There needs to be a light shot on the fact that in this university, in this department, you're not allowed to deviate from department norms. Berkeley math lecturer Dr. Alexander Coward stirred up controversy on campus when he released a letter to the public voicing opposition to the math department's termination of his contract. I was the first person to be hired as a lecturer in an international search, and I was very excited to try and bring some of the ideas that we know about education to bear at Berkeley, and unfortunately there were a lot of problems. Coward believes that the math department's focus should be as much about educating students as it is about conducting research. There's a very strong argument to get people who who've got a very strong background in teaching who know what they're doing, who are going and if they're if you're a lecturer you're going to teach a lot more students for a lot less money, and people find that very threatening because they're worried that the people who are who's focus is teaching are going to take over, and there's going to be this very rapid increase in the number of people who are focused on teaching, and then the number of people who are who are focused on research, research faculty is going to shrink. Education is the the thing upon which our success or failure as a planet relies. We've got all of these problems. Where are the solutions to these problems going to come from? And they're going to come from your generation, which is the millennia. But if you don't get an education, that potential is not going to be enough, you know, not just for the reason that it's essential for our future as a society, as a planet, if you get an education. It's also based on the moral case that if your tuition fees are going up and up and up, and the proportion of a university's budget is going up and up what the part that counts as tuition coming from the student fees, then the quality of your education should go up and up and up and up. Now, it's impossible for the quality of your education to increase if you're not allowed to deviate from department norms. His post highlighted problems he saw in the department's approach to undergraduate education. The post was met with widespread student support on social media, even spurring the student organized protests. Professor Coward really does care about every single one of his students. He gave out his personal phone number to all 800 of the kids in his lecture right now with the invitation that if any of them have any problems with like math problems or just like having struggles with life that we can reach out to him and call him and he'll help us out. I have personally utilized his phone number and called and asked for help with math problems when I really felt like I was struggling or couldn't, you know, learn the material. And not only did he help me out with the math problems that I was struggling on, he actually went on then to, you know, encourage me to not be like upset by the fact that I wasn't really understanding it or felt like I wasn't really keeping up with the class.  He's really such a great man. Like, no other professor that I ever had has ever just called me to check up and say, hey, how are you doing? That's something that's very special and inspiring about this man. And he even offered to help me personally one-on-one to get back, to get caught up with all the stuff I missed throughout the last week. So I just wanted to say thank you to him for that and just to test the type of person he is. You know, like any person, I'm not a perfect teacher and I'm not a perfect human being. And I can think of things that I've done in my teaching certainly that are not optimal, right? And I'm thinking of things that I'm working on. And that's not the point, right? It's not the point that the question of how good of a teacher is Alexander Cowan and should he stay or should he not stay is a distracting question. The main issue is that there needs to be a very bright light shone into what the mathematics department is doing has done in regards of teaching, particularly these very large classes which prepare people for other majors. People say that sunlight is the best disinfectant and I think that's true. Let's finish the test and I was really happy. I forget why, but I decided to pick up my six-year-old.


Dermatomes in the anatomy of dermatomes are an important concept to understand for USMLE step one and beyond The spinal nerves are what give rise to the dermatomes Spinal nerves are the major nerve branches that stem directly from the spinal cord and exit between the vertebrae as seen here They carry both sensory innovation and motor innovation The motor signal or efferent signal is carried on the interior root Which exits from the interior horn of the spinal cord as seen here The sensory signal or efferent signal is carried on the posterior root of the spinal nerve and carries sensory information Into the posterior horn of the spinal cord as seen here So it can be carried to the brain The posterior root is what's going to be important in the discussion of dermatomes because dermatomes are part of the way That the body organizes sensory signals There are 31 total spinal nerves There's eight cervical which we label C1 through C8 There's 12 thoracic which we label T1 through T12 Five lumbar which are L1 through L5 and five sacral which is S1 through S5 And altogether that adds up to 31 total spinal nerves, and there's a right and a left spinal nerve on each side Now a dermatome is an area of skin whose sensory innovation is supplied by a particular spinal nerve The efferent signal for various sensations of the skin including light touch, pain Temperature, vibration and proprioception are organized by dermatomes You can see a map of which spinal nerves correspond to which dermatomes here on the right For example, the T10 dermatome extends in a belt-like distribution around the belly button Don't worry though. You don't have to memorize the exact distribution of every dermatome for step one We'll have a separate video laying out some of the important landmarks and dermatomes to be familiar with So you don't have to memorize all of them as you can see from this map All the dermatomes are different shapes and sizes. So memorizing them all can be quite challenging Now since there's 31 pairs of spinal nerves, you'd expect there to be 31 dermatomes However, the C1 nerve route has no corresponding dermatome So actually there's only 30 dermatomes from a total of 31 spinal nerves This video has been an introduction to spinal nerves and the relationship to dermatomes We'll be putting out a separate video on which specific dermatomes you need to know for step one in order to be successful


Hello, I'm Chris Hadnaggy from Social Engineer. I'm Michelle Fincher from Social Engineer. We run the Social Engineer Village here at DEF CON this year, two competitions. Our black badge competition was the SECTF and our other competition was SECTF kits. What we found this year was that we created an extra challenge for SECTF. We had tag team competition. We had two competitors in the booth at the same time. And they had to come up with convincing pretext to be able to switch off the calls. And that was amazing because we didn't know how it was going to work. And they were able to successfully transfer calls back and forth between their partners. And we had a winning team named the Shmoos Operators, which was a little bit special for us because our partner got sick and she pulled someone out of the audience. They took 30 minutes of her pair, got in the booth, and they were winning the black badge. Yeah, it was awesome. And in second place we had a crowd favorite, the brochure engineers. Two gentlemen and they did an awesome job working together. They didn't know each other and they had a fantastic call. And they did wonderful. Our kids event went off without a hitch too. This was their hardest year ever. Average time was five hours for the kids to finish it as opposed to one or two like normal for previous events. And we even had a team go till 6 p.m. Starting at 9 a.m. and they went till 6 p.m. straight till they saw every puzzle and cipher accomplishing that. Yeah, we actually thought they would cry and give up but that the very last team went all the way through to the bitter end and we're really proud of them. I think we hoped that they would cry. Yeah, we were. We were really sure. Because they made me cry every year. So I would hope. But these kids are resilient. And our winning team was the Salmon Waffles. That's an interesting one. And the second player replaced was the electronic samurais. So those are our events. We look forward to next year. Hope we get to do something even bigger and better. Congratulations to all our winners.


Bitcoin made a new low this morning and now has gone as far as 24% down from its recent all-time highs. Ethereum did not set a new low as you can see here. It did bounce before going as low as it did before. So currently it's on a bounce back up. So everybody's panicking right now and selling and wondering if we're going lower, wondering if Bitcoin is crashing. Is this the end? Guys, I am still buying the dip. Hey, what's up? Jay here and welcome back to Bitcoin Daily, bringing you guys the best tips, tutorials and ideas to help you guys become profitable and successful traders. The goal of this channel is to empower you guys with the resources and knowledge to get you up to that next level. So if you guys are new here, make sure to hit that subscribe button and turn on that notification bell, turn it on. Also, if you've been here before, make sure to put a thumbs up on this video. And if you guys have any questions, drop it in the comments. So let's jump right in. So what is going on with Bitcoin? Well, not really much. Like I know you guys are panicking, but guys, we're still at $48,000.  We got spoiled with three weeks of just bullish moves up, right? If you look at this, you basically broke out of this channel on January 29th, right? And then we consolidated, consolidated, and then we started moving basically February 1st. So this entire month, we've just been going up. Look at this just up, right? Then we had two days out of the month that were kind of slow.  Then we had two more days of consolidation, picked all that up. We had another small drop and then just took off again and have just been enjoying life for three weeks straight, basically, guys, with very, very minor pullbacks, right? Remember, I said two weeks ago that 50K was a big level. I called this two weeks ago, right? Now, that's why I was surprised when we broke through 50K so fast. I was very, very surprised. I did not expect 50K to, you know, for us to just blow by it that fast. What I believe happened was there was a lot of liquidations at 50K above it, right? So the price pushed above 50K.  And they got liquidated, they stopped out. There are probably people taking profits as well. They stopped, so there were liquidations for from short sellers. There were people that had sold before 50K. Then they saw that we broke through 50K and they opened up new positions. And, you know, just the madness above 50K kind of drove us all the way up here to the previous all-time high routine will end in 20 minutes. Enjoy your meal. It is not lunchtime. It's Bitcoin time. So we ended up going all the way to almost $60,000. And at 60 is where we kind of got the reaction that I expected us to get at 50. So this pullback, I knew there was a pullback coming. I just thought that this pullback was going to happen at 50, not at 60. So that was where I was off, definitely. But I knew there had to be a pullback because we just had look how how much we went up. Yes, it's just crazy. So we had three straight weeks, basically of just going up after everybody was panicking over this. Right. So, I mean, think back to to this this time, this time period, right. That was from when January 9th all the way to about what is this January 27th. So we had three weeks of just, you know, going down, right? Then we had three weeks of going back up. And now we've had a week, basically, not even a week yet. But we've had a few days, almost a week of, you know, of a retracement. But if we look at the weekly chart, we can see here, we had one, two, three, four weeks of just going up. Then we had one, two, three going down. Then we had another one, two, three going up. And this is the first week that we're down now in February, really. So I'm sure you guys have already forgotten exactly what happened here. It was just a blip, you know, when you look at the big picture and probably more of the same is going to happen here. I expect us, as you can see, we're currently at 48,000. We might close this end up closing this month off strong over the weekend. If we can close today, I think above this level right here, that 23.6 percent Fibonacci level, which is right in line with around 49,000. So I think if we get back above 50 K over the weekend, then we should be good, right? Now, this could be another consolidation period where we see some consolidation similar to how we did here over the next few weeks after a big move. So it is possible to see something where we, you know, bounce, kind of appear and then bound here and kind of do something like this where we end up testing this Fibonacci level, which is right around that 42,000 area that we've been talking about. So I would not be surprised if we continue bouncing within this channel and kind of, you know, set up another bull flag. This is that's basically what this is here. This will be a bull flag, you know, huge impulse moves. Then consolidation period within this channel and then continuation to the upside. And that upside continuation could take us past 60 K, I believe to possibly hit maybe 70, 75 thousand dollars in the next few months. Now, you know, looking at Bitcoin from a bearish case scenario and when I say bearish, I'm not talking about like, you know, a drop back down here. I'm talking about when I'm say bearish, I'm talking more about this right here, what happened right here, consolidation, right? So from a consolidation standpoint, you know, we would kind of be doing something like this over the next few weeks. So basically starting in March and the reason this kind of falls in line with March is because March is known to be one of the worst months on average for Bitcoin. As we all know, last year in March, we had the worst month ever or one of the worst days ever in Bitcoin with a very, very big drop when the whole pandemic thing happened. So I was trying to look for the chart of the history of Bitcoin. And this is the only one I could find, which was in 2018. So we can look up to actually this was up to 2017. So in 2017, they were already showcasing that March is probably one of the worst months, performing months for Bitcoin over the history, right? You can see here that in 2011, it was down 9 percent, 14, 15, 16, 17, all those four years in a row, March was down in 2018. Let's see what happened in 2018. As you can see here, we were down 32 percent. So that chart was made on 2018 in February, and they definitely called the March drop there. Then in 2019, we had a better March there, where we were up about 8 percent. And then, of course, 2020 happened when we had this huge drop for 24 percent. But the drop was way worse, but we did climb back up a bit. We started recovering at that time. So now we are back at the end of February. We've had a good month. We've had a great three weeks, right? And as you guys know, usually whenever we get a red candle, after a few weeks in a row, we've seen some consolidation here.  If we are to see that again, this could be the channel where we see it. And March could be the month where we see that happen. So this is something that could definitely that's a possibility. And it's a scenario here for us to do and us to go and test. We test this previous all time high over here, which is also that Fibonacci level. You know, that's something that we can see in the next few weeks. Now as we take a look at Ethereum, we see a little bit of the same here. You know, we haven't had that much of a pullback here, actually. And you can see that we've been in very oversold territory since basically November in Ethereum. Currently, it turns up 110% on the year and 600% in the last 12 months. However, this month of February, or at least in the last month, we are down 9%, but in February overall, we're up 17% on the month. So zooming in here to the daily timeframe, we can see that we're currently sitting right around that 1500 area. That's kind of where we've been kind of getting bounces. We've actually been getting a lot of bounces off the 1400 range, right? So you see that we went here on this day, we went as low as 1356. Today, we went as low as 1400. So we got the bounce right on 1400 today. So we did not post a lower low here or a new low here in the week like Bitcoin did. And so far, we've had a pretty good recovery here. So we've gone from 1400 up to about 1550 ish right now at the moment, basically trying to get through this Fibonacci level, that's at 38.2% level. As you guys can see there, there's a lot of price action there. So there's going to be a lot of sellers and buyers there. We're going to have to consolidate until we're able to break through with enough volume. You can see that this 1400 level has played a big role here. So that's why we've been able to continue to bounce there. So a thing with the theorem that it kind of all depends on Bitcoin, right? So if Bitcoin continues, it's that consolidation pattern where it prints a bull flag on the longer time frames. That means it's going to be more of the same for Ethereum, right? Even though Ethereum last time when Bitcoin was doing that, Ethereum instead grinded upwards. So, you know, we still can't tell what Ethereum is going to do. We're going to have to give it still a few more days to kind of figure out, you know, how the market's going to play out from this last drop. And before we can really start seeing any patterns, right? So last time we had this very nice ascending support here that gave us that flat top pattern and we were able to predict that breakout to that 1920 area, which eventually pushed over to 2K. Remember, we spoke about 2K for a few weeks and we got the breakout and hit it. So I'm hoping that maybe this is the start of kind of the same thing here, right? Where we had that big wick all the way down here. If we have this big wick down and then kind of, you know, another similar retest there. So we had something similar right here, you know, maybe it could be something like this where we have a flat top, another flat top type of pattern. And any theorem kind of bounces within this range, right? Until we get a breakout to the top and we break above this previous all time high. So that could be something that we see if Bitcoin consolidates over the next few weeks, that would be a pattern that we might see if, of course, what happened here last time repeats itself. All right, guys, next we're going to talk about some trade setups for the weekend to hopefully make some profits because this week has been a little crazy and a lot of people are down probably on their positions, you know, and it's been hard to take trades here because like we always say, we don't like to take trades on the way down. We like to take them on the way up. So that's what we're about to talk about next. If you guys have enjoyed this video so far, make sure to hit that subscribe button, guys, turn on that notification bell and like this video. Also, if you have any questions or if you have any comments about anything that's going on right now, go ahead and drop it in the comments. We are always happy to hear you guys out. All right, so the main thing that we're watching this weekend, guys, is we want to get back over that 50 K level below 50 K is just is so unpredictable right now, guys. So the only things that we're playing for is that 50 K. And even at 50 K, guys, there's going to be a lot of consolidation, as you guys saw here, but 50 K will also lead to that testing that new high. So that's why that's going to be a level that's going to be kind of risky. So I recommend that you guys, you know, trail it tightly as it goes up, you know, and make sure to use stop losses on this, because, like I said, there's a lot of consolidation here. Now, if we do see a drop again, right, the levels that we're watching is basically going to be kind of right here, as you guys can see, that's that 46 K area. And right here, that's that 44 K area. And then, of course, this Fibonacci level here, which is going to be that $42,000 area. We are also willing to buy down at 40 K, since you saw there is a lot of price action there.  And then after that, if we were to drop below that, the next level would be 38 K, which is this Fibonacci level there. So remember, guys, try not to buy on the drops. Try to look for something on the way back up, which is always the safest play. In Ethereum, we're looking at kind of some more of the same. We're watching bounce back up. The levels that we're currently watching here next is probably that 1,600 level. But again, the same thing is going to, Ethereum is going to reach 1,600, probably at the same time that Bitcoin is reaching 50 K. So because of that, there could be a lot of consolidation in that area, right? Plus, we're between two different Fibonacci levels there. So we can definitely see something like that as well. But that gives us about a $100 level where we can probably, if we break above 16, we could probably hit 17. So that's kind of the levels where we're looking at to play within right now. If we do see a break down, then 1,400 seems to be that level that's currently holding up the theorem price. So 1,400 is definitely a price of interest if we can catch a good bounce back up. 1,500 is just kind of in the middle of nowhere and could go either way. So we're not liking 1,500 right now. It's not an entry that we're currently taking. 1,550, this is kind of more of the same. So 1,400 and 1,600 are the levels that we're going to be watching this weekend. And that's basically it, guys. Those are the trades that we're going to be watching over the weekend to try to make some profits for you guys. And of course, for ourselves, we always want to make more profits. There's never enough profits, right? But that's pretty much, guys. Just make sure to play it safe, guys. Only be risking 1% on these moves because of the current trend that we're on right now as far as short term. So remember, long term, we're still very bullish. Short term, we could see some bearish scenarios here where it takes us back to $42,000 to $40,000 maybe. Now, I'm not saying sell all your long term positions here because this is just short term. This is not a time to get cute. This is a time to just kind of add on to your long term positions. If you guys have enjoyed this video, make sure to subscribe, guys. Make sure to hit that like button as well. Turn on the post notification bell. And if you have any questions about anything that's going on with Bitcoin, any theorem in the market right now, drop it in the comments. Let us know your thoughts. Let us know where do you think Bitcoin is going next. That's pretty much it for us, guys. I hope you guys have an amazing Friday. I hope you guys have an amazing weekend. And I will see you guys back on here on Monday, hopefully to lots and lots of profits. I am out of here, guys. I'll see you Monday. As always, peace and love.


Loaders, it changes everything when we're all in the same place. So thank you for doing this Float On. Ashkan, I know you've had a lot to do with it, and it's really a good place to be. So first I'm noticing that there are so many scientists who are presenting today, which is a great thing. And I notice that there is one scientist who's not here today, and I just happen to find this in getting the papers ready for this. This is written by John and Tony Lilly, hereby accept the position of board members on the board of the Flotation Tank Association January 7th, 1985. And so in certain way he is here, and he's not here physically, John Lilly, for those of you who have not yet read him, the mentor, the inventor, he named us, he taught us, and he always let us know that his programs were much better than ours. He gave us Echo, the Earth Coincidence Control Office, and about there the guys who run the Earth and who program us, though we're not aware of it. I asked them, this is John's voice. I asked them, what's your major program? They answered, to make you guys evolve to the next levels to teach you, to kick you in the pants when necessary. So that was John's structure of how things go here on planet Earth. And his major instruction to us about floating, you know, he had to teach us what tanks should be, what they need to be made of, how they should operate, and so on. And we said, okay, we got that part, now what do we do about the people? And he said, thou shalt not program. So we were told never to program people before they get into the tank. We don't know what needs to happen for them. It's their job to have their experience, and that's our job to supply the place for them to have that experience. And so we've taken that as our job, and we've been at it for an extended time. In fact, we can't seem to stop. He definitely delivered an education that's still very much in process, and I'm grateful for the opportunity. So here's the little icebreaker story, is that people who came to float in our place, you know, all kinds of people come to float. Those of you who are already operating centers know the variety of people who show up is, you know, just from anybody you could ever think of and who never thought would come. And the ones who are very, very important to the center are the ones who know how to talk about it somehow. They know how to tell their friends better than anybody else. They know how to tell their friends how important this was, how changed their life, and they seem to always bring people with them. They know so many people that keep on coming to the center. Oh yes, Patricia sent us. She told us all about it. She has such a wonderful time.  And she brought all of her dates to the center because it ensured that they would have a much better time. She was the best mouth we had. So our center was very beautiful. I think, Michael, what you were saying about, you know, a center is so much more than its parts. I mean, the parts are cleanliness and people. There are so many elements that are part of the center. We had ideas about it because we had put four years of working at home. We had two tanks at home. And we had spent four years kind of finding out what was important if you wanted to run a place. You know, for example, Ashkan and Salt, telling the Salt stories. This is really not the tank business. It's the salt business. You know, that having your shower directly in front of the tank makes such a huge difference that we knew about that part. We knew about having it attractive, about having it peaceful. We knew about the sound of the place, that there's a quiet that resounds in a center that's different than other kinds of quiet, that the colors have a deep impact on people. We were in our first center that we opened, happened to be in Beverly Hills. And not knowing how to put it together, we walked down Rodeo Drive, which is a very high end street in Beverly Hills. And we went into every shop to see what kind of colors they used and how did it look and so on. And what we decided is that we wanted it to be up to date, but we didn't want it to look like anything else. And so after getting an idea of the palette of the time, we met some people whose job was color. And they came and they advised us about the right colors for that particular place. The colors that would have the late afternoon sun as it was going down leave the color of sunset on the walls.  And it made a very big difference in the way our place looked. It was just, it just was so welcoming that we were next door to a beauty salon.   It was quite extraordinary. What we felt was the idea is that everything in that center mirrors the experience of the tank so that if we had any question about how something ought to be, we would ask, well, how is the tank? How does the tank do that? And we would do it that way. No programming, no intervention where it wasn't necessary. So here we are today. We have this question of the future of floating. That was the question that we were asked to consider. And we've heard so many different things about that today. Now there are lots of things that people get from floating from on the physical plane. Cures for ailments, diagnoses, information on various hormones, cures for things that haven't been thought of before. We also knew from our early floaters that there was an impulse for people to start considering things that were healthy for them. People would come back and they'd say, I'm changing my diet because I know that that stuff wasn't good for me. I quit smoking. I started doing exercise. Various things that were in line with their own well-being, that seemed to be motivated by their having experiences that made them feel better about themselves. That was my interpretation of it. And the things having to do with the physical body were very strong and that's where science has been, you know, Tom's report and Rod's report talking about things that science has been investigating which are very, very important. And it seems to me that there's another area of floating that is in danger. And that's in our conversation about the future of floating. We began to look at, okay, we have all these new people who are coming to floating right now. Some people have never floated. Some people have floated very few times. The time is ripe and we're going to have an explosion of centers all over the country. It's happening all over the world at the moment. And what is there about floating that we want to be sure is remains, can go through, can be kept, can be maintained? So that's been the series of discussions that Glenn and I have had about what we wanted to tell you. This is what we're looking at that is very, very important about the future of floating. So there are many different uses of floating. I'm going to mention three. And the first one I'm going to talk about is the one that we have found others who came to our centers. It was the most common one. And the reason we've used the tank a lot. And when I get out of the tank, I feel calmer, more peaceful, easy, lack of emotions. I'm not thinking much, kind of basic. I'd like to have a show of hands of people who can relate to that experience after they float. Okay. Most everybody raised their hands. If you have had that experience gotten to that space outside of the tank, raise your hands. Okay. Maybe a third, I would say, of the people. And raise your hands if you know how to consistently get there from out of the tank without going into the tank. Okay. Probably half of those. Okay. So in our normal life, it's involved with mental, emotional, and physical domains. And there's all of this mental activity both inside the tank and outside the tank. And I'd like to suggest that there is a different space that we can get to as a result of floating. And some of us know how to get there outside of floating. But it's certainly a lot easier to get there from floating. And I'd like to address that space. And it's a space that most of us are not familiar with in our normal everyday life. We in our business, when we opened our center, both before we opened our center and after we opened our first center, we would spend hours talking about what was this space that we can get to. How do we talk about it? What is it? How do we communicate it to another? And in those early years, we couldn't come up with a good answer to that. The best that we could do was that it was a little like falling in love the first time or at the beginning of falling in love or being at the top of a mountain in awe at the incredibleness of the scenery or possibly being totally involved in a project where everything else disappears. So if it's so hard to talk about, maybe it's hard to understand. And if it's hard to understand, do we actually know how to provide it? In other words, what is it about the tank that is actually producing this that, for me at least, is so absolutely incredible. It's something I can't easily get to another way. What is it about the tank? About the tank environment? And so on that allows me to get here. John had mentioned that he liked Patanjali's aphorisms, the book as described in the book or delineated in the book, How to Know God. And after that book, we pursued some other spiritual endeavors. And we finally, after a while, discovered something. And we feel that we discovered what this thing was that we got to. And it's called being, consciousness. And it's characterized by a lack of mental activity. And since this is actually the domain of the spiritual, we investigated whether those disciplines could help us since meditation actually serves this beingness. Spiritual practices design their guidelines to meditation to remove all distractions because a feed mental chatter interferes with being and becoming more conscious. Daniel Goleman, a Harvard professor who was a friend and colleague of Richard Albert, also known as Ram Das, practiced spiritual disciplines in India for a long time and studied many other spiritual disciplines and wrote a book called The Meditative Mind. And in it, he spoke about the classical, about one classical Buddhist text. And he mentioned that unvirtuous thoughts lead to distractedness in meditation. They're a waste of time to the serious meditator. Purification means paring away distracting thoughts. He said behavior is controlled in these spiritual disciplines because it affects the mind. Purity of morality has the goal of purity of mind. In other words, each spiritual discipline has rules like the Ten Commandments. And the actual purpose of these, originally in the spiritual disciplines, was not for morality. It was to stop all this mental chatter that if you're doing things that are inappropriate, you're going to be doing a lot of thinking about it. And the more serious you are in terms of your meditation, the more rules there are to make it so that you won't be involved in all this mental chatter. So these traditional philosophies that have specialized in understanding the area of consciousness outside of our normal existence are saying that lack of mental distractions is important to being and being more present. In other words, the more distraction-free the environment, the more successful will be the floater. The more emptiness than the emptier the floater. So an environment and a tank free of distractions is really good. Many people before they float the first time have some fears, whether it's drowning, darkness, suffocation, claustrophobia, or finding out about yourself. But there's a fear that's much bigger than all of these. When people come to float, those people that are afraid, their biggest fear is that it's not okay to be afraid. So we let people know that many people have fears before they use the tank the first time. And in this situation, you should use it in whatever way is comfortable for you. And we let them know that they're totally in control of this situation. They can get in, out whenever they want, they can leave the door open, and so on. And once they know that many people are afraid and that they're in control, it's easy for them to handle all of the other fears. They can do it on their own. It's very simple for them to deal with it on their own. And if many people want to find out about themselves as Joan Rogan has mentioned, imagine the joy and satisfaction that someone can get by dealing with some fear that they've had. They come and float, and some fear that they've had they deal with on their own. And that creates a ripple through their life. So we think we should be careful about protecting people from the fears before they float the first time. The use of floating is handling mental, emotional, and physical disturbance or discomfort. And it can usually by, usually be handled by going into it fully. Discomfort is usually the result of us removing our consciousness from something, a pulling away. For example, if I cut my finger on a table saw, I've pulled my body away, but I also pull my consciousness away, and it may hurt for a time, or it may not hurt, but it very quickly will stop hurting completely, and as soon as it's cured, if I tap on it, I notice that it's numb. In other words, my consciousness has left that area. I go to a group once a week, and in the group, whenever this woman talks, I was feeling put down, made less than, and it was irritating to me. I went into the tank, and I started to experience this irritation that I was having, that I felt whenever she spoke, and after a while, that disappeared, and I was faced with feeling somebody else's pain, and I did not want to do that. I really wanted away, I wanted out of there. I did not want to deal with that, and so I experienced that, pushing away that desire to not be experiencing someone else's pain, and I hung out there, and I hung out there, and then suddenly I had this picture of my father feeling really bad, running to the basement because of something my mother had said, and I did not want to deal with that at all at the time, and now I was floating, and I experienced that. I just hung out there, and I remembered it as much as I could, and noticed what my sensations, feelings, thoughts were, and I realized that there were a lot of other situations in my recent life of not wanting to deal with somebody else's pain, that this had been a recurring theme in my life, and suddenly, since then, I have not had any problem with being with somebody else's pain. It's like the thing disappeared. Well, the point is that when the incident happened with my father, I removed my consciousness from that thing, and by going into the tank, my consciousness was returned to that, and so we may be reminded of an earlier incident by repeating it, and that gives us the opportunity to heal, and we can do that by returning our consciousness possibly to the area, and it's easier, I think, to do with less distractions, and in an empty tank without an agenda, things can come up for us to look at and to clear away. In our normal life, we're moving so fast that generally we don't pause to process it all. In the tank, the volume can get turned up, and all of this mental chatter, the most urgent of it gets processed, and if we do that frequently enough or long enough, free of distractions, it can subside, and we'll find ourselves centered in being, so we're not that familiar with the state of being, but I think we need to be careful not to alter some aspect of our business that will negatively impact the effectiveness of the tank experience. It's important to understand the being state, and the lack of distractions in the tank, and in the environment, may facilitate floaters getting the maximum out of their float. So for those of you who are taking floating into the future, please remember to keep the tank empty, nothing. If you don't understand being, you might ask, how is your float when somebody comes out of the tank after their float? As I think you can understand now, the mind is one of evaluating, judging, and figuring things out, and here you've given somebody the opportunity to move to a place of beingness, and now you're asking them to go back into their mind. I'll let you work out how the staff should best support floaters coming out of the tank, and I'll leave you with what John used to say. Stop avoiding the void, get nothing from Samadhi. I'm just going to take a couple more minutes about the floatation tank association. We have a table out there. Four presenters today are on the board of directors of the floatation tank association, Tom Fine, Shoshana, Glenn and I, Ashkan and Graham recently resigned from the board of directors in order to have more time to do things like present this conference, and we have some very big jobs in front of us, one having to do with what Michael talked about, only he was talking about it up in Canada, having to deal with the health regulations. We have that in this country as well. Some of you are in the middle of it. Some of you have surrendered. Some of you have already come through the other side, and the board of directors believes that if we have a force, if this kind of a force of people who are interested in floating and are willing to get together to be a part of that force that will educate the health departments as to what floatation tanks are not swimming pools. They don't need the same set of regulations. We could present things that are not onerous to the opening of centers throughout the country. So that is the main health department area that we're in. We're also talking about having guidelines for best practices in the area so that those of you who are brand new who are saying, well, what's the right temperature? I thought body temperature is 98.6. Most of you already know that it's the skin temperature, not the interior body temperature. But these things need to be spread to everybody coming into the business so that minor errors and serious errors have a place where there's a forum of people who can give out information. We have the sign up table right outside that door. It's been wonderful how many of you have signed up to become members of FTA. You will be contacted. It would be very nice if we could kind of get a form going that says, I have a skill. You know, I'm really good with websites. I'm really good with making with filtration systems. Whatever it is that your specialty is, it could be very, very useful to the organization. What's available today when you sign up is a $25 discount in your membership fee. So please stop by and see us and join up so that we use an event like this where we get to meet each other and see what we, you know, we're a bunch of people with good ideas. Let's package them and use them in the places where they're very powerful for our benefit and the benefit of people who get to use the tanks. We have a, thank you. We have a website, a flotation tank association has a website called flotation. There's a float at the beginning of flotation, so it's spelled F-L-O-A-T-A-T-I-O-N dot org. And the, go to the right of the bar at the top and it says join. On that page, you can choose which membership is appropriate for you and you can click buy and then it will come up with a pay, something more at the right side that allows you to put in a coupon. If you put in the coupon this week, con 13, five digits, con as in conference 2013, it's just five digits, con 13, then you will get 25 off on what you're buying. Please become a member. Okay.


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Warning, this video will contain spoilers up to chapter 1046. You've been warned! Hello Manaka Matachi, this is Joygirl, and I think you would agree with me that in any given circumstance, a straw hat isn't usually a very noteworthy item. A hat, woven out of straw, which is great to keep your sun safe, but it isn't particularly iconic except in the context of One Piece. Because as we know, not only is the hat worn by our protagonist Monkey D. Luffy, giving him the epithet Straw Hat Luffy, as well as the name of the crew, the Straw Hat Pirates, but also we know that the Straw Hat is meaningful for a number of reasons, and more interestingly, as will be the subject of this discussion, the Straw Hat seems to become more and more mysterious, especially when we consider all the One Piece characters throughout its history that seem to have donned the Straw Hat. But before we delve into the super deep and meaningful lore of hats, please, let me remind you of the deep and meaningful lore of the subscribe button. Like the Straw Hat, it may at first seem insignificant, but its importance is actually multiple and varied. Most importantly, making sure that you're subscribed will mean that you get notified of the regular One Piece discussions that are provided on this channel, and also it makes me feel very warm and nice and fuzzy, which I'm sure is the feeling that Luffy experienced when he first received the Straw Hat. So please, do subscribe and we shall carry on with our discussion. Since Chapter 1, the real significance behind the Straw Hat was the fact that it was given to Luffy by Shanks. It was a symbol of friendship between the pirate and the soon to be pirate, as well as containing the promise that Luffy would one day surpass Shanks and become the pirate king, and so we knew from the very first chapter how much this hat meant for Luffy, and in fact one of the earliest arcs in the series, Orange Town, which was centred around the theme of treasure and what treasure means for different people, it was established in that arc that for Luffy, his Straw Hat was his treasure. And so since the very beginning, the hat has been used as a very important and meaningful element or symbol throughout the series. At times used to represent Luffy's trust in his friends, his determination, or the promises that he makes to others. But then surprisingly in Chapter 603, it was revealed that the Straw Hat once previously belonged to Goldie Roger. And so from this, we could infer what Shanks meant when he said that the hat was very special to him, because obviously it was a keepsake from his former beloved captain. And so from this, the Straw Hat became representative of another very important theme, the idea of inherited will. And on that note of inherited will, a very intriguing question pops up for me. How did Roger obtain the Straw Hat? You know, where did he get it from or from whom? And I suppose this only becomes a bigger question because of another revelation that we received much later in the series, all the way in Chapter 906, which was the fact that the Straw Hat that has been passed down from Roger to Luffy is not the only existence of that Straw Hat in the world of One Piece. Because obviously we now know that a giant replica exists and is preserved in the freezing chamber within Marijouar. And with this information, the source and origins of Roger's Straw Hat becomes a source of real fascination and intrigue for me. Because before the knowledge of the existence of the Giant Straw Hat, it was quite simple to understand and interpret Luffy's Straw Hat as the symbol of inherited will and friendship and promises and so on. You know, it was a quite seemingly insignificant artifact that was once previously owned by Roger and something that only began to adopt greater and deeper meaning as it became passed down between generations. But then with the revelation of the Giant Straw Hat at Marijouar, the Straw Hat now takes on new meanings or at least poses new mysteries. The fact that it was introduced to us alongside Imu, a previously unknown character who also happened to be carrying a bunch of bounty posters of some significant individuals including Luffy, and the fact that Imu's also been portrayed to us as an extremely influential individual in the series, most likely to be the real head of the world government, there has been a lot of speculations as to what all of this means. But the idea that is most commonly thought or accepted is that the Giant Straw Hat at Marijouar probably belonged to Joy Boy centuries ago and that's the reason why it's been kept and preserved carefully in that freezing room. And the developments that we've witnessed recently such as the fact that Luffy has been now recognized as Joy Boy and has also unlocked powers that allows him to gigantify himself and also the fact that the gigantic elephant Zunisha was a member of Joy Boy's crew, these are all taken to be hints or bits of evidence that supports the theory that the Giant Hat belonged to the previous presumably giant Joy Boy. And on one hand, all this does is further cement the idea and the theme of inherited will. Luffy has not only inherited the will of the former pirate king but his inheritance of Joy Boy's will is further symbolized through the shared Straw Hat. But then also, ever since the reveal of the Giant Straw Hat, I've been wondering what this means for Roger. And you could say that the theme of inherited will obviously applies to more individuals than just Luffy. The fact that Goldie Roger also inherited the will of Joy Boy isn't that hard to see. You know, he is another member of the Declan after all and ultimately he was the one to reach Laugh Tale and find the One Piece. In fact, the only character in the series who is known to have done so. And it is also suggested that the reason why Roger couldn't be the next reification of Joy Boy himself was simply because he was too early. So again, on one hand, the fact that Roger somehow got a hold of the Straw Hat makes sense to the extent that it symbolizes this inherited will. But the question still remains. If Joy Boy's original hat is supposedly the one that has been preserved at Marijua, how did Roger get a hold of his? And I suppose this relates to another question that I've also always been curious about. How and why did Roger become a pirate? Going back to chapter 603, where we see Roger invite Rayleigh to join his crew, the words he uses are let's turn the world upside down. Which I can't help but feel are very specific words that implies Roger's intentions to change the world. Sure, he might have innocently meant that he intended to shock the world by becoming a great pirate, but it is worth noting that his dialogue is awfully similar to other words or phrases that have been used throughout the series. You know, such as the Declan being known to turn the world upside down or cause a great storm, or phrases that have been used in direct reference to Luffy in bringing about a new dawn or bringing about a new era. So this line had always made me feel that Roger may already have had a hint about all the secrets and the mysteries and the deep lore that is to be uncovered in the world. Although in saying that it did seem like in Odin's flashback that Roger was just interested in the great treasures that were said to be hidden on the final island. A working speculation of mine is that Roger actually formed his crew after the God Valley incident and became interested in uncovering the true treasures of the world after encountering Rocks the Zabeck. We know that Zabeck had some knowledge of the world's secrets and I have discussed in the past that he may not be the evil guy that the world government paints him out to be. And given Rayleigh's dialogue at Tsar Bodhi when he said that the truth of the world and the secrets and finding the one piece may be interpreted differently by different people, I've long wondered whether Rocks uncovered the world's secrets or came very close to and this let him down a very dark path. And maybe he even hinted at a part of this to Roger at God Valley and this is what sparked Roger's journey. You know, maybe this is even where Roger first encountered his straw hat. Now obviously this remains very loose speculation because it's not even clear whether this fits the timeline or not. I mean, we know that the God Valley incident occurred 38 years ago but we don't know when Roger formed his crew. It seems to be widely presumed that the Roger Pirates were present at God Valley. And I mean, understandably so, it's hard to imagine that just Roger and Garp alone would have been enough to take on Rocks and his crew but we really just don't know for sure at this point. And in any case, I suppose the straw hat could just symbolize inherited will and not mean anything particular for Roger from his perspective. It could be similar to how Luffy consumed his double fruit because although in reality there were a lot of things at play for Luffy and from his perspective, he was hungry and there was a fruit, so he ate it. And in Roger's case, he may have just found a hat that he liked the look of, not realizing its full significance or the things that it symbolized or even how the hat made its way to Roger. But that explanation still doesn't negate the curious existence of the two almost identical straw hats in the One Piece world. I mean, for one, it raises the question as to whether there were other individuals who also donned the straw hat as similarly, you know, would-be, could-be joy boys who were simply too early as well as raising questions as to its possible connections to other hats that have also been made of straw that we've seen in the series. I mean, the kaza hat that was made by Ace and given to Oz Junior, that seems to be now fully explained apart from the friendship that it represented between the two white-bid pirates. We now know how it also represents Ace's friendship to Tama. But then hats and giants seems to be almost the recurring motif throughout the series. Because I've also always wondered about the hat that the Yeti Kool Brothers wore. Because those hats to me always seemed awfully similar to the straw hat, although it wasn't very clear because obviously we never got a very clear look at the Yeti Kool Brothers. So maybe they weren't straw hats or anything similar to straw hats, but also maybe they were. Which then again raises the question as to whether there are really multiple straw hats in the series. I mean, for example, are they just another symbol for the D-Clan? Especially when you look at the shape when you put it sideways? But then you'd have to wonder why has it only become an important symbol and something that's recognized with Luffy? Or is it just another artifact that the world government has expunged from history? And I suppose at this point we're just gonna have to wait to find out the answer. But it really speaks to Oda's storytelling that something as seemingly benign as a straw hat has become a source for such intrigue and mystery in the world of One Piece. But anyways, those are just some of the thoughts and speculations and questions that I've had in my mind. I'd love to hear what you guys think so let me know by leaving a comment below. Don't forget to like and share the video. Please do subscribe if you'd like more One Piece discussions. You can also join our Joyfleet Discord server or even become a patron member. And I wanna thank all our patrons for help supporting the channel. This is Joygirl and I'll see you again soon.


Another special product is the product of a sum and a difference. If we expand a plus b times a minus b, we find and these two mixed terms, a, b, and minus a, b, will cancel each other out. And so we'll end up with a squared minus b squared. So the thing to notice is that in our expanded form, both of the terms are squares and they're subtracted, and there is no other terms. And so that we say that we have a difference of squares. For example, let's try to factor for x squared minus y squared. And so we notice our first term for x squared is a square of 2x. And our second term, y squared, well, that's the square of y. And they are subtracted. So we do have a difference of squares and that will factor as the sum and difference of the square roots 2x and y. So this will factor as 2x plus y times 2x minus y. Or we might take 25x squared minus 16. And so we see that we have two perfect squares and they're subtracted. So this will factor as the product of the sum of the square roots, 5x plus 4, times the difference of the square roots, 5x minus 4. Or we could have something like x squared plus 4. And so we have two perfect squares and they're subtracted. So we have a difference of squares. Wait, no, that's a plus. They're not subtracted. So this is not a difference of squares. Well, that's OK. This must be the other thing. So we notice that x squared is a square, 4 is a square, and that middle term, well, it's a 0x. And so it's 2 times the product of the square roots. And so this is the square of a binomial. Oh, wait, that's not true either. Again, only right equals if you're willing to commit to saying the left-hand side and the right-hand side are the same thing. And so we do not have the square of a binomial. And what this means is we need to use trial and error factorization. Now, since we want our constant terms to multiply to 4, the only numbers that multiply to 4 are, and so the only hopes for factorization are either that x squared plus 4 is x plus 1 times x plus 4. So we'll check it out. Nope. Or maybe x squared plus 4 is x plus 2 times x plus 2. So we'll check it out. And no. And since these were the only possible factors, this means that no factorization is possible.


Brother Michael has apparently been a bad boy and is being accused by three of his parishioner families of molesting their young boys. Brother Michael is a senior priest with a large congregation and he is serving the rest of them in exemplary manner. Brother Michael as a congregational administrative manager is called in by the bishop as this has become a matter beyond the parish leaders control. Michael is warned that there will be consequences if he engages in this unacceptable behavior and he is reassigned to another congregation. Unless there is a criminal complaint filed from outside the corporate religious institution there are unlikely to be any serious actions taken that might injure Brother Michael. This examples a corporation's administrative leadership. It is not focused on serving the congregation but on running the corporate entity to serve leader established purposes. Government leadership is even more isolated from the common citizens. The congressman who misrepresents his people voting for taxes that support only people in other states will pretty much ignore the complaints of citizens who are being violated in their reason for voting him into office. If anything the act is justified by noting how cleverly he used it to get votes for some other bill that might also not have been representative. This is the nature of aristocracy that whatever the leader does is for the good of the people independent of whether they get any good out of it. There is no struggle between light and dark. When the light comes the darkness is no more. We the people should never struggle against our own government. When we the people find our voice through our agreement it will also be the voice of those who lead in our name and government leadership will implement what draws people together. Whenever and wherever we find our agreement we are truly the only party in interest. And so we have owner authority and authority that has created the United States and has empowered government to serve us. We the people are the true aristocracy, the source of all U.S. authority. We are the public that has hired leaders to represent us. The challenge we face is more one of finding voice than applying management to government. The challenge is providing those who work for us with assignments they need to properly serve our corporate interests. Our central purpose is already documented in our constitutional agreement and our purpose is exercised through mandating our assignments to those who would act in our name. The Constitution is where we start because it is our documented agreement and is our assignment to those who get hired to operate our government under its authority. National government is a family business and we the people are the family that takes care of its own when we receive the benefits of owning this national business. We just hire people to operate for us but it is our purpose that it is to serve. There is no government purpose set by the people who run the government in our name. We have a leadership that has gone rogue with what we entrusted to them. They seem determined to seize and sell our silver acting like they are the in fact owners. Our leaders have been doing this for so long they really believe that they are the ones in charge. That is the general challenge we face as citizens. We have hired people to operate our government for us but they are convinced that it is our job to serve whatever purpose they present as proper governance of the nation. Our immediate challenge is that we cannot come together as we the people to operate this business. We just do not have that level of agreement. What we do have is executive administrative authority. We can apply this to set executive management in place and apply the general tools of management to reset our representatives to being our agents in fact instead of just in name. We can start wherever agreed to hold our agents personally accountable for any misrepresentation of our stated purposes. We know how to perform executive management. It starts with what each public leader must deliver to us to be a success in filling a public office. To do this right, we have to define a product or result that each must deliver. We must arrange to receive it as witness to the fulfillment of office. If things start to go wrong and the leader comes to us for support, we must be willing to step in and set things back on track for our leaders. We are, after all, the only party in interest and the ultimate owner of all that is in the United States. If our hired managers are not doing their performance management, it is for us to assign it to them based on the results we are to receive. If needed, we can hire others to monitor their management on our behalf. This might be through a representative citizen body such as a grand jury. And if the law would not support this, then we assign changing the law. We own that too. When we are agreed, we are the ones who own government. And that should only exist to serve the people. If the government is not serving we the people, it serves nobody. So what will get raised in opposition?  With that, you have the purpose of fixing the educational systems so that we are no longer the ignorant people. This just defines the purpose to be served as what we the people will value instead of what some aristocratic leaders think is best. It has been in the interest of non-representative leaders to maintain an educational system that leaves people isolated and in competition with each other. Empowerment courses of study such as U.S. law and government for teens have been largely rejected as not fitting in with what government wants to support. Who in their right mind would support a public education system conducted in languages that most citizens cannot understand? What sort of people would promote a fractured public where citizens cannot communicate effectively with each other? Who is it who promotes the lack of communication skills as some sort of public service? Will others argue that the common crowd would do all sorts of crazy and harmful things? Just try to get 80% of the people to agree on crazy and harmful things and that argument fails. It is hard enough to get agreement on those things that are beneficial to everyone. What about preserving the environment, the world? These are things that only government can do for people. The answer is the carpenter who crates up his baby crib to protect it from harm, giving his own children somewhere else to sleep so that the children of following generations can enjoy the crib too. Yes, that is what we're talking about today, creating up the environment for the benefit of citizens not yet born. The reasonable presumption is that these same leaders would not let our children use it either. The answer is that we do not hire people to deny us. We hire them to do things for us. If they are doing things for the environment at our expense, they should be treated as agents who refuse to serve the people who pay them. Our challenge is knowing enough about general management that we the people can come together and direct our government to the purposes for which we elect representatives, which is to represent us. We don't hire government parents to rule over us or to see to our needs as they think is best. We hire people to serve. To do this, we must find those results that we so value as a people that we can agree to assign responsibility for result upon our leaders. That is what we will do. That is what we will need to mandate if we are to establish owner management over our government. Will our leaders support this? The answer is not simple but is obvious. Our leaders are also people, not some class of divinely blessed parental authorities. Our leaders will share in our corporate sense of value, even if it is not their own choice. If they are in that small minority, they will understand this the same way other small minorities understand it. Where less than one in five supports their understanding, they will go along with the supermajority, for that is human. Again, the challenge is finding those things in which we have such a remarkable agreement. I might suggest that agreement is likely in demand that congressmen personally answer to their constituents for any acts misrepresenting the public that elects them. Any congressman who takes action in defiance of representation should be subject to recall from their congressional seats and replacement with someone who is willing to serve. For one application, we might use a grand jury finding by an appropriate supermajority of jurors in agreement that proposes their removal. It would then be up to the appropriate lower level government to step in and appoint a successor as if the office had been otherwise vacated. Will congressmen support this? It is a matter of how much they want to stay employed. If 80% of his public support in a congressman's area supports removal, which has good possibility if the jury supports it, other congressmen are unlikely to object. That would encourage their personal removal for cause. Can there be citizen agreement that no legislation be passed that expends public funds unless there be a productive result to be delivered back to Congress? That is called an assignment that the law expends public resources also serves us as assignment for the ones who are resourced for action. Again, this directive has a good chance for finding the level of agreement that will make it public mandate. What about a mandate that Congress cannot expend dollars from any voting district without the approval of the House representative and one of the senators representing those citizens except where it is supported by two-thirds vote of both House and Senate? If this becomes a mandate, then each House member is empowered to represent his or her constituents directly, no more corporate sovereignty overruling the people's representatives. Note that this is what we addressed earlier as an improvement, cutting wasteful spending on bills that do not serve the people. Again, there is good potential to address waste in terms of demands put upon citizens to serve their government. As we addressed it in discussion on real property, every demand that is placed on citizens to own and transfer ownership of their property can be eliminated by having the county governments serve the people instead of requiring citizen actions. It would have county employees meeting their own regulatory requirements instead of requiring the people to meet governmental requirements. Can this get 80% county and state level agreement among the people that their government follow its own rules and service its citizens? The alternative question is who would object? We can be sure that it is mostly the real estate brokers and lawyers and title insurance professionals who would no longer be hired by the people buying and selling their own property. To that we would add a percentage of the people who would rather not support a random number. Yes, agreement is possible here with a net reduction in the resources demanded of property owners. The cost increased in recording changes in ownership is likely to be minor, but for significant decrease in the cost of experts to support those who buy and sell property. Establishing citizen management over government is generally a value to we the people. Agreement is possible to set exception management in place so that any citizen is able to assure that the elements of government are serving we the people. This includes strengthening the assignment of duties and responsibilities set on public employees. It is assignment to serve the people who elect them. It includes arranging for our representatives to function as performance managers over what they assign through legislation. It includes arranging management feedback of information that supports our exception management effort. Our general purpose in this is to assure that our government which acts in our name and with our authority using our resources delivers governmental services to meet our needs and wants. Our twin challenges will be to come to agreement among ourselves on what is needed and to keep from the temptation of revolution tearing up everything instead of just cutting away the waste. When our leadership is no longer able to wastefully spend then we can see to reduction in the burden that our government would put upon us to support its spending and that is a good thing.


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