#duran duran week 2024

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FORGOT TO SAY I'M DOING A SHIP WEEK RN

Dimiashe Week Day 1: Books

Word Count: ~800

Contains: Married fluff, King Dimitri being a big mush, Ashe definitely reading an E rated knights tale

Summary:

Dimitri takes in the sight of his husband reading.

Challenging myself to do at least four out of the seven days! Wish me luck! <3

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@tvarchive TV Appreciation Week

Day 3: Favorite couple/dynamic (insp)

DELAINEY HAYLES and ROXANE DURAN as CLAUDIA and MADELEINE EPARVIER in INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022-2024)

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Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas? 1984

"Do They Know It's Christmas?" is a charity song written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise money for the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia. The BBC News crew were the first to document the famine, with Buerk's report describing it as "a biblical famine in the 20th century" and "the closest thing to hell on Earth". The song was recorded by Band Aid, a supergroup assembled by Geldof and Ure consisting of popular British and Irish musical acts such as U2, Sting, Wham!, Duran Duran, Culture Club, and Phil Collins, as well as the US group Kool & the Gang. The song was recorded in a single day in November 1984, and the single was released in the UK on 7 December 1984.

It entered the UK singles chart at number one, where it remained for five weeks, becoming Christmas number one. It sold a million copies in the first week, making it the fastest-selling single in UK chart history until Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997". UK sales passed three million on the last day of 1984. The song also reached number one in 13 other countries. It was released in the US on 10 December 1984 and sold 1.9 million copies in its first eleven days on release but did not reach number one, due to the more complex chart system, which counted airplay as well as sales. Despite outselling the official number one by four to one, it did not make the top ten due to a lack of airplay, and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song had sold 11.7 million copies worldwide by 1989 and 3.8 million in the UK by 2017.

Most retailers agreed to sell the record at its cost price of £1.35 including VAT. The British government donated an amount to the charity equal to the amount of tax they had collected on the single. The song raised £8 million for Ethiopia within a year, far exceeding Geldof's hopes. When Wham!, who appeared on "Do They Know It's Christmas?", reached number two with their single "Last Christmas" (poll #445), they donated their royalties to the Band Aid Trust. The success led to several other charity singles, such as "We Are the World" (1985) by USA for Africa, and spin-off charity events, such as Comic Relief and the 1985 Live Aid concert. In 2010, the BBC apologised after falsely reporting that money raised by Band Aid and Live Aid had been diverted by rebels and used to pay for weapons.

Critics objected to the song's depiction of Ethiopia and Africa as barren. Ure said the song was secondary to the purpose of raising money for the cause. It was re-recorded and re-released in 1989, 2004 and 2014. All three reached number one in the UK, and the 1989 and 2004 versions became Christmas number ones. A new mix, combining elements of the previous versions, was released in 2024 for the 40th anniversary. For the 2014 version, several contentious lyrics were rewritten, and the song was changed to focus on Ebola rather than famine. The new lyrics have also been criticised as promoting stereotypes and condescension. Criticism from Africans regarding the song remained: in 2014, African activists and Twitter users complained that the song disregarded the diversity of the continent of Africa and ultimately did more harm than good for the people.

Several publications and commentators have described the lyrics as racist and demeaning towards Ethiopians. Ethiopia is home to one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, yet the lyrics and title imply that Africans would be unaware of Christmas at all. Peter Gill, one of the few Western journalists in Ethiopia at the time, said: "As Ethiopians have pointed out ever since, they did of course know it was Christmas because the starving were mainly [Orthodox] Christian."

"Do They Know It's Christmas?" received a total of 48,7% yes votes.

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Binderary 2024: Week 2

In the Renegade Bindery Discord Server, we are once again running Binderary during the month of February. Attendance is free, and a link to the 18+ Discord Server can be found on our carrd.

Whether you’re new to the world of bookbinding or an aged veteran, join us for a month of binding fun! This event is all about community & learning, be it trying something new or refining existing skills.

All our workshops are run by members of our fanbinding community, and some of them are even on Tumblr!

Here's the list of who's running the week 2 workshops:

Mini Monologues & Bind Along with six!: @simply-sithel Double-core French Endband: @no-name-publishing Hidden Fore-Edge Paintings: @duran-binding Hand-dyeing Bookcloth and thread!: @epitomereally Who Needs Tools?: @gargoyleandgremlinpress Imposer Crash Course: @simply-sithel Affinity publisher tutorial (Intermediate): @kate2kat Book Photography: @robins-egg-bindery Foiling the Evil Plot(ter) -- Computer-Aided Heat Transfer Foil: @starblightbindery, @mourningmountainsbindery

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New York Times Interview with Ben Daniels. Farewell Santiago, you marvelous bastard!

‘Interview With the Vampire’: Ben Daniels on That Bloody Season 2 Finale

“He has an energy that’s fun to hate,” the British actor said of his swaggering vampire character in AMC’s series-length Anne Rice adaptation.

June 30, 2024

A man in a gray shirt and striped trousers stands posed as another man comes up behind him

Ben Daniels, left, and Jacob Anderson in the season finale of “Interview With the Vampire.”Larry Horricks/AMC

This interview contains spoilers for the Season 2 finale of “Interview With the Vampire.”

Until his time in AMC’s “Interview With the Vampire” was cut short — along with his head — in the Season 2 finale, Santiago was the toast of the vampiric theater scene.

Played by the British actor Ben Daniels, himself an Olivier Award-winning veteran of the stage, Santiago was a dashing and devilish performer at the Théâtre des Vampires, in postwar Paris. Formerly known as Francis, a failed English actor, Santiago transformed himself into an underworld dandy after becoming a bloodsucker — and took a cooler-sounding name — rarely seen without a vampiress on each arm and a theatrically hateful twinkle in his eye.

“He’s so awful and delicious at the same time!” Daniels said in a video interview last week. “And it’s his relish of it as well, his glee. He just loves being a vampire.”

Daniels added: “He has an energy that’s fun to hate.”

Unfortunately for Santiago, the show’s title vampire was his hater-in-chief. Over the course of Season 2, which concluded on Sunday, Santiago seized control of the theater troupe, which turned out to be a coven of vampires in disguise. At the season’s climax, Santiago staged a mock trial that ended with the real execution-by-sunlight of Claudia (Delainey Hayles) and her companion, Madeleine (Roxane Duran). It was for this crime that Santiago lost his head to their father figure, the vampire Louis (Jacob Anderson), in the finale.

Based on the novels of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles series, the AMC show, created and overseen by Rolin Jones, has already been renewed for a third season. But Daniels doesn’t feel too bad that his character won’t live to see Season 3. Santiago had it coming given his bad behavior — particularly by the end.

“If you didn’t want him dead before,” Daniels said, “you certainly do then.”

These are edited excerpts from the conversation.

If you’re an ex-high school drama club goth who loved “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” Santiago is a very magnetic figure. In the show, he even has fans who attend every performance and dress up in character.

“Rocky Horror” was a big influence, “Rocky Horror” and “Cabaret.” I’m so glad Tim Curry’s performance in “The Rocky Horror Show” exists onscreen because it’s one of the best performances ever. I would’ve loved to have seen that in the theater.

I was curious if there was a David Bowie influence, too.

Yes! Santiago gets more and more nihilistic as it goes on, and I thought, it’s so Thin White Duke — that awful cocaine coldness. I just sent Carol Cutshall, the costume designer, endless pictures of Bowie as the Thin White Duke. If you compare, she completely replicated it. Then she added a see-through shirt, which is genius.

As a screen presence, Santiago needs that kind of ammo. He has to hold his own with the “big four” members of the show’s emotional quadrangle, Louis, Lestat [Sam Reid], Claudia and Armand [Assad Zaman], even though he’s not romantically or emotionally involved with any of them.

[Smiling] Is he not?

Well, well, well!

This was one of the first jobs I’ve ever done sight unseen, just because it meant working with Rolin. From the outset, Rolin called up and said, “Listen, are you OK if we don’t make Santiago queer?” I was like, “Yeah, I can sort of see it.”

But as the script started to come in, I thought the only way this level of vitriol that he has works is if he’s in love with Armand. There is this extraordinary psychological term called reaction formation, which is what Iago has for Othello. It’s a defense mechanism whereby your impulses are so unacceptable to your ego that they’re replaced by this opposite, exaggerated behavior.

Santiago finds Louis incredibly attractive. Because Armand killed Santiago’s maker — who I think he was in love with too — and also finds Louis attractive, the whole thing must be destroyed. It gave such a drive to his hatred. It was just something ruminating in myself that drove him forward in a very aggressive, mad, extreme way.

You’re not just a human playing a vampire playing a human playing a vampire. You’re also a stage actor playing a stage actor.

When we shot the majority of the theater stuff in Episode 2, I’d been doing “Madea” for three months on the West End. I finished on a Sunday, and on Wednesday or Thursday I was shooting that whole sequence. So I was already primed when Levan [the director of Episode 2, Levan Akin] said: “Do it like a theatrical performance. We’ll take care of everything.” They filmed everything wide with four cameras, so we didn’t know when we were on and when we weren’t. You just had to keep at it. It was relentless, and he shot it brilliantly.

In Episode 7, just before Claudia dies, being on that stage was like doing a play. We shot that courtroom sequence in 15-minute chunks. They were insane. A lot of the time there were no cameras onstage with us. They were either on cranes, so they were sweeping in and out, or it would only be Emma [the director of Episode 7, Emma Freeman] shooting, doing all the close coverage first so you get these fresh performances immediately, not at the end of three days or whatever. Then all the cameras went away, so you never saw them again. It became like a play.

Is it tricky, as an actor, to play an actor with a … different level of talent?

Poor old Francis. Yes, he’s never achieved the giddy heights that he would like to have. He’s a big old show pony, isn’t he? Basically, I was like a magpie, looking at everything from Vincent Price in “Theater of Blood” — well, Vincent Price in lots of things, actually — to my cat. I would watch how my cat plays with mice, and I was like: You know what? I’m going to steal a bit of that.

Had you ever wanted to play a vampire?

Yes, absolutely. I love horror. It’s what I live for. I grew up watching Christopher Lee as Dracula, and William Marshall as Prince Mamuwalde in “Blacula.” Very debonair, theatrical, that rich voice. I’ve watched those vampires as long as I can remember.

I’ve always adored horror. Kids that are outsiders often do. Growing up as a queer kid, those villains, like the vampires, are often how people treat gay people. It’s always there, that queer coding. In those old James Whale movies, it’s there. It’s written into them.

More than any other writer, Anne Rice identified the tragedy within the monstrousness of the vampire. They are immortal, but the people they love can still die, and that experience stays with them literally forever.

Part of the reason I can’t watch “Vampire” at the moment is my partner just died. The resonances are huge at the moment. Grief is a [expletive] beast. It’s like being mugged in broad daylight, and you never know when it’s going to hit you. She explores all that brilliantly.

I think in any kind of creative job, you are like a sponge. You soak up what is happening to you, or in the world, and sometimes it bleeds out, and it’s useful. We were shooting “Vampire” when Ian [his partner, the actor Ian Gelder] was first diagnosed [with lung cancer; Gelder was later diagnosed with bile duct cancer, from which he died last month]. When I started watching Episode 2, I know what was going on in my life fed into it — of course it would, when you’re telling a story about death and dying and killing people and living forever. I watched it; I knew the conversations I was having between takes … It is too much at the moment. It’s too close to home.

But [eventually], I will be able to see what I was going through with Ian, even in the anger I have with other characters. I know it will have informed it in some way, but I hope in a good way.

What I am enjoying is people’s reactions to it, without actually watching it. Rolin called me up and said: “Just Google yourself. Search ‘Ben Daniels Santiago’ on Twitter. Look at people’s reactions if you’re not going to watch it.” So I’ve been living through people reacting to it, which has been great.

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Disney Branded Television Orders Kiff -Themed Halloween and Christmas Specials For 2024' Starting With "The Haunting Of Miss McGravy's House"

This Halloween season, Disney Channel and Disney Jr. have kids and families covered with an abundance of festive and fun programming for the whole family to enjoy together.

Between the announcements of Monstober, it was revealed that Disney Branded Television has ordered two-separate Kiff specials centered around Halloween and Christmas with the first special being "The Haunting Of Miss Gravy's House" slated for a October 5 at 7:30PM EST only on Disney Channel and streaming Wednesday, Oct. 16, on Disney+

Kiff: The Haunting of Miss McGravy’s House Halloween Special - Saturday, Oct. 5 at 7:30PM EST only on Disney Channel; Wednesday, Oct. 16, on Disney+ In this full-length special, Kiff and her friends haunt a house on Halloween to save it from being sold.

An album featuring songs from the special by Walt Disney Records and Brad Breeck is set to drop Friday October 4.

Both specials separate from S1 & S2 where ordered thanks to the sucess of the series on ratings and streaming since launch as Kiff is still one of the most streamed animated series on Disney+ and Disney Channel. Last week creators Nic Smal and Lucy Heavens where considered Disney Television Animation's most prolific creators alongside Dan Povenmire, "Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, Bruce W. Smith, Ralph Farqhuar, Noah Z. Jones , Craig Gerber, Rob LaDuca, Kim Duran, Aliki Theofilopoulos, Rachel McNevin, Chris Houghton, Shane Houghton, Stevie Wermers-Skelton,Kevin Deters, Ryan Gillis and Natasha Kline during The Walt Disney Company's 2024 Emmys.

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Interesting Papers for Week 41, 2024

Exploration, exploitation, and development: Developmental shifts in decision‐making. Blanco, N. J., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2024). Child Development, 95(4), 1287–1298.

A drift diffusion model analysis of age-related impact on multisensory decision-making processes. Bolam, J., Diaz, J. A., Andrews, M., Coats, R. O., Philiastides, M. G., Astill, S. L., & Delis, I. (2024). Scientific Reports, 14, 14895.

Hippocampus and striatum show distinct contributions to longitudinal changes in value-based learning in middle childhood. Falck, J., Zhang, L., Raffington, L., Mohn, J. J., Triesch, J., Heim, C., & Shing, Y. L. (2024). eLife, 12, e89483.3.

Acquisition of non-olfactory encoding improves odour discrimination in olfactory cortex. Federman, N., Romano, S. A., Amigo-Duran, M., Salomon, L., & Marin-Burgin, A. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 5572.

Neurofeedback training can modulate task-relevant memory replay rate in rats. Gillespie, A. K., Astudillo Maya, D., Denovellis, E. L., Desse, S., & Frank, L. M. (2024). eLife, 12, e90944.3.

GABAergic synaptic scaling is triggered by changes in spiking activity rather than AMPA receptor activation. Gonzalez-Islas, C., Sabra, Z., Fong, M., Yilmam, P., Au Yong, N., Engisch, K., & Wenner, P. (2024). eLife, 12, e87753.3.

Shifts in attention drive context-dependent subspace encoding in anterior cingulate cortex in mice during decision making. Hajnal, M. A., Tran, D., Szabó, Z., Albert, A., Safaryan, K., Einstein, M., … Orbán, G. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 5559.

A computational account of transsaccadic attentional allocation based on visual gain fields. Harrison, W. J., Stead, I., Wallis, T. S. A., Bex, P. J., & Mattingley, J. B. (2024). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(27), e2316608121.

Perirhinal cortex learns a predictive map of the task environment. Lee, D. G., McLachlan, C. A., Nogueira, R., Kwon, O., Carey, A. E., House, G., … Chen, J. L. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 5544.

The neuron as a direct data-driven controller. Moore, J. J., Genkin, A., Tournoy, M., Pughe-Sanford, J. L., de Ruyter van Steveninck, R. R., & Chklovskii, D. B. (2024). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(27), e2311893121.

Bats integrate multiple echolocation and flight tactics to track prey. Nishiumi, N., Fujioka, E., & Hiryu, S. (2024). Current Biology, 34(13), 2948-2956.e6.

Limb-related sensory prediction errors and task-related performance errors facilitate human sensorimotor learning through separate mechanisms. Oza, A., Kumar, A., Sharma, A., & Mutha, P. K. (2024). PLOS Biology, 22(7), e3002703.

Systemic pharmacological suppression of neural activity reverses learning impairment in a mouse model of Fragile X syndrome. Shakhawat, A. M., Foltz, J. G., Nance, A. B., Bhateja, J., & Raymond, J. L. (2024). eLife, 12, e92543.3.

Prefrontal cortical ripples mediate top-down suppression of hippocampal reactivation during sleep memory consolidation. Shin, J. D., & Jadhav, S. P. (2024). Current Biology, 34(13), 2801-2811.e9.

Preferences reveal dissociable encoding across prefrontal-limbic circuits. Stoll, F. M., & Rudebeck, P. H. (2024). Neuron, 112(13), 2241-2256.e8.

Atypical local and global biological motion perception in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Tian, J., Yang, F., Wang, Y., Wang, L., Wang, N., Jiang, Y., & Yang, L. (2024). eLife, 12, e90313.5.

Temporal information in the anterior cingulate cortex relates to accumulated experiences. Wirt, R. A., Soluoku, T. K., Ricci, R. M., Seamans, J. K., & Hyman, J. M. (2024). Current Biology, 34(13), 2921-2931.e3.

Complexity Matters: Normalization to Prototypical Viewpoint Induces Memory Distortion along the Vertical Axis of Scenes. Wu 吴奕忱, Y., & Li 李晟, S. (2024). Journal of Neuroscience, 44(27), e1175232024.

Co-existence of synaptic plasticity and metastable dynamics in a spiking model of cortical circuits. Yang, X., & La Camera, G. (2024). PLOS Computational Biology, 20(7), e1012220.

Perceptual error based on Bayesian cue combination drives implicit motor adaptation. Zhang, Z., Wang, H., Zhang, T., Nie, Z., & Wei, K. (2024). eLife, 13, e94608.3.

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Summer 2024 Music Celebration: Day 9

Happy Friday everyone! Are you glad its the end of the week? As I'm on summer break, every day feels like Friday (at least for a few more weeks). What's your plans for the weekend?

So, with it being Friday, why don't we wrap our theme for today around days of the week. Share a song or songs you love with a day of the week in the title.

Saturday Love - Cherrelle and Alexander O'Neal

Tuesday Afternoon - The Moody Blues

Friday Night Blues - John Conlee

New Moon on Monday - Duran Duran

Rainy Days and Mondays - The Carpenters

@worldleaderpretend1969 @biggreenhouse @lusnicky @delightedobserverintraining @words-music @randomperegrination @secondlifep @s1mply-n0b0dy @dad86getsum @musiclandoux @prbworld21 @bluesguy54

As always, if you weren't tagged and want to join us, please do. I love sharing the joy with everyone!

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24 July, BOS @ COL, 7-20, loss

I feel I need to upgrade my "fuck that game" and "fuck that series" to "fuck that road trip". What a shambolic shitshow of a game yesterday. I'm glad there's a day off today just so that I can recover from watching the Sox get pulverised by a lesser team. And make so many fucking errors it was like nails on a chalkboard or April 2024. And, like the series before, they should've taken it 2-1, with yesterday being the only, if somewhat stinging, loss. Nick Pivetta, like Kenley Jansen, should just not be allowed to pitch in Denver. Unlike Kenley Jansen, it wouldn't be for Pivetta's heart condition but for the collective heart condition of Red Sox fandom. Pivetta was massacred, unable to get through three innings (he threw a billion pitches in just the first inning - at least that's what it felt like) and it did not get better from there. I was hoping as I was watching that the benches clearing incident would fire the Sox up to come back and lock the game down. That is not what happened. Instead it seemed to serve the Rockies in just piling that shit on. From what I saw that near-brawl (not even a punch thrown...) was due Quantrill being a dick and shooting his mouth off at McGuire. Fuck Quantrill and fuck the Rockies. Don't believe me? Just ask Fremen Captain Jarren Duran who had to be restrained the most - he wears a t-shirt under his jersey that says "fuck 'em" and I'm pretty sure yesterday the "'em" in question was the fucking Rockies. Ugh. Shit happens and if it weren't for the shittier extra inning blown saves nearly had it games since the end of the break I would be fine with that. But we did have those shittier blah blah blahs and meh. Am I bummed? Fuck yes, I am bummed. But I'm not despairing. You know why? Because we have a very special bright side for you all today. Perhaps one of the brightest of all bright sides.

ALEX CORA AND THE SOX AGREED ON A CONTRACT EXTENSION!!!! An extra three years and a whole truckload of money (or half a week of Shohei Ohtani's salary) and we get to keep our manager. I really like and believe in Cora. I think he's great with young players and he's brought together a group that nobody believed in and believed in them. But also I think he's a good dude. And he's a runner. I'm a runner. I am not bilingual and cannot run a major league baseball team, but we do have at least one thing in common. Anyway. I'm delighted the Sox signed this extension because I think Cora is one of the best managers in the league and it would be dumb not to keep him. It also, hopefully, indicates that the front office might be willing to make some other investments... maybe even before the trading deadline.

Raffy Devers hit a bunch, going 3-for-3 in the DH spot to preserve his slightly shaken shoulder. He scored a run too.

Jarren Duran, as well as looking as though he could drive a sandworm through the entirety of the Rockies dugout, hit a dinger AND ANOTHER TRIPLE. He has twelve triples. That's a lot of triples. There are teams without 12 triples between them. He went 3-for-5 with 3 RBIs and scored twice. He also made one of the four Sox errors but triples erase errors. It's the rules.

Ceddane Rafaela got a couple of hits and scored a run.

Dom Smith made an error at first but also was one of only two Sox pitchers not to give up a run. As he is not a pitcher, that gives you a pretty good sense of how the day went.

That shitty road trip is over, we have a day off, we're going to keep kicking the shit out of the Yankees, and we don't have to worry about Cora leaving until 2027.

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[ad_1] Liverpool, Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Fenerbache in UCL (PC: Liverpool, Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Fenerbache/X) RevSportz Comment At first glance, you could be forgiven for thinking that it was the English Premier League table, rather than the UEFA Champions League one. Aston Villa and Liverpool are the only teams with 100 per cent records, while Manchester City in third and Arsenal in ninth have yet to concede a goal in the competition. In a week when Germany’s finest were tormented by the might of Spain’s armada, there was also an eye-catching Europa League tie that saw Jose Mourinho sent off against Manchester United, with whom he had won the competition in 2016-17. The managerial star of the show, however, was definitely Unai Emery. The 2-0 win over Bologna – Colombia’s Jhon Duran actually started a game, instead of being super sub – took Villa, the 1982 European Cup winners, to the top of the standings. If the victory over Bayern Munich on matchday 2 was wildly celebrated, the dismissal of Bologna, Serie A’s surprise packages last season, was emphatic proof of the unbelievable job Emery has done at Villa Park. Arne Slot will hope to have a similar impact at Liverpool, where he has started the thankless task of succeeding Jurgen Klopp with 11 wins from his first 12 matches in charge. Liverpool barely got out of third gear against RB Leipzig, but a poacher’s finish from the revitalised Darwin Nunez gave them a second away win in the competition following their 3-1 triumph at the San Siro against AC Milan. Slot has consciously played down the hype, insisting that the bigger challenges lie ahead, and the visits of Bayer Leverkusen and Real Madrid to Anfield in November will certainly give a better idea as to whether his side are legitimate contenders for the trophy Klopp won in 2018-19. Real Madrid, the holders, were in a sticky spot halfway through the rematch of the 2024 final against Borussia Dortmund. The Germans were good value for a 2-0 lead, but Vinicius Junior, who always seems to find something extra in the biggest games, delivered a virtuoso hat-trick performance to seal a thumping 5-2 win. With Kylian Mbappe settling in and Jude Bellingham on the way back to his best, Real will be hard to stop. For the Latest Sports News: Click Here Aston Villa in UCL (PC: Aston Villa/X) City, of course, will be the biggest challengers. A wonder goal from Erling Haaland was the centre piece of a 5-0 destruction of Sparta Praha. Even without Rodri, their defensive midfield stalwart ruled out for the season, City have enough options and nous to brush aside the best. Another team making light of injury concerns are FC Barcelona. Frenkie de Jong is out injured and Gavi just on his way back after a long-term knee problem. But with Pedri in sparkling form and standout performances from Fermin Lopez and Marc Casado, at the base of midfield, Bayern were outclassed in a thrilling 4-1 win. Raphinha took the match ball for his hat-trick, but it was the trio of youngsters in Barca’s midfield that stole the show as more questions came raining down on Vincent Kompany and Bayern. Diego Simeone’s stint as Atletico Madrid coach has taken in two heartbreaking Champions League final losses (2014 and 2016), but the team has regressed on the big stage since. The 3-1 home loss to Lille – the much-coveted Jonathan David scored twice – left them 28th in the 36-team table, having conceded eight times in three games. Simeone’s desire to play a more expansive and attractive style of football has come at the cost of the solidity and snarl that was the hallmark of his most successful sides. In the Europa League, Manchester United and Erik ten Hag still can’t win. Christian Eriksen’s early strike gave them the advantage in front of a hostile crowd at Fenerbahce, but it needed a jaw-dropping double-save from Andre Onana to keep them in front at half-time. Youssef En-Nesyri gave Mourinho’s team a deserved equaliser early in the second half before the incident that saw the Portuguese coach banished from the bench.

Mourinho was convinced his team should have had a penalty, and let fly with a volley of protests as Clement Turpin, the referee, ruled that Manuel Ugarte – who had his best game in a United shirt since his summer move from PSG – had committed no offence. Mourinho was at his colourful best in the post-game interviews, sarcastically calling Turpin’s the world’s best, but he will know that this was an opportunity missed against a United team still searching for cohesion and confidence. Also Read: India’s First-Ever Shooting Franchise League set to launch in 2025 The post Villa and Liverpool fly high, Spain boss Germany, and a Mourinho rant appeared first on Sports News Portal | Latest Sports Articles | Revsports. [ad_2] Source link

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Duran Duran - A View To A Kill

Duran Duran Week song 🎵 of the day 2: A View To A Kill (1985) #duranduran #aviewtoakill #jamesbond #007 #agent007 #simonlebon #nickrhodes #johntaylor #rogertaylor #rogertaylorduranduran #andytaylor #bernardedwards #ripbernardedwards #chic #JasonCorsaro #80s #DuranDuranWeek #duranduranweek18 #duranduranweek2024

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Dimiashe Day 2: Loyalty

Word Count: 1k

Contains: Academy era, pre-relationship, feelings realization, Dimitri is being Dimitri but luckily Ashe is being Ashe.

Summary:

Claude and Ashe train together, which leads Dimitri's thoughts down unpleasant roads.

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[ad_1] Liverpool, Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Fenerbache in UCL (PC: Liverpool, Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Fenerbache/X) RevSportz Comment At first glance, you could be forgiven for thinking that it was the English Premier League table, rather than the UEFA Champions League one. Aston Villa and Liverpool are the only teams with 100 per cent records, while Manchester City in third and Arsenal in ninth have yet to concede a goal in the competition. In a week when Germany’s finest were tormented by the might of Spain’s armada, there was also an eye-catching Europa League tie that saw Jose Mourinho sent off against Manchester United, with whom he had won the competition in 2016-17. The managerial star of the show, however, was definitely Unai Emery. The 2-0 win over Bologna – Colombia’s Jhon Duran actually started a game, instead of being super sub – took Villa, the 1982 European Cup winners, to the top of the standings. If the victory over Bayern Munich on matchday 2 was wildly celebrated, the dismissal of Bologna, Serie A’s surprise packages last season, was emphatic proof of the unbelievable job Emery has done at Villa Park. Arne Slot will hope to have a similar impact at Liverpool, where he has started the thankless task of succeeding Jurgen Klopp with 11 wins from his first 12 matches in charge. Liverpool barely got out of third gear against RB Leipzig, but a poacher’s finish from the revitalised Darwin Nunez gave them a second away win in the competition following their 3-1 triumph at the San Siro against AC Milan. Slot has consciously played down the hype, insisting that the bigger challenges lie ahead, and the visits of Bayer Leverkusen and Real Madrid to Anfield in November will certainly give a better idea as to whether his side are legitimate contenders for the trophy Klopp won in 2018-19. Real Madrid, the holders, were in a sticky spot halfway through the rematch of the 2024 final against Borussia Dortmund. The Germans were good value for a 2-0 lead, but Vinicius Junior, who always seems to find something extra in the biggest games, delivered a virtuoso hat-trick performance to seal a thumping 5-2 win. With Kylian Mbappe settling in and Jude Bellingham on the way back to his best, Real will be hard to stop. For the Latest Sports News: Click Here Aston Villa in UCL (PC: Aston Villa/X) City, of course, will be the biggest challengers. A wonder goal from Erling Haaland was the centre piece of a 5-0 destruction of Sparta Praha. Even without Rodri, their defensive midfield stalwart ruled out for the season, City have enough options and nous to brush aside the best. Another team making light of injury concerns are FC Barcelona. Frenkie de Jong is out injured and Gavi just on his way back after a long-term knee problem. But with Pedri in sparkling form and standout performances from Fermin Lopez and Marc Casado, at the base of midfield, Bayern were outclassed in a thrilling 4-1 win. Raphinha took the match ball for his hat-trick, but it was the trio of youngsters in Barca’s midfield that stole the show as more questions came raining down on Vincent Kompany and Bayern. Diego Simeone’s stint as Atletico Madrid coach has taken in two heartbreaking Champions League final losses (2014 and 2016), but the team has regressed on the big stage since. The 3-1 home loss to Lille – the much-coveted Jonathan David scored twice – left them 28th in the 36-team table, having conceded eight times in three games. Simeone’s desire to play a more expansive and attractive style of football has come at the cost of the solidity and snarl that was the hallmark of his most successful sides. In the Europa League, Manchester United and Erik ten Hag still can’t win. Christian Eriksen’s early strike gave them the advantage in front of a hostile crowd at Fenerbahce, but it needed a jaw-dropping double-save from Andre Onana to keep them in front at half-time. Youssef En-Nesyri gave Mourinho’s team a deserved equaliser early in the second half before the incident that saw the Portuguese coach banished from the bench.

Mourinho was convinced his team should have had a penalty, and let fly with a volley of protests as Clement Turpin, the referee, ruled that Manuel Ugarte – who had his best game in a United shirt since his summer move from PSG – had committed no offence. Mourinho was at his colourful best in the post-game interviews, sarcastically calling Turpin’s the world’s best, but he will know that this was an opportunity missed against a United team still searching for cohesion and confidence. Also Read: India’s First-Ever Shooting Franchise League set to launch in 2025 The post Villa and Liverpool fly high, Spain boss Germany, and a Mourinho rant appeared first on Sports News Portal | Latest Sports Articles | Revsports. [ad_2] Source link

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Binderary 2024: Week 3

In the Renegade Bindery Discord Server, we are once again running Binderary during the month of February. Attendance is free, and a link to the 18+ Discord Server can be found on our carrd.

Whether you’re new to the world of bookbinding or an aged veteran, join us for a month of binding fun! This event is all about community & learning, be it trying something new or refining existing skills.

All our workshops are run by members of our fanbinding community, and some of them are even on Tumblr!

Here's the list of who's running the week 3 workshops:

Marbling Q&A: @aetherseer Typesetting Digital Formats: @sayornispress Marbling Book Edges: @duran-binding Advanced Endband Demos: @no-name-publishing Turkish style marbling (ebru): @narentabindery Chisel Trimming: @little-cat-press