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|By Dana Gardner
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|July 7, 2014 08:00 AM EDT
The advent of the application programming interface (API) economy has forced a huge, pressing need for organizations to both seek openness and improve security for accessing mobile applications, data, and services anytime, anywhere, and from any device.
Awash in inadequate passwords and battling subsequent security breaches, business and end-users alike are calling for improved identity management and federation technologies. They want workable standards to better chart the waters of identity management and federation, while preserving the need for enterprise-caliber risk remediation and security.
Meanwhile, the mobile tier is becoming an integration point for scads of cloud services and APIs, yet unauthorized access to data remains common. Mobile applications are not yet fully secure, and identity control that meets audit requirements is hard to come by. And so developers are scrambling to find the platforms and tools to help them manage identity and security, too.
Clearly, the game has clearly changed for creating new and attractive mobile processes, yet the same old requirements remain wanting around security, management, interoperability, and openness.
BriefingsDirect assembled a panel of experts to explore how to fix these pressing needs: Bradford Stephens, the Developer and Platforms Evangelist in the CTO's Office at Ping Identity; Ross Garrett, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Axway, Kelly Grizzle, Principal Software Engineer at SailPoint Technologies. Welcome, Kelly. The sponsored panel discussion is moderated by me, Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
Here are some excerpts:
Gardner: We are approaching the Cloud Identity Summit 2014 (CIS), which is coming up on July 19 in Monterey, Calif. There's a lot of frustration with identity services that meet the needs of developers and enterprise operators as well. So let's talk a little bit about what's going on with APIs and identity.
What are the trends in the market that keep this problem pressing? Why is it so difficult to solve?
Interaction changes
Stephens: Well, as soon as we've settled on a standard, the way we interact with computers changes. It wasn't that long ago that if you had Active Directory and SAML and you hand-wrote security endpoints of model security products, you were pretty much covered.
But in the last three or four years, we've gone to a world where mobile is more important than web. Distributed systems are more important than big iron. And we communicate with APIs instead of channels and SDKs, and that requires a whole new way of thinking about the problem.
Garrett: Ultimately, APIs are becoming the communication framework, the fabric, in which all of the products that we touch today talk to each other. That, by extension, provides a new identity challenge. That's a lot of reason why we've seen some friction and schizophrenia around the types of identity technologies that are available to us.
So we see waves of different technologies come and go, depending on what is the flavor of the month. That has caused some frustration for developers, and will definitely come up during our Cloud Identity Summit in a couple of weeks.
Grizzle: APIs are becoming exponentially more important in the identity world now. As Bradford alluded to, the landscape is changing. There are mobile devices as well as software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers out there who are popping up new services all the time. The common thread between all of them is the need to be able to manage identities. They need to be able to manage the security within their system. It makes total sense to have a common way to do this.
APIs are key for all the different devices and ways that we connect to these service providers. Becoming standards based is extremely important, just to be able to keep up with the adoption of all these new service providers coming on board.
Gardner: As we describe this as the API economy, I suppose it's just as much a marketplace and therefore, as we have seen in other markets, people strive for predominance. There's jockeying going on. Bradford, is this a matter of an architectural shift? Is this a matter of standards? Or is this a matter of de-facto standards? Or perhaps all of the above?
Stephens: It's getting complex quickly. I think we're settling on standards, like it or not, mostly positively. I see most people settling on at least OAuth 2.0 as a standard token, and OpenID Connect for implementation and authentication of information, but I think that's about as far as we get.
There's a lot of struggle with established vendors vying to implement these protocols. They try to bridge the gap between the old world of say SAML and Active Directory and all that, and the new world of SCIM, OAuth, OpenID Connect. The standards are pretty settled, at least for the next two years, but the tools, how we implement them, and how much work it takes developers to implement them, are going to change a lot, and hopefully for the better.
Evolving standards
Garrett: We have identified a number of new standards that are bridging this new world of API-oriented connectivity. Learning from the past of SAML and legacy, single sign-on infrastructure, we definitely need some good technology choices.
The standards seem to be leading the way. But by the same token, we should keep a close eye on the market changing with regards to how fast standards are changing. We've all seen things like OAuth progress slower than some of the implementations out there. This means the ratification of the standard was happening after many providers had actually implemented it. It's the same for OpenID Connect.
We are in line there, but the actual standardization process doesn't always keep up with where the market wants to be.
Gardner: We've been this play out before that the standards can lag. Getting consensus, developing the documentation and details, and getting committees to sign off can take time, and markets move at their own velocity. Many times in the past, organizations have hedged their bets by adopting multiple standards or tracking multiple ways of doing things, which requires federation and integration.
Kelly, are there big tradeoffs with standards and APIs? How do we mitigate the risk and protect ourselves by both adhering to standards, but also being agile in the market?
Grizzle: That's kind of tricky. You're right in that standards tend to lag. That's just part and parcel of the standardization process. It's like trying to pass a bill through Congress. It can go slow.
You're right in that standards tend to lag. That's just part and parcel of the standardization process.
Something that we've seen some of these standards do right, from OAuth and from the SCIM perspective, is that both of those have started their early work with a very loose standardization process, going through not one of the big standards bodies, but something that can be a little bit more nimble. That's how the SCIM 1.0 and 1.1 specs came out, and they came out in a reasonable time frame to get people moving on it.
Now that things have moved to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), development has slowed down a little bit, but people have something to work with and are able to keep up with the changes going on there.
I don't know that people necessarily need to adopt multiple standards to hedge their bets, but by taking what's already there and keeping a pulse on the things that are going to change, as well as the standard being forward-thinking enough to allow some extensibility within it, service providers and clients, in the long run, are going to be in a pretty good spot.
Quick primer
Gardner: We've talked a few technical terms so far, and just for the benefit of our audience, I'd like to do a quick primer, perhaps with you Bradford. To start: OAuth, this is with the IETF now. Could you just quickly tell the audience what OAuth is, what it's doing, and why it's important when we talk about API, security and mobile?
Stephens: OAuth is the foundation protocol for authorization when it comes to APIs for web applications. OAuth 2 is much more flexible than OAuth 1.
Basically, it allows applications to ask for access to stuff. It seems very vague, but it's really powerful once you start getting the right tokens for your workflows. And it provides the same foundation for everything else we do for identity and APIs.
The best example I can think of is when you log into Facebook, and Facebook asks whether you really want this app to see your birthday, all your friends' information, and everything else. Being able to communicate all that over the OAuth 2.0 is a lot easier than how it was with OAuth 1.0 a few years ago.
Gardner: How about OpenID Connect. This is with the OpenID Foundation. How does that relate, and what is it?
If OAuth actually is the medium, OpenID Connect can be described as the content of the message. It's not the message itself.
Stephens: If OAuth actually is the medium, OpenID Connect can be described as the content of the message. It's not the message itself. That's usually done with the Token, Javascript object notation (JSON) Web Token, but OpenID Connect provides the actual identity information.
When you access an API and you authenticate, you choose a scope, and one of the most common scopes is OpenID Profile. This OpenID Profile will just have things like your username, maybe your address, various other pieces of identity information, and it describes who the "you" is, who you are.
Gardner: And SCIM, you mentioned that Kelly, and I know you have been involved with it. So why don't you take the primer for SCIM, and I believe it's Simple Cloud Identity Management?
Grizzle: That's the historical name for it, Simple Cloud Identity Management. When we took the standard to the IETF, we realized that the problems that we were solving were a little bit broader than just the cloud and within the cloud. So the acronym now stands for the System for Cross-domain Identity Management.
That's kind of a mouthful, but the concept is pretty simple. SCIM is really just an API and a schema that allows you to manage identities and identity-related information. And by manage them, I mean to create identities in systems to delete them, update them, change the entitlements and the group memberships, and things like that.
Gardner: From your perspective, Kelly, what is the relationship then between OAuth and SCIM?
Managing identities
Grizzle: OAuth, as Bradford mentioned, is primarily geared toward authorization, and answers the question, "Can Bob access this top-secret document?" SCIM is really not in the authorization and authentication business at all. SCIM is about managing identities.
OAuth assumes that an identity is already present. SCIM is able to create that identity. You can create the user "Bob." You can say that Bob should not have access to that top-secret document. Then, if you catch Bob doing some illicit activity, you can quickly disable his account through a SCIM call. So they fit together very nicely.
Gardner: In the real world, developers like to be able to use APIs, but they might not be familiar with all the details that we've just gone through on some of these standards and security approaches.
How do we make this palatable to developers? How do we make this something that they can implement without necessarily getting into the nitty-gritty? Are there some approaches to making this a bit easier to consume as a developer?
The best thing we can do is have tool-providers give them tools in their native language or in the way developers work with things.
Stephens: As a developer who's relatively new to this field -- I worked in database for three years -- I've had personal experience of how hard it is to wrap your head around all the standards and all these flows and stuff. The best thing we can do is have tool providers give them tools in their native language, or in the way developers work with things.
This needs well-documented, interactive APIs -- things like Swagger -- and lots of real-world code examples. Once you've actually done the process of authentication through OAuth, getting a JSON Web Token, and getting an OpenID Connect profile, it's really simple to see how it all works together, if you do it all through a SaaS platform that handles all the nitty-gritty, like user creation and all that.
If you have to roll your own, though, there's not a lot of information out there besides the WhitePages and Wall Post. It's just a nightmare. I tried to roll my own. You should never roll your own.
So having SaaS platforms to do all this stuff, instead of having documents, means that developers can focus on providing their applications, and just understand that I have this media and project, not about which tokens carry information that accesses OAuth and OpenID Connect.
I don't really care how it all works together; I just know that I have this token and it has the information I need. And it's really liberating, once you finally get there.
So I guess the best thing we can do is provide really great tools that solve the identity-management problems.
Tools: a key point
Garrett: Tools, that's the key point here. Whether we like it or not, developers tend to be kind of lazy sometimes and they certainly don't have the time or the energy to understand every facet of the OAuth specification. So providing tools that can wrap that up and make it as easy to implement as possible is really the only way that we get to really secure mobile applications or any API interaction. Because without a deep understanding of how this stuff works, you can make pretty fundamental errors.
Having said that, at least we've started to take steps in the right direction with the standards. OAuth is built at least with the idea of mobile access in mind. It's leveraging REST and JSON types, rather than SOAP and XML types, which are really way too heavyweight for mobile applications.
So the standards, in their own right, have taken us in the right direction, but we absolutely need tools to make it easy for developers.
Grizzle: Tools are of the utmost importance, and some of the identity providers and people with skin in the game, so to speak, are helping to create these tools and to open-source them, so that they can be used by other people.
Identity isn't the most glamorous thing to talk about, except when it all goes wrong, and some huge leak makes the news headlines.
Another thing that Ross touched on was keeping the simplicity in the spec. These things that we're addressing -- authorization, authentication, and managing identities -- are not extremely simple concepts always. So in the standards that are being created, finding the right balance of complexity versus completeness and flexibility is a tough line to walk.
With SCIM, as you said, the first initial of the acronym used to stand for Simple. It's still a guiding principle that we use to try to keep these interactions as simple as possible. SCIM uses REST and JSON, just like some of these other standards. Developers are familiar with that. Putting the burden on the right parties for implementation is very important, too. To make it easy on clients, the ones who are going to be implementing these a lot, is pretty important.
Gardner: Do these standards do more than help the API economy settle out and mature? Cloud providers or SaaS providers want to provide APIs and they want the mobile apps to consume them. By the same token, the enterprises want to share data and want data to get out to those mobile tiers. So is there a data-management or brokering benefit that goes along with this? Are we killing multiple birds with one set of standards?
Garrett: The real issue here, when we think about the new types of products and services that the API economy is helping us deliver, is around privacy and ultimately customer confidence. Putting the user in control of who gets to access which parts of my identity profile, or how contextual information about me can perhaps make identity decisions easier, allows us to lock down, or better understand, these privacy concerns that the world has.
Identity isn't the most glamorous thing to talk about -- except when it all goes wrong -- and some huge leak makes the news headlines, or some other security breach has lost credit-card numbers or people's usernames and passwords.
Hand in hand
In terms of how identity services are developing the API economy, the two things go hand in hand. Unless people are absolutely certain about how their information is being used, they simply choose not to use these services. That's where all the work that the API management vendors and the identity management vendors are doing and bringing that together is so important.
Gardner: You mentioned that identity might not be sexy or top of mind, but how else can you manage all these variables on an automated or policy-driven basis? When we move to the mobile tier, we're dealing with multiple networks. We're dealing with multiple services ... cloud, SaaS, and APIs. And then we're linking this back to enterprise applications. How other than identity can this possibly be managed?
Stephens: Identity is often thought of as usernames and passwords, but it's evolving really quickly to be so much more. This is something I harp on a lot, but it's really quickly becoming that who we are online is more important than who we are in real life. How I identify myself online is more important than the driver's license I carry in my wallet.
And it's important that developers understand that because any connected application is going to have to have a deep sense of identity.
As you know, your driver's license is like a real-life token of information that describes what you're allowed to do in your life. That's part of your identity. Anybody who has lost their license knows that, without that, there's not a whole lot you can do.
Bringing that analogy back to the Internet, what you're able to access and what access you're able to give other people or other applications to change important things, like your Facebook posts, your tweets, or go through your email and help categorize that is important. All these little tasks that help define how you live, are all part of your identity. And it's important that developers understand that because any connected application is going to have to have a deep sense of identity.
Gardner: Let me pose the same question, but in a different way. When you do this well, when you can manage identity, when you can take advantage of these new standards that extend into mobile requirements and architectures, with the API economy in mind, what do you get? What does it endow you with? What can you do that perhaps you couldn't do if you were stuck in some older architectures or thinking?
Grizzle: Identity is key to everything we do. Like Bradford was just saying, the things that you do online are built on the trust that you have with who is doing them. There are very few services out there where you want completely anonymous access. Almost every service that you use is tied to an identity.
So it's of paramount importance to get a common language between these. If we don't move to standards here, it's just going to be a major cost problem, because there are a ton of different providers and clients out there.
If every provider tries to roll their own identity infrastructure, without relying on standards, then, as a client, if I need to talk to two different identity providers, I need to write to two different APIs. It's just an explosive problem, with the amount that everything is connected these days.
So it's key. I can't see how the system will stand up and move forward efficiently without these common pieces in place.
Use cases
Gardner: Do we have any examples along these same lines of what do you get when you do this well and appropriately based on what you all think is the right approach and direction? We've been talking at a fairly abstract level, but it really helps solidify people's thinking and understanding when they can look at a use-case, a named situation or an application.
Stephens: If you want a good example of how OAuth delegation works, building a Facebook app or just working on Facebook app documentation is pretty straightforward. It gives you a good idea of what it means to delegate certain authorization.
Likewise, Google is very good. It's very integrated with OAuth and OpenID Connect when it comes to building things on Google App Engine.
The thing that these new identity service providers have been offering has, behind the scenes, been making your lives more secure.
So if you want to secure an API that you built using Google Cloud on Google App Engine, which is trivial to do, Google Cloud Endpoints provides a really good example. In fact, there is a button that you can hit in their example button called Use OAuth and that OAuth transports OpenID Connect profile, and that's a pretty easy way to go about it.
Garrett: I'll just take a simple consumer example, and we've touched on this already. It was the idea in the past, where every individual service or product is offering only their identity solution. So I have to create a new identity profile for every product or service that I'm using. This has been the case for a long time in the consumer web and in the enterprise setting as well.
So we have to be able to solve that problem and offer a way to reuse existing identities. It involves so taking technologies like OpenID Connect, which is totally hidden to the end user really, but simply saying that you can use this existing identity, your LinkedIn or Facebook credentials, etc., to access some new products, takes a lot of burden away from the consumer. Ultimately, that provides us a better security model end to end.
The thing that these new identity service providers have been offering has, behind the scenes, been making your lives more secure. Even though some people might shy away from using their Facebook identity across multiple applications, in many ways it's actually better to, because that's really one centralized place where I can actually see, audit, and adjust the way that I'm presenting my identity to other people.
That's a really great example of how these new technologies are changing the way we interact with products everyday.
Standardized approach
Grizzle: At SailPoint, the company that I work for, we have a client, a large chip maker, who has seen the identity problem and really been bitten by it within their enterprise. They have somewhere around 3,500 systems that have to be able to talk to each other, exchange identity data, and things like that.
The issue is that every time they acquire a new company or bring a new group into the fold, that company has its own set of systems that speak their own language, and it takes forever to get them integrated into their IT organization there.
So they've said that they're not going to support every app that these people bring into the IT infrastructure. They're going with SCIM and they are saying that all these apps that come in, if they speak SCIM, then they'll take ownership of those and pull them into their environment. It should just plug in nice and easy. They're doing it just because of a resourcing perspective. They can't keep up with the amount of change to their IT infrastructure and keep everything automated.
They can't keep up with the amount of change to their IT infrastructure and keep everything automated.
Gardner: I want to quickly look at the Cloud Identity Summit that's coming up. It sounds like a lot of these issues are going to be top of mind there. We're going to hear a lot of back and forth and progress made.
Does this strike you, Bradford, as a tipping point of some sort, that this event will really start to solidify thinking and get people motivated? How do you view the impact of this summit on cloud identity?
Stephens: At CIS, we're going to see a lot of talk about real-world implementation of these standards. In fact, I'm running the Enterprise API track and I'll be giving a talk on end-to-end authentication using JAuth, OAuth, and OpenID Connect. This year is the year that we show that it's possible. Next year, we'll be hearing a lot more about people using it in production.
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Nine years ago today on May 17, 2004, Massachusetts became the first U.S. state to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Since that time, we've seen a sea-change in public support for marriage equality, with a strong majority of Americans now supporting marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples.
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Australians — they're just like us! And that's not such a good thing … A new study from Aussie professor Graeme Hugo finds the proportion of Australian boomers with three or more chronic conditions is a whopping 700 percent greater than in the previous generation. And much like their American counterparts, Australian between ages 53 and 62 are more than twice as likely to be obese as their parents were at that age.
Posted: 09/18/2012 by Candy Sagon | Comments
If obesity is so bad for our health, why do studies show that overweight and moderately obese patients with certain chronic diseases often live longer and do better than normal-weight or thin patients with the same illnesses? That was the question posed by the New York Times in a story that looked at what researchers have called the obesity paradox. As writer Harriet Brown reported: "One study found that heavier dialysis patients had a lower chance of dying than those …
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Who would have thought some of our best friends would be the 100 Trillion bacteria living in, and on, our bodies? Results of the Human Microbiome Project have caused us to re-examine the critical balance between these good bacteria, essential for human life, and the relatively few bad guys on which we've waged an all-out blitz! Modern life has been altering that delicate balance in ways that have led to an increase in obesity, inflammatory disease and other chronic illnesses. In fact, it's made us …
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Given the research of hundreds of scientists around the world, we should have seen the breakthrough development coming. In 2021, scientists found a fat gene that could be switched off with a safe, inexpensive medical procedure. Millions rushed to solve their lifelong battle with surplus pounds, thereby adding years to their lives and reducing their risks for chronic or even fatal medical problems. Health insurance premiums plummeted as demand for medical care declined. Sound far-fetched? Scientists who are on the …
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I first met Dr. David Sabgir, a board-certified cardiologist in Ohio, a few years ago. A small reference in Cooking Light magazine to his upstart walking program in Lewis Center, Ohio, piqued my interest. When I contacted Dr. Sabgir, I learned that every Saturday at 8:30 a.m., rain or shine, he heads out on a walk at Highbanks Metropolitan Park in Lewis Center, Ohio, with 175 to 200 patients, neighbors, friends and family members. Frustration triggered the start of Dr. …
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This definitely falls into the "I've got good news and bad news" category – it's not JUST the food we eat that's packing on the pounds. It's almost everything we use, eat, drink, touch and smell in our modern lives – and it's even affecting our babies. (That's the worst of the bad news to this new grandma. Shout out to Lorelei Grace born 6/20!) They're called obesogens, and they're ubiquitous. Much of the plastic we store and buy food in, many …
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INDIANAPOLIS -- This game is going to come down to whether or not the fat guys in the blue jerseys can stop the fat guys in the white jerseys from getting to Tom Brady. The rest of it is all incidental.
Fair or not, Super Bowl XLVI will be a referendum on the New England offensive line. Matt Light, Logan Mankins, Dan Connolly, Brian Waters and Nate Solder (as well as part-timers like Sebastian Vollmer and Ryan Wendell) have held up well over the course of the 2011 season, but their ultimate legacy as a group will be defined by the 60 minutes they play on Sunday against the Giants.
While talk of revenge for the Patriots has been bandied about -- most of which is media-driven hyperbole -- there's no group that would legitimately love to erase the collective stain of Super Bowl XLII than New England's offensive line. The image of Brady getting hit time and again by Justin Tuck, Osi Umenyiora and Michael Strahan was seen as an indictment of the New England offensive line, which yielded five sacks and a whopping nine quarterback hits in the Super Bowl upset.
This time around, it will be another set of unique challenges for the Patriots' offensive line. The Giants have some different looks -- including one package where they run four defensive ends onto the field at the same time -- and some terrific rushers in Jason Pierre-Paul (16.5 sacks), Umenyiora (9 sacks), Tuck (5 sacks) and Dave Tollefson (5 sacks). Overall, they've sacked opposing quarterbacks 48 times in the regular season (third in the NFL) and nine times in the post season, which is tied for first among playoff teams.
"[There's] a lot of challenges," Mankins said of the Giants' defensive front. "They're one of the best defensive lines in the game. They've got a lot of speed, a lot of good players and they wreak havoc on a lot of guys. They're all good. They all do different things good, so you got to be aware of who's in the game, who you're going against and what his strengths are."
There are some things that should be different for the Patriots this time around. New England's passing game is far more horizontal than vertical, which lends itself to quicker throws. The running game is more consistent. And the work of the two young tight ends have added an extra dimension when it comes to working as both pass catchers and blockers.
Tuck anticipates some quick releases from Brady, saying the Patriots will do whatever it takes to try and slow down the New York pass rush. He also has some good things to say about the New England offensive line.
"I think they play well together," Tuck said. "They are a group that is very athletic, and it seems like their chemistry is tremendous. It seems like they know exactly how to help each other out, so they pose a huge problem for us as a front four group. They match up pretty well with us."
The New England offensive line has faced some elite pass rushers over the course of the season -- six of the Top 10 sack leaders have gone against the Patriots since the start of the season, including guys like DeMarcus Ware, Terrell Suggs, Jason Babin, Tamba Hali and Von Miller -- and so for the New England offensive line, the goal for Super Bowl XLVI is clear.
"To be honest with you, [trying to get to Brady] is pretty much every team's biggest task when they go against us," said Waters. "We expect that from every team. Some teams just have the type of talent to get it done, and the Giants do. They have the type of individual talent and as a group to get that done, so we definitely have hard days of work ahead of us.
"We know that is a key part of being successful as a football team -- to make sure that Brady stays clean and gets an opportunity to get the ball out to those special players that we have out there in the skilled positions."
Here are four other things we learned Tuesday in Indianapolis:
When it came to the inevitable barrage of questions about the high ankle sprain he suffered in the AFC championship game, the big tight end stayed on message throughout his session with the media on Tuesday, saying several times that he was taking things "day by day." Not wearing the walking boot that he had last week -- he said he got rid of it on Monday -- he had a slight limp on the way across the field to his podium, but didn't appear to be in any sort of physical discomfort.
"If I am out there, obviously, I am going to have the ability to be playing and I am going to be going full speed and everything just doing as much as I possibly can," Gronkowski said. "Like I said, we're taking it day by day. I could be feeling 100 percent when it comes to game day on Sunday. You just don't know."
"He's one of, basically the main reason why we [all] succeed so well in this offense," said fellow tight end Aaron Hernandez. "He's such a huge weapon and causes so many mismatches it makes it hard for defenses to focus on one player. Obviously, if he's a hundred percent, that's what we need."
Just as Gronkowski stayed on message about his ankle, the Giants held to the same theme when it comes to how they're preparing for Gronkowski, ankle injury or no ankle injury.
"You do have to prepare yourselves for that, whether or not the personnel combinations will change," said Giants coach Tom Coughlin. "They do play other personnel combinations -- it's just the percentages have not quite been in the favor of some of those other combinations. I think you have to be ready for that part of the game as well, and maybe the plan will include a better part of the three tights and two receivers, or two tights and three receivers. Maybe they'll balance up."
It had been a long time coming for Ochocinco -- he had attended previous Media Day sessions as a report for the Ochocinco News Network, but this was his first foray into Super Bowl Media Day on the other side of the microphone. He wasn't at a podium, but in a session with reporters that lasted more than 30 minutes, the wide receiver provided an interesting mix of quotes, starting on an optimistic note but touching on a variety of topics.
"I've dreamed of it," Ochocinco told reporters who asked about his feelings. "I've been playing this game a long time -- started out at 4 years old. And this is what you dream of, to come to this stage and enjoy it. So that's what I'm going to do."
The receiver, who finished his first (and perhaps his only season in a New England uniform) with 15 catches for 276 yards and one touchdown, admitted it had been a tough year. In the middle of a nearly 30-minute session with the media, the receiver was asked if a Super Bowl victory would salvage what has been an admittedly frustrating season.
"No, I don't know, it just wouldn't," Ochocinco said. "I mean it hasn't been tough, it's football. It's football, one abnormal year doesn't negate years of success. ... After a 10-year span, I finally had a year where it didn't go well."
However, he also acknowledged that if he was on a different team with better personal numbers, there would have been a good chance he'd be working the game as part of the media.
"If I had 100 catches and 1,000 yards, I'd probably be home in January," he said. "I took this as a challenge, as a lesson. I think it was a test from you-know-who upstairs, God. Will he be able to handle himself in different circumstances when he's not that guy, if he's not that main focal point? Will he be able to handle it? And I think I did extremely well.
"I think I've had a great career in general. The year wasn't what I expected, what everyone else expected. But I did everything I was supposed to do -- work, stay quiet. I don't know if being on this stage is a reward, but there's nothing else I can do. I'm part of a team and I've done everything asked of me."
The Patriots have just three players remaining on their active roster that were on the team for Super Bowl XXXVI, which was held 10 years ago in New Orleans. Quarterback Tom Brady, left tackle Matt Light and running back Kevin Faulk are the only holdovers from that team that upset the Rams and began a run of three Super Bowl titles in four seasons.
Then, Brady was a 24-year-old in his first full season as a starter who guided the team to a win over the Rams in the Superdome.
"That was the 9/11 year, so there was only one week to prepare," recalled Brady. "We went down to New Orleans and there was so much happening, not just with Super Bowl week. I had actually hurt my ankle in the previous game, so I spent a ton of time in the training room getting ready for that game. We were playing one of the greatest teams in football (St. Louis). From what I do remember, it was a pretty crazy week. There was a ton to do in a very short amount of time."
Now, he's a three-time Super Bowl champion with a pair of MVPs under his belt. Off the field, he's married with a wife and two sons.
"I have a four-and-a-half-year-old who is much more interested in the Millennium Falcon and his Lego sets than football' Brady said. "I try to keep tossing him the ball. My two-year-old, he's definitely going to be a little athlete.
"One thing over the years that has really changed is being a parent. It's a little different (balancing) your work and your parenting. I'm sure everyone here deals with that, as well. That's obviously a great part of my life."
However, when it comes to playing quarterback, Faulk said he still sees Brady as the same guy.
"He's still that guy that's competitive, passionate, fiery guy that wants to go out and win," Faulk said. "He wants to make every throw, make everything the best he can so his guys can make a play."
With so many other compelling storylines, the Patriots' veteran receiver and rabid mustache enthusiast has really managed to spend the first few days of Super Bowl week operating relatively out of the spotlight. (Frankly, here in Indianapolis, he's the second-most notable slot receiver in this game, losing out narrowly to New York's Victor Cruz.)
But as has been the case all season long, Welker, who finished first in the league in receptions with 122 and second (only to Detroit's Calvin Johnson) with 1,569 receiving yards, remains paramount to the success of the New England passing game from the slot position.
"With Welker, you see a guy who the position seems to be have been made for," Giants coach Tom Coughlin said. "His outstanding quickness, his ability to win the matchups ... at that spot, with the underneath routes, and the things you can do to beat the one-on-one coverage, and if you're good enough and quick enough to get yourself in the middle of the field when the safeties divide, you provide the quarterback with an awful lot of weaponry."
For his part, Welker doesn't sound too concerned about the health of Gronkowski, saying that the tight end "is a big boy" and adding that he's "not too worried about him." But if Gronkowski is unable to go, or is at less than his best come Sunday, it will be up to Welker and Hernandez to pick up the slack in his absence.
"I think everybody has to step up and make plays—across the board," Welker said. "It's not all on Rob, and it hasn't been all year. We have to come together and make the plays necessary to win the game, and that's what it's all about."
We find out what Chris Price was right and wrong about when he made a few predictions before the Lions game. Also, we hear some new ones regarding Sunday's game against the Green Bay Packers.
WEEI.com's Mike Petraglia and Chris Price preview Sunday's Patriots-Packers game, one that many are calling a possible Super Bowl preview.
We get our weekly NFL update with SI/MMQB's Peter King. Peter talks AFC East, first round byes, Jonas Gray/LeGarrette Blount and much more.
How have the Celtics looked after a couple weeks? Could they be a playoff team? These questions and more...
Sam and Ben talk with Greg Dickerson about how fun this year's Celtics team is to watch as well Jeff Green trade ideas.
Kyle Draper joins Danny Picard to talk about the Celtics chances this season in the Eastern Conference, last Wednesday's home opener blowout against the Nets, and Rajon Rondo's future in Boston
The Red Sox trotted out their newest FA acquisition Tuesday afternoon, third baseman, Pablo Sandoval. The Kung Fu Panda then joined MFB to talk about his conversations with (former) Giant teammate, Jake Peavy, about playing Boston. He also stressed that this move was the next big challenge in his life, and addressed some concerns about his defense, stating that he is focused on being at the hot corner for the duration of his contract.
Buster Olney of ESPN joined MFB to talk about all the free agent news surrounding the Red Sox over the past 24 hours
Red Sox beat writer Brian MacPherson joins Danny Picard to talk about the Red Sox going after Jon Lester and other free agents.
Andy Brickley joined the show to talk about David Pastrnak's first game, the offensive struggles, and Milan Lucic playing with the Swedes.
Dale and Michael get Jack Edwards' 'state of the B' report and talk about the win over the Blues at the Garden on Tuesday.
Andy Brickley joined the show and touched on last night's convincing win over a good team, Matt Bartkowski needing a wake up call, and the NHL review process.
BC football sideline reporter Scott Mutryn with the worst impersonation of all time.
Ben Cherington joined us to discuss the Sox off-season moves.
Dino picked the Pack.
We find out what Chris Price was right and wrong about when he made a few predictions before the Lions game. Also, we hear some new ones regarding Sunday's game against the Green Bay Packers.
Andy Brickley joined the show to talk about David Pastrnak's first game, the offensive struggles, and Milan Lucic playing with the Swedes.
Rick Pitino had some curious comments after a blowout victory. Richard Sherman takes on the NFL Media policies. Christian talks about a pill for farts.
We get our weekly NFL update with SI/MMQB's Peter King. Peter talks AFC East, first round byes, Jonas Gray/LeGarrette Blount and much more.
Dale and Michael give their four selections for the MLB Hall of Fame... this year's finalists were announced today.
Dale and Michael talk Bruins and discuss the supposed practice scuffle between Tuukka Rask and Soderberg, and DJ Bean dials us up to give his thoughts.
Mikey remixes Billy Joel "Movin Out" in honor of the Patriots playing the Green Bay Packers
Brandon covers the NFL, particularly the Detroit Lions for Bleacher Report. He gives us his thoughts on this Sunday's game and how the Lions stack up against the Patriots.
Mikey, Villani, Lenny and Kerry Byrne are talking Patriots-Lions and how the team this year stacks up to Patriots teams of the past.
The guys previewed the upcoming Packers Patriots game and discussed the media's latest tweet beef.
Jerry Thornton's first podcast explores sports stories that would make for interesting 30 for 30 documentaries.
Andy Merritt of the New England Hockey Journal joined WEEI.com's Scott McLaughlin to talk about the play of Vermont and Providence, as well as other happenings around Hockey East. Merrimack coach Mark Dennehy also joined the show to talk about his team's good start, his freshman class and how he uses possession stats.
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Hero Worship: Life After Avengers
July 29, 2011 - What happens after Marvel's heroes assemble on the big screen next summer? What could possibly be bigger than that? We've got some ideas.
Green Lantern Tops Box Office
June 19, 2011 - Green Lantern finally flew into cinemas this weekend, but with a less than predicted haul according to Sunday's box office estimates.
6 Things We Want in Thor 2
May 9, 2011 - The Enchantress, more Warriors Three and boomerang hammer kills are just a few things we want to see in Thor 2.
Know Your Avengers
April 25, 2011 - Joss Whedon's Avengers unites all of Marvel's movie heroes under one film. But who are they? We have an app for that.
Hulk Helmer Plans Heist
February 18, 2011 - Louis Leterrier's next film - Now You See Me - will pit a gang of illusionist-turned-thieves against a team of FBI agents.
The Many Looks of Marvel's Heroes
January 14, 2011 - With the new Spider-Man costume making the rounds, IGN takes a look at the rest of Marvel's heroes and how well their looks have translated to the big screen.
The OG Hulk Joins The Avengers
December 15, 2010 - The Hulk from the Bill Bixby TV series is joining Joss Whedon's The Avengers. Who will he play? How many pairs of purple pants will be torn?!
Syfy Orders Alphas
December 7, 2010 - A new series, about a team of seemingly ordinary citizens with extraordinary mental and physical abilities who become an unofficial crime solvers...
Favreau Talks Iron Man 3
December 6, 2010 - It doesn't seem that Iron Man director Jon Favreau has much of an idea at all what Iron Man 3 will be about. And from what the filmmaker says, neither do the execs at Marvel... yet.
Ruffalo: Hulk is Like a Sex Scene
November 17, 2010 - We chatted exclusively with actor Mark Ruffalo about his upcoming role as the Hulk in The Avengers, as well as his thoughts on the just announced live-action Hulk TV series.
Protecting the Avengers Franchise
November 15, 2010 - Just as we've done for many new comic book adaptations in the past, we've put together a Protecting the Avengers feature. It may seem premature to tackle the team-up adventure when Thor and Captain America's respective movies have yet to hit theaters, but there's plenty of ground to cover.
Y: The Last Man - Movie or TV Series?
November 11, 2010 - A movie about Y: The Last Man has been in development Hell for quite sometime. But The Walking Dead may help bring Yorick Brown to the small screen.
Norton Wants Batman Role
September 24, 2010 - Edward Norton has been discussing superhero movies, with the actor admitting that he'd love to work with Christopher Nolan on a Batman flick, and saying that he only has good feelings towards The Avengers movie.
Last Nail in the Norton Hulk Coffin
September 20, 2010 - We all know how Edward Norton's spin as the Hulk turned out, but people are still asking him about the experience and how it seemingly went horribly wrong between him and Marvel. And we're still reading what he has to say about it. So let's do this thing!
What's Your Favorite Comic Book Movie?
August 4, 2010 - We gave you our list of favorite comic book movies, now it's your turn. Your pick for number one? Hint: It ain't Dark Knight.
The Road to The Avengers
July 27, 2010 - With Marvel's big Comic-Con announcement regarding the project, IGN takes a look at the steps Marvel Studios will take - and have already taken - to link their film worlds together before The Avengers assemble in theatres.
The Avengers Need A New Hulk
July 12, 2010 - Hollywood is playing musical chairs once again with the role of Bruce Banner, AKA the Hulk, AKA the hardest part in the live-action Marvel U. to lock down. What say you about the Hulk switch for the new Avengers movie?
Norton's Agent Hulks Out
July 11, 2010 - The fallout over Marvel Studios' decision to not bring back Edward Norton as the Hulk in The Avengers is shaping up to be a battle royale of superheroic proportions.
A New Hulk for The Avengers
July 10, 2010 - UPDATED: Marvel has now confirmed earlier reports that Edward Norton will not reprise his role as the Hulk for The Avengers.
What's Up? R-Truth Talks To IGN!
June 17, 2010 - We had a chance to speak with the former U.S. Champion, and former NWA/TNA World Champion, R-Truth, about his upcoming PPV match with The Miz, his thoughts on Daniel Bryan, and his favorite videogames...


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Hugo Boss Targets Emerging Markets to Counter Slowdowns
Hugo Boss AG, the German maker of narrow-cut suits and Jason Wu-designed dresses, will strive for high single-digit percentage sales growth in coming years by focusing on emerging economies.
Hugo Boss AG, the German maker of narrow-cut suits and Jason Wu-designed dresses, will strive for high single-digit percentage sales growth in coming years by focusing on emerging economies.
Puma SE boosted its outlook for 2014 sales as the footwear maker's investment in a new ad campaign and sponsorships started to take hold.
Adidas AG reported third-quarter profit that beat analysts' reduced estimates as the company made strides in soccer and running sales, helping offset declining revenue at its golf business.
Hugo Boss AG, the German fashion house whose artistic director has clothed Michelle Obama, lowered its sales and operating profit targets for the year due to a "substantial slowdown" in European demand.
Proceeds from the listing of Rocket Internet shares were lowered to around 1.4 billion euros ($1.75 bln), from an initially targeted 1.6 billion euros, regulatory filings to the Frankfurt Stock Exchange late on Friday show.
Zalando SE surged as much as 14 percent on its trading debut in Frankfurt, as Europe's largest online fashion retailer kicked off the biggest week in German technology stock sales in a decade.
Beset by plummeting golf sales, a sidelined basketball star and weakness at its sneaker maker Reebok, Adidas AG is struggling to increase revenue in the U.S. amid the dominance of Nike Inc. and growth of upstart rival Under Armour Inc.
After years of pitching its shoes and clothing to hipsters in bars, bowling alleys and billiard halls, Puma SE is shifting its marketing focus to bona fide athletes.
Adidas AG rose the most in more than 10 months in Frankfurt trading on a report that hedge funds including Third Point LLC may take a stake and are pushing to remove Chief Executive Officer Herbert Hainer.
Zalando SE, Europe's largest online shoe and fashion retailer, plans to sell as much as 11 percent of its shares in an initial public offering this year, marking a coming of age for a Berlin-based startup industry that has yet to produce a big sale or IPO.
Permira Advisers LLP is selling a stake valued at 846 million euros ($1.1 billion) in German fashion house Hugo Boss AG to institutional investors.
Zalando SE, Europe's largest online shoe and fashion retailer, reported a second-quarter profit of 35 million euros ($46 million), giving investors more evidence the company is controlling costs ahead of a potential initial public offering.
Philipp Erler aims to convince the world that fashion retailer Zalando SE — a Samwer creation headed for an initial public offering as soon as next month — isn't dismissed as just another copycat.


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This is quite possibly the most vile thing anyone has ever said to me. It's not the first time I've been the victim of verbal street harassment, and I only wish it will be the last. It was about a week ago, and I stood texting my boyfriend on National Avenue (near One Stop Golf), the same place I've waited to meet him from work most weeknights for over 3 months. Before this the same group had done the odd wolf-whistle but that's it, yeah it's demeaning and unpleasant but nothing compared to the latest catcall.
Last week as I stood in the usual place, 4 guys (late 20s) cycled past and one of them shouted, "Don't think you're going to get any business stood there!" I was completely in shock, I froze and just stood there looking down at my phone in horror. My boyfriend arrived a few minutes later with his friend and they were both really concerned. I'm normally quite quick-witted and things don't usually shake me this much but I was feeling so awful and sick from the comment I could not even react. It turned out the guys who cycled past actually work with my boyfriend, and I had to beg him not to say anything because I'm certain if they know it bothers me, they'll get worse. I have even resorted to hiding down the ten-foot until I've seen them go by. I've never felt so ashamed to be a woman in my life, I kept thinking, "Do I really look like a prostitute?" It took my boyfriend, his parents, his brother and my best friend to convince me that they were just stupid boys saying stupid stuff. I can take a bit of banter but that was too much…
I recently moved to San Francisco for a summer internship. In the 10 days that I've been here, I've experienced catcalling and other forms of verbal street harassment (from strangers intentionally blocking my way as I'm walking and creepily saying "hello" to making ominously threatening comments about me) on 5 different occasions. That's every other day. Each time, it triggers memories of my prior experiences with sexual violence and reminds me that I am constantly at risk of experiencing such violence again.
Just today, I began to notice all of the subconscious ways I've been responding to this harassment. I look down to avoid all eye contact with passersby (hoping to go unnoticed), remind myself to walk and stand in aggressive ways (in attempts to appear strong), stand near the exit on public transportation (so I can easily escape if I need to) – and that's just during the day. If the sun has set and I'm alone, I stay in my apartment. Period.
The way that street harassment polices the bodies, actions, and lives of women and many other marginalized populations is unacceptable. I shouldn't have to feel scared, tense, or anxious about walking out my front door. These are my streets too.
I was walking down St. George's Rd to ASDA near the train line. A maroon car drove past and the driver pressed his horn, leaned out of the window, and yelled, "Get your tits out sexy." I was disgusted. I know it's no excuse but if the guy had been young I'd have brushed it off as someone trying to show off. This guy was middle aged he should have known better than to victimize a teenage girl walking down the street alone.
I was recently sitting and waiting for the bus with no one else near me at midday, although the street was very busy. What appeared to be four young men, maybe late teens early twenties, sporting baseball caps, pulled up by the bus stop in their car and began yelling and laughing at me. I had my headphones in and did not remove them. I gave them a stern look, to show I acknowledged and was rejecting their harassment, then turned to look at my phone again. They continued yelling things at me (and I mean yelling) for a few minutes before finally driving off. I was spared from hearing what they were saying because I turned my music up so that I couldn't hear it. I'm harassed too often and will avoid hearing the vulgar comments if I can. I wish I'd caught the plate numbers. I had no idea a resource like this for harassment existed, and my city should certainly get involved.
Since January, these two boys from my grade (6th!), who walk home the same route I do, have been making comments about my "fat, juicy ass." And in April it got even worse. They started having loud conversations about how they were going to rape me or how they were gonna put there "spout up my c**t" I'm no longer the cheerful girl I once was. Thanks to two 12 year old douchebags who love to street harass.
The man featured in this photo exposed and fondled his penis in front of me on a Queens-bound N train around 8:20pm on Saturday, 14 June. I yelled at him loud enough for the rest of the passengers to hear, announcing that I was taking a photo of him for the police. He quickly returned to "reading his book" and hustled off the the train at the next stop. Police action still TBD.
Last night, while I was going back home with my best friend (who's also a woman), some guy asked us if we'd like to come party with them. My best friend said no, yet they kept on insisting, so I told them simply "no thank you." Right after I said the guy told me to shut the fuck up, that I was probably some fucking racist, and that I looked ugly. When I asked him what was the point of disrespecting me this way while I did nothing but remain polite he started calling me a slut, a bitch, a whore, a loser etc. And then he started threatening to beat me and spill his glass of beer on me, saying that I deserved to have his glass of beer thrown at my face and that he wanted to spit on me. Luckily my best friend didn't get scared and managed to calm him down. Now I'm scared to walk out at night alone and get attacked, beaten for no reason.
This week, Hollaback! was featured in Brooklyn Daily Eagle, WFUV's Cityscape, DNAinfo New York, Young Feminist Wire, Capital Geek Girls, Irish Examiner, and Philly Pedals.
At the mothership, we spoke at Council Member Laurie Cumbo's, Girl Power Event, leading discussions about street harassment with the amazing Street Artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh. We also made cool anti- street harassment posters that were wheatpasted around the city (pictured). More photos from the event can be found here.
Executive Director, Emily May, and Juliana of Think Olga hosted a webinar about the #endsh movement in Brazil. Also, we participated in the 5th Annual Father's Day Pledge Against Violence on the steps of City Hall.
Here's what HOLLAs around the world have been up to:
Hollaback! Ottawa held a successful Chalk Walk this past weekend. Check out the rad photos from the event here!
Hollaback! Des Moines held its Monthly Meetup.
Hollaback! Bahamas signed on to participate in Sugar+Spice, a one day event for girls 8-13, where they'll be discussing feminism and street harassment with 50+ girls.
Hollaback! Korea hosted a discussion at the Gwangju GIC Talk where they discussed street harassment, shared stories from around the world, and taught the audience bystander intervention techniques. Pictures from the rad event can be found here.
Hollaback! Plattsburgh socked out stigma with the Anti Stigma Alliance of Champion Valley at First Weekends Plattsburgh where they brought attention to the issues surrounding street harassment and fundraised while tie-dying awesome socks.
Hollaback! Bmore is hosting free events all through the month of June in celebration of Pride. Check out their schedule here!
Hollaback! Sarajevo participated at Peace Event Sarajevo 2014,where they hosted a two day presentation about street harassment for students from around the world. They also participated in panels that brought awareness to gender based violence in conflicts and spoke of the importance of the participation of women in government and the military.
Hollaback! Italia hosted a "How to Holla Back" workshop.
Hollaback! Cleveland spoke with 6th graders at Citizens Leadership Academy about how to stand up against street harassment and the variety of ways they can join the fight against street harassment.
Hollaback! Durham and Chapel Hill hosted Hollaback! 919 Screen + Print 2.0 where people were able to print anti-street harassment slogans on pillowcases, shirts, and ties.
Great work everyone! Til next time-
Holla and out!
-The Hollaback Team
I was walking at Northgate Mall to meet a friend for lunch. A guy stepped close to me and said, "Hey, be easy!" I stopped him and asked him to repeat himself. He did. I said, "Don't approach women like that, you don't know what's going on in my life, don't do that". He apologized and I thanked him.
So I am a 13 year old girl and have had to walk 1.6 miles to my middle school all year. I had people honking at me and shouting out of their cars every day, and it made me feel absolutely disgusting. A little while ago a man on the sidewalk asked me where I lived, and when I ignored him, he tried to grab me. I ran to my house and called the police who, after picking him up, dropped him back off saying he was just drunk and "didn't cause any actual harm." However, I am now extremely paranoid and petrified that he knows which house I ran in to.


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I bought two of these racks based on their size and on the generally good reviews I saw on overstock. They are okay, but I have several issues with them. First off, I'll say that I agree that the mounting hardware they provide may not be strong enough. The plastic drywall lugs they provide are strong enough if you have decent drywall and they worked fine in mine, but the screws seemed awfully small and I didn't trust them, so I used my own screws. If you can locate the studs in your wall, wood screws directly into the stud would be an even better option. A major issue I have with the unit is that the slots are designed only for standard jewel cases. I have several double cd's in the old wide jewel cases and it won't hold these. Don't even think of trying to fit a specialized box set into these. I didn't buy this with dvd's in mind, but if you are, buy something else, they won't fit. As far as workmanship, they are pretty basic...molded metal wire....but sturdy enough. They arive with no further assembly required. They aren't exactly a design dream, but they look okay I suppose. I keep my living room relatively clutter free and the days of displaying my cd collection as part of my living room decor ended in college. I bought these to hang inside a closet and they work quite well in this fashion. In short, if you have a relatively small cd collection of only standard size jewel cases or the thin cardboard sleeve type cases and want a rack that can be hung in a relatively tight space, I would recommend this. It would function fine in a college dorm room for example. The workmanship and design isn't quite of the quality that I would hang it up in a home theater or living room, but for the price, the functionality is adequate.
It looks great, out of the way storage as it hangs on the wall. I wish it held more CD
Easy to mount, visually appealing, more decoration than any simple media storage unit.
I ordered 2 and hung them cross ways instead of diamond shaped so that I could read the cd titles without having to tilt my head. Worked very well for me. The rack holds A LOT of cd's and looks good. My daughter immediately noticed it when she came to visit and said it looked good.
Came assembled and in excellent shape. Easy to hang and load. Looks great on our wall and does hold nearly 100 CD's. Could easily see people using 2 or 3 of them for large collections. Would find it very useful for people with limited floor space. Have been using regularly since we bought it and see no signs of the paint chipping or wearing. Wanted something different in a CD holder and am quite satisfied with this one.
This rack looks nicer in the picture than on the wall.. CD's fit awkwardly. Perfect for a teens room. However, it's pretty cheap looking for $$$.
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