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this august i'll be making a cool lil movie with some cool people, and could use some help. 

once upon a time i camped across the country on my way to California, but had to take a shortcut into Oregon due to wildfires ravaging central Cali. i stayed with friends in Ashland OR while it was under a cover of smoky haze wafting from all sides of the burning west coast. this film is a culmination of coming to realize how people continue to live in the places being destroyed by a changing climate. it's not a climate change film, but a manifestation of anxiety about an uncertain future.

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The Summer of Climate Collapse

[That's Another Fine Mess :: TCinLA]

Fifty years ago, I decided that a Master of Public Administration degree would be useful in my expected career in government. In 1975, I obtained on of the first MPA degrees in the field of “Environmental Management.”

One of the books we read was “The Limits to Growth,” published by the Club of Rome, which detailed current enviornmental problems and forecast where they would be in 30 years of no action was taken, some action was taken, or effective action was taken. I rediscovered that book in a box in my garage 25 years ago and re-read it with the benefit of hindsight, since their 30 year period had just ended. In every case, no action had been taken, and in every case the current situation had been accurately forecast by the contributors to the book.

In 1967, historian Lynn White Jr.'s prescient "The Historical Roots of our Ecological Crisis" was published in "Science" magazine. His thesis was:

"In Antiquity every tree, every spring, every stream, every hill had its own genius loci, its guardian spirit. These spirits were accessible to men, but were very unlike men; centaurs, fauns, and mermaids show their ambivalence. Before one cut a tree, mined a mountain, or dammed a brook, it was important to placate the spirit in charge of that particular situation, and to keep it placated. By destroying pagan animism, Christianity made it possible to exploit nature in a mood of indifference to the feelings of natural objects."

Perhaps it’s fitting that during this summer of climate collapse - and if you think it’s something other than that, consider that June was Earth’s hottest month on record since the Permian Collapse - the event that brought on the Age of Dinosaurs after killing off 70% ofr species in the ocean and 80% of those on land - until the end of this month when the record will be broken by July, a record that will likely last another 31 days to the end of August. The atmosphere is warmer now than it’s been in 125,000 years, when our species was a few thousand individuals living a precarious existence on the edge of extinction in what is now South Africa .

That we are all transfixed not by this news but rather by the prospect of the United States falling to the machinations of a tenth-rate failed circus clown demonstrates the problem.

The initial success of Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” suggests Hollywood is finally ready to portray the American development and use of atomic weapons during World War II as something other than an absolute necessity. Unlike past movies, Nolan’s film points out that J. Robert Oppenheimer and many of his contemporaries knew they were ushering in an era where eradicating civilization had never been so easy

The parallels to climate change may not be obvious to people who don’t sit around pondering the end of the world, but I see them. Both climate change and ever-looming nuclear catastrophe are willful human creations driven by “progress” - one by scientific theory and research turbocharged by limitless wartime government resources, the other by oil-fueled industrialization. Both rationalized as necessary evils; climate change as a consequence of endless convenience for the human species, and nukes as guarantor of fragile world peace via “mutual assured destruction.”

It only took nearly 80 years to get to the point that National Mythology can be questioned in a commercially-successful film In all the time scientists have tried to focus our attention on climate change, they’ve had nothing as visually arresting as a single bomb instantly wiping out a city.

That has changed this summer.

We now have a global heat wave few could have envisioned even ten years ago, while the fossil fuel companies driving this destruction are coming off a year of record profits.

I wonder how this will be portrayed on screen 80 years from now.

The World Meteorological Organization expects temperatures in North America, Asia, North Africa and the Mediterranean to be above 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) "for a prolonged number of days this summer." It also expects more frequent heatwaves, spread across the seasons.

The ocean around Florida hit a record temperature of 101 degrees this week. Warm water like that will produce a hurricane that could wipe Miami off the map, the equivalent of a nuclear bomb.

While the Southwest swelters under a heat dome, Vermont saw its second 100-year rainstorm in roughly a decade. Early July brought the hottest day globally since records began, a milestone surpassed the following day. Yesterday there was flooding across the northeast from Wisconsin to Maine.

As these temperature and weather records fall, Earth may be nearing so-called tipping points. A “tipping point” is where incremental steps along the same trajectory could push Earth’s systems into abrupt or irreversible change, leading to transformations that cannot be stopped even if emissions were suddenly halted.

If these tipping points are passed, some effects such as permafrost thawing or the world’s coral reefs dying - both are already happening in Siberia and the Central Pacific - will happen more quickly than expected. We don’t really know when or how fast things will fall apart.

Some natural systems, if upended, could herald a restructuring of the world. Take the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica: It’s about the size of Florida, with a protruding ice shelf impeding the glacier’s flow into the ocean. Although the overall melt is slower than originally predicted, warm water is eating away at it from below, causing deep cracks. At a certain point, that melt may progress to become self-sustaining, which would guarantee the glacier’s eventual collapse. That will affect how much sea levels will rise; 80% of humans live near the ocean.

When melt from Greenland’s glaciers enters the ocean, it alters an important system of currents called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. The AMOC is a conveyor belt, drawing warm water from the tropics north. The water’s salinity increases as it evaporates, which, among other factors, makes it sink and return south along the ocean floor. As more glacial fresh water enters the system, that conveyor belt will weaken. Right now it’s the weakest it’s been in more than 1,000 years.

The Atlantic Ocean’s sensitive circulation system has become slower and less resilient, according to a new analysis of 150 years of temperature data — raising the possibility that this crucial element of the climate system could collapse within the next few decades.

Consider that: Paris and London are at the same latitude as Hudson’s Bay, yet Europe has the climate it does because of the AMOC - we commonly call it the Gulf Stream - which brings warm water in contact with cold air, resulting in the clouds and rain that provide for all living things there. If that collapses, life in Europe could soon resemble that of northern Canada. Right now, Europe can grow enough food to feed its 740+ million people; if the AMOC was to die, the continent could be plunged into famine in a matter of years.

The study published this last Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications suggests that continued warming will push the AMOC over its “tipping point” around 2050-2080. The shift would be as abrupt and irreversible as turning off a light switch, and it could lead to dramatic changes in weather on both sides of the Atlantic, leading to a drop in temperatures in northern Europe and elevated warming in the tropics, as well as stronger storms on the east coast of North America.

If the temperature of the sea surface changes, precipitation over the Amazon might too, contributing to deforestation, which in turn is linked to snowfall on the Tibetan plateau.

A new study published in Nature Communications last week titled “Warning of a Forthcoming Collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation” reports global warming forced by all the CO2 and methane in our atmosphere - if we action is not taken immediately - could shut down the AMOC as early as 2025 and almost certainly before 2095.

We may not even realize when we start passing points of no return—or if we already have.

James Hansen, one of the early voices on climate and the founder of 350.org, says measures to mitigate the crisis may ironically now contribute to it. A working paper he published this spring suggests that reduction in sulfate aerosol particles—the air pollution associated with burning coal and the global shipping industry—has contributed to warmer temperatures because these particles cause water droplets to multiply, brightening clouds and reflecting solar heat away from the planet’s surface. Hansen predicts that environmentally minded policies to reduce these pollutants will likely cause temperatures to rise 2 degrees Celsius by 2050.

This adds to a growing body of alarming climate science, like the one published last year in the Journal of Climate titled “Sixfold Increase in Historical Northern Hemisphere Concurrent Large Heatwaves Driven by Warming and Changing Atmospheric Circulations,” which indicates we’re much farther down the path of dangerous climate change than even most scientists realized.

That study essentially predicted this year’s shocking Northern Hemisphere heat waves. The lead researcher’s first name is Cassandra.

Perhaps most alarming was a paper published eleven months ago in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) titled “Evidence for Massive Methane Hydrate Destabilization During the Penultimate Interglacial Warming.”

It brings up the topic of the “Clathrate Gun Hypothesis,”which is the absolute worst case scenario for humanity’s future.

Across the planet there are an estimated 1.4 trillion tons of methane gas frozen into a snowcone-like slurry called clathrates or methane hydrates laying on the sea floor off the various continents. When they suddenly melt, that’s the “firing of the gun.” An explosion - in the context of geologic time - of atmospheric gas that’s over 70 times as potent a greenhouse gas as CO2. The Clathrate Gun.

The PNAS paper mentioned above concludes that 126,000 years ago there was an event that caused a small amount of these clathrates to warm enough to turn to gas and bubble up out of the seas. The resulting spike in methane gas led to a major warming event worldwide:

“Our results identify an exceptionally large warming of the equatorial Atlantic intermediate waters and strong evidence of methane release and oxidation almost certainly due to massive methane hydrate destabilization during the early part of the penultimate warm episode (126,000 to 125,000 y ago). This major warming was caused by … a brief episode of meltwater-induced weakening of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) and amplified by a warm mean climate.”

The researchers warn we may be looking at a similar event in our time:

“This week, sea surface temperatures along the coasts of Southern Spain and North Africa were 2-4C (3.6-7.2F) higher than they would normally be at this time of year, with some spots 5C (9F) above the long-term average.”

This has never happened before while humans have existed.

The least likely but most dangerous outcome scenario is that the warming ocean might begin a massive melting of those methane hydrate slurries into gas, producing a “burp” of that greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, further adding to global warming, which would then melt even more of the clathrates.

At the end of the Permian, 250 million years ago, this runaway process led to such a violent warming of the planet that it killed over 90 percent of all life in the oceans and 70 percent of all life on land, paving the way for the rise of the dinosaurs, as cold-blooded lizards were among the few survivors. That period is referred to as the Permian Mass Extinction, or, simply, “The Great Dying.” It was the most destructive mass extinction event in Earth’s history.

As the scientists writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences noted:

“The key findings of our study add to a growing body of observational findings strongly supporting the ‘clathrate gun hypothesis.’ … Importantly, the interval we have studied is marked by a mean climate state comparable to future projections of transient global climate warming of 1.3 °C to 3.0 °C.”

We just this year passed 1.3 degrees Celsius of planetary warming: we are now in the territory of the Clathrate Gun Hypothesis if these researchers are right

The last time our planet saw CO2 levels at their current 422 parts-per-million, sea levels were 60 feet higher and forests grew in Antarctica.

Meanwhile, we’re pouring more CO2 into the atmosphere right now than at any time in human history.

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2018: A (Personal) Year in Review

I put off writing in general so much, but I’ve put off this particular post long enough. 

And no, this isn’t about the general world or the country. It’s about my personal life, and it’s mainly a vent/personal rambling post, so I’ll put under a read more. If you don’t care to read it, that’s totally fine. 

But anyways. Here we go: 

2018 was...a fuckin ride, to put it in simplest terms. 

For those who are new and unaware, lemme briefly bring you up to speed about the end of 2017 for me, cause it’s important to the context of this entire thing:

December 17th of 2017, when I was on my third day home for Christmas break from college, I packed a backpack, and I left my dad and stepmom’s house for good. 

Their house had been abusive for years, and my mental health was in the absolute tank in college. I was feeling casually suicidal and had a full on breakdown about having to come home for winter break. After a fight I got into that night with my stepmom after she found me texting some friends on Discord (which I wasn’t supposed to have, even tho I was almost 19 and an adult at the time,) she got Pissed, and so did I. I had finally had a group of friends who supported me and helped me out so much, and I didn’t want to loose them. And I couldn’t stand the abuse, the treatment of me like I was a child with no privacy or personal autonomy, the constant pushing for me to date my one long time friend and to be straight, or my parent’s inability to accept me as their son and not their daughter any longer. 

I was given a choice, and told if I decided to leave, I wasn’t welcome back. A few months before, my best friend had said that their parents had a safe space for me to go if I ever needed it. They had been aware of how bad some things had been with my parents and feared for the worst, so they offered me a home if it came down to that. And that night, it came down to that choice. 

I packed one backpack of stuff I was allowed to bring (solely because it was stuff I bought) and I walked to my friends mom’s house, and by the next morning, I was at her dad’s house, safe and sound. 

2018 became the year of learning how to be an adult in a house that treated me as one, and in a house that didn’t put my personal safety and mental health in danger. 

2018 was...well, it was simultaneously the worst and best year of my life. 

Early on, I could tell my parents weren’t going to let my off easy for leaving. My mom wasn’t a problem, she had been out of my life for almost two years at that point, and hadn’t attempted to make contact with me for a long time. 

But my dad and my stepmom? Oh, they were determined to make my life as bas as they could while not being physically around me. 

First thing they did? They tried to take all of my possessions from my dorm at college without my knowledge, because they thought that They owned that stuff. I only found this out because I called the college to formally drop out and ask when I could pick up my stuff, and they informed me my parents were already planning on picking up my stuff for me. 

Me and my now adoptive parents ended up making an impromptu trip, four hours up and four hours back, that night to my college campus to make sure that I could get my possessions before they could. And we were successful.

Next thing my dad did to screw me over after moving out? 

That bastard stole about 700$ from a joint bank account I had with him to use for college. That was money I earned from about 7 months of work at my summer food truck job. And he took it because he legally could since it was a joint account, and didn’t tell me. i found out when I went into the bank to withdraw that money and open a separate account. 

So I was starting off the year with already some setbacks. 

Thankfully, I Was able to replace my birth certificate and social security card relatively easily, so that was in my favor at least. 

Then, come my birthday on January 26 last year, I got a letter. Two letters to be specific. One from my stepmom, and one from my dad. 

Both were full of manipulation and guilt tripping language and just. Gaslighting and more emotional abuse. They had somehow gotten my address from when I had set up my separate bank account and changed my information in the bank system.  And they decided to send me abusive shit as a birthday present. 

I’m not gonna lie, it hurt a lot. 

They continued to try to do stuff like that. They called me multiple times from different numbers, they called police on my adoptive family to say that I was crazy and that my parents were like. concerned for my safety because i had blocked their phone numbers after the first two phone calls. They texted me from different numbers, just. A lot of different bullshit. 

February was the first time I saw my dad since leaving. I had gone to a screening of Love Simon, as it was really important to me, and somehow thru some stalkery methods, he knew i was there and he confronted me in the theater lobby after the film. (When I asked how he found me there, his answer was ‘I have my ways.’ I never posted about this encounter when it originally happened.)

He proceeded to be transphobic to me in public, demeaning me and humiliating me in front of everyone in the theater, told me I was the reason my siblings were now in therapy (which is a lie, my brother was already in therapy for anxiety long before I left), calling me crazy, telling my adoptive mother that I “needed help” and that “she’ll outstay her welcome.” He said a lot of awful things, and eventually I left the theatre in tears after screaming at him that I was his son and that this shit was why I left in the first place, and that he should go fuck himself.

Thankfully, I didn’t see him for months afterword, not til october, right before I left my retail job that he and my stepmom found out I worked at. I saw my stepmom three times at that job, once with my siblings (which is the only time I’ve seen them since leaving and that was. Very hard to deal with and a very emotional time), and twice without my siblings. The times she came without them, she was an absolute fucking asshole to me, still spewing her abusive rhetoric about how I was in the wrong for leaving, and how my father did nothing wrong when he saw me in February. 

She and my father only left me alone after I told them that I would not get into an argument while I was on the clock, and that if they didn’t leave I’d call the store security guard. 

After that, they haven’t done anything else. Yet. We’ll see what 2019 holds. 

But, aside from the bullshit with my parents, 2018 had its other ups and downs. More ups than downs, but it still had it’s rough moments. 

I got a job in early May as a sales associate/cashier/fitting room attendant for a well known Coat Factory chain store. 

That job was pure fuckin hell, and I’m glad I don’t work there anymore. The last week that I was supposed to work there before leaving for my new job, I got pulled into the side office by the manager on duty (she wasn’t an actual manager, she just had closing priviledges) and she Screamed at me about how a customer complained about me, she hated me, my coworkers all hated me, all three of my managers hated me, and how she was tired of my attitude and how she couldn’t wait til I was fuckin gone. The whole issue that night had started because of her and how she couldn’t properly communicate to me where she wanted me to be that night and what duties she wanted me handling. She took out her frusteration at her own mistakes on me, and I had had enough. I stood my ground with her and didn’t let her walk all over me, but I went home that night, bawled for about two hours because being yelled at is a trigger for me, and she had been all in my personal space like she was going to hit me, and then I emailed my general manager the next day and told her she could replace me for my last two shifts and I wouldn’t be coming in for them. 

I haven’t stepped foot in that goddamned store since I left that night. 

I have a different job now. I work as an overnight personal care assistant at a nursing home, but it’s a higher end one, and it’s not bad. It can be stressful and super draining at times, but enviornmentally its a better job than the retail one ever was, so it’s good. 

My mental health has been a wild ride as well. I won’t get into the full details here, but let just say that uh. I’m 99% sure that I’m both ADHD and autistic, and I’m thinking I have some form of ptsd as well from years of trauma shit. I’m not suicidal anymore, but I have bouts of depression and anxiety and sometimes anger that last for days to weeks at a time. It’s...rough, to say the least. And dysphoria doesn’t help any of that. 

But I’m alive and fighting, and that’s the important part. 

Not everything this year has been bad tho. There’s been a fair amount of good too, and I’m greatful for it. 

December 23rd I celebrated my first year aniversary with @curious-corvids, and i couldn’t be happier about that. He’s been there thru this Entire ride, and he’s been such a positive force in my life, and I hope to keep him around for years to come. 

Similarly, March 18th this year will be my one year aniversary with @sinclair-solutions, and that I’m immensely happy about as well. They’re such a wonderful person and just. i’m very lucky to have them, I really am. they’ve also been here thru everything, and I could never thank then enough for that. 

I made some friends in the past few months that I can’t imagine what my days would be like without them in it. Kathy, Jay, Fi, and Evan are such great people, and I’m lucky to have them around. 

I got the chance to meet Ren, Lu and Erin in person for the first time at DragonCon, and went to both my first comic convention and my first out of state trip alone with them, and it was honestly the best five days of my life. I can’t wait to do that again with them this year. 

I’ve been steadily improving at art this year and took commissions for the first time, and that’s been a very fun thing to do. 

I’m actually able to like. Afford to buy things for myself and spend my money without interferance, and thats such a change from how my parents used to control my finances. 

Overall 2018 was just..a wild ride. 

2019 is sure to bring better things. With luck this month, I should be starting the process of legally changing my name, and that will be a very freeing thing to do. 

I turn 20 on January 26th, and just. 

I didn’t think I’d actually make it to 20. That’s a personal milestone for me, to have made it this far. 

Whatever this new year brings tho, here’s to hoping it goes better than 2018. 

Here’s to hoping I’m better this year than I was last year. 

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Finishes

To experiment based on the fabricated paper created on Week 7, I grabbed the paper from where it was left (Was left by the wall in our garage). One unexpected result I encountered was, the fabricated paper was affected by different moisture levels. With the weather being rainy, the moisture level entered from outside affected the paper to become fragile. It was torn easily when compared to it’s fully dried state. 

To find possible solutions to solve this problem, I looked into possible ways of coating the paper. 

Varnish - is a liquid finish applied via the printing press to seal in and protect the ink on the printed surface. It is available in gloss, matte, and UV, and is usually matched to the coating of the underlying paper. Varnish makes a great cover finish for saddle-stitched products like comic books and magazines.

Typical Lamination -  Using a thin polypropylene film applied to the surface of the paper after printing using a roller. It provides the ultimate in protection, and is available in both gloss and matte. The sheen and texture of lamination is much more pronounced than varnish, and gloss lamination is very shiny, while matte lamination is very smooth. Perfect bound and case bound books should always use a lamination for their covers to prevent any damage to the printed surface during the binding process.

Aqueous Coating - Aqueous coating is a clear, fast-drying water-based coating that is used to protect printed pieces. It provides a high-gloss or matte surface that deters dirt and fingerprints. Aqueous coating improves the durability of postcards and other printed pieces. Aqueous coatings provide more substantial scuff-resistance than varnishes. Aqueous is typically applied to the entire printed piece, usually by the last unit on a printing press. Due to its water base, aqueous coating is more environmentally friendly than varnish or UV coatings

Reference: https://www.printingforless.com/Aqueous-Coating-for-Printing.html#:~:text=Aqueous%20coating%20is%20a%20clear,that%20deters%20dirt%20and%20fingerprints.

Leaf COAT - A bio-based coating for linerboard and containerboard which uses lignin and glycerol as key inputs. LeafCOAT, is waterproof, renewable, biodegradable and recyclable. It is a sustainable alternative for commonly used wax and plastic-lined packaging. Its also a low cost method as the process utilises every part of the biomass input, reduces the energy required to convert the biomass and delivers high-quality finishes.

Reference: https://www.bioplasticsmagazine.com/en/news/meldungen/14112017-Leaf-enters-licence-agreement-for-biodegradable-coating.php

Aqueous Coating and Leaf Coating are both enviornmental friendly. When comparing the two methods, Aqueous coating was safer option to choose. Leaf Coating is a fairly new technique that is established in Australia very recently. The technique has not been imported in NewZealand yet. Therefore Aqueous coating would be more suitable. Also there are more benefits on Aqueous coating such as features UV coating that prevents from changing color of the material .

https://www.unifiedmanufacturing.com/blog/printing-difference-aq-finish-compared/

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The concrete stain was not neutralized in advance. Whenever a stain just isn't correctly neutralized, the sealer will drop its chemical bond.

There are several differing kinds of concrete sealers accessible, but when referring to concrete flatwork in Central Indiana, The 2 most commonly applied are film forming acrylic sealers and penetrating sealers. Even though they each seal concrete, they are doing so in Totally other ways.

The sealer will still be intact nonetheless it can dull from dirt and Extremely Violet radiation. You are able to do this method 1-two occasions prior to the need to have of reapplying the sealer.

Correcting The problem is the only real alternative, and the good news is usually that it might be much easier than you believe. Keep in mind, guys, that this can be a earn-gain condition, mainly because there is great revenue in decorative concrete routine maintenance. Let's look at some sealer removing methods that will assist you to get your sealer problems back heading in the right direction.

(8) After the sprayer tank is empty, put a paper filter around the opening so no bugs or debris get in. Area the pump sideways across the filter/opening and allow it to dry for the several several hours.

If the cloudy shades is trapped deeper from the sealer, then a strong chemical for example Xylene, Toluene, or Xylol is going to be essential.

We not long ago ordered a house with a good looking stamped concrete patio, the past proprietors put in it. Most of the patio appears high-quality, there are only a few sections wherever I am viewing some lightening of the color and a couple of chips. How would you propose I suitable this challenge?

The removal old sealers proficiently can only be finished immediately and effectively by an expert. These men and women not merely use ENVIORNMENTALLY Harmless products to get rid of sealers but could possibly get it accomplished each speedily and inexpensively.

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It didn’t appear to matter how often times you resealed offer you adopted the Guidelines but together arrived the new EPA Rules usually called VOC Regulations. This was the attempt to protect against Unstable Organic and natural Compounds from polluting the atmosphere. The EPA as I know it arrived at out to your Sealer Neighborhood to question whether or not switching the formulation with the sealers getting used at time would develop any difficulties.

Eradicate these problems with pump sprayers as well as mess of other battery operated sprayers by NOT having to pour your solution into their container.

The existence of bubbles or popped bubbles inside the sealer an indication of over-application; the sealer was utilized as well heavily. Sealers really should be utilized so thinly they shouldn't be in the position to bodily assistance bubbles. Any air displacement from your concrete area in the course of sealer application ought to be no cost to quickly shift with the slender, moist sealer film.

Talking of Ohio temperature, sealing stamped concrete will also secure towards salt problems. We continue to strongly endorse using a salt alternate that is suggested to be used on concrete.

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The bottom of the sealer flashes off far too speedy, forming bubbles from the sealer because it exits. Because of this, It can be best to apply concrete sealers over the cooler Section of the day.

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As any decorative concrete artisan understands, staining is Among the most nuanced, finicky and unpredictable methods during the playbook. Of course, stains supply an amazing range of style alternatives — just look at the distinction between an acid-stained floor as well as a drinking water-based stain career, for example.

Ans. With the best results when utilizing sealers, normally stick to Guidance and make use of the sealers as advised. Should the sealer is supposed of only interior or exterior use, don’t utilize it everywhere else.

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The best way to stay away from these cases is to use the sealer appropriately The very first time. Fortunately, should you operate into issues, you will find actions you might take to fix the sealant so your floor appears to be as good as new.

The excellent news would be that the smell can be a nonissue, and disposal is often a nonissue due to the biodegradable character of soybeans.

The removing previous sealers effectively can only be carried out immediately and successfully by a specialist. These folks not merely use ENVIORNMENTALLY Risk-free goods to get rid of sealers but will get it performed both equally immediately and inexpensively.

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“I just completed a undertaking sealing close to 100,000 square ft of concrete using the sprayer. Not merely did the sprayer carry out way outside of expectations, but since we could feed straight from the drum as an alternative to filling pump sprayers constantly, the drum sprayer served cut our labor by around fifty percent.

Now, keep the sprayer wand vertically and open the hand valve to empty the tube in to the pump sprayer tank. Dump any remaining cleaning content out of the sprayer tank. Wipe down plunger, seals as well as sprayer tank for the seal contact area.

− Natural and organic concrete sealants contain acrylic sealers, epoxy coatings, urethane sealants, polyureas, polyaspartics and a host of other genres which have been characterised by a film of sealant around the surface area of the concrete, held there by a mechanical bond.

These ended up predominantly designed to counter the expanding Houses of the above mentioned which could result in cracking in the area. Also they are non soluble so ground drinking water will not interfere along with the concrete is not going to absorb h2o.

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Increase elegance, toughness, and defense to your decorative concrete surfaces with our massive lineup of curing and sealing options and additives. We have a product precisely made for your distinctive job.

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Should the temperature is simply too low (lower than forty five ℉) or even the humidity is just too large (over sixty five%), surface crust could kind prior to the drinking water can completely evaporate, thus trapping the humidity and causing the sealer to dry a cloudy white or powdery coloration. Having said that, if It is really also scorching and far too humid, then also It can be achievable the sealer area could dry more rapidly when compared to the moisture can escape.

They are not a sensible choice for eradicating acrylic concrete sealer, epoxy, polyurethane, or polyaspartic coatings mainly because these coatings have fantastic chemical resistance to caustic chemical compounds. 

Adjustments are produced in many sealer formulations resulting from laws from our federal government that center on VOCs (risky natural and organic compounds). VOCs are released like a gas within the sealers we use, as well as from several cleaning supplies, paints, pesticides and constructing components. Within our industry the rule modifications meant that our solvent-based sealers needed to have significantly less xylene plus much more acetone or other quick drying solvents.

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Following we keep the sprayer wand vertically and open the valve to drain the tube (five). Dump any remaining cleaning product out from the sprayer tank. Wipe down plunger, seals as well as the sprayer tank for the seal Get in touch with region.

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The elimination aged sealers correctly can only be accomplished quickly and proficiently by knowledgeable. These persons not only use ENVIORNMENTALLY Safe and sound merchandise to remove sealers but could possibly get it carried out equally swiftly and inexpensively.

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Dana, Elaine, DeAnn, Cynthia, Elaine, Jonathan, Phillip, Eric, Michael, River, Felix, Harry “Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.”– Oscar Wilde LIFE IS ABOUT RELINQUISHMENT Matthew 5:20-26 Life is about dying daily to our old self, it is about relinquishment. Moaning, grieving is about relinquishment. Throughout our social media, our newspaper and twenty four hour news cycle there is continued moaning and grieving, the old is passing. I have moaned and grieved over the San Francisco I moved into nearly twenty three years ago; I run into guys, whom I knew in their twenties, come back to Polk Street, now in their 40's trying to relive lives that are no more. Recently someone sent me a photo of my days in prostitution in L.A. commenting, "You were a pretty boy," well that "pretty boy" is long gone. We always fight against relinquishment--if not queers, than Muslims, then immigrants, and after all of these we will find new candidates. We do not want to give up what we treasure. Easter laughs at the fear of relinquishment and opens the gate to the God who treats all equally, with love, without regard to boundaries. Today when we Vigil Against the Death Penalty at 305 McAllister Street, at 11:00 a.m. we are laughing against death and saying yes to life. For with relinquishment comes new life, always. The prayer of Walt Brueggeman is a prayer for us during this time of relinquishment: "Strengthen us to relinquish the old world, O God, that we might receive the gift of hope and joy on the other side of grief. Amen. Fr. River Damien Sims, sfw, D.Min. candidate\ Temenos Catholic Worker/Franciscans Against the Death Penalty P.O. Box 642656 San Francisco, CA 94164 www.temenos.org [email protected]