#80s action figure properties

[therobotmonster]

You can complain about the crassness of 80s advert-toons, but what came before wasn't good just because it didn't have a toy company paying the bills.

In fact, that was part of the problem.

(splitting this into its own post)

Pre-80s, your biggest player in TV animation was Hanna Barbera. Post-Cartoon Network kids won't remember, but before they had a network to fill, HB made low-cost dreck exclusively. Race-to-the-bottom, cheap-as-possible, formula driven dreck.

Some of it was dreck with potential and staying power, because you had guys like Alex Toth trying their best to make good stuff despite being given the budget of a Viewmaster disk.

Kidvid in the 80s was the first time, en-masse, someone cared about the quality of kids' entertainment on TV. Not kids' edutainment, PBS existed for awhile, but actual get down and have fun kidvid. Prior to that you had the distressing puppet shows from Sid and Marty Kroft and everything else was 'what will the kids care?' low-end channel filler.

(Channel filler that was, by the way, still selling toys and candy. Just not themed after what the kids were watching)

Then in the 80s, suddenly a lot of people care about the quality of the show. They care because the show is a very expensive ad campaign, but suddenly the avenue to maximized profits drove through a show that was actually engaging and entertaining to kids.

At the same time, your animation industry was flush with new money and a desire to not see that snatched away by another 1960s parent panic that killed the Sugar Bear cartoon. So the studios did everything they could to not make the shows the advertisements they were assumed to be. The goal of elevating the project to avoid feeling like an ad-writer also slipped in. You get stuff like Real Ghostbusters, Spiral Zone, Bravestarr, some very impressively animated and written shows...

And before that, remember, was Jabberjaw, Huckleberry Hound, and fucking Clutch Cargo.

Yes, that is a pair of human lips projected onto a blank face because they couldn't afford animation.

And everything that wasn't a toy-toon had to have a bigger budget to compete. You don't get Thundarr the Barbarian until HB has He-Man breathing down its neck. There is no Le Mondes Engloitis if they don't have the merch wave washing over France. The Disney Afternoon was only what it was because it was trying to contrast itself from the figure aisle.

There is no BTAS or Gargoyles without the action figures.

New Google makes searching for the quote basically impossible, but one of the leads on G.I.Joe has a quote along the lines of: the fantasy of G.I.Joe was not a war fantasy. The fantasy of G.I.Joe was the idea that when you get in trouble, you have a large group of friends who will be there to help you through it.

And one last dirty little secret. Before they could make cartoons based on toys the toy market was still driven by licensed stuff, it was just stuff based on live action properties:

The 80s are seen as this time in which kids were deeply exploited, and all the money made in the kidvid and toy industries is seen as the evidence of that. The idea that the boom happened, even in part, because kids were actually getting media and toys they wanted never occurs to them.

And what did youtube make into the face of kid's entertainment?

If the YT kidverse had to deal with the regulations and rules of 1980s advertising cartoons none of that would have happened.

No one wants what these guys are selling.

#toyetic #80s nostalgia #toys #cartoons #advertoons #advertising #hanna barbera #retro cartoons #the discourse

[demi-shoggoth]

2023 Reading Log pt 16

The last books I read in 2023, and the least books I've read in a year since starting to keep track. But 80 books is still nothing to sneeze at.

76. Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology by Ed Simon. This book rules; it’s up there for best books I’ve read in 2023. As the title suggests, the book is primarily concerned with high quality reproductions of art of demons and hell in the Western tradition, organized by era, with accompanying essays discussing the role played by demons in culture and what they symbolize in literature, religion and art. These build to a crescendo, as the last essays are about the modern era as an Age of Moloch, where destructive, unrelenting consumption is the rule of the elite, which articulates feelings that I have had as a demon-obsessed ex-Christian for some time. It also talks about the Cthulhu Mythos as a post-modern demonology, which probably pisses ST Joshi off something fierce, so I give it props for that as well.

76a. A Curious History of Vegetables by Wolf D. Storl. “Curious” is an excellent word to describe this book, as its author is a nut. We’re talking, “consults astrological charts for planting certain vegetables” nut. Although the cover calls him an “ethnobotanist”, Storl is clearly a crank of the highest order—the introduction includes ranting about how vegetables are full of deva spirits, but GMOs are possessed by rakshasas. I was willing to read along for quite a while with this as a book about the magical properties and beliefs about plants—I got about halfway. But by that point, the author’s continual paranoia about using drugs as medicine, claiming that every vegetable is a panacea, and obvious disdain for scientific curiosity or little things like “evidence” got to be too much for me. That’s not me elevating him into a strawman, BTW. He goes into a lengthy rant about “The Shoemaker and the Elves”, talking about how scientists destroy magic with their curiosity and thus ruin the world. Blech.

77. Most Delicious Poison by Noah Whiteman. I’m a sucker for books about poison, and this is a good one. I think I’d still recommend Plants that Kill above this, but this is an excellent follow-up for the reader. This book talks a lot more about the modes of action of particular chemicals, and how chemicals fall into families of molecules that often have related properties. The book is one of those part science/part memoir nonfiction books that seem to have grown in popularity. The author was inspired to write it in part by his father’s death from alcoholism. So definitely go into it with a trigger warning in mind.

77a. Sex in the World of Myth by David Leeming. Abandoned after the Greece/Rome chapter. I abandoned it partially because it lumped Greece and Rome together and talked about their views on sex and sexuality as if they were interchangeable and consistent through the thousands of years of their existences, partially because the author is a Freudian. Life is too short to read books by Freudians. The specific line that made me give up was when the author defined all pornography as violent and exploitative. Blanket statement.

78. Household Horror by Marc Olivier. This is a weird one, even by the standards of “scholarly analyses of horror movies”, in that it looks at the horror movies it covers from the perspective of inanimate objects within them. Sometimes literally—the author discusses The Exorcist through the lens of Regan’s bed being possessed before she is—and sometimes figuratively—what does the exact make and model of the typewriter, and the reams and reams of hand typed text, say about The Shining? It’s witty and engaging, and an interesting way to view and review movies that, for the most part, have received a lot of critical attention already.

79. Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen. This is a re-read; I bought this book shortly after it was released in 2017 and read it then. But, the podcast Behind the Bastards did an episode on radium quackery that used it as a source, and I was still stinging from having started and abandoned two crappy books in as many weeks, so I wanted something of a comfort read. Of course, my version of a “comfort read” involves gross medical malpractice and people poisoning themselves and others. I’m strange. The book is organized into chapters by subject (elements, animal products, vegetable poisons, etc), and is very well illustrated with vintage advertisements, engravings and photographs. There are more in-depth books about just about all of the topics covered here, but this is an excellent survey of the more shameful corners of medical history.

80. Words from Hell by Jess Zafarris. It’s a book on etymology! Namely, the etymology of profanity, slurs, sex, violence, drugs, crime, monsters… It’s a bit of a mixed bag in terms of theme, but is organized well within. A recurring topic is the hidden biases built into the English language, from “sinister” meaning “left-handed” to the classism built into words like “rascal” and “villain”. The author is good about discussing multiple hypotheses for word origins, and about when things are uncertain and unknown. And she’s a sex-positive WLW, which goes a long way towards giving me good feelings towards any book (an example joke: when discussing the shared root word of “vagina” and “vanilla”, she quips “no wonder they’re both so fun to lick”).

#reading log #etymology #botany #quackery #medical history #demonology #horror movies

[terrence-silver]

What would different era’s of Terry use as a cologne or a scent to make beloved be around him more?

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― What would Twig do? Hard to tell. But, maybe, just maybe, he's heard old folk stories around Vietnam, during the war, among locals, about ancient concoctions and brews that increased attraction from the wearer to their intended target, bordering on magical properties; something that appealed to the mind and the body. Something that back home might be deemed a love potion by any other name and while he thought it is a load of mumbo jumbo and old wives tales back then, he sure as heck he wishes he had a vial of that to spray all over himself now. Should he rummage through beloved's things and do some well meaning digging when they aren't likely to see, though? Just in case? See what scents and perfumes they use and align himself to that, ensuring he matches with them and ensure a higher probability of their attraction through that? Do some stalking and use observational logic? Use his newfound money and wealth to buy the most expensive thing on the market and hope smelling like raw cash would do the trick for him? Maybe appealing to the soldier in him is the right course of action; maybe smelling fresh and clean and orderly is the best tactic --- honest, good and old fashioned? Or maybe, just maybe, he should get to scheming. To cooking. o a bit of would-be witchcraft, not that he ever figured himself the type. A pinch of his sweat, a droplet of his blood, a lock of his hair, the salt of his tears, various fragrances and herbs he brought home from Korea to make his dish complete. It is not unusual for a soldier to make frag grenades and Molotov cocktails on the field, from scratch, so why would making a scent that appeals to someone's desire be all that strange? He's in love, and he's a little like a girl eagerly making perfume out of roses petals from his mother's garden. He is doing this for a good cause. Is it so bad that he wants you to be around him more than ever? It is not wrong. Not if it actually works.

― See, for 80's Terry Silver, whatever boyish, albeit obsessive innocence Twig would have on this topic with his homegrown solutions dissipates into outright Machiavellianism. In the animal world, he knows, beasts in heat secrete a sort musk that makes the irresistible to any would-be mate that catches their scent, and people are a type of animal too. Jungle rules are valid in civilization. Jungle rules are valid in desire and the arena of courting and conquest. More than any place else, actually. And so, a team of scientists, experts, doctors and chemists are commissioned and carefully vetted by Mr. Silver himself, in a hush-hush operation, to literally design the perfect scent. Just for him. With beloved you in mind. No expenses too big. No excess too excessive. Terry Silver gets what Terry Silver wants. Always. Mind you, he doesn't feel he needs a bottle of anything to already be alluring as he is, without the aid of science, but he supposes there's an undeniable sort of fun to this, an unabashed eroticism, in you thinking he smells so good, that it is physically, on a molecular level, impossible to resist him, felling you entirely under his whim of control and rendering you helpless under his literal spell, with no bullshit or distractions serving as obstacles. Should his people at Dynatox frequently dealing with gasses and toxins get involved with this project? They just might. And after months of genuine research, tens of thousands of man hours invested, nearly a million dollars blown into the ether, anything intrusively perverse, from a sample of his cum in the mixture and the collected venom of a rare Burmese Cobra (A shameless suggestion by Mr. Silver himself), the perfect, addictive, nearly hallucinogenic and entirely unethical cologne is designed. Nobody who sees you can quite explain why your pupils wildly dilate and why you ignore everything else when Terry comes into your line of sight but they suppose it must be love.

― You know what would be a great shortcut when you're old, you find love infuriatingly late in life, feel the rage of not having control of time itself and when such things happen and you wish you could somehow jump through all the social rings of fire that involve the dance of pleasantries with the one you want and actually get down to have them, right away, not a minute more wasted? A love potion. In such times, yes, a literal tonic to induce desire, skip all the nonsense, awaken the senses and make the brain receptive would come in handy. The notion almost amuses old man Terry. It really does. Except, few notions amuse Terry for their own sake without actually formulating into outright plans and possibilities in his head after a while --- as was the case all his life. And sure, he knows his way around fine art. Fine dining. Fine wine. Fine suits. Fine cars. Fine mansions. Fine perfumes and colognes galore, because he's a natural purveyor of the rare, expensive and exotic. Still, he finds most options available for the buyer's purse, self-proclaimed to make you 'irresistible' as poultry marketing tricks --- instead opting for something wrought from his own machinations. You get invited to dinner. You get wined and dined by an ever so charming old man. You get seduced. You get drawn in. You have a wonderful evening. And for some reason, you immediately, against all reason, find yours in Terry Silver's bed, that very night. First date. How? Not unreasonable, seeing as how he is quite alluring on his own, when he wishes to be, but unbeknownst to you, he has sprayed himself and his own environment with every aphrodisiac, incense and fume in the book and ensured his mansion smells like desire. Smells like sex. Invading the mind. Disarming, almost like a drug, to the point that the dinner was cut short and continued in his bedroom before you could even reason why. You supposed...Terry smelled quite nice.

You never realized you stood no chance the minute you crossed the threshold of his estate.

#terry silver #kk3 #cobra kai #dynatox #terry silver twig #twig terry silver #80's terry silver #old man terry #yandere #chemistry #perfume #love potions #tw; dub con #tw; non con #dubious consent #terry silver x reader #terry silver x beloved

[rainbow-pop-arts]

*Explosions* WEEEEEEEEEEEH, last part of my Trigun Maximum vol 2 thoughts for @trigunbookclub !!

Some thoughts on TriMax chap 12-13 under the cut!

Oh hey, a bit of Wolfwood’s past

The ’98 anime only did one episode of his past and it………..kinda didn’t explain much. (；・∀ ・) So I wanna know what his past is like in the manga and see how similar it is to Stampede’s

I like how after these panels they started to have a serious talk

Le hidden ship

Okay, so these panels when Vash returns to the ship that he said is his home. When I saw lots of people I was surprised that there even were people living here

And it warmed my heart that lots of people welcomed Vash back (´∀`)

Vash was about to cry tears of joy…

AND THEN THIS CRAP HAPPENED 

THIS CRAP MADE ME SO MAD I WANTED TO SMACK MY DESK AND FLIP IT (ﾉꐦ ⊙曲ఠ)ﾉ彡┻━┻  but I didn’t because I was at school and don’t wanna destroy school property

And it was these bastards’ faults ٩(๑ `н´๑)۶

Oh, ya’ll have done it now (╬≖_≖)

Wolfwood is so cool (◕‿◕)

*Disgusted noises* （～Д～）＊＊＊

So he can make doll parts into monsters? Imagine he used barbie dolls

He’s crying blood? (ﾟ дﾟ )

Maybe because he’s not human, ever thought of that?

A R M

That’s the end of the chapter, guys, Wolfwood gets bonked by a rock

Manga Nightow is like me fr 🥺

“Transforming mecha”: He could be referencing mecha anime/manga like Macross or Mobile Suit Gundam but since this was the 90s he could also be referencing Evangalion

“Team of pretty girls battling with magic": He could be referencing Sailor Moon since that’s the most popular magical girl anime in the 90s

“An alien girl who suddenly appears and falls in love with me": Urusei Yatsura because it’s an 80s classic

Moooom, I want a Vash action figure

Trigun but it’s a ballet shoujo

That's all for my thoughts on TriMax vol 2! ★⌒(●ゝω・)ｂ

Bonus: Just Mari from Omori scolding Knives for being a bad brother since she’s an older sibling herself

#trigunbookclub #trigun brainrot #trigun maximum #trimax #trigun #trigun 98 #trigun thoughts #trigun manga #vash the stampede #nicholas d. wolfwood #trigun vash #trigun wolfwood #trimax vash #trimax wolfwood #omori #omori mari #million knives

[omniversalobservations]

Masters of the Universe Origins: Turtles of Grayskull (2024)

Few franchises pack more '80s nostalgia than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Masters of the Universe. Now, at long last, Paramount and Mattel have gotten together to merge these two iconic properties into one. Cue Turtles of Grayskull. Masters of the Universe Origins: Turtles of Grayskull is a new line of action figures that thrusts the Turtles and their enemies into the world of Eternia, complete with relevant costume makeovers. Source: IGN

(images via YouTube)

#cartoons #Masters of the Universe #Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

[cannibalcaprine]

So, about accidentally reinventing Stephen Universe and rocks making nice names:

I'm old by tumblr standards. I've played/Dungeon Mastered Dungeons & Dragons a long time.

I've also read comics a long time. Some, I've owned probably longer than you've been alive, but I have forgotten the contents or exact storyline because I read them that long ago and didn't necessarily have my fullest reading comprehension at the time, either.

Back in the 80s, DC Comics published a fantasy series about a young teenage girl who is secretly the magical princess of a high fantasy world. The title was Amethyst Princess of Gem World. The Princess's true Princess name was Amethyst. Her arch-enemy was Lord Dark Opal. Someone is named Citrine.

It seems like it should have been inspired by Japanese Magical Girl shojo anime/manga, but I'm not sure anybody at DC creative was hip enough to be stealing from Japanese sources. It also seems like it might have been intended to ride the coat tails of original She-Ra Princess of Power cartoons and toys, but I'd guess the timing is unlikely to line up.

Strangely close to contemporaneously Marvel Comics was publishing Crystar Crystal Warrior, which was about a warrior king who allows himself to be transformed into living crystal. His brother who wants to usurp the throne is transformed into living lava. There were also people with rock names like Geode and Feldspar.

There were also Crystar action figures. Most people assumed that it was another Marvel licensed toy adaptation comic like Micronauts, Transformers, G. I. Joe, or Thundercats, but actually Marvel developed the Crystar property first and licensed it out to a toy company and still owns the right to Crystar comics.

Anyways, back in middle school, when I first started developing my D&D campaign world I thought based on vague memories of having seen Amethyst comics some years prior that it would be fun to name places and people after rocks and metals in my game world.

So, people keep reinventing Amethyst Princess of Gem World, Crystar Crystal Warrior, and Stephen Universe because rock names are cool.

honestly, i think you might be right on the money

rock names tend to have, like, a FEEL to them, yeah? like it's probably just through association, but they all FEEL grounded, sorta

like Beryl, Garnet, or Alabaster, they all have a similar feel that sorta wraps them all together

like, hang on

Beryl, Garnet, Alabaster

Wrass, Pike, Marlin

Cirrus, Stratus, Cumulus

Hestia, Vulcan, Sekhmet

you can all pass these off as names, but their ASSOCIATIONS bind them together

you get me?

[kylegordonmit]

Wait, were after-school cartoons one big nudge?

The Pokemon cartoon didn't just nudge us towards buying their video games and trading cards, but also towards every plushie, figurine, t-shirt, pencil case, keychain, and folder. Remember the infamous Pokeball toys that had us all begging to stop at BURGER KING of all places? There's no wonder why Pokemon is the highest grossing media franchise of all time.

Many of the children's properties from this era (80's-90's) were explicitly designed with toy and merchandise sales in mind. The GI Joe, He-Man, and Transformers shows mapped out a blueprint, with new episodes and seasons introducing new characters and costumes, and therefore new merch for us to buy. This model was translated to Star Wars and Care Bears, Ninja Turtles and Cabbage Patch Kids, and ultimately informed Disney CEO Michael Eisner's primary strategy for extending their properties from the screen to parks to homes during his tenure.

Before the Marvel movies were the cash cows that they are today, Marvel as a company was being kept afloat by a merger with an action figure company called ToyBiz, and this resulted in some of the most iconic cartoons of the 90s being produced.

And as an ultimate heat check, who could forget Joel Schumacher's "Batman & Robin" film? Which was by all accounts a terrible movie, but still an awesome vehicle for selling George Clooney and Arnold Schwarzenegger toys.

After reading up on nudging, "Gotta catch 'em all" somehow feels more sinister.

#2023mitsloanbrandingsb #2023MITSloanBrandingSB

[outstandingmenshair]

Even though He-Man (along with the Ninja Turtles) was the overriding intellectual property of my childhood - I watched the cartoons (original and god-awful space set New Adventures), had many, many of the manly action figures but few playsets, the sticker sets, the colouring books and all that money spinning merch - I can't really say that I found him attractive per se.

It was more the homoerotic aesthetic, and if anything Adam's father Randor was more my type! Clearly I had the foresight, even at that young age, that beards were best! Didn't hurt that his name was halfway to randy either!

What did hurt was that while all the men were bulging muscles (toy line cost efficiency at it's finest) many also shared the hideous helmet head bowlcut bob.

That being said, and despite three further iterations (so far, anyway); the then-superior but short-lived early 2000's reboot, the distinctly different and slightly askew Netflix show, currently running to 3 seasons (drawn to a conclusion, for now, but Camp Cretaceous pulled that trick for seasons 3 and 4, becoming as bad as Lost for getting off the damn island only to go back again. And again. And again. And again...etc.) and Kevin Smith's much welcomed homage, Revelation, honouring the 80's - both in comic book back story (yes, Skeletor is once again one of the family!) and in character, design and essence of the original cartoons - there is a clumsy charm to the bare muscles and bowlcuts, reflecting 80's power suits with their padded shoulders and backcombed bouffants.

For now, we will overlook the Dolph Lundgren movie, related to the Universe in the most tenuous of ways (however it did bring us the joy of He-Man's first mullet!!). For now. ...for now. And I say for now, because a second (and possibly third) stab at wielding the Sword of Grayskull on the silver screen is in process. For now anyway. ...for now. (RIP Thundercats live action adaptation, yet again.)

[bendtsenschou80]

Libya Assets Tax 'Ought to Go To IRA Semtex Victims'

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Over time, nonetheless, the unlucky disadvantage to Blizzard's rightful actions towards gold sellers had turned this seemingly lower-and-dry business into one in every of consequences, theft, and illegality. Ryan points out there there is not any small quantity of hypocrisy from MMO playerbases which profess a hatred for the gold selling commerce since, after all, there should be a cause that gold sellers thrive and multiply. Guess what guys, gamers have a valid contracts with Blizzard! BioWare has been fairly quiet about gold-farming and the steps it might take to fight it, which isn't too shocking given the unglamorous and often controversial subject matter. For the reason that tenure for these IRAs is lengthy, the efficient amount paid to cowl these prices might be high. Because there are gold and silver IRA’s, and one can even rollover a standard or Roth IRA into Gold or silver. They are known for his or her prime-high quality services and have acquired one among the best rankings from BBB and BCA. And whereas it's unhappy to see the group dropping so much cash on a dream, it makes you marvel how anyone could make that many mistakes alongside the best way.

#precious metals ira

[college-girl199328]

As numbingly routine as school shootings have become in the United States, Monday’s death toll at a Nashville elementary school — six dead, including three nine-year-old children — was still enough to occasion the usual calls for tighter gun control. As hopeless a cause as that might seem from afar, it will always seem tantalizingly simple and plausible to its proponents: Other countries have much more gun control; no other country has America’s mass-shooting epidemic.

The same spirit animates Canadians when children die from senseless adult violence, whether from guns or other weapons. Torontonians remember the names of shooting victims 15-year-old Jane Creba, 11-year-old Ephraim Brown, and 10-year-old Julianna Kozis, among others a stabbing victim to the sad toll this week: 16-year-old Gabriel Magalhaes. For better or for worse, however — probably for better, ultimately — we’re not hearing the same calls for blunt and simplistic solutions

At 9 p.m. on Saturday night, 16-year-old Gabriel was sitting on a bench at Keele subway station, minding his own business, when 22-year-old Jordan O’Brien-Tobin allegedly walked up and stabbed him to death for no reason. He is the latest victim in a bewildering recent wave of random attacks in this city — several fatal and many, though not all, on the transit system. Reported violent incidents involving TTC passengers were up nearly 50 percent in 2022 over the previous year.

On Tuesday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford demanded a show of police force on the TTC. That’s not at all unreasonable. But Toronto did try that, with a six-week deployment of 80 officers that wound down last month for want of funding. (The 80 cops were working overtime.) That deployment might have made the system safer — the police claim to have made more than 300 arrests, but we don’t yet have figures on assaults on passengers. More made some passengers feel safer, which isn’t nothing. But feeling safe never saved anyone’s life.

Even former police chief Mark Saunders, the presumptive law-and-order frontrunner candidate in May’s mayoral by-election, is being conspicuously long-term and soft-power in his messaging. “Police absolutely play a critical role,” he said in a statement, “but if we don’t start to really get at the root of the crime to continue to be Band-Aid solutions.”

A recently announced plan to deploy social workers to engage with disturbed and potentially dangerous people on the transit system is more me. There aren’t hundreds and hundreds of such people riding the system, after all. In the brutal death of last winter, TTC CEO Rick Leary estimated 40 homeless people were spending the night on TTC property or rollingstock.

Chase a disturbed, potentially dangerous person out of the subway, and then you’ve got a potentially dangerous person on the sidewalk. Mental-health professionals can develop before something awful happens on or off the TTC.

But then, what happens when they flag an issue? Ideally, an efficient and adequately resourced mental-health system would spring into action, but the state of that system is universally acknowledged to be dire. In his statement, Saunders mentioned “a massive deficit in how we manage the mental health needs of people in Toronto.” We don’t arrest people for what they might do.

Clearly, Canada needs an urgent inquiry (formal or otherwise) into the value the justice system places on public safety in releasing people — especially repeat offenders — on bail and parole. O’Brien-Tobin’s criminal record is longer than your arm — he managed 28 convictions in a single year in Newfoundland, The Mail reports — and includes a conviction man with a boxcutter. Defenders of the current “catch-and-release” system (as its detractors describe it) should welcome such an inquiry more than anyone because they’re losing the hell out of the argument in the real world.

But across the political spectrum, in Toronto, most people seem to grasp that this problem isn’t going society get better. No good news there: As it stands, society doesn’t seem to be finished getting worse. But cynical as I am, one problem does stick out to me as eminently solvable: The use of the transit system as a homeless shelter.

Of course, the homeless Torontonians are no threat to anyone else. But as every perpetrator of random violence on the TTC very much seems to be violent, mental homelessness has essentially become conflated in the public consciousness. It negatively affects riders’ sense of security, and the TTC’s homeless all-day passengers do no favors either.

It’s not as though spending all day on a subway train or streetcar is. It’s certainly not private. Hardly any stations even have toilets. All the transit system offers is a dry place, warm in winter and cool in summer, and a certain sense of security: Homeless people are very often victims of violence themselves — not least in Toronto, where eight teenage girls are accused of swarming 59-year-old Ken Lee to death downtown in December — and help is nearer at hand on the TTC than somewhere out of sight.

It seems patently ludicrous that the city can’t meet harmless, peaceful homeless people’s most basic needs when those needs are so utterly humble — humbler, indeed, than the crowded and hectic shelters they would clearly rather not patronize. In a short indoor flat surface, to be left alone in some personal space, and access to help if they need it beyond Toronto’s ken to provide that for a few dozen people somewhere other than on the transit system, it’s difficult to imagine how the city’s decline can ever be arrested.

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How To Value Your Home

If residential property valuation melbourne considering selling your property, or property, the most important question you have is most likely "what would it be worth?" There are types of methods figuring this out, whether by yourself, or with the aid of others. There are also different things that you can do to boost the need for the house, if you are searching to do so. The factors you've got to consider when valuing a residence include the following: 1) The market. If the property marketplace is at an all time low this may affect the need for your property. It's often harder to sell your house in this market at the same time, as there are apt to be more sellers than you'll find buyers and the ones don't possess lots of money to pay as times are tough (that's a number of the reasons the marketplace is down to begin with). 2) The state of the house. If you residence is newly done high on the outside, redecorated inside and filled with modern appliances which can be first-rate, it will be worth greater than should you be having electricity problems, houses roof features a leak as well as the paint is on its way off in places. 3) The neighbourhood. If you live within an affluent area with plenty good schools, great the bus, beautiful surroundings and lots of great facilities the value of your property goes up, because people value the area it is in. 4) How old the residence is. If you live in an old house, even when everything is in perfect order, it's almost guaranteed that there will be more issues with the home down the road, compared to a newly built house (because of the property is well made). Therefore, an adult home is normally worth less. 5) Perceived value. This may, or may well not modify the actual value, but if someone walks into a house that's cared for, not merely spotless and clean, but warm and welcoming, they may be planning to perceive the value of your house being greater than an unfriendly house. If you wish to value your home you can engage a professional to take action (which will be pricey, but give you an accurate and independent valuation), or use various different tools to think out yourself. Online you'll be able to visit the government's site to browse various advice they provide you with and you are able to also have sites that permit you to see how much other houses in the area have sold for recently. Then you are able to compare houses much like your individual in size and condition. There may also be sites which breakdown the actual market and provide clues about regional trends. The only thing to beware of is that the data listed may be months old and therefore somewhat incorrect. Please also reap the benefits of our home valuation guides. We are a firm buying houses for cash, in order section of our services you can expect a totally free valuation of the house, to ensure that we could provide you with an offer. When you sell for cash it is always for 80-95% in the actual value, nevertheless, you get to market your property in a week and possess your entire legal work looked after at no cost, plus there are no estate agent fees and as you can expect to purchase any house in the UK, which means you do not need to renovate it, or are now living in a posh area to get it sold.

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Guidelines in Singapore Land

Before you buy your most memorable private land in Singapore, you should figure out somewhat more before you make all necessary endorsements. In the recent years the Sceneca residences Singapore land scene has seen radical changes to the guidelines overseeing exchanges in private property. This was basically because of the quick flood in property costs during this period, which made a central issue home purchasers on the lookout. Recorded beneath are the ongoing guidelines set up.

Advances

To deter purchasers from estimating in property, the Public authority has decreased the underlying 90% Advance To-Esteem (LTV) to the current 80% LTV. Anyway on the off chance that the purchaser has a current lodging credit set up, the following advance utilized for a private property will be covered at 60% LTV. This action seriously injures the examiner who is simply on a mission to make a speedy buck from utilizing on the banks.

For Outsiders

Presumably the gathering most awful hit by the new guidelines, outsiders presently are expected to pay an extra purchaser's stamp obligation of 10% on top of the predominant 3%. This action has seriously hosed unfamiliar financial backer premium in and will probably keep on being in force until the market settles. Anyway on the brilliant side, financial backers from the accompanying nations would appreciate charge honors based on similar conditions as Singaporeans: USA, Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland.

For Corporate Substances

Non-individual substances who buy property are likewise dependent upon the extra 10% purchaser's stamp obligation. Additionally, their credit to-esteem is covered at half which makes funding the property significantly more troublesome.

For Long-lasting Inhabitants

Home purchasers in this classification will be satisfied to take note of that for their most memorable property, just the purchaser stamp obligation of 3% is payable. Nonetheless, after buying their second property, an extra 3% will be collected on top of the overall purchaser stamp obligation.

For Singaporeans

As the gathering least impacted by the new measures, the purchasers in this classification are qualified to buy 2 properties under the ordinary stamp obligation of 3%. The extra 3% will be payable upon their acquisition of the third property.

The actions have been a triumph at removing the examiners who have been driving up the property costs in Singapore. It is intriguing to note nonetheless, that property costs have been held at a consistent level for as far back as year beginning around 2011. This comes as welcome news for financial backers who have been expanding their property portfolios to set themselves up for the following 5-10 years.

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The Benefits of Title Insurance - Regal Title Agency

Home Sale Services, Inc Title Protection Westchester has pushed a movement of articles watching out for the costs of land settlement. The second article in the course of action connects with Title Protection.

One of the costs of a land purchase is title security. Title security is expected by all advance experts in Pennsylvania while giving resources (home credits) to purchase land. It defends that the title to the land is liberated from any cases affecting the purchaser's ownership. It guarantees the owner, and the bank, from mishaps achieved by past home advances and commitments, decisions, mechanics liens, divorces, leaves in title, chronicles lost in town halls, limit line banter, neglected costs, and other concealed issues, like impersonation or various fakes.

WHAT IS THE Expense?

In Pennsylvania title assurance rates have been set by the state administering body. The premium is generally figured on the assessment of the interest, which you are purchasing. An owner's technique is given at the time of the purchase of the property and depends on the full thought, including the all out neglected key complete of any home credits or various liens, cases, charges and anything that other common charges not being paid. A course of action may be given in an aggregate in wealth of the full thought where agreed to by the fall back and the safeguarded.

The title assurance rate comes in three combinations. If a property has not had title insurance inside the past decade, the title security rate is the "Central Rate." A purchaser of a title insurance approach may be equipped for a less exorbitant rate, called the "Reissue Rate" if the property to be ensured is indistinct to or is a piece of property which had obtained title assurance inside the past decade rapidly before the date of the defended trade.

There is a third, and lower rate and that is pertinent to development or loft suite organizations. This rate is used when title insurance has been given to a producer inside decade of the title security being associated for and the designer offers completed units out of the region or the organized unit progression, pleasing or condo. In this event, the charge is 90% of the reissue rate. Affixed to this article are instances of title insurance rates for properties regarded among $250,000.00 and $500,000.00. Home Deal Administrations would be happy to give information as to charges underneath $250,000.00 or more $500,000.00 or a few different requests concerning rates. Call 610-489-3656.

Novel TITLE Protection RATES

There are different other, less intermittently, used rates which apply explicitly conditions. One of those is the place where a credit approach is to be given inside four years of the date of the generally ensured home credit or charge interest and the premises to be defended are undefined to, are a piece of, the certifiable property ahead of time secured, and there has been no change in the cost direct ownership. If every last one of those models are met, and the new credit approach is inside two years of the main title assurance issue date, the new procedure is 70% of the reissue rate and if it is nearby two and four years of the primary title insurance issue date, it is 80% of the reissue rate.

Right when a methodology has been given on an improvement credit agreement and inside a half year from perfection of the structure, a comparative mortgagor executes another home credit, the charge ought to be half of the reissue rate, gave that the new game plan is being given by a comparative fall back which gave the previous improvement advance methodology.

Title security may be given for a leasehold home and in that event, the proportion of the security should be comparable to:

A. The absolute of the total rentals payable under the lease; or

B. the absolute of the total rentals for the six years rapidly taking after the settlement or closing of the lease trade; or

C. a reasonable clarification of assessed leases on rate leases; or

D. the surveyed a motivating force at the time of ensuring the premises as set up by an appraiser sufficient to the underwriter; or

E. the land and total endeavors costs of such proposed overhauls because of proposed improvement; or

F. the sticker price of the home while safeguarding an errand of a leasehold estate, including all responsibilities acknowledged.

Despite the fundamental Title protection New York City rates, all title protection organizations issue upholds that give extension to specific property issues, for instance, survey unique cases and condo concerns and most crediting establishments require a couple of supports at every settlement. The backings are obligated to additional charges to the title assurance competitor (Purchaser). Those charges will be the subject of the accompanying article in this game plan of updates keeping an eye on the costs of a land settlement.

CONTACT US REGAL TITLE AGENCY.

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Bitcoin stayed in a narrow trading variety of $16,000 to $17,250 on Friday as the continuous FUD continues to keep cost action restricted. The Securities Commission of the Bahamas (SCB) was seeing FTX previously today. The Financial Crimes Investigation Branch and the regulator collaborated to examine FTX's infractions. The advancement followed FTX revealed that, at the SCB's demand, it would start enabling Bahamian funds withdrawals, which the commission rapidly rejected. However, current reports reveal that the SCB had actually currently acted versus the exchange days prior to it introduced its examination. The regulative body revealed on November 17 that it had actually taken custody of the possessions of FTX Digital Markets (FDM) by moving them to a digital wallet under the SCB's jurisdiction. The commission specified that these actions were required to safeguard customer funds and interests. As more regulators started to examine the insolvent business, FTX exchange, its circumstance degraded. The collapse of the exchange has actually triggered considerable interruptions in the cryptocurrency market. Following this occasion, Bitcoin holders might pick to safeguard their properties by offering them. Due to unpredictability, the cost might alter in any instructions. El Salvador to Start Buying 1 Bitcoin Every Day El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, revealed on November 17 that his nation will start acquiring one Bitcoin each day. El Salvador is stated to have actually finished its last Bitcoin purchase, 80 BTC at $19,000 each, in July 2022, 3 and a half months earlier. El Salvador has 2,381 BTC with a typical purchase rate of $43,357, according to BuyBitcoinWorldwide information. The primary aspect utilized to determine this quantity is the president's statement of Bitcoin financial investments. No record of the purchases has actually been made public or readily available on the network, so it can not be verified. According to media reports, the nation invested more than $10323 million on Bitcoin purchases. Due to the fact that the most popular cryptocurrency is presently valued at around $16,500, this indicates a loss of more than $63 million, as the real worth of its stockpile is $3947 million. The statement likewise reacts to Bukele's earlier talk about the FTX debate, in which the president of El Salvador specified on November 14 through Twitter that "FTX is the polar reverse of Bitcoin." Bukele, a singing Bitcoin fan and follower, declared that Bitcoin was developed to fight Ponzi plans, bank runs, and monetary system scams. Since buying is increasing Bitcoin adoption in the nation, this news might increase BTC/USD. Crypto Market Turnaround Following the current drama including FTX and other exchange platforms, blockchain analytics firm Santiment tweeted a chart describing the conditions for a crypto market healing. According to the tweet, cryptocurrency typically prospers when exchanges are not the main focus. Among the most substantial exchange crashes in history was the FTX crash. As an outcome, its shockwaves might have "lasting shockwaves." According to the tweet, the important turning point for the cryptocurrency market will take place when attention go back to Bitcoin (BTC), the marketplace leader, and far from exchange tokens. According to a chart published on Twitter by Santiment the other day, the cost of BTC/USD generally falls when the social supremacy of exchange tokens boosts. Bitcoin Price Prediction It started trading at $16,827, with a high of $16,832 and a low of $ 16,673 BTC/USD is presently trading at $16,79000, up by 1.62% in 24 hours. Its cost has actually dropped by over 4% in a week. Bitcoin Price & & Tokenomics - Source: Tradingview Bitcoin is combining in a broad trading variety in between $16,000 and $17,200, with a breakout figuring out future rate action. Bitcoin finished a 38.2% Fibonacci retracement at the $18,100 level in the 4-hour timeframe and has actually now fallen listed below the 23.

6% Fibonacci level of $17,250 On the disadvantage, Bitcoin's instant assistance is at $17,250, and if the bearish pattern continues, the cost might fall as low as $15,850 Since the RSI and 50- day moving typical show a bearish predisposition, the rate of Bitcoin might be up to $15,850 if existing assistance stops working to hold. Bitcoin Price Chart - Source: Tradingview While the MACD remains in a selling zone, current pie charts are contracting, showing a subsiding bearish predisposition. Today, nevertheless, selling shows up listed below the $17,250 level. Increased BTC need, on the other hand, has the prospective to press the BTC/USD rate above $18,250 and towards $20,000 Top Crypto Coins on Pre-Sale Dash 2 Trade (D2T) Dash 2 Trade is an Ethereum-based trading intelligence platform that supplies traders of all ability levels with real-time analytics and social information, permitting them to make more educated choices. It started its token sale 3 weeks earlier and has actually because raised over $6.5 million. It has actually likewise validated its very first CEX listing on LBank exchange 1 D2T is presently worth 0.0513 USDT, however this is anticipated to increase to $0.0533 in the next phase of sales and $0.0662 in the last. Visit Dash 2 Trade now Calvaria (RIA) Calvaria is a brand-new cryptocurrency video gaming task with the possible to control the play-to-earn market. Calvaria designers have actually recognized that a person of the primary barriers to prevalent Web3 video gaming adoption is that video games need users to have technical understanding of crypto. This implies that a great deal of users are neglected. As such, Calvaria enables users who do not hold cryptocurrency to play the video game, setting it apart from the competitors and allowing an entire brand-new audience to get included. Calvaria's presale is getting traction, with the job currently in phase 4 of 10 and near to $1.8 million in financing. 1 RIA token presently costs $0.025 however this will increase incrementally in each subsequent phase of the presale which is presently in Stage 4. Visit Calvaria Presale Now RobotEra (TARO) RobotEra (TARO) is another job that has the possible to alter the video gaming neighborhood and the virtual world. The property's presale has actually just recently started, however there is currently substantial interest from potential purchasers. RobotEra is a blockchain-based Metaverse where users can develop avatars and check out a digital world, and the platform's native token is TARO. In RobotEra, gamers can buy land, construct on it, and broaden their areas with different properties. Furthermore, RobotEra has a shared metaverse where users can participate in a range of activities such as sports, shows, and other competitive occasions. The very first phase of TARO's presale is now live, and it is rapidly offering out. Visit RobotEra Presale Now Find The Best Price to Buy/Sell Cryptocurrency Cryptocurrency Price Tracker - Source: Cryptonews Read More

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How To Value Your Home

If you might be thinking about selling your own home, or property, the first question you might have might be "what is it worth?" There are techniques used in figuring this out, whether on your own, or with the aid of others. There are also various things you can do to further improve value of the house, should you be looking for this. The factors you've take into consideration when valuing a house will be the following: 1) The market. If the property companies are at an in history low this will likely affect the value of the house. It's often harder to sell your home on this market as well, because there are probably be more sellers than there are buyers and the ones don't have lots of money to invest as times are tough (which is a number of the reasons the marketplace is down to start with). 2) The state of your property. If you property is newly done up on the outside, redecorated with this report and stuffed with modern appliances which are first class, it will be worth in excess of should you be having electricity problems, houses roof includes a leak as well as the paint is arriving off in places. 3) The neighbourhood. If you live in an affluent area with plenty of good schools, great riding on the bus, beautiful surroundings and plenty of great facilities the need for your property should go up, because those value the spot it is in. 4) How old the house is. If you live in a old house, even though everything is in perfect order, it's almost guaranteed that you will have more difficulties with the home in the future, compared to a newly built house (given the residence is well built). Therefore, an older residence is typically worth less. 5) Perceived value. This may, or may well not modify the actual value, but when someone walks into a residence which is taken care of, not only spotless and clean, but warm and welcoming, they are more likely to perceive the value of your house being more than an unfriendly house. If you want to value the house you can either employ a professional to take action (that is pricey, but offer you an exact and independent valuation), or use many different tools to figure out yourself. Online it is possible to see a government's site to browse various advice they give you and you'll be able to likewise use sites where you can see how much other houses in the area have sold for recently. Then you are able to compare houses comparable to your own in size and condition. There will also be description which stop working the existing market and give clues about regional trends. The only thing to beware of is the data listed could be months old and therefore somewhat incorrect. Please also make the most of our house valuation guides. We are a company buying houses for cash, so as a part of our services you can expect a totally free valuation of your house, to ensure that we are able to offer you a deal. When you sell for cash it's always for 80-95% with the actual value, however you get to sell your house in a week and possess your legal work looked after totally free, plus you will find no estate agent fees in addition to being you can expect to get any house in the UK, which means you don't need to renovate it, or are now living in a posh area to make it sold.

#property valuation doncaster #industrial property valuation melbourne #residential property valuation melbourne #retail property valuation melbourne #property valuation melbourne #property valuation box hill #property valuers melbourne #property valuers doncaster #property valuation glen waverley #property valuation ringwood #property valuation camberwell #property valuation balwyn #independent property valuation melbourne #commercial property valuation melbourne #property valuations capital gains tax