Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Contagious Love

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I was listening to a middle school girl tell me she woke up her slumber party to show them the pretty sunrise we talk about in the morning. She wanted them to see it too. I got the same feeling as when I carried a two year old boy on to a balcony overlooking Central Park and he exclaimed, "Look at how beautiful it is!" We talked about it all the time. And then there was this time I was staring at this rambunctious baby girl who was dragging me up and down and I stopped to stare at her beautiful face. It was that moment when I realized I loved loving her, even when she drove me crazy. And noticed she smiled every time I smiled at her first. Even though none of our other words were translated. I make sure I slow my breathing when babies are resting on my chest, so they're calmed by my slow heart beat. Because I think it is, this Love is contagious. 

Sunday, January 27, 2013

We can be Buddhas

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In our hyperlinked world, we can know anything, anytime. And this mass enlightenment, says Buddhist scholar Bob Thurman, is our first step toward Buddha nature. The first American to be ordained a Tibetan Monk by the Dalai Lama, Robert A.F. Thurman is a scholar, author and tireless proponent of peace.

A Drop

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Bloom

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I walked out of a hot yoga class I taught the other day and thought "I LOVE WHAT I DO, I CAN'T BELIEVE I GET PAID FOR THIS." I get to tell people how awesome and beautiful and strong they are everyday while I watch them grow healthier and calmer. It's so beautiful. I've been searching for that thing in my life that truly felt like an accomplishment of the human soul and I feel it. I don't make any money yet, and I pay for my gas and some coffee and there's not much else. But I see this whole tower to build. And these are just the foundations and THAT makes me SO EXCITED. And I finally want to begin construction. Because I've been sitting on my hands and biting my lips for years while rivers of ideas flow through my head and finally they make sense. They connect. I'm watching the patterns of my life and now I can decode them. Without fighting the current or swimming upstream, I work with what's coming my way. She blooms.

Friday, January 25, 2013

Scientist Proves DNA Can Be Reprogrammed by Words and Frequencies

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We came across this article today and thought that it would be a great read for our viewers. It’s awesome information showing the true nature of our reality and how science is changing everyday, opening up to the possibilities of this reality.

“Scientist Prove DNA Can Be Reprogrammed by Words and Frequencies

By Grazyna Fosar and Franz Bludorf

THE HUMAN DNA IS A BIOLOGICAL INTERNET and superior in many aspects to the artificial one. Russian scientific research directly or indirectly explains phenomena such as clairvoyance, intuition, spontaneous and remote acts of healing, self healing, affirmation techniques, unusual light/auras around people (namely spiritual masters), mind’s influence on weather patterns and much more. In addition, there is evidence for a whole new type of medicine in which DNA can be influenced and reprogrammed by words and frequencies WITHOUT cutting out and replacing single genes.

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

The Alignment

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It's so funny sometimes you lose all your perspective until you have one of those moments. Like when you're staring into someone's eyes whose sick. Or when you're watching a person cry from real pain, or you yourself, are crying from real pain. Or especially when you're holding a baby. And you realize even your breathing matters because they're copying your energy. And then he falls asleep on you. And you sense this bigger thing. You can sense all the breathing around you. And understand you are just one heartbeat in a sea of the endless vibrations. And how beautiful they all are. (Singing their own tune.)  Therefore, the alignment of your own vibration and aiding in the grace and synchrony of vibrations around you will bring harmony. And harmony brings upon a dance; of free-flowing life. Can you feel it?

Monday, January 21, 2013

Distracted.

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Australian model caught distracted during a photo shoot when the first plane hit tower.

Anywhere Happy.

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If you can't be happy anywhere, you can't be happy any where. Any, which where. Because I've followed the sunshine and missed the moon. And slept under empty skies, warmer than ever before even in the absence of a star. And I've seen the cycles of day and night and learned that each will follow the last. And I haven't stopped yearning for the days in the bright sunshine, but I'm learning to be patient. Because I wouldn't know the warmth of the sun, if I hadn't felt the chill of the moon. And I can't escape my own mind, by changing geographical pinpoints and trading in highways for beaches. I felt the sun flickering through the trees as I drove yesterday, and it was like I remembered how to look. Because if you can see with the right eyes, the beauty never dies. Even if it's harder to see.

Unhappy Am I

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“Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Thoughts on Trees

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Thoughts on Trees.


Tree of Life.
You can't make a tree grow straight.
You can just show it the sun.
And hope they see the light. 

Because your experience depends on your lens.
Like children under feet;
You worry what they see.
But you can't paint their picture. 

Organisms will grow at their own speed:
Due to their own mentality.
In what direction no one can see.
But if you fill up and balance out:

You shall grow straighter towards the sun.

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Be Healthy.

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This is a compilation of tips I've learned over the last few years about health, fitness and wellbeing:


DRINK WATER: As soon as you wake up drinking a huge glass of water will even out your appetite and flush your system after a night of body detox. Drink water continuously throughout the day.

OATMEAL: Breakfast. So important. Sets the tone for the rest of the day.Adding a little bit of peanut butter for protein and fat and a banana makes oatmeal hearty and allows it to hold you over until lunch time. I always eat when I wake up. Some rather move their body before they fuel it.

FRUITS/VEGGIES: EAT MORE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. I always monitor my fruit intake because they contain a lot natural sugars and can be high in calories but I go VEGGIE CRAZY. I'm a vegetarian, but regardless, basing your meals around a mostly veg content, will up your vitamins and keep you full by sheer size, content of your food while remaining low in calories.

SNACKS: Stick to whole foods like carrots, nuts, or sweet potatoes as stabilizing snacks. Look for high nutrients and simple foods. Eating small meals every few hours will boost your metabolism.

WHOLE FOODS: Eat real food. Whole broccoli, carrots, bananas, apples, sweet potatoes. Things that come from the Earth. Things that will keep you full and nourish your body.

MOVE: Do something physical everyday. Move as much as possible. From opting to walk up stairs and around the block, to hitting the gym, or even some YOGA.

LOVE YOURSELF: You're just trying to be an even better version of the already beautiful YOU.

Friday, January 18, 2013

Plant Your Seeds

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Plant your seeds. Because whatever you plant will grow. So be mindful of what you sew. In your thoughts, your relationships, your actions, your words, your intentions. Be mindful. You're the only one powerful enough to change your life. For better of for worse. So start with what your interpreting and the story of it you're telling yourself in your head. And stop it in it's tracks if it doesn't serve you, if it's not good for you, if it's not making you more powerful and more graceful. And then manifest this in your words and your actions. And do good, even if it sucks. And stop creating your own enemies. Create friends. And honesty (like he says 'be impeccable with your word'). Watch yourself grow, and watch yourself change. And be mindful of that transformation. Because are you becoming what you want to be? Or are you stuck? Or are you drowning? And what can you do to save yourself, in each moment of your life that passes. Being awake. Make your choices.

What Would YOU Do With A Second Chance In Life?

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"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something -- your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life." -- Steve Jobs

In 2004, I was working on Wall Street, researching stocks for hedge funds, living a stressful life in New York City. It was a way of life I had always known, but on Dec. 26, 2004, my life changed forever. That day, the tsunami struck Asia, killing hundreds of thousands of people. I learned that the resort I was scheduled to visit just three days later, Charlie's Beach Resort in Koh Phi Phi, had been completely wiped out, with no survivors. It made me deeply question the way I was living. I wondered, "What would I do with a second chance in life?"

A month later, I went to a yoga retreat in Costa Rica called Pura Vida. I was interested in learning more about yoga. After I took a private yoga class, one of the teachers suggested that I look into the Nosara Yoga Institute for teacher training.

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Thursday, January 17, 2013

But Why Not?

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I don't know. Because I see the reality of a situation but I still think; No, I don't want it to be like this, so I'm going to see it like that. So I do. And sometimes I'm weird and sometimes it gets awkward but I'm trying to be real. I'm trying to tell you what I'm thinking and maybe it doesn't make sense for a second but think about it. And I'll think about how you see it. And how can we find each other? And how can we help each other? And that's the reality I see. And I want more of that in my life. I want more of the people who surround me to say COMMUNICATE and LOVE and work it out and express yourself and be honest and be true. And why not?

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Mary Oliver

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Praying

It doesn’t have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
small stones; just
pay attention, then patch


a few words together and don’t try
to make them elaborate, this isn’t
a contest but the doorway


into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak.


Mary Oliver, from Thrist (Beacon Press, 2006)

Monday, January 14, 2013

Yoga for Splits

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Breathe, Stretch, Shake.

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Contemporary Perception of Lifestyle

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What a funny thing desire is. Since you want what you think you don't behold. But is this the reality? Or do you really embody it all, without needing it. (I'm even talking about desire of others.) Because you don't need something that's already within you. (What are you addicted to in others?) And if you could find that source within yourself, you would cease to search for it externally. (In men, in objects, in others.) Is this the Buddhist principle, or meditation, or anti-consumerism? Or is it everything. Exactly what we meant the whole time.

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Departing Flights

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With each departing flight remaining seated. Rocking back and forth. Staring at my heart sinking in my own hands and things breaking down. I can just fly away from these uncomfortable things! (I'm asking innocently, 'why wouldn't we just run away?') Like I can erase you from my life when it hurts. And it makes me want to cry in the moments when I can't distract myself but I know it's okay. Because distraction's not the answer. Feeling it and letting it pass. It all passes away. There's nothing wrong with that.

Friday, January 11, 2013

Elke River

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“You are flowers in my stomach.
Cutting me open nightly, blooming through the cracks of the ribs.
I only want to be the sun for you.”

— Elke River

I'ma do me.

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YOU (me), saving me from agony. I don't even feel it. You're there saying No, you're beautiful. And No, you're wonderful. And do you. And I'm going to do me. Never forget the point. To be yourself. That best version of yourself. Go there everyday. And forget what they say. Unless they're telling you:

Go you. Be you. Do you.

Röyksopp; Forever

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Thursday, January 10, 2013

Believing in Everything.

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All the devastation. It's true. But how life can rise out of destruction. Even destruction. And I feel so alive because I love what I'm doing. When did that become possible? Who said follow your heart, follow your gut. I've been listening to it more often, and I see woven manifestations. Into the Heavens, only the sky? And why shant I believe in God? I believe in Everything. Infinite possibilities of all down to mathematical equations that break down chaotic dance to manmade principles. How beautiful is that? Oh I said it, I believe in everything. Think of the possibilities in that.

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Real Girls

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Real girls. He asked why are you paid less? I said because we're fickle and emotional. But not because we're weaker. Perception of weakness. Societal shadow on the wall. As I exhale. Real girls who keep it together. Real girls that foot bills for round-the-world travel. Real girls that think. Real girls that make. Real girls that keep calm and do mountains more than carry on. Real girls that cry. Real, beautiful girls. 

Terence McKenna: The Language of Reality

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Terence McKenna: The World is Made of Language

Marvin Gaye

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Psych, Reality

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I'm staring at a picture taken of a place I don't know if I'll ever see again. Listening to the sounds of exactly what I felt there. And I think of the words, 'got lost in the places I've been' and I think 'Have I been lost?' Where have I been? Or is this one huge delusion I've been having from this childhood bedroom? I can't imagine. Either way. Both seeming equally as plausible and almost as insane. Am I self-medicating or creating my own illness? Don't we always do both. She told me she doesn't even name her sicknesses, therefore, do they exist? Like if you don't understand anxiety, you do not identify to it, so do you feel it? I'm not sure, if all this pain is just a thought we identify with and make it part of our identity. Psych, reality. She's telling me about leaving, and it makes me sink farther into the ground.



Tuesday, January 8, 2013

The Zen of Education

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The Zen of Education
WRITTEN BY ANDREW ABBOTT
PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAN DRY

The place: Rockefeller Chapel. The event: the annual “Aims of Education” address to College first-years. The conclusion: education has no aims.


Welcome to the University of Chicago.” Of the dozens of persons who will say that to you during orientation week, I am the only one who will keep on talking for another 60 minutes after saying it. I imagine that you have heard few such orations before and that you will hear few hereafter. A full-length, formal talk on a set topic is a rather 19th-century kind of thing to do. Even at Chicago, this is the sole such oration you will get. You will be glad to know that when you graduate four years hence, the speaker is asked to speak for exactly thirteen and one-half minutes.

It’s no easier for me. This is only the third or fourth such oration that I’ve given in my life. And you’re not an easy audience. You’re preoccupied with new roommates, placement tests, and “Chicago Life meetings” numbers one through five. Your minds are weary with the endless junk we’ve given you to read. Your bodies are aglow with adrenaline, serotonin, and endorphins, not to mention the more urgent excitements of estrogen and testosterone. Some of you are eager to hear what I have to say. Some of you can’t wait till it’s over. Some of you are watching the noisy dude whisper loudly two rows in front of you. Some of you are sensing the aspiration and grandeur expressed by this Gothic building. Some of you are thinking that I, the speaker, have a very big nose. In short, you’re a diverse lot and I’m a beginning orator and we have an hour together to think about the aims of education. Let’s do it.

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Israel and Iran: A love story?

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When war between Israel and Iran seemed imminent, Israeli graphic designer Ronny Edry shared a poster on Facebook of himself and his daughter with a bold message: "Iranians ... we [heart] you." Other Israelis quickly created their own posters with the same message -- and Iranians responded in kind. The simple act of communication inspired surprising Facebook communities like "Israel loves Iran," "Iran loves Israel" and even "Palestine loves Israel."

Ronny Edry of Israel accidentally created an online movement for peace in the Middle East when he posted a Facebook image that declared "Iranians, we will never bomb your country."

Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes

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— short film by Kahlil Joseph

Monday, January 7, 2013

Purity Ring - Lofticries

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Why Socialism? By Albert Einstein

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Why Socialism?


Man acquires at birth, through heredity, a biological constitution which we must consider fixed and unalterable, including the natural urges which are characteristic of the human species. In addition, during his lifetime, he acquires a cultural constitution which he adopts from society through communication and through many other types of influences. It is this cultural constitution which, with the passage of time, is subject to change and which determines to a very large extent the relationship between the individual and society Modern anthropology has taught us, through comparative investigation of so-called primitive cultures, that the social behavior of human beings may differ greatly, depending upon prevailing cultural patterns and the types of organization which predominate in society. It is on this that those who are striving to improve the lot of man may ground their hopes: human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.

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Sunday, January 6, 2013

Brian Greene: Is our universe the only universe?

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Is there more than one universe? In this visually rich, action-packed talk, Brian Greene shows how the unanswered questions of physics (starting with a big one: What caused the Big Bang?) have led to the theory that our own universe is just one of many in the "multiverse." Brian Greene is perhaps the best-known proponent of superstring theory, the idea that minuscule strands of energy vibrating in a higher dimensional space-time create every particle and force in the universe.

How to Make Mindfulness a Habit

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When you sit back and reminisce about your life, it’s almost a given that the most enjoyable and memorable moments are the ones in which you were completely present. Do you look back with fondness all the times you spent thinking about work while you drove home, or pondered dinner while you wheeled down the frozen aisle? Unfortunately most of life passes that way for most of us. We’re in one place doing one thing, thinking of things we aren’t doing and places we aren’t at. The bottom line of almost all self-help, spiritual, or religious literature is that our ability to be happy is determined by our ability to stay in the present moment. The Buddhists, the Toltecs, the Bible, Eckhart Tolle, Ram Dass, Emerson, Thoreau — anyone at all who is known for having found a path to consistent, recurring joy — cites staying present as the essential teaching. Only when we’re present do we see beauty, enjoy gratitude, and experience happiness. It’s the moments we’re present for that make life good, so it only stands to reason that being present is something we’d do well to get better at.

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Self-Sustaining.

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I don't know if it's the problem or the answer that I fall in love with everything. Little parts and little faces. Using them to fill up my whole body with these bright pieces and I'm trying to let go. Not that I don't think you should fall in love, but I don't want that addiction. I want to have it all inside of me and stand as an independent yet interconnected being. Like feeling the sunshine and radiating it back to the whole world. Loving it and recognizing the beauty but having it in me. I'm trying to remember that when I miss you. Because I already miss you. And I don't need that. I want to focus on what's in front of me through every moment. And let that be enough. Their telling me attachment is the cause of pain. To people, to things, to outcomes.

I just want to be a self-sustaining source of energy.

But I still love you.

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Le Monde

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Men of Earth

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Men of Earth,

I need all this time alone to think. And sometimes it's of love and running down dialogues that should be resolved by communication and not over-analization but sometimes it's different. Sometimes it's these fierce ideas of over-priced education, social debt, dangerously low standards of food, the poor, despicable minimum wages, materialism, a health care system that lets people die and suffer, and a lack of humanity driven by mass socio-economic control. Whirling thoughts of injustice and low-moral that could bring tears but rises passionate will. This passionate need to scream to the skies of the choices. The choice of demanding a social construct that takes care of it's people and works for their mental and physical evolution instead of a system structured around modern feudalism and a draining exaggerated pyramid system. A culture that does not work towards the betterment of all and the rising quality of men on earth is a false and decrepit one. We must work together for each other.

Paradise or Oblivion

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This video presentation advocates a new socio-economic system, which is updated to present-day knowledge, featuring the life-long work of Social Engineer, Futurist, Inventor and Industrial Designer Jacque Fresco, which he calls a Resource-Based Economy. This documentary details the root causes of the systemic value disorders and detrimental symptoms caused by our current established system. The film details the need to outgrow the dated and inefficient methods of politics, law, business, or any other "establishment" notions of human affairs, and use the methods of science, combined with high technology, to provide for the needs of all the world's people. It is not based on the opinions of the political and financial elite or on illusionary so-called democracies, but on maintaining a dynamic equilibrium with the planet that could ultimately provide abundance for all people.

 Paradise or Oblivion, by The Venus Project, introduces the viewer to a more appropriate value system that would be required to enable this caring and holistic approach to benefit human civilization. This alternative surpasses the need for a monetary-based, controlled, and scarcity-oriented environment, which we find ourselves in today. This is NOT the "major motion picture" that The Venus Project is working towards but rather is a short documentary to introduce the aims and proposals to new people.

 

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Goodbye

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I never even got to say goodbye, never any good at it anyway. Like pulled away, maybe not kicking and screaming but gasping for breath about to go under the water. And now I'm screaming  and no one can hear. But once I look around I can see how beautiful every thing is. Even if it's nothing like I thought, and nowhere I thought I'd be. Taking my time. To realize every day will never come again.

Goodbye to you.

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Drive to Live.

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He was talking about drive to live and I was thinking YES. Will to go on and not just live but thrive. Mentally, spiritually, emotionally, physically. All encompassing life, mind, body, and soul as if they were anything else but connected. So intricately connected that to have balance in one is incomplete if to not have balance in all. Much like this universal life. To have balance with all is to have balance with one; yourself. And I dare to say that is the ultimate goal. And I can't see the point for reaching for anything else. So I close my eyes before this cliff, not ready to fall but ready to LEAP. Jump. Fly. Soar. And why not? Nothing to stop you but your own mind and your own ambition.

Drive to Live. Live to drive.

Talking to God...

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From the Blog: Global Problem Summarised



I met god the other day.

I know what you’re thinking. How the hell did you know it was god?

Well, I’ll explain as we go along, but basically he convinced me by having all, and I do mean ALL, the answers. Every question I flung at him he batted back with a plausible and satisfactory answer. In the end, it was easier to accept that he was god than otherwise.

Which is odd, because I’m still an atheist and we even agree on that!

It all started on the 8.20 back from Paddington. Got myself a nice window seat, no screaming brats or drunken hooligans within earshot. Not even a mobile phone in sight. Sat down, reading the paper and in he walks.

What did he look like?

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