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Eco Friendly Birth Announcements

November 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment

f_01311084796_ecofriendlyenviornment.jpgEco friendly stationery products, also known as plantable stationery, are becoming increasingly popular. And as of recently, eco friendly birth announcements have been added to the product assortment. These ‘green’ announcements do more than just announcement the birth of your child – they are actually a small gift themselves because, once planted, the recipient will be able to enjoy beautiful flowers thanks to you.  They can be planted in a garden or in a container so they are even perfect for those living in apartments without access to a garden.
And planting couldn’t be easier and takes only a minute. Either plant the card whole or tear it up into smaller pieces and put it under a bit of soil. Water daily and within a couple of weeks you’ll see the first seedlings begin to sprout.
Eco friendly birth announcements should be made out of 100% recycled paper waste and embedded with seeds (Be sure to ask what kind of seeds are embedded in the paper).They often come in a variety of styles and colors – even plantable photo announcements are an option. Some you purchase ‘as is’ (meaning that it is like selecting a package of birth announcements  at a store) while others let you custom create your own. 
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Long before your baby arrives, you can begin researching the different baby stationery available so you can know exactly what you want to order when that special day arrives. Some of these sites will even provide same day shipping of your order so you won’t even need to wait for the baby boy birth announcements or baby girl birth announcements to arrive for very long. Eco Friendly Kids Crafts Idea

I was thinking of a good craft for kids that will also start to teach them a little bit about being eco friendly. This idea popped into mind. Allowing children to decorate a cotton drawstring bag. These bags can be purchased blank, and the children can design their little hearts out. Eco Friendly Cleaning Products

Eco friendly cleaning products should not pollute the environment in any way and also help keep your home clean as a whistle. Our homes are overloaded with toxic chemicals, more then we would like to believe, why add more to chemicals to our home when there are perfectly good eco friendly cleaning products that have proven to be as effective as any commercial, chemical based products? For one I think it’s just easier to buy cleaning products off the shelves, more convenient, and two we don’t have time to make our own natural cleaning products. Online Birth Announcements

Many families today have been using birth announcements to spread the word to the whole world about the new baby in their homes. The problem that most couples encounter is that when the baby is born the last thing they would want to think about are the errands and chores that they would have to do to tell the world of the new baby.
Custom plantable birth announcements: When researching this option look for choices that allow you allow you to choose from several styles. If you don’t like the suggested wording ask if you can provide your own. When going with a custom card – make sure that you receive a proof of the card, for your approval, before it goes off to print.

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Consumer Trend: Green Living

November 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment

11311702940_36.jpgGreen living is taking hold. “Recently while I was brushing my teeth, my 6-year-old son scolded me for running the water too long. He severely reprimanded me, and at the end of his censure asked me, with real outrage: don’t you love the earth?” says Stephen Asma of the Chronicle in his Green Guilt commentary. For those who are embracing the green living trend, check out these new green options:
Green travel: Bali’s new eco-resort, Balinese Alila Villas Uluwatu, has breathtaking beauty that stands out for its eco-friendly attributes. The Alila Villas Uluwatu is the first of its kind to get the highest level of certification for the ESD (Environmentally Sustainable Development).
Green dating: Ethicalsingles.com is a green online dating site to meet like-minded eco-sexuals. At EthicalSingles, search for singles who share your interests, including social, human rights, animal rights, and environmental issues.  More on the trend at trendhunter.
Green rooms: In New Zealand, the plant room is a new strap-on shed/porch is perfect for city dwellers who yearn for greenery. The Plant Room is a prefabricated room that bolts-on to a variety of existing apartment types, improving the quality of living, reducing energy and water use, and generally making the building more sustainable.
Green driving: Ford has developed technology to “coach” drivers to optimize fuel efficiency. MyFord Touch enables drivers to monitor and track their vehicle’s real-time fuel economy performance for the past five, 10 and 30 minutes. Ford’s EcoRoute option calculates the most fuel efficient route a driver can take to get from point A to point B. The feature will be available globally on the 2012 Ford Focus. Read more on this green trend at Springwise.
Green jewelry: Potted plant necklaces make it possible to wear your green life around your neck. The Growing Jewelry House collection by Hafsteinn Juliusson is a silver ball chain necklace with a unique silver pot pendant that has real growing moss inside. For best results, the moss needs to be watered every five weeks and can last up to 8…
To read more about the green living trend, go to Sparxoo, a Tampa-based digital marketing agency.

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Eco Friendly Wood Furniture

November 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment

01310680179_blueberry.jpgBringing the natural world inside is possible by using the beauty of wood furniture that is eco-friendly. Manage the wood correctly and you will have a wonderful resource that will live on throughout generations in your family. As well, the world’s forests are met if fifteen percent of the earth’s forests can be managed correctly.
There are some environmental considerations to keep in mind, when looking for wood furniture such as, environmental problems, and solutions. The United States leads the way for wood consumption. The World Wildlife Fund states that close to half of the world’s original forests have already been cut down. With forty million acres, this adds to more loss each year.
With that information, there are ways to make sure you have eco-friendly furniture. To insure that the furniture you have does not contribute to deforestation, look for the wood the Forest Stewardship Council, known as FSC, certifies that.

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3 Types Of Eco-friendly Wood Furniture Finishes

One of the foremost selling points of today’s furniture is how magnificently the finished product shines beautifully and in luster. Let’s have a look into three of the most basically used wood finishes and why they are eco-friendly. Manufacturers only make use of few types of finishes nowadays. Eco-Friendly Patio Furniture

Eco-Friendly patio furniture comes in many shapes, sizes and materials. Plastic patio furniture can be one of the most eco-friendly furniture around. Learn the different ways plastic patio furniture is made. The next time you are shopping you know what to look for. How to Find Eco-Friendly Furniture

With so much emphasis on going green and preserving the earth’s natural resources, everyone is trying to do their part. Did you know that there is even furniture that is considered eco-friendly? Eco-Friendly Engineered Wood Flooring – A Revolution

Engineered wood flooring is a new and innovative product that combines beautiful wood flooring with eco friendly ethics. If you, like so many others, are concerned about climate change yet feel that a wonderful home is equally important then you won’t have to compromise when it comes to engineered wood flooring. Not only will you feel that you are doing your bit for the environment but you will also be able to choose from a multitude of colours, designs and finishes too.This is a non-profit organization whose beliefs cover environmental, social, and they have requirements to the specific needs of each regional ecosystem. This eco-friendly wood is stamped with a FSC logo. When you see this logo, you know that the eco-friendly wood furniture is sustainable. Meaning it did not take away from the regions in need for the wood.
Another option is finding wood that is from demolition landfills, or even underwater. By recycling this wood, you have kept the forests standing, and you give a second life to some wood that has served a previous function. This does not require any new wood and may even free up the space in the landfills. Smart Wood Rediscovered is a company that certifies the wood is recycled and is not harming any forests.
Sweetgum, madrone, and California oak are readily available, without knowledge of this wood.
If you use these types, they are equal to even better than some of the most popular wood. This wood is known as secondary species, because they are harvested more. Therefore, the other species, such as mahogany, can continue to regenerate naturally. Buying these products with the secondary species, takes a lot of pressure from the overused wood, and the diverse forest wood.
Eco-friendly furniture offers beautiful home furnishing. The eco-friendly wood is longstanding, and used for years to come. Most people will own some type of wood furniture, rather in their home or in their offices at any given time. Now that you know the right wood to look for to use for the eco-friendly furniture, now it is time to care for this wood correctly.
Wood furniture needs to be cared for and treated. This will help to lengthen the life of your furniture. Wood cleaners and polishers sold on the market today are full of chemicals. This is not good for the wood. Once you did all your research on getting the eco-friendly wood, and which wood is the best, you certainly do not want hazardous cleaning agents in your home or on your wood furniture.
Any woodworker asked on what to use on the new eco-friendly wood furniture. All that they can tell you is that you need to care for the wood. Cleaning and caring for it will help your furniture to look great for years ahead. Wood furniture loves moisture, but this does not mean it is a good idea to clean the wood with water. Through the studies, the best way to clean and polish your eco-friendly wood is beeswax, giving the wood a beautiful shine.

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Bangladesh Needs Eco Friendly, Fair Trade Clothing

November 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment

11310680030_50863678-01.jpgIf you have tried buying clothes at a Bebe or Topshop shop, you have probably worn the handiwork of a Bangladeshi woman. Bangladesh is one of the major exporters of apparel to international labels in the U.S. and London. It is also one of the places where garment factories, and there are about 4,500 of them there, are more concerned about profit as opposed to worker’s welfare.
Bangladesh’s clothing production industry centers around the urban areas of Dhaka and Chittagong and the emerging Nirsingdi district. Factories there have been a constant target of workers rights and fair trade activists because of their substandard working conditions, below-living wages and absence of standard workers’ benefits. Just recently, a United States rights advocacy group criticized a jeans factory that supplied products to German label Metro Group for allegedly

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Living Green and Saving Money: 3 Green Living Tips That Will Save You Money

November 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment

21311703023_gogreencouch.jpgCan going green actually save you money? Maybe you are not convinced of that. If so, that would be entirely understandable. Without a doubt, there are a number of consumer items promoted under the “Green Living” rubric that cost more than comparable “non green” items. Evidently, there are enough consumers who are willing to pay a premium for products labeled “green” that marketers can make a good living selling various items this way.
But you don’t have to follow that crowd. In fact, establishing a greener lifestyle can actually save you money if you go about it the right way.
My focus is very much on how consumers can save money as they go green. And it makes sense to create your green lifestyle this way. Cutting back on energy use, conserving water, driving your car less, and buying certain items second-hand are all actions that reduce your consumption of resources. Why should that cost you more?
In fact, it doesn’t. Here are 3 tips for living that greener lifestyle that are guaranteed to save you money.
1) Replace all incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs). CFLs use only one-quarter of the energy of an incandescent and last up to 10 times longer. It is easy to understand why. Incandescent light bulbs convert only about 3-5% of the energy they consume into light. The rest is dissipated as heat. Incandescent bulbs are essentially little heaters that happen to generate some light. Because CFLs generate less heat, using them will reduce your cooling costs in the summer. Another advantage of CFLs is the following: although the earliest version of CFLs did not work with dimmers switches, the more recent versions will.
2) Buy power strips to switch off electronics when they are not in use.Most people probably do not remember the days when you switched on a television set and then waited 30 to 60 seconds for it to warm up and turn on. Nowadays, we have the instant-on feature, which become so much a part of our modern world but which costs us in so-called “vampire power.” Why? Because in order to deliver the immediate gratification of instant-on, the device (television, radio, computer, etc.) must stay in a constantly warmed-up mode, and it must continually draw a little bit of power to accomplish this.  Electronics have become so pervasive that this vampire energy draw is estimated to account for around 10 percent of residential energy use in the United States. By plugging your electronics into a power strip that can be switched on and off, you can cut the power completely, saving all that energy drain. In addition to televisions and VCRs, computers and printers should be switched off at night or whenever you are not using them for an extended period of time.
3) Reduce hot water use by taking showers instead of baths. A bathtub will require 40-70 gallons of water to fill, and all of that water is heated. In contrast, a shower uses about 2 to 3 gallons of water per minute (less if you use a low-flow showerhead). A 7 minute shower, therefore, uses only 14 to 21 gallons of water. You get a double benefit, saving not just on water, but also on the energy required to heat that water.
These three simple steps are guaranteed to make your greener lifestyle cost you less, not more.

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Eco-Friendly Bamboo Clothing

November 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment

01310680110_go-green.jpgWhen we bought our first bamboo clothing we were amazed at the softness. Nothing in my closet compared except for my cashmere sweater. Bamboo clothing gives you the softness of cashmere at a small percentage of the cost. After some investigate we discovered some unique properties about bamboo fabric. It is hypo-allergenic, anti-bacterial and the organic fabric wicks moisture and odor away from your skin, unlike cotton and wool that absorbs and holds moisture in. Bamboo also has natural UVA protection.
We found that bamboo fabric is ideal for people with delicate skin or with skin allergies. I used to get itchy rashes on my arms, but they stopped when I started wearing bamboo clothes. We decided to sell this unique line of clothing so every one can take pleasure in its benefits. Go to our website and try an item or two of bamboo clothing, you will love its softness and your skin will thank you.
Another splendid feature about bamboo clothing is that it is a truly “green” eco-friendly fabric.
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Bamboo Clothes

Did you know bamboo is a woody grass? It sure looks like a tree! Because bamboo grows as fast as grass, it renews itself every 3-5 years. Bamboo is grown naturally, without pesticides or chemicals, making it a totally organic, eco-friendly resource. Bamboo is a leader in helping to preserve our environment with sustainable earth friendly products. Understand Bamboo Flooring

When it comes to an eco-friendly and more affordable alternative to wood flooring, bamboo is growing in popularity by leaps and bounds. With bamboo flooring, you can get the look and feel of wood floors at a fraction of the price and while doing less damage to the environment. Innovative Uses For Bamboo Fencing

Bamboo fencing has become a very popular and eco-friendly alternative to hardwood fencing in the past few years, as environmental awareness has grown amongst the general public. This is because bamboo is one of the most easily renewable natural resources we have, and can yield sometimes over 2 times of the quality building materials that a typical hardwood forest can. Eco Friendly Cleaning

Housework it seems is never done and often it is all too easy to resort to harsh chemicals and energy guzzling appliances to get our chores done. These shortcuts can save us bags of time but quite often they have a negative effect on the environment.Bamboo is a woody grass that requires no chemical pesticides or fertilizers to grow and it renews itself every three to five years. Because it is grown organically the fabric is as close to pure as you can get. Cotton requires toxic chemicals to grow and causes pollution. Not so with bamboo. If you are earth friendly and would like to help sustain our planet, go to Bamboo-Clothing.Net and help contribute to a better world.
If you think bamboo clothing is merely plain old tee shirts, think again. Our line of clothing is very stylish and our clothing can be worn casual, or dressy. We offer dresses, sleepwear, shorts, jackets, slacks and tops in a variety of styles.
We also offer maternity clothing, bedding and bath products. For an added bonus bamboo clothing is wrinkle- resistant and easy-care machine washable. Go check out our website now and you will find eco fashions to suit your life style.

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Green Living kit Review-Build Your Own Solar and Wind Power Generators

November 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment

01311705391_green-living-home-125.jpgConservation and green issues happen to be high in agenda in all avenues of life over the past decade with governments encouraging people and businesses to reduce their carbon footprint. Many alternatives to oil and gas are available, and many have been talked about for years, but none have yet come to the fore since the perfect alternative.
Solar
There’s two types of solar cells, photovoltaic and solar thermal. Photovoltaic uses superconductors to show solar radiation into electricity and is used in large power stations and mobile generators. Solar thermal cells use solar energy to heat water, creating steam to drive turbines. The major problem with solar is it takes a clear, sunny climate; additionally, it requires storage, that is complicated and still not perfected.
Wind
Wind generators are appearing across the nation, particularly in large offshore wind farms. Wind rotates turbine blades, which turns prop shafts connected to an electrical generator, creating electricity. On land, wind turbines suffer from the unpredictability of weather. Blade rotation also causes a change in weather patterns on the floor.
Tidal
In laymen’s terms, have a wind generator, turn it upside down and put it in the water. Since the tide is available in, the flow of water turns the blades, employed in the same way as a standard wind generator. Its effects on marine life and shipping lanes are up to now unknown, and there are still questions over just how long they could last in seawater.

Hydroelectric
Hydroelectric power involves building a dam and using the possibility energy of the enclosed water to power turbines connected to an electrical generator. There are many issues with this system. They’re incredibly expensive to construct and therefore are entirely dependent on rainfall to top-up the water level. There are also environmental issues with damning rivers.
Biodiesel
Biodiesel uses materials as fuel that would well be disposed of, such as grease and animal wastes. Most biodiesel uses oil from crops, most commonly ethanol from corn, to power cars. The oil can replace as much as 90 percent of standard diesel in a vehicle. The primary complaint about biodiesel is that it varies in environmental benefit.
Hydrogen
Hydrogen is seen in certain circles since the main replacement gasoline in vehicles, as it works in basically the same way. The car’s tank could be full of compressed hydrogen, that amounted to round the just like gasoline to create, and doesn’t need to be recharged all night on end like electric vehicles. The major problem is that hydrogen pressurized is combustible.
Geothermal
Geothermal energy should be seen as the most effective way of producing electricity, but is affected with some major problems, which mean it will most likely not become the alternative energy solution. It uses the Earth’s natural heat to power turbines. This heat is usually harnessed from geysers and volcanoes. But you will find not many places where the Earths crust is thin enough for this to be used effectively.
Nuclear
Nuclear is definitely an efficient method of producing electricity, and also the technology has advanced in order to turn it into a viable energy source. The problems are that the mining of plutonium and uranium involves using some strong chemicals and creates radioactive radon. The fuel then produces nuclear waste, which is dangerous to get rid of. The reason being radioactive material includes a long half-life and may remain dangerous for hundreds of years. Improvements in design have reduced the amount of waste since nuclear power was first introduced, but how to handle it afterwards continues to be an issue.
Now, let’s talk about Green Living kit  created by Tom Hayden and just how it might help you. I really hope this simple Green Living kit  Review will assist you to differentiate whether Green Living kit  is Scam or a Genuine.
Discover The Secrets To Building Your Own Solar and Wind Power Generators For Less Than $200 and Save 80% On Your Electric Bill. Whether it’s building your own solar panels, wind turbines, solar water heaters or many other projects; you can now discover the secrets to building your own with Green Living Kit

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Eco Kitchen – eco friendly appliances

November 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment

f_21310563694_utahtothepacific153.jpgThe kitchen is a very busy part of the home, especially at this time of year with all the dinners that need to be prepared, not to mention the clothes washing and other chores that can only be done in the kitchen.
There is a multitude of appliances and tools in the average kitchen that can make daily household tasks a lot easier, but not all of them work efficiently, which means that the kitchen can be one of the most energy wasteful areas of the home.
The kettle, is a good example. Many of us may turn out kettles on four or five times an evening, often boiling far more water than is necessary. All the extra power required to boil this unnecessary water is being wasted. And while this does not amount to very much, the accumulative effect of millions of kettles being over-filled produces tonnes of extra CO2 into the atmosphere each year.
An eco kettle gets over these problems by only boiling the required water.

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A kitchen is a place where you would find the maximum number of energy and water guzzling appliances. However, simply buying the most efficient appliances will not solve your problems. If you care for the environment and want to begin the change right from your kitchen, you can follow these simple tips to have an eco friendly kitchen. Eco Friendly Cleaning

Housework it seems is never done and often it is all too easy to resort to harsh chemicals and energy guzzling appliances to get our chores done. These shortcuts can save us bags of time but quite often they have a negative effect on the environment. Eco Friendly Vehicles From Tesla Motors

Using the alarming hazards of world warming round the planet, car makers have chosen a safer highway to hold people in the much helpful pollution much less way Some Great Eco Kitchen Products

The kitchen is one of the busiest rooms in the home. With the washing machine, oven, tumble dryer

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Are Modern Cloth Nappies More Eco Friendly?

November 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment

21310680000_dsci02692-1.jpgNowadays one of the hot topics under discussion is trying to find ways which can help us in preserving mother earth. Thanks to this growing awareness, more and more products are now available on the market, which are made of such materials that do not harm the earth. Whether you want to buy an eco friendly car or eco friendly emulsion paint, I can assure you that you will find a wide range to choose from. Now let’s say that you are a parent and you want to choose eco friendly nappies for your child. If you do a little research you will know that disposable nappies, that are so easily available in market, are not eco friendly at all. When you dispose of these disposable nappies they only add to the pile of waste mountain, so what to do in this case? The answer is simple and easy, use modern cloth nappies instead! 
During the last few decades numerous researches have been conducted that clearly prove modern cloth nappies are not only good for your baby but also the environment in which we are living.

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Making Your Coffee Eco Friendly

We all love drinking coffee. More than 1400 million cups are consumed per day. That’s a lot of coffee and also a lot of waste. But we don’t need to stop drinking coffee. We just need to be more conscientious in how we drink it. By drinking coffee the eco friendly way, we can reduce the negative impact on the environment while still enjoying our coffee. Here are some easy idea’s to reduce the negative influences from coffee. Shopping For Eco Friendly Shower Heads? Here’s Some Help

If you are looking for eco friendly shower heads, there are a number of different things that you should consider. Most of the “green” ones only work to reduce the flow-rate, which reduces water-usage and that’s great. But, what if you could also help “clean up” the water? Let Your Inner Child Shine With These Eco-Friendly Games

As summer is winding to an end all the fun outdoor summer activities will have to end but that doesn’t mean you can’t still play some eco-friendly games. Board games and crafts are fun can also be eco-friendly! Soon it will be time to pack away that recycled milk carton Frisbee and hang up your bicycle for eco-friendly traveling but here are some great eco-friendly games you are sure to love during the fall and winter months. Enjoy! Out on the Town For an Eco-Friendly Date

Many recent articles offer suggestions for eco-friendly date ideas and are sure to be helpful. One of the suggestions is to cook an organic meal. Cooking an organic meal with a significant other is a great way to be eco-friendly and get to know each other. Another great way to be eco-friendly and experience a green date is to go to organic and vegan restaurants. Here is a list of some restaurants that specialize in organic and vegan dishes.This small change of using the cloth nappy instead of disposable nappies can help you in preserving the earth for the next generation as well. The question that might come to your mind is how can this be possible? Fact is that disposable nappies are not biodegradable due to which they can keep on existing on the face of earth for as long as five hundred years and more, without getting affected by the decomposition process. Now just imagine all those disposable nappies that have been used and discarded over the last decade only will keep on existing on earth for many centuries to come and keep on contributing to the pollution on earth. 
One the other hand there is no such disadvantage attached to modern cloth nappies.
Modern cloth nappies can be re-used as many times as you want and for as long as you want. Another thing that you might want to consider is that the valuable resources that are used to make cloth nappies will be used in lesser quantity as compared to disposable nappies where they will be used again and again. Hence, it is safe to say that by using modern cloth nappies we are ensuring that our children grow up in a much healthier environment.

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Nature-Friendly Shopping

November 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment

f_11310563694_ecofriendlyproducts.jpgUsually, when we go out to shop, we end up going home

at the end of the day with lots of plastic bags from different stores. Plastic bags that would most likely end up on garbage cans thus adding wastes to the community.

     So I’m sharing here my personal tips on having an eco-friendly shopping.

Plan your shopping to save fuel if you have your own car, to save money if you’re commuting and save time.

Buy and use only rechargeable batteries for your gadgets and other household items.

Buy only appliances that contribute less to global warming.

Bring your own container when you order takeout food instead of using styro foams usually offered by fastfoods and restaurants.

Bring your own shopping bags to avoid using plastic bags usually given by stores and malls.

Buy products with refillable containers.

If possible, buy products with less packaging.

Most importantly, only buy necessary items.

Actually, that’s not all. There are lots of way to

have an eco-friendly shopping but what I have enumerated above are the usual thing I do. So if you have one way, please do share it too. You’re not just helping yourself save money and time, because you’re helping nature as well.

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