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Specify three possible options that Nintendo should consider and justify the most suitable choice using SAF criteria.

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Discuss the differences between the Planning and Emergent Schools of Strategy. Discuss the importance of emergent strategy in fast-changing environments.

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Using relevant strategic analysis at the macro, industry, and micro levels, critically discuss the key strategic issues that Nintendo is currently facing.

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Using both SWOT and value chain analysis, critically discuss the core competencies that Nintendo possesses relative to its competitors.

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The rate of technological innovation has a significant impact on all high-tech industries, including Video Game Consoles. What recommendations would you make for Nintendo to cope with these changes in the future?

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1) How structurally attractive was the health club industry in 2004? What average level of return would you expected to support? 2) What do you see as a key trend in the industry in 2004? How do you think these trends will affect profitability and evolve?

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What advantages did Bally’s case bring? What challenges did bally face? Evaluate Bally’s response; what else might Bally do?

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What are the basic economics of health clubs?

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What is FDI? How does FDI benefit the host country?

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What are the costs of FDI to the host country? How do governments influence FDI?

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What should GE do about satisfying customers who are not so environmentally conscious?

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Critically apply Cyert and March’s analysis of organizational decision making to the Siemens case. Compare/contrast the findings with Brusson’s view.

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What did General Mills hope to accomplish with its April 1994 reduction in trade promotions and prices? What were the risks associated with these actions? How do you expect General Mills’ competitors to respond? How then should General Mills proceed?

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Why is the soft drink industry so profitable? If concentrate manufacturing is so profitable, why have so few firms successfully entered this business over the last century?

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Analyze the RTE breakfast cereal industry. Why has it been such a profitable business? What changes have to lead to the current industry ‘crisis’? Why have private labels been able to enter this industry successfully? How do the cost structures of private label and branded cereal manufacturers differ? What are the critical core competencies and success factors needed in this industry? Make sure you include your assessment of General Mills’ resources, capabilities, and competencies. How do you see the private label cereal manufacturers concerning the critical success factors in this industry?

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Critically analyze the resources and competences that a company in the video game consoles industry needs to possess to achieve competitive advantage. Discuss and justify your arguments.

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Critically analyze the strengths and weaknesses of Sony in the video game consoles industry and identify any potential opportunities and threats for that company. Provide full support and justification for your arguments.

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Prepare three different maps of strategic groups in the video game consoles industry, using different variables each time. Justify the selection of the variables, critically analyze the position of each competitor on the strategic group’s map and identify future opportunities for these companies based on their position

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Define Brand. Illustrate Brands building. Show how brand are mostly meant for service brands.

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Define 4 P’s Model. Show how the four P’s operate. Explain how the marketing mix is more suited for product brands.

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How should Immelt deal with GE managers who do not agree with his concern about reducing CO2 emissions?

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How Does Ophelia Die?

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Which statement best describes why Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a complex character?

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Literature

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What line from act 3 of Hamlet supports the conclusion that Shakespeare is critical of actors?

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Literature

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What excerpt from act 3 of Hamlet supports the conclusion that Hamlet is critical of women?

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How does the play-within-a-play in act 3 of Hamlet represent Elizabethan drama?

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What plot events undermine queen Gertrude’s confidence?

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When considering diversification strategies in developed and emerging world equity markets, what would be the determining factors in selecting a foreign market? Prioritize a set of factors in making such a decision.

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Is TV advertising still the most powerful advertising medium, or has it faded in importance?

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The primary sample used in defining the sample size required for the determination of the confidence interval as well as the error margin.

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Social Studies

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Explain what is meant by a margin of error for a confidence interval.

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Social Studies

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Suppose that we will randomly select a sample of four measurements from a larger population of measurements. The sampling distribution of the sample means there is the probability distribution of a population. In your own words, describe the units in this population.

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Social Studies

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The response of Texas to the regulations of Federal Regulatory Agencies

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Law

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Private action against polluters as a deterrent to the degradation of the environment

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Law

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In this age of electronic communications such as cell phones, text messaging, and e-mail, what is the role of formal writing? How do digital communication methods influence the writing process?

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Linguistics

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If given the opportunity, what area of the Quality Assurance (QA) would you change? How would you go about making the change?

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The deadly gas leak at the Union Carbide Plant in Bhopal, India, led to the enactment of what legislation and for what purpose?

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What major event caused the Congress of the United States enact a series of strong environmental legislation?

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Due to expanded operations, your organization must increase its dependence on intermodal transportation services. You need to set the intermodal transportation requirements of your company. What would you do, and what factors should you consider? How do you decide what combinations of intermodal transportation should be employed? Explain.

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Your department is responsible for inventory control. Recent fluctuations in demand and orders have caused overages in inventory. What options do you have? How do you implement changes in the supply chain?

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Analyze the PC industry. Are the dynamics favorable to Apple or problematic? Explain.

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What, historically, has been Apple’s competitive advantages?

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What is the moral point of view and why is it important? Does it make sense to say that business people must operate from the perspective of the moral point of view? Why, or why not?

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Central to Duska’s discussion and his conception of loyalty, do you find his account of loyalty convincing? What elements of it might you disagree with? What implications might an altered conception of loyalty have on his contention that whistle blowing does not require moral justification?

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Epstein claims that the positions of both employers and employees are essentially even with regard to EAW. Do you find this line of argument convincing? Why or why not?

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In recent years, Chrysler Corporation initiated three-shift or nearly continuous (21-hours-per-day) production at a number of its plants. Explain why Chrysler’s decision might have been prompted by movements in its wage costs or capital costs, or both. Why would Chrysler have instituted this production change for its most popular (and profitable) vehicles, its minivans and Jeep Cherokee? What risks might such a plan pose?

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A trendy French restaurant is one of the first businesses to open in a small corner of a commercial building still under construction. The restaurant has received rave reviews and has lines of diners waiting for tables most nights. (a) In the short run (next few months), what measures should the restaurant take to maximize its profits? Explain. (b) In the long run (next six months and beyond), how can it maximize its profits? (Assume that the impressive state of demand is permanent).

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The last decade has witnessed an unprecedented number of mega-mergers in the banking industry: Bank of America’s acquisitions of Fleet Bank, MBNA, and U.S. Trust; Bank of New York’s acquisition of Mellon Financial; and Wells Fargo’s acquisition of Wachovia, to name several of the largest consolidations. Besides growth for its own sake, these superbanks are able to offer one-stop shopping for financial services: everything from savings accounts to home mortgages, investment accounts, insurance vehicles, and financial planning. (a) In the short run, what are the potential cost advantages of these mergers? Explain. (b) Is a $300 billion national bank likely to be more efficient than a $30 billion regional bank or a $3 billion state-based bank? What economic evidence is needed to determine whether there are long-run increasing returns to scale in banking? (c) Are these mergers predicated on economies of scope?

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Explain why the cost structure associated with many kinds of information goods and services might imply a market supplied by a small number of large firms. Could lower transaction costs in e-commerce ever make it easier for small suppliers to compete? Network externalities are often an important aspect of demand for information goods and services. How might network externalities affect firm operating and firm size?:SJ

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In What Ways Might New Store Design Differ From The Redesign Of An Established Store?

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Retail Design Is Influenced By Context. Considering A Variety Of Sectors, How Might Such Contextually Be Manifested?

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Provide a Critique of the Various Structures That Exist In Order To Support the Retail Buying Function

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Provide a Critique of the Various Methods of Market Entry That Are Available To the Internationalizing Retailer

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Retail Internationalization Is Much More Than The Opening Of Stores Abroad. Provide A Critical Review Of This Statement.

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A New Hampshire resort offers year-round activities: in winter, skiing and other cold-weather activities; and in summer, golf, tennis, and hiking. The resort’s operating costs are essentially the same in winter and summer. Management charges higher nightly rates in the winter, when its average occupancy rate is 75 percent, than in the summer, when its occupancy rate is 85 percent. Can this policy be consistent with profit-maximization? Explain.

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In what respects are the following common practices subtle (or not-so-subtle) forms of price discrimination? (a) Frequent-flier and frequent-stay programs (b) Manufacturers’ discount coupon programs (c) A retailer’s guarantee to match a lower competing price.

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Recommend the types of high-performance reward system Allstate Insurance Company should use to motivate its employees to reach its diversity goals

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Discuss the competitive advantage Allstate Insurance Company has from the development of the Diversity Index

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Using the model for goal setting, evaluate Allstate Insurance Company’s goal setting process to determine whether or not Allstate has an effective goal-setting program.

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Discuss the organizational change that Nestle has undergone. Identify whether the changes were first order and/or second order and the rationale for your decision.

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Discuss whether or not the organizational changes that Nestle has undergone were with an incremental approach as emphasized by Brabeck-Letmathe.

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Identify three examples of lessons from the front line that were evident in the Nestle case and how these issues may be overcome.

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What, if anything, does the Employment/Population (E/P) profile for the United States from 2007 to 2012 tell you about short-run economic growth over that period?

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The figure below is an index of the multilateral real exchange rate (ε= EP/P*) for the British pound (GBP). 1) Explain why the multilateral real exchange rate may be used as a measure of international price competitiveness. 2) Following an increase in the real exchange rate expenditure on imports is typically expected to decline. True, False or Uncertain? Explain.

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1) Explain the concept of the ‘sacrifice ratio’ and its relationship to disinflation 2) Comment briefly on why the ‘sacrifice ratio’ may differ between countries.

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Describe the advantages and disadvantages of each leadership style: Democratic, Autocratic, Laissez-Faire, Bureaucratic.

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Management

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Was Spykes a bad product? Did Anheuser-Busch do the right thing by stopping its sale?

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Do alcohol manufacturing companies fulfill their ethical duty to be informative and faithful in advertising? Do they generally hold their ethical duty to minimize potential harm to society from underage drinking?

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Are some beer, wine, spirits ads misleading? Do some contain images and themes that appeal to those who have not attained legal drinking age?

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Should there be more restrictions on alcohol advertising? What limits are needed? Explain how a ban or restriction could meet the central Hudson guidelines

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1) With the aid of a diagram explain the equation set out below: W/P = f(u, z). where W/P is the real wage, u is the unemployment rate and z is a vector of external variables. 2) Using your diagram from 1) above illustrate the impact of a rise in unemployment benefits. Explain your answer.

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Explain the IS-LM open economy model. Using the model, assuming a flexible exchange rate, examine the effect of a fall in government expenditure on output, the interest rate, the exchange rate and the level of exports.

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Using the IS-LM model, examine the effect of a fall in autonomous investment on income, the rate of interest, consumption, and the size of the government budget deficit.

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Why is the IS curve so called and how can it be derived? Make clear the relationships that underpin IS.

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Explain how a basic analysis of the money market underpins the derivation of the LM curve.

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The main reasons why the court ruled that videotaping a movie from television to watch later was not an infringement of copyright. Use the fair use doctrine to frame your argument.

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Art

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Which factors of the fair use doctrine played in favor of Sony, and which factors did not?

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Research substance usage in at least three different countries on three different continents and the percentage of reported addicts in those countries. How does this relate to addiction and the societal view of substance use?

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Art

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Compare the benefits and drawbacks of identifying and researching addiction as purely a biological disease.

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Art

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How is the increase of diagnosis of treatable addictive diseases related to economy and profit? Does this make it more difficult to get help to addicts who need it due to strained or financially unavailable resources?

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Should marijuana be criminalized? Explain

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Should marijuana be legalized? Explain

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Identify and provide details about the three elements of arrest warrants that satisfy the requirements of the Fourth Amendment warrant clause.

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Compare the definition of reasonable suspicion with probable cause. What two interests does probable cause balance?

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Identify the characteristics of a full custodial arrest and contrast it with a stop. Why do we call arrests a zone and not a point?

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Does unprovoked flight + high-crime area = reasonable suspicion? Explain.

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Identify and give an example of each of the two elements that determines whether property is abandoned for Fourth Amendment purposes.

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Why can plain-view searches be called nonsearches? Identify and describe the two types of plain-view searches and the conditions and restrictions for each.

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1. Identify the two elements of the qualified immunity defense, and explain why the test is so easy for officers to pass. 2. Identify and describe the differences between two kinds of state civil lawsuits against individual state officers. 3. Can one sue a judge or a prosecutor for damage? Explain.

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Identify the difference between the subjective and objective tests of entrapment. Identify two elements in the subjective test of entrapment and the two kinds of circumstances the government can use to prove defendants’ predisposition to commit crimes. Explain these tests using prostitution as an example.

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Art

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1. Identify and explain the rationales behind the three justifications for the exclusionary rule. Which justification does the U.S. Supreme Court use today? 2. List and explain five exceptions to the exclusionary rule. 3. Is there a constitutional right to the exclusionary rule and the defense of entrapment? Explain your answer.

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Art

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Why are photo identifications the most unreliable eyewitness identification procedure?

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Art

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Identify and define the mental processes that account for mistakes in identifying strangers. Also identify the circumstances that affect the accuracy of perceptions in identifying strangers.

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Art

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Compare the trespass doctrine with the privacy doctrine in defining Fourth Amendment searches.

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Briefly trace the history of due process from the adoption of the U.S. Constitution to the present.

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The Justice for All Act of 2004 is federal legislation that, among other things, grants federal inmates the right to petition the federal court for DNA testing to support innocence claims. There are other provisions that address preserving evidence and making post-conviction DNA testing available to state inmates. Analyze, whether it is worthwhile legislation and explain why?

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With so much attention focused on scientific evidence in television crime shows, it is important to understand the limits of science and the problems associated with using this type of evidence in the criminal justice system. What aspects of the reading from the Innocence Project website are the most interesting and why?

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Why should legal immigration be expanded?

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Art

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What is cultural literacy and how can a firm use it to evaluate the attractiveness of a particular location as a place for doing business? What role does religion play in understanding culture?

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Explain the term “Corruption” and what it includes.

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