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current Focus 580 schedule?
Please note that as of June 2, 2008, WILL has a new web site. We
are no longer updating program schedules on this older site, but
are leaving it publicly accessible for a number of reasons. You
can still find old schedules and audio archives here, but all
new programs will be found only on the new site. Eventually we
will retire this site entirely.
The new WILL website is http://will.illinois.edu
The old WILL website remains http://will.uiuc.edu
Existing podcast feeds remain valid, and all WILL archives
remain available.
We hope you find the new site more attractive and effective in a
number of ways. If you have feedback, compliments, complaints,
etc., please do send a note to the WILL webmaster.
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Fun stories, quirky interviews, thought-provoking commentaries, great tunes, and more!
First Saturday of the month at 6 pm
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Jason Croft. Sidetrack's goal is to bring you the stories you might have otherwise missed--the stories that sometimes get overlooked during the busy day-to-day headlines. The stories are sometimes off-beat, sometimes unusual, but never dull. It's a fresh look at the what's going on in our backyard and around the world.
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May 2008 |
World War Two Stories: Japanese-American Hostel
Chicago Polka Revival
Essay: "You Are What You Spill"
Vintage Vinyl sale preview
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April 2008 |
Chicago burlesque revival
Award-winning mustard
Chicago window washers
"Another Wrong Career"
The Velveteria--The Black
Velvet Painting Museum (website)
"Under The Ruler"
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March 2008 |
Rising Appalachia
Modern cowboy's ride across America
Book Glutton (website)
Comic Book Convention
Big Nerd Ranch
Nubrella (website)
Cubs' manager's infamous tape
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January 2008 |
(Best of 2007)
Archeophone
Records--WWI songs
(website)
Star Wars' 501st Legion fan
group (website)
Essay: "Death of a TV"
The Nap Club
Pi Omega Omega--The
Downtown Drinking Fraternity (website)
Pizza Beer (Website)
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December 2007 |
The Christmas Tree Bandit
Holiday Yule Log DVD
Christmas Shoplifting
"The Christmas I Saved Macy's"
(website)
Interview with Jeff
Berry author of "Sippin’ Safari:
In Search of the Great 'Lost' Tropical Drink Recipes…and the
People Behind Them." (website)
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November 2007 |
The Onion's "Our Dumb World"
(website)
Figureheads hip-hop trio
"101 Ways to Flip The
Bird" (website)
"Our Gods Wear Spandex: The Secret History of Comic Book Heroes"
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October 2007 |
Ghana wheelchair
athletes
"Everything's Coming Up Sock Monkeys!"
Young jazz player Adam Larson
"The Hollywood
Librarian" movie (website)
Ghost Hunting Update
with Dale Kaczmarek
(website)
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August 2007 |
Berwyn's Spindle (website)
Chinese Bicycle Mechanic
Selling America By
The Inch (website)
Pizza Beer (Website)
Water Parks Essay
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July 2007 |
Art Theory Summer Camp (website)
National Hot Dog Month (website)
Canary Song Trials
Weird Illinois Roadtrips (website)
"Chasing October" Cubs movie (website)
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June 2007 |
"Wizard of Oz" munchkin Mickey Carroll
Garage Sales audio postcard
Star Wars' 501st Legion fan
group (website)
Oxford American
Southern Film Issue (website)
Showman's Rest
Project Pimento
(website)
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May 2007 |
Essay: "Death of a TV"
Film
Magazine C-U Confidential (website)
Interview with George Takei
One guy's experience being recruited for the Sterling Institute
Men's Weekend.
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April 2007 |
Pi Omega Omega--The
Downtown Drinking Fraternity (website)
Tango Night at the
Cowboy Monkey
(website)
Tiny House
"I'm The Guy Who
Parks Your Car" (website)
Archeophone
Records--WWI songs
(website)
Starcastle Song
Of Times
(website)
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March 2007 |
Transformers Convention
Scam o Rama
Camouflage Stage Designers
The Nap Club
Interview with Craig Brewer--writer/director of Black Snake Moan
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February 2007 |
"Lincoln's
Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words"
Modern Drunkard
Magazine (website)
"The Story of Bob"
27th Annual Razzie
Awards (website)
"Mr. Confidential: The Man, His Magazine, & The Movieland
Massacre That Changed Hollywood Forever"
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January 2007 |
(Best of 2006)
Continuum
Fingerboard (website)
Duke of Uke in-studio
(website)
Books to Eat (website)
Cylinder
Preservation and Digitization Project (website)
"Perfect Fit" essay from Deb Aronson
Celebrity baby
clothes (website)
Arlo Guthrie/Katrina benefit
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December 2006 |
Arthur Wilson "Bob" Tucker--Sci-Fi/Mystery writer/fan remembered
"Pardon Moi" cards
Nostalgia Pie
Toy Hall of Fame revisited
Oxford American Music Issue
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November 2006 |
Knife Thrower
U of I' Library's
video game collection (website)
Bed Stylist
"Is Tiny Dancer Really
Elton’s Little John? Music’s Most Enduring Mysteries, Myths, and
Rumors Revealed.” (website)
Interview with local
musician Jay Bennett (website)
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September
2006 |
Talk Like A Pirate
Day--Update (Website)
State Fair Eating Contest
Andy Dallas--President of the
Society of American Magicians (website)
Quad Day Audio Postcard
"I Know You're Out There: Private Longings, Public Humiliations,
and Other Tales from the Personals"
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August
2006 |
Cafe Scientifique
(website)
"Perfect Fit" essay from Deb Aronson
Hatch Show Print Exhibit
Edible backyard weeds
"Rejuvenile: Kickball,
Cartoons, Cupcakes, and the Reinvention of the American
Grown-Up" (website)
The Cereal Barn and Peanut
Butter Cafe (website)
Sam and Toty Issa--leaving Lebanon
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July
2006 |
Grilled Cheese
Madonna (website)
Oscar
the cormorant
Pichuas of H.G. Wells
Reluctant Townie commentary
Duke of Uke in-studio
(website)
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June
2006 |
Mix tape club
Found magazine (website)
Street nammer
Ron's barbershop
Pop culture roadtrip
Monticello Railway
Museum (website)
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May
2006 |
Continuum
Fingerboard (website)
Competitive eaters (IFOCE
website)
Books to Eat (website)
Illinois
Poet Laureate (website)
50's burlesque star
Dixie Evans/Exotic World (website)
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April
2006 |
Prairie Fire Story--Arcola's Lawn Rangers (website)
New Orleans spring break
Miller Grove
Cylinder
Preservation and Digitization Project (website)
Twinkies
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March
2006 |
Illinois Stories--Frank
Sadorus (website)
Jenny Pahre "The Found Dog"
Celebrity baby
clothes (website)
Nick Drake fans unite (website)
"Inventing Late Night: Steve Allen and the Original Tonight
Show"
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February
2006 |
Student Essay #1--Miles Davis
Mannequins comic
strip (website)
Amy Gajda commentary
Student Essay #2--Sex Education
Art exhibit--"Immaterial: A Journey"
Student Essay #3--"I Hate Essays"
Ninth Letter literary
journal (website)
Student Essay #4--Charity
Government Manual for New
Superheroes (website)
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January
2006 |
Arlo Guthrie/Katrina benefit
Arlo Guthrie's
website
Rising Son
Records
Jack Neilson's
website
Gordon
Titcomb's website
The Burns
Sisters' website
Sarah Lee
Guthrie and Johnny Irion website
Olympic
ice carver
National Ice Carving
website
Vintage aprons
New Lincoln book
Postsecret (website)
Hacker contest
Famous first lines in novels
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December
2005 |
Rockford senior theater
Kitschmasland (website)
WRFU (website)
Desafinado live
in-studio performance (website)
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November
2005 |
Asian carp fishing contest
Micro-Film #7
(website)
Lawyer Jokes
Pike County talking houses
Audio postcard: bluegrass jam
(website)
The Old Timer remembered
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| October
2005 |
Bad Dog art gallery
Suggestion Box art
project
Iraq vet book
The hunt for James Dean's
death car
"Lost"
book
Ghost Hunting Update with Troy Taylor
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| September
2005 |
Local bloggers
Talk Like A Pirate Day
re-visited (website)
New study of the earth's core
Meat cutting competition winner
Student trip to Africa
Confessions of a heavy metal addict
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| August
2005 |
I-55 Classic: Cubs/Cardinals
Great Little Museums of the Midwest
Parasitic
Plants (visit the website)
Naughty Shakespeare
Russ Meyer Biography
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| July
2005 |
Homer's famous cow photo (see the photo
here)
Mark Pett, creator of the Lucky
Cow comic strip
Prairie
burn postcard
Sculptor Todd Frahm
Bill Hammack Commentary
The Balloon Hat Experience
Hot Rod and
Pin-Ups
photographer David Perry
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| June
2005 |
Singapore Blog
St. Louis Underground Railroad
Lincoln statue made of sweet gumballs
Morel hunting
Troy Taylor's "Weird Illinois"
Tibetan Monks
Bill Hammack commentary
Baseball commentary
Theater stunt fighting
Indian music--improvised vocal percussion
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| May
2005 |
Mel-O-Cream Donuts
Ron Yates/Fall of Saigon
Body
Worlds Commentary
Pope Chicken
Frasca flight simulators
Bill Hammack Commentary
Vintage Vinyl preview
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| April
2005 |
Celtic
Games in Springfield
Macomb Dirt Track Races
Ernie Westfield: Negro League Player and Baseball Poet
Bill Hammack Commentary
Sin-A-Rama: Sleaze Paperbacks from the 1960's
Doon's Beef Jerky
Prairie
Fire Feature: Bloomington-Normal Circus History
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| March
2005 |
Green Street Records
Prairie
Fire Feature: Skins & Tins Drum Shop
Upper
Limits
Star Trek college course
Bill Hammack Commentary
What does "No" really mean?
"Comfort and
Joi"
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| February
2005 |
Twinkie's 75
Anniversary
Bill Hammack Commentary
Joey D'Auria (the guy
who played WGN-TV's Bozo the Clown for 17 years)
Local low-power radio
Central Illinois Banjo Club
Jolie Rickman remembered
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| January
2005 |
Holiday High Tea
The Rubberneck Humor
Magazine
List of Banished Words
Bill Hammack Commentary
Live, in-studio with The Chemicals
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| December
2004 |
Call To Arts
Profile on jazz musician Tom Paynter
Interview with Robert
Lanham, author of Food Court Druids, Cherohonkees, and other
Creatures Unique to the Republic
Toy
Hall or Fame
Bill Hammack Commentary
Tractor Book
Kandy Kitchen
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| November
2004 |
Broomcorn Festival Broom-Sweeping Contest
Fried Chicken & Apple Pie
Bill Hammack Commentary
Ripley's Believe It Or Not
One Fan's Obsession with Clay Aiken
(Click here for
Denise's special Sidetrack/Clay Aiken Page)
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| October
2004 |
U of I Dodgeball Society
Bill Hammack Commentary
Interview with Stephen Colbert of "The Daily Show with Jon
Stewart"
Hard Case Crime pulp
novels
Starcastle
remembered
Ghost Hunting Update with Troy Taylor
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| August
2004 |
Lost and found items in books
The Field Guide to Elvis Shrines
John Pizzarelli goes Bossa Nova
The Great Flood of 1993 remembered
The reopening of LeRoy's Princess Theater
Homer's soda pop emporium
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| July
2004 |
Summer Snowmobiling
Taste of Champaign
Self-Destruction Handbook
Local Celebration of Bloomsday
Chick Tracts
The Prairie Crooner
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| June
2004 |
Live In-Studio with Rob McColley
Jiffy Johnson visits Beardstown
Bill Hammack Commentary
Interview with Semisonic drummer Jacob Slichter
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| May
2004 |
Sidetrack 5th Anniversary Special
Live-Action Role-Players
Philo--Center of the Universe
Harassing Illini
White Squirrels
Robbie Fulks in-studio tune
June & The Exit Wounds in-studio tune
Warren York and the Virginia Theatre's Wurlitzer organ
Paint-By-Numbers
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| April
2004 |
The Point fencing club
Art vending machines
Dr. Snodgrass--traveling insect show
Chestnut trees
Bloomington-Normal
Passion Play
Bill Hammack--An
Engineer's Tour of Paris
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| March
2004 |
Champaign hooka bar
Dreamscape
Cinema
Micro-Film
Magazine
Governors' Mansions
Bill Hammack Commentary
Singer/songwriter who tours by train
Whirlwind Project "Sounds of Meditation" concert
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| February
2004 |
Prairie
Fire Story--Jennie Hodgers/Albert Cashier
WEFT Sessions Compilation
Bill Hammack Commentary
Firefighting Museum
"Dirty Cowboy" children's book
Popeye Museum
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| January
2004 |
(Best of 2003)
'Zine Slam
The 5-Second Rule
Danville
Encyclopedia
"International Talk Like A Pirate Day"
Winter
War
Local Renaissance Faire
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| December
2003 |
Preview
of A Day in Our Hometown: Champaign-Urbana
Newly published Jack Kerouac Screenplay
Bill Hammack Commentary
Vriner's Candy Canes
"The Three
Skaters" as told by storyteller Dan Keding
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| November
2003 |
Building
a Labyrinth in Urbana
Bill Hammack Commentary
Prairie Ensemble
concert preview
"Green Eggs & Ham" translated into Latin
Drink pour study
Turkey Testical Festival
World Championship
Punkin Chunkin 2003
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| October
2003 |
Illinois Poet Laureate Nominees
The 5-Second Rule
Preview
of WILL-TV's "Studio X"
Frances Oliver--Artist Who Paints Her Genealogy
Ghost Hunting Update
with Dale Kaczmarek
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| September
2003 |
Bottomley, Ruffing, Schalk Baseball Museum
Bill Hammack Commentary
"International Talk Like A Pirate Day"
Local Renaissance Faire
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| August
2003 |
Ragbrai Bike
Race
Bio Briquette
"It's A Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, the
Post-War Pulps"
Bill Hammack Commentary
An Archeologist's take on
Tomb Raider
Jarling's Custard Cup
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| July
2003 |
Danville
Encyclopedia
Laundromat of the Future
Bill Hammack Commentary
Flexi Record Collector
Vintage Vinyl
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| June
2003 |
Comic Book Superhero Movies
Uni High Student's Jazz Project
Jeep Enthusiasts
Bill Hammack Commentary
Triple Whip In-studio Performance
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| May
2003 |
Peeps Celebration
'Zine Slam
"Deep Throat" Revealed
Bill Hammack Commentary
Matrix Fashions
"Mad Gasser of Mattoon" Revealed
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| March
2003 |
Winter
War
Hipster Handbook
Bill Hammack Commentary
Creature Feature Director Bert I. Gordon
Devil Doll
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| February 2003 |
"On The Bus" art project
Smile Healthy preview
Nursing Feature
Mary Todd Lincoln presenter
Protest Walker
Naked Protesters
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| January 2003 |
(Best of 2002)
Harassing Illini
Elvis Furniture
Robynn Ragland song
Sand Paintings
Closing of the Elite Diner
White Squirrel Celebration
Star Wars Geek commentary
Barf Bag Museum
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| December 2002 |
(Holiday Special)
Essay: "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"
Hardy's Reindeer Ranch
Essay: "Fairytale of New York"
"Buy Nothing Christmas" Campaign
Essay: "Sleigh Ride"
Shoemaker's Ridge Road Tree Farm
Essay: "Christmas Time Is Here"
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| November 2002 |
White Squirrel Celebration
The Roadkill Guy
Bill Hammack Commentary
Chinese Music
Amy Gajda Commentary
"Bowled Over"
Bowling Roadtrip
Harassing Illini
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| October 2002 |
(Halloween Special)
"Three Young Men Who Go Off To Find Death"--Kim Sheahan
Museum of Funeral Customs
"Wait 'Till Martin Comes"--Kimberly Petzing
Ghost Hunting Update with Troy Taylor
"The Living Corpse"--Dan Keding
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| September 2002 |
State Fair Music
Tractor Pull
Quad Squirrels
Bill Hammack Commentary
Elvis Furniture Collection
Girls Camp
Phillip Jose Farmer
Lanterna
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| August 2002 |
Butter Cow
Lincoln in Urbana
Christian Rock
Dinosaur Find
Bill Hammack
Commentary
Jakehead
In-Studio/Interview
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| July 2002 |
Pet
Loss Grief Counselor
Chanute Aerospace Museum
Bill Hammack
Commentary
Fantasy Baseball
World's Largest Catsup
Bottle
Amy Gajda Commentary
Acoustic Eidolon
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| June 2002 |
Closing of the Elite Diner
Medical School Cadaver Memorial
Bill Hammack
Commentary
Spammobile
Star War Geek Commentary
Tour of Buzard Pipe Organ
Builders
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| May 2002 |
Yo Yo feature
Floating Illini
Artists Against AIDS show & sale
Death Penalty CD
Bill Hammack Commentary
Route 66 Museum
The Burger King revisited
WILL 80th Anniversary montage
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| April 2002 |
Sand Painting
History of the Cocktail
Camouflage Carpet
Barf Bag Museum
Miami tribe of Indiana's struggle for recognition
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| March 2002 |
Bill
Hammack visits the Ice Hotel
"2002 A
Palindrome Story in 2002 words"
In-studio performance with
Robynn Ragland
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| February 2002 |
Insect Fear Film Festival
Dictionary of Hipster Slang
Sousa Archives
Bill Hammack Commentary
Candy Hearts
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| January 2002 |
(Best of 2001 Special)
Spam museum (new interview)
Vintage baseball
Car mascot collector
Tabloid writer interview
Robbie Fulks in-studio performance
Bringing back the Subway classic cut
Warren York and the Virginia Theatre's Wurlitzer organ
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