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You may already know that Etsy is a middle-class fat girl's dream when it comes to stores like Jane BonBon, MissBrache, and SelenaEon (reviewed by stitchtowhere on Fatshionista), all of whom specialize in or at least explicitly advertise plus sizes. If you've got the money to buy new clothes but don't think you have the money to get everything bespoke, Etsy sellers skirt that line — affordable personal seamstresses for all! Marianne collected a bunch of plus-size sellers in a recent post, and her readers actually turned me on to a few shops I hadn't known about (I spend a LOT of time on Etsy, but it's also a vast site with a lot of chaff to sift through). For fatties with the freedom to spend about $100 on a dress, there are plenty of talented dressmakers working in 14+. Kate, incidentally, wore a Jane Bonbon custom creation for her party; there was some waiting involved, as there always is for handmade stuff and especially for Jane because she's in high demand, and the dress still required a little alteration when she got it, but she got to set the parameters of the dress herself and work with someone who knows how to design for fat bodies. (Jane's making me a skirt too, and she asked me whether I had a sticky-out butt — she likes to add a bit of length in the back for the big-arsed among us, so that our skirts maintain an even hemline. That's service!)
What you might not have known is that not all the plus sizes on Etsy are out in the open. Because of the high level of customization and personal attention that's generally involved in an Etsy store's business model, many stores displaying a standard straight-size range will happily open their size charts' borders to let in paying customers. SM and I both had experiences recently with sellers whose posted size charts top out at L or XL, but who are still body-positive and happy to make their wares you-sized. Below the fold, we offer reviews, with links and (headless) pictures.
If I were suddenly presented with piles of cash to spend, WNTW style, I would get a whole new wardrobe from Ureshii. I recently picked up two tops — Aviatrix and Life in Plastic — from their sample sale, and I could not be happier. The jersey material is soft but pretty, and the designs are retro without having the unforgivingly wasp-waisted silhouette you often find in vintage/repro clothes. I am aching to buy the Sunday, Sailor, and Classic Wrap dresses, all of which are drapey without being blousey, and sleeveless but bra-friendly — and the latter two are even reversible! Seriously, I am pretty sure that if I bought three or four of these dresses, I'd never have to shop again in my life. Not that that would stop me, natch.
As for sizing, all of Ureshii's listings are custom order except for the sample sale items. Their standard size chart goes from XS (32″ bust) to L (41″ bust). These days, I generally wear a 10/12 (with a 34E bust), and their sample M fit me beautifully — many of the designs seem very Rack of Doom-friendly. I asked Emily and Amanda, the seamstresses behind the curtain, what their policy on plus size pricing is, and here's what they had to say:
At the moment, we price things out on a case by case basis. Very generally, we charge $6 more for any separate (top or bottom) that is outside of our size chart, and $10 more for dresses. Our patterns are often designed to fit as efficiently as possible into the width of our fabric, so larger pattern pieces can result in more wasted fabric. If that isn't the case, then we don't charge more.
We have a few customers who will hopefully be sending us some personal photos soon, wearing our garments. We have our fingers crossed that they'll follow through! Then we can start to have a better idea of how to standardize our larger sizes.
We're always happy to customize a garment to a woman's personal preferences. Higher or lower necklines, different sleeve or (minor) hem lengths, better bra coverage – these are all important changes for which we do not charge an additional fee.
They add that they'll be starting a shop blog soon, and they plan on featuring pictures of women in a range of shapes and sizes wearing their designs (which I look forward to, because my only complaint about their shop is that their model stands in a pose I have never once made in my entire life). Apparently one reason they do not have a standard set of plus size measurements is that they have been having a hard time finding larger women to be their test models (any Vancouver Shapelings want to volunteer?). So, the upshot is, this is a body-positive store run by a couple of friendly Canadian moms with a retro touch. Depending on how the design sizes up, you may have to pay a little more for a plus size item, but it will be customized to your actual body, and not the imaginary one some mass designer thinks you have. They ask that you convo them before purchasing a custom sized item, so they can give you an accurate price.
FJ – Black Rabbit
I actually found Black Rabbit when I was looking for dresses for SM, but I found that I couldn't get this dress out of my head for weeks. Finally I gave in and contacted Carina, the seller, to see if she could size it up a bit and do a short-sleeved version in black and turquoise. A week or so after ordering, I found myself (due to mail problems) without something to wear to Kate's party, so I asked Carina when she thought she'd be done — I didn't intend to rush her, just wanted to know my options, but as it turned out I was nervous and she picked up on that and rushed on my behalf anyway. She could have said "sorry, no can do," but when I showed up in email wringing my virtual hands and going "er if it's not too much trouble and you happen to get finished do you think you could overnight it to me?" she made it happen (and she was incredibly kind and professional about it in the bargain). Even if she didn't also do custom sizing, that would have been above and beyond anything you'll get from another store.
As you know, I found something a bit dressier at Marshall's at the last minute, but even though I think of this as a work/semi-casual dress, it could easily have done double duty as a cocktail frock. On top of being a really striking design, the fabric feels substantial and luxurious, nicely drapey but not too heavy. There's a bit of loose stitching at one side of the belt, no doubt because I was riding poor Carina like a pony about the damn thing, but they're not load-bearing stitches and on the whole it's incredibly well-made. The crossover neck even covers my bra without gapping — they NEVER do that!
Here's the best part. I asked Carina how much extra she would charge for plus sizes — she hadn't charged me more but I was only an inch or so outside her usual range. Here's what she said:
As for plus size charge..I don't do that, I think it's rude and perpetuates certain ideas I don't value. So, I factor the cost across the sizes and create a mean average that is distributed within the cost of goods.
Could you kiss her right now or what? We keep hearing about how dreadfully difficult it is to provide plus sizes — the extra fabric costs alone are enough to drive you out of business, not to mention all those special patterns and fit models! Yet somehow, when the sartorial becomes personal, it's possible not only to get clothes that fit you but to get them from someone whose business plan acknowledges your existence and even welcomes your patronage. I will drink to that, in my hot-ass dress.
If there's one complaint I have about the dress, it's actually that it doesn't fit me perfectly — but that's entirely my fault. Carina said she could size up from my bust measurement, and since my proportions cleave pretty closely to size charts I said "cool, that's easier on me." What I was forgetting was that I usually look at plus size charts — Carina sized up perfectly for a straight size chart, which tends to be proportionally a little narrower in the waist. The upshot is that, though you can't see it in this photo, the dress is just a hair too small in the middle, making the waistband tend to roll up.
The moral here is twofold. One, when buying custom, make sure you know your measurements (I do) and don't be too coy or embarrassed or just lazy to verify and communicate them (I was). The other is that if you think you're a little smaller than me — say you wear about a 16W too but you don't have a fat belly — and you love this dress as much as I do, please email me and I will sell it to you! Then I can start over again with Carina working on a new dress — which I'm really keen on, because otherwise I have to come up with a new idea for color combos before I get to work with her again.
Meanwhile, of course, the larger moral is that you never know until you try. That seller whose size chart tops out at a 44″ bust might think that charging extra for plus sizes perpetuates ideas she doesn't value. The one whose clothes don't officially go beyond a size large might be actively looking for plus-size fit models and pictures of her wares on real bodies. Fashion is an intimidating milieu, but a lot of Etsy is more Craft Mafia than Project Runway — the sellers like making things, like selling those things to actual people, realize that actual people come in sizes, and will do all they can to see to it you're clothed in their creations. Don't be afraid to click "contact the seller" and see what they can do for you. And share your good — and bad — Etsy experiences in comments.
(P.S. just in case it needs to be said — we've gotten no incentives from these sellers except good shopping experiences, though I'm sure we wouldn't say no. ;))


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In The Washington Post, columnist Matt Miller gleefully notes the parallels between President Obama's campaign and that of President Bill Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign. Then, Republican opponent Bob Dole was lashed to the radical then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich budget; now Mitt Romney to the extremist budget of House Budget Committee chairman Rep Paul Ryan.
Clinton won re-election as the populist defender of "M2E2" – Medicare, Medicaid, Education and the Environment – railing against the devastating cuts called for in the Gingrich budget. Obama has set himself up to run as the defender of M2E2 again – Medicare, Medicaid and Everything Else that Ryan would literally gut to pay for his tax cuts for the rich.
For Miller, an Obama victory, like that of Bill Clinton, then holds the tantalizing possibility of treacherous "progress" in the second term:
"Does any of this mean an Obama returned to office on these terms can make substantive progress in a second term? Perhaps. Clinton was poised to do big Nixon-to-China entitlement reforms with the GOP until the Lewinsky mess exploded. Obama, one assumes, won't be facing such land mines."
For progressives, this summarizes a shroud that hangs over the race. Obama recaptures his voice as a populist champion of change. We rally to his side. And then upon election, he uses the mandate not to defend M2E2 and progressive taxation, but for cutting another "grand bargain." He'll aim for earning elite approval by signing off on cuts to Medicare and Social Security, education and vital investments in exchange for "tax reform" that lowers rates while removing "loopholes."
Does a second-term Obama see his legacy on the scale of Reagan – that he ends the conservative grip on our politics, and begins an era of progressive reform in which government stands with the many and helps to rebuild a broad middle class, and revive the Dream? Or does he see his legacy as doing "big Nixon-to China entitlement reforms," embracing the elite consensus, and sustaining a conservative era of constrained government and growing inequality? Will he be the progressive president who revives the American dream or the New Democrat who buries it?
Conservatives worry about Mitt Romney's Etch-a-Sketch strategy – that he's wearing conservative garb for the primaries but will "reset" into moderate country-club Republicanism for the general election. Progressives worry that Obama will lead the progressive charge in the general, but abandon it once returned to office.
Beltway conservatives like Grover Norquist worry less about Romney in office. They believe the Tea Party-dominated House will set the agenda; any Republican president will have to sign whatever survives the Senate.
Progressives don't have that solace. We not only have to retake the House – a vital mission this fall – but we have to overcome the diminished but still kicking Blue Dog/New Dem rump groups in the House caucus, the corporate wing of the party always ready to cut a deal with the powers that be.
When he was running for election in 2008, Obama noted how Reagan, unlike Clinton, had been a transformative president, indicting he'd prefer to be like the former, not the latter. If he wins re-election, still a heavy pull, he will face that choice. A transformative president or a treacherous one. And while his voters will mobilize behind the former, there are a lot of New Dems, as Miller shows, eagerly anticipating the latter.
That's why progressives have to keep building independent movements. We need an independent political capacity to elect progressive champions in Democratic primaries and to take back the House. We need an independent movement to challenge the limits of the debate, as We Are One did in Wisconsin, and Occupy Wall Street did across the country. We need independent mobilization to drive change — from taking on the entrenched interests in Washington (the oil companies, the insurance and drug companies, the big banks) to curbing money in politics, and demanding progress on basic rights — decent jobs, affordable health care, world class public education, secure retirement.
Central to the effort will be rallying to Obama as he takes on a right growing ever more loony. Central to it will be organizing independently to support Obama if he chooses to be transformative and confront him should he go the other way.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Chubb Corp., Merck & Co. and National Oilwell Varco Inc. were among stocks making notable moves on Friday, while Anheuser-Busch InBev BUD, -4.75% and Dell Inc. were trending on Twitter.
Audience Inc. US:ADNC shares gained 17% after the company reported fourth-quarter earnings Thursday with strong gains in revenue and profit, which included a favorable tax benefit. The company, which makes voice and audio processors for mobile devices, was upgraded Friday by Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank.
Chubb CB, -3.38% shares rose nearly 2.9%, after it reported an operating profit when analysts had anticipated a loss. The insurer also issued an upbeat earnings outlook for 2013. Read: Chubb profit falls but upbeat on 2013.
GameStop Corp.'s GME, +2.16% shares gained 5.9%, one of the best performers on the S&P 500 Index SPX, -1.73%. The company was upgraded Friday to overweight from neutral by Piper Jaffray.
Perrigo Co. PRGO, -3.05% shares rose 4.7% as the pharmaceutical firm said its second-quarter earnings increased 6.2%. The company also announced it would acquire pet-health company Velcera Inc. for $160 million.
Echo Therapeutics Inc. ECTE, +26.74% shares dropped 28% after the company said its stock offering of 13.3 million shares priced at a 35% discount to Thursday's closing price.
Merck MRK, -3.14% shares were among the hardest hit on the S&P 500, losing 3%, after the company reported a 7.3% fall in fourth-quarter earnings as generic competition weakened its pharmaceutical sales. Read: Merck's profit falls.
National Oilwell Varco NOV, -1.06% shares shed 4.2%, one of the biggest laggards on the S&P 500. The oil-field drilling equipment company said its fourth-quarter adjusted earnings came in at $638 million, or $1.49 a share, up 9% from a year earlier but down 2% from the third quarter.
Pitney Bowes Inc. PBI, +4.82% fell 4.7%. The company, which provides mail and document services, posted weaker earnings and revenue Thursday after benefiting from a tax settlement in the year-ago period.
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$BUD: Anheuser-Busch InBev BUD, -4.75% attracted chatter after U.S. regulators sued Thursday to block a merger between the beer company and Grupo Modelo.
@lliotTurn: Seems like the key question for the $STZ / $BUD deal is whether to define the relevant market as "alcoholic beverages" or "beer"
$DELL: Dell DELL, -7.23% was drawing comments as buyout talks heated up. Reuters on Friday reported that the PC maker was moving closer to a buyout deal and that it could be announced as soon as Monday. Read: Dell buyout could come as soon as Monday.
@nobullshytrader: $DELL is there an SEC rule that states how many times media's allowed 2 pump a buyout in 1 month?
$GOOG: Google Inc. GOOG, -0.71% was trending after shares hit an intraday high of $774.92.
jfahmy: Forget Dow 14,000, what about the all-time high $GOOG is about to print?
PeteO: $GOOG think goog can get to 800 by feb 16th?
ronin245: $GOOG absolutely beasting, did i say no short this today? !
$GMCR Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. US:GMCR drew chatter Friday afternoon as shares rallied 3%.
BlueFielder: $GMCR this cup is not yet full.
mydanilo: $GRPN nice slow steady move up. Much healthier than jump and dump.


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Texans reach deal with quarterback Matt Leinart
Leinart agrees to $5.5 million deal
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The Texans are not guaranteeing quarterback Matt Leinart $3.75 million to be the third-team quarterback for the second consecutive season.
By getting Leinart to agree to a two-year contract worth $5.5 million, the Texans have shown they are planning to use him as the backup quarterback behind Matt Schaub.
Dan Orlovsky, who has backed up Schaub the last two years, could be the odd man out.
The Texans will keep three quarterbacks. T.J. Yates, a fifth-round pick, is expected to be the third-team quarterback if he performs well in camp and preseason.
Leinart didn't throw a pass in his one season with the Texans. He signed a one-year deal after Arizona waived him. The Texans' coaches saw enough of him in practice and in the class room to offer him the two-year contract he can't sign until Friday — the first day unrestricted free agents can re-sign with their old team or sign with a new team.
"I am excited to be a Texan," Leinart said on his Twitter account. "Ultimately, I had to do what was best for me at this point. People can question the decision, but it was the right one for me. I love the organization, coaching staff and my teammates. Excited to get back to Reliant tomorrow and get back to work."
When coach Gary Kubiak told Leinart he wanted him back after the season, the quarterback told him he wanted to sign with a team that would give him a chance to start. Seattle, coached by his former Southern California coach Pete Carroll, seemed the most likely candidate.
When the Seahawks agreed with Tavaris Jackson to compete with Charlie Whitehurst, it cleared the way for the 28-year-old Leinart to return to the Texans.
Drafted by Arizona in 2006 out of USC, Leinart could never duplicate the same success he experienced as a Trojan. His rookie season was his finest by far, when he started 11 of 12 games and completed 57 percent of his passes for 2,547 yards and 11 touchdowns against 12 interceptions.
But he fell out of favor in the desert during the following years. Last year, the Cardinals released him, but the Texans quickly pounced. Despite being repeatedly lauded by Kubiak during the season for his preparation, Leinart was never able to overtake Orlovsky for the role of Schaub's primary backup, failing to log a single snap.


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North Texas residents took in the devastation on Thursday wreaked by a series of tornadoes that killed six and injured dozens more in what Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds described as a "nightmare" scenario.
Seven of 14 people who had previously been unaccounted for had checked in by Thursday morning, Deeds said at a press conference on Thursday. About 100 people were reported injured and as many as 250 were homeless after the swarm of twisters that ripped up trees and knocked down homes on Wednesday evening.
The six deceased were all adults, Deeds said. There have been no reports of injuries to first responders, the sheriff said.
"Everything's running smooth, everything's looking good," Deeds said of recovery efforts on Thursday.
Granbury, a town of 8,000 about 65 miles southwest of Dallas, was thought to be among the worst-hit areas. Images of the town revealed leveled homes, badly damaged cars, uprooted trees and downed power lines.
Nineteen buildings and 17 mobile homes were destroyed in Hood County, the sheriff's office said in an initial damage assessment on Thursday. Seventeen more buildings showed major damage, while more than 40 showed minor damage including to windows and roofing shingles.
"It's rough, very rough. Everything's demolished," a resident told KXAS as she hurried away from the neighborhood with her arms around a child. "It was like hell."
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Johnny Ortiz, left, and James South carry Miguel Morales, who was injured in a tornado, to an ambulance in Granbury, Texas, on Wednesday.
The six people who were confirmed dead were in the Rancho Brazos neighborhood on the outskirts of Granbury, Deeds said. He added that the homes there were mostly built within the past five years by Habitat for Humanity.
"I had three different storms that came through but this is the worst one," Deeds said.
The tornadoes swept through the towns of Granbury and nearby Cleburne, causing "heavy damage," Deeds said. The search for other people who might have gotten caught up in the storm continued with day break.
"I've been assured by my deputies on the scene that they're pretty confident with the six that they found, but there was a report that two of these people that they found were not even near their homes. So we're going to have to search the area out there," Deeds said.
The tornado that hit Granbury was rated EF-4 by the National Weather Service in a preliminary report, meaning that winds reached between 160 and 200 miles per hour.
The tornadoes seemed to have caused less damage in Cleburne, where Mayor Scott Cain told KXAS. The town did "have the potential for some injuries," Cain said.
The National Weather Service reported three tornadoes across Montague and Hood counties. Storm surveys to determine the extent of the damage were planned for Hood, Johnson, Montague, and Parker counties on Thursday, the weather service's Dallas-Fort Worth office announced. At least ten tornadoes touched ground across Texas on Wednesday evening according to Mark Fox, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Dallas-Fort Worth.
Some witnesses have said the tornado that swept through Johnson County may have been as much as a mile wide. While that twister that hit Granbury was smaller, it struck a more populated area and was "just as destructive," according to Fox.
People in the affected areas had a little more than the national average of 13 minutes warning before the tornadoes struck, according to the National Weather Service.
"The warning came well before the tornadoes," Fox said. Residents of Montague County were alerted about 15 to 30 minutes before the storm struck, and in Hood County a warning was issued 25 minutes before the tornado touched down.
Several tornadoes touched down in an area west of the Dallas-Fort Worth region of Texas Wednesday night, killing at least six and destroying dozens of homes. NBC's Charles Hadlock reports.
Nearly forty patients were taken to Lake Granbury Medical Center and 18 discharged, with the majority of injuries including cuts, broken bones, and some head injuries. A total of eight patients were admitted to the emergency room at the Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth. Two of the patients were in critical condition as of 4 a.m. local time.
"I've been at LGMC for over 12 years, and we have never seen a community catastrophe with as many injuries as we did through last night," said Kyle McCombs, chief of staff at Lake Granbury Medical Center, in a press release. "However, these are the types of disasters that our medical team continuously prepares for."
Relocation centers have been set up Granbury Methodist and First Christian churches in Hood County.
The tornado outbreak was by far the year's deadliest, the weather service said. Prior to Wednesday night, there had been three fatal tornadoes this year, killing one person each in Georgia, Mississippi and eastern Texas.
Anita Foster of the American Red Cross, which opened two shelters in Granbury, told KXAS that 42 people had spent the night in the shelters. She added that only a quarter of people who are left homeless in such disasters typically seek shelter with the Red Cross, indicating that many more had been affected.
"We're going to have a lot of people who are going to need some help," she said, adding, "It was a really frightening evening. It was a devastating event for our community."
The tornadoes, normal for this time of year, formed as the warm, moist air of the Texas springtime encountered an upper level storm between Wichita and Dallas, Fox said. A few thunderstorms hung over the state on Thursday but the weather system headed eastward for the most part, he said.
Severe weather was expected to sweep into some parts of the Midwest and Plains states with the potential for tornadoes heading into the weekend, the Weather Channel reported.
About 60 departures have been canceled and 70 flights diverted from Dallas-Forth Worth International Airport, spokesman David Magana told the Associated Press.
NBC News' John Newland and Andrew Rafferty contributed to this report.
This story was originally published on Thu May 16, 2013 12:39 AM EDT


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Chris Kaman hurt his finger while tobogganing at the Great Wall of China with Lakers teammates. Shawne Williams is technically responsible.
Now, it wasn't this kind of toboggan. This "toboggan" was essentially a cart with brakes. (Here's video of one.) Apparently, Williams's cart rammed into the back of Kaman's cart, and Kaman squished his finger between two toboggans.
Judging from Kaman's account, though, it's also partially his fault for going so fast. From the Los Angeles Times:
"I didn't hit the brake the whole time. Guys on the edge were yelling 'Slow down' and I just kept going," Kaman said. "All of a sudden I catch up to this guy close to the bottom, so now I have to brake. Shawne Williams comes behind me without hitting his brake at all and just smashed right into me."
Kaman is expected to play Tuesday, so this tobogganing incident only caused minimal bloodshed.
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Yeah, get rid of the only party leader who opposes austerity, that's the solution.
But yes, it seems the 'working classes' have chosen fascism over socialism.
Russia and China have turned capitalist, the working class has turned nativist and hipsters have turned libertarian. At this point the only socialists left are 3 blokes on this message board.
Labour needs a leader who opposes austerity but also acts like a leader. Who that could be, I don't know. The odds aren't looking good right now. Maybe Corbyn can still be that leader. Who knows.
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The Lib Dems are running on a platform of not invoking article 50. Labour needs a leader to do the same and that should take precedence over anti-austerity positions (after all, the economic effects of Brexit will be worse than the effects of austerity).
" that among the divides exposed in this referendum, the most dangerous one was within a Labour movement that cared more for the moral high ground of progressive liberalism than the lives of the working and non-working poor."
Another good article: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics...ns-culture-war
From Stephen Bush's article in the New Statesman:
At the start of the campaign, the question that most accurately predicted whether you would back Remain or Leave was consistently: Are you a graduate? (Those who answered yes were much more likely to vote in favour of staying in the EU.) Stronger In never found a way to change that and win over those who left education at 18 or earlier...
This fissure has been growing for the best part of a decade and a half, but Britains first-past-the-post system, which deters newcomers and maintains entrenched parties, has provided a degree of insulation to Labour that its European cousins have lacked...
In office, both Blair and Brown calculated, wrongly, that Labours core vote had nowhere else to go. In opposition under Ed Miliband, the party calculated, again wrongly, that discontent with immigration, and the rise of Ukip powered by that discontent, was a problem for the Conservative Party alone.
In a 2014 pamphlet for the Fabian Society, *Revolt on the Left, the activist Marcus Roberts, the academic Rob Ford and the analyst Ian Warren warned that Labour had few reasons to cheer about the Ukip insurgency and plenty to worry about. When the votes were cast in the general election the following year, that prediction turned out to be dispiritingly accurate...
For the most part, however, first-past-the-post papered over the cracks in Labours broad coalition: cracks that, in the harsh light of the EU referendum, have become obvious. The divide isnt simply one of class, or income.... Inhospitality towards Brexit proved a stronger indication of city status than a mere cathedral: Vote Leave generally found Britains great cities more difficult terrain than the surrounding towns and countryside.
The problem of the fracturing vote is particularly acute for the Labour Party... Britains EU referendum placed Hampstead and Hull on opposing sides for the first time in modern British political history.
It was Tony Blair who... said that the new debate in politics was not left against right, but open v closed openness to immigration, to diversity, to the idea of Europe...
At the 2015 election Labours coalition was drawn from the young, ethnic minorities and the well educated... The party was repudiated in the Midlands, went backwards in Wales and was all but wiped out in the east of England. (Scotland was another matter altogether.) Its best results came in Britains big cities and university towns.
The Remain campaign gave Labour a glimpse of how Milibands manifesto might have fared without the reassuring imprimatur of a red rosette. Britain Stronger In Europe has been rejected in the Midlands and struggled in the east of England. But it also failed to inspire passion in Sunderland, Oldham and Hull all areas that, for now, return Labour MPs.
I can't remember who posted this in the previous thread, but thanks, whoever it was. It's bloody good.
I've long suspected that, on some unconscious level, things could be even stranger than this: the self-harm inflicted by Brexit could potentially be part of its appeal. It is now being reported that many Leave voters are aghast at what they've done, as if they never really intended for their actions to yield results.
This taps into a much broader cultural and political malaise, that also appears to be driving the rise of Donald Trump in the US. Amongst people who have utterly given up on the future, political movements don't need to promise any desirable and realistic change. If anything, they are more comforting and trustworthy if predicated on the notion that the future is beyond rescue, for that chimes more closely with people's private experiences. The discovery of the 'Case Deaton effect' in the US (unexpected rising mortality rates amongst white working classes) is linked to rising alcohol and opiate abuse and to rising suicide rates. It has also been shown to correlate closely to geographic areas with the greatest support for Trump. I don't know of any direct equivalent to this in the UK, but it seems clear that – beyond the rhetoric of 'Great Britain' and 'democracy' – Brexit was never really articulated as a viable policy, and only ever as a destructive urge, which some no doubt now feel guilty for giving way to.
Thatcher and Reagan rode to power by promising a brighter future, which never quite materialised other than for a minority with access to elite education and capital assets. The contemporary populist promise to make Britain or American 'great again' is not made in the same way. It is not a pledge or a policy platform; it's not to be measured in terms of results. When made by the likes of Boris Johnson, it's not even clear if it's meant seriously or not. It's more an offer of a collective real-time halucination, that can be indulged in like a video game.
Originally Posted by woops
How much of that (alleged regret of leave voters, stupidly not knowing what the EU is or that their votes might have an effect) is a real phenomenon and how much an extension of the same derision from remain voters that clearly motivated many of them in the first place?


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Twitter announced the latest addition to its design team on Monday: Paul Stamatiou, co-founder of the photo-sharing service PicPlum. As an intern for Yahoo in 2006, Stamatiou worked on developing the company's "Yodel Anecdotal" corporate blog. He worked on Picplum during Y Combinator's Summer of 2011 class, but has decided to continue working as only an adviser to the company, leaving active development on Picplum in the hands of co-founder Akshay Dodeja. Stamatiou joins Twitter as an experience designer on the company's growth team.


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EMC Makes False and Misleading Claims about IBM DS8000 Disk Performance
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Has EMC stooped so low that they have to resort to Hitachi math for their latest performance claims?
Readers might remember that just a few months ago, I had a blog post [Is this what HDS tells our mainframe clients?] pointing out the outlandish comparison Hitachi was using in their presentations. Their response was to cover it up, forcing me to follow up with my post [The Cover-up is worse than the original crime]. To their credit, they eventually removed the false and misleading information from their materials.
Now an avid reader of my blog has brought this to my attention. Apparently, EMC has been showing customers a presentation [Accelerating Storage Transformation with VMAX and VPLEX] with false and misleading comparison claims between IBM DS8000, HDS VSP and EMC VMAX 40K disk system performance.
(FTC Disclosure: This would be a good time to remind my readers that I work for IBM and own IBM stock. I do not endorse any of the EMC or HDS products mentioned in this post, and have no financial affiliation or investments directly with either EMC nor HDS. I am basing my information solely on the presentation posted on the internet and other sources publicly available, and not on any misrepresentations from EMC speakers at the various conferences where these charts might have been shown.)
The problem with misinformation is that it is not always obvious. The EMC presentation is quite pretty and prof
This first graphic implies that IBM and HDS are nearly tied in performance, but that EMC VMAX 40K has nearly triple that bandwidth. Overall the slide has very little detail. That makes it difficult to determine what exactly is being claimed and whether a fair comparison is being made.
IBM and HDS have both published Storage Performance Council [SPC] industry-standard performance benchmarks. EMC has not published any SPC benchmarks for VMAX systems. If EMC is interested in providing customers with audited, detailed performance information along with detailed configuration information, all based on benchmarks designed to represent real-world workloads, EMC can always publish SPC benchmark results as IBM and other vendors have done. In past blog fights, EMC resorts to the excuse that SPC isn't perfect, but can they really argue that vague and unrealistic claims cited in its presentation are better?
The second graphic is so absurd, you would think it came directly from Larry Ellison at an Oracle OpenWorld keynote session. EMC is comparing a configuration with VMAX 40K plus an EMC VFCache host-side flash memory cache card to a configuration with an IBM and HDS disk system without host-side flash memory cache also configured. The comparison is clearly apples-to-oranges. Other disk system configuration details are also omitted.
Keep in mind that EMC's VFCache supports only selected x86-based hosts. IBM has published a [Statement of Direction] indicating that it will also offer this for Power systems running AIX and Linux host-side flash memory cache integrated with DS8000 Easy Tier.
I feel EMC's claims about IBM DS8000 performance are vague and misleading. EMC appears to lack the kind of technical marketing integrity that IBM strives to attain. Since EMC is not able or willing to publish fair and meaningful performance comparisons, it is up to me to set the record straight and point out EMC's failings in this matter.
Reminder: It's not to late to register for my Webcast "Solving the Storage Capacity Crisis" on Tuesday, September 25. See my blog post [Upcoming events in September] to register!
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Cover-Up is Worse than the Original Crime
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On my last blog post [Is this what HDS tells our mainframe clients?], I poked fun at Hu Yoshida's blog post that contained a graphic with questionable results. Suddenly, the blog post disappeared altogether. Poof! Gone!
Just so that I am not accused of taking a graph out of context, here is Hu's original post, in its entirety:
At this point, you might be wondering: "If Hu Yoshida deleted his blog post, how did Tony get a copy of it? Did Tony save a copy of the HTML source before Hu deleted it?" No. I should have, in retrospect, in case lawyers got involved. It turns out that deleting a blog post does not clear the various copies in various RSS Feed Reader caches. I was able to dig out the previous version from the vast Google repository. (Many thanks to my friends at Google!!!).
The graph itself was hosted separately has been deleted, but it was just taken from slide 10 of the HDS presentation [How to Apply the Latest Advances in Hitachi Mainframe Storage], so it was easy to recreate.
(Lesson to all bloggers: If you write a blog post, and later decide to remove it for whatever legal, ethical, moral reasons, it is better to edit the post to remove offending content, and add a comment that the post was edited, and why. Shrinking a 700-word article down to 'Sorry Folks - I decided to remove this blog post because...' would do the trick. This new edited version will then slowly propagate across to all of the RSS Feed Reader caches, eliminating most traces to the original. Of course, the original may have been saved by any number of your readers, but at least if you have an edited version, it can serve as the official or canonical version.)
Perhaps there was a reason why HDS did not want to make public the FUD its sales team use in private meetings with IBM mainframe clients. Whatever it was, this appears to be another case where the cover-up is worse than the original crime!
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Is this what HDS tells our mainframe clients?
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Five years ago, I sprayed coffee all over my screen from something I read on a blog post from fellow blogger Hu Yoshida from HDS. You can read what cased my reaction in my now infamous post [Hu Yoshida should know better]. Subsequently, over the years, I have disagreed with Hu on a variety of of topics, as documented in my 2010 blog post [Hu Yoshida Does It Again].
(Apparently, I am not alone, as the process of spraying one's coffee onto one's computer screen while reading other blog posts has been referred to as "Pulling a Tony" or "Doing a Tony" by other bloggers!)
Fortunately, my IBM colleague David Sacks doesn't drink coffee. Last month, David noticed that Hu had posted a graph in a recent blog entry titled [Additional Storage Performance Efficiencies for Mainframes], comparing the performance of HDS's Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) to IBM's DS8000.
For those not familiar with disk performance graphs, flatter is better, lower response time and larger IOPS are always desired. This graph implies that the HDS disk system is astonishingly faster than IBM's DS8000 series disk system. Certainly, the HDS VSP qualifies as a member of the elite [Super High-End club] with impressive SPC benchmark numbers, and is generally recognized as a device that works in IBM mainframe environments. But this new comparison graph is just ridiculous!
(Note: While SPC benchmarks are useful for making purchase decisions, different disk systems respond differently to different workloads. As the former lead architect of DFSMS for z/OS, I am often brought in to consult on mainframe performance issues in complex situations. Several times, we have fixed performance problems for our mainframe clients by replacing their HDS systems with IBM DS8000 series!)
Since Hu's blog entry contained very little information about the performance test used to generate the graph, David submitted a comment directly to Hu's blog asking a few simple questions to help IBM and Hu's readers determine whether the test was fair. Here is David's comment as submitted:
"Hello, Hu,
Unlike my blog on IBM, HDS bloggers like Hu are allowed to reject or deny comments before they appear on his blog post. We were disappointed that HDS never posted David's comment nor responded to it. That certainly raises questions about the quality of the comparison.
So, perhaps this is yet another case of [Hitachi Math], a phrase coined by fellow blogger Barry Burke from EMC back in 2007 in reference to outlandish HDS claims. My earliest mention was in my blog post [Not letting the Wookie Win].
By the way, since the test was about z/OS Extended Address Volumes (EAV), it is worth mentioning that IBM's DS8700 and DS8800 support 3390 volume capacities up to 1 TB each, while the HDS VSP is limited to only 223 GB per volume. Larger volume capacities help support ease-of-growth and help reduce the number of volumes storage administrators need to manage; that's just one example of how the DS8000 series continues to provide the best storage system support for z/OS environments.
Personally, I am all for running both IBM and HDS boxes side-by-side and publishing the methodology, the workload characteristics, the configuration details, and the results. Sunshine is always the best disinfectant!
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IBM Announcements for July 2011 - XIV Gen 3, and more
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Well it's Tuesday again, and you know what that means... IBM Announcements! While most of the attention is going to [IBM's new servers, the zEnterprise 114 and the POWER 775], there were a few [announcements related specifically to storage] that I wanted to discuss.
To learn more, read Jim Kelly's [XIV Gen 3: Both Hands Clapping], and Anthony Vandewerdt's [Brief History of XIV], and Elisabeth Stahl's [Big Day, Big Data, Big Announcements] blog posts, or see the resources on the [XIV resources page].
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IBM high-end disk outsold HDS and HP combined
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This week, Hitachi Ltd. announced their next generation disk storage virtualization array, the Virtual Storage Platform, following on the success of its USP V line. It didn't take long for fellow blogger Chuck Hollis (EMC) to comment on this in his blog post [Hitachi's New VSP: Separating The Wheat From The Chaff]. Here are some excerpts:
Chuck implies that neither Hewlett-Packard (HP) nor Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) as vendors provide any value-add from the box manufactured by Hitachi Ltd. so combines them into a single category. I suspect the HP and HDS folks might disagree with that opinion.
When I reminded Chuck that IBM was also a major player in the high-end disk space, his response included the following gem:
"Many of us in the storage industry believe that IBM currently does not field a competitive high-end storage platform. IDC market share numbers bear out this assertion, as you probably know."
While Chuck is certainly entitled to his own beliefs and opinions, believing the world is flat does not make it so. Certainly, I doubt IDC or any other market research firm has put out a survey asking "Do you think IBM offers a competitive high-end disk storage platform?" Of course, if Chuck is basing his opinion on anecdotal conversations with existing EMC customers, I can certainly see how he might have formed this misperception. However, IDC market share numbers don't support Chuck's assertion at all.
There is no industry-standard definition of what is a "high-end" or "enterprise-class" disk system. Some define high-end as having the option for mainframe attachment via ESCON and/or FICON protocol. Others might focus on features, functionality, scalability and high 99.999+ percent availability. Others insist high-end requires block-oriented protocols like FC and iSCSI, rather than file-based protocols like NAS and CIFS.
For the most demanding mission-critical mix of random and sequential workloads, IBM offers the [IBM System Storage DS8000 series] high-end disk system which connects to mainframes and distributed servers, via FCP and FICON attachment, and supports a variety of drive types and RAID levels. The features that HP and HDS are touting today for the VSP are already available on the IBM DS8000, including sub-LUN automatic tiering between Solid-State drives and spinning disk, called [Easy Tier], thin provisioning, wide striping, point-in-time copies, and long distance synchronous and asynchronous replication.
There are lots of analysts that track market share for the IT storage industry, but since Chuck mentions [IDC] specifically, I reviewed the most recent IDC data, published a few weeks ago in their "IDC Worldwide Quarter Disk Storage Tracker" for 2Q 2010, representing April 1 to June 30, 2010 sales. Just in case any of the rankings have changed over time, I also looked at the previous four quarters: 2Q 2009, 3Q 2009, 4Q 2009 and 1Q 2010.
(Note: IDC considers its analysis proprietary, out of respect for their business model I will not publish any of the actual facts and figures they have collected. If you would like to get any of the IDC data to form your own opinion, contact them directly.)
In the case of IDC, they divide the disk systems into three storage classes: entry-level, midrange and high-end. Their definition of "high-end" is external RAID-protected disk storage that sells for $250,000 USD or more, representing roughly 25 to 30 percent of the external disk storage market overall. Here are IDC's rankings of the four major players for high-end disk systems:
By either measure of market share, units (disk systems) or revenue (US dollars), IDC reports that IBM high-end disk outsold both HDS and HP combined. This has been true for the past five quarters. If a smaller start-up vendor has single digit percent market share, I could accept it being counted as part of Chuck's "occasional sideshow from other vendors trying to claim relevance", but IBM high-end disk has consistently had 20 to 30 percent market share over the past five quarters!
Not all of these high-end disk systems are connected to mainframes. According to IDC data, only about 15 to 25 percent of these boxes are counted under their "Mainframe" topology.
Chuck further writes:
"It's reasonable to expect IBM to sell a respectable amount of storage with their mainframes using a protocol of their own design -- although IBM's two competitors in this rather proprietary space (notably EMC and Hitachi) sell more together than does IBM."
The IDC data doesn't support that claim either, Chuck. By either measure of market share, units (disk systems) or revenue (US dollars), IDC reports that IBM disk for mainframes outsold all other vendors (including EMC, HDS, and HP) combined. And again, this has been true for the past five quarters. Here is the IDC ranking for mainframe disk storage:
IBM has over 50 percent market share in this case, primarily because IBM System Storage DS8000 is the industry leader in mainframe-related features and functions, and offers synergy with the rest of the z/Architecture stack.
So Chuck, I am not picking a fight with you or asking you to retract or correct your blog post. Your main theme, that the new VSP presents serious competition to EMC's VMAX high-end disk arrays, is certainly something I can agree with. Congratulations to HDS and HP for putting forth what looks like a viable alternative to EMC's VMAX.
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The issue: Attack on Pearl Harbor
The issue: Attack on Pearl Harbor
Americans just experienced a painful time of national remembrance — the 50th anniversary of the assassination of their president. This was not mere nostalgia. It was more than a shared memory of grief. It also was the passing of a vital history lesson to America's youngest generations.
Now another occasion for an important history lesson is here: the 72nd anniversary of the event that led the United States into World War II.
On Dec. 7, 1941, more than 350 Japanese planes attacked the U.S. naval fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The surprise attack took a devastating toll: more than 2,400 Americans killed, nearly 1,300 wounded, all eight U.S. battleships and eight other ships damaged or sunk.
Dec. 7, 1941, remains, as President Franklin Roosevelt described it at the time, "a date which will live in infamy."
And a day that must remain alive in our memories. Why? First, to honor the bravery and sacrifice of thousands of Americans. Why share the story with those too young to remember and those born many years later? Listen to Clemson University professor Richard Saunders:
"It is important to understand who we are and what we became as a nation, throughout our nation's history, and the attack on Pearl Harbor ... is one of the key moments in defining who Americans are as a people. It is a moment that most certainly set in motion the process of becoming the super-power we have become. ... It is important that we understand, as a nation, that it wasn't all victories for us. That sometimes, like 9/11, a great sense of pride in our nation comes out of a terrible tragedy."
There are fewer and fewer men among us who survived Pearl Harbor, fewer and fewer family members who waited for news at home on that awful Sunday morning. They will never forget, but who will keep this story and its lessons alive when all of them are gone? It's up to us, and it will not be easy. As Saunders notes, despite what they learn in school, people do forget, "or just don't remember quite as well.
"I see this happening with students, in that even 9/11 is beginning to 'flutter' a little bit," he notes. "For a while there, students all remembered every living detail of it. But students today were tiny tots back then. Many have heard about it, and certainly know some things about it, but many just remember that their parents were very upset."
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Ivy League has
announced the names of 80 student-athletes – including 10
from Harvard – who have been named to the fall 2010-11
Academic All-Ivy League team.
The honorees are starters or key reserves on officially recognized varsity teams who have cumulative grade-point averages of at least 3.0. Each of the eight Ivy League schools nominates five men and five women from its eligible student-athletes.
The Crimson football team earned two of Harvard's five male selections, while the women's soccer and women's volleyball teams each garnered two of Harvard's female honorees.
Senior Katherine Sheeleigh of the women's soccer team, a finalist for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award, was named to her second straight Academic All-Ivy team. A native of New Vernon, N.J., Sheeleigh, a co-captain of the Crimson, also received a selection to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District squad and was named the Ivy League Player of the Year. She concluded her career as a four-time All-Ivy League first team choice and led the Ancient Eight in scoring this season with 25 points on nine goals and seven assists. Sheeleigh also ranks fifth in school history with 31 goals and sixth with 79 points.
Junior Anne Carroll Ingersoll, a co-captain of the women's volleyball team , was named All-Ivy League honorable mention after second-team honors as a sophomore and Rookie of the Year accolades as a freshman. A product of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., Ingersoll led Harvard with 2.35 kills per set and was third on the squad with 190 total kills.
Classmate and teammate Sandra Lynne Fryhofer was also tabbed to
the Academic All-Ivy squad after earned All-Ivy League honors for
the second straight fall. One of three Harvard players to see
action in all 26 matches in 2010, Fryhofer, a native of Atlanta,
Ga., ranked second on the Crimson in hitting percentage (.272) and
fourth with 186 kills.
Junior Alexandra Jumper of the women's sailing team earned her first selection on the Academic All-Ivy League team. A Putnam Valley, N.Y., product, Jumper was named the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association Women's Sailor of the Week Sept. 21 and finished fourth in the A division at the Women's Toni Deutsch Trophy. She also won the A division at the Mrs. Hurst Bowl by 18 points this fall.
On the men's side, senior cross country runner Daniel Chenoweth was named to his third Academic All-Ivy squad after earning an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships. A native of Geneseo, Ill., he was selected to the All-Northeast Region team for the third occasion and garnered All-Ivy League status for the third consecutive season. Chenoweth was the runner-up at the Heptagonal Championships and won the Harvard-Yale meet for the third straight time.
Bret Voith, who garnered a spot on the Collegiate Water Polo
Association second team, served as co-captain of the Crimson
men's water polo team this fall. A native of Coral
Gables, Fla., Voith led Harvard in scoring with 38 goals and 31
assists. He also made 32 steals and led the Crimson to a
fifth-place finish at the Northern Division Championships.
Seniors Zar Zavala and Collin Zych of the football team round out Harvard's fall selections to the Academic All-Ivy League team. Zavala, a wide receiver from El Paso, Texas, became the sixth Harvard football player and 50th Harvard student-athlete to earn a Rhodes Scholarship. He also earned but turned down a Marshall Scholarship.
Fall 2010 Academic All-Ivy League Team
Harvard Selections
Daniel Chenoweth, Men's Cross Country (Sr., Sociology, Geneseo, Ill.)
Alan Palmer, Coed Sailing (Sr., Applied Mathematics, Yarmouth, Maine)
Bret Voith, Men's Water Polo (Sr., Economics, Coral Gables, Fla.)
Zar Zavala, Football (Sr., Engineering Sciences and Neurobiology, El Paso, Texas)
Collin Zych, Football (Sr., Economics, Plano, Texas)
Melanie Baskind, Women's Soccer (Jr., Neurobiology,
Framingham, Mass.)
Sandra Lynne Fryhofer, Women's Volleyball (Jr., Government, Atlanta, Ga.)
Anne Carroll Ingersoll, Women's Volleyball (Jr., English, Rancho Sante Fe, Calif.)
Alexandra Jumper, Women's Sailing (Jr., History, Putnam Valley, N.Y.)
Katherine Sheeleigh, Women's Soccer (Sr., Economics, New Vernon, N.J.)


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ModNation Racers is a thoroughly fresh take on classic kart racing that empowers the player to personalize their entire game. Players can express themselves by creating their own Mod character, styling their own racing kart and even building -- in just minutes -- an imaginative track that can be shared with the rest of the PlayStation community via the free PlayStation Network service. The easy-to-use editing studio tools make this creative process accessible to players of all levels. Not feeling creative? ModNation Racers presents a humorous story with a wealth of pre-made characters, karts, tracks and challenges for all players.
Play, create, and share maestros will get the chance to take their talents to the track this spring, as United Front Games has announced that the anticipated kart racer ModNation Racers will hit the shelves on May 25 for the PS3 and PSP. And that's not all: According to the official PlayStation Blog, a few familiar friends are coming along for the ride. Steer toward the jump for details. Read More »
We've been curious about ModNation Racers since it debuted at E3 last year -- we all love kart racers -- but we were unsure about how it would play, and how well the much-touted level creation system would work. Yesterday the devs stopped by our office for a long-awaited demo. We enjoyed a demo of the level creator -- which looks incredible, allowing players to create levels, characters, and cars with the same tools the developer used -- but what we really wanted was to try out the racing for ourselves. Several swear-inducing, four-player split-screen races later, here are our thoughts... Read More »
A new character creation trailer has been released by SCEA featuring United Front Games' upcoming PlayStation Network downloadable game, ModNation Racers. In the vid you'll get a sense of just how deep the character creation tool is, and you'll see how the characters -- or Mods are they're known -- take more than a little cue or two from Media Molecules' LittleBigPlanet. Check out the movie after the break! Read More »
At Sony's E3 press conference today, developer United Front Games debuted its PlayStation 3-exclusive racing title, ModNation Racers. Dubbed as the second title ever to fall into the "play-create-share" genre created by Media Molecule's LittleBigPlanet, ModNation Racers aims to bring the same level of social sharing to a kart racing game.
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