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Fri.22.7.22 Metro Twitter
Heading to the footy, or just out and about this weekend?  Please remember that face masks are still required on public transport, so please mask up to help keep yourself and others safe this winter.
17.38 Craigieburn line: Delays up to 25 minutes in the Roxburgh Park area (a trespasser).  Police will attend.  Trains may be held at platforms.
- 17.59 Buses replace trains between Broadmeadows and Craigieburn.  Police are attending.  Buses have been ordered, however will take over 30 minutes to arrive.
- 18.20 Trains have resumed.
- 18.24 Talk rubbish; we are still sitting at Coolaroo
- 18.29 This train will move in the next minute, ~18.30.
- 18.52 Trains are still up to 15 minutes late.
18.13 Frankston line: Major delays and clearing after an ill passenger required medical assistance at Mentone.
18.34 Major delays (police between Eltham and Hurstbridge). Trains may be held.
- 18.42 consider alternative transport options: Local bus 580 Eltham - Diamond Creek; - Local bus 343 Diamond Creek - Hurstbridge.
Buses replace trains Moorabbin - Frankston/Stony Point from 20.05 until the last train of Sun 24 Jul (maintenance works).
Buses replace trains on sections of the Craigieburn line from 21.00 until the last train of Mon 25 Jul (works).
Pakenham/Cranbourne lines: Buses replace trains Caulfield - Westall from 21.00 until the last train of Sun 24 Jul (works).

Mon.28.5.22  Vacant skyscrapers, empty trains: can San Francisco once again reinvent itself?  Isabeau Doucet in San Francisco.
The operator of the gondola that services Salesforce Park, an oasis among the skyscrapers in downtown San Francisco, will tell you all about how the 2 hectare rooftop space you’re about to enter contains 1,600 plants, 600 trees and more than a dozen ecosystems.
But the transit center underneath – the newly built hub that was announced before the pandemic with great fanfare and was supposed to ferry in workers from all over the region to downtown – is quiet, save for the metaphorical tumbleweeds. The city’s main public transport systems are collapsing under the weight of their own emptiness. The number of riders on the Bart system is around 40% of what it was before the pandemic, and only 30% for riders who exit in downtown San Francisco. Without a $5bn bailout, service cuts to some of the city’s transit lines could start as soon as this summer.
...The city is staring down a $780m budget deficit over the coming two years due to rising costs and plummeting business, sales and transfer tax revenues, jeopardizing funding for essential services from public safety and cleaning to transportation.
The Salesforce Transit Center and Park. Photograph: Eric Risberg/AP Provided by The Guardian
<www.msn.com/en-au/money/homeandproperty/vacant-skyscrapers-empty-trains-can-san-francisco-once-again-reinvent-itself/ar-AA1bNvSP>

For Change Middle Park cafe serves coffee and social change from a tiny railway building.  Emma Breheny July 22, 2022
This is part of the "Melbourne hit list July 2022: Hot, new and just-reviewed places to check out, right now" collection See all stories.
Social enterprise cafe For Change, Middle Park has opened in a former railway building.JANNA BENNETT
A quaint railway building in Middle Park is now home to a social enterprise cafe serving Five Senses coffee and wholesome plant-based food while training young people so they can escape homelessness.
For Change Co moved into the tiny weatherboard structure in May after signing a three-year peppercorn lease with building owner Yarra Trams.
Located on the route 96 tram line, it has seating for 12 inside and a deck overlooking Albert Park. Mart 130 cafe previously occupied the building until it was damaged by fire in February 2018.
Plant-based plates at For Change in Middle Park.JANNA BENNETT
At For Change, diners can choose from bircher muesli with blueberry compote, house-baked pastries, fried cauliflower and baba ghanoush rolls, or corn and jalapeno fritters with black rice. Former Matteo sous chef Ross Eckersley is one of the hospitality professionals on staff sharing their skills.
Trainees spend between six and eight months working at For Change Co's cafes before they're supported to find permanent employment, either in hospitality or another field.
"Employment and everything that comes with that – confidence, community building – is central to keeping them out of the cycle of homelessness in the long-term," says For Change Co's CEO Tenille Gilbert.
CEO Tenille Gilbert is delighted to have the cafe up and running after signing a lease last year.WAYNE TAYLOR
The not-for-profit, established in 2015, runs five other social enterprises around Melbourne, from coffee carts to cafes, and will add another in the northern suburbs by spring. The Middle Park cafe boosts the number of trainee places available by 30 per cent.
Gilbert says the plant-based focus is another way to invest in young people's futures by not contributing to food-related carbon emissions. The cafes don't use gas and also compost their waste.
Open daily 8am-2.30pm, Middle Park Light Rail Station, Canterbury Road, Middle Park, forchangeco.com.au
<www.theage.com.au/goodfood/eating-out/for-change-is-serving-coffee-and-social-change-from-a-tiny-middle-park-railway-building-20220722-h2589l.html>


Rethink on Roma Street Games venue amid congestion concerns.  Tony Moore July 22, 2022
The Queensland government is examining alternative sites for the yet-to-be-built venue to host the Olympic swimming and water polo near Roma Street Station.
The move comes after serious pedestrian, cycling and road traffic issues in the area were highlighted in a report on the Roma Street sector of the Cross River Rail project.
An artist’s impression of the Brisbane Live entertainment precinct above the new Roma Street station. CREDIT:
Brisbane Arena – to be known after the Games as Brisbane Live – is based on a long-standing proposal to transform the area around the old transit centre into an events and entertainment precinct.
Under the original plan, a 17,000-seat venue would host the Games’ swimming and water polo events in a temporary pool, which Brisbane Times understands has already been designed and verified against FINA requirements.
But Brisbane Arena has yet to find a final home amid concerns that Roma Street and its railway lines present too many constraints, and that surrounding areas would be overwhelmed by pedestrians.
One potential solution is for the venue to move closer to the Brisbane River to help transform North Quay – even if that means demolition of the police headquarters and arrest courts.
Deputy Premier and Minister Assisting the Premier on Olympic Infrastructure Steven Miles confirmed on Friday the government was exploring “different options” within the 32-hectare Roma Street Parklands Priority Development Area.
“A process is currently underway to inform future investment decisions for the Brisbane Arena, to be located within the Roma Street precinct,” Miles said.
“This process will ensure the arena is fit for purpose and delivers the best legacy outcomes for Queensland.
“Further development of the design and project documentation is required before a final funding decision is made by the Queensland and Australian governments.
“It will revitalise the underutilised Roma Street precinct by helping us to attract a greater variety of entertainment and international sporting events, and strengthen Brisbane’s tourism sector.”
The government set a priority development area to guide construction of the new Roma Street underground train station as part of the $5.4 billion Cross River Rail project. Other projects are set to follow.
The original plan for Brisbane Arena, the brainchild of entertainment businessman Harvey Lister, involved a venue opening up to the gardens of Emma Miller Place and down to King George Square.
However, Brisbane Times has been told major contractors have pointed out the challenges of building around underground rail services, as well as pedestrian and traffic problems in the “highly constrained road space”.
Some of those concerns are included in the Cross River Rail Delivery Authority May 2021 infrastructure plan.
“Significant volumes of pedestrians undertake illegal crossings at Herschel Street, Makerston Street and George Street intersections of Roma Street due to illegal at-grade crossings,” the report warns.
“Pedestrians are also possibly unwilling to wait for signals.”
The report also says: “The wayfinding through the precinct, particularly along Roma Street, is limited and can be confusing, especially for movements towards King George Square.”
It says the road network is “highly constrained” and planners need to be aware of the need for road upgrades along Roma Street for the “magistrates court” and Queensland Police headquarters.
The Suncorp Stadium redevelopment faced similar issues. That project only came in on budget because the government abandoned a dedicated pedestrian thoroughfare, instead requiring street closures for major events.
The Queensland government is now evaluating a range of alternative options for the Brisbane Arena. This map of the Roma Street Parklands Priority Development Area shows the entertainment and community precincts in green, and a future city gateway precinct in blue.CREDIT: CROSS RIVER RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE REPORT MAY 2021.
Brisbane Times understands planners are now evaluating whether the Brisbane Arena alignment is the most cost-effective and viable of several options that exist within the priority development area.
The police headquarters has already been earmarked as part of a “future Roma Street Gateway Precinct” because it opens to the Brisbane River. That could allow the venue to be part of a much broader transformation and provide a greater legacy for the city.
Ironically, a shift in that direction could also help reunite the city with its past, being close to the historical marker for where explorer John Oxley landed as he explored the Brisbane River.
Several industry figures are quietly disappointed the 2032 Olympics infrastructure committee is yet to be announced, and are concerned by the amount of work needed before any construction starts.
Brisbane Times has been told any redevelopment of the Gabba into a 50,000-seat venue and Games centrepiece is likely to begin in 2026, after the next home Ashes cricket series.
However, with Cross River Rail due to open in 2025, that would also see the Brisbane Arena under construction at the same time.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk expects all Olympic infrastructure to be ready for 12 months of final trials, leaving nine years, not 10, for decisions to be made and projects completed.
RELATED ARTICLE The Rolling Stones perform at Brisbane Live's 17,000-seat arena at Roma Street in this artists' impression. New inner-city arena possible as Brisbane Live moves a step closer
RELATED ARTICLE A Breakfast Creek Sports Precinct plan has been announced to revive the location where Albion Park Raceway is for the Olympics and Paralympics in 2032. Inner-city sports precinct to be built for 2032 Olympic, Paralympic Games
<www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/rethink-on-roma-street-games-venue-amid-congestion-concerns-20220720-p5b37d.html>
* People’s comments are so politically stupid. It was Newman’s government that originally proposed this, now Labor are following through with it. The site also won’t be a white elephant. It’ll replace the well utilised but much unloved Boondall Entertainment Centre and place a larger equivalent venue in the heart of the city above all public transport lines. The site has long been known to be challenging, I’m surprised it made it this many years before it was called out. Perhaps though pedestrians aren’t the issue, we have a car problem.
* Put the venue directly over the station so you come up inside of the studium.
* Typical, haven't planned or thought about anything, everything AP touches is just a thought bubble. IOC are probably already regretting giving it to us.
* “Pedestrians are also possibly unwilling to wait for signals.” Maybe it's because the streetscape is designed badly? I reckon this could be great if we removed some car space. After all, we've removed cars from Queen Street Mall, Victoria Bridge and several other places and we don't have traffic chaos.
* it was always a contested site, and it is just not big enough to warrant the expense.
* here come the start of billions of dollars of olympic white elephants...
* And with the "traditional" BCC lack of care and maintainance after thre big event as the site is allowed to decay.
* So labor should be allowed to build these white elephants...or not?
* Brisbane Live is hardly a white elephant. It has been earmarked as required for years, planned for well before the Olympics.


Tasmanian government is reviewing statewide planning scheme. Alison Hetherington July 22 2022
Bikes should be part of State Planning Provisions review underway
You may not know it, but the Tasmanian government is reviewing a central part of its vaunted statewide planning scheme.  The State Planning Provisions were introduced in 2017 and are now undergoing their first five-year review. The problem back in 2017 and the problem now is that the provisions take us backward when in comes to helping people to choose to ride a bicycle for transport. Instead of requiring new streets to have safe separation between people walking, riding and driving they encourage the "adequate accommodation" of all road users. Instead of requiring new buildings to provide bicycle parking for employees that is secure and undercover, they require a few hoops outside. And instead of making sure new apartment buildings have secure, undercover bike parking for residents they are completely silent.  So, when new apartments are advertised showing drawings of people happily riding by, they probably won't be living in the new building because there's nowhere secure and accessible to keep their bikes. Frustratingly, the planning provisions were being developed at the same time the government was announcing its aspiration to be the healthiest state by 2025. We know that obesity and lack of physical activity are driving forces behind the development of heart disease, diabetes and some cancers. Making it easier for people to be physically active every day can help reduce the risk of such diseases. One of the most obvious ways to do this is to design streets where more of us can make the choice to walk or ride and when we get to our destinations, there are secure places to lock our bikes. This is especially true for people who want to ride to work.  When people lock up their bikes and head off to their day or shift at work they want to be sure their bike is there when they finish. If they are forced to lock it up in the street without any way to check on it, it might be enough of a deterrent not to ride.  The government needs to come together on the goals of making us physically and mentally healthier, reducing our greenhouse gas emissions, reducing cost of living pressures and reducing traffic congestion.  Our planning laws are an obvious place to do this but if they are going to be useful in encouraging people to ride, as is stated in the objectives of the Sustainable Transport and Parking Code, then changes are needed: The Heart Foundation has suggested a Liveable Streets Code be added to the state provisions to outline what many of us want when it comes to disability compliant walking paths and separated cycleways, street trees, open spaces and public transport shelters. This is one way of providing more transport options and should be considered in the review. If you want to support making it easier to walk, ride or scoot around Tasmania please consider providing comments to the review, which closes on 29 July.  And even if you don't support those options for yourself, you should still consider making a submission because more developments that force people into cars or make it difficult to ride, walk and scoot just means more traffic congestion.
<www.examiner.com.au/story/7828391/bikes-should-be-part-of-state-planning-provisions-review-underway

Melbourne train driver’s ‘acknowledgement of country’ at Richmond station.  John Masanauskas July 22, 2022 - 3:00PM
Passengers on the Frankston line were surprised when the train driver made an “acknowledgement of country” over the PA system.
Mandy Nicholson’s artwork covers a Metro train in Melbourne. Picture: Victorian Department of Transport
A common gesture of respect for Aboriginal people has spread to the public transport system, with one commentator branding it “virtue signalling”.
Passengers on the Frankston line were surprised recently when the train driver made an “acknowledgement of country” over the PA system.
The female driver gave a nod to the traditional owners of “Narrm” — an Aboriginal word for Melbourne — and paid respects to current and future community elders.
A passenger told Herald Sun that the acknowledgment was made at Richmond Station when passing another train that was decorated in Aboriginal livery.
“I saw one guy roll his eyes,” the passenger said.
“Is this tokenism really necessary, people just want to get to and from work, they don’t want a sermon on the way.”
The driver delivered the ‘acknowledgement of country’ while passing the train decorated by the artwork. Picture: YouTube
Institute of Public Affairs Foundations of Western Civilisation Program director Dr Bella d’Abrera said virtue signalling did nothing to solve real issues being faced by Indigenous Australians.
“Public Transport Victoria needs to get its priorities straight. It is to get commuters from A to B, not to show them how woke it is.”
However, the Department of Transport said Metro Trains had received positive feedback from passengers regarding the driver’s acknowledgment of Aboriginal artwork on the train.
“Operational staff, including train and tram drivers, play an important role to inform passengers of any impacts or changes to their services,” a spokeswoman said.
“We are proud to support the new HCMT train decorated by artwork by Mandy Nicholson, Wurundjeri woman and Traditional Owner of Narrm currently travelling on the Cranbourne and Pakenham lines.”
Acknowledgements of country have been made in forums like local council meetings, parliaments and at government events for years, but the practice is spreading fast through the private sector, including by airlines.
People being interviewed on radio have done it, while recently an Australian Bureau of Statistics employee made the acknowledgment before providing data from the latest census.
Indigenous affairs commentator and social scientist Anthony Dillon predicted correctly a few years ago that the gesture would be made on commercial flights.
“Am I a fan of it, no. Am I going to oppose it, no,” he said.
“What I don’t want to happen is that if someone doesn’t want to do it, that that’s seen as a sign of disrespect or whatever.”
“It should be a very personal thing, if you want to do it, great, if you don’t want to do it, don’t.”
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* If Australia Day is invasion day and Australia was invaded by the British, then sorry to tell you, to the victor go the spoils.
* enough is enough. stop this tokenism.
* Completely and utterly woke. Next they'll stop the train at Prayer times.
* Very good to show respect.
* ...and where is the sentiment that should be extended on Australia Day or ANZAC Day?
* This crap is getting completely out of hand.
* Nobody can welcome me to the country of my birth.
* Welcomed one day, told we are unwelcome invaders the next. If we can acknowledge what we were before colonisation then we we can acknowledge what we are now and move on. The divisive antagonists need to be culled from the issue so we can focus on a positive future.
* No... just no... we are one, things like this are devisive... let's love as one in our one country.
* We are constantly being welcomed to country, before most events get underway. So, do we still have to refer to Australia Day as Invasion Day? Aren't we all wecome here, as proved by a song and a eucalypt smoke dance every time?
* There was no Melbourne before John Batman. Hunter gatherers did not build towns or cities, therefore the word Narrm is another invention.
* I find being welcomed to my own country an insult.
* which brings me to ask, do the indigenous Americans perform the ubiquitous Welcome to Country too?
* I will no longer participate acknowledgement of country. This is my country as much as anyone else’s. I’ve worked and paid taxes, family members have gone to war to keep our country free. Enough is enough!
* Load of BS. We are all Australians Get used to it
* it's getting out of hand
* I'm a fifth generation Australian. I don't need to be welcomed to my own country
* this is why racism is on the rise. everyday we here more woke garbage dividing people
* What a load of nonsense! Train drivers should focus on driving trains.
* What about recognising the Aussie pioneers , inventors, industrialists and the millions of working people? they built Australia!
* Along with many unacknowledged indigenous people.
* Just another reason to avoid the Covid express.
* This is tokenitic garbage.
* When you can't get your services to run on time, when a project is over-budget and over-time and when the public has finally realised just how broken your promises are there's always the good ol' standbys you can throw out to remind people that disagreement and a differing opinion are "forbidden".
* Such a bizarre concept welcoming people to their own country.
* KRudd wasted his time, and ours, doing his Sorry act in Parliament. Once I attended an IT Forum in the ACT, and they staged a Welcome to Country ceremony before the conference started. It was ridiculous!
* I attended a conference for lawyers recently. Every speaker did an acknowledgment to country! I thought it was as ridiculous as the mental health practitioner in the foyer, there to assist lawyers if they heard anything... um, traumatic during the conference. Our world has become woke and weak!
* its ok no one can understand the announcements anyway. just drive the train,leave on time,arrive on time,dont patronise.
* Catch the Overland train from Adelaide to Melbourne and you get it 10 minutes before every stop on the 12 hour journey
* How about acknowledging all the migrants who came here too to help build this country.  Getting sick of all this division and hate towards my fellow Australians.
* What a great point. They were the ones who made Australia what it is today.
* That's one of the reasons I have stopped flying with Qantas since 7 or 8 years ago.
* How about they just try and run the trains on time...that's all I want.
* I'm sure this will make a huge difference to the First Nations people living in poverty and the women and children living in fear of domestic violence, poor education and health. Keep up the good work, green voters will feel so much better about themselves.
* How about instead of 'First Nations', an imported term from Canada, we use something more appropriate; perhaps 'Resident Tribes'?
* If there as an aboriginal in the room, I am all for Welcome To Country otherwise it's a waste of time. And there is nothing worse that being at a public service event and every person who speaks does it. Again with no indigenious in the room. It makes it trivial and pointless.
* Everyone should just do their job. Stop this pushing of ideology onto passengers on trains, workplace meetings, school assemblies, etc. we are not to blame for what happen hundreds of years ago.
* One job to do, get passengers to and from their journeys safely and on time. That's it. The Pakenham and Cranbourne lines has 2 hour delays yesterday. Focus on customer service and stop the crap.
* it's getting as bad as the national anthem being sung before any sort of sports game, horse race or community contest.
* If we are to suffer this "acknowledgement" everywhere, then please add: "and we acknowledge and thank the English, the First Fleet and all who followed and settled in AUSTRALIA for making this country the wonderful country it is today."  Prior to settlement, the unnamed "land down under" was a wilderness inhabited by nomadic, warring tribes for thousands of years - within 200 years of settlement it became a viable, prosperous nation!
* One thankyou, by Krudd, should be enough! please stop !
* I'm surprised only one train passenger rolled his eyes upon hearing the train driver's woke announcement. I don't watch the ABC very much but I roll my eyes every time they say it at the start of each program and I roll my eyes every time politicians say it at the start of their address to the National Press Club. It doesn't improve my level of support for the relatives of our first nation people and I think it just divides us further. Note to other train drivers - please don't do it.
* I heard it on a Jetstar flight recently and I rolled my eyes too. It isn’t even grammatically correct.
* so now i have to wear earplugs as well as mask on our public transport. sounds so appealing. Now i wonder if a driver started sharing the courage and successes of captain James Cook whether PTV would be so accommodating......i think we know the answer!
* More WOKE BS.  Thank heavens I do not use the train  In fact, I would like to thank my mother and father for "BIRTHING ME" My maternal Grand Non Birthing parent for giving my father permission to marry my Birthing Parent, and my Maternal Grand Birthing Parent  for helping my Birthing parent to to make Her/His/Its/ Wedding Dress.......Yada Yada Yada!!!! 
* How many times do I need to be welcomed to the country I was born in? I live here, it’s MY country too!
* welcome to the train being on time.
* So Sick of Virtue Signalling in every Facet of Life! Thats all people of Progressive Left Values do.
* The artwork looks great.  But can we give the acknowledgement / welcome to nation a miss...  it's run it's course - not listening..  
* I don’t need to be welcomed to my (our) one country one flag. Stop it now I’ve had a gut full.
* Sorry but to me it is just fast becoming 'white noise' in the background and losing any currency and meaning.
* I went into a major regional city rail station to top up my MYKI card this week. In the office a small desk  flag  stand, displayed the Aboriginal, Torres Strait and Rainbow flags, but no Australian !! The wokes are winning , because too many people are scared to oppose them
* It is illegal to oppose them.
* All this virtue signalling is making us the laughing stock of the world.
* Why is this forced upon us? Why does Vic Rail or anyone else have the right to use a privileged position to force their virtue signalling on the entire population? What make you right? Stop it! We're sick of it!
* OMG Are we forever going to apologise and thank people for letting us live in Australia. No one alive had anything to do with what happened 200 odd years ago. 
* Well done to the driver of that train
* Was the train on time? Did it stop correctly at the platform? Was it clean for passengers? Were the passengers at all times safe from harm? These are the primary responsibility of the train driver and the rest of metro. No one was interested in this week's graffiti covering the carriages. 
* Not only public transport. Saw a divisional van in Wodonga today all painted in earthen colors and indigenous motifs.
* Best comment I ever heard from a train driver many years ago was something along the lines of..... Make sure you take all your belongings or that it is something that I use or in my size
* So all the whiteys at the Rail Transport Department can go home and feel virtuous? What about getting the country trains to run to their timetable. This is about diversion away from their incompetence. Latest figures show 97% of country trains not on time or not arriving at all. 
* How about Metro and VLine pay respect to their paying customers.  My experience is that they have no respect for rail users whatsoever, given the poor reliability, poor punctuality, poor management and the lies they spin or silence they hide behind when things go wrong.  Just get the damn trains running reliably, efficiently and on time.  Then perhaps worry about reconciliation.
* We catch trains because we want to reach our chosen destination, not to endure this mindless "me too" virtue signalling. Metro and VLine employees would do well to focus on doing their jobs and doing them well, like ensuring the trains run on time.
* It would be much nicer if that train actually ran.  It comes to a grinding halt from power failures, signal faults and trespassers on the tracks.  It says that it’s a Pakenham train through the Loop only to become something completely different by the time it reaches Flinders Street.  I don’t need to be welcomed to my own country, I just want the train to take me home.
* I want to sit in peace and quiet.
* The Australian Taxpayer will build a 1500 metre tall, bronze statue of an Aboriginal man or woman, in exactly the middle of Australia, if we don't have to hear or see "Welcome to Country" again. 
* Our then Prime Minister the honourable MR Kevin Rudd apologised on behalf of all of Australia. A "Walk of reconciliation" was performed walking over the Sydney Harbour Bridge symbolically joining the Indigenous Cultures with all the non-indigenous Australian Cultures. We supposedly became one nation called Australia. Why do we still need all this "Grand Standing and Kowtowing"? Read some of the articles by Jacinta Price who is proud of her indigenous and non-indigenous heritage which she herself acknowledges. She is a person we could all learn from. All this other stuff is "Tokenism pure and simple". This does not help the actual Indigenous People that need assistance one iota. Shows you just how out of touch with reality these "Tokenistic People" really are.
* If the area was still "Narrm" there would be no trains, no jobs, nothing much at all.
* It will be like that again soon
* I am over being welcomed to my own country every time something is on TV or at a sporting event. Four generations of my family have lived in Australia and as far as I am aware none have disrespected those that were here before them. What is happening at the moment disrespects the role my family made in making Australia what it is today. It is very devisive.
* The madness continues apace. The driver would have done better to acknowledge that the train was actually running, and probably only 10 minutes late.

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