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Thursday, January 12, 2012
Big Planet Comics Orbit Newsletter - January 12, 2012
Best New Series
PR: Moving Sale! Beyond Comics - Gaithersburg
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Scooped again! City Paper drops comics again
I waited for this to be a trend with week 2's paper arriving today, so I was scooped again. More to the point, I'll miss the comics. It was great to see them on the last page, especially Derf's The City.
Here's all you need to know:
Citing Budget Reasons, City Paper Drops Comic Strips
Jan 26: APOCALYPTOON 2012 exhibit at Artisphere
APOCALYPTOON 2012
In Partnership with Art Soiree
THU JAN 26 - SUN JAN 29
$25 ticketed opening party on Jan 26 / On view for free Jan 27-29
Terrace Gallery
Ticketed opening party: Thu Jan 26 / 6pm / $25
Against the backdrop of a region steeped in politics and with a touch of art, style and humor, Art Soiree will unveil what 2012 will bring by presenting a unique pop-up exhibition that takes a humorous outlook on the year to come and features works, some created exclusively for this exhibition, by renowned editorial and political cartoonists. ApocalypToon 2012 features works, some of which were created exclusively for this exhibition, by cartoonists such as Kal of The Economist, Tom Toles of The Washington Post, Jeff Danziger (Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post), Daryl Cagle of MSNBC, Matt Wuerker of Politico, Damien Glez (La Monde, Courrier International, La Gazette) and Dan Piraro of Bizzaro. These simple pen stroke political cartoons foreshadow the future, poke fun at the past and imply hidden motives in ways that elude written or spoken reporting. The result of this creative license is a unique perspective on the future—entertaining, clever and insightful.
ApocolypToon kicks off with a $25 ticketed opening party on Thursday, January 26 at 6pm where guests can mingle with exhibiting cartoonists and enjoy complimentary food, live music and a cash bar. The pop-up exhibition in Artisphere's Terrace Gallery is free and open to the public from Friday, January 27 to Sunday, January 29.
Continuing with the zany nature of the cartoons, the ticketed party on January 26 celebrates the opening of the exhibit with live music from local journo-band Suspicious Package, comprised of reporters armed with their musical talent and rock star looks. The contents of the Suspicious Package are: Pulitzer Prize-winning Editorial Cartoonist at The Washington Post Tom Toles, Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Dr. Christina Sevilla, Deputy Assistant Secretary of HUD Bryan Greene, former TIME/Bloomberg correspondent and journalist Tim Berger and Director of Education and Outreach for the National Security Journalism Initiative at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Josh Meyer.
The opening party will also feature the sounds of DJ Neekola, international DC-based female DJ and producer, who will perform along with live percussionist Kamajian. In addition, the party includes a special guest performance by DJ Manifesto, an all-time DC favorite who both DJs and plays violin during his sets.
ApocalypToon 2012 is part of Notasphere, a month of programming created by local artistic collaborators. From a pop-up restaurant and political cartoons to Brazilian beats, Artisphere will be filled with fresh, thought-provoking off-beat arts events presented by creative partners from across the DC-region throughout January 2012.
New comics store in Vienna offers Living Social deal
Game On! Comics
$30 to Spend on Comic Books and Games
$15
You fold laundry, cook dinner, and double-check math homework -- sometimes all at once. The only thing separating you and the superheroes in your kids' comic books is a cape and a full spandex suit. Pull one more valiant feat, and nab today's deal from Game On! Comics in Vienna. Pay just $15 and get $30 worth of comic books and games from this brand-new independent retailer, where the shelves are lined with DC and Marvel favorites, as well as titles from independent publishers. And don't miss the store's huge game section, featuring games for your little ones as well as for your whole family. That's not a bird or a plane -- it's a half-off deal that will have your kids marveling at your superhuman powers.
Tip courtesy of Lisa Cherkasky
Food Stylist and Writer
Website: www.lisacherkasky.com
Blog: www.thelunchencounter.com
Feiffer play onstage in Arlington
A revival of Jules Feiffer's dark play Little Murders opens tomorrow Friday January 13th (hmmm) and runs to Feb. 11 at Gunston Theatre Two, 2700 S. Lang St., Arlington, 703-998-4555,
http://americancentury.org .
http://americancentury.org .
and here's the Post's favorable preview:
Death and mayhem: Gadzooks! In 'Little Murders,' making dark comedy of exaggerated violence [online title: "Backstage: Death and mayhem in 'Little Murders'"
By Jessica Goldstein
Washington Post (January 11 2012)
online at http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/backstage-death-and-mayhem-in-little-murders/2012/01/10/gIQAaMnMpP_story.html
By Jessica Goldstein
Washington Post (January 11 2012)
online at http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/backstage-death-and-mayhem-in-little-murders/2012/01/10/gIQAaMnMpP_story.html
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
That darn Beeler, Salt Lake City edition
Outrageous cartoon
Kathleen Preston Knight
Salt Lake Tribune Jan 11 2012
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/53261313-82/constitution-obama-recess-senate.html.csp
Kathleen Preston Knight
Salt Lake Tribune Jan 11 2012
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/53261313-82/constitution-obama-recess-senate.html.csp
Publishers Weekly on Buzzboy
New Buzzboy Graphic Novel Out in Print, the Web, on iPad
By Calvin Reid
Dec 21, 2011
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/49926-new-buzzboy-graphic-novel-out-in-print-the-web-on-ipad.html
By Calvin Reid
Dec 21, 2011
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/49926-new-buzzboy-graphic-novel-out-in-print-the-web-on-ipad.html
PR: Baltimore Comic-Con Rolls Into Philly with JG Jones
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BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - January 12, 2012 - 
Comic Riffs on Reuben Awards and Pearls Before Swine aps
THIS JUST IN: 'Pearls Before Swine' launches immersive-- and 'intimate' — new app (*Shirt optional)
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog January 11 2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/this-just-in-pearls-before-swine-launches-intimate-new-app/2012/01/11/gIQAKuGqqP_blog.html
REUBEN AWARDS invite webcomics, animators — and Jim Davis
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog January 11 2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/reuben-awards-invite-webcomics-animators--and-jim-davis/2012/01/10/gIQAoTNkpP_blog.html
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog January 11 2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/this-just-in-pearls-before-swine-launches-intimate-new-app/2012/01/11/gIQAKuGqqP_blog.html
REUBEN AWARDS invite webcomics, animators — and Jim Davis
By Michael Cavna
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog January 11 2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/reuben-awards-invite-webcomics-animators--and-jim-davis/2012/01/10/gIQAoTNkpP_blog.html
PR: PELICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY PUBLISHER AND OWNER PASSES
I haven't seen this appear anywhere else, so I'll post it. Pelican published Charles Brooks' series Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year as well as former editorial cartoonist Bob Artley's children's books and reminiscences.
For Immediate Release
PELICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY PUBLISHER AND OWNER PASSES
(Gretna, La.) January 9, 2012––In March of 2010, New Orleans area based Pelican Publishing Company, Inc., celebrated the fortieth anniversary of publisher and president Dr. Milburn Calhoun. Today we mourn his passing.
A bookman, publisher, philanthropist, and retired physician, he died Saturday, January 7, 2012, at West Jefferson Hospital in New Orleans following a lengthy illness. He was eighty-one. Visiting takes place today, Monday, January 9, 2012, from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. with a service immediately following at Oak Park Baptist Church, 1110 Kabel Drive, New Orleans. Additional services will be held Thursday, January 12, 2012, at Kilpatrick Funeral Home, West Monroe, La., with visitation from 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. with a service and interment immediately following at Sibley Cemetery in Choudrant, La.
Born in West Monroe, on January 15, 1930, he was a graduate of Ouachita Parish High School, 1947; Northeast Junior College, 1949; Louisiana State University, 1951; and the LSU School of Medicine, 1955. After an internship at New Orleans Charity Hospital, 1955-56, he practiced medicine in Buras for nine years, interrupted by two years in the United States Air Force where he attained the rank of major. He practiced medicine at Nicholson, Baehr, & Calhoun from 1965 until his retirement in 1997. He also served as chief of staff at West Jefferson Hospital. He was a longtime member of Oak Park Baptist Church where he served as a deacon and in numerous support positions.
A lifelong bibliophile, he was a recognized expert on rare books. He founded Bayou Books, an old, rare, and out-of-print book dealer specializing in Louisiana and Southern subjects, and in 1961, he opened a Gretna bookstore by the same name. In 1970, he and family members acquired Pelican Publishing Company, a small New Orleans book publishing company that they relocated to Gretna. Publishing standouts include the blockbuster success of motivational titles such as Zig Ziglar's See You at the Top and the publication of Cajun Night Before Christmas®. In addition to spawning Pelican's wildly successful series of more than thirty Night Before Christmas titles and products, the publication of Cajun Night Before Christmas® marked the beginning of Pelican's children's book division, which is now the company's largest niche. Other areas of specialty include cookbooks, architecture titles, the Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year Series, works on Southern history and culture, Civil War scholarship, black studies, and books covering every aspect of life in Louisiana.
"We were not a people of means," Dr. Calhoun said, describing the challenge of purchasing a bankrupt publishing house, "so we did it the old-fashioned way. We published important books that other publishers were not publishing and a large part of the population wanted."
The model worked. Pelican's sales doubled each year during the first ten years of Dr. Calhoun's leadership. Business expanded into all fifty states, and soon the company began to establish its international presence and enjoy global distribution in the sale of English-language rights to publishers throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, and South America. Today, with a backlist of more than 2,500 titles, Pelican is the largest independent trade book publisher in the South. In continuous operation since 1926, Pelican remains a family-owned, independent general trade and children's publisher committed to publishing books of quality and permanence on a wide variety of subjects.
In 1998, he funded the Mary and Darrell Calhoun Recreational Center at the Louisiana Baptist Children's Home in Monroe, and in 1999, he endowed the one-million-dollar Mary E. and Darrell L. Calhoun Chair in Pharmacology at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. He and his wife established the Milburn and Nancy Calhoun Foundation in 2009 to support religious and educational activities. Donations may be made to the foundation at 9 Muirfield Place, New Orleans, LA 70131.
Dr. Calhoun reflects on some of the highlights from his forty years, along with Pelican's history and the publication of Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles, the first trade title by William Faulkner and the first book in Pelican Publishing history, here.
For media inquiries, contact Antoinette de Alteriis, Promotion Director, Pelican Publishing Company 504-368-1175 x 331 or adealteriis@pelicanpub.com.
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Sam Golden
Pelican Publishing Company
Fan us on FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/PelicanPublishing
Follow us on Twitter: @PelicanPub, www.twitter.com/PelicanPub
Find us on the web: www.pelicanpub.com
PELICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY PUBLISHER AND OWNER PASSES
(Gretna, La.) January 9, 2012––In March of 2010, New Orleans area based Pelican Publishing Company, Inc., celebrated the fortieth anniversary of publisher and president Dr. Milburn Calhoun. Today we mourn his passing.
A bookman, publisher, philanthropist, and retired physician, he died Saturday, January 7, 2012, at West Jefferson Hospital in New Orleans following a lengthy illness. He was eighty-one. Visiting takes place today, Monday, January 9, 2012, from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. with a service immediately following at Oak Park Baptist Church, 1110 Kabel Drive, New Orleans. Additional services will be held Thursday, January 12, 2012, at Kilpatrick Funeral Home, West Monroe, La., with visitation from 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. with a service and interment immediately following at Sibley Cemetery in Choudrant, La.
Born in West Monroe, on January 15, 1930, he was a graduate of Ouachita Parish High School, 1947; Northeast Junior College, 1949; Louisiana State University, 1951; and the LSU School of Medicine, 1955. After an internship at New Orleans Charity Hospital, 1955-56, he practiced medicine in Buras for nine years, interrupted by two years in the United States Air Force where he attained the rank of major. He practiced medicine at Nicholson, Baehr, & Calhoun from 1965 until his retirement in 1997. He also served as chief of staff at West Jefferson Hospital. He was a longtime member of Oak Park Baptist Church where he served as a deacon and in numerous support positions.
A lifelong bibliophile, he was a recognized expert on rare books. He founded Bayou Books, an old, rare, and out-of-print book dealer specializing in Louisiana and Southern subjects, and in 1961, he opened a Gretna bookstore by the same name. In 1970, he and family members acquired Pelican Publishing Company, a small New Orleans book publishing company that they relocated to Gretna. Publishing standouts include the blockbuster success of motivational titles such as Zig Ziglar's See You at the Top and the publication of Cajun Night Before Christmas®. In addition to spawning Pelican's wildly successful series of more than thirty Night Before Christmas titles and products, the publication of Cajun Night Before Christmas® marked the beginning of Pelican's children's book division, which is now the company's largest niche. Other areas of specialty include cookbooks, architecture titles, the Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year Series, works on Southern history and culture, Civil War scholarship, black studies, and books covering every aspect of life in Louisiana.
"We were not a people of means," Dr. Calhoun said, describing the challenge of purchasing a bankrupt publishing house, "so we did it the old-fashioned way. We published important books that other publishers were not publishing and a large part of the population wanted."
The model worked. Pelican's sales doubled each year during the first ten years of Dr. Calhoun's leadership. Business expanded into all fifty states, and soon the company began to establish its international presence and enjoy global distribution in the sale of English-language rights to publishers throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, and South America. Today, with a backlist of more than 2,500 titles, Pelican is the largest independent trade book publisher in the South. In continuous operation since 1926, Pelican remains a family-owned, independent general trade and children's publisher committed to publishing books of quality and permanence on a wide variety of subjects.
In 1998, he funded the Mary and Darrell Calhoun Recreational Center at the Louisiana Baptist Children's Home in Monroe, and in 1999, he endowed the one-million-dollar Mary E. and Darrell L. Calhoun Chair in Pharmacology at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. He and his wife established the Milburn and Nancy Calhoun Foundation in 2009 to support religious and educational activities. Donations may be made to the foundation at 9 Muirfield Place, New Orleans, LA 70131.
Dr. Calhoun reflects on some of the highlights from his forty years, along with Pelican's history and the publication of Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles, the first trade title by William Faulkner and the first book in Pelican Publishing history, here.
For media inquiries, contact Antoinette de Alteriis, Promotion Director, Pelican Publishing Company 504-368-1175 x 331 or adealteriis@pelicanpub.com.
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Sam Golden
Pelican Publishing Company
Fan us on FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/PelicanPublishing
Follow us on Twitter: @PelicanPub, www.twitter.com/PelicanPub
Find us on the web: www.pelicanpub.com
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
USA Today comic stories
Marvel's superstars assemble on Facebook
By Mike Snider, USA TODAY January 8 2012
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/story/2012-01-08/marvel-comics-facebook-avengers/52456414/1
'Justice League' named best-selling comic book of 2011
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY January 10 2012
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/story/2012-01-10/Justice-League-top-comic-of-2011/52477614/1
By Mike Snider, USA TODAY January 8 2012
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/story/2012-01-08/marvel-comics-facebook-avengers/52456414/1
'Justice League' named best-selling comic book of 2011
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY January 10 2012
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/story/2012-01-10/Justice-League-top-comic-of-2011/52477614/1
Health Reform graphic non-novel
This article also appeared in today's print Washington Post:
To Understand Health Overhaul, Try A Comic Book
by Michelle Andrews
Partner content from: Kaiser Health News
January 10, 2012
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/01/10/144977971/to-understand-health-overhaul-try-a-comic-book
To Understand Health Overhaul, Try A Comic Book
by Michelle Andrews
Partner content from: Kaiser Health News
January 10, 2012
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/01/10/144977971/to-understand-health-overhaul-try-a-comic-book
Comics Research Bibliography 2012 print edition now for sale
Since 1996, John Bullough and I have been working on the online Comics Research Bibliography. In recent years, I began working with John Lent who had published 10 volumes of citations through an academic press (at a price of over $1000 for the whole set) and started arranging citations according to his system. In 2009, the International Journal of Comic Art published a print version that I compiled using Lent's arrangement. This bibliography of articles and books on all aspects of comic and cartoon art including comic books, comic strips, cartoons, animation, editorial cartoons, is newly updated as of the end of 2011. The two volumes of books include tens of thousands of citations with links to information on comic book movies, the Danish Islam cartoon controversy, cartoon responses to 9-11 terrorism and other topical matters. * marks entries or articles that are new since the last printed version in the International Journal of Comic Art at the end of 2009 – 4,816 of them.
Volume 1 includes Comic books & strips of the United States, and is 435 pages for $16.50.
Volume 2 includes caricature, animation, gag and editorial cartooning in the United States, and all aspects of comic art in the rest of the world, and is 400 pages for $15.00.
A complete and searchable pdf electronic version with working hotlinks is also available for $10.
Lulu is having a sale for a couple of days: Enter coupon code SECONDHALF305 at checkout and receive your second book for 50% off. You need to have 2 books in your shopping cart for this coupon to work. The maximum savings for this offer is $50.
Here's a sample:
9-11 Response
*Bell, Melissa. 2011. Sept. 11 cartoons give the tragedy back to the victims. Washington Post's Blog Post blog (September 9): http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/sept-11-cartoons-give-the-tragedy-back-to-the-victims/2011/09/09/gIQA6ZeiFK_blog.html
Bok, Chip. 2006. Viewpoints: The world since 9/11. After the attacks on the US in September 2001, many commentators and political leaders declared that the world had changed for ever. Five years on, what exactly has changed? Six writers and commentators give us their views. Chip Bok, American political cartoonist. BBC News (September 8): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5317612.stm#bok
*Britten, Bob. 2010. Picturing Terror. Visual and Verbal Rhetoric in The 9/11 Report Graphic Adaptation. International Journal of Comic Art 12 (1; Spring): 355-369
*Byrd, David. 2011. Comic Strips to Blend Comedy, Tragedy for 9/11 Anniversary. Voice of America News (September 8): http://www.voanews.com/english/news/arts-and-entertainment/Cartoonists-Blend-Comedy-Tragedy-for-911-Anniversary-129463863.html
*Cavna, Michael. 2011. 9/11 Tribute: Comics pages will mark 10th anniversary of Sept. 11 tragedy. Washington Post Comic Riffs blog (August 30): http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/911-tribute-comics-pages-will-mark-10th-anniversary-of-sept-11-tragedy/2011/08/30/gIQAZMm4pJ_blog.html
*Clark, Noelene. 2011. 9/11 anniversary: Comic strips remember the heroes, victims. Los Angles Times' Hero Complex blog (September 9): http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2011/09/09/911-september-11-2001-pictures-cartoons-cartoonists-comics-memorial-attacks/#/0
*Colton, David. 2011. Sunday comics will offer 9/11 remembrances. USA Today (August 30): http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/story/2011-08-30/Sunday-comics-will-offer-911-remembrances/50182588/1
Flinn, Tom and Milton Griepp. 2007. After 9/11; Graphic Novel Sequel to the '9/11 Report'. ICv2 (November 29): http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/11700.html
*Machosky, Michael. 2011. ToonSeum to host cartoon retrospective of 9/11. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (August 30): http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/ae/museums/s_754237.html
*McLaughlin, Katie. 2011. Sunday comics plan unique 9/11 tribute. CNN (September 9): http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/09/09/cartoonists.remember.9.11/
*Moore, Matt. 2011. Cartoonists plan Sept. 11 anniversary tribute. Associated Press (August 30): http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/Article_2011-08-30-Sept%2011-Comic%20Tribute/id-p3bdf5ee449404f4ba7f45a86e94bc008
and here's a basic table of contents:
Table of Contents (highlights only)
VOLUME 1
United States
1. Comic Books and Strips 003
2. Comic Books 010
· BUSINESS ASPECTS - Publishers, Companies 016
· BUSINESS ASPECTS - Distribution, Sales 040
· COMIC BOOK MAKERS AND THEIR WORKS 093
· CHARACTERS AND TITLES 225
3. Comic Strips 342
· CHARACTERS AND TITLES 349
· Cartoonists 405
3a. Web Comics, webcomics 434
4. Animation, Caricature, and Gag and Political Cartoons 435
4a. Comic Art 436
4b. Gag, Illustrative, Magazine Cartoons 445
· New Yorker magazine 446
4c. Animation 478
· Animators and Their Works 486
· Characters and Titles 495
· Companies, Networks, and Studios 571
4d. Caricature 579
4e. Political Cartoons 586
· Feiffer, Jules 596
Canada 629
Global & Europe 639
· Danish Islamic Cartoons - Religion & Censorship Controversy 640
· Belgium 668
· France 676
a. Satrapi, Marjane 680
· Great Britain 707
Africa 752
Middle East 758
Asia 767
· India 772
· Japan 776
Australia and Oceania 814
Central and South America 817
Caribbean 823
Mark Burrier interview finally online
I've finally put this interview online -
Meet a Local Illustrator: A Chat With Mark Burrier
by Mike Rhode on Jan. 10, 2012
Politics and Prose bookstore noted in Doonesbury
Rick Redfern was visiting Washington's Politics and Prose bookstore in the January 9th Doonesbury for his son's booksigning. Unfortunately I missed that one, although I believe it would have been conflicting with William Gibson's appearance.
Monday, January 09, 2012
PR: Fantom Comics January newsletter
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Truitt on Superboy
Superboy straddles line between right and wrong in DC series
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY January 9 2012
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/story/2012-01-09/Superboy-comic-book-series/52468274/1
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY January 9 2012
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/story/2012-01-09/Superboy-comic-book-series/52468274/1
San Diego Comic-Con cofounder obituary
This appeared in the print version of the Post on January 8th:
San Diego's Richard Alf, Comic-Con co-founder, dead at 59
By Associated Press,
Washington Post.com January 6 2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/san-diegos-richard-alf-comic-con-co-founder-dead-at-59/2012/01/06/gIQAMW2EeP_story.html
San Diego's Richard Alf, Comic-Con co-founder, dead at 59
By Associated Press,
Washington Post.com January 6 2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/san-diegos-richard-alf-comic-con-co-founder-dead-at-59/2012/01/06/gIQAMW2EeP_story.html
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