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Letter from Kim States, CEO

30 Lock Down Your Login

10 I Know a Guy

31 Have a Holly Jolly Christmas

12 BBB Code of Business Practices

34 Holiday Giving

18 Floor-Finder Guide

35 Ugly Fruit

24 Breathe Easy

37 New Accredited Business

28 Torch Awards 2016

40 Advertiser Index

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BBB Warns Players to Enjoy Pokemon GO…

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In just a few days, Pokemon GO became the most downloaded phone app in the U.S. earlier this year. The app, which uses mapping software to create a virtual reality game, is getting children and adults out and about in their neighborhoods to “catch” the game characters as they pop up on phone screens from various locations. Although the game can be a blast, BBB is warning players and parents to be aware of some nuances that go with GO. Expenses: It’s possible to play completely cost-free by winning “PokeCoins” (the app’s currency) through gameplay, but you can also purchase the coins through an inapp purchase. Privacy: In order to play the game, users must allow the app to access other applications, such as maps and camera. Many users sign in with a Google account, and that has caused some concerns about privacy. Malware: So far, the app is only available in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand, which has given cybercriminals an opportunity to capitalize on the demand. A malware version of the game has been found online; although no known infections have been reported. Users should only download the app through official app stores, not third-party sites. Safety: Players should use the same safety precautions while playing the game that they would in any other outdoor setting, including caution in strange locations. Infringement: PokeStops are supposed to all be on public property (or cooperative private sites), but at least one homeowner has reported that his historic house is mistakenly a PokeStop. Players should be respectful of others’ private property. ❋

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The classic look of hardwood complements all furniture types, but the price could give you sticker shock. However, hardwood lasts for generations.

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puzzle pieces and doesn’t require glue install it, provided he or sheDIYer is comfortor nails. An enterprising could able using a saw. A of is thumb is install it, provided herule or she comfortto allow one weekend per 300 square able using a saw. A rule of thumb is feet for installation, especially if you’re to allow one weekend per 300 square working solo. feet for installation, especially if you’re But the money you save installworking solo. ing your own floor “often comes at the But the money you save installexpense of headaches down the road,” ing your own floor comes at the Humphrey says. “If “often you hire a profesexpense of headaches down the road,” sional installer, it will be done quicker, Humphrey says. “If you hire a profeslikely better, and is often warranted sional installer, it willup beto done for a period of time the quicker, life of likely better, and is often warranted the product.” a period don’t of time uplike to wood, the life forLaminates dent andof they resist moisture and stains, so they the product.” work well in places kitchens, where Laminates don’tlike dent like wood, and hardwoods might buckle warp.so they they resist moisture and or stains, work As well strides in laminate technology in places like kitchens, where increase, themight cons are becoming fewer. hardwoods buckle or warp. However, laminate doesn’t technology feel quite As strides in laminate the same as real-deal wood, and it’s a litincrease, the cons are becoming fewer. tle harder and more slippery than other However, laminate doesn’t feel quite flooring. Also, laminate won’t give your the same as real-deal wood, and it’s a lithome the resale value that hardwood tle harder and more slippery other will. The biggest downside is than laminate flooring. Also, laminate won’t give your can’t be sanded and refinished. If it does home the resale value that hardwood get scratched, it has to be replaced. will. The biggest downside is laminate can’t be sanded and refinished. If it does Wooed by Engineered Wood get scratched, it has to be replaced. For those who object to laminate because it isn’t real wood, another alterWooed by Engineered Wood native is engineered wood flooring. This type object has the to appearance For flooring those who laminate of wood and costs real roughly the same— because it isn’t wood, another $3-19 per square dependingwood on alternative is foot, engineered layer thickness and quality. flooring. This flooring type has the Engineered flooring is a half-inch of appearance of wood and costs roughly

the same—$3-19 per square foot, dependplywood with real wood on to ing on layer thickness andglued quality. it. There’s been aflooring huge increase in the “Engineered is a half-inch number of selections the number of plywood with real and wood glued on to of engineered-wood manufacturers it. There’s been a huge increase in the recently, accordingly to industry experts. number of selections and the number Because it’s a newer technology, of engineered-wood manufacturers engineered flooring has yet to reach the recently,” says Jeff Hindman, owner of popularity of laminate and hardwood, Cottonwood Builders in Boulder. but HindmanCustom says it’s becoming more Because it’s a newer technology, common in Boulder County, and for engineered good reason. flooring has yet to reach the popularity of laminate hardwood, Engineered flooring isand much better but Hindman says it’s becoming more over radiant-heat systems, and it doesn’t common in Boulder County, and for have the expansion issue that hardwood does. Also, it’s pretty ‘green,’ because good reason. instead of having a three-quarter-inch “Engineered flooring is much better piece of solid woodsystems, from trees that have over radiant-heat and it doesn’t to be processed, engineered flooring uses have the expansion issue that hardwood adoes. third Also, of thatit’s wood. pretty ‘green,’ because Many ofengineered hardwoods are instead having a three-quarter-inch made in the U.S., which reduces their piece of solid wood from trees that have carbon footprint, compared to sustainto be processed, engineered flooring uses able but far-flung materials like bamboo, a third of that wood.” he adds. Many engineered hardwoods are However, the real-wood top layer made the U.S., reduces their can stillindent, and which wears more easily carbon footprint, compared to sustainthan laminate. And it may warp with able but far-flung materials likein bamboo, moisture. Also, the glue used engihe adds. neered wood flooring’s construction the real-wood top into layer canHowever, release harmful chemicals the during directly canair, stillespecially dent, and wearsand more easily after installation. than laminate. And it may warp with moisture. Also, the glue used in engiTimeless Tileflooring’s construction neered wood While printingharmful technology has greatly can release chemicals into improved laminate during tiles, real still the air, especially andtile directly holds its own in both price ($1-21 per after installation.

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While printing has of greatly marble, offeringtechnology a wide range colors, improved laminate tiles, real tile still textures and finishes. holds its own in both price ($1-21 per Experts also say the great thing Engineered stone (left) and luxury vinyl tile (pictured here) square foot) and flexibility, as tiles can about tile is there are so many new are durable and ideal for water-susceptible areas, like kitchens, entries and baths. be ceramic, quarry that or looks, like porcelain, the new stone, porcelains echnology has greatly marble, offering a wide range of colors, look like real stone. There are endEngineered stone (left) and luxury vinyl tile (pictured here) are durable and ideal for water-susceptible areas, likekitchen. kitchens, entries baths. ate tiles,textures real tilefinishes. still and a grandmother’s Per andcompounds, or the material’s short, less varieties, and they’re reasonably many “The great thing about tile is there square foot, vinyl runs about 80 cents roughly 10-year life span. priced. That never to be the case. both price ($1-21 per usedEngineered stone (left) and luxury vinyl tile (pictured here) are so many new looks, like the new to $6, depending on type and quality. “We rarely see carpet these days,” Tile will likely always be a popular are durable and ideal for water-susceptible areas, flexibility, as tiles can porcelains that look like real stone. These days, self-adhesive vinyl tiles Hindman says. “Thirty of thedays,” choice, especially in water-prone areas tiles stick straight to the subfloor. Like “We rarely see percent carpet these like kitchens, entries and baths. elain, stone, quarry or There are endless varieties, and they’re make installation fast and easy, as the homes we work on have no carpet atof the like mudrooms, kitchens and bathlaminate, vinyl has benefited greatly one builder says. “Thirty percent reasonably priced. That never used to tiles stick straight to the subfloor. Like all. That’s a good trend, I think. Carpet rooms. of Because it lasts for decades when from advances in printing technology, homes we work on have no carpet at a wide range colors, be the case,” Hindman says. laminate, vinyl has benefited greatly wears and has to go to theI landfill. properly treated, tile increases a home’s though some would say it has room to all.out That’s a good trend, think. Carpet hes. many a grandmother’s kitchen. Per compounds, or the material’s short, Tile will likely always be a popular from advances in printing technology, Hard surfaces are greener, they resale value. If you have radiant-floor improve when viewed up close. wears out and has tobecause go to the landfill. ng about tileespecially istilethere square foot, about cents roughly life choice, water-prone areas ifvinyl though some would say it has room to islast10-year longer and canspan. be reused, sobecause they’re they heating, will in work wonderfully; runs Durable and 80 waterproof, vinyl Hard surfaces are greener, w looks,like like the new to $6, depending on type and quality. “We rarely see carpet these mudrooms, kitchens and bathimprove when viewed up close. much less wasteful.” With less-ecoyou don’t, winter mornings will proboften the best choice for cracked or setlast longer and can be reused, days,” so they’re rooms. 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There’s nothing quite like a nice breeze through an open window to freshen up a stuffy room. But unless you’re ready for an arctic blast, you’ll have to come up with another option for clearing the air during blustery winter months. Though it’s often overlooked, cleaning the indoor air is immensely important; the Environmental Protection Agency ranks indoor pollution in the top five environmental risks to public health. In fact, EPA studies found that, on average, indoor pollutant levels may be two to five times higher than outdoor pollutant levels. Pollutants can be toxins, allergens or carcinogens, and often come from household chemical products like solvents and cleansers, as well as carpeting, vinyl flooring, wood finishes, mattresses, secondhand smoke, mold, dust, 24

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pests and poorly vented furnaces. Formaldehyde is the most common household pollutant, stemming from its wide commercial use in adhesives. Particle-wood products, new carpeting and new wood furniture can bring formaldehyde and other VOCs (volatile organic compounds) into a home. Fortunately, a variety of widely available houseplants act as filters against these common toxins through a process called phytoremediation. NASA’s Clean Air Study, which was performed in 1989 to find new ways to clean the air in space stations, compiled the first list of effective plants. Although all plants turn carbon dioxide into oxygen, which will help freshen up any room, the plants listed here actually help diffuse chemicals that are harmful to humans. According to their findings, researchers recommend having one plant for every 100 square feet of living space. (continued on page 26)

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Snake Your Way Even easier to grow is the snake plant (Sansevieria), which removes five of the six chemicals studied: benzene, formaldehyde, trichloroethylene, xylene and toluene. Also called motherin-law’s tongue, this succulent is extremely hardy. Place it in a sunny window and water sparingly, every few weeks. Short on sun? Give snake plant a try anyway—it’s known to thrive even in less-than-ideal conditions. “The dark-green one works just as well as the variegated one when it comes to cleansing the air,” Bozella notes. “They’re great because you don’t have to baby them.”

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Add heightened interest to your home with red-edged dracaena (Dracaena marginata). Dracaena grows slowly, but can eventually reach up to 15 feet if conditions allow. Put dracaena in a taller room with bright filtered light, and water it when the soil is dry. These succulent shrubs tolerate shade and dry air, and they’re equal to snake plant at removing benzene, formaldehyde, trichloroethylene, xylene and toluene. But they’re not for everyone: “They can get a wild growth pattern. They kind of remind me of Dr. Seuss,” Bozella says. “If you want something uniform, you don’t want this one.”

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The cheerful exterior of potted chrysanthemums belies their cleaning power. These flowers remove benzene, formaldehyde, ammonia, trichloroethylene, xylene and toluene, and have the added bonus of making great gifts during the holidays. However, potted mums are a floral variety that’s different than the mums widely available for planting outdoors. Potted mums generally won’t last as indoor plants beyond a few weeks. Plenty of light and water will increase their longevity.

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Ficus (Ficus benjamina) is an elegant, easy-to-grow plant that filters formaldehyde, xylene and toluene from the air. Also known as the weeping fig, this staple of office parks and low-light homes tolerates limited sun and iffy watering, as long as temperatures remain roughly the same. To keep the plant healthy, place your ficus away from the door in as much light as your house allows, and trim off dead leaves. “All ficus plants are good at cleaning the air, especially the rubber plant,” Bozella says, referring to Ficus robusta. “Rubberleaf ficus are especially good, because they put a lot of oxygen back into the air.” The rubber plant thrives in dim rooms and removes formaldehyde at a higher rate than any other plant studied. “They vary in size and can get nice and big. If you keep them pruned, they stay nicely shaped.” The downside? The leaves are toxic if ingested, and can be especially dangerous to house cats and puppies. If you have pets, be sure to place this plant out of reach.

Wandering Wonder

Building on NASA’s findings, a 2009 University of Georgia study identified several additional ornamentals that remove contaminants. One of the prettier ornamentals is purple-heart plant (Tradescantia pallida, also called wandering Jew), which adds splashes of bright purple color. “Purple-heart plant is good indoors and does great outdoors as an annual,” Bozella says. “They propagate really easily; if you stick cuttings in water, they’ll root.” Purple-heart plant does well in hanging containers or pots, and produces small lavender blooms in spring. Give this plant bright filtered light, and water when dry. ❋

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his holiday season, it’s not just credible businesses and charities hoping you’ll open your wallets; scammers are out to get their hands on your ho-ho-ho dough too. Two prevalent scams we’ll discuss in detail here are gift card and charity scams. First, let’s talk gift card scams. How do they work? Scammers copy the codes off the back of gift cards before they are purchased. The scammer then waits for the card to be activated and begins to drain the funds. If the card has a scratch-off code on the back, the scammers scratch this off and replace it with a sticker that looks very similar to the original scratch-off. In many stores, gift cards are available in an accessible place to consumers; this means they are accessible to scammers as well. Some scammers are able to take pictures of the needed information in the store. Other scammers have been known to take a stack of gift cards home to ensure they have time to copy down all of the needed info or strip it out using a magnetic reader. After they copy down all of the information they need, the scammer then returns to the store with the gift cards and places them in the front to ensure they will soon be purchased. You may wonder how the scammer knows when the gift cards have been activated. Most retailers offer an online feature to check the balance of the cards. Scammers will check these websites repeatedly and once there is activity on the gift card they will go drain it. Consumers can protect themselves in the following ways: • If it is possible, always make sure you purchase the gift card from behind the counter. If you are able to do this, you will know the scammers have not yet gotten their hands on the needed information to drain your gift card. • If you get the card from the shelf, make sure you check for signs of tampering. • Always save your receipt when you purchase a gift card. If the funds are drained, you may be able to recover your losses with the merchant who sold the card or from the store at which the gift card is redeemable.

Another scam to be on the look-out for this holiday season is the charity scam. Scammers take full advantage of consumers’ generosity during the holidays. Scammers may get in contact with you via email, phone, face-to-face, mail, and so on, in or-

der to try to collect funds from you for their “charity”. There are some red flags you can keep a look-out for in order to avoid falling victim to a charity scam. • Scammers won’t be able to provide proof that contributions will be a tax deduction. • Scammers will refuse to give you any details about the charity. • Scammers often use a name that is very similar to a reputable charity. • Scammers will ask for donations in cash or a wire transfer. • Scammers use high-pressure tactics in order to obtain your funds as fast as possible. Here are some simple ways you can prevent yourself from falling victim to these tactics: • Always check with the BBB’s Wise Giving Alliance before making a donation by visiting www.give.org • Ask for detailed information about the charity such as: telephone number, address, mission, and principal’s names. • Do a google search of the charity’s name; if Google provides information alleging a possible scam, this should be a red flag. • Never send cash to a charity. • Never send a wire transfer to someone you do not know. ❋

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H liday Giving The holiday giving season is in full swing and BBB wants donors to be informed when they make donations of time and money. “The holiday season is a time when most donors are their most generous. It is imperative that donors give to charities that are efficient and provide measurable outcomes,” said Carrie Rossman, director of the BBB Institute for Marketplace Trust. “Donors now have many different ways to help the charities of their choice and we want them to understand what questions they need to ask and what to look out for.”

BBB offers the following tips: Sound-a-Like Scams. Donate to the right charity, not one that just sounds like a reputable charity. High-pressure pitches. A reputable charity will answer questions and inform you about their operations. Don’t feel pressured to donate on the spot. Donate goods. If you donate goods, make sure they are in good condition. Giving unusable items in poor condition creates an undue burden on the charity you are trying to help. Text donations. After you text message a certain number, the donation is added to your cell phone bill. While this is fast and easy, the donation can take months to reach the charity. Don’t give cash. Always give in the form of a check or money order made out to the charity, never an individual (unless, of course, it’s a Salvation Army bell ringer). Cause marketing. Many products claim a portion of proceeds go to a certain cause. Make sure there is a disclosure of the actual or anticipated amount of purchase that will go to charity. Check with state charity officials. In many states, charities are required to register, usually with the office of the attorney general, before soliciting. Go to www.nasconet.org/documents/u-s-charity-offices/ for the relevant office in your state. Embedded giving. Many grocery stores give you the option to donate to a charity by adding that amount to your receipt. Make sure you know exactly which charity will benefit from your donation. Online donations. Make sure you give through a secure website with “https” in the browser. You should also review the charity’s privacy policy to see how your personal information can be used.

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Imagine you spend enormous quantities of time and resources making something. You do it well—so well that everyone you know eagerly waits for the things you make. You ship your things around the world. Far-flung friends and strangers want your product. Would it surprise you, then, if 40 percent of what you made ended up in the trash? Welcome to the modern agricultural system. “We put an enormous amount of resources into food, which is why minimizing food waste is so important,” says Hana Dansky of Boulder Food Rescue (BFR), a nonprofit devoted to placing perishables in hungry bellies. “Fifty percent of our land use and 80 percent of our freshwater resources go to agriculture. Then we throw 40 percent of it out, sometimes before it even reaches anyone’s home.” BFR is currently working with the city of Boulder to audit food waste in the city, but Dansky sees food waste as a national, systemic problem more than a local one. She says, “A lot of it comes

from the perception of abundance that we have in our country. It’s a perception of perfection. We’ll always have stacks and stacks of apples in every grocery store, no matter what season it is. Each apple not only has to have the perfect shape, but also be perfect: no bruises, no brown spots. Then the produce is expected to last for the longest amount of time once it’s bought.” In the agricultural chain, the biggest wasters are actually farms, which recognize that imperfect produce won’t sell to grocery stores. Farmers compensate for their losses by overproducing food and leaving the unsellable, ugly fruits and vegetables on the ground. Then there are the shipping losses. A truckload of perfect avocados may leave the farm, but by the time it travels across

the country, many of the fruits end up nicked, bruised or overripe. Those will be culled from the group; then buyers will carefully scrutinize the ones that make it to the store shelf. “At grocery stores, they have to overstock. They cull the produce three times per day and throw out good food that isn’t pretty enough,” Dansky explains. “Stores always keep things overstocked, because people are more likely to buy something if there’s more of it on the shelf, rather than if there’s only one or two items left.”

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figures that show one out of six adults and one out of five children in America are food insecure. “We're talking families with young kids who have more mouths than they can feed and are living in a cycle of poverty," says Dansky. The flip side is the senior population, which is complicated by mobility issues and a lack of income.”

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Moldy berries taste awful, so pick them over carefully. Trim salvageable berries, discard any leaves, and use them fresh or frozen in smoothies and other foods where perfection doesn’t matter. Citrus fruits that look bad outside can stay juicy inside for weeks; squeeze them and freeze the juice for marinades and other uses.

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beautiful on the inside as their ingredients were ugly on the outside. The result? Sold-out stores, a rush of media attention, and according to the retailer, an average of 1.2 tons of ugly produce sold per store in the first two days. Some U.S. grocers have followed suit, including the new nonprofit discount retailer The Daily Table in Dorchester, Mass., founded by Doug Rauch. The former president of Trader Joe’s, Rauch cited the food waste he saw at that chain and the country’s incredible amount of food insecurity—meaning you’re not sure when or where your next meal will come—as motivators for creating the store. BFR’s Dansky cites

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of food per year (the U.S. government estimates the cost per household per year to be around $900). And sell-by dates encourage people to toss what’s often still perfectly good—especially when it comes to eggs, dairy products and meats. If the waste of resources and money isn’t enough, there’s also pollution. As food decomposes in landfills (35 million tons in 2012, according to the Environmental Protection Agency), it creates methane, a greenhouse gas. And that adds up to trouble. So what can we do to ameliorate a system that leaves people hungry, food uneaten, resources wasted, money lost, and global climate change accelerating? Enter “Inglorious Foods.” In 2014, the European Year Against Food Waste was in full swing. Intermarché, France’s third-largest grocery chain, launched a campaign called “les fruits et légumes moches,” or in English, inglorious fruits and vegetables. The grocery bought lumpy lemons, bruised apples, deformed carrots and gnarly potatoes, and sold them in stores for 30 percent of the price of their picture-perfect counterparts. In addition to the produce, stores sold fruit juices and vegetable soups made from inglorious produce to show consumers that these products tasted as

Unless you’re the owner of a national grocery store, it’s hard to know how individuals can reduce food waste in meaningful ways. “The first step is awareness,” Dansky says. “Awareness had to grow in Europe before the grocery stores responded.” That can mean posting on social media or asking grocery stores that don’t work with food redistributors about their food waste. Individuals can donate extra food, including excess garden produce, to food pantries. Dansky also recommends visiting www.lovefoodhatewaste.com for storage tips, last-minute recipes and planning ideas to reduce personal food waste. Finally, volunteering with food pantries and redistribution organizations like BFR, EFAA and CFS is a hands-on way to tackle food waste. Assisting them financially is also a huge boon to getting nutrients into hungry mouths. So perhaps it’s time to get over our perception of perfection and start welcoming ugly food to the table. Our wallets, climate and communities will be fuller and better for it. ❋

Collect “inglorious” apples for a batch of delicious, ridiculously easy homemade applesauce. Dried-out as it looks, the apple on the left might still work fine for that purpose, while the spotted one only needs a little trimming. If you like pink applesauce, use as much of the red peel as possible.

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Fire & Ice Heating and Air (303) 903-5756 Heating & Air Conditioning

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Franktown Firearms, LLC (720) 443-0506 Gun Dealers

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Hettick Contractors LLC (303) 638-5452 Project Management

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Homegrown Moving Company, LLC (303) 587-6200 Movers

Homegrown Sporting Goods (800) 215-0964 Sporting Goods - Retail

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Im Home LLC (720) 877-6975 Construction & Remodeling Services

InsightQuote, Inc. (720) 675-8225 Sales Lead Generation

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J & M Commercial Services LLC (303) 296-9200 Asphalt J & R Sprinklers South, Inc (303) 688-5909 Lawn & Garden Sprinkler Systems J T Roofing (720) 226-1062 Roofing Contractors

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Jim's Floor Service (720) 373-1320 Hardwood Floor Contractors John Elway Cadillac (303) 667-0077 Auto Dealers - New Cars

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