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	<title>Blue Planet Green Living &#187; Ecology</title>
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		<title>Huddling for the Home Team (Habitat for Humanity) on Super Sunday</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2012/02/05/huddling-for-the-home-team-habitat-for-humanity-on-super-sunday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Super Sunday is an American tradition and, football fan or not, the vast majority of us find ourselves in someone's living room or den gathered around the television watching the game (okay, the ads). For enterprising fundraisers, it's also a fantastic opportunity to gather friends together for a good cause.

This evening, Jeff Capps, Executive Director of Cedar Valley Habitat for Humanity, and his wife, Amber, hosted one of 85 house parties that will benefit the local Habitat for Humanity organization. These Home Team Huddles raise money that goes directly to building homes for deserving—and hard-working—families....]]></description>
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		<title>Build or Remodel Your Home with Eco-Friendly Products</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2012/01/07/eco-friendly-building-or-remodeling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re lucky enough to have the time and money to build your own home (or more likely, have it built by others), then there’s absolutely no reason you can’t get the greenest house in existence, thanks to building companies that specialize in just this sort of construction.

But just because the rest of us are relegated to purchasing previously lived-in structures (or even new but already fully constructed homes) that doesn’t mean we can’t do our part for the environment when we do upgrades.

So whether you’re interested in building a green home from scratch, or you’re looking to renovate the home you already own in a way that is in keeping with your environmental sensibilities, there are a ton of ecofriendly products to help you meet your goals on the home front....
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		<title>Together, We Change the World</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/12/23/together-we-can-change-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past February, Blue Planet Green Living published a post by Dipak Singh, a writer from India who advocates for safer conditions for the people of his country. His post, Notes from India: We Are Poisoning Our Planet, described the horrific effects of spraying the chemical Endosulfan on crops in India and other nations. He wrote, in part:

"The grapes you and I eat could be from a vine that was sprayed 30 times in a single year with pesticides such as Endosulfan. That makes 300 sprayings in a decade. This chemical has nowhere to go, so it just gets washed into the groundwater.

"Endosulfan has a half-life of up to 20 days in water and 60 to 800 days in soil. So, think of the accumulation of this pesticide in crop-growing villages. In the Indian state of Kerala, Endosulphan has been linked to the birth of malformed children. . . ."

Three months after we posted his editorial, Dipak sent me a Facebook message with the following comment:

"Hello, this is just to tell you that yesterday the Indian Supreme Court put an interim ban on Endosulfan, despite the lobbyist asking for an eleven year time frame. This is one of the sentences from the judgement:  'When a certain something affected right to life, then every other right, even the fundamental right to business, took a backseat.' " ...

Dipak followed by thanking me for making a difference in the fight against Endosulfan. Me? All I had done was post his editorial. How could I accept any credit?]]></description>
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		<title>ZooBorns: The Newest, Cutest Animals from the World&#8217;s Zoos and Aquariums</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/12/10/zooborns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 02:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's not much that causes more smiles and coos than an adorable baby. And it doesn't have to be human. Take a peek at the animal babies in ZooBorns: The Newest, Cutest Kittens and Cubs from the World's Zoos and ZooBorns: CATS! The Newest, Cutest Kittens and Cubs from the World's Zoos; you're sure to be charmed.

These small books contain beautiful photographic studies of baby animals that most of us will never get to see in the wild. That's especially true because many of the babies featured in ZooBorns books are on the Endangered Species List.

By compiling these collections, authors Andrew Bleiman and Chris Eastland are raising awareness of how zoos protect and conserve endangered species. In addition, they're contributing 10% of the revenues from each ZooBorns book to the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Conservation Endowment Fund....]]></description>
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		<title>Consumed: Inside the Belly of the Beast &#8211; A Slackjaw Film</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/11/25/consumed-a-slackjaw-film/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 03:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many brand names are within your arms’ reach? How new is the computer on which you’re reading this? Are you wearing clothing that bears a popular name? Are you carrying a cell phone, iPod, or Blackberry? How much stuff surrounds you? And how much do you buy into the need to have even more?

I just finished watching Consumed: Inside the Belly of the Beast, a Slackjaw Film. It’s an extremely thoughtful video that put my own participation in consumerism into perspective — and into question....
Perhaps you're caught in the consumerism web, too. If you're in the U.S., it's hard to avoid today: it's the mother of all consumer days here: Black Friday....]]></description>
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		<title>Living Green: A Turtle&#8217;s Quest for a Cleaner Planet by Artie Knapp</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/11/12/living-green-a-turtles-quest-for-a-cleaner-planet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 21:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/?p=16494</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a former elementary teacher and the parent of three grown kids, I've probably spent thousands of pleasant hours reading children's books. I know the power of a book to persuade as well as to educate young readers.

When I taught first grade (and as a parent), I carefully chose books that provided a good story and, often, a positive lesson. In the 1970s, my students' exposure to fictional environmental role models was pretty much limited to Woodsy Owl, whose cry, "Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute," inspired us all to care about our planet.

Today, children, parents, and teachers have a wealth of options to choose from for eco-friendly and inspiring books. One environmentally focused book that recently crossed my desk is Living Green: A Turtle's Quest for a Cleaner Planet. The story will appeal to young readers, who will identify with the heroic turtle, Thurman, in this charmingly illustrated paperback....]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainable Fabrics: Eco-Friendly Clothing</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/11/05/sustainable-fabrics-eco-friendly-clothing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 03:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you're interested in finding ways to reduce your carbon footprint with small, daily changes to your lifestyle, there are a lot of options to cut waste and reduce pollution on a personal level.  You can recycle, use green cleaning solvents, switch to organic foods, and make many of your own products at home in bulk (5-gallon buckets of homemade laundry detergent, for example) in order to cut back on disposable packaging waste.

But did you know that you can also support sustainable farming by purchasing clothing made from eco-friendly fabrics? Not only are there a wide variety of clothing options out there (with even some big-name designers jumping on the bandwagon), but there are also plenty of reasons to make the change....]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking the Silence</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/10/24/breaking-the-silence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 02:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Post</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While brokenness is all around us, and much of it is quite apparent, there’s one form still hidden in darkness—a darkness I have known.

News stories break, from time to time, reminding us that this netherworld exists. In November 1987, Joel Steinberg and Hedda Nussbaum were arrested for the murder of their young daughter, Lisa. We sat glued to our televisions during that trial and eventually learned that both Lisa, and Hedda, had been violently abused by Mr. Steinberg. In June 1994, the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson sparked the sensational trial of her ex-husband, O.J., and again we sat glued to our television sets.

But beyond these, and other headlines that hit the news, lie countless untold stories—hidden even from the families and friends of those who suffer. This is the paradox of domestic violence. A feeling of shame, along with other factors, causes victims to stay silent. They guard the secret along with their batterer....]]></description>
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		<title>Sailors for the Sea Encourages Ocean Conservation</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/10/15/sailors-for-the-sea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 04:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brigette Fanning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the official sustainability partner with America’s Cup, Sailors for the Sea is reaching their largest audience to date.

Sailors for the Sea educates sailors and boaters about protecting the oceans. Their partnership with America’s Cup, a race between two yachts that is the oldest trophy in international sport, allows them to reach sailors from countries around the world.

“Now, we are moving to an international level,” explains Dan Pingaro, CEO. “[Sailors] can make a positive difference on the ocean,” he says.

Pingaro says involving sailors is imperative because of the problems facing our oceans today, including a changing pH balance and plastics floating in the water. The changing pH balance has an impact on shellfish, coral fish, and feeder fish for larger ocean dwellers. And plastic trash is the major component of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, among other polluted areas....]]></description>
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		<title>My Night in Jail (Occupy Iowa)</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/10/12/my-night-in-jail-occupy-iowa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 02:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends,

Last night, I was one of over thirty protesters arrested at "People's Park" on the Iowa State Capitol grounds. Honestly, I was surprised by the hostile response of the State Patrol. We were on public property and obstructing neither vehicular nor pedestrian traffic. We were peaceful. We were exercising our right to freedom of speech and to petition our government. The demeanor of many of the troopers made no sense to me, especially coming from a division of State Government that I respect and worked well with when I was a state lawmaker.

Today, as I dialogue with some of the 500 people who participated in yesterday's "occupy" events, it appears the arrests have only further fueled people's commitment to push the movement forward....]]></description>
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		<title>The Overloaded Liberal—Lessons from Fran Hawthorne</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/10/04/the-overloaded-liberal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hailey Courtney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to buy local and organic, but if I can’t find food that is both, do I buy local or organic? I believe in supporting local businesses, but if I can only find the notebook with recycled paper at a national office supply store, do I buy it or go with a less environmentally friendly version at the local store?

We each have a set of values that we live by—or try to live by. Whether it is supporting local businesses, buying union-made goods and services, eating organic food, or buying recycled goods, the list goes on. Oftentimes, though, our values start to overlap one another, and it is difficult to find a product to buy or a company to support that falls in line with all of our values, let alone one that we can afford. So what are we to do? ...]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Planet: A Play in Two Acts</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/10/01/moving-planet-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abby Seixas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, climate advocates and activists in more than 180 countries performed in over 2000 showings of what may very well have been the world’s largest production to date: Moving Planet. Billed as “A Day to Move Beyond Fossil Fuels” and built on the backs of tens of thousands of impassioned participants, “energy” was both the central theme and the real star of this show. The production—massive in size and yet purposefully carbon-light—focused on moving our world from dirty energy to clean energy while showcasing the human energy powering the movement....]]></description>
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		<title>Pioneers for the Planet: The High Wind Story</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/09/16/high-wind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 01:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miriam Kashia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a windswept acreage overlooking a lush valley in mid-eastern Wisconsin, a small group of committed visionaries sowed a seed for change called High Wind, an “intentional community” that grew and blossomed in the late 1970s and 1980s. Although its life as an intentional community formally ended in 1992, the ecovillage legacy of High Wind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Memory of 9/11: Let Us Wage Peace</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/09/11/in-memory-of-911-let-us-wage-peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 02:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Post</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all speak today of healing, understanding, and peacemaking.

The images of September 11, 2001 are etched in our minds. But we need to be more concerned with what we have done with 9/11 than with 9/11 itself.

Yes, we mourn the loss of so many innocent victims. We laud the heroism of the firefighters and so many others. And we will always be outraged at the inhumanity of the attackers. But I don't think that the 2,977 victims on 9/11 died to usher in a period of perpetual war....]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from Virginia: Love in the Time of Cholera, Air Conditioning, and Basic Human Rights</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/09/08/love-in-the-time-of-cholera/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 23:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elias Simpson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's book Love in the Time of Cholera, Florentino Ariza's lifelong love is finally reciprocated. Fermina Daza, an aged widow, accepts his invitation to ride a riverboat down the Magdalena River. As owner of the company, he gives her the presidential suite.

The river's nearly destroyed. Timber that held the bank of the river had been harvested to fuel the ships, to the point where it's difficult to find any trees along the muddy riverbank. At the end of the trip, fearing the return to her former life, Fermina Daza says, "It will be like dying." Florentino Ariza, to please his lover, commands the captain to turn around and continue puffing up and down the river. Jolly and obedient, the captain replies, "And how long do you think we can keep up this goddamn coming and going?" Florentino answers, "Forever." ...]]></description>
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		<title>Tab for a Cause — An Easy Way to Raise Funds for Charity</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/08/28/tab-for-a-cause/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alenka Figa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you won the lottery, what would you do with the money?

My answer to this question is always the same: Pay my tuition. Most college students don’t have money to spare, and if you manage to earn a few bucks, it goes towards books or school supplies. So, when someone asks you to donate to charity, it’s hard to contribute.

Four college students – Kevin Jennison, Alex Groth, Joel Detweiler, and Sam Ward-Packard tackled this problem. On August 4th they launched Tab for a Cause (TFAC), a browser extension that allows the user to donate to charity simply by opening a new tab....]]></description>
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		<title>VeeV Greens the Liquor Industry with Sustainable Spirits Made from Acai</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/08/20/veev/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 03:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caryn Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When brothers Courtney and Carter Reum decided to launch a spirits company, they were open to different possibilities—but one element of the concept was a certainty. “We knew it would include a sustainability component,” Courtney Reum says. “Nobody was doing anything sustainable in alcohol. There was a lack of innovation. So we realized we had a chance to do something really unique.”


The brothers resigned their positions as investment bankers with Goldman Sachs and set out to “green” the liquor industry.

That was four years and more than 500,000 bottles ago. Since the first 7,500-bottle batch of VeeV Acai Spirit™ came off the line at Rigby, Idaho-based Distilled Resources Inc., this duo has racked up some pretty compelling eco-cred....]]></description>
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		<title>Money Secrets of the Amish by Lorilee Craker</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/08/13/money-secrets-of-the-amish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 03:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who couldn't use a little financial wisdom right about now, with the stock market swinging up and down like a bungee jumper hanging from a bridge, homes in foreclosure around the nation, and unemployment putting an alarming crimp in so many family budgets?

It's tough to make a buck today, let alone keep it. Yet, for the Amish, a humble people who value frugality and self reliance, hanging onto their money is a given, as author Lorilee Craker tells us in <em>Money Secrets of the Amish: Finding True Abundance in Simplicity, Sharing, and Saving</em>.]]></description>
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		<title>Running Out of Water by Peter Rogers and Susan Leal</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/08/05/running-out-of-water/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alenka Figa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is no secret that humankind is facing several environmental crises. Greenhouse gases are slowly cooking the earth, several of our natural resources are nearing depletion, and impending water shortages threaten our way of life.

Friends, news sources, and the Internet bombard us with facts like this every day. It’s hard to make sense of it all, and too easy to feel that there is no hope.

But, as the cliché states, knowledge is power. When you understand a crisis, you can do something about it. This idea is the driving force behind Peter Rogers and Susan Leal’s book, Running Out of Water: The Looming Crisis and Solutions to Conserve Our Most Precious Resource....]]></description>
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		<title>Graphic Designer Combines Art and Sustainability</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/07/29/designarchy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alenka Figa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It takes courage to look at your profession and say, “We are part of the problem.” But Tania Kac, a freelance graphic designer who offers eco-friendly design solutions, does just that.

“We’re generating ideas that end up in the trash,” says Kac. “I’m passionate about design, but I also see how it impacts the environment. We create billions and billions of pieces of trash every year.” ...]]></description>
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