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[meugamer]

Monitor Gamer KBM! GAMING MG100 24": Vale a Pena para Jogos? Confira Nossa Opinião

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[nerdybouquetpeanutworld]

Monitor LG 24ML600M: Análise, Desempenho e Custo-Benefício para Trabalho...

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[eretzyisrael]

Saudi school textbooks drop hatred of Israel

A bright spot in the current gloom that is the Middle East is Saudi Arabia: a new report idenitifies a strong shift in the Saudi education system away from anti-Israel ideology and toward more liberal, Western ideals. The Palestinian textbooks, regrettably, show the opposite trend. The New York Post reports:

De facto’ Saudi ruler Mohammed bin Salman

The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se), issued a report on the 2023/24 curriculum in Saudi Arabia. Following a critical review of 371 Saudi textbooks from 2019 to 2024, IMPACT-se evaluated changes made to textbooks for the current school year. As always, we measured them against internationally recognized UNESCO standards of peace and tolerance in education.

What we found was very encouraging. Continuing a steady positive trend in Saudi textbooks over the last several years, passages that endorsed violent jihad have been removed, antisemitic language is no longer found and texts that in the past promoted male superiority over women have been removed or altered, providing much-needed gender-parity in a region where it’s been lacking. Meanwhile, Zionism is no longer portrayed as the product of European colonialism.

As Saudi ruler Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) works towards implementing his comprehensive vision for his Kingdom’s future, the way Saudi children are being educated is instructive. It is no coincidence that these textbook changes are taking place as MBS, who has faced scrutiny, opens his Kingdom up to the world. As the Saudi desire for economic development, modernization and closer relations with the West persists, a curriculum which is increasingly tolerant and inclusive makes this prospect all the more likely.

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[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Bolsonaro’s bid to regain Brazil’s presidency may end in prison

Brazilian police have accused some of his backers of involvement not just in a coup, but in an assassination plot

On November 21st Brazilian police formally accused Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former far-right president, and 36 others of attempting to prevent Brazil’s newly elected government from taking office. It was the third time Brazil’s federal police recommended criminal charges against the ex-president, but these accusations are by far the most serious. They sharply increase the likelihood that Mr Bolsonaro will spend time in jail. The former president denies all charges and claims he is being politically persecuted.

The police have been investigating Mr Bolsonaro for two years over attempts to cling to power after his electoral defeat in October 2022. But the case has become more urgent in recent weeks. On November 13th a man who had previously been affiliated with Mr Bolsonaro’s political party blew himself up in a failed attack on Brazil’s Supreme Court. On November 19th federal police arrested four members of an elite army unit and one police officer for allegedly plotting to kill Lula, his vice-president, Geraldo Alckmin, and Alexandre de Moraes, a judge on the Supreme Court, days before Lula’s inauguration. Mr Moraes has overseen investigations into Mr Bolsonaro for years and has become a target of bolsonarista zealots.

This is not how Mr Bolsonaro expected his November to pan out. His misleadingly named Liberal Party and other conservative outfits won big in Brazil’s local elections in October. On October 22nd he triumphantly proclaimed that he would be the candidate of the right in 2026, when Brazil is scheduled to hold its next presidential elections. More good news arrived in the form of the re-election of Mr Bolsonaro’s idol, Donald Trump, as  president of the United States on November 5th. Mr Bolsonaro apparently saw this as a harbinger of his own return to power. “May Trump’s victory inspire Brazil to follow the same path,” he posted on X.

Not likely, it seems, if Mr Bolsonaro is part of that path. Brazil’s top federal prosecutor will now review the 884-page police report which alleges that Mr Bolsonaro was involved in an attempted coup, and decide whether to pursue charges. If the case goes ahead, Mr Bolsonaro could be tried by the Supreme Court early next year. The crimes under investigation carry a combined maximum prison sentence of 28 years.

A different, 221-page police report, which The Economist has reviewed, alleges that after Mr Bolsonaro’s electoral defeat, a plan was hatched to murder Lula and the other two. According to the report, police obtained much of the material relating to the plot from electronic devices belonging to Mauro Cid, Mr Bolsonaro’s personal aide, and General Mário Fernandes, who was a deputy minister in the Bolsonaro government. The report claims that Mr Fernandes used a printer inside the presidential palace to print an outline of the assassination plot, including information about the weapons to be used. The report further alleges that Mr Cid and others started monitoring Lula and Mr Moraes’ movements after a meeting on November 12th, 2022 at the house of Walter Braga Netto, Mr Bolsonaro’s running-mate in the 2022 election. The report says the police found documents owned by Mr Fernandes in which he outlined how a “crisis cabinet”, co-led by Mr Braga Netto, was to be set up after the assassinations had been carried out.

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[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Hurricane Oscar: Foresight, solidarity and unity in the face of any contingency

https://www.granma.cu/

Preserving people's lives is the priority in the face of the onslaught of Hurricane Oscar, said Joel Queipo Ruiz, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the Provincial Defense Council.

This governing body, activated in full composition, just like that of the municipalities, reviewed the provisions with which it acts in the current phase of cyclone alarm in which the territory finds itself.

Here, according to the assessment, the population protection commissions are activated up to the CDR level, with emphasis on the transfer of people to the homes of relatives and friends, and evacuation centers determined for these cases.

The actions aimed at ensuring the lives of our fellow citizens, although they have been accelerated in recent hours, have been based on rational movements that are made from the most distant and difficult-to-access sites, while taking into account residents in coastal flood zones.

Also taken into account are those who live near riverbanks, as well as in areas that may be covered by water due to rainfall, and in areas downstream of reservoirs, especially in the municipalities of Moa, Sagua de Tánamo and Frank País.

In addition, the protection of inhabitants in mountain communities and rural areas that may be isolated is being monitored, and they have been advised to move them to caves or engineering works near these sites.

The guidelines included strict restrictions on access to risk areas such as rivers, streams, canals, reservoirs and bridges, areas of potential landslides and waters below dams.

The municipal defense councils were required to increase the supply of drinking water to the most remote populations and those that depend on water trucks, while they were instructed to carefully follow and comply with what was established for the protection or evacuation of material resources stored in facilities with structural vulnerabilities.

Regarding the actions to be undertaken in the recovery phase after the passage of the meteor, among other things, it was decided to collect the vegetables and other agricultural products that the winds and rains could destroy, and at the same time speed up the harvest of those that could be damaged, which will be followed by the immediate sowing of short-cycle crops.

Regarding the handling of the storm in tourist resorts, where thousands of foreign visitors are staying, the authorities in the sector reported that all of them, as well as the nationals staying there, are protected.

It was also learned that in all coastal municipalities instructions were given for the return to land of vessels that were carrying out work at sea, so that they could be transferred to points that offer them safety.

Particular attention was paid to the availability of food, with agricultural authorities stating that instructions had been given to supply the markets with food and other products, and that their entities had been instructed to prepare soups and ajiacos, among other things, to sell to the population.

The actions undertaken to speed up the sale of the products in the standard family basket and to protect those in the warehouses were specified. In the province, actions continued for the distribution of fuel to the municipalities, so that the operation of the emergency generators can be assured, which guarantee, above all, the vitality of the medical services, the supply of water to the population and communications. Likewise, the sale of liquefied gas to the population continued.

[neshabeingchildish]

We'll Raise Him Right, Part 2

Tagged: Charlotte Page, Max Thunderman, Mika Macklin, Chapa De Silva

Notes: Don’t mind me. Just clearing my mind of a little bit of Charlotte x Max lore from my notes.

Plot: Mini Max has been training underneath Mika, AKA Shoutout, and Chapa AKA Volt comes around to see the progress. Potentially Zenryverse, but no mention of Zenryverse characters.

If Mini Max was startled, he would let out a yelp and everyone was startled. Not from the sound of the yelp, but from the link of his feeling with the sound. If he was nervous, everyone got nervous. He learned to hum a tune for everyone else to calm down, even if he couldn’t calm himself down. But if he cried, it was like a cloud of dread covered everyone in his immediate world. 

Once, he began crying when he couldn’t pet a service dog, because Charlotte told him, “That doggie is working, Maxi. We can’t play with him right now.” His tears were practically immediate. The disabled pet owner began crying, the dog began barking and Charlotte saw on the faces of nearby bystanders that they were next. Hurriedly, she tried to get her child away from people, while Max reached out to take him off of her hands. “We aren’t honing this skill with him. Why is he wielding it?” She asked, tears streaming down her cheeks.

Max, unable to find his singing voice in this despair, cried back, “Because he can’t control it, since we aren’t honing it. It’s tied to his feelings! Either he’ll have to be taught how to disable his feelings, or taught how to enable his powers.”

It would be cruel to try to make him disable his feelings. He was a little kid. He was human. He deserved to have his feelings.

“I’ll schedule training with Mika,” Charlotte said, her voice a little clearer. She realized that the dread was gone and hope came in. Max let out a relieved laugh and they both checked on the boy. He was distracted by a Happy Fun Burger. They nodded at each other and headed that way to get him a meal and a toy.

Theoretically, they knew how the hypnosis worked, and Mika could teach him based on that. Fortunately, more often than not, he was a very happy child. That fact made him a joy to be around for most people, most of the time. Humming and singing felt nice, so he often did it to turn his feelings around when they began to go to sadness or fear. Those were generally the bad feelings that got to him sometimes. He hardly ever got mad. 

When it was time for training, Mika set the first goal. This goal was that his voice would become both a serenade and a stronghold. He had a human vocal coach and a super vocal coach, and Mika was his mentor and manager. She would review his training with both coaches, monitor his scans, and give him lessons according to those findings.

“I was a teenager when I got my superpower. I was criticized for blooming later than everyone else on my team. I know what it's like to think constantly about your superpower. This is what I want you to always remember, because it can be even more important for you, considering that you were born super and your power has an emotional aspect to it. It may feel like your superpower is your identity. It is not. Your superpower is a characteristic. It can be a gift, a tool, an instrument, a weapon, etc; but it is not who you are. And, it is not in control.” 

He smiled at her and she felt a tingle in her heart. A flutter of appreciation and of trust. She would never let him down. He wasn’t just her greatest project. He would be one of the most important aspects of her life as a superhero.

Mini Max was advanced in learning. Max was quite arrogant about making a perfect genius the first time around. Because he played guitar and sang to him when he was in the womb, he also took credit for Mini Max’s musicality (despite the fact that Charlotte could also play guitar and Maxi only ever fiddled with instruments when attempting to collect notes to assign voice actions to). He would find a note, sing it and attach it to some type of command. 

By age 4, he had began to use a vocalise in order to move things around. “I don’t scientifically understand this aspect of his superpower,” Chapa said, watching him sing softly at a small ball and keeping it in the air with his song, almost like a seal. “Doesn’t he have voice hypnosis and sonic scream? How the heck does that give him… singing telekinesis, or whatever?”

“Because his voice is moving the object,” Mika said, as though it was obvious. The two of them were in their superhero outfits and Mini Max was in his training gear, oblivious to their discussions, as they were too far away and he was preoccupied with the day’s practice.

“Breath control is an important part of vocal technique, so he’s able to manipulate his breath and vocally move the object. Sonic scream can devastate things when aimed to do so. But, if we tone down the volume and regulate the breath less forcefully; yes, we can move things. I think of it as a vocal shove. He is a natural with great practice and teachings, so he can turn it down as low as even a vocal nudge, and that’s what you’re watching him to with the ball.”

Chapa was impressed. “Could he… could he whisper an attack?”

Mika’s smile grew wide at her partner’s interest. “Not whisper, but check this out…” Mika made a call with her sonic voice to gain Mini Max’s attention, then made a gesture like a choir director to end the singing. Maxi quickly stopped his vocalise and caught the ball in one hand to turn his attention to his teacher. “Will you show Volt your “hit a note” move?”

He nodded, smiling. This was something that he was quite confident about. Mini Max threw the ball gently into the air, then hit a particular note for just a moment, and with that note, spiked it across the yard as far through the sky as he could.

“No way! Kid can throw a punch with his singing voice!” She gave him a fist bump.

Mika interjected, “More than that, Volt. He can use his voice to quite literally touch things. Humans, he can touch both emotionally and physically. Other objects, he can touch at just about any volume or pitch, and depending on what he puts into the notes determines how hard or soft he touches things.” She leaned in and whispered, “I have a theory that at a certain pitch, he may be capable of killing someone.”

“That is AWESOME!” Chapa cheered.

“It is… a fascinating but terrible possibility.” She handed Chapa a pair of extra noise blocking earmuffs and put on a pair of her own. She lifted her hand to get Mini Max’s attention, then asked, “Wanna show Volt how to handle a tough crowd?”

Now, the kid gulped and looked at an arrangement of rows of various glass containers, lined up on multiple heighted surfaces. There were several rows, and so many glass containers, not evenly spaced or anything. He had seen Shoutout do great things, but when he tried some of the same things, he could never accomplish them. Now, she was requesting he do this in front of someone else? A fellow superhero, at that?

“Remember!” Mika chimed, “I’ve been a hero for years and have been training and working since I was a teenager. You are not a hero and nobody expects you to be. You’re a child with a superpower that you’re practicing to develop. I don’t expect to see you do what I can do. I want you to show us what you can do.”

He held these words in his heart and mind as he put one finger into the air and one to his ear.

“Can do, can do, can do…” he sang, raising his voice until he found the note he needed, then pointed the lifted finger towards the rows of glasses and sung a very pointed, “Ooo! Ooo! Oo! OOooo!” He either moved, cracked, knocked over, or broke one of most of the glasses. His shoulders sank and he remembered the awe he was in seeing Mika shout and reduce each glass that she aimed at to chards within moments. 

He turned to face the heroes as they removed their ear muffs and came forward. “Crowd’s still tough.”

Volt guffawed, “Are you kidding? It took Shoutout forever to be able to pull off a move like that.” Mini Max squinted his eyes in confusion.

“Not forever, obviously. Just a while.” She looked at Chapa, “I told you don’t use hyperbole with him. He’s four.”

“A genius four, though,” Chapa challenged.

Ignoring her words and placing a hand over her mouth, Mika said, “Good job, M. That’s it for today.”

[dustedmagazine]

2024: Patrick Masterson

It was the year I finally got robbed at gunpoint. Or, wait, is that too glib? Maybe that’s too glib. Here, let me try again:

It was the year I did mushrooms, and nothing happened. It was the year I saw one of my brothers marry. It was the year I spent full days at the lake, the year I tried to take more time off because I owed it to myself, the year I saw Iceland in the dark. It was the year I did not check my bank account or my investment portfolio. It was the year I got robbed twice, one of them at gunpoint on a main drag in walking distance from where I live. It was the year I wandered and fell upward. It was the year of Cindy Lee.

Looked at a certain way, then, my year didn’t really start until April 5th, when I saw this tweet (you remember those, don’t you?) from Cokemachineglow (you remember Cokemachineglow, don’t you?) alumnus Chet Betz. I’d slipped into the CMG orbit as more than just a longtime reader by way of a brief Substack backdoor in 2021, where I shared space with a few of those writers for long enough to earn their follow-back. There wasn’t much interaction once it went dormant, but I kept an eye out anyway — in a mephitic posting environment, these people inevitably had something worth reading.

So when Betz said Cindy Lee would’ve been the sort of thing his old cohort ‘glowed over, I tracked Diamond Jubilee down to the Angelfire page required to download it. Let’s pause here to appreciate what the Lycos (well, Brightcom) intern tasked with monitoring Angelfire’s health in 2024 must’ve thought when the visits and downloads to Cindy Lee’s page spiked in the wake of a long tail of positive press that looked askance at the Angelfire thing as a quaint gimmick in the age of instant gratification amid a year where more music was recorded than any other ever before in the history of Earth. What’s the German word for loathing a wave of thinkpieces before it even occurs?

In any event, it worked everywhere: grocery shopping, bus rides, hazy hours before and after sleep, getting robbed, whatever. I was hooked immediately, to the point that it had me revisiting Women and appreciating both the self-titled and Public Strain in a way that I really didn’t when they first came out. It’s not like I wasn’t aware of them, my interest just wasn’t there in the manner it was this time around. Maybe there’s something to Patrick Flegel’s nostalgic debt to bygone eras and maybe it was the seeming effortlessness of his simple guitar licks and maybe there’s something to me simply getting older — Jonathan postulates better in his year-end than I could, really — but it felt like a warm blanket every time I put it on. I purchased a ticket to the Empty Bottle show a few days before the Pitchfork review dropped that got everyone in my immediate orbit talking (you remember that phenomenon, don’t you?) and was all set to see this simple setup play out in person. Road-tested and already rolling on tour, the scene was set, the moment appearing to be seized.

Then, all at once, it wasn’t. Flegel canceled all remaining tour dates and wrapped the Cindy Lee project altogether, the moment flatly rejected. I couldn’t be heartbroken given how long Patrick’s been out there doing this; to the contrary, rejecting such attention seemed perfectly in line with the whole ethos of the thing, from the unwieldy size of the album to the Angelfire page. To paraphrase Anne de Marcken a bit, it was admirable and it lasted forever and then it was over.

Don’t get me wrong, there were other music moments I enjoyed in a year where I finally felt like I’d let the rat race of it go for good. Chief Keef’s 1-2 punch on both the celebrated Almighty So 2 and much less heralded (but arguably more fun) Mike Will Made-It collaboration Dirty Nachos was a moment of congregation for a lot of people who’d spent the last decade checked out on him, and it was heartening to see his return to play Chicago welcomed so openly; to think he had his hologram banned here once upon a time still gives one pause. There were two venerable standbys — and here’s where I tell you I probably played Pile and Greet Death as much as anything else in 2024, which, who knows, maybe indicates where I’ve been for what feels like a long time now. Joy Orbison and Blawan and Or:la, more old favorites, gave me something to smile about in the dance world. I’ve said my piece on the raps I enjoyed from guys like Elucid and 03 Greedo, but shouts to Young Thug for getting free, too: Even if he never makes another good song, he still deservedly walks out here among us. The first time I heard Loma’s “How It Starts” and Svaneborg Kardyb’s “Arendal” and Fontaines D.C.’s “Favourite” felt like minor miracles, full breaths of fresh air amid a world of suffocation. And God forbid we should forget Brat Summer; for several months in the middle of 2024, I hardly had to do more than walk into a bar for its playlist to wheel up either “365,” Sabrina Carpenter (about which more soon) or Chappell Roan, the latter of which was especially weird and annoying to me given I’m almost 40 and had already moved on from a record nearly a year old that a lot of people almost half my age suddenly seemed bent on. I guess we can call it an accident of history that I was ahead of the curve there.

There were so many other musical moments I enjoyed in a year where I finally felt like I’d let the rat race of it go for good, but reading the above paragraph back brings me to the same conclusion I always reach this time of year: I’ll never get out, and I don’t think I want to. I will always be listening just enough because there is so much music, so much more every single year, so much creativity made by real humans spending real hours tinkering away on instruments and buried in programs manipulating sample packs and exploring, learning, revealing to themselves and the rest of us that they have more in them to uncover, more in us as listeners to hear, more in humanity’s desire to grow for everyone to appreciate. And who wouldn’t want to invest in that?

So, yes: It was the year I got robbed at gunpoint. It was the year of AI slop and chocolate mushrooms, of lake lounging and autumnal nuptials, of billionaire triumphs and way too much whisky. It was a very long leap year. But I have to remind myself of the small moments of satisfaction, the wins in miniature, the curlicues of sad delight three minutes at a time. I’ll say the end again so we both remember: It was the year of Cindy Lee.

Patrick Masterson

[francebonapartiste]

26 février 1815 : Napoléon s'évade de l'Ile d'Elbe

Après son abdication du 6 avril 1814, Napoléon Bonaparte reçoit la souveraineté sur l’île d’Elbe et conserve quelques centaines de soldats, pensionné par le gouvernement des Bourbons restaurés. Pendant ce temps, en France, le régime de la Restauration dirigé par Louis XVIII est fragilisé malgré ses efforts pour apaiser les tensions. Napoléon, profitant de cette instabilité, prépare secrètement son retour, planifiant minutieusement son évasion de l’île d’Elbe pour rétablir son pouvoir en France.

Le 26 février 1815, après avoir minutieusement préparé son évasion pendant plusieurs jours, Napoléon quitte l’île d’Elbe à bord de l’Inconstant, un navire préparé en secret pour ce voyage.

Cette nuit-là, le commissaire anglais Neil Campbell, chargé de surveiller Napoléon, s’était absenté pour se rendre à Livourne, laissant ainsi l’opportunité à Napoléon de finaliser ses préparatifs sans être perturbé.

Napoléon termine les derniers préparatifs avec ses généraux et officiers.

Le matin du départ, Napoléon assiste à la messe, passe en revue ses troupes et embrasse sa mère avant de rejoindre le port. Il salue la foule venue lui rendre hommage et monte à bord de l’Inconstant, accompagné de ses proches et de ses fidèles grenadiers. Portant son habit vert caractéristique, Napoléon quitte Elbe avec détermination, laissant derrière lui des proclamations dénonçant le règne des Bourbons et appelant les Français à le rejoindre.

La traversée, bien que ponctuée de moments de tension, se déroule sans encombre. Les précautions prises pour éviter la détection, comme le retrait des insignes distinctifs des grenadiers et l’utilisation d’un pavillon neutre, contribuent au succès de l’évasion. Arrivant près de la côte française, Napoléon remplace sa cocarde elboise par le tricolore français, symbolisant son retour imminent.

Le 1er mars, la flottille atteint le golfe Juan, où Napoléon débarque avec environ 1200 hommes. Malgré les effectifs limités, sa confiance en son charisme et son autorité reste inébranlable. Ainsi, débute un événement unique dans l’histoire : le ralliement d’un pays par un seul homme, marquant le début des Cent-Jours et le retour de Napoléon au pouvoir en France.

***

After his abdication on April 6, 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte received sovereignty over the island of Elba and retained a few hundred soldiers, retired by the government of the restored Bourbons. Meanwhile, in France, the Restoration regime led by Louis XVIII was weakened despite his efforts to ease tensions. Napoleon, taking advantage of this instability, secretly prepared his return, carefully planning his escape from the island of Elba to restore his power in France. On February 26, 1815, after meticulously preparing his escape for several days, Napoleon left the island of Elba aboard the Inconstant, a ship prepared in secret for this voyage. That night, the English commissioner Neil Campbell, in charge of monitoring Napoleon, was absent to go to Livorno, thus giving Napoleon the opportunity to finalize his preparations without being disturbed. Napoleon completed the final preparations with his generals and officers. The morning of the departure, Napoleon attended mass, reviewed his troops and kissed his mother before reaching the port. He greets the crowd who came to pay tribute to him and goes aboard the Inconstant, accompanied by his relatives and his faithful grenadiers. Wearing his characteristic green habit, Napoleon left Elba with determination, leaving behind proclamations denouncing the reign of the Bourbons and calling on the French to join him. The crossing, although punctuated by moments of tension, goes smoothly. Precautions taken to avoid detection, such as removing the distinctive insignia of grenadiers and using a neutral flag, contribute to the success of the escape. Arriving near the French coast, Napoleon replaced his Elbese cockade with the French tricolor, symbolizing his imminent return.

On March 1, the flotilla reached the Gulf of Juan, where Napoleon landed with about 1200 men. Despite the limited numbers, his confidence in his charisma and authority remains unwavering. Thus begins a unique event in history: the rallying of a country by one man, marking the beginning of the Hundred Days and the return of Napoleon to power in France.

[waugh-bao]

So I was reading some concert reviews on IORR (I know) about the Ottawa 2005 concert. I'd read that Charlie left the stage during SFTD because of some technical troubles and wanted to know more about it. The reviews mentioned that both he and Keith left and Charlie seemed upset about his headphones. Then somebody mentioned that Charlie came in wrong on Brown Sugar and that Mick walked over and smiled at him and then Charlie got back on track. I think there might have been some technical issues for everyone because they also said guitars were cutting out so I assume Charlie was maybe having a bit of trouble hearing.

Anyway, two of the people who were there mentioned that at the end Keith, Mick, and Ronnie were trying to get Charlie to take a solo bow but he refused. One reviewer said they then "attacked him with kisses." And it made me think of how this was after his cancer and wondering if he could still play and keep up with the band and that they must have realized he felt down after the mistakes (whether or not they were his own or related to technical difficulties) and wanted to make him feel better and show him love. My heart!

Based on this:

Something definitely happened. I would hazard to guess there were issues with the sound engineering that were affecting both the instruments themselves and the monitor set-up (what the musicians are hearing in their headphones/ear buds).

What I hate about this, and what is so typical of IORR, is that all of these dipshits come out and act like they’re musicology professors at Yale when the extent of their musical training or ability is the 3 weeks they played guitar in college to try to pull girls.

Like the genius who wanted to inform us that the “click track on the drum machine must have failed” and that’s why Charlie didn’t enter right on “Brown Sugar”:

I have no clue what he means by drum machine, because the only time the Stones utilize drumming that isn’t Charlie himself playing in a live context are the pre-recorded bits of atypical drums for a few songs, like “Sympathy.” They never used any kind of drum machine before Hackney Diamonds. And they’ve very famously never used click tracks, which are a tool for drummers, not a component of a drum machine. Keith and Mick have both mentioned it multiple times, the only instance click tracks were used was one singular day in 1989:

Which all culminates in this pièce de résistance from the same reviewer:

Because somehow, while Keith’s fuck-ups are a charming example of how ‘raw and real’ he is and Mick’s are excusable, it’s all Charlie’s fault that the sound engineering equipment failed on him and the rest of the band.

That said, I absolutely love the descriptions of what happened after. How they tried to get him to take his own bow:

And, when he wouldn’t do that, the way they responded:

[whomst-art-thou-whomst-whomst]

Whomst Reviews: Ghost Doctor

(For those of you Kdrama Tumblrites who haven’t seen this masterpiece yet)

So you know how you watched an episode of Gray’s Anatomy and thought, this would be better if it was gayer and had more ghosts?

Have I got the show for YOU

Episode 1 Recap:

Once upon a time, there was a grumpy introvert heart surgeon named Cha Youngmin. He’s out here in his fancy little suits existing day to day for his work, being That Bitch to everyone to avoid feeling things, just him and his sugar glider son Man Du against the world.

Enter: one (1) naive but pure-hearted rich boy twink named Go Seungtak who loves drinking fancy coffee, showering people with gifts, taking naps, and avoiding real responsibility due to trauma-related anxiety and depression issues (so this is my drama debut tbh)

Necessarily, they clash! Bc Seungtak is the hospital foundation heir, his grandfather has decided that in order to manage the hospital, Seungtak should become a surgeon instead of using his MBA to manage things (not quite following the logic here but sure), and Youngmin, as an esteemed (if disliked) surgeon and all-around girlboss, does Not Like That.

Seungtak immediately falls in love becomes fascinated with Youngmin’s personality and impressed by his skills, and follows him around like the puppy-brained little shit he is. 

Unfortunately, as Youngmin simultaneously decides to make “tormenting Seungtak” his whole personality, this leads to a sad Puppy being first humiliated during a surgery then exiled to ER work. Mondays, bro. 

It’s the first warning we see that Youngmin can allow his emotions to sway his judgment (you know, that thing he bitches at everyone about doing? yeah), because:

1.) he let a first-year resident help with an operation on his first day at work,

2.) he immediately jumps to conclusions and publicly berates that resident for failures instead of assessing what went wrong, and

3.) he’s assigned as Seungtak’s mentor but jettisons him asap the next day after Seungtak witnesses him arguing with his ex (more on her in a sec)

It’s hard to say what would have become of the pair if not for a series of unfortunate and premeditated events brought to us by Hospital Mean Girl Han Seungwon and Corporate Asshat Jang Minho, and liberally edited by Bitch-Ass-Liar An Taehyeon. 

The grandpa-style chairman of a corporation thingy goes in for surgery that Youngmin is initially reluctant to try, as it has a low chance of success and would not give him much more time. We see multiple times that Youngmin will give up on a risky patient rather than spend extra money for what he assumes/judges to be futile efforts. However! Then his ex SeJin shows up, and surprise she’s the daughter of said chairman, who left Korea and now works in Seattle as a neurosurgeon at Seattle Grace Hospital

Having researched her dad’s condition, she doesn’t want Youngmin to do the surgery either; so naturally, Youngmin decides to do the surgery. 

This is ultimately what sets everything else into motion. The chairman’s surgery is an initial success, but then Youngmin gets a text from SeJin and leaves his resting  patient behind (we are told that a surgeon is supposed to stay and monitor the patient until they wake up).

Next thing we know, Youngmin has been in an accident:( and he’s having an out of body experience. We are talking full Patrick Swayze here. He gets rushed to his own hospital.

Who’s available in the ER to assess the patient? Yep, Youngmin’s played himself here, because Seungtak is on duty. Ghost Youngmin screams a lot at people who can’t hear him, realizes that he can’t touch anything in the physical world and thus can’t save himself with his ghost body, and cycles through stages of grief like he’s doing the Tour de France. Oops. 

After assessment, Seungtak takes him to the ER so some surgeon can perform a cardiac tamponade surgery—except the surgeons aren’t answering their phones. Like, none of them. What the hell is going on in this hospital??

So then our brave little toaster Takkie decides to pick up the scalpel himself, despite being visibly panicked. Youngmin, an eternal micromanager, automatically reaches to correct Seungtak’s grip and possesses him instead. 

We end the episode with Youngmin doing surgery on himself??

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Channel 7: Stop using our videos without consent. Remove harmful de-transitioning segment!!

On Sunday 3 September 2023, 7NEWS ran a Spotlight segment on de-transitioning. Within the segment they shared videos and images of transgender and non binary people without their consent, wrongfully implying that they regret transitioning. "I was horrified to find one of my post top-surgery videos (expressing how much better my life is because of surgery) included in this segment without my consent." This is not only unethical but immensely harmful to the trans and gender diverse community. Please sign and share our petition calling on Channel 7 to remove this harmful segment and apologise to everyone who's images/ videos were shared without consent. We are also calling on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to stop amplifying this harmful content on their platforms.

If this program remains online it will support the bigoted systemic inequality that already exists for the Trans and Gender Diverse Community within Australia. It will continue to harm the mental health of the transgender, non-binary and queer people it featured, as well as those in the community. It will continue a lie about the individuals who were featured, without consent, by insinuating that they regret their decision to have transitioned or had gender affirming surgery. It will continue the lie that transitioning is harmful and something to be regretted – when multiple studies from around the word have revealed that less than 1% of gender non conforming individuals regret gender affirming healthcare.

Advertised as “Thousands of kids are doing it” and “Is a generation being brainwashed”, this inhumane use of trans and queer joy has stolen a fundamental right to exist safely in our country. Channel 7 owes our community the basic duty of care to be able to monitor and remove the hateful, transphobic comments that are littered on every platform under their story. Media platforms need to review their editorial policy.

We need to act now:

Channel 7 needs to be held accountable for this dehumanising, untrue, transphobic journalism created with limited supporting statistical evidence.

The people who were featured without consent deserve compensation.

Channel 7 owes the Gender Diverse Community a sincere apology and a public review of their editorial processes to ensure this never happens again.

The program needs to be removed from all platforms, 7 Plus and social media accounts including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Sign this petition to support trans, non-binary, queer and gender diverse people. Gender affirming healthcare is life saving healthcare.

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PARIS, June 20 (Reuters) - The headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics organising committee and those of its infrastructure partner were searched by police on Tuesday as part of investigations into alleged embezzlement of public funds and favouritism, prosecutors said.

The national financial prosecutor's office (PNF) said the Paris 2024 headquarters were raided amid a preliminary investigation launched in 2017 into contracts made by the Summer Games' organising committee.

The headquarters of SOLIDEO, the public body responsible for delivering Olympic and Paralympic infrastructure, were also being searched amid a preliminary investigation dating back to 2022, following an audit by the French Anti-Corruption Agency, the PNF added.

"Paris 2024 is cooperating actively with investigators to facilitate their enquiries and provide answers to all the questions raised as quickly as possible," a Paris 2024 spokesperson said after the search ended at around 1730 local time (1530GMT), according to a Reuters witness.

"To ensure the transparency and propriety of the several hundred contracts it has awarded, Paris 2024 has adopted stringent procedures, and has set up an ethics committee together with an audit committee to supervise its activities.

"The audit conducted by the French Anti-Corruption Agency and five audits by the Cour des Comptes (Court of Auditors), in addition to the continued monitoring of our governance structures, have not raised the slightest wrongdoing.

"Throughout these audits and ongoing monitoring, Paris 2024 has demonstrated the effectiveness of the stringent procedures that it has continued to implement in collaboration with auditing and regulatory bodies."

The Paris 2024 Olympics, which organising committee president Tony Estanguet has vowed will be "beyond reproach", will be held from July 26-Aug. 11 with the Paralympic Games taking place from Aug. 28-Sept. 6.

The searches coincided with the start of a two-day International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board on Tuesday to discuss a number of issues, including the progress of the Paris 2024 Games preparations.

"We are aware that there has been a search by police of the Paris 2024 headquarters today," an IOC spokesperson said. "We have been informed by Paris 2024 that they are cooperating fully with the authorities in this matter."

SOARING BUDGET

The total budget for the Games has soared to 8.8 billion euros ($9.62 billion) from an initial assessment of 6.6 billion in 2017.

The infrastructure alone is expected to cost 4 billion euros from an original estimate of 3.2 billion. The cost is limited as most of the events will be held in existing facilities.

The main construction sites are the Olympic village and the swimming pool in Saint Denis, just north of Paris.

The cost of security, which according to the Cour des Comptes, France's supreme audit institution, will reach at least 400 million euros, has not been included in the overall budget.

It is not the first time Olympics organisers have been the subject of an investigation.

Japanese prosecutors earlier this year indicted six companies including advertising giant Dentsu Group and seven individuals over suspected rigging of bids worth $320 million for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics.

The indictments followed months of investigations into alleged corruption in the planning and sponsorship of the Tokyo Games, held in 2021 after a COVID-19 postponement.

Dentsu has offered its "sincere apologies" and said it had set up a committee of outside experts to review the case.

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NOAA Black Abalone Juvenile Recruitment Habitat and Transplant Review 

Hello ENVIR 491 classmates! I hope that everyone is enjoying their internships. I’m Tiffany and I have been working on a remote research internship on black abalone conservation with NOAA Fisheries for my Capstone. Black abalone is an endangered species of marine snail found along the California coast in mostly rocky intertidal zones. However, recovery has been heavily impeded by disease (withering syndrome), overfishing, low densities and reproductive rates, chemical spills and spill response activities, and climate change. NOAA Fisheries convened a specialized task force, the Black Abalone Recovery Team (BART) to study, protect, and restore black abalone populations and work with partners to ensure the implementation of regulations and management plans to reduce poaching and increase the wild abalone population. This includes long-term population monitoring programs set up by UC Santa Cruz, the Navy, and the National Park Service. The final product of my internship will be two white papers that characterize the best practices and methods for black abalone transplantation and juvenile recruitment habitat studies. As part of my responsibilities, I am currently conducting an extensive literature review and interviewing black abalone experts.

One interesting thing I have found in my work is how small of a team is responsible for such important endangered species conservation. The BART consists of 9 members who all have an extensive background in marine sciences and have worked with abalone for more than two decades. These scientists are located all throughout the West Coast and they represent organizations and institutions such as the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), Universidad Autonoma de Baja California (UABC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), National Park Service, and the Navy. While these experts conduct fieldwork every year, they are also incredibly in need of more human and financial resources. In the interviews, the researchers expressed concerns over the key uncertainties around transplantation and the preferred habitat characteristics in juvenile habitats. However, there are simply not enough people and funding to facilitate more in-depth and small-scale studies that would be beneficial to understand the mechanisms by which abalone detects suitable habitats and the specific conditions that allow for juvenile recruitment. At the same time, I was amazed at how this small mighty team of researchers is primarily the sole group of people protecting the endangered black abalone. For example, the UCSC team has a long-term monitoring program that has been ongoing for more than thirty years. There is a new protocol designed to direct the rescue and relocation of black abalone in landslide events. Scientists from Mexico work with fishing cooperatives to manage black abalone for conservation and taking.

This is a screenshot of me attending the BART meeting and these are some of the leading experts in black abalone conservation in the U.S. The meeting consisted of updates from subteams (monitoring and emergency response, restoration, experimental translocation and captive breeding, disease research, genetics, education and outreach, enforcement, and NOAA). The meeting lasted for two hours and I was able to experience how a government agency manages coordinated conservation actions!

Another interesting thing I have learned was the attractiveness of scientific fieldwork. My internship is entirely remote, and I have had some opportunities to interview experts on zoom. However, seeing the site photos of experts in black abalone habitats, I feel more inclined to engage in hands-on fieldwork and reconnect with my passion for the ocean and scuba diving. Black abalone conservation in particular has a very strong dynamic between fieldwork and management: the same people who are researching black abalone are also making important decisions about managing black abalone populations and projects. In this way, I think it will be meaningful to physically interact with black abalone while pursuing my original interest in policy management. 

One challenge that I have faced was balancing my internship responsibilities with other school work. As my internship required a lot of reading, I felt very overwhelmed by my workload. My internship aims to reference 10 sources for each topic (transplantation and juvenile recruitment habitat), conduct 9-12 expert interviews and transcriptions, and finally, produce two white papers synthesizing all the information I have collected. In many ways, I feel that I have underestimated the intensity of my internship work. To overcome this challenge, I took extra steps to stay organized and manage my time. For example, I kept a detailed record of my work progress and gave weekly updates to my Site supervisor about my accomplishments and shortcomings. The weekly goals that I set for my Site supervisor have definitely helped with keeping me accountable and reassuring my progress in completing the internship. Towards the latter of the term, I made a weekly checklist of small tasks that I can complete every day to finish everything by the end of the quarter. 

Another major challenge was conducting expert interviews. Initially, I felt very intimidated to interview researchers, some even have more than 20-30 years of experience. Related to the work pressure I mentioned before, I always felt underprepared for these interviews and had a hard time understanding some biology jargon specific to black abalone. To overcome this challenge, I did some background research of the interviewees before each session. I also scheduled a mock interview with my Site supervisor, which allowed me to practice my interview skills — how to introduce myself, ease into interview consent questions, and ask appropriate follow-up questions. I also asked for assistance from my Site supervisor about any unclear spellings or scientific explanations and was also able to further leverage the opportunity to ask experts about interesting things that other experts have brought up. 

Here are some questions for you! 

How has your internship confirmed or changed your career goals? 

Do you have any ideas for what types of internships/jobs you want to pursue in the next few years? 

How do you think researchers can advocate for endangered species conservation in small animals such as the black abalone? How can we get the public to care? 

Here are some pictures of black abalone!

Black abalone in their cryptic habitat.

The follow two photos demonstrate the effects of withering syndrome (WS) in black abalone. Symptoms are shown by a shrunken foot (lower photo). WS first appeared in the 1990s and the population has struggled to rebound.