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Review Of The Adventures Of The Woman Homesteader: The Life And Letters Of Elinore Pruitt Stewart, Sue Hart Jan 1994

Review Of The Adventures Of The Woman Homesteader: The Life And Letters Of Elinore Pruitt Stewart, Sue Hart

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

"My dear, My dear," Elinore Stewart wrote to longtime correspondent Maria Wood on 27 April 1925, "the longer I live the greedier I am for life. I dread inactivity." How fortunate for readers who enjoyed the recounting of her varied activities in the collections of letters describing her life on a Wyoming homestead, Letters of a Woman Homesteader and Letters on an Elk Hunt, and for those who will come to know her-or know her better-through George's absorbing book!

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Review Of The Ghost-Dance Religion And The Sioux Outbreak Of 1890, Benjamin R. Kracht Jan 1994

Review Of The Ghost-Dance Religion And The Sioux Outbreak Of 1890, Benjamin R. Kracht

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

At last an affordable version of Mooney's classic monograph is available that maintains the integrity of the 1896 Bureau of American Ethnology publication to the last detail, including the information-laden appendixes, illustrations, and the original pagination (pp. 653-1136). Additional features include an updated map depicting the sphere of Ghost Dance influence, five colorized plates, and an introduction by Raymond J. DeMallie delineating Mooney's contributions to ethnographic research in North America.

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Review Of Tejano Origins In Eighteenth-Century San Antonio, Paul D. Lack Jan 1994

Review Of Tejano Origins In Eighteenth-Century San Antonio, Paul D. Lack

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The decade of the 1990s has already produced pivotal new studies on the northern frontier of New Spain by David Weber and on Spanish Texas by Donald Chipman. Though more narrowly focused in scope, this volume likewise makes a significant contribution in terms of new knowledge and re-assessment.

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Review Of The Anglican Church And The World Of Western Canada, 1820-1970, John C. Scott Jan 1994

Review Of The Anglican Church And The World Of Western Canada, 1820-1970, John C. Scott

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Decrying "the mutual insularity of religious and secular historical work" in Canada and elsewhere editor Barry Ferguson describes the essays in this volume as attempts at building a "bridge" between the two. Seventeen short, single- author chapters attempt to assess "some of the actual roles and designs" of the Anglican Church and its diverse institutions and personnel in the Canadian prairie and northern West in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Ferguson's introductory essay demonstrates why "church history has hardly been absorbed into the mainstream of Canadian historiography" and also provides an overview of the other essays. L. G. Thomas describes …

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Review Of Myles Keogh: The Life And Legend Of An "Irish Dragoon" In The Seventh Cavalry, Michael L. Tate Jan 1994

Review Of Myles Keogh: The Life And Legend Of An "Irish Dragoon" In The Seventh Cavalry, Michael L. Tate

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

During the summer of 1990, the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum hosted a symposium of Custer scholars and buffs. Rather than devoting their exclusive attention to the subtleties of the legendary 1876 "Last Stand," these researchers examined the life of the second most recognized soldier to emerge from the fight at Little Big Horn-Captain Myles Keogh. The product of their labors has now been published as eighteen loosely integrated essays in this oversized and expensive book that comprises volume 9 in Upton's "Montana and the West Series." Because of its dimensions, its inclusion of more than sixty photographs, and its …

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Review Of The Vanishing American: White Attitudes And U.S. Indian Policy, Robin Ridington, Jillian Ridington Jan 1994

Review Of The Vanishing American: White Attitudes And U.S. Indian Policy, Robin Ridington, Jillian Ridington

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Last spring, as we cleared several generations worth of household goods and memorabilia from the Ridington family home in Westminster, Maryland, we came upon a framed print of "Appeal to the Great Spirit." In it, an Indian "brave" sits astride his horse, his head flung back, his arms beseechingly out at his sides, his palms up. The body language tells of grief and supplication, and of one last desperate hope. The colors are brown, yellow, and orange, the tones of sunset. When we read Brian Dippie's The Vanishing American, we realized that "Appeal to the Great Spirit," or works …

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Review Of The Ghost In The Little House: A Life Of Rose Wilder Lane, Alan Wilkinson Jan 1994

Review Of The Ghost In The Little House: A Life Of Rose Wilder Lane, Alan Wilkinson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

It is only in the past twenty years or so that scholars have begun to investigate what ought to have been apparent all along-that Rose Wilder Lane, already a moderately successful journalist, biographer, and novelist, played a major role in producing the nine Little House books credited to her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder.

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Early History Of The North Dakota Natural Science Society, John T. Lokemoen Jan 1994

Early History Of The North Dakota Natural Science Society, John T. Lokemoen

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

A year ago, Paul Kannowski, editor of The Prairie Naturalist, asked me to write a short history of the formative period of the North Dakota Natural Science Society (Society). Finally, a year later, I accomplished the task. It seems that the history of the Society might be a little tedious to current readers of The Prairie Naturalist. However, the history of an organization that has succeeded for 25 years is worthy of documentation. Also, I take some comfort from the thought that many "old-timers" and prior North Dakota residents still belong to the Society and presumably take an …

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Communal Roosting And Foraging Behavior Of Staging Sandhill Cranes, Donald Sparling, Gary Krapu Jan 1994

Communal Roosting And Foraging Behavior Of Staging Sandhill Cranes, Donald Sparling, Gary Krapu

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

Each spring more than 300,000 Sandhill Cranes (Grus canadensis) roost communally at night in river channels in the Platte River Valley of Nebraska and disperse at dawn to forage in agricultural fields. Cranes with central roosts had activity ranges double the size of those with peripheral roosts; 42% of the birds changed activity ranges prior to the onset of migration. Minimum daily flight distance generally increased during the staging period. Cranes used native grassland and planted hayland more often than expected, relative to their percentage of occurrence, and fed longest there; cornfields were under-utilized. These differences probably reflect, …

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Review Of Nature's Heartland: Native Plant Communities Of The Great Plains By William Boon And Harlen Groe, John W. Wyckoff Aug 1993

Review Of Nature's Heartland: Native Plant Communities Of The Great Plains By William Boon And Harlen Groe, John W. Wyckoff

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This is an attractive "coffee table" book that could add to the reference library of the non-professional or, to a limited extent, the professional who has a tangential interest in plant communities. It is not a technical volume on flora nor does it appear that it was intended for field use. Both authors hold degrees in landscape architecture, and the emphasis appears to be on species that could be used in a natural design setting.

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A Grain Agriculture Fashioned In Nature’S Image: The Work Of The Land Institute, Jon K. Piper Aug 1993

A Grain Agriculture Fashioned In Nature’S Image: The Work Of The Land Institute, Jon K. Piper

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Modern industrialized agriculture is based on monocultures of annual crops requiring massive levels of biocide, fertilizer, and fossil fuel inputs. This form of agriculture has led to soil erosion and chemical contamination of soil and ground water. The Land Institute is studying a new model for grain agriculture, based on the prairie ecosystem, involving diversified plantings of perennial seed crops. Species we have studied include eastern gamagrass, wildrye, Illinois bundle flower, wild senna, Maximilian sunflower, hybrid perennial sorghum, and hybrid perennial rye. The Land Institute s research program develops perennial polycultures based on basic questions concerning high seed yield, over …

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Free Trade And The Environment: A Case Study Of The Texas Colonias, F. Andrew Schoolmaster Aug 1993

Free Trade And The Environment: A Case Study Of The Texas Colonias, F. Andrew Schoolmaster

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Colonias are unincorporated subdivisions located in the rural, largely unregulated portion of counties where building codes and regulations are either nonexistent or unenforceable. Colonias are characterized by Third World living conditions where basic infrastructure services such as wastewater collection and treatment, drainage, paved streets, and, in some cases, electricity is lacking. Housing is substandard, with poor plumbing, heating and cooling systems. In Texas, there are approximately 1,193 colonias (home to an estimated 280,000 people, mostly Hispanic) concentrated outside of El Paso, and in counties comprising the lower Rio Grande Valley. In 1989 and 1991, voters approved constitutional amendments that authorized …

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Annual Index Aug 1993

Annual Index

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Annual Index

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News And Notes - Volume 3, Number 1 Aug 1993

News And Notes - Volume 3, Number 1

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Contents:

Call for Papers

Conferences

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Review Of Battle Against Extinction: Native Fish Management In The American West By W. L. Minckley And James E. Deacon, John D. Lynch Aug 1993

Review Of Battle Against Extinction: Native Fish Management In The American West By W. L. Minckley And James E. Deacon, John D. Lynch

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

If you enjoy the West or are interested in or angry about conservationists and conservation biology, this book is a must. The book consists of the papers presented at a conference celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Desert Fishes Council and emphasizes fish conservation in the Colorado River and desert southwest. Before water development (and even now) the West was dry and the image of fishes living in the desert an impossible one. Nevertheless, across the spread of the West, one finds canyon-bound rivers, isolated lakes (some with interesting chemistries), wet meadows, and spring heads. In these …

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Review Of To Reclaim A Divided West: Water, Law, And Public Policy, 1848-1902 By Donald J. Pisani, Mark A. Eifler Aug 1993

Review Of To Reclaim A Divided West: Water, Law, And Public Policy, 1848-1902 By Donald J. Pisani, Mark A. Eifler

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Writers of western history often assume that the West is a unified region, and thus impose a regional story on what is in fact a dynamically diverse area. Donald Pisani's study carefully avoids this pitfall. Viewing the West as a "fragmented" region, divided by geographic variety, economic competition, and local and state political jealousies, he underscores the region's numerous and very real divisions. His study, which is a thoroughly documented work of major importance in the field of water policy history, thus transcends his particular topic and offers an important insight into western history in general.

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Review Of Wilderness Issues In The Arid Lands Of The Western United States By Samuel I. Zeveloff And Cyrus M. Mckell, Thomas R. Dunlap Aug 1993

Review Of Wilderness Issues In The Arid Lands Of The Western United States By Samuel I. Zeveloff And Cyrus M. Mckell, Thomas R. Dunlap

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This is a set of papers on the problems of establishing and managing Western arid land wilderness. All are sensible, and together they provide a judicious and reasonably complete introduction to this specialized area of land management. The book begins with the editors' introduction, followed by Utah Congressman Wayne Owens' discussion of Utah's arid lands and their value as wilderness. This, a pleasant surprise, rises above the usual level of Congressional commentary for constituents. Three case studies follow. One concerns raptor preservation on the Snake River, another the conflicting interests of bighorn sheep and horses, the third fish preservation in …

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Review Of Gunfighter Nation: The Myth Of The Frontier In Twentieth-Century America By Richard Slotkin, Eric H. Monkkonen Aug 1993

Review Of Gunfighter Nation: The Myth Of The Frontier In Twentieth-Century America By Richard Slotkin, Eric H. Monkkonen

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This book has 660 pages of text, 102 of notes, plus a very long Bibliography and thorough index. This reviewer has read everything but the Index and some of the Bibliography. I can report that except for avid fans of Slotkin or of the genres on which he chooses to report, this is far more reading than is needed to get his principalidea. It is: a Myth (his caps) about the frontier-the violent conquest of indigenous people and landscape-has been the well spring of American national identity. The truth of this is not relevant to his book: he labors to …

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Is The Distribution Of Sandhill Cranes On The Platte River Changing?, Craig A. Faanes, Michael J. Levalley Aug 1993

Is The Distribution Of Sandhill Cranes On The Platte River Changing?, Craig A. Faanes, Michael J. Levalley

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Data collected during 1957-1989 on the Platte and North Platte rivers was analyzed to detect changes in the temporal and spacial distribution of staging sandhill cranes. The data indicate that a significant west-to-east shift in crane distribution has developed since the late 1960s. The most negative changes have occurred between Lexington and Kearney, Nebraska, where vegetation encroachment has been most pronounced. A significant increase in crane numbers between the Wood River and Highway 34 bridges is attributed to the result of vegetation scouring flows and active removal of woody vegetation.

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Review Of The Land That Feeds Us By John Fraser Hart, Brad Bays Aug 1993

Review Of The Land That Feeds Us By John Fraser Hart, Brad Bays

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

John Fraser Hart knows farming. His near half-century of scholarship on U.S. agricultural regions is extended to the general reader in The Land That Feeds Us, an uncompromisingly direct geographical expose on the challenges and dilemmas facing American agriculture.

Hart is concerned with major questions of the future of American agriculture: from over-specialization and the reality of foreign competition to convoluted farm policies that regulate production and encourage dependency on federal subsidies. Without a long term plan, he argues that to be competitive, U.S. farmers have little choice but to cut expenses and increase production by expanding their farm …

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Review Of Archaeology And Ethnohistory Of The Omaha Indians: The Big Village Site By John M. O'Shea And John Ludwickson, Robin Ridington Aug 1993

Review Of Archaeology And Ethnohistory Of The Omaha Indians: The Big Village Site By John M. O'Shea And John Ludwickson, Robin Ridington

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Until recently, anthropological archaeology considered the burial grounds of Native Americans to be a proper subject of scientific investigation with little or no consideration for the cultural values of contemporary Native people regarding the resting places of their ancestors. Between 1939 and 1941 archaeologists from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln excavated cemeteries and dwelling sites of the Omaha tribe at the site of their former village near the present town of Homer, Nebraska. Known to Omahas as Ton'wontonga (Big Village), the site was occupied from 1775 to 1845. Under the direction ofJohn Champe, the remains of something like a hundred Omahas …

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The Conservation Reserve Program: Habitat For Grassland Birds, Douglas H. Johnson, Michael D. Schwartz Aug 1993

The Conservation Reserve Program: Habitat For Grassland Birds, Douglas H. Johnson, Michael D. Schwartz

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) has effected major changes to the landscape, especially in the northern Great Plains. Breeding birds have responded dramatically to habitat changes by colonizing CRP fields, often in large numbers. The vegetation in most CRP fields consists of introduced grasses and legumes, along with a variety of weedy species. This paper describes the bird populations found during three years of surveys on more than 300 CRP fields in western Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and eastern Montana. We relate densities of selected species to geographic location, annual effects, conservation practice adopted, and vegetation features.

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Review Of Ecology And Human Organization On The Great Plains By Douglas B. Bamforth, David J. Wishart Aug 1993

Review Of Ecology And Human Organization On The Great Plains By Douglas B. Bamforth, David J. Wishart

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

In this compact book, the outgrowth, or reprint, of his dissertation, Douglas Bamforth focuses his attention on cultural-ecological relationships between Native American hunters and the physical environments of the Great Plains. Specifically, Bamforth is concerned with forging a link between the social organization of historic and prehistoric hunters and their resource base, particularly the bison. It is a thoroughly professional study, drawing from a wide array of interdisciplinary evidence. The reader is systematically led from initial theoretical considerations, where a predictive theory is postulated, through an exegesis of grassland and ungulate ecology, to the application of the theory to regional …

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Review Of Economic Models Of Agricultural Land Conservation And Environmental Improvement By Earl O. Heady And Gary F. Vocke, Kent W. Olson Aug 1993

Review Of Economic Models Of Agricultural Land Conservation And Environmental Improvement By Earl O. Heady And Gary F. Vocke, Kent W. Olson

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

American agriculture faces many difficult and often conflicting challenges. It is expected to satisfy growing demands for agricultural commodities both at home and abroad at reasonable prices to consumers without impairing the productivity of the nation's cropland, exceeding the sustained yield of the country's water resources, or degrading the quality of the environment.

There is ample evidence that farmers have not fully achieved these goals. But can they? If not, are there policies that would still create an improvement in the status quo? The Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University has been at the forefront …

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Southern Alberta’S Cadillac Desert, Mary C. Thompson Aug 1993

Southern Alberta’S Cadillac Desert, Mary C. Thompson

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Reisner (1986) coined the term "Cadillac Desert" to describe the high costs associated with irrigated agriculture in the American west. This concept can logically be extended to the northern-most reaches of the Great Plains in Canada to perform a critical analysis of irrigated agriculture in southern Alberta. Today irrigation technology, which arrived with the Mormon immigration of the 1880s, keeps over a million acres of former shortgrass prairie green. Costs of one of the world's largest snow melt irrigation systems are examined on several dimensions: the massive infusion of state funds necessary to build and maintain the system, environmental degradation …

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Review Of Our Limits Transgressed: Environmental Political Thought In America By Bob Peperman Taylor, John Martin Gillroy Aug 1993

Review Of Our Limits Transgressed: Environmental Political Thought In America By Bob Peperman Taylor, John Martin Gillroy

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

In this book Taylor traces the evolution of political thought about the environment from within a dialectic between two traditions: the "progressive" and the "pastoral." These traditions are described as having roots in the philosophies of Gifford Pinchot and Henry David Thoreau, respectively, and while this tracing of ancestry is not new or unique to this book, what Taylor does with this starting point is both creative and interesting.

Most books which entertain the analysis of theory applied to the environment concentrate on single dimensions of humanities' ethical or economic impact on nature, without a sense of how that particular …

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Review Of Wild Animals And American Environmental Ethics By Lisa Mighetto, Ronald M. Case Aug 1993

Review Of Wild Animals And American Environmental Ethics By Lisa Mighetto, Ronald M. Case

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

I looked forward to reviewing Mighetto's book so I could set readers straight on the issue of animal rights and environmental ethics. I can quibble with many of her statements. She mentioned that organizations such as Ducks Unlimited were devoted to the protection of a single species. This is clearly false. She, perpetuates the simplified argument of the role of predators in regulating deer numbers in the Kaibab Forest. Most biologists recognize that major policy changes that eliminated grazing on the forest also contributed to, if not explained totally, an eruption of deer on the forest. And in a somewhat …

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Review Of Law For The Elephant, Law For The Beaver: Essays In The Legal History Of The North American West By John Mclaren, Hamar Foster And Chet Orloff, Gordan Morris Bakken Aug 1993

Review Of Law For The Elephant, Law For The Beaver: Essays In The Legal History Of The North American West By John Mclaren, Hamar Foster And Chet Orloff, Gordan Morris Bakken

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This collection of twelve essays displays the vitality of Western legal history and the potential for fruitful exploration of transborder legal history. John Phillip Reid's masterful survey of Western American and Canadian legal history presents both the results of research and the contours of future scholarly inquiry for generations of legal historians. David Percy and John P. S. McLaren contribute insightful comparative essays on water law and anti-Chinese activities in courts and legislatures. Other essays cover frontier criminal justice administration, aboriginal rights, jurisdiction and extraterritoriality, the cultural and legal implications of anti-Chinese discrimination, and constitution-making. This ambitious book tells us …

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Review Of The Beginnings Of Canadian Meteorology By Morley Thomas, Paul A. Kay Aug 1993

Review Of The Beginnings Of Canadian Meteorology By Morley Thomas, Paul A. Kay

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The emergence of "global warming" as a prominent organizing theme in science and social science can be seen, for example, in the first issues of this journal. Our ability to anticipate future climates rests on our appreciation of current and past climates. Recognizable precursors of our standard meteorological instruments date from the seventeenth century, yet the systematic collection of standardized data from a sufficiently dense network of sites is, in most nations, barely a century-old activity. A history of meteorology can be doubly useful in providing reviews of early efforts at data collection and in providing context for current questions. …

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Review Of Birds In Kansas, Volume Ii By Max C. Thompson And Charles Ely. Lawrence, Thomas E. Labedz Aug 1993

Review Of Birds In Kansas, Volume Ii By Max C. Thompson And Charles Ely. Lawrence, Thomas E. Labedz

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

It has been nearly 30 years since the last of several excellent compendia of Kansas birds was published. Birds in Kansas continues this tradition and raises it to a new level of excellence for Kansas. Readers expecting a Kansas version of Robert's The Birds of Minnesota will be disappointed, but very few others can complain.

Birds of Kansas, Volume II is the final volume and contains an explanation of species accounts and accounts for the passerines. Volume I, published in 1989, contains introductory, historical, and physiographical chapters, an explanation of the species accounts, and accounts for non-passerines.

Each species account …

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