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A Sense of Awe and Wonder
Welcome to the July Mindful Mama Carnival: Mindfulness and Nature
This post was written for inclusion in the Mindful Mama Carnival hosted by Becoming Crunchy and TouchstoneZ. This month our participants have shared their experiences of mindfulness and the natural world. Please read to the end to find a list of links to the other carnival participants.
It's not exactly a term I would use to describe myself. Serene…meditative…peaceful…
Yeah – not so much.
But mindfulness is something I will always strive toward, no matter how long it takes me to get 'there' (wherever there ends up being) or how hopeless it often seems. Because those words…mindful, serene, meditative, peaceful…they roll around my tongue like refreshing sips of the coolest, cleanest water.
I'm thirsty for them – I crave them. And while they don't seem to come naturally to me, it is the natural world that so often gets me to that place of being mindfully fulfilled when nothing else can.
I am in total awe of nature. Read the rest of this entry »
Mindful Mama Carnival – Call For Submissions {July}
We all talk about how we want to bring more connectedness into our lives. We may want to connect with spirit, our bodies, acceptance, forgiveness or simply to find peace. Whether you already have a practice that centers you or you want to have a practice, but haven't yet begun, here is a chance to write about what keeps you going or keeps you from starting and read what others are experiencing on their own journeys.
Kelly from Becoming Crunchy and Zoie from TouchstoneZ are pleased to announce the Fifth Mindful Mama Carnival.
Topic: Mindfulness and Nature
For this month's carnival, we invite you to explore how the natural world affects you. Getting outside can be a boon to a weary mind. Just being in nature can spark creativity, renew energy or create greater connection to self.
You don't have to have regular access to a nature area to write about this. Some people find houseplants or simply being somewhere that foliage can be seen is enough to produce a more mindful state of being. This carnival gives you a chance to think creatively about what nature and mindfulness mean to you and your family.
Some suggestions:
- Try a walking meditation or simply walk in a natural setting, noticing and breathing.
- Garden, inside or out, taking note of your feelings and thoughts.
- Do any activity you enjoy inside, outside.
- Sit and gaze at plants or try a meditation while passively looking.
- Find some sunshine and some green leaves and feel the effects they have on you.
Whatever experience you choose to explore, we hope you will join us by writing about mindfulness and nature. Your post can be of a personal nature or a researched piece, with full citations.
Remember, these are just suggestions to get your creative juices flowing. You don't have to have a goal and you don't have to succeed in your mindfulness practice in order to participate. It is the experience from your unique perspective that we are looking for.
Submissions Deadline: Friday, June 29, 2012. Fill out the webform (at the link or at the bottom) and email your submission to mindfulmamacarnival{at}gmail{dot}com by 11:59 p.m. Pacific time (please note the new email address).
Carnival date: Thursday, July 5, 2012. Before you post, we will send you an email with a little blurb in html to paste into your submission that will introduce the carnival. You will publish your post on July 5 before 9am PST and email us the link if you haven't done so already. Once everyone's posts are published on July 5 by 9am PST, we will send out a finalized list of all the participants' links to generate lots of link love for your site. We'll include full instructions in the email we send before the posting date.
If you have any questions, you are welcome to contact us: mindfulmamacarnival{at}gmail{dot}com
We hope you'll join us in this challenge to create more mindfulness in your life. Please submit your post on the form below by Friday, June 29th, 11:59pm PST and have your post up on Thursday, June 5th by 9am PST. We will send you code for the top and bottom of your post that will link to any other participants in the carnival by Wednesday, July 4th, with final update on July 5th.
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Mindfulness in the Kitchen – an Everyday Challenge
Welcome to the March Mindful Mama Carnival: Mindful Mama Challenge
This post was written for inclusion in the Mindful Mama Carnival hosted by Becoming Crunchy and TouchstoneZ. This month our participants have challenges they've set for themselves toward becoming more mindful. Please read to the end to find a list of links to the other carnival participants.
Over the past few months as I've had this carnival in mind, I've been challenging myself to become more mindful in everyday, 'monotonous' tasks – things like cleaning, putting the little one to bed – even laundry – but most of all, in my cooking.
Cooking is something I've always enjoyed but over the past year as I've become both more busy than I've ever been and more aware of the importance of consuming real, healthy food, the act of cooking itself has become something of an obsession for me – and not always in a good way.
I have begun to develop very high ideals that frequently crash with the reality of a background of fake food and rushed dinners – all too often it just leaves me feeling disappointed and unhappy with myself when I fail.
And yet the joy of providing a truly healthy, nutrient and colour filled meal for my family is just…indescribable. It leaves me feeling so fulfilled and at peace…sometimes for days when I get on a good roll – sometimes just until the next meal.
It may seem strange to talk so of food, but in all my journey of becoming more healthful, mindful and respectful of the environment around me and the resources I consume, food has been and continues to be absolutely the biggest challenge.
This awareness of what I am doing when I provide a meal for my family began when Bean was tiny. When I made her bottles, some pride and joy just welled up in me. I would think on some level, "I am caring in one of the most basic and important ways for the dearest person to me on this earth by providing her good, safe and clean food to eat." (I'm sure breastfeeding moms have felt similarly, if not more so)
I began, slowly but surely, to learn more and more, and to develop what I like to think of as my own personal food philosophy. I won't go into all that here, but to repeat that it's been at times an extremely frustrating journey. My personal mindfulness challenge in the everyday act of cooking has taken me several long steps along the path toward the goal I have in mind.
In The Organic Family Cookbook, Anni Daulter shares:
I learned how to cook at a Zen Buddhist community called Tassajara, in Carmel Valley, CA. They taught me the art of conscious community cooking, where each of us was responsible for one ingredient, and we had to put our full love and attention to it, whether it was chopping tomatoes, picking over lettuce leaves, baking, or cooking rice. That's because it's all sacred, every job. Bringing our presence and full awareness to our cooking and allowing our children to have special jobs in the kitchen ends up creating a community meal that is filled with love and tastes great. I have found that this lesson also translates to other aspects of our lives. The more we practice living in the moment, the more we appreciate each one.
Though it's a bit of a different twist, the book Like Water for Chocolate puts me in a similar mindset.
What both of these express in better words than I could is the importance of consciousness and mindfulness in the kitchen. There are 4 areas in particular in which I've been challenging myself to this ideal: Read the rest of this entry »
Looking Back ~ A Mindful Mama Carnival Wrap-Up
Zoie of TouchstoneZ started the Mindful Mama Carnival in June of 2011 on a whim. She posted a call for submissions hoping to find a couple of other bloggers who might be interested in writing about it (even planning to beg some friends to write, if no one signed up!)
But, sign up they did, and the submissions sent exceeded all her expectations!
As the second Mindful Mama Carnival approached, I was honored to be asked by Zoie to co-host the carnival together with her. I was so pleased to say yes – Zoie is one of my favorite bloggers (and favorite people!) and the whole Mindful Mama project is just amazing to be a part of – there is no lack of inspiration here!
Zoie and I have been so blessed to have so many talented writers join us in exploring issues around parenting and living mindfully. We have enjoyed reading every post and watching the connections between the MindMaCar community grow.
Before we look ahead to 2012, we wanted to share a wrap-up of of the 2011 Mindful Mama Carnivals… Read the rest of this entry »
This post was written for inclusion in the Mindful Mama Blog Carnival hosted by hosted by Kelly of Becoming Crunchy and Zoie of TouchstoneZ. Participants are writing posts about what mindfulness mean to them. Please read to the end to find a list of links to the other carnival participants.
"If thou could'st empty all thyself of self,
Like to a shell dishabited,
Then might He find thee on the ocean shelf,
And say, "This is not dead,"
And fill thee with Himself instead.
But thou art all replete with very thou
And hast such shrewd activity,
That when He comes He says, "This is enow
Unto itself – 'twere better let it be,
It is so small and full, there is no room for me."
~ Sir Thomas Browne, as quoted in A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle
Mindfulness…meditation…they mean different things to me (and I daresay all of us) at different times and different places in life.
I quoted the above passage because Madeleine L'Engle is one of the people who has made me think most about what being mindful means, and the book it's from talks a lot about meditation and the release of 'self' to simply 'be'.
I'll have more to say on that shortly, but first I wanted to explain my title – what do I mean by derailed? Read the rest of this entry »
Mindful Mama Blog Carnival ~ Call for Submissions
We all talk about how we want to bring more connectedness into our lives. We may want to connect with spirit, our bodies, acceptance, forgiveness or simply to find peace. Whether you already have a practice that centers you or you want to have a practice, but haven't yet begun, here is a chance to write about what keeps you going or keeps you from starting and read what others are experiencing on their own journeys.
I am so pleased to join Zoie of TouchstoneZ in presenting the Second Mindful Mama Carnival.
Topic: What does being mindful mean to you?
Do you have a mindfulness practice? Is mindfulness something that you try to cultivate in your life? How does living mindfully appear and feel in your life? Is there something that prevents you from living the your life as mindfully as you wish? Let us know what mindfulness looks like in your life. Thank you to Rachel @ The Variegated Life for the topic suggestion
Deadline: Thursday, September 15. Fill out the webform (at the link or at the bottom) and email your submission to BOTH Zoie and Kelly by 11:59 p.m. Pacific time: zoie{dot}touchstonez{at} gmail{dot}com and kelly{at}becomingcrunchy{dot}com
Carnival date: Thursday, September 22. Before you post, we will send you an email with a little blurb in html to paste into your submission that will introduce the carnival. You will publish your post on September 22 before 9am PST and email us the link if you haven't done so already. Once everyone's posts are published on September 22 by 9am PST, we will send out a finalized list of all the participants' links to generate lots of link love for your site. We'll include full instructions in the email we send before the posting date.
I hope you'll join us in writing about what mindfulness means to you. Please submit your post on the form below by Thursday, September 15th 11:59pmPST and have your post up on Thursday, September 22nd. We will send you code for the top and bottom of your post that will link to any other participants in the carnival Wednesday, September 21st with final update on September 22nd.
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Guest Posts!
I am so honored to be guest posting at two wonderful blogs today:
TouchstoneZ and Little Hearts/Gentle Parenting Resources
Zoie from TouchstoneZ is one of my most favorite bloggers (and mamas!) and I was happy to share a post on her site about Mindfulness Through Story, or what it means to me to become more aware through mindfulness and how I am best able to achieve that.
"Cultures and religions throughout the ages have relied on the power of story to convey understanding. Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed – they all taught through story (or parables, as some would call them). And these 3 are not the exception to the rule – pretty much every group of people out there in the world that you can find are just about bursting at the seams with story."
Story is a hugely important theme in my life – sharing our stories, learning from others - it is why I've loved reading so long, and it is why I blog.
I hope you get the chance to stop by TouchstoneZ to check out my post, and while you're there be sure to look around – you won't be disappointed! Read the rest of this entry »
Sunday Surf – June 26, 2011
I was NOT happy when I woke up this morning.
I'm never normally happy upon waking…I'm not one of those people who jumps out of bed with joy to greet the day. But usually by the time I've visited the bathroom and brushed my teeth I'm fairly good to go – as long as coffee follows soon after.
This morning though, I was still washing my hands and getting ready to brush my teeth when my husband called me downstairs to look at my daughter's poopy diaper.
You'd think by now he could deal with this stuff on his own??
The reason he needed my assistance was the fact that there were 'strange looking' things in there (the remains of solid food she hadn't digested) and he was worried. I told him what it was and grumbled back upstairs to brush my teeth.
Then she was acting tired and it was her naptime, so I attempted to get her to sleep for half an hour, which seemed more like 3 hours as I hadn't yet had my coffee.
Finally we gave it up as a bad job and came downstairs, where I cried and told my husband all about how this was the worst morning ever – especially as he was leaving in 20 minutes to go help someone move and I had to deal with it all by myself and I wouldn't be able to eat breakfast or have coffee or anything and it was all terrible.
Yes, I am not a morning person. Read the rest of this entry »
Mindful Mama…Who, Me?
Welcome to the First Mindful Mama Carnival
This post was written for inclusion in the Mindful Mama Blog Carnival hosted by Zoie at TouchstoneZ. Participants are writing posts about what mindful practices mean to them, how they parent mindfully, obstacles to mindful practice and experiences along the way. Please read to the end to find a list of links to the other carnival participants.
I've been thinking about what I might write for this and finding it difficult. In most ways, I feel that I am not what you would call a Mindful Mama!
I've always had trouble with practicing anything like meditation, focusing on my breathing or a mantra…I get bored or distracted or just want to do something else – the ideas sound really good to me, but I've never been able to make any sort of long term commitment to them!
On the other hand, I think I need to do something. I become angry too easily; I get stressed to easily. I find sleep difficult at the best of times and need something beyond zoning out in a book or online to recharge.
Swimming is one place that I really find I am able to focus – particularly on breath – but when there are other (frequently annoying) people there with me in the lane, I get thrown off pretty easily.
Walking is another place that lets me just 'BE' – absorbing the beauty of nature and drinking it all in – it helps me feel at peace. But again, I usually have distractions – wearing the Bean, making sure neither of us are getting too much sun or bug bites, trying to control the dog.
I'm all too open to having my attention drawn away. Read the rest of this entry »


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Dayton Daily News (Ohio)
BYLINE: By Andrew J. Tobias
Three people on Thursday filed a lawsuit in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court seeking to put a stop to Dayton's automated camera ticketing program.
The lawsuit asks a judge to declare Dayton's red-light and speed cameras unconstitutional and seeks class-action status. The plaintiffs are three Dayton residents whose vehicles were towed once the city last month began to enforce unpaid camera-issued tickets.
The lawsuit names the City of Dayton and RedFlex, the company owns and operates the city's cameras, and seeks more than $50,000 in damages. It argues that the cameras are unconstitutional, among other reasons, because they bypass due process.
Attorney Mike Dyer, who is representing the three drivers, said he expects his case to succeed where others have failed because it is the first in Ohio to question using towing to enforce camera-issued tickets. The Ohio Supreme Court ruled in 2008 the cameras are legal.
"I can't imagine the judge looking at what they're doing to people and saying this is OK. The city should be very ashamed of what they're doing," Dyer said.
City spokesman Tom Biedenharn declined to comment. City officials have said towing to enforce the cameras is legal, and that the cameras have helped reduce crashes.
The tickets issued by the cameras are different from traditional tickets in that they are civil violations, and not criminal citations. Instead of going to court, tickets from cameras go through a separate administrative process.
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Cameron speech: We are here to fight
David Cameron has said the Conservatives have "never been more up for the task of turning our country around", at the party's spring conference in London.
The prime minister sought to reassure grassroots members about the party's direction after its defeat at last month's Eastleigh by-election.
The poll loss has prompted some Tories to demand a shift to the right.
Mr Cameron told party activists: "We are here to fight. We are here to win."
He said that with fewer than 1,000 days until the next general election, activists needed to get the party's message out and "win the majority our country desperately needs".
"Anyone in this party who is in any doubt who we should be fighting, what we should be debating, where our energies should be focused, I tell you - our battle is with Labour," he said.
Labour said the government needed to build a country where "prosperity is fairly shared" - but this would not happen under Mr Cameron.
'Battle for Britain'Opening his speech, the prime minister said he had a "very clear message" for his party.
"We are people who love our country, who believe in Britain's greatness - and believe in restoring it," he said.
David Cameron said plenty of things that warmed the hearts of the Tory activists who had gathered on this cold, wet Saturday.
The lines in his speech that received the biggest applause were about restoring rigour to the history curriculum, the return of competitive sport in schools and the speeding up of the adoption process.
And like any Tory leader feeling the heat, Mr Cameron dropped in a few references to Thatcher and Churchill.
Nothing focuses the mind like a deadline and so the prime minister also reminded his rank and file that there were fewer than 1,000 days until the next election.
He ended his speech with a predictably scathing attack on Labour but there was no mention of the Lib Dems, who many activists loathe, or of UKIP who many of them fear.
And just as the prime minister left, he was ambushed by a former parliamentary candidate who said she was defecting to UKIP.
"Just read my speech," he shouted as she was bustled out.
He said it was an "honour" and a "privilege" to serve the country in "its hour of need".
"This is a battle for Britain's future we are engaged in," he said.
"So let the message go out from this hall and this party: We are here to fight. We are here to win.
"And we have never been more up for the task of turning our country around."
Mr Cameron also outlined what he saw as the coalition's main achievements and told activists the party was giving people the "tools to succeed".
He said he was following the same Tory values of past prime ministers, such as Margaret Thatcher and Winston Churchill.
"We want people to climb up through their own efforts, yes, but in order to climb up they need the ladder to be there in the first place, the family that nurtures them, the school that inspires them, the opportunities there for them," he said.
"Great Conservatives down the generations have put those ladders in place: when Churchill invented the labour exchanges that helped people into work, when Macmillan built new homes, when Thatcher fired up enterprise so people could start their own businesses.
"That is what we're doing in the Conservative Party right now."
'Fat chance'He said he also wanted to focus on what the party was doing for young people.
"We are building an aspiration nation, a country where it's not who you know or where you're from but who you are and where you're determined to go," he said.
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End Quote Michael Dugher Vice-chairman, Labour PartyWe need to build a country where everyone has a stake and prosperity is fairly shared... Fat chance of that with David Cameron"
Mr Cameron reflected on adoption rules, saying barriers to mixed-race adoption were "wrong" and would be changed.
On education, he said he wanted the system to be "like the pushiest, most sharp-elbowed, ambitious parent there is" and he wanted it to "be the norm" for every school leaver to start an apprenticeship or go to university.
He also pledged more help for people who want to own their own home.
On Labour's opposition to benefit cuts being rolled out as part of the deficit reduction programme, Mr Cameron said they were "patronising people, patting them on the head and putting a benefit cheque in their hands".
Michael Dugher, vice-chairman of the Labour Party, said Mr Cameron's leadership was "defined by failure and broken promises".
"When the Tories talk about aspiration, they mean looking after their friends at the top, whilst people on low and middle incomes can go whistle," he said.
"Cameron gives speeches claiming he's helping people, but he's actually delivering a tax cut for millionaires whilst asking millions of working people to pay more.
"We need a change of direction with a One Nation Labour government to build a country where everyone has a stake and prosperity is fairly shared. Fat chance of that with David Cameron."


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Mary-Annes Guesthouse is located in Sandviken, an old charming and central part of Bergen with traditional wooden houses from about 1880. Most of the tourist attractions in the center of Bergen are within 10 minutes walk from the house (Bryggen, Fish Market, Funicular).
The house has one double room to rent with shower / toilet. The guests are welcome to use the kitchen, one of the sitting rooms and the garden of the house. The guesthouse is totally smoke-free.
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I often get invited to political events, dinners and parties because of my work in the political arena. As such, I'm always forced to deal with the lame photos taken by the "official photographer". You think the DMV is bad, you ought to see what Johnny Freelancer can do with your mug just as you're enjoying that fateful moment of shaking hands with a high profile figure. Of course, the politician is perfectly groomed and ready with a million dollar smile. I, on the other hand, am struggling to get my drink in my left hand, extend my right hand and not look like a complete goober for the digital photography.
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Empirical evidence that soil carbon formation from plant inputs is positively related to microbial growth
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Plant-carbon inputs to soils in the form of dissolved sugars, organic acids and amino acids fuel much of heterotrophic microbial activity belowground. Initial residence times of these compounds in the soil solution are on the order of hours, with microbial uptake a primary removal mechanism. Through microbial biosynthesis, the dissolved compounds become dominant precursors for formation of stable soil organic carbon. How the chemical class (e.g. sugar) of a dissolved compound influences stabilization in field soils is unknown and predictions from our understanding of microbial metabolism, turnover and identity are contradictory. We show that soil carbon formation, from chronic amendments of dissolved compounds to fertilized and unfertilized grasslands, is 2.4-times greater from a sugar than an amino acid. Formation rates are negatively correlated with respiration rates of the compounds, and positively correlated with their recovery in microbial biomass. These relationships suggest that the efficiency of microbial growth on a compound is positively related to formation rates of soil organic carbon. Fertilization does not alter these findings, but together nitrogen and phosphorus additions reduce soil carbon formation. Our results highlight the need to consider both nutrient enrichment and global-change induced shifts in the form of dissolved root inputs to soils to predict future soil carbon stocks and hence phenomena such as climate warming and food security to which these stock sizes are intimately tied.
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Sealing new cedar fence
Hey folks,
I am building a new white cedar fence once the weather gets warm enough. (~45-50 degree daytime temps).
I want to keep the fence a nice 'natural' reddish cedar color and looking at Readyseal, Cabot's Clear Solution and Penofin. I'm leaning towards Readyseal based on what I have read so far, but I am waiting for some samples to come so I can test them on some cedar shingles I am using as test patches. I tested Olympic maximum but am ruling it out because it doesn't seem to be favored vs. the others and is a bit too orange.
Different products seem to have different temperature requirements, but Readyseal seems the most forgiving.
Do I need to look at anything other than the moisture content of the wood (and temp requirements of the sealer) in order to know when it is ready for sealing? (Looking for 15% or less) Is any certain amount of weathering time needed to open the fibers of the new wood? I read a lot of conflicting rhetoric.
Thanks John - I welcome some reddish tint, I'd like the white cedar to look more like western red cedar. I just want to still be able to see the graining, etc.
It sounds like a lot of people's mistake with cedar is to wait too long to seal it and it quickly goes gray and needs cleaning and brightening work prior to first seal.
Thanks! I am sealing it with ReadySeal's natural cedar color. I'd contact ReadySeal to find out who is a local distributor to you. It's easy to apply too.
Kelly -
I am planning on using Ready Seal for my cedar fence as well.
The fence was installed November 2006, so I will have to do some cleaning and prep work first....
But I wanted to know your opinion/review of the ReadySeal...Did you like it?
What did you use to apply the Ready Seal?
If you can, please post some pics of the finished product!
Here's my fence:
We are in the pricess of a backyard re-do....new IPE deck coming soon!
I used readyseal shortly after reading and seeing kellynelsons' pic. It applies easily with a regular pump type garden sprayer which is what I used. Attempted at first with the wagner power sprayer but found the garden sprayer quicker and easier. They didn't have a distributor in my area so I had to order directly from them, product arrived next business day, I needed almost 20 gallons for two coats on both sides of fence except the back which borders a easement area. Don't have a great pic of it yet maybe I could post some better ones later if you need close up later this weekend. Did the stain in the attached pics about a month ago. Fence is cedar except the stringers which are PT pine and didn't take the stain as well as the cedar. I used the Natural Cedar color Readyseal.
I'm in the middle of a patio project so excuse the pavers and outlines of patio. Hope this helps.
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Thanks for the pics....the fence looks great.
You say you used the regular garden pump sprayer.....Did you just spray it or did you spray and also back brush?
How heavy did you apply the Ready Seal for each coat?
Did you do anything to prep the fence....power wash....cleaners? anything like that?
How long between coats?
Thanks for the help.....hopefully the Ready Seal will work well enough to give us more time for golf!
Thanks for the compliment. Hopefully I get to golf this weekend, weather permitting. Just used the regular pump up type garden sprayer, no backbrushing. It doesn't streak when it dries, it dries very evenly. I think mine maybe put on kind of heavy? My fence was only a few months old so I didn't prep,because it hadn't started to turn gray yet.
Directions say that you have to wait at least 45 minutes between coats. I waited about an hour on one section and about 2 weeks on the other because I ran out and then the rains came for a couple of weeks. Also says that it is rain safe after an hour, which it is used sprinkler sys later that day. Directions also claim that it is goof proof. Just check out their website. My only complaint is that it is about $25 a gallon plus shipping if no distributor is near.
I'm glad the post was helpful for you guys!
It's been a few months now and the fence still looks excellent. (A couple months isn't long though.)
I put on two coats, about two days apart, so the maximum amount of sealer was absorbed by the wood. The application rates they publish seem to be for the recommended two coats.
I just applied and watched to make sure the wood was taking in the amount I was putting down. If you apply too much you might get dark runs from the pigment. Don't be stingy though.
Application is very simple - I used a few methods - garden sprayer, brush and my father in-law preferred to use a roller.
I think the best result came with using a ~$25 concrete and masonry pump sprayer and then brushing the sealer into the wood. Brushing alone works just as well, but the time to dip the brush really slows you down.
With that lattice top I think the sprayer is the way to go. Just try to find a way to screen the other side so your overspray doesn't go everywhere.
Wear gloves if you don't want your hands to stink like the stain for a day or two!
Those are some handsome fences you guys posted - Michael, it looks like maybe your nails are streaking the wood a bit?
Good luck with the IPE - It's very tough to get a stain that will last on IPE. Wood Tux is supposed to work well, I hear.
Perfect timing on your post and follow-ups. We're about to have an IPE deck installed with cedar fencing, and I just started my research today on how to seal the fence. I like everyone's pics, and I like easy :-). Think we'll go with the readyseal...and save my brain from information overload by reading too many more posts....
I'll post some pics in a month or so after we get everything done except putting the Woodzotic on the deck, which we'll probably wait and do in the fall.
Hello everyone.. I'm in need of a little advice and you all seem to know quite a bit about cedar fences.
About 6 months ago, I installed a brand new cedar fence completely by hand. I did everything from digging out the old posts to meticulously screwing on each picket. Needless to say, I put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into this project.
I noticed that the rosy color that I really love was starting to fade so I thought I would go ahead and seal it. I went to Lowe's and shopped around for a while. The brand that the employees recommended was Olympic's WaterGuard clear. I bought it and started using it. After covering one side of the fence I noticed that the term "clear" may have been misused. It darkened the wood a shade or two, but that's not what bothered me. What bothered me is that it also drowned out that rosy color I liked. I bought the product because it protected from water, UV, mildew, and had something called linseed oil.
After doing some research I have learned that linseed oil darkens the wood. Dangit!! Now I'm in a bit of a quandry...
Should I stop using this sealer and then continue the other sides of the fence with Readyseal (the part that is sealed already isn't the most visible part of the fence).
Or should I just finish with this product?
I'm worried that if I shop with this product and then use another that the section I did with the Olympic product will continue to darken because of the linseed oil.
Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.
We built this pergola. We love LOVE the color variation of our Eastern Cedar! I was looking to use the ReadySeal in the Natural cedar, but I am scared that it is going to take away from the blond regions of the wood. There is no way around this completely because I know that I need a stain/sealer with some tint. I have done loads of research. I have found out that the uv protection really best comes best from the tints that slow down the oxidization process which leads to graying of cedar. I had planned on using DEFY UV or something like that which claims to have uv protection even though it is clear. The homebuilder sites and chats seem to disagree that this is really very possible without a lot of maintenance. We are not maintenance type people. It is a feat for us to get a project done in the first place.
Thoughts on my concern for the color variation to become more monochromatic with ReadySeal Natural Cedar? Also, has anyone heard of TimberPro UV? Price isn't our biggest concern as long as it lasts at least 2-3 years, but preferably more.
We are sealing a cedar fence right now alot of work , using applicator pads , they said spraying you would still have to back brush we are using Behr 501 semi transparent stain. looks real good on first application we are not sure if we are oing to do second coat or use a clear sealer with sprayer.


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"I looked through the snow at the statues, and it was though they were looking at me, saying 'hello, comrade,'" said Cliff Fisher.
A group of 460 Korean War veterans, including Krueger, Fisher and about a dozen others from Tribland, went on a one-day, unforgettable journey to visit the Korean War Memorial and other sites in Washington D.C. on March 25, representing the largest crew of servicemen in the nation to go on such a trip.
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"It was an honor to be with people who have served our country, reflecting on the fact that freedom is not free. These men were finally able to talk about their experiences and share the stories behind their service," said Kim Wilder, who works at the Adams County Veterans Service Office and went on both Korean honor flights as a chaperone.
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Nvidia releases the next Titan, the GTX Titan Black – still costs $1000 February 19, 2014 at 12:36 pm
Last year, Nvidia hoped to change the graphics card game when it released the GTX Titan, a high-performance, energy efficient card. Now, Nvidia is looks to iterate on that innovation, and has released an new model of the Titan, the GTX Titan Black.
AMD graphics card pricing skyrockets due to cryptocurrency mining, could kill AMD's gaming efforts February 17, 2014 at 1:28 pm
AMD's GPU prices have skyrocketed in recent days, thanks to huge demand from cryptocurrency miners — but is this actually a good thing for AMD customers?
14 Steam Machines compared, to find out which is the fastest, and which is best value for money January 16, 2014 at 11:35 am
At CES 2014, Valve unveiled 14 new Steam Machines that will (probably) be released in 2014. These machines, produced by over a dozen manufacturers, span the gamut when it comes to hardware specs — from the beastly Origin PC Chronos with two Nvidia GTX Titans, all the way down to some console-like boxes priced at $500, with mid-range CPUs and graphics cards. With so many price points and hardware variations, it's fairly hard to work out which Steam Machine gives you the best bang for the buck. Fortunately, the folks over at Futuremark have got us covered.
GeForce GTX 780 Ti: Nvidia strikes back, retaking the performance crown from AMD November 7, 2013 at 9:10 am
For the past few weeks, AMD has been hammering home with its own video card launches. Now, it's Nvidia's turn.
Crimson Tide: AMD's R9 290 kicks the legs out from under Nvidia – again November 5, 2013 at 12:01 am
AMD's R9 290 drops today, and does for the $400 price point what the R9 290X just did at $550 — namely, sweeps it. Nvidia will have a hard time answering these products.
Nvidia announces GTX 780 Ti and deep price cuts in response to AMD R9 barrage October 28, 2013 at 2:53 pm
Nvidia's response to the Radeon R9 290X is in — deep price cuts for current cards, and a major launch upcoming.
To slay a Titan: AMD's Radeon R9 290X piledrives Nvidia's high-end graphics cards October 24, 2013 at 9:34 am
AMD's new Radeon R9 290X hits today and breaks Nvidia's long grasp on the high-end GPU market. This is the card to buy.
Radeon R9-290X: Hardware specs and benchmarks of AMD's Titan killer September 25, 2013 at 5:05 pm
Ahead of AMD's official unveil of the Hawaii line of GPUs, details, photos, and benchmarks of (probably) the Radeon R9-290X have leaked. The photos and benchmarks seem to confirm that the Hawaii XT (GCN 2.0) R9-290X has 2816 stream processors, split among 44 clusters. The leaked benchmarks peg the Radeon R9-290X as equal or slightly faster than Nvidia's GTX Titan, and around 10% faster than the GTX 780 — strong, and if it's priced right, it could put AMD back in the driving seat.
Triple monitor madness: GTX Titan, GTX 680, and Radeon 7970 go head-to-head at 5760×1080 March 5, 2013 at 10:29 am
Ever wondered how the GTX Titan, Radeon 7970 and GTX 680 would fare against each other across multiple displays? Been curious about going wide yourself? We dive into both questions and come back with recommendations.
Nvidia's GTX Titan: What it means for the future of PC gaming and AMD February 21, 2013 at 9:00 am
Nvidia's GTX Titan launches today. It's the first time the company has brought a supercomputer product to the consumer industry — and it's easily the fastest single-GPU graphics card money can buy.


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snow was super soft last night (as to be expected). the tow rope line was gettin pretty worn by the end (grass pokin thru). and someone needs to teach these damn kids spacing out there!! kept shuttin down the tow rope cuz everyone was on top of each other. i think they had the same setup from when u went dave. fyi, don't do the up/flat fun box at the end unless you wanna go thru a "grand canyon" bomb out! the others weren't too bad. nothing too exciting but i had a pretty good night. have fun! hopefully the rain stays away for you guys. looks like its coming late afternoon
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Yesterday it said it was going to hit 37 up here, now that's 29. I'm worried about tomorrow at 33, but there's snow in the forecast as well so it might stay cold enough to leave most of it on the ground. At least maybe I'll get to board in 2012 D:
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MTH wasn't awful today. The snow was actually pretty good but it was definitely spring-like conditions. Soft, but fast slushy stuff. They had a few park features set up, mailbox rail, up-flat wide butter box, shotgun rail was kinda sketchy approach, corrugated pipe and a mild flat down box. Most of the mountain was open, but there were some brown spots/grass showing just about everywhere. The rain wasn't bad, mostly it was just mist for a few hours, but it did start to rain pretty heavily right when we were leaving at 430. The rest of this weekend looks like shit with rain & 40-degree high temperature what's left of the snow will be soft and slow probably.
The forecast moving beyond the weekend looks a bit more favorable with a really cold spell in the works so hopefully they can get some more snow blown on these slopes. I don't think I'll be riding midweek this week, heading up to Treetops in Gaylord this coming weekend for a few.
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yea yea sounds similar to what it was like last night. man this rain sux! but you're right, looks like the lake effect snow machine should be kicking in this sunday!!! i have monday off and i'm thinking about heading west for a day. i saw predictions for 1-2 feet in primary lake effect zones!!!!!
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Sault Ste. Marie, northeastern tip of the UP. Quite literally a stone's throw from Ontario, Canada In fact, I got started up there at Searchmont.
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Time-Dependent Absorption in Deposit Feeders
- Lars Kofoed,
- Valery Forbes,
- Glenn Lopez
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Deposit feeders obtain food from sediments consisting mostly of indigestible mineral grains. In order to procure the required energy and nutrients, these animals must process enormous quantities of sediment (Canunen 1980b). The necessarily rapid processing rates limit the amount of time material may remain in the gut. Many deposit feeders have gut residence times of 30 minutes or less. Juvenile Streblospio benedirti can have gut residence times as low as 4 minutes (T. Forbes, pers. com.). Since digestion is a time-dependent process, gut residence time is likely to control absorption of ingested food, particularly when the food is difficult to digest. While the amount of material absorbed will increase with increasing gut residence time, it is likely to do so at a reducing rate (Sibly and Calow 1986). Therefore there will be a tradeoff between the efficiency and speed of digestion.
- Bricelj, V. M., A. E. Bass, and G. R. Lopez. 1984. Absorption and gut passage time of microalgae in a suspension feeder: an evaluation of the 51Cr:14C twin tracer technique. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 17: 57–63. CrossRef
- Calow, P. 1975. Defaecation strategies of two freshwater gastropods, Ancylus fluviatilis Mull. and Planorbis contortus Linn. (Pulmonata) with a comparison of field and laboratory estimates of food absorption rate. Oecologia. (Berl.), 20: 51–63. CrossRef
- Calow, P. and C. R. Fletcher. 1972. A new radiotracer technique involving 14C and "Cr for estimating the assimilation efficiency of aquatic primary producers. Oecologia (Berl.), 9: 155–170. CrossRef
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- Canunen, L. M. 1980a. The significance of microbial carbon in the nutrition of the deposit feeding polychaete Nereis succinea. Mar. Biol., 61: 9–20.
- Canunen, L. M. 1980b. Ingestion rate: an empirical model for aquatic deposit feeders and det.ritivores. Oecologia (Berl.), 44: 303–310.
- Forbes, V. E. and G. R. Lopez. 1986. Changes in feeding and crawling rates of Hydrobia truncata (Prosobranchia: Hydrobiidae) in response to sedimentary chlorophyll-a and recently egested sediment. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 33: 287–294. CrossRef
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- Time-Dependent Absorption in Deposit Feeders
- Book Title
- Ecology of Marine Deposit Feeders
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- pp 129-148
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- 1989
- 10.1007/978-1-4684-7671-2_6
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- 978-0-387-97001-1
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- 978-1-4684-7671-2
- Series Title
- Lecture Notes on Coastal and Estuarine Studies
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- 31
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- 0724-5890
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- Springer New York
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- Springer-Verlag New York
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- 5. Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York
- 6. College of Oceanography, Oregon State University
- 7. Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York
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- Lars Kofoed (8)
- Valery Forbes (8)
- Glenn Lopez (9)
- Author Affiliations
- 8. Biology Institute, Odense University, DK 5230, Odense M, Denmark
- 9. Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, 11794, USA
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As a young developer, 2010 graduate, and now working for a good well known software company, my thoughts follow: 1) Most students are completely blindsided that there aren't instantly great jobs once you get out of colleges. I think both schools themselves as well as TV/Movies do a bad job of portraying how hard it is to get a great job out of college (or rather, make it seem like it is a simple and easy transition). 2) There are tons of students graduating and only so many positions at the best companies. If you want a position you need to stand out. A solid GPA is not it - you need essentially a perfect GPA from the best of the best to stand out based on school alone. You need experience and/or something to SHOW what you've done and are capable of doing. In fact, many of the people I work with would take someone with 1.5-2 solid years of work experience over a 4 year degree. 3) Internships are the best way of getting experience. I 'wasted' my college summers with your standard college job to help me pay for it (I also did a study abroad completely unrelated to engineering which the most I could hope to get out of was a conversation piece in an interview). Those with internships across the board in my graduating class (2010) were getting jobs or turning internships into full-time positions. 4) If internships just don't work out and/or aren't feasible, find other ways to show your knowledge. If you are into software at all get a github account, find projects to help with, make up your own (++ for this one), contribute to open-source software, and/or make a website where you can show off some stuff. If your interests are in something like design... design stuff, make a website, and show it off. In marketing? Try to see if you can do something for a local non-profit. Communications/Business/Human-resources type jobs? Find a school organization you can try to be a leader in. 5) If you don't have any of the above, pretty much expect a lesser starting position somewhere. Work your way up. Get experience that will get you in the door - this is what I did. This is harder to find but can work. I personally took a job that paid considerably less than (~60% of) what my school told me was the average salary for new engineers. This was my path as I didn't have the most stellar GPA and while I went to a good school it was not quite top-10-in-the-nation. Basically, just doing college and spending all of your free time in playing LoL isn't going to get you an amazing job. Have something to stand out and you won't have a problem. It honestly doesn't even need to be a lot to stand out from the others around you - a couple projects here or there and you are done (got 1000 hours logged in LoL? Try taking 50-100 of that over a period of time and doing something productive and you'll stand out SOOO much more).
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Above is a photo of Manhattan, New York City, in the year 1947, looking from Battery Park toward midtown. Here you see everything—the Staten Island Ferry Building at bottom, Wall Street to the right, the 59th Street Bridge crossing Welfare Island at upper right, and in the hazy distance, the Empire State Building—at that time arguably America's most recognized symbol. In the aftermath of a war that had destroyed Europe's and Japan's industrial capacity, the U.S. was the unquestioned power on the planet, with massive economic might, a military that had taken up permanent residence in dozens of countries, and a growing stock of nuclear weapons. Two years later the Soviets would detonate their first nuclear bomb, shaking the American edifice to its core. Meanwhile, all around the world, the seeds of change were taking root. Below is a look at the world as it was in 1947.
Firemen try to extinguish a blaze in Ballantyne's Department Store in Christchurch, New Zealand.
American singer Lena Horne performs in Paris.
The hustle and bustle of Hong Kong, and the aftermath of the execution of Hisakazu Tanaka, who was the Japanese governor of occupied Hong Kong during World War II.
Sunbathers enjoy Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, and a military procession rumbles along Rua Catumbi.
Assorted Brooklyn Dodgers and manager Leo Durocher (shirtless in the foreground) relax at Havana, Cuba's Estadio La Tropical, where they were holding spring training that year. Second photo, Cuban players for the Habana Leones celebrate the first home run hit at Havana's newly built Estadio Latinoamericano.
Thousands of Muslims kneel toward Mecca during prayer time in Karachi, Pakistan.
A snarl of traffic near St. Paul's Cathedral in London.
The city hall of Cape Town, South Africa is lit up to celebrate the visit of the British Royal Family. Second photo, during the same South African trip, the royals are welcomed to Grahamstown.
A wrecked fighter plane rusts in front of Berlin's burned and abandoned parliament building, the Reichstag. Second photo, a shot of ruins in Berlin's Tiergarten quarter, near Rousseau Island.
A crowd in Tel Aviv celebrates a United Nations vote in favor of partitioning Palestine.
Men and bulls run through the streets of Pamplona, Spain during the yearly Festival of San Fermin.
Fog rolls across the Embarcadero in San Francisco; a worker descends from a tower of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Detectives study the body of a woman found murdered in Long Beach, California. Two P-51 Mustang fighters fly above Los Angeles.
Danish women from Snoghøj Gymnastics School practice in Odense.
Tens of thousands of protesters in Cairo demonstrate against the United Nations vote in favor of partitioning Palestine.
A beauty queen draped with a sash that reads "Modern 1947" is lifted high above the boardwalk in Coney Island, New York.
A woman in Barbados holds atop her head a basket filled with fibers meant for burning as fuel.
Mahatma Gandhi, his bald head barely visible at upper center, arrives through a large crowd for a prayer meeting on the Calcutta Maidan, India.
Major League Baseball player Jackie Robinson is hounded for autographs in the dugout during a Brooklyn Dodgers game.
Mondo Bizarro | Dec 22 2011 |
We usually approach the items in our Mondo Bizarro category with a certain amount of playfulness, but some events defy any attempts to be humorous. On Monday an actual two-headed, un-Photoshopped baby was born in Anajas, Brazil to 25-year-old Maria de Nazare (which would translate to Mary of Nazareth). The mother received no ultrasounds during her pregnancy, and only learned of the infant's condition minutes before the birth. Despite the surprise, the new arrival has been welcomed into the de Nazare family with an outpouring of joy. Named Emanoel and Jesus, the children cannot be separated and will live their lives conjoined. It's difficult yet to predict how long those lives will be—another pair of Brazilian twins fused in exactly the same way died earlier this year due to lack of oxygen to one of the heads—but thus far doctors say these children are healthy, managing to functionally share heart, lungs, and digestive tract. Whether one, both, or neither twin controls the body's movements is a question for the future. And of course, beyond that, you have to wonder what happens when one twin hogs the Xbox 360 or one of them decides to go Vegan, but here's hoping they actually get the chance to have those arguments. Because somewhere down the line we think maybe, just maybe, Emanoel and Jesus can teach the rest of us a little something about ourselves.
Vintage Pulp | Jun 1 2010 |
Above is a Brazilian cover for German-born author Bruno Fischer's Os Túmulos Não Falam, which would translate as something like "Graves Don't Speak". However, Fischer never wrote a book with that name, so this is one of those occasions where the original title was scrapped, which means we can't tell you which English language release this corresponds to. We do know it's a Ben Helm mystery, and that it involves a hypothetical perfect murder. It also involves perfect cover art, though sadly it goes uncredited. Fischer was a popular author, thus he deserves a more detailed treatment, which we'll give him a little ways down the line.
Sportswire | Jul 12 2009 |
Former boxing champ Arturo Gatti was found dead yesterday in a hotel room in the Brazilian seaside town Porto de Galinhas. Gatti, who was Italian born but a Canadian citizen, was married to a Brazilian woman and spent a lot of time in the country. As yet it is unclear how the 37-year-old died, because his body had no obvious stab or gunshot wounds, but police did say there was blood on his head and neck, and bloodstains on the floor. Brazilian police investigator Edilson Alves added, "It is still too early to say anything concrete, although it is all very strange."
Gatti was one of the most popular boxers of his day because of his fearless, brawling style and charisma. He became a ring legend after his trilogy of fights with Mickey Ward. Gatti lost the first battle, but took the next two, though he broke his hand in the third round of the second fight, and the sixth round of the third fight. During his career he won the IBF super-featherweight championship and the WBC light-welterweight championship. He retired for good in 2007 with a career record of 40-9 with 31 knockouts.
Update: Sunday night Brazilian police announced that Gatti's wife, 23-year-old Amanda Rodrigues, may have strangled Gatti using the strap of her purse. Police speculate that she struck Gatti on the head first to immobilize him, or perhaps got him very drunk so she would be able to overpower him. Witnesses had seen Gatti and Rodrigues have an altercation Saturday evening, but Rodrigues had told police a third party likely killed her husband. But the timeline tripped her up. The only way her story could be true is if she spent ten hours in the hotel suite with her husband without noticing he was dead. Rodrigues was formally charged with murder.
Mondo Bizarro | May 27 2009 |
Personally, we think if aliens were able to traverse the immense gulfs of space to visit Earth, by definition they'd be technologically advanced enough to prevent us from seeing them. But UFO believers are legion, and UFO websites continue to grow in popularity, particularly in France, where unidentified flying objects are known as Objets Volant Non-Identifié, or OVNIs. The images here are from the French website forum-ovni-ufologie.com. From top to bottom they were shot—or perhaps faked, depending on your beliefs—in Catalina, U.S.A. July 9, 1947, Bulawayo, Rhodesia 1953, Barra-da-Tijuca, Brazil 1952, Liege, Belgium 1990, Phoenix, U.S.A. 1997, Lac Chauvet, Puy de Dôme, France 1952, and above Lago di Cota, Costa Rica 1971.


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- If the screening happens to tear, it is easily removable and replaceable
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LEAP 2013Las VegasConferenceThe annual Labor & Employment Law Advanced Practices (LEAP) conference is regarded as the most expert and entertaining way for HR professionals and employment law attorneys to learn practical, real-world strategies to comply with the latest employment law changes. And attendance at LEAP 2013 has never been more vital. LEAP 2013 offers more chances to speak with our experts than ever before. We've dubbed the last day of the conference "Interactive Friday," featuring our breakfast roundtables and "Learn from the Lawyers Luncheon." You'll be able to ask your questions – and get your answers – on the employment law issues keeping you up at night. We're also bringing back our popular new Post-Conference Workshops ... keeping our FREE Pre-Conference Seminar ... and adding 3 new breakout sessions. And we've frozen our tuition at last year's already-low rate. There's not a better value on top-flight employment law training ANYWHERE. Once again, LEAP is returning to Las Vegas! LEAP 2013 will be held at the legendary Bellagio. This signature location boasts luxury, convenience – and the most dazzling views in all of Las Vegas! |
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