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Janice Hahn Releases Poll Showing Big Lead Over Laura Richardson, Isadore Hall
Congresswoman Janice Hahn -- still getting used to that -- released a poll today that gives her a wide margin over her two potential opponents in the new 44th Congressional District.
As always with in-house polls, they only release them when they're favorable, so grab your salt shaker.
But if the numbers are to be believed, African-American leaders have a lot of work to do if they want to hang on to their three seats in L.A. Where's Merv Dymally? Is he on this?
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Rep. Laura Richardson: 24
Asm. Isadore Hall: 7
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- Jason 'Eyeball' Barnum was questioned in the killings and declined to speak both to the FBI and in court
- He admitted being on Kodiak island during the murders before leaving for Anchorage - where he soon was accused of gunning down a police officer
- James Wells, 62, was convicted Friday of killing the two men after becoming jealous of their growing influence at the remote base
A civilian employee of the Coast Guard in Alaska was convicted Friday of the 2012 shooting deaths of two of his co-workers at a remote base originally thought to be the work of a bizarrely-tattooed drifter charged in a separate murder.
James Wells, 62, was found guilty of murdering Coast Guardsmen Petty Officer 1st Class James Hopkins and retired Chief Petty Officer Richard Belisle - but his defense team vehemently denied his guilt and tried to blame the murders on another man.
The 15-member federal jury took only six hours to reach a verdict after the month-long trial. They found Wells guilty of two counts each of first-degree murder, murder of an officer or employee of the United States, and possession of a firearm in a crime of violence.
Accused killer: Jason 'Eyeball' Barnum was accused of killing an Anchorage police officer only months after Belisle and Hopkins were shot dead
Wells showed no emotion as the verdict was read, according to KTUU, but relatives of his victims burst into tears.
Federal prosecutors earlier said they would not seek the death penalty if Wells was convicted. His sentencing was set for July 8.
He will likely spend the rest of his life in jail. It is not clear if he plans to appeal.
Investigators revealed during the trial that Wells put together an almost-air tight alibi before sneaking on to the base April 12, 2012 to kill the two men, their bodies were found in the station's rigger shop, where antennas are built and repaired.
Prosecutors contended Wells, a Coast Guard civilian technician, resented the growing influence of Belisle and Hopkins in the shop where he was a nationally recognized antenna expert. They said he meticulously planned an alibi, sneaked onto the communications station and gunned them down.
Wells made it home after the shooting and called Hopkins' work phone, leaving a message saying he would be late for work because of a flat tire, officials claimed.
But his defense team argued it was Jason 'Eyeball' Barnum that pulled the trigger.
Barnum, known as 'eyeball' for both the tattoo on his right eyeball that has permanently colored the eye black and an illustration of an eyeball on his forehead, declined recognizing the names of either man while in court with the jury out of the room, according to the Anchorage Daily News.
The 38-year-old also refused to answer when asked if he took drugs the day of the murders or whether he killed the two men.
'I don't want to answer that,' he said.
Wells' defense team claims the man - currently being held on charges he gunned down an Anchorage police officer - took drugs the day of the murders and skipped town before being caught. He acknowledged in court being on the island during the killings and leaving shortly after.
FBI agents talked to Barnum in the months after the double murder while making it clear he wasn't a suspect, but he refused to answer any of their questions.
Barnum's testimony was then sought by the defense team because he was a known acquaintance of an ex-con who dated Belisle's teen daughter, according to the paper. She admitted to having past drug problems and dating the former convict.
They once worked together: This July 2, 2011 file photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows Richard Belisle, second from left, and Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class James Hopkins, second from right, with Jim Wells, left, and Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Cody Beauford as they help erect a communications antenna on Shemya Island, Alaska
Dead: Belisle, shown here in 2011 after killing a caribou, was gunned down at the Coast Guard base
Remote: The base is located on Kodiak Island, about 250 miles south of Anchorage
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jury,' according to the paper.
They then proceeded to mount their case against Wells, saying he committed the cold-blooded killings because he became jealous of the pair's growing influence at the island base.
Hopkins, 41, was an electronics technician from Vergennes, Vermont. Belisle, 51, was a former chief petty officer who continued service to the Coast Guard as a civilian employee at the base about 250 miles south of the state capital Anchorage.
In memorial: Former colleagues hold a plaque dedicated to Chief Petty Officer Richard Belisle, retired, and Petty Officer 1st Class Jim Hopkins during a memorial held at the unit on April 12, 2013
Prosecutors say the flat tire was a ruse to give him a cover story for committing the murders.
Wells told the FBI he started driving to work, detected a soft tire, stopped at a hotel near the Kodiak airport entrance, checked the tire and returned home to change it, authorities said.
Unbeknownst to Wells, a security camera at the nearby Coast Guard main gate recorded his truck heading for the communication station shortly before 7 a.m. and driving in the opposite direction toward his home 34 minutes later.
Wells' wife was out of town the day of the shooting, and her blue SUV was parked at the Kodiak airport. Investigators concluded Wells switched cars, waited for Hopkins to drive by, followed him to the communications station and shot him and Belisle.
Federal public defender Rich Curtner said in his opening statement that Wells suffered from chronic diarrhea following gall bladder surgery and was delayed the morning of the murders because he spent 20 minutes in a bathroom of a commuter airline.
Wells made no mention of using an airport bathroom to the FBI.
Curtner and defense attorney Peter Offenbecher of Seattle contended authorities immediately focused on Wells and ignored other possible suspects, including 'eyeball.' They said prosecutors had no eyewitnesses, no confession, no murder weapon and no physical evidence linking Wells to the homicides.
Wells served eight years in the Navy and 13 with the Coast Guard. Upon discharge in 1990, he was hired as a civilian employee.
Kodiak Island is home to the largest Coast Guard Air Station in the Pacific. The double homicide took place 3 miles away at the base's communications station, where personnel monitor radio traffic from ships and planes.
- In an early version of this article, two photographs of Mr James Wells of Ballyfermot Dublin were wrongly published. We would like to make it clear that this Mr Wells has no connection whatsoever with the events or trial in Alaska, which concerned a coastguard technician, also called James Wells. We apologise for the distress caused.
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© 2012 Invensys. All Rights Reserved. The names, logos, and taglines identifying the products and services of Invensys are proprietary marks of Invensys or its subsidiaries. All third party trademarks and service marks are the proprietary marks of their respective owners. SSE-02 Using the Membrane Unit in PRO/II New Application Brief U-2 Bernie Unger North American User Group October 14-16
Slide 3 Membrane Unit (sometimes called Permeation Unit) Residue Permeate P i, res P i, perm A simple model to simulate components that can migrate selectively across a membrane. Composed of a bundle of hollow fibers. Flow passes from the high pressure feed/residue side to the low pressure permeate side of the fiber
Slide 4 Membrane Unit Assumptions Constant total pressure on both the permeate and feed/residue side The driving force is partial pressure as calculated by ideal gas law The permeate side gas is continually swept away from the membrane
Slide 5 Membrane Unit where: R i = Flowrate in std. vol/time K i = Permeation constant in vol/(time-area-pres) Area = Membrane area P i = Partial pressure of component i P i, res P i, surf P i, perm
Slide 6 Membrane Unit Solution technique Integrate on dArea Solution characteristics Based on partial pressure, not fugacity, therefore solutions do not change with change in thermo method Limiting case of small area: Flowrate can be calculated from product partial pressures Because permeate is continually carried away from the membrane, a membrane unit with 10 area units will have the exact same performance as ten 1 area unit membrane units in series.
Slide 7 Membrane Unit Oil Production with CO 2 Injection Oil/Gas Separator Oil Product Condensate Fuel Gas Membrane CO 2 Recovery Well Production CO 2 Injection CO 2 Makeup
Slide 8 Membrane Unit Flowsheet
Slide 9 Membrane Unit Flowsheet considerations The fuel gas is consumed on plant to drive process equipment. The fuel gas is targeted to 900 Btu/scf for proper equipment operation. The pressure of the permeate side of the membrane units is adjusted to achieve the heat content. The pressure drop across the residue side is negligible. Two membrane shells are included to allow intermediate condensate dropout. The temperature equilibrates between the permeate and the residue. The product streams have a lower temperature because of the Joule- Thomson effect of the pressure drop.
Slide 10 Membrane Unit Feed Stream Rate, 1000*scfh Temperature, F Pressure, psia Molecular Weight Vapor Fraction1.000 Molar Composition 1 - N H2S E CO C C C IC E NC E IC E NC E NC E NC E-03
Slide 11 Membrane Unit Feed Stream Rate, 1000*scfh Temperature, F Pressure, psia Molecular Weight Vapor Fraction1.000 Molar Composition 1 - N H2S E CO C C C IC E NC E IC E NC E NC E NC E-03
Slide 12 Membrane Unit Vendor Supplied Permeability ComponentPermeability Permeability at 75 Fat 100 Fscfd/ft3/psi N H2S CO C C C IC NC IC NC NC NC
Slide 13 Membrane Unit Permeability Fitted to Arrhenious Form ComponentK i,o E i N H2S CO C C C IC NC IC NC NC NC K i = K i,o exp[-E i /(RT)] R = , ft3-psia/R-lb-mol
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Slide 16 Membrane Unit Membrane Input
Slide 17 Membrane Unit Permeation Calculation
Slide 18 Membrane Unit Solution Technique Calculators are used to set permeation coefficients. It iteratively retrieves temperature from the membrane unit and recalculates the coefficients based on temperature. A controller is used to adjust the pressure of the permeate to achieve the heat content of the fuel gas.
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The giveaways continued in a second quarter that saw the Bobcats get to the free throw line with regularity and the Raptors offence go ice cold. By the time halftime hit, the deficit was 17 points and a fourth-quarter Raptors rally only served to make the final score more respectable.
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"He had his legs in the game and there were no problems with his hands," said Bobcats head coach Paul Silas. "He was shooting the ball exceptionally well and taking the shots, which before, he was turning them down. He really propelled us."
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Weems scored six points in the first quarter and was equally adept during Toronto's 32-point fourth quarter that saw him add seven points, including a rare three-pointer. He committed four turnovers and didn't get to the line, but on this night, he clearly stood out for his otherwise solid play.
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Outsourcing And Offshoring Analysis
There was a rapid expansion in trade, investment and finance across national boundaries in the late 19th century, largely due to trade liberalisation. A century down the line, world exports increased from $61bn in 1950 to $6338 billion in 2000. Globalisation was, and probably is, clearly, the word of the day. Deregulation and liberalisation on a global level, was followed by globalisation (Nayyar, 2006).
The onset on globalisation has given rise to the terms outsourcing and offshoring. While outsourcing refers to subcontracting a business process to a third party company, offshoring means the transfer of a business activity to another country.
This report attempts to understand better the underlying reasons and motives for a company to outsource and offshore its business processes, by analysing various economic theories on international operations of a multinational enterprise with respect to the leading clothing and apparel MNE, Hennes and Mauritz, popularly known as H&M today.
After a brief introduction to the company and an overview of the fundamental business processes of the company, a closer look is taken at the outsourcing and offshoring activities of H&M. These processes are then evaluated with relation to theories brought forward by economists Coase, Williamson, Hymer and Dunning.
Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) was founded in 1947 in Sweden by Erling Persson. It was first established as a store for women named Hennes, meaning 'hers' in Swedish, and was later renamed Hennes and Mauritz after Persson acquired the inventory of Mauritz Widforss, a hunting equipment store. This is known today as H&M (H&M Annual Report, 2008).
It has set up its business concept as a drive "to offer (customers) fashion and quality at the best price". Ann-Sofie, Head of Design, H&M says "At H&M, you should be able to mix different trends and concepts. There should be something for everyone" (H&M Annual Report, 2008).
Currently H&M has around 1800 stores in 35 countries across North America, Europe and Asia. It aims to increase its number of stores by 10% - 15% per year, simultaneously increasing sales in existing stores. H&M also offers online shopping in 7 countries (H&M Corporate Website).
In 2008, H&M focussed mainly on its designs; it collaborated with top designers and introduced a collection concentrated on organic cotton. It also emphasized on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by setting in motion a new sustainability strategy. Under this, close ties are established with its suppliers, setting sustainable social and environmental standards. Special importance is given to employees' human rights and simultaneous consideration is given to the effects of its production on the environment (H&M CSR Report, 2006).
H&M today is a widely accepted brand of top notch fashion clothing and accessories. Rolf Eriksen, CEO, H&M says "H&M for me is a business based on teamwork, humility and respect for people...[but]...we are cost-conscious and have a competitive instinct that makes us aim for constant improvements" (H&M Annual Report, 2008). It has seen massive expansion on a global level in the past 7 years and is constantly looking at new avenues to make its mark in.
The H&M head office is located at Stockholm, Sweden. It houses around 100 designers and centrally plans its collections. Continuous inspiration is drawn from fashion capitals, trade fairs etc. in order to keep in touch with globally dynamic fashion trends. While overall collection themes are decided upon a year in advance, latest trends are sensed on short notice (H&M Corporate Website).
The designers at the Head Office work with the procurement department, which in turn liaises with production offices in various supplier countries. These offices report back to the procurement department with information on the best suppliers, which helps in placing final orders. The finished merchandise is first transported to distribution centres located in each market. On unpacking, final products are transported to individual stores (H&M Corporate Website).
H&M outsources its production activities, i.e. it does not own any production plants. Instead, it has around 800 selected suppliers located mainly in Asia and Europe. These include particularly low-wage countries like Turkey, Bangladesh, Indonesia, India etc. (H&M Corporate Website).
In order to maintain some degree of control over production activities, H&M has set up about 20 production offices in selected countries. Production Offices help the company maintain an effective Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Network. They take care of the key issues of time, quality and quantity; they make sure that the right quantity of merchandise is manufactured and distributed to stores at the right time, stressing on superior quality at all times (H&M Corporate Website).
Employees at local production offices test inspect sample clothing, and thus bringing down lead time to a competitive level (Databank Consulting, 2004). Apart from this, auditors regularly inspect work conditions and monitor environmental effects of manufacturing activities.
This reflects the considerable investment made by H&M on establishing and maintaining these production offices.
The key drivers for H&M to outsource production to global suppliers are as follows:
Cost Reduction
By transferring production activities to countries manufacturing good quality products, with the benefit of low cost labour, low cost of inputs, etc; H&M achieves high levels of cost effectiveness (McIvor, 2005). Moreover, the company saves on initial start-up costs of plant, equipment and building.
Since the fashion industry is ever-changing, the ability to modify production patterns plays a significant role in the company's profit margin. Clothes in greater demand can be or re-ordered where as those moving slower require lower order levels (Databank Consulting, 2004).
While H&M can reach finished products to its stores in as low as 20 days, other competitive players struggle; Zara being the only competitor with a lower lead time of 15 days. However, lead time may not be the only factor that governs a fashion merchandiser's success. Rolf Eriksen says, "...In fact, the shortest lead time possible is not always favorable; only a proper lead allows us to reach the optimum equilibrium among price, time and quality" (China Business Feature, 2007).
Through outsourcing, H&M can focus on its core competency, which is designing. This assists the company to specialise on more value-adding activities and outsource the more routine activity i.e. production (McIvor, 2005).
John Dunning, in his paper, explained the factors a company would consider before moving abroad. Dunning's approach to internationalization includes decisions regarding Ownership, Location and Internalisation advantages - also called the OLI Framework (Ietto-Gillies, 2005).
Ownership-specific endowments refer to the 'internal' advantages that a firm may possess which affects its efficiency of resource usage. Dunning refers to three different types of ownership advantages: The first is the advantages a firm may have over another firm operating in the same location. The second advantage is one that a firm enjoys over a new firm in the industry. The third variety of ownership advantages refer to the benefits a company obtains from its multi-nationality (Dunning, 1993). Location advantages refer to those aspects unique to a particular country which would draw foreign companies and Internalization advantages are those which may give a firm an intensive to internalise its operations rather than lease or rent them to external firms (Ietto-Gillies, 2005).
In the case of H&M, the first and third type of ownership advantage is applicable. H&M has an ownership advantage through its ability to produce the trendiest clothing and reach it to individual stores in an extremely competitive lead time of 20 days, owing to the efficiency of its worldwide suppliers. Also, through outsourcing its production, H&M obtains the skill and know-how wherein its in-house designers have the ability to create new clothing patterns at rapid paces, thus making design its core competency. Another asset advantage is its corporate culture, which promotes flexibility and adaptability (TIME Magazine, 2004). Under the third variety of ownership advantage, H&M benefits simply from its multi-nationality. H&M has an advantage from using supplier from varied economic environments, e.g. Turkey in Europe and Bangladesh in Asia, where it is better positioned to take advantage of the different market conditions and factor endowments specific to these supplier countries.
In terms of location advantage, H&M gains from choosing specific suppliers in emerging economies like China, India, Turkey, Syria etc. The factor endowments of these countries give H&M a specific advantage in outsourcing its operations to these locations. These countries benefit from lower input costs, labour costs, energy costs, relaxed legal and trade barriers etc. which lower production costs for H&M to a great extent.
The internalization advantage of the eclectic paradigm does not apply to H&M. In the clothing and apparel industry, adaptability of the firm according to local and international wants and demands plays a crucial role. For this very reason, H&M believes in outsourcing and delegating its manufacturing assignments to other companies and focusing its resources on design.
H&M offshores its information technology activities. The major drivers for this form of offshoring are as follows:
This appears to be the fundamental reason for a firm to internalise its operations. Production offices makes each supplier sign the H&M Code of Conduct, devised in the year 1997, to ensure that they comply with environmental and safety regulations (H&M CSR Report, 2006). This helps H&M keep a watch on the functional aspects of its suppliers. Moreover, these offices ensure rapid response times for information sent out from the headquarters to different parts of the world.
H&M ensures better flexibility of data transfer between the head office in Stockholm and 800 independent suppliers. Production offices are able to collaborate with suppliers to ensure flexibility in its supply chain, which is needed in the textile industry owing to its dynamic nature (Oh & Kim, 2007).
Effective ICT Network
H&M production offices help establish an efficient communication network between the headquarters and suppliers. Timely shared information ensures smooth flow of merchandise, giving it sufficient time to complete orders (Oh & Kim, 2007). The sale made of each style of product is monitored through this ICT network.
By keeping this network internal in nature, H&M is able to protect its know-how, where its skills to achieve superior levels of lead time at lower costs is kept within the company.
Ronald Coase was the first economist to explore the reasons for the existence of firms, through the concept of 'transaction costs'. According to Coase, there is "a gap...between the assumption that resources are allocated by means of the price mechanism and the assumption that this allocation is dependent on the entrepreneur-co-ordinator" (Coase, 1937). In order to bridge this gap, it is essential to compare costs involved in carrying out transactions in the open market to the costs incurred in organizing resources internally (Ietto-Gillies, 2005). Allocating resources based on the price mechanism involves transaction costs, which is why a firm should consider managing its activities within the firm rather than externalising them.
Oliver Williamson further expanded on the Transaction Cost Theory by analysing the organisation of a firm's operations based on its drive to economize transaction costs. To explain the arguments for a firm to internalise, he introduces three concepts (Ietto-Gillies, 2005):
i. Bounded Rationality - due to imperfect information available about the market. According to Williamson, the problem of bounded rationality of an entity increases with an increase in the complexity of the environment. For this reason, Williamson argues that a firm should consider internalising its activities.
ii. Opportunistic Behaviour - External parties have a tendency to operate solely with motives of self-interestt. This opportunistic behaviour is likely to be more problematic for a firm when its activities involve fewer external forces, making internal operations a better form of protection from opportunistic behaviour.
iii. Asset Specificity - Assets of a firm turn out to be more productive when they are used together than when kept separately. According to Williamson, the assets of a firm will bear higher returns when utilised as a whole.
In the case of H&M, should its ICT network be outsourced, several transaction costs may have to be incurred due to transactional imperfections in the market. This refers to the asymmetry of information available to all the buyers and sellers in the market. The transaction costs H&M may incur are the costs of searching for appropriate software or partners to perform its information transfer activities, costs of bargaining and negotiating with global suppliers, legal costs to settle on final production contracts and costs to enforce its specifications to ensure its external collaborators perform their duties. For this reason, it can be concluded that H&M would be better placed setting up a wholly owned production office to internalize its ICT activities and minimize its transaction costs.
Additionally, by establishing production offices in its major sales markets, the negative effect of bounded rationality on its profitability is reduced as there is a higher tendency for perfect knowledge to be available within the different H&M merchandise suppliers across the world. The local employees at the production offices ensure timely and uniform distribution of information between the offices at other locations. Through this, H&M is safeguarded from the aggressive strategies of its competitors. By internalising its ICT network, H&M is assured that the important information transferred between its global suppliers is kept within the company; it is further assured of better quality of information transfer with minimal distortion.
Stephen Hymer put forth the first developed theory explaining international operations of a company. He introduced the fundamental difference between portfolio investment and direct investment as the desire for 'control' and the key reasons for a firm to consider Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Direct investment gives a firm control over its business operations abroad, whereas portfolio investment does not. The primary assumption in Hymer's theory is the existence of an imperfect market, caused by imperfections in the goods market, factors market, and additional interference by the government in production activities (Ietto-Gillies, 2005).
Hymer explained two main reasons for a firm to desire control over its international operations. Type I, called direct investment, refers to a firm's intentions to use its resources prudently. An investor looks to maintain control of its operations in order to uphold the safety of his/her investment abroad, especially due to the existence of an atmosphere of distrust in international transactions. Type II, called international operations, refers to a situation where firms are motivated to control its foreign operations with a view to gain market power (Hymer, 1976).
Since all of the manufacturing activities of H&M are outsourced, it would like to gain a certain degree of control over its international operations in order to secure returns on its international investments. In other words, H&M looks to control its international operations under Type I as its main driver to set up production offices is not to consolidate market power.
In the case of the determinants of its FDI, the first motive is the 'specific advantage' H&M gains over its competitors. Every production office has its own quality team to ensure compliance to its specific Code of Conduct (H&M Annual Report, 2008). Once H&M exploited all its local opportunities in Sweden, it moved on to other countries. This advantage of having an owned production office gives H&M a competitive advantage. Apart from this, H&M enjoys the benefit of 'diversification' of its risks, by opening its own stores in other countries, thus diversifying its risks of failure in one particular country.
There have been a number of theories regarding the international operations of multinational enterprises. It is clear that there isn't one particular theory which can explain the operations of a company in totality as an individual company's operations are independent of economic theories and reflect the company's functional and operational strategies. The international operations of H&M can be described as a blend of theories, each related to the outsourcing and offshoring activities of the company.
H&M looks to reduce its costs of production, thus outsourcing all its manufacturing activities to more experienced suppliers located primarily in emerging economies. At the same time, to establish a middle ground in terms of control over the manufacturing activities, it has opened production offices to monitor the manufacturing activities and ensure effective data transfer.
Due to the dynamic nature of the business environment and the emergence of organisations such as the WTO, IMF, trade arrangements, and above all, the establishment of the internet, the corporate world today has become far more open to the concept of outsourcing than it has ever been. According to Gartner Inc., in light of the recent economic slump, organisations which do not outsource will consider outsourcing business processes to focus more on their core functions (Gartner Inc. Press Release, 2009). Thus, this trend of increased outsourcing and offshoring activities is certainly on the rise for the years to come.
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Americans spent $1.7 billion on hot dogs last year—and that's just at supermarkets; it doesn't count wieners purchased at restaurants and sports facilities or from street vendors. And no day is better for hot dog consumption than the Fourth of July, when Americans are expected to eat about 150 million of them—enough to stretch from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles more than five times.
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