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Long Term Bondage Part Seven
Long Term Bondage Video (14:42 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 7 April 2007
Ariel learns a little lesson about knowing when she is well off. Her third demerit is the electric fly-zapper, painfully applied to her backside and thighs. When she complains about him laying down the swatter to build the anticipation, he demonstrates exactly what happens if he charges the thing first- the result spark really makes her jump!
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Long Term Bondage Part Eight
Long Term Bondage Video (20:06 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 19 April 2007
Ariel works off her fourth demerit... legs spread, tight crotchrope to the ceiling, big ball-gag... and cruel, cruel nipple clamps, toyed with to agonising effect by her master!
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Steves Idea
Tutorial Photoset (137 photos) starring Ariel Anderssen added 24 April 2007
Steve wanted to shoot a progressive bondage set, with Ariel starting off just frogtied, then moving to wrists and elbows behind her back (tight!) then finishing with a ballgag (and drool!!)
The lighting he wanted was soft, even, warm and flattering. It took a few iterations to get the effect we wanted- have a look at the first few of Steve's pics. We started with a hairlight behind Ariel to camera left, but it resulted in not-so-flattering shadows. We softened the overall lighting, moved the hairlight around and finally settled on a lighting plan which I *think* is what I've drawn here!
Ariel was in this very demanding tie quite a long time, and had to find lots of different poses. When we let her out she got a major endorphin rush- check out the last of Frank's photos for a floaty model! Bless... :-)
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Long Term Bondage Part Nine
Long Term Bondage Video (53:29 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 30 April 2007
Ariel is going to have dinner with me... so we have a lot of preparation. She must be correctly clothed, elegantly bound... the food must be prepared, her makeup must be perfect. Then it is out to the dinner table. But still she resists- she won't eat from her Master's fork, so instead she'll have to eat without her hands, getting lasagne all over her pretty face! The longer she holds out and the more she sulks, the worse the next demerit will be when she finally works it off...
Restrained Elegance resident slavegirl (in training)
Restrained Elegance Nights Video (14:41 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 27 May 2007
As a celebration of the sixth birthday of Restrained Elegance, and in recognition of the fact that Ariel has really made the site her home, the feeling on the forum was that she should be made the Restrained Elegance resident slavegirl. Of course, such a position carries with it great responsibilities, and there could be none of the insolent backchat we had been enduring from Ariel on the forum.
No, her training had to begin from scratch, from the very beginning. Even the collar crafted especially for our resident slavegirl by SM-factory was not Ariel's own, merely locked on her during her probation...
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Slavegirl Positions
Restrained Elegance Nights Video (08:17 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 30 May 2007
As the first part of Ariel's training, I decided she needed to be shown that even things she believed herself to be good at could prove themselves almost impossible to do. She needed to be taken down a few pegs to get into the correct submissive attitude to begin her training. So without even the 'comfort' of ropes to help her hold position, she had to demonstrate the many positions a Restrained Elegance slavegirl should be familiar with. Those she performed to an acceptable standard will form the basis for a lexicon of poses... but for now, have a look at the video of her performance.
I know the only bondage is her collar, but believe me some of these positions are a hell of a lot harder to hold than they look. My absolute favourite is the diabolical '45'. Simple enough- kneel, arms and elbows together behind the back, sitting up off your heels so your thighs are at 45 degrees. Even for a model, dancer and gymnast in as perfect physical condition as Ariel, this position is very demanding to hold for any length of time...
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Long Term Bondage Part Ten
Long Term Bondage Video (42:05 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 8 June 2007
I finally broke Ariel's resistance and had her eating out of my hand... then I decided to use her as my plate for dessert. And to follow... well, what candle-lit dinner for two would be complete without torturing your dinner date with hot candle wax all over her naked body?
Hywel's note: the peril of doing this long-term bondage idea for real, with just Ariel and myself in the studio, is that you can cock things up. The tape ran out just at the critical point where I finally broke Ariel's will and she accepted food from my fork. I was gutted when I discovered that, but we couldn't exactly go back and shoot it again - it wasn't as though this was scripted or planned, this was reality TV bondage. So on we had to go. Apologies for the apparent jump in proceedings!
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Frank's Idea
Tutorial Photoset (130 photos) starring Ariel Anderssen added 11 June 2007
This was the last set we did at the first Restrained Elegance Bondage Photo Tutorial. Everyone had been playing 'tease Hywel' all day, especially about my barefoot fetish... I can't imagine where such a disrespectful attitude could have come from. The only person who was giving a lead in the cheekiness stakes was Ariel (as usual....) but I knew her punishment would come soon enough.
No, Frank's idea was cute, sexy and fun... and calculated to wind Hywel up ever-so-slightly. And did Ariel play up to it? Did she positively relish posing in those horrible rainbow stripy socks? Of course she did! Bah. And probably Humbug, to boot! :-)
The lighting we used here is one of my classic patterns, invented in the days where I couldn't have afforded a proper white infinity cove even if I'd know what one was. The soft, even but directional lighting comes mostly from lights behind the white cloth backdrop, fired through the cloth. You can balance that with frontal lighting from a single source like an umbrella to get good modelling on the face but hardly a hint of shadows.
OK, I admit it. Ariel did look stunning when the socks were used to put her in a tight hogtie and to gag her!
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Behind The Scenes: Hannah's First Suspension
Tutorial Video (19:50 minute video) starring Chanta Rose and Hannah added 20 June 2007
Hannah had never been suspended before, and she wasn't sure she could actually cope with it. So Chanta and I devised a mean little half-way house suspension. With her arms extended along a bamboo pole and one leg tied up, Hannah could stay on the tips of her toes... or we could just winch her a little higher and give her her first ever taste of a true suspension...
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Hannah's First Suspension- Photos
Tutorial Photoset (165 photos) starring Hannah and Chanta Rose added 21 June 2007
Here are the photos of Hannah's first ever suspension! Hot stuff!
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The Restrained Elegance Lexicon of Slavegirl Positions
Lexicon Photoset (256 photos) starring Ariel Anderssen added 20 July 2007
When Ariel accepted the position of Restrained Elegance resident slavegirl in training, we wanted to come up with a series of elegant, sexy and submissive poses, postures and positions for her to learn. We intended them as a mixture of ways in which she could be tied up and stress positions which were inherently hard to hold but which looked gorgeous.
I'd vaguely remembered that the John Norman Gor books had a bunch of slave positions, but not having read them for twenty years I decided to work on our own lexicon of poses and positions first. When I did finally go to look up the Gorean ones on the web I was surprised by how few there actually were, and how simple most of them seemed to be. I think I prefer our version!
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Long Term Bondage Part Twelve
Long Term Bondage Video (18:53 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 20 July 2007
It was first thing in the morning, and I'd woken before Ariel (who seemed to be sleeping quite soundly in the cage). I figured a demerit to wake her up would be just the thing... and since she's really hated the bastinado so much, what better way to say good morning than by chaining her feet in the air and lashing the soles of the her feet until you can see the stripes glow red? Cruel, but she needed it. And she wanted it.
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Long Term Bondage Part Thirteen
Long Term Bondage Video (13:35 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 27 July 2007
She still has demerits to pay off- so it is a spiky time for Ariel! First she is made to stand on the dreaded spiked board, barefoot, then I made her dance a little with the pinwheel on all the most sensitive areas of her body... which of course made her try to get away, which of course meant she kept shifting her feet on the spikes!
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Long Term Bondage Part Fourteen
Long Term Bondage Video (13:23 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 24 August 2007
It was nearly 24 hours of bondage, countless demerits, and her first night sleeping in a cage... we have reached the end of Ariel's Long Term Bondage! Just one more demerit to pay off and then she will be free!
Of course I wasn't going to let her off easy... so the last demerit was electric shocks with the violet wand... but still standing on the horrible spiked board!
Thank you for the kind comments and constructive criticism we've had about the Long Term Bondage series. I'm glad that we stuck to our guns and really went for it this first time- I think if we do a sequel we will probably go for more cameras, a cameraman or two, and some more creative editing. But there was definitely something to be said for seeing things exactly as they happened with just the two of us in the studio.
Thanks to those who have posted in the forum too- I know Ariel has really appreciated the feedback on her ideas! We have lots of exciting (and painful!) things in the pipeline for Restrained Elegance Nights!
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Half lotus, reverse prayer
Tutorial Photoset (116 photos) starring Ariel Anderssen added 4 September 2007
You may recall a month or so ago there was a thread on the forum where people were trying to guess which of the France preview photos were taken by me and which by Kate. Steve won, and we said he deserved a prize. Kate, Ariel and I put our heads together and came up with the idea of doing another photo tutorial for Steve as a fitting prize... so we did! This wicked reverse-prayer half-lotus tie is one of the cruel predicaments we put Ariel into
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Slave Dance
Restrained Elegance Nights Video (08:40 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 10 October 2007
One of Ariel's duties as the Restrained Elegance resident slavegirl is to perform to perfection. Knowing that she used to dance professionally, I set her an assigment: to devise a slavegirl dance.
Don't let her hear this. The results just blew me away. I don't know quite what I was expecting, but I don't think I ever dreamed she would put so much work and effort into devising such a beautiful, graceful dance with such amazing attention to detail. Foot fetishists like me will surely appreciate the moves where she shows off the soles of her feet, bondage fans will love the way she moves from reverse prayer to strappado to box to hogtie and frogtie. And if you've seen the lexicon of slavegirl positions you'll notice she worked in an amazing number of those into the dance too. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did.
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Kneeling Strappado
Tutorial Photoset (90 photos) starring Ariel Anderssen added 12 November 2007
We had a little competition on the forum, to see who could tell my photos from Kate's. Steve was the winner, so as a reward Ariel and I ran a little tutorial photoshoot for him. Steve had liked some of the sets we'd done where the lights were shining on polished black floor and oiled tanned skin... so out came the baby oil, into a wicked kneeling strappado went Ariel, and of course it wouldn't have been complete without a drool-inducing big red ballgag. Mmmmm!
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Bondage Driving Test (Part One)
Bondage Driving Test Video (13:45 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 6 December 2007
Happy New Year! To celebrate, Restrained Elegance is proud to present the first installment of our new Restrained Elegance Nights long-term bondage story!
Our first long-term bondage experiment was a totally stripped-down shoot, just one camera, Ariel and me. This time we wanted to keep the feeling but allowed ourselves a bit more flexibility with a second camera so we could shoot a few more closeups of the action.
We also wanted a slightly different mood. The first one had been very dark and intense, and someone on the forum had wondered if we could do a 'long term love bondage video'. The brief I gave Ariel was for a very consensual and loving bondage story. Of course, Ariel being Ariel, it didn't quite turn out that way! It is 100% consensual, but as you will see from later episodes it gets pretty intense again! The storyline lent itself very well to me taking on a character a bit like a driving test examiner, and so we started calling it the 'Bondage Driving Test'.
But anyway, more of that later... for now, let's join Ariel as she submits herself for an examination by a master so that she can advertise herself on a masters-and-slaves website. She has been told a little of what will be in store, but first the examiner wishes to interview on her bondage fantasies, her aspirations, her dreams...
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Sabrina in the Dungeon
Tutorial Photoset (94 photos) starring Sabrina added 8 December 2007
"Oh look, it's time to check on my latest arrival", thought Rhys as the hint of a devious sneer emerged across his face. He began to pluck scraps of food from the remains of a meal which had congealed on a plate the previous day. This was the best food Jessica could hope for. Tormented by her captor, she remained a chained prisoner isolated from her normal life just 2 days ago. This was her new reality that seemed impossible to comprehend. Anxious despair had set in. Terrified by her own thoughts, she stood anchored to the walls contemplating his next move.
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Bondage Driving Test Part Two (Self Bondage)
Bondage Driving Test Video (22:14 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 8 December 2007
After the interview, the examiner begins by performing a physical evaluation. He rates her on a scale of 1 to 100 on beauty of her face, quality of her makeup, elegance of her hair, her figure, her deportment and many other categories. Then they proceed to the bondage store-room so that Ariel can select the items she wants to use on herself for her first bondage test: self bondage! She chooses rope, but admits that she's not really tied herself up before. Will she be able to satisfy the examiner, or will she make a mess of it?
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Bondage Driving Test (part three)
Bondage Driving Test Video (42:32 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 13 December 2007
Ariel had finished the Self-Bondage test, but what would the assessor make of her efforts? And she knew that next up was the gag aptitude test... she wondered how on earth that was going to be achieved...
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Bondage Driving Test Part 4
Bondage Driving Test Video (09:56 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 16 December 2007
The first proper bondage test- Ariel will be rated on how long she can endure an agonising elbows-tight-together-behind-her-back tie. And to make it worse the examiner makes her sit still in a particularly challenging position- shoulders thrust right back, leaning back on her hands, legs frogtied. How long can she hold that before he permit her to move a little to reduce the stress on her shoulders?
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Maria's Daily Whipping
Video (12:00 minute video) starring Chanta Rose and Maria Stevens added 18 December 2007
Maria is a pretty little slavegirl, but too much a slave to her own physical passion. Her Mistress has decided to put her on a daily dose of whippings to try to impress upon her the concept that what matters is the pleasure of the Mistress, not of the slavegirl...
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Bondage Driving Test Part 5
Bondage Driving Test Video (14:30 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 20 December 2007
What does the examiner have in store to test Ariel's pain endurance? And is he REALLY going to test that while she is still in that very strict elbows-tight-together behind the back position? Looks like he is... oh no, are those nipple clamps?
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Bondage Driving Test Part Six: The Bastinado
Bondage Driving Test Video (23:12 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 23 December 2007
This is what happens when you let Ariel Anderssen have some input to the way your consensual love bondage long term video. It somehow turns into the most intense and severe bastinado I have ever shot. It is somehow made worse, not better, by the fact that it is Ariel who is setting the pace and setting the limits by asking for each stroke, and by the fact that she is only lightly restrained. It turned out very intense indeed- be warned.
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Long Term Bondage Part Three
Long Term Bondage Video (24:33 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 25 December 2007
in part three of our long-term bondage shoot, Ariel finds out what is for lunch... and how she is going to be forced to eat it!
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Long Term Bondage Part Two
Long Term Bondage Video (25:06 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 25 December 2007
I had administered a strict caning to Ariel to quieten her down a bit, but that had done a fair bit of damage to her makeup and I can't bear untidy slavegirls. So it was upstairs to repair the makeup... and to rub a bit of lotion onto those burning bum cheeks! I'll let Ariel take up the story...
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Long Term Bondage Part One
Long Term Bondage Video (39:33 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 25 December 2007
Restrained Elegance is proud to announce 'Restrained Elegance Nights', a brand-new feature show-casing the darker side of Restrained Elegance. Starring super-sexy submissive model Ariel Anderssen, you will learn all of Ariel's innermost thoughts and secrets as she enacts some of her most private fantasies- exclusively for members!
The first feature we shot is 'Long Term Bondage'... a complete day of bondage and punishment... this is just the first segment of Ariel's 24 hours in bondage. Enjoy!
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Bondage Driving Test (Part Seven)
Bondage Driving Test Video (22:27 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 27 December 2007
Having toughed it out through the bastinado, Ariel was presented with a new challenge- an ultra-strict hogtie. The examiner tied her with her knees, ankles, wrists and elbows together, and a shoulder harness. Then he pulled back on the ropes and tied them all together, so she was pulled backwards into the hogtie. Her own choice of a mouth-filling cock gag made the challenge even worse, especially when he ordered her to stay on her stomach, because the gag would press even further down her mouth and make her breathing even harder than the tight hogtie position was already doing... hoe long could she endure the position before begging to be let out?
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Bondage Driving Test Part Eight (Suspension)
Bondage Driving Test Video (13:11 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 29 December 2007
Ariel's Bondage Driving Test is coming to a close- just the suspension test left in the bondage category...
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Bondage Driving Test Part Nine (The Sexual Response Test)
Bondage Driving Test Video (27:43 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 31 December 2007
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Long Term Bondage Part Four
Long Term Bondage Video (25:18 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 1 January 2008
in the fourth part of our long-term bondage, poor Ariel discovers what her torturer has in store for her second demerit- a brutal bastinado. Ariel had never experienced the delicious agony of being whipped on the soles of her bare feet before... come inside and let her tell you about it in her own words!
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Long Term Bondage Part 5 - Sweet Silence
Long Term Bondage Video (36:43 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 8 January 2008
Ariel finally learns that sometimes silence is golden.
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Ballgown Bondage Tutorial
Tutorial Photoset (62 photos) starring Sammie B added 12 January 2008
This lovely set was the first thing we shot on our tutorial day with Sammie B on 1st December. The photographers were Stuart, Svampen, Nigel and M: many thanks to them for allowing me to put their photos up on the site!
We started off by choosing the gorgeous satin ballgown for Sammie to wear and choosing the purple rope to co-ordinate, which we used to put Sammie in a strappado elbows-together tie. We chose not to bind her feet so that she could find some more poses for us- after all, she was locked in the dungeon cell and clearly not going anywhere.
The lighting for the dungeon set has to be pretty directional and not too even: the stone walls look a lot more dramatic when side-lit or with shadows. But you have to light your model as well as your set... I took some shots to start with to show just how awful I could make Sammie look with just the house flourescent lights! I promised Sammie I wouldn't show the pics so you can't see how unflattering they were, but trust me they were an object lesson in why your lighting is more important than what your camera can do, at least for studio photography!
The lighting we finally ended up with was a single strip softbox as the key light, placed to camera right. This is the light which is throwing the major shadows, and it is soft enough to produce a lovely "drape" of shadows around Sammie's figure. Because Sammie has lovely long dark hair, we absolutely needed a good punchy hairlight behind to produce highlights on her hair and kick her out of the background. You can see from the lighting diagram what we ended up with (thanks to Nigel for the sketch!)
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Long Term Bondage Part Six - Chores
Long Term Bondage Video (19:20 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 15 January 2008
Subdued and submissive, Ariel does her chores.
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Chat Room with Ariel Anderssen
Chat Room Transcripts Photoset (16 photos) starring Ariel Anderssen added 23 January 2008
On 21st January we had our first Restrained Elegance members' chat session with special guest Ariel Anderssen. As it happened, Ariel had been shooting with another photographer at my studio that day, so we took the chance to snap a few photos during the chat session. (I know there are some duplicated pics, I reposted some during the chat so people could catch up).
The general consensus was that chatting with so many people online was a bit chaotic, but good fun. Here is a transcript of the chat room session so you can see what we mean!
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Rigging Sophias Sitting Suspension
Tutorial Video (32:53 minute video) starring Chanta Rose and Sophia Smith added 6 February 2008
Want to see behind the scenes how we went from Sophia's sketch of how she wanted to be suspended to this awesome mid-air sitting tie? Come inside and watch the video of how we did it!
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Making Restrained Elegance: photographic kit
Tutorial Photoset (9 photos) starring Guests added 10 February 2008
An updated kit list is on its way, this one is woefully outdated now but I've put it back up for historical interest. It was originally put up on 9th Feb 2008 and represents our standard kit at that time.
As the webmaster and main photographer for Restrained Elegance, I've been lucky enough to work with some of the most talented and beautiful women in the world. On the technical side, I've always tried to do them justice by producing material with the highest production values that my skills and budgets allow.
I'm often asked what kit I use to take the photos, and a few days ago a member asked for my opinions on the new video cameras I'd bought to replace one which was stolen in a break-in. At the risk of putting non-techies to sleep (I can hear Ariel's snores from here... :-) I thought I'd give a run-down on what kit I use, why I chose it, what I think of it and whether I'd recommend it to others. Saves me writing it all in emails!
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Ariel Bound and Ballgagged on the Bed
Tutorial Photoset (137 photos) starring Ariel Anderssen added 11 February 2008
This was the second tutorial photoset we shot with Ariel on 2nd December. We'd just done a very stark and dark single-light set-up for the Succubus set, and we thought it was time to show people how to do a much lighter and airier lighting look. We ended up with just two lights, but the bog softbox to one side of Ariel throws out such a lot of light over such a large area that you really don't need more- it is acting as a fill, the main light is coming from a smaller and thus slightly harder light source. For a dark-haired model in this set you'd probably have to put in some hairlight, but for Ariel that would have looked a bit too glam and over the top for the soft feeling we were after.
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Photo tutorial: Merlins Idea
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