Sunday Night -- Headlines — November 12, 2023

Locator: 46038HEADLINES. 

Focus on Fracking: pending.

MAX, Netflix: $10-bundle? Wow. Verizon. 

Not good news for Disney. I think most could predict it was just a matter of time for cut—rate prices. There must be a dozen free streaming services. In addition, Prime Video is “free” with Prime subscription. Many people use friend’s password for one or two special movies. Ads will pay for a lot of streaming. Amazon’s NFL TNF model is working. ESPN’s not so much — analyst.

Disney: Marvel movie a disaster. I wonder why?

Wind: Europe’s largest wind farm facing bankruptcy. Link here.

X-37B: another success story. Wiki. This is quite a story:

• two orbital vehicles; robotic space vehicles; reusable;
  
• first launch, 2010
• combined: 10.34 years in space
• most recent, duration: 909 days (2.5 years)
• can you imagine going into work five days / week for 2 1/2 years watching a drone orbit?
• or ten years doing the same thing but with two different drones?
  
• next launch date: December 7, 2023 (what day "will live in infamy"?); first time the X-37B to be launched on Elon Musk's SpaceX's Heavy Falcon

Covid: a new highly contagious COVID-19 variant, HV.1, is now the dominant strain in the U.S.

• OMG: a "new highly contagious COVID-19 variant, HV.1" -- that's the way USA Today is reporting it;
• #2: EG.5 --> Eris (not to be confused with Taylor Swift's "Eras" tour.
  

Nvidia: old Nvidia GPU deciphered Greco-Roman scroll;

Market: looking good tonight, but tomorrow could be a different story. Later: futures starting to fall.

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Elf On A Shelf Is So Yesterday

Mensch on a bench. 

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A Musical Interlude

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Phil Spector.