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Payvment credits new "actions" with doubling customer base.
If Payvment's Shopping Mall is any indication, retailers are going to really like the new action verbs appearing on Facebook. Since implementing "want" and "own" buttons in November, the Facebook-only e-commerce player has seen customers rise from 500,000 to 1.1 million without making an ad buy on the social site, Payvment CEO Christian Taylor tells ClickZ News.
The holidays certainly helped achieve such growth, Taylor admitted. But he also said the "want" and "own" buttons have been spreading the word about his business, which resembles Amazon.com's model. When Facebook users tap the buttons, the action appears in their friends' news feed and/or news ticker.
"We have always had the 'like' button on every single product from all 150,000 of our sellers," the CEO explained. "Essentially the 'like' button never worked for shopping... We [began testing] the 'want' and 'own' buttons about a month and a half ago. Without a doubt, 'likes' dropped significantly. What we see now is people creating wish lists."
Taylor's company has been a Facebook Open Graph API partner since the latter's f8 conference in October, allowing Shopping Mall to feature "want" and "own" buttons before other retail brands. He said the social media giant has been attentive to suggestions about how to improve retail performance.
When asked if the buttons are increasing sales, Taylor replied, "Oh, without a doubt."
That should be welcome news to some Facebook commerce players that haven't raked in revenue during the last two months. Marketing services firm Baynote found that 91.4 percent of 1,000 surveyed consumers did not make a holidays purchase via a brand's Facebook page. Janice Diner, founder of social business consultancy Horizon Studios and a ClickZ columnist, suggested that Baynote's holidays statistic will see better days after the action verbs gain a foothold on Facebook.
"The next-generation social shopping experiences will get more personal, allowing consumers to share more," Diner said. "Consumers will be able to share their shopping thoughts through a wide array of shopping verbs/actions, such as share, like, own, heart, bought, want, wish, and sold - the list of shopping verbs is really endless."
'Actions' Could Transform Ads - But Not Overnight
On Jan. 18, the future of Facebook marketing took on a significantly more nuanced and potentially more powerful look. The Palo Alto, CA-based digital giant unveiled 60 frictionless sharing apps from Payvment/Shopping Mall and other brands such as Rotten Tomatoes, LivingSocial, and Foodspotting.
Facebook's announcement begged the question: How will the new actions - such as want, own, heart, watched, etc. - affect ad targeting? Facebook's Sponsored Stories, which were introduced a year ago, have mainly allowed advertisers to connect with consumers based on what their Facebook friends "liked." For retailers and other bricks-and-mortar organizations, the social context ads also have let brands target Facebook users based on where their friends had checked in via the Facebook Places mobile feature. In both cases, the like and check-in actions were presented in the Sponsored Stories ad unit.
Seeing what shoes, clothes, movie tickets, music downloads, etc. a friend "wants" or "owns" within a branded advertisement could positively impact the performance of paid Facebook promos.
When asked how the action verbs might manifest in future social context ads, a Facebook spokesperson replied via email: "While social apps open possibilities for these new kinds of connections and expressions, these stories cannot currently be sponsored."
According to Simon Mansell, CEO of social marketing services firm TBG Digital, it will take time for the action verbs get to achieve meaningful scale on Facebook.
"I would expect it to take a while for Facebook Actions to catch on and prove to be really powerful/scaled for advertisers," Mansell said via email. "If Facebook can get real adoption by Q4, I would consider that to be a good achievement."
When someone allows one of the new apps, it is added to his or her profile and timeline. Apps often ask Facebook users for access to their data at any time. The limits to how that data can be leveraged for advertising and merchandising is unclear. Payvment's system for Shopping Mall uses Facebook user profile data to populate relevant products on the viewer's screen.
"It's supposed to curate the mall according to your interests, your 'likes,' and the stuff that you've shared," said Taylor. "Essentially it uses your social data - what books you've read, what bands you've 'liked,' etc."
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Resort Report 2010: Marc Jacobs
Three looks into the presentation of Marc Jacobs resort this morning, and one editor leaned to another and whispered, "This will be fun to wear." Which seems entirely in the spirit of what Jacobs had in mind when he was designing it. His runway collections may be high-concept, but there is always a very effervescent, energetic, easy feel to what he does for resort, and this was no different. It was forties, it was seventies, it was eighties, and they were all mixed up, sampled, and spliced together. Pretty much everything was colorful, printed, embroidered, beaded, and sequined: the sparkly spaghetti-strapped short tiered dresses; the bright bouclé-tweed jackets festooned with beaded bits and pieces; striped Breton tees with glittery floral appliqués; and, a new crop-pant shape, with a peplum at the waist, that was cut from pink or purple silk taffeta. Even the simplest pieces—if you can call them that—had their seams edged in gold lamé. The final look, incidentally, was also in gold lamé, and you will already have seen it if you happened to catch the pictures of Kate Moss at this year's Costume Institute gala in New York. Jacobs, however, didn't bother with the lamé turban.
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this story just gets worse
wake up and smell the coffee. it was a motion filed in court. news was known by market when it happened, only retail never heard about it til the Spanish language site reported it, hence the stupid panic AH. its nothing to be concerned about tho
haven't bought it yet, waiting for it to settle. i think management will turn it round
if you shorted this over the last few months congrats but i think its time to cover and go long now. theres hardly any downside left in this and when it starts to move it will get back to 11-12 very quickly.
Geoger and co will start releasing PRs left right and center. he was given 2 million share options, he's now a long too so he will be working his ass off to turn the company and stock around. he won't sit idly and watch this company go broke. they have plans to cut expenses, streamline stores, increase digital presence and reinvigorate the brand with their demographic. this is one of the best retail plays out there long term
this is a turnaround story. the guidance was deliberately lowered to coincide with the return of Geiger, so when they beat next ER he looks like a hero and a pivotal figure for the turnaround. Its all about sentiment and they are gearing up to change that as well as start heading back to a profit. Geiger's return was ushered in by Sycamore and the big institutional holders, i trust they know what they are doing.
Will get in on a great entry tmrw. AH action was not that bad and finished well off the lows.
big giveaway meaning what? its not going to be released?
may take some off the table and go more cash for the weekend. lots of things happening in the world now and the market is so nervous it doesnt need another excuse like bombing Iraq to sell off.
Big HIMAX customer Japan Display Inc down11.5% as Japan opens after they posted a sizeable loss that was worse than what most analysts had foreseen
that article is void of facts and proper #s. Rift is 2-3 years from market, the Galaxy is the screen in the DK2. is it even confirmed HIMAX is a part of Rift? certainly not the display part, the DK1 had HIMAX supplying a timing controller, but thats nothing. years away from Rift launch regardless
no company uses these events to announce such things, as well as the supply agreement meaning they are going it alone
no sensible pharma would partner with this. black box rems 4 studies needed previous similar products failed other companies developing better. back to 5s very soon.
they have no clue what they are doing. raid a 100 mill at IPO just to pay off less than half their debt, no money for expansion
and about 10 this year.
they will need to capitalize very quickly on this IPO before it really sinks back to the 20s, which will happen very quickly. they need money to pay off their huge debt before they can even think about expanding stores so bankers will pressure them into secondary. probably be $20 at most
they also opened 12 stores in a new market in 2009, all were closed by 2012
they're still $189m in debt, 7 straight years of losses, they don't have any money for expansion
even the biggest pumper of this stock knows it was all a scam and doesnt want egg on his face as the real story of this next-to-no-growth company emerges. low 30s easily by friday
http://www.forbes.com/sites/caroltice/2014/07/25/heres-what-investors-who-gobbled-el-pollo-locos-ipo-missed/ guess again
you see how quickly it fell today intraday and the tank to 29 on tuesday?
shorts have stopped covering as u saw into todays close on a friday. every new short today is very comfortable
same team nothing has changed, this restaurant doesnt work anywhere else


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So then is Bavarian cream actually Bavarian?
Nice follow-up question, Robin! The answer is no. Probably not. Maybe not. It's hard to say, for the origin of Bavarian cream is murky. Some food historians say that Bavarian cream — classically known as fromage Bavarois — was brought to France by a French chef who'd worked in Bavaria, but there's no evidence for that.
Auguste Escoffier claimed that "bavarois" was actually a Russian invention that should by all rights be called "Muscovite", yet no one is entirely sure whether Escoffier was talking about a pastry filling or a drink, a concoction of hot tea, milk, egg yolks, sugar and Kirsch that went by the same name. …
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If this cake is a type of "Bavarois" which means "Bavarian" obviously, does that mean that fruit mousse is a Bavarian cream?
That's exactly what it means, Robin. The world of Bavarian creams is broad and diverse. There are dozens of crème anglaise Bavarians, eggless gelatin-thickened fruit Bavarians, non-dairy Bavarians lightened with meringue instead of whipped cream, the list goes on and on. I've only made a couple of them on the blog so far, but then life is long. I'll get to them eventually.
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I've heard it said that Joconde cake gets its name from the Mona Lisa, but if that's true…how?
That's an interesting story, Elle. It may or may not be true, but that won't stop me from telling it. It goes like this: the portrait of the Mona Lisa was commissioned by a fellow by the name of Francesco di Bartholommeo di Zanobi del Giocondo, a wealthy silk merchant who had way too many names, but who nevertheless lived in Florence around the turn of the Sixteenth Century. He commissioned the painting — a portrait of his wife, a commoner by the name of Lisa Gherardini — to commemorate the birth of their second son, Andrea….
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Fruit Mousse Cake (Bavarois) Recipe
This recipe calls for more base material than one small cake will likely need. I'll get back to you on how much overage there is once the beast has been made, and probably adjust the component list accordingly. Personally I like having extra stuff around…to make other pastries with, or just to eat late at night in front of the television when everyone else has gone to bed. You'll need:
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Reader K writes:
Joe, it seems like every time I see a recipe that calls for whipped egg whites I see the instruction "add cream of tartar or use a copper bowl". Can you tell me why a copper bowl is the equivalent of adding cream of tartar? I just don't understand it.
Next Up: Fruit Mousse Cake
It's hot and will be all week, so something light and fruit-based is called for. Since I haven't done anything especially fancy for a while my thought is to try a fruit mousse cake of the type that's been popular the last five years or so. As far as I know it hasn't got a proper name, just a look, and you can see it here on the cover of the French Culinary Institute's 2009 book. Looks kinda fun, no? It'll take an obsessive hand to spread joconde batter that thinly and consistently, but I might be just the baker to do it. We'll see. Since berry season is over I think I'll make a peach mousse instead of that one, which looks to be raspberry. …
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Well it's been one heck of a full week of work. But I'm never too busy to take at least one trip to the State Fair which happens every year here in Louisville at this time. I feel very lucky that the fair is so accessible. With the exception of Minneapolis I've never lived in such close proximity to a state fair, and wow are they ever worth the trip. The corn dogs alone justify the price of admission (future project, anyone?) to say nothing of all the entertainments, rides, exhibitions and of course livestock. I try to go early in the week so as not to miss the cock crowing contests which only happen when the poultry is on display.
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…the gas company guy showed up as well today to install a new meter. ALSO unannounced. Just grab a hard hat and join the party, pal! What a week this has been. Instead of flour and fondant my hands are covered with primer and concrete mix. Makes me feel manly anyway. Have a great weekend and more from me Monday, promise. – Joe
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Stately Pastry manor is getting a new coat of paint this week, but that wasn't how it was supposed to be. The painters were going to start working in mid-September. Which is why the gutter guys were going to be here the week of the 1st and the carpenter was going to come this Friday. To get the various exterior fixes out of the way before paint went on, you know. As it happened the gutter guy, the carpenter AND the painters all showed up together on Monday. How the heck does that happen without any phone calls? …
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Pie is Not Scary
We all lament the passing of The Great Age of Pie. We remember our grandmothers and the way they seemed to turn out pies almost effortlessly, and wonder a.) whether our grandma's were technical geniuses, or b.) when exactly it happened that something as easy as pie got to be so darn hard. The fact is that it doesn't take an engineering degree to make a good pie, nor does it take a lot of time or skill. My feeling is that it's been the well-intentioned advice of recipe writers over the last few decades that's made pie seem unapproachable…
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Canonical Releases Ubuntu SDK Beta
The Ubuntu SDK that serves as a toolkit for Ubuntu's "converged platform" of mobile and desktop as one, has now reached beta form.
25 July 2013 - Ubuntu SDK Beta - 10 Comments
Mir 0.0.8 Released, Weekly Update
It seems Canonical is making it a habit of tagging new versions of the Mir Display Server on a weekly basis. Mir 0.0.8 is out this week with a handful of changes over v0.0.7.
24 July 2013 - Mir Display Server - 20 Comments
Canonical Goes To Crowd-Funding For Ubuntu Edge Phone
As anticipated, Canonical announced today their Ubuntu Edge smart-phone. However, details are scarce and they don't even have the hardware specifications ironed out but are first trying to raise financing via crowd-funding.
22 July 2013 - Ubuntu Edge - 99 Comments
Ubuntu Edge: The First Ubuntu Smartphone Next Week?
On the Ubuntu web-site has been a teaser about "the line where two surfaces meet" and a 4-day countdown (ending 22 July). There's been wild speculation about this countdown and now it appears it will be an announcement of Ubuntu Edge, the first Ubuntu-powered smartphone.
20 July 2013 - Ubuntu Edge - 50 Comments
Canonical Posts 15 Mesa Patches To Support Mir
Canonical is back to trying to get upstream Mesa/Gallium3D to support their Mir Display Server. In their current form, the support comes across 15 patches for bringing up the Mir EGL platform.
20 July 2013 - Mir Mesa/Gallium3D Support - 229 Comments
Canonical Continues Working On XMir Performance
Canonical's Christopher Halse Rogers wrote a blog post over the weekend to try to clear up the XMir performance situation and say that Canonical engineers are working on improving the performance, as users begin to discover there's a performance hit in using XMir.
15 July 2013 - Updates - 174 Comments
Mark Shuttleworth Declares Mir A Performance Win
Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has been running the Mir Display Server for the past two weeks. After doing so, he's very happy with the Mir experience in Ubuntu 13.10 at this stage in its development and already feels that it's smoother than with X. He's blogged about his experience of running Mir on Ubuntu Linux.
9 July 2013 - Mir Testing - 135 Comments
Canonical Puts Out Mir 0.0.6 Release For Ubuntu
For those living on the bleeding edge Ubuntu 13.10 developments, Mir 0.0.6 has been tagged.
9 July 2013 - Mir Display Server - 54 Comments
Canonical Announces "Flipped" Ubuntu Touch Images
The Ubuntu Touch image model has been flipped around so that Android is no longer on the bottom side and that Ubuntu is going for a different position.
3 July 2013 - Flipping Ubuntu Touch - 9 Comments
Saucy Salamander 13.10 Alpha 1 Released
While Ubuntu Linux no longer participates in alpha releases, other members of the Ubuntu family did their first 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" alpha releases today. Coming out today in 13.10 Alpha 1 form is Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, and Ubuntu Kylin.
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Mir 0.0.5 Released; Kubuntu Will Stick To X/Wayland
More Mir news today besides the surprise announcement that Canonical is now planning to use the Mir Display Server by default in Ubuntu 13.10, there's some other interesting news involving Mir benchmarking, the Mir 0.0.5 release, and Kubuntu avoiding Mir/XMir and reaffirming their commitment to X.Org and Wayland.
27 June 2013 - Mir 0.0.5 - 65 Comments
Canonical Will Now Ship Mir By Default In Ubuntu 13.10
Originally Canonical was planning to ship their Mir Display Server by default in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on the desktop and in Ubuntu 13.10 still be using an X.Org Server outside of mobile devices. However, it's been announced today that with Ubuntu 13.10 they will now be using Mir by default.
27 June 2013 - Mir Display Server - 48 Comments
Canonical Is Hiring More Mir, Unity Developers
Canonical is hiring more engineers to work on their Mir Display Server and Unity desktop interface.
26 June 2013 - Canonical - 50 Comments
Mir Development Stats Dominated By Canonical
For those curious about the Mir Display Server development but aren't actively following its Bazaar development repository, the development continues to be dominated by Canonical and here's some numbers looking at the current development statistics surrounding Mir.
26 June 2013 - Mir Stats - 66 Comments
Xfce, LXDE, & GNOME Are Running On Ubuntu XMir
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24 June 2013 - XMir - 99 Comments
There's Now An Ubuntu Touch PPA For Unity 8, Mir
For those wishing to play with the next-generation Unity 8 interface atop the Mir Display Server while running Ubuntu Touch, a Personal Package Archive (PPA) is now available. There's also been other Mir and Unity 8 progress made this week.
22 June 2013 - Mir Progress - 29 Comments
Mir's GPLv3 License Is Now Raising Concerns
Taking a break from blogging about UEFI and Secure Boot, Linux kernel developer Matthew Garrett is now writing about how Canonical's choice of license for their Mir Display Server is a bit scary. It's not the GPLv3 license alone that's raising eyebrows, but the GPLv3 combined with the Ubuntu Contributor's License Agreement that is unfortunate in the mobile space.
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Ubuntu Announces Carrier Advisory Group
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The founding of Amsterdam-based art and design workshop Studio Drift is as storybook a tale as any that you could hope to find in the design world. Partners Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta met while they were enrolled at Design Academy Eindhoven in 1999, became friends, began to collaborate, fell in love, and established their company in 2005. Since then, the couple has experienced something of a meteoric rise to prominence. Their art installations, which always incorporate light, have garnered praise around the world in exhibitions at such cultural institutions and events as London's Victoria & Albert Museum, the Museum of Art and Design in New York, the Salone del Mobile during Milan Design Week, and Luminale during Light+Building in Frankfurt this past April. These shows have led to a number of commissions for private residences, offices, and hotels, where the duo has had the opportunity to customize its concepts to interact best with the spaces.
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Flylight (2007 and 2011), is an interactive light installation made up of as many as 180 hand-blown-glass tubes outfitted with halogen lamps. Inspired by the movement and behavior of a flock of birds, the piece uses ultrasonic sensors to measure the distance between the viewer and the installation. The art piece then responds to the proximity of the viewers by lighting up. Each glass module measures approximately 11 inches long by 1-1/2 inches in diameter, and overall installation dimensions start at 6-1/2 feet tall by 10 feet wide.
Fragile Future III (2011-2012), is an exploration of time and the dichotomy between nature and the man-made. For these modular works, Studio Drift builds a three-dimensional framework of bronze tubes and then inserts a series of LEDs, each of which has a hand-harvested dandelion seed glued to it. Each module uses three dandelions and measures 8 inches by 8 inches by 4 inches. Installations are composed of anywhere from three to 100 modules or more. Studio Drift uses the dandelion seeds becuase of the way in which they sensitively diffuse the LED light.
Dandelight (2007) is a luminous dandelion sculpture powered by 9V battery.
Shylight (2007-2012) is a group of individually suspended light sculptures, each made out of stainless steel, aluminum, silk, and high-powered LEDs, and operated on a series of springs
As each light that is part of Shylight descends, the springs push out the silk shade," blooming" like a flower openings its petals. Then, as the light retracts and the springs pull in, the silk folds back up.
As each light that is part of Shylight descends, the springs push out the silk shade," blooming" like a flower openings its petals. Then, as the light retracts and the springs pull in, the silk folds back up.
A perfect example of this melding of the natural world with cutting-edge technology is the piece that first garnered Studio Drift recognition: Fragile Future. Winner of the "Light of the Future" prize from the German Design Council in 2008, the Moët Hennessy–Pavilion of Art and Design London Prize 2010, and now in the permanent collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Fragile Future is composed of a three-dimensional orthogonal framework of delicate phosphor bronze tubes supporting a constellation of LEDs that are covered in dandelion seeds. Studio Drift harvests dandelions by hand and painstakingly glues their seeds to the LEDs. "We use real dandelion seeds because they have a beautiful quality of diffusing the hard bright LED light," Nauta says. This precise handiwork is combined with industrial processes, such as laser cutting and bending the metal. Each 8-inch-by-8-inch-by-4-inch module consists of three LEDs, and each installation contains between three and 100 modules.
Another Studio Drift work that is currently gaining momentum is Flylight. Originally commissioned in 2007, the piece was shown outside of the Netherlands for the first time in 2011 at the Salone del Mobile in Milan. It is currently being customized for private houses and public spaces in Europe and the Middle East. Flylight was inspired by flocks of birds and the patterns they make as they twist through the sky, interacting with one another. The installation is composed of as many as 180 hand-blown glass tubes suspended from cables and outfitted with halogen lamps. The tubes also house ultrasonic sensors that measure the distance between themselves and viewers, transmitting this information to a computer program that drives the electronics controlling the lights. Each tube responds individually to the movement of people in the room, and the overall installation is programmed not to repeat selected patterns, making it truly interactive.
"For us, the interesting part is the free will of the flock," Nauta says. "Does the group attack the viewers one by one, or will it split up and flee?" Studio Drift produced Flylight in collaboration with the mechanical engineers, industrial designers, and nanotechnology specialists Klaas van der Molen and Luuk van Laake—a fact that reiterates the firm's commitment to working at the forefront of technology.
With the shear range of media available to artists today, it is remarkable that Studio Drift works so consistently with light. Yet to Nauta, this physical phenomenon, so essential to life itself, is what makes the work endlessly fascinating. "Light works so different in different space," he says. "We just did a show in Eindhoven with our piece Shylight. Even though I worked on it for a long time, seeing it again in a new way made me so happy." Inspired by the movement of flowers as they open and close to attract and repel pollen-gathering insects, Shylight consists of an LED lamp enclosed in a cocoon of silk fabric with an aluminum and polished stainless steel structure. Exposed mechanics at the top of the hanging lantern control its movement, ratcheting the translucent veil open until the point when the system pops out of gear and the "petals" drift slowly closed under the influence of gravity.
Studio Drift is currently working on another project that will involve moving parts. Though Nauta could say little about it at press time, he did confirm that it will also employ light. "When the sun shines, everybody is happy. It's pure energy," he says. "There is endless possibility of what you can do with light."
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These luminaires from Times Square Lighting, Apollo Design Technologies, and Osram bring high luminous output and color clarity to architectural applications.
Lighting designer Phil Gabriel passed away on Aug. 9. A great advocate of the profession and of lighting education, his efforts on behalf of the lighting design community will be missed.
On June 19, the Illuminating Engineering Society New York City Section (IESNYC) recognized the work of its members during its annual award dinner the 46th Lumen Awards. Twelve projects representing 10 New York City-based design firms received awards.
Here is a listing of some of the lighting industry events and deadlines that will be occurring in September 2014. Information is correct at this posting. Be sure to check the respective event websites directly regarding any updates or changes.
This year, two projects played the roles of design-issue instigators: the Lowline and the New York City Streetlight.
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Because they are ok. You have a right to religious freedom in this country. And Islam is a religion that is based on peace. It is illegal to harm someone else, no matter what religion you are. And if you harm them, you will be arrested. You sound like a redneck. Are you clinging to your gun right now? I'm surprised you know how to type on a keyboard!


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Afghan election front-runner Abdullah escapes assassination bid
Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah prays at an election gathering after surviving a suicide attack on his convoy in Kabul, on June 6, 2014 - by Wakil Kohsar
"The first attack was a suicide car bomb on a convoy of Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and the second was a mine attack," Sayed Gul Agha Hashemi, head of Kabul police's criminal investigation branch, told AFP.
Abdullah said he was unhurt, but at least six people were killed and 22 others wounded, according to the interior ministry.
The United States denounced the assassination bid, saying Afghanistan deserved a democratic future.
Blood was splattered near one vehicle in the convoy which was badly charred, while medics carried a body away on a stretcher.
The blast site was cordoned off by security officials as ambulances rushed to the scene and took the wounded to hospital, making their way through a sandstorm in the capital.
"A few minutes ago, when we left a campaign rally our convoy was hit by a mine," Abdullah told supporters at an election rally, in quotes broadcast on Afghan television.
The blast occurred soon after Abdullah left the rally at the city's Ariana hotel. Some witnesses in the area reported hearing two ear-splitting explosions.
The assassination attempt came ahead of the second round of the presidential election on June 14, which Taliban insurgents have threatened to disrupt.
No one has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.
Afghanistan is voting to choose a successor to President Hamid Karzai, who has ruled since the fall of the 1996-2001 Taliban regime.
Abdullah fell short of the 50 percent threshold needed for an outright victory in April's first round and will face former World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani in the run-off.
Marie Harf, deputy spokeswoman at the US State Department, condemned the attack.
"As we've made very clear, the Afghan people deserve democracy -- which they'll be exercising next week -- not violence," she said.
Ghani and Karzai also condemned the attempt on Abdullah's life, with Ghani calling it "the act of the enemies of Afghanistan to disrupt the democratic process in the country".
The US insisted that Afghan security forces would be able to provide tight security for next week's run-off.
"We're hopeful that the second round will be transparent, inclusive and credible," Harf told reporters.
"The security forces can work again with the electoral bodies... very closely to provide security as they carry out this second round, and I think have probably learned a few lessons about security from the first round."
Late last month President Barack Obama outlined the US strategy to end America's longest war, saying that the 32,000-strong US deployment in Afghanistan would be scaled back to around 9,800 by the start of 2015.
Those forces will be halved by the end of 2015 before eventually being reduced to a normal embassy presence with a security assistance component by the end of 2016.
But the drawdown relies on Afghanistan signing a long-delayed Bilateral Security Agreement laying out the terms of the US military presence in the country after this year.
Outgoing Karzai refuses to sign the pact, but both Afghan presidential candidates have vowed to sign it if elected.
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A few recent articles have expressed concerns that big data may be at the peak of inflated expectations in the so-called hype cycle for emerging technologies, and will soon start falling into the trough of disillusionment. This is not uncommon in the early stages of a disruptive technology. The key question is whether the technology will keep falling through the trough and be soon forgotten, or whether it will eventually move on toward the slope of enlightenment on its way to a long life in the plateau of productivity. How can you tell which it is going to be?
In my experience, a disruptive technology will succeed if it can keep attracting serious researchers and analysts, who will, over time, cut through the hype and bring discipline to its development and marketing, coming up with solutions to the many technical obstacles any new innovation encounters, sorting through its unrealistic promises and reframing the scope and timelines of its objectives. The Internet recovered from the hype that led to the dot-com bubble and has gone on to a highly successful future. Cloud computing is now going through a similar period of serious evaluation and development. So is big data.
In The Rise of Big Data: How It's Changing the Way We Think About the World, an article just published in Foreign Affairs, Economist editor Kenneth Cukier and Oxford professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger do a very nice job in articulating why "big data marks the moment when the information society finally fulfills the promise implied by its name." The article is adapted from their book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think published in March, 2013.


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The 6 best things from Emerald City Comicon
Emerald City Comicon may not come with the metric ton of announcements that Comic-Con International does, but in a way it's all the better for it. Comics still feel as if they're front and center just where I like them, and the announcements have more charm because they aren't screaming to be heard over the din of film and television rollouts.
One year, I'll get up to Seattle to experience the event firsthand, but in the meantime, I get to absorb all the news and photos like everyone else, as they're posted online. ECCC even streamed all of its panels on flipon.tv. Anything that happened in Room 301 is free for anyone to watch. Everything else can be purchased with a full archive pass for $14.95. Or if, you don't want to sit through hours of panel footage, there's CBR's coverage or, heck, try Google or something.
A number of announcements jumped out as particularly noteworthy, so let's run through The 6 Best Things from ECCC. And from my count, Dark Horse won Emerald City. Your miles may vary though, so post your favorites in the comments.
Is the world ready for … a comics truck?
The story of Chris Romberger's comics vending machine reminded me of an idea I had kicking around my head a couple of weeks ago: Here in Los Angeles, there has been something of a food-truck revolution going on for the past several years. And then I saw that last summer, Penguin Books launched a book truck. As Book Riot pointed out, bookmobiles and other ways to bring books to the people are nothing new, so I thought, why not comics?
A comics truck would be a fun way to spread the love of comic books, graphic novels, manga and all things sequentially artistic. It would probably never really be a replacement for a comics store, due to space limitations, but it could be effective as an outreach tool to drive buyers back to shops — plus be a dynamic retail outlet that can carry specific titles for the readers it will reach.
Rethinking covers: the variants and the gimmicks
Remember when comic books had only one cover each, and they didn't glow in the dark or feature moving images? When the cover was just a good-looking illustration that made you curious about the story inside? And it was by the artist who actually drew that story?
Yeah, me neither.
Like it or not, we live in the age of specialized covers, whether in the form of variants or, for lack of a better (and less-derisive) term, gimmicks. I've mostly made peace with that, but the near-simultaneous announcements of Valiant bringing back chromium covers and DC doing a second round of lenticular covers recently stirred it all up again.
I know I'm being kind of silly about it. I mean, who cares? If people want them, they should have them. Obviously they help to increase sales, otherwise publishers wouldn't go through the trouble. But is there more to it?
The thing is that variant covers have never been more prevalent. People used to make fun of publishers like Avatar Press, which would flood each release with boatloads of different covers for the same story. It turns out the company was ahead of its time. That's not always a good thing, of course. Variant covers can cause confusion with new or more casual readers who may not remember the issue number they last bought but can recall what was on the cover.
When it comes to comics, what is 'real'?
Eric Stephenson means well. As publisher of Image Comics, and even before he held that position, he's often called out for change in the comics industry. I love these calls to action, even if they're not always graceful; change usually isn't. Most of us agree that changing the comics industry for the better is in everyone's best interest, but how to change it and how we define better is when things get messy. I'm usually in agreement with what Stephenson is saying, but his speech last week at the ComicsPRO annual meeting was jumbled and tripped over itself when it came to licensed comics.
Stephenson got hung up on a significant sector of comics publishing, and I think it muddied his larger message. In his speech, as I'm sure you've seen re-quoted multiple times by now, he claimed that licensed comics like IDW's Transformers and GI Joe, and Dark Horse's Star Wars "will never be the real thing." In the lead-up, he also explained there are "only two kinds of comics that matter: good comics and bad comics." Now, he never outright said licensed comics are in the "bad" category, but some certainly viewed that as the implication.
His argument is that comics should rely on original ideas to produce original content, a point he underscored by pointing to the perennial bestseller The Walking Dead and the fast-growing Saga, both coincidentally published by Image. I agree original comics are where the magic can happen, and where the creators can most benefit. But that doesn't mean everything else is by default a waste of time.
First Second creates a modern-day Bullpen Bulletins
Something has been going on at the First Second website. For about a year and a half to two years, the publisher's marketing and publicity coordinator Gina Gagliano has been bringing personality to its blog with informative, funny and engaging posts that make me want to Make Mine First Second. Yes, there's decidedly a lack of alliterations, but there's an effortless style to the blog that harkens back to the classic days of Marvel's Bullpen Bulletins, as written by Stan Lee.
Gina was introduced to us in 2007, when First Second was just establishing itself. It was using Typepad for its blogging, and editor Mark Siegel was the primary writer. Gina's posts generally stuck to limericks to promote new releases. Cute, and a unique way to talk about First Second's books, but maybe too brief and structured so they didn't really create a personal connection or invite conversation. But then somewhere around summer 2012, she began to become the dominant voice on the blog. As she took over, her posts became meatier, and she started to cover a richer variety of topics that have really brought the site to life in a unique way.
Crowdfunding update: Patreon on the rise, Indiegogo struggles
After growing to 2 percent the size of the direct market in the last quarter of 2013, the crowdfunding sector of comics stumbled in January, even while the younger Patreon expanded.
Following up on my number-crunching and analysis from last month, I've continued tracking the progress of a market within comics that's only beginning to mature. While there are more than two dozen crowdfunding platforms, Kickstarter and Indiegogo have been the established leaders from the get-go, especially in terms of comics-related campaigns. There is a smattering of comics projects on sites like GoFundMe, but by comparison those could be considered the long tail of this market. A crowdfunding hit has yet to occur on a platform other than Kickstarter or Indiegogo.
That could change with Patreon, however. As our ROBOT 6 contributor Chris Arrant noted last week, Zach Weinersmith of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal was already bringing in $7,500 a month after launching his campaign on Dec. 10. At the time of this writing, that amount is now $7,822.86 each month of comics he produces (minus Patreon's fees). That;s coming from 2,839 patrons, or supporters. Meredith Gran's campaign for Octopus Pie, which launched at the beginning of this month, already has more than $750 per month from 235 patrons. Last month, I would've included Patreon in the previously mentioned long tail with GoFundMe; however, those two high-profile campaigns are drawing attention to Patreon, so I wanted to see if I could better measure its footprint, and see how it stands up against Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Surprisingly, it turns out that Patreon could eclipse Indiegogo as the No. 2 comics crowdfunding platform.
The perfect comic book store
For years I've imagined running my own comic book store. I've dreamed of it, even planned; sometimes I scope out locations while driving around town. I'm sure lots of fans have similar fantasies, but unlike everyone else, I would run the best comic shop ever. Not only would it be the best, it would be the most unique shopping experience. It would be perfect.
Of course, reality would be significantly different, and probably far less impressive. I mean, I'm fairly confident I could make a better store than the guy from The Simpsons. But how would I really make it stand out? When I sit down and think about it, I don't understand how anyone would think it's a good idea to open up a store.
Here in Los Angeles, like in a lot of major cities, we're pretty spoiled. There's no shortage of truly exceptional stores, whether you're in the Valley, in Hollywood or on the Westside. And if you want that old, crummy comic dungeon of yore, there are a few of those as well. The Westside might not be quite as saturated, but L.A. is generally well-covered, which means there might not be room for a new store. Invariably, I would be stepping on someone's territory. A store here would either create bad blood with the nearest specialty shops and their patrons, or it would really have to go in a different direction and appeal to a neglected or untapped demographic. That's certainly possible. On the other hand, L.A .rent is notoriously high.
In defense of the B-list (or less) characters
In less than a week, New Warriors #1 by Christopher Yost and Marcus To will be in my grubby little hands. While everyone else will still be basking in the glow of this week's new Wolverine and Punisher series, I'll be resurrecting my dormant Marvel zombie for some much-neglected superhero nostalgia.
Most of my comic book-loving friends cite Spider-Man or Superman as their favorite characters, and the ones they read religiously as kids; they're undeniably iconic. However, the superheroes that resonated most with me were those off the beaten path; the obscure characters have always led to the more satisfying reading experiences, even if it often meant tolerating missteps and frustrating gaps in time.
Maybe it's a matter of rooting for the underdog, but I think generally there are more opportunities for exciting and entertaining stories when your main cast isn't the star of several feature films and a merchandising empire.
I first encountered the New Warriors in 1990, not long after their debut. I was new to the Marvel Universe, and only Firestar was somewhat familiar to me from her role on Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, but she didn't act the same as she did in the cartoon. She didn't even have the same pet: Where was Ms. Lion? (Actually, that's fine, leave Ms. Lion out of it. In fact, never mention Ms. Lion again.) Instead, Firestar had a pet cat named Pum'kin, which suited me fine — I was always more of a cat person anyway.
Empowering vs. protecting the children
Where is the line? When is an image empowering, and when is it too risque? While the case of the contested variant cover of The Powerpuff Girls #6 has a lot of silly aspects, its core speaks to larger issues the comic book industry has been wrestling with of late, and may find itself wrestling with even more. The questions it raises aren't always easy to answer — as is so often the case, the devil is in the details.
All-ages comics have a larger presence now than they have in decades. Every month, tie-ins to popular kids' shows and original books suitable for readers are released in high enough numbers that you could open a comic book store that's just for kids. Many stores have increased their kids sections, and with events like Free Comic Book Day, it's easier for those shops to prove themselves to parents as a safe place. Meanwhile, awareness of the industry's female readership has never been higher; in October, digital comics platform comiXology released some startlingly specific data: Its average female reader is "17-26 years old, college-educated, lives in the suburbs, and is new to comics. She prefers Tumblr to Reddit. She may have never even picked up a print comic." In six years, female readership on comiXology increased from less than 5 percent to 20 percent.
The five best announcements from Image Expo
In three short years, Image Comics has turned Image Expo into the first big comics event of the year. Interest in the publisher's announcements has reached the point where I wish there were live-streaming video of the presentation. Maybe next year. For now, we have to settle with live coverage, which was still pretty fun. Image Expo didn't disappoint: It seemed as if every title announced caught my interest. There are a few that stand out, however, so here are my Top 5 picks of the announcements that went above and beyond.
1. Image signs Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips to a five-year exclusive contract
The acclaimed collaborators have a perpetual green light at Image to do whatever they want for the next five years. That's a big vote of confidence, and a real commitment to support Brubaker and Phillips. It must be quite a relief for them to not have to worry about crafting the perfect pitch and convincing someone to believe in their story. They just get to create. It's an exciting arrangement, and one I hope will serve as a pilot program for others equally worthy.
Crowd-funded comics nearly 2% the size of direct market
After about five years of slowly building momentum, the crowd-funding sector of comics may be nearly 2 percent the size of the direct market. Based on analysis of the past three months of campaigns, funds generated through Kickstarter and Indiegogo would be roughly the equivalent of the sixth- or seventh-largest publisher distributing to specialty shops in North America.
While crowd-funded comics haven't seen as brisk of an increase as digital comics, it's a sector of the industry that's undeniably growing. As more established creators and publishers experiment with running campaigns, they have pulled in their readers, increasing the awareness, and even the legitimacy, of the platforms. I've found this area to be under-studied, and I was curious to see just how economically significant crowd-funding is becoming to the comics industry. So I have collected data on every campaign that successfully raised funds through Kickstarter and Indiegogo from October 2013 to December 2013. I'm actually going further back than that, but that data isn't ready yet; I'm still digging through the numbers, as data collecting, sorting and number-crunching can be challenging due to the different platforms and currencies. But I wanted to make public what I have so far because as we head into 2014, following Fantagraphics' amazing Kickstarter campaign (as just one example), I believe we're going to be seeing the industry embrace crowd-funding more and more, and there's a lot we can still learn about how it works and how it affects comics.
Trying to be optimistic about a Sandman movie, but honestly …
I have a confession to make: I had a complete geek tantrum over the news that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is finalizing a deal to produce, and possibly star in and direct, a feature adaptation of Neil Gaiman and company's The Sandman. I actually blurted out, "Who asked for this?!" Quite loudly. In a well-populated room.
I'm not proud; I should be above such pettiness. In fact, I should be thrilled because we all know what this means: DC Comics' recently remastered collections of The Sandman are going to get a nice sales boost from the movie promotion (see Watchmen, 300, Scott Pilgrim, Hellboy, et al).
That's nothing but good news for the creators, retailers and DC. It's also good news for a new generation of readers that will likely be introduced to the landmark Vertigo series. More people being exposed to such an excellent example of comics is great, and when it comes down to it, I just want comics to succeed. So my feelings should be put aside, and I should be trumpet the adaptation as good news. But …
I don't wanna. I really don't wanna.
The historical significance of 'Miracleman'
Marvel on Tuesday released the first preview of its remastered Miracleman #1, dividing fans with its modern coloring. Some of the comments come from newer comics readers still wondering what the big deal is about this series; surely, the "mehs" are already being prepared for the issue's Jan. 15. debut.
Despite the updated coloring, it probably isn't fair or even realistic to hold the series up against contemporary comics, despite Miracleman's significant influence on a good deal of them. Instead, it's best to view these stories in the context of the times, which makes it easier to see why Miracleman (or Marvelman, if you prefer) is the natural stepping stone to Watchmen, and established many of the themes Alan Moore and many creators that followed him would explore in subsequent works up through the present day.
Among the relatively few fans who have read these stories, Miracleman is often held in the same regard as seminal works like Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns. Both of those revered miniseries debuted in 1986 and caused a seismic shift in how superhero comics, and mainstream comics in general, were created and received. It's worth noting then that a good amount of what Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns later touched upon and accomplished had been done four years earlier with Marvelman. If it weren't for the legendary rights quagmire that prevented those stories from being reprinted, Miracleman would almost surely be just as celebrated and commercially successful as its successors.
Farewell, PictureBox
PictureBox may be the only comic book publisher to win a Grammy Award, as Dan Nadel helped design the packaging for Wilco's 2004 album A Ghost is Born. What might be more remarkable is that despite such a high-profile achievement, it isn't likely to be how the small yet innovative comics house will be remembered when it closes at the end of year. Instead, at least in comics circles, PictureBox will be remembered for somehow capturing and releasing a mercurial yet eye-catching merger of music and imagery that manifested as graphic novels, art books and magazines.
For all intents and purposes, PictureBox is Nadel. He's an accomplished editor, designer, publisher and curator of "visual culture," as he describes it. "Each project comes from my own tastes and relationships, and are rooted in what I believe in," he wrote on the PictureBox website. "Since it's just me running this thing, you're pretty much seeing me through those books and this site." Looking through the PictureBox catalog proves that to be true. It's like walking into the house of the kid down the street who had a collection of comics you never heard of but instantly wished you had. Where did he find these people, these mad geniuses? Maybe if I read everything, I'll understand.
Six things in comics I'm thankful for
Thursday at this time, many Americans will be digging in to their bountiful Thanksgiving dinner or, depending upon the time zone, blissfully enjoying a tryptophan coma. Feasting isn't the only tradition, however: There's also the custom of giving thanks, hence the holiday's name.
With the end of the year approaching, it seems like a good opportunity to reflect on the state of comics, and celebrate what's working. Sure, this crazy industry can be frustrating at times, but it also gets a lot of things right. So in keeping with the numerical motif of our namesake, here are six things in comics for which I'm thankful.
1. Image Comics is killing it
There are a lot of fantastic comics today. It's been said a number of times by myself and others but it's so fun to repeat: We are living in a new renaissance period for comics. I don't think there's ever before been such a sustained output of quality books. You can't reasonably give credit for that to one publisher, but if we're just looking at the major players in the direct market, Image Comics is just killing it this year. I don't think they've ever had such a stellar line-up of quality creators putting out books that look fantastic, have great hooks to them, and stand on their own as solid entertainment.


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Who are you now?
My friend Thomas asked "Who are you now?" His prompt, which I've taken in another direction, and my short post about grit have left me with many thoughts, mostly questions. This draws from and is included in my ever-growing collection of ideas about smallness.
The expectation now is that you are more powerful than you were, that you rank higher and have more authority, that you have accumulated more (wealth, possessions, larger home, etc.). We promote and we strive for bigger and better, for more fame, grander visions, and wider impact, but do we ever celebrate smaller and better, the known-by-few, simpler visions, and narrower scope? Can we celebrate those who have stayed where they are or those who have taken a step back?
Schools and colleges frequently celebrate the grandiose accomplishments of their students, alumni, and faculty, but they usually don't profile and celebrate the loving parent, the non-professional caring for the sick or the dying, the school volunteer, the person reading what others are writing, the life that doesn't scale up. Why not? Is it because these stories are boring? Don't we diminish their importance by not including them?
A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential — as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth. —Bill Watterson
Being a good mom, being a good dad, being a good neighbor – these things are every bit as urgent and political as self-consciously being "radical" no? —Randall Szott
"By embiggening the import of national abstractions, it pulls us away from good opportunities to work on simple, tangible, everyday things. […] We should make as big a fuss tending the culture right in front of us – raising children, jury duty, block parties." —Charlie Loyd
"I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride." —William James
"I want to be famous to shuffling men
who smile while crossing streets,
sticky children in grocery lines,
famous as the one who smiled back."
—Naomi Shihab Nye
Do we set up children for peaking early and not provide them with the tools to deal with decline? Do we make them feel important (class/school/city/state champions, valedictorian, class president, queens!, kings!, etc.), but forget to put that into perspective with regard to the size of the pond?
Do we ever consider that the "winners" have actually taken from the "losers"? If there are finite resources available to us, especially attention, then when someone receives a lot of it, doesn't someone else have to get less? Can we take the competition out of our lives? Can we stop obsessing about "personal branding," the number of followers, the size of audience, the breadth of impact, the connections to big names? Can we step away from the ground breaking and focus on the ground sustaining, the ground healing? Can we emphasize the power of the day-to-day, the beauty of the local and small?
In schools, our attempts at global awareness often amount to spending money, getting on planes, and burning jet fuel. They leave us with slide shows and little understanding of the long-term effects and the lack of positive impact that our parachuting-in approach has on the lives of those we visit, observe, and often disrupt. Do we have to travel far to have a global perspective? Doesn't Wendell Berry's take on the matter make more sense?
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