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..Lawson v. FMR LLC, No. 12-3 (U.S. March 4, 2014)
..Chadbourne & Parke LLP v. Troice, No. 12-79 (U.S. Feb. 26, 2014)
..In re BP p.l.c. Sec. Litig., MDL Nos. 10-md-2185, 4:10-md-2185 (S.D. Tex. Dec. 6, 2013)
..IBEW Local 90 Pension Fund v. Deutsche Bank AG, No. 11 Civ. 4209 (KBF) (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 29, 2013)
..Leyte-Vidal v. Semel, No. H037762 (Cal. Ct. App. Oct. 23, 2013)
..Reese v. Malone, No. 12-35260 (9th Cir. Feb. 13, 2014)
..Bartelt v. Affymax, Inc., No. 13-01025 (N.D. Cal. Jan. 21, 2014)
..Integral Dev. Corp. v. Tolat, No. 12-06575 (N.D. Cal. Oct. 25, 2013)
..Books and Records:
Cook v. Hewlett-Packard Co., No. 8667-VCG (Del. Ch. Jan. 30, 2014
..Derivative Litigation:
Cottrell v. Duke, No. 12-3871 (8th Cir. Dec. 18, 2013)
..Mergers and Acquisitions:
- In re Answers Corp. S'holders Litig., No. 6170-VCN (Del. Ch. Feb. 3, 2014)
- Great Hill Equity Partners IV, LP v. SIG Growth Equity Fund I, LLLP, 80 A.3d 155 (Del. Ch. Nov. 15, 2013).
..Becker v. Inland Am. Real Estate Trust, Inc., No. 13-cv-3128 (N.D. Ill. Nov. 18, 2013)
..Tabak v. Canadian Solar Inc., No. 13-1681 (2d Cir. Dec. 20, 2013)
..City of Brockton Ret. Sys. v. CVS Caremark Corp., No. 09-cv-554 (D.R.I. Dec. 31, 2013)
..La. Mun. Police Emps. Ret. Sys., v. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc., No. 11-cv-289 (D. Vt. Dec. 20, 2013)
..Lead Plaintiff:
In re Lightinthebox Holding Co., No. 13 Civ. 6016 (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 21, 2013)
..Pleading Standards:
Takiguchi v. MRI Int'l, Inc., No. 13-01183 (D. Nev. Dec. 11, 2013)
..Jones v. Perez, No. 13-2195-cv (2d Cir. Dec. 26, 2013)
..Freidus v. ING Groep, N.V., No. 12-4514 (2d Cir. Nov. 22, 2013)
..In re MF Global Holdings Ltd. Sec. Litig., No. 11 Civ. 7866 (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 12, 2013)
..CILP Assocs., L.P. v. Lipper Convertibles, L.P., Nos. 11-4904-cv, 11-4905-cv, 11-5104-cv, 11-5106-cv (2d Cir. Nov. 8, 2013)
..United States v. Quest Diagnostics, Inc., No. 11-1565-cv (2d Cir. Oct. 25, 2013)
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Dunnet Head is the most northerly point of mainland Great Britain and is the place to go to view seabirds, including puffins, nesting on the 300feet cliffs.
A B road leaves the A836 at Dunnet and winds it's way up to the large car park at Dunnet Head.The lighthouse here was built in 1831 by Robert Stevenson and today is used for educational purposes.
To be honest, we were a little disappointed with our visit, access to the magnificent cliffs is very limited and is really a small viewing area of the high cliffs from where, if you are lucky, you might catch a glimpse of puffins.
The more interesting feature of Dunnet Head are the views from a viewpoint off to the right of the lighthouse. From here, you have panoramic views all the way round (weather permitting.) It was rather dull and hazy on our visit but we did get to see Orkney mainland and the Old man of Hoy, peering over from behind. Most impressive!
Nearby are military installations left over from WW2, including a radar station and bunker.
The headland has many small lochans, only accessible by foot where permit fishing is allowed.
Address: Dunnet, Thurso,Caithness.
Directions: Some five miles from the village of Dunnet, which is about nine miles east of Thurso.
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Bruce Willis returns as the heroic cop who battles not only terrorists, but also an incompetent airport police chief (Dennis Franz), the hard-headed commander (John Amos) of the Army's anti-terrorist squad and a deadly winter snowstorm. The runways are littered with death and destruction, and McClane is in a race against time. His wife (Bonnie Bedelia) is trapped on one of the planes circling overhead, which is desperately low on fuel. It's all-out war, a heart-stopping, jet-propelled journey filled with excitement and terror. Fasten your seat belts!
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"The best of the best is back and better than ever" (WNYW-TV) in the latest installment of the pulse-pounding, thrill-a-minute Die Hard action films. New York City detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) delivers old-school justice to a new breed of terrorists when a massive computer attack on the U.S. infrastructure threatens to shut down the entire country over Independence Day weekend.
Directed by Renny Harlin, the 1990 sequel, Die Hard 2 (unofficially referred to as Die Harder), doesn't match the level of the original, but it's still an exciting thrill ride with some terrific action sequences. One year after the Nakatomi incident, McClane (Willis) is awaiting his wife's (Bedelia) plane to arrive at Dulles Airport when he stumbles onto a plot to paralyze the entire airport, including all the planes trying to land. It's up to McClane to take on the cadre of bad guys despite all the bureaucrats standing in his way, and before the planes run out of fuel and crash to the ground. The cast includes William Sadler as rogue military man Col. Stuart, Dennis Franz as the latest bureaucratic cop to get in McClane's way, Richard Thornburg as the annoying reporter from the original movie, John Amos as a special-forces commander, early-in-their-career John Leguizamo and Robert Patrick as terrorists, and future politician and Law and Order actor Fred Thompson as the head of air traffic control.
The third film in the series, Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), was again directed by John McTiernan and uses a different concept. The villain (played by Jeremy Irons) claims to have planted bombs all over New York City and gives John McClane (Willis), now alchoholic and separated, a series of clues to try to track them down. Along the way, he's aided by, and eventually teams up with, a Harlem shopkeeper named Zeus Carver (Samuel L. Jackson). The interplay between Willis and Jackson is engaging, but better suited to the Lethal Weapon franchise it was previously considered for, and not till the end does the movie return to the familiar McClane-vs.-villains-showdown format.
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AMES, Iowa - Iowa State wanted to keep Reggie McNeal from winning the game by running the ball.
So the swift, strong-armed Texas A&M quarterback found another way to get it done. McNeal passed for 222 yards and three touchdowns and ran for another score to lead surging A&M to a 34-3 victory Saturday night.
"We tried to make him beat us with his arm," ISU nose guard Nick Leaders said. "Obviously, he did it."
McNeal gave Iowa State fits all night with his accurate throwing and nimble feet. He scrambled out of trouble several times and finished 16-for-27 with no interceptions and touchdown passes of 18 yards to Tydrick Riley, 13 yards to Joey Thomas and 12 yards to Courtney Lewis.
"ISU has been good all season against the run, and we knew we had to throw the ball if we were going to win the game," McNeal said. "The defense gave us some cushion, and we just tried to pick our spots."
The only downer for defensive coordinator Carl Torbush's unit was giving up Brian Jansen's 27-yard field goal in the first quarter, ruining the possibility of the team's second shutout this season.
"I'm a little disappointed we let them kick that field goal," defensive back Jaxson Appel said. "Because if we get four shutouts in a season, Coach Torbush is going to shave his mustache. So we've got to get a couple more of those."
With its fourth straight win, A&M (4-1, 2-0 Big 12) matched last season's victory total, broke an eight-game losing streak on the road and handed Iowa State its 12th consecutive conference loss. The Cyclones (2-3, 0-2) have lost those games by an average of 33 points.
Iowa State moved the ball at times in this one but broke down near the goal line.
"We've got to finish those drives," quarterback Bret Meyer said. "That's been a struggle all year for us."
McNeal's most impressive footwork came early in a 13-play, 96-yard scoring drive that gave the Aggies a 20-3 halftime lead. On second-and-21 from his own 4, McNeal danced away from three defenders who had a shot at him in the end zone and completed a 23-yard pass to Jason Carter.
"My first thought was not taking a safety," McNeal said. "I felt a little pressure, so I just had to go out and try to make a play. When I rolled out to my left, the safety, I guess he thought I was about to run. Actually, I was, but Jason was wide open, so I just had to get him the ball."
McNeal then completed seven straight passes in taking A&M to the Iowa State 22. Lewis then sprinted 20 yards through the middle before McNeal slipped untouched into the end zone from the 2.
Any chance Iowa State had of getting back into it ended when Mike Montgomery intercepted Austin Flynn's pass on the first play of the second half and returned it 14 yards to the ISU 17.
Texas A&M 13 7 7 7 - 34
Iowa St 3 0 0 0 - 3
First quarter
A&M-Riley 16 pass from McNeal (kick failed), 13:02.
A&M-Thomas 13 pass from McNeal (Pegram kick), 6:44.
ISU-FG Jansen 27, :36.
Second quarter
A&M-McNeal 2 run (Pegram kick), 5:49.
Third quarter
A&M-Lewis 12 pass from McNeal (Pegram kick), 13:55.
Fourth quarter
A&M-Mobley 8 pass from Branyon (Pegram kick), 5:59.
First downs 20 23
Rushes-yards 37-162 42-142
Passing 257 161
Comp-Att-Int 19-31-0 18-43-2
Return Yards 16 1
Punts-Avg. 5-39 5-41
Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-0
Penalties-Yards 10-85 3-35
Time of Possession 29:23 30:37
Individual Statistics
RUSHING - Texas A&M, Lewis 18-92, Branyon 3-26, Alexander 5-26, McNeal 8-15, Joseph 2-4, team 1-(minus 1). Iowa State, Hicks 17-78, Meyer 8-31, Flynn 12-19, Davis 1-12, Scales 4-2.
PASSING - Texas A&M, McNeal 16-27-0-222, Branyon 3-4-0-35. Iowa State, Flynn 9-24-2-89, Meyer 9-18-0-72.
RECEIVING - Texas A&M, Carter 5-99, Murphy 4-36, Stutz 2-40, Riley 2-38, Taylor 2-7, Thomas 1-13, Lewis 1-12, Mobley 1-8, Thomas 1-4. Iowa State, Davis 5-86, Kellogg 3-20, Moses 3-13, Wright 2-7, Miller 1-15, Highsmith 1-7, Hicks 1-6, Blythe 1-5, Scales 1-2.
Kansas 31, Kansas State 28: John Randle ran 43 yards for a touchdown with 3:16 left, and Kansas snapped a bitter 11-year losing streak to Kansas State.
Both goalposts came down in a wild celebration of a rare win against the archrivals who had humiliated the Jayhawks by a combined score of 106-6 the two previous years. In their past nine meetings, Kansas State, the defending Big 12 champions, had won by an average of nearly 40 points.
Kansas State (2-3, 0-2 Big 12) pulled within three points with 2:06 left when Dylan Meier hit Brian Casey with an 8-yard TD pass following his 51-yard completion to Yamon Figurs on fourth down. But Kansas' Charles Gordon recovered the onside kick with 2:06 remaining.
Kansas St. 0 6 8 14 - 28
Kansas 7 0 10 14 - 31
First Quarter
Kansas-Anderson 2 pass from Barmann (Webb kick), 5:48
Second Quarter
Kansas St.-Rheem 49 FG, 13:14
Kansas St.-Rheem 37 FG, 2:01
Third Quarter
Kansas-Beck 27 FG, 10:45.
Kansas-Randle 24 pass from Barmann (Webb kick), 8:55
Kansas St.-Meier 2 run (Sproles run), 2:20
Fourth Quarter
Kansas St.-Madison 86 pass from Meier (Rheem kick), 13:20
Kansas-Simmons 31 pass from Swanson (Webb kick), 5:28
Kansas-Randle 43 run (Webb kick), 3:16
Kansas St.-Casey 8 pass from Meier (Rheem kick), 2:06
Kansas St. Kansas
First downs 17 15
Rushes-yards 33-59 32-101
Passing 306 137
Comp-Att-Int 19-33-1 14-27-0
Return Yards 6 54
Punts-Avg. 5-38.4 5-42.8
Fumbles-Lost 1-1 2-2
Penalties-Yards 11-120 13-109
Time of Possession 33:33 26:27
Individual Statistics
RUSHING - Kansas St., Sproles 24-73, Meier 3-1, Webb 6-minus 15. Kansas, Randle 20-105, Green 5-8, McAnderson 2-2, Swanson 2-minus 6, Barmann 3-minus 8.
PASSING - Kansas St., Meier 15-24-0-249, Webb 4-9-1-57. Kansas Barmann 10-20-0-85, Swanson 4-7-0-52.
RECEIVING - Kansas St., Madison 4-114, Figurs 4-106, Sproles 4-5, Moreira 3-39, Casey 3-35, Norwood 1-7. Kansas, Randle 5-51, Simmons 4-58, Rideau 3-14, Cornish 1-12, Anderson 1-2.
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Arrange split, skinned and boned chicken breasts in a lightly greased 13x9 inch baking dish. Top with cheese slices. Combine soup and wine; stir well. Spoon sauce evenly over chicken and sprinkle with crushed stuffing mix.
Drizzle butter over stuffing. If desired, sprinkle with garlic powder and Parmesan cheese. Bake at 350 for 45 to 55 minutes.
MzCass 2y agoDelicious. I saw a similar recipe online but followed this.. almost. I decided to omit the wine and used 2% milk with the cream of chicken. I used a 26oz can saving half to pour over rice. I also mixed some of the soup with the stuffing mix so it wouldn't be too crunchy. Lastly I used shredded cheese mix with a cream cheese blend because that's what I had on hand. It was a hit!
beamy 2y agoLeft out the wine and used low or fat free products...very easy and yummy
andrewrdavis 2y agoEveryone loved it
maria502 3y agoLooks fantastic do you have any suggestions if my family doesn't like swiss cheese?
Tsroque 3y agoVery yummy and moist. I cooked it for only 30 mins and used chicken broth instead of wine. Also mixed in mushrooms to the mixture.
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Ange325 3y agoYum! It was easy to make my only suggestion is baking it for less time. It was still juicy, but borderline if we did it any longer. Normally when I bake in my oven I only do it for about 30-35 mins so I'll try that next time.
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Chance_2 3y agoFamily potluck and everyone loved it!! I used filleted chicken breasts and instead of cream of chicken and stuffing I used cream of mushroom and plain bread crumbs. Great and easy, just perfect!!


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Up next is Groot. The alien being made his debut in the lead story of 1960's Tales to Astonish #13, with art by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers and a story by…I dunno…maybe Larry Leiber?
Finally we have Rocket Raccoon.
He made his debut in a sci-fi story by Bill Mantlo and Keith Giffen in 1976's Marvel Preview #7…
but wasn't known as Rocket Raccoon (and didn't have his current personality) until he made his color debut in 1982's Incredible Hulk #271 by Mantlo and Sal Buscema…
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So who was the guy giving Peter his new outfit? He looked so much like Merlin, I'd be surprised if nobody ever did a Captain Britain tie-in.
The Groot story is typical of a lot of those old Marvel monster tales—everyone laughs at the smart guy until he saves the day (Fin Fang Foom is another example). But those must have been some fast growing termites!
I remember shaking my head when I read the end of the Groot story in a Masterworks. The termites work more like a poison or nerve agent than termites.
I'm surprised you did not mention Yondu, since, though he does not appear in the Guardians of the Galaxy comic book, will appear in the movie.
Had Starlord been used at all recently before he popped up in Annihilation and the stories that followed? I know he had a series or something in the 70s/80s. I assume his recent revival somewhat came out of nowhere, but the stories also kind of make it seem like they were referencing other current events that might have appeared somewhere. I've never been sure if that's just the writers installing history to flesh out the character, or if they're referring to something that happened in another comic I wasn't aware of.
I don't know who is to blame for the awful twists at the end of many of the Lee/Kirby monster stories, but man are they often nonsensical. The whole time I was reading those Groot excerpts, I thought "what will the twiist be and how ridiculous." And sure enough, it was.
It's interesting that for decades Star-Lord seemingly wasn't part of the Marvel Universe at all. When he started to cross over with other characters, it came as a bit of a shock.
I don't think Star-Lord had been seen in quite a while before Annihilation. The stuff referenced there, about him screwing up and destroying a world, happened in a '90s miniseries, I believe.
Keith Giffen had brought back Star-Lord in his issues of the Thanos series, where Peter Quill was now a prisoner serving time for destroying a world and had become a cynical type. That's almost certainly why Giffen then used him in Annihilation.
I remember reading somewhere (perhaps on this very site) that Starlin intoduced Drax, Thanos, etc. in Iron Man because he had created these characters and wasn't sure he'd get another opportunity to introduce them again, so he just chucked them in, hence why Drax is reaching out to Iron Man of all people.
Also, when did we get "I AM GROOT" Groot? Man those Abnett/Lanning/Walker issues were fun
Drax was always a strange case to me; Starling introduced him s Thanos's archfoe in that Iron Man story, but then shoved him off to the side in pretty much every later story he did.
T. I think it's a credit to Kirby how many of those old monster-book covers scream Buy Me, Buy Me, I'm Awesome! and I actually feel myself responding. Even though I know from experience they will be anything but awesome.
I've never heard of Steve Gan, but wow is his art great.
"Oh, darling, forgive me! I've been such a fool! I'll never complain about you again! Never!!"
That has to be Stan Lee. That might be the most Stan Lee-ish line that ever Stan Leed.
Wow is this guy good. A lot of Filipino artists didn't get a fair shot. Gan would have been great on a mainstream Marvel superhero book:
I would argue those Star-Lord adventures are still not in continuity. There are too many discrepancies, including the state of technology, his father's fate, and the general layout of the various planetary societies.
Plus, Bendis modified the origin a bit for the current comic. Gone are the plotlines of his mom remarrying, his uncle (not his father, as stated here) trying to kill him, and the encounter with the Master of the Sun. (Though that last part may have still happened in some regard, since it's referenced in Annihilation: Star-Lord.)
I treat them as two different characters.
I am having a hard time getting over what a terrible idea a Guardians of the Galaxy movie seems to be. When you are on a roll, (and Marvel Studios certainly has been) I guess you earn the benefit of the doubt. It just kind of blows my mind.
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Dean, why do you consider it to be a bad idea?
I'm with Dean Hacker on this. It boggles my mind. I've been reading comics for fifty years and I barely know who these characters are. When Iron Man was made, a lot of the criticism what that he was a third-tier character that nobody knew. Really? His comic has been published continuously for almost fifty years. He had a cartoon in the 60s. He's been an Avenger for fifty years. He has an iconic look. People knew him.
Now, when people are finally taking the idea of superhero movies seriously, they're going to do a movie with a talking raccoon? And a tree man and a second giant green rage monster and a Green Lantern knock-off? Really?
Twenty years ago, if you had asked the average joe on the street to name five superheroes, two of them would have been Aquaman and Wonder Woman. Yet we haven't had an Aquaman or Wonder Woman movie.
I think this is a big mistake.
Large ensemble team movies where characters have not been introduced flop. These guys are not the X-men or FF where the average guy is aware of their background. These guys aren't even the Guardians I remember. If Marvel bankin on the MCU brand to carry this movie then it's a bad idea.
Personal theory why Guardians of the Galaxy was greenlighted: Marvel perhaps sold it to Disney as a chance to do for Disney to get into the megabucks space opera blockbuster franchise a la Star Wars & Star Trek. After all Marvel Cosmic is just as complex as either of those with the Kree/Skrull war, the Celestials, the Jim Starlin cast of characters etc, yet more recently ANNIHILATION and its sequels had made it very accessible with cynical humour and an emphasis on more hard hitting action that abstract concepts, hence why GotG was greenlighted…
…then George Lucas sold Star Wars to Disney and now no one knows what to do with this except hope this clicks with people while JJ Abrams tries figuring out what to do with what Disney really wanted in the first place.
I work in the movie industry and I think it was a genius idea from Marvel's part to do a Guardians movie. Precisely because people do not know these characters and will be a sci-fi comedy, which is something they haven't done before.
Marvel Studios is trying to show audiences the wide range of characters they have. And, don't forget, they do not own the movie rights of some of their main ones (Spider-Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four).
Apparently, after Guardians, will be Ant-Man and Dr. Strange (and maybe further down Black Panther). I think they know exactly what they are doing…and if you guys don't anything about the Guardians I suggest you pick up the trades of their last series (the current one is awful), written by Abnett & Lang. It's the reason why they became popular.
The Eye: no, that's not the reason. They reason is they cannot keep coming with just Avengers-type movies and the last Hulk movie was a bomb. Marvel has many minor characters that could do great in the theaters under the hands of the right director. We cannot have a Captain America and Thor and Iron Man movie every year, a lot of critics are already complaining about "superhero fatigue" and they want to avoid that by using characters people don't know.
I think I read all of the comics where these characters first appeared. Not much after that.
I remember Gamora and Drax from the Warlock stories. Never heard of Groot. Star Lord I remember because of awesome black and white artwork. (Byrne did a great one.) I remember Rocket Raccoon the way I remember the Elf with a Gun.
The Guardians of the Galaxy I remember were the Astronaut named Astro, the Blue Archer, the Prism Man, and Bucket Head. Then they added that dude who turned into a chick. Some guy named Michael killed them all in an Avengers comic. They got better.
The current Guardians series is awful, but it's also Bendis, who can do no wrong in Marvel's eyes, and I have no doubt that the movie will be based entirely on the Bendis version.
To me, Guardians of the Galaxy has the Green Lantern problem.
First, space is a difficult setting for a lot of people and that resistance is doubled when you are telling a fantasy story in space. The Star Wars films have made a kajillion dollars, but in the three decades since they were released effectively no one been able to follow in the footsteps of George Lucas. There are the bones of countless failed franchises in the Space Opera sub-genre (including Green Lantern). The general audience likes the sci-fi and they like the fantasy, but they don't generally like them mixed.
Second, exposition is death for superhero movies. The best regarded ones generally jump right into the action. The big exception is the Donner Superman film that kicked off the whole genre, but otherwise minimal set-up is best. Batman was in the first scene of BATMAN '89. Tony Stark got blown up minutes into IRON MAN. Wolverine gets into a bar fight before Xavier's School is set-up in X-Men. That is why those Lee-Kirby and Lee-Ditko characters work so great. Their origins are super-tight. It is hard to see how Guardians of the Galaxy doesn't spend a ton of time setting things up, like Green Lantern made the mistake of doing.
Third, these are super-obscure characters that are obscure for a reason. This is a great big pack of "Nobody's Favorites". There is some stuff in every comic franchise that is absurd, but we (as fans) stick with it because we love the rest of it. Green Lantern's main antagonist is named Sinestro for God's Sake, like he is an evil breakfast cereal. A lot of both Englehart and Starlin can read that way to me.
It just adds up to a mistake in my mind, but who knows. We live in a world where Thor can open a movie.
While I didn't get into the Abnett et al comic I'm looking forward to the movie. Anything that gets Rocket Raccoon into the public consciousness is a good thing IMHO.And it's directed by the guy who did Super. He knows how to pull off comedy and pathos in the same movie.
I'm betting a lot of people who saw Iron Man had no idea he ever had a cartoon, so while these characters are, yes, lesser lights from a comic fan's perspective, the general public might well see them and Iron Man, pre-Downey as being close to the same level of familiarity.
Finally, if it doesn't work, well, I'd rather they aim high and occasionally miss than get their hits by always aiming low.
"Third, these are super-obscure characters"
I agree that that's going to be the biggest problem. Because it is an ensemble team movie. With the Avengers, even though people with no knowledge of comics still have a passing idea of who most of the characters are, most were established in previous solo movies. They knew who Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk and Thor were and their origins from their previous solo movies (along with introductions to Hawkeye and Black Widow, that at least covered who they were), so we didn't need to try to cram 6 origin stories in before getting to the action, because it had already been covered. Are they going to try to show the origins of All these characters at the beginning of the movie? Or are they going to expect the audience to go hunt down a bunch of back issues Before they go see this movie? Even though most people (even those not into comics) know the basics and origins of Batman, Superman, Captain America, Hulk, Spiderman……. They still covered all their origins in the movies. Even most comics fans don't really know these characters (as others said, these aren't even the Guardians I know), So they need to cover their origins even more than they did the previously mentioned characters. Now can you imagine if they didn't make the previous solo movies and tried to make The Avengers without the previous movies and tried to cover all their origins at the beginning?
"I'm betting a lot of people who saw Iron Man had no idea he ever had a cartoon"
I'm thinking many, though not all people have heard of Iron Man and knew a little of the story, though maybe not as many as know who Cap was and had a basic knowledge of Super Soldier serum, WWII…….. But they still covered his origin in Iron Man rather than try to cover all the Avengers origins in The Avengers. Trying to cover all the Guardians stories in the one movie??? I think they'd have a better shot with just doing a movie of Star Lord, or even just a movie of Rocket Raccoon. Many non comic fans went to see Batman, Spiderman, etc. because they still new who the characters were, because they are so ingrained in popular culture. Whereas many who actually are comics fans don't know who these Guardians are. Is the target audience not only just comic fans but the super obscure Guardians comic fans? Because the target audience for all the other superhero movies went beyond even just comic fans. And as I said then going with covering a group as opposed to one character that the (supposed) audience doesn't know who any of them are…….
Dean –
You said it yourself, man.
The Thor movie "should not" have worked, but it did.
George R. R. Martin was only one of many guys who said something like: "Iron Man worked because it's a human guy in a supertech suit and everyone can understand that, but who is going to accept a super-viking in a super-city full of other super-vikings? The Thor movie is doomed."
Actually, even before that, I remember a forum I used to hang in, and people said an Avengers movie would never work, because people wouldn't accept so many disparate superhero origins together. "That's too much fantasy for a non-comic book fan." And people forget now, but a lot of those Marvel characters were not as well-known as Superman and Batman.
What I take from it is that the average person is not so different from any old comic book fan. They're willing to accept any and all superhero concepts, as long as the movie overwhelms them and tramples all over their disbelief. Why Green Lantern failed, I don't know, I didn't watch it. But Thor is more "out there" than GL, and as much "space sci-fi".
What are you people talking about this being a bad idea for a movie? This is why Disney purchased Marvel. They have source material going back to the 1940's. If this movie fails, it will not be because no one knows who these characters are. Know one knew who Ellen Ripley was. Know one knew who Alex Murphy was. Know one knew who Sarah and John Connor were. It's the job of the people making the movie to make these characters people we are interested in. How well they do their job will decide if this movie is a hit or not.
Rell is right.
As far as origins, who says we need them? Many of us started reading comics after the characters we read had their origins told in the 30s, 40s, and 60s. Star Wars was a team movie and we only got one origin, Luke's.
Personally I am tired of every super hero movie being an origin story or otherwise tied directly to the heroes origin.
I think people are missing the point. You can have humans in space. Hollywood churns those out every year. You can have superhuman movies provided they have been set up. Or you can have fantasy. A lot of the examples fall in these categories but get conflated erroneously. Ripley in Alien was a space/horror movie for example. T2 had the original Terminator with Arnold which had reached cult status. Thor worked because of the tie in with Avengers and enough of a love angle to attract women.
Guardians is going to need some other supporting characters in order to get past the geek demographic. Watch them stick some hot scantily clad girl who needs to be rescued in there.
I can see them getting past the origin issue. Simply present them as a bunch of weird aliens, like the Star Wars cantina and go from there.
Really depressed to hear Bendis is on Guardians now. When I still had a convenient comics shop, I really enjoyed the Abnett/Lanning version.
I think a good comparison might be the Hellboy movie. You have a bunch of extremely weird characters that almost nobody in the public has even heard of, but it works. Partly because the new BPRD agent finds it almost as weird as the audience, which helps.
I don't think establishing the Guardians' origins will be a problem because with the exception of Starlord, they don't NEED origins. They're a pack of alien adventurers from various worlds, period. Nobody ever needed Chewbacca's "origin". I do expect Starlord to get an origin story, showing how Peter Quill ends up in outer space meeting the others; maybe Gamora, Groot and the others will all be prisoners in a space jail of some sort and it will be a sci-fi comedy riff on "The Dirty Dozen" (which is more or less how they got together in the comics). But if they're aliens, nobody needs an explanation for the walking tree or the talking raccoon – just like nobody needed an explanation for Yoda's pointy ears. "That's what folks from his world look like", now let's have fun adventures.
@ fraser:
I love Hellboy and think it is one of the best of the current cycle of comic movies. However, it is worth noting that its total gross was $59 million, or about half the Green Lantern film that I was using as a negative comparable above.
To me, it is two-step question. Step One is "how big is the pie?" and Step Two is "how much of the pie is a given movie likely to get?" If you say Hellboy is a comparable for Guardians of the Galaxy, then it suggest the pie is relatively small. Hellboy was an extremely well made and entertaining movie adapted from a highly regarded comic. It probably gobbled a good percentage of the available "pie" (or people willing to watch a movie lots of unfamiliar, weird creatures without an established movie star in the lead role).
Step Two is mostly about how much people like the actual movie. That is the word of mouth that keeps people coming after the Opening Weekend hype dies down. What I am saying is that given the likely size of the pie suggested in Step One, the execution of Step Two needs to be pretty flawless. There isn't a ton of encouragement to be derived from the comics to suggest it will be. But again, who knows? Marvel is on a genuine roll. They totally broke the "threequels stink" rule with Iron Man 3, so I am not ruling it out.
Valid points Dean, though I'm inclined to agree with Les that if they approach it as some kind of SF adventure rather than super-hero, they can bypass a lot of problems. Enough to make a big hit? No idea.
Third, these are super-obscure characters that are obscure for a reason. This is a great big pack of "Nobody's Favorites".
One movie that I think is extremely underrated in creating the modern boom in superhero movies is Blade. And that was an extremely little known character, especially around the time the movie came out. I had been reading comics my whole life when that movie came out, and even when I saw the movie I had no idea he was a comic character.
I don't think super obscure character automatically means box office failure.
I'm with Dean Hacker on this. It boggles my mind. I've been reading comics for fifty years and I barely know who these characters are.
So? When Star Wars came out no one knew who those characters were. When the Matrix came out, no onw knew who those characters were. When Blade came out many people who saw the movie didn't know who he was, including comics fans like me. No one knew who the Fast and the Furious characters were. People watch movies where they don't know who the characters are all the time.
When Iron Man was made, a lot of the criticism what that he was a third-tier character that nobody knew. Really? His comic has been published continuously for almost fifty years. He had a cartoon in the 60s. He's been an Avenger for fifty years. He has an iconic look. People knew him
No, PEOPLE didn't know him, COMICS FANS knew him. Big difference. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, they're iconic. Joe Blow on the street who's never read a comic book knows them, Iron Man, on the other hand, wasn't. Only hardcore comic fans really knew of him. Now after the Marvel movies he's iconic, but he wasn't back then. And sure enough, the movie was a hit anyway. Because it was well done. Same with Blade. It was well done, and it became a hit.
Active comic fans are such a small part of the general public these days that you can't count on just them to make a movie a hit, They don't have the numbers. So whether the average comic fan is supportive of the concept is not as big a deal toward the success of the movie as one may think. What matters is whether or not the movie can attract people who don't read comics to watch. This is why the success of the property among comic fans is largely irrelevant. That's why a character like Blade was never popular enough to support a comic series before his movies and was never popular enough to support one after his movies, but he still could headline a profitable movie trilogy.
Meanwhile, Green Lantern was doing great business in the comics, and his movie flopped among the general public.
So with Guardians of the Galaxy, it doesn't matter if theyve ever been successful in comics or not, or if comics fans know the characters well. What matters is whether the movie is well done and whether it can attract the general public, especially those who don't read comics.
Oops, I just saw that Rell made many of my same points.
The first appearance of Starlord in the Marvel Universe that I'm aware of (indeed, the first time I recall him appearing outside of the '80s anthology books) was in the 2000 Inhumans mini done by Ladronn.
I realize you clarified it right away, but my initial thought after reading the headline was "When I first met the Guardians of the Galaxy, none of these characters were part of the team."
Whatever happened to the original Guardians of the Galaxy, anyway? Did something actually happen to them, or did Marvel just retire them? (Not that they ever permanently retire any character.)
Well, the original Guardians are in the 30th century, so Marvel can pretty much just stop mentioning them and not worry about what it means for the larger continuity. Which is basically what they did after the '90s series was canned.
It used to be strange to me, how back in the 1980s, NOBODY knew the characters I liked so much. Daredevil, the X-Men, the Legion of Super-Heroes. It made me feel like part of a secret society. Now I feel it even stranger that most people know of the X-Men (and sad that Daredevil is mostly know as "that Batman copy from a bad movie").
@ Rene:
Yep. I will never get used to being able to just drop a Wolverine reference into any conversation and having everyone get it.
I can't see this movie doing well. I like what Marvel is doing with the announced miniseries (Iron Fist/Luke Cage/Daredevil/Jessica Jones) and they did a good job with their Avengers movies. However, putting out a Guardians of the Galaxy is stretching their marketability it by putting a move full of C-list characters.
Steve Gan was a great artist – I loved his Savage Sword of Conan work
fraser – a Starlord story in Marvel Spotlight established that the "Master of Earth's Sun" was a renegade alien scientist who ended up being arrested by his own people.
Peter Quill never had his own series before Annihilation and had made his 9 early appearances in assorted issues of Marvel Preview, Marvel Spotlight, Marvel Premiere and Marvel Super Special with a one-off Starlord special expanding the second story (Claremont & Byrne) with extra pages
The 90s Starlord concerned the adventures of Sinjin Quarrel set 12 years after Peter disappeared.
BLADE was a hit, because it cost $45 million to make and grossed $70 million domestically. The expectations (and cost) of the Marvel movies have gone way, way up from those days.
I think that we are looking at similar comparables in different ways. If you say GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY belongs in a group that includes BLADE, HELLBOY and GREEN LANTERN, then I agree with you. That group averages a domestic gross of $80 million If everything break right for Guardians, then that is roughly the upside.
To me, Disney would treat that a disaster after the grosses of the Avengers films.
@buttler: one of those ambiguous "lost in space/time" situations. They're gone but can always be brought back reasonably easily. The title wasn't on my pull list by the time it ended, but that's the general gist I got from their repeated appearances in the DnA GotG series.
@Michael P. Not exactly correct. DnA actually intrinsically linked the original Guardians team to the more recent incarnations when he introduced them, as well as throughout the series. They found Vance Astro in a frozen block in space early in the series (before they had actually named the team) which actually led to a cool little exchange as Warlock mentioned the way Captain America was found in similar fashion when the Avengers were just starting up. Astro mentioning the name of his own former team also led to them naming the current incarnation Guardians (as opposed to Rocket Raccoon's "Asskickers of the Fantastic"). No idea what Bendis has changed about that… it's been awhile since I've enjoyed his writing and I'm not really interested in what he's done to the team.
I think the issue with people "not knowing who these characters are" isn't that movies don't introduce their characters as they go along and make you interested in them, it's that these particular characters are going to be marketed as tying in SOMEHOW to the Avengers characters. And from the list of characters, it seems that it will be difficult to do so without get bogged down in exposition.
But who knows?
i remember the look on pips face when Gamora revealed who she was and he almost was the one dropping a brick in his pants too Drax he looked differant then he does now. rocket racoon love how he was trying to save the hulk from a lawn mower
"who Ellen Ripley was. Know (no) one knew who Alex Murphy was. Know (no) one knew who Sarah and John Connor were."
Yeah, but you learned who they were in the movie. Now imagine, rather than each of those movies, they just had all the characters from them in one movie. Ripley, Murphy/robocop, and sarah and john connor, and the terminator, all in the same movie, without the previous movies to establish them. Now throw in 3 or 4 more characters too. You can either try to cover all their origins in the one movie, or you can just ignore the origins and have the viewers going "Okay, I don't get it who's that robot guy, and the other robot guy and the woman running around in her underwear with a flamethrower?" Would you watch a movie with all of them if you didn't know who they were, or didn't cover who they were in the movie?
"Simply present them as a bunch of weird aliens, like the Star Wars cantina and go from there."
Yeah remember when those weird aliens from the cantina went and blew up the death star…… Wait no they didn't do that. Remember when they fought Darth…… Wait, they umm….. Oh they were background. The movie wasn't centered around them. We learned who Luke was, and his origin story, the person the movie was about. We didn't learn who the cantina aliens were and didn't care, because the movie wasn't about them.
And a robocop and terminator movie could be good, now that we already know about the characters from their establishing movies.
As I said, even though people pretty much knew who Cap, Iron Man and Thor were, they each got their own origin movie before throwing them all together in The Avengers. For many, especially non comics fans, starting with The Avengers before the Cap, Thor, Iron Man, and Hulk movies would have been confusing.
The first appearance of Groot is incorrect. The Groot from Guardians is not the ruler of Planet X but actually stole his identity and fled from his people as a fugitive. This was revealed in the Rocket Raccoon & Groot back up story in Annihilators. It is a common mistake people make, I guess they simply didn't read it unfortunately even though it was amazing.
Groot of the Guardians of the Galaxy's first appearance is then Annihilation: Conquest: Starlord.
I believe that Guardians of the Galaxy is a necessity. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the infinity gems are appearing. Thanos has appeared. Eventually, in the next couple movies, more of the gems will reveal themselves. From The Avengers movie on, Marvel is gearing up to a great epic story, The Infinity Gauntlet. Gamora and Drax, therefore, need to be introduced (is Warlock far behind?) Marvel needs a space-faring team to make it seem like the story is not just Earth vs. Thanos. It is the universe vs. Thanos.
Marvel is using Nebula (key to Infinity War) and Ronan the Accuser in the Guardians movie. The Kree will soon follow, I imagine, in either the rumored Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers or Inhumans movies. They need the threadline to be absolutely huge so that Avengers 3 (?) can be the most outrageously grand crossover that cinema has ever seen.
Guardians may not do well at the box office, but I think it is absolutely important in the grand scheme of Marvel's storytelling.
Also, the fact that DNA consulted on the project means it has to be pretty great.
Smells to me like "Howard the Duck" all over again. I wish the Dr. Strange film was coming out first, so it would have a better chance of seeing the light of day!
Actually, come to think of it I wish they were planning a "Defenders" movie instead of Guardians, they could throw a lot of less well-known heroes (who may have already been glimpsed on screen, like Beast, Surfer, Valkyrie and Hulk) into that mix and still go cosmic if they want. And they would already have established Dr. Strange and his household in the Doc flick..
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Well they may not. Have been wrong at the time, I wonder if all those commenters saying it was doomed feel kinda stupid knowing what we know now.
Robert, I dunno about 'stupid', but I wonder if Ganky is feeling like some kind of psychic:
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The Bumblebee Flies Anywayby Robert Cormier
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Sixteen-year-old Barney can't remember life before the Complex, an experimental clinlc. He knows he's differenthe's the control subject. Then he uncovers a terrible secret about himself, a secret that drives him to fulfill his and his fellow subjects' ultimate dream. The Bumblebee must fly!
Sixteen-year-old Barney can't remember life before the Complex, an experimental clinlc. He knows he's differenthe's the control subject. Then he uncovers a terrible secret about himself, a secret that drives him to fulfill his and his fellow subjects' ultimate dream. The Bumblebee must fly!
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I read this book voluntarily when it was released in 1984 and I must say, after all these years, that has to be one of the best books i've read, and I have read many. I recommend this book for everyone, especially if you like books with unexpected twists and turns. I must tell you, that ending still haunts me!
Okay, I can't say that this book is cheery, but it is extremely well-written and you care about all of the characters. I have re-read it several times, and it never fails to catch me up in its magic.
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as a person whos never even read the book...i think we should all just forget reading and do somthing more enjoyable. for instince, we can go get drunk and wrestle the homeless!
Sixteen-year-old Barney Snow is sent to the Complex for an experiment. He can't remember anything before his life there or why he's there in the first place. He's not dying like the other people there and that earns him dislike from stuck-up Mazzo. Although he makes friends with the 'Handyman'(the doctor), Ali, and Billy the kidney. Barney continues to go through his different tests and Mazzo comes up with a deal for Barney. Cassie, his twin sister, is coming from Italy and he wants Barney there to greet her and stop her from persuading him to let his family come visit him. Barney immediately falls in love with Cassie. The story continues on with Barney uncovering more of his past and many obstacles along that path. The ending may be confusing, but this deffinately a book you DON'T want to miss!!
This book is a good depictoin of what its like in an experimental hospital. This book told how kids deal with the experiments. It showed all the different ways they deal wiyh it. The book is written very well. I recomend this book.
The Bumblebee Flies Anyway by Robert Cormier is an excellent book for teen readers. While the setting and situations of an experimental medicine clinic may be unusual, teens can easily identify with the patients and how they are a society of outcasts. Barney, along with his friends Billy, Ali, and Mazzo, have become ostracized due to their illnesses and each identifies their predicament in an independent manor. The intrusion of Cassie into their society brings a sense of the real world into the Clinic. The result ends in a rather unusual ending that might confuse some readers, but the basic premise will still remain appealing. The adolescent readers of this novel will find Barney's medication and Cassie's special relationship to her twin brother Mazzo conversation worthy thus making the novel an excellent choice for middle school and high school classes in which the teacher is wanting to provoke discussion. The Bumblebee Flies Anyway is also an excellent book that any age will enjoy.
I read this book after seeing the movie on the stand at Blockbuster. I got the book out of the library and found it hypnotizing. The book starts off with Barney Snow, a boy of sixteen growing up in an experimental hospital for terminally ill people, only he's different from everyone. He's not dying. He's there for an experiment on memory. The doctors erase some of it and do tests and treatments that have affects which he calls 'aftermaths'. He's acompanied by the 'Handyman'(the doctor), Billy the Kidney, Ali Roon, and Mazzo. Mazzo is despised by all. He's a spoiled, rich guy probably about twenty, who's angry at the world, and angry at the fact that Barney's not like them. He however has a deal for Barney. Mazzo's twin sister is coming, and he wants Barney to make sure that he doesn't get convinced in letting his family see him. Barney personally can't understand it. He doesn't remember his life before the hospital, and would love to at least know who his family is. Cassie, Mazzo's sister, comes, and Barney falls in love with her. There's some weird connection between Mazzo and Cassie, that doesn't turn up until later. Meanwhile, Barney finds out a deep secret about himself. He becomes friends with Mazzo and helps fullfil his last dream,to drive in a car again. The Bumblebee.


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It's coming fast and furious these days. An article discussing the impact of offshoring in Silicon Valley (and other places I'd wager). Business types saying it's just a normal trend; the unemployed angry, not philosophical. "I am not angry with companies for trying to conserve costs, but at the same time, we do have to acknowledge that it's going to ...Read More »
Blogging and building community
Wired 11.11: VIEW Here's a column by Lawrence Lessig about the nuance of the non-control nature of blogging and it's role, perhaps, in the next election. He says: None of this works unless the blog community is authentic. And that requires that members feel they own their gabbing space. A managed community works about as well as a managed economy. ...Read More »
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The first official issue of the Public Library of Science Biology is online. This is perhaps what you'd call an "open source" approach to science publishing. Scientists with no less prominence than Harold Varmus have been trying to wrest the control of scientific publication from a small group of publishing companies that charge very high prices (exorbitant or not is ...Read More »
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On the matter of whether the US technical community is losing ground to international competitors, Andy Grove, long-time, now retired CEO of Intel, offered his views recently. He introduced himself by saying to his audience, "I'm here to be the skunk at your garden party." Andy is very concerned about the software and technology industries being able to compete with ...Read More »


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In some countries, wanting to broadcast the constitution on the media might be considered a routine exercise.
Not in Eritrea, where some 55 soldiers who took over the information ministry for a day in January to demand the implementation of the 1997 constitution and basic human rights were jailed in a swathe of arrests.
It was one of the most dramatic challenges to the rule of strongman Issaias Afeworki – a former rebel chief and un-elected president since winning independence in 1991 from Ethiopia – the tightly-controlled Horn of Africa nation has witnessed.
However, Asemelash Abraha, head of television at the information ministry, the only official source of news for the country, is keen to downplay an event he dismisses as "hype."
"There was nothing," Asemelash told AFP in his office in that same information ministry, site of an Italian colonial-era hilltop fort overlooking the highland capital Asmara.
Multiple reports say it was Asemelash as station director who was forced to read out the soldiers' demands including the release of political prisoners, but the signal to the nation was cut after barely two sentences.
Asemelash however denies ever reading demands, and says that none were broadcast.
"Misguided elements here and there maybe tried to voice, I don't know, their private opinions," he said, adding that the soldiers remain in jail, except one who committed suicide.
Positive government rhetoric is in stark contrast to reports from exiled opposition and rights groups, who point to the brutal torture and jailing of critics, with national efforts focused at the creation of one of the world's most militarised nations, not towards development.
Many Eritreans sipping a macchiato in Asmara's cafés say they are too scared to speak freely.
"You can't talk, you can't write, you can't do anything, there is no freedom," said a driver who did not want to provide his name. "We are an egg, it is closed."
Elections have never been held, while Eritrea's hardline government restricts journalists -- after the government shut down independent media in 2001 – with Reporters Without Borders ranking Asmara the worst in the world for press freedom.
Asemelash's former superior Ali Abdu -- once one of the president's most trusted supporters and, as information minister, perhaps once the most vocal supporter of the regime – last year joined tens of thousands of fellow Eritreans who have fled into exile.
Again, officials are swift to play down his shock departure.
"It's immaterial for us, we don't care, it's an institution... things keep running," Asemelash insisted.
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In the arid, yellowed countryside outside the capital, relics of past battles are everywhere, a sign of how far Eritrea has come from the long years of war.
Rusted tanks dot the landscape, interspersed with military memorials to martyrs killed in the three decades independence war from Ethiopia.
But signs of development are there too: smooth, paved roads lead out from the capital while small thatch hut villages are being fitted with electricity poles.
Despite remaining in an official limbo state of "no war, no peace" with Ethiopia following a return to war in 1998-2000, Asmara has achieved grudging respect for work to boost public health, including reducing child mortality and HIV rates, while improving maternal health.
Eritrea is one of only four African nations on track to reach the UN's Millennium Development Goal of cutting maternal mortality by 75 percent by 2015, while literacy rates are almost 90 percent, one of the highest in the region.
Since 1995, life expectancy has improved from 52.5 to 62 years, and gross national income has risen by 17 percent, according to the United Nations' human development index.
But in other respects, including the most basic of human rights, the isolated country struggles.
A policy of fierce self-reliance has stifled economic growth, with a gross national income of $430, one of the poorest globally, according to the World Bank.
Daily water and electricity shortages compound frustrations while basic goods such as bread and fuel are rationed, but the government says it is working hard to support its population of six million people.
"We have to create an opportunity for everyone for the basic needs," said Hagos Gebrehiwet, head of economic affairs for the only political party. "Every child should have a chance to go to school, learn, (access) health care, water."
In public, youths praise the government's education policy, where the final of year of schooling takes place in a desert military camp, followed by years of national service on meagre pay.
"I'm ready for anything that comes," said 18-year old Hermon Amanual, dressed in military fatigues after returning home after a year away, insisting she was ready to fight for her country.
Ethiopia still occupies land ruled by a UN-backed court as belonging to Eritrea, and the threat from the far larger and more powerful neighbour concerns many.
Asemelash says conscription will continue until Ethiopia leaves Eritrean soil, insisting again the threats are external, not internal.
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This paper comments on the issue of global warming and climate change, in an attempt to provide fresh perspective. Essentially, five main arguments are made. First, that the process of modern economic development has been based on the burning of fossil fuels, and that this will continue to apply for the foreseeable future. Second, that in large part due to momentum in economic and demographic processes, it is inevitable that there will be a major rise in atmospheric CO2 during the present century. Third, that available data on global temperatures suggest strongly that the coming warming will be appreciably faster than anything that humanity has experienced during historical times. Moreover, especially in a system that is being forced, the chance of an abrupt change in climate happening must be rated as fair. Fourth, that while it is impossible to attach precise probabilities to different scenarios, the range of plausible unpleasant climate outcomes seems at least as great as the range of more manageable ones. The consequences of future climate change may be considerable; indeed, they could be almost inconceivable—with several negative changes occurring simultaneously and to cumulative adverse effect. There is an urgent need to improve ways of thinking about what could happen. Fifth, the paper maintains that the human response to other difficult 'long' threats—such as that posed by HIV/AIDS—reveals a broadly analogous sequence of social reactions (e.g. denial, avoidance, recrimination) to that which is unfolding with respect to carbon emissions and climate change. Therefore the view expressed here is that major behavioral change to limit world carbon emissions is unlikely in the foreseeable future, and that the broad sway of future events is probably now set to run its course.
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The words of his wife at the end lend credence to the latter two.--> "Your grandfather loves to tell stories, but like all sailors, you shouldn't take it too seriously."* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The closing credits song, 'Ocean Dreams' (or 'Ocean of Dreams') sung by Cynthia Z.* CounterpartComparison: Maltravers, as a power hungry, arrogant and ambitious man with a mustache, slicked back hair and an eyepatch and wants to kill an entire group of beings that he doesn't approve of, bares a very strong resemblance to [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fuhrer King Bradley]], just without the [[EvilIsCool coolness]].* CriticalResearchFailure: Even more so than [[WesternAnimation/TitanicTheLegendGoesOn that other Titanic cartoon]].* HoYay: The two young male mice, Connors and Ronnie, are quite touchy-feely throughout the film. 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Line Up Sports were chosen to by the Camogie Association
Line Up Sports were chosen to by the Basketball Ireland
On behalf of our client, Motorsport Ireland, Line Up SME were asked
The Aviva Fan Studio is sponsorship activation for the Aviva Stadium and
Line Up Sports, Media Entertainment, formally Tri-Line Sports Solutions have
Line Up Sports have worked on behalf of HSBC in
On behalf of our client, the FAI, and participating teams
"We found Maeve Buckley's approach excellent in terms of offering
Line Up were appointed in 2012 to work closely with
Line Up is a consultancy business specialising in the sports, entertainment and media sectors.
Line Up was formed in 2010 by David McHugh and Maeve Buckley. In combining our talents, as well as our experience, commercial contacts and relationships, we have developed a compelling business proposition.
Line Up is based in Dublin, working throughout UK & Europe. We work directly with brands, governing bodies and rights holders, as well as on a project basis where relevant with other industry experts.