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Carmel Cares brightens city with chalk art

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As an assistant principal at Carmel High School, part of Karen McDaniel’s job is coordinating student PANDEMIC activities and encouraging engagement.

But with school campuses closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, that task got a little more difficult.

“As we recognized how hard it was for us adults to not be in school and having our normal routine, we thought that had to be really hard for our young adults, too,” McDaniel said. “So, we wanted to provide opportunities for students and families to engage in emotional and physical well-being activities.”

During brainstorming sessions, others on her team with young children described activities they were doing that might be fun for high school students, too. They soon realized the value of engaging the entire community and began planning on a wider scale.

Several community partners joined the planning team, including the Carmel police and fire departments, Carmel Clay Parks & Recreation and the City of Carmel. Thus, the Carmel Cares initiative was born. It features five themed weeks with interactive activities designed to build community connec-

Laura Lancaster and her daughter created chalk art on the sidewalk in front of their Stonehedge Estates home. (Submitted photo)

tions during a time people are required to be physically distant from one another.

The series kicked off April 3 with a virtual fireworks display. The theme for the first

week, which was April 3 to 9, was “Color the City with Kindness.” Participants were encouraged to write positive messages with chalk on driveways and sidewalks, decorate homes with lights and banners and paint kindness rocks.

Stonehedge Estates resident Laura Lancaster and her 5-year-old daughter created chalk art in front of their home throughout the week.

“It’s been pretty tough being out of work, things uncertain and stuck at home,” Lancaster said. “Luckily, we have a lot of sidewalk chalk, and we are on a very well-traveled stretch of sidewalk. We love our neighborhood and just wanted to be able to lift some spirits.”

Themes for the following weeks are “Old Rivals” (April 10 to 16), “Rev Up Your Creativity” (April 17 to 23), “Exercise Your Body and Mind” (April 24 to 30) and “Sheroes and Heroes” (May 1-7). McDaniel said the planning team is working to develop additional themed weeks because of the April 2 announcement that schools will be closed through the end of the school year.

Participants can share photos and videos on the Carmel Cares Facebook page and on Instagram and Twitter with the hashtag #CarmelCares. Look for additional information about each week on the Carmel Cares Facebook page and the City of Carmel website.

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Mayor: Not testing could risk ‘reckless homicide’ charge

By Ann Marie Shambaugh AnnMarie@youarecurrent.com After urging local assisted living centers and nursing homes April 3 to test employees for COVID-19, NURSING HOMES Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard followed up several days later by alerting those not conducting tests that they could be held responsible if residents there die from the disease.

Several senior living centers didn’t plan to implement proactive testing as of April 6, Brainard said. He sent officials at those facilities a letter — either by email or hand-delivered by police — imploring them to change their policies.

“I do not have the authority to order you to do testing. I do believe, however, that failure to test your staff on a weekly basis now that tests are readily available constitutes extreme negligence as well as putting you personally at risk for reckless homicide if someone dies as a result of you not testing your staff,” Brainard stated in the letter.

By April 9, Brainard said some of the facilities had changed their policies and agreed to test.

George Ferriell, administrator at Rose Senior Living, said the facility began weely testing of direct-care providers through Luminus Diagnostics April 6 as a result of Brainard’s request. All returned tests were negative as of April 9. The center has taken other steps to prevent the spread of COVID-19 as well.

“Last month we implemented a visitor restriction protocol, stopped all group activities and began serving our meals directly to apartments,” Ferriell said. “We continue to actively monitor our residents and also our team members on their arrival and departure from work.”

The Stratford senior living community administrators said they expected to begin weekly testing last week.

“We have been working on this for a while, but with the shortage in tests and the previous requirement of having a doctor’s order, we have not been able to up until this point,” Executive Director Sam Carrillo said. “We would like to start immediately but are waiting on the company who is providing the tests.”

ManorCare Health Services Summer-Trace has scheduled testing through Eli Lilly at its

skilled nursing and assisted living center.

That is in addition to other steps already in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

“Prior to the mayor’s request, at the direction of our medical and clinical experts, we have implemented precautions exceeding CDC guidelines to minimize risk to patients and employees and designed to prevent and contain COVID-19 in our facilities,” ManorCare spokesperson Kelly Kessler said.

After consulting with medical professionals, Brainard asked senior care facilities to test staff, and if a positive result is found, to test residents as well. Seniors are more likely to suffer serious complications as a result of the disease, which can sometimes lead to death. In Indiana, approximately 20 percent of reported COVID-19 cases have been among people age 70 and older, while nearly 70 percent of the state’s deaths have occurred in that age group.

Brainard stated the tests, which the city plans to conduct through Aria Diagnostics on all of its employees, should be considered “a cost of doing business” and is likely eligible for reimbursement under federal law.

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RECKLESS HOMICIDE? Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard — who worked as an attorney before pursuing elected office — said senior living facilities that don’t test employees for COVID-19 could face a reckless homicide charge if a resident there contracts the disease and dies.

Fran Watson, clinical professor of law at IU McKinney School of Law, said reckless homicide is committed when one is aware of and ignores substantial and unjustifiable risk to the lives of others, resulting in death.

“A prosecutor to elected office has much discretion in terms of charging,” she said. “Exercising this discretion requires a weighing at the intersection of the law and the facts of each case.”

She said proving the charge would require showing that the defendant substantially deviated from a reasonable standard of care, aware that death would likely occur as a result.

“Of course, these are extraordinary times, and whether something is reckless will take the extraordinary circumstances into account,” Watson said.

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Thirty-six Carmel Street Dept. workers are back at work after testing negative for COVID-19.

The city quarantined the PANDEMIC employees — more than half of the department’s workforce — after learning that many of them had purchased snacks and drinks at Circle K at 545 S. Range Line Road, where an employee tested positive for the disease.

“The street department (employees) work in pairs, and we learned that at least 13 had been in that station over the last few weeks,” Carmel spokesman Dan McFeely stated in an email. “From there, they would return to their trucks and potentially spread the virus to their co-workers, so that is why we placed 26 on leave and are having them all tested. That number jumped to 36 the next day as we learned about more.”

All of the street department employees tested negative for the virus, but the city plans to have them wear personal protective equipment in the near future in case they received a false negative test and become symptomatic later.

Laurence Myre Leroux, global communications advisor for Circle K parent company Alimentation Couche-Tard, said the employee received the diagnosis on March 26.

“We received no further guidance from the health care facility or local health authority to make any additional public notices,” she stated in an email. “However, as part of our policy, we did immediately close the store to professionally clean and sanitize it and posted signage to indicate that the store was temporarily closed because of a confirmed COVID-19 case. The store re-opened on March 30 with alternate staffing.”

Hamilton County spokesperson Tammy Sander said the local health department does not require retail businesses with an infected employee to notify customers of the potential exposure.

“The thought is that everyone is practicing good hygiene and distancing even when visiting a business,” Sander said.

Circle K has reinforced cleaning procedures in stores and at fuel pumps and is providing supplies and procedures to keep employees safe.

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School closures ‘soul-crushing’ for high school seniors

By Chris Bavender news@currentincarmel.com With schools closed through the end of the school year, students are dealing not only with the new normal PANDEMIC of eLearning but also the cancellation of everything from proms to sports seasons to trips to the movie theater with friends.

“Everyone, especially seniors, are super upset. I have never been the type to go party it up my final semester, nor am I the type to go out and do a bunch of ‘teenager’ things, but the idea that the last day of high school with all of my classmates and friends has already happened remains really, really soul-crushing,” said Zoe Franz, a senior at Park Tudor School who lives in Noblesville. “I have gone to Park Tudor for eight years, but some of my friends have been there since junior kindergarten, so it’s hard to imagine not finishing out a legacy like that.”

Franz also is “devastated” about the cancellation of prom, which was set for April 18.

“I think I will probably just wear my fancy dress around the house,” she said. “Or, when all of this is over, invite my friends over and we’ll just eat pizza and play games or go somewhere nice in our fancy outfits.”

Tyler Jeffries, a senior at Westfield High School, was supposed to play the title role of Shrek in the school’s final production of the year, which was scheduled to open March 19.

“When we learned that school was going to be closed for a month, I was at rehearsal for ‘Shrek,’ Jeffries said. “We were all pretty emotional because we weren’t sure what was going to happen to the production that we worked so hard on. Everyone was emotional, including our directors. A lot of uncertainty and questions went through my mind, but the one question I know went through all of our minds was, ‘What’s going to happen next?’”

Jeffries and his friends are trying to adjust to the reality they won’t have the senior year they’d long anticipated, but they are trying to stay upbeat.

“We have this giant text message group chat, where we can all talk to each other throughout the day and share jokes and stories,” he said. “It’s really nice to have the technology that we have so that we can still be connected with the friends and fam-

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Medard Mikobi, a junior at Carmel High School, has seen his travel soccer team’s practices and games come to a grinding halt.

“This sudden break from training and games hit me pretty hard,” he said. “At first, it didn’t seem very serious to me until it was announced we weren’t going to train or play until April 30, maybe even later than that.”

The IHSAA announced April 2 that all spring sports are canceled.

Mikobi said he still tries to go to the CHS soccer fields, and he and one of his teammates created a garage gym.

“We’re also taking this break to develop our bodies and stay in shape,” he said.

Franz said it’s tough to accept that she’s had her last day in school.

“I did not say goodbye to my teachers,” she said. “I did not hug my friends enough.

I did not go to enough sports games. I did not get to do my final psych project that I have been working really hard on. I feel like I am losing a lot. The end of senior year is a time to reflect and do things you forgot to do throughout high school, but the class of 2020 had this opportunity ripped away from them.”

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Chinese community provides aid

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SUPPORT. From left, Dr. Peiyi Hu presents a check to Natalie Oehler, co-director of the Carmel United Methodist food pantry, along with Ming Ye. (Submitted photo)

Carmel and Lafayette who are alumni of Tongji Medical University, which is in Wuhan, China, where the new coronavirus originated.

“We felt like we should do something to help those health care providers (in Wuhan),” Ye said. “Quickly, along with the broader Chinese American community, we launched a campaign to ask for donations.”

Now, their effort is concentrated on helping those in central Indiana.

“We feel like we should even do more for our hometown here,” Ye said. “We want to help our people that are working on the front lines.”

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By Renee Larr news@currentincarmel.com In an age of social distancing, one volunteer with the nonprofit TheraPets of Indiana is getting creative to reach PANDEMIC out to those in need.

Typically, TheraPets provides animal-assisted therapy and activities in hospitals, assisted living facilities, schools and homes.

Volunteer Sarah McQueen and her dog, Pearl, typically visit with seniors, but with the pandemic paralyzing the nation, they have had to change their routine.

“We discontinued our visits several weeks ago because we wanted to make sure we weren’t unintentionally contributing to the spread of COVID-19,” McQueen said. “We started sending out photo greeting cards to our friends.”

McQueen also has created videos of Pearl reading books to children.

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Carmel’s Chinese community wants to do its part to lend a hand in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Ye and Dr. Peiyi Hu headed a campaign to help collect donations of food and medical supplies for those who need them.

Ye is involved with the Carmel-Xiangyang Sister City Committee, which presents the annual Mooncake Festival.

The team recently delivered a $500 check to the Carmel United Methodist Church food pantry and a $500 check to the Our Lady of Mount Carmel’s Merciful HELP Center.

The group also raises funds for medical supplies, including personal protection equipment for doctors, nurses and first responders, and donated 1,600 protective face masks that were delivered to IU Health North, which will distribute them to IU Health facilities.

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To be able to transition from your company office to your home office to work virtually, we all should remember to follow these proposed guidelines: • Establish a separate work area dedicated for your office — especially the hardware and network link to keep any potential problems to a minimum.

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We believe mobile and remote work is here to stay and will continue to expand with time. It is proving to be invaluable and may help in some way to contribute to our economy by allowing a lot of people to continue working and supporting businesses.

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providing a high quality of living with low taxes, but looking ahead, he said he wants to secure a shelter for domestic abuse vicAfter what he said has been a collaboratims in Hamilton County. tive and innovative first term, Jeff Hern is “I really look forward to continuing to running for reelecprovide resources to the northern POLITICS tion to the Hamilton part of the county that sometimes County Council. can be neglected,” he said. “One of Hern and fellow Republican inthe things I am most proud of is the cumbents Rick McKinney and Brad impact we were able to make (when Beaver are bidding to keep three I served as) Fall Creek Township at-large seats in a field of five other Trustee. I tripled the size of the food Republicans: Lyneen Burrow, John pantry, created a back-to-school Hern Ditslear, Sue Maki, Steve Nation and backpack program and implemented Tony Scott. an adopt-a-family (program) during the holiGardiner Bink III, a Democrat, also is seek- days, all without using taxpayer dollars. After ing the seat. six years as trustee, the township became “As a volunteer in Hamilton County for debt-free and lowered taxes each year.” the last 17 years and an elected official for Hern has a degree in marketing and interthe last nine years, I have always had two personal relations from Ball State Universigoals: keep government limited while easy ty. He works in executive management for to navigate, and always be accessible to the food industry sales. He has been married to county’s residents,” Hern said. “With every his wife Kathy for 21 years. They have three decision I have made as a county councilor, sons, Austin, Max and Jack, who attend I have sought to be collaborative, innovative Hamilton Southeastern Schools. and always keep taxpayers first.”

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“I have been stunned ever since,” Coots So Torr delivered the award in person, but said. “When I talk about it I get teary eyed.” social distancing requirements prevented Torr said he decided to nominate Coots them from even taking a photo together. for the award after reading a story about Coots, a Westfield resident, said his firm Coots’ 50-year law career in the June 18, will likely celebrate the honor after pandem2019, edition of Current in Carmel. ic restrictions are lifted.

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Connection key while apart Commentary by Rev. Patti Napier Social distancing and self-quarantine have become household terms overnight.

Most of us experiencing GOOD NEWS the coronavirus pandemic have no personal memory of the polio epidemic in 1916 nor of the influenza pandemic in 1918. With that influenza, there were 4,000 deaths in one day in Philadelphia, but the city of St. Louis practiced social distancing similar to what we are doing now, which slowed the spread.

Social distancing and self-quarantine appear to be effective measures for us to take, but this need not relieve us of a responsibility to love and care for others. In fact, I will contend that it becomes even more important at these times. It simply means that we need to be creative in the ways that we support one another.

I speak from a Christian tradition, but I think this truth applies to all of us: “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.” When we love our neighbor, the fruit of that experience not only touches the one who receives the love but also sparks warmth in the heart of the one who reached out in love.

I would challenge every single one of us to consider these acts of love and kindness: • Write a handwritten note to someone.

Many say this is a lost art but one that brings great joy.

• Send an email to someone you do not regularly communicate with. Thinking of you!

• Put a big sign on your front door that is positive and bright. There are more people walking through neighborhoods now. This could be a fun activity for kids, too!

• On Fridays when you hear the test sirens, go outside and wave at your neighbors!

• Call those you know who live alone.

Yours may be the only voice they hear today.

• Don’t forget about food pantries! At Carmel United Methodist Church, we are working diligently to maintain our regular hours of operation with adjusted processes to meet today’s standards. When you shop, could you pick up rice or cereal or feminine products and drop them off at the Mission House (621 S. Range Line Rd.) so that you may be a part of this effort to address food insecurity? The need is great!

Reaching out to others through acts of love and care warms the hearts of everyone in that transaction. This, too, helps to strengthen us while we practice social distancing and self-quarantine. For now, may this be a blessing to you.

Rev. Patti Napier is senior pastor of Carmel United Methodist Church.

DISPATCHES Bulk trash pickup suspension extended — The City of Carmel and Republic Services have extended the suspension of bulk item and bulky landscape waste pickup through at least April 20 in an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Basic trash and recycling pickup will continue.

Campground closed — The White River Campground in Cicero, which traditionally opens April 15, will remain closed until further notice. Hamilton County Parks and Recreation announced the decision April 8, two days after Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb ordered campgrounds at state parks to close to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Virtual forum — Citizens’ Climate Lobby is hosting a virtual town hall meeting with candidates for Indiana’s 5th Congressional District at 7 p.m. April 22. Candidates will

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ASSEMBLING THE RIGHT TEAM Aria Diagnostics quickly reinvents itself to battle COVID-19 pandemic

By Ann Marie Shambaugh AnnMarie@youarecurrent.com A lab on 96th Street has quickly transformed its mission from toxicology screening to testing for COVER STORY COVID-19.

Aria Diagnostics, 5635 W. 96th St. in Indianapolis, typically checks for narcotics and opioids, but in recent weeks it has shifted its focus to not only offering COVID-19 tests but assembling them as well.

Founder Zak Khan, a Carmel resident and 1994 Carmel High School graduate, said only testing people showing symptoms of the disease — the policy in much of Indiana and elseKhan where — doesn’t do enough to stop its spread. He said everyone who isn’t staying at home — from road workers to grocery store employees — should be tested.

And he’s not going to let a shortage of testing kits stop that from happening.

“If you create a strategy saying, ‘There’s a lack of kits; we only want to test those who are symptomatic,’ that goes in the face of the evidence that says people are going to be asymptomatic (but contagious),” Khan said. “The way the disease works is once somebody gets it, they may be symptomatic, they may not.”

Khan said he became frustrated hearing about testing kit shortages, especially in areas hardest hit by COVID-19, so his team found the raw materials needed to make them and began assembling them this week at Pure Pharmacy at Old Meridian Street and W. Carmel Drive in Carmel.

In the first week, Khan expected to assemble 50,000 kits, with 100,000 assembled per week thereafter. Many of the kits will be used locally, with others destined for clients in North Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky and Maryland. Khan and his partners formed Apex Medical to manage the assembly and are donating 50,000 of the kits to New York, one of the hardest-hit areas.

From left, Sabrina Gatlin and Christine Hamilton assemble COVID-19 test kits at Pure Pharmacy in Carmel. Both normally work at Capitol Street Surgery Center. (Photo by Ann Marie Shambaugh)

“Nobody that I’m aware of in this country is manufacturing kits,” Khan said. “They aren’t hard to assemble.”

RAMPING UP

As of April 6, Khan said Aria was testing more than 200 people for COVID-19 each day, with results ready within 48 hours. But he said Aria has the capacity to conduct 10,000 tests per day. Many of those being tested are first responders from central Indiana, including Carmel, Noblesville, Whitestown, Fishers, Zionsville, Westfield, Avon, Pike Township and the Indiana State Police. But the business also is expanding its reach, offering testing for several facilities in Texas.

Each test costs $175. Carmel plans to test its first responders weekly and other employees at least once, aiming to identify not only those with COVID-19 but also those who may have unknowingly had it and recovered. The city expects to pay $600,000 for the tests, which city leaders expect to be reimbursed through the federal government.

“The testing can prevent even more costly hospitalizations and additional medical treatment among our insured,” Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard said. “Each hospitalization

we avoid will save the city health insurance fund tens of thousands of dollars.”

Brainard said the postponement of elective surgeries has helped supply the city health insurance fund, which had approximately $2 million as of Feb. 29.

Khan said testing first responders saves taxpayer dollars by identifying firefighters and police officers who can go to work so cities don’t pay overtime to cover shifts for those unnecessarily quarantined.

“It’s really expensive for municipalities,” Khan said. “Our first mission is always to get those guys back to work.”

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Several community partners have offered to help with the effort. For example, Anthony’s Chophouse is providing a cooler to store prepared kits before they are shipped.

IU Health’s pathology department also stepped up to help, Khan said, when Aria encountered a bottleneck in processing tests.

“These are normally labs we compete with, but we have learned we have to work together,” Khan said. “This is not an economic opportunity. It’s an opportunity to serve those who have been protecting us.”

GETTING STARTED Before founding Aria Diagnostics, Khan began operating surgery centers, including Capitol Street Surgery Center in Indianapolis. He partnered with Vipin Adhlakha, a molecular biologist who had been one of his best friends at Carmel High School, to launch Aria Diagnostics at the request of physicians wanting, in part, to ensure patients were taking potentially addictive drugs as prescribed.

But now, with labwork slowed because many doctors aren’t seeing patients in offices, Aria has the ability to transform its short-term mission to testing for COVID-19. Aria purchased machinery and software to make it happen.

The idea sparked three months ago when reports of the new coronavirus, which causes the COVID-19 disease, first came out of China.

“Vipin said, ‘We’d better look at COVID-19, because if we can test for it I think there will be value in the U.S. market, clinically,’” Khan said. “So I said, ‘OK, let’s look at doing it.’”

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Power of knowledge

Mayor’s tactics ‘misguided’

Commentary by Terry Anker The firstborn had recently entered a “transition to kindergarten” program, and while it was more emotional than expected to nudge him alone into the wide world, he seemed to enjoy and benefit from the social interaction with others of his own age. Good, because this was very much the reasoned intention. As an only child, it was sensible to worry that he’d miss that which only peers can teach.

As soon became the ritual, each evening meal demanded some report on the happenings of the day. What was learned? Who told a good joke? How was lunch? As is appropriate with a newly minted 4-year-old, details were sparse, but eventually a story or two could be cajoled through intentional and persistent interrogation. To be sure, one could expect the odd account of the art project or time spent in the gym. But the more interesting news would be in the form of quantifiable learning. New words, math concepts and increasing gradations of color could all be adroitly defined.

“Do you know what today is?” Imagining it to be some recently conceived holiday absent from our childhoods decades earlier, the answer was, “No, what is it?” The disgruntled scholar responded incredulously, “Well, it is Wednesday!” Thinking from the previous answer that he’d identified a significant gap in adult learning, he proceeded to inform that each day had its own name – and, to tell them. He’d gone from dependent to independent. He’d gone from pupil to professor. He’d gone from consumer to expert. No longer would the days pass unnoted; they would progress in his order from one to the next. Knowledge is power.

Terry Anker is an associate editor of Current Publishing, LLC. You may email him at terry@youarecurrent.com.

Stop the insanity Commentary by Danielle Wilson Uncle! I’m calling uncle. Enough. I thought I could handle the social distancing, the school closures, the quaranHUMOR tine, but I can’t. My perimenopausal self was not made for this madness.

Every day here at chez Wilson is a crapshoot, mostly because I don’t know what kind of garbage I’ll have to deal with nor how well I’ll respond (my emotional fuel tank indicator broke on Day 6). Will my husband, Doo, now working from home, sit too close while eating a chicken taco, driving me mad with his loud chewing? Will my oldest pick a fight with his arch-nemesis, his younger K-poppin’ sister, forcing me to mediate between the inane and the stupid? Will her twin brother suck me into yet another depressing diatribe about how much he hates Indiana and longs to be back in the great state of California? Will my 16-year-old decide to bake brownies at

midnight, awaking me from my restless but all too precious slumber? Will we run out of toilet paper? Will someone start coughing?

Will I lose my effing mind?

Granted, certain weeks are better than others. Depending on my hormone levels, I can be either Little Orphan Annie (“The sun’ll come out tomorrow, kids! We got this!”), or Sweeney Todd (“I will cut every last one of you!”). When I’m feeling positive, I remember to extend grace and appreciate the important things, like employment and good health. But when the Butcher of Fleet Street emerges, it’s passive-aggressive irritability like you’ve never seen. I’m truly a master.

So, I call “uncle!” My family and my sanity cannot take this much longer. Peace out.

Danielle Wilson is a contributing columnist. You may email her at info@youarecurrent.com.

Granted, certain weeks are better than others. Depending on my hormone levels, I can be either Little Orphan Annie (“The sun’ll come out tomorrow, kids!

We got this!”), or Sweeney Todd (“I will cut every last one of you!”).

Editor, On behalf of Indiana’s long-term care industry, I wanted to respond to the Carmel mayor’s recent threat of reckless homicide charges against any local long-term care facility that does not test its employees for COVID-19.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s top priority for testing is hospitalized patients and health care workers with symptoms. Following federal guidance, we should make every effort to next test patients in long-term care facilities with symptoms and other patients over 65, or those with underlying conditions with symptoms.

We have significantly under-tested these critical patient populations, yet based on the data, they have the highest mortality rates.

I believe the mayor’s heart is in the right place, but his tactics are misguided. Threat of criminal prosecution is not appropriate. Frontline caregivers are afraid for their freedom and safety – I have heard it. I invite him to join us in extolling the heroic work that is being done and to support adherence to guidance from our national and state public health efforts.

Zachary I. Cattell, president of the Indiana Center for Assisted Living

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Hospice volunteers needed — Anew Hospice is recruiting volunteers to visit patients in facilities in Carmel, Noblesville and elsewhere in the Indianapolis area. Volunteers provide assistance by listening and reminiscing,

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Heart and Soul Free clinic taking appointments — Heart and Soul Free clinic, 17338 Westfield Park Rd., Suite 1, is open and seeing patients by appointment only. The clinic serves individuals who are uninsured and underinsured and also is accepting new patients. For more email Executive Director Lisa Zouvelos at lisa@heartandsoulclinic.org.

Coronavirus by the numbers — COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, was the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. on April 6.

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Sergi said she reached out to the HR Advisory Council with a survey asking what was happening at their 25 companies, which are The Hamilton County Economic Developdifferent sizes and industries across Hamilment Corp. is doing its part to provide job ton County. opening information The survey asked companies ECONOMY for those who have questions such as if they were furbeen displaced beloughing employees, moving ahead cause of the coronavirus pandemic. with hiring and conducting interIt is partnering with Hamilton views by phone.

County Tourism along with OneZone “I was surprised that most of Chamber of Commerce for Fishers them said they were still planning and Carmel and the chambers in on hiring people, especially being Sergi Noblesville and Westfield, which are part of the tourism office,” Sergi sharing job opportunities for the job board. said. “I hear every day how decimated the “We’re trying to work together to help the hospitality office is and how those workers situation,” said Carol Sergi, director of work- have been displaced, so we wanted to find force strategy for Hamilton County Economy a way to connect those two. Whether they Development. “My job is workforce strategy are hospitality or not, we wanted to show and I’ve been concentrating on workforce people are still hiring. attraction. Obviously, that’s not the issue “Those jobs range from temporary beright now, and we’re really pivoting to work cause of help that is needed at Kroger or on workforce recovery.”

Walmart, and even some of the restaurants A new job board on the website, that are doing delivery need additional deinvesthamiltoncounty.com, was launched livery people.” in late March.

Sergi said there are some regular jobs for “We’re adding to the jobs every day,” said which companies are still hiring, with jobs Sergi, a Fishers resident. in Hamilton County and north Indianapolis.

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Zionsville. He spent 25 years in other executive positions with Author Solutions, BrightPoint (now Ingram Micro), PCS Wireless and Carmel-based Shiftlab has hired Mitch Verizon Wireless.

Black, a local technology veteran, as its new Shrake said Black’s extensive experience CEO. Founded in 2019 by in the tech space and retail industry TECH Devin Shrake and Erik made him the right choice.

Schlesselman, Shiftlab “It’s exciting to see his passion makes and markets software that and experience around the challengutilizes artificial intelligence and es that we’re solving for,” Shrake algorithms to help companies staff said. “Out of the gate, Wireless their work shifts with the best Retail is our primary target market, personnel to optimize sales and but we’re consistently engaged in Black profitability. discussions with other verticals Black was one of the initial angel investo ensure product market fit. What we’ve tors in the company. confirmed is that Shiftlab’s product strat“I saw the vision that Devin and Erik had egy and application transcends into many created. I really was impressed by the fact of those other verticals, specifically those they both fundamentally understood the that are focused on maximizing employee problem of staffing that we are solving for performance, service, operations and guest customers and how the product would fit,” experience.”

Black said. “They also understood the marBlack said he has several goals for ket, the customers and partners in which to Shiftlab. build a strong go-to-market plan.” “(I want) to build a great company that Prior to joining Shiftlab, Black served drives value for all constituents, including as COO of Viral Launch. He also served five customers, partners, employees and the years as president of MOBI (now Tangoe), a community,” Black said. “We are incredibly cloud-based mobility software company in proud to base our organization in Carmel.”

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Haley Urbowski’s college experiences expanded her music horizons.

The 2016 Carmel High School MUSIC graduate, who records under the name Haley Urbo, recently released her debut EP, “Iridescent,” consisting of five songs. She started it after arriving at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

“I had done music my whole life,” said Urbowski, who will graduate in May. “I had never considered myself a solo artist or songwriter. I had written piano music before but never lyrics.”

Urbowski performed in the Accents and the Ambassadors show choirs at CHS. “I was a music girl but had never written before,” she said. “When I got to Berklee, a lot of my peers were doing that stuff. They had figured out who they are as an artist and what their music is like.

I wasn’t really at the point in my journey yet.”

Thus, Urbowski said it was a good time to attend music school and be exposed to different types of music and people.

“I could really start developing my sound, so I started throwing myself into all of it, writing and listening to music I had never been exposed to, recording in the studio,” she said.

Urbowski started rehearsing with a live band, which she had never done before.

“I hadn’t experienced enough love or heartbreak before I got to Boston and met all the people that I did,” she said. “I started making memories and having all these crazy experiences. It’s like this music was literally pouring out of me.”

Her piano playing improved every day just from practicing every day, she said.

She started writing music and lyrics her first year.

“The unique thing about this is I never wrote the lyrics at one time,” Urbowski said. “The lyrics are all a collection of feelings and thoughts I wrote down on my phone in the notes app during specific moments. I wrote them down, knowing I would eventually put them into music. Ev-

Carmel Symphony Orchestra Music Director Janna Hymes wants to keep the music alive during the coronaGIVING BACK virus pandemic.

“Some of our musicians are making videos and these are appearing on our Facebook page,” Hymes said of the Music Heals, Music Unites, Music Brings People Together program. “It’s a great diversion and gives our musicians a chance to express themselves.”

“Let the Music Play ... Getting to Know YOUR CSO” was scheduled to debut April 11 on the CSO Facebook page. A second edition will be presented at 7:30 p.m. April 18, and that likely will continue on more Saturday nights during the spring.

“We’ll have interviews and snippets of different musicians just talking or playing,” Hymes said. “It’s a way of getting to know your orchestra in a way you didn’t get to before.”

Hymes said musicians might talk about interests and life experiences.

“They are 80 different people and they all have different stories and we’re going to be telling those stories and interweave it with concert video,” Hymes said.

Hymes said the CSO was building good momentum when the final two concerts were canceled due to the pandemic.

“We’re trying to keep the work going, so we are rescheduling concerts, putting the finishing touches on the 2020-21 season and will announce sometime this spring with the hope we can go full force in October,” Hymes said.

“The Journey into Jazz” concert with Edgar Meyer was originally scheduled for March 14 and was postponed the day before because of gathering limits. It was postponed again until May 30, but Hymes said it will now be held as part of the 2020-21 season, likely a January date. “The Passport to Prague” concert, scheduled for April 18, has been canceled. But other concerts and events will be added, Hymes said.

“It’s a real hard time for some of our musicians. They go from gig to gig, so we feel for them,” Hymes said.

Haley Urbowski’s music crosses several genres of jazz, rhythm and blues and neo-soul.

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ery song is a compilation of all the phrases and feelings that I had written down. The process was interesting because the way it was coming together was blowing my mind.”

Urbowski titled her EP “Iridescent” because each track takes on a different style on who she is as an artist.

“It’s like a synergy of jazz, rhythm and blues and neo-soul style all kind of fused together,” she said. “It didn’t fit in one box super well, and that’s kind of the point. For me as an artist and person, I’m really into creating music as a way to authentically show who I am and express my feelings without focusing if it’s going to fit in this box, is it going to fit into pop or that.

“I’m passionate about breaking genre barriers and contributing to a new wave of music coming up.”

Urbowski has been influenced by artists such as Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper, Frank Ocean, Snoh Aalegra and Daniel

Caesar.

She recorded two songs with a band her sophomore year and worked with one producer, who graduated. She worked with a second producer, D.J. Alexander, her last two years.

“He was the best person I could have asked. He totally brought the tracks to life,” Urbowski said.

She presented a release party performance for the EP at Berklee Feb. 27, and it was officially released the following day.

“I was really grateful when I it did because it was my last performance because the coronavirus craziness started,” she said.

Urbowski is finishing up her classes online.

“Most of my classes are ensembles or voice training, so It’s hard to figure out how to keep up doing the curriculum,” Urbowski said.

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shoes and about the fear of losing everything you have because you weren’t born a U.S. citizen — even though this is the counAlicia Herder appreciates her good try you know and love.” fortune.

Herder, who moved to Brooklyn Herder was a producin the fall of 2018, was a teaching MOVIE er on “La Leyenda Negassistant in Patricia Vidal Delgado’s ra,” which made its preclass at UCLA. Delgado wrote and miere at the prestigious Sundance directed the film.

Film Festival in late January.

“I read the first 15 pages at a “It was crazy and unexpected,” retreat and immediately fell in love Herder said of the Sundance accepwith the characters and story she Herder tance. “(Filmmakers) always submit built,” Herder said. their films to Sundance. It’s a rite of pasDelgado quickly accepted Herder’s offer sage that you get your decline from them, to produce the film. so we were very surprised and thrilled that Herder said everyone at Sundance was they actually accepted our film.” supportive of the film.

The 2010 Carmel High School graduate “It was very special because the teengraduated from Ball State University with age cast all graduated from Compton High a bachelor’s degree in telecommunications School,” she said. “This was their first time and theater directing and then received ever acting, and whether they want to pura master’s degree in fine arts and film sue it or not is up to them. They came to directing.

Sundance to have this as an experience and Herder said “La Leyenda Negra,” which they were just so grateful.” translates to “The Black Legend,” is a comingHerder said she was very hands-on as a of-age narrative fiction film about an El Salproducer. vadoran teenage girl living in Compton (near “Marcel Perez, the other producer, and I Los Angeles) who is dealing with the typical were the first people to arrive on set and growing pains of high school, trying not to the last to leave every single day,” she get bullied by the popular girl, developing said. “We did all the contract and location her first real crush and losing her Temporary negotiations, permits and down to the most Protected Status due to the Trump adminisminute detail.” tration’s immigration restrictions.

Herder recently produced a short film “Even though she spent the majority of called “Great America,” about a border vigiher life in California, since she is not a born lante who detains immigrants from crossing citizen to the U.S., she now risks losing illegally. her college scholarship, and that throws “I definitely still want to direct but I do her world into jeopardy,” Herder said. “It is love producing, especially producing stories a story about walking in someone else’s about women and minorities,” Herder said.

DISPATCHES Moreno’s appearance rescheduled to Oct. 3 — Singer, dancer and actress Rita Moreno has rescheduled an appearance at the Center for the Performing Arts that was postponed in December 2019 because of laryngitis. “An Evening with Rita Moreno” is now set for 8 p.m. Oct. 3 in the Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel. Previously purchased tickets will be honored on the new date, and ticket sales have resumed at thecenterpresents.org. Ticket holders with questions can contact Patron Services atTickets@thecenterpresents.org.

Musicians Relief Fund launched — As a result of the local economic impact of COVID-19, the Indianapolis Jazz Foundation, the Penrod Society, Owl Music Group and

The Jazz Kitchen have partnered to create a musicians relief fund to assist local jazz and related-genre musicians who have had a direct loss of income through canceled or rescheduled performances. Many Indianapolis-area musicians rely on their weekly income, and, unfortunately, will be the last to receive government assistance. The initial goal is to raise $50,000, which will be used exclusively for artist relief. For more, visit charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/indy-musician-relief-fund. The Penrod Society and the Indianapolis Jazz Foundation have matched the first $10,000 in donations. For individuals, companies and organizations interested in supporting the fund, contact Erica Stickler, IJF development director, at erica@indyjazzfest.net.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE BZA Docket No. PZ-2020-00024 V and PZ-2020-00026 V Notice is hereby given that the Carmel Board of Zoning Appeals meeting on the 27th day of April, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. being held virtually and also in the City Hall Caucus Rooms & Council Chambers, 2nd Flr, 1 Civic Sq., Carmel, IN 46032 will hold a Public Hearing upon development standards variance application to allow for a ground sign and a 111 sq. ft. wall sign on the East façade of the parking garage at property being known as 1 Zotec Way. The real estate affected by said application is described as Tax ID parcel no. 17-13-02-00-00001.102.

The petition may be examined at the Office of the BZA (Carmel DOCS Dept.) and in Laser Fiche online.

All interested persons desiring to present their views on the above application, either in writing or verbally, will be given an opportunity to be heard at the above-mentioned time and place.

Doug Staley, Jr., Staley Signs, Inc. PETITIONER.

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Fishers Arts Council launches lecture series

By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com As a new Fishers Arts Council board member, Olivia Holt determined quickly there was a need for information for ART area artists to become entrepreneurs. With the support of partnerships with Nickel Plate Arts, Ignite Studio and Hamilton County Tourism, Holt and the Fishers Arts Council have helped shape a four-part lecture series.

After surveying artists and community members for six months, Holt discovered artists wanted marketing help, community connections and information on getting into

NOTICE TO BIDDERS Clay Township of Hamilton County, Indiana Owner: Clay Township by and on behalf of the City of Carmel, Indiana 10701 N. College Avenue Indianapolis, IN 46280 Project: Westfield Blvd. & 111th Street Roundabout Construction Project No. 16-ENG-41 Notice is hereby given that the Township Trustee of Clay Township, Indiana will receive sealed bids for the above described “Project” at the office of the Clay Township Trustee, 10701 N. College Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana 46280 until 9:45 EST and in the Public Assembly Room at the same address between the hours of 9:45 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. EST on or before April 22, 2020, and commencing as soon as practicable thereafter on the same date such bids will be publicly opened and read aloud in the Public Assembly Room. No late bids will be accepted.

All bids and proposals shall be properly and completely executed on the proposal forms provided with the plans and specifications, which will include the non-collusion affidavit as required by the State of Indiana.

The bid envelope must be sealed and have the words “BID – Westfield Blvd. & 111th Street Roundabout Construction (Project No. 16-ENG-41).

A bid bond or certified check in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the amount bid must be submitted with each bid. A one hundred percent (100%) performance and payment bond and a ten percent (10%) three year maintenance bond will also be required of the successful bidder. It is intended that actual construction of all work divisions shall be started as soon as practicable, and each bidder shall be prepared to enter promptly into a construction contract, furnish performance and payment bonds, and begin work without delay in the event the award is made to the bidder. Upon completion, the Project and all contracts related thereto will be irrevocably assigned to the City.

The Project consists of, but is not necessarily limited to, the following: Intersection improvement at Westfield Blvd. and 111th Street will consist of replacing a one-way stopcontrolled intersection with a three-legged, single lane roundabout. A shared-use path will be installed along the east side of Westfield Blvd. and in the northwest quadrant of the intersection. Sidewalk will be installed in the southwest quadrant.

Contract Documents for the Project have been assembled into one bound project manual, which together with drawings, may be examined at the following locations: City of Carmel Department of Engineering - 1st Floor One Civic Square Carmel, IN 46032 (317) 571-2441 Copies of such drawings and project manuals must be obtained from Reprographix (Reprographix.com).

Payments and costs of Contract Documents are non-refundable.

Bidders shall assure that they have obtained complete sets of drawings and Contract Documents and shall assume the risk of any errors or omissions in bids prepared in reliance on incomplete sets of drawings and Contract Documents.

This Project is being funded by Clay Township of Hamilton County, Indiana for and on behalf of the City of Carmel. All out-of-state entities must obtain a Certificate of Authority to do business in the State of Indiana by contacting the Secretary of State, State of Indiana, Statehouse, Indianapolis, Indiana 46204.

A pre-bid conference for discussions of the Project, the bidding requirements and other important matters will be held on April, 15, 2020 at 10:00am in the Carmel City Hall, Caucus Room. All prospective bidders are invited to attend the pre-bid conference. The pre-bid conference is not mandatory.

For special accommodations needed by handicapped individuals planning to attend the pre-bid conference or public bid opening meeting, please call or notify the City of Carmel, Engineer’s Office, at (317) 571-2441 at least forty-eight (48) hours prior thereto.

No bidder may withdraw any bid or proposal within a period of sixty (60) days following the date set for receiving bids or proposals. The Township reserves the right to hold any or all bids or proposals for a period of not more than sixty (60) days and said bids or proposal shall remain in full force and effect during said period. The Township reserves the right to reject and/or cancel any and all bids, solicitations and/or offers in whole or in part as specified in the solicitations when it is not in the best interests of the governmental body as determined by the purchasing agency in accordance with IC 5-22-18-2.

The Township further reserves the right to waive any of the terms, conditions or provisions contained in this Notice to Bidders or the Bid Documents or any informality, irregularity or omission in the bid process or in any Bid which waiver is deemed to be in the Township’s best interest. /s/ Doug Callahan

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Holt, a 2011 Hamilton Southeastern High School graduate and mixed media artist, graduated with a degree in fine arts from Ball State in 2016. She joined the Fishers Arts Council in October 2018.

“I like that we have the ability to make this program very flexible for artists and community members to learn,” said Holt, who now lives in Broad Ripple. “This year we are focusing on four specific topics: marketing, galleries, exhibiting and local success stories. The topics were selected based on community feedback. Artists told us what they wanted to learn, and we responded. As we receive more feedback from artists, we will be able to update the programming to include new future topics.”

The series is intended to help artists with their business, community and professional skills. Because of the coronavirus pandemic,

the first session, and possibly others, will be offered online. Although intended for artists, the series is open to the public. Registration is required.

The series is from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on the following four Thursdays: Marketing for Artists — Skill Building, April 23; Inside the Gallery World — Be in the Know, June 25; Exhibiting Artists — Learn the How, Aug. 20; and Hoosier Success Stories — Be Inspired, Oct. 22.

Ignite will host sessions if it is able to be open for any of the final three.

“Our panelists will have the opportunity to speak individually before we transition into a Q&A panel style,” Holt said. “After the moderator’s questions, the participants will be able to ask questions via the online Webinar and in person once social distancing is lifted. We will have different presenters for each session. Our first two panels have marketing experts and art gallery owners.

Our final two panels will feature artists from various disciplines living in Fishers and surrounding areas.”

Holt said the Fishers Arts Council is thankful to collaborate with other organizations in the community.

“With all of these groups supporting each other and promoting the other’s programs, this aids in our reach to the community at large. We are hopeful when social distancing restrictions are lifted, everyone’s programming can come back,” Holt said.

For more and to register, visit fishersartscouncil.org.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE CARMEL BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS / BZA HEARING OFFICER Docket No. PZ-2020-00032 V Notice is hereby given that the Carmel Board of Zoning Appeals Hearing Officer meeting on the 27th day of April, 2020 at 5:15 p.m. is being held virtually (and the public can contact the Planning Department for a web link to the meeting) and also in the City Hall Caucus Rooms & Council Chambers (2nd Floor, 1 Civic Square, Carmel, IN 46032), which Public Hearing is upon a Development Standards Variance application to allow an off premise sign that is prohibited by UDO Section 5.39.D at property being known as approximately 10910 N. Michigan Road.

The real estate affected by said application is described as Tax ID Parcel No. 17-13-06-00-00031.000.

The petition may be examined at the Office of the Board of Zoning Appeals (Carmel DOCS Dept.) and in Laser Fiche online.

All interested persons desiring to present their views on the above application, either in writing or verbally, will be given an opportunity to be heard at the above-mentioned time and place.

PETITIONERS: ARIA LAND JV, LLC By: Timothy E. Ochs, Ice Miller LLP, its attorneys

Notice of Public Hearing Before the Carmel Hearing Officer Docket PZ-2020-00033 Notice is hereby given that the Hearing Officer for the Carmel Plan Commission will hear a request from the Village of WestClay Owners Association, Inc. for a Variance of Standards for Prohibited Signs. The meeting will be held virtually on Monday, April 27 at 5:30 pm in the City Hall Caucus Rooms and Council Chambers at 1 Civic Square, Carmel, Indiana, 46032.

The application is identified as Docket No. PZ-2020-00033.

The request is to allow new Village entrance signs at Finchley and Towne Road parcel number 17-09-28-00-55-003.00 and parcel number 17-09-28-00-55-016.00, Hoover and Meeting House Road parcel number 17-09-00-10-005.00 and parcel number 17-09-33-00-15-043.00 and Abercorn and 136th Street parcel number 17-0933-00-14-013.00 and parcel number 17-09-33-0014-012.000.

The petition may be examined at the office of the BZA. All Interested person desiring to present their views on the above application, either in writing or verbally, will be given an opportunity to be heard at the above mentioned time and place.

Petitioner: Jeffrey A Terp, Executive Director, on behalf of the Board of Directors

Olivia Holt seeks to help artists become entrepreneurs. (Submitted photo)

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Commentary by Randy Sorrell and Bill Bernard Finally, SGN — as in, some good news! And why not? Don’t we need and deserve some?

Of course, SGN is not my REMODELING idea; it’s a riff from actor John Krasinski (Google it), which is a spinoff from another. After all, that’s how most brilliant ideas occur.

Here goes the good news, in no particular order: • To brighten our dispositions, redbud, magnolia, pear and serviceberry trees are screaming with color. Bright yellow forsythia shrubs, too. Drink it in!

• Speaking of drinking it in, distillers have retrofitted and are producing hand sanitizer with a kick. Make mine vodka, please.

• We’ve had a string of sunny, happy days.

• Truckers, teachers and grocery store staff are our new heroes! I make a motion to double their pay.

• GM, Ford, 3M and swarms of others are answering the call to produce ventilators and personal protective equipment. Capitalism at its finest.

• Good Day Carmel continues to lift our spirits and spread the good news of Carmel living.

• Community spirit is greater than ever with neighbors helping neighbors,

drive-by birthday parties (HBD, Laurie L.) and caravans of teachers cruising neighborhoods to boost kids’ morale, and likely theirs, too.

• Parks and the Monon Trail are overwhelmed.

• Thousands are recovering from COVID-19.

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