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George R.R. Martin - Talk To Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera America 2016-02-23 | The author of ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ series talks about his imagination and the success of ‘Game of Thrones’

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Al Jazeera America 2016-04-12 | Our mission has been to tell the stories of people you don't see very often in the news… These stories have affected our world, changed lives, and shaped our future. Al Jazeera America's closing, April 12, 2016, created a vacuum in the American media landscape. We hope we've lived up to our promise to be the voice of the voiceless and to speak truth to power.

Thank you to those of you who have supported us on air and online. We thank you for allowing us to tell your stories.

AJAM Presents: The Limits of Hope: Inside Obamas White House

Al Jazeera America 2016-03-24 | The 4-Part Series Starts Thursday, April 7th - 10p ET

An insider's look at President Obama’s White House--from his inauguration to reflections on the administration's legacy, get an authoritative and firsthand account from the people who were there. Featuring exclusive interviews, re-living key meetings and pivotal moments, including: President Obama, Timothy Geithner, David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Rahm Emanuel, Leon Panetta, and many others.

Your Stories: Reporting The Issues That Matter

Al Jazeera America 2016-03-22 | Al Jazeera America's award-winning reporting tells the stories that are important to you.

Fukushima - A Nuclear Story: Part 2

Al Jazeera America 2016-03-08 | Fukushima has become a ghost town, much of it a no-go zone due to high radiation levels. Only the animals are left behind…

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AJAM Presents: Fukushima - A Nuclear Story - Part 1- Clip 1

Al Jazeera America 2016-03-03 | Investigative journalist Pio D’Emilia has lived and worked in Tokyo for over 30 years, but nothing prepared him for the triple tragedy of March 11, 2011.

AJAM Presents: Fukushima - a Nuclear Story
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AJAM Presents: Fukushima - A Nuclear Story - Part 1

Al Jazeera America 2016-03-03 | Japan is known for its culture and values of honor, trust, and order. In 2011, the largest recorded earthquake in Japan became the catalyst for the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi power plant. Not only did it affect the people of Japan and the world, it created a time of panic, suspicion, and sense of betrayal from the government. The fallout continues, and Fukushima has been remembered as a changing point in Japan’s history.

AJAM Presents: Fukushima - a Nuclear Story
Sunday, March 6, 2016 – 10p ET

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David Boies - Talk To Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera America 2016-02-23 | Leading trial lawyer David Boies is fighting to bring marriage equality to every state

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Collect It All: Americas Surveillance State - Fault Lines

Al Jazeera America 2016-02-23 | What does it mean to live in a surveillance state? Fault Lines investigates the fallout over the NSA's mass data collection programs in the U.S. and abroad.

What does it mean to live in a surveillance state? Fault Lines investigates the fallout over the NSA’s mass data collection programs by speaking to the people at the center of the story, including journalist Glenn Greenwald and NSA director Keith Alexander.

Greenwald tells Fault Lines how he got the Snowden documents, what the main revelations are, and why people should care. We also speak with William Binney, an NSA whistleblower who tells us the main turning point was 9/11, when the NSA vastly expanded its programs and began collecting the data of Americans, not just foreigners as they had been before.

After 9/11, surveillance also became more pervasive at the local level. We decided to speak to a group of people who definitely know their being spied on. In New York, the NYPD began a program with the help of two former CIA officials, to surveil Muslim life at all levels: mosques, cafes, infiltrating organizations and student groups etc. We speak to a young Muslim student who talks about what it feels like to be under constant surveillance then meet Linda Sarsour, the executive director of a local community organization called the Arab American Association of NY. The NYPD had a plan to infiltrate the board of AAANY, a center that caters to immigrant women, children, etc. She tells us what the implications of the program is for the local Muslim community and discusses the effects. We also speak to law professor Ramzi Kassem who analyzes these policies as well as a psychologist who discusses the psychological effects of mass surveillance.

Finally, we come to Washington DC, where the NSA program is being debated in the halls of Congress. We attend hearings on the hill, where General Keith Alexander and Director James Clapper are being questioned, we hear from members of Congress from across the political spectrum about it and we even get a chance to ask General Alexander questions ourselves.

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Swimming with Sharks - TechKnow

Al Jazeera America 2016-02-23 | On this episode of TechKnow, contributor Phil Torres joins a team of scientists and conservationists at The University of Miami in the Bahamas. The team spends a week tagging and tracking around 20 tiger sharks to learn more about their habitat and mating cycles.

Tiger sharks are apex predators whose survival has a profound impact on other species in the sea. The warm waters where they track these sharks appear to be a good habitat for females to spend their 10- to 15-month gestational period. Using veterinary ultrasounds, they can determine—in real time—whether a shark is pregnant and, if so, how far along.

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Glenn Greenwald - Talk To Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera America 2016-02-22 | The investigative journalist has led the reporting on Edward Snowden’s leaks about the National Security Agency.

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Earthquake Warning - TechKnow

Al Jazeera America 2016-02-22 | In this latest episode of "TechKnow," contributor Kyle Hill visits California Institute of Technology's Seismological Laboratory to learn more about California's early earthquake warning system. The goal of early warning is to detect an earthquake, estimate the amount of ground shaking, and then issue a warning before the shaking starts.

Also in this episode, Lindsay Moran explores the latest technology in gun safety: smart guns. The gun works like a regular fire arm, except with a personalized touch to prevent it from ending up in the wrong hands.

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Mexicos Vigilante State - Fault Lines

Al Jazeera America 2016-02-22 | Thousands of vigilantes have taken up arms to fight the Knights Templar drug cartel that has been terrorizing communities in the state of Michoacán. Businessmen, farmers, and even doctors have gone on the offensive to take back their towns and protect their families from extortion, rape, and murder at the hands of organized crime.

Fault Lines travels to the western Mexican state to follow the chaos unfolding there and examine how the federal government is attempting to control the complex situation on the ground.

Is this a popular uprising, or part of the same never-ending cycle of armed conflict that has routinely scarred the people of this agricultural state?

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Alice Waters - Talk To Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera America 2016-02-13 | Food should not be fast, cheap or easy, according to American chef and activist Alice Waters. "Usually cheap food is not nutritious," she told Al Jazeera's David Shuster. "You’re feeding people, but you’re not really feeding people something that is good for them."

For decades, the owner of the world-renowned Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, Calif., has been famous for pioneering organic ingredients. “I don’t want food that comes from animals that are caged up and fed antibiotics," she said. "I am really suspicious of that kind of production of meat and poultry."

She also believes that the government ought to provide and pay for school lunch programs across the country. Plus, if you have just five minutes to shop and 10 minutes to cook, Waters shares some ideas for what she would whip up.

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The Coverage Gap - Fault Lines

Al Jazeera America 2016-02-12 | Fault Lines examines why, despite the passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act, 5 million mostly working poor Americans have been left without any health care coverage.

After rancorous debate, a Supreme Court case, and enrollment glitches, President Obama's signature legislation, the Affordable Care Act, has finally gone into effect.

But the president's plan of offering affordable health care to most Americans has an unintended gap in it. While the Supreme Court upheld the law as constitutional, it allowed states to decide whether to expand their Medicaid programs to more of their poorest residents. Now more than 5 million Americans—mostly indigent and working poor—have been left without access to health care coverage because nearly half the states have opted out of Medicaid expansion.

Fault Lines travels to Florida, Texas and North Carolina to examine the U.S.'s new health care dichotomy—how some of the country's poorest communities are being left behind while elsewhere millions of others in the same demographic have access to life-saving care.

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Brain Hack - TechKnow

Al Jazeera America 2016-02-12 | On this episode of TechKnow, Cara Santa Maria explores the clinical and DIY applications of hacking the brain.

For patients suffering from a variety of brain injuries and diseases—from depression to cerebral palsy— there is a resurgent interest in an area called non-invasive brain stimulation. Small jolts of electricity (about 1/200th of what’s used in electroshock therapy) are directed to the brain in order to change the way that neurons fire. The general theory is that these small currents can alter the brain’s plasticity, causing new neural pathways to circumvent diseased or damaged parts of the brain. Two of the most common used methods in clinical trials are: TMS and tDCS

(Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation) in which an electromagnetic coil is placed on the head and tDCS (transcranial direct current stimulation) in which electrodes are placed on head.

What’s interesting about tDCS in particular is that anyone can do it, including for reasons that have nothing to do with disease. There are some commercial products in the $100-200 range already on the market (although their legality is in question because the FDA has not approved them). There’s also a growing movement of DIYers who are getting instructions from reddit, youTube and other online forums to build their own devices in hopes of increasing their mental focus and agility.

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How eyewitnesses get it wrong in criminal cases

Al Jazeera America 2016-02-11 | Bias contaminate eyewitness testimony, which is the biggest contributor to wrongful convictions in the United State

The Car of the Future TechKnow

Al Jazeera America 2016-02-05 | In this "TechKnow" episode, Phil Torres visits the Toyota Technical Center in California to take a spin in Toyota's brand new HFCV and learn about the future of hydrogen fuel powered cars.

The fuel you pump into these cars is hydrogen gas. The energy is created in the fuel cell by reacting the hydrogen in the tanks with oxygen from the air over what is called a “proton exchange membrane” and the end result is electricity and water. Water is made up of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom (hence H2O) and is the only remnant from this fuel-air interaction.

Correspondent Shini Somara visits Ann Arbor, Michigan to explore V2V technology, a wi-fi type system that will allow every vehicle on the road to “talk” to each other.

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Robert Kennedy Jr - Talk to Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera America 2016-02-05 | The lawyer is a lifelong advocate in the environmental movement whose interest was sparked in part by his father.

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Cross-Border Killings - Fault Lines

Al Jazeera America 2016-02-05 | Fault Lines investigates the lack of accountability when U.S. Border Patrol agents shoot across international lines, killing Mexican citizens in their own country.

In October 2012, a US Border Patrol agent fired through the 20 foot steel fence separating Nogales, Arizona from Nogales, Mexico and killed an unarmed 16-year-old Mexican boy with 10 bullets through his body. This was not an isolated incident by a rogue agent, but just the latest in a string of cross-border shootings that raise serious questions about oversight and accountability of the Border Patrol. In the last three years, Border Patrol agents have killed 6 Mexican citizens on their native soil, firing through the border to threaten and injure even more. One man was shot while picnicking with his family on the banks of the Rio Grande. Another 15 year-old-boy was hit between the eyes with a bullet for allegedly throwing rocks. None of these cases has led to any known disciplinary action or criminal charges against the border police, and US courts have rejected claims made by victims’ families, asserting that Mexican citizens do not have the same constitutional protections as US citizens, effectively giving the agents carte blanche to act with impunity. Fault Lines travels to the border town of Nogales – presently the nexus for this increasingly lawless law enforcement – to meet the Mexican families who have lost their young sons at the hands of US agents who many accuse of being immune from the law.

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AJAM Presents: Motley’s Law

Al Jazeera America 2016-02-03 | She left her Husband and three young children behind - Risking it all to be a defense lawyer in Afghanistan –

Originally a financial decision – soon it became something so much more – risking her life for people she doesn’t even know.

Mother. Defender. Crusader. Kimberly Motley

AJAM Presents: Motley's Law

Sunday, February 7, 2016 – 10p ET

AJAM Presents: Motley’s Law

Death In Plain Sight - Fault Lines

Al Jazeera America 2016-01-30 | Fault Lines travels to South Carolina to investigate the epidemic of domestic violence homicide, and whether weak laws are putting women's lives at risk.

The mass shootings in Littleton, Newtown, and the Washington, D.C. Navy Yard have become a rallying cry for gun control in America. Yet, on average, every day across the country at least three women are killed by intimate partners, the majority shot to death.

Guns and domestic violence are a lethal combination in the U.S. In many states, domestic abusers can easily evade federal background checks by ordering a gun online, purchasing it at a gun show, or buying it from a private seller. Even when public outrage pushed the gun control debate to center stage, the U.S. Senate blocked a federal proposal to expand background checks for gun purchases.

Fault Lines travels to South Carolina, a state with the highest rate of women killed by men, to explore the circumstances that put women at risk of domestic violence homicide.

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Angélique Kidjo - Talk To Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera America 2016-01-29 | The singer’s latest album, ‘Eve,’ is inspired by the suffering she’s seen on her continent, in Darfur’s refugee camps.

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US leader of the pack in gun violence and gun ownership

Al Jazeera America 2016-01-29 | Jacob Ward breaks down the astonishing numbers that America encounters with the dangers of guns

Cancer-Detecting Goggles - TechKnow

Al Jazeera America 2016-01-28 | Contributor Crystal Dilworth shares her perspective from a test drive of infrared, cancer-detecting eye-gear.

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The New Dust Bowl - TechKnow

Al Jazeera America 2016-01-28 | On this episode of "TechKnow," Phil Torres and Shini Somara head out West to see how the drought is impacting the state of California.

Phil teams up with scientists at NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory who are using satellites and airborne flying laborators to track and measure the amount of available water in the Sierra Nevada snow pack. The goal is to give water managers an accurate assessment of much water they can expect to come from the mountain region during California's ongoing drought

On the ground, Shini Somara ventures to the Central Valley to explore a new technology: solar desalination. A start-up company called Water FX is using solar thermal troughs to provide freshwater to farmers.

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Shuster or Shure to sing an Iowa aria

Al Jazeera America 2016-01-26 | Al Jazeera America political reporters David Shuster and Michael Shure make a bet about Hillary Clinton in Iowa; loser to sing

Access Restricted: Abortion in Texas - Fault Lines

Al Jazeera America 2016-01-23 | Texas has passed some of the most restrictive anti-abortion laws in the U.S. By September, only six abortion clinics are expected to remain in a state that has 70,000 abortions a year. Fault Lines travels to Texas to find out what’s behind the legislation and how it is affecting women’s lives.

In this episode we meet a 23-year old woman named Melissa who self-induces an abortion because she lives in an area of Texas that no longer has any abortion clinics. She says it’s a financial burden to travel 300 miles round trip to reach the closest abortion clinic. Instead, Melissa traveled 30 minutes to Mexico where she bought a medication called Misoprostal. It’s normally used to treat ulcers, but she took it to end her pregnancy.

Fault Lines re-traces Melissa’s steps traveling to Mexico to find out how a woman in her position would acquire Misoprostal without a prescription, examines what options are available to undocumented women who are unable to cross the border and live in areas with no abortion clinics, and speaks with advocates on both side of the debate over access to abortions in Texas.

Original air date: April 26, 2014

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Flint water crisis: How Al Jazeera America reported it a year ago today

Al Jazeera America 2016-01-22 | Al Jazeera's Bisi Onile-Ere sought answers from Flint authorities about concerns over residents' water

Dick Gregory - Talk to Al Jazeera America

Al Jazeera America 2016-01-22 | The civil rights activist and comedian reflects on race relations in America and the situation in Ferguson

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Frozen Operation Ice Bridge - TechKnow

Al Jazeera America 2016-01-21 | On this episode, TechKnow tags along with NASA's Operation Ice Bridge. As part of a mission based out of Greenland, researchers have to fly a precise path each year and compare measurements of the glacial ice sheet, depth of ice and snow covers, and other data that help track climate change in the Arctic Sea.

With Arctic temperatures rising twice as fast as anywhere else in the world, the annual change due to melting glaciers is often visible to the naked eye—but NASA's flyovers offer a far more specific report of global warming and its impact on rising ocean levels.

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Opioid Wars - Fault Lines

Al Jazeera America 2016-01-16 | Behind the recent flurry of headlines about a massive surge in heroin use is a much more widespread wave of addiction to legal opioids—OxyContin, Vicodin and other painkillers.

One recent study found that 4 in 5 heroin users previously abused prescription opioids. In the last 15 years, at least 100,000 people have died from prescription opioid abuse.

Last fall, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a powerful, new painkiller called Zohydro, a pure form of hydrocodone that contains five to 10 times the opiate level of Vicodin. The FDA approved Zohydro even though its own advisory committee voted 11 to 2 against approval, citing the drug’s potential to exacerbate the opioid abuse epidemic.

Fault Lines examines the opioid epidemic in the U.S., and asks whether federal drug policy privileges Big Pharma’s bottom line over larger concerns of public health.

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Bernie Sanders - Talk To Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera America 2016-01-15 | Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders spoke with Joie Chen about his thoughts on income inequality, the health care debate, and the political gridlock on Capitol Hill.

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Ocean Acidification and Oyster Farming - TechKnow

Al Jazeera America 2016-01-14 | Oysters have been surviving at an alarmingly low rate. Oyster nurseries have had to ramp up production of spat, or baby oysters, only to see the numbers of viable “oyster seeds” dwindle. Many nurseries can barely support their own farms, let alone the dozens of farms that rely on their spat every year.

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3D Printing Body Parts - TechKnow

Al Jazeera America 2016-01-14 | Kosta gets a look at how 3D printing can be used to make everything from home electronics to baked goods—even an artificial heart valve that expands as pediatric patients grow.

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A thin line between legal and illegal firearms

Al Jazeera America 2016-01-06 | In California, the parts of an illegal assault rifle are legal to own. Only putting them together is a crime

When the Water Took the Land

Al Jazeera America 2015-12-17 | As rising temperatures fuel erosion of people's lands and lives, Fault Lines travels to Alaska to examine climate change.

Prop 8 - Talk To Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera America 2015-11-27 | Proposition 8 banned same-sex marriage in California, but two couples challenged the law at the Supreme Court

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Stolen Wages - Fault Lines

Al Jazeera America 2015-11-21 | Across the U.S. restaurant workers are taking to the streets with increasing frequency to demand unpaid wages from their employers. Two-thirds of low wage workers report some form of wage theft every week—whether that means being cheated out of hours worked, paid less than the minimum wage or not being paid at all.

One study estimates that low wage workers—over 30 million Americans—lose 15% of their income each year, the restaurant industry being one of the worst offenders. According to the Department of Labor, 84 percent of sit-down restaurants inspected in the last three years were in violation of wage laws.

Meanwhile, in Washington, the food services industry is an organized and powerful opponent against increased minimum wage and workplace protections, spending millions of dollars each year to lobby against regulations and increased wages.

Fault Lines travels to Miami, Chicago, and Washington D.C. to speak with restaurant workers, hear their grievances and find out what recourse they have when they are not paid what they are owed.

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Deepak Chopra - Talk to Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera America 2015-11-20 | The renowned physician thinks anyone can harness the mind to bring about optimal health and well-being.

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Orca capture trade has moved to Russia, China, activists say

Al Jazeera America 2015-11-18 | Demand from aquatic theme parks in Russia, China fueling new market for wild orcas, marine experts say.

We are Syrian refugees and there is nothing for us

Al Jazeera America 2015-11-17 | A Syrian refugee living in Turkey tells Ali Velshi he hopes Turkish President Erdogan helps Syrians who do not want to stay in refugee camps

Chasing Bail - Fault Lines

Al Jazeera America 2015-11-14 | The number of Americans incarcerated before standing trial in a court of law—currently more than 750,000 inmates—has never been higher. On any given day, nearly 70 percent of the national jail population is awaiting judgement, locked up without being convicted of a crime.

The U.S. is one of only two countries in the world that allows private companies to bail people out of jail at a profit. Bail bond companies earn $2 billion annually by getting people out for a fee. The majority of the accused remain behind bars because they cannot afford to pay for their release.

Proponents of commercial bail say it provides a public service at zero cost to taxpayers. But what are the ultimate costs of the pay-for-freedom pretrial process?

Fault Lines travels to California, Maryland and New York to examine how money determines the fates of those awaiting trial by the criminal justice system.

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Lily Eskelsen Garcia - Talk to Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera America 2015-11-13 | Lily Eskelsen Garcia is the president-elect of the National Education Association, a union of 3 million educators.

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Inside Obamas Post-9/11 Presidency

Al Jazeera America 2015-11-12 | Why surveillance laws haven’t changed under Obama

Al Jazeera America – See What You’ve Been Missing

Al Jazeera America 2015-11-10 | Real Reporting. Real Context. Real Understanding. Al Jazeera America, the U.S. news channel that provides high-quality, independent journalism with more perspectives and a global view.

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State of Play: Football Players and the NCAA - Fault Lines

Al Jazeera America 2015-11-07 | Business has been good for the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA, the nonprofit organization that sets the rules for college sports. In less than two decades, the NCAA's assets have skyrocketed, growing by nearly 1,000 percent. The athletes who star on the field, however, don’t receive long-term health care, are prevented from collecting a paycheck, and have no seat at the bargaining table.

Now football players are challenging the status quo on multiple fronts. In April, the team at Northwestern University rocked the sports world by voting on whether to form the first union in college football history. Former Clemson University standout Darius Robinson joined a class-action lawsuit to overturn NCAA rules that prevent athletes from sharing in the revenue they produce. And Adrian Arrington, a former captain at Eastern Illinois University, is the lead plaintiff in a landmark concussion suit against the NCAA.

Fault Lines examines the state of play inside college sports, and a string of cases that could bring fundamental change to the NCAA.

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