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Save the Food Pyramid by Cutting it by the Limbs
Yes, that’s right. What you thought was healthy wheat and whole grain does not turn out to be so healthy after all. Bread, pasta, mozzarella sticks, pretzels, bagels, etc… As a matter of fact, you are probably better off drinking a can of Pepsi. This can sound absurd at first, since most of the printed text books teach you otherwise; that wheat products should form the foundation of our diets.
The bread that Jesus from the Bible shared and the bread we consume today are totally different. The wheat crops grown in the last 50 years are a result of genetic manipulation and hybridization. This has brought upon the creation of a super starch called amylopectin A. This starch is present in normal bread, whole wheat bread, whole grain bread, high fiber bread, you name it. Two slices of whole wheat bread now raise your blood sugar level by more than two tablespoons of sugar. The health claims written on these products are as misleading as the Fox News news anchors.
What you need to know about blood sugar levels is that starches cause it to spike, some more than others. When blood sugar levels rise, the body releases insulin from the pancreas. Insulin is a hormone that tells the body to start to store the dietary sugars into its fat stores, and does not allow for an easy way for you to burn that fat while insulin levels are up.
Here is an easy way to remember the aforementioned:
YOU EAT SUGARY OR STARCHY FOOD → BLOOD SUGAR LEVELS UP → INSULIN UP → FAT STORAGE
Of course, this does not mean that you should completely remove starch and carbohydrates from your diet. Carbohydrates are very important for bodily functions, especially for fueling your cells. But certain carbohydrates do more harm than good.
Now that we covered the super starch amylopectin A, you should also know that current wheat is also made up of super gluten. There is nothing super about it though, except that it makes you super sick and fat. Gluten is a protein that stops the bread from falling apart and gives it a sticky texture. The modern genetically modified wheat contains twice as many chromosomes and produces harmful gluten that triggers obesity, body inflammation, as well as Celiac disease, which now affects at least 21 million Americans.
On a happier note, I am sure there are many people like me who just cannot quit on bread, crackers that go well with cheese and wine, etc… You do not have to quit these. There is a vast number of alternatives to wheat products such as rice and buckwheat. You can make bread and crackers out of rice flour. There is also quinoa flour and oat flour. Most of these alternatives are gluten free, and none of them contain the super starch that makes your blood sugar levels sky rocket.
So instead of cutting any limbs, let’s work towards defining a more accurate food pyramid.
Suggested Reading: Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health
Sources:
Huffington Post
The Atlantic
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You and Your Internet on Pornography
Next time you are watching pornography, think of this image. http://www.ijbs.com As our website was recently spammed with internet pornography, I feel that now is as good a time as any to let you in on a little secret: Porn behaves the same way as a drug. Perhaps you already know this. Now, I’m not here to say that drugs are bad and in extension that pornography is bad. Moushumi Ghose encourages readers to look at porn with an open and intelligent mind. I encourage you to investigate your sexuality to whatever end you please.
I will plug this though: the use of both pornography and drugs is probably best done in moderation and, in the case of pornography, it can and often will be degrading to both women and men alike. That being said, lets look at some cold hard facts.
It’s a look of ecstasy, not depravity. patrickmadrid.blogspot.com The internet is full of information. All types. Ask any question and you’re likely to get an answer. If you don’t find an answer the great compass search engines will guide you along your quest. If your quest is pornography you’re in luck as the great world wide web contains so much pornography that you may die of exhaustion… enjoying it. In this article from ExtremeTech.com, Sebastian Anthony writes:
While it obviously varies from site to site, most adult sites will probably store in the region of 50 to 200 terabytes of porn. This is quite a lot for a website (only something like Google, Facebook, Blogger, or YouTube would store more data)
That is a lot of pornography. Think about how much media you could store in just ONE terabyte. How much pornography is stored in the collective computers of everybody reading this post? 200 terabytes really isn’t all that surprising considering how long both the internet and the pornography, which predates it, have been around. With all the various pornography sites it boggles my mind thinking about the amount of information transferred to and from viewers’ computer screens.
At peak time, Xvideos might burst to 1,000Gbps (1Tbps) or more. To put this into perspective, there’s only about 15Tbps of connectivity between London and New York.
buuhwaaah?!?
…the internet only handles around half an exabyte of traffic every day, which equates to around 50Tbps — in other words, a single porn site accounts for almost 2% of the internet’s total traffic. There are dozens of porn sites on the scale of YouPorn, and hundreds that are the size of ExtremeTech or your favorite news site. It’s probably not unrealistic to say that porn makes up 30% of the total data transferred across the internet.
Pornography equates to over-stimulation of the brain. So not only is there a lot of pornography to choose from, but it is actively being chosen and at an incredible rate. More people around the world are watching every day. Teens in high school, lawyers in offices, photographers on location, and pretty much everybody with a computer has had a visual taste of pornography. How does the viewing of a beautiful sexual act transform into a hindrance? What makes viewing pornography an addiction?
The series, which inspired this post, entitled Your Brain on Porn was put together by Gary Wilson and Marnia Robinson to explain just that. They do a wonderful job of breaking down the causes and effects of pornography as an addiction.
Here’s what’s going on with the animals: It’s called the Coolidge Effect. It starts out with declining interest in the present sexual partner. Then, renewed vigor for a novel sexual partner. This is present in all mammals, and it also occurs in females. Again, it improves genetic variety of offspring.
The Coolidge effect extrapolates to cases where lab rats have died of exhaustion because of the reintroduction of novel partners. pornography allows for the same amount of “New partners” because, as I mentioned above, there are so many video partners to choose from. It turns out that the limbic system of the brain plays a major role in the Coolidge effect.
At its most basic, our limbic system is all about “avoiding pain” and “repeating pleasure.” You see, survival depends upon the avoidance of pain—both physical and emotional. And upon the repetition of pleasure. “Hot stove bad; ice cream good; Mommy good; snake bad; porn good.” You get the idea.
So the limbic system defines our fundamental right and wrong. This is not to be confused with morality because the limbic system is instinctual and primitive where as morality is (hopefully) reasoned and rationalized.
Chemicals turn on and off certain parts of the brain. The main chemical, or neurotransmitter, that turns on the reward circuit is dopamine. The reward circuit is the engine, and dopamine is the gas.
It all comes down to…
… dopamine rising in your reward circuitry can override what’s called satiety, completeness or fullness—regardless of what your rational brain thinks about overeating, or even watching [pornography].
so therefore:
Addictions are basically chasing after dopamine. So addiction equates with wanting more, but liking it less.
So in reality we aren’t really addicting to anything but dopamine. In surreality, it is the great goose that we’ve all been chasing after. Novelty catches these geese of satisfaction but slows us down as well. The more geese we catch the faster we have to run to obtain that golden egg which makes less tasty golden omelets every time. That first omelet was delicious though, I think the next one will be better.
If you do suffer from pornography addiction or any other type of addiction please take care of yourself and seek help. The world is your clam and there are many people out there who care enough to lend you a hand.
Sources:
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A New Tune for Grasshoppers
The days are long gone when the noise of crickets filled the city nights. I’m sure being overtaken by the sound of traffic was depressing for many animals, but they’re not all just laying down and dying. Some city grasshoppers have started changing their tune. They’re not so depressed anymore, or so quiet.
Grasshoppers in urban areas are changing the tune of their courtship songs so as to be heard over the sound of traffic.
A research team from the University of Bielefeld Germany have discovered some grasshoppers have started to change the frequency of their song to be heard over the roar of vehicles. This evolutionary change in grasshoppers could is very exciting to see. I can only imagine what the future will bring…
Sources:http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/
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A Tick is Turning People into Vegetarians for Life
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Clouds of Western Intervention Loom Over Syria
Bashar al-Assad (Source) The growing discord in Syria once again threatens to entangle the American military in another experiment in nation-building.
Keeping with the traditions (and ignoring the consequences) of the Military-Industrial Complex, the United States is currently engaged in seemingly unending military operations in over a half-dozen nations. These of course include Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, but the President has also acknowledged military actions in Yemen, Somalia, and also the African countries of Uganda, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic.
The next big question is if the West is going to intervene and assist rebels in overthrowing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, as the US and Great Britain helped overthrow Muamarr Gaddafi in Libya in 2011.
The violence in Syria, which the BBC estimates has claimed the lives of 60,000 since March of 2011, has been widely decried in the West. In early December Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described the predicted Syrian use of chemical weapons as being a “red line” in the sand, that once crossed would be grounds for UN/US intervention. Top generals in Britain have also signaled the possibility of providing military assistance to the Syrian rebels.
In his first public address since June, Assad recently addressed his nation’s woes by stating:
There are those who seek to partition Syria and weaken it. But Syria is stronger… and will remain sovereign… and this is what upsets the West.
From Assad’s defiant remarks to the predictable responses of Clinton, Obama and the UN alike, the whole situation seems stupidly predictable: The West is poised to once again militarily intervene in the affairs of another Middle Eastern nation.
Much like Mugatu, I feel like I’ve been taking Crazy Pills watching this slow entrenchment into a state of permanent war. How is it possible that the US, helmed by equally bloodlust-y Democrats and Republicans, remains utterly incapable of learning from the abundant mistakes of our past?
It’s not as if one has to Indiana Jones these lessons of history from some hidden crypt. The US/UK led coup in Iran in 1953, which re-established the Shah to power, did not prevent the violence and reactionary backlash in that nation, but rather directly contributed to it. The Vietnam War was a prolonged, hellishly painful, and ultimately pointless disaster. The overthrow of the Taliban and installment of President Karzai in Afghanistan has not yielded the stable government we wished to create. Iraq remains a mess nearly a decade after our intervention. The US has sent military forces to central Africa to stabilize threats of terror in that continent, which will likely be just as fruitless.
Despite these recent foreign policy failures, governments still seem prepared and willing to intervene in Syria.
Wait, why shouldn’t the US intervene? It is, by all accounts, a fairly frightful place to call home by Western standards. Tens of thousands of people have died in the last two years alone. The economy is largely nationalized. The Assad regime is known to detain, torture and disappear political dissidents. Shouldn’t I, as a freedom-lovin’ individualist want to liberate the Syrians from their oppressive government?
I certainly want them to become a free people and I am cheering for the rebels to oust Assad and hopefully create a more liberal and open state. I am, however, very wary of the West’s ability to facilitate such a transition.
The relative failure of Iraq and Afghanistan’s new governments stem from the same cause: The nations we interfered with lack the basic institutions that allow our governments to function with at least a modicum of respectability. The ideas of a secular state, governmental transparency and the rule of law took thousands of years to gestate and mature into even semi-workable facsimiles in the West. To think that we can simply plant these republican seeds and expect them to flourish in nations that don’t have the history necessary to properly nourish them is not only laughable, but such expeditions have proven to be exceptionally dangerous and detrimental to cause of long-term liberty.
The United States and the West in general need to simply stop meddling in the affairs of other nations. The cries for intervention in Syria are not even consistent with situations in the rest of the world. If the US were truly principled in this matter, we would have already invaded North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela and even China for committing crimes against free society and democracy. We haven’t–and we won’t–because the State Department doesn’t see a payday in those nations that it apparently sees in Syria.
The United States needs to return to the Monroe Doctrine of non-intervention. We need to remain neutral, not because we tacitly support the tyranny in despotic states, but rather because we have learned that interfering actually worsens and prolongs the pain felt in such failing states.
I am not at all naïve enough to believe that such a reversal in US foreign policy is even possible at this stage. Tragically, the American Empire will continue to force its sticky, brass-knuckled fingers into the cookie jars of nations around the world, just like every other empire the world has ever seen. Though not for a long time yet, nations will eventually break and sever these fingers, chipping away our international influence.
The best way for the West to export its brand of freedom and democracy is through non-violence and voluntary free trade. If the US wishes to maintain its global position of military, political and economic dominance, we need to once again embrace liberty and withdraw our imperial intrusions from the rest of the world.
Sources:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/12/14/letter-president-war-powers-resolution
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A Tick is Turning People into Vegetarians for Life
People all over the United States are unwillingly becoming life-long vegetarians due to a meat allergy spreading around the country. The allergy, called alpha-gal, forces people to give up beef, lamb, and pork in hopes of avoiding some pretty harsh suffering. What’s the cause of the involuntary transformation? A copious amount of research is pointing the finger at the species of tick pictured above, the lonestar tick.
The meat allergy causes victims to have a severe anaphylactic reaction roughly 4 hours after eating meat. The reaction involves hives, elevated blood pressure, and even potentially fatal breathing problems.
Although alpha-gal, is most prominent in the southeastern region of the United States where the lone star tick thrives, reports of the allergy are also springing up in regions like Hawaii where the lone star tick doesn’t even exist. It could be that residents of Hawaii and other regions where the tick does not rear its meat-hating head had been bitten by one of the ticks while traveling to tick infested regions.
Because the reaction takes 4-6 hours to develop, many people do not realize that it is meat that is causing their body to hate itself.
Stanley Fineman, an allergist and president of American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) explains that:
It takes 4 to 6 hours to see a reaction, so many people don’t correlate that to their meat, or hamburger or something. It’s easy to miss.
Maybe these ticks can cure America’s obesity problem? http://www.bu.edu/ Allergy researcher Thomas Platts-Mills of the University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville began looking into this premise for a Twilight Zone episode after being bitten by a tick himself and developing the allergy. He and his team were able to confirm in 2011 that it is in fact the lone star tick that is causing the alpha-gal allergy.
I hate to downplay the seriousness of this allergy, but is this really that bad of a situation? Eating less or no meat would not only solve many environmental and energy problems, but numerous health problems as well. As I read through the comments of people who have been afflicted by this allergy there seems to be a near unanimous agreement that all of their lives became better and their bodies became healthier due to dropping red meat from their diet. An allergy that makes you healthy and improves your life; doesn’t sound so bad to me.
Sources:
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/11/ticked-off-about-a-growing-aller.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3324851/pdf/nihms363903.pdf
https://insects.tamu.edu/fieldguide/cimg370.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/13/benefits-of-vegetarianism_n_112431.html
http://earth911.com/news/2012/04/09/how-vegan-and-vegetarian-diets-help-the-environment/
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StickNFind: Never Lose Anything Again
I lose everything. Keys, wallet, even a tent once. How many times have people said “I wish there was some easy way I could locate all the things I lose!” Many products have been released, but they’ve always been loud, bulky, or downright useless. Yearn for a more organized future no more my forgetful friends. The future is here, and it is tiny, optionally silent, and works on bluetooth technology.
The answer to no more lost possessions is StickNFind, an inexpensive solution for tagging and locating electronics, keys, pets, and anything else you frequently lose track of (tents, in my case). A single small, adhesive, bluetooth enabled disk costs $25 and can be attached to any flat surface or key chain. The device runs on a small, replaceable, CR2016 watch battery that is guaranteed to last at least a year.
The device also contains a free phone app that you can use to find your lost treasures through a radar-like interface. As of now, the 100-foot range radar only displays distance, but an update, which is planned to come out before StickNFind is released, will add direction, allowing you to play a fun game of hot and cold while you search for your lost kitten.
The app includes other useful features as well, including alerts that tell you when the StickNFind is out of range. You can also set the device to beep if you leave it behind, meaning that you’ll never forget your precious smart phone at home again.
Developers will be able to create their own apps for the StickNFind as well, allowing them to modify the technology to fit their needs. StickNFind is currently available for pre-order and will be available for retail purchase in March.
As long as I can program the StickNFind’s alert to sound like a distressed R2D2, I’m in.
Sources:
http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/02/sticknfind-bluetooth-stickers-hands-on/
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AIG Considers Suing America for More Money
news.yahoo.com We all remember what a disaster the 2008 economic crash was. We also remember not wanting to give any of our hard earned money to the institutions that sparked the collapse- but the boys in charge decided to give our money away regardless. This bail out money, $125 billion to be exact, helped to keep AIG afloat and out of bankruptcy. How do they thank us? By suing the American people for even more money!
That’s right, AIG’s directors are currently discussing whether they will get in on a collective corporate lawsuit that will sue you and me for “short changing their stock holders.” The company goes bankrupt, we hand them a fat stack of money we don’t really have, and they have the gall to turn around and complain that $125 billion wasn’t enough. $125 billion! Could a corporation possibly insult us anymore than AIG has?
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who was the head of the government’s oversight panel for the$700-billion bailout fund reminds us that:
AIG’s reckless bets nearly crashed our entire economy.
According to AIG, they have a responsibility to their stockholders, and it would be in their stockholder’s best interest to go ahead with the lawsuit. AIG, What about the people who kept you out of bankruptcy, who are subsequently the same people whose economy you turned upside down while taking over a billion dollars in bonuses after the fact.
This is like a homeless man suing a person who has just given him everything they own because he wears a shoe size smaller than the shoes he was given.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007%E2%80%932008
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/08/business/la-fi-aig-lawsuit-20130109
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Amsterdam’s Interesting Housing Solution
vectroave.com Amsterdam has implemented an amazing green architecture technique to deal with limited space and lower income needs: Retired shipping containers. These small houses can even be used for temporary disaster relief housing. Not only that but, According to figures from SG BLOCKS, a New York-based shipping container builder,
fitting a container for housing use takes only one-twentieth the amount of energy of reprocessing the same amount of steel—and results in an additional hundred years of lifetime.
So it’s more green than recycling the shipping containers, but it also costs less than constructing new housing.
Companies that build modular buildings from shipping containers claim savings of 20 to even 50 percent of traditional construction costs.
Not to mention they’re practically real life legos for people to live in. BAM!
Sources:
http://www.sgblocks.com/the-sg-blocks-advantage/better-for-the-environment/
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NASA’s Planned Mission to an Asteroid
mashable.com NASA has done it again. Or will do. Maybe.
To their credit the National Aeronautics and Space Administration sports a hefty 54 year resume of boring old activities such as: landing on the moon (or not?), dramatically influencing technology, launching numerous manned and unmanned masses of flame propelled metal into space, and consistently planning missions that only psychedelic drug users and post doctoral rocket scientists could dream up. This time it appears that NASA has just about outdone themselves ( ( (IN SPACE) ) ).
THE MISSION:
Using a cleverly named “Space Exploration Vehicle“, astronauts will dock with a near earth asteroid. Once attached, (then called) astroidnauts will conduct a variety of experiments. Seth Borenstein from the Huffington Post writes:
NASA is thinking about jetpacks, tethers, bungees, nets and spiderwebs to allow explorers to float just above the surface of it while attached to a smaller mini-spaceship.
JET PACKS! Sign me up. Borenstein goes on to say:
It would take half a year to reach an asteroid, based on current possible targets. The deep space propulsion system to fly such a distance isn’t perfected yet. Football-field-sized solar panels would help, meaning the entire mothership complex would be fairly large. It would have to protect the space travelers from killer solar and cosmic ray bursts. And, they would need a crew capsule, maybe two, for traveling between the asteroid complex and Earth.
That’s right science! Start the inventing NOW!
There is even speculation on plans to tow an asteroid into orbit between Earth and the Moon. They’re probably wrong as even NASA failed to comment on such claims but speculation leads to inquiry and inquiry leads to paper work and paper work, as many of you know very well, leads to bypasses and bypasses have to be built.
WHY, IN THE WOR.. er.. SOLAR SYSTEM, IS THIS IMPORTANT?
Studying the asteroid is likely to lead to a greater understanding of the creation of our solar system. Many asteroids are considered to be the last remains of debris from the birth of our dear mother Solaris. Questions such as “Why?” might even be answered.
It’s pretty important to know your neighbors. I’ve had some crazy ones. You know the type, the ones that sound like they’re speaking some form of goat language and have a garage, driveway, and lawn filled with “started-project-debris.” Well The earth’s neighbors are sort of like this too. There hard to follow, hard to find, could and have totally wreaked havoc upon all of earth’s systems, and we don’t know about a lot of them. Dr. David Rabinowitz, of Yale University says that up to 1000 of these neighbors are about a kilometer or larger in diameter. Kinda Scary.
Oh and then there’s all the technology that is inspired by NASA. With every new mission comes a wave of new gizmos and gadgets to make it possible. This feeds our global economy as companies around the world compete for NASA bids.
This mission is considered by some to be a major leg on the space road to mars and in general the preservation of the human race. Humans as a race have a lot of work cut out in order to survive the ever looming explosion of the Sun. Admittedly it is a bit far off. We’ve got around 5 billion years to come to terms with the death of everything we’ve come to love. On the happy side it is likely that the asteroid visit will aid in cultivating further deep space (9) exploration.
NASA plans for this mission to go down in 2025.
Sources:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=101501161
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/23/nasa-mission-astronaut-asteroid_n_907820.html?ir=Green
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2000/neat.html
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Canadian Glow in the Dark Dinosaurs
news.yahoo.com I remember collecting the state quarters that would come out each year when I was younger. I was so excited to find each one. My grandfather and I would always compare our change and try to find the quarters in the best condition. My grandpa always had the shiniest quarters, and always the states I didn’t have yet. I always assumed he was some sort of currency sorcerer commissioned by the Federal Reserve to make my dreams come true, but of course, he just stopped at the bank on his way home from work. Those state quarters were the cat’s pajamas, that is, until I heard about the coin Canada has just released:
GLOW IN THE DARK DINOSAURS!!
First Canada made the logical decision to remove their penny from circulation, and now they’ve released this timeless gem. Exposed to light, the quarter looks like a normal 25 cent piece, or as normal as a quarter featuring a giant prehistoric lizard can appear. An image of Queen Elizabeth is featured on one side, and a Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai, which was discovered in Canada in 1972, is featured on the tails side. In the absence of light, the dinosaur sheds its flesh to reveal its glow-in-the-dark skeleton.
Additionally, the luminescence of the coin is guaranteed by the Canadian mint to never fade. If you’d like to purchase the coin from the mint it costs 30$.
First New Zealand comes out with Hobbit gold coins, and now Canada is rocking glow-in-the-dark dinosaurs. The USA is still stuck with the Sacagawea dollar, which everyone was, and still is, generally confused about.
Does anyone else in the states want to see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle legal tender hit the streets? Not only would it set the soul of America ablaze once more, but people also wouldn’t feel as bad about accidentally dropping money down sewers.
Turtle Power!
Sources:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/canada-says-going-pull-penny-circulation-221558392.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachyrhinosaurus
https://wondergressive.com/2012/10/12/new-zealand-hobbit-coins-are-legal-tender/
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Wonder about your world…
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Mendel’s Ladder delivers an adrenaline-fueled journey set on a dystopian future Earth, brimming with high-stakes action, adventure, and mystery. This epic series opener plunges readers into a world filled with diverse cultures, heart-pounding battles, and characters who will captivate your heart and imagination.
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