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My original analysis about EZCorp Inc. (NASDAQ:EZPW) was posted in Spanish for an investment blog in Spain. After receiving questions from many readers I've decided to expand my original thesis and complement the information in order to paint a more complete picture about the company. I decided to translate most of my original article into English in order to include it as part of this more extensive article I'm posting today for the American market through Seeking Alpha. All figures are expressed in USD.
EZCorp operates pawnshops and short term loan offices in the US, Canada, Mexico and the UK. The company's main focus is to provide immediate cash solutions to clients, which are for the most part, under-banked. Such cash solutions are granted through pledged loans (including cars as collateral), paycheck credit (with automatic payroll deduction) and non-guaranteed loans with one or more pre-programmed payments.
Furthermore, EZCorp is a passive shareholder in two companies from the sector. 1) 33% stake in Cash Converters International Limited, company that trades in the Australian stock Exchange under the symbol CCV and which has an approximate current market value of $600 million and 2) 30% stake in Albemarle & Bond Holdings, PLC, company that trades in the London stock Exchange under the symbol ABM and which has an approximate current market value of $170 million.
EZCorp currently operates 1,369 stores and are distributed as follows:
- 489 Pawn shops in USA.
- 486 Financial service stores in USA.
- 254 Pawn shops in Mexico.
- 45 Paycheck loan service locations in Mexico.
- 35 Second-hand buy/sell stores in Canada.
- 33 Financial service stores in Canada.
- 20 Second-hand buy/sell stores in Mexico.
- 7 Second-hand buy/sell stores in USA.
EZCorp is the second largest pawn shop and instant cash solution business in the US market and also one of the largest in Mexico. For those who are not familiar with the industry:
Brief Industry Description
A pledge loan has an approximate duration between 40 and 120 days and the average loan is made for $135 in the US market and $60 in the Mexican market. In most cases loans are backed against gold jewelry and to a lesser extent, against cars, household appliances and merchandise in general. The average monthly interest is 20% (240% annualized) and risk is very low because collateral is always of greater value than the amount granted on loan.
In the case of non-guaranteed loans, risk is higher, although this type of loans are traditionally carried out with clients who have a record with the company and under certain credit qualification criteria used by the company. Here, default risks is higher, as collateral is lower, if any, therefore it is a less profitable business but necessary in order to penetrate into a market niche of those who do not wish to leave anything as pledge. Interest that is collected is similar and duration of the loan is traditionally of 30 days, although it sometimes runs longer. The average loan in the US is $560.
For paycheck credits, mainly in the Mexican filial company, Crediamigo, a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly discount is given depending on the way collection is carried out in the company that employs the worker in question and that is how the loan is paid automatically with no need of collection management. Most contracts are signed with government companies, as permanence of Mexican workers tends to be longer in government-run companies as opposed to private companies, although there are also non-performing accounts, as companies do not share responsibility with the pawn shop and once the worker is separated from his/her position, any automatic charges are suspended.
There are small entry barriers which have made the industry undergo a brief consolidation in recent years. The main entry barrier is having enough points of sale in order to sell off the jewelry and other merchandise that is kept by the company from unpaid pledge loans, in such a way that the company does not face short-term liquidity problems. This is why most of the large pawn shops also have an additional business consisting of second-hand buy/sell transactions.
Company Summary and Main Competitors
Two main operating segments:
- Pawn shops and buy/sell used product stores.
- Financial service locations and loans against paychecks and online.
Three Reporting Segments:
- United States and Canada (Main segment).
- Latin America (business in Mexico, pawn shops, Crediamigo and TUYO - Second-hand buy/sell business).
- Other international businesses (United Kingdom and income from market share in CCV:AU and ABM:LN).
Main Competitors:
- Cash America International Inc. (NYSE:CSH).
- First Cash Financial Services Inc. (NASDAQ:FCFS).
- Advance America Inc. (NYSE:AEA).
Summary of the Company's Balance Sheet
Operating Assets (Net) | $1,196,972,000.00 |
Total Liabilities (Net Debt) | $284,863,000.00 |
Net Worth (Book value) | $912,109,000.00 |
Outstanding Shares | 51,133,000.00 |
Book Value per Share | $17.84 |
Summary of the Income Statement
Merchandise in General | $335,410,000.00 | 34% |
Jewelry and Gold | $208,319,000.00 | 21% |
Pledged Services | $235,642,000.00 | 24% |
Consumer loans | $207,671,000.00 | 21% |
Other Income | $5,425,000.00 | 1% |
Total Sales | $992,467,000.00 | |
COGS Merchandise in General | ($192,014,000.00) | 57% |
COGS Jewelry and Gold | ($134,848,000.00) | 65% |
Loans Bad Debt | ($41,377,000.00) | 20% |
Total COGS | ($368,239,000.00) | 37% |
Gross Margin | $624,228,000.00 | 63% |
Operations | ($303,486,000.00) | 49% |
Management | ($94,035,000.00) | 15% |
Depreciation | ($23,289,000.00) | 4% |
Amortization | ($1,979,000.00) | |
Others | $1,000.00 | |
Operating Profit (EBIT) | $201,440,000.00 | 20% |
Interest Income | $1,550,000.00 | |
Other Extraordinary Income | $11,741,000.00 | |
Income Before Taxes | $214,731,000.00 | 22% |
Taxes | ($71,023,000.00) | 33% |
Net Income | $143,708,000.00 | 14% |
Outstanding Shares | 51,133,000 | |
Net per Share | $2.81 |
Profit Analysis, Last 7 Years
Net Per Share | Book Value | ROCE | Retained Earnings (Accumulated) | Return on Retained Earnings | |
2006 | $0.69 | $4.03 | 21.11% | $1.78 | 41.96% |
2007 | $0.88 | $4.99 | 21.76% | $2.65 | 36.51% |
2008 | $1.21 | $6.30 | 24.23% | $3.86 | 33.83% |
2009 | $1.42 | $8.65 | 22.60% | $5.29 | 44.32% |
2010 | $1.96 | $10.48 | 22.70% | $7.25 | 25.25% |
2011 | $2.43 | $13.19 | 23.15% | $9.68 | 28.01% |
2012 | $2.81 | $16.33 | 21.31% | $12.49 | 25.14% |
Margin of Safety and Investment Risks
There are some red flags to worry about and that is the reason why I have not gone overboard with the size of investment in this position. The following are the three main risks I consider could potentially work against any investment in the company:
- There are two types of shares and the shareholder carrying voting privileges -Phillip E. Cohen- gets paid a huge salary for his hedge-fund style consultancy services and could, at any moment, make decisions against common shareholders. Even tough this hasn't happened yet, it is still an evident risk.
- Most of the company's equity increase is in intangibles like Goodwill and there is a clear risk of future balance adjustments due to Impairments, which would destroy part of the company's value and the supposed profit obtained on Retained Earnings. Such Goodwill has resulted from buying companies during recent years; which by the way questions the company's ability to grow organically and of course puts in question the quality of Net Income and its sustainability over the long run.
- The company does not pay dividends and although the Return on Retained Earnings is spectacular, past events do not guarantee the future and such situation may change at any given time; in addition to the fact that the company could carry out a series of bad investments which may destroy most of its value.
After saying all that, my conclusion is that EZPW's intrinsic value ranges between $42 and $47 per share. From its current price of $19.15 there is Margin of Safety bigger than 50%; that is, there is the possibility of buying a dollar for less than 50 cents; therefore, to me it seems like a highly attractive opportunity and that's why I consider the risk/reward ratio is attractive and have decided to take a small position which I am willing to considerably increase if I am able to lower my average cost.
I've reached this conclusion by taking into account: 1) a discount rate of 7%, 2) Net Income per share for 2013 of $2.43, 3) a Book value per share by the end of 2013 of $20.43, 4) a Return on Retained Earnings of 25.14%, 5) a Return on Common Equity of 19%, and 6) no dividends.
Why these variables? 1) The 10 year Treasury bill yields 1.8% and the historical equity risk premium is around 4.2%, which will equate 6%. I've decided 7% arbitrarily because I don't like to go below this threshold. 2) I decided to consider an average for 2010-2012 instead of taking 2012's net income at face value in order to be more conservative, 3) after reviewing the last 10 years of financials I think the company will have a book value by the end of 2013 close to the one I'm considering, 4) The average Return on Retained Earnings for the last 7 years is 33.57% but I'm taking into account last year's return since it has been the lowest of that period, 5) the average ROCE for the last 7 years is 22.5% but I'm taking into account only 85% of that in order to be conservative, and 6) I'd rather have the company multiply my retained money tax-free by a factor of 25.14% every year than paying taxes on dividends and having to look where to get an equivalent return.
Also, I always like to compare the current stock price to the lowest level reached during the financial crisis, similar to what Graham used to do when comparing to depression numbers. That comparison gives me a mixed feeling and something to ponder. The lowest level reached during the crisis was $9.58 per share, at a moment where book value was approximately at $7.6 per share, so even though it was a level more than 50% lower than the current level, it was still a level that equated to 1.26 times book, which will translate to $22.47 for current book. So that's why I have mixed feelings about downside potential in case of a future crisis similar or worse than the previous, but I think downside is quite well protected.
And finally I will also like to state that I don't see a near term catalyst that could make the stock reach its potential, which is also something to ponder when investing and for those investing only where catalysts are present, this is clearly not a place to be. I stand by Graham's statement "In the short term, the market is a voting machine, but in the long term, is a weighing machine". I'll wait until that happens, if ever.
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I do agree that there has never been a bigger match than Austin vs The Rock @ Wrestlemania 17. In some ways, Hogan vs Macho Man from WM 5 is that match that involves two of the era's best, but Macho Man wasn't on the level of Hogan. Perhaps, if Hogan and Ric Flair had wrestled in 92...may be that could have been as big. But it still would have felt lacking. They weren't exactly in their primes by then. Undertaker vs Shawn Michaels was about two legends, two veterans. Not two heroes in their prime. May be John Cena vs Randy Orton could have been that match back then. May be John Cena vs Batista could have been that match back then..not the one which was the last match of Batista. Every other big match has been all about passing the torch...this one was about determining the torch bearer.
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Is the View missing or the entire Level? Either one should be easy to recreate by creating a new View or Level.
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if DF grow on the final island, and gold roger was the only one to reach the final island, how did the other ppl get the devil fruits?
Gold Roger must likely didn't eat a devil fruit. PLus none of the DF suit him. If he was a real pirate like luffy. He would no eat the fruit just like luffy would not eat it if he knew it was a devil fruit.
The fruits fell off the tree, and they rolled into the ocean, then people navigating the grand line found them. Even the more ridiculous things are possible in One Piece.
naw then how would they now it was devil fruit?
Gol.D Rogers doesn't seem like the type to eat a devil fruit, unless by accident.
and if he did how was he caught?
don\'t run from the dark,it will only find you fast.
Strong admirals outnumbered and defeated him or he gave up because he already achieved all his dreams, that´s why he was able to die with a smile.
i just think he's a really cunning and smart person, able to manipulate others, even his enemies to work for him. after reaching the last island in the grand line and achieving what others couldn't, his friends and foes realised that they were used by rogers and in the end led to his arrest and execution.
maybe, luffy is like that too. maybe he's faking all his dumbness, kindness, etc to manipulate others. (ok, i know it sounds too crazy :P) but, as many had said before, he's a really dangerous man. how can he be dangerous if he's this dumb? because of his df power which he accidentally ate? (might not be an accident afterall!!) maybe he and his brother are up to something really wicked :P hehe... JUST KIDDING!! :P, if this really is the case, i think one piece will lose a lot of fans.
Gol D. ROger and LUffy are THE SAME PERSON
Luffy is possibly a reincarnation of GOl D. ROger and that's why I think that ROger had the GOM GOM FRuit too.
Think I"m crazy?
Refer to the chapter when luffy was about to be excecuted by Buggy and he smiles
Smoker gasps in horror of the fact that GOl D. ROger had the same smile plastered to his face when he knew he was going to die.
Also, there was a chapter right after luffy got a bouty and we see luffy's hometown. THe elder says that he's going to bring shame upon the village and the bar girl replies : COme on, he's following his dream>
TO which the elder says: his dream or his destiny?
Mysterious, no?
Impossible it was stated that there's only one of each devil fruit. So there can't be two gomu gomu fruit.Originally Posted by burningman
But what if the devil fruit user DIED? then there is a chance that the devil a dvil fruit with the deceased person's ability should come to fruition
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Thursday, October 9th, 2014Just got the ARCS for my new book, The Improbable Theory of Ana and Zak, and they look great! Big thanks to Claudia Gabel and Melissa Miller for all their work on this. Here's the back cover blurb:
when Ana Watson's brother ditches a high school trip to run wild at Washingcon, type-A Ana knows that she must find him or risk her last shot at freedom from her extra-controlling parents.
In her desperation, she's forced to enlist the last person she'd ever want to spend time with–slacker Zak Duquette–to help locate her brother before morning comes.
But over the course of the night, while being chased by hordes of costumed Vikings and zombies, Ana and Zak begin to open up to each other. Soon, what began as the most insane nerdfighter manhunt transforms into so much more…
The Improbable Theory of Ana and Zak is Brian Katcher's hilarious he said/she said romance about two teens discovering themselves on an out-of-this-world accidental first date.
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Great Review of EVERYONE DIES, from the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Wednesday, August 20th, 2014From the September, 2014 issue:
When the journalism assignment for his summer academic program at the Univer- sity of Missouri proves to be nothing more than a few fluff pieces, seventeen-year- old Sherman decides to do some snooping of his own in the library and discovers what appears to be a minor scandal and unsolved death from 1935 involving a now-disappeared minister. Sherman's search for more information draws attention from a mysterious society, and he suddenly finds himself at knifepoint—twice—and being shot at. Determined to figure out who's trying to kill him, Sherman finds a wrongfully institutionalized psychiatric patient who helps him decipher the links between a number of killings spanning from the 1830s through the 1970s that all center on one name—P. Saberhagen—and an enigmatic insignia. Aided by the student librarian Christine, nicknamed Charlie (who Sherman finds seriously cute), Sherman discovers that Saberhagen made a deal that grants his immortality, for a price . . . and he wants Sherman in on it, one way or another. Katcher, author of Almost Perfect (BCCB 1/10), captures the flawed but honest voice of a guy who's driven to succeed in his career—and with a girl—and finds himself in over his head; plenty of pop culture references, hubris, and hormones add authenticity. The breathtaking pace is balanced with flashbacks to the minister and his posse's parallel investigation of Saberhagen, and though the shift to supernatural (and even Christian mystic) elements in the thriller is a little abrupt, it's not unpleasant. Romance? Check. Comedy? Sure. Overall, though, this is a grittier (and slimmer) contemporary version of Bray's The Diviners (BCCB 10/12), giving it reluctant reader appeal for the Stephen King crowd.
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EVERYONE DIES review in STL Magazine
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2014That's Voice of Youth Advocates will be printing this great review of Everyone Dies in the End in their June issue:
Seventeen-year-old Sherman Andrews is accepted into the Missouri Scholar's Academy the summer before his senior year. Interested in journalism, he wants to become an award-winning investigative journalist within the next ten years. What better way to start this plan than by turning out an investigative gem for his summer project? He thus decides to delve into the historical documents in the basement of the Missouri Historical Society, and ably assisted by student librarian Charlie, he uncovers a dangerous secret that soon has them (and his Scooby Gang classmates) fighting for his life.
The novel opens with an attack on Reverend Gowen in Columbia, Missouri, on September 3, 1935. Written in italics, this narrative continues throughout the novel and is juxtaposed against Sherman's investigation. In fact, it is Sherman's investigation of this attack that draws the two narratives together and puts his life on the line when he comes up against a foe whose claim to demonic immortality makes him virtually unbeatable. Sherman's interaction with the other students in his program should appeal to fans of school stories. His frantic struggle to survive against virtually unbeatable odds will have fans of urban fantasy and dark, dangerous mysteries on the edge of their seats. This is another extremely well written, satisfying young adult novel by the author of Playing with Matches (Random House, 2008/VOYA October 2008) and Almost Perfect.
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Completely Useless By September
Friday, May 9th, 2014My friend Margo Dill has a new book out. It's about the Chicago Cubs, but other than that, it's great. Read my review here.
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TUTS' Humphreys School of Musical Theatre is celebrating over 40 years of training the future stars of Broadway. We offer a year-round, diverse, technique-driven musical theatre curriculum that produces many of the best musical theatre professionals in the nation. You may have seen HSMT students on Broadway, in movies and on television in prime-time network shows. HSMT encourages education and development of all students through open enrollment classes featured below. Open enrollment classes are designed to train beginner and intermediate students in dance, acting and vocal technique. HSMT Phone: 713.558.8801 HSMT Address: 800 Bagby St., Houston, TX, 77002
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The summer exhibition on the City Park Boating Lake titled Art on Lake promises to be one of the most exciting artistic productions of the year. Over a period of three months the public will have the opportunity to see sculptures, most of which were especially made for this occasion by 25 noted artists from 14 EU countries at an exhibition organised by the Museum of Fine Arts set in this unusual venue. The contemporary exhibition of fine arts, which is the result of three years of work, is one of the most important and spectacular domestic cultural events of Hungary's EU rotating presidency.
The Eight
17 May 2011 – 11 September 2011
17 May 2011 - 17 June 2011
The exhibition to run at the Museum of Fine Arts from the middle of May will present works by The Eight, a group of painters closely associated with the international trends that arose in the fine arts at the beginning of the 20th century. The Budapest show comprising some 200 works adopted a reworked concept of the recently closed The Eight in Pécs and will showcase prominent works selected from the Pécs exhibition. Although visitors to the Museum of Fine Arts will see fewer works, some pieces that were not displayed in Pécs will now be included in the Budapest exhibition. The Museum of Fine Arts is proud to host The Eight, since its permanent exhibition of European art provides an ideal framework for the masterpieces that represent perhaps the most outstanding period of Hungarian fine art.
Transparency - Looking Through
Vasarely Museum, Budapest
26 January 2011 - 26 February 2011
Transparency is an optical commonplace that is present everywhere. A material or object is truly transparent if we can sense it only through touch or by bumping into it, as it comes between the visible World and us.
Lucien Hervé 100
27 October 2010 – 30 April 2011
27 October 2010 - 27 November 2010
An exhibition of selected works by Lucien Hervé will run from 27 October at the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts commemorating the 100th anniversary of the artist's birth. Some one hundred photographs recently added to the museum's collection as well as a large number of documents to be displayed for the public for the very first time will focus on the architectural photography of the Hungarian-born Lucien Hervé, while also providing a review of his entire oeuvre. The exhibition to run through 30 April is also a highlighted programme of the Hungarian Month of Photography 2010.
POINT, LINE in MOVEMENT
Vasarely Museum, Budapest
14 October 2010 - 14 November 2010
At this exhibition, artworks that have never been presented together enter into a surprising – but valid – relationship with each other. Jenő Barcsay's late, dark images and Gábor Bódy's experimental film, Miklós Erdély's "sacred line" and Katalin Haász's curves that return into themselves, István Harasztÿ's wandering magnetic points and the laboursome stabilisation of Ladislav Galeta's ball are all, for example, very different works in terms of genre, style and technique, but nevertheless share something in terms of their essence.
Fernando Botero's paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts
30 September 2010 – 20 February 2011
30 September 2010 - 30 October 2010
Rotund and voluptuous forms, characteristically simple and expressive figures, people, animals and objects dominate the works of Colombian-born Fernando Botero. The language of his colourful and often luminous works is understandable for all; he opens up a seemingly distant Latin American reality and transforms it into a familiar world. His works are linked by the underlying quality of universality and his use of the most elemental gestures renders his ideas of the world and its various phenomena visible. Botero is a productive artist and a leading figure of contemporary art whose works can be found in public collections in countries across the world including Japan, Russia, Germany, Finland, Italy, Colombia and the United States. A selection of the masterpieces of the last twenty years can be seen at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest between 30 September 2010 and 23 January 2011.
Nuda Veritas. Gustav Klimt and the Origins of the Vienna Secession 1895–1905
23 September 2010 – 9 January 2011
23 September 2010 - 23 October 2010
The Museum of Fine Arts will stage an exhibition of the outstanding works dating from the early period of the Vienna Secession with Gustav Klimt as its emblematic figure. The core material of the two hundred or so pieces, mainly drawings and prints, is formed by the works from the collection of the Albertina in Vienna, complemented by drawings and some excellent paintings from Austrian, American and Japanese public and private collections. The exhibition will also include pieces from the Museum of Fine Arts' own collection: works by the various members of the Secession group and pieces by foreign contemporary artists who once exerted great influence on them.
Autumn exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts
23 September 2010 – 23 January 2011
23 September 2010 - 23 October 2010
Three large-scale exhibitions will run at the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts this autumn. The opening event, with works by Klimt as its focal point, will feature the masters of the Vienna Secession. Then visitors can see a selection of oil paintings representing the idiosyncratic style of the Colombian Fernando Botero, and at the end of October a tribute will be paid to Hungarian-born Lucien Hervé, the father of architectural photography, through a display of his most prominent works.
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A US patrol gains trust in a Baghdad district
In two neighborhoods, both Sunnis and Shiites are turning to US forces for protection - from each other.
In the crucible heat of the Iraqi summer, Lt. Jim Waters's Humvees make their way down the packed streets of southern Baghdad. At the crowded intersections, Iraqi drivers slam on their brakes, trying to keep their distance from the US convoy. The turret gunners yell at cars to stop. It's a series of confusing moves that passes for standard traffic-control in Baghdad.
When the patrol passes a busy street, Lieutenant Waters, a sheriff from Sacramento, Calif., who commands a company of California National Guard soldiers in the 184th Infantry, tells his men to get out and start walking. As the foot patrol makes its way through the streets, an old Shiite woman in a black hejab invites Waters into her house. At the threshold, Waters politely waits.
"I don't want to track the dirt from the street into your house," he tells her.
After beckoning him inside, the woman explains to Waters that she wants him to help her son, Wasim Majid Latif, who had joined the Iraqi police but had been robbed of his uniform and gun on his way to work. The incident cost the young man his job. Waters listens, carefully writing down the boy's information before moving on.
As Iraqis increasingly turn to US forces out of fear of rival groups, a shift is taking place in southern Baghdad. Both Shiites and Sunnis in the mixed neighborhoods around Dora and Abu Dschir are asking US forces to protect them from a wave of sectarian reprisal killings, abductions, and mass detentions.
Over the past 30 days, there have been a number of killings in the area immediately surrounding the patrol's route. A tailor was murdered in his shop by armed men in a Mercedes; a tire salesman near 60th Street was shot and seriously injured; a barber was executed.


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Last Dinosaurs have returned to home soil after their first European excursion and won't be stopping anytime soon. They are excited to announce The Satellites Tour with Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth on their radar this October. These shows will be extra special as the band have chosen to open it up to fans of ALL AGES for the first time in every city.
On the back of unleashing their sounds in the UK they garnered the attention of global Tastemakers including NME, Zane Lowe of BBC's Radio1 and The Guardian. Playing boutique festivals, headline shows and supporting Danger Mouse-produced duo and label mates, Electric Guest, Last Dinosaurs got to show off their wares to more then one sold out show in Paris, London, Amsterdam and more.
"The daddies of the indie-punk scene in Brisbane."
"They are reinventing the wheel with zeal and a minimum of spiel."
The Guardian, New Band Of The Day
Last Dinosaurs are set to return to the UK on the back of Fiction Records releasing their debut album, "In A Million Years". The USA will follow via a release through Fairfax, the home of our very own Gotye and Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros. With it's slew of accolades from the global press along with it's #8 ARIA debut, the record is set to make a dent internationally and continue to impress locally.
This week will see Last Dinosaurs' first shows back in Australia with a main stage at Splendour In the Grass begging for their live finesse. UK indie gods Bloc Party are already aware of their hot show inviting Dinos to support them at their Brisbane warm up next Friday.
Tickets for Last Dinosaurs, The Satellites Tour will go on sale Friday, August 3rd. With every ticket purchase fans will be able to get their hands on a live tour EP "Last Dinosaurs, Live At Splendour", available exclusively to ticket buyers. "In A Million Years" will also be available for purchase at a special price.
Last Dinosaurs debut album "In A Million Years" is out now.
Last Dinosaurs
Presented by Groupie, Radar, Beat, Brag, Db Magazine and Time Off
With Special Guests To Be Announced
Tickets are on sale, Friday 3rd August 2012
Saturday 13th October: Alhambra Lounge, Brisbane
Tickets available from www.oztix.com.au
Friday 19th October: The HI-FI, Brisbane
Tickets available from www.thehifi.com.au & Phone Tix 1300THEHIFI (1300 843 4434)
Saturday 20th October: The Metro, Sydney
Tickets available from www.metrotheatre.com.au & www.ticketek.com.au
Sunday 21st October: Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne
Tickets available from www.oztix.com.au
Friday 26th October: The Corner Hotel, Melbourne
Tickets available from the Corner Box Office, phone bookings on 03 9427 9198 & online www.cornerhotel.com
Saturday 27th October: The Gov, Adelaide
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Sunday 28th October: Rock-It Festival, Perth
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Having just released the first teaser 'Crazy' taken from the band's forthcoming debut LP due out mid-2015, Brisbane's Art of Sleeping announce an east coast tour of the same name. Shortly after their scheduled performances on some of the countries biggest stages over the New Year at Falls Festival, the band are set to take the stage in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane this Summer.
Bernard Fanning offers up 'GROW AROUND YOU' lifted from his latest #1 album Departures. Berneard and his band will be stopping by the Fotty Show AFL Grand Final show on Thursday 26th September for a special televised headline-performance.
Returning in a wall of shimmering synth and hook-laden guitars, Guineafowl delivers a partnering video for new single 'Little Death (Make It Rain)' and announces details of a special EP launch night taking over Sydney's Club 77 on Thursday 10th October


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Joshua Kadison (born February 8, 1963, Los Angeles, California) is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and writer. He is perhaps best known for the Top 40 hits "Jessie" and "Beautiful in My Eyes" from his debut album Painted Desert Serenade. He is the son of the late actress Gloria Castillo, who was the inspiration behind his song "Mama's Arms."
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- 1993: Painted Desert Serenade
- 1995: Delilah Blue
- 1998: Saturday Night In Storyville
- 1999: Troubadour In A Timequake
- 2001: Vanishing America
- 2005: The Venice Beach Sessions - Part 1
- 2006: The Venice Beach Sessions - Part 2
- 2006: The Essential Joshua Kadison
- 2008: Return Of The Dragonfly
- 17 Ways To Eat A Mango: A Discovered Journal of Life on an Island of Miracles, Hyperion, New York 1999. ISBN 0-7868-6457-5
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As regards the conservation of artistic heritage, chemical analysis acts to minimise risks when restoring a work of art. "If, for example, we wish to remove ageing varnish from a painting and not damage the underlying original, we would need a suitable solvent and to this end we need to know its chemical composition. It is essential to know the chemical nature of the materials we are dealing with", stated Dr. Maguregi.
Much more than art
The line of research in fine arts may be the most striking and novel of this research team, but it is just one of three being worked on by Ms Rosa Alonso's group, the others being pharmaceutical drugs and the environment and industry.
The pharmaceutical drugs research line was, precisely, the starting point for this research team. They are currently especially focused on developing chromatography-based methodologies, enabling the monitoring of patients with metabolic syndrome (high glucose or cholesterol, obesity, high blood pressure, etc.) and seeing what effect the various pharmaceutical drugs prescribed for these conditions have on them. According to Dr. Alonso, the technique involves "seeing, for example, if, when a treatment does not work, this is due to interactions between different medications".
As regards the environment and industry line of research, they started as a result of working with a number of enterprises in the chemical sector. One of their specialities is developing new methodologies for quality control: "With new instrumentation an awful lot can be gained in terms of tim
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And they did most of it without help. Water was pumped by hand or powered by windmill. The farm didn't have a tractor until 1915, and that one lasted only a year. In the winter, for the two-mile trip into Salt Fork, John Kugel would heat a stone in the wooden stove, then wrap it in a quilt and put it in the back of the two-seat surrey, where it served as a portable heater for Cole and his siblings.
"Back then on the farm, you just did what you could to survive," Cole recalls.
Still, he had time to yearn for adventure. While his family would attend the occasional Wild West show, Cole often found himself gazing at the Oklahoma sky and imagining soaring with the meadowlarks in a contraption called an "airplane."
"Just wanted to go places," he recalls.
When he was eighteen, he made it as far as Stillwater -- 66 miles from home. After he graduated from Lamont High School, in 1920, his mother wanted him to attend Oklahoma A&M, but his father wanted Cole to remain on the farm. So his parents compromised: His mother bought a house in Stillwater, where he went to college half the time; the other half, he'd be home working the farm.
One day, though, Cole and a buddy saw something that made them forget about both their studies and the soil: a barnstormer offering rides in a pasture. Cole hopped in. For fifteen glorious minutes, in the open-air cockpit of a biplane, without goggles or a helmet, high above the farmland, he was "just like a bird."
In the fall of 1926, the Methodist church in Lamont sponsored a gathering for new teachers and eligible bachelors. Being both a new teacher and eligible bachelor himself, Cole decided to attend.
"Well, they had a dance party," he recalls, knitting his thick hands behind a half-bald head ringed with white hair. "And they put the teachers in one circle and the young bachelors in another circle. They circled one way and we circled the other way. Whoever you stopped in front of, you met."
Cole met Mildred Kemper: a "pretty nice-looking" 23-year-old math teacher from Chickasha, Oklahoma, with brown hair, green thumbs, "pretty good common sense" and a habit of collecting knickknacks and doodads and hanging on to them forever.
The two hit it off.
"Well, not immediately," Cole admits. "But not too long after. She accused me of holding her hand. That kind of started it."
He'd recently graduated from A&M with a degree in commerce and marketing. Instead of returning to the farm, though, he'd wound up doing blackboard duty as a favor to a high-school superintendent who needed an emergency replacement until he found a longer-term substitute for an AWOL English teacher.
"Seems he forgot about the substitute," Cole says. "I taught there a year and a half."
He also sparked a romance with Mildred. When she accepted a teaching job in southern Oklahoma, Cole fired up his Model A coupe and visited. When she accepted another teaching job in eastern Oklahoma, Cole fired up the Model A and visited. When she spent summers overseas, Cole waited several months, then fired up his Ford and visited after she returned home. For ten long years, Cole rumbled along the rutted roads of the Sooner State to see his sweetheart.
"We had a long courtship," he says.
The couple wanted to marry, but the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression hit small Oklahoma farmers hard. Cole's family was no exception.
"Wasn't any money to get married on," Cole explains. "She was making more money teaching school than I was on the farm. Wheat was only 25 cents a bushel."
When a bank in Lamont closed, Cole's father, who sat on the board of directors, sank $8,000 in debt. If oil speculators weren't paying for rights to a little of the family's land, "that likely would have killed him," Cole remembers. But the Kugels had the farm, and so they never went hungry. What they couldn't grow themselves, they acquired through trade.
"When someone was ailing, Doc Watson came by, and Dad would give him an old hen," Cole recalls. "You traded things so everyone would survive."
In a state with the motto "labor omnia vincit," or "labor conquers all things," Cole not only survived, but eventually saved enough to buy Mildred an engagement ring. They were married on October 25, 1936. For their honeymoon, Mildred had selected China, but a seaman's strike routed them to San Francisco, where they spent all of their money before the labor troubles lifted.
"Missed China," Cole recalls. "Saw Chinatown, though."
Back in Oklahoma, the couple set up housekeeping, but they never had children. By the time they married, Mildred was already 32 and Cole was 34. For many years, they had to help care for Mildred's ailing mother, who had suffered a series of debilitating strokes. And there were always the demands of the farm.
"Just wasn't time to start a family," Cole says.
In 1939, Cole paid a visit to his younger brother, Paul, who had moved to Longmont, Colorado. With farming in Oklahoma still a struggle, the brothers decided to buy dry-land farms near Platteville. Within two years, they'd harvested bumper crops of wheat that pulled them out of their Depression-era debt. In 1943, Cole decided to move to Longmont for good.


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The archbishop warned that the impact of this law would be "very negative" for Spanish society. Marriage, he said, "is the basic cell of society, and the good of persons—of spouses, but above all, of children—depends greatly on the health and normality of marriage and the family."
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As far as my expectations for her potential ratios, i wouldnt say they will be absolute garbage. I imagine it will be something like this:
First thing is first. For everyone who thinks the root is effective: No, just no. Add a DIRECT Root that slows them after being caught in it until the skill ends. Then, I'd be all for it. If the heal could be applied to your lane partner or jungler, that'd be nice. Or, maybe a newer concept of damaging a portion of your hp in order to mitigate an opponent's attack. A unique mechanic like that, I wouldn't mind that with the old passive. But alas, the new passive removes the previous AP potential Karma originally had. That shield is going to have to be pretty impressive to make up for the lack of a heal on a champ that previously had a heal, I want to go "HOLY- THIS SHIELD IS AMAZING." Lulu has a hp buff along with a shield, which makes her viable in that direction (she has both available). There are only 3 directions of all leading supports: Healing CC Shielding If Karma is just going to have a soft CC combined with a difficult to land hard CC, I'm not going to consider playing that at all. DO YOU HEAR ME RIOT? GIVE KARMA HEALING OR GREAT SHIELD POTENTIAL AND A HARD CC THAT WORKS WELL. -------- Now, for ItemsGuy and Bilbo. (Anyone who isn't either of these two can pass on by, unless you're bored) Here's what I'm starting to find as I'm reading both of your posts more and more. I'm not too experienced with concept development as I am with character development, but I do know that what you're trying to do is very irregular. You're trying to form your own concept of "Karma," when you not only were not the creators of the character, but had no part in its advancement as a character before all this. That's very outgoing (innovative things are good in most cases). But, it is Riot's job to form the character into how they feel in the end she should "grow." The thing I'm seeing from your concept literally changes all the previous skills, and instead of boosting her other skills, you change them entirely. You even don't care how much the Lore is affected, even though it does matter to some like myself. With that skill set in mind, you've already created a completely different champion just by forming your own concept. Anyone can perceive your interpretation of Karma as something different- even if you define it, there's more than one way of thinking about it. I actively believe that you wanted her created as such, not using the predecessor as a template to improve on like Riot is trying to do. In the end, what I'm trying to say is that your champ just seems to embody the name better to a certain regard-however it is not the same champ that was previously presented. Even if it can represent it better, Riot works on trying to build off of the predecessor instead of destroying all of what they originally had in place. That's something that I assume you would like to change, but the fact of the matter is-that's the only way they have done things so far. Exceptions in the future might include Sion where the original concept was distorted to the point of just barely being relevant. You can post Riot's quotes all you like, but I think they can agree with me on the fact that you're recreating a champ in the image you feel that it needs to be, not advancing the original character like Riot is trying to do. Advancing to them means sacrificing obsolete fragments due to the meta while trying to maintain what the champ stood for in their eyes. If they're willing to give up and do some things, I don't see how a compromise can't be reached somehow. But a complete redeux like you're suggesting just prolongs development heavily and unnecessarily. --- For ItemsGuy only: Their reworks for Eve and Twitch pretty much killed the "always stealthed" option that, for Twitch players, seemed like an impossible condition to surpass in order to play. It's not hard to manage the stacks if you were conditioned to playing without Spray and Pray as a first resort (like many Twitches already had). They destroyed the imbalanced gameplay (forced the opponent to buy stealth detect in the case of Eve/Twitch) and things that impaired the character as a result of having those cheap plays available. When I spoke of balance, the point gets ignored almost entirely. Once you initiate and have someone possess the mark, you're defenseless. Completely. Junglers are meant to be experts at taking out high priority targets, and a squishy champion like Karma simply cannot last against that at all because your kit doesn't give any form of defense afterward (current Karma has to be at an almost perfect position in a team fight to utilize her effectively, this includes your team and knowing how she plays, not to mention possessing Mantra or potentially being useless). Your kit does the exact same thing, it revolves around your team reacting based on how she plays, and you need Mantra or the skills will be below average. The passive practically encourages your Karma to receive damage, and since she's squishy, she'll never fully utilize the passive in a team fight (unless they let her escape). Soft CC isn't enough, many people have already said so, which is why they are unhappy with the untimeliness of the Root on W. The meta does call for a form of peeling or hard CC. This is undeniable thanks to how leading supports are doing, and saying that "it'll work out" without any tests just makes me think less of your kit. This is also why I'm trusting Riot more; results are available to them, and results matter. Let me clarify one major problem with that skill set also: It revolves around a shield. I'm stating it for the major point that, "What if it's broken?" The effectiveness moves to Karma, and since she is not always there in the action (due to the large range you gave for the Q passive), she is now out of the fight, unable to help her carry until she gets close enough (and guess what? If you didn't level Q, that shield is going to be pretty easy to break regardless). Old Karma can activate W for a save, along with the added heal from Q2. The movement speed bonus is very important, because you're ignoring one of the most used skills in the game-Ignite. The biggest problem with your kit is that Summoner spells shut it down too easily, and if they aren't used, gives a huge amount of pressure in the laning phase. LoL is unique in how it gives supports a damage skill or two, but you only have one damage skill that can potentially be weak (if focusing on barrier or heal), a passive (Q) that needs massive testing to see if the values won't be OP, a heal that has to not be able to match up with Q's normal effect, and all that with Mantra still being a necessity to be worth something. Oh, and a passive that's broken enough to be removed off of champs constantly. Riot's trying NOT to accomplish that. ---- Back to both of you: I bolded the points that you should focus on, I'm tired of seeing you miss the point from piecing off my sentences from one another.
I wonder if her passive will be linked to her level? At least then it has a little sense to it being that way. Theory crafting her mantra cd, if at rank 4 has 40 seconds, with 40% CDR that would be 24 seconds per mantra. If her passive scaled on level so that at level 18 it had 4 seconds of cdr for mantra per champion damaged, that is a potential 4 second mantra cd in team fights. But we will have to wait and see ^_^
Since so many people have talked about her lore, here is a piece of her appraisal for the Institute of War. A very nice touch, added to her lore by Riot Consider this whenever you make lore and mechanic judgements. Courtesy of LoL Wikia: Candidate: Karma Date: January 28th, 21 CLE REFLECTION The meticulous artistry of the Institute always reminded Karma, by curious contrast, of the chaos of open war. Every inset groove was, to her, the face of a lost friend. She imagined what her fallen comrades might have thought of this comparison when a horribly familiar, acrid stench stung her nose. She turned in time for a brilliant green explosion to fill her view. She swept her steel fans against the blast, piercing a hole in its expanding wave. Her reaction, though immediate, only diminished the force. She focused her senses inward as air whipped past. Her form was steel while her hair and clothes swirled in the chaos. When the blast subsided, her once-immaculate locks hung in limp disarray and her dress was torn and caked with soil. There was something unusual about the soil – a pungent smell. Blood. She looked up, bracing for the worst. Nonetheless, she was unprepared for what she saw. No, no...not again. In front of her, as far as she could see, lay the strewn bodies of Ionian villagers. Another green explosion in the distance sent cadavers arcing through the air. The taste of salt stung her lips. She didn't even notice the tears tracing down her cheeks. She saw a shoe, much too small for any adult, raised from the ground ahead of her. A small leg extended beneath it, disappearing into the soil. Karma snapped upright, raking the air around her with both fans. Tears and soil matted with blood flew away from her. When all settled she was transformed, emotions absent, eyes dark but calm. She was powerful, noble, the picture of dignity against a backdrop of unimaginable horror. She strode with purpose towards a cackling figure in the distance. Its silhouette was one she could not forget: Zaun's insane chemist, Warwick. He stood behind a glowing control panel atop an armored, beetle-shaped vehicle. He gesticulated with zeal as each explosion bit the Ionian landscape. He was human, although the lacking lycanthropy did not register with Karma. She was beyond thought, beyond emotion; ready to do what she must to stop what was happening in front of her. Zaunite shock troops assembled before her, blocking her path. A wave of her fan and they were gone, their cries muted by the roaring gust. Warwick noticed her with glee. His fingers danced across the controls and a cannon extended from the transport beneath him. It fired a sickly green stream of liquid into the air above her, where it burst like a liquid firecracker. She thrust one fan into the air above her head, blowing back a portion of the falling ooze, though far less than she'd expected. Drops rained down around her. Where the drops touched her skin, they sizzled and burned through it. Karma cried out in agony. "Delicious isn't it, Duchess?" Warwick exclaimed. "I call it an Aerial Corrosive Mine. The acid is several times heavier than mercury, so your wind techniques won't protect you." Karma crumpled to the ground, the acid boring into her flesh. She pushed herself up to a cross-legged meditative pose, blinked back the searing pain, and uttered a healing mantra. The pain lessened, although it still consumed her. "It's not meant to be fired into the air that way. I just wanted you to savor the taste. I'm afraid when I fire it directly at you, your delicate 'weapons' will be useless." A tinny voice chirped something indiscernible from the control panel. Warwick listened for a moment, and then nodded his head. "I would truly love to play with you some more, Duchess, but there are more Ionians in need of my services." Warwick fiddled with the controls and the cannon lowered, aimed squarely at her. "This ends now." Karma blinked. Her mind was sluggish, flooded with frantic damage reports from nerves all over her body. A single thought floated to the surface of her awareness. I've failed. Just as she consigned herself to join those scattered around her, a blinding ray of light descended from the heavens, landing squarely on Warwick. He screamed as his skin melted away. His body contorted, muscles bursting outward. His head and limbs stretched, yanking joints apart and forming new ones. Long claws cut through the tips of his fingers and toes. He wrenched forward, then back, and when the spasms ceased his spine was long and hunched. His high-pitched wail suddenly turned to gravel, and blue hair stabbed out from every pore of his body. He fell to the ground in a heap. The light subsided. Not far from him, a new form lay in the mud. Karma fought her way to her feet, acid still eating into her, and stumbled to the form. There in front of her laid Soraka, the spiritual icon of her people. The Starchild had lost the celestial radiance which characterized her transcendence. She lay staring upward, her expression vacant. Reason overpowered remorse, and suddenly Karma knew she was seeing an illusion. Soraka's gaze turned to Karma, her eyes piercing her soul for answers. "Why do you want to join the League, Karma?" The voice was sad, resigned. "Is this vision not enough?" Karma gestured all around them. The pain was suddenly gone. "This isn't really over. These things never really end. All we can do is remain vigilant and try to protect those we love." "Always one for a speech." Soraka smirked. "How does it feel, exposing your mind?" "There is nothing on my mind that I wouldn't happily share with you. How does it feel, knowing what we suffered, what you chose to ignore?" Karma was suddenly alone in the antechamber of the Institute, the doors ahead opened to the League. She appraised her clothes, which were as pristine and spotless as when she entered. With an imperceptible shift, Karma summoned her composure and marched onward.
I would like to point out that Karma's name was really , imo, not a reference to her theme. I felt it was more as a little "trivia" thing, like Yorick and Hamlet, that realted back to Buddhists beliefs, because Karma had so many Buddhists references already. I don't mean to get all religious, but I think that the origanl concept or theme was balance not actually "Karma". Buddhism seemd like the perfect thing to gather trivia and references for her, but this actually confused people on what her theme really was. In the end this is what ultimatly caused her to be cast off, because people didn't really understand that the theme was balance. But as I siad in an earlier post, The theme "Balance" is not a proper theme to be used "The Iconic Leader of Ionia." In fact this theme would best suited for a more passive champ imo, and Karma is anything but a passive champ.
It would be cool if Karma's tether rooted targets who broke the line when she used mantra. That way when Karma used mantra, and her tether was healing, enemies would need to decide between run and get rooted, or stay and let karma heal. Also, the current root would still exist without mantra, thus she could decided between two types of rooting. I feel that would make the move much more "karma-ish".


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All-new fourth-gen Range Rover breaks cover ahead of official Paris debut
With sales soaring and nearly 80 per cent of production exported overseas the folks at Land Rover must be feeling pretty pleased with themselves already. Will their grins be even bigger now the disguises can come off and, as of early next year, this new beast goes on sale?
Well, it's certainly supersized. And suitably imposing, an Evoque-esque front end treatment melding into more traditional Range Rover proportions, albeit stretched and teased in seemingly every direction. The trademark floating roof, a prominent belt-line and even more prominent side gills complete the look, the new fourth-gen Rangie making a decided move to new-money bling distinct from the outgoing L322's more stolid, blocky conservatism.
Signs of what was coming were obvious in the last facelift for the long-running L322, now more than a decade old but still going strong and pulling in the sales. A 'Sport style grille treatment gave the old stager a bit of a freshen up but it's clear the all-new Range Rover was going to move the game on considerably and so it does.
Biggest news is a wholesale adoption of aluminium and corresponding 420kg weight saving over the outgoing car. There's no information in the initial teaser release about the overall dimensions but even so it's obvious from these pictures that the new Rangie is much longer. Indeed, we'd take a punt on the boast of an additional 118mm of legroom corresponding with an equivalent stretch in wheelbase, this extra length freeing up space for a variety of different rear seating arrangements ranging from a confirmed two-seat 'Executive Class' configuration to, we'd assume, school run friendly seven-seater set-up. If you're going to use it as a school bus it may as well be as big as one...
Familiar JLR engines - supercharged V8 petrol and V6 and V8 diesels driving through, you'd assume, the latest eight-speed auto - aside it's an all-new platform. Which you'd have to expect, given how long they've had to come up with it. There's new suspension architecture front and back, air sprung again, delivering what Land Rover describes as "flatter, more confident cornering, with natural and intuitive steering feel" and combining improved comfort with increased agility. It'll do the off-road thing too of course, assisted by a new Terrain Response 2 Auto.
Who are they trying to kid though. With prices likely to be knocking on the door of six figures for higher-spec models it's clear the Range Rover has taken a decided move upmarket, with aspirations to mix it more in the Bentley Flying Spur and Rolls-Royce Ghost circles rather than the hoi polloi of Q7s, Cayennes and fancier X-series BMWs. Only the refreshed Mercedes GL really threatens on size and stature but, even then, the Range Rover appears to be staking a claim on a new class of uber SUV, ahead of Bentley's arrival in the not too distant.
No surprise there either. British designed and British built it may be but the Range Rover is clearly less suited to our roads than it is those of cash-rich markets with an appetite for British-built luxury motors and unabashed bigger/blingier is better sensibilities. In short, if you're offended just think of the balance of payments, jobs for the boys in Solihull at the new aluminium production plant and other positives. And pray you don't meet one coming the other way on a crowded suburban street.
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Clearly not a "physics expert." Nor a reality expert. I suppose if you had a revival meeting inside of a wooden barn in your home state of West Podunk, you might be able to kill a bunch of people with a gallon of gasoline, providing the locals didn't smell it and come out and beat the living crap out of you before cutting off your balls, but a gallon of gasoline in a modern building with proper fire exits could very well not kill anyone. Whereas emptying a 100-round clip into a classroom full of 6-year-olds is pretty certain to kill most of them.
And keep in mind that there's nothing macho or ballsy about starting a fire with a gallon of gasoline. I don't recall any video games where you go around starting gratuitous fires. Whereas there are a butt load of games that glorify some macho pinhead going around shooting people.
And of course I could also point out that your little gasoline scenario is pretty much hypothetical in that no one has recently set a pre-school on fire. Again, perhaps, because matches don't make much of a penus substitute for those closeted individuals who feel unmanly.
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The sad thing is, the guys running Slashdot haven't figured out that they've been hijacked by a bunch of NRA plants. At least they should be proud that the crazies expend more effort distorting the facts here than they do over at Wikipedia, which is sometimes referred to as Wikiganda by the cognoscenti. And by the way, just to keep this discussion honest, here's the ENTIRE 2nd Amendment, including that mysterious bit about a well regulated militia:
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