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The Great Sea Serpent

By: Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans

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Mysterious and strange are the ocean depths, but pioneering cyptozoologist ANTOON CORNELIS OUDEMANS (1858-1943) attempted to bring some order to the realm with this 1892 survey of the reports of monsters of the sea, the first of its kind. Gathering sightings from around the globe and across the centuries, Oudemans eliminates the obvious hoaxes or honest mistakes and then, from dozens of legitimate sighting, draws conclusions about sea-serpent physiology, geographic distribution, and more. This astonishing book "still influences thoughts and theories about the great unknowns in the oceans," says cryptozoologist Loren Coleman in his new introduction in this edition, part of Cosimo's Loren Coleman Presents series.

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Corporate Governance as a Limited Legal Concept

By: Cornelis de Groot

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Corporate Governance as a Limited Legal Concept

By: Cornelis de Groot

The concept of corporate governance has come under intense public scrutiny in recent years. Business people everywhere are asking: What exactly does andgoodand corporate governance entail? Which aspects of it are legally binding, and in what ways is it merely a set of expectations on how corporations should be organized ideally? Nowhere are these important questions answered more precisely - nowhere are the lines more clearly drawn - than in the insightful synthesis of statutory law, case law, and organizational theory presented in this book. Recognizing that the concept of andgoodand corporate governance is not dramatically different from one jurisdiction to another but represents an international phenomenon that has to a reasonable extent the same characteristics everywhere, the author proceeds, with detailed analysis, through a series of issues that (he shows) make up the brunt of corporate governance. Each of these issues in turn gives rise to such specific problem areas as the following: board compensation and executive compensation; unitary and dual board structures; monitoring management; legal parameters of andmismanagementand; the andsupervisory gapand; audit, selection and appointment and remuneration committees; director tenure and retirement policy; risk management and risk reporting; corporate safety culture; conflicts of interest; whistleblower arrangements; aims of the regulation of public takeover bids; and defensive tactics in case of a hostile public takeover bid. These problems - and many others - are examined in the light of corporate governance codes and guidelines and of reports and judgments that deal with specific instances where investigators or courts were asked to analyze corporate governance issues in concrete cases. Each of the ten chapters includes in-depth analysis of such cases. A special feature of the book is a set of model corporate governance guidelines based on US corporate practice. Corporate Governance as a Limited Legal Concept is remarkable for its very thorough characterization and definition of corporate governance as a legal concept, as a code of conduct, and as an organizational structure. The authorands clearly reasoned analysis of the legal limits of corporate governance will be of great interest and practical value to business people and their counsel in any jurisdiction.

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9041128735

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A Theory of Character in New Testament Narrative

By: Cornelis Bennema

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A Theory of Character in New Testament Narrative

By: Cornelis Bennema

In this study in three-dimensional character reconstruction, Cornelis Bennema presents a new theory of character in the New Testament literature. Although character has been the subject of focused literary-critical study of the New Testament since the 1970s, Bennema observes that there is still no consensus regarding how character should be understood in contemporary literary theory or in biblical studies. Many New Testament scholars seem to presume that characters in Greco-Roman literature are two-dimensional,”Aristotelian”; figures, unlike the well-rounded, psychologized individuals who appear in modern fiction. They continue nevertheless to apply contemporary literary theory to characters in ancient writings. Bennema here offers a full, comprehensive, and non-reductionist theory for the analysis, classification, and evaluation of characters in the New Testament.

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Fortress Press

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1451484305

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A Goodly Heritage

The Secession of 1834 and Its Impact on Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and North America

By: Cornelis Pronk

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A Goodly Heritage

The Secession of 1834 and Its Impact on Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and North America

By: Cornelis Pronk

In A Goodly Heritage , Cornelis Pronk surveys the history of the Secession of 1834, beginning with the events leading up to this important spiritual movement and subsequently following its long journey through the Netherlands and North America until 1892. He then focuses on a small minority that decided to continue as the original Christian Reformed Church, considering its growth and how it formulated theological positions in relation to several other Reformed denominations. Throughout, special attention is given to the doctrines of covenant, baptism, and the Holy Spirit’s ministry in applying salvation. This work not only explains the concerns of De Cock and other fathers of the Secession. It presses beyond the early years of the reform movement to present a larger picture of the developments of Secession theology and the contributions made by its main representatives.

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1601786654

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Access to Justice for Vulnerable and Energy-Poor Consumers

Just Energy?

By: Naomi Creutzfeldt,Chris Gill,Marine Cornelis,Rachel McPherson

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Access to Justice for Vulnerable and Energy-Poor Consumers

Just Energy?

By: Naomi Creutzfeldt,Chris Gill,Marine Cornelis,Rachel McPherson

How do ordinary people access justice? This book offers a novel socio-legal approach to access to justice, alternative dispute resolution, vulnerability and energy poverty. It poses an access to justice challenge and rethinks it through a lens that accommodates all affected people, especially those who are currently falling through the system. It raises broader questions about alternative dispute resolution, the need for reform to include more collective approaches, a stronger recognition of the needs of vulnerable people, and a stronger emphasis on delivering social justice. The authors use energy poverty as a site of vulnerability and examine the barriers to justice facing this excluded group. The book assembles the findings of an interdisciplinary research project studying access to justice and its barriers in the UK, Italy, France, Bulgaria and Spain (Catalonia). In-depth interviews with regulators, ombuds, energy companies, third-sector organisations and vulnerable people provide a rich dataset through which to understand the phenomenon. The book provides theoretical and empirical insights which shed new light on these issues and sets out new directions of inquiry for research, policy and practice. It will be of interest to researchers, students and policymakers working on access to justice, consumer vulnerability, energy poverty, and the complex intersection between these fields. The book includes contributions by Cosmo Graham (UK), Sarah Supino and Benedetta Voltaggio (Italy), Marine Cornelis (France), Anais Varo and Enric Bartlett (Catalonia) and Teodora Peneva (Bulgaria).

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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150993944X

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Sea-Changes

Studies in Three Centuries of Anglo-Dutch Cultural Transmission

By: Schoneveld

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Sea-Changes

Studies in Three Centuries of Anglo-Dutch Cultural Transmission

By: Schoneveld

These ten studies provide a view of the extent to which intellectual and literary life in Holland has been influenced by English ideas. The book concludes with an overview of Anglo-Dutch cultural transfer from the early seventeenth century to the late nineteenth century, concentrating on what, between Sir Thomas Browne's stay in Leiden in 1633 and L.A.J. Burgersdijk's complete translation of Shakespeare in the 1880s, was transmitted, what sea-changes: occurred during the voyage, and in how far these resulted in something rich and strange: . The emphasis in some of the essays is on intellectual, or scholarly, contacts -- with Holland mostly on the receiving end, but by no means exclusively so. In the field of literature proper, given the continuing prestige of French letters, there lies a special interest in watching the gradually increasing appreciation of English non-fiction, fiction, poetry and drama. This was brought about by translations and by the growing familiarity of Dutch cultural leaders with the English language itself, in spite of long-standing aversions to its composition and sound, continuing far into the nineteenth century. The analysis of translation strategies and adaptations, often made to suit the target culture, also contributes to the history of translation -- a branch of Translation Studies now coming into its own.

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9004648232

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Big Dan's Sofie

By: Keith Cornelis-Britz

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Big Dan's Sofie

By: Keith Cornelis-Britz

Mister Fick, everybody addresses him that way and Sofie wondered what his Christian name was. He was a tall man and skinny, and as he got older his back began to bend so that when you looked at him side on, as Annie once put it while they were in church, he looked like a crochet hook. The high-bridged nose and the lantern jaw gave him that look. His wife, on the other hand, was short - even shorter that Sofie - and ten times as plump. A little ball and always quiet.

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Jacana Media

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1770098682

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The Imperial Factor in South Africa

A Study in Politics and Economics

By: Cornelis W. de Kiewiet

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The Imperial Factor in South Africa

A Study in Politics and Economics

By: Cornelis W. de Kiewiet

Originally published in 1937 and written by de Kiewiet who in his lifetime was recognized as one of the premier historians of British imperial policy and African history, this book covers the years 1871-1885 in South Africa’s history, discussing racial, social and economic issues. These cover the initiation and collapse of Lord Carnarvon’s confederation policy, the annexation and the retrocession of the Transvaal, the Sekukuni, Zulu and Cape-Bastuto wars, the last of the nine Kaffir wars on the Eastern frontier of the Cape, the creation of the (then) Basutoland Protectorate and the development of the Kimberley diamond mines. Using original source material such as the Colonial Office Departmental minutes, he considers and explains the British policy.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000620107

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The Urim and Thummim

A Means of Revelation in Ancient Israel

By: Cornelis Van Dam

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The Urim and Thummim

A Means of Revelation in Ancient Israel

By: Cornelis Van Dam

This is the first exhaustive study of the Urim and Thummim since 1824, and in this book Van Dam sets out to rectify that lack of attention. He investigates all of the biblical data concerning this enigmatic oracular means of high-priestly revelation and its connection, in the historical books of the Old Testament, with the common phrase "to enquire of Yahweh/God." After surveying the history of interpretation and the treatment of the terms in the various versions and translations, Van Dam examines the implications of similar oracular devices and priestly dress within the larger cultural context of the ancient Near East. He places the Urim and Thummim within the context of divine revelation and human inquiry and the corollary probibition of divination in ancient Israel. He concludes that the breastpiece functioned as a pouch to hold the Urim and Thummim, which therefore clearly were tangible objects. Van Dam traces the use of this oracular instrument through the early monarchy under David--from the time of Joshua through the early monarchy under David--and its apparent disappearance by the time of the "classical" prophets, where a shift to primarily verbal oracles occurs. Concurrent with his study of the history of the oracle, Van Dam interacts with current discussion on the nature and process of God's revelation to humankind.

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Eisenbrauns

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0931464838

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The Dutch in the Caribbean and on the Wild Coast 1580-1680

By: Cornelis CH. Goslinga

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The Dutch in the Caribbean and on the Wild Coast 1580-1680

By: Cornelis CH. Goslinga

The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists’ sketches of the area in prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.

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1947372734

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Exodus

By: Cornelis Houtman

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Exodus

By: Cornelis Houtman

This is the second volume in a new series, the Historical Commentary on the Old Testament, which devotes explicit attention to the history of interpretation of biblical tradition in all its stages, both within and without the Hebrew canon. As the term "Old Testament" indicates, the commentary stands in the Christian exegetical tradition. The team of contributors comprises scholars from all over the world and from any different churches and denominations. for Old Testament scholars, but also for ministers and other interested parties. The treatment of every pericope is preceded by a new translation and a section called "Essentials and Perspectives" in which the author summarizes the results of the exegesis in non-technical language. The primacy here is assigned to the final stage of the text. The summary should incite the user to consult the main body of the exegesis which is headed "Scholarly Exposition". scholarship

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Peeters Publishers

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9024261945

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Erasmus

His Life, Works, and Influence

By: Cornelis Augustijn

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Erasmus

His Life, Works, and Influence

By: Cornelis Augustijn

Erasmus: His Life, Works, and Influence is a comprehensive introduction to Erasmus's life, works, and thoughts. It integrates the best scholarship of the past twenty years and will appeal to undergraduates in all areas of cultural history as well as Erasmus specialists.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442654333

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Head-Hunters About Themselves

An Ethnographic Report from Irian Jaya, Indonesia

By: Jan Honore Maria Cornelis Boelaars

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Head-Hunters About Themselves

An Ethnographic Report from Irian Jaya, Indonesia

By: Jan Honore Maria Cornelis Boelaars

Every book has its own personal story and my book on the Jaqaj people is no exception. I collected my initial data at the time when the Dutch government was responsible for what is now lrian Jaya, a province of Indonesia. At the time that I worked in the field and gathered my information, I enjoyed the enduring interest and support of the late Mgr. H. Tillemans, m. s. c. , archbishop of Merauke. I wish to dedicate this book to his memory. my studies, written in Dutch, appeared in 1958 A first summary of under the tide Papoea's aan de Mappi. Further research in the area persuaded me that some of my previous views needed correction and that publication of more data was necessary as weIl. In 1969 I finished the Dutch draft of the present book. For its translation I was very fortuna te to have help of my colleague Mr. M. van Dijck. It appeared that the text was too long and had to be reduced to better, workable my homework for the following years. The final proportions. That was draft was corrected by my friend Dr. W. Beek, former teacher of English at several colleges, and finally retyped by Father A. Bodden, m. s. c. I owe all of these people my sincere thanks for the many hours spent on this work.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401168067

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9789401168069

Written in Blood

Fatal Attraction in Enlightenment Amsterdam

By: Petrus Cornelis Spierenburg

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Written in Blood

Fatal Attraction in Enlightenment Amsterdam

By: Petrus Cornelis Spierenburg

Spierenburg narrates two sensational murdercases among intimates in eighteenth-century Amsterdam. The cases both resulted from fatal attration. The eighteenth century witnessed great cultural changes affecting personal relationships. The new ideal of love demanded that couples spended more time together and explore each other's feelings. For maried coules that might be good, for other couples it might be disaster.

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Ohio State University Press

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0814209556

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Van Loon

Popular Historian, Journalist, and FDR Confidant

By: Cornelis Van Minnen

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Van Loon

Popular Historian, Journalist, and FDR Confidant

By: Cornelis Van Minnen

Upon his death, Hendrik van Loon was described in The Times obituary as 'one of the most engaging products of the marriage between Holland and the United States'. One of FDR's true and closest friends, van Loon emigrated from the Netherlands to the United States at age 20, in 1902. Working as a historian, journalist, illustrator, and radio commentator, van Loon immersed himself in American cultural life from the 1920s through the '40s, until his death three months before D-Day. Van Loon's professional relationships and friendships with such distinguished persons as Sinclair Lewis, Van Wyck Brooks, H. L. Mencken, Albert Einstein, Herbert Hoover, and Fiorello La Guardia bolster his place as a celebrity of his times. This biography is an exciting and nuanced portrait of a man deeply involved in American cultural life in the first half of the twentieth century.

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1403977143

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Leviticus

By: Cornelis Vonk

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Leviticus

By: Cornelis Vonk

For many people, the third book of the Bible—Leviticus—is often the place where their yearly Bible reading plan gets interrupted as they look for more familiar material. What they need is a map, sufficiently scaled to offer an aerial overview of the book’s topography, yet detailed enough to provide a path for walking through the book’s terrain. This commentary puts such a map in your hands. It moves from general principles to specific requirements and guides the Bible reader through the details about Israel’s priesthood and Israel as the people of Yahweh. But any serious Bible reader, who by definition reads the Bible with an appetite, will want to feed on Jesus Christ in Leviticus, and this volume will satisfy that need abundantly—all the sacrifices, all the protocols, all the sacred leaders point to Jesus Christ and reach their fulfillment in him. It’s all about Jesus!

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666782246

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Strategic Management

An Executive Perspective

By: Cornelis A. de Kluyver,John A. Pearce

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Strategic Management

An Executive Perspective

By: Cornelis A. de Kluyver,John A. Pearce

Organizational success crucially depends on having a superior strategy and effectively implementing it. Companies that outperform their rivals typically have a better grasp of what customers value, who their competitors are, and how they can create an enduring competitive advantage. Successful strategies re ect a solid grasp of relevant forces in the external and competitive environment, a clear strategic intent, and a deep understanding of a company’s core competencies and assets. Generic strategies rarely propel a rm to a leadership position. Knowing where to go and nding carefully considered, creative ways of getting there are the hallmarks of successful strategy.

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Business Expert Press

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1631570749

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Divine Election

By: Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer

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Divine Election

By: Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer

A discussion of election in a perspective and spirit that will be quite novel to most theologians and ministers. The author contends that election can be understood only within faith, and within a spirit of doxology, for election takes place 'in Christ'. Hence election must be understood and employed in terms of the Gospel. He then repudiates theological usage which employs election and reprobation as a principle of interpretation for theology with the usual consequence of deducing from this truth a nice logical system of theology. Another powerful feature of this book is its criticism of the conception of the sovereignty of God and then makes it into a mere principle of naked 'abosolute power', and ethically neutral principle of brute force. [Book jacket].

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802848133

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A History of Murder

Personal Violence in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present

By: Petrus Cornelis Spierenburg

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A History of Murder

Personal Violence in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present

By: Petrus Cornelis Spierenburg

This book offers a fascinating and insightful overview of seven centuries of murder in Europe. It tells the story of the changing face of violence and documents the long-term decline in the incidence of homicide. From medieval vendettas to stylised duels, from the crime passionel of the modern period right up to recent public anxieties about serial killings and underworld assassinations, the book offers a richly illustrated account of murder's metamorphoses. In this original and compelling contribution, Spierenburg sheds new light on several important themes. He looks, for example, at the transformation of homicide from a private matter, followed by revenge or reconciliation, into a public crime, always subject to state intervention. Combining statistical data with a cultural approach, he demonstrates the crucial role gender played in the spiritualisation of male honour and the subsequent reduction of male-on-male aggression, as well as offering a comparative view of how different social classes practised and reacted to violence. This authoritative study will be of great value to students and scholars of the history of crime and violence, criminology and the sociology of violence. At a time when murder rates are rising and public fears about violent crime are escalating, this book will also interest the general reader intrigued by how our relationship with murder reached this point.

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