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A shiner is bruising around the eye commonly due to an injury to the eye surface by a large angry fist. The name is given because it shines in bad light. Most shiner injuries are major and will never seal completely. In rare cases people have been known to pass away, mainly because their eye was punched through the rear of their head or through internal eye bleeding.
The dramatic appearance (discoloration and swelling) always indicates a serious injury. The fatty tissue along with the lack of muscle around the eye socket lends itself to the extreme outward, overhanging, appearance. Medical attention is usually needed.
The Shiner is always quoted as being created by the Irish in 1768, however newly discovered stone tablets show it was used as early as 4000BC, around the time when God invented hands, and Belgium. The stone tablets were written by god and handed to Moses, these were the ten commandents the 9th of which is 'I shall shiner who ever deverses a shiner friend or foe'. From 400 BC up to nearly 1900, the Shiner blossomed in popularity. Nearly everywhere you went you saw hundreds of men, women and children sporting fashionable Shiners on their eyes. This was known as the Shiner Era.
- Mid History
The Shiner fell into decline following the catastrophic Chav Shiner Disaster in 1912. This was when the great ship Hugemungous set sail, after travelling to the North the Captain realised that there was no Burberry icebergs, so promptly Shinered himself. The ship then sank with the loss of 6,000 chavs, an Emo and a small chicken.
- Recently
During the periods of the First and Second World Wars the Shiner was favoured as a close combat attack, giving 'Critical Hit' status against Nazis. It grew through widespread rioting and revolts until it reached the pinnacle of its miserly existence. Then Steven E. heard of it.
Even more recently, assumed close friend of Steven, Chris Ramsey acquired a acceptational shiner, which gained "shiner lord - Steven's" stamp of approval, it is not known entirely why Steven associates him self with Chris, it is thought that he finds the collapsing of Chris's gay modelling career comical this is because of a hideous imperfection on his eye (A Shiner). Because of the putrid, rancid and generally vile nature of this shiner, it will most likely lead to the social rejection of Chris and furthermore the destruction of his known life. This is a usual quality of a SHINER, however Lord Steven believes; Chris possesses enough strength to hold onto his life.
Steven E and the Return of the Shiner[edit]
Steven E is the nowadays patron saint of the Shiner. He introduced it back into Britain on May 3rd, 2005. First we must learn of his life.
- Steven was born on the 5th December, 1908 into a poor Irish family. As a baby he used to regularly Shiner the family goat. When growing up he resisted Hitler and instead joined the Womans' Land Army due to some unpleasantly tight trousers. After the war (he can't remember which one), he visited Hong Kong where he had a fight with Godzilla and won. Steven is most famously known for finding 12 uses for kumquat juice; and creating an alcoholic concoction which can kill a fully grown yak.
However, in 2001, Steven accidentally Shinered himself and now walks the streets of London at night, looking for anyone to Shine. Some die - hard Shiner worshippers seek Steven out and acquire his pearls of wisdom, including such classics as:
- "I wish I was a Kumquat" , "Cous Cous!" and "Conglomeration of Cunning Linguists!"
It is a well known fact that Steven hates vegetarians and calls them an inferior race.He always carries meat, this is believed to help decrease the swelling of a shiner. Steven proved this in 1819 as not a valid method to decrease a shiner's swelling. Steven regenerates every few years with a completely new face, and a racial minority assistant, in fact he lived on Gallefrey for many years of his live and now has a PHD in rock apprecation. His TARDIS is in the form of a double-doored American fridge, full of meat and beer.He uses his TARDIS to shiner people through-out history who were in need of a shiner, such as Woodrow Wilson and Mahatma Gandhi. Joe Pascaly was one of his unluckist victims as he lived after being shinered in the troat. Steven E is commonly feared in the maths classroom as he has a frequent habit of rubbing/squirting various nasal creams and other body lotions in the eyes of the unlucky victim Rhys Woodfield. Rhys Woodfield has been administered the shiner various times to the amusement of the great shinerman himself, Steven E. Steven also joined the mysterious Nacho Crew in 1960.
The Shinerbeast[edit]
Legend tells of a one-eyed beast (full name: One Eye Terrorising Shiner Beast of Eastern Albania) which is in fact a giant eye. It is said that it stalks the North Downs, filling all with terror and spitting testicles and giant fists. It was once a young, unbruised eye when Steven (in his shining prime) attacked it violently and turned it into a giant shiner, the source of its malicious powers. It recently played itself in a stunning video remake of the legend, where many young, brave and courageous warriors have to endure in a long painful battle to end the beast.
The Shiner in Religion and the AntiShine[edit]
The Shiner is worshipped in some cultures as an idol of machismo, such as the Bnarg-Faatar-Bleeb tribe of Southern Western Indonesia and the Politically Correct Commune for all to Become Citizens of, Including but not Limited to the Follically, Vertically and Horzotally Challenged.
- There is talk of a holy text, the Shible, but it is yet to be discovered. However we at the Natural History Museum are sure it will scorn the veggies.
The Shiner has been around in the Bible, it is thought that the hard Shiner worshippers killed King Tut after he enforced health and safety on all of his construction projects and made it ilegal to eat meat. Moses had something to say about that, althouth he didn't eat pork and was only allowed to eat kosker meat.
The AntiShine[edit]
Unfortunately, much like Hitler and Doctor Who, there is a down side. When the Shiner was born, so was the AntiShine. It goes by the name of 'Mr Frumpy' and has no gender. It enjoys sleeping under trees and drinks Meths. It hates all 3 - sided shapes, especially Daniel. It is predicted that if Steven and the AntiShine ever come together the Universe will implode and all will die, including ducks, mice and those cocktail umbrella thingies.
How to correctly administer a Shiner[edit]
A Shiner may be administered for medical reasons on prescription or merely through spite. However, you must follow these guidelines.
- Clamp the victim's head firmly by the right ear
- Draw your fist back beside your left ear and tense the arm muscle
- Bellow 'Shiner!' at the top of your voice, this appeases the gods.
- Plant your fist swiftly yet firmly into the victim's right eye.
- Step back and admire your handiwork.
What to do if you've been Shinered
- Curl up and cry.
- Curl up and die.
What to do if your friend has been Shinered
- Call the Shiner Brigade on 671
- Put them in the recovery position (one arm up their right nostril, one arm behind their neck, one leg bent in half and the last leg in a tree)
- Inject 'Anti-Shine' into the swelled area. This deflates the bruising.
Did you know…
- Vegetarians cannot give a Shiner?
- The Exchange rate is 2 American and 600 Japanese Shiners to one British Stirling Shiner?
SHINER. The Musical[edit]
Coming to theaters 2008
The SHINER. musical has been delayed due to the massive rate of 1,000 eye injuries and 7 testicular faults. But do not worry as the highly, critically acclaimed hit is on its way to theaters somewhere on the 30th of February 2020. You may have heard many theories about the next generation of theater, and the SHINER musical is first to try out it's amazing new technology to pack a BIGGER punch on the audience's eye. Here is a sneak peek of it's new technological, genetically engineered features:
- The theaters will include real time shoot-outs (H&K G43 supplied under theater stools, for a better experience and also to shoot old people and/or veggies).
- Amazing new Punchyaeyetothebackofyaheadseats22.214.171.124, which a Compressed gas canister combined with a brick will give the audience the experience a full on Shiner.
- NEW 2-D glasses which make everything seem 2-D and cause Shiners to stand out.
- FREE Goldfish masks to hide a Shiner with a shiner.
- And for the bigger fanatics of the musical, the new anvil from above feature (A Ton of shiner for anyone).
A list of songs for the SHINER. Musical will be produced 50 years after... (in order of being sung in the musical)
- The hills are alive with the sound of SHINER
- We Will Shine You
- Mamma Shia
- National Anthem of Shina
- Shine Lightnin'
- You're the one that I Shine.


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Craven Week - Blue Bulls 48 - 25 Border
In a match where everybody expected the Bulls to overpower Border with their massive players, Boland surprised everybody with their tactics. This proved to be the correct way to play the Bulls but unfortunately the smaller Border could not keep up their effort the whole match. It must be said that the score does not reflect the play on the field. Border was a better side than that reflected on the score board.
The teams for the match were interesting. Border chose their team 15-1 and 16-23 as originally announced, presumably their first choice side. By contrast the Blue Bulls used all their 16-23 players in their starting line-up, presumably preserving their first-choice players for what they imagined were sterner opponents to come.
The Blue Bulls got their clash against Border off to a flying start as they ran hard on attack, which earned them three tries in the first 27 minutes. They supported this with a solid defensive effort, and limited Border to scoring only a penalty in the first half, for a 19-3 lead. Border, however, showed their fighting spirit as they scored two tries in two minutes almost immediately after the break to force their way back into the match. Both teams showed intent on attack as the match progressed, but while the Pretoria side converted their chances to score four more tries, unforced handling errors denied Border from adding to their score. This forced them to settle for a 48-15 defeat.
Craven Week - Golden Lions 59 - 26 SWD
This match will be remembered as the Wandisile Simelane show.
The Golden Lions were in fine form from the outset in their clash against SWD as they showed innovation and skill on attack, which set them up for a striking 59-26 victory. The Lions ran hard at the George side and supported this with slick handling and solid support play, while they also did well to sneak through the gaps in the defence.
The Lions ran riot in the first half to lead 40-12 at the break, and while SWD put up a better fight in the second half, they still conceded another four tries.
The Lions combination of flyhalf Tyrone Green and centre Wandisile Simelane was instrumental as they set the field alight on attack, with Simelane securing the man-of-the-match award after a hat-trick of tries and seven conversions for a personal total of 29 points. In stark contrast SWD battled to get to their hands on the ball in the first half, while they tried hard to make their presence felt in the second half, but mistakes at crucial times cost them dearly.
Craven Week - Free State 68 - 26 Valke
The Free State, meanwhile, overcame a strong first-half challenge by the Valke to cruise to a 68-26 victory thanks to a remarkable 11 tries. The first half was tight as the Valke hit back after trailing 13-0 to take a 26-23 lead at the break. But the Free State hit their straps and ran riot on attack to score seven second-half tries, while they denied the Valke from adding to their score.
The first time on day two we witnessed a back line who let the ball do the work. Sublime handling and play at full pace was exhibited, which deservedly produced tries of a high quality.
Craven Week - Leopards 26 - 24 EP CD
The Leopards dominated much of the opening minutes. Poor handling and infringements by the Leopards kept EP CD in the game during the first half. When the match did get going after a poor ten minutes it was clear that defence was not a priority by both sides.
This game will be remembered, if at all, as a scrappy affair with both sides giving away easy penalties and no defence.
Waves of attacks by Eastern Province Country Districts in the dying minutes were not enough as Leopards' defence stood the test and survived the onslaught. This Leopards was relieved when the referee Jaco Pretorius disallowed the try of EP CD, judging the last pass as forward, in the dying seconds of the match.
Academy Week - Boland 20 - 14 Free State
In the last match of the day, Boland and the Konica Minolta Free State were involved in a tight tussle, with each team having two strikes at the goal posts in a hard-fought first half. While the Free State's efforts were unsuccessful, Boland took full advantage of their penalty goals to take a 6-0 lead at the break.
Boland opened up the second half with back-to-back penalty goals and then scored the first try of the match in the 51st minute compliments of Wihan Burger to take a comfortable 17-0 lead. But Konica Minolta Free State struck back with two converted tries in 11 minutes to work their way onto the scoreboard. A fifth successful penalty goal by Boland, however, guaranteed them a 20-14 victory.
Academy Week - Blue Bulls 57 - 15 Eastern Province
The Blue Bulls made their intentions clear early on against Eastern Province with the first of their five first-half tries being scored in the fifth minute. Such was the quality of the Pretoria side's performance, they built up a convincing 31-5 lead at the break. They continued this impressive form in the second half, which allowed them increase their try tally to nine for a 57-15 victory. To Eastern Province's credit, they tried hard to force their way into the match and scored two second-half tries for their efforts, but the strong start by the Blue Bulls left the Port Elizabeth side with a mountain to climb.
Academy Week - Leopards 53 - 31 Limpopo Blue Bulls
The Leopards registered a solid 53-31 victory against the Limpopo Blue Bulls after a competitive first half in which the Potchefstroom side took a narrow 18-17 lead. The Leopards, however, took control of the match in the second half and used their point-scoring chances well to add five tries to their tally, which inflated their score to 53.

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Long-haired country crooner Willie Nelson and his Teapot Party have endorsed Republican presidential candidate Gary Johnson.
Johnson, the first presidential candidate the group has endorsed, got the nod from the Teapoters because of his views on legalizing marijuana.
The former governor of New Mexico, who previously admitted to smoking pot for medicinal purposes, supported legalizing the drug when he was governor. Since he's been out of office, he has continued to speak out for marijuana reform. Johnson said, "I advocate legalizing marijuana – control it, regulate, tax it" during the Republican debate on May 5 in South Carolina.
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Imagine one day you are going about your typical weekend fun outing and then BOOM! , you bump into one or even two of your faves.
Imagine one day you are going about your typical weekend fun outing and then BOOM! , you bump into one or even two of your faves.
And then you think to yourself, :"Wait, but what is Bonang doing here?"
It then dawns on you that perhaps you and your favourite celeb could be hanging out in the same circles.
Today we profile top hang out spots that some of our favourite celebs frequent, these are not farfetched hang out spots, hence they are very much within our range.
#1 Tasha's
This popular eat out spot became infamous after double amputee Oscar Pistorious accidentally fired a gunshot inside the eatery. However, that is not the only thing that it is known for. The eatery provides scrumptious meals that have left ordinary patrons and celebrities' alike coming back for more.
#2 Eyadini
Zodwa Wabantu is not the only attraction to this hip establishment, freshly braai'd meat is served in droves to frequent and not so new patrons.
#3 Taboo
This is probably the most celebrity-frequented spot around, with media personalities, Bonang Matheba and Thando Thabethe selecting the venue to hosts their birthday celebrations, respectively.
#4 Fourways Farmers Market
It has become somewhat a norm to spot the Fourways farmers market hashtag on Instagram. Most of our celebrities often spend their downtime at this spot.
Honourary Mention
The Wing Republic: This establishment came about in 2014, it has therefore grew to become a top eating spot for some of favourite ZAlebs.
DJ Black Coffee has also popped at the eatery.
#5 Maboneng Precinct
Maboneng has a variety of spots that celebs usually frequent. This includes Pata Pata for that wholesome scrumptious meal, The Bioscope for the moviegoers and the origins for that cup of coffee.


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Ability to turn off vehicle engine without getting out ? I know you can switch to another position but if the vehicle is full it's not going to turn off the engine. This would allow listening out for enemy movements, esp approaching tanks.
That other thread failed miserably and if you try to spam or flame here, I will break your arms.
FH2 won't be the last FH.
Could you add a "Thank You" voice command?
And can we have an "Observe" order for fireteams, like in PR?
Quote from: FHMax3 on 08-01-2017, 10:01:34And can we have an "Observe" order for fireteams, like in PR?Did you even bother to read what Jan just said about adding new voice commands?


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I grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin graduating from Mount Mary College with a degree in Art Education and Spanish Education. With a model maker/camera repairman for a father, I have had a camera in my hands for as long as I can remember. I have taught Art and Spanish for 35 years. I teach black and white and digital photography at Augusta Middle/High School along with many other art classes. I also teach evening and weekend classes for adults as a part of the 21st Century grant. My students and I have created several hundred bowls for the Empty Bowls fundraisers for Feed My People Food Bank in Eau Claire. Partnering with RCU, I have created ceramic bowls and carved gourds for the prizes for the RCU Charity Classic Run since 2008. The Community Art class and the Summer School Art Class have created several large scale permanent installations in the Augusta community, including 7 outdoor murals. The latest is a playground scene on the side of the community center. For me, places like Lake Superior and waterfalls call to me. I feel the most centered when I am near water. Most of my photographs are landscape and nature photos I have taken locally and in my many trips around the lake. I also have many photos taken in Arizona, Colorado, Utah, and South Dakota.
My work with fused glass and glass slumping came out of a glass fusing class I taught a few years ago. My work includes fused dishes, trays and jewelry items and many slumped wine bottles. Bottle fusings can be hung as art or used for serving cheeses and snacks. Many are embellished with actual wine labels, wire, beads, and other items. I also carve and paint on bottles making garden stakes and signs about gardening, wine, family and friendship. I can personalize garden signs with names and I also make bottles with wedding invitations.
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Pic Proof- Wenger Plans To Kick This Star Off the Team, After A Poor Performance
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A warning at half time from Arsene Wenger to Francis Coquelin to avoid picking up a second yellow card was not enough to keep the French man from getting a red card.
Ten man Arsenal chances of winning the English Premier League since 2003/2004 season was put in jeopardy due to Coquelin's card.
A late second half goal from Alexis Sanchez, rescued a point for the Gunners.
Wenger added: 'We warned him at half time because he had a yellow already. It was a mistake and he knows that but he wanted to do well,' said the Arsenal boss.
'We have big regrets because it looked like we were completely in control when we went down to 10 men, and that's the regret of the day. Overall it's difficult to take.'
In this picture it looks like Wenger is tired of Coquelin and might be forced to sideline him after an impressive performance from January signing Elneny.
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Leipzig, Germany - ONE of the great rituals of sport is going to survive. For a few tense days recently, it seemed that the singing of the national anthems at all World Cup games was going to be booted toward oblivion, not only by the sport's resident hooligans but also by the free-associating major-domo of world soccer, Joseph S. Blatter.
After a nasty scene in Turkey, Blatter blurted to the Swiss weekly Schweizer Illustrierte: "I feel this whistling shows a great lack of respect and is disparaging to national pride. I wonder, therefore, whether it even makes sense to play these national anthems."
Blatter, who is known as Sepp, surely knows that anthems are an intrinsic part of the greatest sports event on the globe. The players march out, stand in line and move their lips as if they actually know the words to their national anthem. Some soccerphobes equate this ceremony with more ominous mass stirrings, like to tramping armies. George Orwell once labeled international matches "orgies of hatred," words often dusted off by the British news media.
I, however, see the soccer anthems as a touching gesture, matching the handshake line in the N.H.L. playoffs or the singing of "My Old Kentucky Home" at the Kentucky Derby.
For a few seconds, there is some pomp and dignity in sport, although quickly followed by the elbowing and the shoving, the name-calling and the gesturing -- and that is the benign part -- on the field. Sometimes in the stands or city streets, it gets worse.
Tomorrow night in this former East German city, the draw will be held for the 2006 World Cup. The German hosts have initiated a policy of selling tickets only to registered individuals, who must present their passports and have their identity checked by microchips in the ticket at every game. This will surely cut down on scalping, and perhaps also keep away the thousands of officially barred thugs.
In keeping with his long history of blurting out whatever is on his mind, Blatter, the president of FIFA, world soccer's governing body, suggested this week that this tracking process was too complicated, but the hosts insisted they would do it their way.
FIFA has other issues on its plate. The downfall of an allied marketing agency, International Sport and Leisure, in 2001, left a loss of millions of dollars. The police recently raided FIFA's headquarters in Zurich to recover records, a move that Blatter yesterday called "not correct."
Blatter also got into the anthem issue after the final playoff game between Switzerland and Turkey. In the first match, in Berne, Swiss fans hissed and jeered the Turkish anthem, so when the Swiss team flew to Istanbul for the return match, Turkish fans rocked the Swiss bus and spat and threw eggs at the players. Before the game, the Turkish fans reviled the Swiss anthem.
This display was a shame because Turkey had contributed lovely moments in 2002 in the last World Cup. After defeating one of the host teams, South Korea, in the third-place match, the Turkish players held hands with the South Korean players for a mutual victory lap. The Turkish fans were also a credit to their country.
On Nov. 16, however, when Switzerland qualified after the second game, players and coaches from both squads got physical on their way to the locker rooms. FIFA is currently investigating and could place serious sanctions on Turkey during qualification for the 2010 World Cup.
Blatter's comments about anthems created a stir around the world, making it seem he would try to ban the prematch ceremony.
When asked at his news conference yesterday, Blatter said: "We should keep the anthems, but I said we should put them into question. We should respect the anthems and educate people about them."
Blatter has been known to quickly engage his vocal cords, perhaps ahead of his reason. He once proposed holding the World Cup every two years instead of every four years, which would have watered down the anticipation that makes the World Cup so vital.
And who will forget the time he blurted out that female soccer players should wear tighter shorts that fit their shapes?
"In volleyball, the women also wear other uniforms than the men," Blatter told the Swiss newspaper SonntagsBlick. "Pretty women are playing football today. Excuse me for saying that." Needless to say, Merrie Kinge Sepp took some criticism for those public musings.
Currently, Blatter is dubious about modern technology, including electronic gadgets that may determine if a ball has crossed a goal line, a huge issue since England defeated West Germany in the 1966 World Cup final.
"The referee can make mistakes," Blatter said yesterday, adding, "For the next few years, we will not speak of goal-line technology."
But we will surely speak of many other things. Blatter's random comments are a part of soccer, right up there with the anthem ritual.
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Catholic Dictionary
The dynasty that ruled over Palestine and the surrounding country from about 55 B.C.to A.D. 93. None of the Herods was Jewish by birth. First in line in the dynasty was Antipater, the Governor of Idumaea, who came from Ashkelon, a Philistine city. His son, Herod the Great, received a Roman appointment during Julius Caesar's administration to rule Palestine, and his successors continued in control for approximately one hundred fifty years. Herod the Great was the one responsible for the slaughter of the Holy Innocents. (Etym. Greek h_r_d_s, sprung from a hero.)


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After putting single game tickets on sale earlier this week, reserved seats for five Skeeters home games are now sold out including the first game ever and the last game of the regular season. The game on Sunday, April 29 is the only game in the team's inaugural home stand with available reserved seats with just 400 seats remaining.
"75 percent of the tickets purchased for Historic Opening Weekend were purchased online," said Matt O'Brien, President of the Skeeters. "Purchasing online has proved to be a convenient and affordable option for fans. Skeeters tickets are available online 24 hours a day, seven days a week."
The five sellouts so far on the season include Opening Day on April 26, April 27, April 28, July 5 and Closing day on Sept. 23. A limited number of unreserved lawn seats may still be available for most games. A small allotment of season tickets remain available and are the only way to get reserved tickets for the entire 70 game home schedule.
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Users, who likely are well acquainted with the school of skepticism, will of necessity approach all materials herein by asking if what they are reading is logical and factual.
The listings herein attempt to document facts and jugments, checking that they are presented in a neutral and disinterested manner and that they suggest other works and authors for further research. Meanwhile, opposing viewpoints in any listings herein are invited - it is imperative that the encyclopedia be balanced with pros and cons.
Skeptics are aware that absolute knowledge is not possible. Anyone with a philosophically-oriented outlook starts by doubting what is said or heard or read or felt or seen. Using a process of trial and error, one's doubting leads to relative certainty.
Therefore, be aware that whatever is included in Philosopedia needs to be approached with serious dubiety.
On the subject of doubt:
- * The believer is happy; the doubter is wise. - Hungarian Proverb
- * To doubt is to elevate one's soul. Not to doubt is a sign of ignorance, a sign of laziness. - Epicurus"' (503 - 571 B.C.E.
- * Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow you think in hard words again, though it contradict everything you have said today. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- * Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. - H. L. Mencken
- * To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live. To be lulled into security is to die - Oscar Wilde
- * To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. - George Santayana.
To illustrate, did you notice which one of the above six quotations is a deliberate fabrication?


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Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, I am not an expert.
At the beginning of the summer I had a major issue.
I just accepted a new job and between the work hours, the commute, meals, and a workout I was left with at most an hour of free time a day during the work week.
This was a major problem because I'm a learning addict. I need to be mastering something outside of work or I start to stagnate. But an hour a day didn't seem like it was going to be enough to get anywhere on any subject.
So I asked myself "How can I best leverage an hour a day?"
I did what I always do when faced with a tough problem, I made a list.
So which one did I pick?
I was leaning towards learning Spanish, but then I had three friends message me about cryptocurrency. All of them said this was something I needed to look into. After a half hour of reading about cryptocurrencies I knew I had found my project for the summer.
Diving in
At first, the reading was exciting. Cryptocurrency, a revolution in electronic money transfer that could easily snowball into something as world-changing as the internet.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading through the different business plans each cryptocurrency had. Each one had their own strategy to secure their place in the market. I thought it was fascinating to see a currency have a business plan.
My first obstacle, the blockchain
I hit my first wall when learning about the blockchain. The blockchain is one of the most important technologies underlying how cryptocurrencies work. Unfortunately, I found learning about the blockchain boring and confusing. It was the last thing I wanted to be reading about after a tough day at work.
I started to lose interest in cryptocurrency. My once productive hour started to get whittled down by Facebook, emails and other distractions. I had to do something to get myself back on track, but how could I make the blockchain interesting?
I decided I would make some stakes.
I found a reputable online cryptocurrency exchange, typed in my credit card number and bought 100 dollars worth of Litecoin (a cryptocurrency).
At the time I didn't even know how to transfer the cryptocurrency back into U.S. dollars. For all I knew I just sent my money into the oblivion.
But, now I was an investor.
I felt more connected to the subject, it was the breath of fresh air I needed. The next day I sat down and read as feverishly as an ivy league researcher.
I decided to make a class out of it
I was impressed by how much of an impact investing had on my motivation so I decided to take it a step further. I decided to turn this little adventure of mine into a class.
I refined the subject from cryptocurrency to cryptocurrency investing and decided the cost of the class would be 5000 dollars.
I would throw 5000 dollars into the cryptocurrency market assuming I would lose it all. I figured the knowledge I would gain from learning about investing and cryptocurrency would be worth much more than the 5000 dollar cost.
Why 5000 dollars?
- It was around the cost of a class on investing at a top university
- It was 90% of the savings I would make over the summer. I wanted it to be a large enough amount that I would have an emotional connection to the money. I wanted to see how I would react when I started losing it.
*I don't recommend anyone else invest such a large portion of their savings.
What did my course look like:
- Read and take notes on a classic investing book. [ June 1st to June 14th]
- Obtain a high-level understanding of what cryptocurrencies are and what their future applications might be [June 15th to June 26th]
- Pick up to three cryptocurrencies to invest in [ June 27th to July 11th]
- Develop a buying and selling strategy [July 12th to July 13th]
- Invest and see what happens [July 14th — Sept. 1st]
1) Read and take notes on a classic investing book
I only had enough time in my course for one book on traditional investing so I had to be very picky about it.
After asking mentors, friends, and the internet, the most commonly cited book was "The Intelligent Investor" by Benjamin Graham. I decided this would be the book for my course.
While parts of the book were a little dated (it came out in 1949) I found the core principals helpful.
- Do your research into a company and only invest when you are confident they have a high chance of long-term success.
- Don't let the market scare you, rely on the research you did.
- Stick to a formula, don't arbitrarily buy and sell.
2) Obtain an overview of what cryptocurrencies are and what their future applications might be
I used a combination of podcasts, YouTube videos, and websites to educate myself about the cryptocurrency space. I cheated a little bit on my hour rule and listened to the podcasts during my commute.
My main takeaways were that cryptocurrencies are a cheaper, more secure and more versatile way to digitally transfer money.
There is a lot more to be said on this subject that I'll write about in a separate piece. I've included all the resources I used at the end of this article in case anyone wants to jump into the subject.
3) Research and pick up to three cryptocurrencies to invest in
I didn't want to invest in more than three cryptocurrencies because I felt that even three was spreading my focus too thin.
As per Benjamin Graham's advice I wanted to have a deep understanding of each cryptocurrency(or company) I was investing in. This would take a lot of time and time was something I didn't have much of.
After doing light research into ten different cryptocurrencies I decided I liked Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple. So I started to dig deeper into these three currencies. I looked at:
- How strong is their team
- What is their long-term strategy
- Who is backing them
I was happy with what I found and confident that these three currencies had a high chance of long-term success. So now all I had to do was figure out a plan of action.
4) Develop a buying and selling strategy
I wanted to keep my buying and selling strategy simple so I gave myself three rules:
- Don't buy when it is at an all-time high
- Don't sell for a loss, meaning I would either earn a profit or lose everything if the currency disappeared
- Sell when my investment went up by 35%
I picked the 35% target because it seemed unreachable for a two-month investment.
5) Invest and see what happens
I had my cryptocurrencies of choice and I had my buying and selling strategy, now all that was left was to invest.
In mid-July, I started to put my money into the market.
I invested 2000 dollars into Ethereum on July 14th at ~ $203/ether
I invested 2000 dollars into Ripple on July 14th at ~$0.19/ripple
I invested 1000 dollars into Bitcoin on July 14th at ~$2300/bitcoin
Then the real life portion of the course started
The first few moments after the money left my bank account were good. I felt like a success for committing to a big plan, but then panic set in.
I always thought the mental side of investing was overplayed. I'm a logical, easy going individual, I didn't think fluctuations in market price would affect me. Plus I had even planned to lose all the money I invested. Losing or earning money wasn't going to corrupt me.
Well, I was wrong.
My life exploded
After my money went into the market, the hour a day I allotted for my cryptocurrency investing course became insufficient. My life quickly became ruled by my investments.
I developed an awful habit of checking the price charts every ten minutes. If the investments were doing well I'd get a hit of dopamine and feel great. If my investments were doing bad I would freak out and start pouring over market analysis after market analysis.
I forgot everything I learned in "The Intelligent Investor". I let the market play with my emotions.
I reached a breaking point at the end of July. After staying up late for the third night in a row reading about cryptocurrency news and price predictions, I slept through my morning alarm. I wound up waking up late and missing an important meeting at work.
After a myriad of apologies to the vice presidents of the company, I was ready to end my course.
I told myself "This isn't worth my job"
How I got my life back on track
I sat with that thought the whole day. Then I looked at the problem as if I was really taking a university class.
If I got a bad grade in a class would I drop it? No! I would figure out why I got the bad grade and then develop a strategy so it didn't happen again.
I decided I could do it, it was OK that I failed, failure is how you learn.
I reminded myself why I was taking the course, to learn, not to make money. I knew that I was going to need more than willpower to stop myself from looking at the price charts and market analysis thought. So I found two tools that I would depend on.
Tool number one: Blockfolio
- Blockfolio is a phone app that lets you set price targets for your cryptocurrency investments. I set it so I would only get alerted if my investments ever hit their targets. This way I had no good reason to convince myself that I needed to check the price charts.
Tool number two: A bet with my friend
- I gave a friend 50 dollars and told him if I read one more market analysis to burn the money in front of my face. It was the honor system so I could always just lie to him about it, but I knew I would feel like a scumbag if I did and no one likes feeling like a scumbag.
The week following my break down was tough. I wanted to check how my investments were doing constantly. I kept reassuring myself that Blockfolio would notify me if anything major happened.
One day I even sat with "Ethereum price analysis" typed into google for 5 minutes. My mouse sat there hovering over the search button, but I wouldn't let myself click. I didn't want to to have 50 dollars burned in front of my face.
After the initial week, it got much easier and then near the end of August, my phone started buzzing off the table.
So how did my investments fair?
On August 6th, while I was furiously typing away at a report my phone came to life.
It said:
"Bitcoin is above 3105"
$3105 was my 35% price target! I didn't know what to do, I told myself I would sell when it hit 35% but I couldn't bring my self to sell. I was so high on the fact that I hit what I thought was an impossible target that I thought I could do anything. So I said, well if it hit 35%, 45% shouldn't be much of a stretch.
Then on August 9th my phone buzzed again
" Ethereum is above 274"
and again
"Bitcoin is above 3,335"
$3,335! An all-time high for bitcoin! (at least back then it was), the confidence I had three days earlier started to melt away. Would the price keep going up, or would the whole market collapse. Did I invest in a scam and was the carpet about to be pulled out from underneath me?
I was letting the market control my emotions again, so I took a long walk and thought.
I had confidence that all three cryptocurrencies I picked had a future, but I only had three weeks left of my course. How could I best play these last three weeks?
I looked at my three investments and saw Bitcoin and Ethereum jumping up but Ripple staying relatively calm.
I reasoned that the jump in Bitcoin and Ethereum would bring new investors to the market. These new investors might be interested in ripple just like I was. I also knew other investors had to be afraid that the bitcoin price might crash because of its quick rise.
I thought other investors might want to hedge their bets against a bitcoin crash by moving money out of bitcoin and into other currencies. Ripple had a high chance of being one of those other currencies.
So I put all my investments and earnings into ripple.
On August 10, I invested all of my Bitcoin and Ethereum ($4150 worth) into ripple at ~0.18 dollars/ripple
So now I had $6150 invested in ripple. I set an alert on Blockfolio for 0.24 dollars/ripple ( 35% increase) and did my best to forgot about the whole thing.
Unfortunately, news kept popping up about Bitcoin reaching all new heights. It made me feel like an idiot for not keeping my money in Bitcoin. Why did I switch it all over to ripple I should have put it in Bitcoin.
Frustrated I called a close friend and mentor to tell him about my stupid investment decisions. After I told him what a moron I was, he gave me the best piece of investment advice I've ever received.
He said " Joe, this is one of the biggest problems with investing, everybody is trying to buy at the feet and sell at the head. The thing is, you never know when you are at either. Instead, aim for buying at the knees and selling at the shoulders. Don't beat yourself up if it goes higher, be happy with what you made. If you get greedy and try to go for the head those investments will ruin your life."
I stopped stressing about missing out on bitcoins rise in price and instead was happy with how well I was doing at this investment course. I wasn't calling every shot perfectly but so far I had turned 3000 into 4150 in less than a month, I should be proud of that.
Then on August 24th while I was in a meeting my phone went off
"Ripple is above 0.24"
By the time I got out of the meeting the price had already hit 0.27. Part of me wanted to hold on for longer, but I remembered my friend's advice, aim for the shoulders, not the head. I sold it all right then and there.
My initial 2000 dollar investment grew to 2,842 dollars and my 4150 investment had grown to 6,225.
I still had 7 days left in my investment course but under the mantra of "don't be greedy," I decided to keep it out of the market. I spent the last week reflecting on the experience.
In total my 5000 investment turned into 9,064 dollars. Not too shabby for a month and a half. At the same time, people are currently seeing 1000% plus returns in this market so I shouldn't get too full of myself. I still have a long way to go.
Key Takeaways
1) If spent right, a focused hour a day can compound to something huge
The key to making a focused hour add up to something major is to first figure out your goal.
- My goal was to learn about cryptocurrency investing.
Then you have to break down your goal into measurable, time-sensitive chunks.
- I did this by making my course, i.e read and take notes on "The Intelligent Investor" by June 14th
Finally, you have to set some metric to measure your overall success. How will you know when you accomplished your goal?
- I did this by adding in the 35% selling target
2) Having trouble sticking to your plan, set stakes
If you find your motivation waning, give yourself some real-life consequences for not achieving your goal. If you do this, I guarantee you'll be more motivated to accomplish your goal.
- I did this three times throughout the summer. The first time was when I invested 100 dollars in Litecoin. The second was when I invested 5000 dollars into Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple. Finally, the third time was when I gave my friend 50 dollars to burn in front of my face if I looked at one more market analysis. Each of these gave me real consequences for not continuing towards my goal.
3) Losing or earning money on an investment will mess with your head, be prepared for it
This was the biggest revelation for me. I didn't think investing was going to take over my life as much as it did. I severely underestimated how much it was going to play with my emotions.
If you invest, prepare some mechanisms so that the status of your investments isn't the status of your life.
4) Don't trust the market analysis, trust your research
When making an investment don't let the market rule your life. Do research on whatever you are investing in and trust in your research, not the market analysis.
5) You will never trade at the best moment, but that doesn't mean you can't make money
You will never time all of the peaks and valleys in the market correctly. Stick to your buying strategy and don't worry about what could have been. Focus on what you should do next.
Sources for cryptocurrency research:
Youtube videos
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Madrona Venture Group has a few early stage bets percolating in the online advertising arena.
One is AdReady, which has developed a way for car dealers, real estate agents and other small businesses to quickly deploy and manage banner advertisements across the Web.
Mixpo is trying to do much the same thing, but instead of display advertising, it is going after video ads.
Today, the Seattle startup is introducing its online video advertisement platform for small- and medium-sized businesses with ActiveRain, Miller Condominium Marketing and Realogics/UrbanCondominiums.com agreeing to market the service. It also has named Jeff Lanctot, senior vice president of global media for Avenue A | Razorfish, to its board.
As part of the new offering, Mixpo will help clients create, deploy and measure video ads — a hot area that has attracted the likes of Google and Yahoo.
Anupam Gupta, a former Microsoft manager who joined Mixpo in the summer of 2006, believes there is room to maneuver against the giants. And he thinks smaller advertisers are ready to embrace online video in banner ads.
"They understand video," said Gupta. "And I think over the last six months you can see lots of proof points as to how adoption … has been increasing."
Online video ad spending is expected to quadruple from $775 million last year to $3.1 billion in 2010, according to eMarketer. And a study commissioned by AT&T late last year found that 53 percent of small-business owners plan to buy online video ads in the next two years.
Instead of targeting individual businesses one at a time, Mixpo plans to partner with entities that have already aggregated the hard-to-reach small business market. That's why it linked up with ActiveRain, which boasts more than 80,000 real estate agents in its community.
The idea is to provide ActiveRain's members with easy-to-use tools so they can create interactive ad campaigns, including music, captions and video editing functions. Once created — a process that Gupta said can take as little as five minutes — Mixpo wants to help with the distribution of the advertisements to publishing partners.
That's the same model that AdReady uses for its display ads.
Given the similarities, including their common venture backer, Gupta didn't rule out the possibility of working together in the future.
"If you think of where these ads are placed, one of the obvious places is local publisher sites where you have targeted inventory that is available," he said. "From that perspective, there could be some synergies."
Though the online video ad market is not as developed as display advertising, Gupta thinks it represents a significant opportunity.
"It is so much more than just an impression, like a static banner ad," said Gupta, adding that video ads can command higher premiums because they are more engaging and drive higher conversions.
Mixpo plans to make money by sharing revenue with publishers, who set the pricing on the video ads. In some cases, it takes up to half of the revenue.
In addition to possible threats from Yahoo and Google, Mixpo also faces competition from Emeryville, Calif.-based TurnHere. It raised $7.5 million from Venrock and Hearst Corp. earlier this year. (Hearst owns the Seattle P-I).
Heavily funded SpotRunner of Los Angeles also has been making a big push into online video ads with recent acquisitions of Weblistic and GlobeShooter. (TechCrunch has a list of some other players, including VideoEgg and AdBrite.)
Mixpo raised $6.5 million from Madrona, Yaletown Venture Partners and GrowthWorks in mid 2006, with Gupta saying they may go out for another venture round soon. Founded in Victoria, B.C., as a consumer video company, Mixpo now employs about 15 people.


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I'm still not that knowledgeable at all about this era of horror films. I do know, however, that I love Vincent Price and what I've seen him in, and I'm slowly becoming familiar with Peter Cushing and all the Hammer films. Maybe because of this much of the symbolism for what the film has come to represent was a bit lost on me and that is of course not the movie's fault at all. What I got out of Madhouse was something very different, very confusing, and yet very well done. The story reminded me very much of the one in Targets, which has another titan of horror - Boris Karloff - basically playing himself as horror actor at the end of his era. There's also a hint of a giallo feel with the unknown, masked killer and the constant shots of the killer putting on black gloves.
Madhouse boasts a fair bodycount with not a lot of blood. The murders are similar to those that occur in Toombes's movies and are quite varied. Things start off with the beheading of Toombes's fiancée Ellen, and there's a great shot there of her head falling onto the dresser and Price's reaction. Then a random annoying actress gets a pitchfork to the neck; next is a hanging, and then another neck stabbing. Hm, all stuff having to do with necks. Strange.
The turn that the film takes at the end is a little hard to swallow for me. There was no indication up until that point that anything supernatural or otherworldly was going on, so it feels completely out of nowhere. They do a neat little thing with Flay's wife's pit of spiders and there's a hilarious "red herring" joke to try to make up for it, but though I totally get the ending, I still can't help but think it's out of place. Maybe a different ending wouldn't have been better. It would have made more sense, though.
Despite any personal preferences, Madhouse gets the thumbs up! Price is always a joy to see and he rules the film just like he always does. Not to mention the fact that he wears beautiful pink pajamas in the film. My goodness, I love him even more after seeing that.


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Colter will be taking over the administrative assistant position being vacated by Susan Smith, and combining it with his tech consulting for the synod. His new position will be "Administrator of Information Technology." You can expect some changes in who does what in the office, but with the same friendly and helpful service you have come to expect.
Colter grew up in the Church. He is a lifelong member of Bethel Lutheran in Great Falls, where he works with the youth group. He attended the University of Montana, and is a candidate for the Associate in Ministry program in the ELCA. Colter comes to us from Bethel Lutheran, where he was the Office Manager.
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I was born and raised in Princeton, West Virginia. Both of my parents were scientists and educators. My mother was a middle school biology teacher and my father taught chemistry at a nearby university. I remember doing a 6th-grade science project on plate tectonics but I never knew that I was headed toward geology.
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WikiLeaks and the 'Dogs of War'
A quick note on Wikileaks and the 'World Diplomacy Scandal'. WikiLeaks release of 250,000 diplomatic cable messages on Sunday, November 28 captures a whole lot of powerful people caught behaving badly. That, however, is not how the story is being spun in many quarters. Indeed, quite the opposite: the 'dogs of war' have come out in full force, not over the scandalous behaviour of powerful people acting stupidly as they supposedly carry out public diplomacy on our behalf, but to target the messenger for lethal consequences. Some members of the bombastic far right of the Canadian political scene have literally advocated that WikiLeaks' founder, Julian Assange, be assassinated.
As University of Calgary Political Science Professor Tom Flanagan, and former senior advisor to Prime Minister Harper's election and transition teams stated on the CBC's Power and Politics the other night that "Assange should be assassinated, actually", while adding a touch of laughter to soften the blow of such powerful language. He "wouldn't be unhappy" if the WikiLeak's founder "disappeared,", Flanagan noted. Not to be outdone, eternal blowhard Ezra Levant delivered much the same message from his perch amidst the QMI stable of media outlets, Karl Peledeau's Quebecor Media empire. In the Toronto Sun Levant mused approvingly about the assassination of Julian Assange. I can only wait to hear what this group's sidekick, the self-anointed 'military strategist and historian' David Bercuson has to intone on the matter. Similar sentiment is even more widespread among conservative extremists south of the border. They are in good company with the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China, which has blocked access to the site in the country, while denouncing WikiLeaks. The Italian Foreign Minister incredulously states that Wikileaks has unleashed the equivalent of a "diplomatic 9/11″. This is nuts.
Not all of those weighing in from the lofty heights of state power in the U.S. hold such rabid views, however. There is even a certain amount of levity displayed by the Obama administration, but not much. Instead, there is a significant crackdown on those who facilitated the leaks and a condemnation of Assange for putting the lives of soldiers and countless individuals in jeopardy.
The U.S. Government has the capacity to eliminate WikiLeaks from cyberspace. That it has not raises fascinating questions about diplomacy in the global digital media age.
The U.S. controls the 'root domain server' through ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the 'global registery' of all internet sites. ICANN is a private corporation, but one that was created by the U.S. Department of Commerce and whose continued existence depends on the Department's periodic renewals. The U.S. Government does not control ICANN directly, but ICANN serves as a kind of proxy for U.S. Government interests. ICANN could be ordered to delist Wikileaks, to send it into an electronic blackhole, at the drop of a hat (see M. Mueller, Networks and States, MIT, 2010 regarding these arrangements and capabilities).
That is a risky move, however. In this instance, given the worldwide opprobrium being heaped onWikiLeaks, a decision by the U.S. to use this power in this instance might even be applauded. However, doing so would further fuel the 'militarization' of cyberspace. The same countries likely to condone such an act in this instance would also be given a stark reminder of how the power to control cyberspace is a formidable instrument of State and military power in the 21st century. Such concerns have already driven a concerted and protracted effort by many governments, and the International Telecommunications Union, to dilute the power of ICANN, or in more aggressive 'realpolitik' terms, to wrest such unilateral control from the U.S. The U.S. has steadfastly refused to budge. Others groups also aim to dilute corporate and U.S. State control of ICANN, but do so as part of a much broader advocacy of a more democratic, multi-stakeholder-oriented approach to "internet governance" where freedom of expression, access, and the complex realities of a complicated world are given the highest priority (Kleinwachter; Raboy, Free Press). So far, these efforts have born meager benefits, stone-walled both by U.S. intransigence and by 'global real-politik' amongst countries who seek a diminution of U.S. influence only as path to aggrandizing the capacity to project their own sovereign authority over the internet.
Although the U.S. Government has drawn back from the brink of banishing WikiLeaks from cyberspace, its actions are significant, nonetheless. Why has is it refused to go all the way, so to speak? Is it reasons of 'realpolitik' — the threat of further fuelling the militarization of cyberspace — that is holding it back? Or is there buried in this some deference to principles regarding the free flow of information and freedom of expression? Or is something else altogether at play? I think it is probably a reflection of all three. The most important 'something altogether' is the U.S. Government's use of private businesses as proxies to accomplish some of its aims, while drawing back from a full-scale assault on Wikipedia comparable to, say, the bombing of Al Jazeera's media offices Kabul or Baghdad in 2001 and 2003, respectively.
In this instance, instead of laser-guided bombs dropped by jet-fighters, it is the giant internet bookseller Amazon that has accepted the role of proxy for the power of the State. Who knew that Amazon didn't just sell books and a bunch of other merchandise, but also operated one of the world's largest 'server farms', essentially giant digital warehouses that store the collections of websites like WikiLeaks, and many others. So-called web hosts are surprisingly few and far between; the market is highly concentrated (see Eli Noam, 2009, Media Concentration in America). When Amazon was approached by independent Senator, and chair of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Joe Liebermam, rather than the Obama Administration formally, with the request to drop WikiLeaks from its servers, it did. The company, in other words, agreed to tool of the State. Censorship has been privatized. Far better than assassination, but certainly a chilling part on the continuum of state power.
The use of private proxies is a convenient fiction that the U.S. government periodically invokes to avoid the injunction of the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1791) prohibiting Government from making any law that abridge the freedoms of speech, the press, and association. It is also a strategy that is consistently ruled illegal by U.S. courts. Subcontractor capitalism may be the 'new capitalism', but the State is not allowed to 'subcontract' the suppression of citizens' rights and freedoms to private actors like Amazon. In doing so, it puts a bullet through the heart of the First Amendment of the US Constitution and Article 19 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (1948).
This is becoming an increasingly common pattern in the 'regulation of the Internet'. Governments around the world, and not just the U.S., but in Canada, Britain, Europe, Korea, Taiwan, People's Republic of China, among many others, have expanded the extent to which 'private business' are used to project national sovereignty of slices of the Internet, in particular in relation to the enforcement of copyright, standards regarding adult-oriented and pornographic material, and electronic surveillance for national security purposes. Internet Service Providers (ISPs), in particular, have become the major locus of such activities, sometimes justifiably (i.e. in relation to the notice and take-down of child pornography), often times in circumspect ways. Now such actions have been extended to taking down a dissident voice that dared to show not just that the 'emperor has no clothes', but that international diplomacy (and the business negotiations that interact with it) appears to be run more by a tawdry group of spoilt fratboys and drama-queens.
The yoke between network media and national security was tightened greatly by the Bush Administration's secret "Terrorist Surveillance Program", which was disclosed to the public in a series of articles by the New York Times at the end of 2005. The program involved the systematic electronic surveillance of the communications of US and foreign citizens' telephone, Internet and other communications. The program was initiated by the National Security Agency and operated with the compliance of all the major US telecoms companies — ATT, Verizon, Sprint, etc. (except, probably, Quest). The program was denounced in 2006 by the Federal Court, District of Michigan, Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, as a travesty in which the Bush Administration acted completely outside the boundaries of the law and the US constitution. Within six months, however, the U.S. Congress duly passed a new law making what had been illegal legal, and granting the telecom carriers immunity from prosecution.
Amazon now takes up its place in this long and dubious line. Moreover, it is doing so for an event that is emphatically not a 'diplomatic 9/11′ or 'Pentagon Papers' situation, but rather an amazing demonstration of just how stupid people who are suppose to lead can be. For Canadians, the sight of Jim Judd, the head of the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) until 2009 pandering to American officials about Canadian citizens as having "moral paroxysms" and prone to "knee-jerk anti-Americanism" over Gitmo, torture and so forth, surely indicates how connected he and others like him are to the real people who make up this country. He is part of a broader clothe of what I am calling the 'dogs of war'; and they are scoundrels.
There are other instances in which WikiLeaks has played a more important role in the past year. Indeed, the latest 'dump' is just that, a dump of miscellaneous examples of poor behaviour and bad judgment in comparison to the far more significant releases that it put forward on three other occasions earlier this year related to Iraq, Afghanistan, and the infamous "collateral murder" video of two Reuters journalists killed by American soldiers (Google the "collateral murder" video distributed by WikiLeaks, and now on YouTube). The two journalists, Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen were among twelve people killed in a suburb of Baghdad in July 2007 when soldiers in an Apache helicopter hovering overhead opened fire. Watching the video, and from the soldier's perspective, it is plausible that the soldiers could have had legitimate ambiguities about whether the people they were stalking were packing RPGs and AKs, as the narrative accompanying the video constantly states.
Even so, the video demonstrates a more reprehensible portrait of soldiers jacked up on testosterone and a mission where human life appears to be worth precious little. The global news agency Reuters, which Canadians might now be interested to know, if they don't already, is now owned by the Thomson information and newspaper powerhouse (Globe & Mail), and to its credit the news agency sought access to the video footage through the Freedom of Information Act in the United States. Nothing came of such efforts. The graphic footage only became available when Wikileaks released the material in April, 2010. Level-headed groups like Reporters Sans Frontiers have either denounced the actions or called for much more forthright inquiry into the killing of these journalists, as well as others in the Afghan and Iraq Wars.
The spaces of war and the space of media have converged in the 21st century. In fact, this is recognized in the new doctrine of information warfare adopted by the United States Department of Defense in 2003, where cyberspace is made into the fifth realm of 'total military dominance', alongside the traditional areas of land, sea, air and space. At a time when war proceeds with no definitive bound in time or space, outlets like WikiLeaks are essential members of an expanded 'digital fourth estate'. They are also inevitable in this age of co-operative news and commentary production. The reaction to WikiLeaks by the 'dogs of war' in Canada and other places around the world is a travesty, a real disgrace. It is not just a threat to the life of Julian Assange and the free flow of information that is at stake, but the rights of us all to know and to live in a decent world.


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By Mindy Sterba, Parenteeng Survivor
I've always been in favor of more parental involvement in the schools, but had never even considered that the school might want to be more involved in a child's homelife.
Apparently through the use of laptops equipt with 'spy' cameras, this is exactly what the Lower Merion School District in Philadelphia has been doing. They have been observing children's behavior in their homes without their knowledge and one child was even disciplined, because they thought his home behavior was inappropriate.
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As part of Merrimack's ongoing Together For Good fundraising campaign, renderings have been released for part of what would be a new athletic district on the Merrimack campus. The campaign is raising funds for multiple areas across the college. Athletically, funds are being raised to build a new stadium as well as re-positioning and re-working most of the college's existing outdoor fields.
According to the Together For Good portion of the Merrimack College website, about $6 million is needed for the athletic improvements.
The athletic investments would include:
— A new stadium and track. The stadium would seat 2,500 fans and include a multipurpose 400-meter eight-lane track.
— Construction would include new concession areas, locker rooms and athletic offices for teams closer to the stadium
— Redeveloping 350,000 square feet of land to create three fields.
— The softball field, according to lines on the above rendering, would be part of Martone-Mejail Field. There is also lines for a proposed season bubble on the outfield of the baseball field.
The college says on the website: "These new athletic spaces will support our goal of becoming a Division 1 institution, help us meet demand from our expanding enrollment, and serve as a resource for the campus, our fans and surrounding community."
In total, the Together For Good campaign is aiming to raise $50 million. As of today (12/16/16), the website states that $35 million has been raised.


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