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The cannabis nurse is in

The cannabis nurse is in

Katherine Golden voted against cannabis legalization when it was on the ballot in her home state of Colorado. A lot has changed since then.

Today she runs a free telephone hotline staffed by fellow nurses trained in cannabis medicine, available to answer anyone’s questions about medical cannabis, what CBD does, and anything in between. And there are a lot of questions.

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“It’s all those beginning questions that someone rightfully so doesn’t want to pay $100, $200, $300 for a clinician to ask him some of these questions and just be told, ‘Oh yeah, you’re right, it’s not right for you — or yes, you can use it,” Golden says.

Cost and accessibility are behind most of Leaf411’s activities, from the free hotline to financial support for pediatric patients to trying to connect low-income patients with reduced-cost programs in their area.

Katherine Golden, RN, of Leaf411
Katherine Golden, RN. (Courtesy)

“If it was just a prescription that they had to pay a copay or $15 for their tincture bottle or whatever it is,” says Golden, a registered nurse with over 20 years experience, “their tablets and a tincture bottle, gosh, it would be so much easier. That is our struggle — affordability.”

While cost is a huge barrier to more people using cannabinoid medicine, and despite a sea change of public attitudes over the past decade, anti-marijuana stigmas are still significant and widespread.

One way that people overcome those stigmas is when they get word-of-mouth recommendations or endorsements from people they know and trust. The other is smoking.

“If we can get everyone to understand that smoking or inhalation doesn’t have to be a part of the equation, we’d have a lot more people calling us right out of the gate,” she says.

“That’s the stigma we still have to squash with people — thinking about the old ways of using cannabis and just smoking it — and now [we need to communicate] how it’s changed to tablets and patches and gels and all kinds of different Western looking medicine that they can be comfortable with.”

Leaf411’s hotline is 1-844-LEAF-411

Edited and produced by Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man. Music by Desca.

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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man: Welcome Katherine.

Katherine Golden, RN: Thank you. Thank you for having me.

Michael: So one of the things that Leaf411 does, as far as I understand it is you run a free hotline for people to call and talk to a nurse about medical cannabis. I’d like to start by hearing what that looks like on a day-to-day basis. What do people typically call to ask about what are some of the more common questions that you guys get?

Katherine: Sure. Yeah. So, you know, our hotline is actually our first program. So as a nonprofit, as an organization, what you do is you constantly create programs to fill needs. And our first one was the one need that we saw and identified the most, which was large community scale outreach. That was the first one. So that hotline program with our first development.

So we saw the need that so many people across the country and we even get, you know, um, contact from outside of the country have just some basic questions. And that’s where we saw this kind of hole. So we knew when we hit it out of the park with that, because we had so many callers say, “Oh my gosh, I actually, you know, didn’t even know where to start,” or “I don’t even know why is this CBD craze out there,” you know, questions like that, you know, “What’s the big deal about CBD” or, you know, “I’ve been hearing that it could be potentially beneficial for X, Y, and Z, but, you know, do I have to get high? You know, I don’t want to get high” or “I get drug tested and I can’t. So that means I can’t use marijuana right, for medicine.”

And so it’s all those beginning questions that someone, you know, rightfully so doesn’t want to pay $100, $200, $300 for a clinician to ask him some of these questions and just be told, “Oh yeah, you’re right. You know, it’s not right for you or yes, you can use it now, you know, now we need to go into our conversation and then there’s another cost.

So we wanted to kind of fit in that missing link. We want it to be that piece of puzzle that was missing with that first step. So those are all the questions that we, we get — people go down the kind of that black hole of Googling some kind of a condition or a question, and then don’t know how to get that answered specifically for them.

So that was a need as well as like, wow, there’s all this wonderful education out there, but what about my question? What about what I have, you know, that’s great that I can hear about, you know, Tom and Sally asking questions about them, but my situation’s just a hair different, how do I get my question answered, and then know if I need to pay for a physician.

So those are some of those beginning questions that we got.

Michael: And do you find that it’s mostly people at the beginning of the road or is it also people stuck in their treatment or they tried something and it’s not working or they had a bad reaction or something like that.

Katherine: Yeah.  So it’s all over the board. In the beginning, I would say that we were astounded how many people we had — I would say about, gosh, high about 80% of our callers in the very beginning had never used CBD hemp nor what we consider marijuana — being above that 0.3% that you need to purchase in a dispensary.

So we had people constantly telling us that they hadn’t tried either. So that was our first shock, was wow, you know, we’re getting these questions from people that are just starting their journey, just starting right to open up and see, could this potentially be for me now, I would say that has reduced to, well, at least 50% or less because now the callers that we get have maybe tried CBD hemp, probably due to its popularity over the years. Whether it’s a topical that they just bought in a vitamin store, or a friend said here, try this and gave them something that they had purchased. A lot of topicals have been used, a lot of CBD hemp oils. So we are seeing more people that have experimented with something like that, even much so that we actually changed some of our non identifying demographic questions to gather this data. We changed it to: in less five years have you used marijuana or CBD hemp? Because I was getting a lot of people saying, Oh yeah, I’ve used marijuana. And then later on in the conversation finding out, oh, but it was in my youth, you know, which all we all know is very different now.

Now I would say about half are new users open to thinking about consuming, and the other half were experienced.

Michael: How do people relate to that? I don’t know if you can call it a dissonance between the status of marijuana or cannabis just 10 years ago in most of the country to where it is today that, you know, most or many, many people accept and see, and are reading the evidence that’s out there that we know today about its medicinal properties and what it can do. Do people have a hard time connecting the two?

Katherine: Good question. Yeah. You know, it’s funny because word of mouth and family and friends holds the most water — holds the most weight. So when people come to us asking questions, not just even thinking about this journey, somebody has told them and somebody who they value their opinion, told them about cannabis and what it has done for their family or friend or loved one.

So that always is something that’s you know the story within the story, like, you know, we asked them, you know, how did you hear about us? Oh, well it’s when I came here and visited this dispensary and saw your information or saw you online, but then when you dig a little deeper, you find out that, oh, well, I did have a family or friend that has been using CBD hemp or marijuana that has told me, hey, it worked for me.

And even if it’s just one person that you know, they know that has said something’s worked, that’s there, that’s the door that flies open and they run through to say, Oh, could it work for me? So they don’t even need a lot of research or, you know, a lot of reading new articles or studies or any of that and they could have the preconceived judgment and initial reactions to marijuana from the past, it just takes that one person. It just takes that one person that they trust or know to believe to say, Oh, something worked for you. Okay. I’m going to look into that for me, because I am so sick of where I’m at right now with either pharmaceuticals working but having side effects or not working at all, or just wanting to, you know, really change their lifestyle.

Michael: And do you hear from people who have just — even simpler than that, a mindset switch within themselves of, I’m thinking of people who maybe never understood that they were drawn to smoking marijuana because it reduced their anxiety — but now we know that it’s actually something that’s recommended by physicians at times for that and then it’s legitimate. Or somebody who smoked some marijuana before bed and now it’s actually something that people are using legitimately as a sleep aid.

Katherine: Yeah, I think we can. I think what’s the holdup here in our stigma is smoking. I think inhalation. I think if you were to take inhalation out of the equation, every would have, there was a lot of mindsets that would have been changed immediately, but because the connotation with  euphoria and drug use and smoking is there, I think that that’s the hard part because when people start realizing thatI don’t need to smoke it to get the medicinal benefit or the relaxation or the euphoria that I want to experience.

Then there’s —  it changes for people. So even though we do talk about inhalation as being very significant use in how we talk about vaping versus combustion and the benefits and the caution tends to all of that, I that’s the one part that puts up that wall. If we can get everyone to understand our public, to understand that smoking or inhalation doesn’t have to be a part of the equation, we’d have a lot more people calling us right out of the gate.

So there’s that hesitation with that, that inhalation or smoking is more recreational and it can’t medicinal benefit me because I know smoking is bad, you know? So, so we’re trying to, that’s the stigma we still have to squash with people, thinking about the old ways of using cannabis, you know, and just smoking it. And now how it’s changed to tablets and patches and gels and you know, all kinds of different western looking, you know, a medicine that they can be comfortable with.

Michael: Right. So we talked about people’s changing perceptions. I wanted to ask you about your own journey. How did you end up doing this? Were you always interested in cannabis and its medicinal uses or was there a moment that brought you to it?

Katherine: That’s always something that I think about because I have never — I was never an advocate of cannabis. I used it in my youth experimentally and it never worked with my body. I didn’t know why I just thought, Oh, I was always paranoid and why my friends enjoyed it. I never enjoyed it. It made me feel ill.

So that was in my youth. And then from then on, I kind of, I definitely believed the propaganda and had the stigma. I knew friends that I felt like, you know, had maybe an abuse  potential with it than something that was beneficial. So even when it came to Colorado, I voted against it. You know, I thought, Oh, this is just, you know, uh, I don’t know why people just want to use this just to get high and not be motivated in life because that’s the way I saw it — whether it was just a couple of friends that I saw never really put my interest into it until a family member was suddenly diagnosed with stage four, lung cancer. Never smoked in his life at all ,two kids in high school, ready to graduate, and given two to five years to live. Devastated our family as you can imagine, and as they were going around to different specialists in the pulmonary field, cancer lung cancer researchers, and cannabis came up a couple of times with those researchers saying, well, you know, we, we’ve got all these other therapies then you get into chemotherapy and radiation. Then after that, if everything fails, we will look at cannabis, but we know nothing about it. So there’s that. So, because it came up a couple of times in conversation, I told my family, well, since I’m the medical person in my family, in our family, I will at least take that off your plate to look into.

Um, cause now you, I got all these other Western modalities that you’ve seen or heard of that you’ve got to look into fast gene therapy, immunotherapy, you know, you’ve got to look into what those are all look into this and at least see if there’s any validity to this marijuana stuff that we keep hearing about.

And then that’s when I completely changed because I went to our, you know, as a clinician — 20, 23 years an RN — now going to the resources we look at for what we call white papers, or just kind of those studies, you know, let’s see what’s out there. And when I started looking into that saying, well, wait a minute, there is so much research out here. Yes, it’s in vivo and in vitro, which means animal and lab models, and not those large scale human models because it’s been federally illegal, but there’s still so much research that gives us hope. Why haven’t we been told that this exists for years now, or at least screamed at the mountaintops that, hey, there could be something here.

So it also kind of made me angry that, wow, I’ve got the public’s, you know, best held — I’m supposed to be guiding them as a clinician, and yet I have not known that this existed. So, that started my journey back then. Yeah, no, we were still self-educating ourselves. There wasn’t a lot of really solid, uh, platforms that you could go to train medical professionals, nurses and doctors, you know, where do you go? So I found my journey along that way, you know, I started doing the deep dive into self-educating.

Michael: What’s your relationship with other healthcare professionals today? Do you think that, beyond those doctors and nurses and other clinicians who are more directly engaged in cannabinoid medicine, do you think that there’s a greater sort of openness and understanding and willingness to look at, look at it as you were saying back then it was a treatment of last resort, but as a first-line treatment these days for many conditions.

Katherine: Yeah. I think the more that people are using cannabis, the more positive. A symptom or relief or even a disease treatment that is being said out there and being open about, I think that it is changing a lot of minds, you know.

Just last week I heard a caller tell me about a really well-known hospital here in Colorado that he knows the founder of and said, I know for a fact in every meeting now they’re actually finally talking about marijuana as, “Hey, we have patients that are using this, maybe we need to be a little bit more open and invite them.” Which was shocking to me.

Even last year or this year, I think pre-pandemic, we were invited to come speak in front of graduating residents at a big medical center here in Colorado to have this discussion about marijuana and saying, “Hey, you are now going out into the workforce. You are going to have patients from all ages that are using either CBD hemp or marijuana, and you, you know, let’s help you find that education and learn at least some of the basics.”

So you know, just seeing that we’re being invited to different groups and community groups that never wanted to talk about marijuana, that never opened their arms to it are now wanting to talk about it and saying we can’t ignore this. Now we know our community members are using it when you can just buy it at, you know, a shoe store or Amazon, you can buy CBD hemp. You know, we want to be able to educate everyone to safe and effective use.

Michael: I think about this a lot — how adult use legalization has impacted medical marijuana programs. I’m originally from California and in Colorado you’re in a similar situation. Do people explore it on their own, self-medicating looking for relief or for treatment before looking to the medical establishment for guidance. And is that a problem or is that, you know, actually just lowering the entry barrier?

Katherine: Yeah, I think what you’re saying, lowering the entry barrier. I think, you know, people have always looked to alternative therapies and that’s why our nutritional supplements industry is huge because people are always looking at what can I do that I have full control over that I don’t have to pay a copay or an out of pocket expense just to ask a physician, Hey, prescribe me something, or what do you suggest? You know, you’ve got that nutritional supplement industry that you can — you know, look up tumeric and you can look up fish oil and you can say, okay, how can this benefit me? So we’ve had that all along and people love that autonomy, love that empowerment that they have and this kind of fits right along with it.

It’s great that we have recreational states that they can get it on their own at a minimal cost. It all does come down to cost. It really does because it’s what someone sees a value in and what they can afford and what they’ll, you know, pick and choose what they’re going to put that, that funding into.

Michael: I want to ask you exactly about that. Leaf411 is a nonprofit. You talked in the beginning about one of the ideas behind it and being that there’s a need for people to get free or cheap access to medical care. And I know that one of your, I believe at one of your other programs focuses specifically on accessibility. We know obviously the cost of healthcare in the United States is a huge issue. So I think people might not think about that as applying to medical cannabis. How does it?

Katherine: Yeah, and that’s right, exactly. It’s like right now, the way our Western world works and in healthcare you can access the quality of medicine of medical care that you can afford. And that’s where we’re hurting because our communities and our public out there deserve quality medical care, but don’t have either the access to it or can’t afford it. So that was our main point of the free hotline and creating this organization to be a nonprofit. It is, we said, well, we needed to be an affordable, free and accessible hotline because most people can at least access a phone in some way.

So that’s really important because we get calls all the time with people saying, you know, I can’t afford to spend a lot of money or especially right now, since the pandemic I’m out of a job, you know, or I’m struggling financially, but I want to still see if I can treat my X, Y, and Z problem, you know?

So they’re at least trying to. They have an access to us now that’s that quality of care that they, anyone can afford. And that’s what we try to scream about is that, you know, we want to make sure that, you know, this is quality healthcare, you know, for free, we’re all registered nurses. We’re all trained in cannabis with the highest training that you can get on I think one of the most comprehensive platforms for medical cannabis practitioners that we were all trained on multiple different platforms. So, so there you go. So now you have something that you have that everyone has: equal opportunity to access, which is quality healthcare in cannabis. There is that. Anyone can afford this cause it’s free. And then we’re building programs for accessibility. So even if someone can’t afford the medicine, what did they do? You know? So we built an affordability program that is going to address those concerns as well.

Michael: Another thing I wanted to ask you about is, um, pediatric patients. Obviously we’re talking about their parents primarily. We know that one of the only FDA approved use of a cannabinoid is treating children with certain types of epilepsy with CBD. Do you get parents coming to you sort of wondering, or even desperate for answers?

Katherine: Yeah, I say. Both. I said, I’m both wondering and both desperate for help. Um, so we are very transparent, honest, open, and that’s why I think we have had such success because as a profession, nurses have been voted, number one trusted profession for 18 years in a row now, because, you know, we will tell them honestly, and we, we convey that on the phone as well.

When a parent calls and says, look, you know, I’m interested in treating my child with cannabis, scared, nervous. I’ve heard success stories but I don’t know where to start. We are always guiding them to get that cannabis clinician on your team — that’s always your number one. And then if they’re maybe going in the wrong direction in trying to treat on their own, I know I’ve had calls like that, “oh well, I haven’t really told my pediatrician because I think I kind of know or think that they’re going to be against it, but I’m using it and it’s been successful.”

Talking to them about ways that they can use now, the language that’s out there to talk to their primary and to get them on board, or at least get them on board with looking at the available information that’s out there.

Just last week, I talked to a mom that’s been using cannabis for her child and said it’s very successful, and has already reduced the pharmaceuticals, but she’s kind of at a loss of the next dosing. And she hasn’t told any of her clinical team and this child is pretty severely ill. And I said, you know, I can’t give you dosing. That’s outside of the nursing scope and practice. That’s a physician’s role and here is why that’s important and really doing what we have done all of our years. As nurses in hospitals, in a clinic setting, is being that support, being the go-between that physician and that family to explain why these things, if they’re asking why this is necessary at a level that they can understand.

And that’s what we do day in and day out. You know, that’s who we are when we’re in a hospital setting, you know, you’ve got your, your loved one, having a team of clinicians for every different kind of area. And we have to navigate that and explain, well, this physician wants this information or is, is prescribing this for these reasons and this clinician is prescribing this for these reasons, you know? So it’s that, that. That’s what we do is we help them understand the language and why things are necessary. So when a parent calls us, we hear them out and we guide them in, especially number one is going to be, you really want to get a cannabis physician on your team so they can give you exact dosing frequency, route, suggest the right cannabinoids for you when it’s a child.

Plus, you know, here’s why you need a medical marijuana card: you need that level of protection and legally, even though it’s a rec state and you can buy it, you really got to protect yourself and your child that you’re doing it in their best interest. And you’ve got that medical marijuana card that a physician has signed off on so that you can legally administer it.

Michael: How far away do you think we are from there being certified specialties in cannabis or cannabinoid medicine?

Katherine: Oh for certified specialty, I don’t think we’re very far off at all. I think we’ve got, you know, there’s already a master’s degrees and other degrees and certificates coming. It seems like all the time, colleges are saying, announcing that they’re having programs for learning about the plants, whether it’s just the botany, whether it’s just learning about the endocannabinoid system. So there, I hear all the time of legitimate schools that are building programs. I know there’s one of them being built here in Colorado through the university of Denver. I think there’s some courses that are being thought of to start, um, building and putting together.

So I think on that front we’re going fast and there’s legit legitimacy now with these licenses, certificates, degrees that are going to start coming up, recognized as a significant and real specialty. We’re still working towards that. I know the American cannabis nurses association, the ACNA is working towards getting it recognized as an actual specialty. So that way people can actually put that behind their name. Now they’re certified in cannabinoid medicine, you know, so we’re working towards that and we’re getting there fast.

Michael: My last question, I want to come back to one of the first things you said, which is that your job as a nonprofit in this field is to identify needs and then find ways to fill them. What do you think is the biggest need that’s not being filled right now in the world of cannabis medicine?

Katherine: I think the biggest need right now is access to affordable medicine. Honestly, I think because it is federally illegal, it’s out of pocket for everything from a quick physician visit to your medical marijuana card to the product itself, you know, a tincture bottle can be anywhere from $75 to a $100, to $150, I’ve heard for either a CBD hemp bottle or something that has more THC that they don’t even know how to use it correctly and then if it’s going to work and then they, okay. If it’s a parent, then they have to get here. Um, they have to get to pediatric, a physician to physician, sorry, for a pediatric patient to sign off.

So that’s two doctor’s visits they have to pay for. Then they have to pay for the card, which is around a hundred dollars. Those doctor visits, each can be anything from $150 to $300. Then you add on a hundred dollar card. Then you add on the first round of. Let’s see if this tincture bottle works and that’s a hundred dollars.

So yeah, it’s all that cost that adds up. I think that is our barrier there, you know, so, Leaf411 is here is to say, okay, well, at least your questions can be answered for free and at least start you on that journey of where to look for your next answers and the resources. Because that’s what people need to — resources that I can trust. The hemp manufacturers and retailers and marijuana, dispensaries, and retailers, we have, you know, we vetted as a nurse organization and said, okay, well, we can’t guide any of our public to anything, unless we’ve checked them out, significantly, checked them out.

And they checked all of our boxes to know we’re handing off, you know, at least safe information. We’ve built a library on our website to give them resources. So it’s all about resources. We have a resource called Aunt Bertha that we’ve added and partnered with that if we do hear language of them talking about financial struggles, then anywhere in the country, they can put their zip code in a search box and and it pulls up free and reduced programs for that individual around them, you know, so we’re trying to think of all different ways, but like I said, at the beginning all comes down to money, you know, what can I afford? Where am I at? You know? And, um, if we could, if it was just a $10 copay, it’d be much easier.

You know, if it was just a prescription that they had to pay a copay or $15 for their tincture bottle or whatever it is, their tablets and a tincture bottle, gosh, it would be so much easier. That is our struggle — affordability.

Michael: How can people find you?

Katherine: Uh, they can find us on our website leaf411.org. That’s leaf411,org. Our toll free number is on our website, 1-844-LEAF-411.

Michael: Thank you so much for speaking with us

Katherine: All right. Thank you. Thanks for having me. I really enjoyed this.

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Monday, 1 April 2013

Yeuch, what's that on your face - is it a booger!

Ha, ha, ROFL - Happy April Fool's Day!

I know, I know, very childish, but with those of you who have young kids, I'm sure there's been great hilarity in your household today!

Okay, time to be serious and it's time for a new challenge over at Crafty Cardmakers and your hostess this fortnight is "MOI"! (that's me practising for my holidays - can you guess where I'm going!?)

Being the first of April, I picked the theme "HUMOUR" - add a touch of humour to your card - something silly - something sarcastic - googlie eyes!!

Here are a few cards from me ...

Dog stamp is Inkadinkadoo. Sentiment is computer generated. DP is Stampin'Up

Same but different!

and this one is for my Mum & Dad's 53rd Anniversary.
Made using the Stampin' Up Owl Punch

Our sponsors this time are:

So come on - I know you all like to have a bit of fun - give me a giggle and post your creation on the CCM Challenge (and remember it doesn't have to be a card).

Thanks for popping in, I hope wherever you are someone or something makes you smile today.

PS. We're off to visit "Paris in the Springtime" for a few days. I'm so excited, the kids and hubby have been before, but this will be my "premier voyage"! So If I don't see you before I go, I'll catch up when I get back.

Take care and au revoir!
Suze xx

Viv said...

Ah - Gay Pareeeee!!!All romance and hunky french men with sexy accents!!!! Love Paris although it's a long time since I was last there - am sure you'll have a great time Suze - and the doggie cards made me smile (and cough a lot!) x

Valerie-Jael said...

Bon voyage, ma chérie....lovely cards! Hugs, Valerie

Papercraft By Carole said...

Great theme Suze!! Love both of your cards - the sentiments are brilliant!! Cxx

Aileen said...

Lovely fun cards Suze. Love that doggy image, full of character. Hope your trip is tres bon! Sorry cant remember much francais! x

Anonymous said...

Great cards, love the owls. Congratulations to your parents, 53 years is special. Last month my parents celebrated 55 years.
Have fun.
I have to ask ...... any room for a little one?!!!!!!

cheryl said...

oh gosh you have been busy hun,what a wonderful selection of cards they are all just gorgeous hugs Cherylxxxxxx

Josephine said...

Fabulous cards - so effective - and each one generated a smile!

Victoria said...

J'espère que vous passez de bonnes vacances à Paris. Mangez beaucoup de cuisine délicieuse et profitez de l'expérience parisienne!
PS Great cards!

Meggymay said...

Wonderful fun cards, its a great challenge.Hope you have a good holiday.
Yvonne x

chrissie said...

These are all lovely fun cards--made me smile :)

Love Chrissie xx

Unknown said...

Great cards Suze and the sentiments made me smile! "Moi" - ummmm Germany? Oh yeah...Poland.
Have a great time in Paris! Cxxx

Silvia(Barnie) said...

Beautiful cards, all of them.

Jenni's Jems said...

Bon jour mon amie hope you are having a fabulous time in Paris and I am loving those dog cards ( great male cards-the first one would suit my hubby perfectly!!) and the owls are so 'eye' catching too!x

Anonymous said...

O your going to Paris I couldnt tell because of your strong Scottish accent, do have fun my dear. I have just popped over from Valeries blog and saw that you have sent her some choccie goodies well as you know the situation here in Greece is quite bad and am missing terribly, meat,fruit,gin,meat,fish,gin so next time your down the super market .....
oops nearly forgot love those dog cards they made me smile he really is adorable.

Von said...

Funny cards Suze :)
Have a wonderful time
Von ♥

Pat (mspfd) said...

Love all 3 cards. Wonderful mix of colors with the fun dog image. The the cute owls you created are awesome.

Darnell said...

I hope you are having an awesome time, Suze, wherever you are now!

Your dog cards karacked me up! They are both fantastic!

And, aw, what a sweet Mr. & Mrs. Spiffy Owl you made for the anniversary! (Eeek, 53 years!) Love it!!

Mel X said...

Hi, thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment. What a fabulous set of cards, all cracking designs.

Mel X

Faith A at Daffodil Cards said...

Missed loads of your posts, so thought I had better have a look through, they are WONDERFUL, love your cards Suze.

Hope your Paris trip hasn't left you too tired with all that housework it inspired :)

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Porn is short for "pornography" and it has existed for many years. Porn is usually defined as "viewing of sexually titillating movies and pictures", but it is accustomed to make reference to a great deal more than just porn motion pictures. A lot of people don't even take into account porn a type of pornography as they do not see porn as degrading or pornographic.

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It's important to notice there are numerous main reasons why folks could start to establish a porn habit. At times, It is as the individual sights porn as a method to launch pressure. At other moments, individuals may possibly start to look at porn as a method to accomplish sexual arousal. Nevertheless other times, folks may well start to perspective porn as a way to cope or escape from reality (i.e. sensation frustrated, etc.)

To beat porn habit, you should To begin with confess to you that porn is not really Component of "genuine like" or even a romance. Then you should work on your state of mind. Focus on modifying how you concentrate on porn. Cease specializing in damaging results and concentrate on optimistic types. Finally, Focus on re-programming your head to find out porn utilization as a means for providing stimulation, not as an conclusion in alone. With time, and with consistent work, you may prevail over porn addiction and have back again to staying in relationships with genuine people today

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Seeking full-time compassionate, friendly Board-Eligible/Board-Certified Ob/Gyn physician to join our team at Midwest Center for Women s HealthCare, the largest doctor-owned OB/GYN practice in the state of Illinois. Our busy practice has been providing women s healthcare for over 20+ years. Our group s philosophy is one of maintaining a good work/life balance so we can enjoy both our jobs and our families. We are proud to offer a welcoming and supportive work environment. We have the benefits of flexibility and autonomy in our large private practice combined with two state-of-the-art hospital systems, Ascension Illinois- Saint Alexius Hospital and Northshore Health, one of which offers a teaching option and residency program. Our call pool is shared 1:6 allowing for time with family and friends. We offer a competitive compensation packet.

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Do you ever get discouraged when standing in faith? Do you look at the time gone by and think; God would have done it by now? Maybe it is not God’s will to heal me. I don’t know about you, but believing for healing is something I’ve struggled with; I’ve heard all kinds of things throughout my life. God’s got a purpose in your cerebral palsy; the greatest healing is in eternity, and on in on it goes. Even then, you can get to the “dark side” of faith with things like, my grandmother was the most saintly woman I knew; she prayed and believed God and died of fill in the blank.

I admit; there are things I don’t have an answer for, but as I began to read the Bible at the beginning of October, I noticed the different names of God in The Complete Jewish Bible. The names caught my attention; names that mean healer, provider, protector, and so on. As I read, I began to see that my faith had to be in what God’s Word said. I couldn’t allow questions or man-made doctrines to usurp what is written in the Bible. We will go through hard times, and our faith will be tested.

May your darkest days become your most precious times enveloped and transformed in the arms and the Spirit of the Lord.

Pastor Tiz, Miracles by the Moment, pg. 95

As I read Genesis through Leviticus, I got a copy of Pastor’s Larry and Tiz Huch’s new book, Miracles by the Moment. It tells the story of the miracle their grandson, Lion received and how the Lord brought Pastor Tiz through cancer. But more than the testimony pastors Larry and Tiz take you inside their journey, through the struggle, tears, and standing in faith even when it would have been easier to give up.

Through both of these back-to-back diagnoses, the family’s motto was “set your mind on the miracle.” This book doesn’t give you a view of faith that ignores the problems or acts like every day is easy. Tiz is honest and tells of her struggle and even tells of the worst day she had as she broke down in tears thinking she wasn’t going to make it through.

On pages 115-117, she tells you the eight things she did to overcome the spirit of heaviness as she had to stay home from church on Sundays. As a pastor’s wife who is engaged in the life of the congregation and doing television programs with her husband, you can imagine how her world was rocked when she had to put that aside for a season.

I believe this book will give you what Tiz calls a “faith infusion.” We’ve all heard stories of people who believed and didn’t receive, we’ve heard all the reasons why we should just accept the sovereign plan of God. But I have a question if God gives all the sicknesses, why does Acts 10:38 say, “How God anointed Jesus who went about doing good and healing all those oppressed of the devil”?

The devil doesn’t care if you believe God can work miracles. What he doesn’t want you to believe is that God will do it for you.

Pastor Larry, Miracles by the Moment, pg. 212

Pastor Larry finishes out the book with chapters on not limiting God. As I finished that part of the book I wrote the following in my journal,

“Don’t limit God.” There are those who say we can’t limit God. They will take away the healing Scriptures and make them mean something else. They take sovereignty to a level that glorifies suffering and borderline condemn the desire to be healed. In reading this book I saw a balanced and biblical view of healing and miracles. One that didn’t act like faith stopped all hardships, but also one that didn’t let hardship stop them from believing for a miracle and total health. I pray I come to that place of biblical truth and quit letting what men say talk me out of the plain meaning of the Word.

Scripture says that we nullify the Word of God by our traditions. I have been in Pentecostal and Charismatic churches all my life and some of the teachings are off but I will not let that negate the truth of Scripture.

I was born with a heart condition and I have a minor case of cerebral palsy but as I read Miracles by the Moment and kept reading through the Torah, faith began to spark in me. I believe if we would put aside all the negatives, all the reasons why God won’t, and all the “testimonies” of people who believed but didn’t receive and immerse ourselves in the Word and faith-building books we will see our faith rise.

For those who understandably still have the thought, but what if the healing still doesn’t come? I want to share a passage with you,

Daniel 3:15-18 NKJV “Now if you are ready at the time you hear the sound of the horn, flute, harp, lyre, and psaltery, in symphony with all kinds of music, and you fall down and worship the image which I have made, good! But if you do not worship, you shall be cast immediately into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. And who is the god who will deliver you from my hands?” 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. 17 If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. 18 But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.”

Our God is able, He will, but if not…

This is faith. Faith doesn’t arbitrarily surrender to sovereignty – faith believes for healing, believes for a miracle, faith believes. And, not but, and faith will still believe even when the answer doesn’t come in the timing we want or the way that we want.

Faith is trusting what God says, and there are over eight thousand promises in the Bible. In the back of the book, Tiz includes one-hundred healing Scriptures she declared every day. That is faith. Don’t think; name it and claim it, think believing the Word of God, think, taking hold of the promise!

If you are facing a diagnosis, have given up on receiving healing, or like me, have gone back and forth on whether or not God will heal you – I believe, Miracles by the Moment; will give you the faith infusion you need.

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Cryptocurrencies have laid the foundation for the entire new market which is evolving on daily basis. The main goal is to make people less dependent on funds, and make funds serve people and be available instantly while saving on the fees.  However, do not forget to ask around before investing and to inform yourself when dealing with cryptos for the first time. These are the perks of crypto payments globally.

Responsible Spending and Money Savings

So far, we have all been informed that banks and traditional payment systems restrict our freedom, in a way. These also act as a third party in every transaction. To explain this more transparently, remember the fact that banks work with individuals only on working hours, and that there is always a certain period of time needed for funds to be transferred to another account, especially abroad, following the usual bank procedures. If the bank is closed and you need its services at that particular moment, the alternative is using various apps, or PayPal, or Western Union. Above all, there is always a commission that you need to pay to the intermediary, and it is way higher than the charges imposed on crypto transfers. Furthermore, cryptocurrencies are transferred within seconds, and the entire process is transparent and can be easily tracked.

There was an excellent example introduced by Jameson Lopp of BitGo, who analyzed the market on President’s Day on Feb. 19. In 2018. The banks were closed while peer-2-peer system was able to process over $1 billion equivalent of transactions, and more than $7 billion worth of Bitcoin was reportedly traded on a single day.

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Crypto Payments in Every-Day Life Worldwide

Cryptocurrencies have become part of the mainstream in many countries in the world. There are suffering economies where cryptos have proved themselves as a successful way out for many households that encountered inflation. There are also states, such as Ohio, where you can pay your taxes in bitcoin. There are entire regions, such as North Queensland in Australia, filled with retail shops that accept cryptos. France’s capital is one of the cities where you can buy groceries and newspapers with bitcoin, as well as Prague in Czech Republic, which is steadily taking up the lead role among the European capitals when it comes to the usage of cryptos in everyday life, with its 150 official retailers accepting BTC. The latest news came from Calgary in Canada, where a new cryptocurrency has been developed, Calgary Dollar. It is being used for inner-city services. The Calgarians can get their coins by taking participation in the services organized by the local socially-engaged entities.  Many of the big companies, whether state-owned or privately-owned are using cryptos as incentives to attract people to use their services or products. German Railway is reportedly considering granting tokens to their loyal customers. Jaguar Land Rover is partnering with blockchain network Iota to reward drivers with cryptos for reporting on roads conditions and vehicle performance.

Possible Downsides of Dealing with Cryptocurrencies

In some of the previous posts we explained how the entire process of buying and trading with cryptos work. However, we are aware that digital currencies may be too abstract and confusing for elderly people who prefer to make their payments (especially the micropayments) and keep their savings in fiat currencies.  We can understand all that. However, let us point out that what people accentuate as main downsides of using cryptos generally comes down to getting used to a new means of payments. In order to get to know the cryptos, you have to experience them and acknowledge the concepts of blockchain, private and public keys, etc.  As for the risks of trading with cryptos, they may include precautions in transferring larger amounts because the character of cryptos may be volatile, so we advise checking the rates before making larger transfers. There is also a possibility of hacking, as with all transactions online. However, in comparison to many other online services, crypto networks are considered to be highly protected.

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It all started in December 2020 when I contacted them and I was asked to submit all my documents, so I sent the ones I had while I tried to get others from my school and finally I got all my documents and they asked me which course I wanted to study and what was my budget, so I told them project management.

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Award Recipiants

2010 Bob Austin

2011 Al Sauvadon

2012 Ron Kinney

2013 Tim Purvis

2019 Alexandra Robinson

2020 Dano Rybar

2021 Chrissie Stevenson

This award recognizes extraordinary leadership by an individual CASTO Official member.  The recipient should demonstrate leadership that embodies commitment to the principles of CASTO while advocating the causes which serve the pupil transportation industry.

Criteria for the award are:

          • A present or retired CASTO Official member, minimum five years
          • Enhance the professional image of CASTO
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Timing: Awarded annually, if worthy candidate(s) are nominated

Nomination: Any CASTO member or non-member can make a nomination

Deadline: An annual call for nominations will be made at the September state board meeting. Nominations are due February of each year, a day to be determined. Presentation of the award will be made at the CASTO annual conference.

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Three members will comprise the committee. The Committee: President will appoint a chairperson who will select two members to serve on the committee. The committee should include a member(s) of the Board of Directors, a chapter representative(s) and/or a past award recipient, all subject to confirmation of the Executive Board.  Current award committee members may not be nominated.

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For many, including an apparently very upset Robert George, the answer to the above question is obvious: of course it is.  Such partisanship is demonstrated by what he calls a “deplorable attack” and “tendentious assault” on Ryan. But only in a world which accepts a simplistic liberal/conservative binary could the criticism of one candidate or party be understood as support for another party.  We will explore below whether the criticisms of Ryan’s views are justified, but surely George would admit that this binary reasoning doesn’t match up with the political and ethical reality.  Indeed, as a former liberal who still holds multiple views at odds with mainstream conservatism, George himself is a good example of someone who blows up the binary.

But George’s argument isn’t quite this simple.  His focus is not just on what was said in the statement, it is on what it didn’t say.  It didn’t criticize Joe Biden enough.  It didn’t praise Paul Ryan enough.  It didn’t spend enough time talking about principles of Catholic social teaching that are at odds with Democrats.  This argument from silence apparently counts as enough evidence for George to assume and/or suggest that the signatories reject the Church’s teaching on abortion and/or are trying to carry water for the Obama administration.

Let me say for the record that I have zero interest in getting either of these candidates elected–and I found Joe Biden’s tired response to the abortion question last night to be a fundamental attack on Catholic Social Teaching’s call for justice for the most vulnerable–and for nonviolence more generally.  From the press release when the statement was sent to media:

“The Church’s broad social teaching transcends the narrow ideological agendas of either political party, and we want to be absolutely clear that this statement was not circulated and released to support Democrats – a group which also finds itself seriously at odds with Catholic social teaching,” said Charles C. Camosy, assistant professor of theology at Fordham University. “We focus on Paul Ryan because several of his statements and proposals, and those of his supporters, have been the most recent cause of error and confusion about some of the most important aspects of Catholic teaching on care for the most vulnerable.”

That is the context out of which this statement comes.  There is no confusion about how the views of Biden and other pro-choice Democrats line up with Church teaching. However, there is tremendous confusion about the matters of Catholic Social Doctrine brought up in “On All of Our Shoulders”–and this is why we crafted and circulated it.  The statement was already probably too long, and we could not hope for it to be all things to all people.  And despite this being the case, the statement nevertheless still managed to do the following:

1.  Insist that the foundational principle of Catholic Social Teaching is the dignity of the human person from conception

2. Agree with Catholic Bishops publicly reminding Catholics about the pro-choice views of Catholic (and other) politicians

3.  Criticize the Obama administration for the HHS mandate

4.  Laud Paul Ryan for his positions that are consistent with Catholic teaching

That is a remarkable list, and it would be exceedingly odd to have these sentiments come from people who are in the tank for Obama/Biden.  The criticism that those who crafted the statement must be partisan because these ideas were not expanded upon, or talked about enough, cannot bear the weight that George puts on it.  Again, this statement comes out of a context, and was meant to respond to a very particular problem with regard to confusion about the Church’s Social Doctrine.

But even if the criticism of Ryan isn’t partisan, perhaps it is just mistaken.  After all, the claim that George attributes to us–that Ryan is “an unreconstructed Randian radical individualist and, as such, a clear opponent of Catholic social teaching”–is pretty harsh and seems difficult to substantiate.  He even accuses me directly of not giving Ryan the benefit of the doubt I give others in my scholarship.

But is this what we said of Ryan?  Oddly, George never links to our document, but even if he had, his readers would not have been sent to a document which makes any such claim.  Indeed, we were careful not to say he was a radical individualist in the statement–he clearly has stated concern for the flourishing of families and of other local communities.  We did say that he has an “Ayn Rand “inspired” individualist and anti-government vision” that is not consistent with Catholic Social Doctrine. But is that because we are somehow predisposed to oppose him or not willing to give him the benefit of the doubt?  Not at all.  We say this because in 2005 Paul Ryan said this in a speech to the Atlas Society.  Indeed, he even claimed he would often return to Atlas Shrugged to check his principles to make sure that what he is doing is consistent “with the key principles of individualism.”

It is certainly possible that Ryan has switched in the last few years from this connection with Rand to one with Thomas Aquinas.  But as we point out in the statement:

a shift from the social philosophy of Ayn Rand to the social doctrine of the Catholic Church is a radical change indeed.  Such a conversion would take much time and reflection.  Congressman Ryan’s policies have remained unchanged through this shift.  This suggests that they may in fact still be more indebted to the social principles of Rand than to Aquinas and the Catholic Church.

Several of Ryan’s proposed policies remain at variance with Catholic Social Teaching–and this has been pointed out by the US Bishops designated by the conference to speak about such matters.  It is certainly possible that Ryan may be in process, on his way from Rand to CST, but in the meantime the confusion created by defenses of his mistakes needed to be addressed.

I think Paul Ryan’s defense of our prenatal children–and that of Robert George–are to be greatly admired.  As I wrote in the online version of the Washington Post yesterday, I also admire Ryan’s clear-headed thinking about the problems (though I disagree with his proposed solutions) of our long-term health care debt.  The “On All of Our Shoulders” statement was designed with a narrow purpose in mind: a defense of Catholic Social Doctrine during a time when it is under attack and clouded by confusion. The defense of these doctrines is far more important than a blog exchange, or even a presidential election.  We cannot allow partisanship, even in favor of a good cause (like defense of our prenatal children), to compromise or equivocate on the fullness of the Church’s teaching on protection of–and support for–the most vulnerable.


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Want to be more joyful? Pray this prayer to St. Philip Neri

The “Patron Saint of Joy” is a powerful intercessor for those who need more joy in their lives.

Living in the midst of a world surrounded by violence, oppression, disease and poverty is not always easy. In fact, it is often depressing.

This reality, as well as any number of circumstances in our own personal lives, can easily put us in a foul mood, living in a constant state of despair or anger.

Yet, God calls us to something more.

Pope Francis has said previously during a Mass at Santa Marta, “The Christian ‘identity card is joy, the Gospel’s joy, the joy of having been chosen by Jesus, saved by Jesus, regenerated by Jesus; the joy of that hope that Jesus is waiting for us, the joy that – even with the crosses and sufferings we bear in this life – is expressed in another way, which is peace in the certainty that Jesus accompanies us, is with us.”

The Holy Father charged Christians to help others find Jesus, “so that they may rejoice in the Gospel and have this joy which is truly of the Gospel. ”

When we find it difficult to be joyful, one heavenly person to turn to is the “Patron Saint of Joy,” St. Philip Neri. He was known to have a joyful heart and attracted many people through his jubilant example.

Here is a short prayer to St. Philip Neri that can help a soul weighed down by the anxieties of the world see the joy of the Gospel in a new way.

O holy St. Philip Neri, patron saint of joy, you who trusted Scripture’s promise that the Lord is always at hand and that we need not have anxiety about anything, in your compassion heal our worries and sorrows and lift the burdens from our hearts. We come to you as one whose heart swells with abundant love for God and all creation. Hear us, we pray, especially in this need (make your request here). Keep us safe through your loving intercession, and may the joy of the Holy Spirit which filled your heart, St. Philip, transform our lives and bring us peace. Amen

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“When all things were in deepest silence and night was in the midst of her swift course, your almighty word, O Lord, leapt down from your royal throne….” (Wisdom 18: 14-15)

In this note I will discuss very briefly the spiritual value of silence, acknowledging that it would be hard to overemphasize the value and importance placed on silence by the great spiritual writers. My main conclusion will be that the deep awareness of God’s own magnificent presence in our souls is nurtured by silence.

If we meditate for a moment on the silence that existed between Jesus and Mary during the time she carried Him in her womb, and what transpired between her and Jesus during those nine months, our hearts are filled with awe and wonder, and we see anew that silence is not an emptiness but a condition for greater fullness, for greater life, for greater love.

There can be no doubt that exterior silence greatly aids in promoting an interior awareness of God’s presence. It says in the Gospel of Luke, for example, that Jesus “withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed” (Luke 5:16).  And Saint John of the Cross – a great master of interior prayer –  loved to pray in the mountains. But it is not always possible to be in the wilderness or in the mountains, and we are advised that “when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you” ( Matt. 6:6).

Saint Faustina says that “in order to hear the voice of God, one has to have silence in one’s soul and to keep silence; not a gloomy silence, but an interior silence; that is to say, recollection in God. One can speak a great deal without breaking silence and, on the contrary, one can speak little and be constantly breaking silence” (118). “In silence I tell you everything, Lord, because the language of love is without words” (1489).

Dr. Susan Muto, a contemporary Catholic writer who has written extensively on the spiritual life, discusses how essential growth in inner silence is. She says: “Silence is not only an essential component of the spiritual life we must preserve if we want to welcome God’s word; it is that which preserves us. What is silence? To be silent is not merely to be mute. Spiritual silence is an emptying of self to make room for God. Ultimately it is only silence that can open us to a deeper experience of God….Each time we retreat to a corner of silence in our project-oriented world, we put ourselves in a state of peaceful readiness. We become docile” (Am I Living A Spiritual Life?, pp. 29-30).

Muto adds in another book, “In silence the scattered pieces of my life fall into place, and I see again where I am going. Silence puts me in touch not only with the human spirit in all its richness, but also with the Holy Spirit. It opens me to the dimension of transcendence….Silence becomes a sanctuary in which faith, hope and love are restored. It readies me to listen to words that ring with eternal truths. Silence is almost like a psychic force that produces a heightened capacity for meditation, prayer, and contemplation” (Pathways of Spiritual Living, pp. 56-57).

“Contemplative prayer is silence, the ‘symbol of the world to come’ or ‘silent love.’ Words in this kind of prayer are not speeches; they are like kindling that feeds the fire of love. In this silence, unbearable to the ‘outer’ man, the Father speaks to us His incarnate Word, who suffered, died, and rose; in this silence the Spirit of adoption enables us to share in the prayer of Jesus” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2717).

Saint Pope John Paul II adds the following about the importance of silence while praying: “Listening and meditation are nourished by silence….  A discovery of the importance of silence is one of the secrets of practicing contemplation and meditation. One drawback of a society dominated by technology and the mass media is the fact that silence becomes increasingly difficult to achieve.”

To be aware of God’s presence within your soul is a great help in the spiritual journey. The Benedictine monk and well known spiritual writer, Dom Hubert van Zellar, makes this point in a wonderful way in How to Find God:

“The discovery of God present in the soul is one of the most momentous in the soul’s spiritual career…Once the soul has grasped the significance of this doctrine [that God indwells a baptized soul that is in sanctifying grace], the whole horizon changes; the implications are limitless…More and more, the soul of prayer should come to realize that it is the Holy Spirit who is acting….” (edited from pages 119-121).

This great discovery of God present in your soul is nurtured by silent prayer. I therefore close with these challenging but also encouraging words from one of the great Masters of prayer in the Catholic tradition, Father Jean Nicolas Grou, who writes:

“Do not tell me you can pray with your heart only when you are praying with your mouth….The heart when it prays often invites and even forces the mouth to be silent: and if this silence is unknown to you…how greatly you are to be pitied if you know nothing of this interior prayer and never practice it. My intention is not by any means to disturb and alarm Christian souls [but] to convince them that there is a more excellent way than praying aloud…to beg the Holy Spirit to teach us…to try again and again to keep silence in God’s presence for a few moments; to refuse to be discouraged; to keep our imagination from taking fright; to accustom our minds to it little by little. [T]hose who follow this road with discretion will find it profitable, and will be glad that they made the effort….” (How to Pray, pp.63-67, as edited).

Thomas L. Mulcahy, M.A.

P.S. In nature God is present in his creation by His immensity, similar to how an artist is present in his work, but in a more radical or powerful way. But by way of sanctifying grace, God truly indwells a baptized soul, not secondarily but as truly and really present. The title for this note comes from a colorized FB post which said: “Some relationships are nurtured in silence.”

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  1. Thank you for writing this beautiful post!

    I especially love this bit, “silence is not an emptiness but a condition for greater fullness, for greater life, for greater love.”

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Born and raised in a small town near Genoa, Italy, Antonella developed a profound love for art at a very young age. She first developed her skills in painting spending most of her free time tucked away in her garage, where with a burst of creativity, most of her early artworks came to life.

After moving to London in 2010 she also became a tattoo artist.

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