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Pre-conference events are free to the general public, but we ask that you register so we know how many people to anticiapte. Schedule, speakers, and topics are subject to change. Continue to check back for the final details. Click here to change your registration to include new events.
Spanish translation available for this day will be limited. La traducción al español será limitada en este día.

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Wednesday, November 1 – Pre-Conference Events – Free to the Public

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9:00AM - 12:00PM

SF Convention Center

Women Ranchers are Reconnecting and Regenerating

An American Farmland Trust Workshop

Women in Agriculture will host an experiential session, starting with a mini-experience from our Learning Circles, grounded in our conversation and community with women ranchers. Hear stories from our work to create community and connect women to resources across programs in the west and beyond. We have invited guest discussants from Women in Ranching, Women for the Land and Women Food and Agriculture Network to explore how women are regenerating agriculture and ranching across diverse experiences and geographies by creating new networks of community and collaboration. Come with your own experiences to share and help us collectively build on a vision for greater equity in ranching from across our shared work.

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10:00 - 11:00am

SF Convention Center

Storytelling, Marketing, and Cultural Food Ways

A Quivira Coalition Workshop

Join April Jones, founder of the Pinehurst Farmers Market in Columbia S.C. and work group member for the “Anti-Racist Farmers Market Toolkit”. At this workshop, April will help producers and others involved in agricultural marketing ground their marketing efforts in anti-racism and equity through awareness and connetion to cultural foodways and practices that honor numerous cultural traditions in food. She’ll help participants think through how they market and tell their story. Additionally, there will be chance for small-group discussions to hear from one another and how you currently market and how you hope to market in the future.

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10:00 - 10:45am

SF Convention Center

Growing Hope: Building Networks for Resilience

A storytelling workshop from National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT)

In this storytelling workshop, we will share how the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) programs have been developing networks of like-minded individuals to become more resilient in the face of a changing climate. We will then take attendees on a story map journey through our Southwest region to see our work on carbon farm planning, soil for water, sustainable agriculture, and regional food systems and how they overlap to plant new ideas and produce resilience. Finally, we will share how to participate in our projects, and we will open the floor for people to share their thoughts and ask questions.

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10:00 - 10:45am

SF Convention Center

Growing GRASS: A USDA Climate-Smart Commodities Project

Opportunities for farmers and ranchers interested in or already regeneratively grazing cattle & bison

Learn more about how you can get involved in the Growing GRASS work focused on the beef & bison byproducts supply chain. Primary focus will be opportunities for farmers and ranchers interested in or already regeneratively grazing cattle & bison. There will also be discussion of opportunities for processors, brands, advocates etc. to learn more and get involved. All are welcome!

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10:00 - 10:45am

SF Convention Center

Transition to Organic Partnership Program-Opportunities and Resources for New Mexicans

A workshop from the Rodale Institute and the Transition to Organic Partnership Program

Learn how to get involved with the Transition to Organic Partnership Program (TOPP) in New Mexico and beyond.

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11:00 - 11:45am

SF Convention Center

Grazing for Soil Health

A workshop from the Noble Research Institute

Harness the power of nature and regenerative management to improve grazing lands and producer profitability. This workshop is for anyone that wants to improve the health of our soil, grazing lands, and graziers.

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11:00 - 11:45am

SF Convention Center

Stages of Regenerative Ranching Management: From Sustainability to Regeneration

A presentation from Manejo Regenerativo de Ranchos A.C.

This presentation will focus on the impact that adaptive genetics and non-selective grazing play in implementing regenerative management.

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11:00 - 11:45am

SF Convention Center

The Surprising and Deadly Effects of Non-ionizing EMF on Farms and Ecosystems and How To Correct It

A presentation from Essential Energy Solutions

Current main stream research declaring manmade non-ionizing EMF a critical issue in rural America and solutions to mitigate the crisis for people, homes and farms and ranches of all sizes.

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1:00-4:30 pm

SF Convention Center

Leaving a Lasting Legacy–How to Transfer Farm/Ranch Management and Assets Successfully

A Holistic Management International Workshop

This half day workshop, led by Holistic Management Certified Educator Kelly Sidoryk, will explore the strategies to build a transition plan that is tailored to your own unique operation and family. You will also hear from guest speakers and co-facilitators about their experience with succession planning and management and asset transfer challenges. We will examine the initial steps of the succession planning process; creating a shared vision; communication and decision making; roles and responsibilities; important members of the succession planning team; contingency plans and intergenerational dialogue. You will have access to an online resource library of succession planning materials and templates to support you after this workshop. Whether taking the first steps or continuing the path of transferring to the next generation, this workshop will be valuable to all families in business.

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1:00-4:00 pm

SF Convention Center

Roots So Deep (you can see the devil down there) A Screening

Sneak peek PUBLIC COMMUNITY SCREENING of the new docu-series from Peter Byck

Roots So Deep is a four-part documentary series all about inventive farmers and maverick scientists asking if an underutilized way to graze cattle, that mimics the way bison once roamed the land, can help get farmers out of debt, restore our depleted soils, rebuild wildlife habitat and draw down carbon? Cattle have been seen as eco-villains for a long time. What if they can help save us from catastrophic climate change?

For this special screening, we will be showing Episodes 1 and 4. There will be a Q&A and discussion with director Peter Byck following the show.

Check out the trailer and tell your friends!

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1:00-4:30 p.m.

SF Convention Center

Leadership & Entrepreneurship Skills for Value-Driven Businesses: Learning from an Indigenous Approach

Intertribal Agriculture Council and the Southwest Grassfed Livestock Alliance

This course from the Intertribal Agriculture Council and the Southwest Grassfed Alliance will delve into the question of what really makes you an entrepreneur, and how we can all recognize ourselves as leaders even if you are a “one-person-show” or a budding business, or even just a new business idea.

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1:00 - 3:00pm

SF Convention Center

Trees, Gardens, and People: Embedding Agroforestry in the Web of Life

A Quivira Coalition Workshop

In this workshop, we’ll hear from team members of the Southwestern Tribal Agroforestry Outreach Project and what they’ve been learning about Indigenous-led agroforestry efforts in the Southwest – including the importance of collaboration, relationships, and storytelling, and how traditional ecological knowledge shapes agroforestry in this region. We’ll share videos and other educational materials highlighting agroforestry initiatives from Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute, Tewa Women United’s Healing Foods Oasis, and Santa Ana Pueblo’s Native Plant Nursery. And finally we’ll end in a discussion with participants to learn about your experiences, challenges and dreams for Southwestern agroforestry and silvopasture. 

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5:30-8:00 p.m.

SF Convention Center

Organic Producer & Buyer Mixer and Social hosted by the Rodale Institute

Let's get things kicked off right!

Anyone is welcome to come mingle and there will be a special area for producers and buyers who actively engage with organic value chains as well as those who are interested in organic transition and selling organic products but don’t know where to start. 

Thursday, November 2 – Production-Focused

Live Spanish translation available. Traducción al español disponible.

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7:00-8:00 a.m.

SF Convention Center

Coffee + Network Time + Exhibitor Tabling

Join us for coffee and networking each morning as we kick off our day together.
+ Explore our Exhibitor hall and meet some of your regional and community business partners and regenerative resources!
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8:00-8:20 a.m.

Welcome and Opening Activities

A welcome from your Regenerate hosts
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8:20 a.m.- 8:55 a.m.

Plenary

A Conversation with Your Administrator About Filling in the Gaps

Zach Ducheneaux

An open conversation about the broad ranging work of the Biden-Harris Administration under the leadership of Secretary Vilsack, to more equitably serve all producers across all divisions and programs at the Farm Service Agency.

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8:55 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.

Two Sessions

Split Plenary

Sustainable Sheep: Honoring the Animal, Healing the Planet

Jeanne Carver and Elena Miller-ter Kuile

Come hear from regenerative sheep producers Elena Miller-ter Kuile from Cactus Hill Farm near La Jara, Colorado and Jeanne Carver of Imperial Stock Ranch / Shaniko Wool Company near Shaniko, Oregon on how they have developed their agricultural practices to regenerate the land and improve soil health as well as honor the animals they raise but maximizing the value of those animals in their marketing. These two women have been involved in a variety of direct marketing and value-added products, including carbon markets, and will also share about the markets they have created and how they have engaged their communities in that effort. Whether you raise sheep or not, this split plenary will provide food for thought on how human creativity and community building are critical to regenerative agriculture.

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9:50 a.m.-10:20 a.m.

Morning Break

Enjoy a mid-morning break!

+ Explore our Exhibitor hall and meet some of your regional and community business partners and regenerative resources!

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10:20 a.m. - 11:10 a.m.

Plenary

The Potential of Regenerating Soils and Increasing Productivity and Profitability with Livestock

Enrique Guerrero

I am passionate about land regeneration, always looking for a reconciliation between environmental stewardship and profitability of the cattle business on any amount of land. Observing the natural processes of the land and the different species of either livestock or wildlife is how  to gather a wealth of information, allowing you to maximize land and animal potential. I am currently working on an ambitious project: regenerating a 350,000-acre cattle ranch in West Texas while running a 2,500-head grass-fed operation. I have also used these techniques to reclaim a mine tailing site and on my own ranch.

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11:05 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Two Sessions

Split Session Plenary

Turning Your Passion into a Paycheck: Farm to Food Production and Financial Literacy

Angela Faughtenberry and John Arbuckle

Come hear how Angela Faughtenberry (413 Farm) and John Arbuckle (Singing Pastures) went from businesses focused on raising livestock, to businesses that also develop and sell value-added products. This shift required a change in mindset, restructuring their businesses, and infusing financial savvy into their respective operations. 413 Farms now prepares food hot-and-ready for their local farmers markets and other events. Singing Pastures now manufactures smoked sausages and salami sold mostly through an online platform. Both have seen their profits grow significantly, and they want to share their stories with you and encourage you to get efficient with your agricultural business to improve your profit and work-life balance.

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12:00p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

SF Convention Center

Lunch

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1:30 p.m. - 2:10 p.m.

Plenary

New Support to Get Grassfed Meat and Poultry to Market

 

Dave Carter

The Meat and Poultry Technical Assistance Program was established in March 2022 to support people and projects in accessing USDA grants, loans and other resources to expand meat and poultry system in the United States. Coordinated by the Flower Hill Institute, the MPPTA network is assisting producers ranging from Puerto Rico to the Northern Mariana Islands. This no cost program is designed to work with projects from inception to implementation.

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2:10 p.m. - 2:55 p.m.

Two Sessions

Plenary

Reverence Farms: A Diversified Livestock Farm

 

Dr. Hubert Karreman

How should we be thinking as stewards to keep our animals healthy and to reduce reliance on conventional inputs? When should conventional inputs be used? The land, animals and people are integral to each other – what’s best to improve the land to continue supporting an expanding livestock farm? This talk will show what Reverence Farms, a diversified dairy and livestock operation in central NC, has done and is doing in terms of animals and land, as well as examples of how we make decisions and approaches to making changes as needed.

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2:55 p.m.- 3:20 p.m.

Afternoon Break and Book Signing

Enjoy a mid-afternoon break

+ Explore our Exhibitor hall and meet some of your regional and community business partners and regenerative resources!

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3:20 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.

Roundtables

Multiple roundtables crafted around our 2023 plenaries topics
Sign-up for Roundtables will be at the conference.

  • Regenerative Ranching at Scale (Nov 2 and 3)
  • Carbon Credit Opportunities and Challenges (Nov 2 and 3)
  • Value-Added Marketing (Nov 2 only)
  • Land and Water Access – Challenges and Leadership in the Farming Community (Nov 2 only)
  • Effective Business and Succession Planning (Nov 2 and 3)
  • Resilience Through Catastrophe: Preparation for and Recovery from Climate Disasters (Nov 2 and 3)
  • Supporting Mental Health in Regenerative Agriculture (Nov 2 and 3)
  • Practical Naturopathic Approaches to Animal Health (Nov 2 only)
  • Regenerative Research (Nov 2 and 3)
  • So you think you’re Regenerative? Partnering with food companies to regenerate acres (Nov 3 only)
  • Unconference Experience (Nov 2 and 3)

Detailed descriptions and facilitators for each roundtable can be found here.

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5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Two Sessions

Closing Split Plenary

Adapting and Innovating through the Lumps and Bumps of a Complex Family Business

 

Joe and Jenn Wheeling

We will share the adaptations and innovations we have employed on the James Ranch to allow several generations to live and work together on the same piece of land while sharing the common goal of responsible stewardship. We will talk about how we updated our 30 year old Holistic goal to reflect the second and third generation’s involvement in the ranch as well as our creation of a governing body for the ranch. In the midst of all of this, we will be highlighting the importance of family meetings and the Delegated Meeting Process which is designed to achieve a maximally effective meeting while empowering the participant’s individual growth and confidence.

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5:30 p.m. - 5:40 p.m.

Closing

 

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5:45 p.m.- 6:15pm

SF Convention Center

Note: Concurrent Session

Meditation

With Wendy Lau

We hope you’ll join us for meditation and breathwork led by Wendy Lau from the Upaya Zen Center. We know conferences can be a lot, between networking and information-gathering. This time is set aside for relaxation, unwinding and to tune into your body and breath. In Pojoaque room. 

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5:45 p.m.- 7:30 p.m.

SF COnvention Center

Note: Concurrent Session

Exhibitor Tabling

Explore our exhibitor hall and meet some of your regional and community business partners and regenerative resources!
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6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

SF Convention Center

Note: Concurrent Session

NAP Career Connections

Connect with a career in mind!

This mixer will connect excited job-seekers with employers in fields such as regenerative agriculture, sustainable food systems, conservation, and more. Even if you aren’t immediately seeking a job or hiring a candidate, we welcome you to still come shake hands with others who might be a part of your next step forward.

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6:00 - 7:30 p.m.

SF Convention Center

Note: Concurrent Session

New Agrarian Celebration Social

Join us for an evening social to celebrate and support beginning agrarians and land stewards. Sponsored by the National Young Farmers Coalition, this event is open to everyone! Come and decompress from the day of conference presentations, grab small bites and drinks, visit exhibitors, discuss big ideas, appreciate all those doing the hard and important work of agriculture. Visit the Career Connections job fair between 6:00-7:00pm or just mingle at the social from 6:00-7:30pm. Appetizers are included and will be provided by a local business. Cash bar. Please register so we can prepare accordingly.

Friday, November 3 – Restoration and Resilience

Live Spanish translation available. Traducción al español disponible.

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7:00-8:00 a.m.

SF Convention Center

Coffee + Network Time + Exhibitor Tabling

Join us for coffee and networking each morning as we kick-off our day together.

+ Explore our Exhibitor hall and meet some of your regional and community business partners and regenerative resources!

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7:15 a.m. - 7:45 a.m.

SF Convention Center

Meditation

With Wendy Lau

We hope you’ll join us for meditation and breathwork led by Wendy Lau from the Upaya Zen Center. We know conferences can be a lot, between networking and information-gathering. This time is set aside for relaxation, unwinding and to tune into your body and breath. In Pojoaque room. 

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8:00-8:15 a.m.

Opening Remarks and Activities

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8:15-9:00 a.m.

Plenary

Stories from the ground up: Producer Relationships to Biodiversity and Soil Health

Dr. Aidee Guzman
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9:00 - 9:45 a.m.

Plenary

Southwest Agroforestry From an Indigenous Perspective

Alicia Thompson
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9:45 a.m. -10:20 a.m.

Mid-Morning Break

Time to stretch your body and move around as needed
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10:20-11:05 a.m.

Plenary

Growing Graziers: Shepherding a new-generation of agrarians into viable vocations in land stewardship, public safety, and vital food and fibersheds

Brittany Cole Bush

Through her own journey to create a viable career and livelihood in regenerative agriculture and land management, Cole will share how prescribed grazing sheep and goats in the west is opening pathways for next-generation agrarians seeking impactful work that addresses climate, public safety, vital food and fibersheds, and social change. Through innovative stacked enterprise business models and collaborative partnerships between businesses and non-profit organizations, Cole is “growing graziers” by creating on-the-job training opportunities that will ready individuals to pursue their own entrepreneurial journeys or enter a workforce requiring skills and knowledge only obtained through experience. In a dedication to stacking enterprises and illuminating the wide diversity of opportunity that four legged ruminants offer, Cole will also share how her hide business, Shepherdess Holistic Hides places an additional value on a normally forgotten waste product, while telling the story of animal symbiosis with western range land management.

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11:05 - 11:40 am

Plenary

Indigenous Insights: Integrating Regenerative Pollinator Stewardship for Changing Climes & Times

Melanie Kirby

Melanie will share how our individual efforts on a micro level connect to organizational/institutional outcomes on a macro level in our stewardship work. Melanie’s work as a land-less beekeeper in the Land of Enchantment and inspired the Poeh Povi-Flower Path Indigenous Matriarch Land of Enchantment Pollinator Initiative, which is encouraging the next generation of Indigenous stewards at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She’ll also include a call to action for establishing a NM Pollinator Protection Plan.

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11:40 am - 1:10 pm

SF Convention Center

Lunch

Description coming soon
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1:10 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.

Plenary Panel

Resilience Through Catastrophe: Preparation for and Recovery from Climate Disasters

Brian Wehlburg, Torri Estrada, Paula Garcia

Hear from panelists about how producers and technical service providers can prepare for and recover from climate disasters like wildfire through building soil health, holistic management, and unique partnerships and collaborations. We’ll hear perspectives from New Mexico, California and Australia, including challenges and success stories, as we address local climate and natural disaster catastrophes via local and global perspectives. 

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2:15 p.m.- 2:40 p.m.

Afternoon Break and Book Signing

Enjoy a mid-afternoon break

+ Explore our Exhibitor hall and meet some of your regional and community business partners and regenerative resources!

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2:40 p.m. - 4:10 p.m.

Afternoon Roundtables

Multiple roundtables crafted around our 2023 plenaries topics

Sign up for Roundtables will be at the conference.

  • Regenerative Ranching at Scale (Nov 2 and 3)
  • Carbon Credit Opportunities and Challenges (Nov 2 and 3)
  • Effective Business and Succession Planning (Nov 2 and 3)
  • Resilience Through Catastrophe: Preparation for and Recovery from Climate Disasters (Nov 2 and 3)
  • Supporting Mental Health in Regenerative Agriculture (Nov 2 and 3)
  • Regenerative Research (Nov 2 and 3)
  • Addressing the Meat Processing Logjam (Nov 3 only)
  • Apart From to A Part Of: creating connection in rural ag communities (Nov 3 only)
  • So you think you’re Regenerative? Coupling the word with actual practices within food supply chains (Nov 3 only)
  • Unconference Experience (Nov 2 and 3)

Detailed descriptions and facilitators for each roundtable can be found here.

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4:20 p.m - 4:50 p.m.

Closing Plenary

Sustainability and Responsible Stewardship: Preserving a Legacy of Clean Air, Water, and Soil for the Generations that Follow 

Bobby Wilson

Bobby L. Wilson is a veteran farmer of more than 30 years.  He shares his journey of teaching marginalized and underserved communities to feed themselves well using sustainable practices and responsible stewardship on a 5-acre certified naturally grown farm operation.  Metro Atlanta Urban Farm (MAUF) is an informal educational STEM area that promotes the FUNdamentals of research to motivate and inspire the next generation to not only see themselves in the sciences, but to pursue agricultural education and careers in agricultural science.

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4:50 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Final Audience Engagement and Musical Performance

Lara Manzanares

Lara Manzanares is a bilingual singer-songwriter from Northern New Mexico. She grew up singing the traditional New Mexican music of her sheep-ranching childhood, and composes her own style of music in both English and Spanish. Through a combination of storytelling and songs both playful and sincere, Lara draws on her roots as she sings about love, loss, a sense of place, and her own connection to the land. Lara’s first album, “Land Baby,” won Album of the Year at the 2018 New Mexico Music Awards. In 2020, she represented New Mexico in the Kennedy Center’s Arts Across America series. Her latest single, a duet called “Dos Corazones,” won Songwriter of the Year and Original Song of the Year at the 2022 New Mexico Hispano Music Awards.

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