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VOLUME 35, NUMBER 34 • AUgUst 21, 2012

A look at SHARK REEF

New vicar at Grace Episcopal ChurchBy Cali BagbyWeekly editor

When Nancy Wynen arrived on Lopez this January the island was cov-ered with white, which was quite a change from her pre-vious home in sunny Florida. But Nancy and her husband Fons have had no trouble embracing their new life.

“I keep telling people on Facebook that I live in a postcard,” said Nancy, who is the new vicar at Grace Episcopal Church.

The couple moved to Lopez on a Saturday and Nancy gave her first sermon the next day, which she said felt great.

Her sermons reflect her colorful life that includes a background as a librar-ian and travels around the world.

“I really appreciate the

diversity that the world offers, including the people and geography,” Nancy said. “Spiritually – the diversity of people and their worship styles and beliefs are defi-nitely kept in my awareness everyday.”

Nancy grew up in the New Jersey suburbs of New York City. Her summers were

spent in camp and on family vacations, and school days were filled with Girl Scouts, “and lessons, lots and lots of lessons. Probably two years each of ballet, piano, and French – all ending in a little knowledge but no real skills,” Nancy said.

It was during summer camp that Nancy wrote a spiritual editorial for the camp newspaper on how people are like pieces in a quilt, all unique and differ-ent in personality and tal-ent, but together make a beautiful object or commu-nity. She said this is still the cornerstone of her minis-try: to have everyone in the community find a way to use their talents for the church and community.

Nancy graduated from the University of Massachusetts and worked as a library

clerk in New York. She met Fons Wynen, a Dutchman who was a business intern at her grandfather’s travel agency, also in New York. The first two years of their marriage were spent in The Netherlands, where she got to know Fons’ family and learned to speak Dutch. Eventually they moved back to the New York City area.

Fons worked in the travel business, and Nancy became a librarian. For the next 15 years, she was an administra-tor in two public libraries.

“I loved how I had a skill that would help other peo-ple,” she said.

One fateful day, she helped a woman who need-ed to find baby girl names. The woman was in a rush to find a name because she was on her way to Colombia

Nancy Wynen

By Lorna ReeseSpecial to the Islands’ Weekly

Local writers Susan Foster Hale of San Juan Island and Gretchen Wing of Lopez Island, both for-mer teachers, and poets Ande Finley of Lopez and Dorothy Trogdon of Orcas are among the writers and artists featured in SHARK REEF Literary Magazine’s Summer 2012 edition, online now at sharkreef.org. Submissions to the issue came via internet from all over the United States.

The issue explores the various forms of love in several prose pieces in the issue: sexual love, one-sided love, first love, mother love, parental love and parents-to-be love – and fear, and taking a chance on love. There is also a mythical tale inspired by Australian aboriginal culture and the usual nine superb poems which will take readers in numerous other directions – to graphology, instinct, the importance of being

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This is your once a year opportunity to dis-cover parts of Lopez you never knew ex-

isted! Uncover these places as you visit eight interesting and distinctive homes here on the Friendly Isle. � e tour will showcase, from from north to south, the homes of the Col-lins, DiNicolas, Walters/Dickson, Bollinger/Seward, Dolans, Raiti Waerness, Whettens and Walkers. Whether nestled in the forest, surrounded by hay � elds, or situated above the sea, each home is a re� ection of the owner’s unique style.

� e self-guided tour begins at 11 AM and ends at 4 PM. You may leave your vehicle at the Center and car pool with friends.Delicious box lunches will be available be-tween 9:30 AM and noon at the Center, and at some homes for $5.

Tour tickets are $30 and available at the Lo-pez Center for the Community and the Arts (LCCA), Saturday Farmers Market, Paper, Scissors on the Rock, Lopez Bookshop, and through www.lopezcenter.com. � is tour income helps the center to keep event prices low so all Lopezians can enjoy the many and varied yearlong LCCA happenings.

What a great way to spend a day while sup-porting the LCCA!

for the 9th AnnualLopez Home Tour

Visit 8 distinctive homes while bene� ting theLopez Center for Community & the Arts

Screenings! Demonstrations! Door Prizes! Fun Activities! Blood-pressure checks - Eye exams - Women's health Ultrasound demon-strations - Physical therapy presentations Lopez Fire Department and EMTs

will demonstrate CPR, car & bike safety, fire-truck & ambulance tours Others include Island Hospital, Lopez Pharmacy, Lopez Senior Services,

Lopez Hospice and Home Support, Hamlet House, SHIBA Medicare advice, San Juan County Health Department

DOOR PRIZES - BIRTHDAY CAKE - SPARKLING CIDER 4 PMThe Catherine Washburn Medical Association (CWMA) owns the building, land, and equipment of Lopez Island

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Tour: Lopez School Garden Tour, 4-6 p.m., Lopez School. Donations are accepted. The Lopez Island Farm Education’s fundraiser for the School Production Garden. We will have tours of the Rischi Center, Children’s and Production gardens. Enjoy ice tea and goodies while listening to the Lopez Island Appalachian String band, and bidding on Lopez home-grown fruits and vegetables and local jams, jellies, pies and

other goodies in the Silent Auction. There will also be scheduled tours of the high-school.

yoga: All Levels Morning Yoga, 9 a.m., Lopez Center. By donation. For more info, visit www.lopezcenter.org. Also on Sept. 1.

evenT: 40th Anniversary Catherine Washburn Memorial Association and Lopez Medical Clinic. Health and Safety Fair, 1 p.m., Lopez Center. For more info, visit www.lopezcen-ter.org.

reunIon: Lopez Island All

Class Reunion potluck and BBQ, 6:30 p.m., Lopez Center. For more info, visit www.lopezcenter.org.

thurS, aug 30

CelebraTIon: Celebration of New Ministry service to install the Rev. Nancy Wynen as the new vicar of the church, 2 p.m., Grace Episcopal Church. The Right Reverend Gregory Rickel, Bishop of Olympia will lead the service.

fri, aug 31

show: The Galaxy of Burlesque, 8 p.m., Lopez Center. For more info, visit www.lopezcenter.org.

Sat, Sept 1

oPen house: Lopez Community Land Trust’s Open House, 1:30- 4 p.m., LCLT office on Tuatara Road, off Lopez Road, north of the Islanders Bank. Tour the

four new houses being built utilizing state-of-the-art tech-nologies and green designs, including net-zero energy features, double wall framing, and exterior earthen plaster. Completed and well lived-in homes of Common Ground residents will also be open to showcase the project’s award winning features. Donations accepted.

Sun, Sept 2

arT: Cinderella by Carter Family Marionettes, 2 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. Tickets available at Blossom Organic Grocery, Lopez Bookshop and at the door.

arT: Slideluck Potshow, 6 p.m., Lopez Center. For more info, visit www.lopezcenter.org.

mon, Sept 3

danCe: Lopez Street Dance,

5:30-8:30 p.m., parking lot of the former Lopez Village Market.

Sun, Sept 9

evenT: Learn, share and take action: Impacts of Coal and Tar Sands Shipping in the San Juans, 5:30 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. For more info, visit www.lopezcenter.org.

mon, Sept 10

meeTIng: LCCA Board Meeting, 5:15 p.m., Lopez Center. For more info, visit www.lopezcenter.org.

Sat, Sept 15

hIke: Beecher and Beyond, Join the San Juan Preservation Trust, the San Juan County Land Bank, and the Lopez Community Trails Network for a guided through-hike begin-ning at SJPT’s lovely and quiet Beecher Preserve on Lopez

and ending at the Land Bank’s Hummel Lake Preserve. The hike is 2.1 miles. Meet at the Hummel Lake Preserve park-ing area at 9 a.m. Look for the sign, as this is on Center Rd. 0.25 miles south of the Hummel Lake Road and Center Road intersection. A shuttle van will transport walkers to the beginning of the hike at SJPT’s Beecher Preserve. The hike should take 1.5 to 2 hours and will end at the Hummel Lake parking area at 11:30 a.m. This trip is limited to 12 participants. RSVP no later than Sept. 12 at [email protected] or phone at 468-3397.

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markeT: Farmers’ Market, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., the Village, Saturdays, May 19 - Sept. 8. For more info, visit www.lopez-farmersmarket.com.

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Goodbye friend and thank you

The Lopez and San Juan Islands’ community lost a good man, a good friend and a leader a few days ago. We also lost a role model edu-cator, who epitomized what education should be about.

We owe our friend Greg Ewert our deepest grati-tude for consistently and unflinchingly showing us what good teaching, good schools and education in general should be. Our sin-cere sympathies and con-dolences go out to Greg’s family, as well as our appre-ciation and humble thanks for sharing Greg with us all these years.

Right up to the end, Greg was a stalwart advocate of public education and the education of the whole child. Greg modeled what that looked like in his long teaching career on Lopez.

He showed us that an education of the soul, of the spirit, and most important-ly, of the imagination, was the most critical element of a good school. Greg’s love of nature, the arts, and the creative, emotional, and environmental intelligences came through loudly and clearly in his teaching. His dedication to the powerful impact of hands-on learn-ing was epitomized in his many outdoor, experiential learning opportunities he provided to his students, the school, and the com-munity.

Whether it was hiking a

coastal beach in the rain, playing table-tennis with middle-school youth, orga-nizing week-long experi-ential alternative learning weeks at school, or lead-ing students in service in Nicaragua, Greg’s impact upon the education of our Lopez youth was immeasur-able. Greg educated for life, not just the state assessment du-jour. As a result, Greg helped Lopez School con-tinue its mission of nurtur-ing life-long learners with a passion and the tools for changing the world.

Greg’s legacy will live on in the community support and commitment to our Lopez School that Greg worked so hard to help develop, never took for granted, and for which he was continuously grateful.

As one small token of appreciation and as a lasting reminder of his influence on our school and our com-munity, the school board has approved the naming of Greg’s beloved middle school commons as “Greg Ewert Commons.” A carved wooden sign will be erected soon to further remind peo-ple of his legacy.

Goodbye old friend, and thank you for your educa-tional leadership and love of the unbridled spirit of young people.

Bill evanSlopez School

Superintendent

Thank you for the music

Thank you to all Lopez music lovers for bringing the Miró Quartet to Lopez Island on Aug. 10 for the 15th annu-al Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival.

They loved Lopez, espe-cially Grace Church and the KLOI Studio, and they are still talking about the warmth and musical sensitiv-ity of the Lopezians they met and talked with that night. You packed the church with a full house for them, and responded to their chamber music with wonderful atten-tion and enchantment. From the roof-raising response to their unexpected encore of Orange Blossom Special, anyone can agree the eve-ning was an outstanding suc-cess!

To listen to their pre-concert interview with Gary Alexander at KLOI, check the KLOI archives at www.kloi.org and watch the quar-tet’s website, www.miroquar-tet.com. Thanks for the suc-cessful event are due entirely to the concert’s Lopez Island sponsors Rick Strachan and Ginni Keith, along with 33 co-sponsors and 18 hard-working volunteers.

Many concert attendees asked if a similar Lopez program can be repeated next August during the 2013 Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival. I am told

that the decision rests with the music festival’s board of directors, who would like to hear comments from the first-time Lopez audience. Please jot your thoughts and suggestions down and leave them for Micki Ryan at the Lopez Library’s “post office” box behind the check-out desk, or email them to [email protected].

Comments will be com-piled and provided to Executive Director Victoria Parker who will make the presentation to the board. As many commented that night, perhaps this was the first annual Lopez Concert of the summer Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival!

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Fabulous Trashion-Fashion Show

Wasn’t that a hoot?! Lopez, you really know how to put on a show! A huge thank you to everyone who helped make the 2012 Lopez Trashion-Fashion Show an event to remember. Thanks, especially, to all the talent-ed, creative, and energetic Fashionistas who answered the call. You were fabulous!!! See you next year?

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By Janice PetersonI am a member of the

Charter Review Commission, one of three no votes on the amendments.

I would like to respond to Gordy Petersen.

Mr. Petersen criticiz-es the “costly” decisions from the current six-member council. He does not explain or support his opinion. According to the county auditor, the costs of a six-member or three-member council are about the same.

Neither does Mr. Petersen explain why deci-sions are twice as hard to make with six. The trou-ble with so many of Mr. Petersen’s pronouncements is exactly this lack of sup-porting evidence.

All council meetings and subcommittee meet-ings are open to the public now. There is no need for Proposition 3, which would amend the county charter to state that all meetings of the county council and its committees be open to the public except when an executive, or closed, session is allowed by law.The prosecuting attorney issued a ruling in April, based entirely on consid-erations unrelated to the CRC, that the subcom-mittee meetings should be open to the public and publicized. The council immediately complied.

Proposition 3 is redundant and unnecessary.

Former freeholders were not invited to testify despite repeated requests to offer them the opportunity. They wrote the charter but the CRC chairman refused to ask them to speak to us. These 21 county citi-zens were elected to write a Home Rule Charter. No one knows more about the process that originat-ed the charter than the Freeholders. Yet we had no freeholders and seven former Board of County Commissioner members testified - all of whom spoke glowingly of the old BOCC three-member board and reinforced the CRC’s pre-mature conclusions. Three of them are the signers for the proposition that would return the county to the old model they admire. These circumstances are testament to a very biased process.

Mr. Petersen asserts that the six council members only attend to the nar-row interests of their dis-tricts. Could we have some proof?

Mr. Petersen says that the three-member leader-ship body has “140 years of success.” I disagree. It was not successful. The Friends of the San Juans’ 2004 report noted, “This com-mission form was estab-lished by the state in its

Constitution in 1889 to suit conditions then. Society has changed; government has not.”

Mr. Petersen says the council is not transparent. “The cake is being baked behind the scenes.” The CRC, like the council, falls under the Open Public Meetings Act. A CRC

member, writing for publi-cation, commented on the “hundreds of hours outside the meetings” spent by the CRC. How many of those meetings were open to the public?

· The CRC made the most important decisions after only one week. No interviews, no research,

and virtually nothing to support the “working model” to which the major-ity attached itself for the next six months.

· Having made their deci-sions, the CRC then invited seven former BOCC mem-bers to attend, all of whom enthusiastically approved of the old ways of doing things.

· All three signers on Proposition 1 to return to three council members are

former BOCC members. · The charter review was

not a review and the peo-ple of San Juan County are the worse for this wasted opportunity.

· Proposition 1 will mean unequal representation. Many voters think this is unfair, including residents on Lopez. The majority of county residents voted in 2005 to get rid of this

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Contributed photosUpper left (clockwise): Ren DiBona, Grace Zoerb, Anah Kate Drahn, Mackenzie Kelley with Karen Rogers, Rosie Sumner with Luna Hernandez-Doherty and Canyon Hernandez-Doherty, and Gavin Hein.

Karen Rogers and Rosie Sumner awarded island kids who participated in the Summer Reading Program. MacKenzie Kelley won a $25.00 cash prize, and Luna and Canyon Hernandez-Doherty gift bags for participating in the library’s summer reading program. Fifteen other readers met the teen program’s goal of reading 600 minutes in six weeks. Naomi Vliet won “first dibs” on new library materials for two months, Ren DiBona won a GameStop gift card, Grace Zoerb won an iTunes gift card, Anah Kate Drahn won the

“Hunger Games” Trilogy, Kate Combs won “The Chronicles of Narnia” DVD set, and Gavin Hein received the second $25 cash prize. Forty-seven young readers participated in the program for pre-readers to fifth graders, earning “book bucks” to spend at the Lopez Bookshop. The library’s sum-mer reading programs are made possible by the Friends of the Lopez Island Library.

2012 Summer Reading Program award winnersThe 40th Anniversary of the Catherine

Washburn Medical Association and Lopez Medical Clinic is hosting a Health and Safety Fair, Saturday, Aug. 25, 1 – 5 p.m, at the Lopez Center for Community and Arts.

At 4 p.m. there will be celebratory cake, sparkling cider and door prizes.

The Catherine Washburn Medical Association is the foundation that supports and owns the building, land, and equipment

of Lopez Island Medical Clinic.

The fair is free and offers free blood-pressure checks, eye exams and more. There will also be demonstrations on a wealth of topics includ-ing CPR and car and bike safety.

For more info, contact Bob Myhr, CWMA board treasurer, at [email protected] or at 468-2258.

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he controversies of the election year of 1900.Bear in mind that L. Frank Baum’s highly-popular book

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model. Concerns about Constitutional challenges are growing.

· Under Proposition 2 all administrative power would return to the three-member council to del-egate without char ter direction.

· If Proposition 1 passes, the three council members elected on Nov. 6 would lose their seats just a few months later, as would the

other three members whose terms should not expire until 2014.

· Proposition 1 would cost taxpayers $60 to $70,000 in new elec-tions. Candidates would have to spend thousands.

· The council has fixed much of the negative legacy from the BOCC and has moved forward on many new initiatives.

To read more about Peterson’s opinion on this issue, visit www.islandsweek-ly.com.

Peterson lives on San Juan Island

Well-known Pacific Northwest historian Lorraine McConaghy will present a program based on her new book, “New Land, North of the Columbia.” The research proj-ect for “New Land” involved more than a year of travel throughout Washington, drawing from archival material ranging from maps, cor-respondence and public records to patent drawings, menus and paper dolls. This presentation is highly visual and deeply engaging.

The book “New Land, North of the Columbia” features nearly 400 documents, including a telegram to Washington territory’s governor signed by Abraham Lincoln, the rough draft of Theodore Roethke’s “The Rose,” and a NASA map of Washington, shot by Landsat satellites. Copies of “New Land” will be available for signing and sale at each program.

Richly illustrated by a colorful PowerPoint pre-sentation, this program explores the rich shared heritage of public archives in Washington state, docu-menting who we were, who we are, and who we might become. This program con-cludes with suggestions on caring for personal archives, including a list of printed and web-based resources.

This program is jointly sponsored by the Lopez, San Juan and Orcas Historical Museums, and Humanities WA. McConaghy will pres-ent her program Friday, Aug. 24 on Orcas at 7 p.m. at (venue TBD), Saturday, Aug. 25 on Lopez at 7 p.m. at Port Stanley Schoolhouse and Sunday, Aug. 26 on San Juan at 4 p.m. at the San Juan Historical Museum. Admission is free and open to the public.

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The southern resident killer whales got a bit of a boost last week from one of its youngest members, who landed in the record books as a result.

Though only 11 1/2 years of age, J-37 earns the distinc-tion as the youngest killer whale to give birth during the 36 years that the Center for Whale Research has been keeping tabs on the three closely related groups

of orcas, which together make up the southern resi-dent population.

With the addition of the newborn, J-49, the popula-tion now numbers 86.

“She’s a first-time mom and she’s also the youngest whale to have given birth that we know of,” said Erin Heydenreich, senior staff member at the San Juan Island-based research cen-ter, of J-37.

The mother and newborn were traveling the waters of

Haro Strait when the two were first spotted together, on Aug. 6. Given the size of the calf — particularly small — and its appearance — a floppy dorsal fin and fetal folds (creases) still visible — Heydenreich said that J-49 was definitely “very, very new” at that time.

The three pods — called “residents” because they spend a majority of the year here — are considered endan-gered by the U.S. and Canada. The population, believed to have been historically in the

high 100s, was decimated by captures for marine parks, which ended in the 1970s, fol-lowed by pollution and declin-ing salmon runs.

The center’s annual sur-vey of southern residents is used by the federal gov-ernment as the population’s official count.

The whales’ popula-tion plummeted to 71 by 1973, climbed to 99 in 1995, then plummeted to 79 six years later. The population rebounded to 80 in 2002, 85 in 2004 and 89 in 2005, and has seesawed around 88 since then.

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to adopt a baby. That inter-action inspired Fons and Nancy to adopt two children

from the same agency.In 1985, they moved to

Fort Lauderdale, Fla. For the next 25 years, the Wynens lived and raised their chil-dren among the palm trees and sandy beaches of south

Florida. “The kids surfed, swam,

sailed, and did all the normal activities, like gymnastics, dance, theater, art,” she said.

Nancy continued work as a librarian at the local state university. She was also increasingly involved with her church. In 1998, she began classes at a regional school for theology, but later realized that she had a call-ing for full-time ministry.

“I went off to New York – actually back to New York – for three years,” she said. “It was fun being a full- time student again, though I missed home a lot.”

Their daughter Katie was in college in Massachusetts,

and they visited each other often. Their son Alex stayed home with Fons.

When Alex died during this time, Nancy said that “somehow we all managed to get through the grief, even though we were sepa-rated by long distances.”

After being ordained, Nancy returned to Florida and served in two parishes, a large one as an assist-ing priest, and one smaller, “smaller than Grace,” Nancy said, as their vicar. When Fons retired, he told Nancy that she could look for a position “anywhere.”

And she found Lopez. When she is not at Grace

Church, Nancy enjoys “anything involving my hands, like knitting, sewing – I even have tried papier mache, thanks, Polly Ham, and pottery, thanks Nancy Bingham.”

Nancy and Fons are still planning to travel as much as they can, but for now are content to explore Lopez.

“We loved Lopez from the first minute we arrived,” she said. “And we’re still in the honeymoon phase.”

Grace Episcopal Church will have a Celebration of New Ministry Service on Aug. 30, at 2 p.m. Nancy will officially be installed as vicar of the church. The event will be led by the Right Reverend Gregory Rickel, Bishop of the Diocese of Olympia.

watchful when seeing, cold comfort, Prague and more.Launched in 2001, SHARK REEF is now in its second

decade, a significant feat for online magazines. As editor, I work with different local co-editors for each issue. Rita Larom, former “Spotlight on Seniors” writer for the Islands’ Weekly, was co-editor for prose submissions –fiction and creative non-fiction -- for the summer issue.

“Co-editing this issue provided me insight into the varied and exceptional writing that is submitted to SHARK REEF,” says Larom. “Fortunate authors have a valuable opportu-nity for publication and lucky readers have fine selected material to enjoy and consider.”

John Sangster and Elizabeth Landrum, both Lopezians,

served as poetry co-editors for the last three editions. It’s been such a pleasure to work with them. Not only are they superb poets in their own right, they also are much better judges of poetry than a prose writer like me. We’re so grateful for their thoughtful and wise shepherding of the review process for the numerous poetry submissions SHARK REEF receives.

SHARK REEF is, in fact, seeking two new poetry co-editors to review submis-sions to the Winter 2013 edition. Writers interested in collaborating on an issue in this way are invited to write to [email protected].

Visual art in the issue includes stunning and mysterious photographs, dreamy, ethereal encaustic paintings and surprising mixed media works that bridge the gap between drawing and painting. Judy Connor, St. Paul, Minn, is SHARK REEF’s art editor.

Though founded as a venue for serious local writers to get their work published, the online literary magazine now accepts good writing from writers wherever they live. Writers and readers may subscribe (for free) to receive email updates at sharkreef.org and visitors to the website are invited to “like” SHARK REEF on Facebook (Shark Reef

Literary Magazine).SHARK REEF publishes

two issues a year, one in the summer and one in winter and is now accepting sub-missions of writing and art for its Winter 2013 edition. Submission deadline is Sept. 30. The literary magazine considers solicited and unsolicited material: fiction, non-fiction prose, poetry and drama. It also features artwork by visual artists in each issue. Go to sharkreef.org for submission guidelines, current offerings and archived issues.

SHARK REEF is published by Heron Moon Press.


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Lopez’s SHARK REEF has entries from contributors from across the country. The photo, shown above, is called “Camping Out” and was submitted by Terry Bebertz, Minn.

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