#mohamed james wang

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Taskmaster S1-17 contestants and how they'd feel about tumblr

[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A tier list ranking the taskmaster contestants from series 1 to 17 and little Alex Horne by their relationship to tumblr

Tier one, a purple square that says "would run their own fan blog of themselves": This tier has a picture of Alex Horne

Tier two, a red square that says "Shameless tumblr girlie (gender neutral)": This tier has pictures of Sam Campbell, Joe Lycett, Joanne McNally, Lucy Beaumont, Lou Sanders, Desiree Burch, Morgana Robinson, Sophie Duker, Sally Phillips, Aisling Bea, Fern Brady, Mae Martin, Mawaan Rizwan and Alice Levine.

Tier three, an orange square that says "has a tumblr but would die of shame if anyone knew": This tier has pictures of Joe Thomas, Rose Matafeo, Ivo Graham, Susan Wokoma and Josh Widdicombe.

Tier four, a dark yellow square that says "would know how tumblr works": This tier has pictures of Nish Kumar, Richard Osman, Iain Stirling, Ed Gamble, Katherine Ryan, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Munya Chawawa, Paul Chowdry and Katy Wix.

Tier five, a light yellow square that says "aware of tumblr's existence": This tier has pictures of John Robins, Tim Key, Charlotte Ritchie, Lolly Adefope, Phil Wang, Jess Knappett and Sara Pascoe.

Tier six, a light green square that says "would enjoy the concept of tumblr": This tier has pictures of Hugh Dennis, Asim Chaudhry, Liza Tarbuck, Sian Gibson, Joe Wilkinson, Rhod Gilbert, Noel Fielding, Sarah Millican, Chris Ramsey, Ardal O'Hanlan, Steve Pemberton, Sarah Kendall, Richard Herring, Al Murray, Dara O'Briain, Diasy May Cooper, Dave Gorman and Russell Howard.

Tier seven, a dark green square that says "has absolutely no idea what tumblr is": This tier has pictures of Bridget Christie, Johnny Vega, Mark Watson, Roisin Conaty, Sophie Willan, Bob Mortimer, Julian Clary, Sue Perkins, Frank Skinner, Paul Sinha, Mike Woziak, Jamali Maddix, Judi Love, Jo Brand, David Baddiel, Alan Davies, Kerry Godliman, John Kearns, Lee Mack, Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan.

Tier eight, a turquoise square that says "would be actively horrified by tumblr": This tier has pictures of Jon Richardson, Mel Giedroyc, Doc Brown, Tim Vine, Nick Mohammed, Katherine Parkinson, Jenny Eclair, Frankie Boyle, Victoria Coren Mitchell, James Acaster and Guz Khan.

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[ghelgheli]

Stuff I Read In May 2024

bold indicates favourites

Books

Hogg, Samuel Delaney

Land Reform & its Direct Effects in Iran, OIPFG [link]

Blackshirts and Reds, Michael Parenti

Black on Both Sides, C. Riley Snorton

The Tyrant Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Immanuel Kant

Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle

Yuri/GL

maintenance, crvptozoology [link]

Shimeji Simulation, Tsukumizu

If We Can Meet Tomorrow / Ashita, Kimi Ni Aetara, Aoto Hibiki

Love Thy Neighbour, Willow

Short Fiction

Let's Not, Isaac Asimov

Each an Explorer, Isaac Asimov

Blank!, Isaac Asimov

Palestine

Exiting Law and Entering Revolution, Basel al-Araj [link]

Resisting the Nakba, Joseph Massad [link]

Rain is Coming, Mohammed El-Kurd [link]

Novel Evil, Miriam Gordis [link]

Queer &c.

The Logics of Gender Construction in Asian Modernities, Emiko Ochiai

“It’s Only a Penis”: Rape, Feminism, and Difference, Christine Helliwell [link]

In the Dark Room: Homosexuality and/as Blackness in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room, Josep M. Armengol [link]

She's always a woman: Butch lesbian trans women in the lesbian community, Hannah Rossiter [link]

No Sex Please—We’re Hobbits: The Construction of Female Sexuality in The Lord of the Rings, Brenda Partridge

Toward a historiography of the lesbian transsexual, or the TERF’s nightmare, Jules Gill-Peterson [link]

Sick Woman Theory, Johanna Hedva [link]

The Myth and Tradition of the Black Bulldagger, SDiane A. Bogus [link]

This Infamous Proposal, Jules Joanne Gleeson [link]

Transing and Transpassing across Sex-Gender Walls in Iran, Afsaneh Najmabadi [link]

What Is It Like to Have a Gender Identity? Florence Ashley

Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe, Hortense J. Spillers

Egg Theory's Early Style, Grace Lavery [link]

NEVER EVER TRANSITION, lily bloodguts [link]

Pol

What Was To Be Done? Protest and Revolution in the 2010s, Jasper Bernes [link]

Anarchy and Scientific Communism, Nikolai Bukharin [link]

Against Innocence, Jackie Wang

Islamology, Ali Shariati [link]

Signals of Disorder: Sowing Anarchy in the Metropolis, A. G. Schwarz [link]

Foucault: The Faux Radical, Gabriel Rockhill [link]

Extractivism in the Anthropocene, John Bellamy Foster [link]

The Xinjiang Atrocity Propaganda Blitz, Roderic Day [link]

I Accuse This Liberal University of Terror and Violence, Fredy Perlman [link]

Other

Public Transit, AJ Julius [link]

Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess, Linda Williams [link]

The Myth of the Boiling Point, Hasok Chang [link]

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[CANNES 2023] NOTRE TOP

Le Festival de Cannes est désormais terminé. On a vu pas moins de 85 films (dont 19 sur les 21 de la Compétition), toutes catégories confondues ! Le classement de nos films préférés parmi ceux-ci, avec les dates annoncées de sortie en salles, ci-dessous :  1. ‘Eureka’ de Lisandro Alonso (CPR) 2. ‘Le Procès Goldman’ de Cédric Kahn (QC, 27/09) 3. ‘Anatomie d’une chute’ de Justine Triet (SOC, 23/08) 4. ‘Jeunesse (Le Printemps)’ de Wang Bing (SOC, 03/01/24) 5. ‘L'Enlèvement’ de Marco Bellocchio (SOC, 01/11) 6. ‘Les Feuilles mortes’ d’Aki Kaurismaki (SOC, 20/09) 7. ‘Fermer les yeux’ de Victor Erice (CPR, 16/08)  8. ‘May December’ de Todd Haynes (SOC) 9. ‘La Zone d’intérêt’ de Jonathan Glazer (SOC, 31/01/24) 10. ‘L'Eté dernier’ de Catherine Breillat (SOC, 13/09) 11. ‘The Sweet East’ de Sean Price Williams (QC) 12. ‘Los Delincuentes’ de Rodrigo Moreno (UCR, 27/03/24) 13. ‘La Grâce’ d’Ilya Povolotsky (QC) 14. ‘Only the River Flows’ de Shujun Wei (UCR) 15. ‘Les Herbes sèches’ de Nuri Bilge Ceylan (SOC, 12/07) 16. ‘Conann’ de Bertrand Mandico (QC, 28/11) 17. ‘La Chimère’ d’Alice Rohrwacher (SOC, 06/12) 18. ’La Fille de son père’ d’Erwan Le Duc (SM, 20/12) 19. ’Lost Country’ de Vladimir Perisič (SC, 11/10) 20. ‘Conte de feu’ de Weston Razooli (QC) 21. ‘Mars Express’ de Jérémie Périn (CPL, 22/11) 22. ‘Vers un avenir radieux’ de Nanni Moretti (SOC, 28/06) 23. ‘L’Autre Laurens’ de Claude Schmitz (QC, 04/10) 24. ‘Elémentaire’ de Peter Sohn (HC, 21/06) 25. ‘Banel & Adama’ de Ramata-Toulaye Sy (SOC, 30/08) 26. ‘Anselm, le bruit du temps’ de Wim Wenders (SS, 18/10) 27. ‘Le Règne animal’ de Thomas Cailley (UCR, 04/10) 28. ‘Simple comme Sylvain’ de Monia Chokri (UCR, 08/11) 29. ‘Ama Gloria’ de Marie Amachoukeli (SC, 30/08) 30. ‘Club Zéro’ de Jessica Hausner (SOC, 27/09) 31. ‘Linda veut du poulet !’ de Chiara Malta et Sébastien Laudenbach (ACID, 18/10) 32. ‘Si seulement je pouvais hiberner’ de Zoljargal Purevdash (UCR, 27/12) 33. ‘L’Amour et les forêts’ de Valérie Donzelli (CPR, en salles) 34. ‘La Mère de tous les mensonges’ d’Asmae El Moudir (UCR) 35. ‘Légua’ de Filipa Reis et João Miller Guerra 36. ‘The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed’ de Joanna Arnow (QC) 37. ‘Augure’ de Baloji (UCR, 22/11) 38. ‘Les Colons’ de Felipe Galvez (UCR, 20/12) 39. ‘Vincent doit mourir’ de Stéphan Castang (SC, 15/11) 40. ‘De nos jours...’ de Hong Sang-soo (QC, 19/07) 41. ‘Merle merle mûre’ d’Elene Naveriani (QC) 42. ‘Dans la toile’ de Kim Jee-woon (HC, 08/11) 43. ‘The Old Oak’ de Ken Loach (SOC, 25/10) 44. ‘Monster’ de Hirokazu Kore-eda (SOC, 27/12) 45. ’Sleep’ de Jason Yu (SC) 46. ‘Occupied City’ de Steve McQueen (SS) 47. ‘Bonnard, Pierre et Marthe’ de Martin Provost (CPR) 48 ‘Goodbye Julia’ de Mohamed Kordofani (UCR, 08/11) 49. ‘L’Arbre aux papillons d’or’ de Thien An Pham (QC, 13/09) 50. ‘Chambre 999’ de Lubna Playoust (CC) 51. ‘Le Livre des solutions’ de Michel Gondry (QC, 13/09) 52. ‘Les Meutes’ de Kamal Lazraq (UCR, 19/07) 53. ‘Le Ravissement’ d’Iris Kaltenbäck (SC, 11/10) 54. ‘Little Girl Blue’ de Mona Achache (SS, 01/11) 55. ‘Creatura’ d’Elena Martín Gimeno (QC) 56. ‘Perfect Days’ de Wim Wenders (SOC, 29/11) 57. ‘Lost in the Night’ d’Amat Escalante (CPR, 04/10) 58. ‘La Fleur de Buriti’ de João Salaviza et Renée Nader (UCR) 59. ‘Le Syndrome des amours passées’ d’Ann Sirot et Raphaël Balboni (SC, 25/10) 60. ‘Un hiver à Yanji’ d’Anthony Chen (UCR, 22/11) 61. ’Power Alley’ de Lillah Halla (SC, 22/11) 62. ‘Asteroid City’ de Wes Anderson (SOC, 21/06) 63. ‘Une nuit’ d’Alex Lutz (UCR, 05/07) 64. ‘Les Filles d'Olfa’ de Kaouther Ben Hania (SOC, 05/07) 65. ‘Indiana Jones et le cadran de la destinée’ de James Mangold (HC, 28/06) 66. ‘Chroniques de Téhéran’ d’Ali Asgari & Alireza Khatami (UCR, 27/12) 67. ‘Acide’ de Just Philippot (SM, 20/09) 68. ‘Un prince’ de Pierre Creton (QC, 18/10) 69. ‘Déserts’ de Faouzi Bensaïdi (QC, 20/09) 70. ’Il pleut dans la maison’ de Paloma Sermon-Daï (SC) 71. ‘Rien à perdre’ de Delphine Deloget (UCR, 22/11) 72. ‘La Passion de Dodin Bouffant’ de Tran Anh Hung (SOC, 08/11) 73. ‘How to Have Sex’ de Molly Manning Walker (UCR, 15/11) 74. ‘Le Jeu de la reine’ de Karim Aïnouz (SOC, 28/02/24) 75. ‘A Song Sung Blue’ de Zihan Geng (QC, 06/12) 76. ‘Jeanne du Barry’ de Maïwenn (HC, en salles) 77. ‘Rosalie’ de Stéphanie di Giusto (UCR, 24/01/24) 78. ‘In Flames’ de Zarrar Kahn (QC) 79. ‘Hopeless’ de Kim Chang-hoon (UCR) 80. ’Tiger Stripes’ d’Amanda Nell Eu (SC, 13/03/24) 81. ‘The Idol’ (série, épisodes 1 et 2) de Sam Levinson (HC, 05/06) 82. ‘The New Boy’ de Warwick Thornton (UCR) 83. ‘Omar la Fraise’ d’Elias Belkeddar (SM, en salles) 84. ‘Hypnotic’ de Robert Rodriguez (SM, 23/08) 85. ‘Agra’ de Kanu Behl (QC) SOC : Sélection Officielle - Compétition UCR : Un Certain Regard CPR : Cannes Première CPL : Cinéma de la Plage HC : Hors Compétition QC : Quinzaine des Cinéastes SC : Semaine de la Critique SM : Séances de Minuit CC : Cannes Classics ACID : L’ACID Nos chroniques de ces films sont à retrouver dans les articles Daily #1 à #11 sur notre page dédiée.

A&B

[nsfwhiphop]

Incoming Text for Elon Musk:

Hey, Elon! It's me, your buddy, Angelo.

I can't get into too much detail, all you need to know is you have to prepare the troops for an economic war that will happen in many countries from the USA to the UK to France to India to Japan to China.

You have to prepare for a coordinated economic attack.

When I use the word "Attack", it means something non-violent obviously, it's just for the wordplay, it sounds better that way.

What is a coordinated economic attack? Glad you asked, read below:

A Complex Coordinated Attack (CCA), also known as a Complex Coordinated Economic Attack, is a violent assault or series of assaults by one or more individuals or groups using one or more type of weapons with the intent to inflict harm on large numbers of people.

Listen, you have to get ready for this economic tsunami:

The Five Founding Fathers in America:

First Founding Father is Elon Musk.

Call Jeff Bezos. 2nd Founding Father.

Call Bill Gates. 3rd Founding Father.

Call Mark Cuban. 4th Founding Father.

And also Mark Zuckerberg. 5th Founding Father.

The Four Founding Fathers in France:

First Founding Father is Bernard Arnault.

Call François Pinault. 2nd Founding Father.

Call Vincent Bolloré. 3rd Founding Father.

Call Emmanuel Macron. 4th Founding Father.

The Four Founding Fathers in England:

First Founding Father is James Dyson

Call Richard Branson. 2nd Founding Father.

Call Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster. 3rd Founding Father.

Call Michael Platt (financier). 4th Founding Father.

The Four Founding Fathers in India:

First Founding Father is Mukesh Ambani.

Call Gautam Shantilal Adani. 2nd Founding Father.

Call Azim Hashim Premji. 3rd Founding Father.

Call Lakshmi Niwas Mittal. 4th Founding Father.

The Four Founding Fathers in Japan:

First Founding Father is Masayoshi Son.

Call Tadashi Yanai. 2nd Founding Father.

Call Takemitsu Takizaki. 3rd Founding Father.

Call Takahisa Takahara. 4th Founding Father.

The Four Founding Fathers in China:

First Founding Father is Ma Huateng.

Call Jack Ma Yun. 2nd Founding Father.

Call Wang Wei (SF Express). 3rd Founding Father.

Call Huang Shilin. 4th Founding Father.

The Two Founding Fathers in U.A.E.:

First Founding Father is Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Call Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. 2nd Founding Father.

The Two Founding Fathers in Spain & Mexico:

First Founding Father is Amancio Ortega Gaona

Call Carlos Slim Helú. 2nd Founding Father.

The Two Founding Father & Mother in Italy:

First Founding Father is Giovanni Ferrero

Call Giorgia Meloni. 2nd Founding Mother.

This is the list of people that will be involved around the world.

You have to tell them to get ready for this economic tsunami.

I can't give you too much information on this page, so make sure you call my lawyer Kim Kardashian, she will update you when it's time to make a move, that's all I had to say.

Take care big bro! Elon. Peace!

[lamilanomagazine]

La selezione ufficiale della 76esima edizione del Festival del Cinema di Cannes

La selezione ufficiale della 76esima edizione del Festival del Cinema di Cannes.   Il giorno è arrivato. Habemus la selezione ufficiale della 76ª edizione del Festival del Cinema di Cannes dopo l'attesissima conferenza stampa annuale alla presenza di Pierre Lescure, Presidente del Festival. Il festival avrà inizio martedì 16 maggio e terminerà sabato 27 maggio. Anche quest'anno ci saranno nomi illustri al festival cinematografico più importante del mondo, da Martin Scorsese a Wes Anderson, da Nanni Moretti a Takeshi Kitano, da Hirokazu Kore'eda ad Aki Kaurismaki fino a Wim Wenders, Marco Bellocchio, Ken Loach e Steve Mcqueen. Ma andiamo a vedere la selezione ufficiale di Cannes 2023: Film di apertura fuori concorso Jeanne du Barry, di Maïwenn In concorso About Dry Grasses, Nuri Bilge Ceylan Anatomy of a fall, Justine Triet Asteroid City, Wes Anderson Banel et Adama, Ramata-Toulaye Sy Club Zero, Jessica Hausner Fallen leaves, Aki Kaurismaki Firebrand, Karim Aïnouz Four daughters, Kaouther Ben Hania Il sol dell’avvenire, Nanni Moretti Jeunesse, Wang Bing La chimera, Alice Rohrwacher La passion de dodin bouffant, Tran Anh Hung Last summer, Catherine Breillat May December, Todd Haynes Monster, Hirokazu Kore'eda The old oak, Ken Loach Perfect days, Wim Wenders Rapito, Marco Bellocchio The zone of interest, Jonathan Glazer Fuori concorso Cobweb, Kim Jee-woon The Idol, Sam Levinson (serie TV) Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese Indiana Jones e il Quadrante del Destino, James Mangold Un Certain Regard The Breaking Ice, Anthony Chen The Buriti Flower, João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora The delinquents, Rodrigo Moreno Goodbye Julia, Mohamed Kordofani Hopeless, Kim Chang-hoon How To Have Sex, Molly Manning Walker If Only I Could Hibernate, Zoljargal Purevdash Le Regne Animal, Thomas Cailley Les Meutes, Kamal Lazraq The Mother Of All Lies, Asmae El Moudir The New Boy, Warwick Thornton Omen, Baloji Tshiani Rien À Perdre, Delphine Deloget Rosalie, Stephanie di Giusto The Settlers, Felipe Gálvez Simple Comme Sylvain, Monia Chokri Terrestrial Verses, Ali Asgari e Alireza Khatami Special Screenings Le Bruit Du Temps, Anselm Kiefer, Wim Wenders Man In Black, Wang Bing Occupied City, Steve Mcqueen Pictures Of Ghosts, Kleber Mendonça Filho Cannes Premiere Bonnard, Pierre And Marthe, Martin Provost Cerrar Los Ojos (Fermer Les Yeux), Victor Erice Kubi, Takeshi Kitano Le Temps D’aimer, Katell Quillévéré Midnights Screenings Acide, Just Philippot Kennedy, Anurag Kashyap Omar La Fraise, Elias Belkeddar... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article

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Coxsackievirus A21 Viral Proteins Quantified with Capillary Western and Peptides

https://www.lifetein.com/blog/coxsackievirus-a21-viral-proteins-quantified-with-capillary-western-and-peptides/ Oncolytic viruses are a novel type of virus that specifically targets and eliminates tumor cells, and have been an emerging immunotherapy agent. One such is Coxsackievirus A21 (CVA21), which has been demonstrating a healthy safety profile as well as desired targeting of the cancerous cells. While producing drugs that can properly utilize this virus, there rises a need to characterize the ratio of total particles to empty ones, thus researchers developed a method to see Coxsackievirus A21 viral proteins quantified with capillary Western and peptides made up of the components of the capsid proteins. CVA21 characterized with capillary Western and capsid peptides LifeTein provided the group with the capsid peptides, VP1, VP2, VP3, and VP4, as well as the antibodies necessary for the testing. Results utilizing these peptides and antibodies included total particle concentration, empty particle concentration, as well as the empty to full ratio. Being able to characterize this kind of information in this downstream process will prove to be immensely valuable in future studies. The Simple Western method displayed by the researchers proved itself to be an invaluable tool for optimizing decisions for these types of oncolytic virus studies. Consistency in these tests will surely lead to massive amounts of time being saved in future drug development and assessments. LifeTein will always be ready to lend a hand to any work needing peptides or antibodies to further their research in the broad field of drug application. Paul F. Gillespie, Richard R. Rustandi, Andrew R. Swartz, Liang Shang, Jessica Raffaele, Ashley Prout, Nicholas Cunningham, Mohamed Dawod, James Z. Deng, Shiyi Wang, Jessica Olson, Yvonne Shieh, and John W. Loughney. Quantitation of Coxsackievirus A21 Viral Proteins in Mixtures of Empty and Full Capsids Using Capillary Western. Human Gene Therapy.Jan 2023.68-77.http://doi.org/10.1089/hum.2022.147

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Mohammed James Wang

Somewhere out there exists the most average human who satisfies the highest number of statistical averages

[world-of-wales]

CONFIRMED ATTENDEES TO QUEEN ELIZABETH II'S STATE FUNERAL:

Foreign Royalty

King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima 🇳🇱

Queen Beatrix 🇳🇱

King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia 🇪🇸

King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofía 🇪🇸

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako 🇯🇵

King Phillipe and Queen Mathilde 🇧🇪

Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Theresa 🇱🇺

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King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia 🇸🇪

Queen Margrethe II and Crown Prince Frederik 🇩🇰

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King Jigme Khesar and Queen Jetsun Pema 🇧🇹

Yang di-Pertuan Agong Abdullah & Raja Permaisuri Agong Tunku of Malaysia 🇲🇾

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Maybe attending -

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Relationship between Brent and WTI crude markets with a secondary view of WTI to the Dow

1.     Data set – I have chosen to work with a custom data set of market data including Dow, WTI crude and Brent crude daily close prices. This custom data set includes the daily closing prices for each market from 1/1/1990 to 10/1/2019.

2.     Topic #1 – I would like to understand if/how WTI crude prices are related to Brent crude prices on a daily basis. Are there any direct or delayed relationships? I would hypothesize that these two markets do have measurable relationships for a majority of the time period studied. The variables that are most relevant to this set of questions are

   a.     Date

   b.     WTI closing price

   c.     Brent Closing price

3.     Topic #2 – I would like to understand if/how WTI crude prices are related to the Dow Jones industrial index. Additionally, are there any direct or delayed relationships? I would expect that a relationship between these 2 markets are haphazard at best. There may be times when a relationship can be derived but I would think that these markets move somewhat independently. The variables that are most relevant to this set of questions are

   a.     Date

   b.     WTI closing price

   c.     Dow closing price

4.     Step 6 – other references. I performed a Google search for the relationship between “Brent” and “WTI” crude oil prices.I performed a secondary google search for the relationship between “WTI” crude and “DOW”

   a.     How do crude oil prices co-move? By Juan Reboredo - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2011.04.006

   b.     Does OPEC influence crude oil prices? Testing for co-movements and causality between regional crude oil prices. By Jan Bentzen - https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840600606344

   c.     Physical Markets, Paper Markets and the WTI-Brent Spread - Bahattin Büyükşahin, Thomas K. Lee, James T. Moser and Michel A. Robe

The Energy Journal - https://www.jstor.org/stable/41970500?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

   d.     Relationship between oil, stock prices and exchange rates: A vine copula based GARCH method – Riadh Alouia, Mohamed Safouane, Ben Aïssab - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1062940816300341

   e.     Cross-correlations between WTI crude oil market and U.S. stock market: A perspective from econophysics – Gang-Jin Wang, Chi Xie - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gang_Jin_Wang/publication/273761517_Cross-correlations_between_WTI_crude_oil_market_and_US_stock_market_A_perspective_from_econophysics/links/5567cff108aefcb861d38d6e/Cross-correlations-between-WTI-crude-oil-market-and-US-stock-market-A-perspective-from-econophysics.pdf

5.     Step 7

   a.     Articles seem to indicate that there is a relationship between WTI and Brent oil prices. These relationships appear to hold true regardless of market direction or classification. There are times where one may trade at a steep discount to the other but they are still related. I will still use the closing price by day to evaluate this relationship.

   b.     Articles seem to indicate that there is a loose relationship between WTI crude and the DOW. I intend to use the daily closing price of each market to perform this study.

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[Image ID: Screenshot of a Facebook post. Former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and former American President Barack Obama in an awkward three-way handshake, with Nieto on the left, Obama on the right, and Trudeau with his hands crossed to shake both their hands in the middle. Nieto is labelled “Mohamed the most common first name”, Trudeau is labelled “James the most common middle name”, and Obama is labelled “Wang the most common last name”. Below that is a picture of the three pairs of hands zoomed in with a red overlay, labelled “Mohamed James Wang a very rare name”. 

A man named Mohamed James Wang comments saying “YO THAT IS ME, WTF HAHAHAHAHHA”. 

Added to the screenshot of a post is a picture of Thanos saying “Impossible”. /end] 

Impossible… Perhaps the archives are now complete?

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Des concerts à Paris et autour

Mai 09. John Wiese + Me Donner – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 09. Virginia + UVB + Théo Muller b2b Sottoh – La Machine 10. Savon Tranchand + Random Cult – Le Zorba (gratuit) ||ANNULÉ|| 10. Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek + Stranded Horse (Le Beau fest.) – La Petite Halle 10. SeRvo + Fiasco + Die Süsse Teufel – Espace B 11. Stephen O'Malley (dj) + Cameron Jamie (dj) – Chair de poule (gratuit) 11. And Also the Trees + Tropic of Cancer + Better Person + En attendant Ana + Magic Island (Le Beau fest.) – Trabendo 11. Sick Llama + Hit & Run + Minute de S + Jazzercisers – Le Petit Café 11. Lenny Dee + Manu le Malin + Docteur Macabre + Torgull – Rex club 11. Voiron + Murd + Léo Occhi + No One Famous + Mediane + Vakarm + Keikari – La Station 12. TRDLX & Soul Archive : "Vibration" – Auditorium|Musée Guimet (gratuit sur résa) 12. Deerhoof + Ulrika Spacek + First Hate + Pantin plage + Le Couleur [+ Good Morning : ANNULÉ] (Le Beau fest.) – Trabendo 12. Disposition Matrix + Domotic + Désiré Bonaventure (dj) – L'Époque 12. Ellen Arkbro + Stine Janvin + Ora Clementi (Crys Cole & James Rushford) + David Rosenboom – Le 104 12. I Hate Models + Ancient Methods + Rrose – La Machine 13. God is an Astronaut – Trabendo 13. Pierre Henry "Labyrinthe !" + Eliane Radigue "Kyema" + Bernard Parmegiani " La Création du monde" – Le 104 14. Bryan's Magic Tears + Le Villejuif Underground + VvvV – La Maroquinerie (gratuit sur résa) 14. Thomas Köner (rencontre, vidéo, diffusion) – Cinéma 2 |Centre Pompidou 15. Sinivia Alvise + Erwan Keravec & Mats Gustaffson + Orchestre orange & Gëinst (fest. Switch) – Théâtre de Vanves 17. Moor Mother + Boy Harsher + Succhiamo (fest. Ideal Trouble) – La Station 17. Alessandro Cortini + Fléau – Petit Bain 17. Clément Edouard + Giani Caserotto + Elise Dabrowski & Claudine Simon (fest. Switch) – Théâtre de Vanves 17. Frédéric Dumont + Franck Vigroux & Kaurent Gaudé : « Le Chant des sept tours » (Marché de la poésie) – Le Cube (Issy-lès-Moulineaux) (gratuit sur résa) 18. Salsa + Tisiphone – Le Zorba (gratuit) 18. Sister Iodine + Ramleh + B-Ball Joints (Low Jack) (fest. Ideal Trouble) – La Station 18. Samuel Andreyev + Laurent Durupt – église Saint-Merri 18. Joachim Florent + Nox.3 & Linda Olah + Chassol (fest. Switch) – Théâtre de Vanves 18. Yann Gourdon + Ratcharmer – Le Satellite (Aubervilliers) 19. Yo La Tengo – Cabaret sauvage 19. Horse Lord + Das Ding + Noir Boy George (fest. Ideal Trouble) – La Station 19. Deux boules vanille + Mondkopf + The Noise Consort (fest. Switch) – Théâtre de Vanves 19. Mohamed Lamouri + Groupe Mostla (Nuit des musées) – Auditorium du MacVal (Vitry/Seine) (gratuit) 19. 999999999 + Raär + Under Black Helmet + Dax (dj) + Parfait – tba 20. Of the Wand & the Moon + The Dark Red Seed + Vesperal + Slowdive (dj set) – Supersonic (gratuit) 20. Bundle of Joy (Barnt & Superpitcher) + La Mverte + Xeno & Oaklander (fest. Ideal Trouble) – La Station 20. Biscuit Mouth + Melkbelly + Storm{o} + BadBad – Espace B 20. December + AZF + Cité lumière + Oktober Lieber + Mon Alberteen (fest. Ideal Trouble) – La Station 20. SNTS + Anetha + Pfirter + Terence Fixmer... (Marvellous Island fest.) – Ile de loisirs (Vaires-Torcy) 22. Carpenter Brut – tba (gratuit sur résa) 22. Zëro + Moodie Black – Petit Bain 23. L'Ocelle Mare – Chair de poule (gratuit) 23. Buzz Kull + IV Horsemen – Espace B 23. Irena & Vojtech Havlovi + Tamara Goukassova + Radiante Pourpre – Ourcq blanc 23. Otomo Yoshihide + Kaze – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 24. Sheezahee + Kevin Thomson – tba 24. Sourdure + L'Ocelle Mare + Bégayer – Cirque électrique 24. Otomo Yoshihide & Chris Pitsiokos + Ikuro Takahashi – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 24. HMLTD + Faire (dj) – Petit Bain 25. Mogwai + Jon Hopkins + James Holden & The Animal Spirits (Villette sonique) – Grande Halle de La Villette 26. Kelly Lee Owens + The Sea & Cake + Tzusing + The Field + Richard Dawson + Ariel Kalma + Jackie Mendoza + Flamingods + Sassy 009 (Villette sonique) – Prairie du cercle nord et périphérique (gratuit) 26. Black Zone Myth Chant + Colin Johnco + Domotic +  Fatal Walima (Villette sonique) – Jardin des îles|Parc de La Villette (gratuit) 26. Car Seat Headrest + Naked Giants (Villette sonique) – Trabendo 26. Marquis de Sade + Anna Von Hausswolff + Exploded View (Villette sonique) – Grande Halle de La Villette 26. Paolo Tecon + Tôle froide + Orage plastique + Badbad – La Parole errante (Montreuil) 26/27. DVS1 + Bens Sims + Antigone + Freddy K + Lory D + Fabrizio Lapiana + Kas:st + Cem + Myako... – Concrete 27. Bisou de Saddam + King Khan + Miley Serious + Paul Seul (Villette sonique) – Jardin des îles|Parc de La Villette (gratuit) 27. Abra + Essaie pas + Flohio + Nilüfer Yanya + Smerz + Snail Mail + Hookworms + Fire! + Mario Batkovic (Villette sonique) – Prairie du cercle nord et périphérique (gratuit) 28. The Chamelons – Supersonic 29. Deerhunter + Midnight Sister (Villette sonique) – Cabaret sauvage 29. Camille Emaille, Nina Garcia & Arnaud Rivière + Zaraz Wam Zagram & Sig Valax + Laurent Di Biase – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 29. The Damned + Vile Assembly – Petit Bain ||COMPLET|| 30. The Damned + Daddy Long Legs – Petit Bain 30. Igorrr + Ni – Les Cuizines (Chelles) 30. John Maus + Flat Worms + Kate NV (Villette sonique) – Trabendo ||COMPLET|| 31. Gaël Segalen + Adrien Kanter – Le Zorba (gratuit)

Juin 01. Les Tétines noires – Centre FGO-Barbara 01. Heimat + Ventre de biche + Cachette à branlette + Johnny Couteau + Laura Krieg – Le Chinois (Montreuil) 02. Fatherkid + Ugut + Jean-Lous Costes + Philippe Petit – Espace Topographie de l'art (gratuit) 02. Penguin Café – Fondation Cartier 02. Juan Atkins + Blush Response & Katran + Volition Immanent + CJ Bolland & D. Carbone + Dave Angel + dj Pierre + Nostromo (SΛRIN & Unhuman) + Blind Delon + Dersee + Ethan Fawkes + Headstrong (Clouds & Randomer) + Size Pier + Symetrical Behaviour (VSK & Conrad Van Orton)... – tba 02/03. Björk + Beck + Jamie XX + King Krule + Father John Misty + Migos... (fest. We Love Green) – Bois de Vincennes 03. Modern English – Supersonic 03. Cranky Bow + Andcl + High Heal – L'époque 03. An Albatross + We Insist ! + F/lor & Céline Wagner (fest. BD6Né) – Petit Bain 06. Heimatlos + Li Jianhong + Mei Zhyong + Wang Ziheng (Eastern Noise Congregation) – Les Voûtes 06. Terrie Ex & Kaja Draksler + Defuse – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 07/08. Molly Nilsson – Badaboum ||COMPLET|| 08. Chocolat + The Soap Opera + Jaromil Sabor – Supersonic (gratuit avant 23h) 08. Monolithe noir + Colin Johnco – Olympic café 08. Robert Henke & Marko Nikodijevic : "From within" (fest. ManiFeste) – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 09. Trisomie 21 + Delacave – La Maroquinerie 09. Waxahatchee – Espace B 09. The Driver + Renart + Le Cabaret contemporain + "In C" de Terry Riley + Le Comte + Arandel (dj) + Dudmode + Ambeyance (dj) + Clément Bazin (dj) – La Station 11. Preoccupations + Moaning – La Maroquinerie 11. The Dead C – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 12. Damo Suzuki's Network – Espace B 12. Thom York – L'Olympia 13. L7 – La Cigale 13. Marietta + Canari – Mains d'oeuvre (Saint-Ouen) 14. Ty Segall & The Freedom Band + Mike Donovan – Bataclan 14. Troum + Flint Glass + Maninkari – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 15. Bernard Grancher + Infecticide + Les Trucs – Centre Barbara-FGO 15. Varsovie + Carpet Burns + Marécage – Supersonic (gratuit avant 23h) 15. Anne-James Chaton & Andy Moor : "Heretics"  – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 15. Blawan + Laval (Electric Rescue & Kmyle) – Rex Club 15/16. Ryoji Ikeda : "Datamatics" – Centre Pompidou 16. Ryoji Ikeda : "Formula" – Centre Pompidou 16. Ryoji Ikeda : "c4i" – Centre Pompidou 16. Vitalic (fest. Bains numériques) – Lac d'Enghien-lès-Bains (gratuit) 17. Animal Collective – Le Trianon 18. A Band Called E + Toro – Espace B 19. Publique + Luxury – Le Klub 19. Mörpheme + Unlogistic + Pour X raisons – La Comedia (Montreuil) 22. Modern Life Is War + Cro Mags – Petit Bain 23. Crack Cloud – Supersonic (gratuit) 25. Nine Inch Nails – Olympia ||COMPLET|| 27. The Jesus & Mary Chain – Le Trianon 27. Deaf Kids + Bracco – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 28. La Colonie de vacances – La Station 29. Cocaine Piss + SHIT + Sordid Ship + Harassment – Le Gibus 29. Wolves in the Throne Room – Petit Bain 29. Fred P. aka Black Jazz Consortium + Tin Man + Kay Alce b2b Patrick Gibin + Skee Mask (Macki Music fest.) – parc de la mairie (Carrières/Seine) 30. A Deep Groove + Antal + Golden Dawn Archestra + Blake Baxter + Muddy Monk + Saint DX + Toshio Matsuura + Vox Low + Nathy Peluso (Macki Music fest.) – parc de la mairie (Carrières/Seine) 30. Eliott Litrowski (Macki Music fest.) – boat party 30. Echo Collective joue "Amnesiac" de Radiohead (fest. Days Off) – Le Studio|Philharmonie 30. Nils Frahm (fest. Days Off) – Salle Pierre-Boulez|Philharmonie

Juillet 01. Motor City Drum Ensemble + Josey Rebelle + Cotonete + Lomboy + Ceephax Acid Crew + Kamaal Williams + HDBeenDope + Sentiments (Macki Music fest.) – parc de la mairie (Carrières/Seine) 01. Nick V (Macki Music fest.) – boat party 01. Zaltan (Macki Music fest.) – boat party 03. David Byrne (fest. Days Off) – Salle Pierre-Boulez|Philharmonie 04. MGMT (fest. Days Off) – Salle Pierre-Boulez|Philharmonie ||COMPLET|| 05. Brnsrpprs + Brns + Ropoporose (7 ans de Petit-Bain) – Petit Bain 06. Trami Nguyen et Laurent Durupt jouent "Piano Phase" de Steve Reich + Bruce Brubaker + Laake + Fabrizio Rat + Murcof & Vanessa Wagner + Tom Rogerson + Grandbrothers (fest. Days Off) – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 06. Amelie Lens + Daniel Avery + Floating Points + Folamour + Jeff Mills + Laurent Garnier + Kink b2b Gerd Janson + Not Waving + Solomun... (The Peacock Society) – Parc floral (Vincennes) 06/07. Orchestre tout puissant Marcel Duchamp + Odessey & Oracle + Warum Joe + The Monochrome Set + The Experimental Tropic Blues Band + Sida + Hyperculte + Snapped Ankles + White Heat + Tonnerre + USA Nails + Bracco + Lèche-moi + Brandt... (La Ferme électrique) – La Ferme du Plateau (Tournan-en-Brie) 07. Sister Iodine (La Ferme électrique) – La Ferme du Plateau (Tournan-en-Brie) 07. Richie Hawtin + Tale of Us + Charlotte de Witte + Chloé + Maetrik + Mano Le Tough + Octo Octa + Joy Orbison b2b Kornel Kovacs (The Peacock Society) – Parc floral (Vincennes) 08. Maulwürfe – La Gaîté lyrique 09. Eels – Olympia 12. Chelsea Wolfe + Emma Ruth Rundle – Trabendo 13. Ministry + Grave Pleasures – Elysées Montmartre 14. Papier Tigre + Pyjarama + Puissant Blaster – Espace B 24. Dirty Fences – Supersonic (gratuit)

Août 20. Front Line Assembly + Die Krupps – La Machine 24. Die Antwood + Carpenter Brut + Dirty Projectors + Parcels... (fest. Rock-en-Seine) – Domaine de Saint-Cloud 26. Jessica 93 + Idles + The Black Angels + Bonobo + Justice... (fest. Rock-en-Seine) – Domaine de Saint-Cloud

Septembre 01. Ariel Pink (Paris Inter. Fest. of Psychedelic Music) – La Machine 01>04. Molly Nilsson + Vox Low + Male Gaze + Prettiest Eyes + Volage + TH da Freak + Cut Worms + Petit Fantôme + Dead Sea + Faux Real + Saint DX... (Paris Inter. Fest. of Psychedelic Music) – tba 04. Thee Oh Sees (Paris Inter. Fest. of Psychedelic Music) – La Cigale 05. Feist – L'Olympia 07. Conflict + Humandogfood + Social Experiment – Le Gibus 20. The Brian Jonestown Massacre – La Cigale 22. The Wedding Present – Point FMR 22. Paula Temple + LSD... (Dream Nation fest.) – Docks de Paris (Aubervilliers) 26. Sleaford Mods + Consumer Electronics – Le Trianon

Octobre 04. Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal – La Seine musicale (Boulogne-Billancourt) 20. Tallinn Chamber Orchestra : Fratres, Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten, Adam's Lament, Salve Regina et Te Deum d'Arvo Pärt – Salle Pierre-Boulez|Philharmonie 26. Jon Hopkins – Trianon 27. Killing Joke – Cabaret sauvage

Novembre 01>03. Bon Iver + Fever Ray + Mac DeMarco + Blood Orange... (Pitchfork Music fest.) – Grande Halle de La Villette 04. Peaches Christ Superstar – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 05. Colin Stetson – Café de la danse 18. Ensemble Links : Drumming de Steve Reich – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 21. The Breeders – Le Trianon 23. Michael Nyman : "War Work: 8 Songs with Film" – Salle Pleyel 23. Ennio Morricone – Bercy Arena 27. Mudhoney – Trabendo

Décembre 01. Deux boules vanille (fest. Marathon!) – La Gaîté lyrique 09/10. Moriarty – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 15. Gaspar Claus – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie

2019

Avril 14. Arnaud Rebotini joue la BO de "120 Battements par minute" – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie

Mai 17. Philip Glass : Études pour piano – Salle Pierre-Boulez|Philharmonie 18. Bruce Brubaker & Max Cooper : Glasstronica – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie

Juin 26. Magma – Salle Pierre-Boulez|Philharmonie

en gras : les derniers ajouts / in bold: the last news

[double-croche1]

[CANNES 2023] SÉLECTIONS

Les différentes sélections du Festival de Cannes ont annoncé leur programmation. SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE - COMPÉTITION Films datés : 21/06 : ‘Asteroid City’ de Wes Anderson 28/06 : ‘Vers un avenir radieux' de Nanni Moretti 05/07 : ‘Les Filles d'Olfa’ de Kaouther Ben Hania 12/07 : ‘Les Herbes sèches’ de Nuri Bilge Ceylan 12/07 : ‘Le Retour’ de Catherine Corsini 23/08 : ‘Anatomie d’une chute’ de Justine Triet 30/08 : ‘Banel & Adama’ de Ramata-Toulaye Sy 13/09 : ‘L'Eté dernier’ de Catherine Breillat 20/09 : ‘Les Feuilles mortes’ d’Aki Kaurismaki 27/09 : ‘Club Zéro’ de Jessica Hausner 25/10 : ‘The Old Oak’ de Ken Loach 01/11 : ‘L'Enlèvement’ de Marco Bellocchio 08/11 : ‘La Passion de Dodin Bouffant’ de Tran Anh Hung 29/11 : ‘Perfect Days’ de Wim Wenders 06/12 : ‘La Chimère’ d’Alice Rohrwacher 27/12 : ‘Monster’ de Hirokazu Kore-eda 03/01/24 : ‘Jeunesse (Le Printemps)’ de Wang Bing 24/01/24 : ‘May December’ de Todd Haynes 31/01/24 : ‘La Zone d’intérêt’ de Jonathan Glazer 28/02/24 : ‘Le Jeu de la reine’ de Karim Aïnouz Film non daté : ‘Black Flies’ de Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE - UN CERTAIN REGARD Films datés : 05/07 : ‘Une nuit’ d'Alex Lutz - Clôture 19/07 : ‘Les Meutes’ de Kamal Lazraq 04/10 : ‘Le Règne animal’ de Thomas Cailley - Ouverture 08/11 : ‘Simple comme Sylvain’ de Monia Chokri 08/11 : ‘Goodbye Julia’ de Mohamed Kordofani 15/11 : ‘How to Have Sex’ de Molly Manning Walker 22/11 : ‘Augure’ de Baloji 22/11 : ‘Un hiver à Yanji’ d’Anthony Chen 22/11 : ‘Rien à perdre’ de Delphine Deloget 20/12 : ‘Les Colons’ de Felipe Galvez 27/12 : ‘Si seulement je pouvais hiberner’ de Zoljargal Purevdash 27/12 : ‘Chroniques de Téhéran’ d’Ali Asgari et Alireza Khatami 24/01/24 : ‘Rosalie’ de Stéphanie di Giusto 27/03/24 : ‘Los Delincuentes’ de Rodrigo Moreno Films non datés : ‘Salem’ de Jean-Bernard Marlin ‘Only the River Flows’ de Wei Shujun ‘La Fleur de Buriti’ de João Salaviza et Renée Nader ‘La Mère de tous les mensonges’ d’Asmae El Moudir ‘The New Boy’ de Warwick Thornton ‘Hopeless’ de Kim Chang-hoon SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE - CANNES PREMIÈRE Films datés : 24/05 : ‘L'Amour et les forêts’ de Valérie Donzelli 16/08 : ‘Fermer les yeux’ de Victor Erice 04/10 : ‘Lost in the Night’ d'Amat Escalante 29/11 : ‘Le Temps d'aimer’ de Katell Quillévéré 24/01/24 : ‘Bonnard, Pierre et Marthe’ de Martin Provost Films non datés : ‘Eureka’ de Lisandro Alonso ‘Kubi’ de Kateshi Kitano SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE - HORS COMPÉTITION Films datés : 16/05 : ‘Jeanne du Barry’ de Maïwenn - Ouverture 05/06 : ‘The Idol’ de Sam Levinson (série, épisodes 1 et 2) 21/06 : 'Elémentaire' de Peter Sohn - Dernière séance 28/06 : ‘Indiana Jones et le cadran de la destinée’ de James Mangold 16/08 : ‘Strange Way of Life’ de Pedro Almodóvar (court-métrage) 18/10 : ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ de Martin Scorsese 08/11 : ‘Dans la toile’ de Kim Jee-woon 08/11 : ‘L'Abbé Pierre - Une vie de combats’ de Frédéric Tellier SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE - SÉANCES SPÉCIALES Films datés : 01/11 : ‘Le Théorème de Marguerite’ d'Anna Novion 18/10 : ‘Anselm, le bruit du temps’ de Wim Wenders 01/11 : ‘Portraits fantômes’ de Kleber Mendoça Filho 01/11 : ‘Little Girl Blue’ de Mona Achache Films non datés : ‘Occupied City’ de Steve McQueen ‘Man in Black’ de Wang Bing ‘Bread and Roses’ de Sahra Mani SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE - SÉANCES DE MINUIT Films datés : 24/05 : ‘Omar la fraise’ d’Elias Belkeddar 23/08 : ‘Hypnotic’ de Robert Rodriguez 20/09 : ‘Acide’ de Just Philippot Films non datés : ‘Kennedy’ d’Anurag Kashyap ‘Project Silence’ de Kim Tae-gon SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE - CINÉMA DE LA PLAGE

Films datés : 22/11 : ‘Mars Express’ de Jérémie Périn 29/11 : ‘Flo’ de Géraldine Danon 27/12 : ‘Mon ami robot’ de Pablo Berger QUINZAINE DES CINÉASTES

Films datés : 19/07 : ‘De nos jours...’ de Hong Sang-soo – Clôture 13/09 : ‘L’Arbre aux papillons d’or’ de Thien An Pham 13/09 : ‘Le Livre des solutions’ de Michel Gondry 20/09 : ‘Déserts’ de Faouzi Bensaïdi 27/09 : ‘Le Procès Goldman’ de Cédric Kahn - Ouverture 04/10 : ‘L’Autre Laurens’ de Claude Schmitz 18/10 : ‘Un prince’ de Pierre Creton 29/11 : ‘Conann’ de Bertrand Mandico 06/12 : ‘A Song Sung Blue’ de Zihan Geng Films non datés : ‘Agra’ de Kanu Behl ‘Merle merle mûre’ d’Elene Naveriani ‘La Grâce’ d’Ilya Povolotsky ‘Creatura’ d'Elena Martín Gimeno ‘In Flames’ de Zarrar Kahn ‘Légua’ de Filipa Reis et João Miller Guerra ‘Mambar Pierrette’ de Rosine Mbakam ‘Conte de feu’ de Weston Razooli ‘La Vie selon Ann’ de Joanna Arnow ‘The Sweet East’ de Sean Price Williams SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE - EN COMPÉTITION Films datés : 11/10 : ‘Lost Country’ de Vladimir Perisič 11/10 : ‘Le Ravissement’ d'Iris Kaltenbäck 22/11 : ‘Power Alley’ de Lillah Halla 31/01/24 : ‘Inchallah, un fils’ d'Amjad Al Rasheed 13/03/24 : ‘Tiger Stripes’ d'Amanda Nell Eu Films non datés : ‘Il pleut dans la maison’ de Paloma Sermon-Daï ‘Sleep’ de Jason Yu SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE - SÉANCES SPÉCIALES Films datés : 30/08 : ‘Ama Gloria’ de Marie Amachoukeli - Ouverture 25/10 : ‘Le Syndrome des amours passées’ d'Ann Sirot et Raphaël Balboni 15/11 : ‘Vincent doit mourir’ de Stéphan Castang 20/12 : ‘La Fille de son père’ d'Erwan Le Duc - Clôture ACID Films datés : 19/07 : ‘Caiti Blues’ de Justine Harbonnier 18/10 : ‘Linda veut du poulet !’ de Chiara Malta et Sébastien Laudenbach 30/01/24 : ‘Laissez-moi’ de Maxime Rappaz Films non datés : ‘Dreaming In Between’ de Ryutaro Nynoliya ‘État limite’ de Nicolas Peduzzi ‘In the Rearview’ de Maciek Hamela ‘Machtat’ de Sonia Ben Slama ‘La Mer et ses vagues’ de Liana Kassir et Renaud Pachot ‘Nome’ de Sana Na N’hada A&B

[prideofpentagon]

I´m bringing you the complete result of The 100 most handsome faces of 2017:

1. V (BTS)

2. Jason Momoa

3. Armie Hammer

4. James Reid

5. William Levy

6. Stanley Weber

7. Felix Kjellberg

8. Idris Elba

9. Sehun (EXO)

10. Miriano di Vaio

11. Jensen Ackles

12. Oscar Isaac

13. Jungkook (BTS)

14. Aaron Taylor - Johnson

15. Baris Arduc

16. Mario Casas

17. Michiel Huisman

18. Toni Mahfud

19. Taeyang (Big Bang)

20. Trevante Rhodes

21. Godfrey Gao

22. Charlie Hunnam

23. Nam Joohyuk (The bride of Habaek - Habaek)

24. Charlie Puth

25. Kerem Bürsin

26. David Beckham

27. Kim Jonghyun (SHINee; what an honor...)

28. Alex Sparrow

29. David Gandy

30. Mike Colter

31. Sidharth Malhotra

32. Zac Efron

33. Cagatay Ulusoy

34. Matt Bomer

35. Jackson Wang (GOT7)

36. Jamie Dornan

37. Mohammed Assaf

38. Kai (EXO)

39. Michhael Fassbender

40. Choi Siwon (Super Junior)

41. Kit Harington

42. Takuya Terada (Cross gene)

43. Omari Hardwick

44. Henry Cavill

45. Luhan (ex - EXO member)

46. Christiano Ronaldo

47. BM (KARD)

48. Shawn Mendes

49. Mingyu (Seventeen)

50. Diego Boneta

51. Hrithik Roshan

52. Alexander Skarsgard

53. Xavier Serrano

54. Harry Styles

55. Boris Kodjoe

56. Dhafer l´Abidine

57. Bruno Gagliasso

58. Mario Maurer

59. Chris Hemsworth

60. Kris Wu (ex - EXO member)

61. Enrique Gil

62. Saad Lamjarred

63. Kofi Siriboe

64. Jimin (BTS)

65. Tom Hiddleston

66. Jin Akanishi

67. Zayn Malik

68. Aliando Syarief

69. Chris Pine

70. Mark Tuan (GOT7)

71. Rheed McCracken

72. Wonwoo (Seventeen)

73. Vincent Cassel

74. Ricky Whittle

75. Danila Kozlovsky

76. Dimash Kudaibergen

77. Eugenio Siller

78. Brad Pitt

79. Nadech Kugimiya

80. Maxi Iglesias

81. Kento Yamazaki

82. Dwayne Johnson

83. Boyd Holbrook

84. Lee Minho (SHINee)

85. Shahid Kapoor

86. Laith Abu Joda

87. Leonardo DiCaprio

88. Daniel Matsunaga

89. John Boyega

90. Maluma

91. Ryan Gosling

92. Joe Taslim

93. Berk Atan

94. Ansel Elgort

95. Giulio Berruti

96. Takanori Iwata (J soul brothers)

97. Marlon Teixeira

98. Brian Whittaker

99. Taeyong (NCT)

100. Joe Jonas

[hcneybaby]

i saw a couple of these masterlists floating around... so i decided to make one of my own! under the cut you will find my favourite faceclaims to use in twitter roleplays. everyone’s instagram handle is linked back to their page, and please note that many of these faceclaims have public finstas/spam instagrams, snapchat/tumblr/twitter accounts, and fan pages that may have additional pictures and resources! i have tried to check back to make sure that all these faceclaims are comfortable with being roleplayed, but if you have any evidence that suggests otherwise, please let me know! please like or reblog if you use or find this helpful!

121 male fcs, 198 female fcs, 6 nonbinary fcs.

(notes: underage fcs are noted, fcs whose ages i couldnt get confirmation for are marked with a *) LINKS ARE NOT WORKING AT THIS TIME.

aankita.b (ankita b) - f

adryanhanson - m

aidettec (aidette cancino) - f

air_thugger (zack) - m

alannaarrington - f

alessiasmusic (alessia cara) - f

alexisgzall - f

alexjordonez - m

aliaabhatt - f

alinabaraz - f

alishanesvat - f

altonmason - m

alxcext (alice t) - f

amandlastenberg - nb

ameerabelle - f

amine - m

angelzuri (zuri tibby) - f

anniemarie - f

angelinagalvis_ - f

ansel (ansel elgort) - m

anwarhadid - m

arielle (arielle vandenberg) - f

artbitch666 (helena) - f

arzaylea (arzaylea rodriguez) - f

asamizdrenka  - f

ashley_moore_ (ashley moore) - f

ashtondsanders - m

ayushsahota - m

babykateli (kate li) - f

bae.doe (minahil mahmood) - f

barbienox (barbie ferreira) - f

beamiller  - f

beansiie (bean mclean) - f

bella.ashlynn (isabella ashlynn) - f

blakemichael14 (blake michael) - m

braydenbradshaw - m

brennen (brennen taylor) - m

brianhwhittaker - m

brumarquezine (bruna marquezine) - f

bryanaholly - f

brycealakai (bryce dettloff) - m

brycehall - m

bryonyloft - f

brysontiller - m

camilakilla (camila low) - f

camilalalaaa (camila romero) - f

captainbarto (adam bartoshesky) - m

carlsonyoung - f

carololiveiraoficial (carolina oliveira) - f

caroviee - f

cartiamallan - f

catherineallenn (catherine marie allen) - f

celia_leslie - f

chachigonzales - f

chaelincl (lee chae rin) - f

cheriemadeleine (madeleine rose) - f

chloebbbb (chloe b) - f

chloebridges - f

chiquifairydust (amanda arcuri) - f

cindymello - f

cleolazuli - f

cocojanelle_  (janelle mughannam)  - f

codyko - m

codyryle - m

colormenae (reginae carter) - f

creolekourt (kourtney jorge) - f

cristalserranoo (cristal serrano) - f

daisymarquez_ - f

daltonjackson - m

darth_bador (emily bador) - f

darwingray - m

daviddobrik - m 

delilahbelle - f

denjiel (deni el’ abdel) - m

denzeldion - m

destryallyn - f

devonleecarlson - f

didargh (didar) - f

diegobarrueco - m

dopeisland (angelo zeigler) - m

dounia (dounia tazi) - f

duckieofficial (duckie thot) - f

dylanjordan - m

dysndysn - m

ed1thx (edith) - f [underage]

eduardtorres7 (eduard torres) - m

elesaaa (elesa anthony) - f

ellise - f

elijahdanielistrash (elijah daniel) - m

ellamai - f

elizabeth.wood - f

emilysteaparty (emily rudd) - f

en_jajaja (enya umanzor) - f

erikalipps - f

eringilfoy - f

ernst (alex ernst) - m

fabiangrayy (fabian gray) - m

feralcreature (eugenie grey) - f

fingermonkey (camille rowe-bel) - f

foxillaa/remeliedj (rebecca fox) - f

froy (froy guiterrez) - m

g1avasis (taylor giavasis) - f

gabi (gabi demartino) - f

gabrielconte - m

gabriella_brooks - f

gemmajanes - f

georgiafowler - f

godhatesmiles (miles mckenna) - m

graciepiscopo - f

griffinarnlund - f

grace_auten - f

haleyluhoo (haley lu richardson) - f

harinef - f

harrisonwebb97 - m

hayden.graye - nb

hayleaulaw - f

hayley_bui - f

heathhussar - m

herizen_fawn (herizen guardiola) - f

holyscum - m

hyulari - f

iamamypham - f

iambeckyg - f

iamkittens (lauren abedini) - f

iamlucascoly - m

ibellapeschardt (isabella peschardt) - f

imaanhammam - f

imbribtw (bri nicole) - f

imcalledconnor (connor samuel john ball) - m

imjennim - f

indyyelich1 (india yelich o’connor) - f

iskra (iskra lawrence)- f

itsalexisnelly - f

j.franciss (jack francis) - m

jacobbix (jacob bixenman) - m

jacobwhitesides - m

jacksonguthy - m

jaerichards - m

jassmineskye - f

jazminegarcia - f

jesserutherford - m

jessicamichel - f

jessica.syj (jessica jung) - f

jessie.li._ (jessie li wang) - f

jessmclements (jessica clements) - f

jin_a_nana (im jin-ah) - f

joeykidney - m

jogia (avan jogia) - m

jona2santos (jonathon dos santos) - m

jordanbunker - m

jordan_fisher - m

joshleviworld (josh levi) - m

jsunghoon (sunghoon jang) - m

jusreign - f

justinemaebiticon - f

kalinwhite - m

kaliuchis - f

kardelenxhy - f

karonbyers - m

kealanaihe (kealamakia naihe) - m

keiynanlonsdale - m

kelliberglund - f

kellybellyboom (kelly gale) - f

kennyjknox - m

kevincinema - m

kevinogarrett - m

kianalede - f

killedthemfortheurl (apple elizabeth drysdale) - f

kiyoko11 (hayley kiyoko) - f

kortajarenajon (jon kortajarena) - m

kristenhancher - f

kristenmcatee - f

kurtisconner - m

laleekley (lauren leekley)   - f

laraghraoui - f

lauijan (lauko farhad) - m

laurengiraldo - f

lewishamilton - m

lia (lia marie-johnson) - f

lilhunnytay (taylor mcdonald) - f

lilyachty - m

lilyrose_depp - f

lindsaydemeola - f

linmick (lindsay vrckovnik) - f

lizakoshy - f

lohanthony (anthony quintal) - m

londonrichards - m

lordemusic (ella yelich-o'connor) - f

lucafersko - m

lucyvives - f

lukasabbat - m

madisonpettis - f

mahoganylox - f

malikoa (mali koa hood) - f

maluma - m

marcbartra - m

matthbennett (matt bennett) - m

mattrking (matt king) - m 

meechonmars (demetrius harmon) - m

meghancurrrie - f

meghanrienks - f

_melton_ (charles melton) - m

mikahlcaci - f

mimielashiry - f

minji_money - f

mirapatelll (mira patel) - f

morguemami (kailee morgue)  - f

msrebeccablack - f

mvkdre (makayla london) - f

mylifeaseva (eva gutowski) - f

mynamesdiana (diana veras) - f

naomigscott - f

nataliacastellarcalvani - f

natalyneri - f

nathanzed - m

neelamkg (neelam gill) - f

neil_milan - m

niki (niki demartino) - f

nisrinasbia - f

nolanzarlin - m

noodz (micah mahinay) - f

nyane (nyané lebajoa) - f

ollyyears (olly alexander) - nb

okaspen (aspen mansfield) - f

palomija (paloma elsesser) - f

pameluft - f

papibrad (brad huffman) - m

partynextdoor - m

paytoncaci - f

pepebarrososilva - m

priyasidhu - f *

pugluvr98 (sydney smith) - f

purp.alpaca (nyla lueeth) - f

pyperbleu (annabelle g) - f

rafaella - f

raury - m

rechellemansour - f

reiflerpaige - f

rheacarter - f

rhodesaaron (aaron rhodes) - m

rhodesaustin (austin rhodes) - m

romanroyale - m

romilhemnani - m

ronniebanks - m

royenglish - m

rudymancuso - m

russ - m

ryandestiny - f

sabs0ul (sabrina avelar) - f

sadeemondino - f

sahlt_ (alycia tyre) - f

sageelsesser - m

salemmitchell - f

samxfazz (sam fazz) - f

sarahbaskaa - f

sebas (sebastián villalobos) - m

sewintabaei - f

shameikmoore - m

sighmike (michael mancari)  - m

simisear_ (simran randhawa) - f

skawngur (nam joo hyuk) - m

slickwoods - f

snitchery (eleanor barnes) - f

sofisolars (sofia solares) - f

sonialeslie - f

_sonofvasco (blake anthony) - m

sonnyturner___ - f

sophiahadjipanteli - f

sora_pppp (park so ra) - f

sorrycody - m

sruthijayadevan - f

standup4justice (justice smith) - m

sterlingbeau (sterling beaumon) - m

sunnysoofiani - f

stevenkelly - m

sydneylcarlson - f

symphanisoto - f

sza - f

tashimrod (tashi rodriguez) - f

thatbohogirl (krithika khurana) - f

thatsheart (heart defensor) - f

thatsojack (jack baran) - m

thecallumalexander - m

thecameronboyce - m

thegabbieshow (gabbie hanna) - f

thegr8khalid (khalid robinson) - m

thekaranbrar - m

theoneprinceton (princeton perez) - m

therealfouz (fouz alfahad) - f

thomasadoherty - m

tinashenow (tinashe) - f

tinawoodsss - f

tom_harlock - m

todderic_ (toddy smith) - m

tonyrevolori - m

trapjes - f

trejsamuels - m

treyrichards - m

trisdhaliwal (tristin dhaliwal) - f

tristful.spirit (justin llarena) - nb

ttylteala (teala dunn) - f

uglyworldwide (jazzelle zanaughtti) - nb

vanessamerrell - f

vanilladingdong (scotty sire)  - m

veronicamerrell - f

victoriavillarroel - f

vivv (vivian benitez) - f

wahlidm (wahlid mohamed) - m

wallisday - f

warukatta (fernanda ly) - f

wavy_ting (chasity renae) - f

weeknds (dominic deangelis) - m

whoiselijah (stephen james) - m

winnieharlow - f

wolftyla - f

xeniaoverdose (xenia van der woodsen) - f

xxxbgdrgn - m

yasminmoonmoon - f 

yourboyfai (fai khadra) - m

yrntakeoff (takeoff from migos) - m

zane (zane hijazi) - m

zionkuwonu - m

zolee_g (zolee griggs) - f

zunai_mayi - f

2jam4u (jam wilson) - nb

[mideastsoccer]

Hints of Gulf rapprochement: Iranian tactics may be paying off

By James M. Dorsey

 A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spreaker, Pocket Casts, Tumblr, Patreon, Podbean and Castbox.

Fears of a potential military conflict with Iran may have opened the door to a Saudi-Iranian dialogue against the backdrop of a rethink of US military logistics, involving at least a gradual partial relocation to the United States of command and control operations based in the Gulf for almost four decades.

 The relocation does not necessarily signal a reduced US commitment to the defense of the strategic energy-rich region even if it comes amid Gulf suspicions that the United States is gradually withdrawing from the Middle East.

 Nonetheless, the move, officially intended to reduce the vulnerability of US military assets to a potential Iranian strike without decreasing the United States’ operational capability, is bolstering a rethink in capitals across Eurasia, including Moscow, Beijing, Tokyo, New Delhi, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh about possible alternative, more collective and multilateral security arrangements in the Gulf.

 The arrangements would involve the Gulf states, Russia, China, the US, the European Union and India as well as other stakeholders, a likely reference to Iran. By necessity, it would require a lowering of tension in the region and a degree of accommodation between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

 Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi urged Gulf states “to establish a platform for dialogue and consultation” in which countries from outside the region would play a role in maintaining security in the region."

 Mr. Wang was speaking days after Iranian president Hassan Rouhani proposed a security arrangement that would be limited to countries in the region.

 In a variation on the theme, Narayanappa Janardhan, a prominent Indian Gulf researcher at the United Arab Emirates’ Emirates Diplomatic Academy, suggested that a new regional security architecture should be Asian-led.

US President Donald J. Trump’s transactional approach towards foreign and defence policies in which countries are expected to shoulder their fair burden and pay for US defense services coupled with the president’s long-standing assertion that China and others dependent on energy supplies from the Gulf are free-riding beneficiaries of the US defence umbrella and his withdrawal early in his presidency from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a regional trade pact, has sparked doubts across Asia about the wisdom of depending on the United States for energy security.

 In a sense, the Gulf states and Asian nations are in a bind. The United States may no longer be reliable but despite the various calls for a new security arrangement few realistically see an alternative.

 “Having just spent three days in Moscow, I’m convinced the Russians haven’t the faintest clue how to operate any architecture in the Gulf...let alone a security architecture,” tweeted Gulf scholar Michael Stephens.

 Concern that military retaliation for last month’s attacks on two key Saudi oil facilities would spark a regional war have sparked a flurry of diplomatic activity and a search for non-military responses as the United States and Saudi Arabia point the finger of responsibility at Iran.

 Iran has warned that military retaliation by the United States and/or the kingdom would spark a war that would spread to the Gulf, including Iranian targeting of installations in the region.

 Mr.. Trump’s cautious reaction to the attacks coupled with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s stated preference for a non-military response constitute the latest developments in recent months that have opened the door to the Chinese-backed Russian proposal for a collective security arrangement that would reduce US influence in the region.

 Saudi and Iranian leaders, in a gleam of hope that the two countries may be inching towards one another, expressed an interest in resolving issues politically rather than militarily.

 “The political and peaceful solution is much better than the military one,” Prince Mohammed told CBS News when asked about a possible military response to the attacks on the kingdom’s oil assets.

 Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani responded saying: "The doors of Iran are open. A Saudi-Iranian dialogue can solve many of the region's security and political problems."

 In a further hopeful development, Saudi Arabia was reported to be considering a partial ceasefire in Yemen. Earlier, the Houthis declared a unilateral halt to the fighting. Mr. Larijani said Iran was advising the Houthis to accept whatever ceasefire was on offer.

 At the  same time, Iraq suggested that it had established a backchannel between Riyadh and Tehran.

 "The Saudis have conditions before the negotiations process starts and the same with Iranians. We have liaised these conditions to each side. It is not an easy task to get together two opposite sides in terms of their ideology, sect and their alliances in the region," said Abbas al-Hasnawi, an official in the office of Iraqi prime minister Adel Abdul Mahdi.

 "Saudi Arabia’s conditions are that Iran minimise its role in Yemen and Syria and stop supporting armed groups such as the Houthis. It also asks the Syrian regime to solve its problems with the Syrian opposition groups, and to write a constitution for Syria with all parties agreeing on it," the official said.

 "If there will be a potential deal in the region that includes Yemen, Syria and Iraq, the Americans have no problem with that," Mr. Hasnawi added.

 While there is every reason to be sceptical despite the noise that Saudi Arabia and Iran are anywhere near resolving their differences, talk of dialogue and calls for a Yemen ceasefire suggest that Iran’s strategy of strategic escalation may be producing results.

 Iran moved earlier this year away from its initial strategic patience response to the US withdrawal from the 2015 international agreement curbing the Islamic republic’s nuclear program to a strategy of gradual escalation.

 Escalation tactics include a step-by-step breaching of the agreement and a more aggressive asymmetric military posture involving the seizing of a British vessel that was released last week, alleged attacks on tankers off the coast of the UAE, and allegedly the attacks on the Saudi oil facilities.

 Said Eldar Mamedov, an advisor to the social-democrats in the European parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee: The “sequence of events shows that, thus far, the Iranian strategy of calculated counter-escalation is working… By escalating on its own, Iran forced a number of key players to change their cost-benefit calculus.”

 Dr. James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at Nanyang Technological University’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, an adjunct senior research fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Middle East Institute and co-director of the University of Wuerzburg’s Institute of Fan Culture

[indieshelpers]

underused or poc face claims for a male that can play a teen?

most of the guys here, from my previous ask, can play a teenage role. other than that, i would suggest these names:

oh sehun

cengiz al

sebastian de souza

uehara vini

simo mohamed elhbabi

mateo arias

chay suede

james reid

ricardo hoyos

park seungjun

verrell brasmata

daniel padilla

chinen yuri

nagase ren

nakajima kento

diego loyzaga

xu minghao

darsheel safary

aramis knight

lu han

darren wang

yang yang

oh heejun

zekeria ebrahimi

chiba yuudai

kishi yuta

hope this helps !!