We now have a new Chairman for the Republican Party. With a new Chairman comes new people and new vendors and new ideas.
When I first wrote on this topic on Christmas Day, the post made it round the world — surprising particularly because the post was written on Christmas Day.
There were five points I made and that I stand by:
- That you have come to me thinking I am a technologist is an indication of the problem;
- Luckily for you, I have come to recognize my limits, but sadly there are too many others out there who do not recognize their limits and, unfortunately, offer themselves as solutions to our tech problem instead of offering real solutions;
- If anyone you talk to says you need to duplicate what Obama did, run the other way as fast as possible;
- When looking for people, choose technologists who are interested in politics, not political guys who learned tech; and,
- Look outside Washington, D.C.
In my post, I discussed who Cyrus Krohn is and why keeping him at the RNC is important. Since then, all the thinking we have done at RedState over endorsements, etc. has come down to one this: will Cyrus be kept at the RNC.
He is that important. We will know whether Michael Steele is serious about bringing change to the party by, ironically enough, whether he brings change to the e-Director’s position. Change in that position will most likely mean he was not serious about change at all.
Allow me to explain:
Why Cyrus Matters
This is what I wrote on Christmas Day. Allow me to incorporate it into this post.
Mike Duncan made a very wise decision hiring Cyrus Krohn to head the RNC’s technology efforts. Krohn came from a technology, not a political, background. Cyrus, a communications guy at heart, worked at CNN, Microsoft, and Yahoo gaining experience in technology with technologists instead of in politics with politicos. When he got to the Republican National Committee in 2007, he was pretty immediately able to size up what worked and what didn’t. Why? Because he is a technologist by trade, if not by specific training. He knows this stuff.
We will not really see Cyrus’s full potential at the RNC until the 2010 cycle. He did not get to the RNC until into the 2008 cycle when things were already in place. That Duncan chose to go outside the beltway to find a true technologist is worth commending. …The next RNC Chairman will do the party a great service by keeping Cyrus.
It is easier for a technologist to learn about politics than it is for a political consultant to learn technology. It is easier for a technologist to consider how average Americans use technology than it is for a political consultant to do so. It is vastly easier for a technologist to vet a shiny new tool with pretty bells and whistles than it is a political consultant. Too many political consultants get distracted by the shiny.
This is not to say there is no role for political guys who have turned to tech. There absolutely is a place. Candidates still need help with online operations — that’s not something a technologist really needs to focus on. The political guys out there can do it. There will still need to be organized Facebook group efforts, Twitters, etc. The political guys can and are doing that.
But if the right is going to truly be successful, we’re going to have to go beyond the political guys turned tech guys and go straight for the tech guys. We’re going to need to find more Cyrus Krohn’s and put them in key technology positions on the right. We are going to need to build out our infrastructure and our proprietary technology.
The Metrics Related to Cyrus
Under Cyrus Krohn’s technology leadership at the RNC, the RNC’s mail list has grown from 2 million names to over 12 million names.
The RNC Facebook Group is 10,000 members larger than the DNC’s Facebook Group. We didn’t even have one until Cyrus got to work.
Under Cyrus’s management, the RNC, believe it or not, developed a very advanced operation for micro-targeting their voter file — even better than what Obama and the DNC have.
Cyrus out-innovated the Democrats on the party platform operation, building an open, easy to use site to allow the grassroots to have input into the party platform.
Prior to getting to the RNC, Cyrus worked at Microsoft for a decade and spent two years at Yahoo. You all probably know one of the things Cyrus started that lives on — Slate.com, now owned by the Washington Post (don’t hold it against him — he did tech, not editorial content).
By any measurable metric, Cyrus, though only in the job a short time and mostly locked into pre-existing vendors, succeeded at a place not known for technological success.
What It All Means
My friend Eric Odom on Twitter the other day, wrote, “Also, it would be a good move for Steele to not let McCain staffers run his eCampaign for him.”
Unfortunately, those are some of the people now trying to oust Cyrus and take over the technology he has started building. And it is not just them. A host of people are working to shove Cyrus out of his job and get lucrative RNC contracts for technology.
Cyrus, near single handedly, has protected the RNC and, indirectly, all of us from charlatan poseurs who claim to be technologists, but really are not.
I should not say Cyrus is the indispensable man. Few men are. But right now, if the RNC wants to really innovate technologically, Cyrus is the indispensable man. He has not had a chance to really show what he can do, though the few things he has done have been stellar.
If Michael Steele is serious about wanting to innovate and reform, he should leave Cyrus Krohn in place and give Cyrus the resources and authority he needs to lead the GOP into technological dominance.
I encourage you to join the Facebook Group and email Michael Steele to ask him to keep and support Cyrus.
We can swamp what Obama did.
Princeliberty Saturday, January 31st at 10:28AM EST (link)To begin with what Obama did was not what Obama did.
It began with Dean campaign were the hard left began to get organized and give millions of small donations using the internet and the social networks.
The right was asleep since the Republicans were in power.
The left continued to grow. Then they pushed Obama. Obama was
not some visionary guy about organization. He simply was the man the
left and the media created.
But can swamp what they. Simply fact there are many more conservatives
than hard left liberals.
So we can take it to a level. And further make it were the Republican no longer needs corrupting big business money that leads to bailouts for Banks
and worthless leaders like McConnell.
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Here, Erick, you capture most of the Party's problems:
Achance Saturday, January 31st at 10:40AM EST (link)“And it is not just them. A host of people are working to shove Cyrus out of his job and get lucrative RNC contracts for technology. ” I think it is because the Republican Party was so new to power and so unaccustomed to being in charge, but it is the rarest Republican officeholder or operative who doesn’t view government and political work as a zero sum game in which they can only do well and look good by making someone else look bad. This is compounded and we may have mortally wounded the Republican Party by the orgy we had when we had the Congress and the White House. It was as if everyone in America who could convince somebody that he or she was a Republican dived in the trough head first and was intent on staying there until drug out by their curly little tail, the only part sticking out of the trough.
I left the Murkowski Administration in disgust mostly because most of my appointee level peers had only two thoughts: how can I make myself look good and you look bad, or at least not be seen at all and how can I use this to make money when I’m done here. Practically the second the Governor’s hand came off The Bible, these guys were planning their lobbying career after the administration was over. Granted, lobbying is much more lucrative than being an appointee, unless you’re willing to steal or take bribes, but there are some jobs in government that really are important, that you really do have to know what you’re doing, and which you should view as something other than a necessary stepping stone to be endured.
In Vino Veritas
This is a good thing...
usrbinperl Saturday, January 31st at 10:42AM EST (link)Steele was one of a few good choices that could have been made. Perhaps the most positive thing in my view is that his election sends a clear signal that the status quo now sleeps with the fishes. In many ways he constituted a very risky choice, but with risk comes reward and so I commend the committee members on bold action. My heart and wallet are now open to the RNC.
Having said all that, Cyrus doesn’t strike me as a hard core technologist. I don’t say that to diminish your contention that he’s indispensable, but if I were in Steele’s shoes I’d be tempted to bring someone in alongside Krohn to handle data analytic operations. The reasons are twofold. One, having one person responsible for both analytics and social media outreach platforms/targeted messaging/velocity is just too big of a job. Secondly, they’re just two completely different missions and require radically different ways of thinking to be successful. Don’t get me wrong, I think Cyrus is a great idea man and a fine Field General in the Web 2.0 arena, but for the analytics side I’d go and find myself a guy like this if you can get him.
As to the contention that the RNC has developed microtargeting beyond what the DNC had, my response is that I’ll believe it when I see it work. It’s clear that it didn’t work this past election cycle, which indicates to me that we need to augment Krohn with weapons that he doesn’t yet have. Before you can even begin to qualify the RNC microtargeting as “good” you have to ask some very basic questions like does the dataset support the conclusions we need to draw and what’s the confidence level, and that takes time to build and data-minded people.
A good start would be to stand up a non-profit to maintain an “off-the-books” development environment with participation from the RNC,, Heritage, Cato, ATU and others where the ideas and code could flow somewhat freely but access could be restricted to friendly participants. In military parlance, we call this a “force multiplier.”
Does anybody know a business CEO that will get up in the media and denounce obama destroying our economy?
bobojake Saturday, January 31st at 10:54AM EST (link)If they do we need them to get up on the TV Networks and denounce this incompetent obama. We’ve had all the obama economics we can stand since NOV 4th. Every since he started running for President over 2years ago about the time Reid, Peloski 0bama energy bill was passed the economy has went to L. It time business leaders tell obama, reid and peloski to take a long walk off a short bridge. We all have bosses that wrote us paychecks and obama has never wrote w paycheck in his life. Rezzo bought his house, We have to stand up before obama and the democrat senate destroys this nation.
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Brian Hibbert Saturday, January 31st at 11:00AM EST (link)This thread is about the technology used by the Republican party. If you want to talk about these topics, write your own blog entry or take it to a more appropriate topic.
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No CEO that does business with the government
Achance Saturday, January 31st at 11:01AM EST (link)or wants to do business with the government or is regulated by the government is going to do it. The business community should be screaming bloody murder and opening the floodgates of money to oppose card check and all there is is crickets chirping.
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On a positive note.
Brian Hibbert Saturday, January 31st at 11:10AM EST (link)I saw several business leaders interviewed on CNBC the other day who did just that. One guy’s comment was something like “Any businessman who isn’t sending money to McConnell to fight this is insane.”
I think he was putting too much faith in Mitch, but at least he was making the case against card check.
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On technology.... remember it's a tool, not a savior.
Brian Hibbert Saturday, January 31st at 11:05AM EST (link)I worry when I hear people talk about the need for better technology, that they will focus on technology for technology’s sake. We have to always remember that these are merely tools fro talking to the people. They will require real people on the other end of the technology to respond to the people.
I see all too often where companies see technology as a replacement for experienced people (or to allow novices with a database to replace experience) rather than as a tool for those experienced people to do their job better. Let’s not make the same mistake at the RNC. OK?
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One of the greatest compliments ever paid me, though
Achance Saturday, January 31st at 11:15AM EST (link)surely inadvertent, was from my new Democrat master early in the Knowles Administration (Democrat). I was actually a registered NP back then, but I was known to have Republican friends and the unions had put a price on my head because I was pretty good a thumping them around.
The Administration was Hellbent to get the State wired and use electronic means for recruitment and all sorts of infrastructure functions of the government. In one of those meetings that Democrats so love, he was holding forth on his vision for the department and all the streamlining and automation he envisioned during which he said, “what I want by two years from now is Art in a box that everyone can access.” Of course, implicit in that was that he preferred that I actually be in a pine box and some mindless computer with a stupid little Democrat hack punching its buttons replace me. Actually, “two years from now” I was in a box, the very boxy Capitol Building working for the Republican Legislature with his misery as my mission.
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Art in a Box. 8*) Yep that's what I was talking about.
Brian Hibbert Saturday, January 31st at 11:37AM EST (link)Managers always expect too much from technology. They still don’t get the idea that computers don’t REASON, they only calculate.
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That's part of the problem
Erick Erickson Saturday, January 31st at 11:19AM EST (link)A lot of the peddlers of wares are selling it as a savior, not a tool.
Who will stand on either hand and keep this bridge with me?
Thanks Erick. Please keep reminding the people
Brian Hibbert Saturday, January 31st at 11:44AM EST (link)making decisions that it’s a tool to help us do a better job. I know you’ve got a bit more influence with these people than I do so I’m thrilled that you get it.
We can have the prettiest sites on the net, but they’re useless if there is no substance behind it. An ugly site with substance have more power than a pretty “empty suit”.
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It's actually quite difficult to build technology that serves people...
6eorge Jetson Saturday, January 31st at 3:33PM EST (link)and not the other way around.
I think of really good systems as providing multiple knobs and levers that give the user the ability to do what they want to do. As opposed to a system that forces the user to do a lot of unnecessary stuff.
Noted software thinker Martin Fowler has stated
A humorous small illustration of Erick’s point
can be found here, see the emboldened text for brevity. I have no familiarity with the RNC’s technology efforts, but one point Erick raises it the question of whether the RNC has technology folks that can evalutate these types of criteria, and not just from a static “present functionality” viewpoint that will be left behind as the RNC’s needs inevitably change.
Some comments
woodsman Saturday, January 31st at 11:07AM EST (link)I believe the people who have the technical skills for a specific area should be dedicated to that requirement. A person who really understands technology and has already established a good track record should be kept on. Worthwhile outcomes are produced by long term efforts. You create it, implement it, tweak it, and continue this until it works to perfection and produces the desired results.
Starting over or or letting “other experts” become involved is a recipe for accomplishing a mediocre outcome.
Of course, this is based on the premise that each area of expertise is staffed with the people who are mission critical and understand what the desired goal is.
I would not let anyone from the McCain staff anywhere near this.
usrbinperl has a very good point on the participation of Heritage, Cato, etc. If we are conservatives first and Republicans second I would suggest the incorporation of the issues and remedies laid out by Fred Thompson during his campaign.
And, we also need to stress not only principles, but also the values that makes us truly American (not quasi-European or social engineering projects of the last 50 years.
Anyone brought on board is either for the mission or scrubbed from it. Anyone…
How many times have we seen this before?
USNJIMRET Saturday, January 31st at 11:37AM EST (link)The “new” guy with the mandate to ‘change’ things in order to ‘fix’ everything?
I am 100% behind the idea of super emulation of what the left did to create the atmosphere that resulted in two electoral victories in a row. No, not the lies, distortions, pork, vote buying and the rest of the corruption that is the stock and trade of the left.
But if, and it seem pretty clear to me, technology is a critical factor in how the left did what they did, the right would be dolts to ignore it.
And if there are recently added people in place who, as the author of the thread head stated, know this stuff, have expertise in the extreme, AND happen to already be in place…..what is accomplished by starting over with this week’s “guru”?
Change for the sake of change is rarely, if ever, a net positive.
And it really alienates the people who get kicked out in the name of ‘change’.
I can think of more than one off the top of my head....
Jeff Emanuel Saturday, January 31st at 11:38AM EST (link)….who will be angling to get a piece of those “lucrative technology contracts,” but who — in reality — have no business getting within spitting distance of the RNC’s operations. This has to come down to effectiveness and deliverability, not who can write the prettiest proposal or slimily schmooze their way into the innermost circle.
All too many “tech” consultants on the right are selling snake oil, or are genuinely lacking in knowledge and understanding of that which they want to be hired to provide. Cyrus needs to stay at the RNC, and the entire organization needs to run from the snake-oilers and incompetents as fast as it can.
JE
And another thought
woodsman Saturday, January 31st at 11:45AM EST (link)when using the technology to raise campaign funds over the net use the verification system on the electronic transactions. You do not have to say the other party did not, just say you have to provide reassurance.
Technology Maryland-Montgomery County:
tsar Saturday, January 31st at 1:09PM EST (link)Everyone kept talking about grass roots campaigns in the local Meetings of republicans during the Bush beginning all the way through to the second Bush election. I got involved and ended up as a precinct chair, a poll watcher, and a person that made phone calls, go vote!
I kept saying I could accomplish more if they would let me; I have 20 years experience in the Computer/Web business. I made suggestions of a website for our local area as a way of sharing more information quicker, to post requests for specific things that needed to be done in the area quickly, plus an open discussion area, or an online newsletter. I even offered to do it for free. No one ever took me up on my offer, I was introduced to some of the paid republican technology people for the state, and they wanted nothing to do with my local “grass roots” web information center.
My frustration in feeling like I wasn’t able to help and not have been taken seriously led me to walk away from the local party politics meetings. The very definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over and expect different results, all they wanted to do here was the same thing they had always done.
My disgust with the last two years of the politics of name calling and vitriol has actually drawn me back in, we need some changes. We need to explain:
What conservatives are.
Who we are as a party
what the republicans have in mind.
What’s the plan?
I am looking for my niche, how I can help. I am looking for Ideas. Anyone have any, for a slightly disabled 52 year old computer guy with a lot of time on his hands?
Maryland is losing republican representation, maybe it’s time for some changes. I have high hopes for Michael Steele.
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One Progressive Says Steele the "Right Choice"
darrren12000 Saturday, January 31st at 1:10PM EST (link)A Black Progressive Law Professor Responds to News That Michael Steele Will Lead the GOP
The right choice because
Flagstaff Saturday, January 31st at 6:05PM EST (link)he thinks Steele will take the party in a more “moderate and libertarian” direction.
Which is the last thing he should do.
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I'd rather have a Libertarian
CarlSchurz Saturday, January 31st at 6:08PM EST (link)Than a Liberal.
I can make love to a libertarian. Making love to a liberal is a chore.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
Considering that
Flagstaff Saturday, January 31st at 6:45PM EST (link)“libertarian” and “moderate” are nowhere near the same thing, it’s a bit hard to figure out what the professor had in mind without reading his whole blog.
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Hey Erick, Patton said...
Darvin_Dowdy Saturday, January 31st at 1:11PM EST (link)…Patton said, “fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man”. In other words be mobile, go on the offensive. And do we really expect Steele to go on the offensive to protect Mr. Krohn? No. He will not. I expect him to operate very much like “W” the doormat and his disgusting “New Tone” method. [needless to say I'm not excited about the Steele nomination-nor was I about any of the other 5]. Honestly, I hope/pray I’m proven wrong about Steele.
So it’ll be up to the Redstate’s of this world to go on the offensive. Against, who? Well Erick, you said it here. Very timidly, “McCain staffers”. Almost in a whisper. COME ON ERICK! Name names. Point fingers. Start identifying these enemies of the Conservative Movement. (like you did N. Wallace- remember Operation Leper?) Our immediate enemy is within the Party. Its an unpleasant task going after this negative element but it must be done. Many of them were, just a short time back, our comrades, true. Its not an easy task but are we willing to watch the Conservative Movement drift off into history? Become a memory? Glory days?
Another thing Patton said, “God have mercy on my enemies, because I won’t”. Darvin Dowdy
Republicans Want to be More Conservative
bc3 Saturday, January 31st at 1:36PM EST (link)Rasmussen poll just released. 43% of Republicans want GOP to become more conservative, compared to only 17% who want it to become more moderate (liberal).
Far more more Republicans want the GOP to be like Palin than like McCain. Dems don’t see it that way.
Pailin polls surprisingly strong among unaffliiated (35% HIGHLY favorable).
Look for the left and liberal GOP Frum-types to keep up the attack.
See http://www.bejohngalt.com.
bc3
Republicans Want to be More Conservative
bc3 Saturday, January 31st at 1:36PM EST (link)Rasmussen poll just released. 43% of Republicans want GOP to become more conservative, compared to only 17% who want it to become more moderate (liberal).
Far more more Republicans want the GOP to be like Palin than like McCain. Dems don’t see it that way.
Pailin polls surprisingly strong among unaffliiated (35% HIGHLY favorable).
Look for the left and liberal GOP Frum-types to keep up the attack.
See http://www.bejohngalt.com.
bc3
GOP Site Badly Broken on Sat
Ron Robinson Saturday, January 31st at 4:53PM EST (link)Alas, a lot of critical functions for GOP.com are badly broken right now… I tried 4 different browsers…
Maybe it’s some poorly tested changes posted on Fri that will get fixed on Mon
* cannot log in…
* cannot recover password…
* attempt to recover password produced a search result as if user wished to search gop.com
They DO have some really good resources there! Like contacting others in your own neighborhood - that is a great start!
Presumably these will get fixed on Monday….
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Erick,
itrytobenice Saturday, January 31st at 11:45PM EST (link)You will let us know the outcome, won’t you?
The problem with America is stupidity. I’m not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why don’t we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
gop.com Needs Help Badly
Ron Robinson Sunday, February 1st at 6:28PM EST (link)Open letter to the eCampaign folks at http://www.gop.com
Alas, the GOP web site at http://www.gop.com has a few good ideas, but they are currently poorly, poorly implemented. The GOP has a pretty fair idea in allowing one to set up your own web site/blog at whatever-your-id.gop.com - however their whole platform is so buggy, it’s going to result in more harm than good. I’ll just hit the high points here:
So many bugs! You cannot recover a password, nor log in, nor properly edit your profile. Pix, videos and comments do not appear, and hundreds, if not thousands, of sites have been created by folks who did not realize they were creating a web site and thus have no content. This really hurts the idea of a myGOP web site.
Too many javascript prompts and error messages were written by ESL programmers. Improper English and bad grammar are so rife at gop.com that it begins to appear that the GOP would be pro-illegals. If there is anywhere that should be careful about proper English, it’s gop.com. My company hires offshore programmers too, mostly from India, but we always check their English before we allow the code to go into production. What political conclusions would visitors draw? What about setting an example?
MOST IMPORTANTLY: the GOP is pursuing an online strategy that promises to diffuse effort rather than concentrate effort, and will turn away experienced bloggers (presumably the very audience they want to attract) after just a couple of hours of effort.
Check out my website there, elronaldo.gop.com - I wasted a whole half day on this. The headlines section allows you to post only headlines from the RNC list - not headlines (or Gadgets or Widgets) from your own sources. The blog section will only allow you to type in an article - and not allow a reference or embed or object for a feed or Ustream TV embed. Sorry, I already have my own blog and I’m not going to copy/paste every article into elronaldo.gop.com - the one time I tried this, it did not preserve the formatting.
Now I am in the web services business (800Cart.com ) and I understand just as well as the next publisher the principle of ‘publish-it-now-so folks-can-see-what-is-so-attractive-and-fix-the-bugs-later’ as well as the next guy. But the GOP carried this principle way, way too far.
If GOP.com wants to have thousands of identical, lame ‘web sites’ to lower its search engine authority, that’s one thing. But if they want to harness the web/blog talent that’s already out there, they will allow Gadget, widgets, Ustream embeds, rss feeds and all of the labor-savings devices that bloggers have evolved to distribute their political thinking.
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No one cares!
znelson32 Sunday, February 1st at 10:44PM EST (link)I’m a software architect/engineer of 15+ years. I’ve designed and developed software for some of the biggest Fortune 500 companies.
I can’t even get my Congressman, who lives 5 mins away, to respond to my email re: technology, let alone the RNC or a campaign. No one cares about grassroots “technology ideas”.
The most the RNC is doing is updating the ancient Voter Vault and focusing on Facebook and Myspace accounts. Give me a break - that’s kid stuff.
Why should anyone waste their time with this? There’s no such thing as grassroots - it’s all corporate - and I’ve spent enough time with clueless corporate-types who don’t know a damn thing about techology.
There is no place for brilliant people with brilliant ideas in the RNC - and if I’m wrong, invite me to the next technology thinktank - I won’t hold my breath.
Looks like everyone's gone, including Cyrus Krohn.
NightTwister Friday, February 6th at 1:43PM EST (link)Unless I read this wrong.
Get Connected in Colorado.
baby, meet bathwater
E Pluribus Unum Friday, February 6th at 1:49PM EST (link)I’m pretty sure you are right, and Cyrus is gone. Sure smells that way.
Steele better have a plan for transition, and it better be good. You wipe out all that institutional memory - granted, often, and in this case, that’s mostly a good thing - there better be positives that get into place PDQ.
Carthago delenda est
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