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free l AUGUST 2015 No.194 l Celebrating the Life and Times of the local Community

French toast This August we celebrate the visit of Senior Australian of the Year, Jackie French, who hosts an afternoon tea at the Moller Pavillion as part of an exciting Writers Festival line-up.

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A cultural feast awaits us in August. Music lovers of eclectic tastes will not want to miss the Bangalow Music Festival (including the Prelude), the BBQ & Bluegrass Festival and, just a little further afield, the Jimmy Little tribute show Country Song.

The weekend of 7 August might find you a little stretched for time as you fit in bluegrass music (and barbecue), the three day Writers Festival and the ADFAS lecture the following night. Just prior to this weekend, courtesy of the Writers Festival, you can even have afternoon tea in Bangalow with Senior Australian of the Year Jackie French. What could be better than music,

art, literature and food? Or with food?

In this issue we also bring you up to date with local traffic issues and profile a number of talented locals (coffee, beauty and wellbeing as well as art).

Getting more down to earth, Byron Shire’s new green bin service commences the week beginning 3 August, Thursday 6 for downtown Bangalow. Get out the compostable bags, check the timetable and try to put the right bin out on the right day. I’m hoping the green bin service will encourage me to do a lot more snipping and clipping in my small but overgrown garden.

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Jenny Bird and her partner David moved to Bangalow five years ago, although they have lived in the northern rivers region for 25 years. Jenny grew up in Sydney and moved to Byron Bay as a single mum with a three year old daughter. She left behind a career in health education, professional development and training but soon resumed work up here in distance education, curriculum design and academic development at Southern Cross University. She left SCU some years ago and runs a small consultancy business in research, writing, teaching and professional development. She’s trying hard to retire but can’t resist a good project.

Jenny loves travelling (she’s just back from five weeks in Paris), walking, reading, writing, gardening, yoga and film. She has four children and five grandchildren and a large extended family.

Family and work commitments kept

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Jenny away from Bangalow over the last three years, but she hopes that writing for Heartbeat will connect her more closely to the wonderful Bangalow community.

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local news Patron Peter Thompson, director Tania Frazer and horn player Ysolt Clark at the Music Festival launch 2015

The Southern Cross Soloists

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN

The 14th Annual Bangalow Music Festival (August 14–16) is almost here and preparations are in full swing. Instruments are being tuned, rehearsals scheduled and logistics locked into place. This is without doubt a most exciting line up of Chamber music and talent.

There is a host of superstar guest soloists as well as, of course, the sublime Southern Cross Soloists. Featured artists during the festival include pianist Piers Lane, Didjeridu player William Barton, guitarist Karin Schaupp, pianist Daniel De Borah. From the UK we welcome violin virtuoso Victoria Sayles and, for the first time in Australia, conductor and comedian Rainer Hersch.

We are also delighted to present young soprano starlet, Alexandra Flood, New York based tenor Alexander Lewis, piano sensation Alex Raineri and the emerging chamber music powerhouse, the Orava Quartet.

Of course there is also the ‘Festival Prelude’ on Thursday, 13 August at 7pm which features local performers Summerland Brass Quintet, opera singing sensation Emilie Lemasson and the Essence quartet featuring soprano Katie Rutledge. As well you will be thrilled to see pianist Piers

Lane, Southern Cross Soloists and Alexander Lewis performing on the night. Tickets price has been retained at $30, including a glass of wine on arrival.

There is so much more for you to choose from so make sure you get your free copy of the full program from the Bangalow Post Office, Barebones Art Space and the Bangalow Newsagency.

Tickets to the Festival Prelude are available from Barebones Art Space, Bangalow Newsagent and at the door (if not sold out).

Tickets to the Festival concerts are available from Barebones Art Space and online (www. southernxsoloists.com). Single tickets are $55, subscription passes start at $355. Please note that if purchasing online, tickets will only be available for pick-up at the festival. Simply present your receipt or a form of ID. Don’t miss out on your chance to be a part of this musical celebration right here in the A&I Hall, Bangalow.

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Patrons are back, Bangalow Landcare patrons that is!

A patron by definition is ‘one that protects, or champions someone or something’ and I believe this started back in the days of the Romans. Our patrons are the wonderful people and businesses of Bangalow that support our work financially to help keep us going while also demonstrating that our work is valued.

Working bees continue to be held every Saturday morning on one of our many sites around town, planting and keeping weeds in check. There never seems to be enough of us, nor time to keep ahead of some weeds, so this year with patron funding we have been able to hire a bush regenerator which has been a great help.

Usually growth slows down over winter but as we don’t seem to be getting much of a winter this year nothing has slowed down at all. If enough funds are raised through this avenue we hope to start work on extending the planting along the creek behind the Anglican church and connect it to the pool site, bringing us closer to finishing the Bangalow Riverwalk.

Patrons are not the only way we have raised funds this year; we have also offered to work for a donation for anyone who needs garden help as we are happy to work for our funding. A few generous locals have taken up our offer; they are also listed as patrons. Further information

about the Patron program is on our website www.bangalowlandcare.org.au or enquiries about gardening work please contact us at bangalowlandcare@gmail. com Liz Gander Patrons 2015/16 Rosemary Campbell and Louise Whitaker, Vicki Brooke, Patricia Ellis, Reyna Dight, Bangalow Post Office, Geoff and Anne Martin, Dawn Lotty, Judith Baker, Bangalow Real Estate, Bangalow Newsagent, Hilary Herrmann, Alison Woods, Elders Real Estate, Sue Franklin, Bangalow Community Children’s Centre, Ragged Blossom Native Nursery, Di Martin, Jenny Bird. Plus a few others who prefer to remain anonymous.

BPA Community Conversation It’s a long, long road with many a winding turn... (apologies to Neil Diamond) Last month’s article on making Granuaille and Lismore roads safer, quieter and healthier generated a supportive response from many locals and some Byron Shire councillors.

Unfortunately, wherever you are in NSW, Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) is responsible for control of traffic on all roads in New South Wales. However, RMS does delegate certain aspects of the control of traffic on regional and local roads to local councils while it continues to manage state roads. Our requests for extended lower speed limits, better defined entry points to Bangalow village designed to encourage speed reductions, speed cameras and a clearer police patrol presence will go before the Local Traffic Advisory Committee (LTAC) in August. This is the first stage of getting some positive implementation on the ground. Members of the Byron Shire LTAC are a Byron Shire councillor (presently councillor Duncan Dey, who chairs LTAC), our local MP Tamara Smith, Lismore’s MP Thomas George and a representative from each of the local police and the RMS. The Bangalow to Lismore road is a State Road (B62) and it is not yet clear how much influence and effect the LTAC will have. Nonetheless it is an important first step in exposing to our state and local road bureaucrats the terrible conditions

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being suffered by residents of Granuaille and Lismore roads and the dangers of the recent increased frequency of double fuel tankers manoeuvring around the roundabout. How long before one overturns.

One success we can report is that after

much delay and confusion of RMS’s making we have recently received an apology and confirmation that RMS has agreed to limit its proposed directional signage to Lismore on the southbound Pacific Highway at Ewingsdale. A temporary sign will be installed “to advise motorists of the alternate [I think they mean ‘alternative’] tourist route 24 via Bangalow and Lismore to Woodburn.” Depending upon what before-and-after traffic counts reveal a decision will be made on whether the sign will be permanent, the criteria for which have not been revealed.

Not too much success to report on Bangalow interchange lighting however.

RMS assures us it has adopted a low level lighting solution. In comparison to the original design, the lighting is much

lower than normal in elevation and in its intensity. In addition, special light fittings ensure there is minimal light spill. The light source or globe is recessed into the light and does not protrude beyond the screen or fitting around it. The aim is that light is directed downwards towards the pavement and cannot spill around and upwards from the globe. The downside of this is that this type of fitting does not give the same coverage on the pavement and consequently more light poles are required to cover the same area. RMS confirms that there will be lighting along the slip roads for the safety of entering and exiting vehicles. This means lighting may be visible from higher areas of Bangalow. To us so far, the roundabout lighting appears very effective and relatively unobtrusive from the town and the higher northern suburbs. Whether we will have the same opinion when there are forty twelve-metre high light poles emerging above the sound mound and vegetation remains to be seen. We still do not understand why the low level (i.e. four metre high) lighting at Taree airport (which we were given to believe would be the sort of lights that would be used at our interchange) were not adopted.

The T2E is a visual blot on the landscape without having it lit up like a Christmas tree at night. And note, the Cumbalum interchange at the northern end of the Ballina bypass has no lighting on the slip roads.

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BANGALOW’S HEARTBEAT

the bowlo Welcomes Shane

Bangalow Bowling Club is certainly in need of sound management and bright ideas and they may just have found the man to provide these.

Shane, and his partner Claire, moved from Sydney to Federal two years ago.

They were keen to escape the city lifestyle and to try village living. A choice they are very happy with.

Shane has had an extensive career in the hotel, club and hospitality industries.

This has included time in Adelaide (his home town), Sydney, London and the Gold Coast. Of particular relevance to this job is his experience in building up businesses. These have included a range of different-sized hotels and clubs, right up to a 3,000 head capacity hotel in Sydney. (A member of the Bowling Club committee told me there were many state and national hospitality awards given to businesses while under Shane’s management – best business, best bistro, best entertainment etc.)

“My emphasis will be towards a familyfriendly venue that is fun and affordable,” he told me. “We need to enhance community confidence and become part of the spirit of the town.” Some priorities he is working on include: l A safe and attractive play area for children. l Family fun days - on the first Sunday each month. These will have such things as a jumping castle, face painting, free bowls and interesting food offers. l New catering which is available for all functions. Stockpot Kitchen has taken on

Shane Ironside. Photo by Judy Baker

this role from the end of July. l Revamping the function room to cater for weddings, birthday parties, trivia events, live music etc. Free hiring will be offered for many events. l Marquee and deck functions.

Shane is well aware of the recent history of the club and the challenges ahead. He points out though, what a loyal group of supporters there are for many club activities.

For example a group of bowlers maintains

and covers the cost of the bowling green.

He is very appreciative of the strong and supportive board. Weekly raffles at the club have raised over $12,000 so far this year, which goes to junior rugby, soccer, netball, Lions and the school P&C. We wish Shane well with this important job and trust he also has time for his hobbies, which include motorbikes, furniture restoration and food and wine.

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community noticeboard Last month CWA news Sue Gow, Ruth Ryan and Sharon O’Meara represented the Bangalow CWA Branch at Primex this year. Bangalow was one of 18 branches working with the Far North Coast Group making sandwiches and scones.

The money raised goes to an Education Grant for local children. For information about applying for the grant contact Di Campbell 6685 4694. Sue Gow

Many thanks Newrybar Public School’s annual Fireworks and Fair went off with a bang on Saturday, 18 July. The event was initially postponed due to wet weather in June and given the recent cold snap that we have had, it did not deter the crowds from attending this year’s event!

Newrybar Public School Principal, Judi Albans, expressed the school’s gratitude to the local community and businesses for bringing the community together for such a time honoured event that all families enjoy. She said that this annual school fundraising event and raffle raises significant funds to support much-needed resources for the school.

On behalf of Newrybar Public School Staff, parents and students we would like to express our sincere appreciation to all of the local and interstate

businesses that provided donations for prizes and to the volunteers.

Joanna Wilkinson

This month The Bowlo The Bowlo will hold a family fun day on Sunday, 2 August from 1 till 5pm. Come for the free bowls, a members’ jackpot draw, jumping castle, face painting and colouring competition. Roast carvery between 12.30 and 2.30 pm. Adults $18, kid’s roast roll $6. The carvery will be on every first Sunday of the month.

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Green organics bins Bins have started appearing in households. The new weekly service, which is for all food and garden waste, begins on Monday, 3 August. Both red landfill and yellow recycling bins will be collected fortnightly on alternate weeks when the new service starts. Check your new calendar in the info pack when the new green bin is delivered.

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Bangalow Garden Club We had a lovely visit to Judith and Morton Kaveney’s garden at Rosebank on Saturday, 4 July. The garden featured some beautiful well established trees and various themed garden spaces which were very inspiring. The garden was established about 40 years ago. The well attended

visit took place in glorious sunshine. The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, 5 August commencing at 1.30 pm in the Moller Pavilion in the Bangalow Showgrounds.

The guest speaker is Alison Radcliffe, Byron Bay Landcare co-ordinator.

Hilary Wise

Fun, fun, fun!

The Bangalow BBQ & Bluegrass Festival is here again on Friday and Saturday, 7 and 8 August at the A&I Hall and Showgrounds.

Come for authentic local food, music, and old-time entertainment.

Kelly Quirke

Good cause Heidi Rankine is a local Bangalow resident who has been chosen as a national finalist for Face of the Globe 2015 supporting The Rainbow Children’s Foundation.

All donations go to supporting underprivileged children around the world by providing schools with play pumps, sanitation, farm seeds bank, and HIV awareness programs.

On 14 August a fundraising event will be held at Bangalow Bowls Club starting at 6.30 pm. Tickets are available for purchase onsite or online at www.bangalowbowlo.com.au.

Delicious buffet meal for $40 per head as well as live music and raffles. Further enquiries can be made on 0417 771 672.

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This year, Bay FM is giving away a fabulous eco-friendly major prize of the chic Fonzarelli. The Fonzarelli is Australia’s first 100% electric motor scooter to keep you on the move, without a huge cost to the environment.

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Bangalow Men’s Shed Bangalow Lions Club is making great progress with their Men’s Shed project on the land donated by the Catholic Church. The main structure is now in place and offers to help with plumbing and electrical fittings have been gratefully received.

The current priority is the much-needed 24-space car park which will link to existing Station Street parking. This is council approved and ready to go in when extra help and funding can be arranged. Clean fill and a little earth moving are needed. For a full story on the project, see next month’s Heartbeat.

Further information: Project leader for Lions, Tony Heeson, 6688 4236; 0419 715 098 or wallaby@nor.com.au

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Philosophers all Byron Philo Café occurs in Heritage House on the first Friday of each month at 6 pm.

We have been going for two years now, in various locations, until settling permanently in Bangalow. We normally get around 30 people to an evening.

Our speakers come from the region as well as from afar. We bring them in ourselves. Each month a subject is tendered on our website at www.meetup. com/byronbayphilocafe/ They are of a philosophic nature.

A discussion ensues after the speaker’s address. All welcome.

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Gentle Yoga in Bangalow

A new over 50s yoga class has commenced in Bangalow at the RSL Hall on Fridays, from 8.30 – 10.00am. The class focuses on gentle movement and stretching and is designed to increase mobility, fitness, strength and flexibility. Peter Townsend is an internationally accredited and registered yoga trainer, as well as being a gym instructor and group exercise facilitator. $15 per class. Contact him at 0490 345 101.

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No Lights No Lycra In the dark you can dance without any fear of judgment or having to measure up. No need for lycra; it doesn’t matter what you wear, what shape you’re

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It’s up-tempo free-form dancing with no dance steps to learn and just enough light so you won’t run into dancers nearby so it’s great if you’re not a confident dancer. You can dance with your friends or by yourself amongst new friends. You can expend as much energy as you want and get a great workout to your own level of fitness. Music is mainly funk/soul/disco/dance music from the 60s to today.

NLNL started in Melbourne five years ago and has spread to 37 Australian cities, 22 cities around the world including Montreal, Chicago, Seattle, Harlem, Copenhagen, Paris, San Francisco, Shanghai, London, Berlin, Bristol and is now in Byron Shire. Tuesdays 6.30 pm at The Bowlo for $5 but about to settle somewhere new in Bangalow.

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WIRES Thanks to so many members of the public in the Northern Rivers, WIRES has successfully rescued and released many hundreds of native animals in their more than ten years of service.

This is all possible because WIRES Northern Rivers has a 24 hour hotline easily reached by a local phone number: 6628 1898.

Volunteers are ready any time night or day to take your call.

WIRES is a state-wide organisation with branches all over New South Wales. There is a NSW rescue line and a wildlife rescue mobile phone app, great tools if you are travelling around the state and away from the Northern Rivers.

However, if you live in the Northern Rivers, or are travelling in this wonderful region, please use the local number.

It connects you to your local WIRES volunteers immediately and ensures the most rapid response they can muster.

So, take a few moments to put the hotline number into your mobile phone. Next time you are out and about and spot wildlife in need, it will be that much easier to reach WIRES. Muriel Kinson

And next month Curry Night The Newrybar Hall committee is holding a Curry Night at the hall on Friday, 4 September at 7pm with an excellent traditional curry prepared by Bev Singh followed by desserts/tea and coffee. BYO drinks. Tickets $25 per head. Bookings essential by 21 August for catering purposes.

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french lesson In a book published in 1986 Jackie French was described as a ‘practising example of all that she believes as an organic gardener’. Today we know her as much more than that. She has been described as a ‘household name’. However I would prefer not to compare her to products like Omo, Jatz and Ajax.

She is dyslexic, an historian and an ecologist, and a passionate worker for literacy. She has recently been painted for the Archibald Prize, is Senior Australian of the Year for 2015, author of around 150 books for children and adults, (of which 60 awards have been received), Australian Children’s Laureate 2014-2015, a wombat tamer in the Araluen Valley in NSW, and a Director of the Wombat Foundation, a grandmother, and one of over 140 writers who will be guests of this year’s Byron Bay Writers Festival.

She was born a baby boomer not far from us in Brisbane and it was not too long after reaching her early 20s that she decided to leave it all behind and buy some land; build a house; grow her own food in her own orchard, and even wear cheesecloth clothing and flowers in her hair.

Australia became most familiar with her when she began making regular appearances on Burke’s Backyard from the mid 1980s until its demise in the early 2000s.

In between the television appearances, she gave birth to a son; her marriage broke up and she lived in a shed, by lantern light, washing nappies by hand and writing books about living sustainably, growing fruit trees and the flora and fauna that surrounded their daily lives. At the same time she

books on gardening; Household and Backyard Self Sufficiency, Growing Flowers Naturally, Wilderness Gardens, Natural Solutions and of course the young adult paperback historical novels that have become so popular in primary and high schools.

Jackie French is returning to Byron Bay for her third appearance at the Byron Bay Writers Festival 2015, and at the special request of the Friends of the Libraries in the Byron Shire. As an expressed desire of Jackie’s she will be coming to Bangalow to talk with us and have afternoon tea.

If you would like to hear more about how Jackie fits all this and more into her 61-year-old life, you are invited to the Moller Pavillion (Bangalow Showgrounds, entry Photo by Rob Maccoll and parking via Market Street, expanded her orchard and with the help of Bangalow) Thursday, 6 August, 2pm for a Bryan (second husband) turned their shed 2.30 pm start; bookings and rsvps essential; like house into a house with solar panels fantastic lucky door prizes as well! Tickets and a waterwheel to power it when there $10 from Bangalow Newsagency – 6687 1396. was rain instead of sunshine and drought.

The Bangalow CWA will be serving a Her first book was Rainstones and then in 1991 she wrote and had published delicious afternoon tea at the conclusion of The Roo that Won the Melbourne Cup, the talk. Bring all your old favourite books of the beginning of a 25-year-old publishing Jackie’s along and get them signed and ask program that still continues today. We know all those questions that you have wanted to her nowadays through reading her columns ask. Jackie’s books will be available for sale in the Australian Women’s Weekly, ABC and book signings will be available.

We acknowledge and thank the Byron Gardening and Earth Garden magazines, her famous Chook Book, her zucchini Bay Writers Festival for bringing Jackie Mary Nelson, chocolate cake recipe, her Wombat diaries, French to our region. her guzzling gardens book for kids and her Friends of the Libraries, Byron Shire

A portrait of the artist Benjamin Johansen is a visual artist based in Brisbane. His explorative work focuses on abstract imagery using a layered pointillist-style with an undeniably optimistic palate of colours.

“My passion is uplifting art. Personally, a painting must be able to sweep the viewer away into an imagined landscape, state of mind or emotion.”

Ben’s organic yet systematic arrays of multiple layered colours provide just enough texture and depth to create feelings of familiarity without the instant recognition of a subject or space. “Perhaps it is the ease with which we forget that

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seeing colour in all forms of life is what truly breathes life into us, whether we are aware of it or not.”

I am privileged and honoured to have painted award-winning Australian author and the 2015 Senior Australian of the Year, Jackie French. From her charming children’s books, such as Diary of Wombat (art by Bruce Whatley) to her ambassadorship of multiple educational organisations and eco-activism, I find her achievements worthy of great respect – an

ideal character for inspiration.

Earlier this year I got to sit and sketch her at the Bolinda Studios in Melbourne while she read some of her best known children’s books for audio recording. She struck me as a powerful and animated woman with a full and busy life but it was her humility and generosity towards education of children, her love for her family, and her day-to-day life amongst the wildlife in her gardens that evoked her true image, one of repose and beauty.

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market forces Donna on the stall

Carol shows the mushrooms growing on logs

Photo by Judy Baker

five minutes with a farmer The Harpers Farm Carole and Donna Harper have been farming near Murwillumbah for nine years. They started off growing blueberries and raspberries on an old, run down cattle farm. The soil needed work so they bought mushroom compost from local mushroom growers. These people were tired of the business and approached the Harpers to buy it, which they did. At first they grew only white mushrooms but listening to their customers at the Farmers Markets they heard that they wanted other varieties.

Now working with expert microbiologist, Noel Arrold, they sell many varieties of mushroom, including Swiss Brown, oyster, shiitake, enoki and shimejiis. They sell berries in season and baked goods, such as savoury tarts, using their produce – mushrooms, eggs, herbs and vegetables.

The most popular products are the shiitake mushroom and fresh raspberries.

Carole commented, “The best advice we have been given is to diversify and constantly learn. Also, listen to what your customers want. That is why the Farmers

Markets are so important, because you talk directly to your buyers and get such valuable feedback. You can’t get that sitting in an office or factory, away from the customer.

It’s also important to monitor food trends.”

I asked Carole and Donna what they loved most about the Bangalow Farmers Market.

They replied, “It’s our customers. They are so incredibly loyal. It can be the worst weather in the world and they will still come out and buy from their local farmer …. you can’t beat that loyalty.”

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Indigenous Singing Superstar Jimmy Little celebrated in ‘Country Song’ This month, from 13 – 15 August, NORPA proudly presents a big Australian story of music and artistry in the face of enormous political challenges. Following the song lines of the hugely influential and much loved touring balladeer Jimmy Little, Country Song celebrates the artist’s life and times with toe tapping tunes and larger than life characters.

Michael Tuahine was a good mate of Jimmy’s and had toured extensively with him before Jimmy passed away from kidney disease in 2012. After seeing the Johnny Cash tribute show, Walk the Line, Michael was inspired to create a tribute show about his dear friend. An accomplished actor himself, (Redfern Now, Secrets and Lies) and singer/songwriter (AIM 4 MORE, Deadly Awards etc) Michael successfully pitched his idea to the artistic director of Queensland Theatre Company, Wesley Enoch.

Wesley Enoch directed the original stage play The Sapphires, and they soon had the co-writer of Bran Nue Dae, Reg Cribb on board for the project. Michael had gathered a mountain of material on his hero who had been such an inspiration to generations of indigenous performers. He had put his idea of playing Jimmy to the man himself before he died and Jimmy really liked the idea.

Using stories and the recollections of

many people to piece together a narrative that reflected the key issues for Indigenous performers throughout the 60s and 70s, the show paints a musical portrait of a big hearted trail blazer who overcame so many obstacles with his big genuine smile and the healing power of his country songs.

The show begins with Jimmy backstage waiting to go on to perform the national anthem to an adoring audience. But what does it mean to sing this particular song now? Who is he singing it for? What does it mean? We see Jimmy whisked along on a fictional road trip through his past, based on stories from the public record.

Despite all the usual trials faced by

Indigenous performers at the time, Jimmy managed to top the charts ahead of Elvis and the Beatles with his hit Royal Telephone, yet he still couldn’t perform his songs in pubs and clubs because of his race.

Country Song is the story of a mild mannered hero to many who led by example and carefully crafted a trail for others to follow. His story is writ large in the careers of contemporary musicians like Troy Casser-Daly, Jessica Mauboy and Busby Marou, musicians who use their creative talents to advance the causes of their people.

Jimmy’s lasting legacy continues through the work of the Jimmy Little Foundation.

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ADFAS: Great Tarts in Art ADFAS Byron Bay’s next presentation on Monday, 17 August at the A&I Hall in Bangalow will be presented by Linda Smith, an art historian from the UK. Linda’s presentation is a mixture of art history analysis and scandalous anecdote.

Linda takes a light-hearted look at the changing attitudes to sexual morality down the ages. She will examine the portraits and careers of some of history’s most notorious mistresses and courtesans and chart the complex and ambiguous attitudes of society towards the numerous anonymous working girls at the lower end of the scale by investigating how they have been represented in art at different times and places from the 17th to the 20th century.

This presentation is very much a social history, carefully placing the works of art in their proper historical context, which reveals many little nuances and meanings in well-known works which might not otherwise be immediately apparent to the modern eye.

Linda Smith is a well-qualified art historian with a broad range of knowledge and a special interest in British art and the art of the twentieth century. She offers illustrated talks, presentations and study days on a variety of art-historical topics and has taken on various types of assignment at a wide range of venues, including public galleries, secondary schools, universities,

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cruise liners, and private arts societies in the UK and overseas. She works as a guide and lecturer at the Tate Britain and Tate Modern in London.

Great Tarts in Art will be presented at the A&I Hall, Station Street, Bangalow on Monday 17 August at 6.30pm.

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Sticky Bun Celebrations David Kennedy has long been drawn to the serious business of eating and drinking, and happily providing others with food and drink. Though his local business Bun Coffee celebrated its 10th birthday in July, David’s ‘Bun’ theme began years earlier.

In the early 1990s, David ran Le Chocoreve, a French patisserie, in Sydney’s Glebe (which his down-to-earth mates referred to as the ‘sticky bun’ shop). In those years, David became fascinated by the fine art of coffee roasting, so following that venture, for five years he was trained, then worked for coffee company Gourmet Gold. Armed with both coffee and café experience, in 1997 he opened Café Bun. A small café, it aimed at providing good coffee, breakfast and lunch for the Cameray locals. Several more ventures in Sydney’s food world, both positive and negative, gave him more invaluable experience.

David had emigrated to Australia from North Yorkshire in the late 1980s “because of the shortage of employment opportunities”. In 1989, he and his wife Jenny visited Byron on a camping holiday. Like many of us, they “fell in love with the place”. It took the couple until 2005 to be able to move to the area permenantly, when their oldest son, Dylan, was six months old.

Initially, David offered his services as a ‘café consultant’. He worked mornings in an Alstonville café, while roasting coffee in the afternoons at a warehouse in the Byron Bay Industrial Estate. Bun Coffee started selling coffee on 1 July 2005. To source the coffee beans, “I had developed a relationship with brokers who sold coffee from all over the world,” he explained, describing ‘microlots’ and ‘single origin coffee’, grown in one particular location.

Today, Bun Coffee retails 59 varieties of coffee, 14 types of tea, plus a few chocolate and sugar options and some “associated

as rapadura.

From the Philippines, it’s an organic, ethically produced, unrefined sugar made of evaporated sugar cane juice.

What’s surely played a large part in the success of the business is the range’s eye-catching packaging. Each product is contained in a striking brightly coloured pack, which stands out clearly on supermarket shelves around the country.

It was designed by a friend, Lee Roberts, who David used to share a house with many years ago, now an art director at a major Australian advertising company. But as he says, “Packaging will sell a product initially, but unless the quality of the product is there, there won’t be repeat sales.

We aim to achieve that by buying good quality product, and taking extra care when roasting it.”

David and Jenny are well known in Bangalow, having lived in the town for a few years before buying and building on a 113-acre intentional community in Fowlers Lane in 2009. Their children Sylvie, 8, and Louie, 10, both attend Bangalow Public School, while Dylan, 12, is now at Byron High. The couple spend a lot of their spare time in fund raising for the Bangalow school.

When all else fails, David (who’s also the main cook in the household) can be found in his veggie patch, where he grows the family’s veggies, such as kale, broccoli, cauliflower, capsicums, and whatever else is in season; or playing the guitar, or fishing in Sleepy Creek with his kids.

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drinking products”. It has 10 employees and still operates from the same premises. About 60 percent of the business is wholesaling; retail accounts for 30 percent; online sales and export are each five percent. Recently David received an email enquiry he initially thought was spam. It turned out to be from a Japanese company, who have since opened up Bun Coffee Byron Bay in Tokyo.

David aims to sell coffee which is as far as possible sustainable and either organic, Fairtrade or Australian grown. Three options are sourced locally, from Friday Hut Road, Federal and Nimbin. Occasionally, he’ll introduce an associated product such

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5th Year for Sample Festival The fifth Sample Food Festival, attracting over 15,000 visitors annually, is shaping up to be the biggest one yet. The one-day event, held at the Bangalow Showground, is the premier food, produce and artisan festival for Northern NSW. This year’s date is Saturday, 5 September from 8am till 4pm.

Sample Food Festival day features $5 and $10 tasting plates from 28 local restaurants.

The remaining 200 exhibitors are made up

of local producers, artisans and a traditional farmers market during the morning.

Sample is a complete mix of our Northern NSW food chain, all together in one place. It is a chance for visitors to speak to farmers direct and sample our incredible local cuisine.

With the great food comes live music as well as celebrity cooking demonstrations and other cool happenings! Guest chefs include

Adriano Zumbo, Alex Herbert, Clayton Donovan and two-hatted chef James Viles of Biota Dining. Children’s activities and a serious line up of musicians including Darren Middleton (formally from Powderfinger) will round out a full day for visitors.

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The Ecology of Women’s Health A dear friend rang me some time ago with the news, “I’ve been diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome.” Twenty years ago, I was diagnosed with the same thing.

On the ultrasound, my ovaries looked like bunches of grapes. However, despite the multiple unruptured follicles in my ovaries, I did not have polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) which has distinguishing features like excess weight, hirsutism (increased hair growth on face and other body areas), acne and menstrual cycle irregularities. I was thin, as is my friend, and I had none of the other features of the condition. So what else was going on?

That dilemma sparked my training as a women’s health practitioner. The gynaecologist told me there was nothing more he could do, so I went to the library and got out all the anatomy and physiology books I could find. I was fascinated learning about how all the reproductive organs and hormones interact. Then I found a wonderful doctor who specialised in nutritional and herbal medicine. He asked about my exposure to environmental toxins.

I had spent months painting the inside of the house and I had also done artwork with a pen containing xylene, a highly toxic chemical that I’d inhaled without realising.

My body was in toxic overload. It took many months of concerted effort – eliminating all environmental chemicals, changing my diet, being ever-vigilant about contaminants from any source - to regain my health and fertility.

As I told this story to my friend, she began joining the dots. While she did not have the same chemical exposure, she had been a smoker who drank big amounts of coffee with lots of sugar as a way of managing a high stress job that required her to push through to meet the demands. Cigarettes, caffeine and sugar in high doses are all known to produce toxins in the body, and my friend’s adrenals were in chronic over-drive from her work demands. Research has shown that high performance competitive behaviour in the workplace results in increased testosterone for both men and women. Increased androgens (male hormones) are another feature of PCOS. Listening to my friend’s description, I remarked that her symptoms seemed to be reflecting the cost of these combined stressors. I envisioned her adrenal glands as red-faced with sweat-bands round their heads!

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of hormones, each one interacting with all the others and with the entire endocrine system. These female hormones are governed by the pituitary, the master-gland, which is attached to the hypothalamus, a part of the brain considered to be the link between the nervous system and the endocrine system. When the hypothalamus

My body was in toxic overload. It took many months of concerted effort – eliminating all environmental chemicals, changing my diet, being ever-vigilant about contaminants from any source - to regain my health and fertility. receives a signal from the nervous system, it secretes neuro-hormones that prompt the secretion of pituitary hormones. If the body is under chronic high stress levels, the hypothalamus interprets this information as not conducive to fertility. Animals in the wild won’t reproduce when food is scarce or they are under threat. The hormonal input from the stress hormones in the adrenal glands over-rides the hormonal balance of the ovarian cycle. In this situation, the multiple unruptured follicles of polycystic ovaries are like a stress explosion, a warning system that your stress levels are too high.

PCOS is reportedly on the rise. So many women unwittingly operate out of a masculine psychology that is linear, left-

brain, task-oriented and goal-focussed. This way of being is the norm in our institutions and work-places. Historically, as more women entered the work force, they adapted to the normal practices of what was once a male-dominated sphere. But at what cost? Behaviours that may be feasible for the male body can wreak havoc for the female body, which is hormonally more complex and cyclic in nature. In the world around us, when the laws of nature are overridden, there is a consequence. So it is with the natural laws inside our bodies.

Many women who come to me as clients wonder why they can’t conceive, why their menstrual cycle is erratic, why they feel so stressed, burnt out and unhappy. They are usually unaware that they have internalised a masculine way of being in the world that is causing them significant physical, emotional and spiritual distress. As a body-worker friend of mine once put it: the men are men and so are the women!

So, what can be done? Simply understanding this imbalance can begin the process of realignment. Inside us, we have an inbuilt template for wholeness - but we need to know how to find it. As a hypnotherapist, I teach people how to access this place within themselves, and how to use the power of their mind to realign with the natural laws operating inside them. Health is our natural state of being and when our bodies are supported to be in harmony with nature, they can often return to a state of wellbeing on their own.

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friends in business Jenny Bird talks to the women behind a beauty and wellbeing business in Bangalow.

There is a saying that you don’t find friends in business. This story resoundingly disproves it.

It is a story about five women – two beauty therapists, two hairdressers and a naturopath/ remedial masseuse. Jenny Pryde, Kylie Tancred, Tori Pisarek, Chris Edmeades and Sally Pattison have owned and run their three small businesses in Bangalow, separately but together, for the last ten years. “Over the years we’ve tried to find a name for this business model, but we can’t come up with one that suits us,” Photo by David Morgan said Jenny.

All five are working mums - between circumstance. Whilst Kylie and Jenny still them they have 13 children. During their have small children, the other three women 10 years together so far they have shared have added other strings to their bows. Chris and supported each other through the teaches hairdressing at TAFE, Sally works as pregnancies and births of six of those a naturopath in another business in Byron children. Five other staff members had five Bay and runs detox retreats, and Tori runs a more babies during the same period. They mobile wedding hair and make-up service. laughingly describe their work environment Chris just laughs at the suggestion that this as “highly fertile”. There has been one all might add up to more than seven days a wedding and so many other life events that week. For Sally, “my kids are older now, so I can expand my business.” they can’t begin to recall them.

The key to their success as a group All five work part time in these businesses in order to manage their work/life balance, is the support they offer each other as and having business partners is key to working mums. “We are sounding boards sharing the workload and splitting the for each other about children, family life week. But each woman is cutting her and business ideas,” says Sally. “We have cloth to suit her particular family stage or watched each others’ children grow and

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make friends, and some of our kids now work together in part-time jobs.”

Testament to the strength of their friendship is their decision to stay together when the lease on their previous premises ended. All five women were offered positions in other businesses in the region, “but we all chose to stay together,” says Jenny, “and we all signed a nine year lease on our new premises.” So Healing Naturally, Cherry Chocolate Blond, Hair Art and Beauty at Bangalow moved to their new location a month ago. The move has meant a fresh start, fresh rooms, a gorgeous sunny protected deck, and more space, “so it has turned out to be positive,” said Kylie.

“Running a business in Bangalow is fantastic,” says Tori, “most of our clients are local, our client base is stable, our clients are great people and we love the almost communal feel of Bangalow.”

With a commitment to at least nine more years together these five women are clearly confident that their business model (whilst it remains nameless) works for them and their families. You CAN find friends in business.

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Feros Care has recently celebrated 25 years of service in the local area. Helen Johnston interviewed Thelma Wheeler, aged 91, who spoke most highly of the care she is receiving in Feros Village Bangalow Thelma was born in Bendigo, the third child in a happy family of eight children: sadly only two siblings are still living, Mary and Frank, are still living. After attending business college she enjoyed many diverse secretarial and administrative positions over the years.

In 1945 she moved to Sydney and met and married Ian Mckenzie where Jacqui, Neil, and after a nine year gap, Jonathan was born. In 1970 her marriage ended and she and Jonathan spent a year living in Canada with her brother Frank.

When she returned to Sydney her career changed direction and she became a court reporter and an employee of Hansard.

There she met Doug Wheeler, a widower who was Clerk of the Legislative Assembly and they married in 1980. This was a most happy arrangement for both families and Linda, Doug’s only child, became her much loved step-daughter.

They retired to Bowral and established a lovely home and garden adjacent to the golf

course. Thelma pursued her lifelong love of painting and their home was a show case for her work, many of which decorate the walls of Feros Village today. Doug died in 2004 and Thelma was beset by several health problems so she moved into Garrison Village at Killarney Heights back in Sydney. Her stay there was cut short by recurring heart attacks, severe shoulder trouble and encroaching arthritis and there was need for a greater level of care.

She had visited her son Neil and his wife Lorraine many times in Bangalow and after much deliberation it was decided Feros Village was the place for her.

Moving away from her friends and family in Sydney was a dreadful wrench. She particularly misses her daughter Jacqui who comes up once a month for three days and is going to attend the Writers Festival with her. She is very close to her son Jonathan and is looking forward to a stay with his family in Manly in September.

She is lucky Linda and her family live

on the Gold Coast and she sees them regularly. Thelma has nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren and takes a loving interest in all their lives. Being computer literate and a wiz with her iPhone and iPad helps her communicate easily with young people.

Thelma’s health has improved considerably since moving to Bangalow a year ago. She credits this to her wonderful doctor and the skilled and devoted nursing staff who have become her friends. An area set aside for her computer and the display of her paintings attest to the philosophy of Feros Care in respecting individual patient’s wants and needs.

Her son Neil, a volunteer at Feros, is proud of the way his mother has made the most of her new environment. Initially Thelma found her new horizon confronting but her warm personality, positive outlook and great sense of humour helped her to adapt and settle in and no doubt having Neil and Lorraine close by has been invaluable.

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what I’ve been reading A ravishing, wonderfully written novel about a friendship that lasts a lifetime.

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

(Book One of the Neapolitan novels) “One of the great novelists of our time” – New York Times Every so often a book or an author comes along and it/they just sweep you away into the depth of their story or the depth of the language they use, or both. This was one of those books.

Elena Ferrante is one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors. Born in Naples herself, she has chosen one of the toughest and poorest neighbourhoods in Naples as the setting for this book. This book is a story about the friendship of Lila and Lenu; it’s about their families and the kids they have grown up with in the neighbourhood and the kids they have gone to school with. The storyteller is Lenu and she is remembering the details of her friendship with Lila starting from a time when they were just little girls daring each other to do the most scary things. This book finishes when they have reached 16 years of age; when life is about to change dramatically due to the event which happens at the end of this first book in the series.

Of course the real storyteller is the author, Elena Ferrante, who enthrals the reader with the detail of this impoverished neighbourhood, the detail of the family feuds which have survived generations, the hierarchy of wealth, the complex rivalries between the children battling to prove their intelligence, the heartache of adolescence, the desperation of the unhinged widow wooed by the poet who has no intention of leaving his wife, the murder of Don Achille, the fear of the shoemaker failing and his son’s frustration at his father’s unwillingness to contemplate expansion. There was so much vivid detail and an immense cast of deep and wonderful characters; it was a book which I did not want to escape from. I’m itching to start reading book number two but forcing myself to read other stuff instead – very frustrating.

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gardens of time past: ancient rome Garden history from antiquity is known and understood either through contemporary writings, poetry, paintings or ceramics or through what has now evolved into garden archaeology.

One of the pioneers in this field is Wilhelmina Jashemsky (1910 – 2007), who specialised her studies on the gardens of the ancient Mediterranean.

Her work on the gardens of Pompeii greatly advanced the knowledge of garden design in ancient Rome. Pierre Grimal’s Les Jardins Romains (1944) is a great read to understand the place of gardens in Roman society. Marcus Terrentius Varro’s (116–27 BCE) writings on gardens gives a contemporary account.

In ancient Rome, as in many other cultures of the time, gardens served three main purposes: ornamental, food and perfume production and devotional. The sizes of gardens varied greatly from house to house, the more affluent the greater the garden. Small courtyards or windows had plants growing in pots often for culinary or medicinal uses.

In larger gardens were found orchards and small vineyards; urban agriculture as it is now known. Where space was more limited, the impression of space or ‘perspective’ was achieved through plants like dwarf cypress and the use of murals depicting very realistic and detailed scenes which have been used by botanists to identify not only the genus but also the species of plants depicted.

Often the garden was surrounded by a roofed columned porch or open colonnade, the peristyle, the water of which was captured into reservoirs or basins. Small paths were constructed to circulate around the garden using materials such as sand over compacted earth, pebbles, broken

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stones or broken pottery and delineated from the plantings by reed lattices. The plants most commonly used were ivy, bay laurel, oleander, acanthus, buxus, thyme and rosemary. Flowers were seen in the forefront of the borders or in pots.

The columns of the peristyle were used to support the climbing plants such as ivy, grapes, or blue ipomea. The more extensive gardens comprised trees such as cypress and fruit trees, and the boundaries marked by planes or pine trees.

Apart from the peristyle, other structures could be found such as the triclina, the summer dining room, that had three couches placed on three sides of a stone dinner table. The semi-circular form, stribadium, was less commonly found. In one particular opulent house belonging to the Pompeian Loreius Tibernicus, the stribadium was a grape covered pergola sheltering a little basin where floating

dishes were placed for the guests.

Water played an important part in gardens. Most included basins or fountains made of marble or masonry often rendered with plaster painted in blue to give the water a more engaging look: some basins were stocked with fish.

A common feature was the Aediculae, little grottos covered with mosaics, constructed above the fountains from which water sprouted from lead pipes hidden behind a mask or statue to fall into the basin below. In the richest houses artificial streams were created: these were called Niles or Euripus.

Once again it is in the house of Loreius Tibernicus that we will find an extreme example. A 2m wide canal formed of two branches in Ts, one of 20m long following the columns and one of 50m placed in the main axes of the garden. This was a designer garden for a very wealthy man.

Statues of bronze, stone or marble were placed within the garden. Their hands were sculpted to hold torches that would be lit at night: garden lighting of the ancient world.

In some rare occurrences, scaled statues and miniature shrubbery placed in front of a painted decor represented miniature hunting scenes.

Religious features such as the family shrine, an altar recessed in the wall, where the family gathered to pray to the household gods. Statues, masks and other representation of divinities or associated symbols were placed around the garden.

Most commonly Bacchus, Venus, Apollo, Diana, and the most often found, Priapus, god of lust and fertility and protector of gardens and orchards.

For further reading go to www.facebook. com/Interactive.landscapes where I have posted my reference sources.

Patrick Regnault Registered Horticulturist MAIH

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august diary

town talk Stephie Hoskings hair apparent

wholesome breakfasts and lunches. Jack, their barista, serves a mean coffee with the local brew, ‘Moonshine’. Wood-fired pizzas are to come by the end of the month. A little café away from the main street. Judy Baker

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Chocolate Rocks exhibition continues all month

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Bowlo family fun day & carvery

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Service of green organics bins begins

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Getsteffed gets Gold

Changes at the office

Getsteffed & Co. has been accredited as a GOLD SALON SELECT by the Australian Hairdressing Council. Stephie has been working towards this accreditation for the best part of two years, with last year achieving the SILVER SALON SELECT accreditation. Being a Gold Salon means that Getsteffed & Co. adheres to the highest standard of client service, skill, salon policies and environmental awareness.

This accreditation means that Getsteffed & Co. is now recognised as a salon that holds these high industry standards. Go Bangalow! Stephie would personally like to thank Claire, Keeley and Andrea for their contribution to Getsteffed & Co. over the last two years.

Judy Baker

Local Business, Hudson Accounting Services, has changed its name and added a new partner. John Hudson and Greg Clark have welcomed new partner, Matt Bleakley, and changed the business name to ‘the office… Accountants & Business Advisers’. John will be reducing his hours to three days a week.

Matt has lived and worked around the Bangalow and Byron Bay areas for the past few years and his family have long-standing connections to the community and the Northern Rivers region.

Judy Baker

Garden club

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Afternoon tea with Jackie French

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Bangalow BBQ & Bluegrass Fest begins; Writers Fest begins; Philo Cafe

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Bangalow Music Festival Prelude; NORPA Country Song begins

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Bay FM Radiothon begins

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ADFAS Great Tarts; RSPCA Cupcake Day

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Bangalow Market

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Daffodil Day HB deadlines: 12(ads) 17(copy) september

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Newrybar Hall Curry Night

Corner Kitchen Station Street is coming to life again as the Corner Kitchen moves in. A family affair, Aneka, Mark, Miranda and Peta and have created a warm and welcoming space to enjoy

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