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Your humble scribe is out and about pointing at rocks and stuff, which explains the lack of action here on the blerg today. Back in the saddle on Monday.
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Your humble scribe is out and about pointing at rocks and stuff, which explains the lack of action here on the blerg today. Back in the saddle on Monday.
KWG Resources (KWG.v): Delisting its shares and diluting shareholders to kingdom come. For the benefit of its shareholders
As described in KWG's Press Release of March 13, 2015, the delisting is necessary in order for KWG to be in a position to satisfy its obligations under the option agreement with Bold Ventures Inc. ("Bold") (TSX VENTURE:BOL) in respect of the Black Horse claims. KWG's management and Board determined that it was in the best interest of its shareholders to continue to earn an 80% interest in Bold's interest in the chromite resources comprising the Black Horse claims and a 20% interest in their non-chromite resources and to husband its cash resources by issuing 35,000,000 shares of KWG rather than making a cash payment of $700,000, especially in light of the difficulty in raising equity in the current markets. Given that the value of the shares being issued is $0.02 per share (reflecting current market prices) and that the TSXV does not permit listed issuers to issue shares at less than $0.05 each in respect of this type of transaction and that the TSXV would not grant KWG a waiver from such requirement, management and the Board concluded that it was necessary to delist its shares from the TSXV in order to continue to maintain its right to earn such interest in the Black Horse claims.
KWG's common shares have been inter-listed for trading on the Canadian Securities Exchange ("CSE") and TSXV for a number of years. Recently the CSE market facilities were made available to all of Canada's discount brokerage trading services. It is anticipated that following the delisting of KWG's shares from the TSXV, shareholders, investors and brokers will experience no disruption in their ability to trade such shares through the facilities of the CSE and that trading liquidity will not be adversely affected. In addition, such change in trading markets is not expected to affect KWG's ability to raise capital. Additionally, KWG Shares will continue to be traded on the facilities of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and on the OTC Market in the USA.
The question "Is a Strong Dollar Good for the U.S. Economy?" is a waste of time
PS: And this is what the Dow does as it continues to do its job of reflecting the state of the US economy:
It's not always up, but I think you can probably spot the trend.
UPDATE: Over at Market Narrative, Iwnattos tries hard to pick a fight with the above but can only find minor quibbles and whinges of the non-core type, which is of course a major achievement on my part. I rule.
Chart of the day is...
Did you have a pleasant evening, Mr. Milner?
PS: And Mr. Fernandinho, pleasant evening's sport?
Somebody needs to tell the goldbugs...
A Wednesday musical interlude dedicated to Janet Yellen
Daft Punk: Harder Better Faster Stronger (the amazing live version):
Because our leaders must set the example.
PS: Just for the record, some pieces or music sound the same whether played at a high or low volume. This is not one of those pieces of music. Don't be shy about sharing this one with your neighbours. Or the next block, for that matter. They'll thank you for it. Probably.
I get the best e-mails
Good to know I'm on Bobby Genovese's BFF-list:
All the scamming scumballs of the Canadian mining world have IKN on speed-dial, y'know
Pacific Rubiales (PRE.to) reports its 4q14
Three charts from balance sheet items:
Working capital:
Forget the quarterly profit and loss, it's the balance sheet items that show how an O&G company that was big and strutting just a few quarters ago can go belly-up extremely quickly. If PRE.to can renegotiate its financial debt pile it has a decent shot of a long-term future. If it can't, its only future will be as a case-study for business MBA courses. Sophomore level.
Chart of the day is...
How the Vancouver system works, Southern Silver (SSV.v) edition
So you see Electrum there as the big taker and that's fair enough. Chances are they're making a bet and knowing their normal style, they'll be in for the long term. Electrum's the type of player that takes the risk on small priced issues in order to go for the high risk big reward.
But now let's check on the others there.
Zorb Soccer
The laughing stock that is the BCSC
Guess which LatAm country's stock market is the best performer in US Dollar terms
- EWZ: Brazil
- EWW: Mexico
- EPU: Peru
- ARGT: Argentina
- ECH: Chile
- GXG: Colombia
B2Gold (BTO.to) (BTG): Count IKN as a defender of Clive Johnson and his team (from IKN305)
Some good news for Pacific Rubiales (PRE.to)
More Argonaut (AR.to): The unintentional comedy gold that is its 4q14 MD&A
Production costs for the fourth quarter of 2014 were $33.1 million, an increase from $18.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2013. Cash cost per gold ounce sold (see Non-IFRS Measures section) increased to $801 in the fourth quarter of 2014 from $654 in the same period of 2013, principally due to an increase in mine operating costs.
- AR.to carries Magino at U$267m
- AR.to currently has a market cap of CAD$207m (i.e. around U$166m).
4q14 G&A per gold ounce of a selection of junior and senior producers
|4q14 G&A ($m)
|Oz Au or AuEq prod
|$ G&A/oz
|in case of silver mines, conversion to AuEq done at 70/1
Dead Goldcorp (GG) miners in Guerrero, Mexico
Reuters has your story:
9:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time Mar 15, 2015IGUALA, March 15 (Reuters) - Three employees of Canadian miner Goldcorp Inc
were found dead, family members said,after they were believed to have been abducted in restive southwestern Mexico.
The corpses were found on Friday in a mass grave in Guerrero state and showed signs of torture, the relatives said. It was the same state where 43 trainee teachers were abducted late last year and apparently massacred, in an incident that sparked President Enrique Pena Nieto's deepest political crisis.
State authorities declined to comment when asked about the discovery.
The state prosecutor's office said on March 6 that four employees of Goldcorp, the world's biggest gold producer by market value, had possibly been kidnapped. Prior to their disappearance, they were believed to be headed home after finishing their shifts at the Los Filos mine.
The fourth employee has since been freed, according to family members.
"The information available to us about this incident is limited, however the disappearance of the employees was unrelated to their role with Goldcorp," Goldcorp spokeswoman Christine Marks wrote in an e-mail on Sunday. "The employees were not at the mine conducting Goldcorp business or in Goldcorp-supplied transportation at the time of the incident," she added.
Argonaut Gold 4q14 results
Interesting to compare the RIO charts below to these:
Rio Alto (RIO.to) (RIOM) 4q14 results
Chart of the day is...
Pacific Rubiales (PRE.to) and Ecopetrol (EC) news
BOGOTA, Colombia, March 15, 2015 /CNW/ -- Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC; BVC: ECOPETROL; TSX: ECP) and Pacific Rubiales Energy announce that they have agreed not to extend the Rubiales risk participation and Piriri joint venture contracts that expire in 2016.Ecopetrol will be examining different options for the operation of the Rubiales field. For its part, Pacific Rubiales Energy will explore the possibility of presenting a proposal to operate this asset.Both Ecopetrol and Pacific Rubiales Energy have expressed interest in continuing to develop business opportunities for the benefit of both parties and that of the country.
And by way of a small reminder, on January 29th IKN wrote:
"...the word inside Colombia's financial zone is that Ecopetrol is indeed going to take back its Rubiales field next year instead of continuing the JV with PRE.to, as is ECO's right under the deal. And that means PRE loses its cheapest and most important production field. And that means in 2016, its costs per barrel shoot higher than anything it sketches in its current 2015 guidance...."
And then there's this, a Spanish language documentary all about how wonderfully PRE.to treats the people round its operations. Not.
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The trading oil flowchart
This is very good indeed. From Setty

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Taking me back to my R & B, jazz and gospel roots in St. Louis today while I'm here in Studio G at the Mohn Broadcast Center. Working on a spot for UCLA Live at Royce Hall featuring powerhouse, gospel singer, Mavis Staples and citizen of the world, Billy Bragg.
These are two icons/musicians from back in the day when I wore a black arm band while marching and voicing an opinion about social injustices. You see, in St. Louis, there were a lot of fine musicians and it didn't matter what shade you happen to be. If you made good music and the vibe was right, it was about the sound, where you put your fingers on the keys or strings and nothing to do with the race of the players.
Mavis Staples and Billy Bragg are both bound by the spirit of social injustice and activism and are coming together for a special celebration of music. Mavis Staples blazes a rhythm and blues trail while hanging on to her gospel roots. The Lifetime Grammy Award winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee was honored as one of Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers of all time. Billy Bragg's inspiration stems from the socially conscious folk tradition of Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan. Bragg has two Grammy-nominated albums with Wilco — "Mermaid Avenue" (1998) and "Mermaid Avenue, Volume II" (2000).
For more information about their upcoming Hope, Love and Justice concert at UCLA Live at Royce Hall, go to http://www.uclalive.org/calendar/event_detail.asp?id=26
(Audio clip is an underwriting spot for UCLA Live featuring a musical excerpt of Mavis Staples' song, "Eyes On The Prize. SCPR voice talent is Hettie Lynne Hurtes.)


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Today's QOTD is a great example of one of the "grammar rules" that the SAT loves that is more like stuff to memorize than it is rules to apply. Since our job is to help you out, we're going to explain the concept behind this question so you know what to do if you see a question like this on the test. One of the things that makes this question so tough is that it's testing idioms.
Is the SAT Sounding the Death Knell of Robust Lexicons?
I am sure that following David Coleman's speech at the annual NACAC conference yet another round of articles will penned decrying the burden of the malevolent SAT vocabulary. For years, students have been alone in their lamentation of the SAT's propensity for underscoring the deficiencies in their respective vocabularies. Now these students have an ally in the new College Board president, who's taken to joining the cacophony surrounding the SAT and its "arcane" vocabulary. In each of his public comments about the impending changes to the SAT, he's been taking swipes at the words tested on his own exam. His comments have carried the implication that these tested words are no longer relevant, popular, and by extension not useful to learn. He has given tacit endorsement (whether intentional or not) to the idea that there is such a thing as an "SAT word" (a word that one learns for the SAT and will never use again). This rhetoric from the architect of Common Core State Standards and the de facto baby daddy of the Forthcoming New SAT (let's call it: FNSAT), may be exciting for students, should be concerning to all of us logophiles.
SAT QOTD: When in doubt, write it out!
On June 15th the College Board QOTD apparently killed those not yet prepared for the SAT. Well today we're going to help the 154,000 of you that got this question wrong (and all of you who've yet to try this question) by showing you great strategy that would make this question a piece of cake.
Today's strategy is: When in doubt, write it out!
SAT QOTD: Modifiers and Ray Allen
Since of course you're doing the College Board QOTD every day, you should focus on learning as much as you can from doing those questions. Prepping for the SAT is not just about learning rules and facts, but it's also about learning what the SAT likes and what the SAT tests. Knowing what the SAT will test most frequently will give you an edge and make you more efficient on the test.
The Question of the Day from June 14th, 2013 was a great example of a common rule the SAT loves to test: modifiers! If you understand modifier rules, you'll easily be able to pick up 4 – 8 questions every test, and that could translate to 80 more points for your Writing score.
ACT vs SAT: The Amazing Race
In our continuing ACT vs SAT series (if you've not been following you might want to click this link and check out the others), we break down the difference in pacing on the two tests. We'll help you make sense of pacing and timing on the SAT versus the ACT. You've probably already read or heard that the ACT is a faster test than the SAT, and we're here to give that a little more context and help you figure out what that means to you.
When people say "The ACT is a faster test" what they really mean is that the ACT overall allots less time per question.
ACT vs SAT: The only difference that matters
In our continuing quest to put to rest the fruitless debate between the two college entry behemoths, we give you the definitive answer to which test you should take.
After all talk is over and after all the pros and cons have been listed, the one and only difference you need to worry about is which test you do better on!
No matter what the group statistics imply, no matter what your friends have done, no matter who was admitted with which scores last year, all that matters is which test provides you the best opportunity to demonstrate to colleges your ability to do well at their school.
ACT vs SAT: Myths and Legends
In recent years, students have increasingly faced the challenge of deciding which college admission tests to take. They are receiving conflicting, vague, or incorrect advice from counselors, parents, blogs, internet experts, admission officers, concerned citizens, and busybodies of all varieties. Instead of solving the problem and making the decision easier, this information overload can often increase the confusion. To help you make a decision (and hopefully not just add to the noise), we've started this "ACT vs. SAT" series, which will provide specific points points of comparison and clear (hopefully) unbiased information that will help you create your ACT vs. SAT scorecard. To kick things off, we'll dispel a few of the most egregious myths we've heard in the ACT/SAT discussion.
5 Common Misconceptions
SAT Tips: Don't Compare Rooms and Floors
For the SAT Writing test (and grammar in general), there are few topics that warm the heart of grammarians as much as the enforcement of rules pertaining to creating logical comparisons. On every SAT, on every grammar blog, and in every college paper, psychometricians, editors, and English professors break out the brightest red ink and go to town on the violations of "apples to apples, oranges to oranges." In order to get ready for the SAT (and college, the GMAT, or the workplace), you have to make sure you look for any comparisons that are created and always apply the rule.
SAT Tips: The Holy Grail of SAT Math
Today's post, inspired by the SAT Question of the Day for 3/11/12 offers us another opportunity to remind you of one of the few remaining truly magical test-taking techniques: Plugging In!
SAT Tips: Guessing on Hard Math Questions
Not long ago the question above was the Question Of The Day on the College Board website and it inspired another blog post (found here), well this question is the question that keeps on giving (or teaching). Here we go again, taking this question apart so that you can learn from it and be ready for your SAT. Like many questions on the SAT you can look at them from multiple perspectives. We previously looked at this one for the content of the questions and what rules/terms you needed to learn, now we'll explore what this question has to teach us about SAT strategy.


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If you suffer from leaking bladder accidents when you cough or laugh or sneeze, or if you have the urge of going to the bathroom all the time, you are not alone. Millions of people across all ages, both genders and all races are affected by this common problem that is termed urinary incontinence (UI), a loss of bladder control. The good news is that the underlying medical condition causing urinary incontinence is almost always treatable and today it is possible to get affordable treatment overseas through medical tourism.
Though urinary incontinence can be classified into several types, its three main types are: stress, urge and overflow.
Stress incontinence occurs during certain activities like coughing, sneezing, laughing, or exercise, and is most commonly caused by weak pelvic floor muscles.
Urge incontinence or overactive incontinence involves a sudden urge to urinate followed by instant bladder contraction and involuntary loss of urine, and occurs regardless of the amount of urine that is in the bladder.
Overflow incontinence is the constant dribbling of urine usually associated with urinating frequently and in small amounts, and may be caused by weak bladder muscles or a blocked urethra.
Depending on the cause, type and severity of urinary incontinence as well as your lifestyle, treatment approaches available to you may include weight loss, exercises, medications, bladder retraining (timed voiding), biofeedback, electrical stimulation, and if all else fails, then surgery.
Medical tourism is the act of traveling from one city to another within your country (domestic medical tourism) or to another country by crossing international borders (overseas medical tourism) to obtain medical care that is either not available or not affordable at your local provider. The popularity of medical tourism is largely due to the availability of high quality care at a highly discounted price.
Healthcare providers participating in medical tourism boast of modern facilities with state-of-the-art equipments and technologies, and surgeons who are trained or educated in the US or Europe – all this at a cost that's 60% to 90% cheaper compared to typical US hospital rates.
Several procedures are offered abroad for the surgical treatment of all types of incontinence – stress, urge, overflow, mixed, etc.
For curing stress incontinence in women, sling procedures such as Tension-free transvaginal (TVT) sling, Transobturator tape (TOT) sling and Mini-sling procedure are available overseas. Another type of procedure for stress incontinence treatment offered abroad is bladder neck suspension procedure which includes Marshall-Marchetti-Krantz procedure (MMK procedure) or a variant of it called Burch procedure.
To treat severe urge incontinence, procedures offered overseas include augmentation cystoplasty or a newer procedure called sacral nerve stimulation.
For the treatment of urinary incontinence in men, some of the procedures available abroad include artificial urinary sphincter, male sling, and urinary diversion.
Some of the most popular countries that patients from the United States travel to for urinary incontinence procedures are Mexico, India, Singapore and Thailand.
Apart from the considerably lower cost of surgery, Mexico is preferred for another obvious reason – its close proximity to the United States. This means shorter travel times and more convenience for the medical tourist.
Singapore's high quality of care along with the large concentration of internationally accredited hospitals in the country play a major role in its demand in the medical tourism market for incontinence surgery. Furthermore, English being the official language of the country makes communication with your international provider easy.
But, if you want the best value for your money then India is the answer. The medical tourism hotspot offers prices on procedures that are unbeatable. For instance, a TVT or a TOT procedure, inclusive of the hospital charges and the doctor's fees, costs approximately USD2,500*.
Also note that urinary incontinence surgery abroad typically involves a 2-3 day stay at the hospital followed by a 3-6 day of recuperation or rehab at a nearby hotel before returning home.
So, if an incontinence surgery is what your local doctor has recommended and treatment abroad is what you wish to seek, then get your local doctor's report along with any and all reports of diagnostic tests and then call upon a reputed medical tourism company such as Healthbase for a consultation with an overseas incontinence specialist of your choice.
*Note: The price mentioned is for rough planning purposes only. The actual price charged may vary based on your specific medical condition, the provider chosen, currency fluctuations or for any other reason. Transportation, hotel accommodation and food are not included in the price.
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Is that so much to ask for? I don't think so. And I hope that if you desire the same thing, you see it as a very real possibility as well.
I have a plan to get there. It may not be flawless, and I'm sure I'll fall on my face along the way, but my writing will be geared towards the execution of that plan, and hopefully it will bring us both one step closer to that ultimate goal.
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Roosevelt is home to the quietly famous Ben Shahn mural.
The NY Times Real Estate section took a look for "If You're Thinking of Living In Roosevelt" (If the link doesn't work, you could search on the author's name: Jerry Cheslow). They described it unique position in history:
The only town in New Jersey on both the National and State Registers of Historic Places in its entirety, Roosevelt was originally named Jersey Homesteads. It was one of 34 municipalities started by the federal Subsistence Homesteads program, an experiment that gave workers cooperative ownership over local farms and factories. In 1945, after President Roosevelt's death and long after the government had sold off the factory and farms, the borough renamed itself Roosevelt to honor F.D.R.These historic photos are also pretty amazing.


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While the NYT has been waxing prosaic that Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter I take heart that I tend to be both old(er) and require a verbosity in communication that sites like Twitter and Facebook just cannot satisfy. Mitch Joel has a great response to the NYT article in his Blogging Is Dead (Again) | Six Pixels of Separation Blog. And I am encouraged by two points he offers; "Blogging isn't dead. Blogging is publishing." and "Blogging is hard." From Mitch's post:
Blogging is hard.
Blogging is hard because writing is hard. Writing is hard because finding the time to do real critical thinking and then to put those thoughts down in writing is even more complex. Reading, research, critical thinking, writing, editing and publishing isn't like posting a picture to tumblr or texting off a tweet. They're different beasts and they deserve different forms of metrics and comparison.
So despite the visible slowdown in GSD posting here, I assure my gentle readers that it's because my boots have been on the ground, in the trenches, getting very dirty with real-world experiences. I've been studying books, taking notes, putting into practice, crafting and refining. And along the way taking names, linkage, and notes.
So please enjoy this labor-of-love blogging post today. And special credit to two extra-special things I noted this week that helped me get focused:
- My "new post ranking" on the sidebar of the Windows Incident Response blog hadn't sunk to dead-bottom yet, but was slowly getting closer and needed to be "bumped up", and
- For some really bizarre reason bound to be the result of an interdimensional rift, E-Evidence Information Center - Blogs & Wikis made a grave error with the consequence of having Harlan Carvey's Windows Incident Response blog listed at the top of the left-column and this humble blog listed alongside at the top of the right-hand column. I'm not worthy…I'm not worthy! Hopefully that will resolve itself dropping GSD a bit lower into the link-pile. In the meantime I better represent!
Since it's already come e up, it seems natural to start this LinkFest off with this WindowsIR blog post Links, Tools and Stuff. At the end of the post, Harlan has a list of forensic/security related tool sites. I've listed his finds below with a few others as well:
- Forensic Control - Free Computer Forensic Software
- Windows | Open Source Digital Forensics
- Category:RCE Tools - Collaborative RCE Tool Library
- My SecTools (bbueno) including the following categories:
- Foundstone - A division of McAfee has their own Free Tools selection as well. I usually forget about these for a while, then come back to them. I find it ironic that often many of these McAfee tools are nailed by Symantec as "hack-tools" and quarantined. These are mostly oldies but goodies.
Wi-Fi Mapping/Monitoring Resources
A while back in the GSD post Security and Forensics Watch-List: GSD Linkfest Style I touched on some great (and free) Wi-Fi signal discovery tools; the inSSIDer 2.0 Wi-Fi Scanner or NirSoft's WirelessNetView or the eye-candy rich Xirrus Wi-Fi Inspector.
Corey Harrell of Journey into Incident Response blog kindly left a comment on that post bringing my attention to Ekahau HeatMapper - The Free Wi-Fi Coverage Mapping Site Survey Tool. While I was able to use inSSIDer on a recent incident response event to pinpoint a rouge Wi-Fi device and neutralize it, I truly believe the Ekahau product may have been able to help me better had I known about it at the time.
Since then, other similar tools such as Vistumbler and PassMark WirelessMon have come to my attention as well that not only provide Wi-Fi signal monitoring but also "heat-mapping" features.
New Stuff
There seems to have been a slight slowdown in the number of new "sparkly things" in terms of security/forensic software/freeware tools that usually makes me react like a Bowerbird to a shiny new object.
Fresh on the heels of DEFT Linux 6 getting released, Brett Shavers over at the Windows Forensic Environment (WinFE) blog announced It's time to build your WinFE! having put together a very slick WinFE WinBuilder package. It's no secret I'm a mad WinPE builder and this WinFE builder is top-notch and will provide a very slick WinFE build with minimal fuss. Check out Brett's hard efforts for yourself.
JADsoftware has both installable and portable versions of Internet Evidence Finder v4 available: Internet Evidence Finder v4 – Standard Edition and Internet Evidence Finder v4 – Portable Edition. Although not free, there are free-trial versions available for immediate download. What's more according to Brett Shavers' post Portable Internet Evidence Finder and WinFE, it works just fine in a WinFE build!
Now out via SecurityOrb.com » Feb Edition of Hackin9
Lightbox Technologies is readying a release of Lightgrep. First spotted via JL's stuff: NYC4SEC Meeting 1/19/2011 blog post, this looks to be an interesting tool.
In the meantime, there is still the free Windows Grep tool AstroGrep. Other handy utilities are File Hound 3.2, Windows Grep, PRGrep, GREP for Windows, and my favorite, BareGrep.
Port Monitoring / SPAN port / Misc Network Traffic Monitoring Resources
Instead of using a network tap connection to monitor traffic, I rely upon a dedicated capture system hooked into a switch port configured with the port set to a particular SPAN configuration. So far this configuration has worked golden.
I've posted these resources before on GSD, but I keep finding them so valuable I can't help but repost them again, just in case someone stumbles across this post.
TaoSecurity post on SPANs versus Taps: TaoSecurity: Expert Commentary on SPAN and RSPAN Weaknesses
It links to two MOST Excellent articles on the issues of using spanned switch ports for collecting your network capture data, both form Tim O'Neill:
OK, now the linkage on SPAN'ing
- Catalyst Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) Configuration Example - Cisco Systems. A definitive resource.
- Port Mirroring on a Cisco 3550 Switch -danielmiessler.com
- Security Wizardry - Switch Port Mirroring
- How to Configure Local SPAN Port on Cisco Catalyst Switch - ItsyourIP.com
And my oldies but goodies favorites:
CDP - What Switch Am I Connected To? and Monitoring Traffic with Span Ports – SynJunkie. Two really great posts out of series of ones touching on network monitoring, and Cisco switch/router configuration techniques. I'm singling these out in particular as they are of interest to sysadmin troubleshooting on the network as well as traffic captures.
And recently found this Wireshark Wiki article as well -- CaptureSetup/Ethernet.
So during a recent troubleshooting exercise regarding network traffic capture analysis, I kept pounding my head on the desk because the data I was collecting just was turning up to be frustratingly non-helpful. My data from source A wasn't matching my observed data from source B. After a week of forehead soreness I finally realized I wasn't capturing any TCP/UDP traffic at all! Turns out this model of Cisco switch required a different port mirroring configuration than the standard one used. With the help of a cubicle buddy, we figured out the correct configuration settings, applied them, captured the network traffic data again, and within an hour I had the problem identified and resolved. Easy-Peasy.
That said, it drove home that while my Wireshark/Network Monitor skills may be getting much better, if I can't self-evaluate the correctness of switch configurations, I may waste a bunch of time working off someone else's assumptions.
So I ended up collecting the following additional links that were helpful in this regard:
- Cisco Network Assistant - Products & Services - Cisco Systems. Great GUI tool to discover and manage Cisco network products. For some reason the internal update feature didn't find a new 5.6.1 version despite the version being newly issued. So I keep the link handy to directly check. Download Software - Cisco Systems
- CiscoZine - great and fresh Cisco-centric blog, particularly loaded with tutorial, security, and exploit content focuses.
- How to analyze traffic with SPAN feature - CiscoZine
- Decrypt type-7 password with Cisco IOS - CiscoZine
- Catalyst 2950 Desktop Switch Software Configuration Guide, 12.1(9)EA1 - Configuring SPAN [Cisco Catalyst 2950 Series Switches] - Cisco Systems
- Catalyst 2960 Switch Software Configuration Guide, 12.2(25)SEE - Configuring SPAN and RSPAN [Cisco Catalyst 2960 Series Switches] - Cisco Systems
Network Assessment and Analysis
There are some great updates in the realm of network assessment tools.
My foundational tool are
- Wireshark,
- Microsoft Network Monitor 3.4 & Microsoft Network Monitor Parsers 3.4.2455,
- NetworkMiner,
- NetWitness Investigator, and
- SoftPerfect Network Scanner
These tools along with information of networks from Cisco Network Assistant generally can provide me a pretty good view of what is going on when I am analyzing network traffic captures.
However, lately I've been trying to add depth to my bench.
Nmap - Free Security Scanner For Network Exploration & Security Audits has been recently released at version 5.50. I snagged a GUI-supported build Nmap 5.51 at FileHippo.com. I'm still getting my feet wet on it with my home network before I expand usage onto our production environment but I am very impressed.
Erik Hjelmvik has recently kicked off his NETRESEC NetworkMiner website that offers both the free version of NetworkMiner we have all come to love and adore as well as a Professional version that offers result exporting, Host coloring support, and CLI scripting. Erik's site also includes a Blog so you can follow current events. If you didn't hear (who hasn't) NetworkMiner has been released at version 1.0. PCAP loading speeds are very much improved, no bomb-outs on pcaps that have particular packet errors in the capture, and a few new bells and whistles.
Despite Lavie's teasing's, I am certain I've not yet fallen asleep with my copy of Laura Chappell's Wireshark Network Analysis book on my chest…though truth be told it is rarely beyond fingertip reach lately. I've learned a ton of great techniques and filters already and I'm only 1/4 of the way though!
I keep three installed version levels of Wireshark on my system. I use the "Old Stable" version 1.2.x set as my work-horse doing most of my .CAP--> .PCAP conversions via the included version of EDITCAP. I use the "Stable" version 1.4.3 for my daily capture and focused analysis work. Then I have been excited to find that the "Development" version 1.5.0 is super-fast and doesn't seem to experience the constant memory-crash problem opening large PCAP trace files that the other versions to. So it is often the first one I use to open then post-capture filter the trace file into smaller more focused PCAP files. If you haven't tried it yet, give Wireshark 1.5.0 Development Release a whirl.
GSD Related posts: Network Linkfest & Network Monitoring Madness: Poor Man's Resource Linkfest
Scanning for MAC and and finding some-FING special
Once you spend any time at all in the network world you quickly realize that addressing physical network security is a foundational element. If you haven't found it yet, give this /dev/random post Why Physical (Network) Security is Important? a look. It is a concise primer and I can vouch that it is unnerving when doing a network trace analysis to suddenly be staring face-to-face with a rouge network device secretly added to your network.
Nmap can be a good place to start. Also, having a list of IP/MAC addresses as well as Host data for them can be a great reference while picking apart and filtering capture traces.
Here are some other free tools I've had good success with in performing local network inventory sessions to get that IP/MAC information.
Note: most (but not all) generally do not provide accurate (if any) MAC address discovery across networks. By that I mean you generally need to be running the tool on a device that is already inside that network..rather than from a remote system outside the network/subnet. That's not a problem for me with our embedded network capture systems we remote in to. But be aware of that issue in case you try one and results are not displayed as intended.
- SoftPerfect Network Scanner - fast and free network scanner
- FastResolver - Host Names/IP Addresses/MAC Address Scanner. Be sure to get and add this oui.txt file to the program folder to display MAC address maker information.
- Colasoft MAC Scanner - Scan MAC address and IP address in seconds
- Advanced IP Scanner 2.0
- MiTeC Network Scanner
- SuperScan v4.0 - McAfee Free Tools
- Cain & Abel has a MAC Scanner component. Only drawback is many personal and enterprise AV scanners love to tear apart Cain & Abel as a hack-tool so getting it loaded on a system can sometimes be a pain. If you do install it locally, be ready for warning bells to go off and make sure you have your sysadmin's approval!
- The Dude for Windows - Provided by MikroTik in both stable and a v4.0 beta2 version.
- Free IP Address Tracker from SolarWinds pretty handy tool from the awesome SolarWinds group. See also many of their other Free Network Monitoring Tools
- NetBoar - very interesting tool for fast-traffic conversation monitoring. Not nearly as powerful as the big-boys but could be good for rapid-response quick recon-checks to then let you bring in the heavy air-cover of Wireshark/NetMon in a precise manner.
An exciting and new find (to me) was Fing 1.4 from overlook.
What I really, really, really liked about Fing was that is is a CLI-based network discovery tool that is multi-platform (Linux, Mac, Windows, even, yes…Android), supports MAC address gathering, service info gathering, and can run as a service and scan/report changes when occur.
The Fing manual contains a lot of information as to the capabilities as well as examples of report output in csv, text, html, and sml formats. It is really cool.
Enjoy the view of a demo report. Fing is freeware, and may be downloaded here.
Don't let the CLI environment worry you, once installed, it creates a program shortcut for launching a terminal window in "interactive" mode which will guide you through the process. Once you get comfortable, you can run your own targeted ping commands much more efficiently on your own.
And if you can wait, alpha/beta testing has concluded on a GUI-based FING edition. No word on release date. I missed out on the testing (DRAT!) so I haven't had an opportunity to see this GUI-version but the forum feedback seemed positive.
Check Fing out!
RE: MAC's & Spoofing
Yes…I felt obligated to add this.
I know that MAC addresses can be spoofed. Easily. So a MAC address alone is definitely no smoking gun. That said, if the MAC address you are working with is captured "in-context" in a traffic capture or with other tools, and especially if it persistently consistent in presence, you still stand a good chance of being able to track down the physical device associated with it. If it shows up in a traffic capture you should have the traffic, the packets, the IP address associated, and the MAC address being offered.
Couple that with a MAC/IP/Network scanning tool, some l33t work inside your switching hardware, and you should be able to trace it to a physical switch port (well, it it isn't Wi-Fi I suppose). Then it's just a matter of following the wire. Then finding the answer to why someone would want to spoof an MAC address on your network would be my next step.
Anyway…that said, here are some related resources.
- MAC spoofing - Wikipedia
- How to spoof a MAC address - TechRepublic
- How to Change or Spoof MAC Address in Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003/2008, Mac OS X, Unix and Linux - My Digital Life
- How to change a MAC address on Windows 7 - Microsoft TechNet forums
- Technitium MAC Address Changer v5 Release 3 - freeware
- MacMakeup - gorlani.com
- Change MAC Address (Spoofing) for Windows 7, 2000, 2003, XP, VISTA, 2008
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Teacher Assessment and Evaluation: The NEA's Framework
The National Education Association's Framework for Transforming Education Systems to Support Effective Teaching and Improve Student Learning
NEA recognizes the urgent need to transform the U.S. education system to support effective teaching and improve student learning. Based on its vision of great public schools for every child, NEA has identified the core purposes and values of a comprehensive teacher growth and development system to meet the demands of the 21st century.
NEA advocates the development of new systems of teaching and learning that align student and teacher assessment with the ultimate goal of improving both.
This white paper on teacher assessment and evaluation provides a framework designed to transform education from a reward and punish system to one that supports effective teaching and student learning. The framework describes guiding principles and lays out a process for developing a comprehensive and robust teacher evaluation system.
Read Teacher Assessment and Evaluation (December 2010) (PDF, 270 KB 12pp).
- Ensuring Every Child a Quality Teacher (PDF, 11pp)
NEA white paper on the essential characteristics of a quality teacher.


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|Tom Cruise, in Top Gun. Remember this, he forms the basis of two VERY dramatic scenes of my life.
He did not buy it. Still hates me... :P
P.S.: Dedicated to that close group of friends who has witnessed this all, and have started many a conversation with 'Remember when Annie did/said/was.....) :D


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Now-a-days one could call "Database API" using JavaScript (CouchDB). With the rise of Server-Side JavaScript (SSJS), one could write server side logic of a web application using JavaScript (NodeJS). One could write client portion of a web application quickly (ExtJS/jQuery UI) using fast/performant (jQuery) JavaScript. One could also use frameworks such as Knockout.js/Underscore.js/Backbone.js to assemble together a MVC/MVVM/MV* style web apps in quick time. One could even develop mobile applications using JavaScript (Appcelerator Titanium).
Rich two-way binding based on libraries like Handlebars is the norm these days.Frameworks like Meteor are also on their way to the developer toolbox to solve concurrency & scalability issues and let the developer only be concerned about developing what they want in a high level way.
Not to mention the beast that is the Html5 as it holds a lot of promise for the future. W3C Web Workers is coming onto the scene as a form of "threading" and supported in the ECMAScript Edition 5.
Html5 offline client-side storage features like File System API,
Indexed Database API (IndexedDB), Web SQL Database, Web Storage and
Application Cache are also JavaScript based not to mention other third party
storage solutions like SQL.js, TrappistDB, PersistJS.
I know talking about Html5 WebSockets would entail another post per se. but the least one could say about it is that the future of communication in web world is persistent full duplex connection. And that can be achieved with WebSocket.
Then there is the small matter of Emscripten by which one could Port a C/C++ Library to JavaScript (xml.js). So you can imagine that the "sky should be the limit" with what could be achieved in JavaScript alone.
There are number of up and coming libraries for doing tasks in JavaScript which up until now was considered only a "server job". Pdf.js is one such HTML5 technology experiment that explores building a faithful and efficient Portable Document Format (PDF) renderer without native code assistance. Zip.js is another JavaScript library to zip and unzip files on the client-end. JS-Crypto is a collection of JavaScript crypto functions to call from the front-end.
Is this how the future would shape up to for the Web 3.0? Is JavaScript in every layer in an N-Tier Architecture i.e. Presentation Layer, Business Layer, Data Access Layer a viable solution? I would love to get your view regarding today's JavaScript in "every sphere" based development paradigm.


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Jason Lamb is the Director of Athletics and head coach of the men's lacrosse program at Southern Virginia University.
Lamb is going into his fifth year as head coach of the men's lacrosse program.
Lamb comes to Southern Virginia from the University of Notre Dame, where he has served as director of operations for men's lacrosse since February 2012. During Lamb's two seasons at Notre Dame, The Fighting Irish reached the NCAA Division I Championship semifinal and quarterfinal rounds in 2012 and 2013, respectively.
Prior to his tenure at Notre Dame, Lamb was the director of lacrosse at NCAA Division II Adams State College in Alamosa, Colo., from 2010 to 2012. He oversaw the start-up of the Grizzlies men's and women's lacrosse programs prior to their inaugural season as members of the Western Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association in 2011.
During the summer of 2011, Lamb also joined the Denver Outlaws of Major League Lacrosse as an assistant coach. His connection with the Outlaws helped facilitate a match between Adams State and WILA-rival Colorado Mesa University at Mile High Stadium.
From 1995 to 2010, Lamb was the head men's lacrosse coach at Brigham Young University amassing a 213-69 (.755) record and guiding the Cougars to three Men's Collegiate Lacrosse Association national championships and seven Rocky Mountain Lacrosse Conference titles during his tenure. In 2006, Lamb was named MCLA Coach of the Year.
Lamb was also instrumental in organizing the MCLA—a national organization for institutions that do not sponsor intercollegiate lacrosse at the varsity level—and served as the MCLA's president from 1997 to 2003. BYU is currently a Division I-affiliate of the MCLA, while Southern Virginia competed at the MCLA's Division II-level from 2004 to 2012.
As a student at BYU, Lamb had a standout career on the men's lacrosse team serving as an on-field coach and team captain during his junior and senior seasons. Following graduation, he became the Cougars' first-ever non-playing coach.
Lamb has also been successful head coach at the international level of lacrosse leading the USA West All-Stars to a 34-5 (.872) mark to go along with several international titles, including the 2002 Open Division Championship at the Lacrosse Federation World Games in Perth, Australia, the 2004 Prague Cup in Prague, Czech Republic, and the 2006 ASPAC Championship in Osaka, Japan.
The Rocky Point, N.Y., native graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor's degree in Italian. He served a full-time mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Rome, Italy.
Jason Lamb resides in Buena Vista with his wife, Megan and two sons, Jacob and Shawn.


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text: i believe we have the BAE left. i see us getting JR and maybe a run at foye if he's willing to take the 2.5 mil. if he does our team WILL be dangerous and will win close to 60 games. yea i said it. best thing is we have 2 defensive player of the years coming in and out of each other. No more will teams go to the basket at will, they'll have to think twice. Seems like JR is the focus at this point now. after he's locked up we'll look at other shooting guards.


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Hey guys!
let me start by saying that you obviously don't know me well, if at all, as I'm not really that active these days, but nevertheless I know you. I've been a long time marathon fan for many many years (well over a decade and a half)
I've played all the marathon scenarios and enjoyed them all. I personally think marathon is the best game that was ever created, because it inspired me to use my imagination to solve problems (long story short)- Marathon is perhaps the story that started it all for me, yes I know that you may not understand what exactly I mean by that, but you don't have to.
What I'm bringing you today is a work I've done, a story if you will more or less with marathon related references in the chapter titles and dialogue. it is a story I hold dear and true to my heart, and I wish to share it with everyone, not just the marathon community.
so here I will post it for now in this format.
I really would appreciate if you could comment on it and give me honest feedback on what you all thought about it, even offer some suggestions on how I could improve it.
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Escape from Suffering and Oppression
Mr Okasha, the current wave of suicides in Arab countries is clearly an expression of despair, oppression and helplessness. But how should we interpret this development? Does it also have to do with the illusion of martyrdom and glory?
Ahmad Okasha: I don't believe that it has anything to do with martyrdom fantasies. Suicide is generally a cry for help, an act of protest against a particular situation and a plea against powerlessness, desperation and frustration.
We also have to bear in mind that around one million people worldwide take their own lives every year. If we add failed suicide attempts, the number is ten times higher.
Why is it that self-immolation has spread so quickly through so many Arab countries since the Bouazizi suicide?
Okasha: Bouazizi's self-immolation in protest against unemployment and rampant injustice threw the entire Arab world into turmoil. Many people with no outlet for their own frustration, despair and helplessness, understand how he must have felt and see him as a kind of role model.
It is noticeable that the suicides in Egypt and elsewhere have usually taken place in front of public buildings – like the Council of Ministers or the People's Parliament – as if to say: "We are wretched and unhappy! If you cannot help us, then we will turn to God!" It is a kind of escape, from suffering, helplessness and oppression.
Why is it, would you say, that young men like Bouazizi have chosen to commit suicide by burning themselves to death?
Okasha: There are characteristic methods of suicide that have developed for different countries. In places where the possession of firearms is legal, such as in the United States, for example, the gun is often the method of choice.
In countries where such weapons are not available, a different method will be chosen. In the rural areas of Egypt, for instance, women might douse themselves in petrol and set it alight. They don't take an overdose of tablets, because that option is not open to them. In the cities, men and women will often throw themselves from one of the Nile bridges, or they might set themselves on fire.
So the method of suicide chosen depends on ethnic and cultural factors?
Okasha: Yes, the type of suicide chosen seems to depend on cultural and religious inclinations and to vary from country to country. Self-immolation and jumping into the Nile are methods typical for Egypt, indeed, for the Arab world in general.
Do you think that those who came after Bouazizi might secretly have believed that by following his example they could bring about popular uprisings in their own countries too? Or are such actions primarily born of people's desperation?
Okasha: At the time of their suicides these people were in a state of despair, just as Bouazizi was, due to economic, social or psychological circumstances. Bouazizi burned himself to death because he could see no other way out.
He had tried selling vegetables, but was not allowed to. He complained, but was then subjected to humiliation. He had nothing to eat or drink. He could not start a family. In the end, there was only one way of escaping from the situation. He also wanted to protest against the government and the authorities that had brought him to such a situation.
Can you elaborate a little more on the psychology of people who commit, or who are at risk of committing, suicide?
Okasha: Every case must be considered individually. Seventy per cent of suicides worldwide are the result of depressive disorders. Such people see their lives in very pessimistic terms. The present has nothing positive to offer them; they see their past as cheerless and drab and the future as black. Suicide offers them an end to their suffering.
The pain caused by depression is stronger than the pain of cancer. Someone who has cancer but is not depressive, wants to go on living. If he becomes depressive, however, he loses the will to live and may try to kill himself. Depression is present in 40 to 50 per cent of painful chronic diseases.
Depression can be down to economic factors such as unemployment or poverty; but it can also have social causes, such as the injustice, oppression or degradation experienced by the person in question. People may also commit suicide for psychological reasons, if they lose a loved one, for example.
Then there are the schizophrenics, people who commit suicide because they hear voices that tell them to do so. They feel that they are being watched and that everyone is against them. They become paranoid or jealous, because they imagine, for instance, that their spouse is being unfaithful to them.
How is suicide viewed in Muslim societies?
Okasha: Some see it as an escape or as cowardice; for others it is an expression of courage or dignity. There are many interpretations. As psychologists, we view every suicide attempt as a cry for help that we have to take seriously. It would be completely wrong to see suicidal people simply as attention-seekers. And I think, this time, the cry for help has finally registered with the politicians in the Arab countries.
There has already been some reaction in Kuwait and in Saudi Arabia, and I hope that the governments in the other Arab countries will also give some thought to the quality of life of their citizens before feelings of desperation and impotence get the upper hand.
The fall of the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe was also preceded by a wave of suicides. Are there parallels here to the situation in the Arab countries?
Okasha: It is the same in both cases. If suppression and frustration are too pervasive, freedom of expression denied and democracy constantly suppressed, if a country is governed in a permanent state of emergency, its people subjected to arrest and torture, deprived of their dignity and humanity or humiliated by poverty, unemployment and oppression, then a dramatic increase in suicide rates will follow.
Interview: Amira Muhammad
© Qantara.de 2011
Translated from the German by Ron Walker
Editor: Aingeal Flanagan/Qantara.de
Protests in Egypt
The Twilight of the Despots
In his essay, Stefan Weidner points out that Mubarak is not the only one who seems to have lost touch with the reality of the situation in Egypt, so too have Western governments and media
Protest Movements in the Maghreb
Recurring Revolts
In his essay, the renowned Moroccan philosopher Mohamed Sabila describes the generation gap in the three Maghreb states and the social plight of young people, who have turned away in disappointment from the political dogmatism of their parent's generation
Protests in Egypt
Egypt's "Day of Anger "
With Mohamed ElBaradei's return to Egypt, demonstrations planned for after Friday prayers and the authorities' restriction of access to the Internet, the situation in Egypt is set to escalate over the weekend. Al-Masry Al-Youm assesses the significance of the protests on 25 January


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The Federal-Academic Complex is that collection of bureaucrats and researchers that set the educational agenda in the United States. The Federal-Academic Complex does this through understanding the mechanics of education, while being empathetic to the concerns of educational stakeholders (such as parents and employers).
The Federal-Academic Complex has enemies of two classes. The first is composed of conservatives and Republicans who are generally hostile to public spending. One member of this class is Sen. Chuck Grassley, as I described previously. Conservative/Republican opposition to the Federal-Academic Complex is concentrated among an ideological minority in both movements, and I will not address it further in this post.
The second class of enemies is composed of teachers. Teachers and their front organizations (the NEA, the AFT, the NPTA, etc.) used to set the education agenda. Because teachers were unable to education children and were unable to act empathetically to others, they no longer do – that is the role of the Federal-Academic Complex.
An example to teacher hostility to the Federal-Academic Complex is this tweet by Diane Ravitch:
Tax breaks for rich Princeton, pennies for public colleges
Ravitch's comment is in reaction to an article by Richard Vedder that notes successful universities are successful, in part, for their success in attracting alumni support and federal research grants.
Teachers unions and similar groups do not care how academia works. They simply want to demonize academia (a successful part of the American social fabric) to rescue their own position in public elementary, middle, and high schools (a failed part of the American social fabric).


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These are all the News & Announcements posted on Thursday, 15 December, 2011.
Staff Reading Pick
Here is another reading pick from the Logan Library Staff.
Book: My Cat, the Silliest Cat in the World
by Gilles Bachelet
Recommended by: Debbie, Associate Librarian
If you like cats, or elephants, or both, you'll love this picture book. The author is describing his pet, comparing his "cat" to what other people say cats are like. Just reading the words, you'd never know his pet was anything other than an ordinary house cat. However, in the illustrations, his "cat" is actually an elephant. It's really quite funny.
Want more reading suggestions? View previous staff picks.
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The southern survey is well underway, with about 3000 square degrees of sky covered at least twice. We're coming into the first full moon period when the telescope is working properly, so I'll probably do less survey fields and more engineering during these nights. In a month or two, I'll start freeing up the bright time for other projects. One of my tasks this weekend is to obtain the images of the South Polar field, as these have to be manually obtained - software really doesn't like -90.0 degree fields!
APASS South is working ok, though the mount is more troublesome than I'd like. It tends to lose its periodic error correction, and the worm gear on this Paramount is old enough and bad enough that PEC is absolutely essential. There is a workaround, but it requires that I manually start up the system every night, and I cannot guarantee that I'll be available. The software or hardware has turned off tracking at least once; the first field of a night often has the wrong coordinates; two or three fields during the night might be improperly positioned. That still gives us about 95% good results, and since it has been perfectly clear at CTIO for the past month, progress is rapid. The system is currently covering all fields south of -40 dec; at the current rate, we'll start moving north in January.
The southern system optics are working well - the star profiles look good all across the field. There are typically 30,000 stars per image in these out-of-plane fields; once we hit the LMC/SMC, and in January, the galactic plane, each frame will have more than 100,000 stars. We get lots of satellite trails near twilight which impact some stars, but when the final 4 visits for each field are performed, these should clean up nicely.
Tom Smith has built new Phidget boxes for both north and south systems, to give us more control over the flatfielding lights. He'll be sending one box down to CTIO for the technician there to install.
The astrographs for APASS North are due to be shipped to HQ this Friday, and should be undergoing commissioning tests around New Year's at Dark Ridge Observatory. I expect to see new northern fields by mid-January.
I should be able to do the final analysis for the southern fields over the Christmas time period, and the DR2 release date of "January" looks well in hand.


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Hey, it's 2016 – Happy New Year, friends, family, and furry forest dwellers!
Today we have a simple message of hope that we hope will inspire our GANG collaborators, friends, and anyone who may happen to come across this article. We'll try to keep it short since we know, by the time this goes out, everyone will be drunk, sleeping, and/or hungover.
Now to get a little serious…
Bad Things Turned Good. In 2015, many bad things overshadowed otherwise good, productive, and fun times. Some of us dealt with deaths of close family members, battles with cancer, financial struggle, loneliness, and overall loss of hope. Many of you may not know this but I lost my aunt this year and she was like a second mother to me. It really knocked the wind out of my sails along with other bad news but having The GANG, our community here at GeekyAntics, really helped me out.
I learned a lot of things about myself, our audience, and what GeekyAntics can and should become. Mainly, everything positive that happened reinforced my beliefs that…
- People are fundamentally good.
- Small victories can lead to big things.
- The storm always comes before major break-throughs.
- This network truly is about collaboration and support.
The GeekyAntics Network is exactly where we need it to be right now and where we expected to be right now. Heck, we've done so much more than we expected considering I'm bootstrapping everything and we've encountered so much adversity. We could not have done it without YOU!
Unlimited Possibilities. One thing thing that has helped us all out is having an abundance mindset. There truly is a world of unlimited possibilities out there and, really, the only thing that limits our growth personally and as brands is our attitudes. So many folks give up right when they are on the verge of a major break-through and we've been working hard to help those types of folks stay strong and focused.
While we are still very much committed to individual brands (mainly streamers, writers, game devs, and podcasters), it is absolutely necessary to partner up with bigger brands. We've teamed up with tons of people in 2015 but two brands stand out the most: Martin Septic Services, based out of Middle Georgia (not Middle Earth), and Unified Combat League, based out of Seattle and sometimes Canada.
Martin Septic Tank Services (also known as Martin's Septic Service) has been an awesome sponsor. Vince Martin is a pleasure to work with and one of the coolest guys I know in Georgia. Teaming up with a local company in such a niche may seem silly to some but our goal is to align ourselves with brands that are people and people that are brands. That is, we want to work with brands that are authentic, transparent, and approachable.
On the Martin Septic Services Facebook page, you'll see exactly what I mean when I talk about being social with social media. Vince Martin and I work together to bring updates that are as fun as they are useful. Content covers a wide range of goodies from home improvement to funny pet memes to hot deals. The fine balance of curating content and providing original content is key and you'll notice Vince Martin hardly spams about himself or his business so, when he does self-promote, it counts!


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Emma Watson left Hollywood for Brown University, but at her first college party, the "Harry Potter" actress felt like she'd wandered onto another film set.
"I felt like I'd walked into an American teen movie," she said in an interview with Vanity Fair. "I picked up the red cups. I was like, Wow, they really do drink from these.
"It was just awful," she said oif her first days at the hallowed school. "I was like, I must be mad. Why am I doing this?"
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She's finding her way, hanging out with some nice boys from the crew team, taking a drama class and reportedly dating a Spanish student named Rafael Cebrián, who plays in a rock band and dabbles in acting, too.
And if you would think that Hollywood's highest-paid actress of 2009 and the star of a $5.4 billion movie franchise would have an edge in acting class, think again.
"I think actually I'm the worst person in the class," says Watson cheerily.
With the typical freshman woes behind her, Watson has settled in and is enjoying her studies and life as an Ammerican college kid.
"I was scared before I came to Brown—that I wasn't going to be allowed to have both [a career and a normal life]. People would think that I didn't deserve to have both. [I was afraid they'd think], You're famous. You're given free handbags. Why should you deserve to be normal?"