The Times of Smithtown - October 26, 2017

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October 26, 2017

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Smithtown Animal Shelter seeks dog walkers A2 Commack EMT remembered for years of service A4 Smithtown East teen hosts charity basketball game A5 Kingsmen girls volleyball has undefeated season A12

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Town of Smithtown Animal Shelter is seeking volunteers to work with its dogs.

Call for dog-loving volunteers Town of Smithtown’s Animal Shelter is seeking those who don’t mind giving time to benefit man’s best friend.

The shelter put out a call Oct. 21 seeking more volunteers to help walk dogs. This activity will help socialize the dogs and allow them out to get some regular exercise.

“No amount of time is too small,” the shelter posted on its Facebook page. “Please volunteer your time; the love you receive will be priceless.”

Volunteers must be 16 years of age or older and are required to attend one of the

shelter’s monthly orientation sessions. The next orientation sessions are scheduled for Nov. 18 and Dec. 16., according to the shelter’s website.

Prior to attending orientation, all those interested in helping are asked to read through the shelter’s Policy and Procedure manual, as well as fill out basic information forms.

Both the manual and the forms can be found on the town shelter’s website at www.townofsmithtownanimalshelter.com under the More tab, then volunteer section.

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Smithtown family fights insurance to cover son’s cancer treatment

By Sara-Megan WalSh sara@tbrnewspapers.com A Smithtown family entrenched in a life-or-death battle against cancer for their 10-month-old son’s life is shocked to be dealt a serious blow from their health care insurance.

Wayne Richardson, a financial manager and retired NYPD officer, said he was shocked to receive the Oct. 11 letter denying payment for chemotherapy treatment his son, Connor, is receiving at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis.

“I’ve had health insurance since 1981, that’s 36 years, and I haven’t been overnight in the hospital once,” Richardson said. “They said the treatment was unnecessary as the fifth drug wasn’t proven yet.”

His family found their life turned upside down in August, after unusual behavior of their then 7-month-old Connor indicated something was wrong.

“He was up all night crying, and he’s usually not a crier,” the father said. “In the morning his eyes were wide open.

Richardson and his wife, Janida, rushed their baby to St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center in Smithtown who then transferred him to Stony Brook University Hospital for emergency surgery to relieve swelling of his brain, which was cutting off spinal fluid.

“The spinal surgeon did it pretty quickly, but they almost lost him on the table

they told me,” the father said.

Doctors diagnosed Connor with a rare form of brain cancer called aggressive teratoid rhabdoid tumor. It accounts for less than 10 percent of all children’s brain tumors, according to St. Jude.

The first surgery to remove the tumor was of limited success as the growth was close to the pituitary gland and there was profuse bleeding, according to Richardson, but on the second attempt the surgeon told the family he believed he had removed it all.

“We were optimistic at the time,” his father said. “Going to St. Jude’s was more of a safe guard.”

One week elapsed before Janida Richardson and her son arrived at St. Jude’s where doctors found more tumors in Connor’s brain and some cancerous cells in his spine. An aggressive chemotherapy treatment, a cocktail of four drugs with a fifth experimental drug in clinical trials, alisertib, was recommended for Connor.

Richardson said his health care insurance company, Healthcare Partners IPA, has sent him a letter refusing to pay for his son’s treatment at St. Jude’s claiming it was “not medically necessary.”

“This combination of medications is not the standard care for this type of cancer, and is considered experimental and investigational at this time as evidence-based guidelines do not exist to confirm its effectiveness for his brain tumor,” reads the Oct. 11 letter.

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Connor richardson, pictured above, with his mother, Janida richardson, was only 7 months old when he was diagnosed with a rare aggressive brain tumor.

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Richardson said that his insurance company’s decision to not pay for his son’s cancer treatment is baffling.

“It’s only one out of the five drugs, why don’t they pay for the other four?” he asked.

“St. Jude’s operates all on donations and they

don’t charge anyone but they are entitled to the money. It will cost millions of dollars.”

While the children’s hospital has covered Connor’s treatment costs, Richardson said he has plans to appeal Healthcare Partners’ decision in writing within the next week.

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The East Northport-born, Commack- He was incredibly humble and caring.” raised physician continued to tend to his Fred Guttenberg said he couldn’t remempatients and colleagues over the phone and ber a time when his brother wasn’t passionemail despite his own years-long battle with ate about the medical field and helping othpancreatic cancer. He died Oct. 17 at age 50, ers. He said Michael, at an early age, would while at The Hospice Inn in Melville. excitedly ride his bicycle to catch a glimpse of “He was a workaholic and a fighter,” his an ambulance or fire struck down the street. younger brother, Paul Guttenberg, said. “He Guttenberg also had a fire and EMS scanner always put his patients and the job first. Help- when he was in elementary school. ing people — that was always his passion.”

“Some of us go through life starting off Michael Guttenberg grew up around loving something and then we find new health care with his father, avenues as life goes on,” a pharmacist, and mother, his older brother said. a nurse. He first pursued “Michael never did that. his dreams as a 16-year-old His love just got stronger when he became a memas life went on and it was one he never got rid of.” ber of the Commack VolWhile attending unteer Ambulance Corps’ Brandeis University in Youth Squad and eventuMassachusetts, where ally served as Youth Squad he received a bachelor’s president. After graduating degree in sociology, from college, he became Michael Guttenberg worked the group’s chief and remained on the board of — Fred Guttenberg in emergency medical services in Jamaica, Queens. commissioners until the He later earned his medical end — serving 34 years.

“Mike has made a positive impact on degree from New York Institute of Technology. countless lives over the years and his legacy The physician served the bulk of his career at of giving back to the community will live on Northwell Health as chair of emergency mediforever,” read a memorial post for Gutten- cine at Long Island Jewish Forest Hills, as well as medical director. berg on the Commack ambulance website.

John D’Angelo, senior vice president of Described as “tough but fair, and always prepared,” Michael Guttenberg was diag- Northwell’s emergency medicine service nosed with cancer in 2013. The physician had line, said his colleague “was tireless and as experienced bouts of fatigue and abdominal dedicated as they come.”

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Smithtown East teen hosts Crossovers for Cancer to honor dad Students vs. faculty charity basketball game set for Nov. 3

By Sara-Megan WalSh sara@tbrnewspapers.com

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Smithtown east senior Jonathan golbert, left, with his dad.

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A Smithtown teen is jumping at the chance to raise funds for the fight against cancer, just as his dad would have.

Jonathan Golbert has organized a charity basketball game, Crossovers for Cancer, Nov. 3 benefiting Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to pay tribute to his dad.

Golbert said his late father, Josh Golbert, died in March 2016 after a battle with thyroid cancer. Josh Golbert was the former director of music and the performing arts for Plainview-Old Bethpage Central School District.

Jonathan Golbert, 17, said his dad was always supportive of raising cancer awareness and fundraising for research at various community events. The teen recalls watching his father grow out his beard during “Movember”, also commonly called No-Shave November, to raise awareness of men’s health issues including prostate and testicular cancer.

Once he was old enough to grow a beard, Golbert said he joined in and raised more than $4,500 for charity.

“If he saw something supporting cancer or a good cause, my dad would jump to do something,” the teen said.

Golbert said his father was first diagnosed with pneumonia in December 2015. While under medical treatment, Josh Golbert was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive form of thyroid cancer and received medical treatment from doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering.

“It was a very difficult time,” the son said. “My friends at school and the Smithtown community gave us overwhelming support.”

Now the Smithtown East senior is looking for that support once again in order to help make a difference in the lives of others. Crossovers for Cancer was designed by Jonathan Golbert after conversation with his guidance counselor, Kelly Brothers, on how to develop a fundraiser that paid tribute to his father’s life.

“I used to play basketball with my dad in the driveway,” he said. “And those times were some of our best conversations. They could be about anything, that was the best part.”

The senior enlisted the aid of his DECA advisor, Matt Hennings, and the more than 200 members of the Smithtown East club that is a local chapter of the international association that teaches high school students marketing, management and entrepreneurship skills in the fields of business, finance, hospitality, marketing sales and community service.

“This is our area of expertise,” Hennings said. “Let the club help and use our resources to help Jon out in his goal to raise as much awareness as possible for Memorial Sloan Kettering.”

The charity event will feature a students vs.faculty basketball game on Nov. 3 at 6 p.m. in Smithtown East’s gymnasium. The teams will be dressed in the school’s colors of red and white. Admission is $10. There will also be raffles sold for a variety of gift baskets donated by local businesses.

“It’s the type of thing [my dad] would jump to be a part of,” Golbert said.

Once the fundraiser is complete, Hennings said that the Smithtown East student will reflect and analyze the event for a community service project competition for DECA. Golbert will write a 30-page paper to document his actions, and the results he had, detailing what advertising he did for the event and its outcome, as well as give a 15-minute presentation.

“He’s gone above and beyond for this particular event,” Hennings said. “You can tell it’s something that really means something to Jonathan.”

‘I used to play basketball with my dad in the driveway, and those times were some of our best conversations.’

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“With a growing number of overdoses in Suffolk County we have been vigilant with instituting creative solutions for dealing with this,” Suffolk County Legislator and Presiding Officer DuWayne Gregory (D-Amityville) said.

“This app is just one weapon in the fight. Too many lives have been lost and as new, deadlier drugs infiltrate our communities, the number of deaths will continue to rise unless we have the resources to provide assistance. This app will put vital information for treatment and recovery into the hands of those suffering drug addiction as well as their family members and will hopefully result in more lives saved.”

According to the Public Health Emergency Preparedness division within the Suffolk County Department of Health, there was a total of 588 overdose reversals of which 152 received more than one dose of Narcan from Jan. 1 through Aug. 31 of this year. Of the 588, 25 patients were reversed at least two times within that time period, representing a snapshot of the number of overdoses in the county.

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A woman stole craft supplies from Hobby Lobby, located on Veterans Highway, Sept. 9 at approximately 1:15 p.m.

She placed supplies in a large plastic bag and left the store without paying for about

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The Heritage Ball celebrates years of historic preservation and public education, and honors the contributions of people in the community who have helped shape the society.

Through this event, the historical society acknowledged and awarded members from the six major hamlets of the Town of Smithtown for their significant and ongoing contributions to the community.

The 2017 Heritage Ball honorees who received this award were: Chris Hirsch of Hauppauge, Angels without Faces of Kings Park, Steve and Laura Gallagher with Barbara Perotta of St. James, Christopher T. McNamara of Commack, 911 Responders Remembered Memorial Park in conjunction with the FealGood Foundation of Nesconset and Angela’s House of Smithtown.

“Congratulations to all of our honorees — thank you for making Smithtown a better place to live, work and play,” said Marianne Howard, executive director of the historical society. “The work that you do for the community is outstanding, and we appreciate everything that you do. The Smithtown Historical Society was honored to have you as our guests.”

The program at the Heritage Ball started with cocktails at 6:30 p.m. followed by Howard’s welcome speech. The invocation was given by Rev. Bill Minson. This year’s Mildred Smith Scholarship Award was presented to two scholarship winners: Caralynn Stein from Kings Park High School and Julia Diana, a senior at Hauppauge High School.

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Something strange in a Smithtown watering hole Bar owner, its patrons recall multiple paranormal occurrences at Katie’s on West Main Street

By Kevin Redding kevin@tbrnewspapers.com If there’s something strange in your neighborhood bar, chances are you’re at Katie’s on West Main Street in Smithtown — where ghostly happenings are just as normal as ordering a drink.

The two-floor pub and live music venue, which sits on the grounds of the old Trainor Hotel that burned down in 1909, has long been a hotbed for spooky sightings and experiences according to its staff and patrons.

The bar’s high level of spectral activity has even been featured on episodes of popular paranormal shows like Travel Channel’s “Ghost Adventures,” A&E’s “Paranormal State” and the Biography Channel’s “My Ghost Story.”

Dominique Maciejka, a former bartender at the establishment, said she had her fair share of brushes with the bar’s spirited regulars.

“I was by myself closing up, the music was off, nobody else was around, and a beer bottle cap went flying from one side of the bar to the other, like, sideways across the room,” Maciejka said, recalling one such freaky occurrence at the end of a night shift in fall 2011.

“I was the only person around so there was no explanation, nothing that could’ve triggered that … other than something supernatural,” she said. “On the way home, I called my mom and asked her to stay on the phone with me.”

She was also working when a soda gun behind the bar seemingly flung out of its holster on its own and dropped to the floor, an incident captured on the bar’s security cameras.

Gary Bates, from Smithtown, said he once saw what he described as “a big, gray, seven-foot tall” figure walk from one end of the bar counter to the other.

Another time, Bates said he was walking in the empty bar and felt the sensation of stepping into a large spider web even though there was no physical one in sight, and was then suddenly poked in the arm.

“There’s definitely something weird going on there,” Bates said of the Smithtown nightspot.

Over the years, folks who frequent Katie’s have reported a wide range of eerie activity: distorted faces taking shape in the bar’s mirrors, hearing voices in empty rooms, feeling like they were being watched by unseen presences, seeing transparent children in the background of selfies and group pictures and having whatever may be haunting the place follow them home.

None of these reported occurrences come as a surprise to Katie’s owner.

“The whole place is active,” Brian Karppinen, 53, who has owned the bar since 2000, said. He pointed out that while the bar’s lively upstairs tends to be occupied by mischievous and relatively harmless ghosts, the basement billiards area is where he thinks more sinister ones roam. “Down there is a darker feeling, a heaviness — not as fun. You feel, spiritually, like something is not nice down there.”

Karppinen recalled a night in which a tough biker went downstairs to confront one of the malevolent spirits, stood in what was considered the basement’s most active spot by the pool table and was violently punched in the stomach by an invisible force.

“If he faked it, it would be amazing, but that seemed real,” Karppinen said, making clear he takes a lot of people’s reports with a grain of salt. “He hobbled out of here and I’ve never seen him again.”

While there are a number of theories from various paranormal and psychic groups that have explored the bar hoping to identify the ghosts, Karppinen said little concrete evidence has emerged from such explorations.

Some say the ghosts are past Smithtown residents who may have died in the Trainor Hotel fire, while others are convinced the more evil spirits could be Jinns, a Middle Eastern poltergeist that has purportedly existed before any religion.

However, one of the more mischievous ghosts that has become a sort of celebrity at Katie’s is widely thought to be Charlie Klein, a Prohibition-era bootlegger and part owner

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Clockwise from above, the stairway leading to the basement of Katie’s bar in Smithtown, which patrons; and owner Brian Karppinen believe might be haunted; especially at the corner, where many patrons believe is the habitat of the bar’s more sinister spirits. of the Smithtown Hotel in the 1920s, which is now Croxley’s Ale House.

According to members of the Smithtown Historical Society, Klein shot himself in his house in 1933 after serving a prison sentence. Klein’s house, Karppinen said, is directly across the street from the bar.

Brad Harris, the historical society’s president, said even though he’s never personally experienced any of the bar’s hauntings, he doesn’t think they’re made up.

“I don’t think it’s a figment of anybody’s imagination as there does seem to be strange occurrences happening there,” Harris said.

“We have always had problems trying to explain why Charlie Klein’s ghost would be disturbing the bar, as he didn’t kill himself there, but it’s a strange world.”

Even stranger, Karppinen said, was when members of the Pennsylvania State University “Paranormal State” group were investigating the basement and one of them pointed to the end of the bar and said, “that’s where your ghost died — right there.”

“I said, ‘no he didn’t, he died across the street, he killed himself,’” Karppinen recalled. “And he said, ‘no … I used to be a DJ here in the early ’80s and there was an old timer who used to drink and would fall asleep at the bar. We would wake him up, get him a cab, and we would send him home every night. One night, he didn’t wake up and he died at the bar.’”

Karppinen said weird and unexplainable occurrences have surrounded him all his life and “it really seemed like I was called here.”

It was when the Lake Grove resident was driving to his girlfriend’s house one day, he said, that something told him to go visit his friend, Rich, who owned a struggling bar called Wolfgang’s Pub. Sure enough, his instincts were right and Rich was in rough shape, depressed that his business was losing money and claiming the place was “cursed.” He asked Karppinen to be his partner and help out. Rich retired from the bar business soon after and Karppinen renamed the place after his grandmother, Katie Dunagan.

Naturally, for Karppinen, it didn’t take long before things got phantasmic.

Once, while jostling with a rotted door at the top of a steep stairwell in the bar, Karppinen lost his balance and felt himself tee-

tering backward when, he said, “I felt two things grab my shoulder blades and upright me. I was like, ‘wow, whoever that is, thank you.’ I got the vibe it might have been my dad or a passed away family member. It was not a spooky vibe at all.”

“I think it’s some kind of a package deal that maybe this place was active and they wanted me here,” Karppinen said, laughing. “[I think] the darker thing attracted me and likes that I never really thrive. There’s times when I’m behind in bills and I’m like ‘I’m selling the place’ and then something comes through and suddenly we have money for bills again. It almost seems like they love the torture, but don’t want me to leave.”

Unless you own a corporate bar, Karppinen said, the bar business is a dying industry, but the ghosts have significantly helped bring traffic to Katie’s.

“People love to talk about it, people know us all over, it has definitely helped,” Karppinen said. “That and our live music. Sometimes people are jerks and they’ll come in drunk from another place, like, ‘I wanna see the ghost!’ and, spiritually, I have no idea what’s going on here … so I try not to let that happen. I don’t want to torture these [dead] people more.”

Asked what he would say to any skeptics out there, Karppinen said, “I would tell them I’m not here to debate you. I don’t believe a lot of the [stuff] people say happened here, but some of it is very hard to explain.”

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Port Jeff resident helps villagers communicate with the dead

By Kevin Redding kevin@tbrnewspapers.com Along East Main Street in Port Jefferson, tucked between a plumbing company and a parking lot, sits a tiny, two-story shop where Lisa McGarrity communicates with the deceased.

A new age store stocked with spell and magic books, a variety of incense and herbs, and a private space for tarot card readings, Envision Crystal has provided a spiritual avenue for residents from Port Jeff Village and beyond since 1987 as both a place for healing and closure, as well as exploration of macabre curiosities. McGarrity, a psychic medium who first discovered her necromantical gift as a child when she witnessed spirits roaming around her house, is the shop’s third owner and said there’s a reason why there’s no shortage of customers coming to her for advice on how to handle and interact with members of the afterlife.

“Port Jefferson is so filled with spirits,” said McGarrity, who recalled several encounters with former, deceased village residents over the years. “I feel that wonderful energy of sea captains, people who grew up and worked here, musicians, merchants. There are a lot of psychics in the village because the energy here is conducive. I think spirits want to be here because it’s home. They want to visit and hang out.”

In fact, the medium said, as the occupant of a historic home in town, she “has had friendly conversations” and sometimes shares her morning coffee with the gentleman who built her house long ago. While she used to be able to see these spectral visitors crystal clear as a child, McGarrity said now it’s more of an impression, a feeling, a sense. She described the sightings as being “a little sharper and clearer than a mind-wandering daydream.”

Coming from a family of psychics and intuition-driven people, McGarrity, who studied psychology at Stony Brook University, said she’s never found this field all that unusual, but, growing up, thought it best to keep her interests in it hidden from people.

“When I was young, I learned to separate it and talk about regular world things with people and leave that other world alone,” she explained. “Things have changed now and we live in a world that’s much more open now. I was born with this

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Lisa Mcgarrity, above, is the owner of envision Crystal, and works as a medium in Port Jefferson village. Below, candles offered to customers by the medium along with other items ideal for supernatural encounters. curiosity and a desire to explore. I mean, I think what I do is super normal and something anyone can do if they want to pay attention to it. Some folks can sing. I’ve cultivated, developed and expanded what was a natural gift.”

St. James resident Andrea Giordano, a longtime customer of McGarrity’s shop, who developed a strong bond with the medium during a reading session, spoke highly of her friend’s gift.

“What she does is get people connected,” Giordano said. “It’s not about money here.

It’s about spirit, love, compassion and open mindedness. It’s universal humanity at its best. If you have faith in anything beyond this world, she helps reinforce that faith. If you don’t have faith when you walk in here, you leave here with faith.”

McGarrity said, especially around this time of year, people often come into the shop on a mission to encounter ghosts in and around the area. For the budding paranormal investigators, the medium offers tips and advice — she stresses the importance of exploring in groups and with an experienced guide, equipping one’s self with protective stones and sage, which work to cleanse negative energy and drive away darker entities, and, most importantly, displaying respectful decorum.

“The same rules with any human in-

teraction applies when interacting with spirits,” she said. “Start out nice, introduce yourself. That works well. Don’t go to a haunted location and shout out derogatory and inflammatory things.”

Only a few minutes away, on Barnum Avenue, is the site of McGarrity’s occasional spiritual seminars: an 1890s-built, gothic-style home full of “incredible, wonderful energy,” according to its owner, L.L. Cartin. During one particular seminar, a few Halloweens ago, McGarrity said she led a group of spiritually-minded participants with electronic voice phenomenon equipment through the house. The EVP, which picks up sounds caused by ghosts, went off when they stepped into the basement.

“I remember in that particular moment, I was a little scared to sleep here,” laughed Cartin, who identified herself as a spiritual person who met McGarrity as a customer. “She’s a very gentle soul, she’s not pushy, and she definitely has a gift. She’s one to be admired and her delivery is very gentle so you can receive her information the right way. I love Lisa and I think she’s an asset to the community.”

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Learning to speak out

Sixth-graders, pictured above, at Accompsett Middle School in Smithtown Central School District had a lesson in making their school a safer and healthier place thanks to a presentation by Billy Flash of the Sandy Hook Promise program Oct. 19.

Say Something is a youth violence prevention program that teaches students how to protect themselves, their classmates and their community. During the presentation, which was sponsored by the school’s PTA cultural arts, students learned how to look for warning signs, signals and threats. They were taught

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to act immediately and take any threats seriously. Lastly, students learned they should say something to a trusted adult.

The overall goal is to teach students how they can do their part to reduce violence, threats and tragic consequences. At the end of the presentation, students were asked to take a pledge to say something when they see something.

Flash is pictured above right, with middle school students Mackenzie Cooper and Zoe Richman, who performed a skit at the Say Something program Oct. 19.

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Master teacher

Responding to the call to strengthen our nation’s K-12 STEM education, New York State recently launched the Master Teacher Program in partnership with the State University of New York and Math for America.

The state’s Master Teacher Program “celebrates the work of the highest-performing STEM teachers by establishing an expert community dedicated to developing expertise in the areas of content, pedagogy, and students’ families and communities.” This program gives talented STEM educators the opportunity to develop their skills, make connections, and provide a world-class STEM education for their students.

The NYS Master Teacher Program network includes over 900 outstanding teachers recognized for their dedication to providing the most innovative STEM education to their students, their commitment to professional growth and their enthusiasm for sharing their successful practices with colleagues. In the Long Island region, Stony Brook University serves as the hub for this network.

Meghan Schmiedecke has been selected as a New York State Master Teacher. She is one of 12 Long Island teachers selected to join this elite group.

Schmiedecke, a seventh- and eightgrade science and STEM teacher at William T. Rogers Middle School, Kings Park, described the selection process as both rigorous and stressful. She indicated that

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the multistep selection process included interviews, writing samples and a 10-minute presentation to peers. She said, “STEM is our future for our students,” and she is excited to be able to participate in this professional network of STEM educators. Superintendent Timothy Eagen said, “STEM education is an important focus and district goal. We are fortunate to have Ms. Schmiedecke on our team, and this award and network will ensure that we continue to provide a world-class STEM education in Kings Park.”

Lina Gottesman was named the first woman corporate walk chair of the Long Island chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Light the Night Oct. 21 at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow.

Gottesman is the president of two Smithtown-based companies, RN Nurses Evolve and Altus Metal, Marble and Wood.

She is a 32-year Stony Brook resident along with her husband and Altus business partner, Bob. She has worked in health care for decades, first as a 14-year-old nurse aide and through the years as an RN serving as a critical care nurse, and now with her company sourcing registered nurses and nurse practitioners.

“For years I’ve cared for patients with lifethreatening illnesses, gave them healing and support,” Gottesman, who has had many

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family members affected by various forms of cancer, said. “However, as important as that always will be, I’ve learned that the assistance patients need most is the backing of research to help discover a cure.”

In her current role with LLS, her goal is to raise $100,000 for Light the Night. She is hopeful that cures for cancer are close.

In addition to being chair of LLS, Gottesman is active with numerous organizations including the Long Island Center for Business & Professional Women, Women Presidents’ Organization and New York Women’s Chamber of Commerce. She has three children and four grandchildren.

Gottesman will continue her fundraising efforts through the end of the year. To donate, visit pages.lightthenight.org/li/ eisenhow17/lgottesman. For more info on LLS, visit www.lls.org.

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CONNOR Continued from page A3 Meanwhile, Connor is receiving his second round of chemotherapy — including the fifth experimental drug — at St. Jude’s. His father said his son has been eating well and starting to gain some weight.

A GoFundMe page has been set up for Baby Connor and his family to help them pay for the four surgeries Connor has already had, plus the family’s costs in travel, time off work and other needs for their child’s medical treatment. As of Oct. 25, approximately $29,500 of the $50,000 goal had been raised. The website is www.gofundme.com/ help-baby-connor-richardson.

If anything is leftover, Richardson promised those funds will be donated back to St.

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The purpose of the clinics is to “teach fundamentals and introduce players within the Hauppauge community to the great game of lacrosse.

The clinics are being held from 2 to 3 p.m.

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On Oct. 28, the free clinic will feature instructors Joe Locasio and Steve DeNapoli of the Long Island Lizards.

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SPORTS Kings Park caps off second undefeated league season

BY DESIRÉE KEEGAN DESIREE@TBRNEWSPAPERS.COM Meagan Murphy dug deep to pull out a win — quite literally Monday.

The senior libero threw herself all over the court to record 31 digs in a 3-0 sweep of Hauppauge Oct. 23, 25-14, 25-17, 25-10, to cap off Kings Park girls volleyball’s second straight undefeated League V season.

“Megan Murphy in the back row was strong on defense,” Kings Park head coach Ed Manly said. “Very rarely are you going to catch her off guard or get her to shank a ball during the course of play.”

With Hauppauge as close as 12-10 midway through the first set, three straight Kings Park points — a Hauppauge out-of-bounds hit, an Alexa Petraitis (eight kills) spike and a Kara Haas dump over — forced the Eagles to call timeout. The scoring streak was only briefly interrupted after the break, and Kings Park slammed home four more to make it 19-11.

Murphy closed out serving on the last four of five Kings Park points, until an out of bounds serve made it 24-14 and a Hauppauge serve error closed out the set.

“I don’t say this selfishly — we’ve been doing this for so long and I’m so honored to play with this team,” said Petraitis, a senior outside hitter. “Everything I do is because of my team, because of how much support I have.

Hauppauge was great at getting the ball up, and we did great staying mentally focused, ready for it to come back over the net.”

Hauppauge was strong serving, and returning it. In the second set, the Eagles were cruising right alongside Kings Park, forcing five ties. A Petraitis kill put the Kingsmen up 6-5, but Hauppauge bounced right back to tie the score at 8-8 and again at 10-10.

“Hauppauge is always extremely scrappy and they make it hard to put balls away,” Manly said. “Every time we tried to tip or do something unconventional they picked it up, but we stayed consistent swinging at the ball and keeping the offense strong.”

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Clockwise from above, Meagan Murphy celebrates the win; and digs out a serve receive; Erika Benson sends the ball over the net; Kara Haas serves the ball; and Haley Holmes sets up a play.

Manly said his team worked on defensive drills, like service receives, to prepare for Hauppauge, but he still thinks his team has work to do heading into the postseason.

“That’s my biggest issue with my team — we’re pretty powerful offensively, but we rest on our laurels and let down a little bit on the defensive side,” he said. “But we weathered the storm.”

Senior Erika Benson (12 kills) took the game over, as the middle hitter spiked the ball for a big kill and a 12-10 advantage that gave Kings Park the push it needed.

“I thought when times were getting rough — we were in a little bit of a slump — we worked hard to get out of it quickly to move on to the next play,” Benson said. “Coach tells us to get ready for the next point. We’re never thinking ahead, we’re just thinking of what we can do to get that point.”

Right up the middle the team began clicking, with Murphy returning the serve, Haley Holmes (39 assists) setting up the play and Benson driving shots to the ground.

“Haley Holmes did a nice job setting,” Manly said. “She sets a really consistent ball, she didn’t get called for any doubles, lifts or carries, and she spreads the ball on offense really, really well. Erika Benson overpowers people in the middle, and up the middle with our libero, setter and middle is where our bread is buttered and that pretty much carried us tonight.”

Kings Park is the No. 1 seed heading into the playoffs, which begin Oct. 30. The Kingsmen won’t play again until November, thanks to a first round bye.

“I’m really excited to see what happens with this team,” Murphy said.

Graduating just one senior from last year’s team, Benson said her team’s accomplishments, including helping to win the seventh straight league title for Kings Park, mean a lot to the

seniors, who are following in the footsteps of those in years past, losing just one regular season game in their entire careers.

“Being able to keep this League V title is pretty special,” she said. “Every season we have one goal: to win states. It’s always in the back of our minds and it helps us push through to win every game.”

Manly said he doesn’t see the streak weighing too heavily on the girls, because they’re focused on that one goal.

“They’re a pretty relaxed bunch — they’re more focused on their goals than about what’s happened in the past,” he said. “They’re focused on every point, every set and every match. I love my team very much, I think they’re extremely talented and I think the sky is the limit for them as long as they stay humble and hungry and don’t overlook anybody.

They have the capability to do some pretty special stuff.”

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PersPectives

Deer overpopulation is an issue that needs attention

By Alfred J. CossAri Although highly valued for beauty and grace, Suffolk County’s white-tailed deer population exceeds socially and ecologically desirable levels, according to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

As a result of hunting restrictions, suburban sprawl and the elimination of primary predators (wolves and mountain lions), overpopulation in rural areas caused outstripping of the forest’s natural food supplies. This led to reliance on abundant food supplies in suburban areas. In Suffolk County, motor vehicles are their primary predators. Recognized suburban concerns include an increased incidence of tick-borne Lyme disease, the fear of vehicular accidents and destruction of landscape and agricultural plantings. No less important, however, are the ecological effects of outstripped indigenous plants.

This results in the loss of habitat for migrating birds and other wildlife and the possibility of soil erosion on cliffs and hillsides. The profound reduction in plant diversity may never recover, even after removing deer entirely. The high density of deer population also harms the deer by increasing competition for food and the transmission of diseases and parasites.

Other factors contributing to overpopulation include:

• Inapplicability of traditional hunting methods in suburban areas • Difficulties controlling the deer population at a realistic target level • Absence of an urgency for changes in local laws permitting deer reduction • Need for hunters to use liberalized reduction rules to help control local herds • Insufficient resident awareness of the significance and implications of overpopulation The Borrelia burgdorfori bacterium causes Lyme disease when passed to humans by a deer tick. It is transmitted to ticks from deer blood, their primary food source. Within 30 days of human bacterial inoculation, fever, headaches, tiredness and possible complications like arthritis, nerve paralysis and meningitis occur. Lyme was reported in 5,533 cases in Suffolk County from 2000 to 2015, but the true number is thought to be 55,330. Deer reduction can reduce infection by decreasing the number of infected ticks. Although rodents also carry Borrelia, they are not the tick’s primary source of blood and they do not retain the infection through the winter.

Female deer go into heat every 28 days between October and February and give birth to one to three fawns in the spring.

This produces a doubling of the population every two years. Suffolk’s regular deer hunting season opens the first Sunday in January and closes Jan. 31. Landowners, municipalities and hunters can request

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disease can be carried by deer, and their population is getting out of hand. permits for taking an increased number of antlerless deer in season (Deer Management Assistance Program) or hunting deer outside the regular season (Bonus Deer

Damage Permit). Reduction can also be accomplished by capturing deer with drop nets, clover traps or tranquilizer darts for buck neutering or doe immunocontraceptive vaccinations.

On Staten Island, there is a DEC-approved program of buck capturing on designated public or private lands. They are brought to a park facility for a 15-minute vasectomy procedure and the application of an identifying ear tag. In Hastings on Hudson, the Humane Society and Tufts Veterinary School are participating in a reduction program using the PZP-22 (porcine zona pellucida) immunocontraceptive vaccine. High school students participate by obtaining landowners’ permission for property access around feeders and high-priority darting areas. During specified field seasons, the involved properties are marked with identifying flags, and villagers have a hotline for reporting deer sightings directly to the field team. In the first year, the team immobilizes the doe with a tranquilizer dart to insert a time-released vaccine and apply an ear tag. In March of the subsequent year, a dart is used to inject a long-lasting booster immunization without the need for tranquilization.

It is becoming increasingly apparent that communities must consider deer reduction for addressing the adverse health and ecosystem consequences of deer overpopulation.

Alfred J. Cossari is a Port Jefferson resident and medical practice owner.

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The streets of Stony Brook were filled with more than 300 runners and an estimated 460 walkers participating in the Walk for Beauty and Hercules on the Harbor 10K Run Oct. 22. Cancer survivors along with family members and friends collect donations to support their walk or run, which takes them through the scenic and historic Stony Brook.

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OpiniOn Editorial

Letters to the editor

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Suffolk County’s elected officials and police officers should take a cue from Northport Village’s new contract.

Inspiring negotiations All taxpayers should be urging their Suffolk County elected officials and police officers to take a closer look at what’s happening in the Village of Northport.

Officials announced this week they reopened their contract with the village’s police officers to negotiate a new 10-year contract. These changes will save the village at least $3.2 million, if not more.

The Northport Police Benevolent Association admitted the previously agreed upon 5 to 9 percent annual pay increases set for the upcoming years were off base given the current economy, according to Chief Bill Ricca. The officers agreed to take a greatly reduced 2.75 percent raise each year for the next decade, with a series of $25,000 bonuses per officer for the next three years. This new contract offers long-term stability for both the officers and the village’s finances.

Nearly every single candidate running for a county office this political season has pointed to upcoming negotiations of a new contract for Suffolk County Police Department officers between the PBA and the county executive as an important landmark for the future of the county’s finances.

The current contract ends in 2018, and the rates set for officers’ pay may be critical in determining the solvency of Suffolk’s finances.

The county is already in dire straights; and the police department accounts for a large portion of the annual budget. Suffolk faces at least a $160 million budgetary shortfall this year, according to the latest figures, with a total debt of more than $1.4 billion as reported to the media at the end of 2016. Standard & Poor’s Global ratings downgraded the county’s bond rating from A to A- in June, the second such hit in less than two years.

Taxpayers need the county to start living within its means. Taxes are already high enough.

It would be unfair not to recognize that Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D) announced last month that crime is down 26 percent since he took office in 2012. Our public safety is no doubt increased with more officers on the streets, but does it need to come at such a high cost?

It might be possible to reduce the county’s costs by giving more overtime to younger officers who are at a lower hourly salary — just to start.

We strongly encourage both our elected officials and the Suffolk PBA to take a closer look at the contract drawn up in Northport for possible ideas and inspiration as they prepare to step up to the negotiation table.

Northport officials bragged about their last police contract, drawn up in 2011, which gave 0 percent salary raises for three years and increased the number of years to reach top pay from six to 12 served, and their boasting might have some merit.

The current Suffolk police contract, signed in 2012, borrowed the idea of keeping salaries level for several years and increased the time period to reach top pay from five years to 12.

It would be nice if both Suffolk officials and police did some research, looked at their colleagues’ agreement and once again found it a source of inspiration to act in the best interest of all.

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On Oct. 17, I attended the candidate debates for Smithtown supervisor, town council, town clerk and for Suffolk County legislator conducted by the League of Women Voters at Nesaquake Middle School. Since the meeting started early at 6 p.m. on a weekday, the crowd was relatively light — under 200 attendees. I wondered whether this was done intentionally to keep attendance low to avoid excess input and criticism from the audience.

Essentially, all of the incumbents and other candidates suggested that Smithown

needs to increase the amount of apartment complexes to accommodate seniors, young marrieds and singles who are starting out. Since both Democrat and Republican candidates concurred on this subject, voters who object to this “citification” of Smithtown will be left without a choice on Election Day. At the debate, I also noticed that the current incumbents face not only their Democratic opponents but different adversaries, who are running on Conservative, Independence and other lines. These alternate candidates presented credible

arguments as to the current deficiencies in Smithtown Town government.

With Supervisor Patrick Vecchio (R) no longer being “at the helm” of government, Smithtown’s future as a perennially Republican enclave may be in jeopardy. So, with a new Smithtown supervisor “on the horizon” and a field of alternate candidates that is larger than usual, Smithtown’s incumbents must realize that this race will be no cakewalk.

Ron Gendron Smithtown

Reasons to vote yes for ConCon There are reasons to vote for a New York State Constitutional Convention, also called ConCon. 1. Greater safety. If the normal legislative process makes bad laws, you have no recourse since your district is gerrymandered so your vote does not count. But you will be allowed to ratify or defeat ConCon’s proposals. ConCon has a built-in safety backstop which normal government lacks.

2. Ability to address problems normal government never solves. New York “democracy” has never solved these problems,

but ConCon might facilitate the following: • Gerrymandering • Outrageous virtually unlimited campaign finance loopholes • The legislature having ceded virtually all power to the “three men in a room,” which in 2008 were Republican Joe Bruno and Democrat Sheldon Silver, both convicted, and former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who resigned.

• Legislators collecting pensions while still in office • Unfair rules preventing third parties from ever winning

a seat and making it hard to get on ballot (especially if third party) — even while for over a third of races, only a single candidate runs • New York has three separate primary election dates plus a general election day, insanely inefficient.

3. ConCon might have a chance to work better than ever before, because for the first time in history, the internet will be available.

Warren Smith Stony Brook

Failure to renew CHIP funding irresponsible In a move that I can only refer to as breathtakingly irresponsible, Congress failed to renew CHIP, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, missing the Sept. 30 deadline. As Congress remains deadlocked, the health care of millions of children around the country hangs in the balance. Our children deserve better.

CHIP provides health care coverage for nearly 9 million U.S. children who do not qualify for Medicaid and lack access to affordable private coverage. This includes 350,000 children in New York state and 57,000 children right here on Long Island. Along with private coverage, CHIP, Medicaid and the ACA have brought the insured rate of our children to an all time high of 95 percent.

By not renewing CHIP, Congress has put this excellent health care

that our children receive at risk.

Without CHIP renewal, most states will run out of funding for the program over the next few months.

The New York State Legislature has warned that it will simply not be able to fill the $1 billion hole that the lack of federal funding for CHIP will leave and children will lose their health care.

CHIP has become a vital program since its creation in 1997.

It is specifically designed to meet the health care needs of children providing coverage for all preventive and illness visits, vaccinations, dental and mental health care. It covers access to specialists and children’s hospitals, especially important for children with underlying medical conditions.

Right now, however, the health care of all these millions of children is in jeopardy and state govern-

ments face uncertainty. Our children have become the latest pawns and victims of a dysfunctional congress. They deserve better.

Our children are the most vulnerable members of our community and they are our future. American children deserve to continue the excellent health care they have been receiving through CHIP. I join with pediatricians from around the country and the American Academy of Pediatrics in demanding that Congress immediately renew the Children’s Health Insurance Program, no strings attached. Congress needs to do the right thing for our children and they need to do it now.

Dr. Eve Meltzer Krief Centerport Huntington Village Pediatrics

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OpiniOn Wouldn’t-it-be-nice costume ideas for Halloween

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alloween has always seemed like an opportunity to explore the creatively terrifying parts of our imagination. We put up ghosts, goblins, skeletons and spiderwebs around our houses; we dress our children as Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster and zombies; and we jump out from behind bushes, yelling “Boo” or “Happy Halloween.”

Maybe, instead of indulging the frightening side

By Daniel Dunaief of life that seems present almost daily, we should take this opportunity to develop wouldn’t-it-be-nice costumes.

For starters, we could dress our kids, or ourselves if we’re in jobs that allow us to come to work in costume, as giant, dirty hands. When asked to explain ourselves, we could suggest that we’re helping hands, willing to

D. None of the above

get our hands dirty to help those in need anywhere. This includes Puerto Rico, where people are still without power and are seeking to meet basic needs such as food and water. It also could include a co-worker dealing with an illness or death in the family, or an injured neighbor who can’t get his recycling to the curb.

While we’re at it, we could dress as a door with a giant lever people could pull to knock. What are we? We could be opportunity. Every day presents an opportunity to become what we wish, whether that’s someone who can and will lose weight, or someone who sets an incredible example for our children and for other people’s children, or someone who no longer stays silent when he or she sees any type of injustice, whether that’s discrimination, harassment or bullying.

Maybe, we could send our kids out as giant ears. They could become the great listeners. We have so many aspiring great speakers who share every thought in their head, whether that’s online, in a tweet or on a TV show,

scoffing, pontificating and secondguessing everyone and everything.

What does a great listener do, besides absorbing the deluge of thoughts coming his or her way? That person imagines the ideas and motivation behind those words, considers the hurt or vulnerability that those ideas might convey, and thinks of ways to change negative thoughts and behavioral patterns into something positive and inspiring.

Extending the auditory idea, we could also send our kids out in togas with a bucket of fake ears. Why the togas? They could be Romans. Why the ears? Just ask Shakespeare, whose Mark Antony exhorts a crowd in Act III, scene ii of “Julius Caesar” with the opening line, “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.”

We could encourage children to listen and read one of the greatest and most often cited speeches from Shakespeare, helping them learn about the power of rhetoric and the passion of ideas. The older children might even suggest that they are a walking exam-

ple of praeteritio, the literary technique Antony uses when he suggests he’s not going to discuss that which he shares in great detail, namely, the recently deceased Caesar’s contributions to Rome and its citizens.

For those who need something with a shriek component, we could create a costume in which someone dresses up in everyday clothing. An individual could hold a small cage or a tight box containing whatever horrifying image that person imagines in connection with a disease. He or she could suggest that the disease is contained and that this illness, which is locked in a box, is being taken for a walk. As a result, a horrifying disease is minimized and contained.

Finally, we could cover our kids in the kind of headlines we’d like to see, including “Peace breaks out all over the world,” “Children cure cancer,” “Bullying takes a day off,” “Endangered species recover from the brink of extinction” and “Leaders agree to work together.” What would we call such a costume? Fake news.

My enduring love affair is celebrated this week

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t some point along my ancestral chain, I must have been Italian.

Or Chinese. How do I know? I have an unbelievable passion for pasta.

That’s not a carbohydrate lust. While I have never met a carb I don’t like, I can take or leave rice or bread and the many other forms in which carbohydrates can be found.

But my soul soars for pasta.

It was World Pasta Day Oct. 25, and that got me to thinking about my affair with

By Leah S. Dunaief love pasta. I suppose it started in my early childhood, as almost everything does. SpaghettiOs came in a can, and my mother occasionally served it to us as part of a meal. However, the story is not that straightforward. She felt the sauce was a bit sharp, and so she

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sprinkled the spaghetti with a little sugar. Now this is enough to make any self-respecting Italian restaurateur gag.

Many did, as I would ask, “Can I have some sugar please?” of my waiter as I was served a bowl of steaming pasta.

“Sugar? You mean Parmesan cheese?” he would ask. “No sugar, thank you, granulated sugar,” I would patiently explain. Then he would watch in fascination as I topped off my dish accordingly.

It wasn’t until I visited Italy for the first time that I understood the miracle of pasta. The secret is in the sauce, which decidedly is not improved with the addition of sugar. Somehow the pasta itself tastes different there too, the same way water does depending on where it comes from. I remember that first trip very well, as I fell in love with the beauty of the country, the kindness of the people, the richness of its art.

But what I remember best is the pasta, which I will tell you that I came to eat there three times a day. And it never tasted the same way twice because all chefs proudly make their own secret sauces. The high point occurred in

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Amalfi, in a small restaurant on the side of a mountain overlooking the sea. We were with a tour but unscheduled for lunch, and we wandered around the town looking for a likely eatery. They are all charming, you know, but one in particular attracted us and we went in to find that the luncheon special consisted of six different kinds of pasta.

Six! I thought I had died and gone to heaven. The chef, who spoke no English and needed none, came out to explain that we should start with the mildest pasta on the huge plate, then work our way around much as an artist does with his paint palette, to the one with the strongest flavored sauce. The six pastas were each different and the experience was, as you can tell, exquisitely memorable.

Although some think pasta was invented in Italy, others believe Marco Polo brought it back from his travels to China, where he supposedly tasted it at the court of Kublai Khan. There is record of the Chinese eating noodles as early as 5000 B.C. and, in fact, the Etruscans from western Italy seem to

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have made pasta in 400 B.C. There are bas-relief carvings in a cave 30 miles north of Rome depicting instruments for making pasta: a rolling-out table, pastry wheel and flour bin, according to the National Pasta Association.

Anyway in the 13th century, the pope set quality standards for pasta. Thomas Jefferson fell in love with a macaroni dish he tasted in Naples while serving as ambassador to France and promptly ordered crates of the pasta, along with the pasta-making machine, sent back to the United States. Indeed, he may have been the one to introduce macaroni to this country. Cortez brought tomatoes back from Mexico in 1519, but it took two centuries before the marriage with pasta was consummated.

There have been many imitation pastas, meaning not made from wheat, that have come along, but only one makes the grade with me, and I give it a shameless plug here for those who can’t or won’t eat the real thing. Manufactured by Tolerant, it is made of beans and called Organic Red Lentil Pasta.

Buon appetito!

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