NSW/ACT State Conference Program

Pre Conference - WEDNESDAY 18 MAY 2016 6 - 8pm Conference Cocktail Party DAY 1 - THURSDAY 19 MAY 2016 8.30am Registration opens - Hunter Rothbury Room Trade exhibition opens - Hunter Rothbury Room 9.15am Welcome 9.30am Keynote: Poppy Starr Current reigning world bowl champion for women - 2nd youngest competitor to ever take out this event & 2015 World cup title for 15 and over amateur skate boarder 10.15am Morning Tea 10.45am Keynote: Kim Ellis Executive Director, Botanic Gardens and Centennial Parklands The Challenges of creating a sustainable future during a population boom - Centennial Parklands PARKS GARDENS AND OPEN SPORT YOUTH & INTERGENERATIONAL SPACE Valley View Room PLACES & SPACES Hunter Rothbury Room James Busby Room 11.30am Incorporating Green Space A sustainable sports program in A community driven sanctuary - Sanc- within the Integrated Planning & the Parklands tuary Point Place Making Action Plan Reporting process Ed Sanderson - Director Sport & James Harris - Social & Infrastructure Peter McCue - Executive Recreation, Botanic Gardens & Planning Unit Manager & Susan Officer, Premiers Council for Centennial Parklands Edwards - Senior Strategic Planner (Social Active Living Infrastructure), Shoalhaven City Council 12pm Reforming Crown Lands Collaborate to Create Inclusion Providing space for our youth: show- Amy Cahill - Principal & Lachlan for All casing two recently completed Youth Sims - Principal, Public Place James Ellender - NSW State Precinct projects Land Management Manager, Belgravia Leisure Ian Bentley - Landscape Architect, Tweed Shire Council 12.30pm Lunch PARKS GARDENS AND OPEN SPORT YOUTH & INTERGENERATIONAL SPACE Valley View Room PLACES & SPACES Hunter Rothbury Room James Busby Room 1.30pm Bungarribee at Western Sydney Planning for sport in Western Oran Park Youth Hub : Not Just Parklands – a 50 year vision Sydney’s growth areas Another Skate Park Anton James - Director, Brad Billett - Coordinator Joe O’Connor - Development JMDdesign & Joshua French - Recreation Planning and Design, Manager, Urban Growth NSW & Dana Principal Program Officer, Blacktown City Council Spence - Recreation Planner, Camden Western Sydney Parklands Trust Council 2pm Building a successful program Let’s Design for everyone - because through branding - Aqua Learn we can to Swim Fiona Robbe - Director, Fiona Robbe Ros Pullen - Marketing & Landscape Architects Communications Coordinator, Blacktown City Council 2.30pm Afternoon tea

2016 PARKS AND LEISURE NSW/ACT Region State Conference 1 DAY 1 - THURSDAY 19 MAY 2016 PARKS GARDENS AND OPEN SPORT YOUTH & INTERGENERATIONAL SPACE Valley View Room PLACES & SPACES Hunter Rothbury Room James Busby Room 3pm Lifting the lid on Public Land Review and Implementation of Wyong Skate Strategy and BATO Management - Workshop Ground Closure Procedures Regional Skate Park Lachlan Sims - Principal & Amy Simon James - Senior Coordina- Boyd McMillan - Landscape and Cahill - Principal - Public Place tor Sport & Recreation & Daniel Recreation Planner, Land Management Ristic - Senior Coordinator Sport Council & Recreation, City of Ryde 3.30pm Empowering Volunteers and Working together on skin cancer their Community Sport Clubs prevention - a case study approach Amanda VanderWal - NSW/QLD to shade development in NSW Community Partnerships Alecia Brooks - Portfolio Manager Skin Manager, Sports Community Cancer Prevention, Cancer Institute 4pm Keynote: Matt Miller - Chief Executive, NSW Office of Sport The Office of Sport’s strategic direction and what it means for NSW sporting infrastructure. 4.45pm Day One Conference Close 7 - 11pm Awards of Excellence Dinner Twine Restaurant, Wynwood Estate Pokolbin DAY 2 - FRIDAY 20 MAY 2016 8.30am Trade Exhibition Open - Hunter Rothbury Room 9.15am Keynote: A/Professor Thomas Astell-Burt & Dr Xiaoqi Feng Urban greening for healthier ageing – gaps in knowledge and how we can plug them together. 10.00am Morning tea PARKS GARDENS AND OPEN SPACE PARKS GARDENS AND OPEN SPACE Hunter Rothbury Room James Busby Room 10.30am Green Infrastructure - the Experience Transforming Lake Macquarie’s Recreation Spaces Ian McAlister - Manager Horticultural Services, Susan Boyd - Strategic Recreation Planner, Lake Dubbo City Council Macquarie City Council 11am Green Screens - More than meets the eye Driftwells Park - Re-activation of an Industrial Vince Cusumano - Senior Coordinator Park Policy SiteIan McAlister - Manager Horticultural Services, Trees and Natural Areas & Joseph Buttita - Manager Dubbo City Council Civil and Park Maintenance Blacktown City Council 11.30am Understanding the safety of glyphosate Growing pains or gains? How rapid growth Tom Breen - Commercial Lead, Crop Protection Asia demands management efficiencies Pacific, Monsanto Australia Jacob Messer - Director, Operations & Visitor Services, Parramatta Park & Western Sydney Parklands Trusts 9.15am OFFICIAL CONFERENCE CLOSE 12.15pm Lunch Collection 12.30pm Bus Departure for Technical Tours 1.00 - TECHNICAL TOUR 1 TECHNICAL TOUR 2 3.30pm PCYC Cessnock Hunter Valley Gardens

2016 PARKS AND LEISURE AUSTRALIA NSW/ACT Region State Conference 2 Abstracts

THURSDAY 19TH Centennial Parklands is Australia’s With draft legislation set to be introduced 11.30AM largest community sports precinct, hear this year, there are some important steps Hunter Rothbury Room from the Ed Sanderson, Director Sport that Reserve Trust Managers, community & Recreation on the innovative business groups, sporting groups and members of Presenter: solutions assisting the Parklands to the community can take now to ensure Peter McCue - Executive accommodate Sydney’s booming a beneficial outcome, and smooth Officer, Premiers Council for Active population and their need for Sport & transition for the management of public Living Recreation activities. land. As parks and leisure professionals, the paperwork side of crown land Incorporating Green Space within management is not where your efforts the Integrated Planning & Reporting THURSDAY 19TH and energies should lie, but there are process 11.30AM some relevant parts of the Crown Land James Busby Room review which can be done in preparation The Integrated Planning and Reporting for the proposals which are anticipated (IP&R) framework provides local Presenters: as a result of the objectives and councils with their principal planning James Harris - Social & Infrastructure outcomes of the Crown Lands Review and reporting tool which includes an Planning Unit Manager & Susan and White Paper. This presentation will overarching Community Strategic Plan Edwards - Senior Strategic Planner (Social provide an overview of the proposed (CSP). CSPs are updated as part of Infrastructure), Shoalhaven City Council Crown Lands reforms in NSW, provide an update on their progress and inform local council elections and the period A community driven sanctuary - users and managers of Crown Land prior to elections provides a significant Sanctuary Point Place Making Action opportunity to enhance current green Plan on how to maximise the benefits of the space and active living provision. reform process. Premier’s Council for Active Living Sanctuary Point Place Making Action THURSDAY 19TH has developed a web based guide to Plan highlights the success of local 12.00 highlight opportunities to incorporate government working with the community VALLEY VIEW ROOM green space and active living matters to activate and improve both the within each stage of the IP&R process. liveability and community pride of a Presenter: The resource contains exemplar case previous undervalued and underutilised James Ellender - Belgravia Leisure studies, evidence based indicators village. The success of this work hinged of success and relevant funding on focusing community leaders to opportunities. The tool has been develop achieve both short and long term visions Collaborate to Create Inclusion for All to coincide with local council elections. for their community which involved Furthermore, many councils are currently utilising and improving existing public Social policy innovation related to responding to proposed amalgamations open space areas. In bringing the disability in Australia is driving new which will require the synthesis of several community together to achieve a number opportunities for innovative leisure existing CSPs. of common outcomes has resulted in the organisations. Increasingly, people with a The current paper will outline key community owning and driving a Place disability will be resourced to control and opportunities to influence green space Making Action Plan and the community choose the experiences that contribute and active living provision within the actively improving their own sanctuary. to their personal goals related to work, IP&R process, demonstrate how the family, home, community and leisure. PCAL IP&R resource can assist the Delivery of outcomes identified in Resourcing will go to people with a incorporation of these considerations the Action Plan relied on Council disability – not organisations – principally and highlight initial results of a PCAL collaborating with the community and through the National Disability Insurance evaluation of the inclusion of parks and other key interest groups to deliver a Scheme and linked government active living considerations within current number of successful intergenerational initiatives. Like many Australians, people local council CSPs. projects for the community. These with a disability embrace leisure, and projects focused on building community use their leisure time to engage in THURSDAY 19TH capacity and utilisation to develop, sport, recreation, aquatic and fitness 11.30 construct and activate key strategic activities. Access to leisure activities VALLEY VIEW ROOM sites. Projects delivered to date include a has proven challenging for many people fitness station, community garden, learn with a disability, and new approaches Presenter: to ride facility and more is planned. that address the needs and desired Ed Sanderson - Director Sport & outcomes of people with a disability, and Recreation, Botanic Gardens & THURSDAY 19TH their families, are required. Recognising Centennial Parklands 12.00 and embracing the opportunity to Hunter Rothbury Room include people with a disability in the A sustainable sports program in the venues it manages throughout urban Parklands. Presenter: and rural Australia, Belgravia Leisure Amy Cahill - Principal & Lachlan is implementing a strategy founded Sims - Principal, Public Place Land Maximising participation and utilisation on evidence-based practice and a Management is the name of the game played by commitment to collaboration and Centennial Parklands staff. Reforming Crown Lands partnership, leading to improved staff capability while focussing on the needs

2016 PARKS AND LEISURE AUSTRALIA NSW/ACT Region State Conference 3 of people with a disability and their and logically inserts program and Oran Park Youth Hub : Not Just Another families. circulation to preserve and heighten the Skate Park THURSDAY 19TH unique site qualities of scale, sky and 12.00 ecology. Oran Park will be a significant James Busby Room development in Sydney’s South West, The presentation will explore the second in size only to the proposed Presenter: delivery of Sydney’s most important Leppington Regional Centre. When Ian Bentley - Landscape Architect, new parkland at the heart of Western completed Oran Park will be home to Tweed Shire Council Sydney, from Plan of Management over 25,000 people living in 8,000 homes development, to master planning of the all centred around modern recreational Providing space for our youth: precinct including engagement with the facilities and town centre over 30 showcases two recently completed local community. Finally, detailed design, hectares. The skate park and youth hub Youth Precinct projects documentation and delivery of the first at Julia Reserve has been designed to stages of work ($15m) will be reviewed be a key recreational element providing The ‘Youth’ is often a ‘To hard Basket’ with an emphasis on collaboration exciting social spaces for young people. group to accommodate into our open between the client/consultant team. Creating high quality open spaces space. They are diverse, frequently anti- while planning for the growth of a new establishment, yet very socially aware community requires significant planning and most importantly they are our future. THURSDAY 19TH and vision. Lean how the Oran Park So how do we design for them? 1.30 Voluntary Planning Agreement ensured Tweed Shire Council, through the VALLEY VIEW ROOM the delivery of high quality recreation recently adopted Youth Strategy, have and sporting spaces. How was this instigated the construction of two youth Presenter: achieved? Who was involved and what areas within our most popular parks. Brad Billett - Coordinator Recreation have we learned through the process. This paper will showcase the youth Planning and Design, Blacktown City This presentation will focus on the precincts, at either end of the budgetary Council planning for a high quality youth space in scale, working through the process from the rapidly growing South West Growth community engagement to construction. Planning for sport in Western Sydney’s Centre. The first at Faulks Park, Kingscliff, as growth areas part of a foreshore park upgrade with THURSDAY 19TH a $30,000 budget and the Federally 2.00 As Blacktown City continues to grow, assisted $1.1million Knox Park, VALLEY VIEW Room Murwillumbah upgrade with a half so too does the demand for sporting facilities. With an additional 130,000+ basketball court, shaded seating area, Presenter: Ros Pullen - Marketing & residents to move into the north of and a new skate and scooter park. Communications Coordinator, Blacktown our city, planning frameworks and Discussions will be sought to find City Council out what other Councils have used benchmarks have been established with the aim of ensuring adequate open to engage with their youth and how Building a successful program through successful they have been. space - including sporting facilities. branding - Aqua Learn to Swim THURSDAY 19TH Sporting codes have now been Why rebrand a successful program? 1.30 identified for each site to ensure an How do you ensure you not only attract Hunter Rothbury Room equitable distribution of facilities that reflect the demands within the ‘local’ new customers but retain existing ones? Presenters: sporting landscape. In essence, it is Blacktown City Council launched Aqua Anton James - Director, the “who goes where”. This allows Learn to Swim program across all 5 of JMDdesign & Joshua French - for more targeted designs that can be its leisure and aquatic Centre’s in 2015, Principal Program Officer, accurately costed, and allows sporting bringing together 5 separate swim Western Sydney Parklands Trust organisations to plan for new club establishment as residents commence school programs to ensure quality and consistency across the service. Bungarribee at Western Sydney moving into these growth areas. Parklands – a 50 year vision This presentation will outline the The launch of this program required existing operational processes, Bungarribee is a new 246Ha parkland regional recreation planning process, from benchmarks to facility allocations programing, branding and precinct forming part of the Western communication to be overhauled and Sydney Parklands. The site is larger than across the 13 new suburbs that will see 70 new playing fields and 65 new saw Council’s most successful program Centennial Parklands, and implements brands ‘Surfees Swim School’ to be the Parklands Plan of Management. courts provided for 130,000+ additional residents. replaced with a new brand. JMDdesign were engaged by WSPT THURSDAY 19TH My presentation will explain how we can to lead a multidisciplinary team of build on the strengths and success of engineers, architects, artists, ecologists, 1.30 James Busby Room existing programs in order to create even heritage and engagement consultants stronger brands and programs at our to prepare a masterplan outlining a 50 Presenters: venues. year vision for Bungarribee. Working in Joe O’Connor - Development Manager, collaboration with WSPT, JMDdesign Urban Growth NSW & Dana Spence - THURSDAY 19TH developed the masterplan to carefully Recreation Planner, Camden Council 2.00

2016 PARKS AND LEISURE AUSTRALIA NSW/ACT Region State Conference 4 James Busby Room online, enjoys strong support across THURSDAY 19TH sectors and will be delivered by July Presenter: 3.00 2016. Fiona Robbe - Director, Fiona Robbe VALLEY VIEW Room The presentation will discuss the Skate Landscape Architects Strategy and Regional Skate park Presenters: Simon James - Senior procurement and engagement with an Let’s Design for everyone - because we Coordinator Sport & Recreation & Daniel emphasis on lessons learned for the can Ristic - Senior Coordinator Sport & future. Power point, computer fly through Recreation, City of Ryde and / or video will be used to support the Can we design the public realm to be presentation and encourage discussion. inclusive of everyone, or is this a well- Review and Implementation of Ground intentional dream? And when we get Closure Procedures THURSDAY 19TH everyone together, can we get them to 3.30 be active. Due to the level of use and the impact on VALLEY VIEW Room Traditional park design separates user sporting fields during the winter period, groups and activities, usually with it is necessary for Council’s to have a Presenter: spectators around the perimeter of process for determining the suitability Amanda VanderWal - NSW/QLD Com- activities. We question this model, saying of the ground conditions for play during munity Partnerships that all people need to be at the centre of periods of wet weather. During the winter Manager, Sports Community the design of spaces, and that activities season of 2015, the closure of sporting Empowering Volunteers and their can be merged together, offered in a fields by the City of Ryde was particularly Community Sport Clubs smorgasbord of informal options. contentious. Something that is not This presentation explores the process unusual across the local government of consciously designing park spaces to sector. The obligations, responsibilities and bring everyone together to be social and challenges for sports clubs and their active, with tips and pointers (& a case This session will outline how City of volunteers are getting larger by the day. study) that everyone can use in everyday Ryde staff undertook a review of its wet As a result, most clubs at some stage park planning and design. weather procedures and engaged with will turn to their local council for support stakeholders through this process. In and assistance. THURSDAY 19TH this scenario where Council is taking the 3.00 responsibility for making the decision, it As a result many Councils are getting Hunter Rothbury Room will outline how the internal procedures inundated with requests for support. For were updated and communication those Councils wanting to proactively Presenters: improved. At the end of the session assist their clubs maximise participation, Lachlan Sims - Principal & Amy Cahill - discussion will be encouraged on the community engagement and overall Principal - Public Place Land different approaches to managing the club sustainability the task of supporting Management closure of grounds and the experience of clubs can be almost overwhelming. others. Lifting the lid on Public Land This session will highlight innovative Management - workshop THURSDAY 19TH case studies from around Australia of 3.00 how councils, peak sporting bodies Navigating the regulatory maze of James Busby Room and Sports Community are proactively managing public land is a journey of supporting their community sports clubs. trepidation and uncertainty. As open Presenter: space managers, the focus is on the use Boyd McMillan - Landscape and The session will highlight how of the land, rather than the paperwork. Recreation Planner, Wyong Shire technology and the internet is now being Regulatory planning and strategic Council used to overcome barriers such as the planning, plans of management, tyranny of distance for rural, regional and Wyong Skate Strategy and BATO development and use approvals, remote clubs who traditionally have had Regional Skate Park leases and licences and different little access to training and resources. legislative regimes – these are all often The Wyong Skate Strategy was adopted misunderstood areas of open space Finally we will take a look at what the in 2014 with the Vision that Wyong would management. But it doesn’t have to future holds what it could mean for become a “skate friendly” shire where be so complex and with some simple, volunteer support. urban spaces would become inclusive easy to make changes, it is possible to spaces for social engagement across a manage open space, and public land THURSDAY 19TH variety of ages and type of users. effectively and lawfully, both on the 3.30 The adoption of the Strategy led to ground and in the office. This workshop James Busby Room works across a hierarchy of facilities session will provide participants with an from Local to Regional. overview of the regulatory requirements Presenter: Council has committed $2.5Million on for the use and occupation of public Alecia Brooks - Portfolio Manager Skin the delivery of a Regional Skate Park, land. The session will include practical Cancer Prevention, Cancer Institute New designed and built by CONVIC located exercises involving real world scenarios South Wales in Bateau Bay on the Central Coast providing the opportunity to apply Highway opposite the major Retail Working together on skin cancer processes to solve everyday problems prevention - a case study approach to complex. The project used extensive in managing the use and occupation of shade development in NSW public engagement in workshops and public land in NSW.

2016 PARKS AND LEISURE AUSTRALIA NSW/ACT Region State Conference 5 The NSW Skin Cancer Prevention our major roads and available planting Strategy is a coordinated community- FRIDAY 20TH areas have been mapped out and wide approach to the development and 10.30 each year funding is being provided for implementation of skin cancer prevention James Busby Room the sleeted areas to be prepared and activities in NSW including increasing planted using both day labour staff and shade availability. Presenter: contractors. In 2016 we are looking to Susan Boyd - Strategic Recreation undertake over 7 kilometres of green Four shade grant and funding schemes Planner, Lake Macquarie City Council screen planting with this programme. in NSW were the focus of an evaluation Transforming Lake Macquarie’s to identify best practice shade As the scheme develops, it is our Recreation Spaces structures. intention to further utilise the Corrective Council has embarked a comprehensive The Cancer Institute NSW worked with Services Community Solutions team renew of its developer contributions the Centre of Health Initiatives (CHI), to expand their role into the ongoing plans which involves the preparation of University of Wollongong to undertake an pruning and maintenance of these areas. a suite of background studies including evaluation of 29 shade grant recipients. recreation and open space plans. The Of these, ten sites were then purposively FRIDAY 20TH City was divided into five contributions sampled across various settings for a 11.00 catchments with three now completed site visit to assess the effectiveness and James Busby Room and the fourth well underway. impact of the shade structures. This Since the first study, we have data was used to develop shade case Presenter: streamlined the process, taken studies aimed at guiding future shade Ian McAlister - Manager Horticultural advantage of opportunities, considered development. Services, Dubbo City Council by some to be radical, and provided a broad range of recreation facilities. Driftwells Park - Re-activation of an This presentation would take participants Projects include a new park at Industrial Site through the approach and the results Charlestown that requires acquisition showcasing the learnings for best of 14 residential houses; a new park in The Driftwells project delivers a unique practice in shade development across Edgeworth that relocates an existing Australian experience. It provides recreational priority settings. Participants athletics track; an off-road shared insight into the challenges experienced would also be provided with a copy of pathway (a missing link) over a narrow- by rural Australian settlements in the the case studies for future reference. windy section of road at Eleebana: a 19th century, and raises awareness six-court croquet facility; dog exercise of Dubbo’s rich socio-political and FRIDAY 20TH areas; and community gardens. The engineering history. The Driftwells 10.30 total value for the recreation facilities in project places one of the region’s most Hunter Rothbury Room the plans prepared so far are Morisset- beautiful, hidden and hazardous man- $35M; Charlestown- $70M and Glendale made treasures on permanent open Presenters: Ian McAlister - Manager - $75M. display supported by comprehensive Horticultural Services, Dubbo City interpretative signage. Council FRIDAY 20TH 11.00 The Driftwells are two large diameter, Green Infrastructure - the Dubbo Hunter Rothbury Room deep brick-lined infiltration wells in Experience Dubbo. The first was sunk in 1893 Presenters: Vince Cusumano - Senior and the second in 1909. They were Many cities throughout the world have Coordinator Park Policy Trees and the source of water for Dubbo’s first taken on the challenge of improving the Natural Areas & Joseph Buttita - municipal reticulating water supply. After city environs through the development Manager Civil and Park Maintenance being decommissioned in the 1970s and implementation of Green Blacktown City Council a determination was made that the Infrastructure strategies. But what is Driftwells would be put on permanent ‘Green Infrastructure?’ Is a park by itself Green Screens - More than meets the 24hr unsupervised public display. ‘green infrastructure?’ A well maintained eye boulevard of trees? A river corridor? A This paper outlines the design green wall? Can any of this be called Blacktown City Council is using a considerations and processes taken ‘green infrastructure?’ While all of these cooperative approach to beautifying to redevelop and reactivate a previous are examples of green infrastructure it our major thoroughfares. Former walls industrial site and incorporate it into doesn’t recognise the underlying and and fences that were graffiti taggers the parks network so that retains its fundamental need of these components canvases are being transformed into historical links and enhances educational to be connected into a framework. living green screens using shrubs and opportunities. This presentation will look at the need climbers that are propagated at our for green infrastructure within the urban Council nursery. FRIDAY 20TH landscape using the City of Dubbo as 11.30 an example of what can be achieved. With the initial assistance of Probation Hunter Rothbury Room Different types of green infrastructure and Parole’s Corrective Services will be identified as well as how it can be Community Solutions Team, regular Presenters: Tom Breen - Commercial integrated with the more traditional ‘Grey cleaning of these walls and fences, has Lead, Crop Protection Asia Pacific, Infrastructure’ to deliver cost efficiencies been carried out. Monsanto Australia and help to effect major changes in dealing with broader issues, such as Using our Green Screens Masterplan, Understanding the safety of glyphosate climate change.

2016 PARKS AND LEISURE AUSTRALIA NSW/ACT Region State Conference 6 Glyphosate is one of the worlds’ most widely-used herbicides, registered for use in over 160 countries and supported by one of the most extensive worldwide human health, crop reside and environmental databases ever compiled on a pesticide product. Regulatory agencies around the world have reviewed glyphosate over decades and consistently concluded that all labelled uses of glyphosate are safe for human health. So why is there increasing concern about the use of glyphosate? What does the International Agency for Research on Cancer’s (IARCs) classification really mean? And is there a need to be concerned about user safety and the safety of the general public?

FRIDAY 20TH 11.30 James Busby Room

Presenter: Jacob Messer - Director, Operations & Visitor Services, Parramatta Park & Western Sydney Parklands Trusts Growing pains or gains? How rapid growth demands management efficiencies

Once fully developed, Western Sydney Parklands will be the largest urban parkland system in Australia. Since its inception the Parklands Trust has focused on delivering its strategic objectives of environmental protection and land stewardship; community engagement and involvement; and financial sustainability.

Double visitor numbers - OK! Triple picnic shelter bookings – no problem! Manage a new park destination the size of Centennial Parklands – can do! No extra staff? - Priceless!

This presentation will explore the strategic challenges and opportunities facing the Parklands Operations & Visitor Services team over the coming years and the key strategies put in place to: • respond to rapid park development and renewal; • maintain visitor service standards and meet community expectations; all while working within the Trusts sustainable self-funded business model.

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