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the king of silence?
the king of silence?
9:38 a.m. by Joris Marin / photo credit: Sweet FM
Founded in 2003 by a group of engineers, the Tesla car brand is today the world leader in the electric market. But, she is not the queen of communication. Meeting with the president of the Tesla France club, who is from Calvados.
If there is a term, to our liking, which corresponds to the brand of cars You’re here, it’s the silence. Communication…
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Linda Johnson Rice (born March 22, 1958) in Chicago to John and Eunice Johnson. Her father in 1942 founded Johnson Publishing Company. She wanted to be an integral part of her father’s business and began training in the fashion department at age seven by taking notes during business meetings and reviewing her father’s incoming and outgoing mail.
She attended USC and graduated with a BA in Journalism from the Annenberg School for Communication. She was involved in the Ebony Fashion Fair, which allowed her to travel to Italy and France to choose gowns and models. She directed the shows. She became VP of Johnson Publishing Company and started work on the syndicated television show Ebony/ Jet Showcase. She received an MBA from Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management. She became President and COO of Johnson Publishing, until her promotion to CEO, becoming the first African American female CEO among the 100 largest Black-owned companies in the US. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Women of Power award from the National Urban League, and the Tower of Power Award of the Trumpet Awards, as well as being named one of Chicago’s 100 Most Powerful Women.
She has served as a board member for the Board of Trustees for the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Women’s Board for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Board of Director for Continental Bank Corporation, Magazine Publishers of America, GrubHub Inc., Tesla Inc., Kimberly-Clark Corporation, USC, the Magazine Publishers Association, the Northwestern Memorial Corporation, The Advisory Board for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, the Women’s Board of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Founding Council of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture.
She became a board member and returned as CEO at Ebony Media Operations in 2017 but severed her ties and resigned from all positions in September 2019.
She married S. Andre Rice (1984) and the couple had one daughter. She married to former Detroit Lions Running Back Mel Farr (2004-2009). #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #womenshistorymonth
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I'm unsure what your taste is so I'm including a small summary by everything. the storygraph generally has all triggers listed in their system if you need any content heads up) Unsure if you want non fiction also but I threw a couple of my favorites on there . All of these I got on Libby or hoopla
Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
(Salem's Lot but Southern and with some very profound and insightful things about White Womanhood and public perception. Every female character is fleshed out and realistic)
I Lived On Butterfly Hill by Marjorie Agosin
(A YA fictionalized memoir about a Chilean girl during Pinochet's regime)
Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina
(Thriller/Horror novel about an indigenous girl whose sister goes missing. One of the best things I have read this year)
The Free People's Village by Sim Kern
(Alternate history, what if Al Gore won the election? A fascinating look at how many of the problems we live with today are rooted deeper than simply someone else becoming president.)
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
(Set in NYC at the turn of the century, it traces how two beings from two very different religious traditions got there and how they can find a place for themselves. On personhood, the question of fate/free will as it pertains to one's inner nature, and a legitimately emotional story)
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
(Rumplestiltskin retelling with intricate worldbuilding and wonderful characters)
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
(Legitimately creepy but insightful look into heteronormativity as enforced by Evangelical upbringing. I love the way the author handles religion in general here)
Lark Ascending by Silas House
(A tragedy with a happy ending. This book was one of the first things I read this year and it has stayed with me since. Cannot recommend it enough)
Germinal by Emlie Zola
(One of Suzanne Collins' favorite books, it's the story of the 1890s miners strike in France.)
Soul Full of Coal Dust by Chris Hamby
(A journalist's investigation into Black Lung and how it affects Appalachian communities as well as the legal fights to hold mining companies accountable for bucking safety practices and refusing to cover medical care. A harrowing read, but an important one.)
The Most They Ever Had, by Rick Bragg
(Sister title to the above, this one covers the history of mill workers in the foothills of Appalachia)
Black Reconstruction in America by W E B DuBois
(Long as fuck, and honestly probably best read in print, but if you have even the slightest interest in American history, this is a must read)
Finally, the Unofficial Recipes of the Hunger Games, by RockRidge University Press.
(Fandom Cookbooks often don't do it for me, but this cookbook is not only textually accurate but it tries the foods mentioned in the book to real-life equivalents or what ingredients may have been available as best they can and it's a legitimately engaging read with many great recipes)
You started out with one of my FAVORITE discovered authors this year, I read that + final girls support club AND how to sell a haunted house this year multiple times 10/10
If you liked that one you've gotta try Devolution by Max Brooks bc like.... Imagine if there was a Tesla village? With some big shoes to fill..... Told as if it were nonfiction post disaster
You might also like Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix which is a YA novel, historic fiction, about three teenage girls who work in and around a very specific shirtwaist factory in 1911
Everything else is stuff that's either new to me or has been only in the edges of my radar, but all sounds really cool.... I should try to snag camp Damascus tbh firstly and add the cook book to my wish list
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11/3/2023
When You're Free
Morning Songs
When You're Free
You Find It In Your Mind
When You're Free
You Don't Cage Anyone
Another Time
When You're Free
You're Really Strong
When You're Free
You Don't Sell Moms Out
But Your Truth
My Dear
You Must Let It Out
Not In Therapy
Not Just In A Lovers Arms
Transparency
Is Key
To See All The Windows
Of Your Brain
Mindfulness
Not A Felon
Never Had A Misdemeanor
Either
Don't Believe The Lies
DA Bribes
A Label For Your DNA
Even Potus Has A Doubt
About Elon's Genius
Choices
What's New
You Got A Doubt Pres
How Many Promotions
On Bribes
And Gags
I Told Wally When
I Was 23yo
Almost 30 Years Ago
No More Secret
Relationships For Me
I Told Wally
Only 23
That Night I Bled Out
Princess Diana Died
On Plan B
I Told Wally
I Didn't Want A Bae
Before Marriage
And Not With An Unfaithful
Monk
Whom Molested Me
He Said He Would've Had
Me
And Came Visiting My
Kids
Coveting Eggs
Could You Put
Some Away
Jokes Aside
I Didn't Do It
I Have My Reasons
Why
And I Demand
The Government
Release It
Not A Felon
I Didn't Take Your
Gags
Instead Was Beat
And Raped
In Apartheid
Not A Felon
My Friends Didn't
Break The Laws
Their X Husbands
Did
Cheatin'
Just Mothers
Teaching
4 Billion Strong
A Mind Virus
Pervaded Court
Gave Out Cancer
Since 2016
Elections
A Mind Virus
Got The Courts
All They Can Say
Is They Have A
Doubt
About You And Me
A Genius Creating
Creatively
Sustaining
Defense Team Destroys
Everything Good
2 Year Old Psychology
Reverse
It Before
They Kill Us All
In AI War
Defense Team Weaponises
Sacred
Defense Team
Weaponises Kids
Defense Team
Weaponises Moms
And Our Wombs
In Leu Of Caitlyn
Trans
Politicians
Greenwashing
"How I Met Your Mother,"
Cancers
Grooming
For Atty Crimes
We Didn't Believe
That Ending
Was Planned For 10
Years
We Begged For Truth
Why'd Neil Patrick Harris
Get 20 Million
More
Than The Stars
Why Did Josh
Have To Pay
With His Ass
Naked On The Stage
For A Public Defense
Kink
Why Did Nicole Simpson
Pay
For Boys Club
Crimes Injustice
Is It The Blonde
Hair
Don't Do It
Is It The Blonde
Hair
That Makes Them
Mad
Is It The Blonde Hair
#FreeBritney
Was Arrested For
Is It The Blonde
Hair Every Gentile
Mother Has
How Many New
York Moms
Lobotomised For
Sexton Crimes
No
Brunettes Also
Cry #Metoo
Kidnapped Like
Kardashians
How Many Moms
Chopped Up
So A Gay Man
Could Babysit No
More
No More James Bond
"Mannies"
No More James Bond
Spies
In The Kitchen
We Want Tesla AI
Auditing Everyone
From France
To England
Referees
22.8 Million
American Representatives
Let Us Down
$1000 Billion Dollars
Wasn't Enough
To #FreeBritney
Offered
Double It Tomorrow
Triple Monday
Etc.
Until You Boys
Can Say Peace
Friendly
Tea
To #FreeBritney
And I
Every Woman Caged
2 Million Daily
2 Million Paid
Can You Afford
$2 Million A Day
To 4 Billion Moms
Or More
Can You Afford
What AI Took
No Prudes In Sight
Because Now
You Must Pay
Before France
Ends
World War 3
Peace,
Peace,
Nitya Nella Davigo Azam Moezzi Huntley Rawal
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Testimonial: Thierry abandons his Ford Mustang V8 for a Tesla Model 3 Performance
In full passion for American cars, Thierry Meurgues left the Mustang Club de France when he joined the Tesla Owners Club France in 2020. His experience with electric cars goes back much further, however, more than 25 years back.
First contact with electricity in 1996
At 59, Thierry Meurgues seems a bit like a passionate motorist who has often sought to have fun with his cars. Not only when…
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Craig Wright. Source: A video screenshot, Twitter/@JimmyWinSV Get your everyday, bite-sized absorb of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news-- examining the stories flying under the radar these days's crypto news. __________ Legal news A UK Court today bied far judgment in a libel claim brought by nChain Chief Scientist Craig Wright versus Bitcoin podcaster Peter McCormack and concluded that it was "most likely than not that each of the Publications triggered severe damage to Dr Wright's track record," however that, because of Wright's "intentionally incorrect case and proof on major damage, kept up until days prior to the trial, it would be unconscionable for him to recuperate more than small damages. Damages of GBP 1 were appropriately granted." Tesla chief Elon Musk countersued Twitter on Friday, intensifying the legal battle with the social networks business over his quote to ignore the USD 44 bn offer, although the suit was submitted in complete confidence, Reuters reported On Friday, Musk was taken legal action against by a Twitter investor who asked the court to buy the billionaire to close the offer, discover that he breached his fiduciary responsibility to Twitter investors, and award damages for losses he triggered. Investments news Digital possession financial investment items saw inflows amounting to USD 81 m recently, symbolizing the 5th successive week of inflows amounting to USD 0.53 bn, per CoinShares information. Bitcoin saw inflows amounting to USD 85 m recently (compared to USD 19 m a week previously), ethereum inflows dropped from USD 8m to USD 1m in a week. France-based significant crypto hardware wallet producer Ledger remains in talk with raise a minimum of USD 100 m in a financing round that will offer it a greater assessment than what it commanded (USD 1.5 bn) at its newest funding in June 2021, Bloomberg reported, pointing out concealed individuals acquainted with the strategies. FC Barcelona revealed that blockchain-powered fan engagement and benefits platform Socios.com will end up being a tactical innovation partner speeding up FC Barcelona's blockchain, NFT, and digital possessions, along with its Web3 techniques. The collaboration will see Socios.com owner and innovation service provider Chiliz invest USD 100 M in Barça Studios to obtain a 24.5% stake in the Club's digital material production and circulation center. US-based fintech business Ripple revealed that Q2 2022 was a record quarter for their On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) network as volume grew 9x in a year. Last quarter, overall XRP sales by Ripple, web of purchases, were USD 408.9 m vs. USD 273.27 m the previous quarter. W3BCLOUD, a storage and calculate facilities supplier powering Web 3 applications, revealed today it will be going public by means of unique function acquisition business Social Leverage Acquisition Corp When the offer is total, the business anticipates to have a preliminary business worth of USD 1.25 bn. Established in 2018, W3BCLOUD is a joint endeavor in between AMD, ConsenSys, and the business's creators. Exchanges news Binance is set to release Binance Account Bound (BAB), which they referred to as the first-ever Soulbound Token (SBT) developed on BNB Smart Chain. BAB will just be available through the Binance mobile app, as an opt-in function, enabling users to mint their BAB straight on the wallets they utilize on the platform. The tokens will operate as a Binance identity, showing that consumers have actually passed the understand your consumer procedure, however as "decentralized society" usage cases develop, Binance might provide other kinds of BAB tokens in the future, the exchange stated in a news release shown Cryptonews.com Crypto exchange CoinFLEX revealed that they had actually released "a substantial number" of the group "throughout all departments and locations," specifying that the personnel cuts and non-staff expenses they made will decrease their expense base by roughly 50%-60%.
Most of the group that stay are concentrated on item and innovation, while the exchange's objective is "to stay right-sized for any entity thinking about a possible acquisition of or collaboration chance with CoinFLEX," they included. FTX Exchange FZE revealed that it has actually gotten approval to go into Dubai's ' Minimum Viable Product' program for virtual properties under the world's only professional routine for this sector run by the Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority, and can now run its Virtual Asset Exchange and Clearing House services in Dubai. Derivatives exchange Bitget revealed the launch of the USD 200 m Bitget Protection Fund, including BTC 6,000 and USDT 80 m. Bitget stated in a news release shown Cryptonews.com that the fund is completely self-funded, and it has actually promised to protect the worth of the fund for the next 3 years. Adoption news Honduras has actually released " Bitcoin Valley" in the traveler town of Santa Lucia, Reuters reported The job targets 60 companies to at first get trained and embrace cryptocurrencies to market their product or services, anticipating to spread out these practices to more business and neighboring locations, it included. Metaverse news Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin argued that "anything [ metaverse- associated] Facebook produces now will misfire." He described that "we do not truly understand the meaning of "the metaverse" yet, it's far prematurely to understand what individuals really desire." Per Buterin, the metaverse is "going to occur." None "of the existing business efforts to purposefully develop the metaverse are going anywhere." Adoption news Since the start of Russia's war in Ukraine in February this year, blockchain analysis business Chainalysis recognized 54 companies that have actually jointly gotten over USD 2.2 m worth of crypto, mainly from bitcoin (BTC) and ether contributions. "Considerable" amounts of tether (USDT), litecoin (LTC), and dogecoin (DOGE) have actually been sent out. Social network posts from the groups suggest that a big part of these funds are being utilized to gear up paramilitary groups, they included. Stablecoins news The Aave( AAVE) neighborhood passed a proposition to introduce a native crypto-based stablecoin GHO, with 99.99% votes in favor of the proposition, per the governance page. GHO must be released on the Aave Protocol, enabling users to mint GHO versus their provided securities, the proposition states. Read More
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Une centrale solaire pour conduire plus sa propre voiture électrique
Une centrale solaire pour conduire plus sa propre voiture électrique
Notre lecteur alsacien Fabien voulait reprendre la centrale nucléaire pour rouler en voiture électrique. Il a fait le choix d’une installation solaire en autoconsommation sur le toit de sa maison. Après 5 ans de production, il dresse un bilan très positif.
Tesla Model S + Volkswagen e-Golf
Aujourd’hui responsable régional du Tesla Owners Club France, Fabien est passé à la voiture électrique en…
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Movies/shows I will write for
Harry Potter
Narnia
Star wars
My Own Private Idaho
The Outsiders
Titanic
The Breakfast Club
Toy Soldiers
School Ties
It (miniseries & new)
Hidden Figures
The Lost Boys
The Mummy (only the first 2)
Legally Blonde
Heathers
Little Women (old and new)
Stand by me
Karate kid ( 1&2)
Mighty Ducks (2&3)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Scream 1
The patriot
Anaconda (1997)
Anchorman (the legend of ron burgundy)
Grown ups
Christine (that one Stephan king movie about the possessed car)
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
Weird science
Edward scissorhands
The sandlot
Newsies
Holes (2003)
Top gun
The black phone
Enola Holmes
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The Sound of Music
The Night at the Museum (all 3)
Grease
Remember the Titans
The Great Gatsby
Dead Poets society
Miss peregrines home for peculiar children 
Any Madea movie 🤷🏼♀️
Pearl Harbor
Shows I will write for
Reign
Grand Army
Gotham
Shameless
Any DC
Any Marvel
MASH
Adam 12
Emergency
Anne with an e
13 reasons why
Euphoria
The Walking Dead
Stranger things
Umbrella academy
Lab rats/elite force
Good luck Charlie
Dog with a blog
Dance moms 🤷🏼♀️
NCIS
The office
Chicago fir
Chicago PD
Merlin
Ouran high school host club
Dynasty
Saved by the bell
Full house
Boy meets world
That 70’s show
Bridgerton
Outerbanks
Supernatural
Peaky Blinders
CHiPs
In the heat of the night
Daisy Jones and the Six
The Marvelous Mrs.Masiel
Band of Brothers
1940s-2000s actors:
Frank Sinatra
Marlon Brando
James Dean
Elvis Presley
Red Buttons
Montgomery Clift
Tom Cruise
Jerry Lewis
Gregory Peck
Tony Curtis
Leonardo DeCaprio
Mark Wahlburg
Jeffrey Hunter
Guy Madison
Alain Delon
Sal Mineo
Ricky Nelson
David Nelson
Dean Martin
Matt Dillon
Emilio Estevez
Keanu Reeves
River Phoenix
Rob Lowe
Ralph Mocchio
Anthony Michael Hall
Wil Wheaton
Sean Astin
Ryan Gosling
Ryan Reynolds
Paul Rudd
Victor Garber
Peter Lawford
Joey Bishop
Disney men:
Prince Eric (The Little Mermaid)
Prince Philip (Sleeping Beauty)
Prince naveen (Princess and the Frog)
Prince Charming (Cinderella)
Flynn Ryder (Rapunzel)
Li Shang (Mulan)
Aladdin (Aladdin)
Kocoum (Pocahontas)
Phoebus (Hunchback of Notre Dame)
Clopin Trouillefou (Hunchback of Notre Dame)
Jafar (Aladdin)
Facilier (Princess and the Frog)
Claude Frollo (Hunchback of Notre Dame)
Also will write for:
Various Celebrities
Rock stars (like from 60s-200s)!
Famous Vintage men (like nikola Tesla)
Presidents
Royal men (Russia, France, Great Britain,(starting at 1300s until now))
Football/baseball/basketball players
Figure skaters (Ilia Malinin and Valiery Angelpol)
This is my full list, i will add onto it when I start finding and thinking about new shows to write for. REQUESTS ARE OPEN! So if you have some please don't be shy!!
#fanfiction#Gotham#The breakfast club#The walking dead#School ties#Harry potter#Narnia#Star wars#Euphoria#Supernatural#Grand army#The outsiders#The lost boys#Stand by me#13 reasons why#Anne with an e#Cops#Shameless#Emergency#DC#marvel#Reign#Mighty ducks#Little women#The mummy#Heathers#Legally blonde#Toy soldiers#Hidden figures#My own private idaho
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My Favorite Films and Performances of 2020
“I wish I could’ve seen it on the big screen.”
It was a strange year, and even stranger year of movie watching. In 2020 I saw only one of my top films in a theater, which is crazy (like much else over these past months). But the experience of keeping up with the movies this year was a reminder that great filmmaking can transcend the specifics of the viewing experience. In your living room, in bed, projected onto the side of a garage, streaming on Twitch, broken up into multiple sittings, maybe even on your phone (desperate times)… if doesn’t matter as long as it connects with you. A great film has the power to soothe and transport, to alter your perspective, to re-wire your brain. So while I didn’t get on a single airplane last year, I definitely went places. And I’m grateful for these changes of scenery. For the time-travel as well; last year in my house, we found great comfort in revisiting a bunch of old favorites. It was also an opportunity to finally watch a number of those older films that had someone evaded us… a year of catching up, now or never. We were members of a weekly movie club for some months — that was cool. Another pleasant silver lining was the emergence of virtual film festivals, which have been a fantastic opportunity. I hope that they can continue in some form when this pandemic is in the rearview. Because, you know, getting to Park City is a real schlep. All this to say: like you, I’ll always remember 2020. In this truly crummy year, the movies really helped.
I’m including some of the film festival stuff that’s coming out a little later, because the boundaries between 2020 films and 2021 films feels blurry to me without proper theatrical releases.
TOP 5, loosely ranked. I love these deeply.
1. LOVERS ROCK, Steve McQueen
2. NOMADLAND, Chloe Zhao
3. ANOTHER ROUND, Thomas Vinterberg
4. TIME, Garrett Bradley
5. MARTIN EDEN, Pietro Marcello
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The rest of the Top 25, in alphabetical order. I loved these.
À L’ABORDAGE, Guillaume Brac
BACURAU, Kleber Mendonça Filho
COLOR OUT OF SPACE, Richard Stanley
THE FATHER, Florian Zeller
FIRST COW, Kelly Reichardt
I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS, Charlie Kaufman
JASPER MALL, Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb
LUXOR, Zeina Durra
ALEX WHEATLE / EDUCATION / MANGROVE / RED, WHITE AND BLUE, Steve McQueen
THE NEST, Sean Durkin
NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS, Eliza Hittman
NEW ORDER, Michel Franco
THE PAINTER & THE THIEF, Benjamin Ree
THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD, Armando Iannucci
POSSESSOR, Brandon Cronenberg
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN, Emerald Fennell
RELIC, Natalie Erika James
SAINT FRANCES, Alex Thompson
SOUND OF METAL, Darius Marder
THE TRUTH, Hirokazu Koreeda
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I also enjoyed (some more than others):
Apples, The Assistant, Babyteeth, Bad Education, Black Bear, Blow the Man Down, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Butt Boy, The Climb, Da 5 Bloods, Deerskin, Emma, The Father (Bulgaria), Greed, His House, The Hunt, I Used to Go Here, I'm No Longer Here, Impetigore, The Intruder, The Invisible Man, Kajillionaire, La Llorona, Let Them All Talk, Lost Girls, The Man Who Sold His Skin, Mank, Never Gonna Snow Again, News of the World, One Night in Miami, Palm Springs, Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time, Rebecca, She Dies Tomorrow, Shirley, Slow Machine, Sorry We Missed You, Soul, Spree, Straight Up, A Sun, Swallow, Tenet, Tesla, Tommaso, The Traitor, The Trip to Greece, True History of the Kelly Gang, Uncle Frank, Under the Open Sky, The Vast of Night, Vitalina Varela, Wendy, The Whistlers, Wildland, Young Ahmed
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And these documentaries!
American Murder: The Family Next Door, The American Sector, Assassins, Beastie Boys Story, The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, Bloody Nose Empty Pockets, Boys State, Brainiac: Transmissions After Zero, Circus of Books, Class Action Park, Collective, Crip Camp, David Byrne's American Utopia, Dick Johnson is Dead, Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds, The Go-Go's, Gunda, Miss Americana, MLK/FBI, The Mole Agent, Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado, My Psychedelic Love Story, Mystify: Michael Hutchence, Narrowsburg, On the Record, Other Music, Sisters with Transistors, Spaceship Earth, The Way I See It, Whirlybird
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And these shorts:
Bye Bye Body (which I edited), Fit Model, Friday Night Pizza for Daddy, Hard Cracked the Wind, The Human Voice, John Was Trying to Contact Aliens, Michael's Preference West, What Did Jack Do?, World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime
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My favorite performance of the year:
Frances McDormand as Fern in Nomadland
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Favorite ensembles:
À l’abordage, Another Round, Bad Education, Babyteeth, Bloody Nose Empty Pockets, Blow the Man Down, Emma, First Cow, Kajillionaire, Let Them All Talk, Lovers Rock, Mangrove, Mank, One Night in Miami, The Personal History of David Copperfield, Promising Young Woman, True History of the Kelly Gang
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More memorable (and in some cases under-discussed) performances:
Christopher Abbott as Colin Tate in Possessor and as Gabe in Black Bear
Idir Ben Addi as Ahmed in Young Ahmed
Riz Ahmed as Ruben Stone in Sound of Metal
Daniel Algrant as Kelvin Kranz in Let Them All Talk
Maria Bakalova as Tutar Sagdiyev in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Haley Bennett as Hunter Conrad in Swallow
John Boyega as Leroy Logan in Red, White and Blue
Rob Brydon as Rob Brydon in The Trip to Greece
Jessie Buckley as Young Woman in I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Nicolas Cage as Nathan Gardner in Color Out of Space
Salif Cissé as Chérif in À L’abordage
Sheyi Cole as Alex Wheatle in Alex Wheatle
Cleopatra Coleman as Trina in The Argument
Carrie Coon as Allison O’Hara in The Nest
Michael Angelo Covino as Mike in The Climb
Willem Dafoe as Tommaso in Tommaso
Charles Dance as William Randolph Hearst in Mank
Catherine Deneuve as Fabienne Dangeville in The Truth
Katie Findlay as Rory in Straight Up
Sidney Flanigan as Autumn in Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Johnny Flynn as George Knightley in Emma
Julia Garner as Jane in The Assistant
Robbie Gee as Simeon in Alex Wheatle
Chris Giarmo as himself in David Byrne’s American Utopia
Betty Gilpin as Crystal Creasey in The Hunt
Ethan Hawke as Hank in The Truth
Kris Hitchen as Ricky Turner in Sorry We Missed You
Anthony Hopkins as Anthony in The Father
Jonathan Jules as Dennis Isaacs in Alex Wheatle
Sandra Guldberg Kampp as Ida in Wildland
Joe Keery as Kurt Knuckle in Spree
Udo Kier as Michael in Bacurau
Orion Lee as King Lu in First Cow
Delroy Lindo as Paul in Da 5 Bloods
Peter Macdissi as Walid "Wally" Nadeem in Uncle Frank
Matthew Macfadyen as Wilcock in The Assistant
George MacKay as Ned Kelly in True History of the Kelly Gang
Yahya Mahayni as Sam Ali in The Man Who Sold His Skin
Luca Marinelli as Martin Eden in Martin Eden
Tuppence Middleton as Sara Mankiewicz in Mank
Mads Mikkelsen as Martin in Another Round
Wunmi Mosaku as Rial in His House
Elisabeth Moss as Cecilia Kass in The Invisible Man
Kelly O'Sullivan as Bridget in Saint Frances
Shaun Parkes as Frank Crichlow in Mangrove
Robert Pattinson as Neil in Tenet
Paul Raci as Joe in Sound of Metal
Kadeem Ramsay as Samson in Lovers Rock
Gayle Rankin as Marissa in The Climb
Tanya Reynolds as Mrs Augusta Elton in Emma
Tyler Rice as Detective Russell Fox in Butt Boy
Andrea Riseborough as Hana in Luxor
Cecilia Roth as Marta in The Intruder
William Sadler as the Grim Reaper in Bill & Ted Face the Music
Kenyah Sandy as Kingsley Smith in Education
Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn as Martha Trenton in Lovers Rock
David Strathairn as David in Nomadland
Michael Stuhlbarg as Stanley Edgar Hyman in Shirley
Swankie as Swankie in Nomadland
Tilda Swinton as Woman in The Human Voice
Kristin Scott Thomas as Mrs. Danvers in Rebecca
Steve Toussaint as Ken Logan in Red, White and Blue
Alec Utgoff as Zhenia in Never Gonna Snow Again
Jairaj Varsani as young David Copperfield in The Personal History of David Copperfield
Ben Whishaw as Uriah Heep in The Personal History of David Copperfield
Sharlene Whyte as Agnes Smith in Education
Letitia Wright as Altheia Jones-LeCointe in Mangrove
Ramona Edith Williams as Frances in Saint Frances
Kôji Yakusho as Masao Mikami in Under the Open Sky
Youn Yuh-jung as Soon-ja in Minari
Helena Zengel as Johanna Leonberger in News of the World
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Favorite pre-2020 films I saw for the first time in 2020:
Blood on the Moon, But I’m A Cheerleader, Crooklyn, Cure, Daughters of the Dust, The Death of Dick Long, Deep Cover, The Draughtsman's Contract, Eyes of Laura Mars, Give Me Liberty, Greener Grass, Hardcore, High Hopes, The Last Party, Long Day's Journey into Night, Maiden, One Day Pina Asked, Persona, Right Now Wrong Then, Right On!, The Seventh Victim, Slightly French, Synonyms, Tammy and the T-Rex, Variety, The Watermelon Woman... and a tip of the hat to Coppola's new The Godfather Part III recut, The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone
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A pandemic strikes & economies freeze, yet billionaires bloom!
May 25, 2021
The ongoing pandemic that froze the global economy and rendered millions jobless, has proved to be a blessing for the super rich.
As the virus spread, central banks around the world injected $9tn into economies worldwide, aiming to keep the world economy afloat. Much of that stimulus has gone into financial markets, and from there into the net worth of the ultra-rich. The total wealth of billionaires worldwide rose by $5tn in the past 12 months.
Global human population is 7.8bn (approx.). Of this, only 2,755 are billionaires* whose combined net worth now is a staggering $13.1tn up from $8tn in 2020. Their wealth rose by an atrocious $5tn (yes, tn not bn) in the past 12 months or by 2 times India’s GDP (the 5th largest in the world at $2.6tn) and pips even Japan (the 3rd largest GDP at $ 4.9tn).
To put it crudely, the combined worth of just 2,755 individuals at $13tn on the planet is worth more than the combined GDP of Germany, UK, India, France & Italy (ranked 4th to 8th on the GDP rankings)
The net wealth of Tesla’s founder, Elon Musk rose 6-fold from $25bn to $151bn while Mukesh Ambani’s (Reliance Industries) fortune doubled to $85bn dollars in the last one year!
493 new billionaires, a record high, were added to the list,- i.e., nearly 1.5 new billionaires were born every day or a new billionaire was minted every 17 hours on average over the past one year!
The 3 countries with most billionaires*,- US (724), China (626) and India (140) account for 54% (1490/2755) of all billionaires on earth.
Although India is relatively poor with 22% (308 mn) of the population still living below the poverty line, the combined billionaire wealth of 140 individuals in a country of 1.4 billion people had soared to the equivalent of 20% of India’s GDP (Gross Domestic Product) in 2021, one of the highest shares in the world, with most of the gains accruing to a narrow set of families in industries prone to crony capitalism. India alone welcomed 40 new members to its billionaires club last year.
While 308mn people earn less than $2 a day, 140 individuals have a combined net worth of $520bn in India while in the US, the bottom half of American families had a combined net worth lower than the top 3 billionaires.
As easy money pours out of central banks to arrest the economic slowdown, it only widens the wealth inequality given the rich are becoming richer, while the poor population further expands and gets sucked into the quicksand of poverty.
*Check out the list of global billionaires on,- https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/#48ade0833d78
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things left behind and the things that are ahead, ch. 41
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Although it doesn’t exactly happen often, Tony isn’t taken totally by surprise when his uncle Steve calls and says that he’ll be in the city next week and would like to have lunch. Steve makes it up to New York every few months to visit Rose or Bucky and Layla, to spend time with Maria. Sometimes he comes through on his way to visit Her Honor and family in Boston or on the way home again. He and Tony are more likely to see each other at bigger group occasions like holidays and celebrations (or funerals, though Tony puts that out of his mind; his mom still lives on her own, takes elegant care of herself, and is spry and sharp as hell despite being past her eightieth birthday) but Steve’s always been a family man, committed to keeping in touch with everyone. Tony and Pepper just received a hand-illustrated card from him on their anniversary a couple weeks back, and the one he sent Jude, decorated with multicolored trumpeting elephants, still has nightstand pride of place even though most of the actual birthday presents have been relegated back to the toy chest.
He tells Steve this as they sit down to lunch together in the cafe on the ground floor of the Stark Industries building, and it actually brings out a smile. Ruby and Trent from VR are passing by the table and double take seeing it, both automatically smiling back. It’s on the tip of Tony’s tongue to say something about how ol’ Steve’s still got it, but that’s a particular sort of smart remark that belongs to a time before Peggy passed.
(Although it’s been several years now, no one has even suggested that Steve look for some companionship or try one of those senior dating sites. The man talks about filling his days with gardening and book club and volunteering, regularly spending time with Emma and Nate and whichever of the grandkids and great-grandkids live locally, but he doesn’t or maybe can’t hide the crater left without his wife by his side. When Tony pictures Steve in the Maryland house these days, he has to stop because he somehow always imagines a single plate at the kitchen table and a tick-tick-ticking in the background: the hallway grandfather clock that he can’t remember ever actually paying attention to, overwhelmed as it always has been by conversation during family gatherings hosted there. The whole thing makes him sad as hell.)
As they start in on their first course, a butternut squash bisque - yes, there’s a first course; this place is damn classy - Steve asks about Tony’s kids, and he’s only too happy to whip out his phone and show off pictures (and then video, but who’s keeping score?) first of Jude all dressed up as a chef in the When We Grow Up-themed kindergarten end of year play, then of AJ’s science fair display, zooming in on all the aspects including the bright blue second place ribbon. He even shows off Morgan’s latest choice for their two-person book club, which he has in ebook and audio. The whole time, Steve watches him with a strange sort of expression, clearly taking in the information, asking questions, smiling at Tony’s stories, but with some odd barrier up.
“It’s Wednesday,” Tony mentions as they take the first bites from their slices of cake. “If you can stick around until 3:30, I’m sure they’d love to see you.”
He’s continued the tradition from his youth, bringing his own kids into the office at least once a week starting even before they could walk. Those are some of his best childhood memories, sitting on lab stools with his father and brainstorming ways to make interesting explosions, his feet dangling two feet above the floor, having his dad look over at him in meetings and say, “So, what do you think, Tony?” Walking home, lunch bag swinging, his small hand clasped in a larger one to help him safely across the streets, waving to Jarvis as they went upstairs to build block towers together. Sometimes he’d do his homework when there was paperwork to take care of, and it was always a laugh to ask for help with history or French (“Call me when you’re learning about Newton or Tesla,” Dad used to protest. “And don’t even tell your mother that you asked me about anything in French.”) He hopes that he’s passing on the same type of memories.
“I think we should see how today goes,” says Steve. He smiles again and Tony wants to squint at it, hold it beneath the microscope, it’s such a complicated looking thing: that pure, good-hearted happiness, but with pain and nostalgia and something that might be doubt quirking at the edges. Not entirely unusual for him over the last few years, but Tony’s starting to suspect that Uncle Steve has more secrets than just the Captain America thing and that he might be about to find one out.
The Captain America thing: even though it’s put to bed now, if Tony thinks about it, he can still feel the...not even irritation, but hurt, from when he’d found out.
It had been Pepper who started it, after they’d dated for a bit, when he’d suggested starting to bring her to family things. She’d met his parents, the Barnses, Steve and Peggy and their kids, at various functions or at the office over the years, but when it had been time to introduce her as his girlfriend, she’d wanted to prepare. She’d asked questions and gathered information, profiled everyone, and the more she’d delved, the fewer answers he’d realized he had. He remembered that Peggy and Steve got together five years or so after the war, but had also grown up hearing their stories - and Bucky’s, and his dad’s - from working together during the war. He could trace Howard and Peggy between the SSR and forming SHIELD, but Steve and Bucky were completely off the map.
Finally, on the Fourth of July, after he’d had a couple of drinks and watched Peggy kiss Steve’s cheek and hand him a cupcake with a single candle, the way she did each Independence Day Tony had been with them for no reason he could fathom, he’d just asked. His mother had placed a hand on his arm, and Peggy said, “Ah.” But he’d watched Steve, took in the way he’d leaned forward and clasped his hands together before he said, “Listen, Tony.”
When the words were finally in the charcoal-scented air around them, he wasn’t exactly surprised by them, they added up, but he couldn’t believe that he hadn’t been told. It had grown even worse when he’d cornered Drea asking about it and she’d said that her father had sat them down and told them all decades before, while Tony was still in high school, and that Tony hadn’t been a part of that. As if everyone had just decided that they didn’t need to tell him. As if there had been the whole family, knowing this, and then him, alone.
Steve claimed responsibility, apologized right. He always did: “I handled it badly. I should have told you earlier, personally. I know it made you feel excluded.” And Tony had forgiven him, had even forgiven the rest of the Carters after talking more with Drea and then the others. After he’d heard how hurt she’d been, too, finding out that her father with whom she’d shared so much had this part of his life about which she knew nothing, as if she’d barely known him; how she’d burrowed in with the information, trying to puzzle through it, come to grips with the way it changed and didn’t change her whole past. They told him the story of how Rose shattered her wine glass in the middle of the restaurant when Steve had first said it and that every time she spoke to her parents for the next month, she’d interrogate them and wind up yelling. All these years later, Emma still seemed to let the fact of it slide out of her mind. Her life is picket fences and politics, and it is as if she doesn't want it to sink in, this other and simultaneous identity of her father.
(Tony’s actually seen Nate bring it up casually - “Oh, is that the time when you and the Commandos were in France?” or asking about growing up with a host of chronic conditions - but there are plenty of reasons why Nate Carter and Tony are different and that’s just one.)
Even though the splinter of the secret has been removed, healed over, there’s still an odd reminder of it, a feeling of trepidation, as he and Steve take the elevator up. He almost stops at Pepper’s floor to say hello, push off a little longer whatever might be coming, but he knows that she has a meeting, and he’ll have to handle whatever it is anyway.
The lights flip on as they walk in, and Tony absently says, “Thanks, TESLA,” as he gestures Steve over to one of the work benches. He does have an actual desk and the old computer parts he has spread out aren’t repair priorities, aren’t really anything more than something to play around with, but he has the feeling he’s going to want to do something with his hands while they get down to business.
“So,” Tony says as Steve brings over a chair, “what’s going on?”
Steve sits before he speaks. He touches the cool top of the table with the tips of his fingers. He says, very carefully, “There���s something I have to tell you.”
Ten minutes later, Tony has pushed the broken computer away and rested his hands flat on the table. “Time travel,” he says flatly. “You need help with time travel.”
“The time travel I have worked out,” Steve says, infuriatingly calm. “Or, it was worked out for me. It’s the reality hopping part in particular that I thought I’d ask you about. And I might need you to dip into the old lab storage for some Pym particles.”
“Pym—” Tony starts disbelievingly, then shakes his head, adding, “And of course you want to go to Greenland,” like the teacher’s pet giving a reminder about the homework assignment.
Steve actually glances down before he forces his gaze back up. “I don’t have to go - I have the coordinates, and the land is yours - but I’d like to...It feels wrong to just send someone without any ceremony.”
“Course it does,” Tony mutters, almost laughing. It doesn’t even occur to him that Steve’s not telling the truth - Steve’s not a liar, and nowhere close to senile - but the whole thing is ridiculous. He picks up an old Starkbook and a screwdriver again, cracking open the back in rapid twists. “You’re telling me that you’re actually a version of a Steve Rogers from another reality who traveled back in time seventy years ago, that the original Steve Rogers is still frozen in an iceberg while you lived an entire life, fiddled around with the timeline, and now you need to pop back over to where you came from for what? A quick chat? Sunday dinner?”
“To say goodbye.” Steve doesn’t say it as an admonishment. His words are quiet, almost internal. “I have people there who meant a lot to me, who mean a lot to me, and even if I’ve run into versions of them here, accidentally or on purpose, it’s not the same. They deserve to know what happened.” He doesn’t even meet Tony’s eye. Tony somehow feels chastised anyway. He swallows.
“Who knows about this?” he asks, a little more softly this time.
“Bucky knows some of what might have happened.” Tony almost starts to demand what exactly the some of it might be, but then Steve adds, “Your father knew that I’d come back. I’m not sure whether he told your mother.”
Tony twists the screwdriver hard enough that he almost strips the screw. “Seventy years ago, you showed up and told my dad you’d come from another time, but what, you didn’t trust him enough to tell him more than that?” His voice drops, fierce and low, as the next screw is released too quickly and with too much force, pinging off the table and getting lost beneath. “As if the two of you were perfect, as if you could be objective about everything, take care of it all. Saint Steve and Blessed Peggy. It must have been you and her, you would have told her everything so she could have worked it from the inside—”
Steve barks, “Tony,” suddenly on his feet, and it occurs to Tony that Steve might actually be able to beat him up, despite being...God, he can’t even track how old at this point, but certainly old enough for it to be embarrassing.
“Don’t talk about Peggy like that.” Steve’s voice is softer now but bitten to the quick. “I know I’ve just put a lot on you, and you can yell at me all you want for being arrogant or dishonest, whatever you’d like, but just...Not about her, alright?”
Aunt Peg would have given him that quiet, cold, imperious look if she were with them now. Tony pushes back on his heels thinking of it. And if his dad were here...he’d probably say that he trusted Steve and Peggy and didn’t trust himself enough to know these things. There had never been any sign that Howard Stark had been unfaithful in his marriage, and Tony hopes that his mother would have left if there had been, but Tony remembers the unconscious, appreciative way his father’s eyes would follow a pretty woman across the room at a party, his head turning quickly there and back again in the street, a habit he couldn’t seem to break, like his cigars and his whiskey, all those late nights, those flares of temper. If you couldn’t avoid those little weaknesses, you couldn’t let yourself be in charge of knowing the future, much less changing it.
“Wait,” says Tony, something catching up with him, snagging in his throat. “Wait. Why wouldn’t you have warned him about the heart attack? If you knew, if you’d already been changing stuff, why didn’t you tell him to go to a doctor, get imaging, just eat better, shit.”
“There are things,” says Steve, “that even I don’t know. I didn’t know that he would die that way, Tony, I swear. The first...In the other timeline, he died earlier, and differently.” He slides his hands into his pockets, and the quiet strength of him is obvious as he meets Tony’s eyes instead of glancing away. “But I did tell him to eat better anyway.”
Steve had been a statue at the funeral, Tony remembers that. He’d thought that it was because of the suddenness, Howard grappling to host that year’s Thanksgiving dinner one minute and gone the next, or because the guys from the war had started to pass recently and it hurt to see your old friends going, the ones who had been there for so long, who held your youth, shared your memories. Later, he’d even wondered if Steve had held himself so still and silent because Tony was trembling and needed someone to lean on; Steve had certainly let him do that, no matter what else was going on. But now he peers differently at the memory of the tight clutch of Steve and Peggy’s hands, the way Steve had said, “I’m so sorry, Tony,” at the graveside, not only condolence but apology - he sees the guilt in it now, the burden.
Tony hooks a chair with his foot and drops into it. “Okay,” he says, scrubbing both palms over his face. “Okay. Tell me what you can.”
And as Steve begins to speak, he starts to understand not only how deep this one man’s collapse might have been but how deep the world’s too. War and the lightly done destruction of the planet, Bucky taken and tortured, Hydra - Hydra, which was from history textbooks, which was a sidebar in history textbooks - beneath everything, and then...
“Half the universe,” he says, turning over the words in his mouth. A minute ago he didn’t even know for sure that there was more than their little corner to consider (and he definitely has a few more questions for Steve about aliens). Now he tries to picture individual blades of grass on other planets, all the disappeared foxes and ferns and pets and coral, animals he doesn’t know and can’t describe. The people, even if he might not recognize them as such right away. The parents and children.
For just a second he imagines Pepper and their kids, the idea of one or two or three or all of them disappearing, but has to cut off even the conjured thought; the shrapnel gasp of it is too much and he rubs his knuckles over his chest to try to erase the horror of it. He tries to think through just the logistics of it all: what if he’d gone and after three years or four Pep had married someone else? Who was she really married to and who was she expected to divorce? What if someone adopted your kids? Jesus, the therapists would have full schedules if nothing else, because even if it was reversed, it had happened. Somewhere out there, all that had happened.
He shakes his head, twitchy. “Even with what you came back knowing, how could you be sure that the strings you were pulling on were the right ones, the ones that would help things?”
Steve gives a single-beat laugh. “I’ve spent nearly twice your lifetime wondering.” He shifts his body and the light - not the bright lab fixtures but that high, brilliant sun coming through the windows, a reminder that it is still only midafternoon - edges onto his face just so, revealing the sharp cut of time landscaping his cheeks and forehead, running beside his eyes, tied tightly around his mouth.
“Peggy and I talked about it all forever. I think we did what we could, did well enough even if it sometimes didn’t seem like it. But I also think that there’s probably a world out there where we did it all better.”
“Then there’s probably a world out there where you did it worse,” Tony offers, and somehow it makes Steve smile.
“From what I’ve seen, I’d bet that there’s a version for every decision you can imagine. One where I didn’t go back, or one where I went back and only told Peggy where to look in the ice but didn’t stay. One where I never went into the ice at all. One where I died as a kid, or from the serum, or in the war, or during the crash. A whole bunch, probably, where Dr. Erskine decided to give Peggy the serum instead.” His voice grows quiet; he seems to hold the words close. “One where she wore blue to our wedding instead of white, and one where she wore red. One where she became president, and one where she decided she’d finished with meetings and went back to being an agent. One where we decided not to have any kids, and one where she was able to carry them, and one where we adopted some other kids who some other me loves just as much as I do mine.”
They sit in silence for a moment, then: “Have you told them about this?” Tony asks. “Will you?”
A sigh, and Tony remembers with a strange, electric chill that this man - Uncle Steve, Grant Carter, Captain America, Steve Rogers - this man will one day die, lifetime strung against lifetime finally at an end.
“Your life,” Steve says, “turned out in many ways the same. Here or there: smart and wealthy, philanthropist, father. I can’t say for certain that it would be the same for my kids. And I know that they’re strong people, and I hope that I’ve helped them find solid foundations, but I don’t know that I can torture them with the idea of what might have been, of what might be, somewhere out there.”
Tony thinks suddenly of standing with Rose at some family thing, probably three or four years back. He’d asked if she ever considered what might have been if she’d been made a judge. Fairly insensitive, he realized now - it had been pretty soon after they’d found out that Drea had been on the shortlist to replace Justice Ginsburg - but Rose had just cackled gleefully. He remembers turning his head at the sound: her mother was already dying - truly dying, not only the sort that starts the day someone is born - and it had been a while since he’d heard one of the Carters laugh freely like that. Her eyes had a delighted razor’s edge to them, and he’d sort of understood how opposing counsel must feel when Rose Carter showed up for a meeting.
“They’d have to have stopped caring about judges keeping any claim to objectivity,” she had said. “But think of how I’d run my courtroom, all those acidic opinions I could write!” She’d cackled again. “Imagine that sort of alternate universe.”
One part of Tony, a part that sounds quite a lot like Steve himself, considers rigorous honesty, the lies by kind omission that can poison things just as easily as those meant maliciously. But another part, the side of him that sneaks dollar bills beneath the pillow for each lost tooth, that smooths sweaty, rumpled hair and says, “I’m here, don’t worry, I’ll always be here” during storms or after nightmares, the part that hesitated before placing Morgan, not yet two weeks old, into Steve’s arms, even as he felt that he might remember being held securely there himself, the part of him that’s a parent...that part understands.
She’ll turn seventy in a couple of years, Rose Carter. What purpose will it serve to tell her this, to have her wonder not only about worlds where she might have been a judge, but those where she never became a lawyer, never found her career or her family, where she might have been raised by people with different ideas about how to handle an incandescently angry child or a young woman who had no interest in romance, worlds where she was never taken in at all? What need is there to tell her, to tell all the Carters, if it meant turning those thoughts from something coming across the brain for a second, easily brushed aside, to true possibilities, if not for them than for some other version out there?
Finding out that their father had once upon a time gone by another name, that he had been more than the average soldier during the war, those things might require some adjustment, but this life, their life together, their memories, remained largely the same. This could turn the entire universe to quicksand.
Tony clears his throat. “I’m guessing whatever—” He waves a hand. “Your supersuit, or your time machine, the TARDIS...it’s not with you here?”
“No,” says Steve. “I didn’t want it to get misplaced on the train.”
As if it’s just another piece of luggage and he didn’t want to set them up for some sort of hijinks. “Okay, well, I’m coming down to meet with the NSF in a couple of weeks. I’ll swing by to take a look then.”
“Thank you. That sound goo—”
Steve is cut off by TESLA’s voice, bright and warm and synthetic. “Reminder: it is 3:20. Please cease working and prepare to greet the children.”
“I can go before they get here,” Steve offers, standing.
“What, you’re gonna scale the side of the building, old man?” The words arrive without Tony thinking about them. Even as he has a sense of unreality, trying to let himself have both the life he did two hours ago and this new concept of everything, he shrugs into the familiarly smart remark like an old coat that turns out to still fit.
Tony stands too, comes closer, places a hand on Steve’s shoulder. “I told you, the kids’ll love to see you.”
“Alright,” and even though it sounds a little shaky and sad, Steve’s smile looks real.
As TESLA reports that the kids are in the elevator on the way up, accompanied by their babysitter, Pepper’s niece Callie, Tony thinks to ask, “How did you know that I’d help you?”
Steve’s smile turns deeper, somehow more amused and more sad at once. “You helped me then, over there,” he says. “And you’d punched me quite a bit more than you have here.”
“Wait,” says Tony, turning toward him. “What?” But the doors open just then, Jude and AJ racing each other in, shrieking in endlessly delighted purposelessness, Mo coming more sedately after them, eyes big and observant behind those new glasses, and Tony just opens his arms to them all.
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#Steggy#Steggy fic#Steve Rogers#Tony Stark#things left behind fic#Peggy Carter#the Carter crew#this chapter is possibly a little *unending scream*
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Get to know me game
Tagged by @mentallydatingahotcelebrity thank you, darling 💕
1.Dogs or Cats? Do I really have to choose? Ugh, dogs.
2. YouTube celebrities or normal celebrities? Normal are fine
3. If you could choose to live anywhere,
where would it be? England or Scotland
4. Disney or Dreamworks? Disney
5. Favorite Childhood TV show? Charmed
6. The movie you are most looking forward to
in 2020? The French dispatch, Black Widow, Luna Nera (an italian movie about witchcraft), Tesla, Mob Girl, Emma, Moxie, Shirley, Utopia
7. Favorite book you read in 2019? The Secret History
8. Marvel or DC? Marvel
9. If you choose Marvel, favorite member of
the X-man? Magneto
10. Night or Day? Late evening
11. Favorite Pokemon? When I was a kid I used to love Vulpix
12. Top 5 Bands/Artists? Nirvana, David Bowie, Lana del Rey, Velvet Underground, Florence and the Machine
13. Top 10 Books? The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Secret History, Dracula, The Goldfinch, Invisible Monsters, Diary, Norse Mythology by Gaiman, Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
14. Top Four Movies? Ugh, just four? Eternal Sunshine of Spotless mind, Midnight in Paris, Only Lovers Left Alive, Fight Club, Atonement
15. US or Europe? Europe
16. Tumblr or Twitter? I don't use Twitter very often
17. Favorite Vacation Destination? South of France
18. Favorite Youtuber? I don't follow youtubers
19. Favorite Author? Oscar Wilde
20. Tea or Coffee? Tea
21. OTP? Spuffy
22. Do you play an instrument/sing? Nope
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WHO DID I LOSE MY VIRGINITY TO? + YOUR ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT ME.
“I got a little something for you guys. I don’t know why you’d want to know facts about me, but I came up with a few that I wouldn’t have said in any of my other videos. I also saw some assumptions about me that I’d like to set the record straight on.”
ASSUMPTION: you think you're the prettier twin
False. I may have said that at one point, but I don’t actually think I’m the prettier twin. We have our own things that make us extremely attractive, but I don’t think one of us is prettier than the other.
ASSUMPTION: you never listen to the advice you give to your fans
True and false. I’ve become better at it, but I’m still terrible at listening to advice. I’m getting there, though.
assumption: you're the better smythe twin.
False. Neither of us is better than the other.
Assumption: you feel like you're compared to your brother
True. That’s just the nature of having a twin, though. Everyone will always compare you to someone with whom you share a face.
Assumption: you enjoy flirting with everyone.
True and false. I don’t think I flirt with everyone, but I am enjoying being single.
“And for what you’ve all been waiting for...”
I’m right handed for most things but when it came to sports, I do everything left handed.
I can speak three languages fluently and hold a decent conversation in another.
Due to growing up in Seattle, my dream was to be a baseball player because of Ken Griffey, Jr.
My least favorite Disney movie for a long time was The Lion King. It took years for me to appreciate the cartoon version of Hamlet.
I haven’t watched a lot of films that seem to be the quintessential films that everyone has seen --- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off? Breakfast Club? Back To The Future? I haven’t seen any of those.
My first car was a silver 2009 BMW 335i.
My current car is a black 2018 Tesla Model S.
My favorite type of food is Italian. I absolutely love pasta.
As much as I love food, I can’t cook all that well. I can boil water and put the spaghetti in it, and that’s about it. That’s why the Postmates app is my favorite.
My last relationship was my most serious and important one.
The first time I had an alcoholic drink was when I was fifteen or so. Terrible cheap beer. I haven’t liked beer since.
If I had to choose my favorite alcoholic drink it would be red wine, though I love bourbon on the rocks.
I learned how to whistle while listening to Wind of Change by Scorpions.
I don’t have a favorite TV show. I’ve watched the Sopranos and Six Feet Under and some of West Wing, but none of those are my favorite.
I love playing video games even though I’m somewhat terrible at them. My favorite games of the past year have been Red Dead Redemption and Spider-Man.
I only watched the first Avengers because I was on a date with someone, but it made me want to watch everything else before it and everything else thereafter.
While I don’t have a favorite TV show, I can say that my favorite film is Fight Club.
My feet are always cold, even in the middle of summer.
The first thing I bought with my own money was a new TV.
I don’t have a normal coffee order. I’m not picky as long as it’s mostly bitter with a hint of sweetness.
If I could travel anywhere right now, it would be the Italian Riviera or Santorini.
I would love to go swimming with sharks.
Even though I can’t sing or dance, I love to do that when I’m alone in my apartment.
For a long time, I would make sure to look exactly like Sebastian in order to confuse people because that was something that was fun for me.
While at Stanford, I got slapped at a bar because I got confused for someone else. It couldn’t have been Sebastian though since, like I told the girl who slapped me, my brother’s gay.
I want to live in France for an extended amount of time some day.
I love sweets such as whipped cream and chocolate syrup. Take that as you will.
On another completely unrelated note, I lost my virginity at age 16 to a girl from a different school but who I’d met through someone on the baseball team. It happened at her house, in her room... and then we messed around some more in her hot tub. Thanks for the nights thereafter too, Ashley.
Although I wanted to go to an Ivy League school in the Northeast, I chose to stay in the west coast and go to Stanford instead.
I don’t like to live with regrets, but I do have one. I like to give out advice, but I should’ve taken some advice for my own.
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Forbes Top 10 Richest Person Of The World
It is possible that the list of top 10 richest people can change each year dependent on their most recent financial and net worth. Here is the most current list of the top 10 richest people that are based on real-time data.
1. Elon Musk - $302.1 billion
Elon Musk is working to change the way we travel on Earth via electric car maker Tesla and also in space via SpaceX, a rocket maker. SpaceX. Elon Musk's electric car business Tesla is currently valued at around $800 billion. At present the net worth of his company is $302.1 billion. Musk's rocket business, SpaceX is now valued at close to $100 billion. Tesla is now the most valuable automaker in the world with a market value of $800 billion as of the month of October in 2021.
2. Jeff Bezos - $194.1 billion
Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos has a net worth of $194.1 billion, making him the second-richest person in the world in the present. His status is the same despite getting divorced from MacKenzie, his spouse MacKenzie in the year 2019 and transferring one-quarter part of the stake in Amazon to MacKenzie. Bezos created the giant Amazon in 1994 in his house in Seattle. Amazon has enjoyed the advantages of this coronavirus epidemic and has seen more shoppers shop on the internet.
3. Bernard Arnault & Family - $177.3 billion
LVMH the LVMH France President and CEO Bernard Arnault is the third most successful person on planet at present . He has a net worth of $177.3 billion, derived from his empire that includes around 70 different brands, including Louis Vuitton and Sephora. French billionaire and Europe's wealthiest person Bernard Arnault earned the $100 billion fortune in December.
4. Bill Gates - $135.6 billion
The co-founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates has a net worth of $135.6 billion. He was the cofounder of the company that is known as Microsoft together Paul Allen and Paul Allen, Bill Gates ultimately sold off a lot of his stake in the company, retaining only 1percent of the shares, and investing the remainder in stocks and other investments. Bill Gates entered the $100 billion club in April after the Microsoft shares soared after earnings. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the world's biggest private foundation for charitable purposes.
5. Warren Buffet - $124.8 billion
Often referred to as"the" Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffet is considered to be among the top successful investors of all time. He is the founder of Berkshire Hathaway that owns over 60 businesses, including the renowned companies Geico insurance Duracell, Dairy Queen Restaurant. He has a net worth of $124.8 billion. He is the son of an US congressional representative, the congressman purchased his first shares at 11 years old.
6. Larry Page - $121.0 billion
Larry Page, the cofounder of Google has the fortune of $121 billion, and is at the sixth spot among the world's most wealthy people. He also has made investments into Planetary Resources, the famed company that explores space as well as funding "Flying Car", startup companies Kitty Hawk and Opener.
7. Larry Ellison - $118.2 billion
Larry Ellison has a net worth of $118.2 billion, which was earned through Oracle the software company which he founded in 1977. He resigned as CEO of Oracle in 2014 and since then, he has been president of its board as well as chief technology advisor for the business. Ellison is also in the board at Tesla since December of 2018 following the purchase of three million shares in the year. Ellison owns a large portion of Hawaiian island Lanai.
8. Sergey Brin - $116.1 billion
As the co-founder, as well as a board member for Alphabet, Sergey Brin has an estimated total net amount of $116.1 billion, placing him at the eighth position among the richest people in the world. He co-founded Google alongside Larry Page in 1998 which was made public in 2004 and was renamed Alphabet in the year 2015.
9. Gautam Adani and his family - $101.7 billion Advertisement
The promoter for Adani Group. Adani Group, Gautam Adani has segregated his multimillion dollar business fortune into logistics, energy as well as aerospace, agriculture and various other industries. Adani Group Adani Group is a multinational conglomerate that is involved in ports and development in India which makes Adani the richest person in Asia.
10. Mukesh Ambani Mukesh Ambani $100.4 billion
A Stanford student who dropped out, Ambani has been one of the wealthiest men in Asia for more than 10 years now. He is the founder and chairman of Reliance Industries, which generates an annual revenue of more than $74 billion, according to Forbes.
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Electric All-Terrain Vehicle (Atv) Market – Global Industry Key Growth Drivers, Developments and Innovations 2021-2026
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“Global Electric All-Terrain Vehicle (Atv) Market Research Report 2021”This research report provides COVID-19 Outbreak study accumulated to offer Latest insights about acute features of the Electric All-Terrain Vehicle (Atv) Market. This intelligence report includes investigations based on Current scenarios, Historical records, and Future predictions. The report contains different market predictions related to market size, revenue, production, CAGR, Consumption, gross margin, diagrams, graphs, pie charts, price, and other substantial factors. While emphasizing the key driving and restraining forces for this market, the report also offers a complete study of the future trends and developments of the market. It also examines the role of the leading market players involved in the industry including their corporate overview, financial summary and SWOT analysis. It presents the 360-degree overview of the competitive landscape of the industries. Electric All-Terrain Vehicle (Atv) Market is showing steady growth and CAGR is expected to improve during the forecast period.
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CECTEK
CFmoto
DRR USA
Tesla
Arctic Cat
HiSun Motors
Honda Motor Co Ltd
Nikola Corporation
Polaris Industries Inc
Club Car
Bombardier Recreational Products
Linhai
Segway Technology Co., Ltd
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Sports ATVs
Utility ATVs
Industry Segmentation
Professional Sports
Recreational
Agriculture and Utility
Military and Defense
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