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Jun 10, 2009 0:36:11 GMT 4
Post by towhom on Jun 10, 2009 0:36:11 GMT 4
Orientations of the Giant's Churches in Ostrobothnia, FinlandarXiv Marianna Ridderstad, University of Helsinki, Finland, and Jari Okkonen, University of Oulu, Finland (Submitted on 13 May 2009 (v1), last revised 3 Jun 2009 (this version, v4))arxiv.org/abs/0905.2035?context=physics.hist-phIntroductionThe so-called Giant’s Churches are Neolithic stone structures, unique to the coastal area between Yli-Ii and Närpiö in Ostrobothnia in the western Finland. They date from 2500-2000 BCE, and are concentrated on the ancient seashore. Most of them were built on islands or drumlins on the coast, but are now situated as far as 30 kilometers inland because of the post-glacial rebound. There are 40 to 50 of them, depending on the definition, which is not clear, as their function is not yet known. The Giant’s Churches are large, the length of the long axis differing from about 60 meters to 12 meters, and most often rectangular. On the other hand, the height of their walls is rather low, from about half a meter to about 2 meters in some cases. Most of them have “gates”, which are lowerings in the walls, suitable for entering the structure. Some of them also have so-called “sacristies”, which are stone cairns either constructed as parts of the walls or situated immediately outside of them. The function of the Giant’s Churches has been a matter of debate for over a hundred years. They have been seen as dwellings, burial sites, temples, fortresses, natural formations, giant cold stores for seal meat and hunting enclosures. Some of the smallest constructions may have been dwellings, but the largest ones would have been impractical for that purpose. No usual signs of permanent inhabitation have been found inside the structures. The present paper is the first one in the series of studies, where the possible deliberate orientations of the Giant’s Churches to celestial events are examined. The results may help to clarify the functions of the structures. In this paper, the orientations of 23 Giant’s Churches are presented. Complete article available for download at the link displayed above.
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Jun 10, 2009 0:41:21 GMT 4
Post by towhom on Jun 10, 2009 0:41:21 GMT 4
The fourth DimensionarXiv Eugen Schweitzer (Submitted on 19 May 2009)arxiv.org/abs/0905.3048?context=physics.hist-phAbstractIn different passages of his dialogues, Plato showed deep mathematically-based physical insights. Regrettably most readers overlooked the respective statements, or they utterly did not understand those hints since they were full of philological fallacious terms. Respectable translators misinterpreted such statements and therefore Plato's respective remarks were not recognized as substantial knowledge. Furthermore, Plato often supplemented such basic remarks by diffusely veiled and varied allusions that were often ironically hidden somewhere in his dialogues by inconspicuous double meanings. However, this mode of intentionally coded discrete communication was generally not understood because such irony is not to everyone's taste. However, the attempts to reconstruct Plato's system on the basis of admittedly individually interpreted double meanings lead to a conclusive mathematical-physical cyclical system of dimensions. Additionally it was possible to assign Plato's system of philosophical ideas analogously to this cyclical system. Plato took the verifiability of the mathematical-physical results as proof of the system of his ideas and finally as proof of his ethical creed, the unconditional trust in the 'all surmounting Good.'Complete article available for download at the link displayed above.
This is a wonderful article...
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Jun 10, 2009 0:57:29 GMT 4
Post by avid on Jun 10, 2009 0:57:29 GMT 4
Inflatable tower into space!!!08 June 2009 by Jeff Hecht, Boston "A GIANT inflatable tower could carry people to the edge of space without the need for a rocket, and could be completed much sooner than a cable-based space elevator, its proponents claim. Inflatable pneumatic modules already used in some spacecraft could be assembled into a 15-kilometre-high tower, say Brendan Quine, Raj Seth and George Zhu at York University in Toronto, Canada, writing in Acta Astronautica (DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2009.02.018). If built from a suitable mountain top it could reach an altitude of around 20 kilometres, where it could be used for atmospheric research, tourism, telecoms or launching spacecraft.
Pneumatic modules already used in some spacecraft could be assembled into a 15-kilometre-high tower The team envisages assembling the structure from a series of modules constructed from Kevlar-polyethylene composite tubes made rigid by inflating them with a lightweight gas such as helium. To test the idea, they built a 7-metre scale model made up of six modules (see image). Each module was built out of three laminated polyethylene tubes 8 centimetres in diameter, mounted around circular spacers and inflated with air.
To stay upright and withstand winds, full-scale structures would require gyroscopes and active stabilisation systems in each module. The team modelled a 15-kilometre tower made up of 100 modules, each one 150 metres tall and 230 metres in diameter, built from inflatable tubes 2 metres across. Quine estimates it would weigh about 800,000 tonnes when pressurised - around twice the weight of the world's largest supertanker.
"Twenty kilometres up is about as dark as outer space. You can see about 600 kilometres in any direction," Quine says. Tourists could get a view almost like that from space, but without the difficulties of coping with zero gravity. He calculates the tower could be extended up to low Earth orbit at 200 kilometres.
The tower does a similar job to the much-vaunted space elevator. But while the elevator envisages using ribbons woven from superstrong nanotubes - a material that is as yet non-existent - the tower would use materials that are already available. And should something go wrong with the tower, failure of a few modules would not cause the whole structure to collapse."
I'm not really convinced.... so when the 'Lift Person' says "What level?" I'll say "Basement thanks"
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Jun 10, 2009 1:59:53 GMT 4
Post by towhom on Jun 10, 2009 1:59:53 GMT 4
Huge Waves Detected in AtmosphereIrene Klotz, Discovery News June 4, 2009dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/06/04/atmosphere-waves.htmlGravity Waves: There are a variety of atmospheric waves, but many require radar to detect them. This NASA satellite image however shows more obvious gravity waves peaked with clouds off the coast of Australia. Researchers have detected giant, fast-moving waves of air, caused by thunderstorms and other disturbances, above Poker Flat, Alaska, where a new radar is churning out the first three-dimensional images of upper atmospheric phenomena in the polar region. "People have been envisioning doing this project for 40 years," said Eric Donovan, an associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. "There's just a lot going on in this region that we don't understand." The radar combines 4,096 small antennas, each with its own transmitter, on a single instrument, rather than one giant dish equipped with one powerful transmitter. Rather than physically rotating the radar to point in different directions, the steering is done electronically by slightly phasing each of the antenna elements differently. The radar, which can be run remotely via the Internet, can be very quickly adjusted to pinpoint and track velocity, temperature and other changes in the upper atmosphere. "All the previous systems would take half an hour to make measurements of a region that we're interested in," Donovan told Discovery News. "That'd be like keeping a camera's exposure open for 30 minutes when you're trying to take a picture of the finish of a race. All you'd see are streaks." "It has the ability to essentially take three-dimensional pictures of the ionosphere whereas traditional systems can only look in one direction because of steering limitations," added Michael Nicolls, a research scientist with SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif. "This allows us, for example, to see wiggles in the ionosphere, and say 'Yes, these are atmospheric waves' and, in addition, figure out where they are coming from, which is very unique," Nicolls wrote in an email to Discovery News. With the new capabilities, scientists hope to be able to trace atmospheric waves to their source, such as a thunderstorm or air slamming into a mountain. "By building up this 3-D view showing the waves, we can see where the sources are," said Craig Heinselman, the principal investigator of the Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar, or AMISR. "It's the first time we've been able to look, especially at high latitudes, in multiple directions simultaneously." Scientists have identified a few types of waves, some of which rip through the region of the atmosphere known as the mesopause, about 60 to 90 kilometers above the planet, and others in the thermosphere, roughly 200 to 300 kilometers in altitude. The waves can be hundreds of kilometers long and travel at half the speed of sound. "They are really enormous," Heinselman said. Scientists will soon be expanding their view with a second AMISR system at Resolute Bay in Nunavut, Canada, which is within the polar cap. "It is really uncharted territory," said Nicolls. "Who knows what we will find." Nicolls and other scientists presented results from AMISR Poker Flat research at the American Geophysical Union conference in Toronto last week. This post provides more information on good old AMISR:the-goldenthread.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=2&page=131#2753
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Jun 10, 2009 2:21:11 GMT 4
Post by towhom on Jun 10, 2009 2:21:11 GMT 4
Earth Losing Atmosphere Faster than Venus, MarsIrene Klotz, Discovery News June 2, 2009dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/06/02/solar-wind-atmosphere.htmlEarth's Security Blanket: This image provided by NASA shows the auroral oval hanging over Antarctica. The green light is generated when high energy particles from the solar wind travel down Earth's magnetic field and hit the atmosphere.Researchers were stunned to discover recently that Earth is losing more of its atmosphere than Venus and Mars, which have negligible magnetic fields. This may mean our planet's magnetic shield may not be as solid a protective screen as once believed when it comes to guarding the atmosphere from an assault from the sun. "We often tell ourselves that we are very fortunate living on this planet because we have this strong magnetic shield that protects us from all sorts of things that the cosmos throws at us -- cosmic rays, solar flares and the pesky solar wind," said Christopher Russell, a professor of geophysics and space physics at the University of California, Los Angeles. "It certainly does help in some of those areas but ... in the case of the atmosphere, this may not be true," he said. Russel and others came to this realization while meeting at a comparative planetology conference last month. "Three of us who work on Earth, Venus and Mars got together and compared notes," Russell told Discovery News. "We said, 'Oh my goodness -- what we've been telling people about the magnetic shield is not correct.'" The perpetrators are streams of charged particles blasting off the sun in what is known as the solar wind. "The interaction of solar wind with Venus and Mars is pretty simple," Russell said. "The wind comes in, carries a magnetic field, which wraps around the ionosphere of the planet. The ionosphere is basically dragged away." Earth's magnetic field interacts with the solar wind, drawing out energy that gets funneled into the planet's atmosphere along its magnetic field lines. "The wind has to flow around this large magnetic obstacle in its path," Russell said. "The two are not friction-free." In addition to triggering aurorae, the process causes Earth's atmosphere to heat up to the point where atmospheric gases can escape along the field lines, where they are then picked up by the solar wind. "The visible manifestation of geomagnetic activity is the aurora -- the sun interacts with magnetosphere and causes it to glow -- but there are other things that go on when the particles interact with the atmosphere," said Scott Bailey, with the Center for Space Science and Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Despite the rather mind-boggling rate at which Earth is losing atmosphere -- 5×10 25 molecules per second -- scientists say there is no cause for alarm. If the loss rate stays the same, the planet's atmosphere will last for several more billion years. "Ultimately we're trying to understand why Venus, Mars and Earth atmospheres behave so different when initially the planets were pretty much the same," Russell said. Russell presented his research at the American Geophysical Union conference in Toronto last week. He and his colleagues are working on paper that details the comparative atmospheric losses of Earth, Venus and Mars.
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Jun 10, 2009 2:23:39 GMT 4
Post by avid on Jun 10, 2009 2:23:39 GMT 4
Huge Waves Detected in AtmosphereIrene Klotz, Discovery News June 4, 2009dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/06/04/atmosphere-waves.htmlGravity Waves: There are a variety of atmospheric waves, but many require radar to detect them. This NASA satellite image however shows more obvious gravity waves peaked with clouds off the coast of Australia. Researchers have detected giant, fast-moving waves of air, caused by thunderstorms and other disturbances, above Poker Flat, Alaska, where a new radar is churning out the first three-dimensional images of upper atmospheric phenomena in the polar region. "People have been envisioning doing this project for 40 years," said Eric Donovan, an associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. "There's just a lot going on in this region that we don't understand." The radar combines 4,096 small antennas, each with its own transmitter, on a single instrument, rather than one giant dish equipped with one powerful transmitter. Rather than physically rotating the radar to point in different directions, the steering is done electronically by slightly phasing each of the antenna elements differently. The radar, which can be run remotely via the Internet, can be very quickly adjusted to pinpoint and track velocity, temperature and other changes in the upper atmosphere. "All the previous systems would take half an hour to make measurements of a region that we're interested in," Donovan told Discovery News. "That'd be like keeping a camera's exposure open for 30 minutes when you're trying to take a picture of the finish of a race. All you'd see are streaks." "It has the ability to essentially take three-dimensional pictures of the ionosphere whereas traditional systems can only look in one direction because of steering limitations," added Michael Nicolls, a research scientist with SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif. "This allows us, for example, to see wiggles in the ionosphere, and say 'Yes, these are atmospheric waves' and, in addition, figure out where they are coming from, which is very unique," Nicolls wrote in an email to Discovery News. With the new capabilities, scientists hope to be able to trace atmospheric waves to their source, such as a thunderstorm or air slamming into a mountain. "By building up this 3-D view showing the waves, we can see where the sources are," said Craig Heinselman, the principal investigator of the Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar, or AMISR. "It's the first time we've been able to look, especially at high latitudes, in multiple directions simultaneously." Scientists have identified a few types of waves, some of which rip through the region of the atmosphere known as the mesopause, about 60 to 90 kilometers above the planet, and others in the thermosphere, roughly 200 to 300 kilometers in altitude. The waves can be hundreds of kilometers long and travel at half the speed of sound. "They are really enormous," Heinselman said. Scientists will soon be expanding their view with a second AMISR system at Resolute Bay in Nunavut, Canada, which is within the polar cap. "It is really uncharted territory," said Nicolls. "Who knows what we will find." Nicolls and other scientists presented results from AMISR Poker Flat research at the American Geophysical Union conference in Toronto last week. This post provides more information on good old AMISR:the-goldenthread.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=2&page=131#2753 I read about this elsewhere - (can't find the link, but there was another diagram) isn't this fantastic! www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/scientists-detect-giant-atmospheric-waves-using-auroras-like-flashlights_100197361.html Scientists detect giant atmospheric waves using auroras like flashlights
May 27th, 2009 - 12:27 pm ICT by ANI Washington, May 27 (ANI): Scientists, using auroras like flashlights, have exposed giant atmospheric waves crashing just above Earth that can endanger satellites. When strong winds crash into mountains or large atmospheric disturbances such as thunderstorms and hurricanes, the “explosion” sends invisible “shock waves” of air rippling outward in all directions at hundreds of miles an hour.
The atmospheric waves can travel hundreds of miles upward into the highest reaches of the atmosphere. There, they crash against the ionosphere like surf breaking on a beach.
But instead of stopping at the “beach,” the atmospheric waves spur smaller, weaker waves inside the ionosphere that generate heat.
This heat in turn creates electrical disturbances that can affect the motions and functions of satellites.
According to a report in National Geographic News, the giant air ripples have been detected before, but never so precisely or so far into the atmosphere.
The breakthrough comes courtesy of a new radar system called the Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar, recently installed near the North Pole in Alaska and Canada.
There, the system has a front-row seat for the aurora borealis, or northern lights.
Auroras flicker into being when charged particles from the sun strike Earth’s magnetic field and are funneled to the Poles, where the particles interact with the atmosphere to colorful effect.
By tracing an aurora’s charged particles, the new radar system can paint a better picture of the invisible atmospheric waves.
“The radar has the ability to take a three-dimensional snapshot of the waves,” said study author Michael Nicolls, an atmospheric scientist at SRI International, an independent, nonprofit research institute in California.
“From that, we can figure out which direction the waves are propagating and we can gain knowledge of where and how they are depositing their energies,” he added.
According to Nicolls, those insights could lead to better understanding of space weather and its effects on Earth systems such as power grids as well as GPS and other forms of satellite communications. (ANI)
is this the same...? Avid x
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Jun 10, 2009 2:25:15 GMT 4
Post by towhom on Jun 10, 2009 2:25:15 GMT 4
Inflatable tower into space!!!08 June 2009 by Jeff Hecht, Boston "A GIANT inflatable tower could carry people to the edge of space without the need for a rocket, and could be completed much sooner than a cable-based space elevator, its proponents claim. Inflatable pneumatic modules already used in some spacecraft could be assembled into a 15-kilometre-high tower, say Brendan Quine, Raj Seth and George Zhu at York University in Toronto, Canada, writing in Acta Astronautica (DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2009.02.018). If built from a suitable mountain top it could reach an altitude of around 20 kilometres, where it could be used for atmospheric research, tourism, telecoms or launching spacecraft.
Pneumatic modules already used in some spacecraft could be assembled into a 15-kilometre-high tower The team envisages assembling the structure from a series of modules constructed from Kevlar-polyethylene composite tubes made rigid by inflating them with a lightweight gas such as helium. To test the idea, they built a 7-metre scale model made up of six modules (see image). Each module was built out of three laminated polyethylene tubes 8 centimetres in diameter, mounted around circular spacers and inflated with air.
To stay upright and withstand winds, full-scale structures would require gyroscopes and active stabilisation systems in each module. The team modelled a 15-kilometre tower made up of 100 modules, each one 150 metres tall and 230 metres in diameter, built from inflatable tubes 2 metres across. Quine estimates it would weigh about 800,000 tonnes when pressurised - around twice the weight of the world's largest supertanker.
"Twenty kilometres up is about as dark as outer space. You can see about 600 kilometres in any direction," Quine says. Tourists could get a view almost like that from space, but without the difficulties of coping with zero gravity. He calculates the tower could be extended up to low Earth orbit at 200 kilometres.
The tower does a similar job to the much-vaunted space elevator. But while the elevator envisages using ribbons woven from superstrong nanotubes - a material that is as yet non-existent - the tower would use materials that are already available. And should something go wrong with the tower, failure of a few modules would not cause the whole structure to collapse."
I'm not really convinced.... so when the 'Lift Person' says "What level?" I'll say "Basement thanks" Hiya avid!
I highlighted and re-sized the "pertinent data" above...
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Peace and Joy Always (earthbound)
Sally Anne
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Jun 10, 2009 2:30:46 GMT 4
Post by towhom on Jun 10, 2009 2:30:46 GMT 4
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Jun 10, 2009 2:33:48 GMT 4
Post by avid on Jun 10, 2009 2:33:48 GMT 4
Inflatable tower into space!!!08 June 2009 by Jeff Hecht, Boston EDITED FOR BLATHERINGS!!! I'm not really convinced.... so when the 'Lift Person' says "What level?" I'll say "Basement thanks" Hiya avid!
I highlighted and re-sized the "pertinent data" above...
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Peace and Joy Always (earthbound
Sally AnneAs always I've been 'grounded' (thank goodness) ;D ;D ;D
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Jun 10, 2009 3:21:33 GMT 4
Post by towhom on Jun 10, 2009 3:21:33 GMT 4
Court hears NASA hacker 'at risk of psychosis'ZDNet News & Blogs By Tom Espiner / ZDNet UK Posted on ZDNet News: Jun 09, 2009 10:46:49 AMnews.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-310515.html?tag=nl.e589Lawyers acting for Gary McKinnon say the self-confessed Nasa hacker runs the risk of becoming psychotic and suicidal if his extradition to the U.S. goes ahead. Edward Fitzgerald, QC, described the risk during a hearing on Tuesday at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. Judges Lord Justice Stanley Burton and Mr Justice Wilkie are reviewing a decision by former home secretary Jacqui Smith to allow extradition proceedings against McKinnon to go ahead, despite his being diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. "There is a risk of psychotic disruption, which may range on a path from anxiety through to psychosis," Fitzgerald told the court, as he presented arguments against the extradition. "There is a risk [McKinnon] may take his own life." Fitzgerald said the home secretary reached a flawed decision in response to the medical evidence. "She underestimated and misrepresented the gravity of the situation." Fitzgerald went on to point out that Smith had not asked the US authorities to repatriate McKinnon should he be found guilty by a U.S. court. McKinnon has been accused by US prosecutors of hacking into US military systems between February 2001 and March 2002, using his home computer in North London. They allege that McKinnon accessed 97 US government computers, including US army, navy and NASA computers responsible for national defense and security, and naval munitions supply. Moreover, the U.S. authorities claim McKinnon deleted critical operating-system files, leading to the shutdown of the entire U.S. army network of over 2,000 computers in the District of Washington. The deletion also took down a U.S. Naval Weapons Station computer system, causing $700,000 (£430,000) damage, prosecutors allege. McKinnon has admitted deleting logs in an attempt to cover his movements, but has denied causing any damage. He claims to have been hunting for evidence of UFOs. "The issue of damage has been overblown all along," said Fitzgerald. "[McKinnon] does not accept he deleted materials, aside from his own." On Tuesday morning, the judges expressed their intention to reserve judgement, which means their decision might not be made public for up to two weeks. McKinnon's attorney, Karen Todner, told ZDNet UK that the court's decision could go a number of ways other than in favor of the extradition as it stands. For example, the judges may say they will not order the extradition until the home secretary has asked for, and received, formal assurances that McKinnon will serve any U.S. prison sentence in the UK. Or the judges may decide against extradition, in which case McKinnon may still be prosecuted in the UK. If the extradition is given the go-ahead, then the defense will attempt to appeal to the House of Lords, Todner said. In addition, the defense will seek a judicial review of the decision by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) not to prosecute McKinnon in the UK. McKinnon's mother, Janis Sharp, told ZDNet UK that McKinnon's health had suffered as a result of the stress of the trial. "He's just had an operation on his eye, he had a lump removed and sent for biopsy," said Sharp. " There's a lump growing on his shoulder. It's the stress — he's stressed out of his mind." This article was first published on ZDNet UK.
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Jun 10, 2009 8:12:43 GMT 4
Post by nodstar on Jun 10, 2009 8:12:43 GMT 4
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Jun 10, 2009 8:27:16 GMT 4
Post by nodstar on Jun 10, 2009 8:27:16 GMT 4
Sally Anne ...
A pm awaits ;D
love
Nod
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Jun 10, 2009 8:42:52 GMT 4
Post by nodstar on Jun 10, 2009 8:42:52 GMT 4
Sally Anne .. yet another message for you Nod
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Jun 10, 2009 9:16:37 GMT 4
Post by towhom on Jun 10, 2009 9:16:37 GMT 4
Noddie...
The PMs have been read and responses await... ;D
Peace And Joy Always - with Many Blessings of Light
Sally Anne
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Jun 10, 2009 9:31:28 GMT 4
Post by towhom on Jun 10, 2009 9:31:28 GMT 4
[/size][/b][/quote] It is important to note that the research being pursued by the Drs. Burisch is for all of humanity - not just a forum or two.
In addition, the EDO Team members have continuously given to all of us. By giving their time, efforts and in some cases, their very lives, they have upheld the Unity of Humanity for every one of us.
We are not forgotten. We are being included in their never-ending circle of Light and Hope. Even as they flow with their lives, they are still including US in their circle.
We can do no less...but we CAN do more.
Many Many Blessings of the Eternal One. May you ALL be showered with Light and Love.
Peace and Joy Always
Sally Anne
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