promoted? Will there be an overhaul of the entire Rangers scouting staff, professional North America, Europe, and amateur by a new team President? How will the Wolf Pack be affected? They're on the verge of a potential sub-par, below .500 season. What will happen with its coaching staff? How will a future team President feel about Hartford and the unresolved XL Center business? The Rangers also have serious player-personnel decisions to make in New York and Hartford in relation to next year’s cap space and with a looming potential labor stoppage in two years, and yes, the expansion draft in three years when Seattle enters the NHL family. Many questions to be answered over the next three and half months in preparation for the NHL Draft in Vancouver on the organization direction under a new regime. Read more HERE NEWS & NOTES This next story is without a doubt the best hockey story of the year. Former AHL player and now Pro Scout for the Arizona Coyotes, Craig Cunningham, who nearly died two years before an AHL game in Tucson, and by the true Grace of God is still among us, released a video showing him skating with his prosthetic leg at the San Diego Gulls practice facility. It was simply amazing, spectacular great news for a young man who suffered so much and has triumphed in the most outstanding way. Hope he gets some shifts in a game in a league where there isn’t as much hitting or contact-like in the Asia League Ice Hockey (ALIH) or in Australia (AIHL) and New Zealand (NZIHL) to end his career as a player, not as a heart attack victim. Read more HERE Despite having the same last name, the reporter in that story is of no relation. With the arrival of McBride, and Zerter-Gossage, plus Quinnipiac’s Brandon Fortunato signing with Nashville (NHL), the number of Division I players that have signed is up to 150 and that the total number of college players that have signed over the past month is 168. The first college coach signing as Chris Bergeron after nine season leaves the Bowling Green Falcons (WCHA) to take the reigns of his alma mater Miami (OH) RedHawks (NCHC). Bergeron, graduated in 1993 when the school won its first conference title (CCHA at that time) and made their first NCAA tournament appearance. The NCAA announced the three finalists for the Hobey Baker Award that will be given out in Buffalo next weekend at the site of the NCAA’s Frozen Four. It's a hat trick of finalists for the Hobey Baker Award. All three finalists are defensemen. Senior Jordan Schuldt, St. Cloud State Huskies (NCHC) who just signed an NHL free agent deal with the Vegas Golden Knights. The second is junior Adam Fox of Harvard who is a Carolina Hurricanes draft pick who is weighing whether to sign or wait another year and go the free agent route. Then there's UMASS-Amherst Minutemen sophomore Cale Makar, a Colorado Avalanche draft pick who is likely to go pro after next weekend. A unique college commit right from a CT prep school in Cooper Moore (Cos Cob) Brunswick School (Greenwich) with North Dakota (NCHC). Overseas we see former Whaler great Sami Kapanen retains his franchise owner and Chairman of the Board title with KalPa Kuopio (Finland-FEL) but relinquished his head coaching duties to take the job as head coach with HC Lugano (Switzerland-LNA) in the fall. His son Kasperi skated with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Ex-Sound Tiger goalie, C.J. Motte, who has played most of the season with Allen (ECHL) and some games with Iowa signs with HC Innsbruck (Austria-EBEL) for next season. Philippe Hudon, who played prep school hockey at Choate Rosemary Hall (Wallingford) after finishing his Canadian collegiate career with the Concordia Stingers (Montreal) (OUAA0 played 14 games with seven points for Florida (ECHL) was loaned to Laval (AHL). Read the full article

[chust1n]

my yearly update and self-reflection post i guess

First off, looks like I’m still gonna be using this hellhole site because I have nowhere else to vent about whatever and because staff hasn’t completely killed me off or most of the porn on here so hell yeah. 

Bad news first.

My mother was recently fired from her job after 16 years of working there. This heavily affects me because I choose to live with her over my dad who makes enough to support 3 families. We’re going through the process of unemployment together (I was laid off of my seasonal job a few months ago) and it’s just been real hard for the both of us and I just feel it’s not fair that she and I have been the “poor” part of the family compared to everyone else even before she lost her job. I can’t help but feel like a goddamn degenerate living with her with no job, but I’m trying my best here, and she knows it. We rely on each other too much to just separate. 

Funny how she and I are the first-born children of our respective parents, but we’re getting the least amount of support from them (My dad gave his vet benefits to my half-brothers, leaving me to beg him for out-of-pocket cash to pay for college). I know we’re not supposed to expect things to be handed out to us, but I’d hate to see one of my own children suffer (which is why I don’t plan on having any), so why not help? idk. I’m done with this topic for now. 

The good? I finally had a real job over the Summer, and by “real”, I mean one not as a student worker at my alma mater, which I have been graduated from for 1 year already. It was fun while it lasted, much like the one Tinder date I went on back in April. Saw and sucked my first pair of tiddies; came on ‘em too. 

I’ve said this on my Tinder profile, but I don’t know what I’m looking for in a partner anymore. A relationship? FWB? Cuddle buddy? Hand holding? a mf kiss? Overall, I crave intimacy and physical touch and I think I spoke about this in last year’s post but I’ve just been so deprived at this point that I’m going fuckin’ nuts. 

uh oh, Chustin’s about to go off on girls and start callin’ names (and not those fake pen names that I used to make up)

My ex hit me up a lot (by my standards) last year. She was sending me my first ever nudes, and quite a lot of em (again, by my standards). This year, I barely got to hear from her which was kinda odd to me but girls can just do whatever they want, won’t they? Maybe it’s a good thing? Kinda miss her tho, not just the nudes. Only person here I’m not gonna name-drop. 

Speaking of checking up on people that you shouldn’t be even thinking of, any of you remember Nicole? This blog even has a history with her, and my 15-year old self would kill me if he found out I was checking up on her, but curiosity got the best of me. She’s doing fine, as I expected. That’s it. Somehow I feel peace. A little bit. 

Keony, I’m sorry for that pathetic interaction I gave early this year. If you’re somehow reading this or hearing about it, just know that my door’s always open. I won’t call you anymore (at least, until my lonely dumbass does). 

Mel... or whatever your real name is... I know shit’s usually one-and-done through tinder, but goddamn I at least wish you’d text me back instead of disappearing off the face of the Earth. (Like, seriously, it’s like I met up with a ghost or something because there is like no trace of her lol) 

... maybe this is why I’m single lol

*sigh* here’s to whatever the next year has

[blackpjensen]

Get To Know Martin Flores

Martin Flores is the director of urban design and planning for San Diego’s Rick Engineering Co., a 60-year-old multidisciplinary planning, design and engineering firm that has grown to 430 employees and nine offices.

Flores oversees efforts in all five California offices. He and his staff manage large- and small-scale land-use planning and development; land entitlements; master planning; redevelopment; streetscapes; wayfinding and gateway signage; and river and urban park projects throughout California, Arizona, Colorado and Mexico. In addition, his team performs public outreach and supports participatory design endeavors, particularly with public realm improvements, civic buildings, community centers and parks.

Before joining Rick Engineering, Flores served for 15 years as the senior urban planner and landscape architect for the San Jose Redevelopment Agency. In that capacity, he designed and managed land development and public realm improvements and completed streetscape, lighting and signage design guidelines as well as neighborhood, river and urban park projects throughout San Jose.

A graduate of California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo in landscape architecture, Flores has guest lectured at Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley and San Jose State University. He is a board member of Lambda Alpha International. Other memberships include the Downtown San Diego Partnership, Urban Land Institute, American Planning Association and the American Society of Landscape Architects. He is the past chair of the Landscape Architecture Design Council at his alma mater and most recently served as a panelist at the 2015 LABash, an annual student-led landscape architecture conference hosted each year since 1970.

PHOTOS: MARTIN FLORES

Proudest moments in business: My most satisfying moments are when I see a project I helped design or manage come to life. Most of my work is in the public realm. It begins with an idea that needs to be vetted through a political process, continues through funding and design processes and ends with construction. This may take many years and often includes the delicate negotiation of trade-offs and consideration of alternatives. This takes patience and persistence, but in the end, if and when it is built and people are enjoying or engaging in the space, that is my greatest joy.

I also started as a lecturer at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and was one of the original founders of the Landscape Architecture Design Council. This opportunity to mentor and teach students by “giving back” is rewarding. There is significant reward when students contact me years later about how I made an impact on their careers and lives. That is an unbelievably proud feeling.

Biggest business challenges: One is the creation of new public and private environments in older communities. Many times the existing infrastructure is aging or failing, requirements for stormwater control are challenging, and in some communities denser developments are misunderstood or opposed. Our public and private clients are looking at strategies to solve these issues. Sometimes these strategies are at odds with each other. My background in redevelopment and working for a multidisciplinary firm enables me to more easily solve the problems with creative, sustainable solutions.

Second, because of the economic upswing, our middle- to upper-management staff members are looking for more opportunities to advance their salaries and careers. We are being challenged to provide

adequate compensation and find qualified people to fill the void.

Landscape design/build inspiration: I love to travel and read the entire range of books and periodicals about building and design. My travel often takes me to cities where I love to walk and ride public transportation. I can see how spaces work, touch new and different materials and get a personal feeling of being in the spaces. I request and read the periodicals from our Geographic Information Systems, engineering, water resources, lighting, graphic design, planning and landscape architecture divisions. They all provide me with a much deeper understanding and appreciation of the synergy among the disciplines and the role each plays in a quality outcome.

Favorite plant or plant combination: I like all varieties of Japanese maples for their delicate trunks and branch and leaf structures. Their colors and form offer a textural foreground or background, providing a beautiful accent for nearly every occasion.

Monday morning motivation: I am motivated by the joy of my work, projects, co-workers and clients. They all work together. Sometimes one motivates me over the other. I have truly been very lucky to be surrounded by very talented people who care about how and what they do.

Business worry that keeps you up at night: I worry about maintaining a steady client base and taking care of the people who work with and for me and their families.

Landscape design mentor: Very early on, I just knew I would be in the design field. I was mesmerized when I saw photographs of the seminal work of Mexican architect Luis Barragán. I felt an instant connection as he transformed the International Style into a vibrant, sensuous Mexican aesthetic by adding vivid colors and textural contrasts and accentuating his buildings’ natural surroundings. He convinced me that the use of color, form and a simple and very limited palette of materials can be dynamic and everlasting.

I also have been really fortunate to collaborate with some very talented people and design firms over my career, including George Hargreaves, Tom Adiala, Cheryl Barton, Royston Hanamoto Alley & Abey and SWA. Their combined talents and approaches have really been my mentors.

Favorite business or landscape design book: I am an avid reader, constantly looking at any and all books about design. I designated one part of my office as a library, where I read about planning, landscape architecture, development, sports, fashion or graphics on my lunch hour. There are four or five stacks of reading materials that I keep just in case one of my projects requires research. Sometimes, when clients or staff members visit my office, they need to sit next to one of the stacks. This can be embarrassing, but then I realize it helps reinforce to my visitors how I appreciate that design is not fixed in time, but is evolving, obligating me to stay abreast of these trends.

Project that makes you smile every time you see it: That would be the streetscapes, river parks, urban corridors and multifamily housing units in downtown San Jose that I worked on for 15 years with the San Jose Redevelopment Agency. My daughters still live in San Jose, so I have many opportunities to see how my projects are holding up and, in some cases, aging. I know practically every tree, utility box and element of public realm infrastructure there. Whenever I walk in downtown San Jose, I get such a feeling of accomplishment.

Five-year business projection: The projection, if it tracks anything like the past 12 months, is that we are going to be very busy. There’s every sign that we will be starting projects that have been dormant for years. I see the public and private sectors becoming more active. Our offices in California, Arizona and Colorado are becoming very busy, which is a very good indicator of things to come. In the next five years, I look forward to the challenges of a new set of design issues, such as water management, aging infrastructure, environmental compliance and environmental stewardship. I also like challenges, and in the next five years, I want to push myself to teach, learn and advance the craft.

Connect with Martin Flores

Website: http://ift.tt/2yKSlQ2

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YouTube: http://youtube.com/user/Rickis3D

Editor’s note: This article was originally published in September 2015.

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