#Acquisition

[spocks-husband]

The fact that the canon reason that the Ferengi aren't seen in TOS is bc Jonathan Archer scared the fuck out of them so bad that they didn't come back for like three generations

#so fucking funny #i love him #queue the miserable #star trek #ent #enterprise #star trek enterprise #ferengi #s1e19 #acquisition #archer #captain archer #jonathan archer

[destielmemenews]

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#destiel meme #destiel meme news #united states #us news #news #microsoft #blizzard #activision blizzard #activision #gaming #acquisition #the joke writes itself

[u-mspcoll]

An Extraordinary New Acquisition!

We are delighted to announce an important recent acquisition made possible by the generosity of Katharine J. Kilgour: a manuscript containing the texts of a Book of Hours and a Psalter. Written in Latin and French, it was exquisitely illuminated by one of the leading miniaturists working in Paris in the first two decades of the sixteenth century: Jean Coene IV.  Read more!

Detail of miniature by Jean Coene IV, "Lamentation over the Dead Christ", in the opening of the Office of our Lady of Compassion, f. 28. Book of Hours & Psalter. Parchment manuscript, 256 folios. Paris, ca. 1505-1515.

#illuminated manuscripts #manuscript illumination #medieval manuscripts #book of hours #books of hours #psalter #new acquisition #acquisitions #acquisition #libraries and archives #libraries #special collections #special collections libraries #special collections and archives #archives

[blueprint-9376]

13.04.2024 [☺️]

🍰: 카페 갔다가 다시 공부/ The day I went to a cafe and studied

#diary #online diary #student #study aesthetic #study blog #study motivation #study tips #studyblr #online #journal #academia aesthetic #classic academia #dark academia aesthetic #acquisition #dark academia #daily list #like #light #daily life #light acadamia aesthetic #light indie #light academia #study time #study hard #studying #studyspo #study desk #academia style #dark acadamia #daily blog

[ragpicker-and-poet]

#star trek: enterprise #st: ent #porthos #ferengi #beagles #dogs #1x19 #acquisition

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

When they inevitably make a marvel dc crossover movie, will it be a sharing situation like disney has with sony over spiderman, or will it be because disney and warner bros merge into one giga-conglomerate? I say merge because I think of them as roughly equal in scope, but let's be honest, it would be disney buying wb, not the other way around.

Hey, remember back in 2008 when WALL-E showed us a ludicrous world where a single company took over the entire planet and made it hostile to all life as we know it and held humanity hostage for centuries with brain numbing distractions to keep them docile? Crazy, right? That could never happen, certainly not by the 2100s!

#rant #disney #warner bros #wb #it's coming #sooner or later #it is coming #marvel #dc #crossover #merger #acquisition #2100s #22nd century #wall-e #bnl #buy n large #capitalism #late stage capitalism #end stage capitalism

[kobold-sanctuary-buss-island]

We have taken over Faial Island and Graciosa Island.

I think the Portuguese government is starting to notice that we're stealing their islands. This time it definitely wasn't peaceful. I think we shot a plane on the runway?

I'm unsure, as i'm not physically in the Azores. All i know is that there were civilian casualties.

#acquisition

[linguisticdiscovery]

6 ways learning a language as an adult is different than learning it in school, courtesy of Babbel magazine:

#linguistics #language #LanguageLearning #acquisition #lingblr #langblr

[don-lichterman]

Eminent Ecom Expands Acquisition Department in Response to Growing

Eminent Ecom Expands Acquisition Department in Response to Growing

Article content Corpus Christi, Texas–(Newsfile Corp. – May 18, 2022) – Eminent Ecom, which sets up Amazon Private Label businesses for its clients and then manages the products, inventory, sales, and customer service, has completed the expansion of its Acquisition Department. With a larger team of staff members, Eminent Ecom says that it will focus on clearing its two-month backlog of potential…

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#Acquisition #Department #Ecom #Eminent #Expands #Growing #Response

[sshbpodcast]

Wake me when Season 1 of Enterprise gets interesting

by Ames

Season one of Enterprise just seemed to fly by, and thank goodness because we’re not finding it all that great, to be honest. Too much of it feels like more of the same stories that previous Treks have already told way better, but with less likable characters, less nuanced writing, and so much sexual objectification that we feel ill just watching it sometimes.

Sure, it’s still probably better than season one of TNG, which had more objectively BAD episodes, but it’s surprising to your hosts here at A Star to Steer Her By just how boring this show is so far. We’ve noted a bunch of times over in our podcast coverage that there never seems to be any stakes because every opportunity for some character (main, side, guest, even background) to get killed, they never do. So grab your phase pistol and see what we had to wade through to get here in our usual bottom and top episodes from the season below and also in this week’s podcast chat (jump to 56:26 for season discussion). Cap’n.

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Bottom Three Episodes

There was a lot to dislike this season and I’m pretty sure we covered most of this season’s dreck in our typically varied responses here. Good work, “Cold Front,” you managed to squeak through somehow despite that terrible airlock scene.

“The Andorian Incident”: Ames If you’ve been following along with our podcast coverage, you’re probably as tired of me hating on Archer as I am of Archer hating on Vulcans, and this is where that sour taste really transpired. It’s a whole episode of our captain going lightyears out of his way to ruin some Vulcans’ day and then patting himself on the back for being justified about being so racist.

“Silent Enemy”: Chris Talk about uneven. What was almost an intriguing suspense episode about the crew being wholly unprepared for the kinds of enemies you find in space is thoroughly undercut by a mismatched B plot that, while cute, is distracting as hell, and by some really laughable alien design. At least Reed gets some pineapple cake.

“Fight or Flight”: Jake Poor Sluggo, we hardly knew thee. Boy, does this show start off with characters it’s just hard to care about. We’ve got Hoshi being pathetic in an “overcoming your fears” plotline so predictable I could have called every beat. And Archer simultaneously being indecisive and whining about his decisions at the same time. And then the metaphor with releasing the slug doesn’t even mesh!

“Fortunate Son”: Jake While it’s unfortunate how little Mayweather gets to do, I can’t say I feel that bad about it considering that everything he does get to do in this episode is annoying as hell. We’d love to see more about his upbringing as a boomer and the culture clash therein, but this episode botches it hard by making all the Fortunate crew assholes!

“Broken Bow”: Caitlin, Chris The whole series really gets off on the wrong foot with a premiere that is simultaneously too little and too much all at once. Between the Klingons, the Suliban, the Vulcans, the flashback scenes with Archer’s dad, the weird time room with the Humanoid Figure, AND introducing us to the whole crew, there are too many things happening, but absolutely none of them are interesting!

“Dear Doctor”: Ames, Caitlin All season long, we’ve been struggling with what we think of the Phlox character, and it mostly boils down to us finding him offputting. So of course the most Phlox-centric episode is in our bottoms list. Certainly helping matters is the fact that both Phlox AND the writers don’t understand evolution at all and use that as an excuse to genocide a people. Oops.

“Fusion”: Ames, Caitlin, Chris, Jake But the one that gets votes from all your SSHB hosts is the episode that sexually exploits the token hot character, as always. Hang on, that doesn’t narrow it down. It’s the one with the mind rapist Vulcan who takes advantage of T’Pol, entirely muddying whatever message about Vulcans this whole season was trying to make. Turns out they’re ALL just monsters, but in different ways, except for one you’ll see in our top episodes.

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Top Three Episodes

It’s hard to call these “top” episodes of anything, as you’ll see we all pretty much agreed on two episodes this season that were genuinely enjoyable, and each of us frankly struggled to think of a third that we could see giving any accolades to...

“Acquisition”: Chris Listen, we don’t like it any more than you do, but there weren’t enough decent episodes this season and Chris had to include this retread of much better episodes. But you know what: the Ferengi hit us right in the fanservice spot, the veteran alumni are all pros, and aside from all the oomox, it was at least entertaining.

“Oasis”: Jake Back when we were covering season 2 of DS9, Jake put “Shadowplay” on his tops list, so it’s only fitting that he essentially do it again with this carbon copy of an episode. I guess there’s nothing wrong with doing the same idea twice when it’s a good one like this. It’s even got Rene Auberjonois! What’s not to like?

“Fallen Hero”: Caitlin One more “I know that face!” episode coaxing an emotional reaction out of us, which is almost certainly exactly what the show wanted to achieve. In this case, we have to give Fionnula Flanagan some credit for bringing some much needed nuance to the Vulcans, who badly needed it this season.

“Vox Sola”: Ames The final one-off episode that we scraped up to include on this list. And no, it’s not perfect by any stretch, but I have to give it some credit for giving us a truly alien alien, which I’m always a fan of watching our crew interact with. And T’Pol and Sato got to have some scenes together, which is a nice character pairing!

“Shockwave, Part I”: Ames, Caitlin, Chris, Jake Thank goodness for this season finale. Without it, I have no idea how deep into the bench we’d have to dig for other Top Episodes. But I have to hand it to this finale: this was the first time I felt like there were stakes and consequences. And what a cliffhanger! Say what you will about the Temporal Cold War, but seeing a ravaged 31st century scene sure makes things interesting.

“Shuttlepod One”: Ames, Caitlin, Chris, Jake But the one episode I can say we all legitimately liked this season was one of the great bottle episodes of Trek. Proving yet again that less is more, this little character piece leans on the acting chops of Connor Trineer and Dominic Keating, whose chemistry together is lovely to watch. Just super solid all around.

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Pass the pecan pie, the rocky road ice cream, and the pineapple cake; we’re on for dessert! We’re hoping season two shapes up better overall than this one, so find out with us as we watch along in our podcast coverage over on SoundCloud or wherever you get your podcasts, bounce a message off of Echo One on Facebook and Twitter, and get me a spoon!

#star trek #star trek podcast #podcast #enterprise #star trek enterprise #top three #bottom three #the andorian incident #silent enemy #fight or flight #fortunate son #broken bow #dear doctor #fusion #acquisition #oasis #fallen hero #vox sola #shockwave #shuttlepod one

[thedaddycomplex]

Wait... You're telling me Mayer now thinks buying a microblogging platform full of nothing but shit-posts, sub-par porn, and SuperWhoLockian fanfic for more than $1 billion was a mistake? Who, I ask, who could've foreseen this?

I mean, aside from literally all of us.

#tumblr #yahoo #news #marissa mayer #acquisition

[mudwerks]

(via WordPress.com owner acquires Beeper, giving it two chat apps to rule them all | Ars Technica)

Beeper, the multinetwork messaging app that recently gave up on trying to engineer around Apple's walled-off iMessage service, has been acquired by Automattic, the company behind WordPress. It is now open to everyone and has a completely revamped Android app.

#Beeper #Automattic #acquisition #tech

[gaming-news-roundup]

Kadokawa, the parent company of FromSoftware, has purchased Acquire, the studio behind Octopath Traveler, for an unknown amount of money.

#games #gaming #video games #game #gaming news #news #fromsoft #fromsoftware #kadokawa #acquire #acquisition #octopath #octopath traveler

[giffingthingsss]

#'maybe you just suck at business' #'you ever think of that?' #enterprise things #acquisition #krem is like 'how embarrassing'

[music-matters20]

#TheWeeklyRoundUp - 02.09.23

A bulletin covering the latest news of the past week from the music industry

#music matters #marketing #sales #music industry #the weekly round-up #news #music #current affairs #business #acquisition #deal #Creative Artists Agency #hollywood #talent management #Corporate Social Investment

[ilcuoreardendo-fic]

Chapters: 6/? Fandom: Star Wars Rating: Mature Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker | Darth Vader, Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker Additional Tags: On the Run, Post-Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, Vaderwan, Force inhibitor collar, Fate, Kid Luke, Domestic Fluff, (at times), Long-Haired Obi-Wan, Dubious Consent, Inappropriate Use of the Force, Force Bond (Star Wars) Summary: Wherever he went, Vader seemed to follow. And it became much too frequent an occurrence to just be coincidence.

Part 6 is up after a frelling three-year hiatus.

Obi-Wan knew Luke’s connection with Vader was strong. He hadn’t been aware it could cross vast distances. Or that Luke would be on the receiving end of whatever Vader might be feeling at the moment.

It left him uneasy.

Was Vader purposefully reaching into their bond, as he had done with Obi-Wan weeks ago? Not to calm himself but to share his emotional turbulence? Was this part of how the Sith were made? Or was it unintentional, merely a byproduct of familial Force bonds?

He didn’t know.

He did resolve to work more on Luke’s shields and the basics of meditation. To keep his father’s influence at bay, to release the emotions that weren’t his own.

To give him a choice.

But even with that, Obi-Wan wondered if Luke would be strong enough to become his own person under Vader’s influence.

And then he wondered how long the Emperor would allow Luke to live if he did?

#vaderwan #obi wan kenobi #darth vader #anakin skywalker #vaderkin #sw fic #star wars #acquisition