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Ares

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  1. I wonder how HE got out of the prison he was in and into the beer truck.
  2. My father in Law heard of the Theft on the Radio. He asked me if I heard if the situation and are comics really worth that much. I said yes and yes. He starts to ask me about my collection. He no longer makes fun of me and what I collect. Hope you get your stuff back ASAP
  3. If you Live in Canada and subscribe the the Space Channel you get all the episodes when they air. No Extra Fee beyond your TV subscription
  4. So Fed Ex was supposed to get a signature and they did not? I wonder what they had to say!
  5. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/06/toys-r-us-weighs-possible-bankruptcy-filing.html Toys R Us hires law firm as it explores possible bankruptcy filing 4:27 PM ET Wed, 6 Sept 2017 | 00:51 Toys R Us has hired a law firm to help restructure its roughly $400 million in debt due in 2018, a move that could include the marquee toy store filing for bankruptcy protection, sources familiar with the situation said Wednesday. Addressing the retailer's debt load prior to the crucial holiday season could give its major vendors such as Mattel and Hasbro clarity into the company's long-term viability to help ensure the toymakers continue to stock its shelves throughout the holidays. Toys R Us has hired restructuring lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis to help address the looming payments, the people said. Hiring a law firm like Kirkland is not indicative of a bankruptcy filing, and many companies work with law firms to successfully refinance or restructure their debt without filing for protection. The company has already announced it is working with Lazard to help address its debt load, and it successfully refinanced some of its debt just a year ago. Still, it has become increasingly difficult for leveraged retailers to tap the refinancing market, as lenders have become spooked by the increasing number of retail bankruptcies. "As we previously discussed on our first quarter earnings call, Toys R Us is evaluating a range of alternatives to address our 2018 debt maturities, which may include the possibility of obtaining additional financing," Toys R Us spokeswoman Amy von Walter said in a statement. "We expect to provide an update about these activities, as well as the many initiatives underway to provide an outstanding customer experience in our global retail locations and webstore during the holiday season, during our second quarter earnings call." Toys R Us will have its second-quarter earnings call on Tuesday, Sept. 26. Toys R Us owners Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Bain Capital Partners and Vornado Realty Trust either declined to comment or did not immediately have a comment. Kirkland also did not immediately have a comment. The potential restructuring comes amid increased competition from both brick-and-mortar and online players. Big-box stores such as Wal-Mart have for years driven down prices of toys to draw parents into their stores to buy other more expensive goods. E-commerce giant Amazon.com has become an increasingly formidable competitor. Toys R Us' baby-centered store, Babies R Us, meanwhile, has seen diaper sales fall as parents increasingly buy diapers through online subscription businesses offered by Amazon and other e-retailers Wayne, New Jersey-based Toys R Us blamed intense promotional activity and slowing baby business sales for its disappointing 2016 holiday results. The company, which relies heavily on holiday purchases to support its year-round business, saw same-store sales drop 3.4 percent from the previous holiday season.
  6. I Cant paste the content of the file in firefox. it keeps telling me to type allow pasting then it wont do anything else
  7. and maybe pair it with Green Lantern #87 if rumours are to beleived
  8. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-pull-movies-netflix-launch-streaming-service-1027793 Disney's announcement coincided with a mixed quarterly earnings report, which sunk its stock 4 percent in after-hours trading. Disney on Tuesday said it will be pulling its movies from Netflix and will launch a Disney streaming service of its own in 2019. It also said it will launch an ESPN streaming service early next year. To help do all that, Disney will acquire a majority of BAMTech, the streaming technology company owned by MLBAM, the internet company owned by Major League Baseball. Disney already owned a stake in BAMTech but will pay $1.58 billion for an additional 42 percent. Details of the Disney streaming service were sketchy Tuesday, with CEO Bob Iger saying that if a movie is Pixar- or Disney-branded, it will probably appear exclusively on the new service — including shows and movies made specifically for the service — but the jury is still out on Marvel and Star Wars films. ESPN has been losing TV subscribers for a few years and an online stand-alone product has been predicted for months, but ending a distribution agreement with Netflix beginning with the 2019 theatrical slate caught investors off-guard and Netflix shares quickly sunk 4 percent on the news in after-hours trading. Iger called the initiatives "a strategic shift in the way we distribute our content." Deciphering Iger's vague comments Tuesday, it could mean that the upcoming Frozen 2 would be available for streaming exclusively on Disney's new service while Star Wars: Episode IX presumably would not, though they are both set for release in 2019. Star Wars and Marvel movies in the future could be on the Disney service exclusively, could not be there at all or could be there as well as on other services. Those decisions are yet to be made, but the decision to not renew with Netflix is a done deal. Disney also owns a stake in Hulu, and Disney executives said Tuesday a multiyear deal putting Mulan, Pocahontas and others on Hulu will not be affected by Disney's upcoming service. As for the upcoming ESPN service, Iger said Tuesday the company hasn't yet had conversations about it with the sports network's existing TV distributors. In the streaming product's first year of launch, the exec anticipates streaming an additional 10,000 sporting events over what's available on ESPN's TV networks. Disney made all of its streaming announcements Tuesday while reporting quarterly earnings. Shares of the conglomerate were falling 3 percent in after-hours trading after it reported quarterly revenue of $14.2 billion, about $180 million less than Wall Street expected. Profit, though, came in at $1.58 per share, three cents more than projected. Disney's biggest segment, media networks, saw revenue drop 1 percent year-over-year to $5.9 billion and operating income plunge 22 percent to $1.8 billion, with ESPN mostly to blame. Disney said ESPN's problems included higher programming costs, lower ad revenue and costs associated with severance packages for departing employees. Broadcasting, though, didn't perform much better than did cable, with the ABC television network also seeing higher programming costs and lower ad revenue. Studio entertainment saw revenue fall 16 percent to $2.4 billion and operating income fall 17 percent to $639 million, thanks in part to a decrease in home entertainment because Star Wars: The Force Awakens last year outsold Rogue One: A Star Wars Story this year. Parks and resorts seemed a bright spot, as revenue rose 12 percent to $4.9 billion and operating income grew 18 percent to $1.2 billion, with Shanghai Disney Resort and Disneyland Paris contributing to the growth. Revenue at consumer products and interactive media fell 5 percent to $1.1 billion, but operating income managed to grow 12 percent to $362 million.
  9. Is there a thread of who is taking SS Subs for Fan expo?
  10. Got my ticket.. now lets hope my Daughter does not chicken out
  11. Dammnit how did I miss that.... So I just show up with her and my ticket?!! cool
  12. Just curious but what is ticket costs for a 5 year old? is it $0 The website list 6-12, so is it save to assume 5 year old is free? I am trying to convince my daughter to come Friday
  13. Were you connected to the account that received the bike in anyway? What did they mean by " anyone in proximity of the COD"
  14. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/fedex-closing-stores-1.4215822 Shipping giant FedEx has quietly moved to close retail office stores in all Canadian cities putting more than 214 people out of work and ending three decades of doing business in the country. FedEx will continue to ship within Canada, but its copy and office supply stores will close Aug. 18. "We reached the decision to exit the Canadian market after thoughtful evaluations of our business operations and considerations about our future," a company statement said. FedEx has 24 stores in Ontario, Nova Scotia and B.C., with the bulk located in Ontario. The news came as a shock to customers wondering where they will do business. "I needed to ship a parcel to New York yesterday and I was told by the woman at the counter that all the office stores in Canada were closing," London customer Jeff Blake explained. "I find it puzzling," he said, noting that FedEx had recently built a new store in the city.
  15. Flickr pro 5.99 a month or 49.99 a year I use free version and it links no problem either.
  16. Jennifer Connelly does the voice of Peter Parker's new A.I. system Karen in SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING. Who is she married to? J.A.R.V.I.S. and Vision himself, Paul Bettany.
  17. Sega Forever brings retro games to iOS and Android for free https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/06/sega-forever-games-ios-android/ Sega is bringing a collection of its finest retro video games to iOS and Android devices via a new service called Sega Forever. Unlike its past mobile releases—which include the likes of Sonic the Hedgehog and Football Manager Mobile—the entire Sega Forever line-up is free-to-play and supported by ads. Players can optionally remove the ads via an in-app purchase for £2 (~$2.50). There are five games in the Sega Forever launch line-up, consisting of the original Sonic the Hedgehog, RPG Phantasy Star II, beat 'em up Comix Zone, platformer Kid Chameleon, and the original Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) pack-in game Altered Beast. An iOS and Android version of the classic Dreamcast game Crazy Taxi launched in May, which is also free-to-play. Additional games are promised to launch every two weeks. Although the launch line-up is exclusively made up of Mega Drive games, the Sega Forever Twitter feed has teased shots of other consoles, including the SG 1000, Dreamcast, and Saturn. How Sega tackles the Saturn will be particularly interesting given the difficulty developers have had creating a working emulator for the console's classically esoteric hardware. While some Sega Forever games have previously been released on mobile, Sega has promised that all have been updated with modern features including cloud saves, controller support, and leaderboards. All games are also playable offline, regardless of whether users are playing the ad-free or ad-supported version. iOS players will receive a free iMessage sticker pack alongside each game. Sega's previous retro catalogue has been largely well-received on mobile, but some games have suffered from performance issues. This is largely down to the use of emulators—which mimic original hardware and play Mega Drive ROMs—rather than ports made specifically for Android and iOS devices. For instance, an early emulated version of Sonic the Hedgehog was replaced by a superior port in 2013 alongside a port of Sonic CD. Christian Whitehead, the fangame developer behind the ports, has since moved in-house at Sega, developing the upcoming Sonic Mania for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch. Update: Sega Forever "will include both official emulations and ported games that span all Sega console eras." Sega has confirmed to Ars Technica that SG-1000, Master System, and Mega Drive/Genesis games will be run via an emulator, while Saturn and Dreamcast games will be direct ports.
  18. Gene Simmons Wants to Trademark Spider-Man's 'Thwip' Hand Gesture http://io9.gizmodo.com/gene-simmons-wants-to-trademark-spider-mans-thwip-hand-1796098294 I want you to stop what you’re doing, raise your dominant hand, and imitate Spider-Man shooting webs from his wrists. Look at your hand. See that “thwip, thwip” gesture you’re making? Gene Simmons of KISS fame wants to trademark that gesture. Last Friday, the famous rocker filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that, if approved, would grand him trademark of a hand gesture consisting of the curling of one’s middle and ring fingers while the pinky, index, and thumb remain extended. Simmons says that the gesture became an iconic park of KISS’ act during its 1974 Hotter Than Hell tour. To Simmons’ credit, he has been making that symbol with his hands for decades now, but comics fans will also recognize it as one of the more common gestures that certain comics characters use to activate their powers. Marvel introduced both Spider-Man and the Scarlet Witch in the early ‘60s long before KISS’ formation, and both characters can be seen on-page making the hand gesture Simmons wants to own: According to Simmons’ application, he’s seeking to trademark the symbol for all things relating to “entertainment, namely, live performances by a musical artist; personal appearances by a musical artist.” The obvious issue at hand here is whether or not Simmons will be able to make a solid enough argument that the gesture is so strongly tied to his brand in peoples’ minds that he should own it. Obviously, there are plenty of other people who’ve made the gesture in the past and it’s actually the sign for “I love you” in American Sign Language. But hey—this is America and Simmons has the right to take a shot at this. The question now, though, if Simmons is successful, how’s Peter Parker going to use his web shooters in the future? Thwip, Thwip ShareTweet
  19. Who knows but the Short term potential is there for a quick flip
  20. Speculator corner. Batman #24. If online news is to be believed Batman #24 might be a book that will be HOT HOT HOT tomorrow.