All we can find is Skeletor and HE-MAN.. a few Man-At-Arms and a few Prince Adams.. But there are so many HE-MAN 2020/21 releases at Walmart that are not showing up.
Are you having better luck?
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We are referring to the the new line of MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE toys that has been released by Mattel in 2020 and now in 2021. We were able to score several, including He-Man, Skeletor, Tea-La, Evil-Lyn, Beast Man, Man-at-Arms, and Roboto.. but we are lacking so many others…
The shortage of toys .. is it on purpose? By accident?
Will stores across America one day be overwhelmed?
We know that local fans are trying to locate them as much as we are.. when we visit Walmarts in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Jersey, and Tennessee, we are greeted with HE-MAN toys messed up.. taken off shelves.. people are actively searching for the latest waves.
And not finding them anywhere..
Collect them all!?
How about … find even one new one!! Good luck on that!
The most famous soundtrack in movie history, used even today in various cartoons and even Batman lego games… makes the composer angry?!
Yes!
“I could have scored the film with some percussion, a harmonica, and a banjo because all you hear are some percussion hits in big moments, but you can’t really hear what the orchestra is doing,” says composer Danny Elfman.
The hit score, which has become synonymous with the Dark Knight since 1989, apparently strikes a sour note with Elfman. He spoke on the Premier Guitarpodcast..
“I was terribly unhappy with the dub in Batman,” Elfman said. “They did it in the old school way where you do the score and turn it into the ‘professionals’ who turn the nobs and dub it in. And dubbing had gotten really wonky in those years. We recorded [multi-channel recording on] three channels — right, center, left, — and basically, they took the center channel out of the music completely.” “It didn’t have any care put into it. I’ve had many scores play in big action scenes that really propelled the scene. And in the end of the [Batman] dub, I realized I could have had the orchestra play anything. I could have scored the film with some percussion, a harmonica, and a banjo because all you hear are some percussion hits in big moments, but you can’t really hear what the orchestra is doing.”
“That was my first lesson in how so-called professionals can take a score and the soundtrack to a movie and just do their thing in a very noncommittal way that is easiest for them; plunk it off to the side and just get the dialogue.”
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All of this critical commentary.. of HIS MOST FAMOUS SCORE!!??!
Perhaps he hears something we don’t.. or something different.
To refresh your BAT BRAIN, here is a the score itself.. in all its glory. (Our opinion only apparently) … Oh, the Youtube video is published on the official Danny Elfman Youtube channel, just an FYI 🙂
The horrible scourge of COVID-19 has decimated so much of India over the past week.. It is truly a horror show to see some of the images coming from the nation. We saw one video recently where two sons were transferring their deceased mom on a motorbike..
The numbers are sickened are rising into the hundreds of thousands by the day. Some conservative estimates say that there will be one million or more dead in that nation by August.
The United States has largely been able to brag up its vaccine over the previous 100 days of the Biden Administration, but this India problem seems extremely concerning. What variants? What kind of a wave.. will this effect the rest of the planet just as we want to rid earth of the plague?
The Biden administration will restrict travel from India as that country grapples with a gigantic surge in coronavirus cases, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday.
The policy will take effect Tuesday, May 4, Psaki said in a statement. The administration made the decision on the advice of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, she said.
India has reported an average of about 357,000 new cases per day over the past seven days — up about 26% from a week ago, Johns Hopkins data shows.
Just consider this too: 32.69% positivity rate in Delhi, India..
Concerning the variant, it seems that India is being hit by the highly contagious Covid variant, known as B.1.617, which was first spotted there. The variant, which contains two key mutations that have been found separately in other coronavirus strains, is believed by some to be behind the latest wave of infections.
NEW DELHI — As he surveyed the thousands of people gathered at an election rally in eastern India on April 17, Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeared jubilant. “Everywhere I look, as far as I can see, there are crowds,” he said, his arms spread wide. “You have done an extraordinary thing.” At the time, India was recording more than 200,000 coronavirus cases a day. In the western state of Maharashtra, oxygen was running short, and people were dying at home because of a shortage of hospital beds. In Modi’s home state of Gujarat, crematoriums were being overwhelmed by the dead. Those scenes were just a prelude to the devastation now unfolding in India. It is recording more infections daily — at last count 379,000 — than any other country since the start of the pandemic. Hospitals are turning away severely ill patients, and their relatives are frantically searching for medical oxygen.
Elizabeth Warren and others are urging President Biden to assist with vaccines in India..
The COVID-19 outbreak in India is a humanitarian crisis that threatens its 1.4 billion citizens, and billions more around the world. I’m urging President Biden – and our vaccine manufacturers – to use every tool possible to help with this crisis. https://t.co/9TgUuyJeKg
Just a note this, website is not trying to be a constant harbinger of doom and gloom.. but wow.. these India numbers are atrocious and concerning. IF you are not concerned you are not normal..
And this “ban” is not a complete ban.. and it starts May 4..
How much of the India strain already got out to the rest of the world…?
Federal agencies are investigating at least two possible incidents on US soil, including one near the White House in November of last year, that appear similar to mysterious, invisible attacks that have led to debilitating symptoms for dozens of US personnel abroad.
Multiple sources familiar with the matter tell CNN that while the Pentagon and other agencies probing the matter have reached no clear conclusions on what happened, the fact that such an attack might have taken place so close to the White House is particularly alarming.
Defense officials briefed lawmakers on the Senate and House Armed Services Committees on the matter earlier this month, including on the incident near the White House. That incident, which occurred near the Ellipse, the large oval lawn on the south side of the White House, sickened one National Security Council official, according to multiple current and former US officials and sources familiar with the matter.
— Read on www.cnn.com/2021/04/29/politics/us-investigating-mysterious-directed-energy-attack-white-house/index.html
This is very reminiscent if the ‘Havana syndrome’ which made United States diplomats sick in Cuba several years ago. There was no public explanation at that time but a number of sources chattered about what weapon or source was causing the vertigo, sickness and effects.
This new weapon or whatever we are seeing is troublesome .. especially when it’s hitting the center of the United States government …
Stay watching this one and keep tuned in for more stories that explain further or maybe make the mystery deepen.
This situation in India is heartbreaking .. and if models are right it can further spiral out of control with more than a million potentially dead by August. Several are questioning current numbers stating that they don’t believe the numbers at this time..
The Swiss government estimates that about one-third of the population has been infected with Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic.
At the end of 2020, government scientists found antibodies in about 20% of those tested and now believe that another 10% have been infected, newspaper NZZ am Sonntag reported.
“Conservatively calculated, around a third of the population has been infected since the beginning of the pandemic,” said Federal Office of Public Health spokeswoman, Simone Buchmann.
A new study out of College of Health and Human Services at George Mason University is blunt: People kept traveling and going about their daily lives–even when they were experiencing COVID symptoms!
“We could not detect any significant change of movement when people should self-quarantine. On the other hand some people almost did not leave home since the beginning of the pandemic, while others move freely around,” says Dr. Janusz Wojtusiak in a university release.
Wojtusiak and the team find the most common ailment volunteers continued to travel normally with was a headache. In fact, results show headaches were always listed as a symptom even if participants had other issues as well.
Other possible COVID symptoms participants experienced included coughs and sore throats.
Despite this, participants traveled an average of 139 miles each week during the study. This window during the pandemic includes periods when Virginia was under a stay-at-home order and after the mandate was lifted. The average volunteer also visited just under six different locations each week during this time.
BUT!!!
Although some volunteers may have had potential coronavirus symptoms, none actually reported suffering a COVID-19 infection. Therefore, the team could not positively link infection rates to movement in this report. The team notes future studies will include data from the winter of 2020, when health officials noted another virus surge in many areas.
So often when we post COVID related links and news, the feedback we hear is that we are fear mongering and creating chaos.. that the world has ‘moved on.’
But despite the lessening media attention, every time a vaccine goes into an arm, an angel gets its wings.
Covid is alive and well. . . Across America and the world. While some nations are in awe at the United States’ vaccine administration, it has yet to be seen if there is a long term ‘booster’ that will be necessary and how varying variants will end up acting.
That is why a few news snippets are a little troubling..
From INDIA, things seem to have spiraled desperately out of control.
Hospitals in Delhi have warned they are at breaking point. At the Holy Family Hospital, intensive care units are full and there is no room for any more beds.
“Almost every hospital is on the edge. If oxygen runs out, there is no leeway for many patients,” Dr Sumit Ray told the BBC.
“Within minutes, they will die. You can see these patients: they’re on ventilators, they require high-flow oxygen. If the oxygen stops, most of them will die.”
I was speaking to a friend today .. he is an RN at a local hospital here in Pennsylvania where we write our dispatches from..he said while the hospital he works at has become understaffed due to the pressures on some forcing them to quit, something else recently has been more concerning.
The plight of the COVID patient has gone from respiratory fatigue to mental anguish. He said that patients, in the past two weeks, have been actively removing their medical devices, fighting back, and having brain fog beyond anything seen before. It seems as though this new version of COVID, whatever this new variant that is hitting, has caused much more brain and overall confusion.
Yes, he confirms that breathing issues are still happening. The typical COVID infection stuff.. but now the new type of sickness includes complete and total cognitive skills being deluged by this new variant.
He even conjured that perhaps this is an altogether new virus.
As vaccines are distributed throughout the nation, a weary world wonders how much of an effect they will have on stopping, or at least slowing the pandemic. Several states are still surging, and the nation of India is having dramatic and traumatic results from a surge causing more than 300,000 cases daily now.
Back in the United States, news of a “breakthrough“ case surgeon a Kentucky nursing home is giving us a trial run on how effective the vaccines can be.
Here is the information about what occurred:
An unvaccinated health care worker set off a Covid-19 outbreak at a nursing home in Kentucky where the vast majority of residents had been vaccinated, leading to dozens of infections, including 22 cases among residents and employees who were already fully vaccinated, a new study reported Wednesday. Most of those who were infected with the coronavirus despite being vaccinated did not develop symptoms or require hospitalization, but one vaccinated individual, who was a resident of the nursing home, died, according to the study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Altogether, 26 facility residents were infected, including 18 who had been vaccinated, and 20 health care personnel were infected, including four who had been vaccinated. Two unvaccinated residents also died.
Today is Earth Day. While the events of the day are heralded to showcase the plight of pollution, or as we now call it, climate chaos, the way it all began sure is interesting..
Flashback to Ira Einhorn.. the “unicorn killer.”
A self-proclaimed environmental activist, Einhorn made a name for himself among ecological groups during the 1960s and ’70s.. he was from Philadelphia had he was the ultimate hippie.
He called himself the co-founder of Earth Day. Organizers don’t necessarily like that idea. He was a speaker at the first Earth Day, and he said he helped create the movement. But others like Philly Mag say they aren’t buying it.
Why run from Einhorn?
When his girlfriend of five years, Helen “Holly” Maddux, moved to New York and broke up with him, Einhorn threatened that he would throw her left-behind personal belongings onto the street if she didn’t come back to pick them up. On Sept. 9, 1977, Maddux went back to the apartment that she and Einhorn had shared in Philadelphia to collect her things, and was never seen again. When Philadelphia police questioned Einhorn about her mysterious disappearance several weeks later, he claimed that she had gone out to the neighborhood co-op to buy some tofu and sprouts and never returned.
Eighteen months later, investigators searched Einhorn’s apartment after one of his neighbors complained that a reddish-brown, foul-smelling liquid was leaking from the ceiling directly below Einhorn’s bedroom closet. Inside the closet, police found Maddux’s beaten and partially mummified body stuffed into a trunk that had also been packed with Styrofoam, air fresheners and newspapers.
