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Rigorously Investigated And Fearlessly Reported, A Crime So Monstrous Is A Passionate And Thorough Examination Of The Appalling Reality Of Human Bondage In Today's World. In His Devastating Narrative, Ben Skinner Boldly Casts Light On The Unthinkable, Yet Thriving, Modern-day Practice Of Slavery, Exposing A Global Trade In Human Lives. The Abuses Detailed In These Pages Are Repugnant, But There Is Hope To Be Found: By Giving Voice To The Victims, Skinner Helps Restore Their Dignity And Makes Crucial Strides Toward Closing This Shameful Chapter In History.

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Rigorously Investigated And Fearlessly

William J. Clinton

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Rigorously Investigated And Fearlessly Reported, A Crime So Monstrous Is A Passionate And Thorough Examination Of The Appalling Reality Of Human Bondage In Today's World. In His Devastating Narrative, Ben Skinner Boldly Casts Light On The Unthinkable, Yet Thriving, Modern-day Practice Of Slavery, Exposing A Global Trade In Human Lives. The Abuses Detailed In These Pages Are Repugnant, But There Is Hope To Be Found: By Giving Voice To The Victims, Skinner Helps Restore Their Dignity And Makes Crucial Strides Toward Closing This Shameful Chapter In History.

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In The Emerging Global Economy, Everything Is Mobile: Capital, Factories, Even Entire Industries. The Only Resource That's Really Rooted In A Nation--and The Ultimate Source Of All Its Wealth--is Its People.

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The More Children See Of Violence, The More Numb They Are To The Deadly Consequences Of Violence. Now, Video Games Like 'mortal Kombat,' 'killer Instinct,' And 'doom,' The Very Game Played Obsessively By The Two Young Men Who Ended So Many Lives In Littleton, Make Our Children More Active Participants In Simulated Violence.

Undeniably, Character Does Count For Our Citizens, Out Communities, And Our Nation, And This Week We Celebrate The Importance Of Character In Our Individual Lives... Core Ethical Values Of Trustworthiness, Fairness, Responsibility, Caring, Respect, And Citizenship Form The Foundation Of Our Democracy, Our Economy, And Our Society... Instilling Sound Character In Our Children Is Essential To Maintaining The Strength Of Our Nation Into The 21st Century.

We Democrats Think The Country Works Better With A Strong Middle Class, Real Opportunities For Poor People To Work Their Way Into It And A Relentless Focus On The Future, With Business And Government Working Together To Promote Growth And Broadly Shared Prosperity. We Think "we're All In This Together" Is A Better Philosophy Than "you're On Your Own."

There Is A Government Within The Government Who Controll This And I Do Not Controll It

Just Because We Cannot Do Everything For Everyone Does Not Mean We Should Do Nothing For Anyone.

Being Gay, The Last Time I Looked, Had Nothing To Do With Reading A Balance Book, Fixing A Broken Bone Or Changing A Spark Plug.

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Israel's Democracy Is The Bedrock On Which Our Relationship Stands. It's A Shining Example For People Around The World Who Are On The Frontline Of The Struggle For Democracy In Their Own Lands. Our Relationship Is Also Based On Our Common Interest In A More Stable And Peaceful Middle East, A Middle East That Will Finally Accord Israel The Recognition And Acceptance That Its People Have Yearned For So Long And Have Been Too Long Denied, A Middle East That Will Know Greater Democracy For All Its Peoples.

I Believe I'm A Better Authority Than Anybody Else In America On My Own Wife. I Have Never Known A Person With A Stronger Sense Of Right And Wrong In My Life Ever.

I Want A Man Who Had The Good Sense To Marry Michelle Obama.

Thomas Jefferson Believed That To Preserve The Very Foundations Of Our Nation, We Would Need Dramatic Change From Time To Time. Well, My Fellow Americans, This Is Our Time. Let Us Embrace It.

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We Are A Nation Of Immigrants. But We Are Also A Nation Of Laws. It Is Wrong And Ultimately Self-defeating For A Nation Of Immigrants To Permit The Kind Of Abuse Of Our Immigration Laws We Have Seen In Recent Years, And We Must Do More To Stop It.

Let Us Do The Work That Is Before Us, So That When Our Time Here Is Over We Will All Watch The Sun Go Down As We All Must, And Say Truly, We Have Prepared Our Children For The Dawn.

The Good News Is You Can Get A Lot Of Information Off The Internet For Free And In A Hurry. But I Think The Breaking Up Of The Media, Which Is Otherwise Kind Of Healthy, Has Contributed To Less Actual Reporting And A Louder, More Contentious, More Divisive Public Discourse, Highlighting Conflict, Sometimes Falsely.

I Think What Breaks People Is Not Adversity; What Breaks People Is Thinking That Tomorrow Is Going To Be Just Like Yesterday. That's What's Numbing - If You Think You Can't Change, You Can't Be Better. And I Didn't Like That.

If The Personal Freedoms Guaranteed By The Constitution Inhibit The Government's Ability To Govern The People, We Should Look To Limit Those Guarantees.

I Tell You, My Fellow Americans, That If We Learned Anything From The Collapse Of The Berlin Wall And The Fall Of The Governments In Eastern Europe, Even A Totally Controlled Society Cannot Resist The Winds Of Change That Economics And Technology And Information Flow Have Imposed In This World Of Ours. That Is Not An Option. Our Only Realistic Option Is To Embrace These Changes And Create The Jobs Of Tomorrow.

Well, First Of All, I Think That A Lot Of The Voters Who Are Voting For The Tea Party Candidates Have Really Good Impulses. That Is, They Believe That For Years And Years And Years, The People With Wealth And Power Or Government Power Have Done Well And Ordinary People Have Not. That's True.

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There Is No Longer A Clear, Bright Line Dividing America's Domestic Concerns And America's Foreign Policy Concerns...if We Want America To Stay On The Right Track, If We Want Other People To Be On That Track And Have The Chance To Enjoy Peace And Prosperity, We Have No Choice But To Try To Lead The Train.

I Will Get Things Done For America.... Faced With Apathy, I Will Take Action. Faced With Conflict, I Will Seek Common Ground.... Faced With Adversity, I Will Persevere. I Will Carry This Commitment With Me This Year. I Am An Americorps Volunteer.

You Know, Everybody Makes Mistakes When They Are President.

When Our Memories Outweigh Our Dreams, It Is Then That We Become Old.

We Should Make It A Crime Even To Attempt To Pollute. Our Children Should Grow Up Next To Parks, Not Poison.

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Mass Destruction

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Almost Makes You Want To Go To Jail Out Here, Doesn't It?

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The First Thing I Had To Start With Was, You Know, We Don't Have A War. We Don't Have A Depression, We Don't Have A Cold War.

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Cooperation Will Save The Future. And America Should Lead It. Every Time Humanity Has Been In Danger Of Extinguishing Itself, Our Consciousness And Our Conscience Have Led Us To Come Together. That's The Big Issue Of The 21st Century.

If We Disagree And I Think I'm Right, I Just Go Ahead And Do What I Think Is Right. And Then She Tells Me, 'i Told You So.'

African Americans Watch The Same News At Night That Ordinary Americans Do.

African American

To Realize The Full Possibilities Of This Economy, We Must Reach Beyond Our Own Borders, To Shape The Revolution That Is Tearing Down Barriers And Building New Networks Among Nations And Individuals, And Economies And Cultures: Globalization. It's The Central Reality Of Our Time.

Sincerity? I Can Fake That.

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Our Mission In This New Century Is Clear. For Good Or Ill, We Live In An Interdependent World. We Can't Escape Each Other. Therefore, We Have To Spend Our Lives Building A Global Community Of Shared Responsibilities, Shared Values, Shared Benefits.

I Want To Build A Bridge To The 21st Century In Which We Create A Strong And Growing Economy To Preserve The Legacy Of Opportunity For The Next Generation By Balancing Our Budget In A Way That Protects Our Values And Ensuring That Every Family Will Be Able To Own And Protect The Value Of Their Most Important Asset, Their Home.

To Avoid Having Bad Things Happen, Learning To Manage Your Anger And To Actually Share How You Really Feel About Something, And Get It Behind You Is One Of The Most Important Aspects Of Growing Up.

The Purpose Of Politics Is To Give People Tools To Make The Most Of Their Lives.

From New Hampshire Forward, For Reasons That Absolutely Mystified Me, The Press Thought The Most Important Issue In The Race Was The Middle Class Tax Cut. I Never Did Meet Any Voter Who Thought That.

The United States Is Too Big And We Are Too Involved With Too Many People For Any President To Be Able To Take Actions That Will Be Universally Agreed To All Day, Every Day And Everywhere In The World.

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Millions Of People Of Color Still Experience Racism Daily.

If You Voluntarily Quit In The Face Of Adversity, You'll Wonder About It For The Rest Of Your Life.

The Struggle For Your Own Character Is The Struggle For The Nation's Character.

The Reagan-bush Years Have Exalted Private Gain Over Public Obligation, Special Interests Over The Common Good, Wealth And Fame Over Work And Family. The 1980s Ushered In A Gilded Age Of Greed And Selfishness, Of Irresponsibility And Excess, And Of Neglect.

Demand That Your Government Pays More Attention. It's Immoral That People In Africa Die Like Flies Of Diseases That No One Dies Of In The United States. And The More Disease There Is, The More Political Unrest There Will Be, Leading To More Darfurs, Which The U.s. Will Have To Pay To Fix.

Hope I Lived Up To My Reputation For Being Slick.

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When I Was President, I Knew Exactly What I Wanted To Do Every Day To Bring America Together And Create A Greater Sense Of Opportunity And A Larger Sense Of Responsibility And A Stronger Sense Of Community.

The Problem With Ideology Is If You Got An Ideology, You Already Got Your Mind Made Up, You Know All The Answers, And That Makes Evidence Irrelevant And Argument A Waste Of Time, So You Tend To Govern By Assertion And Attack. The Problem With That Is That Discourages Thinking And Gives You Bad Results.

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Mass Destruction

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...the Fact [is] That Our Borders Leak Like A Sieve: Those Things Cannot Be Permitted To Continue In Good Conscience.

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Working Together

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Our Relationship Would Never Vary From Its Allegiance To The Shared Values, The Shared Religious Heritage, The Shared Democratic Politics Which Have Made The Relationship Between The United States And Israel A Special-even On Occasion A Wonderful-relationship ... The United States Admires Israel For All That It Has Overcome And For All That It Has Accomplished. We Are Proud Of The Strong Bond We Have Forged With Israel, Based On Our Shared Values And Ideals. That Unique Relationship Will Endure Just As Israel Has Endured.

I Misled People, Including Even My Wife.

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We Find As Our Interdependence Increases That, On The Whole, We Do Better When Other People Do Better As Well.

Only Astrophysicists New About The Internet 20 Years Ago. Today My Cat Has A Website.

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When I Think About The World I Would Like To Leave To My Daughter And The Grandchildren I Hope To Have, It Is A World That Moves Away From Unequal, Unstable, Unsustainable Interdependence To Integrated Communities - Locally, Nationally And Globally - That Share The Characteristics Of All Successful Communities.

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I Want To Nominate A Man Who's Cool On The Outside, But Who Burns For America On The Inside.

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I May Not Have Been The Greatest President, But I've Had The Most Fun Eight Years.

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Positive Energy

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Strength And Wisdom Are Not Opposing Values.

True Excellence Requires A Worthy Dream, A Good Idea Of How To Realize It And The Courage To Risk Failure To Achieve It.

If There's Grass In The Field, Play Ball!

When Personal Freedom's Being Abused, You Have To Move To Limit It. That's What We Did In The Announcement I Made Last Weekend On The Public Housing Projects, About How We're Going To Have Weapon Sweeps

We Have A Unique Opportunity To Unite America, Urban And Rural, Coastal And Midwestern, Red And Blue, Under The Banner Of A Truly Unifying National Effort. We Can Start Right Now.

I Recently Spoke With Barbara Jordan Of The U.s. Commission On Immigration Reform, And I Increasingly Believe We Need A System To Verify Employment Eligibility. The Commission's Recommendation Of A National Registry May Be The Way To Go.

I've Been In Politics Long Enough To Expect Criticism And Hostility. But I Was Unprepared For The Hatred I Get From Christians. Why Do Christians Hate So Much?.

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You Can't Blame The Administration And The Republicans For Taking Us Back To Deficits, For Spending The Social Security Surplus And Assaulting The Environment. That's What They Promised To Do In The Last Election.

The Hard Fact Is That So Long As Saddam Remains In Power, He Threatens The Well-being Of His People, The Peace Of His Region, And The Security Of The World.

When You're President, The Democrats Got To Feel Good When They Walk In The Door If You're A Republican; If You're A Democrat, The Republican Has To Feel Like You're Listening. And You Should Be Listening.

I Never Thought Of Political Endeavors Primarily In Terms Of Power And Prestige, And I Never Thought Of Economic Endeavors Primarily In Terms Of Wealth And Position.

To Build A Twenty-first-century Economy, America Must Revive A Nineteenth-century Habit--investing In The Common, National Economic Resources That Enable Every Person And Every Firm To Create Wealth And Value.

It Appears That Some School Officials, Teachers, And Parents Have Assumed That Religious Expression Of Any Type Is Either Inappropriate Or Forbidden Altogether In Public Schools; However, Nothing In The First Amendment Converts Our Public Schools Into Religion-free Zones.

Considering The Current Sad State Of Our Computer Programs, Software Development Is Clearly Still A Black Art, And Cannot Yet Be Called An Engineering Discipline.

So Much Of Modern Politics Is Focused Not On Honest Differences Of Policy But On Personal Attacks.

If We Want To Invest In The Prosperity Of Our Nation, We Must Invest In The Education Of Our Children So That Their Talents May Be Fully Employed.

I Think It's Very Important, And I Think That What Young People Will Learn From My Experience Is That Even Presidents Have To Do That And There Are Consequences When You Don't. But I Also Think That There Will Be A Box Score, And There Will Be That One Negative, And Then There Will Be The Hundreds And Hundreds And Hundreds Of Times When The Record Will Show That I Did Not Abuse My Authority As President, That I Was Truthful With The American People.

We Know That When We Protect Our Oceans We're Protecting Our Future.

President Obama's Approach Embodies The Values, The Ideas And The Direction America Has To Take To Build The 21st-century Version Of The American Dream: A Nation Of Shared Opportunities, Shared Responsibilities, Shared Prosperity, A Shared Sense Of Community.

Politics Is For People Who Are Too Ugly To Get Into Showbusiness.

We Must Say No To Illegal Immigration So We Can Continue To Say Yes To Legal Immigration.

Illegal Immigration

It Is Inconceivable That Anyone Could Say We Have Tried To Hide Anything

Sharing In God's Blessings Is At The Heart Of Thanksgiving And At The Core Of The American Spirit.

Progress Changes Consciousness, And When People's Consciousness Changes, Then Their Awareness Of What Is Possible Changes As Well - A Virtuous Circle.

This Remains A Very Important Opportunity For The American People To Have Their Day In Court Against Big Tobacco And Its Marketing Practices. I Urge Congress To Provide The Funding To Allow The Lawsuit To Move Forward, And Not To Shield The Tobacco Industry From The Consequences Of Its Actions.

One Of The Real Dilemmas We Have In Our Country And Around The World Is That What Works In Politics Is Organization And Conflict. That Is, Drawing The Sharp Distinctions. But In Real Life, What Works Is Networks And Cooperation. And We Need Victories In Real Life, So We've Got To Get Back To Networks And Cooperation, Not Just Conflict. But Politics Has Always Been About Conflict, And In The Coverage Of Politics, Information Dissemination Tends To Be Organized Around Conflict As Well.

I Want To Make It Very Clear That This Middle-class Tax Cut, In My View, Is Central To Any Attempt We're Going To Make To Have A Short-term Economic Strategy And A Long-term Fairness Strategy, Which Is Part Of Getting This Country Going Again.

When You Get Asked Hundreds Of Questions, It's Not Possible To Remember The Answer To Every One.

Fanatics Are Defined By Their Hatreds; Free People By Their Humanity.

I Knew From The Minute I Saw Her (hillary) That If I Got Involved With Her I Would Fall In Love With Her.

Our Paradigm Now Seems To Be: Something Terrible Happened To Us On September 11, And That Gives Us The Right To Interpret All Future Events In A Way That Everyone Else In The World Must Agree With Us. And If They Don't, They Can Go Straight To Hell.

When You Stifle Human Potential, When You Don't Invest In New Ideas, It Doesn't Just Cut Off The People Who Are Affected; It Hurts Us All.

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If You Look At What's Happened To The Stock Market, If You Look At What's Happened To Housing Values, If You Look At What's Happened To Bank Loan Portfolios Because The Value Of Their Other Assets That They've Already Issued Loans Against Were Going Down, There Was A Pretty Good Argument For Trying To Pass Something At About This Level Of Investment With The Divisions As They Were - Unemployment, Food Stamps, And Tax Cuts, Aid To Education And Healthcare, And Job Creation.

You Have To Make A Conscious Decision To Change For Your Own Well-being, And That Of Your Family And Your Country.

I Do Think That The Role Of The Internet, And The Way It's Bringing Everything Into The Home, Has Made A Parent's Job Much More Difficult. And It's Harder To Know What To Do And How To Do It. It's Much, Much Harder.

History Will Remember Nelson Mandela As A Champion For Human Dignity And Freedom, For Peace And Reconciliation.

Keep Your Eyes On The Prize And Don't Turn Back.

We Must Teach Our Children To Resolve Their Conflicts With Words, Not Weapons.

That Is, We're Into A Whole New World With The Internet, And Whenever We Sort Of Cross Another Plateau In Our Development, There Are Those Who Seek To Take Advantage Of It. So This Is A Replay Of Things That Have Happened Throughout Our History.

[alternative Energy] Will Make Us Less Dependent On Foreign Oil. It Would Make Us More Secure In Our Future. It Would Mean That Our Foreign Policy Could Be A Reflection Of Our Values And Our Other Interests, And Not Just That.

What Happened To Us In September, 2001, Is A Microcosmic But Painful And Powerful Example Of The Fact We Live In An Inter-dependent World That Is Not Yet An Integrated Global Community.

Literacy Is Not A Luxury, It Is A Right And A Responsibility.

If You Wanna Maintain 20 Percent Of The World's Income With 4 Percent Of The World's People, You Gotta First Of All Have More Shared Prosperity And Shared Growth.

I Don't Think The Republicans Can Damage My Character

I Take Full Responsability...for What We Did. It Was The Right Thing To Do.

I Still Believe In A Place Called Hope.

Because Primarily Of The Power Of The Internet, People Of Modest Means Can Band Together And Amass Vast Sums Of Money That Can Change The World For Some Public Good If They All Agree.

Ultimately, The Best Strategy To Ensure Our Security And To Build A Durable Peace Is To Support The Advance Of Democracy Elsewhere. Democracies Don't Attack Each Other.

Downsizing Budgets May Be Necessary, But Downsizing Dreams Is A Decision To Be Disappointed.

You Don't Have To Be An Elected Official To Be A Public Servant.

Elected Officials

Public Servants

I Believe We Can Do Much More To Adapt To The Structural Changes In The Global Economy, Get High-end Manufacturing Back Here, Set Up Clusters Of Economic Activity Where You Have, Among Other Things, Continuous Retraining Of People Well Into Their Middle Years So They Never Become Irrelevant To The Current Job Market.

Our Democracy Must Be Not Only The Envy Of The World But The Engine Of Our Own Renewal. There Is Nothing Wrong With America That Cannot Be Cured By What Is Right With America.

Life's Real Victories Must Be Shared.

I Fully Share The Congress's Objective Of Promoting Nonproliferation And Combating Iran's Efforts To Acquire Weapons Of Mass Destruction (wmd) And Missile Delivery Systems. This Issue Remains At The Top Of The Agenda With Russia As Well As With Other Countries Whose Companies May Be Providing Such Assistance To Iran. In The Case Of Russian Entities' Cooperation With Iran, We Have Imposed Penalties Ten Times In The Past And Stand Ready To Apply Them Again Whenever Necessary.

I Want Our Nation To Take Responsibility To Make Sure That Every Single Child Can Look Out The Window In The Morning And See A Whole Community Getting Up And Going To Work. We Want These Young People To Know The Thrill Of The First Paycheck, The Challenge Of Starting That First Business, The Pride In Following In A Parent's Footsteps.

I Think Actually That The Speech Work I Do Is Fine. It's Important, Because I Try To Help People Think About What's Going On And Organize Their Lives Accordingly.

If No One Consumes These Products, People Will Stop Roducing Them. They Will Not Build It If You Didn't Come.

From The Small Clubs Of The Harlem Renaissance Where He Began Playing Saxophone To World Tours For The Biggest Of The Big Bands, Benny Carter Redefined American Jazz. From The Start, His Fellow Musicians Said The Way He Played The Sax Was Amazing. They Say That About Me, Too. (laughter.) But I Don't Think They Mean It In Quite The Same Way.

Every Time Bush Talks About Trust It Makes Chills Run Up And Down My Spine. The Way He Has Trampled On The Truth Is A Travesty Of The American Political System.

This Is One Way That Wealthy Americans Could Really Contribute. They Could Put Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Into The Infrastructure Bank, Be A Good Investment For Them, For Their Children, For Their Grandchildren, And They Would Directly Contribute To Revitalizing A Big Sector Of Middle-class Wages In America And Making Our Country More Productive, So That We Could Create More Opportunity. But I Think That We Could Get A Lot Of Grassroots Support From, Like, Local Chambers Of Commerce And Other Things If They Understood Exactly How This Infrastructure Bank Would Work.

A Few Years Back, This Guy [barack Obama] Would Be Serving Us Coffee.

I Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Woman, Miss Lewinsky. I Never Told Anybody To Lie, Not A Single Time - Never. These Allegations Are False.

Without A High Pain Threshold, You Can't Be A Successful President.

People Like Change In General, But Not In Particular.

I Am Committed To Curbing The Influence Of Money In Our Political System.

By The End Of The First Month Of The 1995 Session, Each Senator Will Have Made More Money Than Any Person Who Works 40 Hours A Week At Minimum Wage For The Entire Year.

Constituted A Critical Lapse In Judgement And A Personal Failure On My Part For Which I Am Solely Responsable

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