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Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York
Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York
Leonard Lopate, the Peabody and James Beard Award-winning broadcaster, is back on WBAI where he began his radio career. Tune in weekdays from 1-2pm at 99.5fm New York or you can listen to the show live at WBAI.org.
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Arts Express 5-14-23 Featuring Jane Seymour
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* Jane Seymour Talks Ruby's Choice, Harry Wild...and that casting couch * Taking Venice: How The US manipulated the 1964 Venice Biennale * Broe on his latest noir detective mystery, The House That Buff Built * Garland Nixon on whom Biden really representsBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 5-8-24 Featuring Musician Lionel Cole
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* Musician Lionel Cole on being inspired by his uncle Nat King Cole * George Galloway and Scott Ritter on The Passion of Protest * The White House Correspondents Dinner: Dissecting the gathering * Bro at Cannes and the Spring Global TV PreviewBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 4-30-24 Featuring Actor James Norton
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* Nowhere Special: A Conversation With James Norton And Director Uberto Pasolini * Walled Off: Banksy's West Bank Hotel * Bro on live streaming genocide * Garland Nixon on endless war on two frontsBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 4-24-24 Featuring Mario Van Peebles
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* Mario Van Peebles Talks Outlaw Posse and the buried post-Civil War history of race and class * King Lear: Apocalypse Now! * Bro on Vietnam spy thriller The Sympathizer * Garland Nixon on Good Cop/Bad CopBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 4-17-24 Featuring Larry Fessenden
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* Two Movies, Two Killer Moons: Larry Fessenden Talks Blackout, and Killers Of The Flower Moon * Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story, a new doc on the famed Asian-American photographer * Bro on the "3 Body Problem" * Garland Nixon on Epstein IslandBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 4-10-24 Featuring Director Maggie Greenwald
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* A Conversation With director Maggie Greenwald on the re-release of her unconventional Western, The Ballad Of Little Jo * Garland Nixon on the Empire of Imbeciles * Broe talks with Israeli Palestinian scholar and Film Studies Professor Terri GinsbergBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 4-3-24 Featuring George Lopez
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** George Lopez: The politically fueled standup comic is joined by cast members of his socially conscious sitcom, Lopez vs. Lopez ** Broe on Jonathan Glazer's Gaza genocide Oscar speech ** Team Human: Douglas Rushkoff's tale of tech dehumanization ** And Garland NixonBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 3-26-24 Featuring Olivia Colman
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* Wicked Little Letters: Olivia Colman's new film explores how women cursing became an expression of defiance and liberation * The Berman Murders: Doug Kari on an unsolved crime in the CA desert 40 years ago * Garland Nixon on the attack on MoscowBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 3-20-24 Featuring Beau Bridges
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* The Neon Highway and Matlock Reboot: A Conversation With Beau Bridges * Gazan poet Mosab Abu Toha's poem "The Wounds" on the December 2008 Israeli War on Gaza * Bro On How The West Was Lost - Examining the Alec Baldwin Rust debacle * and Garland NixonBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 3-13-24 Featuring Terence Blanchard
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* Up From The Streets: A Conversation With Jazz Musician/Composer, Terence Blanchard * Actor David Morse Talks Cabrini, the film about the famous Italian American immigrant nun * Bro On Mass Media Wars Then And Now * and Garland Nixon on NATO paper tigersBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 3-6-24 Featuring Tim Blake Nelson
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* Tim Blake Nelson Talks Asleep In My Palm, Captain America: Brave New World * A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce * Corporate Media Shilling For Global Arms Dealers * Macron's Napoleonic delusionsBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 2-28-24 Featuring Actor Jon Seda
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** Actor Jon Seda discusses Selena, La Brea, Carlito's Way and his role with Richard Dreyfuss in the upcoming Into The Deep ** Americonned: Time To Rise, probing the Sean Claffey documentary ** Israel's Genocide from two sides ** And Garland Nixon on Let's Start HereBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 2-21-24 Featuring Actress Virginia Madsen
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* Actress Virginia Madsen talks Surviving Middle America and Hollywood, and her latest movie as a damaged mother in Lola * Steven Wright's new surrealist novel, Harold * "Fat": From Will You Please Be Quiet, Please by Raymond Carver * How to Hide an EmpireBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 2-14-24 Featuring Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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** Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet Talks Amelie, Alien Resurrection, And The Farmer Uprisings ** Bro On The Global Cultural Beat: "Vienna - City Of Contrasts And Contradictions" ** Garland Nixon on the US race for PresidentBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 2-7-24 Featuring Cheryl Hines
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* Cheryl Hines Talks The Two Men In Her Life, RFK Jr. and Larry David, and Popular Theory * RU$E - Lying The American Dream: From Hollywood To Wall Street * George A. Romero's Independent Cinema * Garland Nixon on Genocide JoeBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express1-31-24 Featuring Ted Bundy survivor Kathy Kleiner Rubin
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* A Light In The Dark: Surviving More Than Ted Bundy-Kathy Kleiner Rubin on her determination to prevail * Caitlin Johnstone's "Child Killing Murder Robot" & more * Folk Horror On Film - Return Of The British Repressed * Garland Nixon on weaponizing wordsBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Laura Pappano is a veteran journalist who has covered the heated disagreements that surround K-12 education for over thirty years. Yet, today's high stakes battle is unlike anything she's seen before. "It isn't rooted in a passion for the success of all children," she writes. "Rather, it's about the hijacking of public education by a far-right Chri…
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Arts Express 1-24-24 Featuring Actor Ian McShane
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* Ian McShane talks American Star and the John Wick sequel, Ballerina * Until Tomorrow, Comrades: Eric Gordon on Portuguese revolutionary Manuel Tiago's novel * "The Power Of Film": a personal exploration of screen classics with Brett Gregory * Garland Nixon on NATO and Euro-scamBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 1-17-24 Featuring Sean Mattison's Colombian Doc "Petro" at Slamdance
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** Sean Mattison Talks Petro, new Colombian documentary at Slamdance: how a former guerrilla became President ** Franz Kafka's Before the Law and An Imperial Message ** Bro looks at the Best and Worst TV Series of the Year ** And Garland Nixon on Hollywood propagandaBy With Host Prairie Miller
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According to Award-winning journalist and Regular Contributor Robert Hennelly, most of the labor activists that are reviving the American union movement were not on the planet when Martin Luther King Jr walked the earth. But the torch has been passed and the “dream” endures when ever there’s collective non-violent action that moves US forward.Henne…
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Leonard Lopate, the Peabody and James Beard Award-winning broadcaster, is on WBAI where he began his radio career. Tune in weekdays from 1-2pm at 99.5fm New York or you can listen to the show live at WBAI.org. Join us for conversation on current events and call-in into the station to let your voice be heard (212) 209-2877. Listen to past shows: htt…
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A site by site, crime by crime, outlaw by outlaw walking tour through the seedy underbelly of Roaring Twenties Manhattan—where gamblers and gangsters, crooks and cops, showgirls and speakeasies ruled the day and, always, the night.In Gangsterland, historian David Pietrusza tours the Big Apple’s rotten core. The Roaring Twenties blaze and sparkle wi…
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Arts Express 1-10-23 Featuring Filmmaker James Ivory
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** James Ivory Talks Merchant Ivory and that historic filmmaking team in a new film doc directed by Stephen Soucy * Brett Gregory interviews Matt Alford on Julian Assange's Final Extradition Appeal * Karl Marx, Private Eye! * Garland Nixon on the narcissistic US empireBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Nasheet Waits Music Director: The Max Roach Centennial
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Max Roach Centennial Celebrations in January Include Film Screening, Panel Discussion and Local NYC-NJ ConcertsThe revolutionary 1960 album We Insist!: Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite explored issues of social justice and racial inequality through the lens of jazz and poetry. In celebration of the centennial of Max Roach (1924-2007)—drummer, bebop pi…
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Just Action by Richard and Leah Rothstein
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Richard Rothstein is the co-author of JUST ACTION: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute, and Senior Fellow (Emeritus) of the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Leah Rothstein is the co-author of JUST ACTION: How to Challenge Segregation E…
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Arts Express 1-3-23 Featuring Actor Sawyer Spielberg
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* Sawyer Spielberg on being directed by his father in The Post, along starring in the upcoming 9/11 thriller, Martyr Of Gowanus * Brett Gregory Down and Out In the UK * Bro on his new noir, The House That Buff Built * Policing Thought crimes here and in IsraelBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Steven Ujifusa on The Last Ships from Hamburg
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Bestselling author and historian Steven Ujifusa tells the largely forgotten, colorful story of three businessmen who, driven by very different motives, made much of this immigration possible and forever changed the fates of millions.The men were Jacob Schiff, the managing partner of an investment bank who used his immense wealth to help Jews to lea…
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We'd like to hear from you during this Holiday season. How have you been coping with winter, Municipal, State, and Global concerns? Although this is the mos festive time of year it sometimes doesnt feel that way. We would like you to share your remedies on dealing with the winter blues. Call-in in Join the discussion. Listen to past shows: https://…
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Edited by Jennifer Cognard-Black and Melissa A. Goldthwaite - Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically features a highly diverse ensemble of award-winning writers, activists, educators, chefs, farmers, and journalists, Good Eats invites readers to think about what it means to eat according to our values. These essays tell the stories of real peopl…
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Arts Express 12-27-23 Featuring Actor Matthew Goode
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* Freud's Last Session: A Conversation With Matthew Goode, who portrays author C.S. Lewis * "Palestine A-Z" by Gazan poet Mosab Abu Toha * How The Pentagon And The CIA Took Hollywood: Filmmaker Matthew Alford * Garland Nixon on Christian ZionismBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 12-20-23 Featuring Stafford Braxton of ”American Santa”
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* Stafford Braxton Talks "American Santa." Superheroes don't always wear capes * Bro On The Television Season Of Our Discontent: streaming and strikes in 2023 * "Godard Cinema" - Brett Gregory deconstructs the enigma of Jean-Luc GodardBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 12-13-23 Featuring Actor Ed Begley Jr.
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** Ed Begley Jr. on his new memoir, To The Temple of Tranquility...And Step On It! ** Part 2 with the author of the new bio, Becoming Ella Fitzgerald ** The Success Of Failure: "Movies So Bad, They're Good" ** Garland Nixon on Hollywood propagandaBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 12-6-23 Featuring Actor Steve Schirripa
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* Actor Steve Schirripa Talks The Sopranos, Blue Bloods * Becoming Ella Fitzgerald with author Judith Tick * A Conversation With David Archibald - the Scottish professor and performer on Tracking Ken Loach * Garland Nixon on GazaBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 11-29-23 Featuring Adrien Brody
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* Adrien Brody Talks Masculine Identity In Crisis in his new film Manodrome * Israelism: A new film doc on American Jewish youth turning against Zionism. * The homeless crisis gets personal * Garland Nixon on the pirates of the American EmpireBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Michael Zweig illuminates all propositions with specific examples from US history, from the first settlement of the New World to current life, including his own lived experiences as an activist, educator, and organizer over the past six decades. As such, the book is an urgently needed resource for activists and organizers seeking structural and mor…
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Photos from the 1990s present images of floods and fires that paralyzed the area, juxtaposed with continued bulldozing to clear the way for luxury housing. Politics reshaped Manhattan’s skyline by encouraging new commercial shopping, food, and restaurant destinations. This restructuring marked the beginning of the end of downtown’s blue-collar orig…
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Justin Michael Williams and Shelly Tygielski
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Could this really be our future? If so, what has to happen now to achieve such a radical change? In How We Ended Racism, Justin Michael Williams and Shelly Tygielski reveal a path for real and lasting global impact―not just talking about it, studying it, or making small steps, but actually ending racism in one generation.Williams and Tygielski draw…
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Arts Express 11-22-23 Featuring Aaron Neville
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* Black and Choctaw Native American Aaron Neville talks Music and Memoir: Tell It Like It Is, My Story * Pepe Escobar on the Mummy and Xi * Werner Herzog, Radical Dreamer * Garland Nixon on the Colonial WoundBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 11-15-23 Featuring Actor Noah Wylie
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* Noah Wylie Talks At The Gates, ER Memories, and strike resolution. * The Poetry Of Caitlin Johnstone. "In Times Such as These" * Brett Gregory probes the film essay Looking Forward * Dennis Broe on mind-numbing media spectacle * Garland Nixon on the monsters who ruleBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Regular Contributor Bob Hennelly of Stuck Nation covers topics ranging from homeland security to the economy, environmental contamination to corruption, and occupational safety to homelessness.Joing us when Hennelly touches on the hearing held by Sen. Sanders for his Health, Education, Labor and Pension that featured testimony from Fain (UAW), Nels…
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From Brown v. Board of Education in the mid-twentieth century to the current Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Foley explores how organizations have resisted and complied with public policies regarding race. She examines how admissions officers, who have played an important role in the long fight…
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Lewin brings these general principles to life by considering the history of the genetics revolution, from the discovery of the double helical structure of DNA to the sequencing of the human genome and the possibilities of gene editing today. History shows us that each period of progress in science relied on dogmas that often advanced but sometimes …
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Leonardo Freitas is the Chairman and Managing Director of Hayman
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Leonardo Freitas is the Chairman and Managing Director of Hayman-Woodward. Freitas is an entrepreneur with over twenty-five years of experience in government relations, international trade, and business development in the United States, as well as emerging markets, with a focus on Latin America and Asia.…
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In The End of Reality¸ Jonathan Taplin provides his perspective into the personal backgrounds and cultural power of these billionaires—Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreesen (“The Four”) —and shows how their tech monopolies have brought middle-class wage stagnation, the hollowing out of many American towns, a radical increase i…
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Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theoriesis a deeply researched dive into the history of the conspiracy industry around the Rothschild family - from the "pamphlet wars" of Paris in the 1840s to the dankest pits of the internet today. Join us when journalist and conspiracy theory expert Mike Rothschild, who isn't rela…
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Leonard talks with ROLAND RICH, the former Australian Ambassador to the UN about his book. Leviathan.By Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York
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American Castle, a Pulitzer Prize finalist Mary C. Shanklin reveals a century of controversy, politics, and lifestyles of the super-rich and powerful after Mar-a-Lago became a part-time residence and party place upon Post’s divorce from Hutton over mutual adultery.By Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York
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Altagracia Pierre - Outerbridge is the owner of theNew York City - based law firm, Outerbridge Law, P.C..Founded in 2019 after representing clients from -intake through trial with a practice focused on -landlord - tenant litigation and transactional matters,diligently protecting landlords' property rights, and -meticulously defending tenants agains…
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Marjorie Kelly is Distinguished Senior Fellow with The Democracy Collaborative, and the author of - Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today's Crises (Berrett-Kohler, September 2023) talks today with Leonard on Leonard Lopate at large.By Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York
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Brian H. Williams on The Bodies Keep Comin
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Today Leonard talks with Brian H. Williams, MD, the author ofThe Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal. Author Brian H. Williams, MDBy Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York
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