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December 11, 2018 12:26 PM
Game #23 – Tucson (14-5-2-1) vs. Colorado (12-7-3-1)
7:05 PM PST, Tucson Arena, Tucson, Arizona
Referees: #47 Michael Markovic, #49 Reid Anderson
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It'll be a battle between two of the American Hockey League's hottest teams tonight at Tucson Arena when the Roadrunners host the Colorado Eagles for the first time, marking the third of the teams' 12 scheduled meetings this season.
The top of the Pacific Division is absolutely rolling; the Roadrunners (5-0-2-0) and Eagles (6-0-0-1) are both on seven-game point streaks, while the San Jose Barracuda (6-0-1-1) are with points in each of their previous eight.
The Barracuda have not been held without a point since they were swept via consecutive shutouts by the Roadrunners at Tucson Arena on November 9 & 10.
The Eagles have earned more points than any other team in the Pacific Division on home ice (21), but have struggled to find consistency on the road, going 3-5-1-0 outside of Colorado this season. The Roadrunners, meanwhile, have won eight of 10 games played at Tucson Arena.
Forwards Travis Howe and Domenic Alberga, both signed to PTO's last week, remain on the Roadrunners' roster. Howe made his AHL debut on Saturday night, while Alberga registered his first AHL point.
Recalled from the Norfolk Admirals on Monday, forward Darik Angeli is also with the team. He played in both of the Roadrunners' preseason games, earning an assist, before being assigned to the club's ECHL affiliate, where he totaled 15 points (4G, 11A) in 23 games.
DAUPHIN DAILY: Laurent Dauphin enters the night with points in his last seven games, mirroring that of the Roadrunners' current stretch. He has amassed eight points (4G, 4A) during his current run and has scored goals in three straight. He has a total of 14 points (5G, 9A) in 22 games played this year, including an assist against Colorado on November 3.
KYLE'S KILLING IT: Defenseman Kyle Capobianco is coming off back-to-back multi-point performances, including the first three-point game of his career on Friday night. With 18 points (2G, 16A) on the year, he is eighth among AHL defensemen in scoring and third in assists. He has points in seven of his last eight games, totaling 10 (2G, 8A) during that stretch.
SECOND PERIOD SUCCESS: Without a doubt, the Roadrunners have done most of their damage to teams in the middle portions of games, outscoring opponents by a heavy 36-20 margin (+16) during the second period this year. On the flip side, Colorado has been outscored 24-17 (-7) during the middle frame this season. Can the Roadrunners gain some leverage with another strong second period tonight?
FOUR: The Roadrunners are unbeaten in regulation when scoring four or more goals this season, which they've been able to do in 12 of their 22 games played thus far. When putting four pucks in the opposition's net, they're a striking 10-0-2-0. Colorado is 15th in the AHL in goals against per game this season, allowing an average of 3.17.
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"Final Fantasy IV was the first game that made me cry."
-Tomoya Asano, producer of Final Fantasy IV DS
If you were to trace the development of the modern RPG, taking care to measure the contributions of each game in your fascinating task, you would no doubt come to the conclusion that Final Fantasy IV is one of the most influential RPGs ever made. It may not be the game that too many people would say is their favorite Final Fantasy, but it was a landmark nonetheless. This was Square's fourth installment in the franchise, and the second installment in the North American market (which explains why it was called Final Fantasy II in the original SNES release).
As the fourth installment, FFIV took the best from the three previous games on the NES: the job classes from Final Fantasy III, the narrative-focus from Final Fantasy II and the inclusion of the four elements as symbols from the original Final Fantasy. Yet, FFIV didn't just borrow. It gave.
Final Fantasy IV was the first game in its franchise on the new Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It had to set its foot in the future of RPG gaming. It did. FFIV moved away from its predecessors in several ways. It included a large cast of interchangeable party members (a total of twelve characters) instead of the typical four playable characters in the earlier games.
FFIV featured a much more character-driven plot with more complex and mature themes, touching on depression, love, jealousy, hatred, loss, tragedy, betrayal, and self-doubt. It had a more complicated protagonist, psychologically speaking, with Cecil's iconic self-transformation from Dark Knight to Paladin: a kind of self-realization-slash-redemption.
The game allowed for up to five party members in combat, as opposed to the four in previous games. Each of the party members in FFIV had assigned job classes that were unique to that character, and their classes could not be changed. This meant characters were stuck as a white mage or a monk, and the larger party member setup accommodated for greater strategy. This was both an embrace of the old job system and a departure from it, and this difference went on to influence later Final Fantasy games (like VI, IX, X).
Final Fantasy IV's most significant gift to the RPG genre is perhaps its Active Time Battle (ATB) system. The idea was first inspired when a member of the development team was watching race cars passing each other and the concept of fusing classic turn-based combat with real-time decision making (the origins of the action RPG) was born. ATB meant that battles were now instantly tenser and more challenging, requiring more precision and timing and wit as an opponent would just keep wailing on your party unless you did something about it. The importance of the ATB system and its first appearance here cannot be denied, and it went on to influence many of Square's other titles (Chrono Trigger, for example) and entries in the Final Fantasy series even so far as Final Fantasy XIII, in one advanced form or another. In other words, the Conditional Turn-Based system or the Gambit system or the Paradigm system all have their roots in the pioneering ATB system.
Final Fantasy IV opens with the doubts of Cecil, a Dark Knight in the employ of the kingdom of Baron and the captain of the flying armada, the Red Wings. Cecil was dispatched to Mysidia, home of the mages, and has robbed the defenseless people there of their Water Crystal under the orders of the king of Baron. Those who opposed him were murdered.
Once back in Baron, Cecil questions the king's order and earns the wrath of the monarch, who then strips Cecil of his position as leader of the Red Wings and commands him to deliver a package to the Village of Mist, along with his close companion and friend, the dragoon Kain. Cecil confesses to his love, Rosa, that he regrets what he did in Mysidia, but he must obey the orders of the king.
On their way to deliver the package to the Village, Kain and Cecil encounter a Mist Dragon and slay it. Once they reach the Village of Mist, they're horrified to discover that the package the king of Baron gave them contained Bomb monsters.
The fiery fiends surround the village and begin to explode, setting the tiny hamlet aflame. Both Kain and Cecil are outraged that the king wanted to eliminate the threat of the summoners, the people of Mist. Nearby, a little girl named Rydia cries over the death of her mother, telling them that her mother died because someone killed her summon: a Mist Dragon.
Kain and Cecil confess to their crime and the enraged girl summons a Titan to kill them. The entire Village is wrecked by the powerful creature. Kain and Cecil are separated. Cecil is left with Rydia, unable to return to Baron or the Village of Mist, his mind set on turning away from his service to the king.
Cecil, Rydia and many other companions will eventually confront Golbez, a new and powerful servant of the king of Baron who was promoted to leader of the Red Wings after Cecil's departure. Golbez puts Kain under his control and two friends are forced on opposite sides, but Golbez isn't the real enemy.
Zemus, a member of the Lunarian race, watches from an artificial moon and looks down upon the Blue Planet, Cecil's planet. Zemus is the one controlling Golbez in the shadows, manipulating events so that the Giant of Babil, a genocide-machine, can be activated in order to wipe the Blue Planet clean and pave the way for colonization by the Lunarian people.
Final Fantasy IV is one of the best samples of the series and an exemplary RPG standard. It's themes of turning from inward darkness to light in Cecil's inner conflict and his wrestling with personal demons, and the value of friendship in sacrifice, still resonate even some 25 years later. It's influence upon its genre is indelible and it spawned remakes for the PlayStation and the Nintendo DS, as well as a sequel entitled Final Fantasy IV: the After Years.
Even if you've never played Final Fantasy IV, odds are that you actually have played it. If you've played many RPGs at all that you have in fact played something out of FFIV in one of the many ways it has informed the development of role-playing games through the years.
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Visuals: 8/10
Final Fantasy IV is not the best looking RPG on the Super Nintendo. Not at all. Its colors are darker and drabier than later titles and at times the graphics are even unpleasant, especially the battle backgrounds. Some of those tiles are blinding.
But think about this game: the first in its franchise on the SNES. It was a step up from its NES predecessors, with their 8-bit pixelation and black backgrounds and limited effects. Taking in its place in history into consideration, the graphics aren't so bad. Further, FFVI was the first to have extremely detailed battle sprites for many enemies and bosses and the summons. Better graphics meant more articulation, even in the slightest, for the character sprites. The game also made use of SNES Mode 7 technology both to increase the visual appeal of battle magic and the tilt the screen when flying in airships, providing an awesome pseudo-3D scrolling overworld. As the bridge into the new 16-bit world from the 8-bit past, Final Fantasy IV was a triumph, especially as one of the earliest RPGs on the SNES.
Audio: 10/10
Who else could write this soundtrack other than the legendary series composer, Nobuo Uematsu? Uematsu, the "John Williams of video games", began working with Square in 1985 and composed the original soundtrack for the first Final Fantasy. The rest, as they say, is history. Uematsu's distinctive focus on orchestral melody has shaped the sound of the Final Fantasy franchise and he has taken part in every numerical entry up until Final Fantasy XI, with SaGa, Chrono Trigger, and Final Fantasy Legend as other titles under his belt.
With Final Fantasy IV, Uematsu exhibited his capability and diverse range. Synthetic strings and brass form the majority of the soundtrack, but there are songs that bridge upon metal and electronica as well as symphony. Such a great OST! When I heard the memorable "Battle 2" theme during the Culex fight in Super Mario RPG, I was overcome with delight. An instrumental version of "Theme of Love" was the song we danced to on our wedding day, so there's that too!
The music of Final Fantasy IV remains iconic but most importantly, it served the game it was attached to. Could FFIV's drama have been anywhere near as poignant as it was with an inferior soundtrack? Highlighting every scene with appropriate mystery, intrigue, tragedy, heroism and/or courage is a task that the man who wrote Final Fantasy's Prelude theme in 5 minutes mastered.
Gameplay: 10/10
Introducing a much more hectic and hurried version of classic turn-based combat meant that battles were less leisurely and more action packed. Having to act quickly made battles more engrossing and more lively. The way the storyline dictated the presence or absence of certain characters in your party also meant that battles were now more puzzle-like, demanding more knowledge of the tools you had available to you in the characters you had access to rather than being able to customize yourself out of a given situation.
Magic types White, Black, Call (Summon) and Ninjutsu, as well as special abilities that were unique to some characters came into play. The result is the solid gameplay of a standard RPG without the muddling of all kinds of bells and whistles. Lastly, one of the best things about FFIV's gameplay was the measures it took to limit the amount of grinding. It's experience rewards system balanced out the game in such a way as to almost totally eliminate the need to stop outside of a town and farm random battles. Thank God.
Narrative: 10/10
Final Fantasy IV had a story set on a grand scale with a larger cast of characters than almost any RPG up to that point, with multiple settings, different worlds, multiple antagonists and points of view. It was a layered, intricate and complex tale set nearly on a Shakespearean level of personality. Zemus of the Lunarians isn't the most recognizable of the Final Fantasy villains but Golbez as a secondary antagonist is one of the more memorable figures from the game clad in his dark blue and gold armor.
Cecil himself is a more complicated person than Final Fantasy games had dealt with up to that point. Protagonists had previously been sounding boards for the expressions of the player, who could define them even down to their strength and defense stats. With Cecil, we got to step into the mind of a man who was torn in two between loyal patriotism and morality, between blind loyalty and freethinking, between his inner darkness and his sense of justice. When Cecil the Dark Knight climbs the mountain and descends the summit as a Paladin, forever changed, it's one of the most refreshingly and satisfyingly cathartic moments in gaming history.
Further, the wide array of characters means there's always a variety of personalities to maintain the comedic relief and the heightened sense of drama that was present here more so than in its predecessors. Prior to Final Fantasy IV, there was little emphasis on novel-esque storytelling. World's were occupied by generic fantasy, instead. With FFIV we got the first steps in the direction of real narrative, plot, twists and turns, and emotional weight.
Challenge: 7/10
Being unable to read Japanese, I of course played the North American release in its original form. There were a few moments, boss fights, that gave me a bit of trouble but I was surprised to discover that the developers purposefully decreased the difficulty of this game for the North American version, under the assumption that American audiences wouldn't respond well to the game's challenges since they never experienced Final Fantasy II or III at the time. I'm not sure what that says about the original Japanese version, but that original form warrants a score that's above above average.
Replayability: 6/10
Primarily the ways in which a traditional RPG garners replay value is with multiple endings, new game+, or with side quests. Final Fantasy IV only includes the last of those three, and in limited supply: hunting down additional equipment and summons. It's not a whole lot but it's more than was seen previously and it slightly offsets the linear plot. A giant explorable world as helped a tad.
Uniqueness: 10/10
Much has already been said about the significant differences of storytelling, combat, characters, and presentation Final Fantasy IV infused into its genre of gaming. We simply would not have the games we enjoy today without FFIV. That sets it on a pedestal. Coupled with the fact that it enhanced nearly everything about its predecessors and went well beyond their scope and gameplay means this fourth game is highly unique though it was a sequel in a franchise.
My Personal Grade: 9/10
Final Fantasy IV set a new standard for RPGs and it set the bar very high indeed. The Final Fantasy series holds a lot of respect and prestige in the gaming community and that's largely due to the influence of this fourth entry. Redemption is one of the most evocative, impactful, heartfelt and intimate themes any story can tell, as exhibited by the life of Cecil, captain of the Red Wings. I used to own the cartridge for this game but lost it somewhere down the road as the years passed. It's one that I'll be looking out for again. Final Fantasy IV is one of the most celebrated and significant RPGs in history and it could use a little more familiarity with this new generation of gamers. It might not be as popular as Final Fantasy VII, but we wouldn't be here without it.
Aggregated Score: 8.8
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It's a bit shocking that Ubisoft is at the publisher's helm this time around, but apparently they think they can move units for this game like Sega couldn't. Either way, No More Heroes 2 is more lurid, vile, vulgar, violent and reckless than the first game. I'm sure Suda fans will be pleased.
One of the new functions of the game is "maintaining" your "lightsaber". And by this, I mean that there is a little penis meter in the corner (I kid you not) and you have to keep it happy and erect (and that's not even a joke). As you use your lightsabers the little penis meter depletes and becomes limp (literally). So, to keep on fighting and using combos Travis has to take a little time out and masturbate his "lightsaber"…yes, he has to masturbate his "lightsaber" (again, it's no joke). By doing so the little penis meter in the corner gets erect and his "lightsaber" goes back to full strength. If, however, Travis doesn't masturbate occasionally, the lights go out on the saber and you're left nearly powerless.
During boss battles it's important to keep the little penis meter full because it depletes rather quickly when fighting tougher enemies. Most of all the boss battle is shown in the video below, save for the final death sequence, which of course, is going to be saved for gamers who actually buy the game.
You can check out the new video below or Suda51's Dev Doc here. Feel free to visit the Official Website for more information. One thing to note, though, Suda definitely isn't treating the Wii like a kid's toy.
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Special thanks to our partners, Marjorie Owens of Clumsy N Shy and Gina Altamura, as well as our photographer Koury Angelo!
Our event officially began… late… and with a few cancellations. What we've learned is: getting bands to a noon o' clock show during SXSW is quite difficult. And who can blame them, really?
Our NIGHT and EXTRAS recaps, where it gets really crazy.
Batwings Catwings
Luckily, LA-based Batwings Catwings were around to kick off the morning. They played in the indoor stage, which is generally used by the co-op folks as a dining room. The all-around nice guys and gals shed their skins and got deep into their frenetic, angular-riffed set of garage/noise rock.
These Are Words
Meanwhile, Austin-based garage rockers These Are Words were holding it down outside. They are still a very young band, with a lot of growth potential. They were also kind enough to lend us their drum kit for backline, as well as provide us with some sound assistance. Thanks, guys!
Fever Fever
UK-based punk rockers Fever Fever not only came early (!!) but assisted us with equipment, as well. They also powered through some equipment difficulties like champs.
Prison bring with them some of the best in Seattle punk rock, and these photos capture the essence of their no-bullshit, straight-forward sets.
We will admit that when booking this show, Tôg seemed like a bit of a grey area. This insane 8-person Norwegian band has recordings online, but they do not do their performances justice. At all. Tôg were easily one of the highlights of the afternoon, to our pleasant surprise. Jeffrey Jerusalem asked, "Aren't these guys like super famous in Norway?" and apparently, they are. And they probably should be in the States, as well.
As Gina so avidly pointed out, "Watch the keyboard guy freaking out in the corner!" Above is that keyboard guy, from Tôg, who freaks out in the corner, a footnote to the craziness of their lead singer, but an exceptional footnote. An exceptionally exciting footnote. Solid Scandinavian "horror-house."
Secret Colours
Meanwhile, outside, Chicago's Secret Colours were making it look exceptionally easy despite the sweltering heat (truly… later bands did not make it look nearly as easy). They gave one of the best sets of the day with their brand of swirly classic psych rock.
(Video courtesy of Secret Note Production)
We first caught Nedry in the UK last year, and it was wonderful to be able to share their electronic-influenced rock with people in the States. Soft when needed and chaotic when needed, their latest album, Condors, is definitely worth a listen for anyone interested in experimental electronic, with dubstep influences, even!
Nedry vocalist, Ayu Okakita, losing control, and equipment… a lack of DI's was an ever-pervasive equipment rental problem. Duly noted for next time. Nobody has DI's, anywhere, ever, which makes electronics-heavy acts difficult to book for unofficial showcases. All things managed to work out, however!
VALLEYS ran into a few equipment problems (not enough DI's; sorry, guys!) but they managed to work it out through some complicated equipment wrangling and finagling. And, despite the fact that the mic sounded a bit staticy (probably due to the strange set-up), their set was solid, and actually sounded better than when I had seen them at St. David's Historic Sanctuary the previous evening.
Californian garage rockers TRMRS showed us their kindness by being extremely flexible with their schedule and even being forgiving when one of their backpacks was stolen. Unfortunately, this led to a guitar lacking the proper effects pedals. Still, in-house bartender Dana Vanderpol, who was dancing in the kitchen throughout their set, ecstatically exclaimed that, "They killed it!"
Equipment malfunctions be damned! TRMRS will rub off their feel-good surf vibes to anyone who passes regardless!
It was quite hot during the middle of the afternoon. Quite very hot. Quite cripplingly hot, and one almost felt bad for making the bands play at all during this time.
During the peak of the Texan heat, Brainstorm, Secret Cities, BRAHMS, Class Actress, Jeffrey Jerusalem, and RYAT gave memorable performances, with Secret Cities and RYAT receiving great crowd adoration.
Unfortunately, documentation is lacking during this period; fortunately, Brainstorm and Jeffrey Jerusalem played encore sets that evening, during the height of the party, which blasted their afternoon sets clear out of the water!


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On the flight to Seattle for the festive period I read A Technique for Producing Ideas by James Webb Young. The author, one of the original ad men of the 50s and 60s and contemporary of David Ogilvy, shares the processes he employed to create ideas throughout his glittering career. As its name suggests the book contains creativity lessons and techniques readers can follow, regardless of their role, title or industry to become more creative.
While the book is an engaging read, its origins are noteworthy too. The book initially started out as notes Webb Young prepared for a class at the University of Chicago. The talk was well received by the students, then some advertising practitioners and as word spread of its insightful content, it was published as a book for others to learn from - which they continue to do to this day.
The key theme, which remains controversial, is that ideas can be produced. Indeed, Webb Young distills the creative process into the following steps:
Gathering of raw materials
Working over of these materials in your mind
Incubation stage
Actual birth of the idea
Final shaping and development of the idea
Creativity Lessons from A Technique for Producing Ideas
The book contains many thought provoking ideas and five creativity lessons stood out:
1. Ideas can be engineered
Webb Young makes the case that ideas can be produced - if you construct the right environment for them to flourish. He says, "The production of ideas is as definite a process as the production of Fords; that the production of ideas, too, runs on an assembly line; that in this production the mind follows an operative technique which can be learned and controlled." For many this may contrast with their quasi-mythical view of creativity, but the fact remains ideas can and should be engineered.
2. There are no new ideas (just new combinations of old elements)
One of the central themes of the book is that there are no new ideas - just new combinations of old elements. Webb Young argues, "An idea is nothing more nor less than a new combination of old elements." However, the skill (and it's a difficult one to hone) lies in being able to mix old elements and understand how they should fit together.
3. Importance of ability to see and understand relationships
To successfully combine old elements into something new, marketers must be able to see relationships between disparate elements and understand when to bring them into the mix. This is crucial to the production of ideas and according to the author can be cultivated by studying the relationships between facts. Webb Young describes it best when he says, "The construction of an advertisement is the construction of a new pattern in this kaleidoscopic world in which we live."
4. Feedback is crucial
Regardless of the type of work you're doing, feedback is crucial. Webb Young says, "Do not make the mistake of holding your idea close to your chest." He advises you, "Submit it to the criticism of the judicious. When you do, a surprising thing will happen. You will find that a good idea has, as it were, self-expanding qualities." Constructive feedback is a gift and submitting your ideas for feedback from knowledgeable people is the most effective way to improve them.
5. Value of lifelong learnteing and curiosity
The book espouses the value of lifetime learning and having a curious nature, and how these two elements lead to experience, which in turn fuels new ideas. Webb Young says, "There are some advertisement you just can't write until you have lived long enough – until, say, you have lived through certain experiences as a spouse, a parent, a businessman, or what not."
What resonated most is that while the practice of creativity may have changed, the principles have not. Many of the ideas Webb Young shares are timeless and are just as applicable today as they ever were. If you want to learn more about the creative process and how to engineer the right environment for more ideas, then read A Technique for Producing Ideas. Webb Young's framework will help you create more ideas and strengthen existing ones.


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Penny Stock Investing and Trading
by Ron Kaye
If you are still reading and have decided that you want to trade penny stocks, you need the right tools and good advice to help you survive and even win some money.
Step # 1 – Finding the Right Penny Stock to Buy
To discover the right one stock, you will have to do some investigation, or Due Diligence. There are a lot of websites that will help you with your DD and you can find a list of useful ones at www.stocks-reporter.com.
The following points will guide you in learning important information about a company in which you are interested in investing:
1. Share structure: AS (Shares Authorized) and OS (Outstanding Stock and Float)
2. Transfer agent transparency
3. SEC filing
4. Financial track record
5. Competitive position in its industry
6. Business model
7. Earnings power
8. Valuation or the potential value of the company.
For example, when looking into share structure what you want to see is that there is no dilution. A good sign is when the company has maximized the OS and is close to AS. Watching Level 2 will also give you good indication if there is any dilution from the company. A good strategy is to follow insiders who know the company better than anyone else.
Step # 2 – Deciding When to Buy
After finding the penny stock that you plan to buy, you have to find your entry point and how to execute it the right way. Following the trading in that particular stock for a few days together with chart analyzing will give you a lot of valuable information. At this point it is highly recommended for anyone to learn some basic chart reading or at least let others analyze the chart for you. You can ask for help on many of the popular message boards that discuss stock trading and chart analyzing. An important tip about how to execute the trade in a penny stock is: Be very patient and always try to buy at the BID price.
Step # 3 – When to Sell or The Exit Strategy
The exit strategy is something very personal to different traders or investors.
It is very important to implement your strategy immediately after executing the buy order. In most cases, a good idea would be to set a sell order of 50% of your position at around 20%-30% PPS spike. Another 10%-20% rise of PPS and then sell another 50% of your current position and let the rest ride for a while. In general, your exit strategy should be very flexible and change with news, momentum, and volume. 90% of the time, though, you should sell at the ASK so it won't affect the run.
TIP: Remember always to take profits.
Happy Trading
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Jay Electronica: Same Diss, Different Meek?
Aside from Dr. Dre, Jay Electronica is known for being the industry's next best album troll. His long awaited debut, Act II: Patents of Nobility was announced nearly six years ago. Six years.
Footage recently surfaced of Jay Electronica's show at London nightclub XOYO. As the mysterious MC took a brief intermission from his rather un-mysterious setlist, which was filled with aging material, he still managed to stir up the water.
Previously known for having zero altercations with other rappers, Jay ended his peaceful reign by throwing shade at his hip-hop colleagues: Early in his performance, the Louisiana lyricist blurted into the mic, "You might be the 6 God, but I am the God." Taking clear shots at Drizzy, listeners are left to wonder if there were any premeditated motives behind Jay's statement, or if it was solely the alcohol talking.
We all recall the Jay Z and Drake rivalry, right? Could Electronica simply be defending his Roc Nation boss or could things be even more deeply rooted? I just hope it's not a case of "Same diss, different Meek."
Later in the night, he took a second jab, this time aiming at North Carolina native J.Cole. "I'm sorry, but J. Cole aint got bars like this," he said.
Now, I can't speak for everyone, but I feel like Jermaine is one the most humble cats in the game. What could him and Jay possibly have against another? The two are label mates and have even been on the same Reflection Eternal "Just Begun" record together.
With so long between albums, this might be a desperate attempt for Jay Elect to stay relevant: Perhaps he's taking a lead from Meek Mill, and using small business tactics to get attention. Don't forget that, in July, Jay's manager took to Twitter to announce, "Just got the green light from Hova the God." Trolling yet again, the tweet ended up being in reference to the NOLA Hip-Hop Awards. But hey, when it's been six years waiting, why should we assume your announcements are related to new music?
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Friday, July 18, 2014
When is enough ever enough?
For nine years, Israeli citizens have been living a life much like the Londoners of 1940, awaiting the next air raid sirens and then making a dash to the nearest bunker within 30 seconds to avoid being bombed to smithereens. Nearly ten thousand rockets and missiles have be fired by Hamas from the Gaza strip, and some from Hezbollah in the north, all for the purpose of indiscriminately killing any Jew; man, woman or child, that happens to be in its path. Meanwhile the United Nations and the rest of the world, including the United States, sits impotently mute.
A sovereign nation is blatantly attacked in acts of war, and no one says crap. Because the victims are Jews, it's all right. Business as usual. Ho hum.
Hamas is not only a deadly terrorist organization, they are a government unified with Fatah, with allies throughout the middle-east throngs of Jew-haters. Our president openly calls for Israel to retreat its boundaries back to the 1967 lines, music to the ears of terrorists. The president makes no mention of the rockets being fired into Israel since Ariel Sharon did, in fact, do just that IN 2005 – retreat from Gaza to give the Palestinians the land as a gesture of good will and peace. And what was the reward? Rockets and missiles and maimed and dead Israelis.
President Obama calls for both sides to make peace, but they are just words to appease critics. In fact, the president is never heard condemning Hamas for their murderous assault on our ally over the last nine years.
Israel has no interest in conquest of other lands, nor do they wish to annihilate any people, anywhere. They only wish to live in peace, but constantly must defend themselves. Constantly!
Now, the Israelis have had enough. World opinion be damned, they have taken the offense to finally put an end to the madness, to protect their people. Israel sends advance messages to Gaza residents forecasting their intent to fire missiles, giving fair warning to vacate the area to help save innocent life. Does Hamas send such warnings to the Israelis to save Jewish life? Israeli military is targeting missile launch sites, while Hamas situates their launchers in the middles of city streets and schools, using women and children as human shields. Of course, Gaza residents are going to be killed. It's the intention of Hamas. And when that occurs, more cameras emerge to shoot videos than all the cameras at a Super Bowl game.
Not only does Hamas induce their own people into giving their lives to the cause, they use it as a propaganda tool, showing the world via media what those terrible Israelis are doing to poor innocent Gaza citizens. What's even worse, is that the international media (including the U.S.) falls for it.
Stay tuned to CBS, NBC and Al Jazeera, and watch the unbelievable coverage, portraying Gaza as the victim of an "over reacting" Israel government. Easily, 90 percent of the news on those stations is pro-Palestinian. As though choreographed by Hamas, you will see the Palestinian women and children weeping, bodies carried on stretchers through city streets, and angry Muslim men pumping fists as though Israel had no right to defend themselves. Clearly, Israel is the bad guy, Hamas is the good guy. And some people – whose brains are made of mush — get sucked into the propaganda.
Israel is aiming to destroy the hundreds of tunnels that facilitate the import of rockets and missiles, plus enable Hamas terrorists surreptitious entry into the towns and streets of Israel. Those weapons are compliments of Iran. The origins of Hamas is compliments of the Muslim Brotherhood – whose agents have infiltrated our own government.
What should we do about it? Well, if we had a president with the chutzpah of Eisenhower, Truman, Kennedy and Reagan, he would not merely be calling for peace, which is like yodeling alone from the top of the Alps. He'd get the attention of the radical Islamists and the United Nations. Yes, the U.S. has an extreme vital interest in this conflict, because when and if Israel falls, the embolded radicals will be coming after the west. And they don't let up. "First Saturday, then Sunday." That's been a standing promise. Here's what we should consider:
Threaten to enter the war with American sea and air military might, if and when Israel asks for assistance in defense.
Take out Iranian munitions factories with drones and/or other air power
Put a stop to all foreign aid from America that is directed toward radical Islamic powers, including Hamas/Palestinians.
Call upon all our strongest international allies to openly condemn Hamas/Hezbollah and Iran for their roles in stirring war and mayhem against Israel.
Call upon the cowardly U.N. to act as a true peace-keeping force. Do something other than cower to the Arab bloc of 57 nations.
Our shameful news agencies should be doing the same. Peace-loving nations owe an enormous debt of gratitude for the contributions that a peaceful Israel has provided the entire planet. Meanwhile, radical Muslims have provided little other than reasons to bury innocent people and install trillions of dollars worth of security systems into aircrafts and airports throughout the entire globe.
Eighty-nine people were killed last week in another suicide bombing in Afghanistan. For what?
Oh yes…the Russians and the Ukraine? That's another story
And the president says the world is a more tranquil place.
Dennis Prager sums it up better than anyone in this short video:
Click here: The Middle East Problem – Prager University
Another good summary of the current crisis:
Click here: 11 crucial facts to understand the Israel-Gaza crisis – Vox
Great article by Krauthammer:
Click here: Moral clarity in Gaza – The Washington Post
Click here: Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014
There's something wrong here.
We denounce Hamas as a terror organization, then give them a half-billion dollars a year in foreign aid. That's right…according to Wikipedia, $457 million was provided to Hamas/Fatah in 2012, while they were firing missiles on top of missiles – by the thousands – into Israeli cities and neighborhoods for no other purpose than to kill Jewish men, women and children. They've been attacking Israel for years with thousands of deadly rockets. According to current information, the foreign aid to Hamas will be about the same in 2014. There's no other way to describe it: The U.S. supports terror. We provide a terrorist state millions of our tax dollars!
Where is the outcry?
That aid ostensibly goes for humanitarian purposes. Nice concept. However, we all know that terror-supporting groups are not known for honesty. Once in their hands, funds can be appropriated however they see fit. Have no doubts, most of that food money is being converted into rocket shells. The bottom line is this: Hamas/Fatah never has and never will accept the right for Israel to exist. They have never backed away from their goal to see the utter destruction of Israel. No amount of peace talks will change that. Therefore, we must adopt a different attitude and new strategy…one that works.
To start with:
1. America must come first. We have our crises, including people who are starving in American cities, and other humongous budget problems, yet we send our tax dollars to terrorists?
2. We must stop squandering foreign aid to societies that practice gross violations of human rights, which includes enslaving, killing and torturing people because of their religion, politics, sexual orientation or gender.
3. We must stop sending foreign aid to any nation that engages in terror or supports terror in any form.
According to Wikipedia, nine of the top twelve nations receiving foreign aid from the United States taxpayers are Islamic majority countries. Here's the list:
a. Afghanistan $12.8 billion
b. Israel 3.1 billion
c. Iraq 1.9 billion
d. Egypt 1.4 billion
e. Pakistan 1.2 billion
f. Jordan 1.1 billion
g. Ethiopia 870 million
h. Kenya 750 million
i Colombia 644 million
j. Haiti 510 million
g. West Bank/Gaza 457 million
h. Sudan 444 million
Believe it or not, Russia is 13th on the list, followed by Somalia.
Radical Islamists are responsible for ALL of the airline/airport security costs currently in force around the entire globe. Radical Islam is the core problem with 98 percent of terror in the world.
Radical Islamists are responsible for 9/11 and countless other acts of terror against the United States and many of our allies, particularly since the Iranian revolution in 1979.
Radical Islamists are responsible, not only for acts of terror, but for giving aid and comfort to terrorists in the form of housing, money, weapons and propaganda, around the world.
Among those aiding and abetting terror, are Gaza/West Bank, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Pakistan. And, there are questions about Kenya, Sudan and Ethiopia. Jordan and Egypt have honored their treaty with Israel.
If anyone endeavors to watch Al Jazeera television, 95 percent of the reporting about the Israeli/Hamas fighting is pathetically one-sided. They are unabashedly sympathetic to the Palestinian cause and critical of Israel. The United States base for Al Jazeera was secured from Al Gore, who preferred selling to the Arab propaganda network rather than an American journalist, Glenn Beck. Yes, he's very conservative, but he's also American!
This is like sending aid to Germans, Japanese and Italians during WW II.
We just don't get it.
Or…is there something we don't know?
Click here: Bennett shows real rocket to Americans: "Imagine if hundreds of these hit your neighborhood" – YouTube
Click here: United States foreign aid – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Click here: Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tuesday, July 01, 2014
Muslim Rape Culture
and Lara Logan
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by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish
When Lara Logan traveled to Egypt to cover the Tahrir Square protests, she was unaware that she was going to be working in a country where sexual harassment rates of women and especially foreign women are so high as to be universal. In a politically correct profession, such truths are politically incorrect. And even now all of the coverage studiously avoids mentioning one dangerous word. Islam.
Muslim rape culture did not begin in Tahrir Square and it won't end there. Not when it actually began in the year 624 when Mohammed came up with an ingenious means of rewarding his followers. In addition to the trophies of war, he made it legal for them to capture and rape married women. Previously that would have been considered adultery. Now it was an incentive to become one of Islam's Holy Warriors. It doesn't take much to imagine how ugly and awful the camp of Mohammed's followers was for a woman. That's why the Burka was invented.
Muslim apologists insist that the Burka has something to do with female modesty. But the Koran spells out clearly the reason for it. "Tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks (veils) all over their bodies that they may thus be distinguished and not molested." The Hijab was invented for similar reasons in 1970's Lebanon to mark out Shiite women so they wouldn't be molested by Muslim terrorists. The purpose of the Burka was closer to a cattle brand, separating women married to Muslim husbands, from slave women who were captured in war. The former were the property of their husbands and untouchable, the latter were fair game for everyone. To a Muslim, the Burka is a sign that says, 'only my husband may rape me' and the lack of a Burka means, 'everyone can rape me.'
When Australia's Grand Mufti Sheikh Hilaly justified a notorious series of gang rapes by comparing women to uncovered meat left out in the presence of a cat, he laid out the basis of Muslim rape culture. Women are always the guilty party, because they are women. If they refuse to defeminize themselves by putting on a Burka and becoming just another dark ghost haunting the streets of Cairo or Sydney with their lack of selfhood, then they are automatically guilty of their own rape.
In the West rape is a crime because it an assault on a human being. In Islam, it is only a crime because it is a sex act that takes place outside of marriage. In many Islamic countries, 'Zina' meaning adultery or immoral sexual conduct in general, is a charge that can be levied against both the rapist and his victim. Even in a case where Mohammed ordered the execution of a rapist, he first 'forgave' his victim for her part in it. To the extent that Islam criminalizes rape, it is as a property crime or a disruption of public order. And it imposes a high standard of proof that is unlikely to be met.
In Islam, women are objects, not subjects. Physically their entire bodies are considered 'Awrah', an Arabic word meaning 'nakedness', 'fault' or 'defect', terms that amply sum up the Islamic view of women. Even their voices are considered 'Awrah' meaning that even a fully covered up woman speaking is an immoral thing. A woman exists within Islam as an immoral object. And that gives Muslim men implicit permission to assault her, while holding her very nature accountable for tempting them to commit the act.
Islam does not consider rape to be a crime against a woman. It is a crime against their fathers and husbands. There is no crime involved in a husband raping his own wife. That is a ruling Muslim scholars continue to preach today. And the UK's Islam Channel was shut down for broadcasting that view. Under Islamic law, a husband is fully entitled to beat his wife if she refuses to service him until she finally consents. The woman has no control over her body. Only the men she belongs to do.
In a tribal society, rape is a crime against property and honor. To a father, his daughter's virginity is a valuable item that increases her market value. Marrying her off is way to build a relationship between two families. To a husband, his wife's chastity maintains the value of his property and insures that the offspring is his. To assault a woman is to commit a crime against the communal property of a family. But a woman herself has no rights over her body that any man is bound to respect. As Lara Logan discovered in Tahrir Square.
An unaccompanied woman is ownerless. A foreign woman is outside the protection of the tribal system which uses family vendettas to settle disputes. It's no wonder that the already stratospheric sexual harassment rates in Cairo climb to a universal value where foreign women are concerned.
The Burka placed responsibility on women to defeminize themselves and mark themselves as property. Centuries of Islamic jurisprudence put the burden of responsibility for any assault on a woman as the object that tempts men to sin. The circular reasoning of Islam says that if a man assaults a woman, it is because she tempted him. That femininity is inherently an object of temptation. The Burka and the Hijab began as a way of defeminizing women for their protection, but then became an indictment of women. Women were no longer being defeminized to protect them, but to protect men from them.
Why else do women have to be defeminized, their faces masked and their voices silenced, if there isn't some terrible mysterious force about femininity that causes men to act out? That is exactly what the first president of Iran claimed, when he said that, "Scientific research had shown that women's hair emitted rays that drove men insane." More recently an Iranian cleric explained that women who do not dress modestly corrupt men and cause earthquakes. The flight routes of Iranian planes had to be diverted from a stadium where women played soccer for fear that their hair rays might affect passengers in the planes above.
Behind this hair ray nonsense lurks an uglier notion, that women are unnatural creatures and that men are not responsible for their conduct around women. If a man rapes a woman, maybe her hair rays made him do it. If they can cause earthquakes, why not. Western legal culture says that men have more control over a situation with a woman. Islamic jurisprudence creates reasons why women do to exonerate their rapists.
How do you sell the notion of equal rights to people who view women as dangerous objects that have to be kept under lock and key?
Under Islam a woman can't say 'no' except passively by defeminizing herself. By remaining in Purdah at home or taking a mobile purdah along by covering up her entire body and face in a Burka, never meeting a man's eye or speaking to him. And even if she follows all those rules and is still assaulted, then maybe those hair rays can punch through stifling black cloth after all. There's no way for a woman to be innocent, except by never being born. As an object, she is always guilty of luring men on. The levels of guilt may vary. If the levels are low enough, then she may be 'forgiven' for causing immorality and her rapist may face punishment. And her family may still kill her anyway to bury the shame that she represents for them along with her body.
Like all social rules, they don't apply equally. The daughter of a wealthy and westernized urban family will enjoy an immunity from them, that the daughter of a poor family in a village will not. The wealthy daughter will attend the London School of Economics, use Twitter and serve as an example that her country and Islam are really very liberated. The poor daughter will be a second wife to some bored fat merchant and be considered lucky if he doesn't beat her to death when she loses her looks.
Meanwhile the young men will roam the streets bored and frustrated. They will steal anything not nailed down, join protests and sexually harass women. When Western reporters poured into Cairo to report on a pro-democracy movement, they surrounded themselves with what they thought were pro-democracy protesters. What they were actually doing was walking into one of the largest overcrowded cities in the world, where gangs of protesters had smashed the police, and created an open state of anarchy. Muslim rape culture did the rest.
As far as her attackers were concerned, Lara Logan had no rights they were bound to respect. She wasn't the wife or daughter of anyone they knew. She wasn't even a Muslim. They had no bond of kinship with her. Which meant that just like the uncovered in Mohammed's camp, she didn't belong to anyone. And that meant she was fair game.
In Muslim rape culture, a woman cannot actively decline a man. She can only passively demonstrate that she is off limits by defeminizing herself. Lara Logan hadn't done that. But even if she had, it wouldn't have done much good. Previous gang assaults on women in Cairo a few years back had targeted even those covered from head to toe. To add fuel to the fire, came the chants of, "Yahood, Yahood." "Jew, Jew". Mohammed's ruling had made it legal to capture and rape Jewish women. The association may not have been directly made, but indirectly it was there. Lara Logan had been marked as a member of an enemy tribe.
The reasoning is awkward, but Islamic jurisprudence is the product of such awkwardness. It derives from the will of Mohammed whose only consistent principle was to do whatever he wanted. As a prophet he frequently made and broke his own laws, and then made new ones. Four witnesses are required for an act of sexual immorality, because at one point three witnesses accused Mohammed's own wife of such an act. Prior to that Mohammed had taken action based only on a single witness.
Mohammed modified the law to allow him to marry his son's wife and to shift the turns of his own wives. After Mohammed had received another urgent 'revelation' allowing him to do as he sexually pleased, his wife Aisha said, "O Allah's Apostle I do not see but that your Lord hurries in pleasing you." There you find the whole of Islamic jurisprudence. It was a code that existed only to please Mohammed's sexual impulses.
If Allah existed only to enable women to sexually service Mohammed-- what agency can women have in Islam?
Muslim rape culture springs from that same code. A code that exists to please and flatter the Muslim male and demean the female as an inferior specimen, whose body is filth, whose form is corruption and who can only be good to the extent that she becomes a non-person. Remaining quiet and out of sight. It begins with the inferiority of women, and ends with a paradise filled with eternal virgins who can never say no. What do women get, some ask. But it doesn't matter. It was never intended for them.
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One month ago yesterday two precious little boys decided to come to us eight weeks early in a whirlwind of excitement and fear. Even as I type this it's hard to believe they are already one month old. The last month has gone by so fast I can hardly remember all that has happened. And then, at times the days just drag on as we wait to bring them home from the NICU.
But I do know one thing, with each passing moment our hearts only grow fuller with love for them. They are growing and changing every day, it seems. They are much more alert now, especially before and after eating. We love watching their little eyes, facial expressions, and eagerness to eat. In fact, they are now eating every other feeding by mouth. We are hopeful that they will move to every feeding by the end of the week.
They have both gained more than a pound since their birth. Luke weighs 4 lbs 12 oz and Zach weighs 5 lbs 8 oz. They are looking more like newborns now and less like wrinkly preemies!
The other night I told my husband that it makes me sad that the first month of their life is over and we will never have their first month with them at home. He helpfully reminded me that technically I am still supposed to be pregnant, so in reality we are actually benefiting by seeing their sweet faces earlier than we anticipated. When I was pregnant I always talked about how I couldn't wait to see their faces and now I get to see them every day! I am thankful for his perspective in our not ideal situation.
For the most part the boys are keeping pace with every marker they are supposed to be hitting. They have not missed a beat their entire time in the NICU, and for that we are thankful. Right now we are praying they continue to eat well and that we can hopefully take them home soon. Until the day that I can see them face to face every night before bed, I will stare at these sweet pictures to keep me going.


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'Cinderella': Impossible Things Are Happening (CBS-TV, 31 March 1957)
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On Thursday, 15 December 2016, I walked over to the Washington Irving Campus on Irving Place just east of Union Square to see the opening performance of Rodgers and Hammerstein's 'Cinderella' presented jointly by the Chelsea Career and Technical Education High School and the Union Square Academy for Health Sciences. The main reason I wanted to see a high school musical was simple: the director was Erin Woodward, oldest daughter of my friend (and frequent ROT contributor) Kirk Woodward. (I've known Erin since she was a little girl and have always tried to support her work. For a number of years now Erin has been a teacher of theater and performing arts in the New York City public schools, currently dividing her time between the Union Square Academy--formerly Washington Irving High School--and Chelsea CTE. This is her eighth combined Irving-Chelsea production, of which I've now seen three).ReplyDelete
But I also had a private motivation to walk across the square that evening. As the post above demonstrates, I have a special feeling for the R&H 'Cinderella.' But I said above that I'd never seen any of the stage adaptations of the musical. Well, now I have. And despite the enthusiasm which Erin's teenaged cast brought to the production, I can't say I found much to be fond of in Douglas Carter Beane's new book, written for the 2013 Broadway première.
Oh, the role of the young revolutionary, Jean-Michel (charmingly played at Washington Irving by Jose Lopez) is a nice enough touch as a romantic partner for Stepsister Gabrielle (Tabitha Curcio), but that very plot change makes Gabrielle less a funny spoiled brat than either Kaye Ballard's Joy or Alice Ghostley's Portia (the stepsisters' names changed in every revision, so I have no idea whom Gabrielle replaced) and eliminated another chance for the comedy that had already been diminished with the down-sizing of the role of the king after Howard Lindsay's original performance. (The part was entirely eliminated in Beane's version.) I also wasn't enamored with the introduction of Jean-Michel's Bernie Sanders-esque socialist political agitating, an attempt, I assume, to make the age-old fairytale seem more contemporary. It was more of a square peg forced into a round hole, as far as I'm concerned: it felt out of place and self-conscious, even in the hands--and vocal chords--of the Chelsea-USA cast, who bought into it pretty avidly (just like their contemporaries did in the recent Democratic primaries).
Now, I have to admit that despite the disappointments in the 2013 adaptation, I sill teared up at several of the old songs and choked back a lump in my throat at one or two scenes that still reminded me of the 1957 original--Thursday night's performance didn't let me down on that score. I even found making the Fairy Godmother a Fairy Godparent played by Roman Claudio (who did a nice turn--though, I'm sure he'll pardon me for saying, he's no Edie Adams or Celeste Holm) a fine adjustment that worked nicely and made its own bid for shaking hands with the 21st century—non-gender-specific role-assigning.
Claudio did a nice job with "Impossible," one of my all-time fave show songs, as did Willina Wright as Ella with "My Own Little Corner," a beautiful, wistful ballad by which Wright's lovely voice did just right. But having already consigned the 1965 and '97 TV remakes to the letdown category, I'm going to have to put Beane's rewrite on the same list. By me, it just doesn't cut it.


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(CBS) – This week, the biggest-ever cyber attack — targeting more than 400,000 websites – became the latest reminder of how vulnerable we are online.
Protecting against attacks like that is the purpose behind a competition held in Palos Hills Friday.
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In a dimly lit room, they're thinking like thieves.
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"We're trying to find really the most talented people across the country," says John Sands, chairman of Moraine Valley Community College's Computer Integrated Technologies Department.
More than two dozen competed in the U.S. Cyber Challenge.
Their task: Think like the people behind the world's biggest online hacks so that they can figure out ways to protect consumers.
The problem is, when it comes to cyber security there is a shortage of the good guys.
Part of Friday's goal is to find the next generation of cyber security stars.
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"These people will be the ones that make the difference out in corporate America," Karen Evans, national director of U.S. Cyber Challenge, says.
More than 1,600 people from more than 700 schools nationwide applied to be part of the challenge. Some of them will compete in two other competitions held this year.


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Is you is; or is you aint, my constituency - Homer Stokes in O Brother Where Art Thou. Is the New York Times a large multi-national corporation? Or aint it? As such, it has its own self-interest at heart. Not your interest, not mine, not that of the children in Darfur. Its own interest is purely economics, not altruism, not humanity, not the environment.
Corporate economic interests demand cozying up to the extremely rich, not the poor, not the working class; not truth, not honesty, not decency. It is singularly about economic power.
Quite simply put, corporations are large-scale Ponzi schemes. Their survival is share trading. Your shares either consistently out-perform all other shares; or your share holders will sell you and buy somebody else. And you will die or be bought out by some other corporation which will make you profitable or bury you. If that happens, the corporate brass (Sulzberger, et al) get fired and replaced with new company men.
As Thomas Jefferson said, corporations are pure evil and should not be allowed to exist. But they do exist - in world economics, they are they only thing that exists. This means that their workers have to continually produce more than every other corporation, otherwise share holders will go elsewhere. And how does one corporation continually out-produce every other corporation? Quite simply - that's impossible.
But even to attempt it, to stay afloat, you need to buy governments, religions, the good will of the extremely rich, and you need to control the minds of the people to allow this to happen.


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Do you remember back in the early 1980s, playing with all of the toys based on the sci-fi fantasy film Krull produced by Knickerbocker Toys? What about the Masters Of The Universe meets Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots line that was Hasbro's Tribes range in the early 1990s? Or all of those ReSaurus-made action figures and role-play accessories based on the break out video game Oddworld in 1997? No? Well, that's because they were never made. But would it shock you to learn that each of these examples were well on their way to being produced?
Stories like these are more prevalent than one might think. Each have a separate, unique set of circumstances with a single common thread — the majority of them have gone untold. A new book, TOYS THAT TIME FORGOT, aims to shine a light on some of the more interesting, higher profile boys toys and action figure projects that made it all the way through to prototype stage, but for whatever reasons never made it to retailers. Some of the stories are funny. Some are painful. Most are well worth documenting.
Written and complied by journalist Blake Wright, the 200-plus page hard cover book will take an in-depth look at over 20 instances of toy lines that suffered these type of fates. Stories are supplemented with supporting photographs of the production process, existing prototypes, control drawings used to create the sculpts, concept sketches and more. The stories (and supplemental materials) have come straight from the men and women that lived them — from inventors and sculptors to project managers and toy company executives.
The book's foreword will be written by Jordan Hembrough (aka The Toy Hunter), owner of Hollywood Heroes and vintage toy guru for over a quarter century.
TOYS THAT TIME FORGOT will be split into three sections: The Golden Age (1980s), Darker Times (1990s) and The Gilded Age (2000s). Each section will have entries representing a healthy mix of both licensed and inventor-based products… some of which have never been seen by the public.
To date, there has never been a book that has covered this topic. With your help, we can change that!
PLEASE NOTE: This is an art/history book. It is not a guide meant to chronicle each figure and each accessory in a sterile format. It presents these 'lost' toys in dynamic, visual ways that showcase both the toys as art and their respective places in history.
Here is just a small sample of what's in Toys That Time Forgot!
Scroll down the right side of the page to see all of the pledge reward tiers available. We've got some really cool offerings including original art, toys and extremely limited art prints.
We have a series of stretch goals can be achieved and unlocked, including bonus chapters with material covering the return of the abandoned 3.75" Kenner Alien line from the late 1970s as well as the end of vintage Star Wars from 1985.
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Clams are filter feeders that pump water through their bodies to catch microscopic organisms, such as plankton and algae. This is done using the siphon, a long appendage connected to the main body of the clam. The siphon is also responsible for breathing and eliminating waste.
A clam's siphon is composed of an outgoing tube and an ingoing tube. The ingoing tube sucks in surrounding water to extract oxygen and nutrients, while the outgoing tube expels dirty water. Microscopic hairs, or cilia, lay inside the siphon and around the gill tract. The cilia are waved continuously to generate a current for the clam.


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For our final day here we spent the morning along Loch na Keal hunting for White Tailed Eagles. Didn't take much hunting, and we came upon one in a tree pretty quickly.
After 45 minutes staring at it, and spotting 5 Red Breasted Merganser on the loch, we moved on so I could grab the boat to Treshnish and Staffa.
We landed on Lunga, and soon learnt why they talk of 'Puffin Therapy'. The little chaps were rapidly surrounding us, quite content with us just feet away while they got on with their puffin lifestyles. One particular puffin I nearly had to shove out of the way as he wouldn't budge off the path, instead standing staring up at me with his sad little face.
Suffice to say, plenty if good pics, plus now eagles, Fulmar, Guillemot, Razorbill, Shag and both Grey and Common Seals.
After that it was to Staffa to indulge my first love; geology. Staffa is home to the wondrous Fingal's Cave, formed from columnar basalt, and made famous by Gustav Mendelssohn's composition. When the boat was close enough they even played the overture through the speakers. Delightful.
Can't believe I'm going home tomorrow (Monday), the week has flown by. But at least I'll have plenty of pics to remember the trip by. It's been wonderful, and I can't recommend it enough. When I do the proper posts with photos I'll include references for what to do.


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