The Justice Department Files a Lawsuit Against Anheuser-Busch InBev

Tampa, Fl -- The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Thursday to stop Anheuser-Busch (The company that is famous for their beers and the Theme Parks such as Busch Gardens.) InBev's proposed US$20 billion purchase of Mexican's insignia brewer group Grupo Modelo which would join the owners of two of the world's most popular beers as Budweiser and Corona.

The government said that the deal could lead to a higher prices with the beer brands as there won't be a fair competition and there would be an indirect creation of a monopoly of the alcoholic beverages as the merge would control half of the sales in the United States. 

Daimler Trucks North America gave a warning that 1,300 could be lost in North Carolina and Oregon due the the Justice Department blockage and their synergy with Anheuser-Busch on the transportation. The impact on the economy is a lose-win situation where if Anheuser-Busch wins the InBev there could be a major problematic for the consumers affair as well fair trade on the market but what to do, to create a fair position where jobs will be created and there won't be a monopoly. The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid rose sharply last week but remained at a level consistent with moderate hiring. Weekly applications for unemployment benefits rose 38,000 to a seasonally adjusted 368,000, the Labor Department said Thursday.

This Last Lonely Place

This Last Lonely Place Promo 

Tampa, Fl --  "The process of indie filmmaking is truly a labor of love. We had a very small crew and I was wearing different hats constantly. It was grueling at times, but totally worth it! I believed in the script and Steve Anderson from day one. We got a terrific cast for such a low budget indie because of that script and support from the Humphrey Bogart Estate." Were the words by producer Jeff Marchelletta about the production and development of the upcoming film This Last Lonely Place.

The film is penned by filmmaker Steve Anderson, the mastermind behind the controversial documentary "Fuck", which holds the record for use of the taboo word more than any other film in history.  A Peabody Award winner, Anderson previously directed The Big Empty, which starred Jon Favreau, Kelsey Grammar, and Daryl Hannah. In addition he recently wrote and produced The RiverMurders, starring Ray Liotta and Christian Slater.

Rhys Coiro

This Last Lonely Place revolves around an injured war vet cab driver (Rhys Coiro of Entourage, 24) who picks up a wealthy investment banker (Xander Berkeley of Nikita, Terminator) late one night in Beverly Hills. On edge, the banker confesses to a shady investment scheme, and after picking up his mistress (Carly Pope of Elysium, Popular), it is revealed that a terrible crime has just been committed. Drawn into a conspiracy gone awry, the cab driver is now at their mercy. As the long dark cab ride progresses - through the lonely streets and back alleys of Los Angeles - dark layers of deceit come to light.

Carly Pope

The film was shot around iconic locations such as the penthouse of the Chateau Marmont, the Polo Lounge in the Beverly Hills Hotel, the Sunset Strip and Rodeo Drive, but for exterior shots the crew just showed up in the cab and grabbed the shots. One of the most fantastic aspects of this film is the budget as it was under US$100,000; they achieved financing thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign and support from the Humphrey Bogart Estate.

The Cab

 “We had been looking for an inspired way to honor Humphrey Bogart’s legacy of supporting his fellow artists,” said Robbert de Klerk, who manages the icon’s estate together with Stephen Bogart, son of Bogie and Bacall. “Humphrey Bogart was known for taking risks. He was one of the first actors to start his own production company when he left Warner Brothers in 1948 to start Santana Productions. In so many ways, Anderson and our incredibly talented and dedicated cast and crew captured the true independent spirit that Bogie was known for” added de Klerk.The movie is currently in post-production and is slated to be released later this year. There has not been an indie movie within the noir genre in the last five years that I would love to see more.

Xander Berkeley

Robbert de Klerk and Stephen Bogart are Executive Producing. Jeff Marchelletta of

Industry Standard Films is Producing along with Josh Mandel; and Andre Fontanelle and Sumiko Braun are Co-­Producing.

This Last Lonely Place is currently in post-­production. You can follow the film’s

progress at www.facebook.com/thislastlonelyplace and

www.twitter.com/lastlonelyplace.

Tampa, Craiglist and Selling Marijuana around USF (Photos)

Tampa, Fl -- The problem with the cannabis and the traffic is taking new steps in Florida but in the Tampa area one dealer decided to face the public scrutiny and anonymously decided to post an add on Craiglist regarding the nature of his business. The laws in Tampa are strict where you can end up in jail for getting found in possession of small doses but dealing the product is a felony that the county will make the impossible to make the dealer and the producers to not see the sunlight again. The dealer in this case decided event to give his area around the University of South Florida which can give the authorities to expose an undercover operation in the university premises and the vicinity, but not only if an undercover operation or just a dealer are exposed the damage to the image of USF could be hard to fix, but the stupidity of the dealer to expose himself or herself on the Internet it is just amazing or in a lesser case they are cops who are trying to make a living by arresting some people who are trying to buy the product. Who knows.?

Royalty and Can't Put Me in A Box, by Adam Baranello Song

Tampa, Fl --  The process of the song Royalty started with the phrase "Let's be kings, let's be queens, let's be what we were meant to be.." Were the words used by indie artist Adam Baranello to describe on his new songs where he express that we are meant to be for something greater. We need a positive message to a younger generation that are growing up in a world where materialism and physical appearance are the only things, were people need a positive impact that they know they can achieve great thing if they propose to because life ain't easy but through hard work you can change the world.

Though the Drum Beat, there is a battle cry and the music brings everything together, . "Those words popped into my head and I decided to write a song around the idea that we all can be rise up and be better, or the best version of ourselves; that we don't have to accept what we are told." From there the process of creating the sound of the song started with the Drum Beat. I had liked the big thumping bass drum as a battle cry. I then was on the piano and came up with the chords and I liked the way they sounded around the idea. Everything else came together around that. I wanted a nice chunky guitar sound and Jimi Durso supplied that perfectly, hoping that it resonates with people. 

Femen Protests Pope's Stand Against Same-Sex Marriage

To many people who are not involved with the world politics, they probably haven't heard about FEMEN but you probably had seen them as the women who go to protest out in the public topless. They are from Kiev, Ukraine and they protest against sex tourism, religious institutions, international marriage agencies, sexism and other problematics; even if they are not well popular among women in Ukraine they had gained over the years recognition world wide because of their multiple political stances and being detained by the police because of their protests.

Four recent activist from the group were detained at the St Peter's Square when they were protesting against the Catholic Church stand against same-sex marriage. But why the church is against it.? There are many different points that are in their history data (beside the hate towards Evangelicals as according to their doctrine they can't be priests.), one of the first known cases goes with Saint Anselm of Canterbury that mentioned that by that the punishment should moderated as it was a sin that didn't blush nobody but by today the catechism is mildly ambiguous and the members and the clergy can use it to their free will in order to discriminate.

The protest was at the same time as Pope Benedict XVI was delivering a prayer from his studio overlooking the square and the prayer didn't got interrupted, maybe the priest don't really care about what happens outside their own little world fill with gold and honey.

The leader of the protest and Head of Inna Shevchenco told the press that they were there to protest a against the homophobic attitude that is supported by the Vatican which in a coincidence the demonstration by FEMEN coincided with one happening around The Eiffel Tower in France that was orchestrated by the Catholic clergy in France to protest against President Francois Hollande's plans to legalize equal marriage and allow couples to adopt children. 

Protesters in Paris, at the Champ Elysees used a similar strategy that had been seen in the United States around Florida and California regarding Proposition 8 and 35 where without any scientific founding or social studies they argued that a children is better with a mother and a father, because the proponents of the so called marriage institution don't think about any form of family violence, they are still forms of violence regarding an heterosexual couple who starts a family and much of the time when there are violence sprouts the children will be in the middle regarding the gender and sexual orientation from the parents, but what about children who were raised by a single parent or a family member.? It's ridicule to think that a well behaved child will come from a man and a woman's union, a well behaved-adjusted child will grow up into adulthood with proper guidance from a strong figure(s) who will show love and support, but if the child see violence and hate coming from their parents or guardians he can assimilate the words and become a shadow or think different.

Due the protesters the French legislators succumbed to the pressure of expanding what shouldn't be a privildge, what is a right but the shouldn't had succumbed because France has been an example in modern history as the birth place of social rights and equality but according to a Hollande's statement, the war is not over yet as he plans to pass the law that will give the citizens equality.

RapeLay: The Insensitive Side of the Video-game Industry

RapePlay Cover

Tampa, Fl -- There is a genre in video games that  is mostly common to veteran gamers but is not common to see it outside Japan as in the cartridge formats; the name of the genre is eroge which is an Americanism of erotic genre or as is known also in Japan as erochikku gemu which roughly translate the same as the English words. Eroge if it becomes popular on America could show a major problematic for the video game industry as the detractors could have a valid point that video games are linked to unhealthy behaviors when different studies show that the link between video games and being a sociopath are minimum even if in some well but some researches agree that there is a link that stimuli aggressive behavior with visual stimuli but yet the problem can grow more complex as video gaming is not only a kids pastime but also a pastime where Baby Boomers and the XY generation have in common and the games can not focus only on fantasy "happy-go-lucky" themes but going on a point where rape and violence are glorified, then there is a moment to analyze the industry itself not only depending on social and cultural contexts where the game industry.

One of the victims

Why RapeLay was chosen over some other ones.? Simple because it's a simple game that encompass a psychological profile that is more wicked than Grand Theft Auto or any blood game as it goes on the levels of a sociopath that without guns rapes an entire family of women. Maybe in Japan these kind of erotic violent games are common but trying to understand the cultural reason is almost impossible because the laws in Japan are stricter than any other place in the Americas about indecent exposure yet these games where woman is mistreated are sold as hot bread but maybe the reason that they are sold could be related to Japan's patriarchal society where women are just a mere housewife even if they on a social and political level had achieved more than in the Feudal Era, but in an oxymoron Japan is a society that on cultural and social levels keeps them on a status quo.

So by playing a game about rape or violence, the player without any genetic, emotional, family cases would become a total psycho, who knows, maybe not.? It takes too much of a unstable person who is really impressionable and cannot differ reality from fiction, while is true copycat crimes do happen on a daily basis, there is always a way that they can be controlled but on a society that wants everything "now" there are many problems that could generate issues to solve as the population in general had become more focused on themselves and not in the well being of the community.  

Beyond the Epic Adventure, Mickey's Probable Different Games

Tampa, Fl -- It's been almost 3 years since Mickey made his debut on the franchise of Epic Mickey by the hands Warren Spector; even if the games ha received mixed to positive reviews since it appeared on the market, the game itself would be something different, as a Smash Brother's esque or as a spy. The games could still be made and exploit the franchise with a good script and a compelling story-line that lacked a little bit on the two games of Epic Mickey.

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The idea of of making a melee game with iconic Disney characters sounds as a good idea, it probably would create a new franchise that could compete with Smash Brothers as much of the characters by Disney are known by different generations and could create an unifying factor with families who have children and teens; and the parents are looking to share a moment with their children.

The idea of King Louie or Captain Hook fighting against each other in scenarios inspired of the movies or imagining Alice fighting against the Queen of Red Hearts and going through a story mode inspired in Alice in Wonderland or fight in Neverland the idea would be extremely amazing and there would be people who would buy the game because they are fans of Disney as a brand and as the place where many individuals had fond memories.

Going back to the Spy Mickey topic and finding random draft about the possibilities of the game, the idea seemed to be more appealing commercially than Epic Mickey, even to the point that there is a automaton version of Donald Duck but there is a sensitive aspect almost as a form of art because Epic Mickey is visually appealing as is compelling with the story line without going into the archetypal cliches but the game-play tends to be so slow that bores from time to time.