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Roman Polanski : Une 3e femme l'accuse d'agression sexuelle sur mineure - Duration: 4:05.Roman Polanski : Une 3e femme l'accuse d'agression sexuelle sur mineure
Le lendemain, jai dit à un(e) ami(e) ce que M. Polanski mavait fait, a-t-elle expliqué en lisant une déclaration.
Mais la raison pour laquelle jai gardé cela pour moi, cest que je ne voulais pas que mon père fasse quelque chose qui aurait pu lenvoyer en prison pour le reste de sa vie, a-t-elle ajouté.
Lavocate Gloria Allred, qui représente Robin, a précisé que lagression avait eu lieu dans le Sud de la Californie, mais que sa cliente ne donnerait pas plus de détails.
Mais quest-ce qui a décidé cette femme à sortir de son silence plus de quarante ans après les faits ? La nouvelle accusatrice du metteur en scène de Rosemarys baby et de Chinatown a expliqué quelle avait été motivée par lattitude de Samantha Geimer, la victime au centre de laffaire de viol sur mineur, qui a enjoint, début juin, les autorités à clore le dossier.
Geimer avait déjà pardonné publiquement à son agresseur mais cest la première fois quelle formulait cette requête. Une demande à laquelle le procureur sest jusquici opposé.
Bien quil y ait prescription sur son cas, la dénommée Robin pourrait être appelée à témoigner lors dun futur procès, a fait valoir Mme Allred, avocate spécialisée dans les affaires dagressions sexuelles qui était aux côtés de lactrice britannique Charlotte Lewis, lorsque cette dernière avait révélé en 2010 que le réalisateur lavait forcée à avoir une relation sexuelle lorsquelle avait 16 ans.
Depuis plus de quarante ans, le cinéaste, qui aura 84 ans vendredi, est accusé davoir drogué Samantha Geimer quand elle avait 13 ans, et de lavoir violée dans la maison de Jack Nicholson à Los Angeles en 1977 pendant que lacteur était en voyage.
À lépoque, Roman Polanski avait reconnu avoir eu des relations sexuelles illégales avec une mineure et, en échange, le juge avait accepté de ne pas retenir dautres chefs dinculpation plus graves, notamment le viol avec fourniture et usage de drogue.
Laccord juridique avait été obtenu avec le consentement de la famille de la jeune victime et de ses avocats. Après 48 jours en détention pour subir un examen psychologique, il avait été libéré pour terminer un tournage.
Daprès des documents déposés par son avocat Harland Braun, Polanski avait obtenu par le juge en charge de laffaire que les sept semaines quil avait déjà passées en détention seraient sa seule peine dincarcération.
Mais en 1978, convaincu que le juge allait revenir sur cette promesse et lenvoyer en prison, pour peut-être des décennies, il avait fui le pays pour la France.
Depuis, le cinéaste qui sest marié à lactrice Emmanuelle Seigner avec qui il a eu deux enfants, a toujours refusé de retourner aux États-Unis sans assurance quil ne serait plus emprisonné.
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Top 10 Terrifying Facts About the Yakuza - Duration: 16:07.The yakuza is
the Japanese mafia and their name essentially means "good for nothing."
The name is believed to be drawn from the lowest hand in the Japanese card game baccara,
which is similar to Blackjack.
In the game, getting the cards ya-ku-sa ("eight-nine-three") is the worst possible hand you can get.
Yakuza can refer to the crime syndicates as a whole, or to an individual gang member,
who are also called gyangu ("gangster").
These are 10 of the most terrifying facts about these notorious gangsters…
10.
Irezumi
One of the most noticeable ways members of the yakuza can stick out are their extensive
tattoos, called irezumi.
Most of the time it covers their entire torso, except for a stripe down the middle of the
chest.
Sometimes, it can even
cover most of their bodies.
The tattoos are designed to be hidden under the clothes, and the stripe down their chest
allows them to open their shirt collar or wear a robe without revealing them.
The tattoo process is expensive, time consuming, and utterly painful.
They aren't done with electric needles; instead, it's performed by hand with a needle
made from steel or bamboo.
The artist dips the needle in some ink and then repeatedly punctures the skin.
The tattoos can sometimes take years to be completed.
There are several reasons why the yakuza embraced irezumi.
First, it's expensive, so it shows that they have money.
Secondly, since it's so painful, it shows the man is tough for sitting through hours
upon hours of the process.
In recent years, the yakuza has moved away from getting tattoos because of public backlash.
The yakuza also generally try to make an effort to blend in.
Also, since the tattoos have gone out of favor, there are not many tattoo artists who can
do the technique.
9.
Huge Membership
It's tough to determine what exactly is the foundation of the yakuza, but some experts
think that their lineage can be traced back to gangs of ronin, which were samurai without
masters.
Others think that they came from a group of grifters and gamblers dating back to Japan's
feudal era.
The yakuza is also not one big group, either.
It's comprised of several gangs called boryokudan, which means "violence groups."
As of early 2017, there were 22 recognized groups, divided into separate clans.
The largest of these groups is Yamaguchi-gumi, who account for about a quarter of all yakuza
members.
Yakuza membership exploded after World War II.
By the early 1960s, there were 184,100 yakuza members, but that number dropped to around
60,000 for several decades.
In the 1990s, they saw a resurgence and there were about 80,000 members until 2011, when
their numbers started to dramatically drop.
That's when the Japanese government enacted some new laws to combat the yakuza by restricting
their revenue.
In late 2016, their numbers were the lowest since the National Police Agency started keeping
records, at about 39,100 members.
However, this low membership number isn't necessarily a good thing.
Jake Adelstein, who is a reporter working in Japan and an expert on the yakuza, told
the South China Morning Press that the drop in numbers is probably only temporary.
In December 2016, Japan legalized gambling and in about five years, casinos are expected
to start opening.
That's about how long it will take former yakuza members to get a clean record.
Adelstein thinks that this will create a lot of opportunities for the yakuza.
They will be able to get "reformed" gang members into the casino, where they will be
able to skim profits or blackmail people who lose big, which will generate huge revenue
streams that will, in turn, allow the yakuza to employ more members.
8.
The Godfather of Godfathers
The most infamous yakuza oyabun (chairman/boss) was Kazuo Taoka, who was the head of the Yamaguchi-gumi.
Taoka was born in a small village on the island of Shikoku.
He was orphaned at a young age and sent to Kobe, where he worked
in shipyards.
In 1929, he started to hang out with members of the Yamaguchi-gumi and became a blood member
in 1936.
During this time, he got the nickname that he'd keep for the rest of his life: Kubo,
which means bear.
He got the nickname because he had a tendency to claw and gouge out his opponents' eyes.
In 1936, Taoka went to jail for slashing a rival gang member to death.
He was released in 1943, and found Yamaguchi-gumi in shambles because of World War II.
After the war, in 1946, Taoka (then 33-years-old) became the leader of Yamaguchi-gumi after
the previous oyabun died from natural causes.
Taoka had an amazing gift for organization and he grew Yamaguchi-gumi to be the most
dominant boryokudan in Japan.
The godfather of godfathers, as Taoka was called, died in July 1981, at the age of 68.
7.
Yubitsume
Yubitsume, which translates to finger-shortening, is the act where a yakuza amputates a piece
of his little finger as a way to atone for a mistake or misdeed.
This act can be done either voluntarily or involuntarily.
Often they volunteer as a way to avoid a larger punishment, like being kicked out or being
killed (possibly by being forced to commit suicide).
It stems from a punishment that was inflicted on gamblers who didn't pay their debts in
feudal Japan.
Besides causing a lot of pain, without their whole pinky, it made it difficult for the
person to handle a sword.
If they couldn't handle a sword, they couldn't defend themselves, and it would make them
more vulnerable.
It was adopted by the yakuza because it might affect them in hand-to-hand combat and while
handling guns, so it would discourage members from doing something wrong.
There was also a benefit to the yakuza if their members are weaker, because they would
need to depend on their boryokudan even more.
There are different accounts of how the ritual is done, but what stays the same is the yakuza
has to do it to himself.
One account of the ritual is that it's done while their oyabun supervises.
There is a cloth laid flat and the offender places his left hand on the cloth, palm up.
Then, using a sharp knife, called a tanto, they cut the pinky at the distal interphalangeal
joint, which is the top knuckle.
Once that is done, they wrap it up and hand it to the oyabun.
Another version, which was pulled from court testimony, made the act sound a lot less ritualistic.
The witness said that the boss wasn't at the amputation and testified: "The actual
procedure is to take… a little silver knife – on a table – and you pull it towards
you and bend over and your body weight will snap your finger off…The finger that is
severed is put in a small bottle with alcohol and your name is written on it and it is sent
to whoever you're repenting to as a sign that you are sorry."
In 1993, a government survey found that 45 percent of yakuza members were missing part
of their little finger and 15 percent had to perform the act more than once.
Yubitsume doesn't happen as often anymore because the yakuza has been trying to blend
into society, and missing pieces of your finger is a good way to stick out.
6.
Tadamasa Goto's Liver
Tadamasa Goto is the founder of the Goto-gumi, which is a large Yamaguchi-gumi affiliated
gang.
When he was in power, he was one of the most dominant and successful yakuza bosses in the
country, which is why he was called "The John Gotti of Japan."
Since Goto was a notorious gangster, he wasn't allowed to enter the United States.
This presented a problem for Goto in 2001 because the 59-year-old gangster needed a
liver transplant.
Liver problems are pretty common among the yakuza because gangsters who run red light
districts aren't exactly known for their clean living.
Also, their tattoos are so dense that it blocks sweat from exiting their body, meaning fewer
toxins leave their body, taking a toll on the liver.
Supposedly, liver damage is a sign of pride among the yakuza.
For example, they will say things like "I drank enough to destroy three livers."
However, due to restrictive organ transplant laws, transplants are hard to get in Japan.
This led to Goto striking a secret deal where he gave the FBI information on the yakuza
and he donated money to the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles in exchange for a liver transplant
for himself and three of his underlings.
The transplant stayed a secret until Jake Adelstein published a story about it in 2008.
UCLA claimed that the men each paid $400,000 in cash for their livers and Goto donated
$100,000.
However, Adelstein uncovered that Goto and one of the other yakuza gangsters each paid
$1 million for their livers.
Also, Goto would have been number 80 on the wait list for a liver, but he managed to get
a transplant in six weeks.
Two other people, including the second person on the wait list, died in area hospitals around
the time that Goto got his transplant.
When the UCLA Medical Center was asked about the transplants on men who were tattooed and
missing pieces of their pinkies, they declined to comment.
After getting the transplant, Goto went back to Japan and he remained the leader of Goto-gumi
until 2008.
In retirement, he joined the Buddhist priesthood and published an autobiography called Habakarinagara
("Pardon Me, But…
"). It was a bestseller and he said his royalties were donated to charity.
5.
The Yakuza are Heavily Involved in Japanese Politics and the Japanese Elite
The yakuza plays an interesting role in Japanese society.
For many years, the people of Japan begrudgingly accepted that the yakuza were part of the
culture, so the yakuza worked out in the open.
They are also long time donors and supporters of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which
is a right wing party that has been in power in Japan since 1955, with the exception of
five years – between 1993 and 1994 and 2009 to 2012.
Every so often, a scandal erupts when it's exposed that a politician received money from
the yakuza or one of their business-fronts.
Many times, it's not enough to ruin a career, and the politician usually doesn't resign.
One of the biggest political scandals happened during one of the few years when the LDP was
not in power.
Instead, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) was in power and they ran on a platform of
cleaning up the government and cracking down on the yakuza.
But then in October 2012, the DPJ appointed a man named Keishu Tanaka as the Minister
of Justice.
It turned out that he was heavily connected to the yakuza and the fact that the head of
their justice system was mobbed-up shocked Japan.
Tanaka resigned a few weeks later.
Besides money, another way that the yakuza help the LDP is by whipping up support in
rural areas.
In these areas, the campaign chiefs are yakuza who are also the head of the agricultural
cooperative, called nokyo, and the nokyo are connected to yakuza-run construction companies.
Many of the rice growers who are part of the nokyo also work construction jobs because
they don't make enough from growing rice.
Obviously, since people in the area are depending on the yakuza to work, the yakuza can be very
influential when it comes to drumming up votes for the LDP… who, again, have been in power
for 57 of the last 62 years.
4.
Human Trafficking
According to the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations, Japan has the fourth
biggest GDP just behind the United States, China, and the European Union.
They are one of the most technologically advanced societies and they have some of the lowest
crime rates in the world.
Their murder rate is only 0.3 per 100,000 people.
Despite how advanced and prosperous the country is, Japan has a horrifying human trafficking
problem.
Since 2001, the U.S. Department of State has released the Trafficking in Persons (TIP)
Report measuring countries on their human trafficking problems and what steps their
governments are taking to combat the problem.
There are four levels: tier 1, tier 2, tier 2 watch list, and tier 3, and then there is
a category for special cases.
Tier 1 countries are the best at handling human trafficking.
This includes countries like the United States, Australia, Canada, and many countries in Europe.
Japan, on the other hand, has never been ranked higher than a tier 2 country and has dipped
to tier 2 watch list in the past.
Tier 2 are "Countries whose governments do not fully meet the Trafficking Victims
Protection Act's minimum standards, but are making significant efforts to meet those
standards."
Other Tier 2 countries include Iraq, and the Northern triangle countries, which are El
Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala.
The Northern Triangle is the most violent area of the world that isn't at war, and
it's on par with Japan in terms of human trafficking.
Much of the human trafficking in Japan is handled by the yakuza.
The yakuza got their start in human trafficking during World War II, when they worked with
the Japanese empire to provide "comfort women" to soldiers.
The women were often from South Korea and other countries that were invaded by Japan
in World War II.
After the war, the yakuza set up brothels, which were frequented by American servicemen.
They also set up sex-tourism destinations in East Asia for Japanese men who were earning
better incomes after the war and could travel abroad inexpensively based on the strength
of the yen.
However, in the 1980s, women's groups started to protest sex tourism, so the yakuza made
a change.
Instead of men traveling to have sex with prostitutes, they simply brought foreign women
to Japan and set up brothels in red light districts.
These brothels are still in business and found throughout Japan.
It should also be noted that sex tourism didn't end, it just changed.
The yakuza now send men out of the country to have sex with children.
As for why Japan hasn't cracked down on the yakuza's human trafficking activities,
it probably doesn't hurt that the government that they financially support and campaign
for has been in near-constant power for the past 60 years.
3.
Host and Hostess Clubs
In Japan, there are bars called hostess and host clubs, where patrons can come and meet
a woman, who is called a hostess, or a man, who is a host, and they have drinks and converse.
However, the host and hostess clubs have a rather sinister side, as they are either owned
by the yakuza or yakuza associated.
According to Jake Adelstein, what happens is that a woman visits a host club to have
a "boyfriend experience" with one of the hosts.
As they drink, the host encourages the woman to keep buying expensive drinks, for which
they get a commission.
Sometimes the women rack up huge bills and when they can't pay, the yakuza may force
them to work off their debt, which can be done through prostitution.
This can even happen to girls under the age of 18, who are blackmailed or forced into
prostitution to pay what they owe.
If forcing women, especially teenagers, into prostitution to pay off a bar debt wasn't
bad enough, the yakuza have a system in place that the women will never work off the debt.
For example, they'll only be able pay off the interest, or they'll be "invited"
to host birthday parties, and then they are charged money to attend the party, which creates
more debt.
Essentially, the yakuza makes these women sex slaves because of a night out where they
spent a bit too much money.
2.
They Are One of the Wealthiest Organized Criminal Syndicates in the World
Besides the sex trade, another major source of income for the yakuza is drugs – especially
methamphetamine.
The yakuza reportedly account for one-third of the multi-billion dollar East Asian meth
trade.
As for how much money the entire yakuza organization makes as a whole, that's tough to say because
there are so many boryokudan, and they are comprised of hundreds of clans.
The last figure was from 1989, and it was estimated that they were making about Y1.3
trillion, which is worth about $10 billion today.
There are more recent estimates about how much revenue the biggest boryokudan, Yamaguchi-gumi,
generates and it's believed to be in the neighborhood of $6.6 billion.
This makes Yamaguchi-gumi one of the richest gangs in the world.
1.
Their Bloodiest War
There have been several yakuza wars over the past several decades, but the bloodiest started
in 1985.
The roots of the war date back to July 23, 1981, when Kazuo Taoka, who you'll remember
from entry #8, died of natural causes.
The person who would have assumed the position as oyabun was Kenichi Yamamoto, who was the
second-in-command.
However, when Taoka died, Yamamoto was in prison.
So the lieutenants decided to wait until he got out of prison, and then he would lead
the gang.
But then Yamamoto died from liver failure in prison on February 4, 1982.
With the two heads of the gang dead, the lieutenants voted on who would take on the leadership
and elected Masahisa Takenaka.
However, like many elections not everyone was happy with the results.
In this case, it was a man named Hiroshi Yamamoto.
Hiroshi Yamamoto broke away from the Yamaguchi-gumi and formed his own group, Ichiwa-kai.
They kickstarted the war by shooting to death Takenaka and two prominent members of the
Yamaguchi-gumi while they were in an elevator.
The war led to more shootings, which are incredibly rare in Japan because of strict gun laws,
and bombings over the next four years.
Things got so bad that Japanese newspapers kept a scorecard of the dead and injured.
The war was eventually won by Yamaguchi-gumi, who had many more soldiers.
By the time the war was over, 36 people were dead and scores more were injured.
Once the war came to an end, the members of Yamaguchi-gumi elected Yoshinori Watanabe,
aka Mr. Gorilla, to be their leader in 1989.
Watanabe was considered a strong and intelligent leader, growing membership and profits, but
he resigned (or was forced to resign) in 2005 as public heat increased on the yakuza.
The current oyabun of Yamaguchi-gumi is Kenichi Shinoda.
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decided to get into self-help.
I'm glad that
Marvin Gaye and Greg Allman and Martina McBride
decided to be singers.
And I'm glad that Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs
decided to get into technology.
You see, everybody uses their special gift and talent in a different way.
Some people use it for their career,
some people as an avocation,
some people as a hobby,
some people just find a way to wrap their whole life around it,
and it comes out in a lot of different ways.
If you are interested in finding a career right now,
my strong suggestion would be to gravitate toward,
search for
the things that you do really well easily.
Giving yourself
the greatest chance
of being successful.
What would it be like
if everybody did that?
If everybody used their special gift and talent
toward their career
so that everybody loved their job?
Well obviously that's not gonna happen,
but it's certainly easy for us to identify the people who haven't done that.
They're the people who are really struggling in their careers.
They're doing things that maybe they don't even like;
they don't come easily to them.
So, therefore, they're not very successful,
and in the process,
they're probably making everybody's life around them miserable.
And it is also easy to identify
the people who are using their gifts and talents.
And things are coming pretty easily to them,
and they're happy in their jobs,
and they enjoy what they're doing,
and they are a pleasure to be around
watching them
do what they do.
Whether your talents and gifts lie in the area of
you love organizing,
or you are a great designer,
or you are a great entertainer,
or you love socializing,
it doesn't really make any difference.
Folks, whatever gift and talent you have,
there's a way to translate that to,
to convert that
into making a career out of it.
If you've got it,
somebody else has already converted it
and are using it for their career.
So, I wish you well
in your search for what you're doing really well
that comes easily,
that comes naturally to you.
You know, there's a saying that says
if you do what you love,
you'll never work a day in your life.
I cannot tell you,
how much I disagree
with that statement.
Because for a lifetime now,
I've been doing things
that I love to do,
where I've been using my gifts and talents,
and you know what?
It's been work.
So I'm not suggesting to you
you're not going to have to work.
I'm not suggesting
you're not going to have to develop your gift or talent.
I'm not suggesting to you
there's not going to be hurdles along the way and challenges
for you to overcome.
They will be there,
but to me,
your best chance at success
is to gravitate toward the things
that with 20% effort,
you get 80% of return.
Let's face it,
over one-half of our waking life
we're going to spend working.
Why would we not, then,
look for
things that we love to do,
that come easily to us, that give us the best chance of success
for a career?
So, I wish you well looking for those things.
I wish you well
finding a way
to wrap your life around that,
express that,
manifest it,
and then I look forward
to being a part
of seeing you do it,
hearing you do it,
watching you do it.
Folks, that's my perspective,
what yours?
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and I leave us a comment
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6 Easy Steps To A Happier YOU - Duration: 6:23.[Music]
Folks, I've got a suggestion for you today I think you're going to find fun
and beneficial
all at the same time.
In previous videos,
I've giving you suggestions
on how to identify
the elements,
the components,
that you can add to your life
to create happiness and success.
I'm going to give you another one today.
All you need for this exercise is
your phone, a tablet, computer,
or sheet of paper, and something to write with,
your preference there,
and little bit of time.
And what we're going to do, and this is the fun part,
sit down and think about
times in your life when you would say,
Craig, I really had it going on,
everything in my life was going well.
Whether you characterize that as,
man my life was really clicking,
everything was really flowing,
I was like a well-oiled machine.
I don't care how you characterize it.
In your estimation,
your determination,
you're saying to me,
Craig, things were going really, really well.
It was a good time for me.
And we're going to take those,
and hopefully we have more than one,
but let's take the first one.
And then, kind of dissect it,
dive a little bit deeper,
and identify in it,
everything that you had going on in your life at that time.
Where you were in your relationships,
where you are living,
how you were spending your time,
who you were spending your time with,
what was going on with your job, everything.
What your mental attitude was.
And you're going to write all that down
and then hopefully you have a second event in your life,
a second time in your life
where can do the same thing
and a third time.
If you can come up with three,
that's great.
Let me give you a suggestion
on what I mean by that,
my recipe for success
contains these ingredients:
number one, by far,
is staying strong physically.
So, my exercise program, to me,
is the most important thing on my list.
It's got an additional benefit to it,
beyond just feeling
physically strong,
and that is when I'm physically strong
I'm also mentally strong
and emotionally strong.
So, it translates into me being
more patient,
more persistent,
more courageous,
beyond being just physically in good shape.
Another element
to my success formula
is that I quiet the time,
shutdown,
disconnect,
get off the grid.
Whatever you want to call that,
some quiet time in my life to me,
is very important.
As is eating healthy,
as is hanging out with people
who I really enjoy their company,
as is doing meaningful work
and
playtime
is very important to me.
All those
are on my recipe
for success.
So, when I am
feeling down,
feeling like life is not really kind of flowing the way I want it to,
it's not going in the direction maybe I want it to
it is a very simple process
for me to pull out the list
of the ingredients
to my success formula
and
compare them
with where I am in life right now.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist for me to figure out,
Gosh,
there's a bunch of stuff over here
that I don't see in my life right now.
How am I going to get it back?
Just because you identify it
doesn't mean you can automatically add it back,
but the fact that you identify it
is the first step to you saying putting it kind of on the front burner,
and say
you know, when I get a chance, I need to add more them back into my life.
So, there was a time in my life,
when I had tons of meaningful work.
I actually kind of had too much work
and that I was working so much,
it was eating into my exercise time
and I wasn't spending as much time with my friends
and playtime, well forget about it that wasn't happening at all.
And all I had to do is identify that and say
how am I going to put that back in my life?
So let's go back to the list that you have created.
You've taken three times in your life
and you've dissected them
and identified
all the things that were in your life at that point in time.
Now we're going to compare the three lists.
Is there any line item
that is on
all
three
lists?
And you say, Yep there's one right there,
it's on all three lists.
Well, we're going to pull that off.
We're going to put it on our fourth list
which we're titling
this is our Recipe for Success.
Here are all the ingredients.
Now, if it happens to be something like,
you were spending time with
a person,
call it person "A",
and on list number two,
it was person "B",
and on list number three...
It's not a matter of the individual person,
what you would extract
to put on your recipe for success is,
I was spending time
with somebody who was significant in my life,
as opposed to the individual person.
Similar to
jobs,
maybe I had a job
in number one
that I really, really enjoyed
and then I changed jobs,
but I really enjoy that one.
And then, I changed jobs again
and I really...
It's not a matter the individual jobs.
What you put on your master list is,
I had a job
that was meaningful to me,
significant,
and I really enjoyed it.
And so, if you do that with things that are on all three lists,
depending on how many you come up with,
you may have to go back to your list and say
Now, is there anything that's on
two out of three lists?
Cause two out of three ain't bad.
And I'll pull those off,
and put those on my master list.
And that exercise
is going to get you
a list of
what I call
ingredients
in your recipe to success.
These are the things I've just identified,
that when I have them in my life,
life's going pretty well.
So there's a good chance,
if I were to compare that list to my life right now
and there's something that's missing,
maybe I would think about adding that back in
to increase my enjoyment
and happiness
and success in life.
So, folks
that's my perspective,
what's yours?
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How A Challenging Employee Can Make You A Better Leader - Duration: 5:18.[Music]
So, are your difficult folks
driving you crazy?
Are your challenging people
causing you to
want to pull your hair out?
Do you have any
bad apples?
Well, you know what they say about bad apples,
one bad apple
spoils the bunch.
But, what they also say
is when life gives you lemons
make lemonade.
So how do we turn are bad apples
into lemonade?
Well, if you've got some
challenging folks,
some difficult folks, some bad apples,
don't feel alone it's very common.
I hear it from managers all the time in my leadership courses.
I hear them saying things like
Craig, you know, I wish I didn't have these folks
I wish I had a team
of nothing but
high performers.
Well, let's face it, high performers are great to work with
because they come to work every day
demanding of themselves
their best.
They are self-driven,
self-motivated.
If they make a mistake, they'll raise their hand,
accept responsibility,
allow you to hold them accountable.
They're great helping their teammates,
they're just wonderful people who work with.
So, I understand the perspective
of saying
Craig, I wish I had a team
of nothing but high performers.
But, here's another side of it.
Here's another perspective,
maybe that team
of high performers
isn't forcing you
to be as good a leader
as
maybe you're more challenging folks.
Let's face it,
if we were to take all of our high performers
and put them in a canoe
floating down a
lazy river
with a gentle current,
no ripples in the water,
no wind to speak of,
your leadership of them,
your direction to them would simply be
folks, keep it in the middle.
Well shoot, they didn't need that from you.
They could have kept it in the middle by themselves.
They don't demand a lot of leadership from you,
like people who are challenging.
Leadership is demanded when that canoe
gets to the rapids.
When there's some major event
in business
that causes you to step up to the plate as a leader.
And rapids is also defined as
bad apples,
challenging people,
difficult people.
Those are also folks that expect you to step up to the plate
and provide leadership.
Let's face it,
these folks
expect of you,
demand of you,
to hold everybody on the team
equally accountable.
And if you don't,
they'll hold you accountable for it.
They expect you
to provide performance management
in the right way, and if you don't do it,
you'll hear about it.
They expect you, if they're in a union,
to know the contract because they do
and if you don't interpret it correctly, they'll let you know.
These are people that absolutely expect you to respect them
in the way you treat them, in the way you talk to them,
and if you don't, you're going to know about it.
These are the people that challenge you at every turn.
And in some ways even cause you to think at times
you know what, why did I even get into leadership in the
first place?
But, these are the people,
who through their actions,
are giving you opportunities
to grow,
to learn,
to develop some of your leadership skills
that need developing.
They're giving you opportunities, to step up to the plate,
to become a better leader.
You know, Thomas Edison once said,
"Opportunity
is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls
and looks like work."
Well, that leads us to the question
of work.
Who's working for whom?
Are you working for them
or are they working for you?
My belief is,
it's a little bit of both.
And on your side,
I believe your responsibility
to your folks
is to provide them
everything they need to be successful.
To provide them the resources, the guidance,
the direction, the support,
the information,
everything they need to be successful.
And then you are justified
in holding them accountable
for being successful.
When your folks are successful,
you, as a leader,
will be successful.
So, whenever you're troubled by this challenging employee,
this bad apple,
and you're ready to say
Gosh, I wish I didn't have the situation in my life.
Stop for a second, hit the pause button,
adopt the other perspective, and say
you know what, this is an opportunity right now
for me to learn, to grow,
to become a better leader.
And as I'm doing that,
it's also giving me an opportunity to help
this employee
learn,
grow,
become a better employee,
become a better team member.
And that is how
we turn bad apples
into lemonade.
Folks, that's my perspective,
what's yours?
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or a question.
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How To Capture The Attention Of Any Audience - Duration: 5:47.If you're searching for ways to become a better speaker, or if you don't consider
yourself to be a speaker, you're just looking for ways to become more
effective delivering a message, then you have come to the right place. I've got
some tips for you today I know you're going to enjoy, and I'm certain you've
heard somebody speaking who has not been aware of these tips, nor used them, and
it's had a profound effect on you, and I'm also equally certain you've heard
people who have used these tips, and it's a huge difference in that person than
the first person I talked about. Let me tell you what I'm talking about. Have you
not been listening to somebody, and as they're delivering their message you are
bored out of your mind; you're really struggling to pay attention, struggling
to stay engaged? You almost can't wait for it to be over,
correct, and have you not also been in front of somebody speaking, and they
absolutely captured your attention? You were hanging on every word, totally
engaged. Now what's the difference between those two people as they're
speaking? Probably a number of things, but two things I'm certain of is the person
who captured your attention was speaking powerfully, and from time to time in
their message they were using power phrases, because that's what power
phrases do. They capture your attention and hold it. So what are the keys to
using power phrases effectively? Well, the first one is to minimize your words. Your
objective is to deliver a complete thought using the fewest words, because
when you take a very powerful statement and you surround it with a lot of
unnecessary words, that you expect to listener to pay attention to, you have
just diluted the message. You've watered down and decreased the impact of the message,
so you're working against yourself. So, minimize your words. Second key, slow down,
take your time, don't rush through this. If we were to equate this to a really
good comedian on stage, they may be going a hundred miles an hour as they're
delivering the joke, but by gosh, when they get to the punchline they slow down,
take their time, emphasize every word, so you hear every word, and get the joke.
And the third key is do not use contractions. A contraction is when we
take two words and put them together to make one word. I am, put together, is I'm.
Do not, put together, is don't. The problem with those, is that when we make
a contraction, we minimize the impact. Listen to these two statements; do not
use contractions, or don't use contractions. You see the difference?
So, to recap, minimize your words, slow down as you are delivering power phrases,
and do not use contractions. Let's take a look at some power phrases to see what
they look like, and hear what they sound like. There is no doubt in my mind... Do you
hear how definitive that is? Or, I am convinced that... I assure you... I am
confident that... I am certain that... I am ready. I like using that one with another
one of the power phrases, and so when you put those two sentences together, you
could say, I am certain this is the approach we should be using, and I am
ready to start today. Or the last one I want to give you is, I am extremely
fortunate that... Now that's not an exhaustive list, nor did I want it to be.
I want you to play around with this. I want you to
select words that you believe have power and impact and design your own power
phrases and power statements, because as you design your own, as you deliver them,
they're going to sound like you and they'll be more believable.
You know this investment that you're putting into yourself is going to have a
profound effect on the way that you get the attention of your listener. Two
things are going to happen. One, you're going to feel very different as you're
delivering power phrases. You're going to know and feel, man, what I just said
really had impact, and you're also going to notice a difference in the listener.
You're going to notice that they're paying attention. You're going to notice,
from time to time, that they're hanging on every word, and let's face it, that is
the purpose of power phrases. So design your own, play around with these, come up
with some that you feel really good about, really confident about, that are
natural for you, and as you deliver them you minimize your words, take your time,
and do not use contractions. Good luck with delivering these power phrases and
having a true impact on your audience. That's my perspective, what's yours? Swing
by our website and leave us a comment or a question, check out other videos like
this one, and if you like this one, please pass it on. It's been a pleasure being
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How To Create More Excitement In Your Life - Duration: 8:21.[Music]
Make space
to embrace.
You heard me right.
Make space
to embrace.
Sounds pretty good, doesn't it?
See, I can see, some of you going like
I think he's telling us to make space to like
embrace,
like to hug or something.
[Laughs]
And like,
I can hear myself saying that,
that's not something I would be opposed to.
My friends who know me would say
yeah, Craig enjoys a good hug every now and then.
I would love to have a little more love
and affection in my life.
That, however,
is not what I'm suggesting.
Specifically, what I am suggesting
I'll tell you in just a minute.
Let me tell you a little story first.
A couple of days ago,
I was in my doctor's office.
Now, my doctor is fabulous.
If you have an appointment with him
at 10 o'clock,
nine out of 10 times,
at 10 o'clock
he's sitting right in front of you.
That's how good he is
with his time.
This day, however,
he was running a little bit late.
So as the nurse came in,
you could tell she was rushing
and getting vital signs and making her notations and said to me
Craig, I really want to apologize
we're running a little bit late.
I'll do my best to get you out of here on time.
and I stopped her and I said
take your time, relax,
I'm not in any particular hurry.
And kind of shocked her.
She stopped and said,
well thank you very much for that
because it seems like just about
everybody else is.
Which really validated
what I've been suggesting to you
in other videos
and that is,
some of us have got our lives so packed full of stuff
that all we're doing is running from one event to the next to the next to the next
and were not even enjoying each one as we go.
If we were to compare our lives to a computer hard drive
or a USB
and we hit properties
and looked at the state of our life
what we would read would be
used space 100%
free space zero.
The frustrating part of that is,
when we're trying to add something new to our life,
there's no space for it.
And so, that maybe, we need to change.
It reminds me of a story of a friend of mine,
who was dating a woman and they were living, at the time,
separately.
They then decided to move in together,
and she was going to move in with him.
She arrives on moving day,
with all of her stuff,
grabs up some of her clothes,
goes in the apartment and opens the first door
to put her clothes in and
that closet is full.
And she goes to the second closet and opens it up
and it's full, there is no free space in that one for her clothes.
And she goes to the third cabinet
and she opens it up
and there's no free space there.
And then frustrated,
she goes back and says to him,
and of course I'm paraphrasing right now is,
you know you invited me into your life,
but you did make any space for me.
And to me this is one of the most common self-defeating things that we do.
We want new exciting things in our life,
but our life is already so packed full,
there's no space for them.
And I'm not just talking about clothes in a closet.
Essentially, we do the same things with
our lives as it relates to
our health.
There are people that I talk to who say Craig,
I've gained a little bit of weight
and I want to lose it.
So I've got to change my dietary habits
and I need to start an exercise program,
but for the life of me,
I can't figure out where I'm going to find time
to exercise
because I don't have any time in my life.
I don't have any space in my life available for that.
Or people who come to me talking about their careers.
And they want to change careers
and what that would entail is going back to school.
And they say Craig, I've got the money for this,
but I don't where I'm going to find the time
to go back to school, even to go back to school doing an online course.
I don't have the time for that.
And so,
we know going back to our hard drive,
that if we're trying to add something new into our life
and we've got a hard drive that has
zero free space,
we first have to delete something
before we can open up some space for the new.
And that, then, takes us to the decision of,
what to delete.
And all of us have probably remembered a time
when we didn't take a lot of time thinking through that,
or we were deleting in a hurry,
and we deleted the wrong thing.
And we only realized we deleted the wrong thing until after we
deleted it.
It was gone and we couldn't get it back.
And all of a sudden, we realized,
mmm maybe I should take a little bit more time
through that process
because now I regret that decision of what I deleted.
On the very same day
that I went to the doctor,
that evening,
I was watching TV.
And I happen to catch an interview
Charlie Rose was interviewing
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett
at the same time.
Two multibillionaires,
who when they met
20 years ago,
both of them were CEOs
of their respective companies.
Now Bill Gates went on to say
you know, when I met Warren Buffett
and I was the CEO at the time of Microsoft
and he was the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway,
both of us, obviously, CEO of multibillion-dollar companies,
we had a lot of things on our plate.
I had every single waking moment of my life filled up
and I was absolutely surprised
when I met him,
he told me he had lots of free time,
lots of free space.
And at that point in the interview,
Warren Buffett pulls out of his pocket,
his little day-timer,
about the same size as this,
probably similar to the one he used 20 years ago,
and he gave it to Charlie Rose.
And Charlie Rose is flipping through the pages of it
and he's looking at week after week
and he's going you know,
most of the weeks in here,
there's only like about three appointments.
And Warren Buffett said Yeah,
and by the time I get to that week,
I probably will have added only one more.
It's at that point that Bill Gates said,
you know, what I really learned from Warren,
that was one of the most valuable lessons to me,
is that we control our time.
And that sitting and thinking may be your highest priority.
And that you filling every moment of your life
with activity is not necessarily the positive
that sometimes we think it is.
And at that point, the conversation went back to Warren Buffett
and he said to Charlie Rose,
you know, I'm worth over 60 billion dollars,
I can buy basically
anything that I want,
but I can't buy time.
And so I am very careful with it
because I can't buy more time.
Folks, to me, the moral of the story is
we do control our time.
At least, we have the choice
of controlling it
or letting it control us.
And that if we have our lives packed full of stuff,
and we're wanting to
make space to embrace
something new in our life,
maybe the first thing
we need to make space
to embrace in our life
is a little bit of time
to consider that decision
of what we're going to delete.
To make sure that after we've deleted it
and it's gone
and we can't get it back
that we don't regret that decision.
So I wish you well,
making space to embrace
all the new, exciting, wonderful things
that you've got coming in your life,
but remember
if your life is currently packed full
you might first
have to hit delete.
Folks that's my perspective,
what's yours?
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Kicking the sugar habit: just watch how my taste buds have changed! | Vlog 23 - Duration: 1:57.- Hi there!
Now people often say to me, "Suzy, there's no way
"I am going to be able to give up my two sugars
"in my coffee or my daily biscuits or chocolate bar,
"or whatever it is.
"Because I've been eating it for so long
"it's just who I am, and I'm never gonna
"be able to give it up."
And I always like to explain to them
that our taste buds change very, very regularly.
So every ten days to two weeks,
you have an entirely new set of taste buds.
And that means that things that you maybe used to be
addicted to will be not nice for you at all.
So, I'm gonna do a little experiment because, you see,
I used to have two sugars in my tea growing up.
And I haven't had sugar in my tea for, oh, I don't know,
maybe about 30 years.
So, I thought I'd do a little experiment here in this vlog.
So I've made myself a cup of tea,
and I've put two sugars in it.
And I'm gonna try it now and see how it tastes.
Okay, here goes.
Oooh!
That was.
That was absolutely hideous and honestly
if I wasn't on camera, I would have spat that out.
I didn't enjoy that at all.
That was really hideous.
Really, I have a really. That was nasty.
So, I want you to know that I'm the same person.
And I honestly used to have that every day
or several times a day, but my taste buds are different.
And in ten days from now or two weeks from now,
your taste buds will be different.
And that means that at any point,
you too can change your habits and be free of something
that maybe you have been eating or drinking
for a very, very long time.
And isn't that good news?
So thanks for watching.
I'll speak to you soon.
Bye!
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New Zealand: The Ultimate Travel Guide by TourRadar - Duration: 11:37.Embark on a journey where you can retrace the footsteps of the Fellowship, enjoy epic
adventures of your own and experience legends come to life.
From its active volcanoes, deep glacier lakes, unique wildlife and dazzling fjords, one thing's
for sure, in this nation of Kiwis there will never be a dull moment.
Steady yourself as TourRadar's Ultimate Travel Guide reveals everything you need to
know about this truly remote island paradise.
So travellers, are you ready?
Welcome to New Zealand.
Let's start with the basics.
This beautiful island nation is home to just over 4 and a half million people, many of
whom go by the self-appointed nickname "Kiwi."
This slang is derived from the country's national symbol: a flightless bird called,
you guessed it, the kiwi.
The country itself is formed by two main landmasses - the North Island and the South Island, as
well as about 600 other smaller islands.
New Zealand as a whole is quite modest in size, similar in land mass to Japan.
Wellington is the Capital City of New Zealand and also the southernmost capital city in
the world while Auckland, the original capital city, is the largest Polynesian city and goes
by the name "the city of sails."
Which makes sense when you consider Auckland has more boats per capita than any other place
in the world!
What else does New Zealand have more of than the entire planet? Sheep!
Hopefully you're a fan of these furry farm animals because there are about seven to every
resident, which works out to nearly 30 million sheep.
Your mum won't have to worry about you throughout your kiwi adventure either because New Zealand
has remained firmly in the top 10 safest countries to call home for several years running.
They're also comfortably progressive, having been the first major nation to allow all citizens
the right to vote, regardless of gender.
There are three official languages in New Zealand: English, Maori and New Zealand Sign
Language but you'll be able to get by just fine with English.
Now whether you're looking to uncover the Maori way of life, hit the slopes or sample
delicious wine - there's plenty of diverse adventures to enjoy - so let's take a closer
look.
New Zealand is renowned for it's world-class hiking trails.
Breathtaking views await you in Fiordland National Park, which includes four major tracks
- Milford, Kepler, Routeburn and Hollyford.
While Milford is perhaps the most famous, hikers of each track can expect to enjoy views
of forested valleys, diverse birdlife, turquoise waters, expansive lakes and truly spectacular
mountain scenery.
For Lord of the Rings fans, a visit to Tongariro National Park, where you can behold the jagged
volcanic rock and eerily barren landscape, should be a considered a must.
Hopefully the moody weather cooperates during your visit and you'll be granted a view
of Mt. Ngauruhoe, otherwise known as Mount Doom.
Hiking the entire Alpine Crossing takes about 7 hours and includes lava fields, tussock
meadows and the neon turquoise, geothermally heated waters of the Emerald Lakes.
If beaches are more your thing, New Zealand has a hike for that too!
Along the Abel Tasman Coast Track, travellers can enjoy more than 40kms of golden sand beaches,
subtropical bush line and granite cliffs, accented by clear azure waters and frolicking
fur seals.
Keep in mind that several tidal inlets mean that you'll be required to time your crossings
with low-tide, so plan accordingly.
Along New Zealand's Otago coast you can see the mysterious Moeraki Boulders, beachfront
stones formed from ancient sea sediments.
An equally mesmerizing and seemingly perplexing sight would be the famous Waitomo Caves with
their legendary blue glowworms.
Thrill-seekers can abseil down into this lost world, which takes about 20 minutes and provides
impressive views of spagatites and gigantic flowstone formations on the way down.
Once you've lost yourself in the isolation and majesty of nature, grab a few of your
fellow travel companions and go jet boating through Queenstown's Shotover River, or
tackle the currents of Tutea Falls along the Kaituna River in Rotorua, the highest commercially
rafted waterfall in the world.
Of course there's also ziplining, bungee jumping, and skydiving.
Each offer unique and exhilarating views of places like Rotorua, Auckland Harbour, and
Queenstown respectively - though you can enjoy any one of these thrill-seeking experiences
pretty much anywhere throughout the country.
If you want to take things a tad slower, hit up one of New Zealand's countless golf courses.
Enjoy the stunning greens that can be found in Auckland, Queenstown and Wellington.
For the snow bunnies, strap on your skis and fly to the top of Queenstown's mountains
to enjoy a refreshingly exciting ski down world-renowned peaks and valleys.
Within 20 minutes from downtown Queenstown, you'll be at the foot of Coronet Peak and
within 35, The Remarkables, a range that lives up to its name and is a must for any snowboarder
or skier out there.
Once the weather warms up you can catch the surf on the curving Bay of Plenty or along
the untouched beaches of Gisborne.
And if you really want to show off your surfing skills then head to Whangamata, situated on
the southeast coast of the Coromandel Peninsula in the North Island.
After all, it's only the surfing capital of the country!
But maybe you are just looking to kick back and enjoy that well-earned break?
That's certainly alright and you picked the right destination to escape to.
You can catch a kapa haka performance of the Maori people, indigenous New Zealanders, and
enjoy chants and choral singing to graceful songs and ferocious war dances.
Consider visiting Maori meetings grounds, called marae, and take part in a powhiri,
a traditional welcoming ceremony.
Or if you wish to get literary, take a tour of Hobbiton in , Waikato and see JR Tolkien's
epic story brought to life with a wander through the heart of The Shire.
You can stop by the Green Dragon Inn or visit the Bag End.
But what time of year does one journey to Middle Earth?
Fall?
Spring?
Winter?
Well just to be clear, there's never a bad time to travel to a place like New Zealand
though travellers should be ready for weather that can change unexpectedly, regardless of
the time of year.
However most places throughout the country receive over 2,000 hours of sunshine a year
and because of the low levels of air pollution, the sunlight is especially radiant!
While the far north has subtropical weather during summer, and inland alpine areas of
the South Island can be as cold as -10°C (14°F) in winter, most of the country lies
close to the coast, which means mild temperatures year round.
The average New Zealand temperature decreases as you travel south.
New Zealand's Summer runs from December to February and should be considered the peak
travel season, it's also considered the perfect time for enjoying activities like
hiking, scenic driving, winery tours, and surfing.
If you're lucky, you can catch a wave alongside dolphins off the country's long coastline.
Autumn settles in from March to May and the views of fall foliage are truly something
to behold.
Winter lasts from June to August, and this is when you can expect the ski season to begin
to flourish.
Spring temperatures are enjoyed from September through November and offer a beautiful combination
of spring blossoms and snow-capped mountains.
Once you've satisfied your desire to explore it's time to sit down and enjoy some delicious
local cuisine.
And just what is waiting for you at the dining table?
Let's find out…
New Zealand's cuisine draws on Polynesia, Asian and European inspiration and the results
are staggeringly delicious.
A typical kiwi breakfast consists of cereal, toast and either a cup of coffee, tea, juice
or milk.
On weekends, when more time is available to prepare a cooked breakfast, locals sit down
to plates of scrambled eggs, bacon, cooked tomatoes, mushrooms, hash browns and baked
beans.
After a long morning outdoors, you'll need to enjoy a quick hot pie to reenergize.
These tasty small pastries come in a variety of flavours and are typically filled with
mince and cheese, bacon, egg and even steak.
Once the evening rolls around, enjoy servings of roast lamb, mutton and of course battered
fish and chips.
Due to New Zealand's long coast line the selection of seafood is quite diverse: succulent
oysters, mussels, shellfish, king salmon, snapper, scallops and whitebait - a true Kiwi
delicacy.
The most common way to enjoy these small baby fish are as whitebait fritters, essentially
an omelet prepared only with egg white mixed with the delicious whitebait.
If you're looking for a refreshing dessert to top off your day of indulging your taste
buds then help yourself to pavlova, a meringue-based dessert named after the Russian ballerina
Anna Pavlova.
But what should you wash down all these tasty foods with?
Of course you can enjoy your share of refreshing beers and ciders, but New Zealand is mainly
renowned for its many exquisite wines.
Sommeliers praise the country's take on sauvignon blanc as being the best in the world.
Other wines highly regarded include Cabernet/Merlot blends and Pinot Noir to name a few.
Mhmmm, spectacular.
Once you've allowed your thirst to be both quenched and delighted by New Zealand's
unique libations, it'll be time to begin mapping out your next adventure through this
oceanic paradise.
We hope these tips ensure that your next great Kiwi adventure will be a truly inspiring one.
If you still can't get enough then check out Days to Come for more inspiration and
travel tips.
If you're ready to experience the country for yourself, simply visit tourradar.com today.
As they say in New Zealand, Kia Ora!
Until next time!
TourRadar - booking tours made easy.
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Hyperprolactinemia - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, pathology - Duration: 6:02.With hyperprolactinemia, hyper- means above, -prolactin refers to the hormone produced
by the pituitary gland, and -emia refers to the blood, so hyperprolactinemia means higher
than normal prolactin levels in the blood.
Normally, at the base of the brain, there's a small pea-sized gland called the pituitary
gland.
The anterior pituitary - the front of the pituitary gland - has a number of different
cells, each of which secretes a different hormone.
One group, the lactotroph cells, secrete prolactin.
In men, prolactin stimulates testosterone production.
In women, during pregnancy, elevated levels of estrogen stimulate the lactotrophs to produce
large amounts of prolactin which stimulates alveolar cells in the breasts.
In response to prolactin, the alveolar cells divide and enlarge - and once a baby is born,
lactogenesis begins - which means that milk is produced.
Apart from milk production, high levels of prolactin also inhibit the release of gonadotropin
releasing hormone from the hypothalamus, which results in decreased luteinizing and follicle
stimulating hormone levels, which in turn, decreases estrogen levels.
In women, this can stop ovulation and menstruation, which is why women typically don't have
a menstrual period while breastfeeding.
In women that are not pregnant or breastfeeding, and in men, prolactin levels are usually kept
in check by the hypothalamus in two ways.
The first way is the most important, and it's when the hypothalamus secretes a constant
stream of dopamine which is also called prolactin inhibiting factor.
Dopamine binds to specific receptors on the lactotrophs and inhibit the release of prolactin.
The second way is when the hypothalamus secretes thyrotropin releasing hormone, also called
prolactin releasing hormone, which can stimulate prolactin release.
If the level of prolactin rises for any reason, then it signals the hypothalamus to release
more dopamine, eventually decreasing its own production, a process called negative feedback
or feedback inhibition.
Hyperprolactinemia can develop a few different ways.
The first is physiologic hyperprolactinemia, which is what happens during pregnancy and
lactation - and levels of prolactin typically return back to normal afterwards.
Another cause is a prolactinoma, a type of pituitary adenoma, a benign tumor of lactotroph
cells which grow uncontrollably and make excess amounts of prolactin.
There are also systemic causes of hyperprolactinemia like hypothyroidism.
In hypothyroidism, the hypothalamus tries to boost the production of thyroid hormones
by releasing more thyrotropin releasing hormone.
That leads to higher levels of prolactin.
Another cause is medications, as an example, dopamine antagonists oppose the action of
dopamine and that removes the inhibition on the lactotroph cells and leads to elevated
prolactin levels.
Other medications include estrogens which directly stimulate the lactotrophs to produce
more prolactin.
A rare cause of hyperprolactinemia is damage to the hypothalamic-pituitary stalk, which
contains the blood vessels that connect the hypothalamus to the pituitary gland.
The damage can be due to trauma, nearby tumors, or due to brain surgery.
In these situations, there's no way for the dopamine from the hypothalamus to reach
the lactotroph cells.
Symptoms of hyperprolactinemia in women include galactorrhea, which is the increase in milk
production, and anovulatory amenorrhea in which there is absence of ovulation and menses.
In men, symptoms of hyperprolactinemia include gynecomastia or breast enlargement and erectile
dysfunction.
In addition, a prolactinoma can physically press on optic nerves causing headaches and
impaired vision.
Hyperprolactinemia can be diagnosed by detecting high levels of prolactin in the blood.
Typically a pregnancy test is done to check for a physiologic explanation and a brain
MRI is done to look for prolactinomas.
Treatment varies based on the underlying cause of hyperprolactinemia, but it generally involves
giving dopamine agonists like bromocriptine.
If there's a prolactinoma, surgery may be needed.
In cases of hypothyroidism, giving replacement thyroid hormones usually corrects the problem.
All right, as a quick recap, hyperprolactinemia occurs naturally due to pregnancy and lactation,
and can stop ovulation and menstruation during that period of time.
The most common pathologic cause is a pituitary adenoma, where lactotrophs grow uncontrollably
and secrete prolactin causing headaches and impaired vision.
In addition, in women, it can cause galactorrhea and anovulatory amenorrhea, and in men it
can cause gynecomastia and erectile dysfunction.
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When Rankings Drop Suddenly Do These 10 Steps Pronto - Duration: 9:35.In this video I'm going to show you what to do to recover from a sudden rankings drop.
I am going to walk you through the things that I have seen in my career as an SEO that
typically cause or lead to these sudden rankings drop, so that you can quickly run through
this checklist and mitigate the problem.
Before we get into the actual checklist, I just want to remind you, take a deep breath,
do not panic.
I know it is easy for me to say when it is not my site, but I have dealt with a lot of
people in a lot of these situations and I cannot tell you how many times I've gotten
an email or a call and two or three days later, this cleared itself up, pretty much on its
own, and it was just a random blip.
Step 1: Review any big changes Pretty obvious, but if you have changed the
navigation, if you have redirected pages, go back and check those redirects.
Or maybe you redirected something a month ago, go back and check.
I was talking with an Enterprise client today and their old redirects just stopped working.
You want to go and double check all of those changes that you have recently made and make
sure that they are still in place, still proper, and not causing any issues.
Next thing you want to do is to look externally at some tools and they are algorithm change
monitors and I have three of them and they are all pretty good.
I'll show you the first one, which is from MozCast.
Moz has had this kind of weather report for a long time, if you see it and it's really
hot and stormy, like it was on Thursday, August 10th, you know that some changes are afoot.
I'll show you advanced web rankings as well and I'll link all of these in the description,
but what you'll want to look for is more patterns.
See, on the 10th, they are showing changes as well.
So kind of high activity right in that range.
And SEMrush is a new entry into this field and their sensor tool is quite good.
I really like it because it also offers categories so you can see right here that sports and
news are being more affected than other categories.
You can actually enter your own site and get a personal score for your own rankings, which
is really nice, and you can flip between mobile and desktop.
And again, if we look here, see the 10th and 11th, they are kind of showing in that same
range as the other tools, some high activity.
So using these altogether kind of gives you an idea if some ranking changes are rolling
out as we speak.
The next thing you're going to do is-- you're going to want to go to Search Console.
It used to be Webmaster Tools, but Google changed the name to Search Console.
If you do not have an account, get one.
It's free, easy to activate with tools like Yoast if you're on WordPress.
First thing you want to check is messages and just see if Google has left you a message
telling you you have some issues.
And you'd be surprised, a lot of times that they are having issues, crawling something,
they'll leave a message right there for you detailing exactly what that issue is.
Now this is a-- we just moved our site, to HTTPS, literally, and it's still propagating
so I'm not going to have really any data in this account, but I'm using this to show you.
You go here to messages, then you're going to go down the list and you're going to check
for manual actions.
You're going to check pretty much everything in crawl.
So in Search Traffic, you'd select Manual Actions.
Now a lot of people, they think if there's no manual action, they haven't been penalized.
But it's more rare to get a manual action.
That means, someone at Google literally reviewed this and manually applied a penalty to you
and you will get a message there.
So check that and make sure that's the case.
But a lot of times, that does not mean you didn't get an algorithmic penalty or some
algorithmic action that the algorithm itself, without human intervention, just did to your
site.
And so that wouldn't show up here in manual actions.
But do check that.
You're also going to want to go down to crawl errors.
Check all of these.
Check for big errors and crawl stats.
I want you to go fetch as Google.
So pick out some of your pages and fetch and render them.
And make sure you're not seeing anything crazy.
Go to robots.txt tester.
Make sure that you're not seeing any errors or warnings blocking.
I can't tell you how many times I've seen a new website go up and they forget to update
robots.txt because they were blocking it on staging-- blocking Google.
And then, they update the new site with the blocked robotos.txt and they lose all their
rankings.
Also look at security issues just in case.
This is if your site maybe got hacked and it's displaying malware.
Obviously, Google will not want to rank you if that's the case.
So checking these will give you a really good idea.
Mainly, you're looking at your index, your crawl stats.
Is Google okay with your site map?
That kind of stuff.
So if you go in here and you see tons of sitemap errors, that could be an issue.
The next is to go look at technical issues.
Now this is a little bit harder to talk about in just one video, but this would be hosting
issues.
Let's say you are using HTTPS, make sure you do not have any issues with your SSL certificates
or are you using a content delivery network like MaxCDN to speed up your site?
Make sure everything is rosy there and not causing problems.
Many people use cache.
So I use WordPress Fastest Cache on my WordPress site.
If that's not set up properly or something went squirrelly, caching can cause a lot of
problems if it's not working right.
Lastly, I would say, a lot of people will fall into the bucket of, there is a real time
kind of penalty being applied to them, and that penalty is usually a Penguin or a Panda
penalty.
So these used to be kind of manually run very infrequently by Google, but they've been moved
into the real time algorithm, and I'm going to be very broad here.
But Penguin, if you just had to say one thing it's about, it's about your backlinks.
And Panda is about the quality of your content.
And so these are now running in Google's core algorithm.
So what you're going to want to do for Penguin is you are going to want to check and see
if you have a lot of keyword-rich backlinks to our site.
If you do, and you are seeing a big rankings drop, it could be a really good sign that
you have been infected by a Penguin.
For Panda, you're going to want to look at the quality and depth of your content, you're
going to look at how long people are scrolling and staying on the site.
If they just leave right away, it could be signaling that your content quality is thin.
So thin content that does not provide a lot of value is usually the issue with Panda.
Let me give you a free tool to use to check your backlinks.
Obviously, I'm a big fan of Moz, SEMrush, Ahrefs for checking backlinks, but this is
free right now and it is openlinkprofiler.org.
I kind of did a chuckle when I went there because I did not know they were using one
of my tweets saying, "Hey" to check them out.
But obviously, that's cool with me and it's a really cool tool.
What you're focused on are your anchor texts.
We can get into-- maybe I will do a video on SEO profiler at some point and show you
some of the cool stuff you can do.
But you're looking here, and if you see things like your name, Ghergich and company, Ghergich,
Ghergich, A.J.
Ghergich, that's me, your URL.
You're good to go if that's the majority of your links.
But if you're seeing instead of here you saw something like SEO agency, SEO consultant
and there were tons of links in here, you would be at risk for a Penguin penalty because
you're using too many keyword-rich, non-natural links to your site.
Most people are going to link to you by your brand name or someone's name there at your
company or a tool that you have.
Something branded to you.
And if Google's not seeing that, it's going to think you are manipulating and so that
would be-- you would need to clean that up.
Just Google articles on how to clean up Penguin penalties.
It mostly revolves around you removing those backlinks, writing them, emailing them, trying
to get them down and then disavowing all those links in Search Console.
Let me know down in the comments if this kind of sudden rankings drops has ever happened
to you and maybe how you got out of the problem or what the problem actually ended up being.
It is interesting to just kind of learn from each other through our experiences and I will
see you guys in the next video.
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Top 10 Terrifying Facts About the Yakuza - Duration: 16:07.The yakuza is
the Japanese mafia and their name essentially means "good for nothing."
The name is believed to be drawn from the lowest hand in the Japanese card game baccara,
which is similar to Blackjack.
In the game, getting the cards ya-ku-sa ("eight-nine-three") is the worst possible hand you can get.
Yakuza can refer to the crime syndicates as a whole, or to an individual gang member,
who are also called gyangu ("gangster").
These are 10 of the most terrifying facts about these notorious gangsters…
10.
Irezumi
One of the most noticeable ways members of the yakuza can stick out are their extensive
tattoos, called irezumi.
Most of the time it covers their entire torso, except for a stripe down the middle of the
chest.
Sometimes, it can even
cover most of their bodies.
The tattoos are designed to be hidden under the clothes, and the stripe down their chest
allows them to open their shirt collar or wear a robe without revealing them.
The tattoo process is expensive, time consuming, and utterly painful.
They aren't done with electric needles; instead, it's performed by hand with a needle
made from steel or bamboo.
The artist dips the needle in some ink and then repeatedly punctures the skin.
The tattoos can sometimes take years to be completed.
There are several reasons why the yakuza embraced irezumi.
First, it's expensive, so it shows that they have money.
Secondly, since it's so painful, it shows the man is tough for sitting through hours
upon hours of the process.
In recent years, the yakuza has moved away from getting tattoos because of public backlash.
The yakuza also generally try to make an effort to blend in.
Also, since the tattoos have gone out of favor, there are not many tattoo artists who can
do the technique.
9.
Huge Membership
It's tough to determine what exactly is the foundation of the yakuza, but some experts
think that their lineage can be traced back to gangs of ronin, which were samurai without
masters.
Others think that they came from a group of grifters and gamblers dating back to Japan's
feudal era.
The yakuza is also not one big group, either.
It's comprised of several gangs called boryokudan, which means "violence groups."
As of early 2017, there were 22 recognized groups, divided into separate clans.
The largest of these groups is Yamaguchi-gumi, who account for about a quarter of all yakuza
members.
Yakuza membership exploded after World War II.
By the early 1960s, there were 184,100 yakuza members, but that number dropped to around
60,000 for several decades.
In the 1990s, they saw a resurgence and there were about 80,000 members until 2011, when
their numbers started to dramatically drop.
That's when the Japanese government enacted some new laws to combat the yakuza by restricting
their revenue.
In late 2016, their numbers were the lowest since the National Police Agency started keeping
records, at about 39,100 members.
However, this low membership number isn't necessarily a good thing.
Jake Adelstein, who is a reporter working in Japan and an expert on the yakuza, told
the South China Morning Press that the drop in numbers is probably only temporary.
In December 2016, Japan legalized gambling and in about five years, casinos are expected
to start opening.
That's about how long it will take former yakuza members to get a clean record.
Adelstein thinks that this will create a lot of opportunities for the yakuza.
They will be able to get "reformed" gang members into the casino, where they will be
able to skim profits or blackmail people who lose big, which will generate huge revenue
streams that will, in turn, allow the yakuza to employ more members.
8.
The Godfather of Godfathers
The most infamous yakuza oyabun (chairman/boss) was Kazuo Taoka, who was the head of the Yamaguchi-gumi.
Taoka was born in a small village on the island of Shikoku.
He was orphaned at a young age and sent to Kobe, where he worked
in shipyards.
In 1929, he started to hang out with members of the Yamaguchi-gumi and became a blood member
in 1936.
During this time, he got the nickname that he'd keep for the rest of his life: Kubo,
which means bear.
He got the nickname because he had a tendency to claw and gouge out his opponents' eyes.
In 1936, Taoka went to jail for slashing a rival gang member to death.
He was released in 1943, and found Yamaguchi-gumi in shambles because of World War II.
After the war, in 1946, Taoka (then 33-years-old) became the leader of Yamaguchi-gumi after
the previous oyabun died from natural causes.
Taoka had an amazing gift for organization and he grew Yamaguchi-gumi to be the most
dominant boryokudan in Japan.
The godfather of godfathers, as Taoka was called, died in July 1981, at the age of 68.
7.
Yubitsume
Yubitsume, which translates to finger-shortening, is the act where a yakuza amputates a piece
of his little finger as a way to atone for a mistake or misdeed.
This act can be done either voluntarily or involuntarily.
Often they volunteer as a way to avoid a larger punishment, like being kicked out or being
killed (possibly by being forced to commit suicide).
It stems from a punishment that was inflicted on gamblers who didn't pay their debts in
feudal Japan.
Besides causing a lot of pain, without their whole pinky, it made it difficult for the
person to handle a sword.
If they couldn't handle a sword, they couldn't defend themselves, and it would make them
more vulnerable.
It was adopted by the yakuza because it might affect them in hand-to-hand combat and while
handling guns, so it would discourage members from doing something wrong.
There was also a benefit to the yakuza if their members are weaker, because they would
need to depend on their boryokudan even more.
There are different accounts of how the ritual is done, but what stays the same is the yakuza
has to do it to himself.
One account of the ritual is that it's done while their oyabun supervises.
There is a cloth laid flat and the offender places his left hand on the cloth, palm up.
Then, using a sharp knife, called a tanto, they cut the pinky at the distal interphalangeal
joint, which is the top knuckle.
Once that is done, they wrap it up and hand it to the oyabun.
Another version, which was pulled from court testimony, made the act sound a lot less ritualistic.
The witness said that the boss wasn't at the amputation and testified: "The actual
procedure is to take… a little silver knife – on a table – and you pull it towards
you and bend over and your body weight will snap your finger off…The finger that is
severed is put in a small bottle with alcohol and your name is written on it and it is sent
to whoever you're repenting to as a sign that you are sorry."
In 1993, a government survey found that 45 percent of yakuza members were missing part
of their little finger and 15 percent had to perform the act more than once.
Yubitsume doesn't happen as often anymore because the yakuza has been trying to blend
into society, and missing pieces of your finger is a good way to stick out.
6.
Tadamasa Goto's Liver
Tadamasa Goto is the founder of the Goto-gumi, which is a large Yamaguchi-gumi affiliated
gang.
When he was in power, he was one of the most dominant and successful yakuza bosses in the
country, which is why he was called "The John Gotti of Japan."
Since Goto was a notorious gangster, he wasn't allowed to enter the United States.
This presented a problem for Goto in 2001 because the 59-year-old gangster needed a
liver transplant.
Liver problems are pretty common among the yakuza because gangsters who run red light
districts aren't exactly known for their clean living.
Also, their tattoos are so dense that it blocks sweat from exiting their body, meaning fewer
toxins leave their body, taking a toll on the liver.
Supposedly, liver damage is a sign of pride among the yakuza.
For example, they will say things like "I drank enough to destroy three livers."
However, due to restrictive organ transplant laws, transplants are hard to get in Japan.
This led to Goto striking a secret deal where he gave the FBI information on the yakuza
and he donated money to the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles in exchange for a liver transplant
for himself and three of his underlings.
The transplant stayed a secret until Jake Adelstein published a story about it in 2008.
UCLA claimed that the men each paid $400,000 in cash for their livers and Goto donated
$100,000.
However, Adelstein uncovered that Goto and one of the other yakuza gangsters each paid
$1 million for their livers.
Also, Goto would have been number 80 on the wait list for a liver, but he managed to get
a transplant in six weeks.
Two other people, including the second person on the wait list, died in area hospitals around
the time that Goto got his transplant.
When the UCLA Medical Center was asked about the transplants on men who were tattooed and
missing pieces of their pinkies, they declined to comment.
After getting the transplant, Goto went back to Japan and he remained the leader of Goto-gumi
until 2008.
In retirement, he joined the Buddhist priesthood and published an autobiography called Habakarinagara
("Pardon Me, But…
"). It was a bestseller and he said his royalties were donated to charity.
5.
The Yakuza are Heavily Involved in Japanese Politics and the Japanese Elite
The yakuza plays an interesting role in Japanese society.
For many years, the people of Japan begrudgingly accepted that the yakuza were part of the
culture, so the yakuza worked out in the open.
They are also long time donors and supporters of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which
is a right wing party that has been in power in Japan since 1955, with the exception of
five years – between 1993 and 1994 and 2009 to 2012.
Every so often, a scandal erupts when it's exposed that a politician received money from
the yakuza or one of their business-fronts.
Many times, it's not enough to ruin a career, and the politician usually doesn't resign.
One of the biggest political scandals happened during one of the few years when the LDP was
not in power.
Instead, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) was in power and they ran on a platform of
cleaning up the government and cracking down on the yakuza.
But then in October 2012, the DPJ appointed a man named Keishu Tanaka as the Minister
of Justice.
It turned out that he was heavily connected to the yakuza and the fact that the head of
their justice system was mobbed-up shocked Japan.
Tanaka resigned a few weeks later.
Besides money, another way that the yakuza help the LDP is by whipping up support in
rural areas.
In these areas, the campaign chiefs are yakuza who are also the head of the agricultural
cooperative, called nokyo, and the nokyo are connected to yakuza-run construction companies.
Many of the rice growers who are part of the nokyo also work construction jobs because
they don't make enough from growing rice.
Obviously, since people in the area are depending on the yakuza to work, the yakuza can be very
influential when it comes to drumming up votes for the LDP… who, again, have been in power
for 57 of the last 62 years.
4.
Human Trafficking
According to the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations, Japan has the fourth
biggest GDP just behind the United States, China, and the European Union.
They are one of the most technologically advanced societies and they have some of the lowest
crime rates in the world.
Their murder rate is only 0.3 per 100,000 people.
Despite how advanced and prosperous the country is, Japan has a horrifying human trafficking
problem.
Since 2001, the U.S. Department of State has released the Trafficking in Persons (TIP)
Report measuring countries on their human trafficking problems and what steps their
governments are taking to combat the problem.
There are four levels: tier 1, tier 2, tier 2 watch list, and tier 3, and then there is
a category for special cases.
Tier 1 countries are the best at handling human trafficking.
This includes countries like the United States, Australia, Canada, and many countries in Europe.
Japan, on the other hand, has never been ranked higher than a tier 2 country and has dipped
to tier 2 watch list in the past.
Tier 2 are "Countries whose governments do not fully meet the Trafficking Victims
Protection Act's minimum standards, but are making significant efforts to meet those
standards."
Other Tier 2 countries include Iraq, and the Northern triangle countries, which are El
Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala.
The Northern Triangle is the most violent area of the world that isn't at war, and
it's on par with Japan in terms of human trafficking.
Much of the human trafficking in Japan is handled by the yakuza.
The yakuza got their start in human trafficking during World War II, when they worked with
the Japanese empire to provide "comfort women" to soldiers.
The women were often from South Korea and other countries that were invaded by Japan
in World War II.
After the war, the yakuza set up brothels, which were frequented by American servicemen.
They also set up sex-tourism destinations in East Asia for Japanese men who were earning
better incomes after the war and could travel abroad inexpensively based on the strength
of the yen.
However, in the 1980s, women's groups started to protest sex tourism, so the yakuza made
a change.
Instead of men traveling to have sex with prostitutes, they simply brought foreign women
to Japan and set up brothels in red light districts.
These brothels are still in business and found throughout Japan.
It should also be noted that sex tourism didn't end, it just changed.
The yakuza now send men out of the country to have sex with children.
As for why Japan hasn't cracked down on the yakuza's human trafficking activities,
it probably doesn't hurt that the government that they financially support and campaign
for has been in near-constant power for the past 60 years.
3.
Host and Hostess Clubs
In Japan, there are bars called hostess and host clubs, where patrons can come and meet
a woman, who is called a hostess, or a man, who is a host, and they have drinks and converse.
However, the host and hostess clubs have a rather sinister side, as they are either owned
by the yakuza or yakuza associated.
According to Jake Adelstein, what happens is that a woman visits a host club to have
a "boyfriend experience" with one of the hosts.
As they drink, the host encourages the woman to keep buying expensive drinks, for which
they get a commission.
Sometimes the women rack up huge bills and when they can't pay, the yakuza may force
them to work off their debt, which can be done through prostitution.
This can even happen to girls under the age of 18, who are blackmailed or forced into
prostitution to pay what they owe.
If forcing women, especially teenagers, into prostitution to pay off a bar debt wasn't
bad enough, the yakuza have a system in place that the women will never work off the debt.
For example, they'll only be able pay off the interest, or they'll be "invited"
to host birthday parties, and then they are charged money to attend the party, which creates
more debt.
Essentially, the yakuza makes these women sex slaves because of a night out where they
spent a bit too much money.
2.
They Are One of the Wealthiest Organized Criminal Syndicates in the World
Besides the sex trade, another major source of income for the yakuza is drugs – especially
methamphetamine.
The yakuza reportedly account for one-third of the multi-billion dollar East Asian meth
trade.
As for how much money the entire yakuza organization makes as a whole, that's tough to say because
there are so many boryokudan, and they are comprised of hundreds of clans.
The last figure was from 1989, and it was estimated that they were making about Y1.3
trillion, which is worth about $10 billion today.
There are more recent estimates about how much revenue the biggest boryokudan, Yamaguchi-gumi,
generates and it's believed to be in the neighborhood of $6.6 billion.
This makes Yamaguchi-gumi one of the richest gangs in the world.
1.
Their Bloodiest War
There have been several yakuza wars over the past several decades, but the bloodiest started
in 1985.
The roots of the war date back to July 23, 1981, when Kazuo Taoka, who you'll remember
from entry #8, died of natural causes.
The person who would have assumed the position as oyabun was Kenichi Yamamoto, who was the
second-in-command.
However, when Taoka died, Yamamoto was in prison.
So the lieutenants decided to wait until he got out of prison, and then he would lead
the gang.
But then Yamamoto died from liver failure in prison on February 4, 1982.
With the two heads of the gang dead, the lieutenants voted on who would take on the leadership
and elected Masahisa Takenaka.
However, like many elections not everyone was happy with the results.
In this case, it was a man named Hiroshi Yamamoto.
Hiroshi Yamamoto broke away from the Yamaguchi-gumi and formed his own group, Ichiwa-kai.
They kickstarted the war by shooting to death Takenaka and two prominent members of the
Yamaguchi-gumi while they were in an elevator.
The war led to more shootings, which are incredibly rare in Japan because of strict gun laws,
and bombings over the next four years.
Things got so bad that Japanese newspapers kept a scorecard of the dead and injured.
The war was eventually won by Yamaguchi-gumi, who had many more soldiers.
By the time the war was over, 36 people were dead and scores more were injured.
Once the war came to an end, the members of Yamaguchi-gumi elected Yoshinori Watanabe,
aka Mr. Gorilla, to be their leader in 1989.
Watanabe was considered a strong and intelligent leader, growing membership and profits, but
he resigned (or was forced to resign) in 2005 as public heat increased on the yakuza.
The current oyabun of Yamaguchi-gumi is Kenichi Shinoda.
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