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| Childcare centres to reconsider fake grass | January 29, 2012 | |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Natalie O'Brien - January 29, 2012
CHILDCARE centres are reconsidering the use of artificial grass in playgrounds after concerns raised that children may be at risk from long-term exposure to toxic chemicals. A spokeswoman for one of the largest childcare providers, KU, said they will...
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| More single mothers now working, says study | January 25, 2012 | |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Dan Harrison - January 25, 2012
The researchers also said that the childcare tax rebate, which came into effect five years ago in 2006, appeared to have encouraged higher-educated and higher-earning women to take on more hours by making childcare more affordable...
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| Childcare centres in holiday cash grab | January 24, 2012 | |
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Herald Sun - Wes Hosking - January 24, 2012
Furious parents have branded childcare centres "unAustralian" for charging fees even though they are shut on our national day. With families already feeling the pinch because of government reforms, a Public Defender survey has found centres commonly charge for Australia Day...
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| Cuts to supply of in-home nannies probed by Childcare Minister | January 24, 2012 | |
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The Australian - Patricia Karvelas - January 23, 2012
Childcare Minister Kate Ellis has ordered her department to investigate 31 cases where high-needs families with government-funded in-home nannies were suddenly cut off their support with little notice. A spokeswoman for Ms Ellis has confirmed that on January 12...
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| Brimming with good sense | January 24, 2012 | |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Carolyn Boyd - January 23, 2012
Being sun smart starts with a hat that can adequately protect you from the damaging effects of UV rays. Baseball caps should be banned from schools because they place children at an unacceptable risk of developing skin cancers later in life, a leading cancer organisation says...
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| Council reviews may hit childcare | January 23, 2012 | |
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Newcastle Herald - Ben Smee - January 23, 2012
Newcastle City Council will investigate selling its childcare and family day care centres, as part of a review of non-statutory services. The audit was completed late last year and the council has endorsed recommendations including a review of some fees...
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| Top tips to being a career mum | January 23, 2012 | |
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Herald Sun - Jennifer Ennion - January 23, 2012
You did it. You made the choice to follow the path with the signpost reading: babies. Now, as your maternity leave nears its end or the call of adult conversation beckons, you are gearing up to make life even busier. You're returning to work. Scared? No need to be...
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| Threat of toxic playgrounds | January 22, 2012 | |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Natalie O'Brien - January 22, 2012
The health of thousands of children may be at risk from long-term exposure to toxic chemicals from artificial turf that has become a popular replacement for grass on sporting ovals and school playgrounds around the country. Australian scientists have raised the alarm...
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| Childcare change at a price | January 22, 2012 | |
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The Mercury - Hannah Martin - January 22, 2012
Family day care operators say they will be forced to work longer hours or raise their prices under new regulations that reduce the number of children they can care for. More than 5500 Tasmanian children are now attending family day care. New regulations...
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| Secret report 'prompted Baillieu childcare cut' | January 21, 2012 | |
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The Age - Clay Lucas - January 21, 2012
The Baillieu government has used a report it kept secret for almost a year to justify its decision to remove funding for an occasional childcare program. The Take a Break program provided occasional childcare for parents of preschool children around the state...
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| Bad parents leaving kids unsupervised at play centres | January 18, 2012 | |
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Herald Sun - Alex White - January 18, 2012
Police have been called in to deal with parents dumping children unsupervised at indoor play centres while they go shopping, or to avoid soaring day care costs. A Herald Sun investigation found children were being left unsupervised at play areas across Victoria every week...
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| Staff hard to come by as childcare centres struggle with reforms | January 16, 2012 | |
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The Sydney Morning Herald - Jessica Wright - January 16, 2012
A regional NSW childcare centre risks losing its accreditation after a fruitless two-year search to fill a single vacancy for a university qualified teacher and carer. The owner of the Willows Preschool and Early Learning Centre in Orange, Cathy Carroll, runs an operation which...
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| Childcare cuts will send home those who should be in the workforce | January 16, 2012 | |
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The Sydney Morning Herald - Kathryn Kenny - January 16, 2012
When most childcare centres cost $100 a day or more, the tax rebate (capped at $7500 per child) cuts out after day three. When you have two children to care for, and when working more than three days takes you into a higher tax bracket, you are almost at the point of paying to go to work...
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| Childcare safety risk | January 16, 2012 | |
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The Mercury - Hannah Martin - January 15, 2012
Tasmanian childcare operators have been busted with unregistered carers and for failing to have enough staff supervising children on excursions, a Sunday Tasmanian investigation reveals. Eleven cases of serious safety breaches were investigated by the Department...
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| Wealthy winners in childcare grants | January 15, 2012 | |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Misha Schubert - January 15, 2012
HIGH-INCOME families are receiving more than $259 million a year in childcare subsidies, prompting calls for a rethink on the level of government support. But women's workforce advocates warn against making cuts, saying the subsidy saves money...
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| Gillard government reforms to childcare are worth paying more money for | January 15, 2012 | |
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The Sunday Telegraph - Samantha Maiden - January 15, 2012
Worth paying for: New rules increasing the number of childcare workers for each toddler are good for the carers and babies. ONE toddler is eating her lunch. One is mashing banana into the carpet. One baby is sleeping, another is howling...
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| Parents pay anything from $62 to $130 a day | January 11, 2012 | |
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Herald Sun - Elissa Doherty - January 11, 2012
The gulf between the cheapest and most expensive childcare centres has blown out to nearly $70 a day after federal reforms. Melbourne's cheapest centres, which have managed to avoid large fee rises after mandatory changes to staffing levels, are offering care...
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| Increased rebates helping keep childcare costs down, report reveals | January 9, 2012 | |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Adele Horin - January 9, 2012
Families spent a significantly lower proportion of their income on childcare last year than they did in 2004, an official report shows. Despite perceptions of run-away childcare fees, increased government subsidies slashed the out-of-pocket costs...
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| Online reviews worry some operators | January 8, 2012 | |
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The Age - Cosima Marriner - January 8, 2012
PARENTS will soon be able to rate their childcare centre online and share their reviews with others. The online childcare directory CareforKids is preparing to launch the TripAdvisor-style ratings system for users of childcare services, the first system of its kind...
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| Preschools flunk the test | January 8, 2012 | |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Cosima Marriner - January 8, 2012
THE standard of teaching in Australian preschools is "very poor", a government-funded national study into the quality of early education has found. The finding from the E4Kids study suggests children may be attending little more than glorified playgroup...
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| Where children thrive on an outside chance | January 8, 2012 | |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Cosima Marriner - January 8, 2012
It may be the depths of winter in Scandinavia, but children attending the increasingly popular outdoor childcare centres spend all day in the forest. They pitch tents, go hiking and make hot chocolate. While this freewheeling approach is a far cry from the regimented system in Australia...
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| Daytime naps spell trouble at night | January 8, 2012 | |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Cosima Marriner - January 8, 2012
Now for the first time research is being conducted into the daytime nap habits of preschoolers and how sleep patterns affect their behaviour and learning. There are no strict guidelines regarding nap time for preschoolers - government regulations simply state...
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| Babies in big school - is your child ready? | January 7, 2012 | |
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The Daily Telegraph - Bruce McDougall - January 07, 2012
IMMATURE four-year-olds are being enrolled in school before they are ready so their financially strapped parents can save thousands in pre-school and childcare fees. Many children, who often are not able to cope with the demands of "big school", then repeat their kindergarten year…
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| Struggling to find a caring solution | January 7, 2012 | |
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The Daily Telegraph - January 07, 2012
KATE Ellis, the federal minister for early childhood and childcare, pointed out this week in an ABC interview that "there are more children in Australian childcare centres now than at any time in our history." This is undoubtedly the case...
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| Childcare reform gripes 'put costs before kids' | January 6, 2012 | |
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The Australian - Justine Ferrari and Verity Edwards - January 06, 2012
The agency overseeing reforms to lift childcare quality has accused the sector of misrepresenting the impact of new standards. In answer to claims childcare fees would rise by up to $50 a week as a result of new staffing requirements, the deputy chairwoman of the ...
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| Income shaping children's progress at school | January 4, 2012 | |
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The Australian - Justine Ferrari - January 04, 2012
The growing difference in the income of rich and poor families is accompanied by a widening gap in the success of their children at school, with research suggesting higher-income parents are spending more on their children's early learning before they start school...
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| New staff-child ratios for childcare operators | January 4, 2012 | |
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AM Radio - Timothy McDonald - January 2, 2012
Peter Cave: New regulations have come into effect which will require one staff member for every four babies at child care centres around Australia. A new national quality standard has also come into effect. One advocacy group says it's a good move that will improve quality in the sector...
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| Childcare reforms force three in four centres to lift fees | December 31, 2011 | |
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The Australian - Patricia Karvelas - December 31, 2011
PARENTS face large increases in childcare costs next year, as a major survey of centres reveals three-quarters will increase their fees to meet new requirements for educated workers and more staff per children, while a majority are not able to find qualified staff...
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| National laws to cover all child-care centres | December 30, 2011 | |
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The Canberra Times - Katina Curtis - December 30, 2011
Child-care centres will be governed under a national framework for the first time from Sunday. The first stage of the Federal Government's national quality framework starts in 2012, with the rest of the scheme to be phased in by 2020. From Sunday, child-care centres must...
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| Reforms leave childcare centres in state of confusion | December 28, 2011 | |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Jessica Wright - December 28, 2011
Childcare centre operators in NSW say they are ill prepared to implement the federal government's sweeping reforms which will come into effect on January 1. The first stage of the childcare reforms require one carer for every four children aged up to two...
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| $47m plan to help get teenage parents through school | December 28, 2011 | |
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The Australian - Lanai Vasek - December 27, 2011
Teenage parents in 10 local communities around Australia will find it easier to complete their year 12 or equivalent qualification from next month through greater access to child care, improved Centrelink services and guaranteed training places...
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| Female entrepreneurs free to network after-hours | December 24, 2011 | |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Mahesh Sharma - December 22, 2011
Childcare strategy to help women in male-dominated tech sector. Female technology entrepreneurs will soon be able to join the after-hours networking scene with a special childcare initiative set to remove one of the biggest obstacles for working mothers...
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| Preschool crucial to bridge indigenous education gap | December 13, 2011 | |
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The Australian - Justine Ferrari - December 13, 2011
INDIGENOUS students progress through school at the same rate as their classmates but tend to score lower on average because they start school further behind and are never able to catch up. But a seven-year study tracking indigenous students...
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| Coalition wants to beef up nanny home-help program | December 10, 2011 | |
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The Australian - Patricia Karvelas - December 10, 2011
THE Coalition wants to dramatically expand the nannies-at-home program, splitting it to better target shiftworkers as well as families with special needs. The Weekend Australian can reveal only 5840 children benefited in the 2011 March quarter from the In Home Care program...
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| Family daycare sex danger from boy, 13 | December 9, 2011 | |
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The Daily Telegraph - Janet Fife-Yeomans - December 9, 2011
A FAMILY daycare provider has been allowed to continue looking after young children in her home despite police warning they were in danger of "significant harm" from her teenage son. The boy, 13, remains on a "person causing harm" Community Services database...
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| Families turn to daycare in the home as centre costs too expensive | December 8, 2011 | |
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The Australian - Patricia Karvelas - December 8, 2011
THE number of children attending family daycare has risen for the first time since Labor took power. There are predictions the home-based alternative will boom as fees for long-daycare centres skyrocket next year. While new data shows a decline in the...
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| Lack of affordable childcare keeps 70000 mothers at home | December 7, 2011 | |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Kelly Burke - December 7, 2011
ALMOST 70,000 women are locked out of the workforce solely because they cannot get affordable childcare. The group makes up 15 per cent of all unemployed women who say they want to work but cannot, according to the Bureau of Statistics. A further 13 per cent...
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| Salvos centre punts on funding childcare reforms | December 5, 2011 | |
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The Australian - Natasha Bita - December 5, 2011
The director of the Balga Early Learning Centre in Perth, Jo Ineson, proposed the lottery funding in a letter to the Child Care Association of Western Australia, in an effort to prevent fee increases for some of the nation's poorest parents...
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| Childcare 'hot potato' for governments | December 5, 2011 | |
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Perth Now - Cora-Ann Wilson - December 3, 2011
EARLY childhood education and care is big business in Australia and a political hot potato for governments as evidenced by the debacle over the failure of ABC Learning. In Western Australia, despite twists and turns, child care and kindergarten provision has...
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| Wages less than 'checkout chicks' | December 5, 2011 | |
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Perth Now - Amy Wilson-Chapman - December 3, 2011
CHILDCARE workers in WA earn less than "checkout chicks" to care for kids, their union says. United Voice assistant secretary Kelly Shay said fully trained childcare workers were earning "poverty wages" at just $18 an hour, or $2 less than a supermarket worker...
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| Mud pies are the healthiest choice | December 3, 2011 | |
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Adelaide Now - Sheradyn Holderhead - December 3, 2011
CHILDREN are being encouraged to get their hands dirty at childcare centres renovated with a nature theme. In SA, Mission Australia is renovating three failed ABC Learning centres, in Osborne, Redwood Park and Elizabeth Vale, which were known for their...
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| Childcare reforms 'to cost parents little' | December 3, 2011 | |
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Courier Mail - Tim Dornin - December 2, 2011
ONE of Australia''s leading childcare providers says costs to parents will rise by as little as $1 a day under the Federal Government''s proposed reforms for the sector. Goodstart Early Learning is rebranding more than 650 of the old ABC Learning Centres...
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| Govt asked to raise childcare worker pay | December 3, 2011 | |
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Ninemsn - December 2, 2011
A union leader has used the ALP national conference to call on the federal government to supplement the low pay of childcare workers. United Voice assistant national secretary Sue Lines told the conference, which began in Sydney on Friday...
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| Universities could cut early childhood enrolments: Productivity Commission warns | December 2, 2011 | |
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The Australian - Stephen Matchett - December 2, 2011
UNIVERSITIES could ignore community needs for more child care graduates, according to a Productivity Commission report on the childhood development workforce, released on Thursday. "The response to this increased demand for early childhood teacher education...
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| Centres keeping places steady amid reforms | December 2, 2011 | |
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The Age - Rachel Wells and Michelle Griffin - December 2, 2011
ACROSS Melbourne, childcare centres say that while their fees will rise by up to $10 a day next year most centres are not reducing their places. Directors from childcare chains and associations contacted by The Age report increases next year of between $4 and $10 a day...
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| Childcare crisis as fees set to soar | December 2, 2011 | |
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Herald Sun - Elissa Doherty, Susie O'Brien - December 2, 2011
PARENTS will be stung up to $130 a day for childcare from next month as fees rocket to comply with tough new government reforms. A Herald Sun investigation has found unprecedented fee rises up to $25 a day because of mandatory changes to staff numbers...
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| Childcare reform creates affordability issue | December 2, 2011 | |
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7.30 Report (ABC TV) - Tracy Bowden - - December 1, 2011
An inquiry into the Federal Government's childcare reforms says they'll lead to a 15 per cent increase in fees and predicts some parents will be forced to quit the workforce as a result. The federal School Education Minister Peter Garrett commissioned the report...
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| 15,000 extra teachers needed for early childhood reforms | December 2, 2011 | |
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PM (ABC Radio) - Mark Colvin - December 1, 2011
A report released by the Productivity Commission this afternoon says 15,000 new teachers are needed to achieve hoped for reform of early childhood education. And parents are likely to bear the brunt of the cost of the expansion. Given that the sector's overhaul...
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