So, I plan to buy new brake rotors and pads for my civic soon and I saw these ceramic pads for sale from a company called APF, I couldn't really find any solid review on them so just asking if anyone's had experience with them and if they're good or nah?
Note: I sometimes go on spirited drives as well lol
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Me and Guided by Voices, we go a long way back. No, I didn't see them at CMJ in 1994 or some such hipster shit. I discovered them through Bob Mould, who had enthusiastic things to say about the fellas in an interview on Spin sometime in 1994. I was a huge fan of Husker Du and in 1994, it was all about Sugar and 'Copper Blue' for me. So on Bob Mould's sage advice, I bought 'Bee Thousand' and the 'Vampire On Titus/Propeller' twofer at the 1994 Boxing day sale at the venerable Shake Records in Ottawa, Canada.
Truth be told, it took me a bit to warm up to the lo-fi aesthetic, especially on Titus. But one of the members of the Sugar email list put me on to the still amazing 30 years later bootleg 'Cryin' Your Knife Away', which showed me that the band indeed rocked. And rocked HARD. Then came the legendary appearance on the short-lived Jon Stewart show on MTV, with Bob leg kicks, Mitch windmills and an amazing outro of 'My Son Cool'. By the time Alien Lanes dropped in the Spring of '95, I was a full-on disciple of the band. So when shows were announced in October of 1995 opening for Urge Overkill (not a fan...), I was soooo there. Remind me to tell you about how GBV kidnapped me for a day to go to their London Ontario headline gig on October 26 with Thrush Hermit and The American Flag (then still named Hershel Savage and The American Flag) and how I got to crash with Bob and Pete Jameson and how the price of admission was to find a coke can that Pete could fashion into a bong. There is documented proof...https://www.robertpollard.net/oldgbvs...
In any case, GBV became a daily obsession for nearly a decade until they went on their hiatus in 2005. Since their return, maybe the passion is not as white-hot. Maybe we drifted apart a teensy bit but damn, the band still has a mainline to my brain stem. So how a propos that I got to see the band in Bob Mould's old stomping grounds some 30 years on. The band is touring with Wisconsin's excellent Disq (I'll be putting up that show later on) and put on one of those legendary two hour shows with a bezillion songs that still somehow never quite suffice. They played an amazing rendition of 'My Impression Now', possibly among my fave tunes of all time and desert island material. They also played an awesome fast version of 'Non Absorbing' a song that I've always been a bit meh about. It's just great to hear a lot of great new material. The well is clearly not running dry for Bobby P.
I was lucky enough to be at the two 40th anniversary shows in Dayton OH last year. But this show at Fine Line reminded me how essential to the GBV experience is to just be on the floor to experience it all. A huge hello to the many fine folks I got to meet and chat with. So happy to be able to share this one with y'all. As always, please go out and see these fine bands and support them by purchasing music and merch.
PS. In general, the video came out great. However, one small caveat. My phone's camera is supposed to be able to capture front and rearview cameras simultaneously, and I was hoping to use this feature to capture people going ape-shit on a few songs. Unfortunately, this killed audio for a second or two, so I won't be doing that again. I also messed up during Teenage FBI and lost some footage there. My bad.
PPS. So, at the end of the show, bassist extraordinaire Mark did me solid and retrieved the set list that Bob and Doug had been sharing. And like a dumbass I proceeded to lose it not two minute later. After, I saw someone cradling my precious but such is life. Finders Keepers. Btw, You will note that 'Song & Dance' was on the set list between 'The Rally Boys' and 'Game of Pricks' but they skipped it.

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Hi everyone on GOG hopefully you’re having a good weekend! Today I am requesting Lego Star Wars the skywalker saga!
It feels like I have been trying to catch this game on sale forever and I always end up missing it when it’s on sale because it always ends before I have the money to buy it which is annoying.
Now it might not seem like it but I am or well was a massive Star Wars fan I bought everything Star Wars related for years though the last Star Wars game I bought was battlefront 2 at launch and that really soured my opinion on doing that anymore lol.
The Star Wars games I was most surprised to love though? The Lego Star Wars games I got the original ps2 games forever ago when me and my nephew were little and we played them for hours and hours together and it’s one of my favorite childhood memories just playing that game with my nephew and getting him into Star Wars.
I was never huge into actual legos so enjoying a Lego game was not something I expected when I got my first used copy forever ago in GameStop. But I was hooked on it almost completely and that was before they had voice acting or any of the newer gameplay improvements and additions!
When they first announced the game years ago I was excited especially after they showed off how much more involved the gameplay and combat got and the more open world aspects it genuinely feels like the most enjoyable Star Wars world in a long dang time since the Star Wars Jedi games just weren’t for me and I love the original and prequal trilogy. So having those eras be back in a game and getting to play through the story albeit with the usual Lego twist is something I really look forward too! The fact they even have clone wars characters like captain rex (even though he’s DLC…which is a reason I didn’t purchase it at the $80 price tag) is amazing I loved the Clone Wars and it was the only Star Wars movie I got to watch in theaters. I still think the clone wars is one of the best pieces of Star Wars media and captain rex is badass. But anyway sorry for rambling, with the huge amount of characters and levels expanded combat etc it’s to me the perfect way to just enjoy some relaxing collectible fun with Star Wars and reminds me of the old ps2 days of spending forever getting the entire roster on the complete saga with my nephew and then us arguing over who gets to play as the Jedi and killing each other non stop.
I would love to get to play through a new Lego Star Wars experience and enjoy the music and gameplay and hopefully tons of unlockables!
Thank you to everyone who read this I hope I didn’t go on too much of a tangent I hope you have a great weekend! May the force be with you!

In the realm of entrepreneurship, there are those who simply follow trends, and then there are visionaries like Bruce Brimacombe, who create them. With a career spanning over three decades, Bruce has left an indelible mark on the business world, particularly in the realms of technology and green energy.
Seizing Opportunities
Bruce's journey began in 1983, where he cut his teeth in the fast-paced world of securities trading. However, it was his keen eye for emerging market opportunities that truly set him apart. In 1999, he made waves by launching an internet computer company that quickly skyrocketed to over $16 million in sales within its inaugural year, setting a new standard for success.
Bridging the Digital Divide
By 2002, Bruce had shifted his focus to the nascent field of wireless internet services. Recognizing the need for connectivity in remote areas, he became a pioneer in providing high-speed wireless internet to communities previously underserved by traditional DSL or cable connections. Bruce's efforts not only bridged the digital divide but also paved the way for greater inclusivity and accessibility in the digital age.
Championing Green Energy
In 2005, Bruce embarked on his most ambitious venture yet with the launch of Goe3, LLC. Driven by a deep-seated passion for environmental sustainability and energy independence, Goe3's mission is to lead Americans toward a greener future by bringing innovative green energy products to market. Under Bruce's leadership, Goe3 has emerged as a trailblazer in the green energy revolution, catalyzing positive change and inspiring others to join the movement.
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As Bruce looks toward the future, he remains committed to pushing the boundaries of innovation and sustainability. With Goe3 at the forefront of the green energy movement, Bruce welcomes investors to join him on this journey of growth and impact. Together, they can build a brighter, more sustainable future for generations to come.
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Known for its low-cost ammo formerly manufactured in Russia, Wolf's best-selling calibers are steel-cased 7.62x39mm and .223 Wolf. Wolf is an importer of ammunition that is manufacturer agnostic, as well as brass and steel agnostic. When you see “Wolf Gold,” all that means is that these are brass cartridges.

Where Is Wolf Ammo Made?

Contrary to popular belief, Wolf Ammunition is not a Russian company. They sell ammunition once manufactured in the famous and historic Tula Cartridge Plant in Russia’s Tula District. This plant is owned by High Precision Systems, which is a part of the Rostec Group of companies, with a majority ownership in the hands of a holding company owned by the Russian Federation. TulAmmo is likewise manufactured at this facility. The plant is not to be confused with the Tula Arms Plant, which is a separate entity owned by the same holding company in the same region of the Russian Federation.
Another place Wolf manufactured ammunition was at Lugansk. However, this factory was destroyed in the fighting between Russia and Ukraine. Some of the steel-cased ammunition is made in Russia these days, but none of it is made in Tula. Wolf also imports brass-cased ammo from Taiwan, such as their Wolf Gold .223, as well as importing ammo from the same factory manufacturing Prvi Partizan.
Rostec, High Precision Systems and the role of Tula in manufacturing ammunition for the United States market and the Soviet war effort has quite a detailed history. Like all ammunition manufactured by Rostec, the emphasis is on the high-performance, tactical ammo capable of reliable use in combat situations.
The American company is affiliated with Sporting Supplies International. Wolf Performance Ammunition was founded in 2005, making it a baby in the world of American ammunition manufacturers. They also partner with SK Jagd und Sportmunitions Gmbh (also known as SK Hunting- and Sporting-Ammunition) to manufacture some of their .22-calibre rimfire ammunition.

Tula vs. Wolf

Wolf is no longer manufactured in Tula, and hasn’t been for some time. In 2009, Wolf brand ammo ended their relationship with Ulyanovsk Machinery Plant and Tula Cartridge Plant due to legal disputes between the parties. Wolf now uses suppliers from the European Union to meet their needs. The Wolf ammo website and TulAmmo both issued emails in 2009 that did little to clarify the situation beyond the fact that TulAmmo is not Wolf and Wolf is not TulAmmo.
Part of the confusion stems from what precisely Wolf and TulAmmo are. Both were manufactured at the same plant and made to the same specifications. Upon importation, they were put into different boxes with different logos and different brands. However, on the inside, they were more or less the same ammunition. While in some cases they might have been exactly the same ammunition, they ceased to be functionally identical when Wolf ended their relationship with the Russian manufacturer. Hence the statements from both organizations as to their difference.

Wolf Ammunition vs. The Taliban

The history of Wolf Performance Ammunition (also known as WPA) is tied very closely to the ammunition shortages of the 2000s. This is particularly true of the 7.62x39mm ammo, which sometimes doubled in price and in other cases, vanished from American shelves entirely. The shortage was a result of the Venezuelan military adopting the AK-103 as its standard issue rifle. They placed a massive order, as did the United States military in an attempt to supply the newly formed Afghan Army with the ammunition it needed to secure the countryside.
Make sure your favorite 7.62x39 rifle never runs dry and get some bulk 7.62x39 to keep stored up for a rainy day!
Between 2003 and 2005, the Taliban experienced a resurgence in Afghanistan, requiring a response from both United States troops and the Afghan Army they support. The insurgency was easily crushed, however, the large ammunition order stood. What’s more, the United States and Afghan forces were constantly engaged in mop-up operations against the failed Taliban insurgency.
In January 2006, the United States military began sharing its role in Afghanistan with a multinational NATO force. This prompted another Taliban insurgency requiring, once again, more ammunition supplied by Wolf and other ammunition manufacturers. The fight against this insurgency was far less clear cut and one sided, but the NATO forces obtained many tactical victories and was able to deny the Taliban territory.
Later in 2007 and 2008, Wolf’s steel-cased .308 rounds disappeared from shelves across America. 7.62x51mm NATO rounds were likewise disappearing, pushing .308 Winchester rounds to the highest prices they’d ever seen. The Afghan Army order once again played a key role in driving up prices.
2007 was indeed a rough slog for coalition forces in Afghanistan, largely the British Royal Marines. It was estimated that the Taliban was 10,000 fighters strong at this point, with between 2,000 and 3,000 of these being dedicated, full-time insurgents. Again, tactical victories were the order of the day, but the Taliban always seemed to bounce back. 2007 was also the high water mark for foreign insurgents in Afghanistan. The next year was likewise described as “precarious and urgent” by Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown increased the number of troops in the country.
While many stateside have forgotten about the War in Afghanistan, it is directly responsible for a shortage of ammunition and the attendant rise in prices.

Wolf Brand Ammo

Wolf sells centerfire ammunition for rifles in more than a dozen different calibers and in three different lines of product. Popular lines Wolf Polyformance and Military Classic Rifle Ammunition are for sale in the calibers most commonly associated with the military – including Wolf 5.56x45 ammo, .223 ammo, .308 Winchester, 7.62x39mm, 6.5mm Grendel and others. They sell bullets that are bimetal or copper jacketed and configured as full metal jacket, hollow point or soft point. The cases are steel with a polymer coating, and can be found with both Berdan and Boxer primers.
Ammo for the Wolf Gold Centerfire Rifle line is distinct from other lines they sell, as the cartridges have brass casings and Boxer primers. The same style of bullets are sold in this line, but they also include options for match hollow points and multi-purpose tactical bullets.
Wolf also sells centerfire pistol ammo in all of the most common calibers – including Wolf 9mm ammo, .40 S&W, .45 ACP and the increasingly favored .380 Auto. These cartridges come in the steel-case lines of Military Classic and Polyformance, and the calibers can also be found in the Wolf Gold line, .32 Auto, .357 Mag., .44 Mag., and 7.62 Tokarev.
Wolf Ammunition also carries .22 Rimfire ammo. You can find .22 Long Rifle Wolf Ammo with 40 grain bullets, offering three types of bullets for the .22 LR: round nose bullets, flat nose bullets, and hollow point bullets. The ammunition itself is available in many different types including Standard Plus, Match, Rifle Match, Pistol Match, High Velocity and Subsonic.

Wolf Brand Ammunition and Lacquer Coating

It is a misconception that Wolf Ammunition uses or has used lacquer coating on its rounds, in particular on the cartridge casing. This is not true. Wolf instead uses an acrylic-polymer coating, transitioning from a clear coating to a frosted style coating several years ago. Some people thought this was lacquer and that it melted while firing, despite the fact that it was neither lacquer nor even a substance that would melt when a blowtorch was taken to it. All Wolf Ammunition is in complete compliance with SAAMI standards, meaning that it is completely safe for all purposes – from plinking in the backyard to competition shooting to hunting.
With Wolf's extensive variety of ammunition, they will likely remain a popular choice among shooters looking for low-cost, quality ammo. This is particularly true of people looking for Wolf bulk ammo – a common choice for preppers, plinkers and competition shooters alike.

FAQ

Where is Wolf ammo made?

Although Wolf ammo is an American company, its ammo is manufactured all around the world. For a period it was made in Tula, Russia at the Tula Cartridge Plant, the same place that makes TulAmmo. Wolf gets some brass from Taiwan and imports cartridges from the same Serbian factory that makes Prvi Partizan. Currently, most of the supplies for Wolf ammo comes from the European Union.

Who makes Wolf ammunition?

Wolf ammo is owned by Sporting Supplies International, an American company located in Anaheim, California.

Is Wolf and TulAmmo the same?

Wolf and TulAmmo are not the same. But from 2005 through 2009, Wolf was manufactured at the Tula Cartridge Plant in Tula, Russia, the same plant where TulAmmo is made. Wolf ammo and TulAmmo ammo shared the same configurations and were made the same way. Since Wolf has left the Tula plant, these ammunitions are no longer comparable.

Is Wolf ammo corrosive?

Like other modern commercial ammo, Wolf ammo is non-corrosive. That being said, it is “dirtier” than traditional brass-cased ammos and if your firearm is not properly cleaned after use, it can cause a buildup inside the barrel that may lead to corrosion.

Can Wolf ammo damage guns?

Wolf ammo features steel casings and steel is much harder than brass. This means, over time, it may cause more wear on your barrel than brass casings. In modern firearms, this is most likely minimal. Another reported problem with Wolf ammo, and steel casings in general, is that they tend to be “dirtier” than brass-cased rounds. When this crud is left in the gun, it can lead to corrosion. If you clean your firearm after shooting, this shouldn’t be a problem.

Why do shooting ranges ban Wolf ammo?

Wolf ammo comes in a steel case. Like most steel-cased rounds, it also features a steel jacketed bullet. This makes the bullets extremely hard, much more so than lead and copper, and can damage the backstop in many ranges. If you want to stick with steel casings, opt for Winchester’s Forged ammo, which feature steel casings with brass jacketed bullets.
History of Wolf 6.5 Grendel Ammo originally appeared on Ammo.com

Be prepared with these field-tested responses, and you won’t let a FSBO objection keep you from getting a listing.

1. If the FSBO says: “I’m sure I’ll get a buyer in no time. I’ve had the house on the market only one week, and I’ve already had three people come to see it.”

Counter with: “It’s great that you’ve had so much interest, but how many of those people have come back a second time? One of the problems with showing a house is that you get a lot of browsers who just like to see other people’s homes.”

1. If the FSBO says: “I can’t afford to pay a real estate commission. I need every cent I can get from the sale to put toward my new house.”

Counter with: “I know it’s important to have the biggest down payment possible. But a NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® survey, the 2005 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, found that the median selling price of a FSBO home was $198,200 compared with $230,000 for agent-assisted home sales. So even with my commission, you’ll probably come out ahead. Other statistics from the survey that also might aid your argument: 39 percent of buyers
said the salesperson helped shorten the home search; 36 percent said the salespeople helped negotiate better contract terms; and 29 percent said the salesperson helped negotiate a better sales price.

1. If the FSBO says: “What do I need you for? I can put up a sign in my yard.”

Counter with: “It’s true that your sign will attract buyers, but many of them won’t be able to afford your home. When I get a call from a house sign, I can prequalify buyers. In addition, I won’t just put up a sign. I’ll actively market your listing, through the MLS and other means, to brokers who are already working with qualified buyers.”

1. If the FSBO says: “If I list my property, it will be with my friend who’s in real estate.”

Counter with: “It’s great to be loyal to your friends. But can you afford to list your property with a friend for 60 or 90 days and take the chance that it won’t sell? If you’re planning to buy another home, that’s a big gamble. Our company sells homes in your area fast. (Provide the number of days on market.) Also, I’ve found that when working with friends, it’s hard to fire them if they don’t perform.”

1. If the FSBO says: “I can do this myself.”

Counter with: “Of course, you’re smart enough to do what has to be done. But why spend all the time figuring out something you may not do more than a few times in your life? Let someone who has experience do the work for you.”
If you decide to try to sell on your own, I’ll be glad to give you a list of all the forms you’ll need. (Quantify the number of forms to demonstrate the sheer volume of paperwork involved in selling a home.)
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Does anyone know where I can get passenger pegs along with the mounting brackets for 2005 drz400sm? Does anyone have any for sale, please let me know or if anyone can share a source to purchase some I can't find them on Amazon. Thank you!

hi everyone ! there is a 2005 toyota v6 4runner automatic transmission with 155k miles near me and it’s about 2k under the kelley blue book and way under comps on facebook marketplace.
it recently got a new battery and starter, and everything else seems to be in good shape
however, it’s been listed for sale for around a year and hasn’t been bought yet. since it was sitting for around a year, it started having issues with the battery dying. these issues have been fixed, but the shop had a list of recommendations for work:
Driver front axle seal leaking, valve cover gasket seeping, greased u-joints, front crank seal (possible rear main oil seal) leaking, and the front differential leaking.
It’s obviously an older car, so seals going bad seems normal to me but i was wondering if any of these warrant a “run” situation and it’s not worth it Thank you for any insight !

hi everyone ! there is a 2005 toyota 4runner with 155k miles near me and it’s about 2k under the kelley blue book and way under comps on facebook marketplace.
it recently got a new battery and starter, and everything else seems to be in good shape
however, it’s been listed for sale for around a year and hasn’t been bought yet. since it was sitting for around a year, it started having issues with the battery dying. these issues have been fixed, but the shop had a list of recommendations for work:
Driver front axle seal leaking, valve cover gasket seeping, greased u-joints, front crank seal (possible rear main oil seal) leaking, and the front differential leaking.
It’s obviously an older car, so seals going bad seems normal to me but i was wondering if any of these warrant a “run” situation and it’s not worth it Thank you for any insight !

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WOOOOO BOY! I had an interesting week! I was trying to pour a 20ozt VECNA statue for someone and my flask exploded, pouring 2200'F molten silver all over the place! YAY! It also cooked my flask completely and ruined my work surface!!! :) You know what that means ..

FIRE SALE!!!

Orders placed BEFORE 10pm Arizona time, 5/31/24, will get 15% OFF.
Orders placed between 10pm Arizona time and 10am Arizona time the following morning will get 10% OFF.
Orders placed starting at 10am Arizona time 6/1/24 will get 5% OFF!
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ADOLESCENT GMO FIGHTING TORTOISES (a.k.a. TMNT)

TURTLE HEADS - BACK ::: First off ... YES, I know I only have three heads here. They are all the same (Leonardo) so there was no point in showing four of them. These radical heads are each a 2+ozt pour and are all made by hand in .999 Fine Silver. Asking $85.00 each!
GOOD VS EVIL Round - BACK ::: Featuring the logo of the HAMATO Clan (Splinter) on one side, and the FOOT Clan (Shredder) on the other, these great 1ozt+ rounds, done in .999 Fine Silver, are PERFECT for coin tosses, or to use as a card protector, or to show to friends on EITHER side of the aisle when you do sneaky ninja stuff. Asking $42.50 each.
MANHOLE COVER ::: Coming in at 2+ozt of .999 Fine Silver, and shipping in an Airtite for protection, this classic rendition of the well known manhole cover is antiqued for realism and ready to display! It's the same on the front and back. Asking $90.00 each!
OOZE CANISTER ::: The famous OOZE canisters from TGRI (TMNT the Movie 2), done in pure .999 Fine Silver and weighing 1ozt, this is one of the more unusual, but surprisingly cool, pours I've done! Entirely modelled by hand, by me, and poured at Panther HQ! Asking $42.50 each!
PIZZA STACKER - BACK ::: Another GREAT 2ozt pour - this stackable round features a totally tubular pizza on the front, and the (modified) logo on the back! .999 Fine Silver, of course! Asking $80.00 each!
CASEY JONES MASK - BACK - ALT ::: INSTANTLY becoming my favorite pour of all time, this tricky little bugger wasn't easy to make, but I got it done and I think it looks GREAT! Weighing ~2ozt of .999 Fine Silver, you won't see those copycats in Niue coming out with this any time soon! Asking $100.00 each!

::: ZELDA POURS :::

GALLERY : https://imgur.com/a/Qy56kXQ
HYLIAN SHIELD ::: These weigh 2+ Troy Ounces and are hand poured. These STACK, too! ::: $80.00 each
MIRROR SHIELD ::: These weigh 2+ Troy Ounces and are hand poured. ::: $80.00 each
SHEIKAH SLATE ::: For some stupid reason I neglected to take pictures of the back of these fully dimensional and highly accurate slates! These make GREAT keyfobs, too! These weigh 2+ Troy Ounces and are hand poured. ::: $80.00 each
LOGO CARD PROTECTOR ::: (Apologies for the terrible picture ... I need to take a better one!) Here's a BEEFY 2ozt+ CARD PROTECTOR (for you poker players!) featuring the Sheikah Sigil on one side, and the famous Z logo on the other! Asking just $80.00 each
MASTER SWORD ::: These weigh 2+ Troy Ounces and are hand poured. Epic! ::: $90.00 each
ZELDA NES Carts - ZELDA N64 Carts - ZELDA GAMEBOY Carts ::: 2+ Troy Ounces, HIGHLY detailed, and with the LABEL OF YOUR CHOICE! ::: $80.00 each w/FREE GOLD PLATING as needed!
RUPEES ::: Fantastic little RUPEES made of pure .999 Fine Silver! Each weighs 1+t.oz and are all made by hand! They are just $42.50 each!
MASTER COMBO ::: Includes a Master Sword and a Hylian Shield, along with the display base, for just $170.00
SAVIOR OF HYRULE COMBO - Alternate Pic ::: Includes one of my .999 Fine Silver Master Swords and one Shield of your choosing, as well as a GOLD PLATED NES/SNES/N64 Zelda Cart of your choosing and ONE Rupee (I know two are shown... sigh) ... That's SEVEN+ total Troy ounces of .999 Fine Silver and includes the stand for display! Each Savior of Hyrule Combo can be yours for just $290.00!

::: PURE SILVER TRADING CARDS :::

Pokemon - FIRST EDITION CHARIZARD : VIDEO ::: 4.6+ Troy Ounces of .999 Fine Silver, full scale and absolutely BEAUTIFUL. Each card ships with a Serial Numbered Certificate of Authenticity! $250.00 each

::: ARTIFACTS :::

BIG MEGALODON TOOTH ::: Beautifully antiqued and exquisitely detailed! This .999 FINE SILVER tooth weighs over 100 grams (over 3 troy ounces) and is definitely a conversation starter! ::: $135.00 each ... Also available in a 1ozt version for $45.00!
THE DERRINGER ::: One of my all time FAVORITE pours - this 1:1 scale Derringer was modeled off a REAL period piece and is actual size! Made of solid .999 Fine Silver, this beefy piece weighs in at over 7.5 t.oz of solid girth! A difficult piece to make, but worth it! ::: $325.00 per pew pew!
VELOCIRAPTOR CLAW as seen (and modelled, 1 to 1) being wielded by Dr. Alan Grant to scare small brats in the famous film Jurassic Park, this is a BEAST of a pour, and beefy too!!! Weighing in at roughly 7 troy ounces and absolutely as dangerous as it looks Asking $325 for this beast and is also available in a mini ONE OUNCE VERSION for $50.00!
NATIVE ARROWHEADS ::: Made of 1+ozt of pure .999 Fine Silver and blackened to resemble the Earth from which it was hewn, these would make GREAT wrapped pendants! Asking just $45.00 each!
T-REX SKULL ::: A RARE piece of the Glass Panther collection ... this smokin T-REX Fossil Skull pour is one of my coolest pieces! A beefy five ounces of pure silver, which has been blackened and then selectively buffed to make the skull pop out. A truly exquisite piece and only $225.00!

::: GHOSTBUSTERS :::

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THE STAY PUFT MARSHMALLOW MAN - FRONT 2 - BACK ::: What did you do, Ray??? This thicc and fluffy boi tips the scales at just over 3 troy ounces of .999 fine silver! Asking $145 each!
ECTO-1 BARS - BACK ::: The iconic plate from the Cadillac Hearse driven by the men themselves as they sought to rid Manhattan of its ghost infestation! These are 1+ troy ounce bars and are just $42.50 each!
NO GHOST - BACK ::: The most recognizable symbol of the most heroic men in all of NYC! This classic logo is a true crowd pleaser and weighs just over 2 troy ounces of pure .999 fine silver! Asking $80 each!

::: THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY :::

GALLERY : https://imgur.com/fM58Lam
THE GUIDE ::: This great 2 ozt .999 Fine Silver pour was entirely designed and modelled by me based on the original book description. I figured it would look great with a slipcase, as well, so I made that too. I then hand paint the letters in gold and then buff the slipcase to give it a slightly weathered appearance. This was VERY fun to design! $80.00 each!
THUMBS UP ::: If you don't have an electronic thumb this is the next best thing! When you see the Vogon Constructor Fleet just hold this up in the air and hope you get picked up ... don't forget your towel, though! This 2ozt pour is $80.00 each!

::: FUTURAMA :::

GALLERY : https://imgur.com/xkbEvSw
BENDER - ALT ... Featuring a biteable shiny metal ass, a beer in one hand, and a cigar in the other, you can't go wrong with this great pour! Also includes a 3D printed resin base and is only $100 each!
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY - VIDEO pour. This is a ONE ozt. pour and is a GREAT pocket carry or card protector! $45.00 each!
I WILL WAIT FOR YOU ::: This is one of the saddest scenes in television history and I STILL cry thinking about it. Seymour Asses, Fry's eternally loyal and faithful dog, who never gave up hope that his master would one day return for him ... I'm not crying YOU'RE crying. Just $45.00 each.
SLURM STACKERS ::: These great 2+ozt stackers interlock VERY well and are a truly unique addition to anyone's stack! $80.00 each!

::: FAR AWAY GALAXY :::

BESKAR SILVER ::: Available in a 2ozt size as well as a super clean 5+ozt size, these great bars are poured, cleaned, antiqued, and then hand finished with a special technique I developed which gives them a shimmery "crystalline" look ... Check out THIS VIDEO for an idea of the surface finish. It's quite nice! The 2+ozt bar is $90.00 each and the 5+ozt bar is OUT OF STOCK for a minute.
CARBONITE - ALT - BACK ::: Everyone's favorite scruffy looking nerf herder, forever immortalized via being frozen in carbonite for all to see. ... Available in either ANTIQUED or BRIGHT SILVER, and also available as a honkin' 10+ozt big bar at $400.00! The 2+ozt version will return soon!

::: FALLOUT POURS :::

GALLERY : https://imgur.com/RzQPlpq
VAULT 111 DOOR - BACK ::: Weighing in at 2+ troy ounces of .999 Fine Silver, this is a great and BEEFY little pocket carry! It was 100% modelled by me and these things look great stacked ::: Asking $80.00!
PIP-BOY - BACK - The 5t.oz and the 2t.oz PIP-BOY ::: Available in TWO SIZES - Either a 5+t.oz or a 2+t.oz this is one of my coolest pours ever. I really had fun making this work and I hope you enjoy owning it as much as I enjoy making it! 5+t.oz Pip-Boy is $250.00 each and 2+t.oz Pip-Boy is $80.00!
NOT AVAILABLE WHILE I RE-DESIGN IT ::: NUKA CAP STACKERS - BACK - STACKED
v2 PLATINUM CHIP - BACK ::: Made in .999 Fine SILVER (not platinum!) this is a GREAT little 1+t.oz coin for ANY fans of the franchise! These are solid antiqued to make them seem like they've been through some stuff! I've UPDATED the design to include a purity mark as well as a weight ... plus I emboldened the lines a bit to make it pop! Just $45.00!
NUKA COLA BOTTLE - BACK ::: Another popular request ... this thicc boi 2+ozt. pour came out surprisingly well! Yours for $80.00!
THIRST ZAPPER - BACK ::: I had a lot of fun modelling this! I'm not normally a fan of organic shapes but I took this as an opportunity to work on my Fusion360 organics skills. This was entirely modelled by me - I'm quite happy with it!!! :) Weighing in at 2+ozt - yours for $80.00!
VAULT BOY STACKERS - ALT ::: This is a GREAT stackable Vault Boy pocket carry! Weighing in at 2+ozt. pour each in .999 Fine Silver and only $80.00!
ROULETTE CHIP - BACK ::: HIGHLY requested, so here you go! Covered with tons of little details - from the morse code on both sides, to the little ball, and then some ... this epic 2+ozt pour is done in .999 FINE SILVER and ships in an Airtite for display! Asking just $100.00!

::: ALIENS :::

GALLERY : https://imgur.com/Gys9As6
XENOMORPH HEADS - ALT - ALT - ALT ::: They mostly come at night ... mostly ... These gorgeous and creeeepy Aliens pours are 2+ozt each of PURE .999 Fine Silver! Each is then antiqued by hand and are presented to you for $80.00 each
BUGSTOMPER (The Dropship) ROUND - BACK - PIC FROM MOVIE ::: Move it Spunkmeyer, we're rolling! Famous last words, but if you want one of the coolest pocket carries around and you know your trivia this round can't be beat! 2+ozt. of .999 Fine Silver ::: $80.00 each
M41A Plasma Rifle - LEFT - TOP - BOTTOM ::: Let me introduce you to a personal friend of mine! This is an M41A Pulse Rifle. 10mm with an over and under 30mm pump action grenade launcher. Feel the weight ... It is 2+ozt. of Antiqued .999 Fine Silver! Just $90.00!

::: STAR TREK POURS :::

TNG COMMS BADGE ::: These beefy little beauties are made with 2 Troy Ounces of .999 Fine Silver and are then electroplated with 24k gold. I then buff the gold off strategically and you are left with this absolutely GORGEOUS collectible! Get yours now for $90.00 each!
WORF'S BAT'LETH ::: After many people protested, I am keeping the Bat'leth available! This is a 1t.oz Pour ::: $60.00 each!
PICARD'S HORGA'HN - BACK ::: A horga'hn was a statuette that served as a fertility symbol on Risa, and represented the Risian symbol of sexuality. It came in many sizes, from small carvings to statues to a hotel with a giant horga'hn built into it. It was believed that to own one was to call forth its powers. Also used when seeking "Jamaharon" ::: 2+ troy ounces of .999 Fine Silver for just $80.00 each!
KLINGON INSIGNIA - BACK ::: Shown here beside my TNG Comms Badge pour, this great Klingon insignia is beefy and chunky at 2+ozt. "Cry HAVOC and let slip the dogs of war" for just $80.00 each.
Ferengi Gold Pressed Latinum SLIP - BACK ::: These are a GREAT complement to the STRIPS that I sell below ... Slips are ONE TROY OUNCE EACH of pure .999 Fine Silver and are just $45.00 a piece!

::: THE BIG N :::

GALLERY : https://imgur.com/LbXee8q
NES CONTROLLER :: This is a GREAT little pocket carry! It weighs 2+ troy ounces and is $80.00 each
🚨🚨🚨 SNES CONTROLLER :: This is a GREAT little pocket carry! It weighs 2+ troy ounces and is $80.00 each
N64 CONTROLLER :: This is a GREAT little pocket carry! It weighs 2+ troy ounces and is $80.00 each
NES Carts ::: 2+ Troy Ounces, HIGHLY detailed, and with the LABEL OF YOUR CHOICE! ::: $80.00 each (add $5 for gold plating)
N64 Carts ::: 2+ Troy Ounces, HIGHLY detailed, and with the LABEL OF YOUR CHOICE! ::: $80.00 each (add $5 for gold plating)
GAMEBOY Carts ::: 2+ Troy Ounces, HIGHLY detailed, and with the LABEL OF YOUR CHOICE! ::: $80.00 each (add $5 for gold plating)

::: POCKET CARRIES and PANTHER SPECIALTIES :::

GALLERY : https://imgur.com/Z9IeBNm
FUCK YOU PAY ME ::: The ORIGINAL FYPM pocket carry from Glass Panther! Weighing 1 troy ounce this is perfect for making decisions, or helping other people make the right decision! $45.00 each
POT LEAF ::: These are GREAT and everybody loves them! Two troy ounces of beefy .999 Fine Silver and these make an absolutely GREAT gift! These are $80.00 each
DICKBUTT - BACK ::: Back for a limited time? Who knows ... This great pour is 2+ troy ounces and is only $80.00
ANVILS ::: These are quickly becoming crowd favorites ... Shown here in TWO and TEN ounce versions ... They are BIG, BEEFY, and truly impressive. The 2+t.oz version is priced at $90.00 each and the 10+t.oz version is $400.00
THE PANTHER PIZZA - Gallery ::: 2 Troy Ounces of .999 Fine Silver that has been poured and designed in such a way as to make it possible to break it into individual 1/4 ounce slices! The full pie measures 55mm wide (a little over 2 inches) and is juuuust over 2 troy ounces. PIC - VIDEO of me Breaking One Apart ::: Each pie comes in a 55mm Airtite capsule! ::: These are $100.00 each
SHENRON THE DRAGON - BACK ::: A 100% designed and modelled in house, high relief coin featuring the powerful dragon Shenron! This epic coin weighs 2+ ozt and is made of .999 Fine Silver and ships in a clear Airtite capsule. Asking $90.00 each!
🚨🚨🚨 GRENADE ::: A truly unique FULLY 3D MODELLED beauty - poured in .999 Fine Silver and then blackened for effect! Available at a 2+ozt pour for $90.00 each, and also a 5+ozt version for $225.00!
🚨🚨🚨 SKYRIM SEPTIMS! These beefy coins were completely modelled by me (except for Tamriel's profile) and hand poured in my home foundry. Available in BRUSHED SILVER for $80.00 each or PLATED with 24k gold for $85.00 each!
🚨🚨🚨 THE BUSTER SWORD ::: Cloud's famous sword from one of the greatest games in one of the greatest franchises of ALL TIME ... Weighing in just over 2t.oz and absolutely a crowd pleaser! ::: $90.00 each
🚨🚨🚨 M1911 .45 Caliber Pistol Pour - ALT FINISH - SIDE ::: This is an ACCURATE and BEAUTIFUL representation of the classic M1911 pistol - Loaded with detail and made with care - it is a 5+ozt .999 Fine Silver Pour and is the PERFECT pour to bridge the gap between collections! Available in Bright Silver, ANTIQUED, and BLACKENED finishes for just $250.00 each!

::: THE ORIGINAL CHESS SET! :::

GALLERY : https://imgur.com/Z9IeBNm
FULL GAME SET w/BLACKENED or GOLD PLATED Set ::: Includes All Pieces Needed to Play as well as a Chessboard to play upon! Over 26 Troy Ounces of .999 Fine Silver : $1,300.00
A La Carte Pieces :
The KING or QUEEN : Over 1.5 Troy Ounces of .999 Fine Silver : $100.00 each
The BISHOP, KNIGHT, or ROOK : Over 1 Troy Ounces of .999 Fine Silver : $60.00 each
The PAWN : Over 0.5 Troy Ounces of .999 Fine Silver : $45.00 each
ONE OF EACH Set ( A King, Queen, Bishop, Rook, Knight, and Pawn ) : Over 6.5 Troy Ounces of .999 Fine Silver : $400.00 each

PAYMENT / SHIPPING

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Posted at 4:30pm Arizona time, 5-31-24

In the wake of Furiosa bombing, there has been a lot of debate. It broke in a sense the sub, because the team saw abnormal mount of traffic through the site after during and after opening weekend. But I'm not here to bother you with that.
What you would read below might be a bit of naivety, delusional or borderline false, so take it all with a grain of salt, but it's my two cents why some of this is happening or at least partial reason why. I'm not touching every subject or every reason because it will open a discussion of Laplace's Demon.
The Rise of Franchises

• 2000 - 2011

Year	Movies over $300M Worldwide Gross	Leades in box office
2000	8	Mission: Impossible II
2001	12	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone / The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002	12	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers / Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets / Spider-Man
2003	9	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King / Finding Nemo
2004	13	Shrek 2 / Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban / Spider-Man 2
2005	12	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire / Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith / The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2006	13	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
2007	17	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End / Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix / Spider-Man 3 / Shrek the Third
2008	17	The Dark Knight / Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull / Kung Fu Panda
2009	23	Avatar / Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince / Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs / Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2010	21	Toy Story 3 / Alice in Wonderland / Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 / Inception
2011	20	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 / Transformers: Dark of the Moon / Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

• From the beginning of the century, we can see a good jumping back and forth among top grossers - 12-13 movies have respectable $300M+ grosses each year. Franchises were young, some were already done. Before that we have rarely grossers over $300M+. A behemoth as Titanic was alone at the top in 1997, because no other movies grossed $300M that year. Approaching the new century $300M grossers became more apparent. Since 2000 we had 8-10+ movies grossing $300M.
• Mid 00s passed by and came 2007 - a sudden spike - 3 more movies grossed $300M+ than the year prior. What gives? A lot of closures in trilogies - Pirates, Spider-Man, Shrek himself and strong ongoing performance from Harry Potter. All examples of leader in the market.
• Then, another spike... a big one. The King of the Box Office is here. It's August 2009 and people saw the Cameron's Epos for the first time. No other came close (at least for another 10 years). The difference was beyond imagination. Consequent years saw also strong performances and Harry Potter reigned supremely one last time. As impressive this era was, it is dwarfed by what is coming next...

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Enters... Marvel Cinematic Universe

• 2012-2019

Year	Movies over $300M Worldwide Gross	Leades in box office
2012	27	The Avengers / Skyfall / The Dark Knight Rises / The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2013	24	Frozen / Iron Man 3 / Despicable Me 2 / The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug / The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2014	27	Transformers: Age of Extinction / The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies / Guardians of the Galaxy / Maleficent / The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 / X-Men: Days of Future Past / Captain America: The Winter Soldier / Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
2015	25	Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens / Jurassic World / Furious 7 / Avengers: Age of Ultron / Minions
2016	32	Captain America: Civil War / Rogue One: A Star Wars Story / Finding Dory / Zootopia / The Jungle Book
2017	32	Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi / Beauty and the Beast / The Fate of the Furious / Despicable Me 3 / Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
2018	34	Avengers: Infinity War / Black Panther / Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom / Incredibles 2 / Aquaman / Bohemian Rhapsody
2019	29	Avengers: Endgame / The Lion King / Frozen II / Spider-Man: Far from Home / Captain Marvel / Joker / Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker / Toy Story 4 / Aladdin

It's May 4th 2012 (Also Star Wars celebration day) and Marvel Studios pay-off has finally arrived.
As Deadline wrote it 'Avengers' Tracking Like Superhero: $125+M Opening Weekend With 4-Quadrant Appeal. There was sure an appeal. It was poised to open higher than Iron Man 2 (128M). How big, nobody knew at the time...

Right now Disney and theatre owners are adding screens every day for the release whose online pre-sales of tickets are already selling out. Midnight show business is expected to be phenomenal. Exactly how much the studio can gross for the first weekend depends on how many screenings each theater can pack into 72 hours by finding enough staff willing to work the extra hours and keep the pic running continuously.

It's interesting reading some of the comments under that article - many believed it will deliver, but not much more than what has already been done, few believed in the "B", but none predicated what happened.

• On May 4th, Friday, The Avengers opened to the second biggest Friday of All time, only behind Deathly Hallows Part 2. The rest you already know.
• I firmly believe The Avengers was one of the most influential movies in 2010s and in the cinema history. There were big movies before it and after it, but it's simple promise is what made the blockbuster scene. Cameron still reigned supreme, not even with $200M+ openers, but he came once every 10 years or so. Marvel "promised" to have that level every year and did they deliver.
• Since then, MCU was everywhere, talked, discussed, loved, hated but it was in people's mouths. The success of The Avengers might be remembered with giving the true birth of the shared universe and with so many failed attempts to copy it. What I think might be glazed over is the leading example it brought. Not in quality, but in blockbuster making. The 4-quadrant appeal was a great way to please everyone, and Hollywood saw that. It was nothing new, other movies were 4-quadrant, but never in such a big way. What Hollywood saw was the new path on how to make blockbusters.
• What we had between 2012 and 2019 was the audiences having blast going to the theater. MCU was almost around the corner and in-between every other blockbuster. You either watch MCU movie and then some other blockbusters or you watch some other blockbuster in wait for the MCU movie. It was the perfect run - from opening and breaking the $200M barrier, to opening and breaking the $300M barrier and becoming at the time the King of The Box Office.

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And then COVID happened.

• 2020-2024

Year	Movies over $300M Worldwide Gross	Leades in box office
2020	6	The Eight Hundred / Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Movie: Mugen Train / Bad Boys for Life
2021	14	Spider-Man: No Way Home / The Battle at Lake Changjin / Hi, Mom / No Time to Die / F9: The Fast Saga
2022	15	Avatar: The Way of Water / Top Gun: Maverick / Jurassic World Dominion / Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness / Minions: The Rise of Gru
2023	17	Barbie / The Super Mario Bros. Movie / Oppenheimer / Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
2024	4 (as of May 31st)	Dune: Part Two

• I'm not going to delve deep into pandemic years. The data clearly show that there are still leaders during that time. It's just that people show only for the leaders. And there were leaders before 2012 and MCU rising but the experience year to year was vastly different. One year you got Shrek, the next you got Harry Potter and then Pirates of the Caribbean. All big, all loved by audiences, but vastly different, with different target demos. What MCU got audiences accustomed to was familiarity - you got 2-3 big blockbusters every year and in the same overall greatness. The biggest critique MCU has - all movies feeling the same, General Audiences didn't care about. And I believe GA still doesn't care about that, but their familiarity has fallen off, because the MCU has fallen off.
• The many factors surrounding the last 3-4 years are big part of the reason to where we are. Many points toward the rise of streaming and I agree it plays a role in shaping the experience. Everyday you are bombarded on social media with war and prejudices. The world feels a bit cold. Thanks to social media, distant problems become your problem in your head. You are bombarded with them... and then pops an ad - "You can watch now this movie on this platform".
• It has been discussed many times over in the last 1-2 years about the changed habits of viewers. The main culprit is the created habit of waiting to go on digital/streaming and I believe that is partially true. I, myself has been experiencing this more recently whether or not to go watch a movie or skip it and wait it few weeks / months later, because I have to weight my own priorities. But I think it's more than creating a habit of "I'll wait". If that was true, that means all those who waited would have buy it/rent it on digital and all those movies would have been big and would have heard about it. But it is not like that.

And this is why we need the box office leaders. The staples of blockbusters. Maybe not for you and me, who are interested in those topics and are familiar with it, but to general audiences, your everyday Joe who sometimes happen to stumble upon a movie which can caught his eye and go see it.
As to why $300M thresholds - that I will leave for the brain.

I own 16 VCR;'s..yes 16..
Five are connected to 2 different TV's..The rest are stored away in one of my closets,maybe even covered with mold since I've had some humidity issues within the apartmernt in the past and frankly...I'm afraid to open the boxes to confirm..The reason for me buying these over the last 40 years was that since my first VCR in 1978;I started a hobby of taping musical performances from various talk/variety shows(Like Johnny Carson,Jay Leno,Letterman,Arsenio Hall,TV specials,MTV videos,Etc.). The hope was that in my retirement; I would go over all the recordings,edit them by copying to other tapes,etc. and cataloguing them;keeping a journal of the clips I had plus putting content lists inside the individual tapes,creating my own music video libraries.
By the early 90's;I had at least 1400 VHS and Betamax tapes (Yes,I had 2 Beta machines up to 2016 when the last one died)recorded..Out of those maybe 300 tapes had been classified and catalogued...I used to write on the cassette labels "Video Bits #(whater it was).
But by the mid 90's;I just lost interest in cataloguing anything...due to laziness,procrastination;finding other stuff to spend my money on(mainly Casino gambling). So now I had at least 2000 recorded tapes,not viewed,classified,catalogued,etc.
In 1997;when DVD's first became available,I started dubbing them into DVD. By 2003,they stopped making VCR's....I panicked...I thought I would not be able to play/dub the music performance tapes or my vast collection of bought movies on VHS.
I started buying VCR'S on EBAY or some other places online that still had VCR's for sale..Some of these were high end...Including the 1st High definition VCR by JVC in 2005 that played special tapes and had a picture quality comparable to a blu-ray...The top of the line model from 1988 from JVC that had special effects capabilities comparable to studio equipment,Etc.
In 2006,YouTube was born...I started uploading some videos of musical performances that had not been seen anywhere since the original broadcasts;some are still up. I actually experienced theft of some of the videos!...I also got copyright violations notices from YouTube;so I gave up on doing that by 2007.
One day in 2017,on impulse;I realized that I would not be able to catch up with all the cataloguing,labelling,etc. of the recordings...by that time I had at least 2500 tapes...I just started filling garbage bags with tapes and dumped them in the building bin. Took about a full day to get rid of everything..about 25 bags if I remember correctly. I still have about 500 used BETA and VHS tapes that I bought to re-use for the recordings...and I still have the 16 VCR's... I dread even thinking of getting rid of those because of the sunk-cost belief;plus now,due to extreme health issues,I am physically,mentally or emotionally able to consider doing so. I've never sold anything I've owned.and frankly,I am afraid of the scams on Facebook Marketplace,Craiglist,etc. I don't have the room or energy to establish an EBAY business.
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Sometimes I regret doing that..Especially the clips from The Arsenio Hall Show..he had so many Rap/HipHop entertainers...Most of those performances are not on YouTube(I've searched).
I also have huge collections of physical media...I've stated on other Reddit forums that when I die,my landlady will have a huge windfall if she 's smart enough. My hope is that I get some help from the little family I've got left to process my stuff before I die;but at this moment that's unlikely to happen.
So what's the purpose of this post?...Maybe self-flagellation..Further validating my stupid ass mistakes that caused me to not be able to retire and still be in debt at age 67.
You may laugh at me/bully me/call me a waste of space... all you want..I'm ready to be whipped.

I own 16 VCR;'s..yes 16..
Five are connected to 2 different TV's..The rest are stored away in one of my closets,maybe even covered with mold since I've had some humidity issues within the apartmernt in the past and frankly...I'm afraid to open the boxes to confirm..The reason for me buying these over the last 40 years was that since my first VCR in 1978;I started a hobby of taping musical performances from various talk/variety shows(Like Johnny Carson,Jay Leno,Letterman,Arsenio Hall,TV specials,MTV videos,Etc.). The hope was that in my retirement; I would go over all the recordings,edit them by copying to other tapes,etc. and cataloguing them;keeping a journal of the clips I had plus putting content lists inside the individual tapes,creating my own music video libraries.
By the early 90's;I had at least 1400 VHS and Betamax tapes (Yes,I had 2 Beta machines up to 2016 when the last one died)recorded..Out of those maybe 300 tapes had been classified and catalogued...I used to write on the cassette labels "Video Bits #(whater it was).
But by the mid 90's;I just lost interest in cataloguing anything...due to laziness,procrastination;finding other stuff to spend my money on(mainly Casino gambling). So now I had at least 2000 recorded tapes,not viewed,classified,catalogued,etc.
In 1997;when DVD's first became available,I started dubbing them into DVD. By 2003,they stopped making VCR's....I panicked...I thought I would not be able to play/dub the music performance tapes or my vast collection of bought movies on VHS.
I started buying VCR'S on EBAY or some other places online that still had VCR's for sale..Some of these were high end...Including the 1st High definition VCR by JVC in 2005 that played special tapes and had a picture quality comparable to a blu-ray...The top of the line model from 1988 from JVC that had special effects capabilities comparable to studio equipment,Etc.
In 2006,YouTube was born...I started uploading some videos of musical performances that had not been seen anywhere since the original broadcasts;some are still up. I actually experienced theft of some of the videos!...I also got copyright violations notices from YouTube;so I gave up on doing that by 2007.
One day in 2017,on impulse;I realized that I would not be able to catch up with all the cataloguing,labelling,etc. of the recordings...by that time I had at least 2500 tapes...I just started filling garbage bags with tapes and dumped them in the building bin. Took about a full day to get rid of everything..about 25 bags if I remember correctly. I still have about 500 used BETA and VHS tapes that I bought to re-use for the recordings...and I still have the 16 VCR's... I dread even thinking of getting rid of those because of the sunk-cost belief;plus now,due to extreme health issues,I am physically,mentally or emotionally able to consider doing so. I've never sold anything I've owned.and frankly,I am afraid of the scams on Facebook Marketplace,Craiglist,etc. I don't have the room or energy to establish an EBAY business.
.
Sometimes I regret doing that..Especially the clips from The Arsenio Hall Show..he had so many Rap/HipHop entertainers...Most of those performances are not on YouTube(I've searched).
I also have huge collections of physical media...I've stated on other Reddit forums that when I die,my landlady will have a huge windfall if she 's smart enough. My hope is that I get some help from the little family I've got left to process my stuff before I die;but at this moment that's unlikely to happen.
So what's the purpose of this post?...Maybe self-flagellation..Further validating my stupid ass mistakes that caused me to not be able to retire and still be in debt at age 67.
You may laugh at me/bully me/call me a waste of space... all you want..I'm ready to be whipped.

There were a few questions asked/answered before I started taking notes (sorry!). Also these notes were typed while the devs were talking, I may have missed a few sentences here or there.
These first questions were asked by players out loud and the mods answered. Mods Husky and Light were there.
How will interaction with items outside ship work? Ie docking salvaging
Currently your ship just has to be close, within a radius of the dock/salvage in order to interact. Salvage visuals will be updated so it looks more natural (mast sticking up, looks like ship is in this general area, rather than just 1 item sticking out of the water)
They will make it more precise where your ship position/orientation matters for certain activities ie combat/firing cannons, but they don't want to punish players by making it difficult to dock the ships because it's not lined up perfectly with the port.
Sailing PVP?
They have thought about it but are not planning to release it on launch of Sailing. Would like to release post-launch. Could be an area of the map, could be you raise a certain flag or use a certain type of ship to opt in.
In terms of other skills, how fast is Sailing to train? More like Slayer or Fletching?
Husky- slower than construction, faster than 30k/hour is the "safe" answer. A lot of players evaluate xp/hour based on how much effort they're putting in. Methods will evolve after launch as players discover metas. If the meta for Sailing is not fun, then we need to make changes- even if it's a lot of xp/hour.
Some players say "I'm against sailing but it's fine if its fast to train"-bad way to look at it, makes more sense to prioritize sailing being fun.
Husky has a number for how fast the xp/hour will be but he's keeping it secret. NDA players have seen the XP rates and thought they were fair.
Lots of skills do this badly- they unlock the best method at level 60. It makes sense to unlock better xp/hour training methods at 75, 90.Husky looks at it as "if a player sits down and plays for 6 hours, how far should they get/what level should they reach?"Take Agility as (bad) example- was 55k- 70k/hour. How many full days do I need to do to get 1 level? Even at high levels, the xp rates do not go up (talking about before Sepulchre release)
Any raw gp infusion- ie gold leaves needed to train Sailing?
Husky- construction is a gold sink ie planks, gold leaves. Using gold leaves to put trims on our boat would make sense. Players tend to be more in favor of ways to flex their wealth/show off. Don't want to block functionality behind spending a lot of gp. Boats are an investment for the player. Husky-there will be niche materials to build facilities on boats. More like an item you get as a reward for doing content than an expensive item you buy.
Would Sailing be better as a minigame? Ie dungeoneering would be better as a minigame. Husky-Questions to consider:"Do you think what we have currently for Sailing is minigame-y?""What does a minigame look like to you?" Player answered other skills are not minigamy- ie you train slayer by killing slayer monsters (Note:They mentioned other skills but I didn't get all of it, sorry it was hard to type fast) Player- Sailing feels minigamey because You are going across the map, doing new content, exploring- that feels mingamey
Husky- the concern is "sailing is a tool to get to new content, who cares about sailing itself" we are trying to make sure there are meaningful interactions on the ship, ie interacting with the ship If you were a person going out to sea irl, you would be a better sailor by being able to put out nets better, fix the sails better husky- slayer gets brought up a lot or farming contracts, and compared to port contracts. farming contracts are not a minigame according to the wiki husky- Husky thinks of a minigame as a small area where you do a repeating activity. Can you have a minigame inside of a minigame? we could put a sailing minigame in part of the sea. How does that work if Sailing itself is a minigame? It would be like having a minigame inside of gotr. husky- you get xp by interacting with facilities on the ship or by using your ship, ie transporting items from A to B (port contracts)You get construction xp for building stuff on your ship (Not Saling xp!).previous comments thought sailing was ship building-this is false Some people say sailing should be an activity not a skill- not sure if they don't want a skill or if they think sailing would work better as an activity. Hard to tell from comments. Husky- we're only going to get really good feedback from players on if Sailing feels like a minigame once players are playing it. Excited for alpha and beta tests. Hopefully we will get good feedback that we can act on.
Will there be afk and high intensity training methods?
Husky- Yes. we have 4 types of primary gameplay.
(NOTE: Read this: https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/adding-a-new-skill-sailing-core-gameplay?oldschool=1)
Shipwreck Salvaging doesn't always need to be slow afk chill. Husky is trying to play around with the idea of static spawns, dynamic rare spawns. maybe if you salvage in a more dangerous location, you will be interrupted while doing so. Maybe there are sirens that are distracting your crewmates, dolphins taking the salvage and running away. Ways to increase engagement from players. Could have upgrades to ship as a way to deal with the distractions. Husky disclaimer: we are still working on this, not everything I say is for sure going to be a feature.
Husky is trying to avoid this- shipwreck salvaging is always slow and afk, barracuda trials are high xp and high effort, so the meta is to do barracuda trials from 1-99. It's ok if a higher level method that is more afk beats out a lower level method that is more intense.
With Sailing, what are you most looking forward to?
Husky-Launching it. Right now it feels like feeling your legs burning as you see the mountain ahead. Theres' a massive team working on it. husky- i want sailing to be the best content ever released in game
light- most looking forward to the person getting 99 sailing
husky- i'm sure the first player will get 99 Sailing faster than we intended
husky- technically i will probably be the first person to get to 99, I plan to get 99 selling while testing
Rapid fire questions! Husky quickly answered a bunch of questions people had typed in the discord.
Would you say the general leveling of the skill might be dangerous for HCIM?
Yes. you can travel to dangerous places, but you can find out what places to avoid. Maybe you do a level 40 training method to 99. if that's what it takes to avoid danger. If your ship capsizes its a safe death, but if the player character dies it's a death. (this is what they are currently planning not confirmed it will be like this on launch)
Not sure if I've seen this mentioned in previous blog posts, but as xp is gained for interacting with the sails and salvaging, is there any plan to add more activities/content to sailing ? Anything such as adding possible monster encounters, special areas for different type of content (that could be unlocked at certain sailing level for e.g.), specific type of fishing on deep sea (harpoon gun for e.g. on the ship) ?
Yes. purpose of the tech alpha is to test how ship navigates, more training methods will be added. we plan to add at least 2 secondary activities with sailing. (NOTE: Read this: https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/adding-a-new-skill-sailing-core-gameplay?oldschool=1)
when and how will people be able to get involved in testing? open tech alpha in the next few months, nda players are testing now. more betas coming after that.
bartering? trading goods between islands. perhaps after launch, not currently planned
Will clue scrolls be updated to involve sailing locations/ shipwreck salvaging locations? clue scrolls MIGHT have steps on islands. we are more in favor of a message in a bottle situation.- a clue scroll inspired system, but separate from clue scrolls. Might work on it during a game jam.
Also, I believe you mentioned a player designed island competition, I’m curious if there’s options for player owned islands similar to player owned houses? Or maybe slightly different? Contested islands could be a form of pvp mini for sailing skill? not looking at player owned islands, maybe post launch
What's for dinner Husky? whatever is in the fridge
Can I have ironmen on my boat?
yes. there will be restrictions for what iron players can do on a boat. Goal is to prevent wealth transfer between mains and irons, prevent irons from being boosted from other players. general idea- if you are an iron and have the level/can do it yourself, you can probably do it on someone else's boat.
if im maxed main all 99 what happen with my quiver and infernal max cape ? do you add one option to revers the cape like i can use my bis slot cape or i need to do the new skill before wear it again or do the challenge again to got my bis cape slot youll lose access to your current max capes until you max again. not sure about a dismantle option.
How would you handle the world edge
depends on engine work. plan to sail onto endless sea with soft incentive to turn back. getting lost and turning around looks nicer than black borders
Alot of the skill expression in high level content in the main game relies on accurate or precise and typically quick movement in PVM(CG, warden final phase, etc). While obviously it isn't the only skill impression in high level content, I am concerned in how the slower and less reactive movement will affect this in higher level content. I do still like idea of the movement to make it seem like a boat, it seems like the system that would be overly punishing for small mistakes, such as how if you move one tile too far, you can't just move back one tile, you need to turn the boat all the way around just to move backwards. I was wondering what thoughts the team has on this such as if they have any other avenues where they intend to have skill expression, or maybe if during the playtests, it doesnt seem like a problem since we havent had the experience to try it out ourselves yet. Thanks for all your work!
we want feedback on this! play the tech alpha! ship movement will inform later content. will design later content around ship movement, Ship movement needs to be predictable. Your ship can't move 1 tile back. Maybe Sailing uses things in more general areas than on specific tiles. Husky will start coding barracuda trials stuff during the next month. He's thinking about how the ship will handle sharp corners, tight places.
Will there be any pets? yes sailing pet. Possibly other pets from other content (ie on islands)-unsure about this.
Will Javelins have a use in Sailing? seems like a nice oportunity to revive this ammo type no current plans. We're still working through combat designs. We like cannonballs, could see javelins in harpoon guns
can we use the flags earned through trouble brewing as a boat cosmetic? not opposed. would definitely be cosmetic only.
Have you looked at other games such as sea of thieves for inspiration? I really like the idea of stormy conditions affecting your sailing capabilities and following clues to find treasures on islands other devs played sea of thieves, sounds like husky has not played it.
stormy conditions affecting sailing abilities? depends if it feels good. They experimented with wind before when initially doing the engine work to get ships to move- it felt bad. players were unable to predict the arc. because the pathing kept updating with new movement speed, ship spiraled. But the current tech alpha might deal with it better. If implemented, it needs to be fun not frustrating.
are there plans to make sailing contracts? Like a beginner one would be from rimmington to ardougne and a master one would be from slep to piscarilius ? Yes. This is port contracts. Would like to incentivize upgrading the cargo hold. Players without cargo hold might not benefit from higher level port contracts. Also yes there will be different "levels" of port contracts.
how is the release schedule planned for sailing? are there x amount of planned content batches before the team moves on or will the team release, wait for feedback, and hone in on the communities preferred content? Not currently planning to release things in batches. but we are looking at the release schedule a lot. If we release things in batches it changes the player experience. ie if they release sailing content that requires level 70, players who are over level 70 don't care about it. They want the base release to be good, feel like a full skill. Is station management the end-goal behind what the sailing skill truly is? Particularly whilst also managing boat position? I think that is where the depth should come from, especially towards the end. (regardless of whether it makes it mini-game like) You start out on your own with small ship, gain more facilities, as you get to larger ships, your role changes to being more of a captain. Think of an high-level ship that has 10 things it can do-a solo player would struggle to do them all. (Though some players will of course find a way to do everything themselves.) As you level up, you transition from "things that need to be done to keep ship going" to "things player wants to do"
Will you propose any methods for sailing-related activities that are intended to shake up the meta? Both in terms of gathering materials for processing and the actual processing itself. There are two obvious ways this could go in my mind:

Preserve the existing meta. The best way to train, say, smithing has been blast furnace since 2005, and an important part of old school has been keeping old activities relevant. Present new meta methods as rewards. And isn't that the whole point of a new skill?

We want to avoid the idea that its always a good idea to train sailing first because it unlocks all the meta training methods for other skills New skilling methods on islands will be polled. if players are ok with meta methods being locked behind sailing level, then they will be added to the game, otherwise no.
What level of impact will this skill have on the game compared to other skills? PoHs changed so much about how the game is played. Where will Sailing fall in comparison? saling should have an impact but it shouldn't be the be all end all
what is the absolute minimum time it could take to fully release sailing a skill/overall timeline (guestimation) Husky- I have an estimation, but I can't answer this question because we can't give the release date. And I don't want to make something up/lie to you.
mod light- Release date depends on feedback that we get from alphas, might need to spend more time on development.
Hello, looking forward to the new skill, but i'm wondering what will stop the skill being a chore to just get to 99 and get my max cape back and actually bring players back to keep doing the skill and make it worth getting to 99 Sailing should feel like something you want to do because there are things at sea that are fun to do in their own right. There will be still benefits to having a ship at level 99. we want navigating the sea/being on a boat to feel fun. Want players to think "i want to be on a boat today" like how they say "i want to do toa today"
can we add max worlds before sailing, so its a race to a world only for yourself it's a fun idea. would be fun for high level sailing player to be able to catch black chins. Open to it being a higher total level than 2277 but less than 2376, and/or the new max level of 2376
One, there is a lot of content currently in the game that includes boats and boat-adjacent structures. From fixing the barge in Bone Voyage to helping Ned repair his ship in Dragon Slayer, to taking the boaty to Barrows, what are your plans to address or rework any pre-sailing ship content currently in game? Reworking current quests is a lot of work. We want to do this but may not have time before release. Not planning to replace/change river content. Would like to fix bone voyage and cabin fever- not looking to do this at launch. Might be able to/have time to retheme Dragon Slayer before launch. (Navigating through reefs vs finding the island)
Will there be any changes to the world-scale to support sailing? With the GPU plugin's enhanced draw distance, it's a bit weird that you can see Rimmington from Karamja, for example, when we're to have large ships sailing in those waters. I think this will also be more relevant with the new HD client features. Tech alpha's "large ship" will be a "colossal ship", It might not even go in the game, depends on player feedback. A 1-2 tile wide ship will feel ok with the world as-is. It's a lot of work to move islands. also our game has never tried to be to scale. ie, why is this castle bigger than ice mountain? the game is already not to scale, it would not fit what the game is trying to do if the ocean is to scale.
Have you seen a player proposal for an activity 'Instanced Islands' ? They have seen it. Won't be in the game, at least not on launch.

This was something I wanted to use in a comment here but it was too long, so I'm putting it here with the lead-in from the comment:

An essential element is the charisma of NSA's leaders. Theoretically, charisma is an event which takes place between a leader and a group. Charisma exists only as it is perceived in someone by others and cannot be artificially produced. Source

Of course, sometimes the way a person, like an SGI leader, is described to someone else can set that other person's expectations, prime their perceptions, to regard this SGI leader as someone worthy of an extra helping of respect and admiration, provided that person is susceptible to being led in that way. That's a function of the SGI indoctrination, to regard the leadership as "special", as automatically possessing superior wisdom and understanding (which is all that qualifies them to dole out "guidance" to everyone at a lower leadership level than themselves). However, when someone isn't in thrall to that kind of delusional thinking, the SGI leader often comes off poorly, as in Eddy Canfor-Dumas' book The Buddha, Geoff and Me (2005). While I was still in SGI, a friend asked me to read it, so I got ahold of a used copy and gave it a read. It left me totally WTF, honestly - I think you'll get an idea why from this section.
Eddy, the protagonist, has this on-off girlfriend who is Jewish and who strenuously objects to the concepts of "karma" and "cause and effect" because those lead to the conclusive, inescapable, irrevocable, and completely unacceptable conclusion that the Jews themselves were responsible for the death camps like Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Bergen-Belsen and the whole of the Holocaust itself! We've noted the same problem here - holding the victims accountable for their own victimization! If you're already "going there" already, it's only a tiny baby step to extend that to the Jews who were exterminated by the Nazis in WWII - and his girlfriend could see that clearly, even if poor Eddy couldn't (or wouldn't). As you can see here, this concept, that the Jews were ultimately responsible for their own victimization, that they CHOSE that, does exist within these silly weird religions that put so much faith in "karma". Eddy can't explain; he's left embarrassed and she's angry. It starts in Chapter 8 (p. 123); here's the relevant piece:

Perhaps if [SGI-UK member] Geoff talked to her like he talked to me, if he convinced her, charmed her, reassured her that this Buddhism thing I was getting interested in wasn't a load of old nonsense ⏤ well, perhaps we'd be all right after all. She wouldn't be a walk-on in the first act of my story; she'd be the girl the boy meets and loses and wins in the end. Perhaps. (p. 141)

As you can see, Eddy is counting on Geoff's "charisma" to impress his girl. But it doesn't go quite as he expects:

'So,' said Angie after a while, 'Ed says you've got a Buddhist explanation for the Holocaust.'
Geoff smiled. 'It's my explanation,' he said. 'it's not an official line or anything. It's how I've made sense of it, through Buddhism.'
'Can you make sense of it?'
'I've tried.'
'OK. Fire away.' Angie sipped her wine and smiled sweetly, but I knew that look. Inside she was coiled, ready to pounce on any statement that in any way suggested the victim was culpable.

As if that's a BAD thing! Why shouldn't people be on their guard when a stranger is clearly ready to launch into a sales pitch of some kind?

Geoff took a deep breath and launched in. 'Right. Well, first off, I want to make it clear that nothing I say should be taken in any way to justify what the Nazis did.

Uh-oh - not off to a great start, I'm afraid 😒

'That was disgusting, an atrocity, and the people who did it and supported it are totally responsible for their actions. OK?'
Angie nodded and sipped her wine, watching him closely.
'And from a Buddhist perspective they've created terrible karma for themselves in doing what they did.'
'Karma ⏤ that's the punishment they're going to suffer in the future?'
'Not punishment, exactly. It's the effects you experience as a result of causes you make, good or bad. So if you cause suffering at some point you'll suffer in return.'
'Which means all the Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust must have made the cause at some point to die like that ⏤ which I absolutely refuse to accept.'
'That sounds outrageous to you?'

WHAT?? How could it NOT??

'Totally.'
Geoff grunted. 'Ed said members of your family were killed.' He glanced at me.
'On my mother's side, yes. Her mother's parents, two brothers, cousins, uncles and aunts. My grandmother was the only one who got out, on the kindertransport. If she hadn't I wouldn't be here.'
Geoff shook his head. 'Terrible. So anything that even hints the victim is somehow responsible feels like a real insult.'
'Yes.'
He sighed. 'I know. It's very hard, even if you believe in the eternity of life, like I do. But for me the question isn't so much what causes did these people make to suffer like this, because I think that's impossible to answer⏤'
'That's convenient,' said Angie tartly.
'For me,' said Geoff, ignoring her tone, 'the important question isn't what causes people made in their past lives but what people do in this life. What makes people behave like the Nazis did to the Jews? Why did other people let it happen ⏤ or not? In Denmark, for example, the vast majority of Jews were hidden by the non-Jewish population, or helped to escape, whereas in Poland they weren't. And for me, above all, the crucial question is what can we all do to make sure it doesn't happen again?'
'Only it has, hasn't it?' I said. 'Rwanda.'
'Exactly,' said Geoff.
'Exactly what?' said Angie, still seething. But at least she hadn't walked out, which i suspect she would have done by now if it had been just the two of us.
'Well, I reckon,' said Geoff, 'everything boils down to what Buddhism calls the world of Anger. Which isn't just losing your temper. It's ego, identity, how you define yourself as separate from other people; the rest of the universe, in fact.'
Angie crossed her arms and legs and gazed at him, aggression shining from every pore.
Geoff ignored it. 'One way we do it is in opposition to other people, or groups of people, often putting "them" down to make "us" ⏤ our group ⏤ feel better or superior. You see it in football supporters, nations, religions, political groups ⏤ everywhere.'

Especially in how certain SGI members attack this SGIWhistleblowers ex-SGI members' support group, all the while bragging that they are "Bodhisattvas of the Earth", clearly superior to everyone else.

'And?' Angie's tone was harsh, impatient.
'And taken to extremes,' said Geoff, 'that attitude can be used to justify anything "our group" decides is good for us, and to ignore anything "that group" says or wants. They don't count; our needs come first.

Just like how those SGI member-attackers insist that what they're doing somehow qualifies as "right speech", even though it's the OPPOSITE of the actual definition!

'So time and again through history you see groups of people who've wiped out other groups they've classed as enemies or a threat or inferior in some way. The Mongols did it right across Asia. We Europeans did it to millions of "darkies" during the whole period of colonialism. White people wiped out or ethnically cleansed millions of indigenous people when they settled the Americas. And we're still doing it.'
'How?' Angie sounded incredulous, and even I was taken aback.
Geoff ploughed on. 'Every year,' he said, 'millions of people in developing countries die from poverty, disease, hunger, malnutrition; more people every year than died in the six years of the Second World War, including the Holocaust. In fact, some people call this the Silent Holocaust. We know about it but we let it happen ⏤ because it suits us, our lifestyles.'
Angie looked floored for a moment. 'How do we let it happen?'
'Because a lot of this death is the result of international debt and unfair trade policies skewed toward the West. We benefit, so we do little or nothing to change it.'
Angie's eyes narrowed. 'If you're saying that me buying a cup of coffee from Starbucks or wherever is the same as the Nazis shovelling men, women and children in to the gas chambers . . . well, that is such complete crap. And trying to make the link, to make them equivalent ⏤ I find that disgusting.'
Geoff didn't turn a hair. 'I'm not saying it's equivalent. I'm saying what the Nazis did isn't unique or even unusual. It's an extreme case of what human beings have done since for ever: denigrate, devalue, disregard other human beings when it suits them.'

Oooh - sick self-burn, bruh!

Angie stared at him with naked hostility, and inside I groaned. If I'd known he was going to start sounding like Red Pete I'd never have put him anywhere near her, because she was basically a Daily Mail editorial on legs.

"Red Pete" was "a bloke from college" who was always involved in causes - protests, leaflets, rallies, etc. (p. 148)

But he hadn't said any of this to me. He'd talked about history, about how Christians had felt insulted by Judaism because it denied that Jesus was the son of God; and how the Jews were often feared as alien because they were a tight-knit and self-reliant community, forced into separate development by persecution. And a lot of the time people were simply jealous of them because they were so successful in trade and business. 'Look at how Jewish businesses were destroyed by the Nazis, or stolen,' he'd said. 'That shows where a lot of anti-Semitism was coming from: greed and envy.'

But what of Dickeda's "eternal clear mirror 'guidance'" from 1990? That says that everything in one's environment is simply a reflection of one's own life?? Where did THAT go?? IF others were reacting to them with "greed and envy", then isn't it OBVIOUS that "greed and envy" are firmly entrenched in those victims' LIVES, because by definition the others were simply a reflection?? Take it up with Sensei.

But ⏤ and this was the bit that brought me up short ⏤ he'd also wondered how the Jews calling themselves the Chosen People might have affected non-Jews. 'Anyone who sets themselves up as special in some way ⏤ even if they are special ⏤ is always going to be targeted by other people',' he'd said. 'It's not nice, but it's a fact. Like, we had this rich kid at school who really thought he was a cut above us, and we all hated him, wanted to bring him down to size. So we bullied him ⏤ including me, I'm ashamed to say. And with the Nazis ⏤ well, they were the Chosen People too, weren't they? Aryans, the Master Race. And you can't have two Chosen People, so they tried to wipe out the Jews. Horrible.'

But - and hear me out here - according to THAT logic, if the Jews hadn't felt themselves to be superior Chosen People, then the Nazis wouldn't have felt compelled to exterminate them - right? So THAT argument makes it the JEWS' fault! THEY essentially created the "effect" of being exterminated through their "cause" of ego, hubris, and superiority!

I'd had to think hard about all this. It went beyond labels like 'good' and 'evil' to basic human attitudes like resentment, fear, and jealousy. It sort of made sense to me, but then I wasn't Jewish.

When YOU aren't involved, it's EASY to make it into an abstraction, something just theoretical that isn't involved with anything real and doesn't really make any difference, practically speaking.

I didn't know how it would sound to someone more closely involved ⏤ like Angie. I hoped she might just be able to consider it without getting all worked up. But somehow the conversation had taken the wrong track and come off the rails. Time to rescue the situation. I opened my mouth ⏤ but too late.
'There is no way,' Angie hit back, 'that you can equate people starving in the Third World to the Holocaust. That was genocide ⏤ one group deliberately targeting another people and trying to exterminate them. And even talking of them in the same breath is an insult to the six million Jews who were deliberately, wilfully, systematically murdered.'
'Fair point,' I said, desperate to appease her. Geoff wouldn't budge.
'If governments follow economic and trade policies that they know result in massive numbers of deaths,' he said, 'does it matter what it's called? And how different are we from people living in Germany during the Holocaust if we know our governments are doing this but turn our backs on it?'
I winced again and waited for the explosion.
Angie looked at Geoff as if he were from another planet. 'So now I'm as bad as the people who supported Hitler?'
'Look, I don't want to upset you, Angie,' Geoff said.

Notice he didn't say "No, of COURSE not!"

She snorted with derision.

Fair.

'All I'm saying is the Nazis blamed their problems on the Jews and consciously decided to get rid of them. We sacrifice other people indirectly, by building our wealth on structures and systems that cause incredible suffering in poorer parts of the world. And basically we think that's OK, or not enough of us care enough to stop it.'

Just look at the "Big Ideas" pouring out of this SGI member to justify doing DICK! Where have we seen THAT before??

Angie sighed and stared at her empty wine glass.
I leapt in. 'Another one?'
'No, thank you.' Her answer was clipped, terse. She composed herself and looked up at Geoff. 'Is this Buddhism ⏤ or communism? Because it sounds identical to the sort of crap you hear from those people who riot about the "evils of globalisation" and capitalism. Despite the fact that every society, when it gets freedom, freely chooses the free market.'
'Actually, I did used to be very left-wing,' Geoff admitted cheerfully, 'till I realised neither communism nor capitalism's got the whole story. And if you base your society on ideas that are incomplete, sooner or later you're going to hit the buffers.'
'What do you mean by "incomplete"?' Angie asked, her critical antennae still quivering furiously.
'Ideas that don't understand cause and effect properly, or don't reflect life accurately. Or exclude whole groups of people ⏤ like women, or savages, or Jews, or non-Aryans, or non-Christians, non-believers, the rich, the poor, the working class, the bourgeoisie. You name it.'
'Meaning, I suppose, every idea except Buddhism.' The contempt in her voice was so heavy I sensed the conversation might be drawing to a close.

I'm surprised Eddy didn't use the word "incredulous" anywhere here - I can only imagine that was how Angie was feeling, at this guy's effrontery and smug self-satisfaction.

But again, Geoff sailed over it. 'Well, even most Buddhist teachings are incomplete,' he said. 'Some of them say women can't become enlightened, for example.' He flashed her a warm smile, but it was far too late for that.
'How very enlightened,' Angie replied ⏤ her one joke of the evening.
'Exactly. Not the sort I practice, though.' He smiled again.
'So there is hope for me,' she said dryly. 'As long as I follow your example, hmm?'
'As far as I'm concerned,' said Geoff, 'the important thing isn't what people practise, or even what they believe ⏤ it's how they actually behave towards each other.'

Yes, if only the Nazis had been nicer to the Jews, which we're all confident they would've been if the JEWS hadn't been such offensive individuals!

Angie looked at him a moment. 'Right,' she said. She held his gaze a while longer, then gave a short sigh, grabbed her bag and slung it over her shoulder. 'Well,' she said, getting to her feet, 'it's been very informative. Thank you for the drink.' She headed for the door.
I jumped to my feet and ran after her. 'Angie!'
She turned and looked at me.
'Come on, stay for another one.'
'No thanks,' she said, glancing daggers over my shoulder at Geoff. 'I've had a long day and I want to get home.'
'Angie . . .' I pleaded.
'OK?'
The two letters were laden with a warning that froze me dead. Helpless, I watched her push open the door and turn out of sight along the street. Out of sight and out of my life for ever? (pp. 149-156)

It's so easy for those who aren't involved in a specific situation to be glib, insensitive, and callous to the concerns of those who are involved. "Karma" is their "get-out-of-caring-free" card. The sort of pontificating and grand generalizing that Geoff was engaging in, demonstrating such privileged, entitled DETACHMENT, is deeply non-compassionate. "I don't HAVE to care because c'mon, it was all their own fault, they deserved it, everyone can see that."

An Analysis of Global Sex Trafficking
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Globalization has caused collective economic devastation that has stripped whole countries of their non-sexual assets forcing young women into prostitution, often on purpose.

1. Globalization’s neoliberal market economy, transnational movement, consumerist agenda, and feminization of poverty have created a breeding ground for sex trafficking. I posit that globalization’s effects on (particularly “developing”) economies, such as Thailand, and the environment has created a supply and easy movement of trafficked women and children; that Western-dominated and patriarchal approaches contribute to a feminization of poverty and gendered division of labor, which includes sexual services; and that the commodification of the female (and child) body through the mass media has increased a demand for sex trafficking.

Sweden’s approach targets the demand and refuses to victim blame having a strictly abolitionist approach.

1. Finally, I argue that Sweden’s approach represents the best practice toward ameliorating sex trafficking by targeting the demand.

Traffickers use violence, threats, coercion and murder to instill fear in victims. Globalization increases violence, threats, coercion and murder in areas that traffick in the most prostitutes globally. Washington state may be one such instance.

1. Sex trafficking victims suffer physical, psychological, and economic abuse in this modern-day slavery; traffickers use violence, threats, coercion, and murder to instill fear in victims. Why have an increasing number of women and children (mostly girls) fallen victims to sex trafficking? This article analyzes sex trafficking and its connections with globalization, and then considers what policy approach best serves to deter this gender-based crime.

The true problem lies with the buyers, the customers, and the 99% purchasers being men

1. “[W]e can see where the true problem lies—it lies with the buyers, the customers, the men” (Torrey, 2004; 74). In short, inclusion of controls on demand for the sex trade is the keystone to drafting improved legislation to combat sex trafficking.

Sex trafficking is a form of violence against women and girls.

1. Primarily victimizing females, sex trafficking is a form of violence against women, and feminist theory calls for an examination of all violence against women and girls

Sex industry has been kept invisible to allow for rationalization of its continuance clearly in the public eye

1. Why has demand for the sex industry been afforded a near invisibility in policy and research (Salter 2003; 4, 76)? Since heteropatriarchy “privileges heterosexual, promiscuous masculinity,” feminist theory can challenge the demand for sexual services of women and children (Kempadoo, 2004; 9).

Colonialization includes a superiority-inferiority narrative used to rationalize rape and human trafficking as something that “doesn’t count” or “is deserved”.

1. Socialist feminism can critique the commodification of the female body that supports this demand; Third World feminism can bring insight into sex trafficking as a continuance of colonial industry that exploits females on the basis of race, class, and nationality.

Women face an imbalance of power which increases as the demand for sexual services increases. This is usually hegemonized through horrific financial gaps.

1. I utilize an abolitionist feminist perspective toward the sex industry, which profits from a demand for sexual services supplied mostly by women, who face an imbalance of power within a patriarchal system. This demand for sexual services fuels sex trafficking

Globalization, through trying to source cheap labor, has fueled human trafficking and normalized it everywhere where labor trafficking and sex trafficking intersect for cheap services.

1. Globalization’s international trade with a neoliberal market economy, its transnational movement through outsourcing and processing zones, its consumerist agenda, and its feminization of poverty (especially in developing nations) and labor (particularly exploiting women of color) 3 have created a breeding ground for sex trafficking.

Traffickers benefit from corrupt authorities and may pay off investigators to keep trafficking. They may even install particularly corrupt investigators to not investigate obvious human trafficking

1. effects on (particularly “developing”) economies and the environment has created a supply of women and children to be trafficked, and an easy movement of people by traffickers, who benefit from corrupt authorities

Commodification of the woman has increased demand by men often fed by powerless exotic women with no capital and no access to schooling that will provide the defenses they need from this predation.

1. commodification of the female (and child) body through the mass media and the Internet has increased a “demand” by men for sexual commodities at the expense of “others,” especially “foreign, exotic” women.

Increasing economic inequality and disadvantaging the poorest of the poor purposefully takes away all money-created assets a person has to force them into selling their bodies.

1. While the feminization of poverty and gender-based violence exist worldwide, environmental injustice and unfair economic policies disproportionately harm poor women and girls in developing nations. A system favoring developed nations in the name of globalization, which promotes “free” trade, contributes to global sex trafficking by increasing economic inequality and disadvantaging the “poorest of the poor.”

Globalization devastated the local land so that Thai people could not rely on the land to survive and had to begin sex trafficking to survive.

1. One may examine Thailand’s environmental destruction to understand globalization’s increase in migration and urbanization, which contribute to sex trafficking. Transnational corporations in need of land for fast-growing trees (like rubber and eucalyptus) or industrial shrimp farms for their own harvesting have been displacing indigenous Thai people (who typically lack land titles) from their homelands, causing deforestation, flooding from soil erosion, and a lack of food and resources (such as mushrooms and fish) to sell for the local people’s income

Loan and debt creation was the primary entry red flag into being a target for human trafficking

1. One elder Thai woman explained how the market economy encroached upon villages, creating a consumer culture, luring the youth to the city, and creating a loan and debt cycle for people who wanted more market economy goods as propelled by the media (Usher, 1994; 16). After the military presence during the Vietnam War and the resulting sex tourism industry, more young women and girls left their villages to sell their bodies (all they had left to sell in the market economy) to support their poor families back home, because they could no longer produce sufficient food from the environmentally damaged lands and they were forcefully removed from other lands,

China trafficks Thai, Myanmar, Macau and Vietnamese peoples to Western nations as “exotic” luxuries. Up to two million people, including children, are being fed to this demand by Western nations

1. In addition to environmental injustice that disadvantages people within developing nations, such as Thailand, globalization’s “opening” of borders for goods and “products” includes people, thereby increasing opportunities for sex trafficking through lax controls and checks. Traffickers easily move victims across borders into and out of Thailand, a supplier and user of sex trafficking victims. In China, for instance, women and children are trafficked across regional borders into Thailand, Myanmar, Macau, and Vietnam, as well as from Thailand to Western nations for the sex trade. Statistics vary on Thailand’s sex industry, but they range from 86,000 to two million women and children prostituting in this global sex market (Usher, 2004; 18).

The Contagion in 1997 forced Thailand to devalue their currency which then couldn’t support their people. They then applied for an IMF loan that imposed policies and debt upon the Thai people that paved the way for human trafficking.

1. some, while harming the interests of many local people. In 1997, the Contagion (part of the Asian financial crisis) first struck Thailand, forcing the Thai government to devalue their currency, causing a rapid decline in salaries, job losses, and setting the scene for an IMF loan, which imposed policies and a debt upon the Thai government.5

IMF used this debt to control their policies

1. This neocolonialism destabilized their economies, made them poorer, devalued their currencies, forced them to borrow and become indebted, thereby allowing the IMF and other lenders to control their national policies. In December 1997, the Contagion reached Korea, which turned to the IMF when it neared default on Japanese and U.S. loans. Due to pressure, the banks rolled over their loans and Korea received the largest loan, $55 billion, in world history from the U.S.

There is definitely a pattern of causing financial crises in a country and then moving in to create a trafficking market there

1. “Countries as diverse as Vietnam, Cuba, and those in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union—all beset by acute financial crises while becoming market economies in varying degrees—are witnessing a tremendous increase in trafficking and prostitution”

Thailand attempts to pay off debts imposed through rigid ignorance of the differences between types of countries by prostituting women. Debt and debt servicing starts the machine of human sex trafficking.

1. By not fairly including developing nations in the global economy and essentially closing markets to them in the guise of IMF-World Bank-WTO policies, we fail to ameliorate an economic cause of global sex trafficking. Prostitution through sex tourism has become one of Thailand’s major financial resources as it helps the government pay off debts, which form a part of the cycle of economic abuse in globalization. Indeed, Saskia Sassen states, “Debt and debt servicing problems have become a systemic feature of the developing world since the 1980s” causing the creation of “shadow” or illicit economies of globalization (Saunders, 2004; 94). In order to combat sex trafficking, the global community should eliminate economic policies that create conditions ripe for an illicit sex trade.

Officials are bought off and are disturbing indifferent. In fact in Vietnam, 70% of people caught in sex acts are police. An Australian diplomat was another one.

1. 6 corruption among law enforcement officials and government agencies plays a key role in the successful operation of the criminal networks that traffic in human slave labor (King, 2004; 20). Officials can be bought off, laws against trafficking are weak in many countries, and attitudes7 toward violence against women are indifferent at best in many places. In Vietnam, “70% of those caught in brothels are reported to be state officials” (Enriquez, 2006; 4). Corruption exists within all nations, but rather than placing full blame on local officials, we must also hold non-locals colluding in sex trafficking accountable. For instance, “[f]ormer Australian diplomat Robert Michael Scoble was arrested March 2004 in Thailand in a joint operation conducted by the Royal Thai Police and Australian Federal Police…charged for promoting Thailand for sex tourism, child pornography, and trafficking of boys” (Cullen, 2004).

Young girls are “initiated” into prostitution by their pimp surprise raping them. Seeking help they are returned to their pimps and beat. The pimp convinced the girl of her worthlessness and tried to convince her she deserved her fate.

1. Sold at the age of fourteen to a brothel, Siri was “initiated” into the sex industry by a pimp raping her.8 She was now a prostitute—a sex slave. Though she escaped and sought help, a policeman returned Siri to the brothel owner, who beat her; brothel owners pay police to ignore sex trafficking. Physically enslaved and sexually servicing about three hundred men per month, Siri also suffered psychological abuse. “It did not take long for the pimp to convince Siri of her worthlessness, and for Siri to accept the view of herself as a mere female who deserved her fate” (King, 2004; 26). Like Siri, trafficked women and girls are victims of a modern slavery, aided by corrupt authorities, including government workers, and the new global economy’s circuits and movement of money and people.

Men in the military will try to attract women to their barracks; that failing they will actually kidnap them. That failing, they will sexually abuse their own female compatriots.

1. d a push for sex tourism to fulfill the demand of a hypermasculine and market-driven ideology that permeates globalization. Despite an increased supply of women drawn into the sex industry due to economic conditions under globalization, “this ‘supply’ would never be used for sex trafficking purposes without the creation of demand” (Nikolic-Ristanovic, no date; 1). In general, men in armed forces (whether “armies, militias, or groups of bandits”) either “attract commercial sex workers to their barracks, kidnap women [and girls] from villages to provide sexual services in their camps, or harass women serving in their own ranks” (Silliman, 1999; 96). The Balkans, for example, reveals a rise in sex trafficking due to the military presence during and after the ethnic conflicts, and calls attention to the corruption involved in the sex trade, as United Nations and NATO 9 forces committed sex trafficking crimes in the Balkans.

These behaviors lead to an increase in prostitution wherever these militaries are found.

1. The presence of a military base in a region, regardless of war, expands prostitution, thereby creating a larger demand for sex trafficking as evidenced in the Philippines and Korea.

During the Vietnam war this hid under the narrative of rest and relaxation.

1. During the Vietnam War, the U.S. Department of Defense had a contract with the Thai government to provide "Recreation & Relaxation" [R&R or “rest and relaxation”] for U.S. soldiers. With money from the U.S. government, local Thai prostitution organized and expanded into a major industry

Here men are supposed to control others and act like pimps and acts like they are entitled to their bodies in a way they are not.

1. Hypermasculine denotes a sense of entitlement to women, the “Other” (Beauvoir, 1949), and a violent masculinity (like militaries) aimed at controlling others.10 Enriquez (2006) critiques the framework of globalization as masculinist based “on the gender division of labour, with women subsidizing reproductive work, and with neo-liberalism basing itself on the idea of competitiveness and domination” (Enriquez, 2006; 1). Heteropatriarchy encourages a viewpoint of masculinity that endorses men’s domination over and entitlement to women’s bodies, and certain groups of women fare worse due to race or other factors.

Women in both the North and South are purposefully disadvantage economically to make them vulnerable to human sex trafficking

1. While recognizing a greater impoverishment in the global South, Enriquez links patriarchy, capitalism, and economic inequality in the North and South, stressing that in both hemispheres women are disadvantaged economically and are harmed by globalization more than their male counterparts

Extremes of sexual receptivity are enforced on targets of sex trafficking, women and girls being groomed for sex trafficking, or actual human sex trafficking victims

1. “In Western industrialized societies, hegemonic masculinity is characterized by work in the paid labor market, the subordination of women and girls, heterosexism and the driven and uncontrollable sexuality of men” (NikolicRistanovic, no date; 4). Further connecting “hegemonic masculinity” to a demand for women’s sexual services, Robert Connell stresses that “emphasized femininity complements hegemonic masculinity,” which emphasizes the “sexual receptivity” of “younger women” (Nikolic-Ristanovic, no date; 4).

Governments profit from the pimping of women when male demand and economies in crisis coincide

1. Male demand, female inequality, and economies in crisis—among other factors—lie at the nexus of sex trafficking” (Hynes, 2002; 197). Governments, depending on the illicit economy of the sex trade, profit from the pimping of women (Saunders, 2004; 91).

Australia and Netherlands have legalized prostitution which ironically drives a huge market to bring in “exotic” new women whose homes and lives are destroyed to displace them to meet the demand

1. The increasing demand for the global sex industry. The governments of Australia and the Netherlands have benefited from the lucrative sex trafficking economy by legalizing prostitution, which creates a demand for the illegal recruitment of women from the global South.

Japan and Australia are loathe to investigate because their economies make so much money on it. This may lead to unconscionable representation.

1. In Australia, where prostitution has been legalized, the government seeks to maintain its new “taxpaying, profitable sex industry,” by denying sex trafficking and saying they have only a problem with illegal immigration (Torrey, 2004; 71). In 1999, a brothel owner in Australia profited “at least $1.2 million from the services of” 40 trafficked Thai women, and licensed brothels in Victoria, Australia, reportedly “earned around $1 million a week from the sex slave trade” (Cwikel, 2005; 315). Within “Japan, the world’s second largest economy, the sex trade brings in $400 million per year” (King, 2004; 21).

Criminal groups are turning to women as high-profit, low risk commodity. They literally refer to them as a commodity.

1. Yet, sex tourism is incredibly profitable for governments that unofficially accept or legalize prostitution, and “criminal groups are turning to women as a high-profit, low-risk ‘commodity’” (Weiss, 2002; 2).

A horrifying phenomenon has been witnessed where if a woman goes to the police or doesn’t want to be trafficked anymore they may try to make some final money on her in a snuff film.

1. Globalization’s commodification of the female (and child) body through the mass media, pornography, and the Internet has increased a demand for sexual commodities at the expense of the “Other,” especially “foreign, exotic” women. Within a market-driven, masculinist economy, sex trafficking thrives by treating women and girls as cold-cash commodities, which unlike drugs, can be sold for many years at a high profit to criminal networks. Yet, due to a large supply of poor women, trafficking victims are disposable products. If a woman complains too much, she is killed or sold to another brothel, and some women, particularly women of color, are raped and killed in “snuff” videos.

Pornography increased the commodification of women and callousness towards women.It increases the demand to levels that would not be so high without it.

1. “The more the subjects were exposed to pornography, the more they showed callousness towards women, the less they believed in the women’s liberation movement, and the less time they thought rapists should spend in jail” (Torrey, 2004; addendum 4). Some feminists argue that pornography objectifies women and increases the demand for the sex industry, which then uses sex trafficking to satisfy the increased demand (MacKinnon, 2005).

Auctions of men considering a woman and seeing if they want to buy her happen repeatedly and often, horrifyingly enough

1. In a photo by Kimberlee Acquaro for a sex trafficking article (Landesman, 2004; 24-35), a young girl stands outside a hotel in Mexico, surrounded by a circle of men of various occupations, deciding whether or not they want to purchase her body. Such a sex “auction” presents this girl as a commodity to fulfill a heteropatriarchal demand

Johns possess a neo--colonialist mentally that permits sexual violence that viewed women as products to satisfy them

1. Reflecting a sense of entitlement to women’s bodies, this neo-colonialist mentality of johns permits sexual violence similar to that perpetrated by colonial slave owners, who viewed purchased women as promiscuous products to sexually satisfy them (Eisenstein, 2004; 88).

99% of clients in the sex trade are male

1. “Ninety-nine per cent of clients in the sex trade are male. Boys are trained to be offenders and girls to be victims” (Seabrook, 2001; 168).

An article on prostitution saw weaponized fact checking that increased threefold when speaking on a store that included human sex trafficking, and false reasons for eliminating criticizing the demand side, showing extreme rationalization. Clearly trying to squash the story.

1. Many have participated in the sex industry at some point, so examining demand leads many to question their own involvement in or indifference to the sexual exploitation of women and children.12 The resistance to examining the demand side of the sex industry is evident in Peter Landesman’s testimony. At a human trafficking conference at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Landesman (2004) stated that his sex trafficking article (published in the The New York Times Magazine in 2004) was greatly criticized by men, including four prominent journalists “whose names most Americans would recognize.” It took three weeks of fact-checking his article rather than the regular one week maximum fact-check typically required. Lastly, he was told by the (male) editors that he could not research and write an article about the “demand side” for their magazine. Demand, of course, would focus on the men who demand sexual services from women and children (mostly girls). This refusal by editors to consider publishing the demand side of sex trafficking exemplifies the lack of questioning regarding the demand that contributes to a profitable, gender-based crime within a masculinist economy

Johns created demand by saying that was the girls’ only way of eating. They showed no intelligence in getting them schooling and jobs that could generate lifetime capital that was mutually healthy for everyone involved, especially the girls. They claim the girls would starve to death if they didn’t do this. Taking away food is a way to force them into sex trafficking.

1. The majority of global sex trafficking victims are from Third World countries, and Western johns create a demand for sex workers during business, military, or tourist trips. One U.S. john says of his trips to Thailand, “These girls gotta eat, don’t they? I’m putting bread on their plate…They’d starve to death unless they whored” (Torrey, 2004; 31).

Women are so disrespected by society that even when prostitutes, they need pimps to be respected whereas men who engage in the exact same prostitute behaviors do not run the same problems.

1. While poverty is certainly part of the supply side, poor men in Third World nations are not trafficked for sexual purposes as women are, and most men who prostitute do not have pimps as opposed to most women prostitutes.

Selling white women as Russian and white eastern European women garner the “highest profit” for traffickers showing that an influx of these types with no safety nets suggest an extremely illegal human trafficking “investment”

1. While Russian “Natashas” and white eastern European women garner the “highest profits” for traffickers, “[g]lobally, prostitution and sex trafficking victims are overwhelmingly female, overwhelmingly women of color, and overwhelmingly poor” (Torrey, 2004; 27). Racism and economic inequality exist between who supplies the majority of “sexual services” and who demands them (Kempadoo, 2007; 138-139). Many johns believe that “what you do to a foreign woman is different, it doesn’t count” (Seabrook, 2001; 89).

Photos of bare-breasted girls were illegally distributed to drive tourism to an area. Truly disgusting.

1. Globalization creates a growing competition within the sex industry that demands an “import” of “younger and younger women from more ‘exotic’ backgrounds, thus victimizing our indigenous or aboriginal girls” (Enriquez, no date; 4). While living and working in Ethiopia (2005), I learned that indigenous girls from a southern Ethiopian tribe had been abducted and found in brothels. Based on my observations, several tourism billboards and posters throughout the capital and large towns seem to sexualize these culturally bare-breasted girls, whose poses or looks at times could appear to men as sexually inviting—yet, I did not see posters of this tribe’s women or males, cultural icons in their own right.14

Slave owners tried to gain total access to slaves and rationalized it with inferiority narratives that were enforced by stripping them of their right to equal justice in the courts as an enforcement of the rationalizations that facilitated their sex trafficking.

1. In the colonization of the Caribbean, white slave owners had the “right to total sexual access to slaves…and concubinage and prostitution were institutionalized”; such sexual arrangements indicated an “inferiority” of “the conquered and colonized non-Western Others” (Kempadoo, 2004; 30-31). Similarly, prostitutes are the sex trade’s inferior “Other.”16

Sweden criminalizes pimps, brothel owners, recruiters and transporters as the ones who demand services.

1. Instead of criminalizing the prostitute, Sweden utilizes a “trafficking paradigm,” in which the johns, “pimps, brothel owners, recruiters, [and] transporters” are criminalized as “the ones who demand services, are enriched by the proceeds of commercial sex, and are the ones who control, and often even enslave, the women providers” (Schauer, 2006; 159).

Sweden has a successful democracy that full cooperates in ending human sex trafficking for the most part.

1. Seeking a “democratic society where full gender equality is the norm,” Sweden has a history of activism “against prostitution and trafficking” (Ekberg, 2004; 1188). Moreover, there is a history of collaboration between the public and private sectors: the government, including the Division for Gender Equality, public authorities, the women’s and shelter movements, and other NGOs (Ekberg, 2004; 1190).

Traffickers still hide in clandestine locations but it has successfully become unattractive to human traffickers, protecting and valuing its own

1. While traffickers may hide women in clandestine locations, “Sweden no longer is an attractive market for traffickers” due to its abolitionist policy against the demand for prostitution, which relies on the sex trade (Ekberg, 2004; 1200).

Neocolonialist policies imposed on developing nations have created debt

1. “Neocolonialist” policies imposed on developing nations have created debt and contributed to the feminization of poverty associated with global sex trafficking. U.S. media “accounts have generally lacked an analysis of the structures that account for women being trafficked into prostitution, namely, the global sex industry, the subordination of women, the gendered labor market, and the multiple economic crises and inequalities that underlie women’s lives” (Hynes, 2002; 200). Further, increased immigration controls in a global economy that demands migration will contribute to a reliance on “traffickers to cross the border,” thereby increasing women’s chances of becoming sexual slaves (Saunders, 2004; 99).

US doesn’t examine itself or other countries like Saudi Arabia for being part of creating demand

1. Western “powers” like the United States rank23 developing nations in a paternalistic, “unilateral” fashion regarding their efforts to reduce sex trafficking. Yet, the U.S. does not fairly rank certain (militarily or economically strategic) nations, such as Saudi Arabia, nor the U.S. itself, for their part in creating and continuing sex trafficking, and until 2005, the U.S. did not significantly address demand, such as whether or not a country “encourag[es] sex tourism” (Tiefenbrun, 2006-2007; 270-271).

Most women don’t have a chance, pimped and put up for sale the second they run away from childhood sex abuse

1. . Lastly, I acknowledge that some women may choose to enter sex work, but based on research, the majority of "consenting" sex workers do so for economic survival and/or based on past abuse (Cwikel, 2005; 307-308). Childhood sexual abuse is common for females in the sex industry. OJJDP (2003) reports that a large percentage of prostitutes ran away from sexual abuse. While many poor and/or abused women do not choose sex work, others may view it as their only or best choice given their circumstances/experiences that socially construct their identities and options within a patriarchal system.

Most prostitutes are extreme victims of DV, abused, threatened and killed if they try to leave. Strippers forced to have sex with their clients are common, and punished if they don’t act enthusiastic. They are broken in through rape and stripping.

1. Many assume that prostitutes choose to prostitute and can leave whenever they want. Based on my experience with Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive (H.I.P.S.) in Washington, D.C. (1996-1997) and other social work (domestic and international), I disagree with that assumption, because many prostitutes are trafficked from their hometowns, coerced/ forced to prostitute, abused, threatened, and killed if they try to leave. Domestic trafficking may include strippers who are forced to have sexual relations with customers/owners, or runaways who enter an abusive relationship with a recruiter, who first "breaks her in" for prostitution through rape and/or stripping. Moreover, since the sex industry is gendered in terms of supply and demand, it presents its exceptions of women who enjoy sex work

Forced slavery is at its greatest when there are weak economies and war in destabilized regions

1. King (2004; 9) writes, "The profit potential of forced slavery is at its greatest when there are weak economies and war in destabilized regions."

Initially, men try to evade new laws on prostitution citing they would be too difficult to enforce. However, when they spend time with the John school material, defending the atrocious becomes pretty much impossible and most of them want to walk back their original defenses of the situation.

1. improve enforcement of prostitution/ trafficking laws. In Sweden, police (mostly men) were "being asked to enforce a [new anti-prostitution] law that seriously threatens traditional male values" (Ekberg, 2004; 1196). Thus, police representatives were initially "critical of the law, suggesting that it would be difficult to enforce" (1196). Yet, after receiving education on prostitution and trafficking, including its violence, their attitudes changed and the "initial criticism of the law as being difficult to enforce has ceased" (1196). In contrast to the norms or attitudes promoted by Sweden's Law, "[i]n countries where prostitution is legalized or tolerated, the idea that women are objects for male sexual pleasure and, therefore, can be sold and bought, is normalized" (1197). Tiefenbrun (2006; 270) agrees that "cultural attitudes" are important and "can be changed."

Raping girls is seen to break the girls, and pimps often deliberately father children with the women not out of interest in a relationship but to have collateral to leverage with them. Initiation rapes are often videotaped to blackmail the girls into servitude and distributed, often under false and unrelated narratives, to keep the girl being groomed/trafficked in line. She is told not to “grow roots” so that she can’t get help in any given city. If she does stay, she is constantly removed to different residences or everyone she talks to is isolated and turned against her.

1. 8 Based on my experience with H.I.P.S., raping girls is a common initiation by pimps and traffickers to "break" the girls, and pimps often deliberately father children, so the children can be used to keep the prostituted mothers in line. Initiation rapes or forced sexual services are often videotaped to blackmail the girl into servitude. She must "work off' her debt through prostitution until the pimp/traffickers are finished with her body; she is often traded from city to city to ensure that she does not become familiar with her surroundings or people who may enable her escape.

NATO forces were seen engaging in prostitution as were UN peacekeepers, trying to keep it from coming to light that the women weren’t trafficked so that they could abide by vague and permissive laws that said they would allow it as long as it wasn’t clear or not whether the girls were being trafficked, incentivizing extremes of court corruption and evidence hiding.

1. UN peacekeepers have "engag[ed] in sexual misconduct while deployed" in Cambodia, East Timor, W. Africa, Bosnia-Herzegovina; NATO's Stabilization Force included soldiers involved in "actually ‘buying' trafficked women and actively participating in the trafficking of women into prostitution by forging documents, recruiting, and selling women to brothel owners" (Alfred, 2006; 6-7). Dismally, the UN "reportedly responded to Bosnian abuses of the late 1990s with something akin to denial... [I]nvestigators experienced an astonishing cover-up attempt...None of the peacekeepers involved in these offenses suffered any punishment greater than repatriation" (7). NATO has since implemented a weak policy that allows troops to buy "prostitutes as long as it is unclear that the prostitutes have been trafficked" (15). In May 2002, U.S. Forces Korea was accused of "protecting" "establishments that employed trafficked women" through "courtesy patrols" (12). Resultant U.S. military "off-limits" policy for sexual services "has been effective in dissuading businesses from engaging in these practices" due to the negative economic impact of policies that forbid soldiers from frequenting such places (13).

Prostituted in Germany are aggressively and horrifically victim blamed in stark contrast to the excellent Swedish model.

1. Prostituted women in Germany are "frequently subjected to immediate detention and deportation, denied health services, and are viewed as illegal immigrants who have committed a crime, rather than individuals in need of support" (1954). Here, legalized prostitution does not adequately provide health benefits to prostituted women.

The internet is a primary way for pimps to prostitute in the Philippines, with many buyers of trafficked Filipino girls from China and Japan only possible to sell them to through the internet

1. In the Philippines, "[t]he Internet is the main recruitment tool for the sex tourist industry to bring in rich western tourists to the impoverished South. It is the advertising arm of this sex industry" (Cullen, 2004).

Capitalism destroys natural resources on purpose so the women are forced to commodify themselves, this is similar to someone destroying someone’s career and taking all their property to try to force them into sex work.

1. Luxemburg argues that capitalism destroys natural resources, so people will become impoverished and will depend on capitalism as workers.

Streetwalker districts lower the price for all the girls favoring only the pimps and expose the women to extreme violence

1. The competition among women in streetwalker districts...leads to low prices for sex services, unprotected sex, violence from the side of the clients, and fights among women" (49)

Pimps will attack the worth of their victims when they are not sexually receptive to the culture or clients as a way to “punch” them and control them as well. They can be witnessed in an aggressive influx of extremely abusive behavior when they refuse to go to someone the person is trying to groom them to go to, disgustingly enough.

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Car Show, Live DJ, Carnival for Anaheim Packing House 10 yr Anniversary free, DJ Thurs 6-9pm, Fri Market & Carnival 5-9pm, Saturday offers a classic car show from 12-2pm, historical tours by AHS 2-4pm, live music 12-9pm, photo opportunities, etc. https://www.anaheimpackingdistrict.com/calendar
626 Night Market $6, Fri-Sun. 4-11pm. OC Fairgrounds. 250 food booths, merchandise, crafts, artists, games, live concerts, and entertainment attractions. https://www.626nightmarket.com/
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Fences Play $14+, various dates and times thru June 9th. Costa Mesa Playhouse. https://www.todaytix.com/los-angeles/shows/41017-fences
Holmes & Watson Play $30+, now through June 16. Laguna Playhouse, 606 Laguna Cyn Rd, Laguna Beach. https://www.todaytix.com/los-angeles/shows/33908-holmes-and-watson
Comedy Shows Secret Comedy https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-secret-pop-up-comedy-show-friday-9pm-huntington-beach-tickets-909684309257 Don't Tell Comedy https://www.donttellcomedy.com/cities/orange-county/ and Brea Improv has Frankie Quiñones https://improv.com/brea/?y_source=1_MTI5NjcyMTUtNzE1LWxvY2F0aW9uLndlYnNpdGU%3D and Irvine Improv has Chris D'Elia https://improv.com/irvine/?y_source=1_MTI5NjcyNzUtNzE1LWxvY2F0aW9uLndlYnNpdGU%3D
Newport Beach Jazz Festival $165+ https://festivals.hyattconcerts.com/
Renaissance Fair in Corona $16, weekends thru June 23. https://tickets.renfestcorona.com/event/27th-annual-koroneburg-renaissance-festival
Pick your Own Sunflowers Tanaka Farms. https://www.tanakafarms.com/hana-field
Free Concerts at Irvine Spectrum 5:30pm-8:30pm, near H&M. Fri: Chelsey Sanchez, Sat: Corey Angeli https://www.irvinespectrumcenter.com/events-promotions/weekend-entertainment-irvine
Anaheim Garden Walk free, pet-friendly, Fri 5-10pm, Sat 2-10pm & Sun 1-9pm. Vendors, kids crafts, entertainment, photo ops, etc. https://anaheimgardenwalk.com/event/Summer-Fest/2145582436/
Live Music on the Green free,Fri 6-9pm Bella Terra Mall on The Green (new lawn area in front of Century Theaters) Joe Marx performs. (similar to Jason Mraz vibes). Parking: Park in the structure next to Costco. Huntington Beach. https://www.bellaterra-hb.com/events
Live Music on Forest free, Fri-Sundays, various times, downtown Laguna Beach in the Forest pedestrian area. https://www.lagunabeachcity.net/government/departments/cultural-arts/performances/promenade-on-forest-stage#ad-image-0

Thursday May 30

Thursday Free Concerts in Placentia free, Thurs, 6-8pm, Matt Koerner performs tonight. Every Thursday thru June 20 at the 100 block of Santa Fe Ave in Placentia. https://www.placentia.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=959
Free Concert in the Park- Los Alamitos Thursdays, free, 6:30-8pm. Beach Boys Tribute Band this week. Bring your blankets or chairs or picnic food. Food also available for purchase. Beer garden? 10902 Pine St. On Pine & Florista St. https://cityoflosalamitos.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=162

Friday May 31

Free Anime Pop-up &Concert 8pm, Fri, Event opens at 5:30pm for food trucks & photo ops, concerts start at 8pm. Kids On the Slope & South Side Symphony perform. Must sign up for free Plaza Pass and show it to enter. https://www.scfta.org/events/2024/aapi-heritage-month-anime-night-concert-south-side-symphony-kids-on-the-slope
free Super Mario Bros. Movie in the Park Fri, 7pm, Free movie, popcorn & activities. Food trucks for purchasing food. Marina Park, 1600 W Balboa Blvd, Newport Beach. newportbeachca.gov/recreation
Free Jamie Kennedy Comedy Show Free, Fri, 7pm, RSVP online (doors open at 5pm, come early for good seats). Sea Legs on the Beach, 17851 PCH, Huntington Beach. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/comedy-on-the-beach-featuring-jamie-kennedy-no-coverfree-show-tickets-878774627567?aff=aff0bandsintown&bit_userid=86499488&comeFrom=700&artist_event_id=105200204
Sunset Serenades Free, Fri, 6:30-8pm. Caro Pierotto(Brazilian Samba) is Tonight. Free Concerts every Friday in May at Heisler Park Amphitheater, up the stairs from Main beach in Laguna Beach by Whale Sculpture. Restrooms nearby. Jazz, pop, and Rock bands. Bring your own alcohol beverage is allowed only if you have food also. Picnicking is popular. https://www.lagunabeachcity.net/government/departments/cultural-arts/performances/sunset-serenades#ad-image-1
Santa Ana Friday Night Market free, Fri, 6-10pm, kid and pet Friendly. 1301 S Bristol St, Santa Ana. https://www.fridaynightmunchies.org/ https://www.travelsantaana.com/event/friday-night-munchies-(night-market)/173/
Crown Valley Community Expo & Concert free, Fri 4-7pm. Concert at 6:30, Youthanize Performs.Crown Valley Park, Laguna Niguel. https://www.cityoflagunaniguel.org/Calendar.aspx?EID=5186&month=5&year=2024&day=31&calType=0
Anaheim Night Market free, Fri 5-9pm, Family Fun. 201 W Center St Promenade, Anaheim. https://www.rcpalmer.com/events/5-31-friday-night-street-market

Saturday June 1

Summer Singles party:DJ, Illusionist $20, Sat 6:30pm-11pm, also karaoke. Free Parking. 315 S Knott Ave, Anaheim. RSVP &Checkout this Meetup with San Diego Travel & Fun Events Group: https://meetu.ps/e/NbcKf/1MDkT/i
Airplane Festivalfree, Sat, 10am-3pm. . Annual Airport Day celebration showcases the important role the airport plays, and visitors are treated to static displays, airplane and helicopter rides, interactive displays, model building, a kids zone, food for sale.Fullerton Airport 4011 W. Commonwealth Ave. Fullerton. https://www.cityoffullerton.com/government/departments/airport/airport-events
Free Mountain Bike Ride, Films & TalkFree with online RSVP, Movie: Sat, 6-9pm, (Films start at 6:30pm), guest speakers Professional Mountain Bikers Jaxson Riddle & Kyle Strait. Typically Free yucky popcorn and bottled water.162 South Coast Highway,Laguna Beach. You can park & Ride the Laguna Trolley(maps and live tracker online). The morning bike ride: RSVP and info is here Checkout this Meetup with Orange County Mountain Biking: https://meetu.ps/e/NbTws/1MDkT/i
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Corona del Mar 5k &2mile Walk Sat, 7am, $40/$50 online before Sat, $5 more on Sat. Race map and more info on website. https://endurancecui.active.com/new/events/89695004/select-race?e4p=6d791d59-9691-4910-992e-bf9c2091b981&e4ts=1717101653&e4q=80dd6d8c-2aa3-4f66-b794-1bb3d8958f13&e4c=active&e4e=snawe00000000&e4h=019b3bef670ac2707839a8c93b8ac424&e4rt=Safetynet&error=login_required&state=84cc80bc-0286-4e94-ad6d-fe8ebe885f4e&_p=9538952554040607
Group Dog Walk free. Sat, 5:30-7pm. La Paz Sports Park. Leaders: Tommy and Emily. 2406 Aliso Creek Rd, Laguna Niguel. https://ocpackwalks.com/events
Massive Garage/Estate Sales free, Sat 7am-9am Aliso Viejo (33 Rockrose and 1-10 Goldenfield); 8am Laguna Niguel (79780 Preston Dr).
VW & Porsche Vintage Car ShowAdmission cost (free??), Sat, 9am-3pm. Rare Vintage Air d'Elegance. Car Show and raffles. Old World German Village. 7561 Center Ave, Huntington Beach. https://facebook.com/events/s/rare-vintage-air-delegance-202/896061538677275/

Sunday June 2

Annual Chili Cookoff & Street Fair free, Sun, 11am-6pm. Live music stages, jalapeno eating contest, Kids Zone with Bounce house, food trucks, beewine garden. Email ejennings@tustinca.org for info on entering the chili contest. Proceeds go to local charities. Old Town Tustin & Peppertree Park. https://www.tustinca.org/456/Street-Fair-Chili-Cook-Off
Ladies Group KayakSun, 10:15am, the cost is the fee to rent a kayak/life jacket there. No Experience required. Join on the Ladies of OC Beaches Facebook group. Pure Watersports, 34671 Puerto Pl., Dana Point. RSVP: https://facebook.com/events/s/come-join-us-kayaking-no-expe1164854684702155/
Reggae Festival Free, Sun, 11am-3pm, Tie Die and wood craft activities, live music and dance performances. Bowers Museum, 2002 N Main St, Santa Ana. https://www.bowers.org/index.php/programs/events-calendaevent/3671-reggae-festival
Annual Balboa Island Parade: Jimmy Buffet Theme free, Sun, 11am. “Mark Wood and the Parrot Head Band” performs after the parade, located on stage in front of the fire station. https://www.balboaislandnb.org/parade
Free Concert at Old World free, Sun, 1-4pm, M Street performs. Eat soft giant pretzels and wurst, drink beer in the Biergarten. 7561 Center Ave, Huntington Beach. https://www.instagram.com/p/C7lEYjjNUyb/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Free Sundays Concert 2pm, Nixon Library. https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/sunday-concert-series. MTAC Winners perform.
5 mile O'Neill Group Hike & Brunch afterfree, Sun, 8-10:30am. O'Neill Regional Park, 30892 Trabuco Cyn, RSVP and more details here Checkout this Meetup with Trail Mix: https://meetu.ps/e/NbSPV/1MDkT/i

Plan Ahead-

Remember to Park & Ride on Trolleys free, started on Memorial Day thru Labor Day, San Juan Capistrano, Dana Point, San Clemente, LagunaBeach (year round).
Free Broadway Dance Lessons Tuesdays in June. Free if you sign up for the Plaza Pass. Segerstrom Argyros Plaza Outdoors. https://www.scfta.org/events/2024/tuesday-night-dance-broadway
Annual Bluegrass & BBQ eventSun, June 9, from 4-7pm. $25 entry, $52 with BBQ, LCAD in Laguna Beach. https://www.lagunabeachlive.org/blank-20-2-1
Free Silent Disco Nights Giant Wheel Lawn at Irvine Spectrum. May 25, June 29, July 27, Aug 31, Sept 28, Oct 26, Nov 30. https://www.irvinespectrumcenter.com/events-promotions/spectrum-silent-disco
Jazz Wednesdays in Laguna Beach https://www.lagunabeachlive.org/jazz2024
Jazz Thursdays at the Muck Fullerton. https://themuck.org/program/2024-jazz-fest
Cirque du Soleil: Koozå $40+, June 8-July 21. Laguna Hills Mall Big Top Tent. https://www.todaytix.com/los-angeles/shows/39008-cirque-du-soleil-kooza
OC Free Thursday Concerts in the Parks June 20 to Aug. 22 from 5 to 8 p.m. Enjoy 9 free outdoor Summer concerts Thursday evenings at various parks. https://www.ocparks.com/news/oc-parks-presents-2024-summer-concert-series-and-sunset-cinema-film-series
OC Summer Concerts Mega List https://www.sandytoesandpopsicles.com/orange-county-concerts-park/
OC Summer Movies in the Park List https://www.sandytoesandpopsicles.com/summer-movie-programs-in-orange-county/
Free Outdoor Movie Mondays July 8- Aug 5. Segerstrom Argyros Plaza, food trucks, free mini tours of Theater, Opens at 5:30pm,movie starts at 8pm. Bring blanket or chairs.
Pride Prom $20, June 28, 7pm. Segerstrom Argyros Plaza. https://seats.scfta.org/single?id=29287&_gl=1*1vrdylo*_gcl_aw*R0NMLjE3MTcxMDI3NDQuQ2p3S0NBand4LUN5QmhBcUVpd0FlT2NUZGVJeW5YNEhHUjhsM3diSjZYVVFTSFdwZHl4enZWQjlQUXd1NjJkOWFfZlpxTVZNR1ZtaFNSb0NTczhRQXZEX0J3RQ..*_gcl_au*NDAxNjI5NjU3LjE3MTI5NzIwNjYuNjcxNjYyNzM0LjE3MTMwNDEwOTAuMTcxMzA0MTE0OA..
Foodie Fridays free entry, food for purchase, 5-9pm, Huntington Beach.
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