#Birthe Neumann

[appletvdaily]

CONSTELLATION (2024-) 1x04 The Left Hand of God 1x05 Five Miles Out, the Sound Is Clearest

[scandinaviancinema]

RIGET: EXODUS (2022) dir. Lars von Trier

[farminglesbian]

Happy Ending (2018) Hella Joof

thanks @loveindiravarma for sharing caps <3

[pewslight]

From Happy Endings (2018).

[moviemosaics]

Festen

directed by Thomas Vinterberg, 1998

[robertreich]

Should Billionaires Exist? 

Do billionaires have a right to exist?

America has driven more than 650 species to extinction. And it should do the same to billionaires.

Why? Because there are only five ways to become one, and they’re all bad for free-market capitalism:

1. Exploit a Monopoly.

Jamie Dimon is worth $2 billion today… but not because he succeeded in the “free market.” In 2008, the government bailed out his bank JPMorgan and other giant Wall Street banks, keeping them off the endangered species list.

This government “insurance policy” scored these struggling Mom-and-Pop megabanks an estimated $34 billion a year.

But doesn’t entrepreneur Jeff Bezos deserve his billions for building Amazon?

No, because he also built a monopoly that’s been charged by the federal government and 17 states for inflating prices, overcharging sellers, and stifling competition like a predator in the wild.

With better anti-monopoly enforcement, Bezos would be worth closer to his fair-market value.

2. Exploit Inside Information

Steven A. Cohen, worth roughly $20 billion headed a hedge fund charged by the Justice Department with insider trading “on a scale without known precedent.” Another innovator!

Taming insider trading would level the investing field between the C Suite and Main Street.

3.  Buy Off Politicians

That’s a great way to become a billionaire! The Koch family and Koch Industries saved roughly $1 billion a year from the Trump tax cut they and allies spent $20 million lobbying for. What a return on investment!

If we had tougher lobbying laws, political corruption would go extinct.

4. Defraud Investors

Adam Neumann conned investors out of hundreds of millions for WeWork, an office-sharing startup. WeWork didn’t make a nickel of profit, but Neumann still funded his extravagant lifestyle, including a $60 million private jet. Not exactly “sharing.”

Elizabeth Holmes was convicted of fraud for her blood-testing company, Theranos. So was Sam Bankman-Fried of crypto-exchange FTX. Remember a supposed billionaire named Donald Trump? He was also found to have committed fraud.

Presumably, if we had tougher anti-fraud laws, more would be caught and there’d be fewer billionaires to preserve.

5. Get Money From Rich Relatives

About 60 percent of all wealth in America today is inherited.

That’s because loopholes in U.S. tax law —lobbied for by the wealthy — allow rich families to avoid taxes on assets they inherit. And the estate tax has been so defanged that fewer than 0.2 percent of estates have paid it in recent years.

Tax reform would disrupt the circle of life for the rich, stopping them from automatically becoming billionaires at their birth, or someone else’s death.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not arguing against big rewards for entrepreneurs and inventors. But do today’s entrepreneurs really need billions of dollars? Couldn’t they survive on a measly hundred million?

Because they’re now using those billions to erode American institutions. They spent fortunes bringing Supreme Court justices with them into the wild.They treated news organizations and social media platforms like prey, and they turned their relationships with politicians into patronage troughs.

This has created an America where fewer than ever can become millionaires (or even thousandaires) through hard work and actual innovation.

If capitalism were working properly, billionaires would have gone the way of the dodo.

[catie-does-things]

Litany of American Saints

(Updated 2024)

In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.

Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us.

God, the Father of heaven, have mercy on us. God the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us. God the Holy Spirit, have mercy on us. Holy Trinity, one God, have mercy on us.

Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us.

Saint Isaac Jogues, pray for us. Saint René Goupil, pray for us. Saint Jean de Lalande, pray for us. All you holy North American Martyrs, pray for us.

Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, pray for us. Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, pray for us. Saint John Neumann, pray for us. Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne, pray for us. Saint Katharine Drexel, pray for us. Saint Mother Théodore Guérin, pray for us. Saint Damien de Veuster of Molokai, pray for us. Saint Marianne Cope of Molokai, pray for us. Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, pray for us. Saint Junípero Serra, pray for us.

Blessed Eduardo Farre, pray for us. Blessed Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, pray for us. Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores, pray for us. Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, pray for us. Blessed Lucas Tristany, pray for us. Blessed Carlos Manuel Rodriguez Santiago, pray for us. Blessed Michael McGivney, pray for us. Blessed Sister Miriam Teresa, pray for us. Blessed Stanley Rother, pray for us. Blessed Solanus Casey, pray for us. Blessed Leo William Miller, pray for us.

Venerable Antonio of Jesus, pray for us. Venerable Nelson Baker, pray for us. Venerable Frederic Baraga, pray for us. Venerable Cornelia Connelly, pray for us. Venerable Henriette DeLille, pray for us. Venerable Teresa Demjanovich, pray for us. Venerable Maria Kaupas, pray for us. Venerable Mary Theresa Dudzik, pray for us. Venerable Samuel Charles Mazzuchelli, pray for us. Venerable Mary Angeline Teresa McCrory, pray for us. Venerable Fulton J. Sheen, pray for us. Venerable Pierre Toussaint, pray for us. Venerable Félix Varela, pray for us. Venerable Augustus Tolton, pray for us. Venerable Rafael Cordero Molina, pray for us. Venerable Aloysius Schwarz, pray for us. Venerable Alphonse Gallegos, pray for us. Venerable Patrick Peyton, pray for us. Venerable Norbert McAuliffe, pray for us. Venerable Eusebio Kino, pray for us. Venerable Mary Elizabeth Lange, pray for us. Venerable Rose Hawthorne, pray for us.

Lord, be merciful. Lord, save your people. From all evil, Lord, save your people. From all sin, Lord, save your people. From your wrath, Lord, save your people. From injustice, Lord, save your people. From oppression, Lord, save your people. From hatred and intolerance, Lord, save your people. From anger and ill-will, Lord, save your people. From violence and bloodshed, Lord, save your people. From indifference to suffering, Lord, save your people.  From all the snares of the devil, Lord, save your people. By the mystery of your holy Incarnation, Lord, save your people. By your Coming, Lord, save your people. By your Birth, Lord, save your people. By your Baptism and holy fasting, Lord, save your people. By your Cross and Passion, Lord, save your people. By your Death and Burial, Lord save your people. By your holy Resurrection, Lord, save your people. By your wonderful Ascension, Lord, save your people. By the coming of the Holy Spirit, Lord, save your people. On the day of judgment, Lord, save your people.

Be merciful to us sinners, Lord, hear our prayer. That you will spare us, Lord, hear our prayer. That you will pardon us, Lord, hear our prayer. That it may please you to bring us to true penance, Lord, hear our prayer. Guide and protect your Holy Church, Lord, hear our prayer. Preserve in holiness the Pope and all the clergy, Lord, hear our prayer. Humble the enemies of the Church, Lord, hear our prayer. Give peace and unity to the whole Christian people, Lord, hear our prayer. Guide all those who serve us in civil government, Lord, hear our prayer. Protect all those who serve in our armed forces, Lord, hear our prayer. Grant eternal rest to all those who have died in defense of liberty, Lord, hear our prayer. Give courage to those who stand for justice, Lord, hear our prayer. Strengthen and preserve us in your holy service, Lord, hear our prayer. Deliver our souls from eternal damnation, Lord, hear our prayer. Grant eternal rest to all the faithful departed, Lord, hear our prayer. That it may please you to hear and heed us, Jesus, Son of the Living God, Lord, hear our prayer.

Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, spare us, O Lord! Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, graciously hear us, O Lord! Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.

Christ, hear us. Lord Jesus, hear our prayer. Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us.

In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. 

[sunnymusingsao3]

How to Play Twenty Questions

Words: 7,444 Rating: Teen and Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tim Drake/Lonnie Machin Summary: I give an anarchist a sexuality crisis Tags: Pre-Relationship, Developing Relationship, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Missing Scene, Pre-New 52, New Earth, Coma, There's one scene done in the style of a chatfic at the end, This is rather slice of life for superheroes, There's a lot of talking and not much mission

Preview:

Adjusting to life the way it’s turned lately has been… labyrinthine, to put it mildly. That is, Lonnie’s been doing as he always does– surviving at all costs– but it’s not as if that’s been made easy for him to do.

He doesn’t tell anyone about the worst parts of it; the aches that score bone-deep and radiate through his muscle tissue and nervous system, the numbed and prickly pieces of his body that he can’t feel at all, or the arrant humiliation of knowing that someone much, much less intelligent than him had been allowed to cause this much harm– to name a few.

Steve Neumann. Sean Jacobs. Dave McEvoy. Their families will never see them again, and Lonnie has helped make that happen.

There is something gut-wrenchingly devastating in how completely, how irreparably, a fascist child playing soldier dress up has razed Anarky to the ground. The people will never trust the moniker again. Brought on by a gunshot– incomprehensibly quick and calamitously loud, perpetually drumming in repetition in the depths of his skull, always where it hurts the most– Lonnie Machin has lost at once his sword and shield, and Gotham’s voice has been choked off–

To name a few more.

These are the things he believes he will never tell anyone. See, there is nothing so torturous as being so totally and finitely unable to do anything to reverse the slaughter of one’s singular, self-made purpose in the century of life gifted at birth. There is one thing that Anarky wants, one penultimate goal for the people he’s vowed to protect– but as it’s turned out, he can’t even protect three people from someone who should never have presented as big a threat as he did.

There are no how-to manuals about recovering from that.

So, he doesn’t tell anyone about it.

Instead, he moves his knight on Chess.com and waits for Tim’s answering play.

“Interesting.” Tim hums, and he looks like he wants to talk smack, but for whatever reason, something stays his hand. Rather, tongue.

Lonnie dreams of telling him off for it, but he settles instead for, “No commentary for the spectators?”

“Not when my spectator is working as my opponent.” The on-break vigilante responds, a grin cracking across his lips. Tim is half-undressed from his gear, his belts and cape discarded in a chair by the wall, and his gloves are dangling off the arm of the one he’s pulled up next to Lonnie’s bed. His hair is disheveled, and at its current length, it flops to either side of his temples, curling a tad around his ears. It’s a strange contrast to the cropped cuts he’d gelled to the nines back in the day, and Lonnie suspects that if he were to reach out and touch it, it would be softer than he’s ever seen it before. If not somewhat sweaty, that is.

“Your turn.” Tim mentions, which draws Lonnie’s attention back to the game–

Where it becomes evident that he’s losing. Badly.

“I hope this hasn’t been too easy for you.” The computer pipes up, as Lonnie simultaneously stalls for time, and watches Tim’s reaction.

Alas, it reveals everything that Lonnie was afraid of.

“What? Of course not.” Tim laughs, too hastily, too stridently.

Fancying a sigh, the anarchist resigns the game, the sting of disappointment washing frigidly through his veins, not unlike the feeling of the IV drip when it releases medicine into his bloodstream.

“Hey– you could have come back from that.” Tim is trying to placate Lonnie, and the spider knows this. But it tastes bitter against Lonnie’s tonsils, so in spite of Tim’s most well-meaning intentions, he rejects them.

“I’m not going to insult you by banking on you losing to gross negligence or sheer accident. It’s fine. Let’s start again.”

Lonnie invites Tim to a new game, and in silence, the pair begin.

It takes less than ten moves for Lonnie to get wise to what Tim is doing.

He resigns again, which makes Tim blanch, his head shooting up to peer at his friend in unwarranted surprise. “You were winning!”

Lonnie can’t clench his jaw, nor hit the keys on a virtual keyboard with any force, but he hopes that the voice of the screen reader makes his disdain apparent. “Do you have any idea how belittling it is to let me win?”

Tim Drake is known to be a fantastic liar. But Lonnie Machin is known to be truthful to a fault. He identifies Tim’s tells as they happen. “I wasn’t–”

“Save it.” The robotic voice cuts him off, and Tim’s jaw shutters. “If you’re not going to play a fair game, I don’t want to participate. I won’t enable cheating, and I certainly won’t be complicit in it. I can’t believe you’d try something like that.”

Red Robin passes like a cloud over Tim’s icy eyes. “I didn’t want you to get discouraged.”

Lonnie itches to laugh. “Whatever. Let’s get back to business; we have a lot to do, don’t we?”

“I mean, we could take a few more minutes–”

“Let's get back to business.” Lonnie pushes harder.

And Tim doesn’t need to don the cowl for Lonnie to be able to pinpoint the changes in his posture, in the way he distributes his own weight, for him to know that he’s speaking with the recently-graduated former protege of the Batman, now, rather than his new best pal, Tim Drake-without-the-Wayne.

“Fine.” Tim stands, as he prefers to do when discussing matters like this. Lonnie wonders if he’s aware he does it. “What’d you find on the new Lynx?”

[Read the rest on AO3]

[dearorpheus]

This blog rules. I love all the readings and excerpts in your selfhood tag. Do you have any kind of reading list for existential philosophy you could share? I've been really wanting to dive in lately but I'm intimidated about where to start.

hey you rule also.

here's everything i've been surrounding myself with lately—not limited to existential philosophy but i think all migrating through the same waters:

Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus; The Stranger; The Plague Sartre, Nausea; Being and Nothingness E.M. Cioran, A Short History of Decay; The Trouble With Being Born R.D. Laing, The Divided Self Jung, Modern Man In Search of a Soul; Psychology and the Occult Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness unto Death Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading Clarice Lispector, The Apple in the Dark Kafka, The Trial Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia Andrew Scull, Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness; Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era Kay Redfield Jamison, Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias Erich Neumann, The Origins and History of Consciousness Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous Lisa Miller, The Awakened Brain: The Psychology of Spirituality The Tibetan Book of the Dead

[santoschristos]

In a birth chart, Spica signifies brilliance & intelligence, the ingenuity needed to diligently see through a plan to gather the hard-won fruits of one’s labour. .

In ancient times, the rise of Spica heralded the peak of harvest season, a bountiful & sacred time… --Héloïse, the Social Astrologer

Virgo. Artwork by Johfra Bosschart

Erich Neumann explored the Virgin archetype in astonishing detail in his wonderful book The Great Mother:

The childbearing virgin, the Great Mother as a unity of mother and virgin, appears in a very early period as the virgin with the ear of grain, the heavenly gold of the stars, which corresponds to the earthly gold of the wheat. This golden ear is a symbol of the luminous son who on the lower plane is borne as grain in the earth and in the crib, and on the higher plane appears in the heavens as the immortal luminous son of night. Thus the virgin with the spica, the ear of grain, and the torch-bearer, Phosphora, are identical to the virgin with the child.

[miuarchiv]

Hello! I wanted to ask is it known how relationship between Walter Schellenberg and his second wife Irene looked like? Did they have any kids? Was Irene polish or had some polish family members? Is it known how they met? Thank you for your answers ☺️

1. Relationship

WS's secretary Schienke said their marriage was happy in her 1945 and 1948 interrogations, and he never allowed Irene into the office. (I'll post it later, the text is long)

WS put her photos on the desk of his Nuremberg cell.

WS's letters to her grandfather, brother and sister may shed some light.

Link: https://miuarchiv.tumblr.com/post/721080719767748608/ws-irenes-family-the-lawyerspdf

Wilhelm Hoettl revealed that WS didn't even visit her in the hospital during her difficult labour until Kaltenbrunner ordered him to go.

(Personally I can never agree that a marriage in which a woman had to give birth 4 times in 5 years could be happy, I'd call it torture. Anyway they had a different sense of "love", like Eichmann happily expecting his 4th child regardless of his wife's age and poor health.)

2.Kids

They had at least 4 kids. The 4th kid was born a few months after WS surrendered to the Allies, name unknown.

A 5th child might have been born or adopted between 1947-1950.

See:

3.Irene's mother was Polish. Her maiden name looks like "Wrzaiwska "(??).

4.It is not known how they met.

I have some random guesses. Seems Irene's grandfather Ferdinand Grosse-Schönepauk ran a hotel. WS had some friends in the hotel business. And this 1941 letter, I'm wondering if it indicates that Irene was a friend of Neumann's wife Helga Daitz before she met WS.

[giantchasm]

Random Kirby Headcanon #16

When it comes to surnames and whether or not they exist, all species seem to go about it a little differently.

In the case of Astrals, they don’t have traditional surnames. Instead, they collect titles! For example, Kirby’s full name would be “Kirby of the Stars,” whereas Galacta Knight’s would be “[Whatever his real name is], Galacta Knight, the Aeon Hero.”

Waddle Dees don’t have last names. Frankly, they barely even have first names. In part, I imagine it’s not necessary since they sort of, by default, all consider themselves one big family anyways.

Tevatians (Animal people) don’t have last names, but may be referred to by their species occasionally, especially for clarification. For example, if someone were in a conversation with two Ricks, they might refer to our Rick as “Rick the Hamster” specifically.

Dark Matter do not traditionally have names, but Gooey has taken on an astral-style full name. Currently, he’s Gooey of the Heart.

Fairies’ surnames are based on the planet/kingdom they hail from. So for example, every fairy from Ripple Star has the last name “Ripple.”

Humans, obviously, traditionally have surnames, but seeing as how Adeleine was born in a wet cardboard box all alone and grew up with no family in my interpretation, she didn’t have one for a long time. Eventually, she took on the “Ripple” surname, though, as the fairies effectively took her in.

Halcandrans probably had last names based on their affiliations/what larger groups or sects they were a part of. Magolor, however, only being part Halcandran, and also being born in a wet cardboard box all alone, has no last name.

Insectoids probably have surnames, considering they had a royal family. I can see something French-adjacent. I have no actual idea on what I’d make Taranza and Sectonia’s actual surnames, though.

Neumanns (Susie and the Mage Sisters’ species in my headcanons) have last names. Susie’s, obviously, is Haltmann. I like to think the Mages wanted to take on Hyness’s last name after being adopted by him, but I also don’t think his species does last names, so maybe their surnames are just “Jamba” or something. Flamberge specifically actually has that hyphenated with her birth surname, being the only Mage Sister that was close to their original family.

Avians (Dedede’s species), Noddies (Marx’s species), and Elfilin’s species also do not have last names. However, I can also see Elfilin eventually taking on an Astral-styled surname like Gooey did.

[killed-by-choice]

Nadine DuPont, 23 (USA 1984)

Nadine DuPont underwent an abortion in January of 1983. No complications were noted at the time, but Nadine had no idea of the fight for her life that she would endure for the next year.

Because of the abortion, Nadine was developing a condition that normally would have been quite rare: gestational choriocarcinoma. This occurred when the abortionist left tissue fragments in her uterus, which eventually grew into cancerous tumors. She was fighting for her life even when she didn’t know it.

Months later, Nadine went to Harper Hospital. The malignant tumors were no longer asymptomatic and she didn’t know what was happening to her. She was told she had a “probable molar pregnancy” and the hospital attempted to surgically remove it via suction. Nadine’s uterus was torn during this attempt and she had to be rushed back into the operating room. The internal damage was so severe that doctors performed an emergency hysterectomy, but even this did not save her life. Despite all attempts at treatment, she died at Harper Hospital in January of 1984.

Autopsy finally confirmed a final diagnosis; internal injury during the attempted treatment of what was now finally identified as gestational choriocarcinoma. Unlike most other gestational trophoblastic neoplasms or GTN (including most molar pregnancy, which was the hospital’s initial guess), GCC is highly malignant and metastasizes rapidly. Due to the way it grows, suction curettage alone was unlikely to be effective.

It’s estimated that 1/4 to 1/3 of cases of gestational choriocarcinoma after previous non-molar pregnancies are caused by abortion or miscarriage. GTN in general is about 100 times more common after pregnancy loss than after term pregnancy. Nadine’s “safe and legal” abortion caused her slow, horrible death at the age 23— one that would have been less than 1% as likely with live birth. While Harper Hospital was at fault for not treating her condition properly, the abortion caused the condition in the first place.

The CDC would not have counted Nadine’s death in abortion mortality statistics because she died a year after the abortion that triggered her fatal complications.

Wayne County Circuit Court case #85-507691 NM

[lowpolyotakuconvention]

The Boss giving birth on D-Day is funny in concept but horrifying given the added context in the Peace Walker tapes.

She had just gotten caught failing to assassinate John Neumann, under the false intel that he was a nazi spy. Not only had she blown her cover on a top secret mission, her failure revealed the government's mistake. She was an embarrassment that they wanted gone, so she was sent into combat in an extremely vulnerable state. She also probably couldn't say no to the order. It's strongly implied that her brain injury rendered her incapable of refusing orders. She failed the Los Alamos infiltration in the first place due to worrying about the safety of her baby, I doubt she would've agreed to Normandy if she had the option. just holy shit

[averycanadianfilm]

AveryCanadianFilm:John Von Neumann

Setting: Samuel H. Lawson is having a very pleasant dream, Einstein is in a very good mood and has just left, then, very surprisingly John Von Neumann shows up!

Von Neumann: Why are you smiling?

Samuel H. Lawson: Einstein is happy.

Von Neumann: I hear you're working on a theory of mind and consciousness.

Samuel H. Lawson: More like a theory of mind and awareness, I don't like the word consciousness.

Von Neumann: Well then, get on with it!

Samuel H. Lawson: (smiles even more) You're not exactly in a position to give me orders.

Von Neumann: I hear you've put me in your Galactic Center file.

Samuel H. Lawson: True. But I don't know your birth-time.

Von Neumann: 4am on the dot!

Samuel H. Lawson: Good.

Von Neumann: What's this GC file about? What does it signify?

Samuel H. Lawson: {Silence}

Von Neumann: Good. Keeping your cards close to your chest.

Samuel H. Lawson: What a coincidence.

Von Neumann: I thought you don't believe in "coincidences"?

Samuel H. Lawson: True, I don't really, take it as a figure of speech I use when I'm pretending to believe what other people believe.

Von Neumann: What's nominally a "coincidence"?

Samuel H. Lawson: I'm thinking of reading your book 'Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics'.

Von Neumann: Don't.

Samuel H. Lawson: Why not?

Von Neumann: Why?

Samuel H. Lawson: I'm interested in the Hilbert Space formulation of Quantum Mechanics.

Von Neumann: Don't be. I don't like that formulation!

Samuel H. Lawson: But you invented it!

Von Neumann: Is there any physics in your theory of mind and awareness?

Samuel H. Lawson: There has to be because, to use a buddhist phrase, mind and matter inter-are and matter/energy is currently described by quantum formalism.

Von Neumann: Fundamental physics?

Samuel H. Lawson: I wouldn't use that term.

Von Neumann: {laughs} No elementary particle physics then?

Samuel H. Lawson: For what I'm doing the concept of a 'particle' is useless.

Von Neumann: {laughs} Perhaps all of current fundamental physics will not be useful to you.

Samuel H. Lawson: Perhaps, perhaps not, we'll see.

Von Neumann: Perhaps, biology is more promising.

Samuel H. Lawson: No.

Von Neumann: If not Biology, then what?

Samuel H. Lawson: In the first instance, analogies inspired by condensed matter physics theory look promising - but it's early days.

Von Neumann: Good.

Samuel H. Lawson: Hey, Pauli just materialized!

Von Neumann: {looks at Pauli} What are you doing here?

Pauli: More to the point, what are you doing here?

Samuel H. Lawson: {Smiles}

[jonfazzaro]

"Because the little troll squats and shouts into the floor when he sings, it was difficult to suspend a Neumann U67 in the right position for a vocal take."