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    Avengers: Endgame (2019)

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    18 minutes ago, stealinghome said:

    Am I the only one who doesn't care at all about the Steve/Tony "reunion"? There are about 503488063 things I care about more in this movie than the MCU trying to pretend that Steve/Tony was ever anything more than two people who didn't like each other having to work together and somewhat begrudgingly learn to respect each other.

    Seconding the hope that Tony and Nebula drifting in space is short. I have less than zero interest in Tony's (perpetual) dark night of the soul. Tony being honest about his own actions is way too much to ask.

    I want to like this post a million times.

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    The Marvel Cinematic Universe: The Avengers, etc.

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    · Edited by scriggle

    49 minutes ago, starri said:

    Isn't Jet Li in really poor health now?

    I hadn't heard anything about that. Donnie Yen recently posted a picture of Jet Li and himself after wrapping on Mulan.

    Seconding casting Donnie Yen (though after Rogue One came out he was campaigning to play Namor.)

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    Captain Marvel (2019)

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    5 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:

    Am I the only one that immediately thought of DragonballZ when they showed that shot of Captain Marvel glowing with her hair standing up?

    My first thought was Heat Miser.

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    Jill, Derick & the Kids: Moving On!!

    in Counting On

    · Edited by scriggle

    13 minutes ago, queenanne said:

    Er, what on earth would be the equivalent in olive oil, of 2 sticks (!?) of butter??

    As I eyeball my olive oil pourings, I can't even imagine!

    1 stick of butter equals 1/2 cup. So there's a cup of pure fat in that recipe.

    ETA: I simply can't imagine using a cup of butter/oil to saute one onion and one pepper. At most you'd need a tablespoon.

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    Jill, Derick & the Kids: Moving On!!

    in Counting On

    Current base pay for a Rogers police officer:

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    In addition to the starting base pay of $16.48/hour ($35,860/year) for police officers. Applicants for sworn officer positions can earn extra pay incentives for education, experience, and language skills. 

    3% increase above base for Associate Degree

    6% increase above base for Bachelor’s Degree

    7% increase above base for Master’s Degree

    5% increase above base for language skills deemed to have a positive impact on our ability to communicate with the minority community

    .6% increase above base for every year of prior law enforcement experience (Ex. 5 years experience 5 X.6 = 3.0% increase)

    https://rogersar.gov/351/Recruitment

    Average starting salary for a Benton County Sheriff as of 2014:

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    Benton: $33,000

    https://www.kark.com/news/local-news/ar-law-enforcement-battles-low-wages-when-recruiting/238295417

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    Jill, Derick & the Kids: Moving On!!

    in Counting On

    3 hours ago, GeeGolly said:

     

    Professional Year 1 First Term 
    LAWWJD - JD, Law  
    LAWD - Dean of Law
    ddillard@uark.edu

    Wow. Making students' email addresses public seems like asking for trouble. I'm surprised UofA does that. I could understand a directory that was accessible to UofA students and staff but open to the general public? I wouldn't want my email address out like that.

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    Super Social Analysis: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and LGBT in Movies

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    4 hours ago, Wynterwolf said:

    At the end of the series, Fraser and Ray V (Fraser was a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, originally from the Northwest Territories and Ray V was a Chicago detective) retire from their police jobs, strap into a sled decked out in off-the-grid camping gear,  and led by Fraser's companion Diefenbaker (a deaf white wolf), and go off into the wilds of the Canadian Rockies together on an "adventure".  

    So for Steve and Bucky, my headcanon will always be that Steve joined Bucky on his goat farm in Wakanda... that way Steve can retire in peace (especially if the world believes he's dead) and Bucky can help protect Wakanda as the White Wolf.    

    Off topic but it was Fraser and RayK who dogsledded off into the sunrise to find the hand of Franklin. RayV maarried Stella Kowalski, moved to Florida, & opened a bowling alley.

    On topic: I like your headcanon for Steve and Bucky.

    F-U, Reboot-Mania: Express Your Hate Here

    in Everything Else TV

    Exclusive: Amazon says James Gunn 'Starsky and Hutch' reboot is off

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    Last weekend, Disney fired “Guardians of the Galaxy” director James Gunn over offensive tweets from 2009 to 2012 that recently resurfaced.

    Most news coverage of his firing has also mentioned that while Gunn will no longer direct “Guardians of the Galaxy 3” for Disney, he is still set to direct a “Starsky and Hutch” reboot series for Amazon Studios.

    Indeed, last August, Amazon bought the rights to the Sony TV series in development, with a “script-to-series commitment,” as Deadline, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, and many others reported at the time. On Tuesday, the UK’s Metro newspaper asked whether Gunn will still direct the project for Amazon in the wake of his Disney firing.

    The answer is no.

    A spokesperson for Amazon Studios tells Yahoo Finance that Amazon backed out of the project months ago—before Gunn’s current scandal.

    “We passed on the project completely months ago,” says the spokesperson. “There was no statement. This is the same for any other project we do not move forward with.”

    Director James Gunn at a discussion during the E3 Expo on June 13, 2017, in Los Angeles, Calif. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

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    Amazon Studios declined to clarify further on exactly when and why it backed out of the project. It is unclear whether the series could still get made by a different distributor; Yahoo Finance has reached out to Sony TV for comment.

    Gunn has publicly apologized for the tweets, and said, “I understand and accept the business decisions taken” by Disney. But many cast members of the “Guardians of the Galaxy” franchise have spoken out in Gunn’s defense.

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    I'm glad this has been shelved. Leave my childhood faves alone,  damn it! I also think the S&H movie was a complete and utter travesty.

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    The Marvel Cinematic Universe: The Avengers, etc.

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    · Edited by scriggle
    thinking faster than i type

    4 hours ago, festivus said:

    They made a mistake not having Tony at that funeral but not just because of him and Steve's friendship or whatever it is. I feel like he had to have known Peggy as he was growing up because of Howard. Tony being who he is would have been interested in any part of Howard's life.

    In IM2 (3?), Tony had no idea Howard was one of the founders of SHIELD. To me that says Howard kept those parts of his life very separate. We really don't know how involved with SHIELD Howard was after Tony's birth, do we? So there's no reason to believe Tony was close to or even knew Peggy.

    I, for one, am glad the writers kept Tony away from her funeral. The focus there needed to be on Steve and not shared with Tony. Because IMHO Cap3 had way too much focus on Tony. (Yes, I'm still bitter.)

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    The Marvel Cinematic Universe: The Avengers, etc.

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    I think Marvel should take this quote from Timothy Zahn to heart:
     

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    From this 2008 interview:

    I often hear the argument that having major characters die is more realistic than having them always come through unscathed. Of course it is. But I personally don't want my fiction to necessarily be "realistic." I want my fiction to be entertaining. For me, that means watching engaging characters I care about get into and out of dangerous predicaments, working and thinking together in order to defeat the bad guys. While some authors (and readers) like the tension of wondering who will live and who will die, I prefer the tension of seeing how the heroes are going to think or work their ways out of each difficult or impossible situation they find themselves in. If I want realism and the deaths of people I care about, I can turn on the news.


     

    I don't watch superhero movies to see the superheroes fail. I don't watch them to see them die.

    Over in the IW thread, there's a summation of a interview with the writers that includes: "The initial screenings didn't get a favorable response, which they expected due to the downer ending,"

    IMHO They'll really see an unfavorable response if they kill any of the original 6.

    I truly believe Marvel would be making a huge mistake is they kill any of the Avengers (especially Steve). Captain America/Steve Rogers is arguably their most popular character (spidey doesn't count as Sony owns him). I know I see far more people wearing Cap merch than any other character. There's talk that Disney is contemplating some sort of CA ride/attraction. Why kill a money maker?

    Also I don't think passing the mantle would work in the context of the MCU. The MCU is NOT the comics; most people have no clue about the comics. The general public strongly associates Captain America with Steve Rogers (and Chris Evans). I don't think Cap!Sam or Cap!Bucky would receive a warm welcome.

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    Jill, Derick & the Kids: Moving On!!

    in Counting On

    Evangelical Christianity held by most of the country? I don't think so.

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    White evangelical Protestants are in decline—along with white mainline Protestants and white Catholics. White evangelical Protestants were once thought to be bucking a longer trend, but over the past decade their numbers have dropped substantially. Fewer than one in five (17%) Americans are white evangelical Protestant, but they accounted for nearly one-quarter (23%) in 2006. Over the same period, white Catholics dropped five percentage points from 16% to 11%, as have white mainline Protestants, from 18% to 13%.

    America’s Changing Religious Identity

    The whole article is very interesting.

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