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claudiajcregg · 2 months

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20 Questions for Fic Writers

Tagged by both @mihrsuri and @unseenacademic 💜💜💜 Thank you so much! I actually wrote up most of the answers the day I was tagged, and then forgot to post them. For over 10 days, probably. Me bad.

1. How many works do you have on Ao3? 23! (One of them is a 'collection' of short ficlets, and has 6 chapters. So 28 stories in 23 works so far. Probably about to be more stories in still 23 works.)

2. What's your total Ao3 word count? 156,597 words. For now.

3. What fandoms do you write for? Currently? Just TWW. Who knows in the future!

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

They have about 35% of my total kudos, but the first two are ~21% alone. (The first one is the only fic that has over 100 kudos. Then again, any of them getting above 30 is a miracle.)

maybe everything's just turning out how it should be (Big Block of Cheese 2008; CJ & Josh. Posted Feb 2021) [121]

say it's here where our pieces fall in place (Vignettes, 1998-2008. Posted Jan 2022.) [66]

just your smile lit a sixty-watt bulb in my house that was darkened for days (Thanksgiving 2006. Posted Dec 2022.) [55]

nobody knows how to get back home (Missing scene from ITSOTG. Posted April 2023) (wait what. top 4?!) [50]

we could be the way forward and I know I'll pay for it (B4A Campaign Fic, spring 1998. Posted May 2021) [47]

5. Do you respond to comments?

YES. I don't take them for granted, and I like interacting with my readers. Sharing is nerve-wracking and makes me feel so exposed, so any comment makes it worth it. I like to thank peeps for their time! As of late, it's taking me weeks to get back to comments for Brain/spoons reasons (and because I try to do so in order, though not always). I sometimes feel bad I have fallen behind on leaving my own comments, so replying to what I get makes me feel bad. I love getting the rare, long, thoughtful comments, because I love seeing what people pick up on (had to restrain myself from commenting on everything), so if that one's up next… It'll delay everything. I have a harder time letting go of those.

I know replying or not is a hot topic, and I fall on the side of 'whatever the author does is fine' (I see them as being voluntary gifts to the author, kinda, but I understand why some authors can't or won't reply! Especially those who get dozens.). It does feel weird(ly demoralizing) when you see that yours is one of a couple of comments they haven't replied to, though. (Selfishly, as someone who tries to write medium-long comments, lack of anything can sting. It's irrational, it's not what I'm after, but it'd be nice to know whether that hour plus of my time was worth it. It's not transactional and I hate that c4c idea or whatever. Just. weird feelings.)

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

As we've established in previous similar memes (lol, I think I've answered these questions before), my fics don't really have angsty endings! For the most part. I think I said don't want you to go but I'll be okay then, and I can still buy that/definitely popped into my brain. I think some of my late S7 fics have an ominous feel to them, with some references/buildup to the angsty parts of IM, but I wouldn't call them angsty endings.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Um. The opposite is true! still you never took your hand from mine was my first thought, but I feel like oh, and I will be with you to feel the California sun is pretty darn happy. I could have picked almost any of them and I could make a case for them!

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I luckily do not. I have gotten a couple of comments that have messed with my brain, and made me second-guess things, but they were not hate.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Yes, but not regularly and not that well. It's usually short, mild scenes at most, but I did challenge myself to write a more explicit one last summer, especially after I got those 'one bed' tropes in the Wheel but didn't go there in the 500-word limit. Streets say it's hot. IDK. I also wrote a smutty continuation to the exchange fic. Best if we forget parts of that one happened. I also started writing one that would be in my S5 pregnancy universe but 🤐

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

I don't. But this question confirms to me I have answered this before because I know I've joked about how TV has already done that for me, lmao. See: Bones/Sleepy Hollow.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? (I had to track down this question because it wasn't anywhere.) I don't think so!

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope! I'm having déjà vu here. I know I have answered this before: I could do it myself! But I have a feeling it wouldn't be as easy as one might think, but I'd be honored.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I don't think so…? If I have, it was years ago, in my forum/LJ days. I've been trying to make it happen for a while now, but who knows if it'll ever happen. WE HAVE IDEAS. We want to make it happen. (Wink wink, nudge nudge. You know who.)

14. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

Spaceships are so cool. Atlantis was the first space shuttle I saw in person (and also the one I've seen the most) and it and its exhibit are awesome. I'm only missing Discovery out of the four space shuttles, because I didn't go to the second National Air and Space Museum location in Virginia back in 2015. And once the new exhibit center is completed, I'd love to see Endeavour again.

(In all seriousness, I don't have one. Booth and Brennan will forever and always hold a special place in my heart, but I love CJ and Danny so much, writing for them, their journey. Pls don't make me pick.)

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I am a big 'never say never' person, because I end up picking stuff up (and maybe rewriting it to fit my current style/ability) if I remember an idea… But I'm guessing many of them won't get finished. Probably some of those that are deep in my notes app or on the drive.

16. What are your writing strengths? I (try to) dig into the emotion of a scene as best as I can.

17. What are your writing weaknesses? Everything else? I know it sounds like an excuse (at least to my ears), but writing in your second language is hard. I know my writing sounds limited because of it – my descriptions will never be as evocative as I wish they were, my dialogue won't be there. I am not the most imaginative person, either.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

If it makes sense, and won't take the reader out of the story, go for it! (A few words, or a line or two, might work if there's appropriate context.)

But also, as a non-native speaker, I'll always recommend using pals who might be fluent in that language and checking with them! I know that, throughout my many years in fandom, I've read quick things in Spanish within English fics that weren't entirely correct in the context they were being used (i.e. character's fluency, smaller details), and they took me out for a second. (I know, I know – pot, meet kettle. If anyone has read an unedited story of mine, they've found me making up English phrases.)

19. First fandom you wrote for? Bones. In Spanish. (I also think I wrote some ficlets in English that are probably hidden in some random LJ comm I created for my writing. They're probably 14-15 years old.)

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

I honestly cannot pick! And maybe it's yet to come. But basically, if I've gone through the embarrassment of having someone edit/beta a fic and catch all the avoidable mistakes, it's because it genuinely has something I like about it and that I think others will like, too. (Perceived quality aside.)

Off the top of my head, and out of the posted fics (obvious recency bias, sorry). I have a story for all 23… Also, let's consider I've mostly not read them since they were posted so I might be off. (Would love to hear what everyone's favorite is, if you've read any and are reading this!) Obviously, that top 5 by kudos has great ones. There's a reason

don't want you to go but I'll be okay: I just remember finishing it and knowing it was something special. Felt like many things coming together. I wanted to write angstier, a break from the endgame of the IM AU I've yet to post, and I think it works. I had had that quote as inspo for a while, and I think the trip to Berlin put it back on my mind. (The first haunted by the notion draft is from around this time, too!)

your love is a secret I'm hoping, dreaming, dying to keep: the structure is likely a tad repetitive, maybe (but also, the point of 3+1s, sort of?) but I love writing in that s7 period, and there should be more fic with the press corps. I think the stuff I wrote while editing (which included an overhaul of the +1) is even better than what was there.

oh, and I will be with you to feel the California sun: recency bias, yes. I love a good early Cali story, and even if this was nowhere the story I sat down to write originally, I love how it turned out. It's silly but fun, and so sunny.

still you never took your hand from mine: I will always have all the soft spots for my memoir stories, even if two of them have yet to be posted. This one doubled its size a year and a half after “finishing” it because I realized what it was missing. It's sappy, probably unrealistic re: the publishing industry, but damn it if it's not one of those that have made me cry while editing them.

we could be the way forward and I know I'll pay for it: I had to include an oldie but goodie from my first year, and this one is so special to me. (Along with BBC 2008, which I also absolutely adore. That was the fic I always wanted to post. Hilarious it was third. But it's also my most popular fic by a huge margin.) Seeing it recommended on Tumblr? God. I love campaign stories and all their potential. I love that I took a random line from some unposted story and it evolved into this fic.

nobody knows how to get back home: I almost added the most recent one because of how fun it was to write (or, as I mentioned above, Big Block of Cheese) but I like how bittersweet this missing scene one is. I find CJ's internal struggle so interesting to explore, and this is one of her most vulnerable moments. I also wanted to see a hug so badly.

#20 questions for fic writers #ask games #god this is so late #hopefully I make up for it with my rambling #tagging whoever wants to do it - everyone I know was tagged in one of the rounds with me #in between writing most of this and posting it I hit 900 kudos woo

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tilbageidanmark · 7 months

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Movies I watched this Week # 149 (Year 3/Week 45):

Between 'Mean Streets' and 'Alice doesn't live here anymore', Martin Scorsese made the documentary ItalianAmerican, which is basically a home movie. It features his parents bicker and talk at their apartment, remembering the old days of their families.

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2 with teenager Scarlett Johansson:

🍿 Re-watch: Sofia Coppola's Lost in translation, while waiting for her latest 'Priscilla'. "Sleepless in Shinjuko". Sad and vulnerable 17-year-old Scarlett Johansson, a 'stranger in a strange land' is having a 'Brief Encounter' moment, with less-asshole-than-usual Bill Murray. (Photos Above).

Another melancholic exploration of a lonely young woman, who finds herself captured in a privileged gilded cage. An exceptional, subtle masterpiece. 10/10.

🍿 The horse whisperer starred 14-year-old Johansson as a horse-lover who becomes emotionally stunted after a riding accident that caused her to lose part of her leg (all in the first 10 minutes of the film). It's a sloooow, traditional 3-hour-long story about healing, told mostly in beautifully-cinematic Montana. But it worked for me, in spite of the well-shot sentimentality. 7/10.

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My first 2 by German auteur Christian Petzold, both with Paula Beer:

🍿 Afire - a tremendous, complex drama about a vain, immature writer on a working vacation. The little summer cottage close to the Baltic sea, is soon encroached by a forest fire, as does his self-centered world view of himself and his art. It starts at one emotional point, and skillfully moves to a completely different, tense level. 9/10.

🍿 Petzold wanted to make a series of films about the 4 elements. Undine refers to the myth of 'water nymphs', so rivers, industrial diving, large aquariums, and drowning in a pool are all part of the story. It's a lovely, simple romance, which eventually turns into a dark fantasy. My 5th film with Franz Rogowski. 4/10.

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3 More of Claude Chabrol’s Hitchcockian thrillers:

🍿 “… You like meat?…”

Le Boucher, a low-key, atmospheric thriller about a single woman who befriends a village butcher, who's also a serial killer. Fantastic snapshot of the people at 'the country' (Dordogne) at this time. 9/10.

🍿 The ceremony (La Cérémonie) is a similar dark story, set in a solid bourgeoisie family. Isabelle Huppert & Sandrine Bonnaire becomes friends and eventually decide kill them all. Like 'Stanley & Iris' from last week, the protagonist is illiterate. 6/10.

🍿 The Unfaithful Wife, another terrific, low-key, civilized study of a French bourgeois household. A loving husband discovers that his loving wife is having an affair, and ends up killing her lover. I liked it so much, and thought it would be a very good candidate for a modern remake. Then I remembered Adrian Lyne's 'Unfaithful' with the luminous Diane Lane in the Stéphane Audran role. Maybe I should watch it again! 8/10.

I discovered Chabrol late, and have only seen about 10% of his 74 movies. Now I have to see them all!

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Milf, another film with Virginie Ledoyen, a soft-core sex comedy. Three older women looking to hook up with boys 20 years younger. A similar concept to the Naomi Watts film 'Adoration'. I only watched it because it is directed by a woman and had 13 on the Tomato score. Better than Zalman King.

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Wow! After 4 months of anticipation, the venerable bio-pic Oppenheimer finally hit my free streamers. I watched all 3 hours of it but left completely underwhelmed. This is the seventh of Christopher Nolen's praised big-budget epic films that I saw, and so far none of them had floated my boat. Okay, so I'm not a big blockbusters fan.

It's not very hip to rail against McCarthyism in 2023. Twenty-twenty revisionist vision, mambo-jumbo pseudoscience, overwrought endless, loud soundtrack, and basically the usual biography of a "Great man", which is always a boring subject for a movie. 4/10.

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3 by regular Fincher screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker:

🍿 On the other hand, David Fincher’s new thriller The killer was a thrill ride that was a joy to watch. A cold blooded professional assassin, laconic and super-human, flies around the world ruthlessly killing people. Mesmerizing (but predictable) suspense with an effective Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross score. I could do without the inner monologue that replaced conversations in the story. Also, a great comic book knock-out fight after an hour and a half of deliberate, slow go. 7/10.

🍿 In 2001, BMW produced 8 short films by famous directors as "Branded Content", i.e. advertisements. Called 'The hire' they all featured Clive Owen driving Beamers around the world. AKW wrote two of them:

The Follow was directed by Wong Kar-wai, and was about an aborted diamond heist.

Ambush was directed by John Frankenheimer, and was about a woman being followed by her husband.

The other shorts were by John Woo, Tony Scott, Ang Lee, etc.

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5 more Danish films, 3 with Henning Moritzen (The patriarch from ‘Celebration’) and 2 with Mads Mikkelsen:

🍿 Tænk på et tal (Think of a number), a 1969 old-fashion, enjoyable Danish 'Krimi' with an enduring theme song. A meek bank teller finds a discarded note from a bank robber, and gets involved in a lethal game.

This story was later remade into the Elliott Gould caper 'The silent partner'. I love such slow and delightful dramas, and I love Bibi Andersson.

it’s funny how movies that used to be throwaway entertainment products 60 years ago, gain completely different meaning today. I should start exploring the many Danish Noir from the 40's and 50's. 7/10.

🍿 50 years later, In the Oscar-nominated short The pig, Moritzen is old and fat, and is being hospitalised for some tests. There he lays and finds comfort in a simple picture of a pig jumping over a fence. Delightful!

🍿 On the other hand, Now is another Danish short (from 2003) starring Mads Mikkelsen. But it's an artsy-fartsy, humor-less, word-less "Art film", shot in black & white, with a constant baby crying. Like 'An Andalusian Dog' but without the charm and the magic… 1/10.

🍿 I was surprised to realize just now that my favorite Danish screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen directed only 5 features and 3 shorts. (but he wrote 59 scripts!). Wolfgang is an early short of his, and not his best. Now I've seen all the movies that he directed.

I can't wait for his upcoming 'Monster of Florence' with Antonio Banderas and 'Back to reality'. Yeah!

🍿 So I took in one more viewing of his sentimental After the wedding, maybe for the 10th time. So full of emotional twists, old-fashioned melodrama, Sigur Rós score and peak Sidse Babett Knudsen.

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Budapest Noir, a Hungarian murder mystery, set up in anti-semitic 1936. A hard boiled crime reporter investigates a murder of a beautiful prostitute, like a Jake Gittes named Zsigmond. Very strong 'Chinatown' vibes, including a smokey jazz score that tries to recreate its haunting atmosphere, and even the final line of dialogue "This is Budapest". 5/10.

[This is the 115th woman-directed film I've seen so far this year!].

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Dumb money, the first enjoyable Reddit movie, about the 2021 GameStop short squeeze. Compelling Class War rhetoric with Seth Rogen as the billionaire 'heavy'. Up-to-the-minute updated drama of the 1% Vs. the unwashed masses. I think it will endure as another worthy addition to the sub-genre of 'highly entertaining explanation to boring real-life financial story', just like 'The big short' and 'Margin call'.

However, it used an Artificial Intelligent editing model that color-corrected the whole movie into a weird, fake, washed up look. 8/10.

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First watch: Kurosawa's bleak Drunken Angel, an early post-war Yakuza film, and the first of the 16 collaborations between him and Toshiro Mifume. An alcoholic doctor befriends a young hoodlum suffering from tuberculosis. Located around an open sewer in a seedy neighborhood, still suffering under the American occupation.

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Ikarie XB 1 (Or 'Voyage to the End of the Universe' as it was called in American), an influential and ambitious 1963 Czechoslovakian science-fiction saga, based on a Stanisław Lem novel. "Futuristic" space decor and story, very much in the Star Trek style. Cultish 1960's popcorn philosophy, but nonsensical and not a serious world building. Not for me - 1/10.

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Thank Dog that the third season of Tim Robinson’s 'I think you should leave' was so short. The first season was outrageously different. The second season was a 'repeat on a theme'. This one was just cringey irrelevant. Absurd, awkward, confusing situations, exploding rage at small mistakes. No!

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My first (and last) stand-up by comedian Nate Bergatze, The greatest average American. Average stories of 'relatable' everyday nitty gritty were hardly worth a chuckle.

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(My complete movie list is here)

#movies

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jackkelley3714-blog · 8 months

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Top 5 Selling nfl jerseys 2023

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#nfl football

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shop-korea · 1 year

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whatsonmedia · 1 year

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Thursday Thrill: This Week's Amazing Events!

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Holidays 11.26

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Anti-Obesity Day

Constitution Day (Abkhazia; Georgia; India)

Family Day (Palau)

Festival of Big Talk

Festival of Shadow Economies

Fraternity Day

Good Grief Day

Holiday List Day

International Bananagrams Day

International Women Human Rights Defenders Day

Kodanikupäev (Citizen Day; Estonia)

Lion Day USA

Mākua Rothman Day (Hawaii)

National Anti-Obesity Day

Republic Day (Mongolia)

Sojourner Truth Day (Michigan)

World Olive Tree Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Cake Day

National Milk Day (India)

4th & Last Saturday in November

Canadian Craft Beer Day [Last Saturday]

ClauWau begins (a.k.a. Santa Claus World Championships; Switzerland) [Last Saturday]

Holodomor Remembrance Day (Ukraine) [4th Saturday]

International Aura Awareness Day [4th Saturday]

Saturday after Thanksgiving (US) [4th Saturday] (a.k.a. ...

Buy Nothing Day (UK)

Small Business Saturday

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Siricius, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Stylianos of Paphlagonia (Eastern Orthodoxy)

Sylvester Gozzolini (Christian; Saint)

Tantan (Muppetism)

Isaac Watts (Episcopal Church (USA))

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because it’s National Baby Dropping Day.)

Premieres

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Novel; 1865)

Alien: resurrection (Film; 1997)

Anarchy in the U.K., by The Sex Pistols (Album; 1976)

Australia (Film; 2008)

Bad Santa (Film; 2003)

Casablanca (Film; 1942)

Fragile, by Yes (Album; 1971)

The King’s Speech (Film; 2010)

The Mosquito Coast (Film; 1996)

Orchids in the Moonlight, recorded by Xavier Cugat (Song; 1940)

Penguins of Madagascar (Animated Film; 2014)

Rockshow (Paul McCartney Concert Film; 1980)

Squeeze: Unplugged (MTV TV Concert; 1989) [1st Unplugged Concert]

Timeline (Film; 2003)

The Toll of the Sea (Film; 1922) [1st Technicolor Film)

The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins (Novel; 1859)x

Today’s Name Days

Anneliese, Gebhard, Konrad (Austria)

Stilyan, Stilyana (Bulgaria)

Hugo, Konrad, Siricije (Croatia)

Artur (Czech Republic)

Conradus (Denmark)

Dagmar, Maara, Maare, Tamaara (Estonia)

Sisko (Finland)

Delphine (France)

Anneliese, Konrad, Kurt (Germany)

Kyparisia, Nikon, Stelios, Stergios, Stiloanos, Stylianos (Greece)

Virág (Hungary)

Corrado, Cristo (Italy)

Konrāds (Latvia)

Dobilas, Silvestras, Vygantė (Lithuania)

Konrad, Kurt (Norway)

Delfin, Dobiemiest, Jan, Konrad, Konrada, Lechosław, Lechosława, Leonard, Sylwester (Poland)

Kornel (Slovakia)

Conrado, Juan, Leonardo, Silvestre (Spain)

Linus (Sweden)

Mallory, Rashad, Rashawn, Yesenia, Yessenia (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 330 of 2022; 35 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 47 of 2022

Celtic Tree Calendar: Is (Stasis) [Day 1 of 28]

Chinese: Month 11 (Dōngyuè), Day 3 (Gui-Wie)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 2 Kislev 5783

Islamic: 2 Jumada I 1444

J Cal: 30 Mir; Eightday [30 of 30]

Julian: 13 November 2022

Moon: 12%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 22 Frederic (12th Month) [Sidney]

Runic Half Month: Ruis (Elder) [Day 2 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 65 of 90)

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 4 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Is (Stasis) [Half-Month 22 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 11.24)

#Holidays #calendar

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Holidays 11.26

Holidays

Anti-Obesity Day

Constitution Day (Abkhazia; Georgia; India)

Family Day (Palau)

Festival of Big Talk

Festival of Shadow Economies

Fraternity Day

Good Grief Day

Holiday List Day

International Bananagrams Day

International Women Human Rights Defenders Day

Kodanikupäev (Citizen Day; Estonia)

Lion Day USA

Mākua Rothman Day (Hawaii)

National Anti-Obesity Day

Republic Day (Mongolia)

Sojourner Truth Day (Michigan)

World Olive Tree Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Cake Day

National Milk Day (India)

4th & Last Saturday in November

Canadian Craft Beer Day [Last Saturday]

ClauWau begins (a.k.a. Santa Claus World Championships; Switzerland) [Last Saturday]

Holodomor Remembrance Day (Ukraine) [4th Saturday]

International Aura Awareness Day [4th Saturday]

Saturday after Thanksgiving (US) [4th Saturday] (a.k.a. ...

Buy Nothing Day (UK)

Small Business Saturday

Swine Time Festival (Climax, Georgia)

Turkey Leftover Day

Independence Days

Mongolia (from China, 1921)

Statehood Day (Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH))

Feast Days

Alypius the Stylite (Christian; Saint)

Basolus (a.k.a. Basle; Christian; Saint)

Bellinus of Padua (Christian; Saint)

Conrad of Constance (a.k.a. Conraal; Christian; Saint)

Day of the Covenant (Baháʼí)

Ethelwine of Athelney (Christian; Saint)

Feast of the Holy Family (Christian)

Hugo Ball Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

John Berchmans (Christian; Saint)

Nicon Metanoite (Christian; Saint)

Peter, Bishop of Alexandria (Christian; Saint)

Racist Depreciation Day (Pastafarian)

Sidney (Positivist; Saint)

Siricius, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Stylianos of Paphlagonia (Eastern Orthodoxy)

Sylvester Gozzolini (Christian; Saint)

Tantan (Muppetism)

Isaac Watts (Episcopal Church (USA))

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because it’s National Baby Dropping Day.)

Premieres

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Novel; 1865)

Alien: resurrection (Film; 1997)

Anarchy in the U.K., by The Sex Pistols (Album; 1976)

Australia (Film; 2008)

Bad Santa (Film; 2003)

Casablanca (Film; 1942)

Fragile, by Yes (Album; 1971)

The King’s Speech (Film; 2010)

The Mosquito Coast (Film; 1996)

Orchids in the Moonlight, recorded by Xavier Cugat (Song; 1940)

Penguins of Madagascar (Animated Film; 2014)

Rockshow (Paul McCartney Concert Film; 1980)

Squeeze: Unplugged (MTV TV Concert; 1989) [1st Unplugged Concert]

Timeline (Film; 2003)

The Toll of the Sea (Film; 1922) [1st Technicolor Film)

The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins (Novel; 1859)x

Today’s Name Days

Anneliese, Gebhard, Konrad (Austria)

Stilyan, Stilyana (Bulgaria)

Hugo, Konrad, Siricije (Croatia)

Artur (Czech Republic)

Conradus (Denmark)

Dagmar, Maara, Maare, Tamaara (Estonia)

Sisko (Finland)

Delphine (France)

Anneliese, Konrad, Kurt (Germany)

Kyparisia, Nikon, Stelios, Stergios, Stiloanos, Stylianos (Greece)

Virág (Hungary)

Corrado, Cristo (Italy)

Konrāds (Latvia)

Dobilas, Silvestras, Vygantė (Lithuania)

Konrad, Kurt (Norway)

Delfin, Dobiemiest, Jan, Konrad, Konrada, Lechosław, Lechosława, Leonard, Sylwester (Poland)

Kornel (Slovakia)

Conrado, Juan, Leonardo, Silvestre (Spain)

Linus (Sweden)

Mallory, Rashad, Rashawn, Yesenia, Yessenia (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 330 of 2022; 35 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 47 of 2022

Celtic Tree Calendar: Is (Stasis) [Day 1 of 28]

Chinese: Month 11 (Dōngyuè), Day 3 (Gui-Wie)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 2 Kislev 5783

Islamic: 2 Jumada I 1444

J Cal: 30 Mir; Eightday [30 of 30]

Julian: 13 November 2022

Moon: 12%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 22 Frederic (12th Month) [Sidney]

Runic Half Month: Ruis (Elder) [Day 2 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 65 of 90)

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 4 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Is (Stasis) [Half-Month 22 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 11.24)

#Holidays

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spacetimewithstuartgary · 2 years

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InSight Mars lander waits out dust storm NASA's InSight mission, which is expected to end in the near future, saw a recent drop in power generated by its solar panels as a continent-size dust storm swirls over Mars' southern hemisphere. First observed on Sept. 21, 2022, by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), the storm is roughly 2,175 miles (3,500 kilometers) from InSight and initially had little impact on the lander. The mission carefully monitors the lander's power level, which has been steadily declining as dust accumulates on its solar arrays. By Monday, Oct. 3, the storm had grown large enough and was lofting so much dust that the thickness of the dusty haze in the Martian atmosphere had increased by nearly 40% around InSight. With less sunlight reaching the lander's panels, its energy fell from 425 watt-hours per Martian day, or sol, to just 275 watt-hours per sol. InSight's seismometer has been operating for about 24 hours every other Martian day. But the drop in solar power does not leave enough energy to completely charge the batteries every sol. At the current rate of discharge, the lander would be able to operate only for several weeks. So to conserve energy, the mission will turn off InSight's seismometer for the next two weeks. "We were at about the bottom rung of our ladder when it comes to power. Now we're on the ground floor," said InSight's project manager, Chuck Scott of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. "If we can ride this out, we can keep operating into winter—but I'd worry about the next storm that comes along." The team had estimated that InSight's mission would end sometime between late October of this year and January 2023, based on predictions of how much the dust on its solar panels will reduce its power generation. The lander has long-since surpassed its primary mission and is now close to the end of its extended mission, conducting "bonus science" by measuring marsquakes, which reveal details about the deep interior of the Red Planet. Studying Martian Storms There are signs that this large, regional storm has peaked and entered its decay phase: MRO's Mars Climate Sounder instrument, which measures the heating caused by dust absorbing sunlight, sees the storm's growth slowing down. And the dust-raising clouds observed in pictures from the orbiter's Mars Color Imager camera, which creates daily global maps of the Red Planet and was the first instrument to spot the storm, are not expanding as rapidly as before. This regional storm isn't a surprise: It's the third storm of its kind that's been seen this year. In fact, Mars dust storms occur at all times of the Martian year, although more of them—and bigger ones—occur during northern fall and winter, which is coming to an end. Mars dust storms aren't as violent or dramatic as Hollywood portrays them. While winds can blow up to 60 miles per hour (97 kilometers per hour), the Martian air is thin enough that it has just a fraction of the strength of storms on Earth. Mostly, the storms are messy: They toss billowing dust high into the atmosphere, which slowly drops back down, sometimes taking weeks. On rare occasions, scientists have seen dust storms grow into planet-encircling dust events, which cover almost all of Mars. One of these planet-size dust storms brought NASA's solar-powered Opportunity rover to an end in 2018. Because they're nuclear-powered, NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance rovers have nothing to worry about in terms a dust storm affecting their energy. But the solar-powered Ingenuity helicopter has noticed the overall increase in background haze. Besides monitoring storms for the safety of NASA missions on the Martian surface, MRO has spent 17 years collecting invaluable data about how and why these storms form. "We're trying to capture the patterns of these storms so we can better predict when they're about to happen," Zurek said. "We learn more about Mars' atmosphere with each one we observe." TOP IMAGE....NASA’s InSight Mars lander took this final selfie on April 24, 2022, the 1,211th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The lander’s solar panels have become covered with dust since the lander touched down on Mars in November 2018, which has led to a gradual decline in its power level. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech LOWER IMAGE....The beige clouds seen in this global map of Mars are a continent-size dust storm captured on Sept. 29, 2022, by the Mars Climate Imager camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA’s Perseverance, Curiosity, and InSight missions are labeled, showing the vast distances between them. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

#space #science #Astronomy #physics #NEWS #Mars #imsight

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New Post has been published on https://magzoso.com/tech/flying-cars-to-hyperloop-a-review-of-tech-predictions/

Flying Cars to Hyperloop: A Review of Tech Predictions

Predicting the future is hard, even for the people with the most power to influence it. In 2013, Jeff Bezos said he expected Amazon.com Inc. would be delivering packages by drone in four to five years. Here we are seven years later, the flying delivery robots Bezos envisioned are still at the testing stage and have just started to get regulatory approval in the U.S.

Corporate fortune telling is a common practice in the technology industry, and executives tend to choose round numbers as deadlines for their technological fantasies. So, as 2019 draws to a close and we approach a new decade, let’s take a look back at how some of the tech industry’s predictions for 2020 fared.

1. Computer chips will consume almost no energy

Gordon Moore was famous for his foresight about the development of cheaper and more advanced computers. Intel, the company he co-founded, stayed in the prognostication game years after Moore retired, with mixed results. In 2012, Intel predicted a form of ubiquitous computing that would consume almost zero energy by 2020. The date is almost here, and phones still barely last a day before needing a recharge. The i9, Intel’s latest top-of-the-line computer chip, requires 165 watts of energy. That’s more than twice as much as a 65-inch television.

2. Nine out of 10 people over age 6 will own a mobile phone

In 2014, Ericsson Mobility estimated that 90 percent of people on earth over 6 years old would own a mobile phone by 2020. This is a hard one to measure, but a visit to developing countries suggests we are nowhere close. Research firm Statista puts global penetration at 67 percent. One milestone achieved this decade is the number of mobile subscriptions exceeded the world’s population for the first time, according to data compiled by the World Bank. The statistic is skewed by people who use multiple devices. Concern about the potential harmful effects of video game and social-media overuse by children may mean this never happens. There’s now a national movement in the US encouraging parents to wait until kids are in the eighth grade (age 13) before letting them have a smartphone.

3. Jet.com will break even

Jet.com was an embodiment of the startup unicorn, before that was even a term. Marc Lore started the online retailer after selling his previous company to Amazon. Jet would challenge Lore’s former employer by offering cheaper prices on products with a subscription that substantially undercut Prime. To do that, Jet quickly started burning through the more than $700 million (roughly Rs. 5,000 crores) it had raised from venture capitalists, and critics said the startup had no path to profitability. In response, Lore said on Bloomberg TV in 2015 that Jet would break even by 2020. Walmart swooped in a year after that interview and bought Jet for $3.3 billion (roughly Rs. 23,571 crores). According to news site Vox, Walmart is projecting a loss of more than $1 billion (roughly Rs. 7,142 crores) this year for its US e-commerce division, now led by Lore.

4. The first 60-mile hyperloop ride will take place

In 2013, Elon Musk outlined his vision for a new “fifth mode of transportation” that would involve zipping people through tubes at speeds as fast as 800 miles per hour. Several tech entrepreneurs heeded Musk’s call and went to work on such systems inspired by the billionaire’s specifications. In 2015, one of the leading startups predicted a hyperloop spanning about 60 miles would be ready for human transport by 2020. Rob Lloyd, then the CEO of Hyperloop Technologies, told Popular Science: “I’m very confident that’s going to happen.” It hasn’t. His company, now called Virgin Hyperloop One, has a 1,600-foot test track in California and hopes to build a 22-mile track in Saudi Arabia someday. Musk has since experimented with hyperloops of his own, and even he has had to scale back his ambitions. Musk’s Boring is building a so-called Loop system in Las Vegas, starting with a nearly mile-long track that consists of a narrow tunnel and Tesla cars moving at up to 155 miles per hour.

5. Google’s cloud business will eclipse advertising

Selling cloud services became a big business for Amazon, Alibaba Group Holding and Microsoft over the last decade. Google executive Urs Hölzle saw the shift coming and in 2015 predicted Google’s cloud revenue would supersede advertising by 2020. Alphabet’s Google has inched closer to Amazon Web Services since then, but it’ll take a lot to outgrow Google’s cash cow. The cloud is expected to represent almost 15 percent of revenue for Google this year, compared with 85 percent for ads.

6. Huawei will make a ‘superphone’

Here’s what Huawei Technologies said in 2015 predicting a “superphone” by 2020, according to ZDNet: “Inspired by the biological evolution, the mobile phone we currently know will come to life as the superphone,” said Shao Yang, a strategy marketing president of Huawei. “Through evolution and adaptation, the superphone will be more intelligent, enhancing and even transforming our perceptions, enabling humans to go further than ever before.” It’s not entirely clear what that means, but it probably hasn’t happened yet. In the interim, Huawei found itself in the middle of a trade war, and the Chinese company is focusing largely on mid-priced phones for its domestic market.

7. Toyota will make fully self-driving cars

Auto and tech companies alike became convinced this decade that computers would soon be able to drive cars more reliably than people. In 2015, Toyota Motor made a companywide bet that it would have autonomous highway-driving cars on the road by 2020. It didn’t take long for the hype cycle to veer off course. In 2018, a pedestrian died after colliding with an Uber self-driving car. In 2020, Toyota’s Lexus brand will introduce a car capable of driving autonomously on the highway, but executives acknowledged that auto companies “are revising their timeline for AI deployment significantly.”

8. A Bitcoin will be worth $1 million

John McAfee, the controversial computer antivirus mogul and an influential voice in the cryptocurrency community, predicted the price of Bitcoin would reach $1 million (roughly Rs. 7.14 crores) by the end of 2020. McAfee posted the estimate in November 2017, about three weeks before a crash would erase 83 percent of value over the next year. Bitcoin has recovered somewhat, but the current price of about $7,200 is far from McAfee’s magic number. Like other Bitcoin bulls, McAfee is standing by his unlikely prediction. If he’s wrong, McAfee said he’ll eat an intimate body part.

9. Dyson will sell an electric car

It was barely two years ago when the maker of blowdryers and vacuum cleaners said it would sell an electric car by 2020. Dyson canceled the project this year, calling it “not commercially viable.”

10. Uber will deploy flying cars

When Uber Technologies pledged to deliver on a promise of the Jetsons, it gave itself just three years to do so. It’s safe to say you will not be able to hail a flying Uber in the next year. The company continues to explore the concept with regulators. This year, Uber added a form of flying vehicle that’s not particularly cutting edge: It’s booking helicopter rides in New York City. Last Friday, Uber said it was working with a startup, Joby Aviation, to develop “aerial ride-sharing” and set a new deadline of 2023. Uber Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi tweeted: “Getting closer …”

#Miscellaneous

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CsjLam’s Masterlist

Last Updated: 17/5/2024

SIX:

Phantom thief au - Discontinued

[ch.1] [ch.2] [ch.3] [ch.4] [ch.5]

[ch.6] [ch.7] [ch.8] [ch.9] [ch.10]

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TBHK au - Discontinued

[ch.1] [ch.2] [ch.3]

=+= =+= =+=

DBH au

Intro/Cast

The detective’s lunch

=+= =+= =+=

12 days of six fics - Completed

[Day 1] [Day 2] [Day 3] [Day 4]

[Day 5] [Day 6] [Day 7] [Day 8]

[Day 9] [Day 10] [Day 11] [Day 12]

=+= =+= =+=

One shots

Purely Coincidental (Jane and Cathy centred fic)

Halloween but with the actual undead (Halloween fic)

Fly me to the moon (Parrward)

Two dumbasses with a fork (Anne Squared)

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Collaborations

Six fate swapped au

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AU Arena - Discontinued

Teaser

[ch.1]

WE ARE THE TIGERS:

We’ve gone too far to go back now (Zombie AU) - Completed

[ch.1] [ch.2]

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One shots

If I say “I’m fine” enough, then I’ll believe it (Eva vent fic)

With the Stars and Us (Post-canon Kate x Eva x Annleigh)

Farrah’s Foolproof Guide To Summoning The Dead (watt x six au)

one last time, please (Annleigh-centric songfic for WATT Week 2023 prompt: Reunion)

=+= =+= =+=

Collaborations

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(A crack fic based on Annleigh’s line in IDK)

[ch.1] [ch.2] [ch.3] [ch.4] [ch.5]

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(WATT DND AU)

[ch.1] [ch.2] [ch.3] [ch.4] [ch.5]

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A False Freedom - Discontinued

(WATT DBH AU)

[ch.1] [ch.2] [ch.3] [ch.4] [ch.5]

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RIDE THE CYCLONE:

you feel like city life, apple pie baked just right (Coffee shop AU) - Discontinued

[ch.1] [ch.2] [ch.3]

BLUE LOCK:

The Chains That Bind (Yukimiya-centric fic)

OVERWATCH:

When the World Stops Moving (Mekamechanic)

MCYT:

Phobos’ Interlude (Cheater duo - Limited Life)

dear fellow traveller (under the moon) - shiny duo/gempearl fics

brewings of a not-too-distant past (HC s8 x ESMP s1)

no longer a danger to herself or others (Post-DL)

gold shimmers in her hair (HC s9 x ESMP)

I vowed not to fight anymore (if we survived the Great War) (alt. SL finale)

I don't know anything, but I know I miss you (HC s9 x SL)

skin scarred and sun-kissed (SL one shot collection)

cast a spell on my heart (Modern LARP AU)

the sun can’t break the habit of going down (alt. ESMP s1 finale)

planting roses in foreign waters (Modern HC s10 AU)

she’s absolutely smitten (she’ll never let you go) (HC s9)

overnight delivery (HC s10)

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Flying Cars and Hyperloop by 2020? A Review of Tech Predictions

(Bloomberg) –Predicting the future is hard, even for the people with the most power to influence it. In 2013, Jeff Bezos said he expected Amazon.com Inc. would be delivering packages by drone in four to five years. Here we are seven years later, the flying delivery robots Bezos envisioned are still at the testing stage and have just started to get regulatory approval in the U.S.

1. Computer chips will consume almost no energy

Gordon Moore was famous for his foresight about the development of cheaper and more advanced computers. Intel Corp., the company he co-founded, stayed in the prognostication game years after Moore retired, with mixed results. In 2012, Intel predicted a form of ubiquitous computing that would consume almost zero energy by 2020. The date is almost here, and phones still barely last a day before needing a recharge. The i9, Intel’s latest top-of-the-line computer chip, requires 165 watts of energy. That’s more than twice as much as a 65-inch television.

2. Nine out of 10 people over age 6 will own a mobile phone

In 2014, Ericsson Mobility estimated that 90% of people on earth over 6 years old would own a mobile phone by 2020. This is a hard one to measure, but a visit to developing countries suggests we are nowhere close. Research firm Statista puts global penetration at 67%. One milestone achieved this decade is the number of mobile subscriptions exceeded the world’s population for the first time, according to data compiled by the World Bank. The statistic is skewed by people who use multiple devices. Concern about the potential harmful effects of video game and social-media overuse by children may mean this never happens. There’s now a national movement in the U.S. encouraging parents to wait until kids are in the eighth grade (age 13) before letting them have a smartphone.

3. Jet.com will break even

Jet.com was an embodiment of the startup unicorn, before that was even a term. Marc Lore started the online retailer after selling his previous company to Amazon. Jet would challenge Lore’s former employer by offering cheaper prices on products with a subscription that substantially undercut Prime. To do that, Jet quickly started burning through the more than $700 million it had raised from venture capitalists, and critics said the startup had no path to profitability. In response, Lore said on Bloomberg TV in 2015 that Jet would break even by 2020. Walmart Inc. swooped in a year after that interview and bought Jet for $3.3 billion. According to news site Vox, Walmart is projecting a loss of more than $1 billion this year for its U.S. e-commerce division, now led by Lore.

4. The first 60-mile hyperloop ride will take place

In 2013, Elon Musk outlined his vision for a new “fifth mode of transportation” that would involve zipping people through tubes at speeds as fast as 800 miles per hour. Several tech entrepreneurs heeded Musk’s call and went to work on such systems inspired by the billionaire’s specifications. In 2015, one of the leading startups predicted a hyperloop spanning about 60 miles would be ready for human transport by 2020. Rob Lloyd, then the CEO of Hyperloop Technologies, told Popular Science: “I’m very confident that’s going to happen.” It hasn’t. His company, now called Virgin Hyperloop One, has a 1,600-foot test track in California and hopes to build a 22-mile track in Saudi Arabia someday. Musk has since experimented with hyperloops of his own, and even he has had to scale back his ambitions. Musk’s Boring Co. is building a so-called Loop system in Las Vegas, starting with a nearly mile-long track that consists of a narrow tunnel and Tesla cars moving at up to 155 miles per hour.

5. Google’s cloud business will eclipse advertising

Selling cloud services became a big business for Amazon, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Microsoft Corp. over the last decade. Google executive Urs Hölzle saw the shift coming and in 2015 predicted Google’s cloud revenue would supersede advertising by 2020. Alphabet Inc.’s Google has inched closer to Amazon Web Services since then, but it’ll take a lot to outgrow Google’s cash cow. The cloud is expected to represent almost 15% of revenue for Google this year, compared with 85% for ads.

6. Huawei will make a ‘superphone’

Here’s what Huawei Technologies Co. said in 2015 predicting a “superphone” by 2020, according to ZDNet: “Inspired by the biological evolution, the mobile phone we currently know will come to life as the superphone,” said Shao Yang, a strategy marketing president of Huawei. “Through evolution and adaptation, the superphone will be more intelligent, enhancing and even transforming our perceptions, enabling humans to go further than ever before.” It’s not entirely clear what that means, but it probably hasn’t happened yet. In the interim, Huawei found itself in the middle of a trade war, and the Chinese company is focusing largely on mid-priced phones for its domestic market.

7. Toyota will make fully self-driving cars

Auto and tech companies alike became convinced this decade that computers would soon be able to drive cars more reliably than people. In 2015, Toyota Motor Corp. made a companywide bet that it would have autonomous highway-driving cars on the road by 2020. It didn’t take long for the hype cycle to veer off course. In 2018, a pedestrian died after colliding with an Uber self-driving car. In 2020, Toyota’s Lexus brand will introduce a car capable of driving autonomously on the highway, but executives acknowledged that auto companies “are revising their timeline for AI deployment significantly.”

8. A Bitcoin will be worth $1 million

John McAfee, the controversial computer antivirus mogul and an influential voice in the cryptocurrency community, predicted the price of Bitcoin would reach $1 million by the end of 2020. McAfee posted the estimate in November 2017, about three weeks before a crash would erase 83% of value over the next year. Bitcoin has recovered somewhat, but the current price of about $7,200 is far from McAfee’s magic number. Like other Bitcoin bulls, McAfee is standing by his unlikely prediction. If he’s wrong, McAfee said he’ll eat an intimate body part.

9. Dyson will sell an electric car

10. Uber will deploy flying cars

When Uber Technologies Inc. pledged to deliver on a promise of the Jetsons, it gave itself just three years to do so. The company still intends to hold flight demonstrations in 2020, but it’s safe to say you will not be able to hail a flying Uber in the next year. The company continues to explore the concept with regulators. This year, Uber added a form of flying vehicle that’s not particularly cutting edge: It’s booking helicopter rides in New York City. Last Friday, Uber said it was working with a startup, Joby Aviation, to develop “aerial ride-sharing” and set a deadline of 2023. Uber Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi tweeted: “Getting closer …”

–With assistance from Ian King.

The post Flying Cars and Hyperloop by 2020? A Review of Tech Predictions appeared first on Businessliveme.com.

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Why Arsenal's 'Confirmed Interest' In Kingsley Coman Matters Little

As the transfer season comes down to its final weeks there has been a lot of rumors about Arsenal's interest in signing Bayern Munich winger Kingsley Coman. Having already signed 5 world class player. Arsenal are now reportedly genuinely interested in signing another world class player to compete as title contender this season. Gunners have already strengthened their side significantly since the arrival of their new manager, Unai Emery. Since, his arrival arsenal have already signed players like former Dortmund defender Sokratis Papastathopoulos , Stephan Lichtsteiner , Uruguayan Lucas torreira and Bayern Leverkusen & German international GK bernd leno . Making it a very strong side in terms of defense and midfield . (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); Now it seems Arsenal boss Unai Emery is now focusing on the front line in order to complete his squad for the season and there have been a lot rumours that kingsleycoman could catch a flight to Emirates this season. Previously, it was also rumored that Ousmane Dembele might be coming to arsenal . but its pretty impossible as La liga giants had invested €105 million of faith in the French man and for Arsenal to part with anything close enough seems completely fictional and unimaginable. https://twitter.com/DeanJonesBR/status/1020403786253242368 On the other hand according to reliable Football journalist Dean jones, Arsenal are interested in signing the French & Bayern munich winger. He claims that arsenal’s interest in Bayern munich munich winger is “genuine “. Also, sports FR claimed earlier this week that arsenal manger emery had offered €50 million for the Bayern munich star only to see it being knocked back by the German Club. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); "kingsley coman is a player most sides in europe would be looking at if he is available and arsenal are no different " "Getting dembele out of barcelona though looks very unlikely , unless they agree to a loan . So , Coman would certainly be a player of interest at emirates ." "But the fact is arsenal just don't have money to attempt to sign him , unless they sell the no. of players first " - Charles Watt said The 22 year old winger who was brought by bayern munich in 2015 on loan from Juventus before signing a permanent move last summer . In total , he is now worth £248 million when factors its intial loan and transfer fee. with a current market value is £45.00 million . Having already had the experience of playing for european giants like Paris saint- Germain , Bayern Munich, and Juventus where he scored 17 goals in all the 125 appearances , Kingsley Coman is already one of the more experienced players around despite his age. He debuted for PSG in 2012 /13 season before moving to the Italian Serie A, Juventus where he played from 2014 until 2016 where Juventus reached the champions league final & lost to Barcelona by 3-1 and then moved on to where he is presently. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); At one point of time Kingsley Coman had managed to send the Arsneal fans into a frenzy through an instagram post by one of the arsenal fans which had left fans wondering that the deal can be possible . https://twitter.com/ArsenalUrban/status/1020053715355684865 However the thing with Kingsley Coman is that he is 22 years old only and still a huge part of Bayern Munich's future plans and ambitions. Despite their incredibly talented squad, Bayern are not one to sell readily and specially not one as important as Kingsley Coman simply because of how special he is as a player. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); As an Arsenal fan, if Kingsley Coman comes to Arsenal instead of dembele it could completely revolutionize the Arsenal attack for years to come. Given his fast pace from the wings and the way he can rattle the opponents defense with ease. its mouth watering to imagine the number of chances he could have created for Arsenal to score or counter with ease. http://arsedevils.com/ousmane-dembele-arsenal-transfer-barca/4775/ Arsenal already have a player like Aubameyang up top, Ozil in the midfield and with Kingsley Coman incusion in the wings it would surely bring out a natural free flowing like the days of the past. However as enticing as that may be in imagining Arsenal should really not get carried away with a player that has a contract signed in December last year tying him up till 2023 with the German giants and instead focus on the other fact pacy attacking wingers on their list that they should target. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); Moreover when asked about the possibility of playing for Bayern Munich next season, Kingsley Coman was quick to point out the duration of his contract and refute any possible contact with Arsenal till now saying : "Normally, yes." "Normally means normally. I am at Bayern now. "I extended my contract for five years, so normally I will stay here. "I had no contact Arsenal." Basically what this tells us is that unless something extraordinary happens and Bayern allow the player to discuss terms with Arsenal, Kingsley Coman has every intention of staying with the Germans for now given that he just put pen to paper on new terms and ideally would prefer to honor them. While its obvious that being in pre season training with the rest of his team mates together Kingsley Coman would have hardly ever admit publicly a will or desire and so an interview like this hardly accounts for much given how the transfer landscape changes on a daily basis, yet its actually impossible to imagine Bayern Munich having any reason to sell for what we would be offering for his services. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); To say the least its a long shot a very veryy long one indeed and for us to linger on to hopes of seeing this one pan out would be utter foolishness on our part. Its not likely so best of all parties involved would be to simply move on from this and move on to bigger and better things to discuss and debate about. Read the full article

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