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Whales off course on the way to recovery By Scott Rasmussen Journal editor
Community Shakespeare 12th Annual Fall Festival
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (appropriate for all ages)
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Nov. 6, 12 noon & 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7-8-9 at 7:30 p.m. Students $10, Adults $15 Tickets online at communityshakespeare.org, Also at Paper Scissors Rock
What only a few short years ago appeared to be an upswing in the population now seems like fleeting good fortune in the up-again, down-again saga of the southern resident killer whales. With four members missing and presumed dead, the population has fallen to 80 animals, according to the Center for Whale Research. The population totaled 88 in 2010. Center Director Ken Balcomb, citing this year’s dismal return of Chinook salmon to the Fraser River,
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(L-79 (missing) swims along side his mother, L-22). maintains a combination of dwindling food supply and toxic materials accumulated in the blubber of the whales is largely to blame for the latest disappearances and drop in numbers. Without enough prey to satisfy nutritional needs, Balcomb said whales draw on blubber for fuel and that toxins are then released into their circulatory system in highly concentrated levels. “All whales use blubber as sort of a freezer storage area,” he said. “The PCBs [polychlorinated biphenyls] go from parts per billion to parts per million when they start drawing on the bank account of blubber and just like in humans it affects the immune system, the nervous system, the reproductive system. It’s what happens when you have bad years for fish.” The center, which main-
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tains a census of the southern resident killer whales for the National Marine Fisheries Service, will list three whales missing in its 2013 survey, all from L-pod. The three are: L-2, a female, estimated age of 53, L-26 a female, estimated age of 57, and L-79 a male born in 1989. The census does not include J-8, a female whose age the center estimates at 80, and which appears to be the latest casualty. Also known as “Spieden,” J-8 was not among others members of J-pod when the
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group showed up en masse about a week ago off the west side of San Juan Island. Center senior research assistant Erin Heydenreich said the 80-year-old female had shown telltale signs of declining health, shrinkage of tissues around head – commonly referred to as “peanut head” – over the past two years, according to the center’s Erin Heydenreich. The southern residents consist of three pods, J, K and L. Called “residents” because they spend a majority of the year in the waters of the Salish Sea, they are considered endangered by the U.S. and Canada. Their population, believed to have been historically in the high 100s, was decimated by captures for marine parks, which ended in the 1970s, followed by pollution and declining salmon populations. The whales’ population SEE WHALES, PAGE 8
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Community Calendar WEDS, NOV 6 PLAY: Community Shakespeare’s A Mid Summer Night’s Dream, 12 & 7:30 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. Tickets at door: free. Shows run Nov. 7 - 9.
THURS, NOV 7 CLASSES: Create a Website or Blog with WordPress, 3 Thursdays, 5-30 - 7:30, at Library. Adrienne Adams teaches how to use this online service to
create a site for business or personal use. $50 fee. Pre-registration req’d. Call 468-4117or www. lifrc.org.
SAT, NOV 9 EVENT: Inter-island creative affair, 9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m., Woodmen Hall. It will feature artists from Lopez, Orcas & San Juan. There will be a food drive there. ART: Holiday Group Show, 5 - 7 p.m., Chimera Gallery in Lopez Village
Plaza. Festive opening for the gallery’s annual Silent Auction and raffle. Group show runs Nov. 9 - Dec. 13, with raffle winners announced Dec. 14. Raffle proceeds benefit Lopez High School arts.
Coffee & goodies begin at 9:30 a.m. at Woodman Hall. The meeting begins at 10 a.m. Our program this month is “Bag Ladies.” If you wish bring your favorite handmade bag & pattern to share.
SAT, NOV 16 MUSIC: Concert Gretchen Wing and Friends/ annual Meetingotion, 7 p.m., Lopez Center. Suggested Donation: adult $10, youth $5.
MON, NOV 11 MEETING: Lopez Center Monthly Board Meeting, 5;15 p.m., Lopez Center.
WEDS, NOV 13 DANCE: Contra Dance - George Marshall and Perpetual E Motion, 7 p.m., Lopez Center. For more info, visit www.lopezcenter. org. $10 (youth $8) tickets at the door.
FRI, NOV 29 FUNDRAISER: Lopez Union Cemetery Christmas Wreath, Craft & Gift Sale, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., Center Church. Proceeds to go support Center Church and Union Cemetery.
TUES, NOV 12 MEETING: Enchanted Quilters’ monthly meeting,
Airlift Northwest cuts ties with Island Air Ambulance
By Steve Wehrly Journal reporter
Cooperation between the two providers of emergency medical transport in San Juan County has become more difficult as of late. The two providers, Airlift Northwest and Island Air Ambulance, both provide air transport for county patients, but island
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residents are wondering what is happening with the two entities and what exactly is the difference between them?
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Washington. Island Air Ambulance provides county residents and visitors with basic life support transport in an airplane between county airports and airports in Bellingham and Seattle. Today most patients requiring air medical transport from San Juan Island fly with Island Air Ambulance, according to Larry Wall, director of critical care transport for San Juan Island EMS. The service results in no outof-pocket costs to residents of San Juan Island, Pearl Island, Brown Island, Henry Island, Stuart Island, Johns Island and Spieden Island, which are all part of the taxing district that supports San Juan Island EMS.
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There are a number of differences in equipment and services available from each program, the primary one being that Airlift Northwest helicopters fly directly to hospitals with landing pads, while fixed-wing planes must land at airports. Individual annual membership for those who live outside of the taxing district, like Orcas residents, is $45 a year and the family annual membership is $55.
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Airlift Northwest will not help to cover islanders using Island Air Ambulance. Airlift Nor thwest announced it has terminated participation in the reciprocal payment program of the Association of Air Medical Membership Programs. “Reciprocal payment” is a common arrangement among providers of emergency transport. For instance, if you had an AirCare membership and were transported by
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Island Air Ambulance, your out-of-pocket costs – over what your insurance paid – would have been covered by Airlift Northwest. That will no longer be the case for residents outside of the taxing district that supports San Juan Island EMS. Residents in that taxing district will also receive added benefits. “A resident of San Juan Island Public Hospital District is covered for out-ofpocket expenses by the EMS Medevac [Air Ambulance] program no matter who does the transporting,” said San Juan EMS Chief Jim Cole.
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Airlift Northwest’s new plan is to negotiate payment plans directly with emergency transport providers, though apparently not with Island Air Ambulance. Airlift Northwest claims the change became necessary partly because county residents are using Island Air Ambulance far more than Airlift Northwest. “We cannot have reciprocity with Island Air Ambulance because we’re not communicating with Island Air Ambulance,” said Chris Martin, executive director of Airlift Northwest.
Martin said that San Juan Island EMS has decided to transport more patients using Island Air, rather than calling in an Airlift Northwest helicopter. Airlift Northwest has about 3,700 San Juan County residents who pay to participate in its AirCare membership program. San Juan Island EMS Medevac, who runs Island Air Ambulance, has recently begun signing up county residents for its similar program to offer emergency transport by airplane. Cole says the membership is not being offered to residents of San Juan Island Hospital District 1 because their out-of-pocket costs are already covered by being part of the hospital district. Martin said reduction in Airlift Northwest flights from San Juan County in recent years is evidence that San Juan Island EMS has relied less on Airlift Northwest helicopters and more on its own fixed-wing airplane and on the EMS emergency boat Guardian for transportation. In 2011, Martin said, Airlift Northwest completed 552 missions to the county; in 2012, the number decreased to 370; so far in 2013, the number is 287. Martin said that the reduced numbers are the result of decisions made by San Juan Island EMS. Cole disagrees with that statement. “All medical emergency transportation decisions are made on the basis of what’s best for the patient,” Cole said. – Cali Bagby contributed to this story.
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Natural History Mushroomania
By Russel Barsh and Madrona Murphy Special to the Islands’ Weekly
A sure sign of autumn in the islands is the sudden appearance of large troops of mushrooms in lawns, fields, woodpiles, and woodlands. Heavy rain and cool but not freezing weather is ideal for a fall flush. But while overall good years are determined by the weather, individual mushroom species are unpredictable and may only be abundant once or twice in a decade. Mushrooms are the fruits of some of the species of fungi in the phylla Basidiomycota and Ascomycota. Other fungi such as molds and yeasts do not produce fruiting bodies large enough for us to see, or to eat. Many fungi are parasites, and include diseases of humans such as ringworm and Pneumocystis pneumonia. Most mushrooms we see are not poisonous, quite a few are edible and many are simply indigestible; very few are truly toxic. Many rely on small animals such as chipmunks to scatter their spores after eating the “fruit”: so they have to smell and taste good! Others attract insects such as gnats and midges to eat and bear off spores; they smell weird to humans but delicious to flies. Still other mushrooms simply rely on the wind to blow spores away to new ground, like the woody polypore mushrooms (they are inedible). Fungi have evolved effective attractants and deterrents for manipulating the behavior of animals. What we see aboveground as a mushroom is tiny compared to the mycelium, the actual body of the
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Fly Agaric – a mildly toxic mycorrhizal mushroom. organism, a sheet or web of highly organized, cooperating fungal cells that may be buried underground, or inside a log. Mycelia can live for centuries and grow to acres in extent. On the occasions when they fruit, their microscopic spores dust the ground surface around them, and fill the air like pollen. Few spores become new mycelia, however. Most land where conditions are not quite right, or other competing fungi are already established. The main enemies of mushrooms are neither slugs nor the humans that somehow take pleasure in kicking them over, but rather the other fungi and bacteria that parasitize them. Over hundreds of millions of years, the fungi have developed a diverse chemical arsenal to ward off attacks by other microorganisms. We owe the first antibiotics such as penicillin (discovered in 1928) and erythromycin (1949) to wild strains of fungi. Fungal diversity is directly and indirectly necessary for plant diversity. Directly, by forming underground mycorrhizal partnerships with plant roots through which the plant is fed micronutrients, and shares some of its sugars from photosynthesis. In old, relatively
undisturbed woodlands, the entire forest floor may be underlain by layers of mycelia of a dozen or more fungal species, spreading out from the roots of the trees and shrubs with which they have formed partnerships. All terrestrial orchids, including the lovely pink Fairy Slippers, depend on soil fungi to feed their germinating seeds and to sustain the orchid throughout its lifetime. Our local evergreen orchid, Rattlesnake Plantain, reciprocates by sharing the products of photosynthesis with its fungal partner. Clear-cut logging, heavy machinery treads, grading the soil surface, and forest fires can kill mycelia in the leaf litter, logs, and shallow soils, slowing the re-growth of trees and shrubs, and reducing the diversity of plant species and fungi that return. On Lopez, our greatest fungal and tree diversity is in south end woodlands with trees 200-600 years old. Dense but young secondary growth conifers, the dominant forest type on Lopez and generally 50-75 years in age, display less than half the diversity or abundance of fungi, although a few “decomposer” species, such as Black Morels, are specialists in disturbed soils. Most fungi are selective
and will only work with one species of plant or a small number of related species. We are fortunate in the islands because many fungi prefer to form partnerships with Douglas firs. On Lopez Hill or Point Colville you can see white Short-Stemmed Russulas a foot or two in diameter emerging like fairytale toadstools around the trees. While this keystone mycorrhizal species is (at best) tasteless to humans it is considered delicious by squirrels and chipmunks. And it is often accompanied by less abundant species such as Shrimp Russula, Bleeding Lactarius, and Matsutake that humans find delicious. Indirectly, fungi are crucial in terrestrial ecosystems because they break down leaf litter and dead woody material, recycling nutrients to support new plant growth. You may have seen one of our most unusual, specialized decomposers, a tiny pale mushroom that only grows on fir cones! Many species can be found on fallen trees and stumps. These fungi have powerful enzymes that dismantle cellulose, lignin, and other structural compounds in wood; they also tend to have very useful properties as bio-degraders in bio-
swales. So raise a glass of wine (kvass, kumis, beer or kombucha will also do) to the fungi while eating some delicately sautéed local mushrooms on a piece of toasty bread in your home built with wood grown from mycorrhizal partnerships, and … you get the picture. Kwiáht researchers are building an inventory of mushroom species, their
habitats and seasonality, to complement the annotated checklist and keys maintained by the South Vancouver Island Mycological Society, www. svims.org, with a focus on keystone habitat-building species, edibles, and dyeproducers. Write kwiaht@ gmail.com for more information.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Board of Commissioners for the Port of Lopez will hold a public hearing to present and discuss the adoption of its 2014 budget. The public hearing will be held on Thursday, November 14, 2013 at 7:00p.m. at the Port's airport building. The public is invited and encouraged to attend.
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Initiative 522 – badly written, costly and misleading Consumers would pay higher grocery prices
“Labeling needs to be done the right way, and I-522 falls short.” Everett Herald Editorial, 10/16/13
“Economic studies show I-522 would increase grocery prices for Washington families by hundreds of dollars per year.” Dan Newhouse, Former Director Washington State Department of Agriculture
“[I-522] would confuse rather than inform, so voters should reject this poorly worded and deceptive initiative.” The Olympian Editorial, 10/22/13
Many food labels would be false and inaccurate “Initiative 522 is so badly written it would require some foods to be labeled as genetically engineered, even if they're not. It would give consumers misleading information.” Ken Eikenberry, Former Washington State Attorney General
I-522’s labeling policies are unsupported by science “The information on food labels should be factual and reliable, but I-522 would provide inconsistent and misleading information and is unsupported by current nutrition research.” Sarah Zarelli, R.D., M.Ed. Registered Dietitian, Pediatrics, King County
“Washington voters and consumers can serve their best interests by voting No on I-522.” Seattle Times Editorial, 10/5/13
“I-522 doesn’t live up to its own truth-inpackaging claims.” Tacoma News Tribune Editorial, 10/6/13
“Exemptions for everything from dairy and beef products to restaurant foods render much of I-522 meaningless to consumers.” The Spokesman-Review Editorial, 10/22/13
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Every major newspaper in Washington says NO on I-522: Seattle Times • The Olympian • Everett Herald The Spokesman-Review • Walla Walla Union-Bulletin • The Columbian • Tri-City Herald • Wenatchee World Longview Daily News • Tacoma News Tribune • Yakima Herald-Republic • Moscow-Pullman Daily News This voter information paid for by NO on 522, P.O. Box 7325, Olympia, WA 98507. Top five contributors: Grocery Manufacturers Association Against I-522, Monsanto Company, DuPont Pioneer, Dow AgroSciences LLC, Bayer CropScience. The Islands’ Weekly • www.islandsweekly.com • November 5, 2013 – Page 4
Inter Island Creative Affair There are less than 50 shopping days left until Christmas. Support your local artists and crafters by buying locally produced items at the Inter Island Creative Affair Nov. 9 from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Woodmen’s Hall on Lopez Island. Over twenty talented local artists from through out the islands will be showing in one place for just one day. A raffle will be held every thirty minutes featuring items donated by local artists. Everyone bringing non perishable food items for the food bank will receive an entry to the raffle. Must be presContributed photo ent to win. Refreshments will be served Work from Bossy’s Feltworks from Orcas Island, just one of by donation to the Lopez Hospice. the special guests who will be there at the event.
Barnraising Guild Project By Ande Finley
Special to the Islands’ Weekly
Transition Lopez Island is part of a worldwide movement to encourage resilience and sustainability in our communities in the face of oncoming climate change, economic instability, and issues of peak oil. Since Lopez already has many organizations working actively towards this goal, the Transition group has been looking for ways to fill in the gaps. Toward this end, Transition Lopez Island formed the Barnraising Guild for island neighbors to help one another with homesteading projects in the manner of the community barn raising of the past. It helps the whole community as individual families become more resilient and land use island-wide becomes more productive. To kick off activities, eleven people gathered at Laurie Parker’s little homestead on a sunny autumn Saturday. There were tasks for all age levels and abilities. Participants had scoured their spare wood piles and pooled materials and tools. Led by Kay Keeler and her intrepid granddaughter, Molly, the group moved piles of thorny brush to a burn pile. Mike Moore and Jack Pedigo dug post holes and built a gate to enclose the goat pen. Scott Finley led a team of Pete Kuentzel and Parvin Baharloo in designing and building a
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goat shed. Eski Benson single-handedly built a hay feeder. Pat Kuentzel and Ande Finley helped repair the chicken tractor and rabbit hutches. Beverly Zapalac brought everyone a nourishing lunch. By dark, every project had been completed in time for the potluck. The crew bonded in unique ways and it was a truly satisfying day. The Parker/Benson/ Odegards are a multi-generational family sharing land and resources. Laurie is a self-employed writer and her son, Eski and his partner, Orion Odegard are artisans caring for their infant daughter, Kåra. “I know that a lot of work parties happen on Lopezfor the milking co-op, the Land Trust, the LCCA, and various non-profits, and I know a lot of the farmers
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help each other out regularly,” said Laurie. “But for people who have projects on a smaller scale, this opportunity organized by the Transition group is needed. Many people don’t like to ask for help and this is a way of exchanging labor that helps people overcome that resistance.” Although hours will not be tracked formally, the Guild encourages people who would like to get their project on the schedule to become involved on a regular basis. Those who cannot do the heavy lifting could find other ways to contribute – in lighter tasks, assisting with the organizing, and/or bringing food for the end-of-the-day potluck. For more information, contact Barnraising Guild coordinator, Scott Finley at scofin@gmail.com or 5199.
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Critical Areas Ordinance (CAO) What Just Happened? • What Have We Lost? Why Does it Matter? • What’s Next? Please Join Us, Q&A to follow! Sat, Nov 9, 2013-FH Middle School Commons, 2:30 pm Sun, Nov 10, 2013-Eastsound Fire Hall Mtg. Room, 1:00 pm
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ing from Standard Oil of California/Chevron USA with 33 years of service, he made his home on Lopez Island. Gordie enjoyed fishing, crabbing, boating, part-time cattle ranching and was a fan of the Seattle Seahawks from their beginnings. He was engaged for many years in community services – offering his time and experience to such projects as the island’s Catherine
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anniversary. Gordie is dearly missed by his wife, Barbara; three children and their spouses, G’Ann and Franz Stratil, Constance RydbergJohnson and Nick Johnson, Catherine and Greg Olson; as well as his four grandchildren, Austin Beatty, and Stephanie, Thomas and Christopher Stratil. A memorial ser vice will be held at 2:00 p.m., Saturday, November 9, 2013 at the Lopez Island Community Church. A private family graveside service will be held at Lopez Union Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the: Catherine Washburn Medical Association, Doing business PO Box 309, Lopez Island, WA without advertising 98261. is like doing exercise Arrangements are in the care of Evans in the dark…Funeral Chapel and Crematory, Inc., Anacortes, WA and the San You know what memJuan Islands. To share you’re accomplishing ories of Gordie, please sign the online register but noguest one else is at www.evanschapel.com.
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NOVEMBER SHOW Saturday, Nov. 9th, 5-7 pm Show dates: 11/9 - 12/13
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OPALCO SEEKING TO FILL DISTRICT 4 VACANCY OPALCO’s Board of Directors is seeking to fill a vacancy in District 4, which includes Shaw, Crane, Canoe and Bell islands. Interested candidates residing within District 4 should submit a cover letter and brief resume to Chris Thomerson, President, Board of Directors, 183 Mt Baker Road, Eastsound, WA 98245 or via email tobmadan@opalco.com with “Director Candidate” in the subject line. The Board will appoint a replacement to fulfill the term that expires at the annual meeting in 2016. Open until filled.
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DNR removes dock fragments and floats In November, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources will take steps to improve navigation and ensure environmental protection in two popular harbors on Orcas and San Juan Islands. The project will remove a dozen old dock fragments and floats illegally moored on state-owned aquatic lands. “These floating docks are in various states of disrepair, and some are likely to break apart in a significant storm,” said Brenda Treadwell, DNR’s aquatic resources manager covering San Juan County. “In addition, many of these structures contain old tires, exposed foam and other hazards that can harm the aquatic environment. In
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plummeted to 71 by 1973, climbed to 99 in 1995, then plummeted to 79 six years later. The population rebounded to 80 in 2002, 83 in 2003, 89 in 2005, and has seesawed around 88 since then. The whales were declared endangered by the U.S. and Canada by 2005. Some orca advocates insist there’s greater concern for the long-term health of the population than just the decline in overall headcount. Based on a study of the center’s survey, Orca Relief Citizens’ Alliance cites a
other cases, the floats are used as storage for anything from gas cans to a bath tub. Removing these broken bits of docks and dilapidated floats also will make navigation easier for boaters and provide more area for short-term vessel moorage.” The floating docks are in Deer Harbor on Orcas Island and in Shipwreck Cove in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island. Photos of the floating docks scheduled for removal are online at: www.flickr.com/photos/wastatednr/ sets/72157637172030234/ DNR will begin removing unauthorized dock pieces and floats in late November. Because most of the structures are in poor repair, DNR wants to remove them before storms break them up.
sharp decline in the number of breeding-age females and males, down 24 percent since 2004, and 26 percent since 2009, respectively. However, the next generation of breeding females, 3-15 years of age, has fallen even faster, down 39 percent since 2000, according to Orca Relief. “Our new analysis suggests that the greatest danger to the population is much more serious than indicated by total headcount, as the breeding female population, today and tomorrow, plunges at an alarming rate,” Orca Relief Executive Director Bruce Stedman said in a press release. “We are concerned that if additional pro-
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tective steps are not taken very soon it could be too late for Puget Sound’s resident Orca.” Orcas Relief notes that the number of juvenile males has increased 66 percent since 2009. Faced with dwindling salmon runs, Orca Relief maintains the quickest remedy for the southern residents would be the creation of a protection zone off the west side of San Juan Island, in which boats would be prohibited. Such a zone would provide the whales with a buffer from whale-watch boats and safe haven where they might rest and hunt more efficiently. Meanwhile, Balcomb believes the answer to whales’ survival is simple, even if the equation is complicated: more fish. “If we could keep lots of fish out there, even if they’re toxic, we wouldn’t have this problem with the southern residents heading down this road to extinction,” he said. “It would take some adjustments in lifestyles, but we’re humans, we can fix it, it can be done.”
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