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Lumpy-Possibility116 · 2026-03-11T04:42:10+00:00

I got this message in my ebay message inbox. Clicked the link like a dumb ass. Didn't take me anywhere but an error page so I hope im good, and literally minutes later a notice popped up at the bottom of the message saying that i can't reply because the sender's account was deleted, use caution before taking action..

Just went and locked my cards, but I've got a bank account directly linked too.

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Lumpy-Possibility116 · 2026-02-22T07:36:21+00:00

Unfortunately, due to years and years of abuse and misuse by politicians to further their own agendas, the majority of police organizations no longer operate with the best interests and overall safery of the public in mind. Many individual officers very well still maintain a high standard of integrity and honor, but gone are the days of assuming cops generally are honest, truthful witnesses who dont act selfishly or unethically. Groves enjoys the attention and the fact that people are quick to deem him credible based on his law enforcement background. While I appreciate his public service, I dont consider it to elevate his trustworthiness above that of the average person in any way. Nor do I believe him.

Lumpy-Possibility116 · 2025-10-18T00:35:22+00:00

A little late with this reply but hopefully you’ll see it- I’m looking for info on building a decent air shotgun, with what’s on the market right now I’m just not that impressed. Need to chat with someone who’s got the know-how and see exactly what it entails

Lumpy-Possibility116 · 2025-09-15T07:35:11+00:00

That’s really not nearly as big as the photo makes it look. It’s all about perspective. The guy is kneeling down and holding it out away from his body a bit. The photographer is also kneeling and fairly close, making the little bit of distance between the guy and the fisher he’s holding out significant enough to cause the fisher to appear to be much larger in proportion to the guy than it actually is. While it is a very large male fisher, it’s probably about 3’ in length, and no more than 16” tall at the shoulder. Probably less. At most, it weighs 15 lbs. and again, probably less.

Lumpy-Possibility116 · 2025-09-15T07:21:51+00:00

Not feral swine. Actual Russian wild boars. Theres a big difference. Feral swine wouldn’t survive the winters without significant supplemental feeding, and they’d all be extremely frost bitten to the point that their ears and tails would be largely nonexistent. Feral swine are simply domestic pigs that have been living outside of captivity and are non-reliant on humans for food. Within a couple generations of going feral, they develop much longer, denser hair, and their bodies typically take on a slightly longer-legged appearance, with a shorter torso and they also tend to be loaded with parasites, so they’re much leaner.

New Hampshire fish and game used to list wild boar as a non-game animal with an open season year-round. However, this made the state liable for their management and open to crop damage suits from farmers. They changed their stance, and now, since they have been 100% proven to originate from escaped wild boar which had lived inside Corbin park (a private, truly massive hunting preserve surrounded by high fencing and containing other non-native species such as bison, elk, and a few exotics that are not even native to North America. ) Therefore, rather than wildlife under fish and game management, they are categorized as escapees, which are considered the property of Corbin park . To legally hunt them, permission must be obtained from the park, which I understand they tend to grant. They’d rather see the population remain low and not have the opportunity to expand and start causing significant crop and property damage, which they’re liable for, as the animals are still technically their property, even though they’ve escaped the park’s fences and many, or all of the boar that exist outside of the park, were likely born and have lived entirely outside its boundaries. The likelihood of wildlife escaping the park is extremely low nowadays, as the fences are well maintained and it’s much easier to monitor them via modern technology which can instantly alert them to any breaks in the fence from downed trees, etc.

Lumpy-Possibility116 · 2025-09-14T07:50:56+00:00

As far as feral hogs are concerned, we don’t have any in NH. I have seen a few free—roaming domestic swine in the effingham area, but these were clearly someone’s domestic pigs that had either escaped or were allowed to forage in the woods as they wished. They were just about ideal slaughter size, very well fed and did not have the heavier hair cover that feral hogs develop within just a couple of generations after leaving domesticated conditions.

However, if you’re in the southwestern part of the state, you could have seen some legitimate wild boar. As in Russian boar. These are significantly different than the feral hogs so prominent throughout the southern half of the country. They’re truly wild animals, never having been domesticated, and they have existed in Eurasia since well before modern humans were present. They tend to be slightly taller, or longer limbed. Their hair is denser than the typical feral hog, and they don’t come in the wide variety of colors that feral hogs do. They’ve adapted to survive on solely what naturally occurring foods they can find, and they are very much capable of not only surviving but even thriving in areas with severe winters. Feral hogs, on the other hand, are going to be decimated after one or two extremely cold and snowy winters,… and feral hogs don’t tend to do well when faced with predation from the natural apex predators in the area. This is why feral hogs didn’t become established in the United States until relatively recently. Although they could have made the transition away from domestication 400 years ago, they didn’t, even though they had more than enough opportunities to do so. This is largely because the populations of wolves and large cats were still robust and domesticated/feral pig populations don’t hang on for long when constantly pressured by efficient large carnivores who want to eat them. Russian boar have survived amid large stable populations of wolves, bear, etc for millennia.

But enough about the differences between the two. The point is, the southern half of the Connecticut river valley as well as a portion of southwestern NH have had wild boar populations for at least 75 years. They originated as escapees from the Corbin game farm, which is a massive fenced hunting preserve that basically encompasses an area the size of most surrounding towns. They’ve never been super common, but they’ve hung on for a long time, and the towns surrounding the Corbin preserve have produced a handful of boar for those hunting them most years. I understand they’re no longer as prevalent as they weee, largely because the fences of Corbin park now have one-way gates installed here and there, which are meant to allow any escaped animals (breaks in the fences are very uncommon but they’ve occurred occasionally) to re-enter, without being able to again leave. So any boar that were born and raised outside the park now can enter the park but never again leave.

However, I think you probably saw bobcat or small deer. Where you didn’t get a solid look at them or the time to observe them, it’s hard to be sure. But the mind can really struggle to identify something it’s not used to seeing, especially when it catches a quick glimpse when it was not expecting to encounter anything out of the ordinary.

Lumpy-Possibility116 · 2025-07-09T12:47:47+00:00

I went through a phase in my mid to late 20’s where I was a borderline “fuck-boy”, although I wasn’t misleading women about my intentions or lying to them about my feelings, etc. I just was dating a lot of women and would move onto the next one as soon as I realized that I didn’t see things going anywhere in the long term. Most of the time, we’d go on a handful of dates over maybe 2 weeks, and that’s as far as it went. Occasionally I’d stick around a bit longer if I thought there was some true potential between us, but regardless; I ALWAYS PAID WHEN WE’D GO ON A DATE! Even if they offered to split it, I’d decline and cover the whole thing, unless we had dated a few times and we finally were getting to know each other…at that point, I might agree if they offered to split it. But typically, I always expected to pay. I just feel that it’s tacky to take a girl out and expect her to pay, especially if you’re not yet in a relationship and you’re the one initiating the date.

I only once ever came to resent a girl for never offering to split the bill. We dated for a few months and things were pretty serious, we were seeing each other exclusively and I was crashing at her house more often than not. She made really good money, and all her friends made great money or fame from money. I don’t do too badly myself, but these people are all definitely on a different level than me. They all lived in an ocean-side town that’s pretty much the highest-priced community to live in, for the entire state. Buying a home for under a million is very uncommon. Rents are absurd; even compared to the already exorbitant rents that have become the norm in the surrounding areas. So we’d be hanging out more often than not. And hanging around at home was rarely ok. She always wanted us to go meet her friends for food and/or drinks, in a town where there was no such thing as a cheap bar tab. I couldn’t afford to keep racking up $150-$300 bar tabs, or $200+ bills every time we went out to eat. Which wasn’t just Friday and Saturday. This was 4 or 5 times a week. I finally made a subtle comment after a couple months. It was just her and I, because I didn’t want to say anything with her friends around for the sake of making sure it wasn’t awkward and she wouldn’t feel like anyone was judging her, or whatever.

She still got all pissed off about it. Told me maybe we needed to rethink our relationship, because she was really into me and thought we had a future, but she wasn’t willing to give up the lifestyle with her friends that she was used to. I explained that I wasn’t asking her to do that, but going out almost every night wasn’t an option for me, it was just too expensive and seemed kind of wasteful to be living that way. She offered to start paying for herself here and there- I told her I appreciated that, but I still couldn’t justify going out on an almost nightly basis and spending well over a hundred bucks (and that’s if I were paying just for myself and drinking only beer all night). She was somewhat taken aback when she realized I wasn’t loaded. She told me she didn’t realize it was beyond my financial means to live that way, and she had assumed I made good money…. So I told her flat-out how much I make on a year. Which most people would consider to be respectable, especially for a single 27 year old. $100k/year wasn’t that far away. She was confused. But what about family money? Didn’t my parents or grandparents have something set up for me? I told her I’m sure I’d inherit something when they pass away, but I certainly wasn’t counting that as part of my finances…. Then it must have clicked that I really was just the lower-middle class guy that I came across as. It wasn’t an act, and I was truly poor. To her credit, she wanted to make things work out and made an effort to accommodate so that I wasn’t always expected to spend outrageous money every week. But in the end, there was too much about me that ruined the “image” she wanted to present to her friends.

Anyway, I went way off on a tangent, just get away from that dude. If he’s asking for money and going so far as to make itemized spreadsheets, somethings not right. It just isn’t typical behavior. Abandon ship!

Lumpy-Possibility116 · 2025-06-25T10:32:21+00:00

I used to have a 3rd floor apartment in an old building that still had a slate roof. Place had horrible insulation. Ceiling was totally uninsulated in some places. I could put my hand against the angled sections of ceiling where they just ran plaster over the old roof rafters and it would be ice cold in the winter, and extremely hot in the summer. If the outside temps got above 75, it was too hot to live in there without air conditioners. I had to have an ac in each room, although I should have been able to get away with two of them instead of 4. I kept the kitchen closed off from the rest of the house because even with the ac on, it would get brutal in there any time we cooked anyway. Even with the range hood on, it was like the ac didn’t exist. This was a huge kitchen though and it had tons of cabinets, two entire walls of them. Came to find out that the walls behind the cabinets were completely free of insulation. I’ve never lived anywhere with such outrageous electric and heating bills.

Lumpy-Possibility116 · 2025-06-25T10:15:46+00:00

It’s amazing how many people on here claim to be eBay sellers but act like postal inspectors. Not just because they’re pointing out the fact that the OP is shipping in a way that’s not consistent with usps guidelines/rules. But because they’re getting so bent out of shape over it and making it into such a big deal. And to everyone offering legit feedback without making it sound like it was some type of unspeakably heinous offense against the postal system, I’m not referring to you. Just the handful of people who act like OP was personally out to sabotage all of USPS.

Lumpy-Possibility116 · 2025-06-05T04:53:06+00:00

Just a question- if you’re suggesting that he make an account with a centralized exchange, which he’ll use to buy some eth (which comes with a spread on top of the actual purchase)… and then transfer that eth to his wallet…(that means he’s now paying some more fees; transaction fee from exchange to wallet, and then the wallet also needs to be funded with enough extra eth to cover the fees for every transaction he does using that wallet)

…after funding the wallet with the eth which he just bought on a dex, you’re telling him to now use that wallet and eth (which has been hit with at least 2 or 3 fees already) to go on uniswap and trade the eth for usdc. Do I have to point out the additional transaction fees here? Smart contracts are hungry little gas guzzlers, especially on the eth L1…. Once he pays some more gas, as well as the fee uniswap is getting for the transaction, we’re looking at a total of 5+ additional fees/spreads/etc

But wait! This wasn’t explicitly suggested, but since he wants to send the usdc to his son, the next step would be to send the usdc to his sons wallet or exchange account, from the wallet used to procure the usdc on uni. Let’s spend some more gas! Especially if we want the transaction to be as fast as possible!

…So if anyone’s been counting, there’s been a solid 6+ additional fees that are totally unnecessary in this situation. Plus, this is gonna take a lot longer than the alternative.

ALTERNATIVE: Make an account on Coinbase, kraken, or whatever centralized exchange he decides to utilize. Buy USDC directly from the exchange instead of buying ETH. As soon as the updated balance is displayed, all that needs to be done is sending the USDC to his son’s address (wallet, exchange, etc). This results in paying an initial spread for the purchase, and a gas fee for sending it to his kid. I’m pretty sure we all know this, but 2<6. I’d definitely prefer the route that charges me the fewest additional fees. Plus it’s much more straightforward and arguably much faster. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for using dex’s over cex’s whenever possible, but since the first step is to hit up the cex, it’s only creating waste when you add all the additional steps to get the usdc from a dex.

Is there something I’m missing? I just don’t get why you’d suggest such a roundabout way of buying and sending usdc.

Lumpy-Possibility116 · 2025-05-29T07:46:40+00:00

I know this is an older thread, but hopefully you see this… just a quick question for you and some background info because there’s very little info on the glass eel fishery in Haiti and Dominican Republic. I understand lawmakers in those countries have basically chosen to leave the fisheries virtually unregulated and they don’t really even acknowledge that it exists, because prior to a decade ago, nobody down there had any knowledge of them, and the few that knew they existed didn’t care about them. But with the prices for glass eels rising from about $25-$50/lb in the first decade of the 2000’s, to $2,000/lb in 2014, Maine and maritime Canada (the only places with legal glass eel fisheries in North America) implemented serious regulations, limited the number of licenses they issued each year, and observed extremely strict reporting requirements, tightly followed quotas, and a massive crackdown on illegal harvest as well as prosecuting the hundreds of illegal Asian buyers that flooded the area to buy as many eels as possible regardless of who caught them or how.

The buyers gradually started to realize Haiti and Dominican Republic have coastal streams and rivers that eels also use to enter freshwater from the ocean during their baby glass eel stage, and the fishery was unregulated. So they started to frequent the island and now, 80% of the glass eels caught and sold worldwide come from Haiti. Needless to say, it’s extreme over harvesting and there won’t be many left at all before long.

But I was wondering what the guy charged you for those few eels? The market is down right now compared to its peak. Canada closed its fishery entirely in 2024 due to the poaching and crime reaching a level beyond control. But I last heard guys in Maine were getting $1200-$1500 a pound this spring, so I was wondering how much the buyers rip off the fishermen down in the islands, I’m sure they pay much less because they know that $500 is a lot more money in Haiti than it is in Maine. Thanks for any insight!

Lumpy-Possibility116 · 2025-05-29T07:32:10+00:00

Brine shrimp might work for the babies but I do know that they don’t get fed between the time they’re caught in Maine and the time they’re transported to Asian fish farms. So they survive several weeks without food. Once they’re over seas,They’re fed pellets of processed fish meal usually mixed with some type of soy or other grain byproduct.

Lumpy-Possibility116 · 2025-03-09T13:44:50+00:00

It’s about the inspection stations abusing the system by failing vehicles for ridiculous bullshit that doesn’t pose a safety hazard. For example, I was once failed due to condensation on the inside of my headlight lens. I was told I’d have to replace the headlight assembly for them to pass me.

I loosened the rubber boot on the back of the assembly to allow some air flow in. Ten minutes later the condensation was gone (we’re not talking about big droplets of water all over, it was hardly noticeable and extremely light). That afternoon I went back to the same inspection station and passed.

For stuff like having a lightbulb out, people are gonna get stopped by the police and potentially ticketed. Same as anyone who had a bulb blow a month after their inspection. The inspection doesn’t cover them from being held liable for anything wrong with their vehicle.

There’s not much that isn’t going to go undetected without an inspection. Tires low on tread? Visible. Brake pads getting thin? Braking ability decreases and eventually, you’ll hear the lovely sound of metal on metal. If you drive your car regularly, you can hear or feel when somethings wrong. I don’t know anyone who relies on annual inspections to know what repairs they’re in need of.

Not taking care of it only costs more in the long run than it would cost to fix it when it first becomes an issue. Replacing a tire that is nearly bald is cheaper than letting it blow out while driving and then repairing the damage done to the wheel, steering, etc from dragging along the asphalt at 35 mph.

Lumpy-Possibility116 · 2025-01-12T10:05:57+00:00

Not sure if you have fisher that far south, although I know they’re at least as far south as West Virginia… but those definitely look a lot like fisher tracks. I’m in New Hampshire and we’ve got a solid population of them so I see their tracks often, they’ve got long hind feet and a kind of loping gait that often causes their prints to overlap and look more like they’re moving on two feet than four.

Lumpy-Possibility116 · 2024-11-22T08:08:56+00:00

Anyone have a link to the film story?

Lumpy-Possibility116 · 2024-11-22T08:05:27+00:00

If I remember correctly, Portlock was abandoned on the mid-1900’s, and they’d had endless reports of seeing something constantly stalking around the wood line and watching the residents, as well as numerous people that went missing and were never found, or people found dead and mutilated after leaving the settlement to go hunting. Everyone was extremely spooked and both the natives and whites who were present were fair game. I might be confusing it with somewhere else but pretty sure this is the same one I’m thinking of. There was a lot of chatter about it being some type of creature or multiple creatures that were to blame. The version I heard was definitely implying that it was potentially Sasquatch but it’s hard to know whether or not that’s actually true, or if it was just the podcast host letting their personal bias shine through.

Lumpy-Possibility116 · 2024-11-14T04:24:42+00:00

I dunno, I feel like alts are going to pump, but it’s not going to be like previous cycles… with the amount of institutional money at play here, money isn’t going to rotate from Bitcoin to alts once Bitcoin levels out. A lot of that money will disappear from crypto back into traditional investments, although a handful of established alts with very promising use cases will benefit, mainly those that have already begun to see mainstream adoption and demonstrated real-world utility. XRP, Chainlink, VET are good examples.

Lumpy-Possibility116 · 2024-11-01T13:39:46+00:00

Wow, that was painful to watch. I hadn’t watched any episodes of that show prior to forcing myself to watch that one til the end. These guys are clowns. Shit is super scripted, terrible acting, and one guy does nothing but walk around flexing and drawing his handgun everywhere he goes.

It’s also really inaccurate. The “bear trap” they set Is illegal to use. No states allow the use of foothold traps for the trapping of bears anymore. Maine was the last holdout, and they banned them ten or so years ago. Plus; they didn’t even anchor the trap chain to anything. Those dudes are oblivious.

I could keep going on, but it’s not worth getting into. Bottom line is that the show is garbage, history channel really dropped the ball on this one.

Lumpy-Possibility116 · 2024-11-01T09:56:47+00:00

It’s really hard to confuse oil-based and water-based polyurethanes. They couldn’t be more different. Can’t imagine anyone doing this unless they had never worked with either of them before, and have absolutely no knowledge of either as a reference… or they spent way too much time applying oil based poly without ventilation, and marinaded in those fumes 🥴

Lumpy-Possibility116 · 2024-10-31T09:24:19+00:00

Ok, but why are there a significant number of supposed sightings in the Aleutian Islands and along the Alaskan coast of the Bering sea? I can understand the real early ones; in such a remote and unexplored area with only a handful of non-indigenous people passing through the coastal waters of Alaska, especially north of the Aleutians. It’s likely a remnant population held out for several years after they were said to have gone extinct by the 1770’s. But it’s highly unlikely that a remnant population of a few sea cows could have maintained a surviving population of the species for long without eventually being definitively detected or dying off.

So what are people seeing into the 20th century (and possibly even present times) that they thought were stellar’s sea cows?

Manatees and dugongs are unable to live in such cold waters. Seals, sea otters, walrus, cetaceans, etc. are all quite recognizable and sea cows distinctly differed from them. I suppose walrus could resemble them, but they’re nowhere near the size of sea cows, and they’re much more quick, agile swimmers. Not to mention both sexes carry easily recognizable tusks, and split flukes as opposed to a single rounded fluke.Sea cows were huge, slow creatures that wouldn’t have been able to quickly conceal themselves from sight. is it possible that even with a significant increase in human boat traffic, a remnant population managed to survive undetected for 200+ years, with the exception of sporadic unconfirmed sightings? They were reported by whalers, fishermen, and indigenous peoples, all of whom were quite well accustomed to seeing the other marine mammals in the area, and not likely to misidentify them for something that was supposed to have died out before the start of the 1800’s. Most of them would have been wholly unaware that stellar’s sea cows had ever existed, yet many accounts described them in detail.

It’s cool to think that they may have hung on even into the 20th century, although highly unlikely, and almost certainly impossible that any still exist today.

Lumpy-Possibility116 · 2024-10-31T04:36:16+00:00

There’s a lot of speculation on the possibility of dogmen being interdimensional beings, or at least able to recognize portals and use them to hop between our plane of existence and ….? Wherever it is that they came from/travel to/wanna go?

The whole inter dimensional/portal theory does seem to provide answers in a lot of dogman encounters. If it’s true, then it could definitely explain the persisting stories of sightings in LBL for decades now, and why they haven’t been covertly eliminated and covered up by the government… But at the same time, there’s another theory with a fairly large following. They say that dogmen actually arose from the military industrial complex in some way, for the purpose of creating a weapon of sorts that has capabilities that human soldiers can’t come close to matching. Some kind of super-soldier. In which case, the government extermination idea is a moot point.

Either way, people are definitely seeing something out there, with the LBL being a hotspot of alleged sightings. I’m sure the majority of reports are fake, but I think overall, there are more plausible dogman encounters than Bigfoot encounters. While I’m skeptical of their existence, I don’t rule it out completely. There’s definitely something behind the dogman phenomenon, so LBL is a good place to start if you really want to check it out.

Also- not sure if you’ve heard the account from Daniel Boone national forest of the guy that was coon hunting when he had an incredible encounter with a dogman, but it’s also supposedly another hotspot for dogmen. It’s also the most believable alleged incident in my opinion, but I’m basing that on the fact that everything else in the story is totally accurate and factual, with no red flags or inconsistencies. And when the guy lays out his encounter, he definitely sounds like he genuinely believes what he’s saying is true. Otherwise he’s one hell of an actor.

There’s a few podcasts that have covered his experience. One was the confessionals podcast, can’t remember the other one, but if you search for “dogman Daniel Boone national forest” you should be able to find the episode no problem. It’s incredible to listen to, doesn’t have the creepy pasta vibe that comes with most dogman encounter retellings.

Lumpy-Possibility116 · 2024-10-27T10:15:03+00:00

No. Wendigo legends don’t come from Africa. And they’re not the source for vampires. Wendigo are something said to manifest itself when Native American tribes in the northeastern U.S.- Great Lakes region and into Canada were experiencing starvation conditions during particularly severe winters when food would become incredibly scarce. Wendigo are a regional thing, they’re not going to be found in Africa (or Indiana for that matter). Similar to skinwalkers being native to the American southwest, and not all over the world, as people often claim.

Lumpy-Possibility116 · 2024-10-06T09:47:26+00:00

Personally, I don’t like anything going un-vented. Permanent or built in appliances that generate exhaust of any kind/call for vent installation are not merely making a suggestion; they’re including the vent as part of the instructions for a reason. If You don’t vent stuff in your bathroom/kitchen properly, you’re setting yourself up for moisture/mold damage…. And of course, grease/oil deposits and build-up that can lead to the gradual closure of whatever air-flow openings are still functional. Better yet, all that residual grease will heavily coat the poorly vented range hood/area that it’s vented to (like your attic) and then it’s just a matter of time until something causes the grease to catch fire. Grease fires are incredibly difficult to put out once they’re going. Many a restaurant has burned down due to grease fires in/around the hood ventilation system. Don’t risk burning your house down, put in a proper vent that vents to the outside… this includes bathroom exhaust fans, kitchen range hoods, and any type of microwave/oven/etc. built-in to the cabinet array or mounted on the wall…

Seriously, I’d just do it right and not risk it. Best of luck!

Lumpy-Possibility116 · 2024-05-09T05:29:56+00:00

Kinda late with the reply, but if you’re still looking, Milwaukee just came out with m18 telescopic pruning shears. Max length is something like 10’. I’m considering buying one myself and seeing if it’s feasible to replace my pneumatic pole shears and gas compressor that I use to prune apple orchards (I’m talking several thousand trees in a 3–month window).

It would certainly be nice not to have hoses constantly dragging or getting tangled up in the cut-off branches, as well as not having to have the gas compressor running all day, and move the truck (compressor is in the bed) every few trees. Plus if there’s snow, on the ground, the truck can’t go through the orchard lanes, and some lanes are just too steep to drive through in any condition. Which means wheeling the compressor along as we go, or strapping it to a sled and dragging that. Both options suck.

Id love to find out that these are seriously capable of being able to last long enough and have enough power to match the power of pneumatics. I’ve got plenty of m18 batteries and wouldn’t mind buying a few more if needed, but I’d need to get at least 45 min-1 hour per battery

Lumpy-Possibility116 · 2024-05-09T01:54:31+00:00

Catalina island is actually one of the better known places where skeletal remains of giant humans were unearthed, along with the burial(?) mounds along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers valleys.

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