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BlogHer Food 2010 in San Francisco
I just returned from the BlogHer Food conference in San Francisco. For those not familiar with BlogHer, it is the publishing network that runs ads on this site. BlogHer has thousands of bloggers generating great content and hosts conferences annually, one of which is for their food bloggers. For those of you who were at this sold out conference, wasn't it well done? There were a number of great panel discussions, lots of interesting vendors, tons of great food and two very fun parties. For those who couldn't attend, I wanted to write a recap so you could see what the conference was like, as I know many of you want to go next year.
One of the highlights of the trip was meeting up with my goddaughter, Gaby, who writes "What's Gaby Cooking'". We did a Segway tour of San Francisco and had an absolute blast. We did not want to get off those darn things, they were so much fun! The weather was spectacular and there was an air show that weekend and the pilots were practicing over the water while we were on our Segways. It was incredible.
The obligatory mecca to the Williams Sonoma store, Kara's Cupcakes, the airshow,
me and Gaby on Segways
Brian and I went to a couple of great places for dinner before the conference even started. One restaurant was Perbacco, which just blew us away. We had some of their handmade pastas, like trofie, which is very labor intensive. Every ingredient in each dish was outstanding - the basil in the pesto, the figs in the salad. We finished with their caramel gelato with sea salt - a wowzer! Then the next evening we went to Chez Panisse for dinner. I just had to make that pilgrimage. It did not disappoint. Everything was incredible, but the first course of crostini with tomatoes was explosive in taste - they grilled the bread over the wood fire and you could actually taste that. It was outstanding.
From where we were sitting, I could see into the kitchen. It was a real treat. At one point, I thought I saw David Tanis in the kitchen:
Is that. . . David Tanis?
I know he splits his time between Chez Panisse and living in Paris, so I asked the waitress if he was working that night, and she said, "Oh yeah - that's David back there - would you like to meet him and get a tour of the kitchen?" Would I? Yes! But I didn't want to impose. Brian insisted I go back there (thanks, honey!) so I did and I got to meet David and see the whole kitchen operation and the various stations. I loved it. He couldn't have been nicer.
back in the kitchen at Chez Panisse with David Tanis
I've been reading for a long time Marcia Gagliardi's "Tablehopper". She is the Queen of what's happening in San Francisco. She was kind enough to invite me to a party she was co-hosting at Orson. It involved a whole lot of chocolate, lots of strange and exotic flavors to taste and creative cocktails.
Marcia Gagliardi of Tablehopper
One of the things I heard over and over all weekend was how supportive and close the blogging community is and I think that's absolutely true. Everyone was just so happy to meet each other. It was fun to meet so many people that I know online - thank goodness everyone had their blog titles on their name badges! Some people you only know by their blogging titles, so it was fun to meet them in person. Then, of course, there were bloggers who everyone knows and they could not have been nicer to meet. What a bunch of amazing and talented women (and men, too!).
Diane Cu (White on Rice Couple), Jaden Hair (Steamy Kitchen), Susan Russo (Foodblogga)
Hank Shaw (Hunter, Angler, Gardener, Cook), Brooke Burton (Food Woolf), Gaby Dalkin (What's Gaby Cooking)
Thanks to Hank Shaw, I now know more hangover remedies and I want to make my own homemade pancetta!
Fran Feldman (FRANtasticfood), Lori Lange (Recipe Girl), Jenny (Picky Palate), Amanda (I Am Baker), Stephanie Manley (CopyKat Recipes)
Todd Porter, Diane Cru (White on Rice Couple), Garrett McCord (Vanilla Garlic), Maria Lichty (Two Peas and Their Pod)
Lael Hazan (Educated Palate), Susan Filson (Sticky, Gooey, Creamy, Chewy)
Gaby (the next Food Network Star) and Me
Aran (Cannelle et Vanille) had her beautiful little baby at the conference and it was sweet to watch them. And everyone knows who these two below are, right? She was scurrying around the conference all weekend, being such a good little girl and getting to eat lots of goodies!
Danny and Lu
I have never seen so many people so totally plugged in. In normal situations, where there was a speaker or a panel, it would be rude to constantly be on your laptop or your phone. But in a bunch of bloggers, everyone is on their phone or laptop, twittering away and it's absolutely fine. I have to admit, I really loved that. And for those of you who could not attend, reading the live tweets about the speakers is a fun way to follow along.
There were lots of sessions you could go to about anything from food photography to SEO for bloggers to recipe writing and blogger ethics. There was something for everyone.
The absolute highlight for me, though, was meeting Penny De Los Santos. Yes, I am now completely in love with this woman! Her cool factor is about a 15. I've always been awed by her photography, but sitting in her session was amazing. I loved the stories she told about her photographs and her thoughts about her photography in general. She could not have been more gracious and lovely to meet. I wanted to take a picture of her, but she was too shy about it! I thought that was hilarious - she didn't want to be on the other end of a camera. But when I was editing my photos from the conference, I realized I accidentally took a photo of her when I was shooting the espresso bar. So here is my photo of Penny De Los Santos getting an espresso:
I got you anyway, Penny!
The food at the conference was great and there was always something being served in between sessions. There were lots of vendors that made some great little appetizers and there were sweets galore.
There were shuttle buses one day to take us over to the Ferry Building so that we could go to the Market. I had lunch at the Slanted Door with Lael and Susan and we tried several dishes, including the delicious papaya salad and the caramelized tiger prawns.
The shopping, of course in the Marketplace was amazing. You could spend all day there but we did have to get back to the conference at some point!
goodies at the Ferry Market
There was a very fun party on Friday night that BlogHer and Food Fete hosted. There was lots of great food, cocktails and fun stuff to sample from the vendors there.
I see Matt and Gaby yacking away
Friday night party food
The closing keynote was given by Shauna (Gluten-Free Girl), Michael Ruhlman, and Molly (Orangette). They were all compelling speakers but I must say, I think everyone was very moved by what Shauna shared with all of us. I think the room collectively gave her a big group hug and I hope she knows it.
Ruhlman getting all fired up during the closing keynote
All good things must come to an end. On Saturday night, Jaden, Ree and Elise hosted a Closing Party at the California Culinary Academy. It was so much fun. There was lots of food, of course.
And Michael Ruhlman did a demonstration of how to make your own bacon. The room was packed. I was lucky to be standing right next to Hank Shaw, who gave me great bacon commentary during the demo! I love that guy.
Ruhlman making bacon
Now let's talk swag. You want to know about it - I know you do! There was plenty of that during the conference. Sharffen Berger was giving out tons of chocolate. I got bottles of saffron, numerous jump drives, a digital thermometer, a Nutella knife, a very nice cookbook from Philadelphia Cream Cheese, a great BlogHer swag bag, and tons of edible goodies.
At the closing party, Chef's Catalog gave everyone a very nice bag full of kitchen items and a gift certificate:
Some tips for those of you who would like to go next year. One: Make sure there is extra room in your suitcase for all the swag. Some people could not take goodies back because their suitcases were so full. I know you can't see it very well in the photo above, but the Chef's bag included a 12-inch pizza pan. Try stuffing that in your suitcase, if there's no room! Two: Take business cards so you can easily exchange information with other people and throw your card in for drawings.
Thanks to BlogHer for such a great conference!
If you'd like to read some other recaps of the conference, here are a few links:
What's Gaby Cooking BlogHer Food and San Fran
Food Woolf: How to Go to a Food Blogging Conference
Will Write for Food: BlogHer Food, the Love Fest
Panini Happy: Memorable Moments from BlogHer Food '10
Steamy Kitchen: Oinker
Bay Area Bites: BlogHer Food Conference, Day 2
Picky Palate: BlogHer Food Extravaganza
Celiacs in the House: BlogHer Food 2010


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Using a List Broker to Build Your E-Mail Marketing Contacts List
A list broker is a marketing company that collects and sells contact information for e-mail marketing purposes. If you decide to build a list with the help of a list broker, be aware of the significant differences between obtaining a list of physical addresses and/or phone numbers and obtaining e-mail addresses.
Typically, a list broker allows you to purchase a small list based on matching data in a larger list to your specifications. If you want to use a reputable list broker to obtain e-mail addresses, the process isn't quite so simple, mainly because the e-mail addresses on a brokered list must, by law, be permission based.
Obtaining e-mail addresses from any list broker is full of potential pitfalls. If the broker you choose doesn't understand or adhere to permission laws and trends in the consumer landscape, sending e-mail to the people on the list can land you on a blacklist, which damages your image and your ability to send e-mail. Note that most EMPs discourage or disallow rented lists and almost never allow purchased lists.
Buying a confirmed-permission e-mail contact list
Confirmed-permission lists are the only viable option for sending e-mails through list brokers. These lists can be quite expensive because they're hard to obtain and contain e-mail addresses belonging to people who (at least for the moment) are interested in receiving specific types of information. You can expect to pay between 10 and 30 cents per e-mail address to send a single e-mail to a confirmed-permission list.
Beware of supposed confirmed-permission lists for sale as a data file. Quality confirmed-permission lists are too valuable to sell and are always rented out.
Confirmed-permission lists vary in quality, so remember to ask any broker some tough questions about the process used to obtain permission:
Where and how the e-mail addresses were obtained: Make sure that any online forms used to obtain the e-mail addresses asked for explicit permission to share the e-mail address as opposed to stating usage in a separate permission policy. If permission was given by selecting a check box, make sure that the subscriber had to select the check box to subscribe as opposed to leaving a pre-selected box as-is.
When permission was confirmed: List subscribers might not remember opting in if permission was confirmed at the onset of the subscription and time has passed between the initial confirmation and the e-mail you intend to send. Ask the list broker to provide the opt-in date with any sample list or count.
How interests are selected: Some list brokers make assumptions about their subscribers' interests based on where the information is collected as opposed to brokers who actually ask subscribers to select or state their interests. Make sure that interest information was supplied by the subscriber before paying an additional fee for an interest-based list.
The acid test of quality for a confirmed-permission list is whether the subscribers remember opting in and expect an e-mail from you as a result.
Renting an e-mail marketing contact list
Renting a list means that the list broker never gives you the e-mail addresses used to send your e-mail. Instead, you supply content to the list broker, and the list broker formats and sends your e-mail to the list.
Because list rental buys only one sending opportunity, be sure to include a sign-up link in your brokered e-mail. You can then add to your own list potential customers who are interested in your goods but aren't ready to buy the moment they receive your brokered e-mail. If the list broker doesn't allow a subscription link in the e-mail, make sure that any links in your brokered e-mail lead to a landing page that includes your sign-up box, button, or link.
If you can capture sales and information by using a rented list, make sure that your e-mails continue to meet or exceed all possible professional standards to help keep subscribers interested and happy to be on the list after they've confirmed.

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$10 Billion Telemedicine Market Appraised by Cisco-Led Panel at ATA
(San Jose, April 30) ATA 2012 opened Monday morning with a survey of the scope and potential of the telemedicine market moderated by Linda Boles, Cisco Chief Strategist, US Public Sector Healthcare Innovation. The expert panel played to a packed ballroom at the San Jose Convention Center complex.
Key insight number one: telemedicine technology is maturing fast, but we're only beginning to see its many applications – and new use cases have the capacity to surprise. Cisco, for example, expected growth in pediatric and correctional healthcare, but not the adoption we've seen in continuing medical education and corporate communications.
Key insight number two: it's a consumer-led transformation. Patients, the panel heard, take directions and do as they're told. Consumers have choice and power. That suggests all of healthcare is on the brink of dramatic, structural transformation.
Boles' co-panelist Harry Kim, Hewlett-Packard's senior director, worldwide healthcare, estimated the global market opportunity at a conservative $10 billion. But he cautioned that many analysts' numbers should be taken with a grain of salt, because so many are based on a "rear-view mirror" view of the market. Kim said up to 40 percent of today's medical encounters can be done more efficiently using telemedicine technology, but less than one percent actually are.
Another panelist, Jasper zu Putlitz MD, president of Bosch Health Care, called it a "confusing market" that sometimes frustrates adoption – precisely because the opportunities and forecasts are so disparate. "I am looking at telehealth on one side then telecare on the other. Then there's teleconsultation, where you connect providers. With telehealth we're at the end of the beginning. But it's really, really promising."
The panel agreed that:
• The industry doesn't have a technology problem – but challenges adopting and sustaining it.
• Telehealth solutions have to be embedded into health care system redesign. It cannot be laid on top of existing processes.
• It's not a US-centric discussion. In the US the focus is always on cost and efficiency; elsewhere the priority tends to be patient access. Look for instructive telemedicine innovations to bubble up from smaller "laboratory countries" whose models differ from ours.
Boles agreed with the panel that healthcare information exchanges overseas run far ahead of those we see in the States.
Harry Kim used an airplane metaphor: we can all build excellent airplanes, he said, but until airports and air traffic controllers are built as well – and a reliable operating environment results – it is harder for airlines to prosper. (After the Wright brothers, he added, the needed infrastructure took decades longer!)
Two last, intriguing points from the morning.
One, consumers are expected to create demand for "anytime, anywhere" healthcare delivered from many sources via many channels – including mobile. The coming continuum of health care delivery models, enabled by telehealth technology, will challenge the status quo understanding of the system.
Two, the industry has to "follow outcomes." Which technologies change outcomes? The better we understand what leads to better health care outcomes, the bigger the flood of new operating models that answer that question.
Boles hosted a concise, invigorating morning. In a Q-and-A session she was asked if the ATA itself can help promote understanding that leads to more telemedicine adoption. Boles replied that "I think you'll see a lot of blog coverage coming out of ATA 2012" – starting here!
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Yesterday's Sydney Morning Herald included this month's copy of the(sydney)magazine, and I'm extremely excited to see my own contribution in there. The article is a short story on a trip I took to Gaziantep, a city in south-eastern Anatolia in Turkey. I talk of my journey through the city streets in search of kebabs and pistachio desserts, and the interesting encounters I had during my brief stay there. Click on the image above to have a read and let me know what you think.
My Article on Gaziantep, Turkey in the(sydney)magazine
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The article brings out your storytelling technique, although I am not a fan of liver and loins, I certainly am interested in trying the desserts!
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Loved this evocative story Fouad! Wish I had been there with you.
[…] Best meal you've ever had while travelling?: We ran out of water once while hiking in NSW and were severely dehydrated. We kept going by sharing a boiled cup of a moss-green brew we coerced out of a stagnant puddle. During the night it rained. We woke up the next morning and the water had gathered on the sides of our tent. We regressed to a primal state, drinking off the ground while on all fours. Nothing has ever tasted sweeter than that rainwater. But I guess that isn't really a meal, is it? On my most recent trip to Turkey, we ended up in Gaziantep, a city in southeastern Anatolia, where we had brilliant pistachio kebabs with smoked eggplants, yoghurt and burnt butter, followed by a dessert of charcoal-baked burmali kadayif (kataifi pastry wrapped around pistachios) – that's been the most memorable so far. I wrote a story about that for the(sydney)magazine recently. Here's a link. […]


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The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall have gathered at a D-Day commemoration service in France as the world remembers the sacrifices and heroism of troops involved in the landings exactly 70 years ago.
David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Ed Miliband and about 400 Commonwealth troops also attended the Royal British Legion service at Bayeux Cathedral in Normandy.
Guests including French prime minister Manuel Valls and Australian prime minister Tony Abbott packed into the Norman-Romanesque cathedral - the original home of the Bayeux Tapestry - on a day which is expected to mark the high point of the D-Day anniversary events.
Later, up to 19 heads of state, including the Queen and US president Barack Obama, will turn out on Sword Beach near Ouistreham, one of the five Allied landing zones on June 6, 1944.
In a message in the official D-Day brochure, the Queen said: "I am very pleased to be able to join veterans here in Normandy to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
"On June 6 1944 after months of planning and training, the largest amphibious assault in history was launched to secure freedom in Europe.
"Hundreds of thousands of servicemen made the journey across the Channel by sea and air, and through their brave actions and dogged determination, established a vital foothold in occupied Europe.
"This immense and heroic endeavour brought the end of the Second World War within reach.
"I am sure that these commemorations will provide veterans of the conflict and their families gathered here in France, along with their hosts, the people of Normandy, with an opportunity to reflect on their experiences and the incredible sacrifices that were made."
This week thousands of people, including some of the ever-decreasing number of D-Day veterans, flocked to beaches, cemeteries and villages linked to the landings.
At Bayeux, heads of state, senior clergy and other dignitaries gathered for what is one of the two official Anglo-French D-Day commemoration ceremonies.
Clergy filed into the magnificent cathedral before addresses were made, including by the Reverend Patrick Irwin, the RBL's chaplain to Normandy.
D-Day 70th anniversary: What to do, watch and listen to as Britain commemorates historic invasion
We hold beachhead: How the Daily Mirror reported the Normandy landings the morning after D-Day


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Taiwanese users of Google Inc's Android Market were left in the dark yesterday as the search engine giant removed the paid app section from its online store.
The removal of the paid app section came after the Taipei City Government slapped Google with a NT$1 million (US$34,550) fine for failing to offer Taiwanese consumers a seven-day free-trial mechanism as mandated by law.
"We are suspending paid apps in Taiwan while we continue to discuss this issue with the Taipei City Government," Google Taiwan said in a statement yesterday.
"Android Market already provides a 15-minute refund window for all paid apps — which reflects the fact that apps are delivered over-the-air instantly and most users who request a refund [could] do so within minutes of their purchase," the company said in the statement.
This policy helps consumers make educated decisions about the apps they buy, while enabling Taiwanese developers to manage their businesses effectively, the statement read.
The escalation in the row came after negotiation between Google — represented by a lawyer and teleconferencers from its US headquarters — and the city broke down yesterday morning.
The city government said the suspension was a move to "coerce Taiwanese consumers into giving up their rights" and it demanded Google submit an "improvisation plan" by Friday.
The Mountain View, California-based company will be sending officials to Taipei on Thursday to continue talks with the city government, while city authorities said a second penalty might be imposed depending on the stance taken by the search engine giant.
On Friday, the city government issued Google an ultimatum mandating that it introduce a seven-day free-trial mechanism for its Android Market.
Yeh Ching-yuan (葉慶元), director of the city's Law and Regulation Commission, then said a fine would be levied if the firm still refused to abide by the Consumer Protection Act (消保法).
Users of Apple Inc's iPhones or Android-equipped smartphones can purchase and download application software through Apple's App Store or the Android Market respectively, but neither company offers an extensive free-trial mechanism that allows customers to return the programs or be refunded if they are dissatisfied or if the goods prove to be faulty.
On June 4, the city government gave both companies a 15-day grace period to revise their app sales and service provisions to include a seven-day free-trial mechanism.
While Apple complied with the request, Google did not.
The Consumer Protection Act requires a free-trial period of at least seven days for items purchased over the Web because consumers cannot feel or touch the goods before purchase.
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Hi - I'm looking for someone to take my blog post, and add images, sketches, icons, and other elements to make it look nicer.
I'd like to hire the person who does this project to work on a longer term contract - so please only do the project if you'd be interested in long term consistant work.
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I post to my blogs in 3 of my companies almost every day. The problem is that I HATE designing them. They always come out looking bad.
Long term i want to be able to send you 3-4 blog posts a day and have you do some design to make them look good before they are posted live.
- Here is the blog post that I want you to add your designs to: http://www.dotcomsecrets.com/blog/c…osters.htm
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Here are some samples of blogs that I do like their designs:
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- I'm NOT looking to re-desing my blog.. just the actual individual posts
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The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur put a call out to its readership for lessons entrepreneurs learned from the latest recession and then published 206 of them. The overall theme of the submissions was people will buy what you are selling if it's a quality product. If you are serious about being an entrepreneur you can likely find the motivation to continue, the patience to wait, and a solution to get you through the tough times.
There are fewer people in the office, everyone starts daydreaming in the late afternoon heat, and holiday energy is vibrating from people leaving for a couple of weeks. Even if you're not going on vacation this summer, there's no doubt that productivity stops as soon as the sun's rays hit you through the open window.
Infomatix believes in keeping things simple for better efficiency. We just blogged about the Pomodoro technique, a method to help you focus on one task at a time in order to complete those projects.
Do I have your attention? Do you think I can keep it?
Kolbe says we can spend a lot of time performing tasks or learning about things that appeal to us but are less willing to devote time to things we find less interesting. Similarly, while your Unique Ability might give you energy, life dictates that you still need to do things that fall into your less than Unique Ability categories.
We can often get lost in doing and forget about appreciating our creative efforts. It's always on to the next one, bigger and better, into the wild frontier. This makes us feel like we're always running on a treadmill, never accomplishing much but always busy.
We love 37 Signals and we talk a lot about their ideas. Here's a great presentation Jason Fried did for TED about how we waste time at work and ignore our instincts for establishing our own best practices.
The eastern half of Canada has seen its share of cancellations over the past couple of days due to a gigantic winter storm. Thanks to the Internet, I have lost the priviledge of snow days. It's difficult to claim you couldn't get to work when you regularly work from home.
We suggest saving all your work and email to a central server which is backed up offsite and in a secure way but it's easier said than done. You forget not to save stuff to your computer and it crashes, you're just starting and there are a million other things to pay for first, or there's a flood or fire at your office and your server is destroyed.
We thought it might have been over; the sun was making appearances, the birds were singing their spring songs, and jackets were being left at home. Then—BAM—Mother Nature sends snow across the whole country.


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As promised, here's my guest post on YanksBlog.com about Phil Hughes and Carl Pavano's rehab appearances for the RiverDogs Tuesday night. The rain really kept a lot of folks away, so I had a little more freedom of movement than I was anticipating. I was frightened the game wouldn't even happen! I'll write more about the experience later on, as this is a first for me, but for now, it's time for bed!
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Pavano and Hughes rehabbing in Charleston
Folks in Charleston will get to see a rare sight later tonight, as Carl Pavano and Phil Hughes of the New York Yankees will embark on rehabilitation assignments with our Single-A RiverDogs against Asheville at 7:05. I'll be covering the game for YanksBlog.com. Major leaguers don't stop by often; the last one that I know of was Jon Lester last year at the RiverDogs' opening game as he began to rehab his way back from his chemotherapy treatments to beat away lymphoma. Carl Pavano pitching is a rare sight in and of itself, too. There are some tickets left but count on them to go quickly!


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Vicks Launches Twitter Deal For 2010 Winter Olympics With Ohno, Jacobellis
October 19, 2009: Vicks, a division of Procter & Gamble, said it has launched a campaign starring U.S. Olympians Apolo Anton Ohno and Lindsey Jacobellis supporting a sweepstakes with the top prize of a trip to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
The sweepstakes, "Tweet Your Way to See Team USA," runs now through Jan. 4, 2010. The 2010 Games will be held Feb. 12-28. Vicks is the official cough, cold and flu medicine of the U.S. Olympic Team.
To enter the Vicks "Tweet Your Way to See Team USA" sweepstakes, consumers must become followers of Ohno and Jacobellis on Twitter, then watch for the athletes to tweet the official URL. Consumers are automatically entered by clicking on the URL and then entering their e-mail address.
P&G last month signed a deal with the U.S. Olympic Committee to partner 17 of its brands with Team America and such athletes as Ohno, Jacobellis, Allison Baver (speed skating), Tanith Belbin (ice dancing), Vonetta Flowers (bobsled) and Lindsey Vohn (alpine skiing).
"Athletes like myself train their whole lives to compete in the Olympic Games and having fans on the sidelines cheering Team USA at the biggest sporting event in the world makes all the difference for an athlete," Ohno, who recently signed a deal with Alaska Airlines tied to the 2010 Olympics, said in a statement. "It's so hard to get tickets to the Olympics, but now thanks to Vicks, all my fans have a chance to win a trip to 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver to support me and all of Team USA in person."
Speek Skater Ohno Flies With Alaska Airlines In Quest For More Olympic Gold
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Break and Brandenburg
We first saw Robert's work after his nephew stumbled into our Melrose location, ran home and convinced his uncle to submit to the gallery, because he just couldn't imagine any other gallery in the world loving his work as much as we would. You see, Robert has a pretty fun art career. He finds old paintings, photos, advertisements and prints at garage sales, estate sales and auctions and adds pop culture elements into those paintings in the smartest and funniest ways. But the most impressive part of these hijacked pieces, is that he can EXACTLY match whatever painting (OR PHOTO!) he's adding himself to. After he was the breakout star of Crazy 4 Cult 5, where he sold his Willy Wonka and Donnie Darko inspired pieces, we just couldn't wait to see what he'd come up with for a solo show to kick off 2012. I know it sounds weird, but here are some examples from the upcoming show!
The inspiration for the show title, and image from the show card, is incredible. He found this oil on canvas tiger and knew exactly what had to be done...
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Now with his addition, this piece is titled "Tigger and Pooh."
Another thing I love about Robert's pieces are the stories he writes for each piece, almost explaining the thought process on his vandalism. Everyone who buys one of Robert's pieces actually gets a picture of the before piece, and his essay.
Here's another piece from the show entitled "Searching For Suri"
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And here's what Robert has to say about it -
"This cheesy, party-sized landscape painting hung in my brother's basement for nearly 20 years; gathering no admiration, but lots of dust. During the recent move to another house, the unwanted oil was on its way up the stairs to the commercial dumpster parked in the driveway...when the proverbial light bulb went off over my head. The tripods are from the 2005 remake of "War of the Worlds" movie, and Tom Cruise might have thought twice before agreeing to take the starring role; as the other worlders have returned to claim his daughter as one of their own. Ominous though they appear; there's no real suspense, as we know how the story ends. The shortsighted invaders neglected to bring along antibiotics for their conquest of Earth. If only the aliens had thought to raid the pharmacy shelves in Walgreens before vaporizing the store!"
Another one of my favorites is "Ape Watch," which shows you how he can adapt to any style.
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And Robert's words -
"While the drive out to The Forbidden Zone has become more feasible over the last 20 years, one is always advised to keep an eye out for apes. Horse mounted gorilla patrols are irregular, but their treatment of human prisoners is known to be harsh. Still, most people who have made the trip agree that the unique sights are worth the risk."
We'll be previewing a few more before the opening on Saturday night, January 7th, 7-10 PM at Gallery1988 (Venice), so stay tuned! And for the first time ever, we will have prints available of his work!
And remember, the 20% of almost everything sale ends on December 31st. Check out our Facebook page, and like it, to get the code. Just plug that in when you're checking out at our website, and you get money back! Just like that.
5 comments:
Can't wait!!
- January 1, 2012 at 3:21 PM
- January 3, 2012 at 7:23 AM
This work is super fabulous! can't wait to see the show!
- January 3, 2012 at 8:44 AM
- Jen Bertsch said...
You should check out John Lytle Wilson's Corrected Paintings http://johnlytlewilson.com/correctedpaintings
- January 3, 2012 at 5:36 PM
I found Brandenburg's art absolutely disquieting, which for me has a totally positive meaning. Yes, Brandenburg's art might cause me mental discomfort, but because of that it makes me wake up, it makes me think, it makes me remember what is important in life and therefore it makes me happy. Does that make sense? To me it does.
I love his rigorous visionariness and the fact that both the process (before - after) and the story are part of the art work.
I love the fact that I can recognize myself in most of his work to the point that "Searching for Suri" is basically the story of my childhood. I can see myself staring at a very similar painting when I was a child. It was in my grandparents' house in Padua and it was hung on a wall in the room where I used to sleep when I was visiting. I spent hours contemplating the very same bucolic scene praying for a monster to peek-a-boo from a tree and make sense of my life.
Thank you Robert! After 35 years I finally feel fulfilled.
Brandenburg's project is to look for artifacts that had been left incomplete for years and finally complete them. By adding the missing detail he makes sense of them and he makes sense of us. Looking at his art is like experiencing an epiphany, but you have to be ready for that or you would only see a divertissement. He is like a restorer whose task is to reveal an important part of the painting, which has been hidden for years under layers of coating. The only difference is that in Brandenburg's case that very important detail had not been painted yet.
Sirietta Simoncini
- January 5, 2012 at 7:59 AM


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Car designers figured out in the 1960s that front-wheel-drive is simply the best way to package an economy car for maximum interior space. Who cares? Rear-wheel-drive is a lot more fun, as this burnout-happy Toyota Starlet proves.
This is a turbo-Volvo-powered Starlet, run by those same dudes who boosted a Grandma-spec Ford to high heaven and drifted the bejeesus out of a Civic Wagovan.
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Natasha Khan and Beck come together for vampire film
Beck and Bat For Lashes have collaborated on a track for the forthcoming Twilight film Eclipse.
Bat For Lashes' Natasha Khan is understood to have written the lyrics for the track, called 'Let's Get Lost', which she and Beck both sing.
Meanwhile, Beck worked on the electronics and music for the song.
The full soundtrack for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is released on June 8, with the film itself on general release from June 30.


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Jbrowne necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 158 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
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I am the founder and president of Vietnomics llc, a network of professionals in the US and Vietnam that builds bridges between American and Vietnamese consumers, businesses and investors. Our vision is to help Vietnam grow from what was recently one of the world's poorest countries into a prosperous and balanced economy by connecting its entrepreneurial people with American investors and technology.
Our specialty coffee is an element of that vision. We will introduce Americans to coffee grown by an extended family near the City of Dalat, a resort in Vietnam's Central Highlands. In the process, our hope is that Vietnam will continually refine and improve its coffee-growing techniques with the goal of providing the best coffee in the world -- just as it hopes to be a future world leader in technology and finance.
Discriminating American coffee drinkers who would like to enjoy the Pacific sunrise -- especially Americans who travel to or who have connections in Southeast Asia and Vietnamese (and other Asian) Americans.
We are looking for a logo that reflects this new, unique brand of coffee that will include beans from Vietnam and other Asian growers. We would like the logo to reflect the landscape of the growing area, which is mountainous, and the distinct architecture of Buddhist temples (see photos below).
Our brand chatter is: Temple Hills Coffee: Blended specialty roasts from select Pacific Rim nations and the highlands of Vietnam where nurturing conditions, family farms, and Buddhist temples converge in a harmony of body, mind, spirit, and land to produce some of nature's finest beans.
We also will need the logo incorporated in a design for a label for two blends of Temple Hills Coffee -- Pacific Sunrise and Viet Arabica.
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Frank Bellamy was a self-taught artist, best known for his adventure comics. He began his artistic career working for an art agency in Kettering, where he made paintings for a local cinema. After serving in the Royal Artillery during World War II, he returned to the agency until 1948, when he left for London, becoming a freelance illustrator for several magazines. For Eagle magazine, he created the comic 'Commando Gibbs', an advertising comic for Gibbs toothpaste, which marked the start of his career in comics. Often collaborating with writer Clifford Makins, he created a considerable number of comics for several magazines during the 1950s and 1960s.
His work for Mickey Mouse Weekly includes 'Monty Carstairs', 'Secret in the Sands' and 'Walt Disney's Living Desert'. For Hulton Press' Swift, he made a series of historical adventure strips, 'Swiss Family Robinson', 'King Arthur' and 'Robin Hood'. In 1957, he drew a biography of Winston Churchill for Eagle, called 'The Happy Warrior'. In 1960, he took over the famous series 'Dan Dare' from its creator, Frank Hampson.
During the sixties, he created several comic adaptations of great books, and he also published in The Sunday Extra, Boy's World, Look and Learn, Joe 90 and T.V. Century 21. He also drew the 'Thunderbirds' in a dramatic two-page format for the weekly comic TV Century 21. His last important work was on the series 'Garth', that he drew in The Daily Mirror from 1971 until his death in 1976.
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Wigan bow out of Premier League with a draw
Wigan's eight seasons in the Barclays Premier League came to an end with an entertaining draw against Aston Villa.
Darren Bent took advantage of a rare start to put the visitors ahead less then five minutes in but Emmerson Boyce levelled in the 21st minute before an own goal from Nathan Baker just before half-time put the FA Cup winners ahead.
Wigan pushed for a third at the start of the second half but they were pegged back in the 61st minute by Ron Vlaar's brilliant volley, and that was the way it stayed.
For much of the season it looked like this game could be crucial in the relegation battle but Wigan's defeat by Arsenal on Tuesday meant their fate was already decided.
After the high of last weekend's FA Cup triumph, it has been a rollercoaster week for Roberto Martinez's men.
Martinez had called for this match to be a celebration of all the club have achieved in their time in the top flight, and the FA Cup was brought out onto the pitch before kick-off accompanied by soprano Laurie Ashworth singing 'Abide With Me'.
It was a slow start from the hosts, though, and Ali Al Habsi, brought back into the side in place of Joel Robles today, was called into action in the third minute to punch away Joe Bennett's free-kick.
With Christian Benteke suspended, Bent made his first start since January, and it only took the striker five minutes to make his mark.
Paul Scharner played Bent onside and the former England man netted his first Premier League goal in nearly eight months with a shot that went in off a post.
The game was held up while a flare thrown by the Villa fans burnt itself out in Al Habsi's six-yard box, and it was the visitors showing all the spark.
Wigan did not threaten until the 16th minute, when player of the year Shaun Maloney found Arouna Kone, who was denied by a last-ditch tackle from Baker.
Five minutes later the Latics did level things up as Roger Espinoza swung over a cross from the left and Boyce leapt above Bennett to head powerfully past Brad Guzan.
Both sides threatened to break the deadlock but a poor touch from Gabriel Agbonlahor allowed Al Habsi to gather while Kone could not find James McCarthy when Wigan briefly had a three-on-one situation.
Maloney forced Guzan into a decent save from a 20-yard free-kick in the 40th minute, and in stoppage time the hosts went ahead for the first time.
Maloney's corner caused havoc in the Villa defence and, although Ashley Westwood cleared Ben Watson's shot off the line, he directed the ball against Baker, who could not stop it rolling into the net.
Wigan carried the momentum into the second half and might well have increased their lead on a number of occasions.
First, McCarthy's cross just evaded Kone before Watson tested Guzan, then Baker got the faintest of touches to the ball as McCarthy ran through to allow the Villa keeper to slide out.
Boyce scored twice on the final day of last season and the defender was close to a repeat in the 59th minute as he got on the end of an Espinoza cross but his first effort was headed away from in front of the line by Bennett while his second clipped the top of the bar.
Two minutes later Villa made Wigan pay for failing to take their chances as Bennett's long free-kick was pulled down by Vlaar and then volleyed sublimely into the top corner by the centre-back.
James McArthur thought he had scored an even better goal in the 79th minute with a volley from the corner of the area but it crashed against the bar and Kone was unable to turn in the rebound.
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'Pain and Gain': That really happened
The most important thing you need to know about the action comedy "Pain and Gain" is not that it's a Mark Wahlberg movie or a Dwayne Johnson movie, or even that it's inspired by real events. All of those statements are accurate, more or less. The double-beefcake sandwich of Wahlberg and Johnson does, in fact, anchor the film, though they tend to provide more dead weight than muscle. And its factual basis -- a series of grisly crimes committed by a group of Miami bodybuilders in 1994 and 1995 -- would hardly seem the stuff of comedy, even a dark one.
No, the most important thing you need to know about this sour attempt to turn tragedy into farce is that it's a Michael Bay project. The man behind such loud and unsubtle popular entertainments as "The Rock," "Pearl Harbor" and the "Transformers" franchise brings his trademark truncheon approach to directing something that demands finesse, not blunt force: the attempt to find humor in the horrible. And the source material is pretty darn horrible.
Based on a series of newspaper articles by Pete Collins, "Pain and Gain" is the story of Daniel Lugo (Wahlberg) and a group of accomplices who came to be known as the Sun Gym Gang. They perpetrated, in roughly this order, such crimes as kidnapping, torture, extortion, attempted murder, actual murder and, finally, dismemberment, in their pursuit of what their film counterparts describe as the "American dream." Their victims are a Miami deli owner (Tony Shalhoub) and a phone-sex entrepreneur and his girlfriend (Michael Rispoli and Keili Lefkovitz).
Lugo, it should be noted, is currently on death row, along with his partner-in-crime Adrian Doorbal, played in the film by Anthony Mackie. Johnson, whose actions in the film are slightly less heinous than those of his pals, plays a fictional member of the Sun Gym crew, a coked-out, fundamentalist Christian ex-con named Paul Doyle.
The surprisingly sluggish first half of the film deals with Lugo, Doorbal and Doyle's attempt, over the course of a month, to extort Victor Kershaw -- played by Shalhoub in a fictionalized version of real-life victim Marc Schiller -- through somewhat inept torture methods. Then, after Kershaw has signed over all his bank accounts and property, the gang tries, unsuccessfully, to kill him. So far, so hilarious, right? At least no one has been chopped into pieces with a chain saw . . . yet.
The whole thing is played for laughs that almost never come. To be sure, the film has its moments, but they're few and far between. Most arrive courtesy of Rebel Wilson, who plays Doorbal's randy wife, a nurse who meets her husband at a clinic specializing in the treatment of steroid-induced impotence. I know: nice.
Some relatives of Lugo and Doorbal's real-life victims have spoken out in anger about what they see as the film's attempt to create sympathy for a gang of criminals. The sister of the phone-sex entrepreneur, for instance, told the Associated Press that, "I don't want the American public to be sympathetic to the killers."
To which I can only say: Don't worry.
Almost no one in "Pain and Gain" is even remotely sympathetic, with the possible exception of the private detective (Ed Harris) whose investigation helped bring Lugo and his cronies to justice. The absence of a likable hero makes it really hard to laugh.
Not that the rape and homophobia jokes would even give you a chance. The movie is also peppered with sight gags involving explosive diarrhea, excessive body hair, giant sex toys, fake breasts and miscellaneous amputation. At least the film's title is half right.
Can criminal misbehavior generate humor? Absolutely. Just look at "The Hangover." But Bay, who is aided and abetted by screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, doesn't seem to know where to begin looking for it. Even "The Hangover's" Ken Jeong -- playing a motivational speaker whose get-rich-quick schemes provide the impetus for Lugo's felonious activities -- provides only momentary relief from the movie's overwhelmingly disagreeable tone.
"Pain and Gain" makes much of the fact that it's true, reminding us of its veracity, with on-screen titles, whenever the story begins to strain credulity. Case in point: The moment when the chain saw that Lugo and Doorbal are using to cut up victims becomes jammed with human hair.
Guess what? Collins' meticulously reported newspaper articles were also true, and they weren't funny either.
One star. R. Contains obscenity, violence, torture, gore, drug use, nudity, sex and crude humor. 120 minutes.
Ratings Guide: Four stars masterpiece, three stars very good, two stars okay, one star poor, no stars waste of time.


text: It appears there are a few systems in the wild that use acpiinterrupt source overrides to report a gsi > 16 is an isa irq.This breaks all kinds of assumptions I figure any BIOS doing thatprobably should be shot as that is very much not a conservative position.That said acpi appears to allow this insanity and on the basis of beingliberal in what we accept we should try to do something reasonable, andkeep our notions of gsi, isa irq, and linux irq as straight as we can.To that end this patchset slightly modifies the gsi to linux irqmapping. Making it a 1 to 1 identity mapping except for the first 16gsis. If those gsis are isa irqs (the typical and default acpiconfiguration) they will be mapped into the first 16 irqs. If thosefirst 16 gsis are not isa irqs they will be given a linux irq numberjust past the last gsi. Allowing us the chance to use them.This patchset is my attempt to straighten out our understanding of whichkind of irq name is used where and the cleanups used to get there.Thanks to Yinghai Lu <firstname.lastname@example.com> for taking the first stab atthis and finding that there is a real world problem here. This patchsetis inspired by his work, but little of it remains the same.This patchset lies in the weird world between the acpi and x86 and ia64.Since most of the changes are x86 related I think it makes most senseto go via the x86 tree.v2: Recognize that gsi_end is last gsi for an ioapic not one past the end. Since I use gsi_end widely in my patchset a respin of many of the patches made sense.Eric W. Biederman (15): x86 acpi/irq: Introduce apci_isa_irq_to_gsi x86 acpi/irq: Teach acpi_get_override_irq to take a gsi not an isa_irq x86 acpi/irq: pci device dev->irq is an isa irq not a gsi x86 acpi/irq: Fix acpi_sci_ioapic_setup so it has both bus_irq and gsi x86 acpi/irq: Generalize mp_config_acpi_legacy_irqs x86 ioapic: Only export mp_find_ioapic and mp_find_ioapic_pin in io_apic.h x86 ioapic: Fix io_apic_redir_entries to return the number of entries. x86 ioapic: Fix the types of gsi values x86 ioapic: Teach mp_register_ioapic to compute a global gsi_end x86 ioapic: In mpparse use mp_register_ioapic x86 ioapic: Move nr_ioapic_registers calculation to mp_register_ioapic. x86 ioapic: Optimize pin_2_irq x86 ioapic: Simplify probe_nr_irqs_gsi. x86 acpi/irq: Handle isa irqs that are not identity mapped to gsi's. x86 irq: Kill io_apic_renumber_irq arch/ia64/kernel/acpi.c | 8 ++ arch/x86/include/asm/io_apic.h | 12 ++-- arch/x86/include/asm/mpspec.h | 10 --- arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c | 133 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- arch/x86/kernel/apic/es7000_32.c | 19 ------ arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c | 99 +++++++++++++--------------- arch/x86/kernel/mpparse.c | 25 +------- arch/x86/kernel/sfi.c | 4 +- drivers/acpi/pci_irq.c | 8 ++- include/linux/acpi.h | 5 +- 10 files changed, 154 insertions(+), 169 deletions(-)Eric


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Pacquiao's going to fight Juan Manuel Marquez—yes, again. But every fight Pacquiao has taken for the last few years has something of "when are they going to get to the fireworks factory?" about it. When are we going to get the damn Mayweather fight already?
There have been two sticking points. In the first, Mayweather actually had something of the moral high ground, even if he was probably just being a dick about it. Mayweather wanted Pacquiao to undergo Olympic-style drug testing, including a blood sample drawn the day of the fight. Mayweather does this for all his matches, but Pacquiao demurred, preferring the less invasive Nevada SAC guidelines. There was no agreement; the fight, scheduled for March 2010, was called off. (In the wake of that, Mayweather accused Pacquiao of doping. Pacquiao brought a defamation lawsuit. Mayweather has been dodging his deposition, and has been ordered to pay $114,000 in legal fees.)
Last summer, Pacquiao said fine, he'll do the drug testing. Still no fight.
The other sticking point is the box office split. These are the two most famous fighters on earth, and since time immemorial, two marquee names have split the take right down the middle. But 50-50 apparently isn't good enough for Money. "He faces Floyd Mayweather, he's not getting 50-50," Mayweather said while promoting his Cotto fight. "Not at all. No one is getting 50-50."
Why does Mayweather need the cash? If his Twitter account is any indication, doesn't he win hundreds of thousands of dollars on sports bets, and has never had a losing wager? Presumably, it's all about pride. In Mayweather's mind, Pacquiao taking less than half the pot would be a tacit admission that he's not as "famous" or as "important" as Mayweather.
Well, Pacquiao said yesterday on First Take that he'll take 45 percent. It's time for Mayweather's camp to start getting things done, or admit he just doesn't want to risk his unbeaten record against a guy that's got a good shot at ending it.
Pacquiao will be 34 in December, Mayweather 36 in February—the time left to put on the most obvious and most important match in more than a decade, while the fighters are still near their peaks, is rapidly running out. I get that Mayweather has as much to lose as he does to gain, but 43-0 is just a number. If Mayweather wants to go down as the undisputed best, he needs to take the fight. If he doesn't? The "who's better" debate will continue to eternity, but I don't remember any best boxer of his generation being scared to fight.


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Can You Win an Emmy for a Canceled Show?
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Regina King and Felicity Huffman share a dubious honor at this year's Emmy Awards: They are nominated for a canceled show, American Crime, which ABC axed after three seasons in May. Your natural assumption might be that this doesn't bode well for the… Read more


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Is there a manufacturer of the mite sticky boards for migratory pallets where the slider tray can be inserted and removed from the side.
Or, I can make them by modifying the "old design" that is sold by Mann Lake.
Eneything that i see on-line are using a tray that is on the back side of the hive.
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Duryodhana, the eldest of the Kauravas and the main villain in the Mahabharata, is worshipped in certain temples in
. India exclusively dedicated to Duryodhan are very rare, the reason being his evil deeds against the Pandavas. One such rare temple dedicated to Duryodhana in Temples South India is the in Kollam District in Kerala. The temple is located around 17 km from Karunagappally on National Highway 47. Malanada Temple
Legend has it that Duryodhana who was searching for the Pandavas during their exile got lost in the dense jungle here. A weary and tired Duryodhana was picked up by people of the Kurava community and they provided him food and shelter. In return, Duryodhana is believed to have helped the community.
Duryodhana is worshipped as 'Malayappooppan' and there is no idol for the deity. Rituals and customs followed here are Dravidian in nature and the chief priest of the temple is from the Kurava community.
The temple also has small shrines dedicated to other important characters in the Mahabharata who were allies of Duryodhan during the 18-day war. The subsidiary shrines are dedicated to Bheeshma, Drona, Karna, Shakuni and Dushala.
One of the most important offering to the deity is toddy – local liquor. Other offerings include betel nut, rooster, arrack and red cloth.
The Malakkuda festival held in March is the main festival at the temple. It is one of the famous festivals in Kollam District and is noted for its Kettukazhcha procession.


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If you bundled the attacks all together into one brutal event, it would have been the worst massacre since Adam Lanza walked into an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., last December.
Instead, America's latest criminal tragedy has been doled out in bloody increments, just as senselessly as any mass shooting, and with no less of an astonishing casualty total: 21 people dead, after four days of inexplicable violence in four states.
In Phoenix: a disturbed pharmacist and former financial blogger, who had argued with his neighbors over their barking dogs, took his shotgun next door and killed four members of the Moore family -- plus two of their dogs -- before killing himself Saturday morning.
In Brooklyn, N.Y.: a troubled Chinese immigrant, said to be jealous of his relatives' success in the United States, stands accused of slaughtering a cousin-in-law and her four small children with a butcher knife at their apartment on Saturday night.
In Terrell, Texas: a small-time criminal is accused of unleashing eight hours of terror on the town of Terrell on Monday night, killing five people in four locations -- his mother, his aunt, two acquaintances and a convenience-store worker -- before his arrest after a high-speed chase.
In Greenwood, S.C.: an unknown man, who called 911 to say he was planning on hurting himself, hung up and instead apparently killed three adults, two children, and then himself in what officials think may be a domestic-violence-related incident. Greenwood County Sheriff Tony Davis told reporters it might be the worst crime scene he'd seen in 40 years of police work.
There has been no suggestion that any of these attacks are related; nor is there much reason to think they would be.
Instead, they're events bound together by a mutual senselessness, and when viewed from a step back, the past four days' killings reflect a more basic reality.
Events like these -- in each a handful of people were homicide victims, unlike the steep toll of Newtown, or of Aurora, Colo. -- are a relatively common if largely unacknowledged staple of American crime.
Every year, according to FBI data, at least 12,000 Americans are killed in homicides all over the country, a number that has now long been dropping for reasons that criminologists don't really agree on.
Cities once ravaged by drugs and gang violence in the '80s and '90s have now gotten so safe that experts argue you're more likely to get hurt if you live in the country, where car crashes help make injury-related deaths more common than in urban areas.
And in a reflection of the times, the national debate over public safety has quietly shifted.
The old concerns over drug dealers and gang violence have slowly been edged out by concerns over mass shootings, the worst of which spurred Congress this year to try (and fail) to pass a federal gun-control bill with the support of victims' families.
Just watching the news, it's certainly felt as if massacres are happening more often -- but are they really? It's tough to say; everyone seems to keep different figures.
Last week, U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr., the nation's top law-enforcement official, said Justice Department figures show that mass shootings have tripled in recent years.
The Associated Press reported that from 2000 to 2008, 324 people were shot and 145 were killed in mass shootings; from 2009 to 2012, 404 people were shot and 207 people were killed, amounting to a fraction of the nation's annual homicide totals, but a notable increase nonetheless.
A Justice Department spokesperson couldn't immediately be reached for clarification on how the numbers were gathered -- which matters.
A Texas State University study released in March on the frequency of "active shooters" between 2000 and 2010 -- showing that active-shooter events nearly tripled at the end of the aughts -- shows just how tortuous the definition of a mass shooting can get:
An active shooter event involves one or more persons engaged in killing or attempting to kill multiple people in an area (or areas) occupied by multiple unrelated individuals. At least one of the victims must be unrelated to the shooter. The primary motive appears to be mass murder; that is the shooting is not a by-product of an attempt to commit another crime. While many gang-related shootings could fall within this category, gang-related shootings were excluded from this study because gang-related shootings are not considered to be active shooter events by the police.
Got it? Gang violence doesn't count; nor does domestic violence, even when a whole family is slaughtered. And of course, such a tally excludes extremely public mass attacks like the Boston Marathon bombings or intensely private rampages like Saturday's Brooklyn stabbings, since the suspects didn't use guns.
That rankles Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox, who in the last couple of years has dissented from specially tailored tallies (such as 'Mother Jones') that insist mass shootings and spree killings are on the rise.
"Sometimes the criteria are arbitrary, sometimes they're hard to apply, and it tends to be a little subjective," Fox told The Times last week. "How do you classify what workplace shootings count and what don't count?"
He says that his numbers (which count only shootings) show no big fluctuation: There are usually about 20 mass shootings a year that kill four or more people, many of which make no long-term splash with politicians or the media.
And for Fox, a casualty is a casualty.
"As far as people killed, does it matter if there's two shooters, one shooter, it's in a public place, a semi-public place, a private place, or in a home?" Fox asked. "Does it matter where there was some military motive?"
NYPD's Raymond Kelly walks out of talk after heckling
Trayvon Martin's mother calls for fixes to 'stand your ground' laws
Missing Kansas man who slowly died in car wreck left love letter to family


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We didn't fully comprehend how many filthy words were in Macklemore's hit song 'Thrift Shop' until we heard that Kidz Bop was going to cover it. That news filled us with an unexpected sense of dread, as we mentally rattled through the lyrics and realized so many children were about to be grounded for the summer. It's okay though, guys. Kidz Bop has got this on lock.
They've changed *so* many of the words that it's practically a different song, which sort of makes it entertaining in its own right. Here are the original, NSFW lyrics for comparison. If you're more of a visual person, here's the song animated in MS Paint.


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Daily Mail:
Doomed airliner pilot was political fanatic: Hours before taking control of flight MH370 he attended trial of jailed opposition leader as FBI reveal passengers could be at a secret location — Police are investigating the possibility that the pilot of missing Flight MH370 hijacked his own aircraft in a bizarre political protest.
Discussion: Guardian, The PJ Tatler, Liberaland, Althouse, Telegraph, Reuters, The Gateway Pundit and Corrente
Ann Althouse / Althouse: The Flight 370 pilot, "Zaharie Ahmad Shah was an 'obsessive' supporter of Malaysia's opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim."
Andrew Marszal / Telegraph: Malaysian Airlines MH370: aircraft may have been on ground when last signals sent
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit: Malaysian #MH370 Pilot Was Political Fanatic - Attended Trial of Opposition Leader Hours Before Flight
Lambert / Corrente: That Malaysian plane was hijacked or pirated, but we still don't know where it is
New York Times:
Pilot Spoke to Air Controllers After Shutoff of Data System — SEPANG, Malaysia — A signaling system was disabled on the missing Malaysia Airlines jet before a pilot spoke to Malaysian air traffic control without hinting at any trouble, a senior Malaysian official said Sunday …
Discussion: JustOneMinute, Hinterland Gazette, Towleroad News #gay, Blogcritics, Scared Monkeys and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute: Sunday Morning And A New Story Arc
Janet Shan / Hinterland Gazette: Malaysian Officials Admit Missing Jetliner Deliberately Diverted, Launch Criminal Probe
Andy Towle / Towleroad News #gay: Malaysia 370 Investigation Turns to Crew, Passengers as 'Deliberate Act' Comes into Focus: VIDEO
Robert Mendick / Telegraph:
Malaysia Airline MH370: 9/11-style terror allegations resurface in case of lost plane — Possible plot investigated after Al-Qaeda supergrass told court that four or five Malaysian men planned a passenger airliner hijack — By Robert Mendick, Robert Verkaik in London, Dean Nelson in Kuala Lumpur and Malcolm Moore in Beijing
Discussion: Jihad Watch
U.S. officials lean toward 'those in the cockpit' behind missing flight
U.S. officials lean toward 'those in the cockpit' behind missing flight
Discussion: Liberaland, The Gateway Pundit, Telegraph, Israel Matzav, Boston Globe, Daily Mail, CBS DC, Mediaite, AMERICAblog News, The Verge, Guardian, Gawker and New York Times
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit: MIssing Malaysian Flight #MH370 Was Last Seen Heading Towards Pakistan
Josie Ensor / Telegraph: Malaysia Airlines MH370 live: plane could have followed a flight path towards Turkmenistan
Chris Caesar / Boston Globe: Report: Missing flight made sharp changes in altitude and course after flight lost contact
Daily Mail: Satellite data shows hijacked MH370 was last seen flying towards Pakistan OR Indian Ocean …
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog News: Malaysia Air Flight 370 may have flown 2,000 miles in Chinese airspace?
Katie Drummond / The Verge: Malaysia Airlines flight may have been deliberately diverted
Jonah Fisher / Guardian: Diversion of MH370 airliner was a 'deliberate act', says Malaysian PM - live updates
Jordan Sargent / Gawker: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Was Hijacked or Sabotaged, Officials Say
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Dems in Distress — WASHINGTON — Scott Brown, the Republican who admitted he wore pink leather shorts on his first date with his wife-to-be, is back. — And Democrats are scared to death. — It's not that Democrats are particularly scared that the 54-year-old former Massachusetts senator …
Discussion: Power Line, No More Mister Nice Blog and PoliticusUSA
Scott Johnson / Power Line: From kvell to kvetch — In her New York Times column …
Hrafnkell Haraldsson / PoliticusUSA: Bad as Things May Sometimes Look for the Dems, it Could be Worse - They Could be the GOP
New York Times:
Obama Factor Adds to Fears of Democrats — WASHINGTON — Democrats are becoming increasingly alarmed about their midterm election fortunes amid President Obama's sinking approval ratings, a loss in a special House election in Florida last week, and millions of dollars spent by Republican-aligned groups attacking the new health law.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Power Line, Right Wing News and Bloomberg
Steven Hayward / Power Line: Denial: Formerly the Hudson River
William Teach / Right Wing News: NY Times: Democrats Worried About Obama Factor
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Maureen Dowd finds the lightning bug
Maureen Dowd finds the lightning bug
Discussion: Althouse
Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill: Scott Brown fires up Senate fight
Yahoo! News:
Crimea holds referendum to split from Ukraine — Simferopol (Ukraine) (AFP) - Crimeans took to the polls on Sunday for a referendum on breaking away from Ukraine to join Russia that has precipitated a Cold War-style security crisis on Europe's eastern frontier.
Discussion: The Week, Liberaland and Hinterland Gazette
Washington Post:
Crimeans begin voting on Russia referendum
Crimeans begin voting on Russia referendum
Discussion: The New Republic and Washington Monthly
Martin Longman / Washington Monthly: Is It Time For a Second Cold War?
Washington Post:
Tensions mount as Crimea prepares for referendum
Tensions mount as Crimea prepares for referendum
Discussion: The Week and Washington Monthly
Sarah Eberspacher / The Week: Ahead of Crimea's Sunday referendum, an analysis of border disputes
Martin Longman / Washington Monthly: Putin's Dangerous Game
Associated Press:
Karzai says Afghanistan doesn't need U.S. troops to stay past end of year — KABUL — In his final address to Afghanistan's parliament Saturday, President Hamid Karzai said U.S. soldiers can leave at the end of the year because his military already protects 93 percent of the country and was ready to take over entirely.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Martin Longman / Washington Monthly: Hamid Karzai Says America Can Go
Andrew Cuomo / CNN:
CNN Poll: Rand Paul goes where his father never went — Washington (CNN) - Rand Paul has done something his father never did - top the list of potential Republican presidential candidates in a national poll. — According to a new CNN/ORC International survey, 16% of Republicans and independents …
Discussion: Liberaland and OnPolitics
Alan / Liberaland: Rand Paul Tops List
Catalina Camia / OnPolitics: Poll: Rand Paul leads GOP presidential field
Tyler Cowen / Associated Press:
Crimea Through a Game-Theory Lens — A Russian occupation of Crimea raises the specter of the Cold War, in which the nuclear stalemate between the United States and the Soviet Union devolved into regional disputes around the world. — While military and political frictions made the biggest headlines …
Christopher Clark / Spiegel Online:
What History Teaches Us About the Ukraine Crisis — On the 100th anniversary of World War I, it is tempting to compare events in Ukraine to 1914. But the current crisis bears little resemblance to the geopolitical situation of the time. The answers history provides are anything but singular and absolute.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Dave Schuler / Outside the Beltway: The Ukrainian Situation: I Yam What I Yam
American Prospect:
Piketty's Triumph — Three expert takes on Capital in the Twenty-First Century, French economist Thomas Piketty's data-driven magnum opus on inequality. — Jacob Hacker, Paul Pierson, Heather Boushey, Branko Milanovic — In the 1990s, two young French economists then affiliated …
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California gun store owner refuses to give ATF his customer list — OCEANSIDE, Calif. (KSWB) — The owner of an Oceanside store that sells various gun parts to build a rifle from scratch refused to turn over his customer list when he was raided by federal agents Wednesday.
Discussion: BizPac Review, Right Wing News, The Gateway Pundit, protein wisdom and The Daily Caller
Michael Dorstewitz / BizPac Review: ATF raids gun store despite restraining order protecting customer list
Dustin Siggins / Right Wing News: Lovely — Looks Like ATF Violated A Court Order, Broke Into A Business, And Stole Customer Records.
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit: TYRANNY ALERT: Obama's Lawless ATF Breaks Into Private Business & Seizes All Customer Records (Video)
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Inside Politics: The Political Forecast: More Democrats to retire this week — CNN's John King and other top political reporters empty out their notebooks each Sunday on "Inside Politics" to reveal five things that will be in the headlines in the days, weeks and months ahead.
Discussion: RedState