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Diposting oleh Unknown Label: Business OnlineHal ini merupakan analisa yang saya pelajari dari web/blog para master blogger dan seo, mengapa web/blog mereka mendapatkan banyak backclik dan merajai halaman utama google dengan keyword yang mereka incar. Dan rahasia ini sebenarnya sangat mudah, bila Anda tau caranya. Banyak para pemilik situs atau blogger yang ingin sekali mendapatkan ribuan Pengunjung, namun dengan cara keliru yaitu dengan black hat seo. Hal ini menurut saya boleh-boleh saja, asalkan tidak ketahuan oleh si mbah google, kalau ketahuan gimana? yah siap-siap lah web/blognya dibanned atau di blacklist sehingga tidak muncul lagi di google. Ini merupakan resiko yang paling besar, kan sia-sia semuanya kalau sudah di blacklist oleh google.
Jika Anda tertarik mendapatkan pengunjung yang natural dan tanpa resiko apapun saya akan memberitahu Anda. Tapi dengan 1 syarat, yaitu Anda juga harus mempublikasikannya juga ke dalam blog atau web Anda. Ini merupakan syarat wajib yang harus Anda lakukan agar web atau blog Anda mendapatkan banyak pengunjung.
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BUDAYA PACITAN,Upacara Adat Unggulan Masing-Masing Kecamatan dipacitan
Diposting oleh Unknown Label: Wisata
Upacara Adat Unggulan Masing-Masing Kecamatan dipacitan :
1. Kecamatan Bandar : Petik Pari
Upacara adat Methik Pari dilakukan oleh masyarakat Kecamatan Bandar sebagai upacara permohonan dan rasa syukur kepada Tuhan. Upacara ini dilakukan menjelang panen tiba yaitu pada malam hari.
2. Kecamatan Nawangan : Kethek Ogleng
Tari Kethek Ogleng diciptakan oleh Pak Sutiman warga Desa Tokawi Kecamatan Nawangan. Tarian ini terinspirasi dari gerakan-gerakan kethek atau monyet.
3. Kecamatan Arjosari : Jaranan Pegon
Jaranan Pegon merupakan seni tradisional dari Desa Mangunarjo Kecamatan Arjosari. Kesenian ini dilaksanakan saat warga mempunyai hajatan.
4. Kecamatan Pacitan : Mantu Kucing
Upacara adat Mantu Kucing merupakan upacara adat meminta hujan yang dilakukan oleh masyarakat Desa Purworejo Kecamatan Pacitan.
5. Kecamatan Kebonagung : Baritan
Baritan merupakan upacara adat untuk memohon kepada Tuhan agar memberikan keselamatan, dijauhkan dari pagebluk penyakit.
6. Kecamatan Tulakan : Jemblung Somopuro
Upacara adat ini untuk mengenang seorang seniman jemblung yang bertapa di Gua Somopuro.
7. Ngadirojo : Jangkrik genggong
Upacara adat Jangkrik Genggong merupakan upacara adat mewisuda anak laki-laki sebagai tanda bahwa anak tersebut telah beranjak dewasa dan boleh berlayar ke laut.
8. Kecamatan Sudimoro : Gembluk Kromomedjo
Upacara adat Gembluk Kromomedjo dilaksanakan untuk memperingati tragedi Geger Gunung Slurung.
9. Kecamatan Pringkuku : Ammos
Ammos merupakan cikal bakal seni kothekan lesung di Kabupaten Pacitan. Hingga saat ini Ammos berkembang di seluruh kecamatan di Kabupaten Pacitan
10. Kecamatan Punung : Srumbung Mojo
Srumbung Mojo adalah sebuah tempat di kecamatan Punung yang dianggap bertuah. Hingga saat ini masih ada warga yang datang untuk nyadran (bersih kubur) dan ngluari ujar (menepati janji).
11. Kecamatan Donorojo : Ceprotan
Ceprotan merupakan upacara adat bersih desa yang dilakukan oleh masyarakat Desa Sekar. Ceprotan biasanya dilaksanakan tiap Minggu Kliwon atau Senin Kliwon pada bulan Longkang atau Dzulkangidah.
12. Kecamatan Tegalombo : Badut sinampurno
Topi badut sebagai sarana upacara biasanya diritualkan untuk tulak bala, ruwatan, saat akan menikah atau akan dilaksanakan suatu hajatan.
1. Pantai Klayar
Tanah Lot Ala Pulau Jawa
Di Pacitan, ada sebuah pantai yang tak kalah indahnya dengan Tanah Lot di Bali, yaitu Pantai Klayar. Batu-batu karangnya yang eksotis membuat pantai ini sebagai wisata andalan di Pacitan.Pemandangan tak hanya indah jika dinikmati dari bibir pantai, tapi juga dari atas tebing karang. Di atas karang, kita bisa melihat pemandangan pantai secara keseluruhan. Tak ketinggalan gulungan ombak yang besar bisa kita nikmati juga di sini
dengan hamparan pasir putih, batu karang, dan air mancur alami. Semua itu menjadikannya pantai dengan pesona alam indah di Pacitan, Jawa Timur. Bukan hanya Tanah Lot yang indah dengan bebatuannya, tapi pantai ini menyuguhkan lebih dari itu
2. Pantai Taman
Pantai Taman,Ngadirojo(Lorok).Pacitan
Salah satu Pantai yang bagus di kunjungi bersama teman dan keluarga untuk liburan akhir pekan (weekend).
3. Pantai Srau
Pantai Srau, Surga Kecil di Pacitan
Jika ingin melihat pantai dengan air laut yang masih bersih, Anda tidak perlu jauh-jauh ke Bali. Di Jawa Timur, ada sebuah pantai yang memiliki air laut bersih, berpasir putih, dan karang kokoh yang mempercantik pemandangan. Ini adalah Pantai Serau, terletak di Kabupaten Pacitan,Jika datang ke sini, dijamin ingin kembali lagi.
4. PANTAI PIDAKAN 
PANTAI PIDAKAN,TULAKAN,PACITAN,
Keindahan yang Tersembunyi di Balik Bebatuan dengan beraneka ragam bintang lautnya.
5. Pantai Kali Uluh
Pantai Kali Uluh,Kebonagung,Pacitan.
Pantai KALI ULUH mempunyai alam yang sangat cantik dengan ombak yang cukup besar menjadikannya surganya bagi perselancar .
6. Pantai Buyutan
Pantai Buyutan,Desa Kalak, Pacitan, Jawa- timur
Pantai Tersembunyi di Kota Seribu Gua( hidden paradise )
Sebuah pantai yang masih sangat tersembunyi,pantai dengan panorama seindah lukisan dan pasir putih nya yang lembut tersapu ombak.Pantai Buyutan juga dihiasi dengan batuan karst sebagai hiasan pantai.
7. Pantai Banyu Tibo 
Pantai Banyu Tibo,Donorojo,Pacitan
Pasir putih yang menawan di hiasi akan bebatuan indah mirip dengan sebuah ukiran di kayu di tambah dengan dihiasi oleh air terjun yang jernih yang mengalir ke Pantai Lepas.
8. Pantai Srenget
Pantai Srenget,Kebonagung,Pacitan,Jawa-Timur,Indonesia
Laut yang membentang dan dihiasi air pantai yang biru kehijaun seakan pantai melambaikan tangannya untuk mengajak kita untuk menginjakkan kaki di bibir pantai tersebut .
9. Pantai Sidomulyo
Cantiknya Pantai Sidomulyo
Pantai Sidomulyo adalah salah satu pantai berpasir putih yang ada di Pacitan. Pantai ini masih sangat bersih dengan ombak yang lumayan besar dan belum banyak diketahui wisatawan.Banyak kegiatan yang bisa Anda lakukan di sini, seperti berenang, berjemur, memancing, atau sekedar duduk menikmati pemandangan.Pasti asyik dikunjungi bersama teman atau keluarga!
10. Pantai Watukarung 
Menari di Ombak Pantai Watukarung.
wisata Pantai Watukarung di Kabupaten Pacitan, Jawa Timur, tak hanya menawarkan pesona pasir putih perawan. Gugusan pulau karang hitamnya begitu kokoh menjulang. Di sela-sela karang itu, gelombang laut meliuk-liuk bak penari, menantang peselancar memacu adrenalinnya.
11. Pantai Wawaran
PANTAI WAWARAN - Pantai yang memiliki panorama alam khas laut selatan yang indah dengan ombaknya yang besar, juga penghasil ikan-ikan yang berkualitas tinggi
Author: Kenneth Blanchard, Ph.D. And Spencer Johnson, M.D.
- are the authors of Who Moved My Cheese?
Chapters: 16
Pages: 111
The Symbol: Modern Digital Watch that indicates 1 minute as a reminder to take time to look at the people you manage and know that they are your best resource.
Characters:
1. Bright Young Man
2. The One Minute Manager
3. Mr. Trenell - One Minute Goal Setting
4. Mr. Levy - One Minute Praising
5. Ms. Brown - One Minute Reprimand
6. Ms. Metcalfe - Secretary
Introduction:
Almost everything that you do with the people you manage should take a maximum of One Minute. That would be the first thought you would have reading the book. But once you're done of course it does not mean literally One Minute. It just means that you should not take more time in getting things done when you are efficient enough.
Matters that requires more than a minute should still be dealt with accordingly. Its the little time you spent with your people in the right moment that makes a difference. This is well laid out with the three guides of the One Minute Management explained in the book: One Minute Goal Setting, One Minute Praising and One Minute Reprimand. It is quite important that you do these guidelines straight when it is needed to obtain the right output to secure better people management skills.
Most managers as cited in the beginning of the book do not apply these and tend to go overboard. Let's take One Minute Goal Setting... if a leader takes time in preparing each member and the entire team with this then all will be on the same page and need not to be misguided along the production. It would be an easy reference to what they are expected to produce since it would be straight to the point.
Following the explanation below by the character Mr. Trenell. Same with One Minute Praising, highlighting the action needed to strengthen or emphasize the desired output and maintenance of it, explained by the character Mr. Levy. And most importantly, ensuring that behavior in the work environment that should not be tolerated will be explained on how you should manage this by the character Ms Brown.
Mr. Trenell - One Minute Goal Setting
a. Agree on your goals
b. See what good behavior looks like
c. Write out each of your goals on a single sheet of paper using less than 250 words.
d. Read and re-read each goal, which requires only a minute or so each time you do it.
e. Take a minute every once in a while out of your day to look at your performance and
f. See whether or not your behavior matches your goal.
Mr. Levy - One Minute Praising
a. Tell people up front that you are going to let them know how they are doing.
b. Praise people immediately.
c. Tell people what they did right - be specific.
d. Tell people how good you feel about what they did right, and how it helps the organization and the other people who work there.
e. Stop for a moment of silence to let them "feel" how good you feel.
f. Encourage them to do more of the same.
g. Shake hands or touch people in a way that makes it clear that you support their success in the organization.
Ms. Brown - One Minute Reprimand
a. Tell people beforehand that you are going to let them know how they are doing and in no uncertain terms. (the first half of the reprimand)
b. Reprimand people immediately.
c. Tell people what they did wrong - be specific.
d. Tell people how you feel about what they did wrong - and in no uncertain terms.
e. Stop for a few seconds of uncomfortable silence to let them feel how you feel.
f. Shake hands, or touch them in a way that lets them know you are honestly on their side.
g. Remind them how much you value them.
h. Reaffirm that you think well of them but not of their performance in this situation.
I. Realize that when the reprimand is over, it's over.
Conclusion:
The book was written by authors who also wrote "Who Moved My Cheese?", same as with the book that has enough pages on it to explain its objective which is on management of people and value of people as well. It keeps the reader on the edge of his/her seat which almost makes the reader feel that it only takes just a minute to read the book. It could be highly recommended for managers to read the book to lessen time spent in managing people and more on getting results the correct way without increasing pressure too much rather increasing the employee's initiative in getting things right.
Design for System Success - A Review of Donald Norman's The Design of Everyday Things
Diposting oleh Unknown Label: Book ReviewA recent Linkedin Poll discovered 32% of respondents ranking Teamwork as the weakest link in their practice. Since patient's perception of teamwork is one of the two key factors for referral generation (the other factor is your expertise), teamwork is important not only to get the job done but also to grow your practice. So, teamwork must be one of the key design criteria for medical practice management systems. For instance, electronic medical record (EMR) software is designed for compliance and for teamwork between physicians.
Similarly, billing software must be designed for teamwork between physicians, insurance companies, and billing staff. What are design principles for successful medical practice management systems?In the absence of comprehensive books focused on user interface design for medical office management systems, I recently read three design books that have to do with general design, user interface design, and social network design. Below is my summary of lessons learned.
Donald Norman - "The Design of Everyday Things"
Technology - especially computer technology - advances quickly. But humans do not change quickly, and the processes we use to perceive, learn, and think change slowly. Donald Norman, a cognitive scientist and author of "The Design of Everyday Things," noted this fact 30 years ago, in 1983. According to Donald Norman, the real culprit for "user judgement error" is always the design. His book, which has been adopted in leading colleges as a standard textbook, pays tremendous attention to the psychology of the mind, to how our mind works, resulting in a pragmatic set of four basic design principles:
- Conceptual Models that explain how things work, so that we can use different behaviours to accomplish our goals. Different classes of actions must have different command sequences or menu items to avoid capture or description problems.
- Feedback so we know immediately the result of our action. The state of the system needs to be clearly communicated to the user, helping to avoid mode errors.
- Constraints, making it impossible to use the device the wrong way. Also allow reversible actions.
- Affordances, making the appropriate actions perceptible and inappropriate - invisible.
- Hide things. Widen the "Gulf of Execution:" give no hints to the expected operation. Widen the "Gulf of Evaluation:" give no feedback, no visible results of the action.
- Be arbitrary. Use non-obvious commands and names. Use arbitrary mapping between intended action and result. Use idiosyncratic language and abbreviations. Use uninformative error messages.
- Be inconsistent. Change rules. Do the same thing in different ways when operating in different modes.
- Be impolite. Treat erroneous user actions as breaches of contract. Snarl. Insult. Mumble unintelligible verbiage.
- Make operations dangerous. Allow a single action to destroy invaluable data or work. Prevent recoverability. But add warnings in the manual. When users complain, ask "Did you read the manual?"
So the more controls, the easier is the operation but the more complex is the appearance and the more difficult is the task of finding the right control. Conversely, the fewer controls, the simpler and easier is the appearance of the device but the more difficult is the operation.
Reading Norman's book helps develop your power of observation. Norman's book teaches how to observe and understand design of things around us, how to see what conflicting constraints they must satisfy and apply his principles to create useful designs.
Food is the very first thing that comes to mind when thinking about restaurants. Serving good quality food should be your prime priority, as this is the main reason why people visit a restaurant in the first place. Using fresh ingredients and adding innovative dishes in your menu can make your food taste better and help you stay ahead of your competitors. Apart from quality, consistency is another thing which you should aim at. Be innovative, but restrain from changing your recipes too often, as it can put off customers, who like a particular dish and come to your restaurant to enjoy the same taste every time.
Apart from the food, service is another aspect that requires discreet attention. Irrespective of how good or tasty the food is, nothing can help you if the service is not up to the mark. In case they do not enjoy being at your restaurant, then there are very slim chances of them coming back or referring your restaurant to someone else. Thus, train the staff well as how to deal with customers and make them feel welcomed.
Cleanliness is an integral part of food industry and it can significantly make or destroy your reputation in the market. As a restaurant owner, it is your responsibility to ensure that proper standards of cleanliness and hygiene are maintained. However, it should not be limited to any one aspect but should be followed everywhere, from the kitchen to the front desk. Also, your staff should be dressed in clean uniforms, as it will make them look more presentable.
In a rush to make more profits and seem exclusive, many restaurant owners make the mistake of pricing their dishes too high. While it can work for some high-end restaurants, for the budding restaurant owners it is better to price their dishes reasonably, which their target customers can easily afford. Instead of charging your customers more, it is better to reduce your expenditure, by reducing staff or lowering useless expense. However, make sure that it does not have any impact on the quality of the food.
By keeping in mind the above mentioned tips you can definitely take your restaurant business to exceptional heights and become a renowned name, that people can relate with good quality, great service and exceptional dining experience.
There is a practice called boosting, which an athlete with spinal damage is capable of doing. Statistics indicates that a 30% of wheelchair athletes are doing boosting before the games. They do self harmto help increase blood pressure and performance enhancement without feeling any pain. The way this is done would be having the lower part of the body exposed to painful stimuli like, a full bladder, breaking a toe or sitting on sharp objects. Some would even go to the extreme of pinning their testicles.
Boosting for a Paralympians is the same as banned drugs or steroid to an able-bodied athlete.
The officials help the self harming athletes by telling them how dangerous this boosting can be for their health. Players would be required to have their blood pressures taken before the game and if it's off the roof, then the punishment would be the disqualification of that player from the game. But if they have a doctor's certificate explaining why their blood pressure is high, then they are still permitted to compete.
But interestingly, ever since the Beijing Paralympic games, no athletes have been tested positive for boosting.
The risk of these boosting practices is a stroke or a heart attack due to elevated blood pressure, but since some other athletes can't feel anything, they thought that the risk is worth taking. This is an extremely dangerous and risky stunt to do but for others this is the cost of victory. They'd do a little self harm in exchange for a moment of triumph that they'll remember forever.
Currently the number of Paralympians who had been through a programme that teaches the dangers of boosting is increasing. The programme covered all aspects of the athlete's preparation. The athlete is fully aware that the Paralympics does not encourage boosting in any way, form or shape that can cause potential danger to the person.
With the number of interest and investment for the Paralympics that kept on increasing from other nations, it is believed the athletes would have the spot light that can help boost their performance without any self harm from boosting. These indeed are positive signs not only for the Paralympic games but for the Paralympic athletes as well.
5 Things You Never Knew About Famous Olympic Athlete Lord Sebastian Coe!
Diposting oleh Unknown Label: Sports
1. Coe was appointed the first chairman FIFA's ethics commission.
He was appointed in 2006 and his role was to set dates and locations for tournaments, including deciding on the formats. He also had the power to hire and fire delegates.
2. Seb is an ambassador for Nike worldwide.
He also owns a string of health clubs, including some in prestige hotels.
3. He is descended from Jamaican slave proprietors and sugar plantation owners, George Clarke and Edward Hyde.
George Clarke was also the Lieutenant Governor of New York Colony.
4. Coe is colour blind.
Colour Blindness - genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue
5. He was given the "Prince of Asturias" award (the very first one) in 1987.
The "Prince of Asturias" is an award given in Spain for high achievers around the world. There are several different categories and coe won the very first one in the category of "sport".
All in all Lord Sebastian Coe is an inspirational figure who has worked very hard to stay in his high profile position. He has been many things in his lifetime, including Olympic athlete, gold medal and world record holder.
He has had a spell as a tory MP for Falmouth and Camborne from 1992 until 1997.
He also became ambassador for the London 2012 Olympic bid in 2004. In this role he was wildly successful, helping to win the bid for London. From 2004 right up to and throughout the Olympics, Coe worked tirelessly and is rightly admired for his achievements in this area.
He has made many television appearances over the years. He's appeared as himself in "Brass Eye", "The Britta's Empire" and the spoof documentary "Twenty Twelve".
He has been adorned with a host of awards including, BBC sports personality of the year 1979, United Press International athlete of the year 1979 and 1981, Men's Track and Field athlete of the year 1979 and 1981.
It could be said that Lord Coe's future is bright; in fact "the world is his oyster". He has the scope to do anything he wishes to do. There will be huge queues for his services including international corporations, tv stations, radio stations, newspapers and magazines, political parties, charities and a plethora of other organisations. One big appointment he could be in for, surely he is now a prime candidate for London Mayor.
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10 Thing Sales People Need to Know About C-Level Decision Makers
Diposting oleh Unknown Label: Business FinanceSelling to high-level decision makers is challenging at the best of times. However, it can be easier if you understand a few business principles.
C-level decision makers are paid to improve their business results. Regardless of how the media portrays these executives, their primary concern is to improve their business. This includes increasing sales, market share, customer loyalty; reducing costs, errors, or employee turnover; improving productivity, employee engagement, customer service, etc.
How does your product, service or solution address one of these issues?
C-level decision makers deal with changing priorities. Improving customer engagement may be a top priority today but tomorrow that executive may be faced with cutting $250,000 in expenses. That means they sometimes go cold after expressing initial interest in your solution.
Do you have a strategy in place to keep your solution current?
C-level decision makersare extremely busy. The average executive arrives early in the morning and stays late into the evening. They get dozens of calls every day, receive too many emails, and attend too many meetings. This means that you need to maximize every minute you have when you connect with them. This applies to telephone conversations and face-to-face meetings.
Do you know EXACTLY what to say when you connect with these individuals?
C-level decision makersrely on others. Contrary to popular belief, these high-ranking big-wigs seldom make decisions on their own. They often defer to other people on their team and ask for feedback from peers and/or subordinates. This means you need to involve these people in your conversations and include them in the decision making process.
Do you have the ability to finesse this?
C-level decision makers don't like to make mistakes. A major mistake can affect an executive's reputation in their company. This affects the decision-making process which means you need to uncover their risk factor during your conversations.
How will you reduce your prospect's risk factor?
C-level decision makers have big egos. Most executives have a healthy ego which is one of the things that helped them achieve their status in the company. This means that you need to be very confident in your own abilities when selling to these individuals. Don't back down when you're challenged. In fact, doing so could cost you the business because C-level execs want to deal with people who believe in what they do.
Are you confident enough to deal directly with C-level executives?
C-level decision makers spend the bulk of their day in meetings.The next time you're in the office, watch an executive. Chances are you will see them dashing from meeting to meeting. Your prospects are in the same position. They aren't sitting at their desk waiting for you to call them.
Are you persistent in your efforts to connect with these individuals?
C-level decision makers have at least 40 hours of work on their desk at any given time. Several executives I know have expressed these sentiment, 'I will never get caught up' or 'Just when I think I can't get busier, I do' or 'I never call a sales person back because I already have too much on my plate.' you need to give these individual's an extremely good reason to meet with you or take your call.
Is your approach effective?
C-level decision makers receive upwards of 150 emails every day. Many sales people use email as their major form of correspondence and it can be ineffective because most C-level decision makers simply don't have time to respond to every email. A Managing Director once told me that he prefers telephone correspondence because he simply can't get to every email, even when he wants to.
Do you use a variety of strategies to connect with C-level decision makers?
C-level decision makers think big picture.Stop focusing on your product or your company and start looking at the big picture of your prospect's business. Most C-level execs don't get bogged down in the little details of their business'they pay others to take care of the details. I once met with the President of a $125 million company and made the mistake of asking her questions about front-line execution instead of top-level strategic issues.
Can you see and discuss the big picture?
Think about your responses to each question and adapt your approach accordingly.
' MMXI Kelley Robertson, All rights reserved.
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How To Design Posters With The Help Of Adobe Photoshop
Diposting oleh Unknown Label: Business FinanceFor expert artist and designers, the exciting thing about utilizing personal computer sets is that most of these individuals can now combine the technology with the traditional art without compromising others aspects. Utilizing a computer program such as the Adobe Photoshop will now allow you to do the same things that would have done traditional by some people with a pencil and paper, however, much faster and with less waste materials. Most designers and even you can now redraw and get rid of illustrations and images with the aid of this advanced computer technology, even in the last phase of the design process, without having to get more pencils and papers.
This goes for all amateur and professional designers like you, you and all others that are more often than not making business marketing materials such as stickers, postcards and especially posters can now make use of the steps that is printed in this article for you to cut down on printing cost and especially on waste materials.
You will also accomplish plenty of time when it comes to setting up something errors with the aid of these programs. To further improve your know how about these things, below are some of the fundamental steps that you can consider every time you are designing your print materials with the aid of the Adobe Photoshop.
The sketching in Photoshop ? most of the professional designers usually believes that the process of sketching is similar when it comes to traditional and digital art. The palette graphics of this program almost replicates the feeling of the drawing on paper materials. However, the drawing process in this program is not really as fast as the drawing process in paper materials. On the other side of the working sheet of this given program, you can make effects such as the halftones that cannot be drawn with the use of pencils and papers.
Preparing layers ? after you have finished with the sketching process, it is now the time for you to convert all the images in your print materials into sepia tones before you work on the color elements. The process of converting the images into sepia tones is a very easy task that you can do on your own. After that, you can utilize the sliders to colorize the lines into yellow or some other colors that you want. In sepia, the sketch lines usually yield halftones that are subtle, which makes it easier for you to view the image but retain its given form while in the coloring process.
Working with the lower layer ? always select a dominant dark type color that the secondary aspect can relate to without losing or decreasing the contrast in your print materials. It is a must for you to do this process so that you will not be lost in the details of all the given colors and images that is floating around your print materials.
Working with the top layer ? finally, the top layer is usually where you can work with the lines of the drawing in your poster printing by adjusting, refining and correcting them. This is also where you can work with the lighter colors to aid you smooth out uneven shapes. Once you are done coloring your poster design, the top layer is also, where you can get rid of the lines that will just negatively affect your print materials functionality.
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So often we publish lists that praise events in human history � tales of victory over diseases, disastrous situations, and the like. But alas, history is also replete with events that we must remember so as to not repeat them, but we wish had never happened. This list looks at ten of the worst moments in history when man showed that he can act with utter contempt for the rest of man.
1. Roman-Catholic Sex Abuse
Sexual abuse of the naive and innocent by authority figures is nothing new to human history, but what makes this example of it especially heinous is that it has taken place under the unwatchful eye of the most powerful Christian organization in the world. Child rape and molestation are, in the common view, possibly the vilest, most despicable sin (and felonies) a person can commit, precisely because there can be no excuse for it. Add to that the sin of homosexuality (we speak here in terms of Christianity), and it seems an impossible situation for a child ever to be found in.
Priests ought to understand these sins better than most people, and in Roman-Catholic cultures all over the world, parents highly revere priests as authority figures, second fathers to their children, and excellent teachers of morality. Hence, the question everyone has asked, �How in God�s name could this have happened?�
It�s not just a matter of well kept personal secrets among the guilty parties. The Catholic Church held meetings in the 1950s concerning sexual abuse of minors by priests, and yet, apparently nothing was done to prevent the growing disaster. Those people known to have a history of committing sexual abuse against others were knowingly ordained and sent to priestly duties all over the world, not just in the United States, but in England, Ireland, Canada, Belgium, the Philippines, and many other nations.
The scandal didn�t hit the mainstream media until the 1980s, raising suspicion of Papal cover-ups to protect the image of Christianity. Fortunately, Christianity�s image has not suffered a fraction of the fall-out that the Catholic hierarchy has. Christ will never be torn down because of man�s sin, or it would certainly have happened by now.
The priests are, as of this list, still being hunted down, investigated, and dealt with according to man�s law. God�s law will deal with the guilt of every sinner involved, if you believe in Him, but in the meantime, the Roman-Catholic denomination of the man many hold as the absolute greatest good in history has suffered severe damage to its reputation. Whether it is irreparable depends on how long a consecutive series of superlative Popes the Catholic Church can elect, beginning with John Paul II.
2. Great Chinese Famine
From 1958 to 1962, China experienced a monumental famine that killed at least 45 million people. There are generally two causes blamed for it: natural disasters and the communist policies of Mao Zedong. Chairman Mao defined this period of his rule as the �Great Leap Forward,� and implemented economic and social changes with epic consequences. This entry is quite similar to #6 and #3.
Mao intended to turn China from an agrarian economy into a modern, urbanized, industrial giant on par with the U. S. But forcing his Great Leap Forward on the Chinese countryside led to nationwide crop shortages. Then the Yellow River flooded in 1959, drowning or starving 2 million. The next year, 60% of China�s farmland received no rain at all.
Mao�s idea of forcing farmers into industrial careers further destroyed the harvests. The famine became so intolerable that in some areas, people resorted to canniablism. Millions were tortured to death for the crime of stealing food to feed their families. One man, Liu Desheng, was found to have stolen a sweet potato, and he and his wife and son were urinated on, then forced to eat large gulps of human feces. They both died within weeks.
Mao and his officers meanwhile dined on $1,000 French meals and 20 year-old Scotch whisky. Mao is on record as having told his officers that there would be many deaths due to his Great Leap Forward, but that in the end, they would serve a greater good. The famine only ended when the weather improved in 1962. 5% of China starved to death, drowned, or were murdered
3. Forced Extinction of Species
Ecologists agree that Earth appears to be experiencing a mass extinction at present. These have happened many times in the past. The extinction of the dinosaurs is believed to have been caused most directly by a comet or asteroid impact. That event was nothing compared to the Permian-Triassic extinction, which may have been caused by a Gamma Ray Burst. That event resulted in 96% of all marine life and 70% of all land life dying.
What has happened to plant and animal species while modern man has been on Earth pales in the shadow of these two events, and yet humanity in general is doing terribly little to maintain critically endangered species. Most humans seem to adore �cuddly� animals. Anything with fur qualifies, and we have many tastes in what animals are beautiful. The tiger is magnificent. In 2005 there were only 250 breeding Siberian tigers in the Russian wild. There are well over 10,000 in captive breeding programs around the world: some people are trying to save species from extinction, while many others willfully poach those endangered animals for the black market.
Tiger penis is considered the ultimate aphrodisiac in some places in China. These magnificent animals are being killed, illegally and at extreme personal risk, for money and sexual gratification. In 2011, the Western Black Rhinoceros was declared officially extinct. They, like so many other gigantic African marvels, had been hunted coldly, and unsympathetically, by humans out for a cheap thrill and what they thought was sport and danger.
Black rhinoceroses are extremely aggressive and have terrible eyesight. They will charge headfirst into trees and termite mounds, thinking they see a territorial challenger. Males weigh an easy 3,000 pounds. The record is 6,380 pounds. There are only about 4,000 left in the African wild as of this list. The reason is two-fold: in 1900 there were several hundred thousand in Africa, but English �hunters� toured Africa to shoot down the Big Five: elephants, rhinoceroses, cape buffaloes, lions, and leopards.
This lister goes hunting now and then for deer, squirrels, rabbits, and doves, and these animals are very bountiful and fairly difficult to outwit in the wild. The hunter must also be a good marksman. But in Africa, elephants and rhinoceroses are too gargantuan to have natural predators except the very occasional lion. So they stand still or charge in the presence of humans. There�s no �hunting� involved. You can drive up to either species in a jeep in the middle of day and take pictures.
And armed with a .700 Nitro Express, which propels a 1000 grain solid bronze bullet at 8900 foot-pounds of force, there�s no skill involved. Some people just enjoy killing these magnificent animals for the empowerment it seems to instill. Also, rhinoceros horns are highly sought after in Chinese �medicine� for their ability to cure disease and impotence, neither of which the horn can do. It is made of pure keratin, and so are your fingernails. Keratin comes from the Greek ???at??, which means �of the horn.�
There are anywhere from 470,000 to 690,000 African Bush Elephants left in the wild, and they are protected from poachers, but not well. They are poached for their ivory tusks, regardless of the international illegality of buying or selling them. Gorillas are poached for their hands, which are used as ashtrays. Then, of course, there is severe habitat destruction in virtually every ecosystem on the planet, so we can have our diamonds and gold, and build colossal megalopolis.
4. Fanatical Terrorism
Splinter-cell terrorism refers to acts of terror, especially bombings, hijackings, and assassinations, committed by agents of organizations operating all over the world free of direct link to any organization. It is the ultimate example of guerrilla warfare, and as the world has seen in the past 20 years or so, huge, powerful, technologically advanced militaries have extreme difficulty stopping these criminals.
Splinter-cell terrorists are responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States of America. Before that, the U. S. remained generally aloof to the global war of attrition being waged against these fanatics (lunatics). U. S. embassies were bombed in Africa in 1998, the USS Cole in 2000, and all the while, efforts were underway to find the leader of the primary aggressor against global civilization, al-Qaeda. That leader, Osama bin Laden, could not be found, until after 9/11, when the U. S. began hunting him down in earnest. It took a decade to catch him.
In the meantime, other fanatics the world over were perpetrating atrocity after atrocity against innocent, unarmed civilians of dozens of countries, for the avowed purpose of eradicating Jews and Christians from Earth. Stopping each of these terrorists once they make their presence known can never put an end to the problem.
Islamic terrorists are not the only culprits, as Theodore Kaczynski and Timothy McVeigh prove. It is impossible to make these fanatics respect any military might, since to begin with, they are not afraid to die in the process of killing others. How civilized humanity can put a total end to this terrorism is still debatable, of course. Whether it even can be stopped is also debatable.
5. Khmer Rouge Regime
The Khmer Rouge were members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, and during their 4-year reign of terror, from 1975 to 1979, they completely destroyed Cambodia, economically, politically, and demographically. They took advantage of the chaos following the Vietnam War to overthrow the Republican government and set up what their leader, Saloth Sar, who named himself Pol Pot, called �agrarian socialism.� It was, in reality, a forced relocation of every single Cambodian citizen from cities to farms where they were forced to farm regardless of skill or health. They were starved to death, beaten to death, overworked to death, and tortured to death.
Anyone deemed �intellectual� was immediately murdered to protect the regime. Anyone wearing glasses was deemed intellectual. These people were taken out into �killing fields� and hacked to pieces with machetes. Every single book that could be found was burned, as was all money. All banks and even hospitals were shut down. The citizens were no longer given more than two bowls of rice soup per day. All religion was banned, and those adhering to any religion were prime targets for murder, including Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims, anyone educated in western universities, and any ethnicity other than Cambodian.
The most notorious details of this sorry moment in human history come from S-21, now the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. It was a high school before it was taken over. The Khmer Rouge guards forced the prisoners to eat the guards� feces. The prisoners were forbidden from drinking water without permission, and if they did, they were beaten sometimes to death. They were water boarded, raped, their teeth and genitals electrocuted, bled to death, drowned, and castrated with pliers.
The death toll of this regime cannot be accurately calculated, because records were rarely kept well. The most reliable estimate is 2.5 to 3 million murdered. That was 21% of Cambodia�s population. Pol Pot died on 15 April 1998 of what was claimed to be heart failure. He might have been poisoned, or committed suicide, since he was about to be arrested for his crimes.
6. World War One
One of only two wars to make this list, this one does because of the hideous speed at which hostilities escalated in 1914, and because there is no single villain to blame. Humanity in general is to blame for this one. In retrospect, it appears as if every country in Europe was harboring a festering hatred for one another, and everyone was looking for an excuse to invade.
The act that touched it off was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria-Este, by Gavrilo Princip, whose motive was no more complicated than a desire to prove his bravery to the Serbian army, which had rejected him for being too small and weak.
Almost every nation in Europe had a treaty with another nation, and these treaties all said the same thing: if anyone attacks you, we�ve got your back. Austro-Hungary declared war on Serbia, which prompted Russia to declare war on Austro-Hungary, which prompted Germany and Italy to declare war on Russia, which prompted the United Kingdom and France to declare war on Germany and Italy. Spain and, of course, Switzerland stayed out of it.
The United States stayed out of it until Germany waged total war on international unarmed merchant ships, particularly Lusitania, and because of the Zimmermann Telegram which Germany sent to Mexico, urging it to declare war on the U. S. The British intercepted this memo, but Mexico, to its credit, did not dare attack the U. S.
We can all agree that war is the epitome of human stupidity, and as wars go, WWI may be insurmountable in exemplary idiocy. War theory, if we may call it that, had progressed in terms of modern defense, but not attack: both sides were armed with more or less the very same weaponry, especially the Maxim machine gun, the first truly modern machine gun. It is belt-fed, fires the .303 British, the 8mm Mauser, or the 7.62 NATO, at a rate of 450 to 500 rounds per minute, sufficient to cut men in half, which is precisely what it did tens of thousands of times for 4 years.
The British, French, Germans, Russians, and Americans all had them, and for the first 2 and a half years, the trench warfare involved one side charging out across 100 to 1000 yards of no-man�s land, through shell craters, barbed wire, mud and mines, right into the waiting machine gun lines of the enemy trenches.
Each time one side was beaten back with severe losses, the other side thought there would be a weakness and charged after them, right into waiting machine gun lines. Kaiser Wilhelm sent a telegram in late 1914 to his cousin, Tsar Nicholas II, that read, in Russian, �Nicky, how can we stop this?�
On the first day of the Battle of the Somme River, 1 July 1916, the middle day of the middle year of the Great War, as it was called before 1939, the British conducted the European Slow March, walking, not running, toward the Germans, on the theory that the slower they advanced, the more difficult they would be to hit, and more fearsome they would be to the enemy. After 12 hours, 19,240 British soldiers lay dead in about 25 square miles. This was the most lethal day in the British military�s history.
The Somme was begun in an attempt to draw men of both sides away from the Battle of Verdun, so a decision there could be attained. Instead, the Somme became an even larger battle in scale, and it and Verdun remain the most epic of the War. 698,000 men died at Verdun, 70,000 per month for 10 months. Over 300,000 died at the Somme. Each battle resulted in over 1 million casualties, the debut of the modern flamethrower at Verdun, and the tank at the Somme.
The Germans opened hostilities at Verdun with a 10-hour cannonade of 808 artillery pieces, firing almost 1 million shells, some as wide as steering wheels. Around the French fortifications, the blackened skeletons of trees were festooned with human and horse intestines. The Germans also used ample supplies of mustard gas in both battles. Mustard gas is essentially aerosol hydrochloric acid. One breath of it can kill a man by internal drowning. It also severely burns and blisters skin and blinds eyes.
Both battles ended in utter stalemate, because mobility had not progressed on par with firepower, and that lack of mobility, especially on the first day of the Somme, displayed more directly than any other action in any war the utter futility and insanity of warfare. Neither side could approach the other, but the Germans found their losses more irreplaceable than the combined French and British.
When the Americans showed up, the Germans simply could not cope with the overwhelming enemy men and materiel for much longer. About 15 million, military and civilian, died, unless we include deaths from Spanish influenza, which was itself a direct result of the War. That puts the estimate at about 65 million.
7. The Black Death
There is no one cause to blame for the Bubonic plague�s rise to power in 1346 or so, but Europe in general can be criticized strongly for its primitive belief in witches. Because �witches� were hunted down wholesale by reason of an insufferably pervasive fear of the Devil, domestic and feral cats were also killed by the hundreds of thousands, because they were thought to be witches� �familiars,� that without one, a witch could not adequately cast spells.
So once witch-hunts showed up in full swing and cats started disappearing into the fires, the entire European world was ripe for an epidemic of rats. And the rats showed up in full swing in 1346 in the Crimea, via the Silk Road from China. There were no cats to check the rats stowing away onboard merchant ships, and these rats were infested with fleas. The fleas carried yersinia pests, better known as plague.
Today, this bacteria has been all but eradicated in most places around the world, because cleanliness is next to Godliness. A regular hot bath with soap will rid you of fleas, but such baths were not regular in the Middle Ages. Once bitten by an infected flea, curing yourself is really not difficult at all. Streptomycin prevents the bacteria from replicating, which gives the immune system enough time to tailor an antibody to kill it. Europe didn�t know about antibiotics, and had they, they might have had fair results by eating moldy bread.
Without treatment, plague is one of only three known diseases with a mortality rate of 100%. The other two are rabies encephalitis and HIV. Given the primitive medical knowledge of the Middle Ages, the world didn�t have a chance. Even the best physicians had no clue what to do to protect themselves, much less the populace.
Doctors entered homes only after donning full-body leather armor, helmets and masks shaped like hawk beaks, filled with aromatic herbs, due to the miasmatic theory of diseases. According to this theory, simply �stirring up the vapors� would cure the area of plague, while the doctor would remain safe breathing in his mask. The masks had red glass over the eyeholes, because even looking at an infected person was thought to cause infection.
Ringing bells was thought to stir up the vapors. Or the sick person could stand next to a latrine and inhale the stench. About the only method that actually worked to a small degree was smoking tobacco, because the smoke kept the fleas away. But the most infamous methods for curing the plague were based on the principle that God was very angry with the whole world.
The Flagellants began roaming the countryside by 1349, especially in Germany, and they beat themselves bloody with Roman-style flails, the same kind used to scourge Christ. The idea was that if they suffered enough, God would relent and the plague would stop. It didn�t work.
So, like clockwork, God�s wrath was blamed on the non-Christians throughout Europe, and that mostly meant Jews. In February of 1349, 2,000 Jews were hacked to pieces and burned at the stake in Strasbourg, on the French-German border. But the plague kept coming. It killed 40% of Egypt, 30% of the Middle East, about half of the 100,000 people in Paris. The worst hit area was Mediterranean Europe, including Italy, Spain, and southern France. There, about 75% to 80% died. The Pope, Clement VI, survived by surrounding his throne 24 hours a day with torches burning close to the floor. In the aftermath, his servants found scorched fleas �like pepper� just outside the ring of flame.
England suffered about 20% dead. The total average was about 25% of the whole world, as evidence indicates plague deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, India, and the Orient. As much as 66% of Europe and Asia succumbed. Approximately 100,000,000 people died in 4 years.
8. The Holodomor
Holodomor is the Ukrainian word for �killing by hunger.� It is now the proper term for Josef Stalin�s forced starvation genocide against the Ukraine from 1932 to 1933. The manner by which Stalin forced it on the Ukrainian people is open for discussion, but most historians agree that he knew what was happening in the Ukraine and refused to provide relief of any kind, even ordering food shipments diverted from the Ukraine and what food its population had confiscated, violently whenever necessary. He imposed this particularly cruel death sentence on so many solely out of retaliation for the Ukraine striving for national recognition and independence.
Today, we refer to it as a country, Ukraine, with Kiev as its capital city. But at that time, it was still referred to as �the Ukrainian SSR,� or simply, �the Ukraine,� one of many areas of Russia. The famine was manmade, an imposition directly from Stalin, but whether he premeditated it beforehand is difficult to determine. Most of Russia was experiencing a famine at that time, and Stalin may have seen this a chance to make the Holodomor look, at best, like an accident, at worst, passive justice.
The numbers are the saddest testimony overall in every one of these entries. Records were not well kept during the famine, so the death toll ranges from 1.8 to 12 million. Some scholars have narrowed this down to about 4 to 5 million. The borders were closed by the NKVD, the precursor to the KGB, and anyone attempting to flee to other countries or Russian states was either shot or captured and brought back to starve. 190,000 tried to escape the Ukraine after the first year.
Starvation may be the most awful cause of death. The commoners� despair, agony, and terror led tens of thousands to resort to eating their own children. Many ate their own feet. It did not end until Stalin�s implementation of forced collectivization of grain threatened to destroy all of Russia, not just the Ukraine. Once the police and military stopped stealing everyone�s grain, farmers were able to grow for small communities, as they always had.
9. World War Two
This war can be blamed mostly on one man, Adolf Hitler. Let us take a brief look at the motives by which he initiated global hostilities in 1939. Whereas, Stalin was patently paranoid that he would lose his power, Hitler was not afraid. He simply carried a fuming rage which, in childhood, he directed against nothing in particular.
He was imprisoned for his failed Beer Hall Putsch, an attempt to overthrow the Kaiser government, in 1923. While serving 8 months, he and Rudolf Hess wrote Mein Kampf, in which Hitler blamed absolutely everything bad that had ever happened to Germany on the Jews, all of them everywhere on Earth. Whether he actually believed this is open to debate, but there is no denying that he saw in Jews an outstanding scapegoat, one against which all non-Jewish Germans would rally.
It worked better than he could possibly have imagined. He emerged from prison a national hero and 10 years later took control of the government. What followed was a nationwide brainwashing: everyone began hating Jews intensely. Many of the Jews saw the trouble coming and left for England or America. Most stayed, hoping they would be saved. They weren�t, until it was too late.
6 years later, Hitler made good on his promise to acquire �lebensraum� for the German people, by invading Poland. Britain and France immediately declared war on Germany. Russia made a pact with Germany because Stalin knew he could not conquer Germany at that time. Hitler bided his time before invading Russia 2 years later, in the knowledge that Russia�s military was woefully inadequate. Japan invaded China for its resources, and in September 1940 Japan, Italy, and Germany became the formal Axis Powers, solely because they understood their identical desires to conquer other countries.
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in retaliation for the U. S. embargo on oil, iron, and machinery. The U. S. then declared war on Japan, and there were declarations of war all around. Oh, what a merry world it became so quickly. After 6 years, 71 million people were dead. Rome, Paris, Moscow, Leningrad, and London were smoldering. Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Stalingrad, and Manila were obliterated.
The most infamous aspect of the War will forever remain the Holocaust. It is also referred to as HaShoah, which is Hebrew for �The Catastrophe.� Much has been said about it already on Listverse, so let us briefly examine Hitler�s methods, by which he remorselessly and unsympathetically attempted to eradicate an entire race of humans.
His seething, abiding rage found in Jews the perfect target, and he set about in his political ambitions, surrounding himself with men who agreed, some for power, some out of rage or delight, all out of hatred, that the Jews as a race needed to, and could, be extinguished. The Wehrmacht, for its part, had nothing at all to do with the Holocaust, and had very little idea it was going on. They were an honorable institution, if honor, just as compassion, can be found in war.
The Schutzstaffel, or SS, carried out the murder of 6 million men, women, and children, by poisonous gas, shooting, beating, torturing, �scientific� experiments, systematic starvation, and overwork, on the pretense that �Aryans� were superior humans, and that Jews were no better than cattle, in which terms, the question was asked, �Do we feel bad when we slaughter cows for food?�
1.1 million were murdered at Auschwitz, 700,000 to 800,000 at Treblinka, 600,000 at Belzec, 360,000 at Majdanek, 320,000 at Chelmno, 250,000 at Sobibor. Merely because they were Jewish. Meawhile, at least 750,000 soldiers and civilians died in 199 days in Stalingrad. That was only one battle of the War.
10. The Crusades
Whereas, Stalin never offered any political explanation for, nor a formal admission of, attempting to starve all of Ukraine, and Hitler explained the Holocaust as �a necessary step� in the process of purifying and strengthening the �master race,� the Crusades were undertaken by both the Christians and the Muslims for the openly expressed purpose of exterminating the opposing religion along with all its adherents, solely to glorify God. It remains the blackest moment in the history of all religion.
It lasted from c. 1063 until c. 1434, when handheld gunpowder weapons were first used to good effect in combat. Keep in mind, before you denounce God for allowing or causing it to happen, that doing so is foolishly dismissive. Assuming there is a God, the Crusades were not his fault. They remain humanity�s fault by two causes: first, the refusal to tolerate differences; and second, the active enjoyment derived from hurting things, especially other humans, since they can best voice their disapproval of such actions.
The use of the word �God� in any language to justify one�s actions of violence is but a means to an end, and also sweetens the enjoyment of another person�s pain, since by denouncing that person as an infidel, the malicious party can believe that person is also destined for eternal agony, after the agony s/he is forced to suffer on Earth. Sounds appetizing, doesn�t it? Because we all get angry at other people for various perceived offenses, deep down doesn�t it sound appetizing to believe those people are going to Hell, regardless of how much they suffer in life? No one would ever admit to it, of course, but it�s a primitive passion innate in every human, and precisely the heart of the Crusades.
In 1099, the 1st Crusade ended in �Christian� victory, when knights and soldiers from France, England, Germany, and Apulia (southern Italy) successfully besieged Jerusalem from 7 June to 15 July. They were opposed by the Islamic Fatimid Caliphate of Egypt, under Iftikhar ad-Dawla, who had 400 cavalrymen and a garrison of Muslim and Nubian troops comparable in size to the invaders, about 13,000 for each side. Inside the city there lived over 60,000 unarmed civilians, mostly Muslims and Jews.
Once the city fell, the invaders stormed in, ransacked every building and murdered every single man, woman, and child within the walls. 70,000 people were hacked to pieces �in the name of Christ.� The horses waded in blood up to their knees. Probably half the women were raped, and most of everyone was tortured by varying methods. It was unbridled, bacchanalian sadism. About 500 Jews fought alongside the Muslims, then took refuge in a synagogue. The French burned the synagogue to the ground, with everyone in it.
88 years later, Salah ad-Din successfully took Jerusalem back for Islam and allowed all those inside to return unharmed to their homelands provided they paid a ransom. Those who could not afford it were sold into slavery. Two years later, Richard I of England (the Lionheart) arrived with Phillip II of France and Frederick I of Germany. Richard was not the chivalrous hero he is frequently depicted as in films. He spent barely 6 months of his 10-year regency in England. He lived in France, spoke only Langues d�Oil and Langues d�Oc, two dialects of Old French, did not speak any form of English, and used England as a money machine to finance his conquests. He loved the sport and glory of overpowering other nations. His Crusade, the 3rd, ended in an uneasy stalemate.
There would be 6 more Crusades, with the Holy Land changing hands several times, costing hundreds of thousands of lives, all in the name of one god or another. All the while, both bibles stated, �Love your enemies.�
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