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[alwida10]

What does Bob Iger‘s return mean for the MCU?

Everyone who thought that perhaps the recent decrease of quality in the MCU might be Chapek’s fault, and now things will get better… sorry - that won’t happen.

Iger was in charge while the MCU made Disney bigger and bigger. Under his lead the company showed an outstanding growth. And for some reason, he left the company right when the first news of Corona indicated it would be something Big. In February 2020.

Interestingly, there had been several people discussed as possible successors, and everyone was surprised it was chapek. He had a reputation for being less liked and being not creative but more business-orientated. His most important flaw was he did not have Iger‘s talent for socializing and making friends. A bad trait for a ceo, but a wonderful trait for a scapegoat (Disclaimer: I have no intention to indicate Chapek would be nice or redeemable. even bad people can be used as scapegoats.)

Just look at the timing! The Corona stock market crash was on 20. February 2022, and Bob Iger left Disney on the 25.February 2022.

Chapek had to deal with the stock market crash, the following lock downs, and the massive bad news on how Disney treated its employees. All things Iger would have had to deal with if he had been CEO. But he wasn’t. Chapek took all the blame.

And now, coincidentally, when Corona has more or less stared to become endemic, and the risk for further lock downs is low, Iger is back in charge „saving“ the company. 🙃

The downfall of quality in the MCU is another topic, which escalated in 2014, when Feige and Perlmutter had a fallout, where Feige threatened to leave if no way was found he could make decisions without Perlmutter interfering. Iger supposedly tried to find a diplomatic solution, but after that didn’t work, he took marvel studios (the part of marvel that produces the movies) and ripped it out of the rest of the Marvel-company. Disney had bought Marvel in 2008, but allowed them to keep their company structure until then. In this old structure a creative committee had to approve all movies. The writers and directors often bemoaned not having the creative freedom they wished for. HOWEVER, this process ensured the movies would have less consistency errors and the moral messages stayed in line with the comics. Perlmutter was kept in charge of marvel comics, while Feige took over the MCU, henceforth unregulated by the former creative committee which consisted of comic book authors, and Perlmutter.

Feige established a new creative committee consisting of marketing specialists etc, who started their work by approving infinity war and endgame.

To understand the development, you need to understand what both of them brought to the mix. Feige‘s talent and curse is the same. He takes big risks. Superhero movies were not considered „good“ enough for the normal cinema, before he changed that. It was a Genre people looked down upon. His vision, which he followed since he was an intern at marvel, was to make the genre big.

Perlmutter, as a grumpy old man including all the pros and cons that come with that, managed to add to the mixture by giving the sincerity and respectability, the first movies needed to be taken seriously. (Just picture them like Odin and Thor in the Bifrost-scene, only that in this case Odin/Perlmutter was banished.)

And Feige brought all the glory people wanted, and since a lot of the old crew was still there the movies in the time of the restructuring kept a bit of the „old“ flair. Age of Ultron was the last movie the old creative committee approved. The movies after that (Dr. Strange, and Antman) were a bit more funny, but they did not fall out of the old trails entirely. but then Thor Ragnarok came, convincing everyone that being weird and colorful was something all MCU movies should be, instead only the Guardians. Before this was the signature of the Guardians of the Galaxy, making them stand out. Like the Thor movies‘ signature was to be a drama, resembling Shakespeare, and the Captain America movies were war-movies. All sub-franchises had a signature. Until TR broke it up.

IW was written and planned quickly after TR and perhaps they didn’t have time to adapt to the „new“ taika style there. But endgame definitely went much further in the direction of TR with all its depression jokes and big scenery.

That is the style Feige inspires - creative freedom without any regulation. Perhaps best shown in the Loki series and She-hulk. Can good things come from that? Definitely! Black Panther is an example for that. But good things should pass quality control all the same. The bad things should be filtered out.

[thewestern]

Chapter 6

Born a beer baroness, Hildegard Wolff had never laid eyes on a brewery so small. She made one last survey of the place, and ducked out the front door, held open by her bodyguard, who was really more of a valet, even if he wore the familiar earpiece and aviator sunglasses of a federal agent. 

Obediently, Mayor Mockingbird fell in behind. Their respective stages awaited on the curb in a designated no-parking zone. Loading Only: Eight to Five. His was a black sport utility vehicle, American-made; hers a full-sized luxury saloon of bespoke, mother-of-pearl exterior, imported from the United Kingdom. Her anglophilic selection of limousine constituted another in a lifelong series of subtle acts of rebellion against her deceased grandfather, Wilhelm I, who would have been sorely offended by the suggestion of riding in anything other than a German Autocar. 

Impatiently, Billy waited in the cabin. Thus was his act of protest. Although he himself was personally more familiar with the Craft Brewing Scene, such as it were, in a professional capacity, such as it was, he did not think much of the New Frontier Brewing Company. Of Mayor Mockingbird, he thought even less. His mother’s interest in either entity confounded him. They couldn’t see him through the extralegally tinted windows, but he could see out to them as they briefly embraced, he whispering a bitter something in her ear, she throwing her head back in hackling laughter, so uproarious as to transcend insincerity. 

After parting Larry’s company, Hildy’s security guard-slash-chauffer led her to the car and opened the rear suicide door. For his part, he preferred the title of protective field operative, the one used in the marketing materials for the Perlmutter Firm, the global comprehensive risk mitigation agency which deployed him. The mayor was meanwhile being led to his transpo by the deputy sheriff. They shut the car doors in unison and sized one other up briskly, before exchanging respectful nods in solemn acknowledgment of one another’s service. 

I don’t understand, of what use is he to us? 

Hildy could hardly sit down before Billy started in. 

Not Us, dear. Me. 

As far as You’re concerned, whatever this childish aversion is to politics, well, you’ll have to grow out of it eventually. It’s my responsibility to work with these people, no matter how distasteful that may seem to you. And, it’s not any of your business, but I foresee the future governor’s usefulness bearing fruit in all manner of ways. Let that be a lesson in itself. We live in a democracy, Billy. We live in a democracy, Billy. By all means, let yourself be heard. Just, please, do it somewhere else.

Hildy hadn’t cast a vote for Mayor Mockinbird. The Wolffenhaus family residence wasn’t actually within the city proper. That’s not to say that she’d a voted for him if she could’ve because absolutely she wouldn’t. Some lines could not be crossed. She had however made max contributions to his campaigns for election and reelection, in both her name and Billy’s, totaling several thousand dollars over multiple cycles. Putting party loyalty aside, Opa wouldn’t have disapproved of this one bit; of course, you have to work with these people. (Vote with your conscience; contribute to your self interest.) Now that Mockingbird declared his candidacy for state office, she had agreed to chair his super political action committee — More Values PAC — and committed to an orders-of-magnitude more gratuitous schedule of donation, summing somewheres in the middle-six figures.

  Put firmly in his place, Billy cursed himself for once again allowing his emotions to interfere with his business objectives. He simply had to be more strategic when interfacing with Mother. Rather than attempt a high-risk recovery maneuver, he resolved to wait until she had cooled down before broaching the more mission-critical subject at hand. Besides, he knew how mother was loath to discuss the family or any other business in the car. Predisposed to motion sickness, she preferred to ride in total silence in this, what was finely tuned — by the same acoustic engineers that designed recording studios, opera houses and black site interrogation suites — to be the quietest car on the market. Above his cluttered thoughts, labored panting on the part of her most beloved companions — a pair of asthmatic terriers — was all Billy could hear.  

Driving from downtown to the family residence, which was tucked away in the foothills, Hildy always insisted on taking a more scenic route. One that bypassed the main interstate and its polluted sightlines, pockmarked on either side by mobile home parks and billboards advertising personal injury attorneys. Her preferred route of passage ran right along Collegiate Avenue, first abutting the botanic gardens — for which Hildy was a distinguished member on the board of directors. Then intersecting a boutique shopping and restaurant district — where Billy could often be seen socially. Straight through the heart of the campus of Collegiate’s namesake college — a private institution to which Billy’s great-grandfather, Hildy’s Opa, Wilhelm I, was a massive benefactor (his name was on so many buildings, they considered naming the whole place after him). A large stone wall shielded from view an historic neighborhood — where Hildy kept her primary residence. There were three roadside churches — Episcopalian, non-denominational and Roman Catholic, in that order … she found them each to be regrettable eyesores. Likewise, three country clubs — two of which the Wolff’s maintained lifetime memberships that they hardly if ever used. Lastly, the country day school both Billy and Hildy had attended — although, the former had not been allowed to complete his studies there, a fact that sent off a sharp spiral of pain down his and her spines with every single passing. The detour nearly doubled the time to destination, but to Hildy, lounging in the privacy suite, the subtle scent of genuine walnut wafting off the hand-carved veneers, reclining on the handstitched leather seats … she could have just as well teleported. Nevermind how that thrice-varnished wood paneling and artisanally-tanned hide upholstery were currently being coated in drool. 

Leading into the Wolffenhaus, a long driveway extended out a quarter-mile — intimidating the first time you drove in, tedious every time after. In one of the only home improvements he ever made, Wilhelm I had German oaks harvested from the Black Forest, shipped — first via steamliner, then by rail — and replanted in a canopy formation lining the vehicular foyer. Back there in that Black Forest there were some trees that lived to three, five, seven hundred years old even. But here in this rocky topsoil they wouldn’t last a fraction of that if they were lucky. As for these invasive specimens, they were approaching the end of their short lifespans, relatively speaking. But you couldn’t tell it by looking at them. Strong and beautiful as ever, they appeared to be from the bottom up. Leaves had completed their turn and were beginning to shed now. The sweep of the passing car dusted them off the smooth black pavement, kind of like the car commercials for the Fall Sales Event. Zero percent APR. 

Motion sensing their arrival, a front gate cranked itself open beneath an archway, itself inscribed in corrugated iron with a family motto of sorts — Der Hunger Des Wolfes Gehört Uns. Although its erection had pre-dated outbreak of the Second World War by some years, the feature nonetheless bore a troubling resemblance to an infamous aphorism as it appeared above the entranceways to Dachau, Auschwitz and other concentration camps across Nazi-occupied Europe. Then with the landing of the Second British Invasion of the early eighties, the words’ English translation — The Hunger of the Wolf is Ours — became a source of some public ridicule for a separate reason entirely. 

As a global comprehensive risk mitigation professional, Ariel was highly trained to treat his clients only insofar as they were assets with which to be safeguarded. That this client of German heritage had a decorative homage to the Holocaust was immaterial to that objective. In any event, even as an Israeli Jew, the Nazis didn’t figure prominently onto his personal axes of evil. This despite a childhood of hearing his grandfather’s stories of surviving Buchenwald, and his own father’s stories of pursuing fugitive war criminals across South America, which he only partway believed. That was then. Now, he was a man, and not for nothing but he’d met many native Germans socially who he quite liked, mostly in the progressive house and trance music scenes that he frequented in his life outside of work. Besides, his generation of Israeli Jews had a new enemy entirely. Those surface-to-surface missiles — Cavness Bauman-made — weren’t shooting down the Luftwaffe, now were they? One grudge at a time.

Buzzing the unoccupied guardpost, Ariel accelerated slowly onto the crushed gravel that surfaced the circular motor court. Parking between the dry fountain where the stone wolves no longer spit, and the overgrown facade, he killed the engine, exited the drivers’ side door, walked efficiently — never run, unless lives are at stake — around the hood to the rear passenger side. He manually opened the door (it was press-button automatic, but the client preferred the human touch). Executed all with a tactical fluidity. As contractually stipulated, it was a breach of Perlmutter Firm protocol for protective field operatives to serve in this capacity — as butlers with guns. However, since this was a legacy account, Ariel was instructed by his handlers to make an exception. 

With all the subtlety of a B-Fifty Two Stratofortress, a strategic bomber capable of carrying a payload of up to seventy thousand pounds, Hildy buzzed Ariel’s post as he stood there at attention. Carefully, she had chosen his picture and physical measurements from a catalogue the agency prepared specifically for her, constituting another breach of protocol. Per firm guidelines, operatives were to be assigned to assets on a basis of aptitude and field readiness. Furthermore, hitherto assignments were to be maintained strictly on a need-to-know basis. Alas, here was a VIP whose special requests would have to be accommodated, no matter how peculiar. So much of global comprehensive risk mitigation had become client relations. It hadn’t always been that way. 

Beside, the Wolff account was a legacy account, but it wasn’t like a big account. Not by a long shot. No, by today’s standards for executive security — corporate budgets for which had been ballooning in direct correlation with executive compensation — a one-operative detail was almost unheard of. For a fact, the Wolff account ran a net loss. That notwithstanding incidents of late payment, which had been increasing of late. Nonetheless, in light of the family’s chequered history, in which this particular firm played a somewhat regrettable role, their service was kept active, basically at cost.

Albeit somewhat sluggishly, the dogs obediently fell in behind on single file — in fact, every place she went, they pursued … including and especially the restroom. Hildy had expressed concern to Ariel how the modest drop from car door to ground might exacerbate the arthritis in their stubby-wubby little legs, so he helped them each down one at a time, taking care to avoid getting slobber on what was his only suit. Even for a man of his practical strength, their lumpy, cylindrical shapes — like tubes of premade dough — were somewhat awkward handling. He had ordered a small foldout ramp from an online pet store, billed to the client expense account, but it had yet to arrive.   

Billy remained in the car, tapping away at his phone. He sat on the opposite side of the extended cabin from mother, specifically so that she couldn’t see his screen — even if that meant he had to sit betwixt the canine mucus kings. Often she would ask, what it was he was even doing with his toy, which is what she called his mobile phone — Hildy felt superior for not bothering to even own one. Emails, he would respond curtly. And often that was true. His inbox had hundreds upon thousands of unread messages; he would sometimes show women the tally in an odd attempt to impress them. This phone had so many other applications though. He could be checking his bank balance (he had shown women that, too), online shopping for whatever struck his fancy at the present moment (he coveted hats, as in baseball caps, and collected them compulsively … he also had a considerably more expensive weakness for watches [timepieces, he called them] … you might say he was a man in perpetual need of accessory), or otherwise surfing the internet … other times he would surreptitiously watch internet porn, doing mother the courtesy of making sure the speaker was muted. It wasn’t a sex thing; it was an impulse control thing. And that his mom was in the car, that had nothing to do with it. Whatever, it’s not like he was driving. Just come off it, won’t you.

Again, he was not watching porn on his phone, at present. Actually, he had a high score going on Brick Blaster, which quite cynically combined the most addictive elements of two vintage arcade games into a digital speedball for dicking around. A Solitaire for the Singularity, of a sort.  

Ariel waited beside the door he held open. Once before he had forgotten Billy was back there and had driven the car around to the moto paddock with him inside. He still hadn’t lived that down. Standing there for another ten minutes, he resisted the urge to check his own phone for an important message he was expecting. Ariel had big plans, you see. He wasn’t going to be a protective field operative forever. He was a man with really special skill, to just barely misquote his new favorite film. Skills that he would not let go to waste. Finally, Billy momentarily emerged from his trance, having fallen only woefully short of his high score. Immediately commencing a new game, he made his way out of the vehicle without even looking up, still managing to make Ariel feel plenty looked down upon. 

Zayin ba’ayin (זַיִן בַעָיִן), Ariel cursed under his breath as he passed, using the Hebrew slang for dick in the eye, or fuck you in the eye. As in, that was like six weeks ago I forget you in the car, asshole … fuck you in your eye. He waited for the large manor doors to close behind him before he spitted on the ground in his general direction, muttering out loud this time, Ben Zona (בן זונה), which was a more common insult meaning son of a whore, or son of a prostitute. Although in certain contexts of contemporary slang, it meant awesome, or excellent. Ariel had been so far away from home so long he wasn’t always current with exactly how they told folks to fuck off anymore.

[shades-of-stony]

ABO Stony AUs! (Part 2)

As promised, here is part 2! [link to Part 1] I’m not sure if I’m gonna make part 3 but there are still a bit ABO fics left. 

A King For Christmas by iam93percentstardust

Summary: In 1867, Tony Stark flees New York after refusing to marry the alpha his parents chose for him. His money runs out in the small kingdom of Dacia, ruled over by King Steven of the Rogers line. Somehow, and he’s not entirely sure how, he ends up accepting the position of nanny to the king’s four children: Harley, Peter, Sarah, and Morgan.

Tony bonds with the children easily but their father is harder to get to know. Steve is still grieving his wife’s death four years earlier. His continued mourning has turned the once bright halls into dark and somber shadows of their former glory. Tony isn’t entirely certain what he can do but he knows that he has to do something or else the whole country, so attuned to their leader, will sink into despair. He begins by reconciling the king with his young children.

Meanwhile, the children have decided that it’s high time their father fall in love again—and Tony is the obvious choice. They concoct elaborate plans to force the two together, hardly realizing that Steve and Tony are falling in love, not through their shenanigans but through the quiet moments they share bonding over the love they have for the children.

What, Like It’s Hard? by JehBeeEh

Summary: Omega Tony Stark has it all, until his alpha boyfriend breaks his heart. In an effort to win him back, he follows the alpha of his dreams to Harvard Law School, where he discovers there might be more to being the first omega at the prestigious school. He also meets another alpha that might just make him forget the one he drove across the country for.

Two-Point Perspective by FestiveFerret for sabrecmc

Dear omega,

Congratulations! You've been selected. Alpha #95847872 has been assigned as your pre-bondee. A group bonding ceremony will take place on the 14th, unless other arrangements have been made by your alpha or their family. A valid bonding license must be submitted to Omega Services within 45 days of this letter or all services will be cancelled and any transferable benefits will not be applied to your alpha's package.

If there is some reason why you cannot be bonded on this date, please apply for an extension by calling 1-800-555-6827 within 7 days of receiving this letter.

Sincerely, National Omega Services

I Love You (From the Bottom to the Top) by RomancebyFaye for Reioka

Summary: Steve and Tony have a great relationship. They may have only been dating for a few months, but the truth is, they had been in love for years before that. Their relationship is only getting better from adding this new intimacy and Steve is very satisfied with how open Tony is in the bedroom. He’s giving and generous, sometimes to a fault, just as he is with everything.

And then Steve comes home early and catches sight of something he wasn’t meant to see. The shock he gets from the sight of watching his alpha ride a toy might not have been meant for him, but it doesn't stop him from wanting.

Now, if he can just figure out how to tell Tony how much he wants what he witnessed without putting his foot in his mouth…

Or Tony offers Steve something in the bedroom and Steve misunderstands the offer.

Until he doesn’t.

A Prime, Divided by avengersasssemble

Summary: Facing his and his infant son's possible death sentence, young prince Tony runs away to the only place where his father would dare not follow: the Northern Territories, known to house the most savage and brutal Alphas--including their bloodthirsty leader, the Prime Alpha. Forced to navigate fatherhood and diplomacy while being unable to speak the Northern language, Tony has to make decisions to save his son, even at his own expense.

Oversight by ShyOwl

Summary: It really wasn’t Steve’s fault that no one knew he was an omega.

I Love You 3000 by NazakiSama166

Summary: After the death of his husband, the only thing Steven Rogers could think of was going on and dying in one of his missions, and Steven was happy to get his wish.... that was until he woke up in a strange universe when people can shift into wolves and men can get pregnant... Oh, and did he mention that Tony was there too and was in love with his younger jackass self? And let's not forget about Peggy...

Life just loves to mess with him...

Dear Enemy by AvengersNewB

Summary: Alpha Steve and omega Tony are SHIELD agents who don't always see eye to eye, but some benefits on the side help them work things out in the most non-traditional way. Steve's jealousy after an unfortunate encounter with Ty Stone, however, makes things complicated.

Love Match by FestiveFerret

Summary: Tony had but one goal for the season: secure a marriage proposal from an alpha with the position and means enough to remove him from his father's house. Love was wholly irrelevant to the matter. 

Stuck in a... by  Annie D (scaramouche)

Summary: Steve gets into a serum-enhanced rut. Tony figures that there’d be a long list of people who’d volunteer to help Steve out, but there’s only one person Steve wants.

A Late-Night Snacks, and Other Good Ideas by  Annie D (scaramouche)

Summary: Steve's heightened senses means that he always knows when Tony's in heat. One night, he finally does something about it.

citrus and lavender by JehBeeEh  

Summary: Steve laid Tony on his bed as delicately as he could manage. Which was ridiculous because he knew, logically, that Tony was absolutely fine. JARVIS himself had told him. And that’s 100% why he had fought Natasha so hard on Tony not needing to go to medical when they came back, even though he probably could use the check up. Yup. That was definitely the only reason he had insisted on bringing Tony back to the penthouse. No other reason at all. If you keep this up, you just might start believing it, he thought to himself ruefully. Tony wasn’t his. He had made it very clear that he didn’t need some alpha in his life to mess with everything he’d worked so hard to accomplish. Especially not Steve Rogers.

Found Love in a Hopeless Place by crispybacon

Summary: Steve really, really did not want to tag along with his brother to the bar, no matter how many times the jerk nagged him that he needed to get laid. Just because Bucky’s known his Omega since kindergarten, and the pair have loud obnoxious sex in their shared small two bedroom apartment, didn’t mean Steve needed to stick his knot in any Omega that looks his way.

That’s not the kind of Alpha Steve was.

Or, Steve goes to a bar and meets an Omega with a complicated past that changes his life forever.

This is Not a Drill by sabrecmc

Summary: “Can I—can I see him? I mean meet him. Uh…welcome him to the team?” Tony clarified, probably not very well, he knew.

“Well…there’s a bit of an issue with that,” Fury said, and Tony figured this was where Fury got to whatever it was that had really forced his hand and made him call Tony in, knowing how much the man detested having to do so. “You see, well. He was suspended in the ice for nearly seventy years,” Fury began. Tony nodded along, because he could do math.

“I’m sure he has a lot of adjusting to do—“ Tony started.

“Seventy years,” Fury repeated, cutting Tony off and leaning back in his chair and making it rock slightly. “Of no suppressants.”

“Oh,” Tony managed to choke out past the lump that had suddenly formed in his throat. “Oh.”

Everybody's got a hungry heart. by Perlmutt for ShadowsintheClouds

Summary: Tony Stark has never experienced a true heat due to the suppressants he's taking on a daily basis. Society accepts him as a beta, together with his friends and teammates and the alpha he's secretly in love with. But some things are just too big to be kept hidden forever. An unfortunate turn of events forces Tony to reveal his biggest secret to the world...

Baby, Just Say Yes by betheflame for starksnack

Summary: In a world where Tony's life looks a lot like Taylor Swift's, Steve realizes there always more to omegas than meets the eye.

Apple Pie and Sunshine by betheflame, starksnack

Summary: Even though they've loved each other for years, Steve and Tony have each convinced themselves that their one-night-stand was a fluke. Thing is, it also resulted in Tony getting pregnant and as the birth approaches, perhaps it's time to use their words.

blue since the day we parted by funkyspacegirlfriend

Summary: When he's twenty, the man Tony thinks will be his alpha and mate walks away, leaving Tony with a gift he'll never regret.

The same alpha reappears fifteen years later in the form of SI's new military liaison.

In my Favorite Dreams (I feel your heat) by Corsets_and_Cardigans for wingheads

Summary: Steve is on his morning run in DC when a ghost from his past comes back into his life. And he's not alone. *** “Steve?” Sam’s voice cut through the veil of the past, the crushing weight of memory that stole his breath. “What’s wrong, buddy?”

His staring must have finally alerted another parent, a woman eyeing him warily while tugging on Tony’s sleeve until he turned around. His eyes were just as expressive and wide as they were ten years ago, piercing the cold morning air straight to Steve’s own.

“Tony.”

“Wait. Tony Tony? The Tony? The Tony that Bucky busts your chops over Tony?”

His voice cracked, wrent into pieces at seeing his omega who wasn’t his anymore, body flaring in pain. Years worth of aching denial like a hot fireplace poker to his soul. “Yeah.”

“Okay then, who’s the kid?”

The Couch by Perlmutt

Summary: Steve overstepped a mark, when he accidentally called Tony, his mate, tiny. Because his omega was very self-conscious when it came to his height. So he needed to show him that he thought Tony's perfect just the way he was, if he didn't want to sleep on the couch for the next week. Luckily Steve was the man with a plan...

be the summer in my heart by billyscissors

Summary: After Obadiah betrays the Southern Isles, he offers Omega Prince Anthony Stark as tribute to appease the Warlord of the North

[redspiderling]

i really want black widow to perform well and as much as I'd like to believe it will, I fear that it will fall short due to the inevitable need for it to push the mcu forward. this is why we needed black widow to come out earlier so that by now, she'd have a completed triology that not only completes her arc but also can push forward phase 4. I don't see how a solo movie can do both. I'm scared that her story will be overshadowed by a storyline that pushes the mcu forward (aka thunderbolts)

Dear anon, listen. 

This is the 3rd message along those lines I’ve received today. I know it’s annoying to see how awesome things could have been, and I know we’re all really worried and stressed, and the film getting postponed hasn’t helped at all. But there are issues here much greater than story arcs to be honest.

We need to discuss the reality of discrimination, racism and sexism in Hollywood and what it really means beyond the pointless twitter rage.

There are so, so many things that happen behind closed doors, and not even half of it reaches our ears. And even that is enough to allow me to tell you with absolute certainty that there is no way we would have gotten a Black Widow movie anytime before now, and that even now it’s a miracle that we’re getting it.

Let me start with who was the boss at Marvel HQ until 2015, a man who even up until last year had a great deal of creative influence at the studio even if he wasn’t calling the shots anymore. A man by the name of Isaac Perlmutter. 

Here are a select few headlines the man, and Disney’s gender and race politics in general, have made over the years.

“[...]The first movie featured an African-American actor, Terrence Howard, as Colonel Jim Rhodes. Don Cheadle, another African-American actor, was hired for the same part in the sequel at a cheaper price. Mr Perlmutter apparently told Mr Mooney the change cut costs. He allegedly added words to the effect that no one would notice because black people "look the same".

3 African American Female Executives fired from Marvel and seek legal settlements. Link 1 Link 2 Link 3. (You will notice that most of these articles forget to mention that the women were African American, which is significant given how big a racist Isaac Perlmutter is known to be. Plus, I had to dig really deep into google news to actually unearth these).

A Suit Against Disney Claims Unequal Pay for Women

Another woman joins gender pay lawsuit against Disney

Why Rich Ross Was Fired At Disney: What Does It Say About Bob Iger's Leadership? “He had an ‘awareness’ issue,” a Disney source explains to me. 

Marvel’s Trump Donor Ex-CEO Is the Reason There Was no Black Widow Merchandise 

Marvel CEO Says in Leaked Email That Female Superhero Movies Have Been a 'Disaster'

I know we all have our reasons, lots and lots of reasons, on why it would have made sense for a Black Widow solo film to have happened years ago. I’d like an origin story before Iron Man 2 for example. But that was never in the cards, ok?

It was never an option and it’s not like Scarlett didn’t try.

Why do you think she made Lucy in 2014? 

Or said yes to Ghost in the Shell around the same time Margot Robbie dropped the project due to scheduling issues (circa 2014-2015)? 

Because of the awesome script? 

Maybe because she wanted to steal roles from minorities? 

Hell no. She wanted to prove the simple fact that she -a woman- could star, alone, in a film and still bring in box office results, ok? 

Scarlett already told us just how shitty things were behind closed doors back in 2015 when they gave her that disgusting storyline in AoU, and were trying to block Captain Marvel from happening. 

Ok, phew.

Sorry about that anon, it’s getting a bit much reading all the crap that’s happening and all the shitty people that run away with being shitty people (and getting tons of money out of it too).

Lets move on to the storyline of the Black Widow film that we are miraculously getting now.

There is always the possibility that they will include some elements to push forward the MCU, but I think they’ll keep those for the end credits scene, mostly. From what I’ve seen in other MCU solo films, the do add these hints here and there, but there is always a dominant story at play, and you don’t want to lose the viewers by focusing too much on the sidelines of it. 

Finally, like I’ve said before, I truly, honestly believe, that after all the shit Scarlett has gone through in these past 10 years, I am absolutely certain that she wouldn’t put herself through this if it weren’t worth her while. I’m not saying that it’s a given that the film will be good, ok? Nobody can guarantee that. But we can hope. If it makes you too stressed, don’t watch it opening day, or opening weekend. Get some feedback from some trusted friends, ok?

Stay strong anon. Oh and one last thing. After living though a toxic work environment like that, I’m pretty sure Scarlett would want Natasha’s film to be glorious. And she got a big win the day the film was announced. A really, really big one. So that’s something to celebrate, I think. Women really won that day at SDCC last year :)

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Mary Critharis appointed USPTO’s Acting Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs

Today, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced that Mary Critharis has been appointed the USPTO’s Acting Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs.

Ms. Critharis first joined the USPTO as a patent examiner in 1992 before progressing to Assistant Solicitor in 2000. From 2001 to 2002, she served as Counsel to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee before returning to the USPTO as Attorney Advisor (2002-2004) and Senior Patent Counsel (2004-2011). Most recently, Ms. Critharis served as Deputy Chief Policy Officer and Senior Counsel.

As the Acting Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs, Ms. Critharis will serve as a policy advisor to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, and oversee the USPTO’s domestic and international intellectual property policy activities; legislative engagement, through the Office of Governmental Affairs; education and training, through the Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA); global advocacy, through the IP Attaché Program; and economic analysis, through the Office of the Chief Economist.

Ms. Critharis will serve in this role as the USPTO continues the process of identifying a permanent replacement for Shira Perlmutter, who was recently selected to lead the U.S. 

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I haven’t read it yet so I’m basing my annoyance at the page you posted, but I hope there’s a (potential) Marvel writer out there that gets tired of Sue’s “doing this to protect loved ones” repeat offense. How many times will they use that argument? I’m so furious on Johnny’s behalf because he’s always going to forgive and be hurt again because it’s going to be Repeated History! Marvel, let Johnny run away to freakin’ breathe!!!

I wouldn’t get your hopes up for when you do read it. I wouldn’t say it’s not addressed or resolved, but it is sort of just quickly painted over. I also won’t say I automatically don’t like Sue’s tendency to keep information from Johnny in out of a desire to protect him, because I do think it’s part of the characters’ dynamic and I think it can be done well, and flaws in the relationship make things interesting. I don’t think it was really done well here, because the issue needed more time devoted to them and their relationship, and that’s not what happened, because instead the Rachna plotline gets wrapped which is, like, okay, fine. I get that it was this dangling plotline. The thing is in superhero comics so many plotlines get dropped for whatever reason and I would have rather the page time be devoted to Sue and Johnny, and then maybe in two years someone else would remember “oh hey whatever happened to that character” and brought Rachna back in, but that is not what happened, so. And you’d think because Rachna’s plot involves her trying to save her sister, it’d be a good parallel against Sue and Johnny’s sibling relationship, but, uh, I didn’t really get that coming through. I thought that the focus got to be on Johnny and Sue’s relationship less than the previous issue devoted itself to Reed and Ben’s.

My ultimate issue here and with Fantastic Four is the inconsistency. We’re now six issues into the return and the reasons given for Reed and Sue’s absence are, uh. Let’s call it muddled. And I don’t think this was exactly the easiest absence to come back from, but I do think it could be done significantly better than what’s actually happening. It’s so contradictory! Everything leading up to Fantastic Four (2018) #3 would indicate that for whatever handwave-y plot reason, Reed and Sue couldn’t get back to their home universe. Then Marvel Two-In-One #11 happened and in it Reed says he thought Ben and Johnny would be bored which is uh. Not a great reason to let half your family think you’re dead. Then he also says he did it for Doctor Doom, which is great in terms of Doom/Reed shippiness and again, terrible in terms of reasons why you should let half your family think you were dead. And then FF #3 and #4 just read as total rush jobs. I get that now that the Fantastic Four are back, Marvel wants them to be BACK, but I’m beginning to become concerned that Marvel’s editorial department is just a tank of dead sea monkeys that their writers hold their scripts in front of. Ideally, I’d have loved there to be a real, concrete reason why Reed and Sue and the kids couldn’t go home or contact Ben and Johnny, as certain books that start with Fantastic and end with Four seemed to be implying:

But that’s not what we got in the mad scramble to laugh hysterically and say, “What three year fit Ike Perlmutter threw about the film rights that we repeatedly lied about?” as they shoved the Fantastic Four right back into 616. 

I would have liked a lot of messy emotions. I wanted Johnny to be allowed to be angry and to lash out emotionally. I can’t believe I’m kind of complaining about a scene where Johnny buries his emotions by buying very expensive ugly jackets. But here we are. I mean, it’s still better than Fantastic Four (2018) #4, which feels like the emotional equivalent of a Prove You’re Not A Robot test where it just makes you keep selecting cars. It feels like it was written by a computer desperately attempting to prove it understands what you fleshy ones know as “the feeling emotion.” If Slott revealed he’d taught his pet sloth how to type and let it write that issue, I’d believe it. 

Anyway, bring on the wedding and let Johnny kiss Wyatt Wingfoot. I can be bought, Marvel! 

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The board of trustees is delighted to announce Audrey Bilger as the 16th president of Reed College! The vote was unanimous. Bilger is the first woman to be selected for the post, and she joins our community from Pomona College, where she most recently served as vice president for academic affairs, dean of the college, and professor of English.

Roger Perlmutter ’73, chairman of the board, said, “Audrey Bilger has demonstrated her commitment to these ideas throughout her career. She is also a fierce advocate for the liberal arts. Her leadership experience combined with her scholarship inspired the presidential search committee, members of the Reed community with whom she met, and our board of trustees.”

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Art+Feminism Announces New Call to Action Artwork Commissions from Wendy Red Star + Tuesday Smillie

Art+Feminism is pleased to announce that Wendy Red Star and Tuesday Smillie have been selected for the 2019 Call to Action art commissions. Under this program, artists create a Creative Commons licensed work that is hosted on Wikimedia Commons. Established in 2017, Divya Mehra’s Dangerous Women (Blaze of Glory) was the inaugural commission.

Ashkaamne (matrilineal inheritance), 2019 by Wendy Red Star depicts in black and white the artist and her daughter, Beatrice Red Star Fletcher, reclining in matching striped shirts and blankets, with the words, “Apsáalooke feminist,” repeated in the background. Apsáalooke inheritance is based on matrilineal descent, tracing affiliation along with the mother-to-daughter line. The Apsáalooke Nation consists of ten matrilineal clans, which represent the belief that there are ten lunar months from conception to birth.  The mother’s clan takes care of the physical and emotional needs of the child. Wendy and Beatrice are part of the Ashkaamne clan, also known as the Treacherous Lodge. This image represents a lineage, female empowerment, and the next generation. Click here to view the work on Wikimedia Commons.

Rage/Sorrow, 2018 by Tuesday Smillie is an animated gif. The text “RAGE” appears large, filling the square format from left to right. “RAGE” is quickly obscured by a cascade of rectangles and the text, “SORROW,” repeated in a smaller font. The work was initially inspired by the artist’s reflection on the public murder of queer Greek HIV activist, Zak Kostopoulos, by a mob of people. Rage/Sorrow, a born-digital work, suggests the role of technology and the internet in nurturing and exacerbating pre-existing social divisions. The endless loop of the gif mimics a cycle of anger and anguish produced by the constant stream of horrifying news. Click here to view the work on Wikimedia Commons.

About the Artists

Raised on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana, Wendy Red Star works across disciplines to explore the intersections of Native American ideologies and colonialist structures. An avid researcher of archives and historical narratives, Red Star seeks to incorporate and recast her research, offering new and unexpected perspectives, along with creating a forum for the expression of Native women’s voices in contemporary art. Red Star holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Montana State University, Bozeman and a Master of Fine Arts from University of California, Los Angeles. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues including Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris. Red Star is the recipient of a 2017 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and a 2018 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. She has lectured widely, at institutions including Banff Centre; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Yale University, New Haven; and California Institute of the Arts, Valencia. The Newark Museum will host Red Star’s first career survey exhibition later this year. She lives and works in Portland, Oregon.

At the core of Tuesday Smillie’s work is a question about the individual and the group: the binary of inclusion and exclusion and the porous membrane between the two. Smillie holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Oregon College of Art and Craft. Recently, she has shown at Artist Space, New York; New Museum, New York; Participant Inc, New York; the Rubin Museum of Art; and Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham. Smillie is the recipient of a 2014 Artist Grant from Art Matters, New York and the 2018–19 Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence Award by Rose Art Museum. In 2014, she was named the first Resident Artist by the Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art. Her work has been featured in Artforum; the Boston Globe; and New York Magazine, and she has lectured at Cornell University, Ithaca and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Smillie lives and works in New York.

About Art+Feminism

Founded in 2014, Art+Feminism is a do-it-yourself campaign to improve coverage of gender, feminism, and the arts on Wikipedia. The project is a response to the gendered gaps in participation and content on the world’s most popular online research tool. Art+Feminism creates accessible training materials and step-by-step organizer kits to encourage the organization of edit-a-thons, events where people of all gender identities and expressions collectively create and update articles on Wikipedia, add images to Wikimedia Commons, expand WikiData entries, and more. Since 2014, over 10,000 people at more than 800 events around the world have participated in Art+Feminism’s Edit-a-thons, resulting in the creation and improvement of more than 33,000 articles on Wikipedia.

Art+Feminism is led by Siân Evans, Jacqueline Mabey, McKensie Mack, Michael Mandiberg, and Melissa Tamani. Art+Feminism’s Regional Ambassadors are Mohammed Sadat Abdulai, Accra, Ghana; Stacey Allan, Los Angeles, California; Amber Berson, Montreal, Canada; Daniela Brugger, Basel, Switzerland; Marta Delatte, Barcelona, Spain; Dominique Eliane, Ivory Coast; Medhavi Gandhi, Chandigarh, India; Linden How, Portland, Portland, Oregon; Walaa Abdel Manaem, Cairo, Egypt; Amanda Meeks, Flagstaff, Arizona; Jessie Mi, Taiwan; Juliana Monteiro, São Paulo, Brazil; and Taryn Tomasello, Portland, Oregon. Art+Feminism is supported by Qubit New Music, Inc. and the Wikimedia Foundation.

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via Politics – FiveThirtyEight

The Democrats have won the House, and Republicans will have to hand over the speaker’s gavel in January. But it’s not totally clear whom that gavel will go to.

The long-running drama over the fate of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi is entering a new phase. It has been clear for months that Pelosi might not have enough Democrats behind her to become speaker. Some incumbent House Democrats oppose the California Democrat because they believe it’s time for a new figure to lead the party, which Pelosi has done since 2003. And dozens of Democratic candidates, facing a barrage of attacks from Republicans linking them to Pelosi, pledged during their campaigns not to support her in a speaker vote. Of course, many of Pelosi’s critics were running in very red districts — so they lost.

But Pelosi still has some work to do if she wants a second tenure as House speaker. With almost all the 435 House races decided, we did a whip count of the newly elected or re-elected Democrats. Here’s what we found: Pelosi does not appear to have 218 votes to become speaker, unless some Democrats backtrack from previous comments suggesting that they will not support her.

Before the election, NBC News and reporter Ally Mutnick of the National Journal put together lists of Democratic candidates who said they would not support Pelosi either for Democratic leader or for speaker if the Democrats took control of the House. Combining their research with ours, we identified at least 63 anti-Pelosi candidates — 21 of whom won their elections.1

Democratic-members elect who might not support Pelosi

As of 4:00 p.m. on Nov. 8

Candidate District Incumbent? Vote Margin Rashida Tlaib MI-13 D+73.2 Brian Higgins NY-26 ✓ D+47.1 Bill Pascrell NJ-9 ✓ D+40.9 Jim Cooper TN-5 ✓ D+35.7 Seth Moulton MA-6 ✓ D+34.6 Linda Sánchez CA-38 ✓ D+33.7 Ed Perlmutter CO-7 ✓ D+24.1 Kathleen Rice NY-4 ✓ D+22.1 Tim Ryan OH-13 ✓ D+21.6 Filemón Vela TX-34 ✓ D+19.5 Mikie Sherrill NJ-11 D+13.3 Kurt Schrader OR-5 ✓ D+13.1 Conor Lamb PA-17 ✓ D+12.4 Jahana Hayes CT-5 D+11.7 Jason Crow CO-6 D+10.0 Haley Stevens MI-11 D+6.7 Jeff Van Drew NJ-2 D+6.3 Max Rose NY-11 D+6.0 Elissa Slotkin MI-8 D+3.8 Abigail Spanberger VA-7 D+1.9 Joe Cunningham SC-1 D+1.4

Vote margins may change as results are tallied. Six candidates who said they would not vote for Pelosi are in races that are still too close to call, so this list may grow.

Sources: ABC News, NBC News, Ally Mutnick, other media reports

With a handful of races still unresolved, Democrats have won 224 seats2 — that number is likely to increase, but it’s hard to see them winning more than 235. Even at that high mark, Pelosi would be four votes short of 218 if the 21 Democrats followed through on their pledge not to support her. The anti-Pelosi faction includes 11 incumbents, some of whom have long been critical of her, like New York’s Kathleen Rice and Ohio’s Tim Ryan. The other 10 will be joining the House with the new class of members in January.

Of course, Pelosi could still become speaker even if she is a few votes short at the moment. And she’s probably the favorite. How would she get there? There are at least three pathways.

The most direct way for Pelosi to become speaker is that at least a few of these anti-Pelosi members backtrack on their campaign pledges. Could that happen? Maybe. Nine of the 21 anti-Pelosi candidates won by more than 20 percentage points. It’s unlikely that voters in fairly liberal-leaning areas will vote out their members in November 2020 over a pro-Pelosi vote in January 2019. Also, it’s not clear there is an obvious person with broad support to replace her, so other House Democrats might convince the anti-Pelosi wing that there is no real alternative.

And Pelosi could try to persuade her opponents to change their positions by either pledging to serve as speaker only through 2020 or picking a No. 2 whom the anti-Pelosi bloc likes.

This is easy to describe but probably difficult to execute. Many new members have no particular loyalty to Pelosi — and some incumbents, like Ryan, have openly frosty relationships with her. The anti-Pelosi faction could try to block her from becoming the Democrats’ designated candidate for speaker or just refuse to back her in January, forcing the party to pick someone else.

There’s a second, more complicated way for Pelosi to become speaker — her critics voting “present” rather than “no” in the House speaker election. Let’s walk through that, because it’s a bit complicated.

The first step in the speaker selection process is that each party has an internal vote to determine its candidate. This vote takes place behind closed doors, usually in late November or early December. (Newly elected members travel to Washington to participate in this process.) Then there is a formal vote in the House in January that typically pits a Democratic candidate against a Republican one. The winner is the new speaker.

Assuming for now that Pelosi makes it through the private vote to the January vote in the House, she will need a majority of those choosing between the two candidates (California’s Kevin McCarthy is the favorite to be the GOP choice). But that doesn’t mean she would need 218 votes (an outright majority of the House). If members vote “present,” it brings the threshold for a majority down.

So let’s say that after the election results are finalized, the House is made up of 230 Democrats and 205 Republicans and that the number of anti-Pelosi Democrats stays at 21. If all 21 vote “present” and the rest of the Democrats back her, she will win the speakership 209-205. But if Democrats don’t make it to 230 and end up with 228 seats or fewer, Pelosi won’t have the votes to win, even if the Democratic faction against her votes “present.” In that case, she’d need some Democrats to backtrack on their pledges to oppose her.

A third way for Pelosi to become speaker is for the anti-Pelosi Democrats to vote against her in the private party vote but for her in the floor vote. Since many of the candidates simply said they wouldn’t vote for Pelosi as “party leader,” they could claim to be keeping their campaign promise while still allowing Pelosi to become speaker of the whole House. After all, the speaker election would probably only have two viable candidates — Pelosi and McCarthy (or another Republican).

As you can see, there’s still a good deal of uncertainty about how the speaker vote will play out.

Let’s finish by saying clearly: Lots of gossipy stories about internal Washington machinations ultimately don’t matter. This one does. With Trump in the White House and Mitch McConnell in charge of an enlarged Republican majority in the Senate, the Democratic speaker will have a huge role in determining exactly when and how the party tries to constrain Trump, as well as how or if House Democrats try to work with him on major issues. The Democrats are also trying to come up with a strategy that will increase the chances that the party’s 2020 presidential candidate will win. And the Democrats in the House will have a fairly diverse group both demographically and ideologically. So the speaker has to satisfy not only liberals like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York but also moderates like Conor Lamb of Pennsylvania. None of this will be easy.

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Who is Andrew He? Wiki, Biography, Age, Spouse, Net Worth, Fast Facts

Andrew He Wiki - Andrew He  Biography

Andrew He is a television character and computer programmer on Impira and recently appeared on the show Jeopardy! Andrew became the hero on the last night of November 10, 2021 and will return for the evening scene. Andrew, a local from Cupertino, California, is between the ages of 25 and 30, most likely born during the 1990s. He went to Monta Vista High School, where he finished his studies and stayed there for quite some time from 2011 to 2015. Subsequently, he went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he obtained his certificate in BS (Mathematics, Computing and Science). He was selected for the degree in 2015 and completed his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2019. As his LinkedIn profile indicates, he has been a computer programmer at Impira since July 2019. It has been two years and five months since he worked there. He previously served as an Autonomous Vehicle Engineer Intern at Cruise which proceeded from June 2018 to August 2018, that is, only for 90 days. He has also been a computer programmer at Elliot Technologies, for a considerable period of time (June 2017 to August 2017), a long-time assistant programmer at Dropbox (June 201'6 to August 2016), and a software engineer. in practice. on Addepar again for quite some time (from May 2015 to July 2015).

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So far, he has earned two distinctions for being the specific champion of Distributed Google Code Jam and a silver award at the 2016 ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition. Programming improvement, C ++ information, and Python language are the most popular skills in Andrew in which he has published his profile. Andrew appeared as the new contender on the well-known game show Jeopardy and entered the show on November 10, 2021. Right off the bat, he won the last danger and snatched a staggering $ 52,001 measure, and will gradually appear as a Champion back on Thursday's scene. He would face Portland's Willa Perlmutter and Starkville's Tucker Shoppe. Andrew is reportedly single. He finished his studies in 2019, so it is very likely that he is not married at the moment. However, Andrew himself has not discovered many details. By all accounts, he is clandestine when it comes to communicating his own life. He did not give any information regarding the life of his parents and regardless of whether he owes any previous relationship or whether he has a spouse or not. Despite the fact that Andrew has not disclosed these data himself, it seems that he is taking on a lot of his product vocation. He has been working as a computer programmer for a while. Additionally, he has held a couple of entry-level positions that he mainly held for over a month. However, we were unable to track the specific amounts of its abundance at this time.

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This basically sums up what's wrong with America. Period are nuttier than a pecan pie. Total brain rust. The Psychopath Epidemic, Cameron Reilly. https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=38SeDwAAQBAJ Just Babies, Paul Bloom. https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=4zIoneREvW0C Grain Brain, David Perlmutter. https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=IZ-o1PjwdF4C The Coddling of the American Mind, Greg Lukianoff. https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=9-o6DwAAQBAJ Why Good People Do Bad Things, Debbie Ford. https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=612OJZ2pxssC U think there's good here? Lol lol Warning: Psychiatry Can Be Hazardous to Your Mental Health, William Glasser, M.D.. https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=lHeBF01uFrYC By conditioning me to believe they're good over and over until it's a reflex to feel and think it and also never to even consider questioning that or be considered scum or evil, when they abuse or meddle, you feel not just obligated but it's like Pavlov's dogs and 1700s slavery. They basically buck break you all kinds of ways and using the prison of the mind. I think you might like this book – "NONSENSE FROM THE BIBLE" by Brian Baker. Start reading it for free: https://a.co/8Gi1nNG I'll have to read that you see if it makes sense. The scary thing is it might. But that's people to change something good to be bad just kind hackers number one rule. You don't have to obey. Including the left. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-liberals-war-on-science/ Libs are just as bad sometimes. Throw Them All Out, Peter Schweizer. https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=GrGuqMLm3nUC And we are suppose to trust the rest of society and the system? That's a good one. It'll be selective like y'all's morals. (at North Ogden, Utah) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJng1sUhcv5/?igshid=mvr1uhf803fy

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New Treatments Linked to Drop in Mortality from Malignant Melanoma

MedicalResearch.com Interview with:

Dr. Polsky David Polsky, MD, PhD Professor of Dermatology and Pathology Alfred W. Kopf MD, Professor of Dermatologic Oncology Director, Pigmented Lesion Section The Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology New York University Grossman School of Medicine Perlmutter Cancer Center Joan and Joel Smilow Research Center New York, NY 10016 MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Response: The background for the study was to determine the extent to which new treatments for metastatic melanoma were impacting melanoma mortality rates for the United States population. Multiple clinical trials have demonstrated that several new agents were highly effective at prolonging survival. These treatments belong to two different groups of medications: those targeting the biological pathway activated by mutation in the BRAF oncogene, which occurs in just under 50% of metastatic melanomas; and those targeting the immune system, called checkpoint inhibitors. These drugs prevent melanomas from suppressing the immune response to the tumors. Ten treatments were approved beginning in 2011, including six treatments between 2011 and 2014. We examined mortality rates between 1986 and 2016, prior to and after FDA approval of these agents. MedicalResearch.com: What are the main findings? Response: We found that melanoma mortality climbed by 7.5 percent between 1986 and 2013, but then dropped by nearly 18 percent over the next three years. The declines outstrip comparable decreases in cancers of the prostate, breast, and lung, three other common forms of cancer. The steep drop in deaths cannot be readily explained by better detection methods because death rates did not drop steadily over time, as would be expected for improvements in detection of earlier stage tumors, but sharply. In addition, many healthcare groups have been pushing for early detection skin exams since the 1980s, so the timing of these declines matches up better with the introduction of the new therapies. The combined magnitude and rapidity of the decline appears to be continuing in recent data not included in the study, and is unprecedented in adult cancers.  MedicalResearch.com: What should readers take away from your report? Response: Our findings demonstrate how quickly patients and physicians accepted these new drugs into routine clinical practice, because they profoundly reduce deaths from melanoma. These therapies are now considered the backbone of how we treat melanoma that has spread beyond the skin. Nevertheless, early detection is still important, allowing for less toxic forms of treatment and lowered health care costs. Prevention of melanoma by avoiding excessive ultraviolet light exposure, and promptly seeking medical care when there is a new or changing skin growth are crucial to reducing the risk of developing metastatic melanoma. MedicalResearch.com: What recommendations do you have for future research as a result of this work? Response: Future research should focus on developing even more effective treatments, and identifying biomarkers to select patients most likely to benefit from particular therapies, while sparing others the risk of the potentially severe toxicities and high costs of treatment. Equally importantly, we need renewed emphasis on public health approaches, such as raising public and professional awareness of melanoma and its early warning signs, especially in adults aged 50 years or older, to reduce the number of patients who require treatment of advanced disease. We also need to investigate socioeconomic factors that may affect access to these newer therapies. MedicalResearch.com: Is there anything else you would like to add? Response: Before these treatments were developed, less than 10% of patients with metastatic melanoma survived 5 years after receiving their diagnosis. Today the survival is between 30% and 50%. This is a spectacular example of how society’s decades’ long investment to reduce human suffering through basic scientific and medical research can payoff. The current trends are continuing, and we are hopeful that with continued investment in research we can reduce the death rates even further. My laboratory conducts contract research with Novartis Pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer of two of the drugs recently approved by FDA for the treatment of melanoma. Citation: Juliana Berk-Krauss, Jennifer A. Stein, Jeffrey Weber, David Polsky, Alan C. Geller. New Systematic Therapies and Trends in Cutaneous Melanoma Deaths Among US Whites, 1986–2016. American Journal of Public Health, 2020; e1 DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305567   The information on MedicalResearch.com is provided for educational purposes only, and is in no way intended to diagnose, cure, or treat any medical or other condition. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health and ask your doctor any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. In addition to all other limitations and disclaimers in this agreement, service provider and its third party providers disclaim any liability or loss in connection with the content provided on this website.   Read the full article

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Merck buys ArQule and BTK drug for $2.7bn

Merck & Co. has announced it is to snap up ArQule for $2.7 billion, just as the US biotech announced new data from a blood cancer drug that could be used after rival therapies fail.

There are already Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor class drugs on the market – Janssen/AbbVie’s Imbruvica (ibrutinib) has been on the market since 2013 after a first approval in mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and has since been approved in numerous blood cancer indications.

AstraZeneca’s Calquence (acalabrutinib) followed and has been approved in MCL and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL).

Calquence has already wowed the American Society of Hematology (ASH) with some stunning data in CLL in combination with Roche’s Gazyva – and now US Merck is trying to get in on the BTK act with this “bolt on” acquisition.

Merck & Co., known as MSD outside the US, has agreed to buy ArQule for $20 per share, bringing with it the BTK inhibitor ARQ 531.

Massachusetts-based ArQule’s lead candidate, ARQ 531 is a novel oral BTK inhibitor that is in phase 2 trials for treatment of B-cell cancers.

Merck said ARQ 531 is a highly selective, reversible inhibitor that blocks both wild-type BTK and the C481S mutant form of the enzyme that is commonly associated with resistance to other BTK inhibitors.

In early clinical trials, ARQ 531 demonstrated a manageable safety profile and early signs of anti-tumour activity in relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and Richter’s Transformation.

Final data from a phase 1 study of ARQ 531 was presented at ASH, and Merck has agreed to buy all outstanding shares in ArQule in the agreement announced simultaneously.

There are other oral kinase inhibitors in ArQule’s pipeline along with ARQ 531, described by Merck’s research chief Dr Roger Perlmutter as “a compelling candidate for the treatment of B-cell malignancies.”

The acquisition represents a considerable turnaround for ArQule, which had previously been trying to develop the c-MET inhibitor tivantinib, but had met a series of trial failures.

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We Want a House Assets Institute

Fifty years in the past this July, Apollo 11 delivered the primary crewed mission to the floor of the moon. At this time, the USA is on the verge of an area renaissance--returning astronauts to the moon, first on an orbiting area station after which a return to the floor. Amongst different targets, NASA, its worldwide companions and industrial corporations need to discover and mine lunar water--the primary constructing block of hydrogen gasoline and oxygen. Water, or ice, situated on a celestial physique just like the moon or an asteroid, is a kind of area useful resource. Within the final 20 years, deep area exploration has recognized potential water deposits on the moon, on Mars, within the asteroid belt and even on moons orbiting Jupiter and Saturn. Utilizing in-situ useful resource utilization (ISRU) expertise, such deposits could possibly be transformed to hydrogen or oxygen, enabling the refueling and provide of future area missions. In the long run, these area sources can even cut back the price of uncrewed exploration missions to deep-space places such because the asteroid belt, the enormous planets and the Kuiper Belt. Business pursuits are additionally keen on mining area sources. If water can present (comparatively) low cost refueling companies in area, it might catalyze the expansion of the industrial area business. For example, there may be already curiosity in asteroid mining, in the hunt for platinum or different helpful metals. The worldwide area business is estimated to be price greater than $400 billion in 2018. By 2030, the business might double in measurement due to new applied sciences and industrial innovation, together with area sources. The U.S. is well-situated to seize a major share of that development, however that's removed from assured. An additional give attention to scientific analysis is required. Just lately, the bipartisan "Space Resources Institute Act" was launched in each chambers of Congress (H.R. 1029 and S. 391). This proposal, which might additional unlock area useful resource applied sciences, comes from 4 members of Colorado's Congressional delegation: Consultant Tipton, Consultant Perlmutter, Senator Gardner and Senator Bennet. Based mostly on the target of "maintaining United States preeminence in space," the act would direct NASA to research the feasibility and want to ascertain a bodily or digital House Assets Institute inside six months. Particular targets embrace: Figuring out, growing and distributing area sources, together with by encouraging the event of foundational science and expertise. Lowering the technological dangers related to figuring out, growing and distributing area sources. Creating choices for utilizing area sources to assist present and future area architectures, applications and missions; and allow such architectures, applications and missions that will not in any other case be attainable However it isn't solely the U.S. that's taking a look at main in area. On the sources facet, Luxembourg, Brussels and the United Arab Emirates are laying the groundwork for their very own aspirations. One essential instrument for the longer term institute could be NASA's Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway, a deep-space station orbiting the moon. In early 2019, Canada turned the primary nation to formally be part of the U.S.-led undertaking. NASA's different companions on the Worldwide House Station, together with the European House Company, JAXA and Roscosmos, have all expressed curiosity in becoming a member of the undertaking. The Gateway would function a base for lunar science, supporting crewed and uncrewed lunar exploration by each authorities and industrial companions. It might additionally present a singular laboratory to review human well being and different topics within the harsh atmosphere of deep area, constructing upon the Worldwide House Station's success in Earth orbit. A key growth underlying renewed U.S. area competitiveness is the position of personal sector actors and industrial innovation. In 2011, the U.S. solely had a fraction of the worldwide industrial area launch market. Following the retirement of the area shuttle in 2011, the U.S. misplaced its human flight launch functionality. In response, NASA contracts and assist have developed industrial launch capabilities. By 2017, U.S. corporations equipped virtually two thirds of all industrial launches globally. Within the subsequent 12 months, each SpaceX and Boeing are scheduled to ship astronauts to the Worldwide House Station for the primary time. Extra just lately, non-public transportation choices have been thought-about for upcoming lunar missions. In 2015, Congress handed the Business House Launch Competitiveness Act, which supplied higher authorized certainty for property rights for U.S. industrial corporations extracting area sources. In late 2018, a consortium of NASA, educational and private-sector stakeholders printed the Business Lunar Propellant Structure. The research established the technological and financial feasibility of extracting water on the moon and turning it into gasoline. Within the close to time period, the research discovered that lunar resource-based refueling might generate greater than $2 billion in income yearly. In March 2019, NASA introduced that it was unsealing lunar rock samples from the unique Apollo missions that had been saved to particularly allow extra superior evaluation later. NASA's present analysis institutes are central to attaining the company's targets in primary and utilized sciences associated to area exploration. In whole, NASA hosts or funds actions at greater than 60 institutes throughout the nation. These institutes differ in construction and embrace federal entities, universities, non-public contractors and cross-sector collaborations. The specialties and scientific missions of every institute differ; notable analysis capabilities embrace key fields like exoplanets, astrobiology, superior manufacturing, and biomedical analysis. Just lately, NASA started funding House Expertise Analysis Institutes, university-led analysis initiatives to develop specialised applied sciences for deep area exploration. The primary two, targeted on organic engineering and ultrastrong composite supplies, can each improve area capabilities and develop new applied sciences to be used on Earth. A House Assets Institute would carry out an analogous position, though it could give attention to a selected mission want, versus a selected utilized science. House sources are inherently interdisciplinary. A number of new techniques are want to include applied sciences from throughout the area business to efficiently develop water or mineral sources in area. House sources missions have superior engineering necessities to handle vacuum, microgravity, excessive temperatures swings, radiation and different hazards in deep area. Different related challenges embrace useful resource surveys and characterization, area useful resource economics, and processing and manufacturing applied sciences. To conduct a Mars mission within the 2030s counting on refueling from ISRU applied sciences, NASA must encourage their innovation and adoption quickly. An institute would act as a bridge between NASA and the rising industrial area sector. As demonstrated by launch suppliers resembling United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origins, Virgin Galactic and others, industrial corporations can drive technological growth and cut back prices. Non-public-sector analysis, growth and demonstration (RD&D) improves capabilities for scientific missions. In the case of the applied sciences to prospect, extract and course of area sources, public-private collaboration will encourage a virtuous suggestions cycle. A House Assets Institute might additionally show essential to nationwide financial competitiveness. When the U.S. first went to the moon, solely the U.S. and former Soviet Union had the potential to launch lunar missions. At this time, many spacefaring international locations have launched or plan to launch such missions. Notably, Israel's ongoing lunar Beresheet lander mission was launched on a SpaceX rocket from Florida. Read the full article

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Muse Earrings Silver

JEWEL DETAILS:

Klimbim earrings gold / Simplicity Collection

Material: niquel tested brass

Finishing: 24k Gold plating

Length: 6 cm

DESCRIPTION:

ES: MUSE Earrings son pendientes desiguales (aunque también tienes la opción de pedir un par igual) están compuestos por una cadena de eslabones cuadrados, una piedra de nácar y uno de los dos lleva una pieza ovalada. Para crear este colgante, hemos utilizado piezas características para las joyas Klimbim, una piedra semipreciosa como el nácar, que en esta combinación se puede llevar durante todo el año, una cadena seleccionada especial para esta colección y una pieza geométrica. Estos pendientes son únicos y cuidadosamente pulidos y trabajados. Todos los componentes de esta joya están hechas de latón anti alérgico chapado en oro de 24k y producidos en nuestro taller en Barcelona.

☛ Cada joya Klimbim está manufacturada con cariño en Barcelona y se envía en un paquete decorado o bien para ti o listo para regalar. Enviamos a todo el mundo! ☛ Nada más pagas una vez los gastos de envío, independientemente de la cantidad de piezas que compres. ☛ Los materiales usados para nuestras joyas están producidos en España y son libres de níquel y plomo.

DE: MUSE Earrings sind ungleiche Ohrringe (obwohl auch die Möglichkeit besteht, dasselbe Paar zu bestellen). Sie bestehen aus einer Kette quadratischer Glieder, einem Perlmuttstein und einem ovalem Element. Um diese Ohrhänger herzustellen, haben wir für Klimbim Schmuckstücke charakteristische Elemente verwendet, einen Halbedelstein wie Perlmutt, der in dieser Kombination das ganze Jahr über getragen werden kann, eine speziell für diese Kollektion ausgewählte Kette und ein geometrischer Anhänger. Diese Ohrringe sind einzigartig und sorgfältig poliert und vearbeitet. Alle Komponenten dieses Schmuckstücks bestehen aus 24 Karat vergoldetem antiallergischem Messing und werden in unserer Werkstatt in Barcelona hergestellt. ☞Jede Klimbimschmuckstück wird in Barcelona von Hand gefertigt und kommt fein verpackt zu dir nach Hause. Wir verschicken weltweit! ☞Du bezahlst nur einmal die Versandkosten, egal wie viel du betellst. ☞ Die für unseren Schmuck verwendeten Materialien werden in Spanien hergestellt und sind Nickel und Bleifrei.

EN: The MUSE Earrings are unequal earrings (although there is a possibility to order the same pair as well). They consist of a chain of square links, a mother-of-pearl stone and an oval element. To make these earrings, we used characteristic elements for Klimbim jewelry, a semi-precious stone such as mother-of-pearl, which can be worn in this combination all year round, a chain specially selected for this collection and a geometric pendant. These earrings are unique and carefully polished and finished. All components of this piece of jewelery are made of 24 carat gold-plated anti-allergenic brass and are manufactured in our workshop in Barcelona. ☞ Every Klimbim jewel is created with love in Barcelona and comes in a cute packaging to you. We ship worldwide! ☞ All used materials are produced in Spain and nickel and lead tested. ☞ For our jewelry we only use anti allergenic materials which are produced in Spain. ☞ Wrapped in plastic free & recycled packaging