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PBS News Weekend Season 5 Episodes

104 Episodes 2016 - 2017

Episode 1

Episode 1

Sat, Jul 2, 2016 27 mins

Included: immigrants in rural America.

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Episode 2

Episode 2

Sun, Jul 3, 2016 27 mins

Included: rural towns that have formed cooperatives to bring high-speed Internet service to their communities.

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Episode 3

Episode 3

Sat, Jul 9, 2016 27 mins

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Episode 4

Episode 4

Sun, Jul 10, 2016 27 mins

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Episode 5

Episode 5

Sat, Jul 16, 2016 27 mins

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Episode 6

Episode 6

Sun, Jul 17, 2016 27 mins

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Episode 7

Episode 7

Sat, Jul 23, 2016 27 mins

Included: Hillary Clinton is discussed with authors Mark Landler ("Alter Egos: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and the Twilight Struggle Over American Power") and Michael Tomasky ("Hillary's Turn: Inside Her Improbable, Victorious Senate Campaign").

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Episode 8

Episode 8

Sun, Jul 24, 2016 27 mins

Included: whether voters in coal country will push Pennsylvania into the GOP column come November.

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Episode 9

Episode 9

Sat, Jul 30, 2016 27 mins

Included: a tribal community in Louisiana that is seeing its island home slowly disappear underwater.

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Episode 10

Episode 10

Sun, Jul 31, 2016 27 mins

Included: Ohio's voter purge.

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Episode 11

Episode 11

Sat, Aug 6, 2016 27 mins

Included: the threat that septic tanks pose to the Indian River Lagoon along Florida's East Coast.

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Episode 12

Episode 12

Sun, Aug 7, 2016 27 mins

Included: black children in South Africa who are taking up ballet.

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Episode 13

Episode 13

Sat, Aug 13, 2016 27 mins

Included: the Bay Area's high rents.

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Episode 14

Episode 14

Sun, Aug 14, 2016 27 mins

Included: an attempt to recover plastic waste from the ocean.

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Episode 15

Episode 15

Sat, Aug 20, 2016 27 mins

Included: Florida's attempt to catch and kill the lionfish, an invasive species that's threatening hundreds of fish species along the state's southern coast.

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Episode 16

Episode 16

Sun, Aug 21, 2016 27 mins

Included: the FDA's ban on blood donations from men who've had sex with men in the past year.

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Episode 17

Episode 17

Sat, Aug 27, 2016 27 mins

Included: why some manufacturing companies are moving back to the U.S.

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Episode 18

Episode 18

Sun, Aug 28, 2016 27 mins

Included: the Refugee Youth Summer Academy in New York City, which helps new students adjust to American schools.

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Episode 19

Episode 19

Sat, Sep 3, 2016 27 mins

Included: a drought-stricken California community.

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Episode 20

Episode 20

Sun, Sep 4, 2016 27 mins

Included: the drug war in Mexico.

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Episode 21

Episode 21

Sat, Sep 10, 2016 27 mins

Included: five accused 9/11 plotters who've yet to face justice despite being detained at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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Episode 22

Episode 22

Sun, Sep 11, 2016 27 mins

Included: the continuing health issues of 9/11 first responders.

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Episode 23

Episode 23

Sat, Sep 17, 2016 27 mins

Included: the for-profit school system called "AltSchool," which operates eight small private schools in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York.

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Episode 24

Episode 24

Sun, Sep 18, 2016 27 mins

Included: suicide prevention.

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Episode 25

Episode 25

Sat, Sep 24, 2016 27 mins

Included: partisan redistricting.

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Episode 26

Episode 26

Sun, Sep 25, 2016 27 mins

Included: the decision of Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price to boost his company's minimum wage to $70,000 a year.

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Episode 27

Episode 27

Sat, Oct 1, 2016 27 mins

Included: the search for artworks lost in the recent Italian earthquake.

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Episode 28

Episode 28

Sun, Oct 2, 2016 27 mins

Included: the Latino vote in Florida.

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Episode 29

Episode 29

Sat, Oct 8, 2016 27 mins

Included: electric cars.

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Episode 30

Episode 30

Sun, Oct 9, 2016 27 mins

Included: female state legislators in Utah.

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Episode 31

Episode 31

Sat, Oct 15, 2016 27 mins

Included: affordable electric cars.

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Episode 32

Episode 32

Sun, Oct 16, 2016 27 mins

Included: California Proposition 64, which would legalize marijuana for recreational use.

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Episode 33

Episode 33

Sat, Oct 22, 2016 27 mins

Included: South Korea's embrace of industrial robots to power its manufacturing sector.

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Episode 34

Episode 34

Sun, Oct 23, 2016 27 mins

Included: the challenges that Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) faces in his re-election bid.

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Episode 35

Episode 35

Sat, Oct 29, 2016 27 mins

Included: job creation and job quality in South Carolina.

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Episode 36

Episode 36

Sun, Oct 30, 2016 27 mins

Included: the millennial vote in Florida.

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Episode 37

Episode 37

Sat, Nov 5, 2016 27 mins

Included: the presidential race in the battleground state of North Carolina; and voters who are experimenting with vote-swapping across state lines.

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Episode 38

Episode 38

Sun, Nov 6, 2016 27 mins

Included: an election preview; and whether the electoral college should stay or go.

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Episode 39

Episode 39

Sat, Nov 12, 2016 27 mins

Included: President-elect Trump's domestic agenda.

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Episode 40

Episode 40

Sun, Nov 13, 2016 27 mins

Included: President-elect Donald Trump's international agenda.

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Episode 41

Episode 41

Sat, Nov 19, 2016 27 mins

Included: Iraq's Kurdish fighters.

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Episode 42

Episode 42

Sun, Nov 20, 2016 27 mins

Included: Christians in Iraq.

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Episode 43

Episode 43

Sat, Nov 26, 2016 27 mins

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Episode 44

Episode 44

Sun, Nov 27, 2016 27 mins

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Episode 45

Episode 45

Sat, Dec 3, 2016 27 mins

Included: U.S.-Cuba trade.

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Episode 46

Episode 46

Sun, Dec 4, 2016 27 mins

Included: the documentary "The Uncondemned," about the world's first prosecution of rape as a war crime.

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Episode 47

Episode 47

Sat, Dec 10, 2016 27 mins

Included: an International Committee of the Red Cross report titled "People of War," about how people in different countries view war-related issues, is discussed with the organization's director-general, Yves Daccord.

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Episode 48

Episode 48

Sun, Dec 11, 2016 27 mins

Included: America's first offshore wind project.

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Episode 49

Episode 49

Sat, Dec 17, 2016 27 mins

Included: Cuba's growing hospitality industry.

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Episode 50

Episode 50

Sun, Dec 18, 2016 27 mins

Included: the effort to smuggle outside media, movies and TV shows into North Korea.

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Episode 51

Episode 51

Sat, Dec 24, 2016 27 mins

Included: the Q Brothers discuss "Othello: the Remix," their retelling of the Shakespeare play.

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Episode 52

Episode 52

Sun, Dec 25, 2016 27 mins

Included: "The Pioneers of African-American Cinema," a five-disc collection.

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Episode 53

Episode 53

Sat, Dec 31, 2016 27 mins

Included: journalist Dean Yates discusses his PTSD diagnosis.

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Episode 54

Episode 54

Sun, Jan 1, 2017 27 mins

Included: the press coverage of the 2016 election.

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Episode 55

Episode 55

Sat, Jan 7, 2017 27 mins

Included: Obamacare in Kentucky.

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Episode 56

Episode 56

Sun, Jan 8, 2017 27 mins

Included: jailed juveniles.

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Episode 57

Episode 57

Sat, Jan 14, 2017 27 mins

Included: reports on Camp Bravo, a Tucson encampment that's home to about 20 homeless people, many of them military veterans; and London's Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan.

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Episode 58

Episode 58

Sun, Jan 15, 2017 27 mins

Included: whether kratom is a valid treatment for opiod addiction.

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Episode 59

Episode 59

Sat, Jan 21, 2017 27 mins

Included: actions taken by President Trump on his first day in office; and the Women's March on Washington, D.C.

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Episode 60

Episode 60

Sun, Jan 22, 2017 27 mins

Included: the NATO alliance.

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Episode 61

Episode 61

Sat, Jan 28, 2017 27 mins

Included: NAFTA negotiations.

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Episode 62

Episode 62

Sun, Jan 29, 2017 27 mins

Included: cross-border business.

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Episode 63

Episode 63

Sat, Feb 4, 2017 27 mins

Included: armed Arizona citizens who patrol a nearly 400-mile stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Episode 64

Episode 64

Sun, Feb 5, 2017 27 mins

Included: states competing to attract and retain companies.

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Episode 65

Episode 65

Sat, Feb 11, 2017 27 mins

Included: the business tug-of-war between states.

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Episode 66

Episode 66

Sun, Feb 12, 2017 27 mins

Included: intergenerational communities.

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Episode 67

Episode 67

Sat, Feb 18, 2017 27 mins

Included: opposition to Gold Butte National Monument.

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Episode 68

Episode 68

Sun, Feb 19, 2017 27 mins

Included: whether Democrats can win back blue-collar voters who supported President Trump.

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Episode 69

Britain Braces for Brexit

Sat, Feb 25, 2017 27 mins

Included: How Brexit may affect the peace between Catholic and Protestant communities in Northern Ireland.

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Episode 70

The Dakota Access Pipeline

Sun, Feb 26, 2017 27 mins

Included: the controversy over the Dakota Access Pipeline.

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Episode 71

Episode 71

Sat, Mar 4, 2017 27 mins

Included: Oscar Boyson's "The Future of Cities," about making dense urban areas sustainable.

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Episode 72

Episode 72

Sun, Mar 5, 2017 27 mins

Included: Harriet Tubman National Historical Park.

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Episode 73

Episode 73

Sat, Mar 11, 2017 27 mins

Included: why some people are attracted to ISIS.

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Episode 74

Episode 74

Sun, Mar 12, 2017 27 mins

Included: the challenges of transparency in the digital age.

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Episode 75

Episode 75

Sat, Mar 18, 2017 27 mins

Included: the documentary "Newtown," about the aftermath of the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., is discussed with its director, Kim A. Snyder.

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Episode 76

Episode 76

Sun, Mar 19, 2017 27 mins

Included: food waste recycling in South Korea.

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Episode 77

Episode 77

Sat, Mar 25, 2017 27 mins

Included: South Sudan's civil war.

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Episode 78

Episode 78

Sun, Mar 26, 2017 27 mins

Included: the fallout of the U.K. exiting the E.U. common market.

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Episode 79

Episode 79

Sat, Apr 1, 2017 27 mins

Included: Brexit jitters in Gibraltar.

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Episode 80

Episode 80

Sun, Apr 2, 2017 27 mins

Included: unifying Cyprus.

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Episode 81

Episode 81

Sat, Apr 8, 2017 27 mins

Included: an organization that provides cash to impoverished people in rural Kenya.

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Episode 82

Episode 82

Sun, Apr 9, 2017 27 mins

Included: the debate over sanctuary cities in California.

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Episode 83

Episode 83

Sat, Apr 15, 2017 27 mins

Included: undocumented immigrants in the U.S. who are fleeing to Canada.

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Episode 84

Episode 84

Sun, Apr 16, 2017 27 mins

Included: paid family leave.

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Episode 85

4-22-2017

Sat, Apr 22, 2017 27 mins

Included: scientists running for office.

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Episode 86

4-23-2017

Sun, Apr 23, 2017 27 mins

Included: the tension between many Democratic-controlled cities and Republican-led state legislatures.

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Episode 87

Tax Inversion

Sat, Apr 29, 2017 27 mins

Included: whether tax reform can stop U.S. companies from relocating their headquarters overseas.

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Episode 88

Human-Elephant Conflict

Sun, Apr 30, 2017 27 mins

Included: whether drones can help wildlife managers in Tanzania keep elephants away from people.

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Episode 89

French Election

Sat, May 6, 2017 27 mins

Included: the French presidential election runoff.

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Episode 90

Deported to Cambodia

Sun, May 7, 2017 27 mins

Included: legal U.S. residents who, after serving time in prison, are deported to Southeast Asia.

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Episode 91

Djibouti Rolls Out a Welcome Mat

Sat, May 13, 2017 27 mins

Martin Seemungal reports on how the tiny country of Djibouti came to roll out a welcome mat to the world as the gateway to the Suez Canal, making it one of the world's busiest shipping routes and a prized spot for military bases from countries, including France, the U.S., Italy, Japan and China.

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Episode 92

The Eco-Right

Sun, May 14, 2017 27 mins

Stephanie Sy reports on some conservative Republican voices who are calling for action on climate change, led, in some cases, by evangelical Christians and a small number of Republican politicians.

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Episode 93

Kenya's Push for Universal Access to Electricity

Sat, May 20, 2017 27 mins

Included: Kenya's plan to narrow the electricity gap.

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Episode 94

West Virginia Sex Education

Sun, May 21, 2017 27 mins

Included: West Virginia's efforts to reduce teen pregnancy and STDs by adopting a more candid and comprehensive "sex ed" curriculum for children.

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Episode 95

Sgt. Pepper 50 Years On

Sat, May 27, 2017 27 mins

Included: Rolling Stone's Anthony DeCurtis discusses the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album, which celebrates its 50th anniversary on June 1st.

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Episode 96

JFK at 100

Sun, May 28, 2017 27 mins

Included: the impact of President Kennedy's life and death.

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Episode 97

Cambodian Land Grabs

Sat, Jun 3, 2017 27 mins

Included: who's benefited from the country's shift from communism to capitalism.

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Episode 98

Underemployment in America

Sun, Jun 4, 2017 27 mins

Included: under-employment is examined.

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Episode 99

Twitter and Tear Gas

Sat, Jun 10, 2017 27 mins

Included: How social media influences protest movements.

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Episode 100

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

Sun, Jun 11, 2017 27 mins

Included: documentary filmmaker Steve James discusses his film "Abacus: Small Enough to Jail," about the only bank in the U.S. to face criminal charges for mortgage fraud.

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Episode 101

Obamacare Choices Whittle

Sat, Jun 17, 2017 27 mins

Included: what happens when only one insurer in a state offers Affordable Health Act plans.

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Episode 102

Hawaii's Homeless

Sun, Jun 18, 2017 27 mins

Included: the decrease in homelessness in Hawaii.

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Episode 103

Private Prisons

Sat, Jun 24, 2017 27 mins

Included: the debate over private prisons.

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Episode 104

Climate Change

Sun, Jun 25, 2017 27 mins

Included: the impact of climate change on the Republic of the Marshall Islands, which is a nation in the Pacific Ocean midway between Hawaii and Australia.

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