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            <title><![CDATA[Toga Party Massacre]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/160919/togapartymassacre.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Gosh! So much has already been said&amp;nbsp;about&amp;nbsp;Toga&amp;nbsp;Party&amp;nbsp;Massacre&amp;nbsp;that&amp;nbsp;I don&amp;rsquo;t know where to start&amp;hellip;NOT! Once upon a time, Michael J. Heagle was that kid with the planet-sized imagination who ran around with cameras making his own little movies. Once he got to film school, he got hold of the latest in S-VHS camera technology, rounded up some high schoolers, and made a slightly better little movie.
Teenager Tina&amp;rsquo;s parents are going out of town for the weekend, leaving her and her bestie Mary unsupervised. Of course they&amp;rsquo;re gonna follow mom&amp;rsquo;s no-parties mandate&amp;hellip;as if! Before you can say Van Hagar, the house is&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[lc81007@gmail.com (Lucas Chatfield)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 26 07:00:22 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tarzan and His Mate - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/154268/tarzanandhismatewarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[It&#039;s rare, but sometimes a sequel really does outshine the original. The Godfather Part II,&amp;nbsp;Aliens, and&amp;nbsp;Toy Story 2&amp;nbsp;instantly spring to mind, and&amp;nbsp;Tarzan and His Mate&amp;nbsp;can be added to the list. The second installment of the long-running&amp;nbsp;Tarzan&amp;nbsp;series builds upon&amp;nbsp;Tarzan the Ape Man, amping up the action, romance, conflict, and - most notably - titillation. The film&amp;nbsp;takes full advantage of the lenient pre-Code guidelines and pushes the envelope about as far as it can go. The result is a rousing, sometimes shocking, often eye-opening film that&#039;s still wildly entertaining today.
At the end of&amp;nbsp;Tarzan the Ape Man, Jane (Maureen O&#039;Sullivan) chooses to&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 26 06:12:15 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Star Trek: The Complete Original Series 60th Anniversary]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/159956/startrekthecompleteoriginalseries60thanniversary.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[As our old friend Joshua Zyber already so thoroughly reviewed the series at length when each season was offered in its own Blu-ray set, I&amp;rsquo;ll largely let his words stand. I have no disagreements with his take. For myself, when Star Trek: The Original Series is at its best (largely in the first season), it&amp;rsquo;s incredible, thoughtful, and thoroughly engrossing science fiction. When it&amp;rsquo;s at its worst&amp;hellip; it&amp;rsquo;s at least charming enough to get through the doldrums.&amp;nbsp;

Like many out there, I enjoyed Star Trek The Original Series through reruns. My earliest memories of enjoying this series were sitting on&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[mattedscreen@gmail.com (Matthew Hartman)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 26 11:59:17 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Black Cab]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Ever gotten in an Uber or Taxi and wondered if you were actually going to make it home alive? That&amp;rsquo;s the real-life fear that Black Cab is poking at. I&amp;rsquo;ve certainly gotten a ride and wondered, &amp;ldquo;Where do they find these people?&amp;rdquo; Enter Synn&amp;oslash;ve Karlsen as Anne. She wakes up from a nightmare about being pregnant and in a cab. Next thing we know she&amp;rsquo;s in the real-life nightmare of going out to dinner with her Captain Superjerk boyfriend Patrick (Luke Norris) and the friends he&amp;rsquo;s been staying with ever since Anne kicked him out for cheating on her. In&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[lc81007@gmail.com (Lucas Chatfield)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 26 09:30:08 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Human Comedy - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/160330/thehumancomedywarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Sometimes Mickey Rooney is just too much. The manic energy, the unrestrained mugging, the shameless overacting. In his relentless effort to entertain and give every role his absolute all, he often goes way over the top. It can be exhausting to watch him, and at times he can derail an otherwise excellent movie. (Don&#039;t get me started on&amp;nbsp;Breakfast at Tiffany&#039;s!) But when Rooney&#039;s good, he can be very, very good...and in&amp;nbsp;The Human Comedy&amp;nbsp;he&#039;s flat-out terrific.
Credit director Clarence Brown with dialing Rooney back and guiding the 22-year-old actor to arguably the most restrained, natural, and affecting performance of his career.&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 26 07:28:44 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Goodbye Paradise]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/160957/goodbyeparadise.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Any good noir is only as good as the lead character plunked into the web of intrigue. Michael Stacy (Ray Barrett) predates Jeffrey &amp;ldquo;The Dude&amp;rdquo; Lebowski by about fifteen years and finds a similarly disinterested mess of a man knee-deep in a situation he wanted no part of. Unlike The Big Lebowski&amp;rsquo;s stoner-slacker, Stacy at least has some experience in law enforcement. He&amp;rsquo;s disgraced, sure, and his turn toward the writing profession seems to be going even worse, but he knows how to follow a lead. He knows what threads to pull at to see what unravels. He&amp;rsquo;s just a&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[billyleerussell@gmail.com (Billy Russell)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 26 06:35:10 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Broadway Melody of 1938 - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/160274/broadwaymelodyof1938warnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A few years after&amp;nbsp;The Broadway Melody&amp;nbsp;won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1930, MGM turned the backstage musical into a franchise.&amp;nbsp;Broadway Melody of 1936, starring tap dancer extraordinaire Eleanor Powell, heartthrob Robert Taylor, and lanky hoofer Buddy Ebsen, was the first installment, and its blockbuster success spurred the production of&amp;nbsp;Broadway Melody of 1938&amp;nbsp;two years later. Powell, Taylor, and Ebsen all return for the series&#039; third episode, and are joined by the fleet-footed George Murphy, vaudeville&#039;s &quot;Red Hot Mama&quot; Sophie Tucker, the British sophisticate Binnie Barnes, and comic character actors Robert Benchley and Billy Gilbert, but outshining them all is a&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 26 08:10:05 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sergeant Rutledge - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/160268/sergeantrutledgewarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Some films hammer their theme home perfectly on the first swing. Some miss the mark by a wide margin. Others get damned close to nailing it on the first swing, but need a few more miss-swings before it&#039;s driven home. The latter scenario doesn&amp;rsquo;t make a film bad; they can be quite good, but in recognizing its shortcomings, you can see how a potentially masterpiece effort can be reduced to just being &amp;ldquo;quite good.&amp;rdquo; John Ford&amp;rsquo;s 1960 Western/Courtroom Drama/Whodunit&amp;nbsp;Sergeant Rutledge&amp;nbsp;is almost a masterpiece. Woody Strode and Jeffrey Hunter deliver fierce and commanding performances, but the film&amp;rsquo;s need to interject clunky,&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[mattedscreen@gmail.com (Matthew Hartman)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 26 05:28:33 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Presenting Lily Mars - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/159069/presentinglilymarswarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Judy Garland starred in plenty of flagship musicals for MGM during her 15-year tenure at the studio, but one of her most entertaining efforts is a little-known, low-budget, black-and-white gem called Presenting Lily Mars. Originally envisioned as a straight dramatic vehicle for Lana Turner, this heartwarming and surprisingly humorous tale of a plucky Indiana teen who ventures to New York to forge a career on Broadway possesses none of the glitz and &amp;eacute;lan of Metro&#039;s Arthur Freed-Vincente Minnelli collaborations. Rather, it relies solely on Garland&#039;s fresh-faced charm and velvet-toned voice, and benefits immensely from those endearing and formidable qualities.
Musical&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 26 09:09:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tenement]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/160922/tenement.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[After her mother dies, Soriya (Thorn Thanet) and her boyfriend Daichi (Yoshihiko Hosoda) travel from Japan to her homeland of Cambodia to get a better sense of who she was as a person. Her mother&amp;rsquo;s life was always shrouded in secrecy, having lived a turbulent, traumatic life that she didn&amp;rsquo;t speak about very often. She escaped Cambodia for Japan during the Khmer Rouge occupation, which killed anywhere between 1.5 and 3 million people in the 1970s. 
When the two arrive in Cambodia, the cab driver freezes up when they mention the name of the apartment complex they&amp;rsquo;re going to. Even&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[billyleerussell@gmail.com (Billy Russell)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 26 08:58:45 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Bad Seed (Remastered) - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/160332/thebadseedwarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Demonic children have been a ghoulish Hollywood staple for a number of years, and it&#039;s easy to see why. There&#039;s something innately terrifying about a vicious youngster who wreaks havoc on the adult world, but before little Damien of&amp;nbsp;The Omen&amp;nbsp;smiled devilishly at the camera and Regan of&amp;nbsp;The Exorcist&amp;nbsp;spun her head around, before&amp;nbsp;Orphan,&amp;nbsp;Children of the Corn,&amp;nbsp;and even Village of the Damned, there was Rhoda Penmark of The Bad Seed. Well-mannered, cheerful, with blonde, perfectly braided pigtails and often draped in a white pinafore dress, the diminutive Rhoda could be a lovely, innocent dream child...but if you happen to possess something she&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 26 07:26:50 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Wailing]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/160916/thewailing.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Just when I thought I had Pedro Mart&amp;iacute;n-Calero&amp;rsquo;s The Wailing figured out, it pulled the rug out from under me. &amp;ldquo;Oh,&amp;rdquo; I thought. &amp;ldquo;It&amp;rsquo;s sort of like a Spanish-language take on J-horror.&amp;rdquo; And, sure, there are some passing similarities to films like Pulse, with a monster who can only be seen when captured on camera. And it&amp;rsquo;s structured a bit like Ju-On, in which an evil location introduces us to one victim, who leads us to another victim, with our main character constantly changing. But this story, co-written by director Pedro Mart&amp;iacute;n-Calero and Isabel Pe&amp;ntilde;a, is no mere retread of&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[billyleerussell@gmail.com (Billy Russell)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 26 10:44:37 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Foxfire (1955)]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/158975/foxfire.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[There&#039;s been a Jane Russell renaissance of late with Warner Archive&#039;s release of&amp;nbsp;His Kind of Woman&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;Macao, and now Universal&#039;s reissue of the 1955 drama&amp;nbsp;Foxfire. Though I always very much admired Russell&#039;s sassy performance opposite Marilyn Monroe in the classic musical&amp;nbsp;Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, I must admit I hadn&#039;t seen any other Russell films until recently. That&#039;s probably because - let&#039;s face it - Russell didn&#039;t make many good movies. Her shapely allure (as a kid, I remember a middle-aged Russell hawking Playtex Cross-Your-Heart bras on TV), tough-yet-tender screen persona, and ability to put over a song sustained her career despite a&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 26 13:26:56 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[All Through the Night - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/160317/allthroughthenightwarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[If it wasn&#039;t for George Raft, it&#039;s safe to say Humphrey Bogart might never have had a career. Some of Bogart&#039;s most famous roles, and the ones that allowed him to transition from a supporting player specializing in heavies to a romantic lead - Sam Spade in&amp;nbsp;The Maltese Falcon, Ray &quot;Mad Dog&quot; Earle in&amp;nbsp;High Sierra, and Rick Blaine in&amp;nbsp;Casablanca&amp;nbsp;- were all turned down by Raft. Raft also passed on &quot;Gloves&quot; Donahue, the leader of a posse of New York gamblers, in&amp;nbsp;All Through the Night, and although the character and the film aren&#039;t as well known as those listed above, this&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 26 08:20:38 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Sisters - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/159067/thesisterswarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A year before Bette Davis&#039; Queen Elizabeth I sparred with and lusted after Errol Flynn&#039;s Lord Essex in&amp;nbsp;The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, the two actors co-starred in a lesser-known historical romance, The Sisters, based on the bestselling novel by Myron Brinig. Though it may not possess the same name recognition as myriad other classic titles in the Davis and Flynn film catalogs, this turn-of-the-20th-century period piece nevertheless earns high marks in a number of areas and deserves to be rediscovered.
The novel was a huge deal in 1938, but Milton Krims&#039; screenplay often makes us wonder what all&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 26 05:41:56 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Father Mother Sister Brother]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/159256/fathermothersisterbrother.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[There&amp;rsquo;s really no one quite like Jim Jarmusch. His filmmaking and narrative sensibilities are so uniquely him, so personal in every story he makes, but there&amp;rsquo;s always a world of difference between each story he tells. Whether it&amp;rsquo;s a hitman who lives by the code of the samurai in Ghost Dog, aging hipster vampires in Only Lovers Left Alive, or one of his various anthologies like Coffee and Cigarettes, his fingerprints and DNA are all over each movie, even if that&amp;rsquo;s all they really have in common with each other.
Jarmusch knows his way around a good anthology: Mystery Train,&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[billyleerussell@gmail.com (Billy Russell)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 26 05:26:41 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[First Love (1939)]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/160221/firstlove.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Many movies throughout cinema history have been dubbed &quot;Cinderella stories,&quot; but&amp;nbsp;First Love&amp;nbsp;is an actual Cinderella tale. This captivating 1939 film draws its entire plot structure from the beloved folk tale popularized by the Brothers Grimm in the early 19th century. A few character and narrative alterations freshen it up for contemporary audiences, but it&#039;s unmistakably Cinderella. And therein lies its charm.
Following her graduation from boarding school, orphaned student Constance Harding (Deanna Durbin) heads to the palatial New York City townhouse of her affluent relatives, the Clintons. Aunt Grace (Leatrice Joy) and Uncle Jim (Eugene Palette) took Connie in after&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 26 05:05:52 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Savage Vows]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/156762/savagevows.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Savage Vows is a pretty run-of-the-mill shot-on-video slasher film. The film revolves around a group of friends who meet up after one of their friends dies in a car wreck. Consoling the husband of the deceased, the group of friends goes on a lake rental in the middle of the woods (suburbs) to keep each other company while they&amp;rsquo;re all in grief.&amp;nbsp; All while they&amp;rsquo;re at the lake house, they begin to be picked off one by one, all while arguing with each other over past indiscretions. As with most shot-on-video slashers, the best part is the cheesy use of&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[samchristian111@gmail.com (Sam Christian)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 26 07:33:19 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Torrid Zone - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/160323/torridzonewarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[James Cagney and Pat O&#039;Brien were good friends off-screen and frequent co-stars on-screen. Their good-natured ribbing, brash, fast-talking attitudes, playful one-upmanship, and petty quarreling delighted audiences and produced a captivating cinematic bromance that often felt more authentic than their liaisons with their sexy leading ladies. Torrid Zone&amp;nbsp;would be their eighth and final film together, and their partnership goes out with a bang in this boisterous action comedy that looks like it was as much fun to make as it is to watch. Cagney and O&#039;Brien - and the lovely, sassy Ann Sheridan - seem to be having a grand old&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 26 05:48:43 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dead Man's Wire]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/155655/deadmanswire.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Dead Man&amp;rsquo;s Wire begins on a cold February morning in the 1970s. Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsg&amp;aring;rd) walks into the offices of Meridian Mortgage regarding his loan that he&amp;rsquo;s been unable to make payments on, with a mysterious white package under his arm (that&amp;rsquo;s never good). Immediately, his plan begins to go awry. The receptionist at the front is different; he doesn&amp;rsquo;t recognize her. He&amp;rsquo;s thrown off. And the man he has the appointment with, M.L. Hall (Al Pacino), is on vacation, so at the last minute, he has to meet with his son, Richard (Dacre Montgomery).
Richard leads Tony into&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[billyleerussell@gmail.com (Billy Russell)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 26 10:05:36 -0700</pubDate>
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