Family farms, a simple solution to complex environmental issues

SolveClimate's Max Ajl quotes, and then expands on, an assertion in the Food First! [PDF] report that family farms are good for the environment:

Sustainable, smallholder agriculture represents the best option for resolving the fourfold food, finance, fuel and climate crises.

Max's logic is straightforward and compelling. "Could resolving such huge, inter-laced problems be really so easy, so straightforward? ... It could," he concludes. We at Mellow Monk couldn't agree more.



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Aso's natural spring water drinking fountains

The people of Aso are proud of and particular about their tea and their abundant natural spring water. So much so that the area around Aso shrine has a dozen or so public drinking fountains that serve up naturally flowing natural spring water.


The video below showcases these beautifully designed fountains, including one I blogged about recently.





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The Monk is listed ... again

Once again, Mellow Monk is listed in Green America's directory of green businesses, the Green Pages.



Click to join Green America and get your copy of the Green Pages. You can get one with a donation of only $20, and that gets you other membership benefits, too.


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Tokyo on two wheels

It's not only eco-friendly to get around Tokyo by bicycle; it's also convenient and relaxing, as you can leave your bike right next to your destination, which could be blocks away from the nearest subway station or parking spot (if there is parking, that is).


Of course it would be a bit of a challenge to explore the entire city on bike, unless you've got the thighs of samurai warrior. But a bicycle is perfect for getting intimate with one of Tokyo's neighborhoods—such as my favorite, Asakusa.



A "world away from the modern city."


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Sustainable food goes mainstream

Wow, even Time magazine is calling for a lot more sustainable farming:

Sustainable food has an élitist reputation, but each of us depends on the soil, animals and plants — and as every farmer knows, if you don't take care of your land, it can't take care of you.

Just one hint for the editors of Time: using an accent mark in élitist comes off as elitist.



A mouth-watering burger like this made from sustainably produced meat, grain, and vegetables is not only better for the land but better for you, too—and still just as mouth-wateringly tasty.


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Eco-friendly—and cool-looking—buildings

My favorite building on this list of eco-friendly buildings is Seattle's Terry Thomas Building, which was designed by Weber Thompson.



No, not that Terry-Thomas.


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Green chai facial toner recipe

From green beauty expert Julie Gabriel's Green Beauty Guide comes a recipe for making your own green chai facial toner.



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A low-cost, low-impact Hobbit home

A family in Wales, U.K., has built a supremely eco-friendly home that was also inexpensive to build and looks super-cool, like your Hobbit friends would feel completely at home there, too:



From the outside, it may look dark and cramped in there, but . . .



. . . it's surprisingly bright and roomy.


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In Japan, stressed-out city folk head to the hills for "farm therapy"

Stress-out city dwellers are discovering the rejuvenating properties of a day of farming in the country:






Pounding mochi: The farmer gets a helping hand, and the lass gets some much-needed sunshine, exercise, and stress relief.


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The lessons of Japan's rural woodland villages

Satyoyama isn't a specific place; it's a generic term for Japan's rural woodland farming villages.


Anne McDonald has been studying these villages for decades and has been working to promote to the rest of the world the ecological lessons we can learn from them.





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Three cups of tea

The book Three Cups of Tea isn’t about tea, but it does relate to the philosophy of tea.


First a little back story.


After an unsuccessful attempt to climb K2—the world’s second highest mountain—Greg Mortenson became lost and eventually staggered, exhausted, into a remote village in northern Pakistan. The village’s children had no school or teacher. In exchange for nursing him back to health, Greg promised the village elder that he would return and build a school there.


Which he did—and then some: He and the organization that he helped found has built a total of 55 schools in the region.


The book’s title comes from a Balti proverb:

The first time you share tea with a Balti, you are a stranger. The second time you take tea, you are an honored guest. The third time you share a cup of tea, you become family. . .

In other words, tea is not just a means of achieving inner tranquility but also a way to bond with others.


In Japan, a cup of green tea offered to a guest is the foundation of hospitality. Perhaps it's the symbolism of sharing one's bounty with another.


But I also suspect that mellowness induced by green tea is infectious. Just as it helps us find harmony within, green tea, I believe, also creates harmony with others.


Greg Mortenson bonded over tea with people in a culture he previously new little about. Perhaps green tea can open a similar door for you.





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A river of natural moss running through your house

What you see in the photo below is real, live moss matched to an eco-friendly spun-fabric base, allowing it to be used as an organic carpet.



It's like having a park running through your living room.


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On Japan's rice farms, tiny shrimp fight weeds naturally

One of the all-natural techniques that Japan's rice farmers use to control weeds in their paddies is the tadpole shrimp.


This tiny crustacean controls weeds in three ways:

by uprooting small weed seedlings, by agitating the soil surface so that the water becomes muddy, thereby inhibiting photosynthesis of small weed seedlings, and—last but not least—by eating young buds and roots of plant seedlings.

Aw, what a cute little feller. And useful, too.


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Grassy Tokyo

Tokyo would be a much mellower town if the streets and sidewalks were covered in grass, wouldn't you agree?





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Green train tracks

Europe's grass-lined streetcar tracks sure are mellow on the eyes.


Japan's city of Kagoshima also has a similar streetcar track. The grass is not only aesthetically pleasing, but also absorbs heat during the summer and reduces streetcar noise year-round.





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Lightning, the awe and beauty

These photos inspire awe and sometimes even terror, but the one below—"Electric Sunset New Mexico"—remind us that lightning can be beautiful, too.





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Beautiful photos of "Earth from Above"

Even if you can't make it to New York next year to catch photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's exhibit "Earth from Above," you can see some of his breathtaking photographs online.



Koh Pannyi, Thailand.


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The art work of Mother Nature

Mother Nature is quite the artist, and here are 15 examples of her earth art.



The Pembroke Green Bridge of Wales, U.K.


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Benefits of tea: freshly brewed beats bottled

Salada Tea has announced a campaign that Mellow Monk can definitely get behind: to promote the health and environmental benefits of freshly brewed tea over bottled tea:

Freshly brewed green tea has up to 95 percent higher levels of the antioxidant EGCG than bottled tea (2006 U.S. Department of Agriculture database of flavonoid content in foods). Antioxidants in green tea are sensitive to heat, oxygen, sweeteners and other additives and can easily be destroyed during processing, transportation and storage of bottled tea. Studies have shown that antioxidants help with weight loss, cholesterol, cardiovascular diseases and stress.

And speaking of EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate), the many benefits of this antioxidant — which is found only in green tea — may include the ability to prevent Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.





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Incredible trees of the Socotra Islands

Located off the Horn of Africa, the Socotra Islands are home to some truly amazing flora and fauna, including stunning species of trees.



The Socotra desert rose, a.k.a. bottle tree (Adenium obesum).


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Easy-on-the-environment lawn alternatives

Oh, how I would love to get rid of my lawn. I don't mean dump weed killer on it, but rather tear it out and replace it with plants that need far less maintenance.


My wife claims this is just a conspiracy by which I aim to get out of weekend lawn-mowing duty, but that's not true! It's not for me; it's for the environment, see?


In fact, such "lawn alternatives" have sprouted (get it?) into a veritable cottage industry.


Flickr even has a new photo tag called "kill your lawn" for photos of lawn alternatives.



Another American is liberated from his lawnmower.


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10 things you don't have to worry about

We human beings tend to worry too much. That's just the way we are.


So it's nice to know that there are at least 10 things you don't have to worry about harming you or the planet. For instance:

3. Forbidden fruits from afar. Do you dare to eat a kiwi? Sure, because more “food miles” do not equal more greenhouse emissions. Food from other countries is often produced and shipped much more efficiently than domestic food, particularly if the local producers are hauling their wares around in small trucks. One study showed that apples shipped from New Zealand to Britain had a smaller carbon footprint than apples grown and sold in Britain.


4. Carcinogenic cellphones. Some prominent brain surgeons made news on Larry King’s show this year with their fears of cellphones, thereby establishing once and for all that epidemiology is not brain surgery — it’s more complicated.

Trust me, this illustration will make a lot more sense after you read the article.


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Water-boiling goes high-tech

Speaking of boiling water, researchers in New York have developed a high-tech coating that could produce kettles and pots that would boil water super-fast and ultra-efficiently:

A new study from researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute shows that by adding an invisible layer of the nanomaterials to the bottom of a metal vessel, an order of magnitude increase in efficiency is achieved in bringing water to boil. This increase in efficiency could have a big impact on cooling computer chips, improving heat transfer systems, and reducing costs for industrial boiling applications.

"Air trapped in the forest of nanorods helps to dramatically boost the creation of bubbles and the efficiency of boiling ...."


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The Japanese town that wastes not ... at all

The small Japanese town of Kamikatsu has become what could be the world's first zero-waste town. Naturally, this involves a lot of effort on everyone's part:

There are no waste collections from households at all. People have to take full responsibility for everything they throw away. Kitchen waste has to be composted. Non-food waste is processed either in local shops which accept goods for recycling or in Kamikatsu's Zero Waste Centre. There, people have to sort their unwanted items into 34 different boxes for recycling.

Incidentally, Kamikatsu is officially one of Japan's most beautiful villages [in Japanese only, but click on the thumbnails to see wonderful slide shows of Kamikatsu].






Scenes from (officially) beautiful Kamikatsu.


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Floor-by-floor demolition and the 400-MPH hand dryer

First, check out this time-lapse video of Kajima Construction demolishing an office building floor by floor from the bottom up, instead of imploding it with explosives, which I suspect is simply not feasible in the über-tight confines of the typical Japanese city.





Read more about the technique here.


Next, after hearing rumors about the air-powered hand dryer that actually works, I finally got to try out Dyson's 400-mile-per-hour Airblade　when I was at the airport the other day, and I was indeed impressed. It actually dried my hands thoroughly in only a few seconds. No more exiting the restroom while wiping your hands on your pant legs!



Mr. Dyson, I finally forgive you for that noisy, overpriced vacuum cleaner that you sold to my wife.


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Living in a garbage truck

Outside it may look like a garbage truck, but on the inside it's one tricked-out ride.



If you woke up inside this, you'd never think that on the outside it looked like this.


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From Hawaii to Japan, without a sail or a motor

Kenichi Horie first achieved fame in Japan by becoming the first Japanese to cross the Pacific alone.

Now he's become the first ever to cross the Pacific in a wave-powered boat. (There's some technical detail here.)

He set sail from Hawaii on May 17 and completed the 4,000-mile voyage to Japan's Kii Peninsula in 110 days.

Here's a video released when he first left Hawaii:

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New jugs (for milk and iced tea) and a new source of filtered water (for home, office, and the Earth)

Change is sometimes inevitable and inescapable, so the only thing to do about the new eco-friendly milk jugs is to embrace them enthusiastically. The secret to pouring without spilling is to tilt it downward without lifting it up off the table, as shown in the picture below.

And don't forget to save a couple of those jugs to make Mizudashi Iced Green Tea.

Speaking of water, this article about sea water desalination has an illustrated, easy-to-understand explanation of how reverse osmosis filtration works. The same technology that's being considered as a solution to global shortages of drinking water is already popular as an on-site water-filtration alternative to trucking and lugging around those huge bottles of water for home and office water-coolers.

Resting the edge on the table as you pour is the secret to preventing spilling.

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Green enclave in a Japanese metropolis

In the midst of bustling Osaka is an "amazing rising garden complex," Namba Parks.

Here is a wonderful night view of the complex.

It's amazing how greenery can soothe and relax us, even in a busy urban environment.

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Highest waterfalls

Environmental Graffiti lists the 10 highest waterfalls on Earth.



Although not on the list of the world's highest waterfalls, the falls at Plitvicka Jezera National Park certainly are breathtaking.


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A rice revolution

A professor at Cornell University has developed a farming system that boosts the harvests of rice fields. Amazingly, he does this without relying on agrichemicals or genetic engineering.


Instead, professor Normal Uphoff's System of Rice Intensification is a perfect example of finding a counterintuitive, outside-the-box solution to a problem:

Harvests typically double, he says, if farmers plant early, give seedlings more room to grow and stop flooding fields. That cuts water and seed costs while promoting root and leaf growth.

Professor Uphoff, your timing couldn't be better.



Norman T. Uphoff of Cornell University.


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Chemical-free bug repellents that work!

With the summer heat—and summer insect life—already here, it's helpful to remember that mosquitoes don't like lavender or red peppers.



Oh, Mr. Mosquito, say hello to Mr. Tabasco Sauce.


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Less-junky junk food

Let's face it—it's not always possible to eat healthy. When pressed for time or on the go (or when the craving hits), junk food is hard to resist.


But even then, there are eco-friendly, less-junky junk food alternatives.





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The dirty secret about the Shizuoka label

In Japan, Shizuoka Prefecture is considered to be the source of some of the country's best green tea. Shizuoka is to tea what the Napa Valley is to wine in the United States.

However, because of labeling laws that are much less stringent than in America, tea that is labeled "Shizuoka tea" might not even be processed in Shizuoka, let alone grown there. As long as the company has a presence in Shizuoka, the tea can be called "Shizuoka tea." (Actually, wineries follow a similar practice, labeling any wine "Napa wine" as long as it is "cellared" in Napa, even if the grapes were grown, crushed into juice, and bottled elsewhere.)

Another reason that Shizuoka tea isn't all it's cracked up to be (this isn't just sour grapes, or sour tea) is that years ago, when Shizuoka tea started becoming trendy, the big food companies started setting up operations there. These behemoths don't exactly practice traditional agriculture: pesticides and other agrochemicals are liberally used in order to maximum yields for maximum profit. So, even tea that is actually grown in Shizuoka may be the product of a huge corporate farm.

In short, it's not where the tea is grown that matters, but how it's grown.

The majestic Mt. Aso, near where Mellow Monk tea is grown.

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The critters in your compost

Garden Rant posts about the wide variety of living things found in one cup of compost.



It's a veritable who's-who of critterdom.


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10 eco-friendly uses for vodka

Save money and reduce your environmental footprint — use vodka, not expensive, toxic chemicals, to cure poison ivy rashes, freshen your clothes, and remove mildew, for instance.



"It's not just for drinking."


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A bicycle built for three

With gas prices the way they are, more parents in Japan are biking their small kids to school. In Japan's very compact cities, most folks tend to live quite close to their kids' preschool or kindergarten.


So the Kawamura Cycle Company came up with a "bicycle built for three" that's a lot safer than the conventional approach of tacking on an aftermarket child seat. As you can see in the photo below, another of the bike's selling points is the rear-wheel configuration, designed for stability even when riding over the bumps and other obstacles that are so common on city streets.



My kids are too old to sit in back, but those child seats look to be just the right size for a small sake cask.


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Japan's latest eco-trend: walking around with your own thermos

An up-and-coming "green" trend in Japan is the movement away from disposable beverage bottles and toward a refillable, washable bottles instead.


In other words, rather than walking around with those ubiquitous plastic water bottles, more and more people can be seen carrying their own personal mini-thermos—insulated bottles are especially popular as they can hold hot beverages (such as tea) in the winter or ice-cold beverages (such as iced tea) in the summer.


The photo below shows a cutified "insulated aluminum water bottle" made by Sweden's Laken.


[Source: Yahoo Japan News]



Laken must have made this cute model especially for the Japanese market.


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Allergies caused by lack of intestinal parasites?

Joel Weinstock, chief of gastroenterology and hepatology at Tufts-New England Medical Center, has earned a spot on Esquire magazine's "Best and Brightest" list for his groundbreaking theory on the cause of asthma, hay fever, and other immunological diseases.

"I get about 5,000 e-mails a year from patients all over the world asking what to do," he said. "People know that something isn't right. They keep their kids in the cleanest environments and they get asthma. We get all of these [diseases] that were rare becoming common.

One culprit, according to Dr. Weinstock, is—now get ready for this—the absence these days of intestinal worms. Not having worms or other "enemies" to battle, the body's immune system eventually focuses on attacking otherwise harmless irritants, leading to asthma and other immunological overreactions.


This theory is part of a larger school of thought known as the "hygiene hypothesis," which posits that allergies, asthma, and many other modern afflictions are caused by living in an environment that's too clean.



Dr. Joel Weinstock.


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EcoGreenOffice launches its blog

The folks at EcoGreenOffice have launched their very own
blog. Please give it a look when you get a chance.





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EcoGreenOffice makes the news!

Byran Beckett, co-owner of EcoGreenOffice, was recently featured on TV on Colorado's KUSA Channel 9 News.


(After the linked-to video appears, you have to click the play button to begin the clip.)


Congratulations, Bryan!



An aerial view of Boulder, Colorado, home of EcoGreenOffice.


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In a hotter Japan, finding ways to save the rice crop

Scientist in Japan are working to prevent rising temperatures from affecting the country's rice crop.



A rice field in Aso, with a fog-enshrouded Mt. Aso in the background. (Photo taken by yours truly. See more of my recent Aso photos here.)


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Why small-farm green tea tastes better

A reader recently asked this question: Do eco-friendly farming practices [such as those of our growers] have an impact on the taste of the harvested tea?


Here is my response:

Most definitely! For instance, letting the tea plants grow naturally (instead of speeding growth with fertilizer and whatnot) lets all of the natural flavor-enhancing compounds develop to their fullest. Our growers water their tea groves with only rainwater from the sky, which avoids "diluting" the tea leaves in the same way we've all experienced firsthand in hydroponically grown grapes. Also, at harvest time, our growers harvest only what they can process right away. This stops oxidation and fermentation, locking in the flavor (and all the healthy antioxidants). On huge corporate farms, harvested tea sits around fermenting in huge piles before being processed.

For the same reasons I mentioned above, small-farm green tea is also healthier for you: since it's processed immediately after harvest, tea like ours has more EGCG and other antioxidants. The fermentation that occurs in large piles of harvested tea not only destroys the natural flavor-enhancing compounds, but also breaks down antioxidants, too.


This just shows, Grasshopper, that sometimes, such as when making tea from harvested leaves, an overly mellow approach is not necessarily the best approach.



Processed right after harvest, locking in the flavor and all the healthy antioxidants.


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The nightmare shower in Japan

The most common type of water heater in Japanese homes is the on-demand water heater, also known as the tankless or instantaneous water heater.


This usually wall-mounted device doesn't heat the water until you open the faucet, after which the water is rapidly heated and dispensed.


These water heaters are cheaper to run and use less energy than storage water heaters. I've seen a lot of these water heaters in action in Japan, and most models, especially the newer ones, are simply great—well designed, well built, and as reliable as can be.


But some models, especially older ones, can be tricky. And every once in a while, you'll run into a water heater that can turn an ordinary shower into a shower from Hades.



A close-up of the Monster.


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100% biodegradable retail bags

This just in from EcoGreenOffice.com:

I just want to bring your attention to something very cool that we just launched. As of now, we are the only ones offering "stock" 100% degradable retail bags. Unlike starch bags that don’t completely disappear, ours completely degrade. Most importantly, they are reusable, recyclable and work equal or better to that of other retail bags.

They're good for Mr. Duck, too.


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Robot goat eats losing tickets

To stop gamblers from dropping their losing tickets on the floor, the Edogawa Boat Races in Tokyo have installed a ticket-eating robot goat [original Japanese article at Asahi.com].


According to the article, the animatronic Rocky Mountain goat eats 500 tickets a day on average and is popular with kids (!), who can be heard nagging their parents for losing tickets to feed into the machine.


That may encourage kids to hope their parents lose (which is probably what they deserve for bringing kids to a gambling joint), but seeing the little rug rats happily feed a losing ticket to Mr. Goat will no doubt bring a smile to many a parent's face, which is keeping with the goat's overall goal of taking away the sting of losing one's hard-earned money.


The obviously shrewd owners of the boat-racing facility are also promoting the robot goat with catch phrases such as "Have your frustration eaten up so you can be lucky in the next race."


You can compare my summary to a Google translation of the article.



"Wow, I can feel my luck improving already!"


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Mellow Monk joins Eco Green Office

Mellow Monk has recently been approved as a partner at Eco Green Office, a supplier of eco-friendly office supplies and other products. You can check out our partner profile here.


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Green tea gets "greener"

Green tea is getting even "greener" as more and more tea companies are emphasizing sustainability. Even Unilever, the world's largest tea company, is getting in on the act.

Mellow Monk is all for sustainable tea-growing practices, and our growers in Aso, Japan, are all certified under Japan's Eco Farmer Program.


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