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Art isn't created just to please our eyes; it also transfers ideas and provokes thought on social problems. Austrian cartoonist Gerhard Haderer has been producing satirical illustrations and cartoons for adults for decades now, highlighting the awful problems with society.

Gerhard Haderer had even faced the court for one of his brutally honest books, The Life of Jesus. It triggered violent reactions, because of the society problems discussed in it, in Europe, especially from the Catholic Church. The story culminated in 2005 when Haderer was convicted in Greece for insulting the religious community and was given a six-month suspended sentence in absentia. A few months later, however, this verdict was corrected on appeal, and Gerhard Haderer was acquitted.

The artist developed his realistic style when working as a graphic designer and illustrator for advertising agencies early in his career. It wasn't until a cancer operation in 1985 when Gerhard abandoned his commercial dreams and became a freelance caricaturist and satirical illustrator, mainly focusing on social issues. Scroll down to check out his unsettling and at times scary cartoons and vote for your favorites.

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EM
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did you know that a couple of years ago, there were more selfie related deaths than shark related deaths?

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    stellermatt
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    this happens so much at live concerts, just put the damn phone down and enjoy the experience!

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    Phil.
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually even a put-on smile can lift your mood, say neuro-scientists.

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    Ola Antosik
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This I do not understand. I like reading books in paper but there is nothing wrong with electronic editions. If anything, they are more eco friendly. It is still the same activity just different medium.

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    Daniel Losinger
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Timeline: Catholic Church's sex abuse scandals https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/29/world/timeline-catholic-church-sexual-abuse-scandals/index.html

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    Michelle Line
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, at least it looks like they're all getting along.

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    Mika N
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've heard it said, how ironic it is that often times today, family time is getting everyone to put down their small screens and all look at the same big screen for a while.

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    Phil.
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    same with our used clothes which we graciously "donate"

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    Sarah Miller
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm not seeing this as a "fast food/obesity" thing, more like a CEO or corporate leader just greedily eating funds. Fat in wealth kind of thing

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    stellermatt
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    you can roll a piece of s**t in glitter, it's still a piece of s**t.

    Johanna Zamora
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pretty much sums up the stank in the White House in 2018

    Full Name
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's a cumulative stank for sure, and yeah it's still there.

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    L L
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dear Americans, this is how the rest of the world sees the U.S.A. thanks to its current governmental administration. Nobody else can believe that you chose to elect such an unqualified, incapable leader who keeps appointing other equally unqualified, incapable people to help him make his decisions.

    Dennis Anundson
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hilarious how someone who won't use their own name, knows how the entire world thinks of the United States. Stupid is as stupid does. F. Gump

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    Grace Robertson
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    not even the flies can stand the smell at the White House

    Lynne Sebastian
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think the flies are loving the filth, but basically I agree with you.

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    Lara Kashdan
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you still think that would be worse, you're out of your mind, blind, or brain washed.

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    GollyRojer
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Folks, it's Pandora's box. We opened it when we installed as president a mentally ill white supremacist misogynist fascist narcissist illiterate moron whose grip on reality is nonexistent.

    Pamela Miller
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Flies are attracted to trash and that is what is currently occupying the W.H. The stench can be smelled world-wide.

    Martin Forbes
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can't polish a turd but you can roll it in glitter.

    Kristin Dannerhoj- Sak
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    EXACTLY WHAT IS WRONG WITH TODAY! NO RESPECT FOR OUR PRESIDENT! Liberal a******s ruin so much today for their crybaby attitudes and you have the nerve to go on with these cartoons. Get over it.

    Gary Plummer
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is usually said by someone who had NO RESPECT FOR THE PRESIDENT that came before!

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    Ben S.
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    hahahahahahahaha! Pretty much...

    Brenden Laidlaw
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    diapers and politicians share the same need to be changed, they’re full of .....

    L L
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dear Americans - this is how the entire world views the U.S.A. nowadays, thanks to its current governmental administration. Used to be the global community looked to the U.S.A. as an example of good government & higher moral standards; now the U.S.A. is a desoised laughingstock that's nudging the entire world towards a more depressing, degenerate mindset in general.

    Donna Proksell
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’m glad. We will no longer be pushed around. Take care of our own first, so then we can take care of others.

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    Dennis Anundson
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    After the Odumbass family was booted and the White House fumigated, was it once again habitable.

    Bryan Baker
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What kind of piece of s**t would want to lower our taxes, secure our borders, protect the citizens, create jobs, raise the GDP, take down the DC corruption, destroy ISIS, put America first, fix the healthcare abomination, and strengthen the military? I just don’t get it........

    Claudia Weil
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And you believe that Trump is really doing these things? Lol!

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    Liea Young
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What! The swamp isn't drained?

    Eileen Kortright
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It could also be Lord of the Flies -- or Father of Lies -- Satan. That's what Beelzebub translates to in Christian doctrine.

    WhiteFox
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    flies are attracted to s**t. literally

    Rozy Rose
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    THE WHITE HOUSE IS BUGGED....

    Barbi Lucas
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Would that be the Trump Whitehouse?

    Sam T Godfrey
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If those are Murder Hornets, they're going the wrong direction...

    Joe Blow
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cleaning up the White House.

    Max Cerna
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hahahaha keep watching CNN! You people are the exact reason President Trump was elected in 2016 and will win again in 2020 lol. If the nobama mentality is what people wanted he wouldn't have lost the house ..the senate..and the white house. The rest of the country is tired of this progressive snowflake mentality. And it was proven in the polls. Democrats elected a freakin communist in NY.. a COMMUNIST... that's what you want for the country? I give 2 shots of what the rest of the world thinks of our country. 90% of the ones talking smack would rather live in the USA anyway. Please keep up with the screening at the sky..and supporting antifa rioting and harassing news reporters homes where their wives and children are... #MAGA

    Greg Jones
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So glad Obama is gone. However, it will take a while to get rid of the prior admins c**p.

    Maud Gakes
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am really sorry Dear American people. But this is inderdaad What EUROPE THINKS about the White house right now. We only hear s**t about Trump, and it is all bad...

    Angie Wilson
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Perfect depiction of the 8 years of the Obama White House. Nothing but a pile of c**p stinking the joint up. Will take years to get the stench out of there.

    Jennifer Drumright
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I see this as reflecting the White House as being full of s**t and trash in general, I see nothing pertaining to who is in there.

    Renata Christian
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There’s something rotten at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue!

    A.R.
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think this means the people inside of the White House are filled with sh!t, hence the horde of flies.

    Patti Stott
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Flies always find the s**t piles.

    Christine Cameron-Dow
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Does it really matter which seat of power it portrays? They all produce enough c**p and rotten material to cover the Earth with flies.

    Nikki D
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wouldn't mosquitoes, locusts, orparasitic works be more appropriate?

    Carole Reid
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    From the maggot in the Oval Office.

    Daria B
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The White House is full of bugs. Needing a patch that can fix this.

    Jim Jarocki
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Obviously Gerard did this when Obama was there.

    Nancy Lynn
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don’t understand what this is. Can someone please explain it to me. All I see are bugs in a mass of I don’t know what coming from the WH. Thank you.

    Svetik Privetik
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They are finally leaving their home of too many years...

    Dennis Anundson
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    After the Odumbass family was booted and the White House fumigated, only then was it once again habitable.

    Furious_Lover
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Again it’s your ugly fugly lying fumbass president who is attracting the flies

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    Clinton Payne
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Obama isn't in the White House anymore, so no more flies

    Claudia Weil
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You are confused. The massive pile of c**p in the White House is Trump,

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    Patrick McKenna
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    all the pro-obama people are commenting about the current president. colossal irony.

    Furious_Lover
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ignorant shat, atleast Obama didn’t make s**t claims “LETS BUILD A WALL!” “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!”

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    Matt Michael
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you think the the "stank" in the White House is isolated to 2018, your ignorance should be depicted in here as well.

    Full Name
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow, people had downvoted you suggesting that the "stank" didn't spontaneously erupt out of utopia the day Trump got elected. I'd love to hear reasons why everything used to be perfect until that one fateful day.

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    George Rogero
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    It’s much better now that Obama left

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    EM
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "I thought that there would be more fish."

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    Ben S.
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He can't escape his reality, even in his day-dreams...

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    Hilliary Smith
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I immediately thought that the commando in the middle thinks in black and white, and reality is all sorts of colors.

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    Meep
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh god I'm reading this on the toilet at work

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    Çalıkuşu
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    George Orwell- Animal Farm: ''Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

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    Chris Daemon
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Context, variation on Albrecht Dürer's Praying Hands.

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    Sykz
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Enough money you can do anything.

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    Vlad Horobet
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not sure how many people knew this, but there is a forth monkey in this series. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil and do no evil.

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    Oli Wolfe
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No!!! How will you get the ball back now!

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    earringnut
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    this would be even better with teachers.

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    Lua boots
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Holidays...so many people leaves at same time...so they get stuck on the road..,and they spend half of their vac waiting on the car...sad...reality

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