China tourism market has gained momentum in recent years, with the CAGR of 26.2% between 2009 and 2012. In 2012, the revenue in China tourism industry approximated RMB2.6 trillion, up 15.1% year-on-year.
China is at the turning point for economic restructuring and upgrading, leading to the economic growth slowdown but still in a robust way. Coupled with the improvement of national income level, the tourism industry of China witnesses consolidated growth, with the estimated revenue in 2013 growing by 14.3% year-on-year.
Comprehensive report on one of the emerging tourism markets of the world - China, part of the BRIC economies.It is an eye opener for one who wishes to findd out the travel trends and demographics of Chinese outbound traveller as well as major events.
Itb world travel trends report 2015-2016David Vicent
IPK travel trends report 2015-2016. ITB Berlin 2016. Main trends and key factors in the Tourism Industry. Sharing Econommy effect, travel warnings effects and recovery periods or the real value of social media for DMO´s. A must to read report for tourism marketeers.
Information about COTRI's joint activities with other companies and organisations and some insights and statistics about Chinese Outbound Tourism. Conference in the PATA Annual Meeting held in Kuching (Malaysia) in April'2010.
China tourism market has gained momentum in recent years, with the CAGR of 26.2% between 2009 and 2012. In 2012, the revenue in China tourism industry approximated RMB2.6 trillion, up 15.1% year-on-year.
China is at the turning point for economic restructuring and upgrading, leading to the economic growth slowdown but still in a robust way. Coupled with the improvement of national income level, the tourism industry of China witnesses consolidated growth, with the estimated revenue in 2013 growing by 14.3% year-on-year.
Comprehensive report on one of the emerging tourism markets of the world - China, part of the BRIC economies.It is an eye opener for one who wishes to findd out the travel trends and demographics of Chinese outbound traveller as well as major events.
Itb world travel trends report 2015-2016David Vicent
IPK travel trends report 2015-2016. ITB Berlin 2016. Main trends and key factors in the Tourism Industry. Sharing Econommy effect, travel warnings effects and recovery periods or the real value of social media for DMO´s. A must to read report for tourism marketeers.
Information about COTRI's joint activities with other companies and organisations and some insights and statistics about Chinese Outbound Tourism. Conference in the PATA Annual Meeting held in Kuching (Malaysia) in April'2010.
To understand global trends and regional differences in the most important international tourism source market China, visit www.gbtimes.com/webinar on the 24th of Sep.
Introduction about COTRI (China Outbound Tourism Research Institute) - the world's leading independent research institute for information, training, quality assessment, research, and consultancy relating to the Chinese outbound tourism market.
Conference by COTRI's director Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt in the II International Asian Tourism Congress held by Casa Asia in Barcelona (February'2011)
Celebrating 10 years of examples of successful ways to attract Chinese tourists - CTW Chinese Tourists Welcoming Award 2013 now open for applications.Visit our website www.china-outbound.com for more!
Conference by COTRI's director Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt about the consequences of Climate Change for Tourism in urban areas, especially in China. At Zhejiang University (Hangzhou) in 2009.
Conference by COTRI's director Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt about Chinese Outbound Tourism in Germany and the opportunities for the region of Baden-Wüttemberg. (in German)
To understand global trends and regional differences in the most important international tourism source market China, visit www.gbtimes.com/webinar on the 24th of Sep.
Introduction about COTRI (China Outbound Tourism Research Institute) - the world's leading independent research institute for information, training, quality assessment, research, and consultancy relating to the Chinese outbound tourism market.
Conference by COTRI's director Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt in the II International Asian Tourism Congress held by Casa Asia in Barcelona (February'2011)
Celebrating 10 years of examples of successful ways to attract Chinese tourists - CTW Chinese Tourists Welcoming Award 2013 now open for applications.Visit our website www.china-outbound.com for more!
Conference by COTRI's director Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt about the consequences of Climate Change for Tourism in urban areas, especially in China. At Zhejiang University (Hangzhou) in 2009.
Conference by COTRI's director Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt about Chinese Outbound Tourism in Germany and the opportunities for the region of Baden-Wüttemberg. (in German)
Baidu travel kit is about opportunities and advantages for placing online advertisement in Baidu Travel section.
Baidu currently is the market leader for search engine in the world by having 66% of market share. Their market centralised in China, the country with the highest population in the world.
Particularly, this slide deck is intended to target blue-chip companies that is willing either to expand their service line or gain maximum online exposure in China.
Within this slide decks, you also will get informative data and thorough research about the demographic, market behaviour, potential and business opportunities.
Having in mind the steady and rapid growth of the tourism sector and number of tourists in the world, it is especially important for Serbia to invest in this sector and to adapt its offer to the different demands of tourists coming from the local and global environment. A large number of Chinese people and middle-class growth in China are certainly some of the reasons why Chinese tourists in the world are gaining increasing importance. The benefits of those tourists have been felt by all countries that have managed to attract them, such as Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Australia, America and several destinations in Europe, including Spain, Great Britain, Italy and France. Although in Serbia the number of tourists from China is not large, this number is growing significantly year after year. One of the reasons is a visa-free regime, but that should not have to be the only reason. Serbia must seriously engage in a race for tourists from China.
On January 28th, 2016, representatives of nearly ten international donor agencies gathered in Hanoi in a roundtable meeting on coordination for Vietnam tourism industry. The initiative was led by the Environmentally and Socially Responsible Tourism Capacity Development Programme (known as ESRT Programme) as technical support to Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).
The SEA Hotel Expansion Summit 2014 was organized so as to gather insights from industry professionals on the current trends in the tourism sector and to discuss its potential and limitations.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
1. China Outbound Tourism Research Institute
Berenice Aceves, MBA
COTRI China Outbound Tourism Research Institute,
Heide / Beijing
China Outbound Tourism 2011:
Arrival of the New Chinese Tourist
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• COTRI China Outbound Tourism Research Institute
is the worldwide leading independent research institute for
analysis, consulting and quality assessment relating to the
Chinese Outbound Tourism market.
• Headquarter in Heide/Germany, China office in Beijing.
Director: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt FRGS
Active in P.R. of China since 1978
Former owner of Inbound Tour Operator China->Europe
COTRI founder and director since 2004
Professor at West Coast University of Applied Sciences
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Global Tourism 2010:
6.7% increase of international tourism arrivals
Asia –Pacific region
20% increase year
by year
Forecast for global
tourism:
From 930 million to
1.6 billion travels
by 2020
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China´ Major Targets of the
s
12th Five-Year Plan
for 2011-2015
Annual average GDP growth: 7%
GDP in 2015 (based on 2010 prices): 55 trillion Yuan (US$ 8.37 trillion)
Proportion of service industry's output in GDP: up by 4 percentage points
Release of major pollutants: down by 8%-10%
Jobs created: 45 million
Average growth of residents´income: more than 7%
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2010:
57.4 million
outbound trips
China is the No. 1
source market in
Asia even without
taking into account
trips to Hong Kong /
Macao
For the second time
in China: Outbound
tourism spending
higher than inbound
tourism income
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2000: Global market
share 1.5%
2010: Global market
share 5.8%
2000: One out of
67 international
travellers
originates in
Mainland China
2010: One out of
16 international
travellers
originates in
Mainland China
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Share of Chinese outbound travels during
three quinquenniums 1995-2009
(Source: CNTA / COTRI, no reliable data available before 1995)
More than 60% of all travels happening in last
quinquennium 2005-2009
1995-1999
12%
2000-2004
2005-2009 27%
61%
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Chinese outbound travels projection for current
quinquennium 2010-2014
a) projected increase according to State Council planning
b) projected increase if growth rate equals 2000-04/2005-09
500,0
450,0
400,0
350,0
300,0
250,0
200,0
150,0
100,0
50,0
0,0
1995- 2000- 2005- 2010- 2010-
1999 2004 2009 2014a 2014b
Outbound Travels 40,6 88,3 199,8 309,9 451,5
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Market Segments
Segmentation of market in
- low price/bad quality mass market
For the “Europe-from-the-Coach-Window” mass market there is still a queue of
at least 100 million Chinese waiting for their turn to get their photo in front
of the Eiffel tower.
and - “FIT” / “Semi-FIT”, ”MICE” high-end market
"We didn't want to go on a group tour since these can be very rushed, taking in too
many countries over a short period of time. We think we handle independent travel
quite well since we were all in Singapore last Spring Festival when we also went to
Thailand. We think we will be able to get around Italy by ourselves.”
(China Daily 28- 01-2011)
January 2011: 456 million Internet users
32% Internet penetration rate.
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China Outbound Tourism 2011:
Good news – not only because of quantitative growth
but also because of qualitative developments:
1.Political support for outbound tourism
2.Greater interest in in-depth travels
3.Easy access to passports and hard currency
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China Outbound Tourism 2011:
1. Political support for outbound tourism by
Chinese Central Government:
• On November 25th 2009, a State Council executive meeting
chaired by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao adopted the “Statement
on Accelerating the Tourism Industry Development” which
declared a planned annual increase of 9% for outbound tourism.
• In the 12th Five-Year Plan for the first time the development of
outbound tourism is actively promoted instead of being
hindered by the Chinese government.
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China Outbound Tourism 2011:
2. Greater interest in in-depth travels:
“… one of the remarkable characteristics of China tourism in 2010 was the detailed market
segmentation. When the normal tourism market was still the main component of tourism
section, special interest groups were forming as well. Some special attractive long-distance
and niche market focused tourism products which were offered by tour operators both
inside and outside China turned out to be very successful.”
Prof. Zhang Guangrui
Development of China's Outbound Tourism 2010
in: Green Book of China's Tourism 2011
Niche market and special interest products
offer opportunities to attract Chinese visitors
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China Outbound Tourism 2011:
3. Less bureaucratic problems from the Chinese side:
• 140 ADS agreements with all important destinations signed
• Access to passports and hard currency relatively easy
• Individual tourist visa agreements with Asian and some
European countries
• More choice of destinations and tours than ever
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China Outbound Tourism 2011:
But complaints about many destinations:
• Visa problems still existing
• (Perceived) Safety problems given extensive media
attention in China
• Quality level often not according to Chinese
expectations
• Not enough visible dedication to Chinese market
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Chinese Outbound Mass
and New Tourists will
continue to travel all over
the world in growing
numbers, but with
specific demands and
growing expectations.
Are you ready?
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Thanks
We are here to answer all your questions:
- Now
- COTTM 2011 COTRI Stand 2000
- www.china-outbound.com and
- www.chinatraveltrends.com
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COTRI Events during COTTM 2011
1) CTW Award 2011 Ceremony
Thursday April 14, 10.00 to 12.00 h
COTTM 2011 Theatre
Language: English
2) Book Presentation
Green Book of China’s Tourism 2011
China’s Tourism Development Analysis and Forecast
Thursday April 14, 13.30 to 14.15 h
COTTM 2011 Theatre
Language: English and Chinese
3) Exhibitors Debrief Workshop
Friday April 15, 10.00 to 12.00 h
COTTM 2011 VIP Room
Language: English
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