Feb 16

Dodge Ram “Farmer” ad wins best Super Bowl ad on YouTube

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The Super Bowl is a good two weeks behind us now, but the commercials are continuing to live on. We ended up rounding all of them up and showing all the ones that we liked the best, and it looks like the public shared some of our same thoughts. The 2013 YouTube Ad Blitz contest saw Dodge’s Ram Trucks “Farmer” ad take the top spot.

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YouTube users voted on their favorite Super Bowl advertisement for the past two weeks, and it’s not too surprising that Dodge won the crown. Their ad was a bold step towards originality, using strictly photos and a voice-over from the late Paul Harvey, who was a famous radio broadcaster for over a half-century. While the ad may not have been comical or fast-paced, it tugged at the heart strings for many viewers.

Rounding out the top five Super Bowl ads on YouTube include Budweiser’s “Clydesdales” ad, Samsung’s “The Next Best Thing” featuring Paul Rudd and Seth Rogen, Jeep’s “Whole Again” ad, and Hyundai’s “Team” ad. All five of these adds have a combined 62.7 million views as of this writing, with the most being Samsung’s ad with 21.3 million views.

In total, these five ads made up more than 30% of all total views of Super Bowl ads and teasers on YouTube. Plus, the Ad Blitz channel itself had over 46 million interactions. To celebrate the end of Ad Blitz, YouTube is hosting a Google+ Hangout later today at 3 pm ET where they will chat with the “creative heavyweights behind these winning ads, along with ADWEEK editors James Cooper and Tim Nudd.”


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Feb 16

Chile Wildfire 2013: Police Arrest Welder Who Started Massive Fire

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SANTIAGO, Chile — Chilean police say they have arrested a man responsible for the worst forest fire in decades in the hills above the port of Valparaiso.

The 27-year-old mason confessed early Saturday to accidentally igniting the blaze with a welder’s torch. Police did not release the suspect’s name.

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Feb 16

‘A Good Day To Die Hard’ Reviews, Nataly Dawn’s ‘How I Knew Her,’ ‘Beautiful Creatures’ Reviews and More: The Week In Ouch

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This week marked the release of “A Good Day to Die Hard,” the latest installment in the “Die Hard” franchise. The Bruce Willis-led film was a failed attempt to recapture the magic of previous films, and fell extremely short, according to most critics. Animated film “Escape from Planet Earth” was scolded for its bland storyline, and the supernatural misstep “Beautiful Creatures” totally wasted the acting abilities of both Jeremy Irons and Emma Thompson.

In music, Veronica Falls’ “Waiting for Something to Happen” relied on a familiar sound that left most critics underwhelmed. Nataly Dawn received negative marks for her lifeless delivery on “How I Knew Her” and Ulrich Schnauss was called out for not challenging himself creatively with “A Long Way to Fall.” But the worst reviews this week were saved for Temper Temper’s “Bullet for My Valentine,” a timid album that lacked material engaging enough to draw in new listeners.

As always we’ve gathered the week’s harshest reviews in the slideshow below. Take a look and let us know if you agree in the comments section.

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Feb 16

Robert Rickhoff Photos: Artist’s Series Make Us Happy He’s Not An Architect (PHOTOS)

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Upon first glance, Robert Rickhoff‘s photograph of a lonely swingset looks like a random neighborhood snapshot. But something isn’t quite right…

Rickhoff, a 27-year-old artist based in Hamburg, was working on an animated film when he was inspired to engage in some dark arts with digital manipulation programming. The result, entitled “Out Of Place,” is a photographic world full of off-kilter architecture that is certainly not safe for children.

In an email to the Huffington Post Rickhoff explained, “I wanted to re-interpret the idea of public space with humor through a series of digitally manipulated photographs.”

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Feb 16

Good Stress: Does Stressing Out Have Benefits?

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Feb 16

Moving Image: Our Week In Photos (February 9-15)

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Welcome to “Moving Image,” our slideshow of the best photos of the week from around the world.

The following photographs tell the story of the most compelling events this week, capturing happenstance moments and monumental occurrences with a single click. The images that stopped us in our tracks the past few days ranged from brightly-colored Chinese divers celebrating the new year to a single bolt of lightning dramatically striking St. Peter’s dome in Vatican City.

Let us know your favorite photos in the comments section and check back next week to see new images.

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Feb 16

Obama’s Voting Reform Plan All Pomp, Little Circumstance

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It’s now pretty much an historical fact that the road to President Barack Obama’s re-election ended up running a lot smoother than the hyped-up punditocracy had predicted in advance of Election Day. That is, at least from the perspective of the candidate and his campaign functionaries. Closer to ground-level, Election Day was anything but smooth for large swathes of the electorate, who in many cases encountered long lines, late nights, the usual widespread confusion, or some combination of all three.

That night, in his acceptance speech, Obama acknowledged this in a line that had the feel of an ad lib: “I want to thank every American who participated in this election. Whether you voted for the very first time or waited in line for a very long time — by the way, we have to fix that.” The pointed acknowledgement of the rigors many voters faced that night birthed new hopes in the hearts of voter reform, that the president would take on the matter, and bring long-needed correctives to the overall voter experience. And this week, ahead of Obama’s State Of The Union address, the voter reform set kept those hopes aloft as the rumors flew that their concerns were going to get a mention.

There certainly was a goodly dose of pageantry surrounding the issue when Obama came to Capitol Hill to address both houses of Congress and the nation at large. One of the evening’s honored guests was Desiline Victor, a 102-year-old Florida woman whose struggles to vote in Miami were near legendary. That night, Obama honored her commitment to voting thusly:

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Feb 16

Fireplace In Norway To Get Primetime Coverage

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By Balazs Koranyi

OSLO (Reuters) – Norwegian public television plans to broadcast a burning fireplace for 12 straight hours from Friday evening, with firewood specialists providing color commentary, expert advice and a bit of cultural tutoring.

“We’ll talk about the very nerdy subjects like burning, slicing and stacking the wood, but we’ll also have cultural segments with music and poems,” Rune Moeklebust, a producer for state broadcaster NRK.

“It will be very slow but noble television.”

Moeklebust got the idea for the show from the wild success of a firewood book by Lars Mytting, Norway’s biggest firewood celebrity. His book “Hel Ved”, which means Strong Character in English, is a play on words because ved also means “firewood”.

Mytting, a guest on tonight’s broadcast, has sold close to 130,000 copies of the book since last year, a huge number in a country of 5 million people, with his publisher claiming that only “Fifty Shades of Grey” sold more copies during the recent holiday season.

NRK is not new to quirky programming.

In 2011, it broadcast 134 hours non-stop of a cruise ship going up the Norwegian coast to the Arctic, bagging the world record for the longest continuous TV program along the way.

At one point 600,000 people tuned in to watch that program with 3.2 million people, or over 60 percent of the population, glued to the screen at one point.

And an earlier broadcast of an eight hour train journey from Oslo to Bergen was so popular, NRK had to repeat it.

“People in Norway have a spiritual relationship with fire,” Moeklebust said. “Fire is the reason we’re here, if there was no firewood, we couldn’t live in Norway, we’d freeze.”

How will the fireplace do in the ratings?

“More people will tune in than on a normal Friday night,” Moeklebust said.

(Editing by Paul Casciato)

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Feb 16

Kim Kardashian Attempts Pregnancy Fashion In Maternity Blouse (PHOTOS)

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We didn’t see this coming.
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Feb 16

On Great Teachers: Dr. Marvin Thompson, ‘Blackboard Wars’ Principal, Tells What To Look For (VIDEO)

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What makes a teacher great? Dr. Marvin Thompson, the new principal of John McDonogh High School in New Orleans — and star of the new OWN docu-series “Blackboard Wars” — shared four often-overlooked signs with OWN. (And he should know about great teachers: In his previous post as superintendent of the Roanoke City Public Schools, Dr. Thompson increased the number of accredited schools by 25 percent, closed the No Child Left Behind achievement gap and increased the number of students scoring “Passed Advanced” on the Virginia assessment tests.)

4 Signs Of A Great Teacher

1. The students in the classroom are doing more talking than the teacher. “In today’s classroom, learning should be inquiry based, not teacher directed,” says Dr. Thompson. “A good teacher sets the stage for students to investigate, inquire and create an engaging learning environment. A meaningful, class-wide discussion is a positive sign.”

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