So he was a body builder strong man and then he studied with David Bohm in England - on quantum physics - and then he becomes a lawyer in Florida and gets his Ph.D. there on the Platonic Golden Section.
So then we find Scott A. Olsen giving a talk at Stuart Hameroff's 2016 Consciousness conference
Ratios and Resonant States of Consciousness
So we see that Dr. Olsen collaborates with Mohamed S. El Naschie who got exposed as creating a fake science journal. But since both El Naschie and Dr. Olsen have committed their careers to slogging for the Freemasonic Golden Ratio from Plato then their collaborating is kind of inevitable.
So then when we listen to Scott A. Olsen's talk - he says "we have to be careful" because someone might blog about his giving wrong information. haha. Hilarious!Mohamed El Naschie - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_El_NaschieMohamed El Naschie (Arabic: محمد النشائي ) is an Egyptian engineer and the former editor of a controversial journal, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals. The controversy ...Jul 7, 2012 - Nature has finally won its court case against Mohamed El Naschie, see here. ... Over the past couple years, I've heard a few times from Nature's ...Court Judgement in Nature/El Naschie Case | Not Even Wrong
www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=4851
He is pointing out that there are different types of logarithmic spirals - not just the Golden Ratio spiral - but as he emphasizes the Golden Ratio is preferred by Nature.
I did a paper on the Golden Ratio and music theory in my first year of college - for a mathematics and the arts class. But in the same year I also took quantum mechanics, as my first physics course and as the foundation of science.
The big problem for people studying science today is they were mind-controlled by classical physics first - and so then project that onto quantum mechanics. So then we find the spurious claim of El Naschie that the Golden Ratio creates or enables quantum physics.
The bait and switch of Scott A. Olsen is claiming that the Golden Ratio is a pre-symbolic math process - for example just using a compass and square, as the early Freemasons did in Europe, to build the Golden Ratio inspired cathedrals.
But there is a serious problem with this - what makes the Golden Ratio - the "golden ratio" is precisely the algebraic geometry equation that is embedded into Plato's philosophy - from Archytas and Eudoxus: Not from Pythagoras.
So Dr. Olsen claims this is the Logos - he says we have to be careful - the Logos is not just the Golden Ratio but it is also the square root of two and square root of three! haha.
Nope - actually those are all Alogon - not the Logos. The Real Orthodox Pythagorean philosophy is based on the Tetrad or Tetractys or Tetraktys using natural numbers that are noncommutative: 1:2:3:4.
Instead Dr. Olsen gives this long math lecture that is really numerology and then claims this was the Pythagorean Logos! Sure it was the Alogon promoted by Plato but it originated from the wrong music theory!
So then Dr. Olsen emphasizes that in fact the Golden Ratio is "asymmetric." Why such emphasis? Maybe because I have pointed out that the Golden Ratio is actually based on symmetric math - logarithmic symmetric math as an algebraic geometry equation.
But I have also pointed out that the effect of the Golden Ratio as applied science is the destruction of ecology as Alogon. So you have left-brain dominant math (Plato) with right-hand technology.
But Dr. Olsen describes how he had his great Golden Ratio Plato insight when he went to the Amazon to do ayahuasca. He then says that these Platonic geometries are already there waiting to be discovered.
The worst spurious argument Dr. Olsen makes is when he refers to the book on Egyptian architecture and math by Corrina Rossi. Dr. Olsen says - this book is hard to find. No - actually anyone can find it per google search and do a pdf on it. Yes I quoted this book in my 2012 pdf - and I referred to it online way before then. Let's see what I said.
Source for why golden Ratio was unknown in Egypt:So yes the Golden Ratio is discussed in depth in that book and what is the final conclusion - "a fatal blow" to the claims of the Golden Ratio in Egypt!
Were the Fibonacci Series and the Golden Section Known in Ancient Egypt?
Historia Mathematica, Volume 29, Issue 2, May 2002, Pages 101-113
Corinna Rossi and Christopher A. Tout
Now to be kind to Dr. Olsen (he is a body builder so one must be careful!) - he emphasizes that the secret of the golden ratio is to have this right-brain inspiration as logical abduction, in deference to Charles S. Pierce.
But we need to realize, as I have exposed, that there has been a Western projection back onto Egypt of what the Golden Ratio is. What makes the Greek Miracle of the Western "special" is this codification of "sacred geometry" (right brain dominant) into a left-brain axiomatic equation, using the concept of zero as negative infinity.
Dr. Olsen then turns to Jonathan Tennenbaum as his source again - but Dr. Tennebaum, a mathematician, was actually a cult follower of Lyndon LaRouche, his "science advisor" no less but nevertheless in a cult that deferred to chimpanzee violence, as the brother of Jonathan Tennenbaum, Peter Tennebaum exposed.
http://www.lyndonlarouche.org/larouche-newest1.htm
Like Jeremiah Duggan, Peter Tennenbaum strongly resisted the .... unsafe "So we have Dr. Olsen relying on El Naschie, on Tennenbaum (the source of the huge 432 Hertz scam online), and then Dr. Olsen making a claim about Corrina Rossi's book that is the opposite of the book's actual argument!LaRoucheMobiles," and lack of routine health care in the cult that has the nerve to ...... put pressure on Jonathan Tennenbaum, a LaRouche follower for over 30 years, ...
So as I have pointed out in my Actual Matrix Plan expose there is this CIA New Age Freemason "assimilation" of nonwestern cultures - like Egypt - to then claim they actually rely on the Golden Ratio!
I posted this over ten years ago.
And that thread got disappeared! So let's dig it up again.
Usually if I do good research someone will cut and paste it or upload it, etc. somewhere else - such is the beauty of the interwebs. Maybe I had done Ph.D. level research but I'm not a "Dr." haha.
Then a fellow by name of Dr. Drew Hempel jumped into the topic with the following information:
I'm here to expose the secret CIA-Freemason ties to the work of Drunvalo Melchizadek and his colleages, James Hurtak and Jose Arguelles -- all leaders of the New Age scene.So that person is part of a "channeling" cult and so says that I am just trying to promote my academic work "above everyone else."
The Flower of Life book states very explicitly that Nature uses natural numbers but the New Age must contain Nature by using the logarithmic-based irrational number Golden Ratio.
In fact it's exactly because of the irrational-based golden ratio that there is an ecological crisis today!!
The Egyptians never used irrational numbers! -- this has been proven over and over -- that the New Age is PROJECTING Western Freemasonry onto traditional Egyptian spirituality.
So COAST TO COAST IS PROMOTING FREEMASON-CIA LIES -- with all their New Age Egyptology (and yes I personally asked Graham Hancock why he thought nuclear weapons were a possible solution to a comet destroying Earth -- he didn't have a response).
So if you want to find out what's the real agenda behind Drunvalo Melchizadek -- why it's wrong to follow him -- then read "The Stargate Conspiracy" book by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince.
My research is freely available by googling "drew hempel"
O.K. what ever. People are strange.
Let's see if Piet the Poet, long time reader of my research, saved the details!
quoting Drew Hempel's thread at abovetopsecret:
Math professor Abraham Seidenberg published three essays in the academic journal Folklore that connect his research to the Freemasonic ritual sacrifice origins of mathematics (he references his other “ritual sacrifice” essays entitled “ritual origins of counting,” “ritual origins of geometry,” and “ritual origins of the circle and square” published in the math journal Archive for History of Exact Sciences).
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread807082/pg38#pid13609183
As I stated previously New Age gurus Jose Arguelles and Drunvalo Melchizedek emphasize the same Freemasonic secret between carbon and silicon – the two, carbon and silicon, are switching places in dominance – through an asymmetrical “mirror neuron” transformation. Silicon, as product of the desert, represents the element of fire while carbon, as left-hand directed ecology, represents the element earth. Silicon is utilized through right-hand directed technology created through “mirror neurons” by left-brain directed language!
The Actual Matrix Plan means that the human brain makes the ultimate quantum computer -- so people living in cities and bigger population is good since it means more quantum computer powering for the new Global Matrix brain -- so there's Wifi and cell phone towers every where.
People think you're subhuman if you don't have a cell phone -- so that's how the mind control works. Next level is to think getting microchipped is "cool" and a good thing for various reasons -- health, safety, better shopping or whatever -- being a better consumer, etc. faster government transactions.So when we go to that link sure enough we get me quoting Drunvalo!
335 Drunvalo Melchizedek, The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life, Vol. I (Light Technology Publishing, 1999).
So here we are, carbon-based life forms creating silicon-based life forms, and we’re interacting with each other. We’re going to have two different life forms/components of the Earth connecting with each other, and the speed with which we evolve at that point, aside from everything else, is going to be very, very fast – faster than anything we would normally expect. I believe that this will come true in this lifetime…. In fact I’m convinced that there are no Golden Mean rectangles or spirals in existence unless they’re synthetically made. …This is a problem for Mother Nature. Life does not know how to deal with something that has no beginning and no end…. The Golden Mean spiral is the ideal. It’s like God, the Source.335So here you have some New Age guru who likes to hang out with the Kogis - who are real natural ecology shamans of the Andes - and yet his secret plan is to convert Nature into synthetic biology through the Golden Ratio!
That is the real problem with the New Age promotion of the Golden Ratio as supposed mystic harmonics.
And so then I quote a real quantum chaos math professor Steve Strogatz:
So no -- this is not about the "space" in the Broccoli as the "masculine" Golden Ratio -- that is wrong as quantum chaos math professor Steve Strogatz points out. The Golden Ratio is a "Platonic" form not found in Nature -- Drunvalo Melchizadek then states we need to replace Nature with Golden Ratio technology.
"strictly speaking real things are not inexhaustible -- real objects are only approximately fractal" Steve StrogatzSo this is why even the right brain "cuts" as sacred geometry are not real quantum consciousness metaphysics - because the "cut" assumes a rectilinear anthropocentric idealistic materialism.
Also fractals are about space whereas chaos is about time -- I'm talking about time as being primary to space due to the Time-Frequency Uncertainty Principle. Fractals assume a logistic equation -- a "containment" of infinity but this is not found in quantum physics which is the foundation for physics -- not classical commutative symmetric math. Quoting my 2012 pdf:
The arch-nemesis of the plan for the Matrix are the land-based ecological cultures that promote the harmony of heaven and earth, based on the infinite Cosmic Mother of Nature. As Prince and Picknett document – the plan is to assimilate those cultures into the religion of techno-spirituality based on apocalypse. Stanford anthropologist Jeremy Narby's book The Cosmic Serpent discusses the importance of these indigenous “shamanic” cultures for Holographic Matrix research. So does Theosophist David Tame's The Secret Power of Music. Although it may not be their intention, this is why Drunvalo Melchizadek has assimilated the Kogi – the only intact pre-Columbian ecological-shaman civilization and why Jose Arguelles has assimilated the Mayan shaman-yogic culture.345
345 A better analysis on Mayan culture is from the son of New Age Guru, former military intelligence agent, Peter Tompkins: Ptolemy Tompkins This Tree Grows Out of Hell: Mesoamerica & the Search for the Magical Body (Living Planet Book, Revised edition, March 4, 2008). Ptolemy also wrote an excellent expose on the behind the- scenes hypocrisy of the New Age movement.
As I stated previously New Age gurus Jose Arguelles and Drunvalo Melchizedek emphasize the same Freemasonic secret between carbon and silicon – the two, carbon and silicon, are switching places in dominance – through an asymmetrical “mirror neuron” transformation. Silicon, as product of the desert, represents the element of fire while carbon, as left-hand directed ecology, represents the element earth. Silicon is utilized through right-hand directed technology created through “mirror neurons” by left-brain directed language!
As the book Excursions into Number Theory notes: “For instance, 99/70, the sixth convergent of square root of two, differs from square root of two by .000072; but 13/8, the sixth convergence of the Golden Ratio, differs from the Golden Ratio by .0070, showing an error nearly 100 times as large.” (p. 134)
Athough not by name, the Matrix Plan is also promoted prominently by Drunvalo Melchizedek who states in his first book that the yin/yang ratios as the Fibonacci series of mother nature are not infinite and that the ratios of technological geometry, the Golden Ratio with its “contained infinity,” are actually god and the future of a holographic matrix.
The Golden Ratio is originally “A:B as B:A + B” but that's not the Freemasonic “equipartitioned” gematria (promoted by fake Pythagorean gematria of Leonard Horowitz and Western Freemasonic science, etc.). Kepler realized that the replacement of “A + B” with “C=A-B” used to solve the Golden Ratio for the quadratic equation is wrong. With C not equaling A + B but now C as A - B then AC does not equal B squared! Again this is the “bait and switch” trick of Archytas by reversing the order, as exposed by Dr. Alan C. Bowen, for the necessary algebraic geometry Babylonian equation.Kepler retained the Pythagorean analysis “in such a way that AC alternately exceeds or falls short of B Squared by unity, so that as the sequence is carried on, B Squared approached indefinitely near in value to AC or A(A-B).” (p. 52 in Studies in Musical Science in the Renaissance 1975, Warburg Institute). When A(A-B) exceeds B Squared the number is Masculine and where it falls short it is Feminine – according to Kepler.
As Karl Popper states: “This means that, as in Kepler, it is resonance – and thus harmony and dissonance – which govern the world.” Popper: Kepler’s Harmony of the World acquired scientific status only with Louis de Broglie and Erwin Schrödinger. In fact, Schrödinger’s wave mechanics takes the transition from geometric radial optics to wave optics and attempts to transpose it to the theory of matter, to the theory of elementary particles. Wave optics, in turn, takes its orientation from musical theory, from the theory of acoustical vibrations and waves, resonance and dissonance. But in this theory Kepler and his doctrine of harmony – Hence Pythagoras in the end – plays a decisive role.635635 Sir Karl Popper, All life is problem solving (Routledge, 1999), p. 75.
251 Kepler relied on the Golden Ratio music harmonics 5/3 and 8/5 but Kepler was also against the closed solution of the Golden Ratio yet recognized it’s truth as pure geometry
Originally the Golden Ratio was in the form A:B::B:A + B. The same ratio expanding infinitely as the Fibonacci sequence, 1:2::2:3, as with the original Pythagorean Tetrad frequency ratios, 1:2:3:4. This 1:2::2:3 was changed from a sequence into a closed infinite geometric series, as demonstrated by Euclid’s proof (from Eudoxus who was considered a pupil of Archytas). The ratios A:B::B:A + B became the closed form AC/CB = AB/AC and then through algebra the (Golden Ratio plus 1) divided by the Golden Ratio = the Golden Ratio. This closed solution had been from the Pythagorean Tetrad 1:2:3:4 with 1:2::2:3 as the original Golden Ratio extension derived from what had been the noncommutative complementary opposites.251
Noncommutative quantum gravity physicist Shahn Majid also recognizes this fundamental problem in science – what he calls the Hole in the heart of science. “I think we are in the middle [of the Hole] because we built the edifice of physics around ourselves (related to a left-right symmetry).”249 Majid even states that a return to Aristotle's definition of negative infinite as incompleteness (a double negative) is necessary.250 Again as with 2/3 using a “bait and switch” to 3/2 for logarithmic squaring, by reversing the order of the ratios to fit a materialist geometric magnitude system of mass – using 8:5 as the Freemasonic Golden Ratio, instead of 5:8, there was also now the use of negative infinity as the new foundation for the Greek Miracle. So the Freemasonic Golden Ratio was considered to have been solved during the time of Plato – using the secret of Archytas. Originally the Golden Ratio was in the form A:B::B:A + B. The same ratio expanding infinitely as the Fibonacci sequence, 1:2::2:3, as with the original Pythagorean Tetrad frequency ratios, 1:2:3:4. This 1:2::2:3 was changed from a sequence into a closed infinite geometric series, as demonstrated by Euclid’s proof (from Eudoxus who was considered a pupil of Archytas). The ratios A:B::B:A + B became the closed form AC/CB = AB/AC and then through algebra the (Golden Ratio plus 1) divided by the Golden Ratio = the Golden Ratio. This closed solution had been from the Pythagorean Tetrad 1:2:3:4 with 1:2::2:3 as the original Golden Ratio extension derived from what had been the noncommutative complementary opposites.251
So for the Golden Ratio of A:B::B:A-B the algebraic result is A(A-B) equals 2, 3, 10, 24, 65, 168 while B squared equals 1, 4, 9, 25, 64, 169 creating the male-female (complementary opposite) convergence. (“Kepler’s Celestial Music,” in Studies in Musical Science in the Late Renaissance, 1975, Warburg Institute, Oxford University). This also means the Golden Ratio can be presented as the square root of one with an infinite series of adding the square root of one. Again this proof for the Golden Ratio only works by relying on the commutative property of geometric symmetry, originally devised from the noncommutative music ratios “contained” by Archytas through a continued proportion equation joined with the Babylonian algebra.252
The Fibonacci Number Series 1,1,2,3,5,8 with 8:5 as the Minor Sixth music interval and 5:4 as the Major Third music interval is the “vanishing mediator” from music theory so that now the Major Third or 5:4 equals the geometric mean as the cube root of two, from Archytas’ “doubling the cube” proof that creates similar triangles.Again indirectly the Matrix Plan is also promoted by James Hurtak: “In 1975, despite NASA’s apparent indifference, Hurtak predicted that further finds of similar structures, including a Sphinx-like monument, would be made on Mars and that they would all prove to be connected in a great cosmic blueprint to the Giza monuments in Egypt.”336 Hurtak is the top disciple of Dr. Andrija Puharich.
338 Carol S. Matthews, “The Master Race and the Family of Light: Conflict, Spiritual Purification and Bio-Political"
Some of the figures lurking further back in the shadows also reappear time and time throughout this story, such as the American multimillionaire (and former Navy intelligence officer) Henry Belk, a close associate of Puharich in the 1950s and 1960s…. He is known to have funded James Hurtak…. And according to James Hurtak, via his Academy of Future Sciences, Puharich ‘worked with the US intelligence community.’ By implication this was during the early 1970s when, Hurtak, was also working with him….Unsurprisingly this matches Hurtak’s system: he claims that something has gone wrong with humanity’s ‘programming’ and that, over the thirty-year-period that will end in 2003, the intelligences that rule the universe are coming to repair it by upgrading human intelligence.337 Hurtak's real agenda has been exposed in the article by Carol S. Matthews, “The Master Race and the Family of Light: Conflict, Spiritual Purification and Bio-Political Agendas in JJ Hurtak's 'Book of Knowledge',” – anti-Muslism racism repackaged as the extraterrestrial “dark forces” in the New Age community.338
The building types of Egypt may be divided into three classes - tombs, palaces, and temples. Throughout the history of ancient Egypt, religion led to the development and building of tombs for the dead. In the Old Kingdom, tombs are either of the pyramid or mastaba type. The mastaba was the tomb used for the nobles, as the pyramid was used for the Pharaohs. The mastaba consisted of a mass of stone, flat-topped and with inclined sides that contained funeral chapels and rooms for sacrifice, worship, and offerings. The pyramid was developed from the mastaba type by projecting its sloping sides upward until they met in a point.
The publication of Kate Spence's paper "Egyptian Chronology and the Astronomical Orientation of Pyramids" in Nature magazine has stirred up a hornet's nest in the Orion Correlation debate at a time when it is already fairly agitated. As usual there is a fair bit of obfuscation of the issues going on, so a few explanatory comments may be useful. Firstly, Spence is hardly Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock's favourite person because, along with Ed Krupp, she appeared on the Horizon programme arguing against the Orion Correlation Theory. This she did purely from the perspective that the layout was dictated by practical issues of topography, and this argument is entirely independent of and not at all inconsistent with her new astronomical orientation theory. In any case Bauval, Hancock and their supporters are now expressing outrage that Spence's theory plagiarises work already performed by Bauval himself, and fails to give him any credit. Let us firstly examine the merit or otherwise of these claims.
The Impact of Kate Spence's "Astronomical Orientation of Pyramids" Theory on the "Orion-Giza Correlation" Theory © Ian Lawton 2000
O.K. so I mentioned Professor Hugh B. Urban stating that the highest level of French Freemasonry is to sit in full lotus yoga position. I'm stating that this is the real "pyramid power" of ancient city-state tantra empires.
So the Pyramid was based on the mummy astral travel shamanic traveling of the Egyptian royalty -- so the Egyptians also believed in a spirit for the corporeal body and a spirit for astral travel -- just like the Taoists. The Egyptians kept the ratio 2/3 as their most important math ratio -- so I think this is tied to secret music harmonics.
I think the Tibetan levitation of rocks using electrogravitic qigong energy is real -- because the qigong master I took classes from - Chunyi Lin -- he said he levitated up nine feet while he was in full lotus yoga position in deep meditation.
See Fractal is from Western math -- so it relies on logarithms -- irrational geometry.
A nice geometry design in Egypt is not based on Western math so it's not a "fractal."
Just as Nature is not a fractal -- as I just posted the Steve Strogatz vid -- so just watch that for further details.
Right - so the issue is who is in control -- the machines or humans.
Consider how fast everyone has a cell phone -- even though they cause brain cancer!!
Or just the Wifi spreading everywhere even though microwaves -- by frequency (not amplitude) -- cause cancer.
So the logarithmic mentality assumes that low power microwaves are no problem but it's been proven that it's not the amplitude power but the frequency of the energy that is the intensity causing biological mutations.
That frequency analysis is not considered even though the WHO has warned against Wifi -- and also this new "smart meter" system for home utilities.
So now everyone has to have a cell phone or they're not considered "human." -- I never got a cell phone. But I used to do a lot of Earth First! activism and then the other Earth First! activists all got cell phones! I was shocked -- but that is how deep the mind control is. So then the RNC -- republican convention -- came to Saint Paul and so then the activists were tracked - -by their cell phones! haha.
So people think cell phones and the internet cause a new "global brain" that empowers humans to solve problems. While this is true on one level -- it means increasingly that the machines are in control -- not humans.
Steve Strogatz details this -- how his line of math -- quantum chaos -- fractals and complexity -- means that the computers control the math -- not humans. The math is from iterations that can not be predicted so there can not be a rational analysis of the logic of the math. So the machines are in control
The Actual Matrix Plan means that the human brain makes the ultimate quantum computer -- so people living in cities and bigger population is good since it means more quantum computer powering for the new Global Matrix brain -- so there's Wifi and cell phone towers every where.
People think you're subhuman if you don't have a cell phone -- so that's how the mind control works. Next level is to think getting microchipped is "cool" and a good thing for various reasons -- health, safety, better shopping or whatever -- being a better consumer, etc. faster government transactions.
So now prisoners are getting chipped with wrist bands and now people on food stamps are to be biometric -- having finger scanning and chips, etc.
Passports are chipped and drivers licensed.
So with the increase of nanotechnology there's also an increase in nanosilica biochips -- and the brain uses silica and so there is an integration.
I say in the book [I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self (2002)] we have an exoskeleton when we talk about the brain. The rest, the muscles are out and so on, so ok. If a) the brain were to, if the cranium were to be transparent, we could see the activity of the brain, instead of looking at people’s faces, you would look at people’s brains and say don’t think that. You could see the patterns and say no, no, don’t take it like that. The same thing happens when somebody tells you that they’re not agreeing with you. Imagine that in addition to doing like that, you could say well what if I actually communicate with you directly so we don’t have to go through all this blabbering or this talking and I’ll tell you exactly how I feel. How could I do it in principle? Well I could go directly to the brain. The problem is, oh my god, but you have to then penetrate this bone. So thinking about how could we do it, is well, the brain is full of holes, don’t make any new ones. And what are the holes I’m thinking about? The vascular system. So imagine. The blood vessels, right. Imagine yourself becoming very small in this beautiful whole film- science fiction, into the vessels and you go into the brain. Where can you go? Anywhere. The brain is completely vascularized. It’s full of these vessels and they occur every 15 microns, it’s a 3-dimensional scaffolding that goes everywhere. And then the question is, don’t go to the brain through the outside, go to the brain through the inside. Why not put a wire up to anywhere you want in the brain and try to record or stimulate or both. But it has to be a very thin wire because you don’t want it to bother circulation. It has to be of such material that it’s not recognized by the body as being there. Can Can this be done? The answer is yeah, there are ways to protect the wire….487 According to the book Nanotechnology and Homeland Security (2004) by the top leaders in nanotechnology – the goal is to have our bloodstream reconfigure itself after the ionosphere sends a message to nanochips in our bodies that a biowarfare attack has occurred somewhere on Earth.
487 Roger Bingham, “The Science Studio with Rodolfo Llinás,” The Science Network. April 17, 2007.
Another forum poster plugs my research
None of which sounds anywhere near as awesome as the stuff you copied from http://nonduality.com/hempel.htm.
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