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Liminal necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 483 diseños de 127 diseñadores freelance.
We are 5foot4. Yes, this is correct, all three partners in this business are all 5foot4 which is why we all see eye to eye (unless one of us is wearing high heels!)
With 36 years of consumer marketing experience and a frustration with some of our working environments we started 5foot4. We believe that businesses need to think about treating and caring about their staff as much as they do their consumers.
Most organisations don't understand the diversity of their people and how to get the best out of them (motivate them). We are applying our marketing expertise to internal issues.
We are a start up business so still very small in size but if you met us, you'd think we were a perfect guest to have at your party. We are easy to talk to and always have something interesting to bring to the conversation, we've got a pretty good sense of humour and we'll get your thinking about things a little differently.
Our personality is playful, colourful, fresh, innovative and curious.
Our brand essence is: transparency
5foot4 wants to talk to other businesses who value their team but know they have some problems such as high staff turnover, less than ideal productivity and general communications and engagement across their teams.
Key Consumer Insight: People are different and are motivated by different things. Businesses have not yet embraced this thought properly and have treated their employees in a one size fits all approach.
We will be dealing with medium to large corporates with 100 to 500 employees who have an appreciation of fresh ideas and innovative approaches.
Whilst a lot of our thinking may sound like it sits in the HR space, we want to be dealing with decision makers who see what we do as much bigger and more exciting than this. They can see a bright future for their business which has a vibrant and dyamic team who love coming to work every day.
We are looking for a logo to represent 5foot4
1. we want a logo that sits somewhere between playful and corporate
2. Whilst 5foot4 is actually a reference to our height, we don't want to point this out in our logo.
3. We don't have a specific idea of what colour(s) we want the logo to be so fee free to experiment.
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When I began using the music program Spotify sometime last year, it changed my music-listening life. With literally any and all of the world's recorded music now available in a five second search, it was like suddenly having the Holy Grail as your morning coffee cup.
I took the scrolling list of my Facebook friends on the right side of the player as a strange addendum to this revolutionary new program. After all, what did I particularly care what my friends were listening to? So what if Chad Peterson was listening to this or Laura Beatty Muteti listening to that? Oh, Jennifer Leininger is listening to "Letter To My Countrymen" by Brother Ali? Um, good for her? Glad you enjoy the suffocating saturation of Wisonsin albino rappers, Jen. Got enough of those, thank you!
I dismissed it as an oddity. I figured if these friends of mine had decided to sign up for some special program that allowed others to see their musical choices, that was cool. They were confident enough in their taste to let the rest of us see what they thought was worthy of a spin on the old vinyl (ancient metaphor; ask your parents), so good for them.
Then I got an alarming text message from an unidentified number.
"Hey, Steve! Just saw you were listening to the Lumineers on Spotify. I just saw them at Ravinia, and they were awesome!"
After a hasty flurry of texts back in forth, I ascertained that this message was from a girl I'd met once a year earlier through my friend Ian, had Facebook friended, and had subsequently not been in contact with (that sounded hinky, but literally we hung out for one afternoon in a bar with a bunch of people). Yet because we were Facebook friends, she could see my Spotify choices.
Though I liked this girl and had no problem with her getting in touch, this was incredibly troubling because I had no idea that this whole time, my musical tastes were running roughshod over the internets. This was panic-inducing for two reasons:
1) I accept anyone who friends me on Facebook. As a D-list Chicago celebrity, I frequently get requests from people who found a RedEye column entertaining. This means I have literally hundreds of "friends" who I've never met, who could be psychopaths or hippies or ventriloquists, all of whom can potentially see what music I'm listening to all day.
2) I listen to a lot of music. My entire profession consists of sitting in front of a laptop typing every bullshit thought that pops into my head (as is evidenced by this column), so I turn Spotify on in the morning and it plays nearly until I go to bed. This means that I don't always listen to stuff that I would describe as "not particularly mortifying". Okay, so someone out there has seen that I listen to the Kid Rock album "Rock 'n Roll Jesus" alarmingly often. They've seen that I spend hours a day gorging on chick music like The Wailin' Jennies. They know that when Springsteen's "Wrecking Ball" came out, I listened to it on a loop for three weeks straight almost without interruption.
And I'm only bringing up the examples I'll admit in print!
Needless to say, this is terrible. If I were to creep up to even D+-list celebrity, it would be a matter of days before someone started a tumblr blog called "Douche Music of Markley's Spotify".
What's next? Will Spotify provide live links to what people are actually doing while they listen to specific tracks? Will there be streaming shots of me getting down to D'Angelo's "Voodoo" or rapping 2Pac's "All Eyez On Me" into a fake-microphone spatula or weeping uncontrollably to Abigail Washburn's "City of Refuge"?
Thanks a lot, synthesis of music and social media. You've ruined my reputation yet again.

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Spicy holiday gifts
I've said it before: I like giving holiday food gifts that aren't sweet. Not because I don't like sweets – or getting them, for that matter. But it's nice to give something that stands out among the tidal wave of cookies and candies.
Giving spice mixtures along with ideas and recipes of how to use them is a favorite. The following require little preparation beyond roasting, grinding, combining the components and printing instructions.
Buying the little jars of spices available at groceries could make this an expensive project. But Springfield's "alternative groceries" offer more affordable options. Large bags of some are available at the Asian Little World Market (2936 S. MacArthur Blvd.), and at the Indian Mini Devon (2701 W. Lawrence Ave.). Then there's Food Fantasies (512 Wabash Avenue). They have spices in bulk – as much or as little as needed. And there's more than just spices in bulk: nuts, dried peppers and mushrooms (for the porcini steak rub below), teas, etc. Buying them by the ounce reduces their cost dramatically.
The recipes below call for grinding some spices in a mortar and pestle or spice grinder/mill. Spice grinders also function as coffee grinders, although it's not a good idea to use them for both. They're not expensive, hovering around $20. I have four in my kitchen: for coffee, one for grinding pepper, one for sweet spices such as cinnamon and one for savory, such as cumin.
I'd never heard of dukkah, a mixture of coarsely ground nuts, seeds and spices, until I took my daughter, Ashley, down to New Zealand to begin studying viticulture and oenology (winemaking and grape-growing) at Lincoln University in Christchurch.
Dukkah is Egyptian in origin, but can be found everywhere in both New Zealand and Australia. In Egypt as well as those Down Under countries, it's most often used as an accompaniment to bread dipped in olive oil, then dukkah. In Egypt, the breads are usually flat, pita-like. But in New Zealand, crusty baguettes and sourdough loaves are used. I was instantly hooked on dukkah's crunchiness and taste. Dukkah is one of those things that has infinite variations: hazelnuts and sesame seeds are most common, but there are recipes that call for pistachios, walnuts, pine nuts and even macadamia nuts. Cumin seeds are common, so are coriander seeds. Some have heat from black pepper, and sometimes dried mint or oregano is included.
Dukkah is used in other ways Down Under: to sprinkle on salads, vegetables, popcorn and baked potatoes as well as breading for chicken or fish cutlets, and more. Cuisine, New Zealand's premier culinary magazine recently published a deliciously simple recipe for carrots with dukkah. The whole carrots are brushed with olive oil, roasted in a 400 F oven, then drizzled with a dressing of tahini (a paste made of toasted sesame seeds) thinned with lemon juice and water, topped with a healthy sprinkle of dukkah.
• 1 c. hazelnuts
• 2/3 c. sesame seeds
• 3 T. coriander seeds
• 3 T. cumin seeds
• 3 T. black peppercorns
• 1 1/2 tsp. flaky or coarse sea salt, or more or less to taste
Preheat the oven to 400 F.
Put the hazelnuts on a baking sheet and roast until they're lightly browned and fragrant, about 5 minutes. If the hazelnuts have skins, wrap them in a lint-free towel. Let sit for a few minutes, until they're just cool enough to handle, then rub them vigorously to remove as much of the skins as possible. Set aside to cool completely.
Place a skillet over medium-high heat and add the sesame, coriander and cumin seeds and the peppercorns. Toast, stirring constantly, until the sesame seeds are lightly browned and the mixture is fragrant. Set aside to cool.
Crush the hazelnuts in a mortar and pestle, spice grinder, food processor or rolling pin so that they're coarsely ground into irregular-sized pieces.
Grind the seeds and peppercorns until they're completely, but coarsely ground.
Combine the nuts, seeds and salt. Store in a tightly covered container. Makes about 2 cups.
A North Africa spice mixture, ras el hanout translates to "top of the shop," a mixture of the spice merchant's best. The components of ras el hanout vary widely, with as few as 8 ingredients to as many as 100. It's used as a "flavor enhancer" and to make marinades (and even has repute as an aphrodisiac). It's an essential in my pantry, always a jar on my spice shelf.
I use it to sprinkle on lamb shanks or in meatballs for a Moroccan tagine, or on grilled fish brushed with olive oil, finished with a squeeze of lemon. But my favorite ras el hanout preparation is in a marinade for grilled shrimp or chicken (especially wings): In a resealable plastic bag, combine 1 T. ras el hanout with 1/4 c. olive oil, 1 T. balsamic or sherry vinegar, 1 T. honey and 1-2 tsp. minced garlic. Seal the bag and squish until the mixture is combined. Add 1 pound peeled and deveined large shrimp, or chicken wings, cut into individual pieces. Double or triple the amount of marinade for more wings.
Let the shrimp marinate for about an hour, then thread on skewers and grill. The chicken wings can marinate for several hours or even overnight, refrigerated.
Ras el hanout
• 5 bay leaves
• 1 T. dried thyme leaves – NOT ground
• 1 T. black peppercorns
• 1 T. freshly grated nutmeg
• 1 T. whole cloves
• 1 T ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp. coriander seeds
• 1/2 tsp. mace, or an additional 1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg
• 1 tsp. cardamom pods
• 1/2 tsp. ground ginger
• 1/2 tsp. cumin seeds
• 1 tsp. whole allspice
• 1 tsp. turmeric
• 1/2 tsp. anise seeds
• 1/4 -1/2 tsp. cayenne
Grind all the ingredients with a mortar and pestle or in a spice mill/grinder. Makes about 1/2 cup.
Porcini are among the most flavorful mushrooms in the world, second only to truffles. Dried, their incomparable flavor intensifies. Fresh porcini aren't widely available, even in countries where they're most often found, such as France and Italy. And they're always pricey. Porcini also grow in America, especially in the Pacific Northwest.
I've only eaten fresh porcini three times. But dried porcinis have become something I always have on hand, for things such as mushroom soup, risotto, a vegetarian gravy, and the steak rub below. Local groceries have them in the produce section; they're usually extremely expensive: about $8 for a 1/2 ounce. I buy them by the pound in Italian groceries in St. Louis or Chicago for around $30/lb. Thankfully, Food Fantasies has them in bulk at $4.37/ounce.
Porcini steak rub
• 1 oz. dried porcini mushrooms
• 2 tsp. garlic powder (or leave out of the mixture and add minced fresh garlic in the marinade)
• 1 T. freshly ground pepper
• 1 T. hot pepper flakes, or more or less to taste
• 1 tsp. dried thyme
• 1 T. kosher or sea salt
• 3 T. dark brown sugar
Grind the mushrooms to a powder in a spice grinder or food processor. Combine with the remaining ingredients and seal tightly.
To prepare the steaks:
Mix the porcini rub with 1/2 c. extra-virgin olive oil and the fresh garlic, if using. Rub steaks on both sides with the mixture. Place in a resealable plastic bag, squish out the air, and let stand at least an hour and up to 24 hours. Refrigerate if marinating more than 1-2 hours. Remove from the refrigerator an hour before cooking to bring to room temperature. Wipe excess rub from the steaks before cooking.
Grill the steaks over charcoal, or sear on both sides in a heavy, oiled ovenproof skillet, then place in a 500 F oven until the desired doneness is reached. The time will vary based on the type and thickness of the steaks. Begin checking after 10 minutes for rare meat. Makes enough rub for 4-6 steaks.
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BlackBerry App World 2.0 Beta Testing Starts This Week
RIM on Thursday announced that it had begun testing a new version of BlackBerry App World, the company's app store for BlackBerry devices. BlackBerry App World 2.0 will offer new payment options, easier app discovery, and the introduction of BlackBerry ID, which will tie a user to a device-independent account.
For new payment options, RIM is expanding beyond PayPal to include major credit cards like Visa and Mastercard. RIM is also in talks with U.S. carriers to add the option of adding onto a user's monthly mobile bill for an application. On the app discovery front, BlackBerry App World 2.0 adds new tabs that list off many app categories. Users can scroll horizontally to look at the Top 25 Free Apps, Top 25 Paid Apps, Top 25 Themes, Newest Apps, and Recently Updated Apps. The new BlackBerry ID option is being added so users can have a device-independent ID with credit-card info and the option to transfer paid-for apps from one BlackBerry device to another.
If you're a member of the BlackBerry Beta Zone, you can access the beta now. The general public will have to wait for an unspecified date before it goes live for all BlackBerry users.
For more information on BlackBerry App World and popular applications in it, check out our Top 10 Free BlackBerry Apps 2010 story.


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Derp! Ready the eBay accounts, cause that company that prints game box art- Acme Video Game Box Art Co. Inc. Ltd. we believe they're called - pulled a gargantuan boner and misprinted a shitload of our favorite titles. We don't mean to call them out, but we can't allow the public to be misled.
No, we didn't make these, and frankly we resent the implication. We swear upon thefangs of ourtenaciouslegal team: These images were not concocted by our clever art team, and this article is in no way intended as parody.*
Above: Remember -this is a printing error and by no means a threat to the well-being of these adorable newlyweds
Above: Would it surprise anyone if they were actually making this?
Above: Git R Dun...Rong!
*Written in compliance with the strictly defined parameters afforded to us by the nationally recognized, Opposite Day. Total parody, bitches.


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Teyana Taylor Only 15-Years-Old Singing A Lauryn Hill Song! (Right Before Neptunes Signed Her)
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Chiara de Blasio said in the nearly five-minute video that she'd been suffering from clinical depression since her adolescence and used alcohol to cope with her sadness and anxiety. She said she hopes that by sharing her story, she will inspire others to get help.
De Blasio said she thought her problems would be solved by leaving home and going to California for college, 3,000 miles away. But, she says, she still felt an insecurity that inhibited her ability to connect with her fellow students and to curb her addictive behavior.
"I just kept reasoning and using this really fake rationale that was so justified to me that I could keep doing this stuff and be like, 'Oh, I won't drink,' and then I would just smoke weed, and then I'd be like, 'Oh, I'm not going to smoke weed,' and then I'd just drink," de Blasio said. "It was kind of just bartering for equally bad outcomes."
After years of struggling, de Blasio said her therapist recommended an outpatient treatment program in New York City. Working with both professionals and people her age who suffered from depression and anxiety as she did, de Blasio says she was able to work through many of her issues — and get sober.
"Removing substances from my life, it's opened so many doors for me," de Blasio said.
She said her parents remained committed to helping her get better throughout her ups and downs, and that being able to be honest with them — and others — about her trials was critical in overcoming them.
People are suffering and dying of these diseases every day, de Blasio said.
"We really can't do anything as a society to help those people until we start talking about it. Nobody can do sobriety on their own," she said.


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1.   To promote public interests in sporting activities in Hong Kong, through the organization of various sports events and competitions,
      to achieve a healthier lifestyle;
2.   To encourage and reflect public opinions in asking government to provide more proper and better facilities for the practice of all sports;
3.   To reconcile or arbitrate in any differences which may arise between national sports associations or groups therein;
4.   To coordinate all local sports organizations in the promotion of sports at different levels from leisure to elite,
      to attain the ultimate goal of "Sport for All";
5.   To work in conjunction with other global and regional organizations dedicated to the promotion of international competitions;
6.   To foster Olympism, which promotes friendship, solidarity and fair play through sports;
7.   To undertake the organization of international competitions and to support Hong Kong athletes' participation in them;
8.   To select and send Hong Kong, China delegations to all multi-sports Games, including the Olympic Games, Asian Games,
      and East Asian Youth Games, etc.; and
9.   To do all such other things to attain the above goals.
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When you're serving food at the table, nothing beats a good stainless steel serving plate. It's indestructible, hygienic, and easy to clean: for these reasons, steel serving plates gained quickly in popularity in the professional restaurant market after the Second World War. And since 2000, professional standards have also been available in a family-friendly version, featuring Jasper Morrison's trademark simple and minimalist style.
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Death Of A Bogeyman - The Corporate Media Bury Hugo Chávez
- In Alerts 2013
- Post 13 March 2013
- Last Updated on 10 June 2013
- By Editor
By David Edwards
Following the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez on March 5, the BBC reported from the funeral:
'More than 30 world leaders attended the ceremony, including Cuban President Raul Castro, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus.
'A message was read out from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.'
A rogues' gallery of the West's 'bad guys', in other words. To the side of the main article, the BBC quietly noted that, in fact, 'Most Latin American and Caribbean Presidents' attended the funeral, not just the Bond villains.
Following the same theme, a BBC article appeared beneath a grim photo montage of Osama bin Laden, Chávez, Kim Jong-il, Muammar Gaddafi, Fidel Castro and Saddam Hussein. The report asked: 'Is the era of the anti-American bogeymen at an end?'
Like many independent nationalists, Chávez was not 'anti-American', although he was anti-empire. US foreign policy, on the other hand, was certainly anti-Chávez, 'variously portrayed as a six-times elected champion of the people or a constitution-fiddling demagogue', the BBC piece noted.
Similar 'balance' was offered by the Guardian's Rory Carroll, lead author of the newspaper's Venezuelan coverage between 2006-2012:
'To the millions who revered him – a third of the country, according to some polls – a messiah has fallen, and their grief will be visceral. To the millions who detested him as a thug and charlatan, it will be occasion to bid, vocally or discreetly, good riddance.'
Fair comment, one might think, until we try to imagine a UK journalist writing anything comparable to the second sentence in response to the death of a US president or UK prime minister.
And yet, unlike so many US and UK leaders of recent times, Chávez did not invade nations, overthrow governments, commit mass murder, mass torture, or mass starvation through sanctions. Indeed, in his years as president from 1999-2013 he was not credibly accused of a single political murder.
If it is to be considered fair, condemnation of Chávez should be proportionate to the extent of his alleged crimes and consistent with the level of condemnation directed at US-UK leaders' far worse crimes. If Chávez gets much more for doing far less, we are in the realm of propaganda, not journalism.
To be consistent, then, a senior Guardian journalist should respond to the death of George H.W. or George W. Bush, for example, with something along these lines:
'To the tens or hundreds of millions who detested him as a mass murdering and torturing thug, war criminal and charlatan, it will be occasion to bid, vocally or discreetly, good riddance.'
Fairness also requires that reporters take account of the fact that recent US presidents and UK prime ministers have not had to govern small countries in the face of political, military and economic attacks - including guerrilla warfare, outright invasion, economic strangulation and terrorism - launched, over decades, by a global superpower.
In 1928, Venezuela was the world's leading oil exporter. To achieve its goal of 'economic hegemony in Venezuela', Stephen Rabe noted, the US 'actively supported the vicious and venal regime of Juan Vincente Gómez'. (Rabe, The Road To Opec, University of Texas Press, 1982)
Noam Chomsky supplied further background:
'From World War II, in Venezuela the US followed the standard policy of taking total control of the military "to expand U.S. political and military influence in the Western Hemisphere and perhaps help keep the U.S. arms industry vigorous"...
'The Kennedy Administration increased its assistance to the Venezuelan security forces for "internal security and counterinsurgency operations against the political left"...' (Chomsky, Year 501, Verso, 1993, pp.170-171)
In 1991, Chomsky described the Latin American political context out of which Chávez emerged:
'... any popular effort to overthrow the brutal tyrannies of the oligarchy and the military is met with murderous force, supported or directly organized by the ruler of the hemisphere. Ten years ago, there were signs of hope for an end to the dark ages of terror and misery, with the rise of self-help groups, unions, peasant associations, Christian base communities, and other popular organizations that might have led the way to democracy and social reform. This prospect elicited a stern response by the United States and its clients, generally supported by its European allies, with a campaign of slaughter, torture, and general barbarism that left societies "affected by terror and panic," "collective intimidation and generalized fear" and "internalized acceptance of the terror," in the words of a Church-based Salvadoran human rights organization. Early efforts in Nicaragua to direct resources to the poor majority impelled Washington to economic and ideological warfare, and outright terror, to punish these transgressions by destroying the economy and social life.'
In the Independent, Owen Jones provided a rare, honest glimpse of Venezuelan politics in 1989:
'With gas subsidies removed, petrol prices soared, and impoverished Venezuelans took to the streets. Soldiers mowed protesters down with gunfire. Up to 3,000 died, a horrifying death toll up there with the Tiananmen Square massacre - in a country with a population 43 times smaller.
'It was his abortive coup attempt against Pérez's murderous, rampantly corrupt government in 1992 that launched Chávez to prominence.'
These historical facts are filtered out of corporate media both designed and evolved to sell the state-corporate system as fundamentally benign. Because there is minimal popular awareness of the United States' ruthless subjugation of Latin America, Chávez's involvement in a failed coup can be portrayed as an outrage by Western journalists, as if the attempt had been made under contemporary European political conditions. Owen's is the only example we could find of a UK press article containing the words 'Chávez', 'Pérez' and 'massacre'.
In a BBC video report, 'Life of people's hero and villain,' James Robbins commented over footage showing two injured women and one blood-soaked man all in civilian clothes:
'This is how Hugo Chávez originally burst onto the world stage. In 1992, as an army colonel, he led a military coup, trying and failing to grab power after decades of more or less corrupt rule in Venezuela.'
In total, 14 soldiers were killed and 80 civilians injured. For the BBC, then, the significant violence began with Chávez and his coup - no mention was made of the earlier government massacre of 3,000 people described by Jones.
Fixing The Scales
Guardian assistant editor, Martin Kettle, wrote: 'it is a mistake to concentrate on Chávez's strutting and narcissistic populism to the exclusion of all the other aspects of his presidency. And it is even wrong to judge him solely as an abuser of human rights, a hoarder of power, an intimidator of opponents and a rejecter of international covenants and critics'.
Again, imagine the Guardian using comparable language to condemn abuses of human rights, intimidation of opponents and rejection of international covenants by Reagan, Bush, Blair, Obama or Cameron the day after their death.
Kettle's reference to 'Chávez's strutting and narcissistic populism' contrasts starkly with American economist Mark Weisbrot's observation that 'once [Chávez] got control of the oil industry, his government reduced poverty by half and extreme poverty by 70 per cent.
'Millions of people also got access to health care for the first time, and access to education also increased sharply, with college enrolment doubling and free tuition for many. Eligibility for public pensions tripled.
'He kept his campaign promise to share the country's oil wealth with Venezuela's majority, and that will be part of his legacy.'
Compare, also, statistical analysis of Chávez's performance supplied by the Centre For Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), co-directed by Weisbrot, with the BBC version of events.
The BBC graph, 'Chavez's Venezuela – the key figures,' shows a damning, steep rise in the 'Poverty headcount' of 'People living on $2 a day' between 2001-2003. It also depicts a steep fall in oil production from 2000-2003. CEPR, by contrast, observes:
'From 1999-2003, the government did not control the state oil company; in fact, it was controlled by his opponents, who used it to try to overthrow the government, including the devastating oil strike of 2002-2003. For that reason, a better measure of economic growth under the Chávez government would start after it got control over the state oil company, and therefore the economy.'
CEPR shows poverty and extreme poverty dropping sharply after 2003.
Returning to Kettle's analysis in the Guardian, we can locate a deeper bias in his evaluation of Chávez's record:
'The reality is that Chávez's career is not so easily weighed. How does one balance the championing of the poor or the regional inspiration against the persecution of journalism and the judiciary or the embrace of Iranian theocrats and Bashar al-Assad?'
As discussed, even before considering the credibility of the specific claims, we simply must add to Chávez's side of the scales the reality of a region 'where any popular effort to overthrow the brutal tyrannies of the oligarchy and the military is met with murderous force, supported or directly organized by the ruler of the hemisphere'.
About this, Kettle had nothing to say, beyond dismissing the issue out of hand:
'He [Chávez] once claimed that the lesson he drew from Allende's Chile was the need to defend the socialist revolution with arms. In fact this was typical bravado. The real lesson was to win and hold a majority. Allende won one election with 36% support and died from bullet wounds as his palace was stormed by the armed forces.'
The annihilation of inconvenient history allowed Kettle to use Allende as an example for his argument, when in fact it strongly supports Chávez's case. On October 16, 1970, a secret cable from CIA headquarters to the CIA station chief in Santiago, Chile, read:
'It is firm and continuing policy that Allende be overthrown by a coup... prior to October 24. But efforts in this regard will continue vigorously beyond this date. We are to continue to generate maximum pressure toward this end utilizing every appropriate resource. It is imperative that these actions be implemented clandestinely and securely so that the USG [U.S. government] and American hand be well hidden.'
The US finally succeeded in overthrowing Allende in 1973. The US instigated a similar attempt to remove Chávez in 2002.
Kettle's claim that Chávez persecuted journalism is simply false. In fact, '94 per cent of the TV that is seen by Venezuelans is not pro-government'. Five of seven major national newspapers support the opposition – only one is sympathetic to the government.
In 2007, Western media made much of the fact that the Venezuelan government had refused to renew the broadcasting license of the RCTV station. The Los Angeles Times reported that RCTV had initially focused on providing entertainment:
'But after Chávez was elected president in 1998, RCTV shifted to another endeavour: ousting a democratically elected leader from office.' (Bart Jones, 'Hugo Chávez versus RCTV - Venezuela's oldest private TV network played a major role in a failed 2002 coup,' Los Angeles Times, May 30, 2007)
The US-backed attempt came in 2002. On April 13, 2002, RCTV's Marcel Granier and other media moguls met in the Miraflores palace to offer their support to the country's new dictator, Pedro Carmona, who immediately demolished Venezuela's democratic institutions - eliminating the Supreme Court, the National Assembly and the Constitution. RCTV news director Andres Izarra later testified at National Assembly hearings on the coup attempt that he had received clear orders from superiors at the station:
'Zero pro-Chávez, nothing related to Chávez or his supporters... The idea was to create a climate of transition and to start to promote the dawn of a new country.' (Bart Jones. For details, see our media alert)
The 'response of the markets' to the coup, 'approached euphoria', OECD economist Javier Santiso reported. The Caracas stock exchange registered huge gains, collapsing when Chávez was returned to power. In an unprecedented move, the International Monetary Fund 'had also provided immediate offers of aid to the coup regime', Chomsky notes. (Chomsky, Hopes and Prospects, Hamish Hamilton, 2010, p.113 and p.79)
End Of An Illusion - Divisive, Egotistical, Controversial
The Guardian's obituary commented:
'The debate continued as to whether Chávez could fairly be described as a dictator, but a democrat he most certainly was not. A hero to many, especially among the poor, for his populist social programmes, he assiduously fomented class hatred and used his control of the judiciary to persecute and jail his political opponents, many of whom were forced into exile.
'Internationally, Chávez posed as an anti-imperialist and lavished aid on ideological allies. Venezuela would, he claimed, play a vital role in saving the planet from the evils of capitalism. In a notorious speech to the UN general assembly in 2006, he called US president George W Bush "the devil", claiming the podium still smelled of sulphur. It went down well in some quarters, but economic failure at home and the cosy relations he had enjoyed with dictators such as Robert Mugabe and Muammar Gaddafi would ultimately limit his appeal, even on the international left.'
Compare the tone and content with the Guardian's obituary of Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz from 2011:
'People who knew Sultan praised his "strategic vision, the capacity to think big", in particular after the 1973/74 oil price rises. Nevertheless, he had his critics. One analyst said that he presided over "the most colossal amount of money, in proportion to the size of a country's economy, ever poured down the barrel of a gun".'
'Sultan had a reputation for a fierce temper but his habit of working deep into the night won him the nickname of "bulbul" – nightingale. He was both a conservative and political moderate. "Sultan," wrote Holden, "whose vigour on the couch [he had 32 children by 10 wives] was a cause for even more concern and respect, had proved a stern, tough and headstrong character."'
'The kingdom', it seems, 'is ruled by a frail gerontocracy.' No mention, here, of the fact that a democrat the Crown Prince most certainly was not.
Apparently without irony, the BBC's John Sweeney commented of Venezuela:
'The country should be a Saudi Arabia by the sea; instead the oil money has been pissed away by foolish adventurism and unchecked corruption.'
In the Guardian, Simon Tisdall wrote under the cheerful title: 'Death of Hugo Chávez brings chance of fresh start for US and Latin America.'
Tisdall lamented 'Washington's historical neglect of Latin America' - again, apparently with a straight face.
The Independent reported, 'The death of one of Latin America's most egotistical, bombastic and polarising leaders.'
Was Chávez more 'egotistical' and 'polarising' than Bush, Blair, Obama, Cameron? Are they ever described this way in news reports?
The BBC wrote of 'Venezuela's charismatic and controversial president.'
Although Bush, Blair, Cameron and co are no strangers to controversy, it is impossible to imagine the BBC writing of 'America's controversial president, Barack Obama.'
For the Telegraph, Chávez was 'one of the region's most popular, yet divisive leaders'. For the Guardian, 'the much-loved, but also divisive, leader'. For the Independent's David Usborne, he was 'divisive in his political life'. An Independent editorial observed as 'one of the world's more colourful, charismatic and divisive political leaders passes into history'.
The editorial's title read: 'Hugo Chávez - an era of grand political illusion comes to an end.' This of a leader who had reduced poverty by half, having sparked a regional move towards greater independence from the ruthless superpower to the North. The editorial continued:
'Mr Chávez was no run-of-the-mill dictator. His offences were far from the excesses of a Colonel Gaddafi, say. What he was, more than anything, was an illusionist – a showman who used his prodigious powers of persuasion to present a corrupt autocracy fuelled by petrodollars as a socialist utopia in the making. The show now over, he leaves a hollowed-out country crippled by poverty, violence and crime. So much for the revolution.'
For the oligarch-owned Independent, then, Chávez – who won 15 democratic elections, including four presidential elections - was a dictator.
For The Economist, Chávez was 'as reckless with his health as with his country's economy and its democracy... A majority of Venezuelans may eventually come to see that Mr Chávez squandered an extraordinary opportunity for his country.'
Perhaps the millions of people mourning his death will one day see the sense coming out of London and Washington.
It is instructive to compare the opening and closing sections of the BBC's obituaries on Chávez and Ronald Reagan.
The BBC's piece on Chávez began:
'A tough and charismatic leader, Hugo Chávez divided opinion both at home and abroad.
'To his many supporters he was the reforming president whose idiosyncratic brand of socialism defeated the political elite and gave hope to the poorest Venezuelans.
'His strident criticism of the United States won him many friends among the "pink tide" of political leaders in Latin America and he effectively used his country's vast oil reserves to boost Venezuela's international clout.
'But to his political opponents he was the worst type of autocrat, intent on building a one-party state and ruthlessly clamping down on any who opposed him.'
The obituary of Ronald Reagan began:
'Ronald Reagan, who has died aged 93, became the 40th president of the United States in 1980 at the age of 69, the oldest man elected to the office.
'During his eight years in the White House he left his mark on the lives of millions of Americans, and his presidency came to define an era.
'His origins were humble...'
The Chávez piece concluded:
'It was like talking to two contrary men, Garcia Marquez wrote.
'"One to whom inveterate luck has granted the chance to save his country. The other, an illusionist, who could go down in history as just another despot."'
The Reagan piece concluded:
'More of a figurehead than a strong leader with a grasp for detail, he was, nevertheless, the best communicator the White House had ever had and, for a while, made America feel good about itself again.
'Five years after leaving office he wrote an open letter to the American people. In it, he said: "I have recently been told I am one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease... I now begin a journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life."'
The bias is remarkable even before we consider the issue of crimes against humanity. Reagan's eight years in office (1981-89) resulted in a vast bloodbath as Washington funnelled money, weapons and other supplies to client dictators and right wing death squads across Central America. The death toll was horrific: more than 70,000 political killings in El Salvador, more than 100,000 in Guatemala, and 30,000 killed in the US Contra war waged against Nicaragua. Journalist Allan Nairn described it as: 'One of the most intensive campaigns of mass murder in recent history.' (Nairn, Democracy Now, June 8, 2004)
Analyst Chalmers Johnson wrote that 'the Reagan years [were] the worst decade for Central America since the Spanish conquest'. (Quoted, Milan Rai, War Plan Iraq, Verso, 2002, p.29. See our alerts: 'Reagan: Visions of the Damned,' Part 1 and Part 2)
Conclusion – The 'Dangerous' Leaders?
What lies behind the Western media's obsession with Chávez? Why the extreme hostility and bias? A clue was provided by the Guardian when it observed that Venezuela is sitting on 'The world's biggest oil reserves'.
In discussing Chávez, Craig Murray, former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, summed up the reality:
'He applied the huge increase in revenues to massively successful poverty alleviation via social programmes, housing and education.
'The western states of course do everything to stop developing countries doing this, on behalf of the multinationals who control the politicians. They threaten (and I am an eye-witness) aid cancellation, disinvestment and trade sanctions. They work to make you a political pariah (just watch the media on Chávez today). They secretly sponsor, bankroll and train your opponents. The death of such "dangerous" leaders is a good outcome for them, as in Allende or Lumumba.
'Chávez faced them down. There are millions of people in Venezuela whose hard lives are a bit better and have hope for the future because of Chávez. There are billionaires in London and New York who have a few hundred million less each because of Chávez. Nobody can deny the truth of both those statements.'
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The Eagles announced the move Monday morning, one day after the team lost its eighth consecutive game -- a prime-time 38-33 loss to the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday night.
Tommy Brasher, who coached the Eagles' defensive line in 1985 and again from 1999 to 2005, will replace Washburn.
"Jim is a fine football coach, and we appreciate the efforts he gave to this team over the past two years," Eagles coach Andy Reid said in a statement released by the team. "However, I determined that it was in the team's best interest that we move in a different direction in terms of trying to maximize the production of that position group. We look forward to having Tommy Brasher back on board to work with the defensive line."
It was the second major midseason shakeup on the Eagles' coaching staff this year: Former defensive coordinator Juan Castillo was fired in October and replaced by Todd Bowles.
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The enrollment for Liberty University's Distance Learning Program on Thursday topped the 20,000 mark for the first time.
Registrar Lawrence Shackleton confirmed the enrollment figures in an e-mail to school officials Thursday afternoon.
Officially, the enrollment topped 20,000 at 1:45 p.m.
"It's an exciting day," said Ronald S. Kennedy, executive director of Distance Learning and Graduate Studies.
Last school year, the distance learning program finished with about 18,000 students.
"We are looking at a 10 percent growth year to date with six months still ahead of us," Kennedy said. "We are hoping to surpass 25,000 students by May or early June."
Kennedy credits "God's blessing" for the program's growth.
"He's certainly smiled upon us," he said. "I have a good staff that is very dedicated. They'll do whatever it takes to get the job done. It takes a willing heart to come in and work some of those long hours. They are the backbone that makes the program what it is today."


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The nation's proprietors of surveillance systems expressed worries that the "housing interior decoration and exterior design" industry included in the recently signed cross-strait service trade agreement may have national security implications, as the industry is involved in the installation and maintenance of surveillance systems.
Liu Lu-chun (劉祿群), who installs surveillance cameras in Chiayi City, said that his business is a special regulated industry, because many public infrastructure and building projects are required to install security camera systems.
"Right now, the installation of Chinese-made surveillance systems for public-sector projects in Taiwan is forbidden," Lu said. "However, after the signing of the pact, it is very doubtful that we would be able to resist pressure from China and continue banning the installation of Chinese-made products."
"For tender project procurement, if it goes with the lowest priced bid, Taiwanese firms would lose out to competition from China," he added. "If we totally open up the sector, then Taiwan's traffic control system and video surveillance in public places would use electronics products made in China. These would be installed by Chinese contractors. This is a serious threat to our national security."
Lu said that when Chinese corporations invest in Taiwan's key industries, they would have tremendous pricing advantage over Taiwanese firms as they can integrate supply and production chains from upstream all the way downstream by linking the manufacturing, transportation, sales and marketing and installation service sectors.
"Take a large construction project as an example. A medium-sized Taiwanese firm may need to bid at least NT$1 million (US$33,300) to make a profit, but a Chinese company may be able to secure the tender with a bid of only NT$350,000," Liu said.
He said that the major pricing difference between Taiwanese and Chinese products lie in the chipsets for video monitors, which are ordered from foreign manufacturers.
"For Taiwanese firms, they might place an order for 1,000 chipsets, while Chinese firms can put in an order for 50,000, or even 100,000 chipsets. This leads to a substantial price difference," he said.
"So what's left for Taiwanese firms? We may only have a competitive advantages in service, technology and quality," he said. "However, if there is a big difference in price, do customers still care about product quality?"
Under the cross-strait service trade agreement, the opening up of the housing interior decoration and exterior design industry also includes electricity and plumbing repair work, carpentry, roofing and house painting, among others businesses.
Chen Wei-han (陳韋翰), a veteran interior decorator in New Taipei City (新北市), was incensed as he criticized the government "for letting Chinese companies come to Taiwan and steal our businesses."
"We will have more people out of work who are not earning any money. This government is killing the livelihoods of blue-collar workers," he said.
Tsai Wen-ying (蔡文英), a home decor materials proprietor for more than 35 years, said that most of the timber products used in interior decoration in Taiwan come from Indonesia.
"The Indonesian products are of good quality, with slightly higher prices. The timber and wooden floor products from China are cheaper by at least 10 percent or more, but they are of bad quality, not very durable and they do not last for as long. Therefore the Chinese products are mostly used for outdoor exhibits and displays of model homes," he said.


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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Coker women's basketball team lost to Barton College (15-4, 14-1) 83-67 in a Conference Carolinas match on Wednesday (Feb. 6). With the loss the Cobras fall to 12-9 on the year and 8-7 in league play.
The Bulldogs jumped out to an early lead and never looked back. A first half offensive surge propelled the Bulldogs to a 52-37 lead at the break. Barton only scored one point higher than the Cobras in the second half (31-30), but the first half deficit was too much for Coker to overcome.
Twin sisters Autumn and Amber Lau led the Cobras with 26 and 18 points each adding up to more than 65-percent of the Cobra scoring on the night.
As a team, Coker shot 46-percent from the floor but it was not enough to negate Barton's 67-percent from three-point range, along with 24 second chance points. Nyesha Willie led the Bulldogs in scoring with 25-points.
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"I need a police officer to come out and scare the (expletive) out of my kids," Townsend said on the 911 call. "They're not listening to me and they need to learn respect. They need to learn that lesson."
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Tourism development is big at the White House. And the incumbent NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo chose a running mate for reelection (Kathy Hochul) that reportedly has upstate New York's economic development in mind.
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(1.) "The Vote: Choose it and use it" is a video reminding women voters today of the importance of finding out about the suffrage movement and how to honor the hard work of our ancestors today.
(2.) "Suffrage Centennials: Events and News" highlights why following the Suffrage Wagon is a good idea to stay up to date on news and views of the suffrage movement.
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One of the most interesting and compelling seminar talks was given by Easton LaChappelle, a 17-year-old from Mancos, CO who graduated from high school last month. His talk was on his experience with 3D printing, prosthetics, and telerobotics
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Expected to marry the king, desperate to change the lives of her people, Soriana must decide what is more important to her: love or power.
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"Take it off." His request is soft, his hand rising to graze the tight green fabric below my breasts. My eyes widen, but I don't make him ask again. The ties are in the back of this gown and I struggle for a moment to loosen them, self-conscious. He doesn't seem bothered by the wait. When the ties are undone, I pull my arms from the cup sleeves covering my shoulders and peel the dress from my body, unable to meet his eyes as I undress.
I'm still wearing the light, nearly transparent shift under my dress and he gives no indication whether this should also be removed, so I keep it on. My breasts are no longer straining against the fabric that constrained them, my dark, pointed nipples visible below the gauzy fabric. My face flames, but I say nothing and make no move to cover myself.
"Oh, but look at you." Slowly, torturously, he walks around me. When he's behind me, he reaches out a hand, touching my waist through the thin fabric. I flinch, but he doesn't seem to notice. His hand keeps contact with my body as he circles around to face me once more, sliding across the small of my back, up my side and under my arm, curving under my right breast. His thumb skims along my nipple. My whole body clenches, though I can't say if it's from fear or a pleasant sort of anticipation.
"I'm not supposed to touch you, you know." His words feather against my ear. "Not supposed to see you, not supposed to touch you. So many rules to break." A shiver runs through my body, and his eyes light at the recognition of this. He drops his hand and steps back, away from me, though the smile still lingers on his face.
"You are lovely, my lady." He turns and walks the few feet back to his chair, taking a deep swallow from his goblet before sitting once more. "Gwinolha and I have had our…disagreements in the past, but I see she did well this time."
He lifts one hand up and rubs his chin. I hear the soft rasp of stubble too short to notice from where I stand. His gaze remains on me the whole time and I don't dare tear my eyes from him.
"It's been a pleasure, Soriana," he says finally. "You are dismissed."
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I collapse, panting and depleted, trying to make sense of what just happened. I focus on my breathing as my body slowly puts itself together again. He slides his fingers from me, and I whimper at how sensitive I am, and from my disappointment as he leaves me. His hand squeezes my hip, and I glance up to see him smiling down at me, almost shyly.
"That didn't take long, Chosen One. We will have to work on building your stamina. Shall we try again?" There's laughter in his voice, as if he were a boy at play, so unlike the seriousness of moments before.
I gasp, my stomach gripping itself, holding me together. I don't know if I can take anymore, if my body can even respond that way again. But I'm here to learn after all, and I don't want to disappoint my teacher.
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"Ranneth…if I'm to become queen in order to please the king, why have I not been learning how to please you?"
Ranneth motions for me to sit, looking almost relieved for the distraction.
"You're right that your life will be to bring pleasure to the king, as I've been bringing pleasure to you, though it isn't as straightforward as that. In time, I'll teach you how to bring him to such extremes of pleasure in various ways, as I've tried to do with you, but there's something you must understand about men.
"There are two types of men, Soriana." He leans forward, and a small thrill of excitement runs through me at his use of my proper name. "We're always trying to feel like the men we're meant to be, yet it's ironic that in order to feel that way, we need women. We can't do it alone.
"Both types of man require one thing from a woman. To feel the strength and power they crave, they must make a woman cry, they must make her scream." His voice is low, and my breathing becomes shallow, my heart jumping between my ribs.
I'm unsure whether I'm excited or frightened by this discovery.
"The first type of man seeks to make a woman cry by bringing such pleasure to her body that she's wracked by thoughts and feelings of only him. When she cries his name, when she becomes undone beneath him, because of him, that is when he feels most like a man. Do you understand this?" He stays still, but the intensity behind his gaze draws me in.
"Yes," I mouth, because no sound escapes.
"The second type of man seeks the same result, but finds a different way to achieve it. He feels most like a man when he can make a woman cower before him. He feels important and strong when a woman is weak, and when he holds power over her, when she screams for him to stop, and he knows he can either do as she wishes or continue the torment. He gains strength from this sort of power, as he must, because he has little strength of his own. He must borrow from women, steal from them until they cry out from pain or fear. Do you understand this as well?" His face is dark now, his words heavy and clear.
"I know the king well, however, and though he has his faults like every other, I know he's the first type of man. You mustn't fear him, Chosen One. He will make you happy." He finishes quietly and a long silence stretches between us. His words remind me who I am, why I'm here. A gap has been created between us with these words, one I want to bridge.
I lick my dry lips once more, trying to spread what little moisture I have so I can ask my next question. I stare straight into his eyes, blinking once.
"And you, Ranneth. What kind of man are you?" I'm bold as I speak these words, strong, yet had I not been clutching my hands so tightly, they would have trembled. I know the answer, have learned it from him this past week.
His face softens, and I think I see relief mixed with the heat that ignites behind his stark features. Rising slowly from his seat, he places his hands on either side of me on the chair and leans in close.
"What do you think, Soriana?" His breath is warm on my cheek.
My ribs contract, holding me together, my body responding so strongly to his nearness my vision blurs. The distance created by his words has been closed. Now he'll show me just what type of man he is.
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This flier promotes a May 12, 1936 conference organized by City College's Student Council. The meeting, which first called for the election of student-elected delegates, was meant to "determine future student action on the Schappes case." Morris [...]
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Subjects: Academic Freedom, Activism, Student Organizations


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WILSON, N.C. – The No. 2 Georgia College & State University golf team shot just two strokes worse Tuesday, but fell seven spots to 15th in round two of the NCAA South/Southeast Super Regional, held at Wilson Country Club. The Bobcats are 14 strokes out of fifth with one round left, the top-five squads moving on the NCAA Finals.
The Bobcats shot an opening round 292 at eight-over par, adding a 294 today on the par-71, 6,839-yard course. Georgia College is plus-18, one stroke out of 14th and five from 13th.
Senior Niclas Johansson (Skanor, Sweden) carded the Bobcats' best round today, a one-over 72 to go with yesterday's 74. He is 51st at four-over par, second on the team. Johansson had birdies on the par-four 16th and the par-five second.
Junior Joe Young (Cochran, Ga.) shaved five strokes off yesterday's 78 with a 73. He stands nine over par in 82nd and fifth on the team. He shared the team lead with three birdies today. Classmate Billy Shida (Berkeley Lakes, Ga.) tied Young with those three birdies. Shida has been consistent with a pair of 74s for six-over par in 62nd, third for the Bobcats.
Senior Francisco Bide (Buenos Aires, Argentina) has put up a pair of 75s, standing fourth on the team and 77th overall at eight over. He was at par or better on the entire front nine, his finishing half as the Bobcats teed off on the 10th hole.
Junior Matthew Yonz (Waycross, Ga.) fired a first-round 69, the lowest round of his three-year career. Today he was five over with a 76, but still owns the team lead at three-over par in 44th.
No. 9 Lynn University and No. 3 Barry University are the team leaders at a four-under 564. The pair is a stroke ahead of No. 12 Nova Southeastern University and three in front of No. 4 Florida Southern College. Peach Belt Conference (PBC) opponent No. 8 Lander University is fifth at four-over par.
Daniel Claytor of host Barton College and NSU's Bobby Bode are in the individual lead at five-under, holding off a quartet of golfers by just one stroke.
Round three is set for tomorrow, with Young teeing off first at 8:20 a.m. on the 10th hole. He's teamed up with golfers from Newberry College and Armstrong Atlantic State University.
The GCSU Department of Athletics, winners of the 2008-09 PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Georgia College prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.


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A tip of the hat to our friend BBB, who interviewed my awesome guild leader Featherwisp for today's Shifting Perspectives column at WoW Insider. The topic was the aforementioned Annarchy-sponsored flightform flashmob on Dark Iron, and if you ever wondered what would happen if Alfred Hitchcock met World of Warcraft a la The Birds, you owe it to yourself to read this piece.
Okay, okay, or you could just ask the undead rogue BBB interviewed about his experience being stared down by several dozen unblinking birds. "MOONFIRE MOONFIRE MOONFIRE x30, I die," does pretty much sum it up.
In other news, for work today I'm summarizing some articles from this month's Harvard Business Review, when I come across this surprisingly accurate picture of the leadership challenges of MMORPG raiding:
True, leading 25 guild members in a six-hour raid on Illidan the Betrayer's temple fortress is hardly the same as running a complex global organization. For starters, the stakes are just a bit higher in business. But don't dismiss online games as mere play. The best ones differ from traditional video games as much as universities do from one-room schoolhouses. In fact, these enterprises are actually sprawling online communities in which thousands of players collaborate with and compete against one another in real time within a visually three-dimensional virtual world—one that persists and evolves even while a player is away.Maybe I should go back for an MBA. Apparently I'm uncannily prepared.
The organizational and strategic challenges facing players who serve as game leaders are familiar ones: recruiting, assessing, motivating, rewarding, and retaining talented and culturally diverse team members; identifying and capitalizing on the organization's competitive advantage; analyzing multiple streams of constantly changing and often incomplete data in order to make quick decisions that have wide-ranging and sometimes long-lasting effects. But these management challenges are heightened in online games because an organization must be built and sustained with a volunteer workforce in a fluid and digitally mediated environment.


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Ireland has some of the most lightly fished waters in Europe, and with no closed season, fishing is a year-round sport
Both beginners and experienced anglers are strongly advised to hire the services of a local guide for the first few days on the water. They will know the best flies, appropriate tackle and local fishing lore. Similarly, on salmon and trout rivers, the services of a local guide (also known as a "ghillie") will ensure that the angler gets the most out of a visit.
The Foyle System, which runs through counties Tyrone, Londonderry and Donegal, is one of the premier salmon fisheries in Europe. Wild brown trout are plentiful in Ireland's rivers and loughs; and indigenous species such as dollaghan, sonaghan, gillaroo and ferox can be found in Lough Melvin, County Leitrim, and Lough Neagh, County Antrim.
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While game fish can be caught on all legal methods, such as worms, spinning, and so on, fly-fishing is the traditional practice for catching salmon and trout. Great hatches of duckfly, mayfly and sedges are the seasonal triggers for top quality trout fishing on many of Ireland's rivers and lakes.
All anglers are looking for rich rewards, and our rivers and lakes in the Shannon, Erne and Lower Bann catchments are filled with catches of over 50kg.
The specialist angler should, however, visit the Royal Canal in Mullingar, County Westmeath, for specimen tench and carp; the River Barrow, County Carlow, for specimen perch; and the Lower Bann, County Derry-Londonderry, for specimen bream and roach x bream hybrids. Try the Upper and Lower Lough Erne for bream and the Fairy Water in County Tyrone for roach.
Killykeen in the Lough Oughter complex in County Cavan; Hope Castle at Lough Muckno, County Monaghan; and Lusty Beg on Lower Lough Erne in County Fermanagh, offer fishing and recreational facilities for the whole family.
For added excitement, match anglers should book themselves into the festivals running at Portumna and Ballinasloe in County Galway, Edenderry in County Offaly, Prosperous in County Kildare, County Leitrim's Carrick-on-Shannon and the county of Cavan to name just a few.
The big lakes, such as Loughs Erne, County Fermanagh, Derravarragh, County Westmeath, Ree, County Roscommon, or Derg, County Donegal are good starting points for anglers as they offer large numbers of free taking pike.
A boat trip on a quieter lough, such as Macnean in Fermanagh, Muckno in Monaghan and the Lakes of the Dromore River system in Cavan, may even turn up the elusive specimen.
Fly-fishing has become an increasingly popular method for taking pike in Ireland and gives exciting sport with fish of all sizes. In Dublin, you can fish for pike along the canals: the Grand and the Royal, as well as along the Barrow Canal in Carlow, and the Newry Canal in County Down.
On the south and west coasts, sub-tropical species such as triggerfish, red mullet and gilt-head bream intermingle with coldwater fish, such as cod, coalfish and haddock. Further north in the Atlantic, there are cold water species: tope, pollack, thornback rays and sea bass.
One of the best ways to experience sea fishing is to join a charter vessel from a specialist centre. For the south and west coast that means spots such as Kilmore Quay on Wexford's coast, Cork Harbour in Kinsale and Westport in County Mayo. In Northern Ireland, Portrush and Ballycastle in County Antrim, and Portstewart, County Londonderry are the best locations to aim for.
There are sunken wrecks along these shores – remnants of two world wars – that are home to large numbers of specimen cod, coalfish, conger, ling and pollack. It is here that Irish records were set in the past and certainly will again in the future.
Small boat angling is developing all around the coast; and salt water fly fishing for sea trout, bass, pollack and mackerel is growing in popularity and can be practiced almost anywhere the shore touches the sea.
In both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, licences are required for salmon and sea trout fishing. Sea fishing for marine sport fish does not require a licence. While no licence is needed for trout, pike and coarse species in the Republic of Ireland, a rod licence is required in Northern Ireland.
On a number of trout and coarse fisheries, a local permit may also be required. There are currently conservation laws governing salmon, sea trout, brown trout, sea bass and pike. However, new conservation measures may be implemented at any time.
Check out the information from the Central Fisheries Board and on the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure Angling in Northern Ireland websites for up-to-date information on all licence and permit regulations.
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It didn't make headlines, but Tuesday was the start of an important movement to reform our food and agriculture system by restoring our democracy. Statewide initiatives in Montana and Colorado, and local measures in Massachusetts, San Francisco, Chicago and Oregon, all opposed the role of corporations in political campaigns; they all passed by convincing margins.
These efforts to get corporate money out of politics are linked to the devastating Supreme Court Citizens United ruling in 2010 (see the Story of Stuff's great video for the lowdown). That ruling, for the first time, allows corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money to push their issues in political campaigns. IATP and many others issued a statement last week calling to get money out of politics and an end to voter suppression laws.
The Citizens United ruling has unquestionably changed the way campaigns are run—just ask your poor friends in swing states still suffering from political advertisement overload, or browse the Wall Street Journal's reporting of $560 million in SuperPac money. How campaigns are run affect how politicians govern—particularly in Washington where favors and retribution are a powerful currency.
Though not directly a result of the Citizens United ruling, there is perhaps no better example of the overwhelming influence of corporate money in campaigns than the Proposition 37 vote in California, which would require labeling for genetically engineered foods. Labeling has consistently enjoyed 80–90 percent public approval ratings. After Prop 37 gained significant early traction, the big pesticide and food companies, like Monsanto, DuPont and Pepsico, flew into a panic and flooded the airwaves with misleading ads about the costs of labeling. The Minnesota-based global giant, Cargill, actually wrote to its "farmer customers" encouraging them to donate to defeat Prop 37. These agribusiness and food companies succeeded in essentially buying the election by outspending the opposition $46 million to $9 million. Nevertheless, labeling supporters ran an inspiring grassroots campaign, garnering more than 4 million votes, and have laid the groundwork for future efforts to challenge corporate power in the food system.
Efforts to label genetically engineered food, limit unnecessary overuse of antibiotics in factory farms, antitrust enforcement in agriculture and many other initiatives to shift power in our food and agriculture system will now shift to Washington. These fights will have limited success unless they are linked to efforts to restore our democracy. The wins this week in state and local initiatives supporting the overthrow of Citizens United give us reason for hope.


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First there was Albert Einstein: genius, revolutionizer of the physical world, champion of Zionism, hero of pacifism.
Then there was Albert Einstein™. He is another thing entirely.
Albert Einstein™ is a brand name. It belongs to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is administered by The Roger Richman Agency Inc. of Beverly Hills, Calif. The Roger Richman Agency Inc. is very particular about the brand. "When written in copy on all materials, the name 'Albert Einstein™' must always bear a ™ symbol," it insists.
It is a lucrative trademark. Over the years, Einstein has burrowed himself into the world's consciousness as the pre-eminent symbol of all things brainy, and marketers like their products to be considered brainy.
For example, Apple Computer and Micrografx Inc. have licensed his likeness to sell computers and software, respectively. Krone sells a $6,950 sterling silver fountain pen named for him. The Walt Disney Co. runs a division in his honor that markets merchandise to educate infants and toddlers — Baby Einstein. All of those uses, of course, were properly licensed.
Somewhere along the way, however, Albert Einstein™ got hijacked by hucksters. These are also among products you can buy today, some of them unlicensed:
- Einstein sterling silver-plated spoons.
- Einstein "Get a Half-Life" coffee mugs.
- Einstein Holy Prayer Cards. They depict Einstein in a purple robe surrounded by a halo, in front of a chalkboard.
- The Ultimate Albert Einstein Carrot Cake. "Albert Einstein's genius lives on in this carrot cake," its manufacturer says.
- The "Learn Like Einstein, Earn Like Gates" home business course.
- Einstein wig, mustache and eyebrows sets. "Look like this famous genius!" the company says, although, if you were to wear these muskrat brown attachments, you would look less like a famous genius than you would a famous genius who has had a family of chinchillas die on his head.
- And of course, there's the Albert Einstein Theory of Relativity Junior Baby Doll. As in lingerie.
"Einstein's gone beyond the figure that he is into iconic status," said Jim Tobin, a partner in Brogan & Partners Convergence Marketing, the firm that put K-Mart and Martha Stewart together. "He stands for almost any great idea now."
The two faces of Einstein
Albert Einstein™, clearly, is a powerful brand. What is interesting is that it rests on a very particular image that we carry around in our heads — that of the old Einstein, with the electrified hair and the droopy mustache and the indifferent wardrobe. The Einstein sticking out his tongue in the famous 1951 United Press photograph. The Einstein portrayed by Walter Matthau in "I.Q."
This is the Albert Einstein™ who, almost without exception, is portrayed as a nutty professor by the merchandise exploiting his brilliance. We don't, however, pay much notice to the Albert Einstein of E=mc2. This Einstein — the non-trademarked one who published those astonishing papers in Annalen der Physik — was a different fellow.
Pictures of Einstein in 1905 show a relatively well-groomed 26-year-old man dressed sharply for the government job he held at the patent office in Bern, Switzerland. This Einstein is vigorous-looking and just a little devilish, with a rather jaunty face. He looks, more than anything else, like a happier Edgar Allen Poe.
Give him a modern makeover, and this Einstein would be right at home before a camera, patiently yet urbanely explaining the intricacies of stem-cell research or the Mars rovers to cable TV audiences.
This Einstein fathered an illegitimate daughter, divorced his first wife and later married his cousin, all the while carrying on more or less open affairs with the "ladies [who] swarmed around him like moonlets circling a planet," as Time put it in naming him its Person of the 20th Century. (Legend has it that Marilyn Monroe said Einstein was her idea of a sexy man.)
This Einstein is a natural for today's bloggossip world, a dashing young man about town, easily accessible to the paparazzi as he lives the life of the mind by day and the life of the rake after dark. He is a tabloid dream.
'Polarizing effect on young scholars'
He is also, perhaps, an opportunity squandered.
When physics organizations decided to mark the centennial of Einstein's blindingly brilliant work of 1905, they said one of their main goals was to attract students into physics. "The general public's awareness of physics and its importance in our daily life is decreasing," says the European Physical Society, the international coordinator of the Einstein Year. "The number of physics students has declined dramatically."
So physicists latched onto the iconic image of Einstein as a way to get the attention of science students. "You rarely get a chance to have a cultural icon that's so closely aligned with the message you want to deliver and who has become sort of timeless," said Tobin, of Brogan & Partners.
Overwhelmingly, however, the icon most of these organizations chose was the old Einstein. Where is the young, cool Einstein?
"The most persistent myth about Einstein is that he was born at the age of 50," said Michel Janssen, a science and technology historian at the University of Minnesota who edited several volumes of Einstein's collected papers. He was quoting a favorite saying of John Stachel, the founding editor of the Einstein Papers Project.
The image of the wild-haired professor at Princeton as the talisman of genius is ineffective, said Jeetendr Sehdev, a brand strategist for Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, the New York-based advertising and public relations conglomerate, who said the "iconic image has a polarizing effect on young scholars considering studying physics."
Putting Einstein to the test"Some students pride themselves on being 'Young Einsteins,' but other students are turned off by the images' unfashionable and stodgy appeal," Sehdev said.
But Tobin argues that trying to reshape Einstein's image could muddy his universally recognized brand, which is a proven winner. It runs "the risk of trying to take an icon and pull him out of icon status."
The old Einstein "is what we now associate with brilliance and what we associate with the breakthrough ideas," he added. "I think you run the risk of losing the effectiveness of the image in an ad."
Sehdev, who researches the youth market, acknowledged the universality of the old Einstein and said the image could still be powerful if used the right way. But he would hedge his bets by exploiting ignorance about Einstein as a young man.
He suggested a possible marketing campaign to freshen up the Albert Einstein™ brand:
"'You think you know what Einstein was about? Well, here's the reality.'"
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NEW YORK, April 29, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SIGA Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:SIGA) announced today that management will host a conference call and simultaneous webcast to provide a quarterly business update at 4:30 P.M. ET on Thursday, May 1, 2014. Participants should call (877) 377-7550 (United States/Canada) or (678) 224-7859 (International) and request the SIGA call or provide confirmation code 35791814. A live broadcast of the call will be available on the Company's website at www.SIGA.com under the 'Events & Presentations' tab in the Investor Relations section. A replay of the call will be available approximately two hours after the call and will be accessible until 11:59 P.M. ET on May 15, 2014. To listen to the replay, dial (855) 859-2056 (Domestic) or (404) 537-3406 (International) and enter the code 35791814. The webcast of the event will also be archived on the Company's website for two weeks under the 'Events & Presentations' tab in the Investor Relations section. About SIGA Technologies, Inc. We are a company specializing in the development and commercialization of solutions for serious unmet medical needs and biothreats. Our lead product is Arestvyr, ™ (tecovirimat), also known as ST-246®, an orally administered antiviral drug that targets orthopoxviruses. While Arestvyr is not yet licensed as safe or effective by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, it is a novel small-molecule drug that is being delivered to the Strategic National Stockpile under Project BioShield. For more information about SIGA, please visit SIGA's web site at www.siga.com.
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