His Dad was supposed to be here Sunday morning to wake up to but his car broke down at the local shops on Saturday night and he had it towed to Kin Kin where he stayed until it was fixed. He called in on his way home on Monday afternoon. Luckily we had already done a bit of a family outing to get fish and chips for lunch but that night Connor did not care two hoots that his Dad was not able to stay over with him. I had given each of them a room if you call the garage I am filling up with packing, a room. I just knew they would need their own space and Connor had already asked to use my ipad on Netflix so that he could leave his Dad to the news on TV. He did re-emerge later on when it was just the two of us.
I can't say I was well enough to get involved with him at such a late hour so he did the TV and I did the computer. He chose to watch a series called Red vs Blue which seems be a skit on online gaming. It was a war game and the humour was black, very black. I was amazed at how much he loved it and laughed. Surely you would have to be quite an intelligent 12 year old to be watching this I thought to myself but that has not prevented the family putting him on Ritalin. It must be a Ritalin epidemic with Cohen on it too. Yes, he has been on it for a while my son now tells me but. Cohen is very adult about justifying why he is on it too. I actually asked him to remember to try and remember himself, his true self, even if others are "wanting you to change". A one liner like that is not bound to make such impact but compared to Cohen he does not need to be on Ritalin, however Connor thinks it will help him lose weight. He sure has packed it on over the last 12 months so I can no longer blame the change of diet when he was living with his other Nana for so long. He eats too much! And he is fussy about what he eats. Although he eyed off the Tamarilo until I told him it was a tree tomato. The last lot of seeds went mouldy in the moist blotting paper come glad bag set up I had seen on the Internet or something so I had asked him to leave me some if he chose to eat it. It didn't get eaten, only the apple did (and I love Apple right now of the OS X kind). I had manderins, kiwi fruit and passionfruit but none of those got eaten. Scott loves apples too. I only ever like them stewed, too hard to digest for me. I was a bit upset that he did not want my crock pot version of savoury mince. He was actually eating it when he asked me what "this" was, asking if it was pineapple. I told him it was Paw Paw (great for digestive enzymes) and that is when he announced that he does not like Paw Paw and that was the end of Dinner for him.
S had a frozen Cannelloni dinner and gave him that but he complained that he was still hungry half an hour later and that's when he settled for a packet of noodles even though he does not like them. I told him to make it himself. I'd done my bit. I could only eat a little myself, in fact most of the stuff I've cooked lately has ended up in freezer bags. This gastroparesis without being diagnosed is trying to kill me though malnutrition. As soon as I try to eat nutritionally dense with veggies and stuff, it causes payback. I'm down to one meal a day. But my body has been in starvation mode for at least a year now. One meat pattie and one egg yolk was what I considered a safe meal during that year. It certainly isn't a big meal. When gut allows, I fortify that now with greens even if it is just dandelions out of the lawn or sprigs of parsley I grow and even more frequently your Salad Burnett Mum, just in case it is the only meal I can stomach for the day.
Anyway, on his way back home, my son was happy to take my mushroom paw paw mince home for tea that night.
Please send this to MS patient you may know. Make sure they see the
last slide on Neuro-herxheimer's-like reactions from medications .
Patients should work with their doctors and titrate their dosing
schedule by starting low dose and also taking a steroid like prednisone
or dexmethasone. (Short term)
The medications of which he speaks presumably are worming agents bought over the counter, anti-parasitics etc. I have heard of people getting more help from their local vet than anywhere else. Please view the video for info about brain herxing from medication.
Published on 28 May 2016
Dr.
Alan MacDonald (via live video link from Florida) Chronic Borreliosis
and Chronic Seronegative Lyme Disease DNA Probes Solve a Diagnostic
Conundrum
Dr Alan MacDonald's recent work finding Nematode worms in
Multiple sclerosis MS patients spinal fluid and also finding Borrelia (
Lyme Disease) in the worms. London Lecture May 15 2016
Recent discovery confirmed by state-of-the-art Molecular Beacon DNA probes.
The
examination of autopsied brain tissues from patients who died of
serious neurological conditions has revealed that many tick-borne
infections, such as Lyme disease, go undiagnosed and untreated.
Board-certified pathologist, Alan B. MacDonald, MD, says his research
shows "tick infections are not easily detected with routine tests, nor
are they easily cured with short courses of antibiotics."
MacDonald
will present his findings Thursday on Capitol Hill, in the Rayburn
House Office Building, at a forum to explore the scientific, economic,
and policy challenges posed by the epidemic of Lyme disease and
associated tick-borne illnesses.
MacDonald found three Borrelia
pathogens, including B. burgdorferi the causative agent of Lyme disease,
thriving inside parasitic nematode worms, worm eggs or larvae in the
brain tissue of nineteen deceased patients. These microscopic worms are
endosymbionts, meaning the Borrelia bacteria dwell inside the worms. A
tick bite delivers the nematode into the human body.
"Both the
worms and the Borrelia pathogens can cause devastating brain damage,"
said MacDonald. "Current tests, like the ELISA and Western blot, do not
adequately detect the presence of Borrelia bacteria." MacDonald says his
discovery also shows "while patients are wrongly declared free of Lyme
and other tick-borne infections, in reality, too often they contract
serious neurodegenerative diseases which can kill them."
The
Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis Center Tissue Bank provided MacDonald
with ten specimens from deceased MS patients; all ten specimens showed
evidence of Borrelia infected nematodes. Infected worms were also found
in five tissue specimens from patients who succumbed to the highly
malignant brain tumor Glioblastoma multiforme, the same cancer which
took the life of Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA). Ironically, in 1993,
Senator Kennedy chaired a hearing of the Labor and Human Resources
committee titled: Lyme disease: A Diagnostic and Treatment Dilemma.
Finally, four specimens from patients who died from Lewy Body dementia,
the same illness which afflicted comedian Robin Williams, also showed
the presence of infected nematodes.
MacDonald's work breaks new
ground while building on previous studies. In 1984, Lyme pioneer Willy
Burgdorfer, Ph.D. wrote of finding nematodes in tick guts. In 2014,
University of New Haven researcher Eva Sapi, Ph.D., examined the guts of
ticks gathered in southern Connecticut and found 22% of the nymphs and
30% of adult Ixodes ticks carried nematodes in their systems.
MacDonald
identified the infected nematodes using a technique known as FISH:
Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization which involves using molecular beacon
DNA probes. FISH identifies pieces of Borrelia's genetic material which
fluoresce under the microscope with a 100% DNA match. Dr. MacDonald, a
fellow of the Academy of American Pathologists, conducts his research
through the Dr. Paul Duray Research Fellowship Endowment Inc.
Unbelievable! I figured there was an MS foundation of some sort. Yup. $44m spent last year. No search results for MacDonald or nematode. I did see the names of some of my least favorite politicians and lots of way to spend money 'treating' the ailment. Through most of my life I've had the highest regard for scientists but over the last half decade that has nearly vanished but for a handful of people and Dr. MacDonald is certainly one of them. In a better world the guy would get one of the highest prizes in medicine. In our world he'll be lucky to keep his licence to practice.
Dr. Alan MacDonald THANK YOU
2016... My Goodness 60 something years after the paper By: Dr. Innes, SCD, PHD., M.R.C.V. S.
No one in Florida will help.
Probably the reason that there was no apparent follow up about the nematode vectors for other human pathogens was an enthusiastic and ongoing biological [and chemical] cryptic bioweapon development program probably largely clearinghoused through the NIH as restructured under the DoD via the Eisenhower appointed Nelson Rockefeller; and the Russian Dollbioweapon consisting of one vector, perhaps a tick, discharging an assortment of varied pathological stealth microbialsdesigned to incapacitate a target population with an array of symptoms such as would stymie the medical establishment'sability to diagnose. Ticks whose bite injects a Russian doll medley of mycoplasmas viruses bacteria and worms/nematodes that carry bacteria that harbor viruses and mycoplasma. What a marvelous thing to unleash upon America in the shadow ofthe NYC metropolitan area. Then lie and deny. Whom can we than for this?
Kaitlyn had been an elementary music teacher, working with children every day. When she got too sick to work, she stayed at home and wrote her first novel called “Elements.” Now, because of her struggle with Lyme disease, Kaitlyn has written a children’s book called “Once Upon a Lyme” to bring Lyme awareness to children across the world, and has created a blog space that helps other sufferers stay positive and hopeful for curative treatment.
The blackest of All Crimes (when you are trained to do evil as opposed to choosing to do evil, never thought about it like that before Tom Regan and Mr Ghandi)
Please don't allow your children to be cruel to animals. It is not something they grow out of! Train up your child in the way of Oneness. And when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Yesterday I was as bright as a button. I was even able to get something done for my son. I looked and acted and walked normally. Today I can barely stay awake and my gut is burning. Already had a nap but it did not do a thing. It is very hard to focus on what I am trying to do and I mostly give up, sit and stare until I go back to bed.....I suppose that is what is next. I should order some online groceries or else I will have no milk tomorrow but I just can't do it now. Glad we got that phonecall in yesterday my sister because I wouldn't be doing that today.
I tried to set up messages on the house phone but something is not right and I was in the dream world when someone tried to get me. I don't think it was the ANZ bank again. My brain heard someone yelling but I suppose it was someone leaving a message but it did not record it so I have no idea what it was. Anyway, that is where I am at with the phone. It is better for me if I can get it to record a message silently if that was an option. I can't remember. At least I had a go yesterday. It could actually be working. It is just that today, I am not well enough to care even though I did it so that I didn't have to hang up on the ANZ bank calls 3 times a day. They hang up if they get a message machine and do not leave a message. I changed the message but I forgotto stop the recording soon enough after I finished which actually makes it a long recording that has to finish before you can leave a message of your own.
We got on pretty well together while he was staying here. At times the extra noise of the TV going got to me and we had to watch that Milo didn't pee out of excitement to see him every time he walked in the door but in general it was good to have time together. I love him you know. He does pretty well with all that he has stacked up against him so it is obvious that he is intelligent enough to compensate. His verbal IQ was 120 when I was studying child development and remedial teaching and had access to the dinky di tests. But like a younger me, he is still trying to be what the world wants him to be rather than who he really is. I know how hard that is and how stressful but his intentions are good and hopefully one day he can let that go and replace it with being authentic while still being able to love himself. My wish for him anyway.
Meal times were better when he was around but Milo had more reasons to bark and I can't say I enjoy her frequent barking. I had a nice break one day when S took her to the beach. As an aside about Milo, she has been accepted into the Pets For Life program so it will not be long before she will get regular weekly walks with a volunteer. Jan is a volunteer herself and I considered volunteering for it in the past but now I am grateful to have the program available for me.
S likes to make sure things are in order before he leaves me these days which is a pleasant change and much appreciated. He has concern for his mother, too much at times when he talks about putting me in an old people's home.... so the safe thing for me to do is fill in that EPO form putting my sister in charge.
S always forgets to do something but not on purpose. This time it was the sofa bed. The sofa bed got me a doozy in pay back when I ended up doing it myself. Anything that involves straining does. It is a bugger of a thing to turn back into a sofa especially with tennis elbow.
I got the kitchen curtains washed while S was able to get them down and put them back up again and on the day that he thought he would not be back because he was leaving to go fishing in Kin Kin surrounds, he really got stuck into what needed to be done. He did the dishes (he did them a lot while here, but he made big kitchen messes so just as well he did lol), got the remaining chokos off the vine and put a lot of palm tree droppings in the bin for me without me even asking and they have horrible thorns a mile long! I caught him in the act on camera. I really appreciate this boy of mine when he is about to leave. That sounds ...........the way it should :)
Coriander is a widely used in culinary herb and a good companion for potatoes.
Plant in a shady spots early in Spring or in late Autumn in warmer climates. Coriander is reach in vitamin C and Calcium.
Russian Green Radish x 100 seeds - received free
Juicy and crisp round green radish ideal for Asian cuisine or can be a good replacement for turnip in soups. This variety grows up to 15 cm in diameter and up to 700 grams in weight.
Sow during cooler months when there is enough water supply, cover seeds with 0,5 cm layer of soil and keep it moist.
As you see on the 2nd picture the plant itself can be pretty decorative so if leave the plant in the ground you will be able to enjoy lovely little flowers (which attract bees) and later collect your own seeds. Prefers full sun, well-drained and fertilized soil.
Cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana) “Golden Nuggett” x 20 seeds Heirloom. Perennial - annual in cooler areas. Bush height to 1m, producing many small, sweet, round, yellow fruit. The berry is the size of a cherry tomato, is very aromatic and full of tiny seeds. They are delicious eaten fresh or can be made into jam. They can be added to salads, desserts and cooked dishes, they are delicious stewed with other fruit, especially apples. They also go well in savoury dishes with meat or seafood. Easy to grow. Sow in garden. Sow seed at a depth approximately three times the diameter of the seed. Best planted at soil temperatures between 10°C and 25°C.
http://www.pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Cistus+ladanifer
North West aspect, sheltered, sun, Rock Rose, 1-day flowers, Does not respond to hard pruning, relatively useful medicinally and food wise, chewing gum/resin, Mediterranean, laudanum, common gum cistus, Essential Oil,
Cistus Essential Oil is approved by the FDA as a Food Additive (FA) and Flavoring Agent (FL). Possible skin sensitivity. Lungs, respiration
I cannot tolerate most probiotics.They cause bloating. Sacchromyces Bourlardii is OK. It seems many acidophophilis produce D-Lactate which is bad for ME/CFS/fibro - lactic acid build up in muscles causes pain - must find a list of the ones that produce the other lactate. I don't think it says so in this video but I read that somewhere too so that is tomorrow's task.
50 seeds Cosmos bipinnatus “Daydream” Pale Pink. $1.00 40 cm tall.
This superb new colour, palest pink with a deep rose pink centre makes this a unique and delicate addition. Very early flowering and though the flowers are slightly smaller than other varieties, they are freely produced over a long period and are self cleaning.
Daydream is an improved Cosmos that will thrive in any garden. These vigorous plants have a well branched habit, compact growth and provide masses of bright 4cm (1½in) blooms all summer until frost. Water, sun and soil are all that is needed.
Disease free and it's tolerant of poor soil, heat and humidity, make it an excellent choice if you are looking for an easy to grow "no fuss" annual that will thrive on minimal care. Deserving a sunny site in any garden, these adaptable plants are absolutely great for cutting, pots and borders.
Cosmos is one of the best nectar plants for attracting butterflies to the garden and the flowers are perfect for pressing. Very easy to grow, making it a perfect choice for children or the less experienced gardener.
Excellent in beds and borders as well as the cutting garden where their toughness and showiness can keep the flower show going all through the summer.
Sowing: Sow indoors August to September, or sow outdoors September to October.
Sow indoors in early spring 3 to 4 weeks before planting outside, alternatively, the seed can also be sown directly where they are to flower in mid to late spring.
Keep soil moderately moist during germination.
Sowing Indoors: Use well drained soil and cover to a depth of 3mm (1/8in). When large enough to handle, transplant the seedlings into small pots to grow on. Acclimatise to outdoor conditions for 10 to 15 days before planting out after all risk of frost 15cm (6in) apart.
Sowing Direct: Prepare the ground well and rake to a fine tilth. If sowing more than one annual in the same bed, mark the sowing areas with a ring of sand and label. Sow 1mm (1/18th in) deep in rows 30cm (12in) apart.
Sow seed sparingly or they will choke out other seedlings.
The seedlings will appear in rows approx 6 to 8 weeks after planting and can be easily told from nearby weed seedlings. Thin the seedlings out so they are finally 30cm (12in) apart. Carefully replant thinned plants.
Cultivation: When the seedlings have three pairs of leaves, pinch out the tips, leaving at least one pair of leaves.
Only water in an extended drought and do not apply large doses of fertiliser as flowering will be suppressed.
Stake the taller varieties with a single or tripod of canes and some twine. Cosmos foliage is finely-cut into threadlike segments. When flowering, the taller varieties may become top heavy. This problem is alleviated when grown in groups, as the bi-pinnate leaves interlock, and the colony supports itself.
Deadhead to prolong flowering and encourage new flower buds. At the season's end, don't be too quick to pull up withering cosmos plants. Birds (particularly gold finches) love to snack on their seedheads in autumn, and the seeds that they miss may drop to the ground and reward you the next year by sprouting into a whole new crop.
Cut Flowers: Cosmos is a cut-and-come-again bloomer, meaning that the sooner you cut the blooms, the quicker new buds will pop up to replace them. The blooms appear so profusely that you'll still have plenty of colour in the garden after you've picked your flowers.
If you sear the stem end in boiling water for twenty seconds they will last a week in water.
Plant Uses: Cottage/Informal Gardens, Flowers Borders and Beds. Container Planting.
It is going to be an unusual read. What happened tonight earlier, which actually was yesterday beginning at about 7:30pm. Neither of us can get to sleep but at least he is back home safely.
He wasn't even meant to be here. He left here yesterday to go fishing at Kin Kin despite Roger not being there and despite not being able to take Connor. He still stayed overnight there at Roger's and went fishing with some mate of his Dad's but he was out of mobile range as usual for that area. I was glad when I found out that he had seen my Facebook message informing him that he had left his bathroom bag here with pretty important stuff in it like his tablets. He got here after lunch. Next thing, one of his cancelled appointments came good so he was going to head out in the name of Salesmanship, all dressed up nicely which always impresses Flora next door. He left for that when I went to have a sleep. I was wrecked because I had put the sofa bed back into a sofa an hour or so before. It was a terrible reaction to effort I might add. Anyway, the plan was that he would come back here to get changed and have a coffee before he left for home and I would have a sleep before I puked.
I've been having these terrible sleeps lately and it was hard to wake up. I knew my son was back in the house and it took 10 minutes to get up maybe. He had made coffee, had the TV going very softly like a considerate person would then headed out to his car to get his clothes bag so that he could get changed. That's when the drama started. He came in announcing that he would now have to drive back to Kin Kin to get it because it was the only place it could be since the bag was NOT in the car. What a pain we thought but it is not an unusual occurrence for him to leave things behind. I was a bit more awake by the time he left. I was sitting at the computer and saw what I assumed was a police van shining torches into yards. I have seen it before around here but it hit me intuitively that my boy was going to end up involved and no sooner had I dismissed that thought, Scoot came in through the front door saying his wallet was gone with the police in hot pursuit. Yes, they were heading to the door while he was madly looking for his wallet everywhere. The peculiar thing was that when Scoot realised his wallet was not in its usual place he pulled over on the side of the road and was rumaging when the police van went past shining their torch and instead of driving back here, he got out of the car and started to run back here in a panic over his wallet. He became suspect number one for a short time but they went back out on their patrol shortly after they were satisfied that he wasn't. I went out there at one stage and walked down to his car armed with another thing he had forgotten but I did not know the police had already had words with him about contaminating a crime scene for their dogs and now I was there with my dog although they were a house down further from his car. Scoot told me to get back home as I handed him the stuff I had in my hand, so I did. He brought the car back into our driveway and continued to search for his wallet while asking me for money to drive to Kin Kin. It still had not twigged that his stuff had been stolen by the very man (I sexistly assume) the police were chasing. But when it did, and their van was going past our house once again, he went out and told them that he thought his wallet may have been stolen and I heard one of them yelling out to "fuck off". So he came back inside not hearing a word I said the whole time (for eg, shouldn't you phone and check before driving all the way to Kin Kin and other dumb things like getting someone else to check his bag to see if his wallet was in there).
But Scoot was piecing things together remembering the scattered receipts on the car seat and the fact that he left the car unlocked parked on the nature strip while he was inside making coffee. We heard a lot of dogs barking down the road at one point and not long after that a police woman came back to the door and sort of apologised and told him they found his stuff in a back yard thanks to the dogs. The person jumped over the fence leaving it behind. Next thing Scott comes in with his clothes bag saying that they will bring the wallet back when they had finished with it in an hour or so. We just waited and drank more coffee. When he got his wallet back it was minus the cash but he did not have to cancel all his cards etc. Leaving the door unlocked cost him $90 but it could have been worse.
Don't you just love these lyric, this lady and how she copes and thrives despite having Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E)?
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I CANT STAND THA RAIN, ON MY WINDOW, BRINGING BACK SWEET MEMORIES
I CANT STAND THA RAIN ON MY WINDOW, BRINGING BACK THOSE MEMORIES
SAY WINDOW PANE DO YOU REMEMBER HOW SWEET THINGS USED TO BE
NUTHINS THA SAME SINCE THAT DECEMBER, YEAH, WHEN I GOT M.E
SEE, I USED TO HAVE A LIFE THAT WAS BACK IN THA DAY
BEFORE CIRCUMSTANCE CHANGED AND TOOK IT AWAY
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YA LOOK AT ME WITH SUSPICION I KNOW THAT YOU DO
COZ IF YOU CAN'T SEE THA TRUTH HOW DO YOU KNOW IF IT'S TRUE?
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WHAT I GOT IS PHYSICAL AND NOT IN MY HEAD
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IF YOU CANT TRY AN UNDERSTAND, STAY OUTTA MY FACE
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I CANT STAND THA RAIN ON MY WINDOW BRINGING BACK THOSE MEMORIES
IT'S A GOVERNMENT COVER UP THEY ALREADY KNOW
IT'S A VIRUS INSIDE US, JUST DON'T WANT IT TO BLOW
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Dr Alan MacDonald's recent work finding Nematode worms in Multiple sclerosis MS patients spinal fluid and also finding Borrelia ( Lyme Disease) in the worms. London Lecture May 15 2016
Recent discovery confirmed by state-of-the-art Molecular Beacon DNA probes.
The examination of autopsied brain tissues from patients who died of serious neurological conditions has revealed that many tick-borne infections, such as Lyme disease, go undiagnosed and untreated. Board-certified pathologist, Alan B. MacDonald, MD, says his research shows "tick infections are not easily detected with routine tests, nor are they easily cured with short courses of antibiotics."
MacDonald will present his findings Thursday on Capitol Hill, in the Rayburn House Office Building, at a forum to explore the scientific, economic, and policy challenges posed by the epidemic of Lyme disease and associated tick-borne illnesses.
MacDonald found three Borrelia pathogens, including B. burgdorferi the causative agent of Lyme disease, thriving inside parasitic nematode worms, worm eggs or larvae in the brain tissue of nineteen deceased patients. These microscopic worms are endosymbionts, meaning the Borrelia bacteria dwell inside the worms. A tick bite delivers the nematode into the human body.
"Both the worms and the Borrelia pathogens can cause devastating brain damage," said MacDonald. "Current tests, like the ELISA and Western blot, do not adequately detect the presence of Borrelia bacteria." MacDonald says his discovery also shows "while patients are wrongly declared free of Lyme and other tick-borne infections, in reality, too often they contract serious neurodegenerative diseases which can kill them."
The Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis Center Tissue Bank provided MacDonald with ten specimens from deceased MS patients; all ten specimens showed evidence of Borrelia infected nematodes. Infected worms were also found in five tissue specimens from patients who succumbed to the highly malignant brain tumor Glioblastoma multiforme, the same cancer which took the life of Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA). Ironically, in 1993, Senator Kennedy chaired a hearing of the Labor and Human Resources committee titled: Lyme disease: A Diagnostic and Treatment Dilemma. Finally, four specimens from patients who died from Lewy Body dementia, the same illness which afflicted comedian Robin Williams, also showed the presence of infected nematodes.
MacDonald's work breaks new ground while building on previous studies. In 1984, Lyme pioneer Willy Burgdorfer, Ph.D. wrote of finding nematodes in tick guts. In 2014, University of New Haven researcher Eva Sapi, Ph.D., examined the guts of ticks gathered in southern Connecticut and found 22% of the nymphs and 30% of adult Ixodes ticks carried nematodes in their systems.
MacDonald identified the infected nematodes using a technique known as FISH: Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization which involves using molecular beacon DNA probes. FISH identifies pieces of Borrelia's genetic material which fluoresce under the microscope with a 100% DNA match. Dr. MacDonald, a fellow of the Academy of American Pathologists, conducts his research through the Dr. Paul Duray Research Fellowship Endowment Inc.
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