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Today in Chontent: February 14th (2019)

Kimi, who lost his seat in Ferrari to Charles a few months earlier, tells Motorsport.com the advice he'd give the younger driver.

Source / Jonathan Noble and Roberto Chinchero, Motorsport.com Series / F1, 2019

The Finn has effectively swapped places with Leclerc this year, after signing a multi-year deal to race at the Sauber team that has since been rebranded as Alfa Romeo.

Speaking to Motorsport.com, Raikkonen said that life as a Ferrari driver is much easier if you do not get involved in some of the aspects at Maranello.

“He [Leclerc] knows the team, because he's been with Ferrari for quite a few years now, so you know, it's not like he is going in a new place,” explained Raikkonen. “And he has experience from F1.

“You know, it is a special place to be. It's a bit of hassle at certain times, but that’s how it’s always been, and it’s easier [for him] not to get involved in too many things and just do what he is hired to do.”

Asked whether he suggested that Leclerc do as Raikkonen himself did, the Finn said: “Often we are used to things being done [in a certain way], but in Ferrari sometimes it is a bit [different].

“If that doesn't disturb you, it’s good. Don't get involved and then just do what they ask you. I don't...

“And because he knows the people, you know, he worked with them, so it should be quite easy and smooth.”

Raikkonen also said he only found out about the departure of his former Ferrari boss Maurizio Arrivabene through a friend.

“I think I read it the same like everybody else,” he said. “Or actually I didn't read. My mom's boyfriend asked me "did you see?" I said "no" because we were in Finland, and not interested to see any news.

“I had no idea. And now I have no idea [about] reasons and [it's] not my business to know either and to get involved.”

Speaking about his own prospects for the 2019 season, Raikkonen said that the key for him was to simply enjoy the racing at Alfa Romeo.

“I think for sure here is more relaxed,” he said. “It’s more about racing, and less about politics and bullshit. Generally that’s easier for everybody, you know. I think that’s what everybody prefers, for sure.”

#series:f1 #year:2019 #driver:kimi #vgp:today in chontent #charles leclerc #topic:ferraripolitics #format:article

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'There’s something rather extraordinary at the core of the new Netflix miniseries RIPLEY, based upon the famed 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith. It’s what drives antihero Thomas Ripley (Andrew Scott) to covet the lifestyle of the rich. It has less to do with any glamour and glitz, or even access to Italian villas, fine dining, and tailored clothing, and all to do with sheer relief. The relief that comes from never having to worry about money, the nagging to make more of it, or living the fear of losing it. When con artist Tom Ripley reaches his status of privilege and money, he achieves a zen-like calm, even if he’s achieved his goals via notorious means. It’s access, sure, to better living, finer accommodations, and designer clothes, but mostly it seems to be access to peace of mind that this thief has never known.

And that’s why filmmaker Steven Zaillian’s eight-episode miniseries is so strong. It strips away all the easy things for an audience to drool over in it and concentrates on motive. Why does Tom do what he does? The landscapes and fine wines are incidental. It’s what having money does to his headspace that is dramatized here with such cleverness.

The story remains the same from the book and previous filmed adaptations: Tom Ripley is asked by the wealthy Herbert Greenleaf (Kenneth Lonergan) to convince his prodigal son Dickie (Johnny Flynn) to return to NYC from Italy. But Tom’s introduction to Dickie’s leisurely lifestyle in the coastal city of Atrani turns out to be catnip for his former college classmate.

Still, this is a film about cons and crimes, not country splendor and that is why Zaillian shot his adaptation in black and white. He doesn’t want the camera lusting over sunny days, tanned torsos, and electric nightlife like director Anthony Minghella did with his lingering shots of such things in 1999’s THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY. In Minghella’s film, everything was glamorous, especially bronzed playboy Dickie (Jude Law) and his leonine girlfriend Marge Sherwood (Gwyneth Paltrow). It was easy to see why the impressionable and naïve Tom (Matt Damon) would become so mesmerized. Heck, Damon all but played the character as a kid in a candy store, wanting to gorge himself on everything associated with the one percent.

Not Scott. He plays Tom as a desperate criminal who wants the calm that comes with a fat wallet. And Johnny Flynn and Dakota Fanning, playing Dickie and Marge this go-round, are hardly worth putting on a pedestal. As directed by Zaillain, their rich characters are dead-eyed, soulless zombies. These two world travelers are not bright, nor personable, and far from gorgeous. What they are, are the type of entitled rich kids who sleepwalk through their lives of privilege, so used to daddy’s money that they aren’t impressed by it one iota.

And wow, is this couple lacking in any discernible talent. Dickie wants to be a painter but his work is simply awful, while would-be writer Marge’s poems and prose are wholly mediocre, as are the bland photographs she’s taken during her time in Atrani. Tom likes them less as people and more as aspirational figures; those who never have to scrape and claw to survive. These two dullards just sit around their homes all day with nary a worry. It’s a state of bliss that Tom would love to know. So much so, that he’ll kill to experience it.

The black and white cinematography is Zaillien’s way of showcasing how Ripley delineates his “have and have not” sensibilities. It’s also there to underline the miniseries noir-ish tendencies as once murder enters the frame, the remainder of the series becomes a cat-and-mouse game between Ripley and an intrepid Italian detective ((Maurizio Lombardi) on his trail. The black-and-white palate is also there to underline that this is essentially a dark comedy. It’s pretty funny watching Tom have to continue his life of labor once he starts killing people as it takes a ton of effort to dispose of bodies and keep track of his ever-mounting series of lies. The poor bastard was already huffing and puffing enough as it was simply following Dickie up and down the various staircases they encountered through the winding streets of the city, and now homicide is really making him put in the work!

At times, Scott’s performance recalls a jittery Anthony Perkins in his male ingenue days, but more often than not, his Tom is played close to the vest. Even when Dickie’s loutish friend Freddie (a scene-stealing Eliot Sumner) comes a calling, suspicious about why Dickie has disappeared, Scott’s Tom remains stone cold. And it’s darkly humorous how he returns a square, glass ashtray he weaponizes to its proper place on an end table. He adjusts it just so.

It’s always easy to vilify the rich, of course. and Hollywood has done it time and time again, from YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU in 1938 to SALTBURN this past Christmas. RIPLEY may be the third filmed adaptation of Highsmith’s classic book but I think it’s the best of all of them due to its slyly subtle nastiness and emphasis on Tom’s truest motive. Class warfare has rarely been as apparent as it is here, seen in black and white by both Tom and Zaillian’s camera.'

#Ripley #Netflix #Patricia Highsmith #The Talented Mr Ripley #Andrew Scott #Steven Zaillian #Jude Law #Matt Damon #Gwyneth Paltrow #Dickie Greenleaf #Marge Sherwood #Johnny Flynn #Anthony Minghella #Kenneth Lonergan #Freddie Miles #Eliot Sumner #Maurizio Lombardi

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Ferrari-Raikkonen agreement and Vettel gives his blessing to the choice

The [Prancing] Horse announces the signing for 2016 in advance. Arrivabene: “Stability wins. Now repay us.” The Finn: “I’m ending my career at Maranello.”

Some saw it as a done deal. It had even been defined as “a business for the quoting of Ferrari in Wall Street.” And yet it has always been clear that Valtteri Bottas’ landing in red was anything but simple: the 20 million dollars requested by Williams to release him from an already-signed option danced around. Thus in the end Bottas will not drive for the Horse. Kimi Raikkonen will remain at Maranello next year as well. Yesterday Ferrari caught everyone by surprise with the official announcement. An early move, perhaps to avoid other speculations, since in F1 market games are done in the summer, but then the announcements usually straddle the Italian GP at Monza. Raikkonen’s signing instead happened much earlier, probably the day after the Hungarian GP, beautiful and unfortunate for the Finn.

STABILITY It was understood that Raikkonen’s confirmation was likely, although not certain. The team principal Maurizio Arrivabene never alienated him, trying at most to keep him on his toes to push him into giving his best. Then Sebastian Vettel has always shown a shameless cheering for his teammate, with whom he shares a great friendship. And the technical director James Allison hasn’t pushed against it, despite Raikkonen’s difficulty in adapting to the car or perhaps even because of it. Did it weigh in Kimi’s favour that there was also an assessment of the causes of apparently inexplicable incidents like the tailspin at the hairpin in Canada or the one on the straight in Zeltweg? “We are convinced that Kimi’s confirmation will contribute to give the team stability, counting also on the excellent relationship that binds him to Seb—” Arrivabene comments— “It’s a show of trust on our part which we hope is repaid.”

VERSTAPPEN & CO The fact remains that something must have been unlocked in the last month, bringing about the positive result of the renewal talks and thus the signing. In fact Ferrari had contacted many drivers: not just Bottas, for whom at the end a convenient financial mediation was not achieved with Williams, but also Nico Hulkenberg, Jenson Button and above all Daniel Ricciardo, bound by a long-term contract with Red Bull. Even the young phenomenon Max Verstappen was among the targets: Ferrari tried to immediately snatch him from Helmut Marko, but the baby figlio d’arte* has a contract for 2016 as well that he cannot get out of, so the talk is postponed to 2017 when there will be clauses to exploit. With this (more or less credible) shortlist of candidates, the red [team] could have waited for at least Spa-Francorchamps and Monza, two races which usually change the outcome of the championship and the fate of the drivers, before confirming Raikkonen. But no.

RENEGOTIATION? The acceleration, more than for a lack of alternatives (in the end neither Kimi had them), could therefore be connected to the renegotiation of Raikkonen’s contract, who returned to Ferrari last year with a 2-year contract (2014-2015) which foresaw an option for 2016. It is possible that the Horse managed to not consider that clause, signed when Montezemolo and Domenicali were still at the helm, and discussed Raikkonen’s engagement on other bases. Maybe with a reduction of the fixed part of his salary and an increase of the bonuses connected to results. So that Kimi, currently being paid 11 million euros excluding bonuses, will earn in proportion to the performance he offers next year. Hoping that it's better than the single podium (the second place in Bahrain this year) obtained so far after his return. “Staying at Ferrari for another season means that the dream goes on. For me this is like a family and it is with this team that I want to end my career,” said the 35-year-old Finn yesterday via the press release distributed by the Horse.

NURSERY NO Now it’s up to Kimi, like Arrivabene emphasised, to repay that trust. Already starting with the GP this Sunday in Spa, promised land of the 2007 Ferrari world champion, who has won four times in Belgium: twice with McLaren and twice in his first life at Maranello. We’ll see. There remains however the mourning for a Ferrari that once again does not “risk” and makes a convenient choice, refusing for example to launch a youngster from its nursery (Marciello or Fuoco) next to super Vettel and even going to look for the competition’s foreign talent (Verstappen.) The new management, it is evident, prioritises making a winning car and no longer believes in the project of the Academy of Maranello, whose future at this point seems scratched.

*[A/N: figlio d'arte = someone who's in the same profession as their parents]

#thank you SO MUCH to rednyx-sf for linking me the article and to my friend for the screenshots. teamwork <3 #t #2015 #if you see mistakes pls let me know it's so late i'm sure i missed something #i need this somewhere for... sourcing reasons....

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Mike Patton and the "piadina gate"

CHAPTER 1: THE WAR.

Bologna, 2004.

Mike is in Bologna with the Fantomas. Bologna is located in Emilia Romagna, and one of the typical foods of the region is called Piadina (or piada, colloquially). It's a kind of flatbread filled with cheese and cold cuts (but not only that) and is also sold as street food because it's easy to carry. There was probably a piadina truck around there somewhere.

Min 0:11: Oh! Mi può portare una piadina con la salsiccia? Per favore? Adesso, qua! Mi senti? Oh! Can you bring me a piadina with sausage? Please? Right now, here! Can you hear me?

*dal pubblico: ragazzo 1: una birra! Ragazzo 2: Sei un grande!* *From the audience: Guy 1: a beer! Guy 2: You're awesome!*

Mike: Ok una piada normale, non importa, e una birretta. Okay, just a regular piadina, no problem, and a little beer (Probably the piadina truck didn't have sausage, and they only had the classic piadina with squaquerone cheese and prosciutto di Parma)

*dal pubblico: una birra! Un litro!* *From the audience: a beer! One liter!*

Mike: Ma che buongustai! What gourmets! (LOL I can't get why he said that)

Min 0:47: Siete stronzi! Sì voi, in bianco! Sto parlando a voi! You guys are jerks! Yes, you in white! I'm talking to you! (I'll digress on the term 'Stronzo': in Italian, it literally means 'piece of shit,' but it's less harsh. It's still an insult, make no mistake. However, one of our characteristics is that we have a rich vocabulary of insults and vulgarity, and we insult each other most of the time, so Mike fits right in, LOL).

CHAPTER 2: THE PEACE.

min 0:10: Bella Bologna!: Mike is off to a great start with typical Italian expressions. "Bella" is a kind of greeting, it was widely used by Italian rappers and roughly means "everything's good, all good." It's not directly translatable, as in Italian, "bella" means "beautiful."

Forsa ragassi!: This guy is a true legend. "Forza ragazzi" means "come on, be brave!" but it's an exhortation that we use in a thousand situations. Mike pronounces the 's' and 'z' in the typical Emilian and Romagnol way, as if they were all sibilant 's' sounds. It's something that only a native speaker would be able to do and perceive because it exists only in spoken Italian.

min 0:39: una bella piadina romagnola piena di merda! A lovely Romagnola piadina filled with shit!

min 0:50: È vero che voi chiamate Bologna "la grassa"?: Is it true that you guys call Bologna "the fat one"? ("Bologna the Fat" due to its delicious and hearty cuisine. In Italy, we have nicknames for some of the major cities. Rome is "the Eternal City," Naples is "the City of 500 Domes," and so on. Bologna boasts at least two more nicknames: "the Learned one" (because the first European university was founded here in 1088) and "the Red one" (for its red roofs and walls and, later on, for its political tradition closely aligned with the left).

min 0:56: Allora siete tutti ciccioni? So, are you all chubby? (The crowd of spectators said in unison "yes")

min 1:02: E infatti pensavo così, eh, perché ho visto un ciccionissimo di "Turisti per caso", aquì. E poi c'è Maurizio Costanzo là. And, in fact, I was thinking that way, you know, because I saw a really chubby guy from "Turisti per caso" here. And then there's Maurizio Costanzo over there. (Many years ago, there was a TV show called "Turisti per caso," hosted by a husband and wife. He, Patrizio Roversi, was indeed a bit on the heavier side. However, it's worth noting that Mike might sometimes mix up gender, so he could have been referring to her, Syusy Blady, who was also a bit on the heavier side at that time. Maurizio Costanzo was an important and famous Italian journalist who was known also for being overweight. However, I must clarify that Costanzo probably wasn't really at the concert LOL. BTW, Mike said "aquì" and it's spanish, in italian is "qui").

min 03:12: The piadina vendor gets on stage and brings Mike a piadina and beer.

min 04:10: Grazie di nuovo, ci vediamo alla prossima! Stamme bene, ciao! Thank you again, see you next time, take care, bye! ("Stamme bene" is indeed in Roman dialect. Who knows, maybe he was already close to ZU band, LOL. To make it grammatically correct it should be "Statemi bene" cos "stammi" is singular).

Mike and the piadina vendor hug each other.

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Him 7

Maurizio Gucci x Reader

The decision and the chaos that came with it

Pt 1 Pt 2 Pt 3 Pt 4 Pt 5 Pt 6

Trigger Warning there is some violence in this chapter (not against the reader)  so proceed with caution.

After that day Maurizio proved himself as a co-parent and a friend. But it was not easy with him divorcing his wife In your head, when he was legally single it would mean more to build a romantic relationship.It was the weeks leading up to your birth date when he again asked you to move in with him, insisting this was in the best interest of co-parenting. It definitely would be easier for the first few months with the baby but you were still hesitant fighting him every time the topic was brought up.                                                                                                                                                                        

“ Y/N if you move in then I will always be there to help you with the baby right away rather than having to wait for me to arrive.” Maurizio said, trying to convince you to move in. 

“What about the nursery I spent so long getting together, all the stuff in my place, and my view from my penthouse?” Y/N says making up any excuses of why not to move in, scared about the type of commitment this was.

“You do know that you made us buy duplicates of everything so that wherever the baby was they would have all the same things?” Maurizio said, rolling his eyes as he realizes you are trying to use any excuse at this point.

“Oh I forgot about that, but since you brought it up, all that stuff would go to waste,” you say pouting with the best puppy eyes you could muster up.

Having enough of this conversation he admits defeat for today barking, “It will be better for the baby and you know that, so I'm giving you till the end of the week to decide.” Maurizio says getting up from the kitchen counter and slamming your door on his way out, leaving you in your thoughts. 

“Ugh why am I fighting this, I want to live with him and be a family but there is something holding me back. It's not like I have to give up my penthouse, I will always have it, it's not that I don't want to be in a relationship, because he treats me like I hang the stars in the sky and it’s not because of his almost ex wife, because she is dead to him.” And like an intrusive thought, you finally face the real reason why you don’t want to move in. You are scared of relying on someone else and to trust that they have pure intentions. Your family and friends are the only ones who have given you support like this and to trust a man that is essentially only your baby daddy is scaring you shit-less. You think if it doesn't work out then you are co-parenting separately or worse case scenario alone, which you had planned for most of this pregnancy. But your mind wanders to the good that could happen. You could fall deeper in love with Maurizio and maybe end up married with more kids growing old together on the italian countryside. 

But you couldn't keep yourself from that just because of a built up fear. So you decided to go to his penthouse and apologize, be honest about your fears, and accept his invitation. Bundling up for the fall chill, you hop into your town car and head to Maurizio’s unannounced. 

Arriving you say hello to the door man and make your way up the elevator, letting yourself in with your key he had given you. Just as you were about to shout and see where he was you heard raised voices arguing in the den. And as quietly as a 8 month pregnant woman can, you creep over to see what was happening, letting your nosiness get the best of you. But the scene in front of you shocked you into confusion, not expecting to see Patrizia on her knees begging Maurizio to take her back.

 “I will forgive you and even love that bastard child. Just come back now”, she grovels at his feet. Looking unamused Maurizio says, “Stop this, I only allowed you in because you promised you would say your final requests so we can be done with this mess. We are never getting back together and you are impeding me from starting my life with Y/N. The second our divorce is finalized I'm taking the ring I have for Y/N and proposing. Her and my children are the only things that matter and you need to come to terms with that.” Maurizio shrugs her off and turns his back to her as he goes to the bar to pour himself a drink. And as if a demon had possessed her Patrizia, reaches in her bag, pulls out a kitchen knife, and charges in his direction screaming like a rabid animal. 

Everything was moving in slow motion as her first stab wound landed on his shoulder but after the second stab slashed his forearm Y/N pulled out her revolver from her bag and announced her presence with a loud “BITCH, drop the knife.” and although she was shaking she held her hard face that halts Patrizia’s movements, allowing Maurizio to stumble away but not being able to get very far before he collapses. Patriza was still for a second longer before lunging at Y/N screaming “YOU RUINED MY LIFE” and before she could take another step, Y/N shot Patrizia in the leg immobilizing her and allowing the knife to slide away from her hand. Quickly kicking it farther, you reach for the phone to call 911 with the gun still pointed at Patrizia. 

When the police confirm they are on the way you check in on Maurizio to see if he is seriously hurt. Smacking him awake, he responds with a groan making you release a sigh of relief.

“Maurizio, stay awake for me honey, help is on the way.” You say applying pressure to his wound to help slow down the bleeding. “Y/N baby what are you doing here, it’s not safe for you to be here” he panics not realizing you are the one who stopped Patrizia 

“It’s okay Maurizio calm down Patrizia is subdued.” You say trying to make him stay still so he doesn’t further stress his body

“Oh this isn’t over yet you slut” Patrizia says trying to get up. “Move an inch and both legs will have a bullet through them” you warn her keeping her in place.

Finally after what seems like an eternity the police and paramedics arrive taking care of both of them and taking down your account of what happened. Quickly recounting the scene you walked in on and why you were there, they thanked you for talking with them and insisting that you should go with Maurizio to the hospital and that they will contact you if they need anything else. 

The chaos that was going on in the ambulance distracted you from the slight cramps you were feeling in your abdomen. Then the 4 hours you were waiting in the hospital waiting room felt like years as you chastised yourself for being so stubborn and not agreeing to live with Maurizio and maybe being there to prevent all of this. As you were about to enter your 7,000th guilt ridden thoughts you heard your name being called by a nurse, causing you to snap your head up and scramble towards the door.

As you walk to his room you barely hear anything the nurse says, just ready to see and make sure Maurizio is okay. Finally arriving you see a groggy Maurizio taking in his surroundings barely paying any mind to the doctor who was tracking how he was doing.

“Maurizio”you say, breaking him out of his trance quickly making your way over as he says a quiet “Y/N” trying his best to get up but not being able to. You quickly nudge him back down and take in his appearance making sure he is truly okay before smashing yourself into him finally allowing yourself to cry.

“Y/n baby I’m okay, just a little banged up but because of you I’m here” Maurizio says as he does his best to comfort you with his least injured arm. “You don’t understand how scared I was, thinking you would die before you could meet our son or before I could tell you I love you too” Y/N says through tears. “Is it the meds or did you just say you loved me”, Maurizio says unsure if he heard her correctly “I love you Maurizio and I have but I am scared of all the things that come with loving you, " you say sitting up and staring him in the eye.

Maurizio’s eyes light up like he won the lottery saying ,”FINALLY!  I promise every fear you have will be erased just believe in me and come give me a kiss princess! Maurizio says overcome with uncontrollable joy.

Leaning in you engage in a deep kiss, breaking it to say, “I hope you know you are moving into my penthouse, yours is kinda tainted”, replaying the events that happened hours prior in your head. With a light chuckle and eye roll Maurizio says, “Whatever you say princess”, happily bringing you back into a lip lock.

Okay I’m trying to finish this story because the cliff hanger I left y’all on for a year plus was so wrong. Also he will not be dying in this story🤷🏾‍♀️ but next chapter should be the last.

#maurizio gucci x reader #adcu #adcu fanfiction #black reader #poc reader #house of gucci #tw violence

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Attosecond core-level spectroscopy reveals real-time molecular dynamics

Chemical reactions are complex mechanisms. Many different dynamical processes are involved, affecting both the electrons and the nucleus of the present atoms. Very often the strongly coupled electron and nuclear dynamics induce radiation-less relaxation processes known as conical intersections. Such dynamics, which are at the basis of many biological and chemical relevant functions, are extremely difficult to experimentally detect.

The problem arises when one tries to simultaneously trace the nuclear and electronic motion, as their dynamics are hard to disentangle and they occur at comparable ultrafast timescales. That is why, in the past few years, capturing the molecular dynamical evolution in real-time has turned into one of the most burning challenges shared by physicists and chemists.

However, in a recent Nature Photonics publication, ICFO researchers Dr. Stefano Severino, Dr. Maurizio Reduzzi, Dr. Adam Summers, Hung-Wei Sun, Ying-Hao Chien led by the ICREA Prof. at ICFO Jens Biegert, together with theory support by Dr. Karl Michael Ziems and Prof. Stefanie Gräfe from the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, have presented a powerful tool based on attosecond core-level spectroscopy to investigate molecular dynamics in real-time, which is capable to overcome the aforementioned challenges.

They have benchmarked their method tracing the evolution of gas-phase furan, an organic molecule made of carbon, hydrogen and one oxygen arranged in a pentagonal geometry. Its cyclic structure gives this kind of species the name of chemical “ring”. The choice was not arbitrary, as furan is the prototypical system for the study of heterocyclic organic rings, the essential constituents of many different day-to-day products such as fuels, pharmaceuticals or agrochemicals. Knowing their dynamics and relaxation processes is thus of huge importance.

Life history of furan unlocked

The team was able to time-resolve the details of the entire ring-opening dynamics of furan, that is, the fission of the bond between one carbon and the oxygen, which breaks its cyclic structure. To do it, they had to track the so-called conical intersections (CI), ultrafast gateways between different energy states that furan undertakes in its evolution towards ring-opening.

In their experiment, a light beam (the pump pulse) first excited the furan molecule. Then, an attosecond and much weaker pulse (the probe) was used to monitor the pump-induced changes in the sample. After the initial photoexcitation, the three expected conical intersections were located in time by analysing the changes in the absorption spectrum as a function of the delay between pump and probe. The appearance and disappearance of absorption features, as well as their oscillatory behaviour, provide signatures of the changes in the electronic state of furan.

On top of that, they could see that the passage through the first CI transition generates a quantum superposition between the initial and final electronic states, which manifested in the form of quantum beats. This ultrafast-phenomenon, which can only be explained using quantum theory, was extremely hard to identify in previous experiments. The second CI was in principle even more challenging to capture, as the final electronic state does not emit nor absorb photons (it is an optically dark state) and thus its detection through conventional methods is extremely demanding. Nevertheless, in this case their platform performed the task as well as before.

After that, the ring-opening was supposed to occur and the team’s equipment was victorious again in its detection.  The passage of the molecule from a closed to an open ring geometry implies a symmetry breaking that is imprinted in the absorption spectrum. The spectroscopic tool used by the researchers demonstrated to be extremely sensitive to the nuclear structure, and the ring-opening manifested itself as the appearance of new absorption peaks.

Finally, the molecule relaxed into the ground state (the lowest molecular orbital available) through the third conical intersection, whose transition was again accurately time-resolved.

The success of attosecond core-level absorption spectroscopy

All in all, Biegert and his group have proposed and successfully reported on a new analytical methodology to unveil the complex and intricated process that is molecular ring opening in its native ultrafast timescale. The combined high temporal resolution and coherent energy spectrum of their cutting-edge technique allowed them not only to track the transitions of furan across conical intersections, but also to identify electronic and nuclear coherences, quantum beats, optically dark states and symmetry changes, providing an extremely detailed picture of the whole relaxation process.

It is important to highlight that the power of attosecond core-level spectroscopy is not limited to this particular molecule, but consists in a general tool designed to be employed with other species too. Therefore, this new mechanism can bring to light the complex dynamics of relevant functions, such as the photoprotection mechanism of the DNA basis. Furthermore, the researchers identify the manipulation of efficient molecular reaction and energy relaxation dynamics as some of the most promising applications for their work.

IMAGE....Artistic illustration portraying the ring-opening dynamics of the furan molecule. ©ICFO / EllaMaru Studio. Credit ICF0/ EllaMaru Studio

#science #space #astronomy #physics #news #nasa #esa #astrophysics

[blorbocedes]

i love seb with all my heart and i started following f1 (as a ferrari fan) when he was still slaying in ferrari, just to say that i am not biased /against/ him. but ever since monza 2018 seb started underperforming pretty badly, as in spinning and crashing (all the ''sbinnala'' memes come from that) and it was not even about the car flopping bc the 2018 ferrari was a GREAT car, a championship contender car! even kimi won and set poles with that car (kimi was always a beast but his second ferrari stint was a lot less consistent than what his previous level was) so seb kinda.... lost that one on his own. and when charles came in 2019 the difference between the 2 drivers was even worse - charles setting poles and scoring podiums right away while seb was REALLY struggling...... if you see the points difference between the two of them in 2019/2020 you can get pretty clearly how bad seb was doing. so no, i am not sure at all (the opposite actually) that seb would have done better than carlos on the track. carlos did better than charles in 2021 (seb never did) and was never that far from him in 2022 as seb was in 2019/20. and no, ferrari HAD issues in dealing with them on the track with team orders and generally keeping the calm between them. just look at what happened in brazil 2019 lol. and in general all the vibes from the team then were pretty rancid tbh. seb and binotto didn't really like each other and didn't bother to hide it. charles was kinda in the middle of that but he also was kinda insane on track and hated coming behind seb and couldn't hide it at all (and f1twt was really 😬 seb really was the chirlies first victim). say what you want about carlos but ever since he came in the team they never had the kind of on-track problems that seb and charles had. or the general bad vibes and resentment in the team. so to make it short: seb dramatically underperformed and really couldn't fit in the team. i still love him completely. no one will ever love ferrari as he did.

i do admit I'm biased because I've only seen sebrarri slay years, i.e when he was the only championship contender to the mercs....... so this is very informative thank you!

rip seb, the first chirlie victim, you died so santander conspiracies could live

it's really such a shame considering how devoted to ferrari seb was... also can't help but compare how mattia treated him vs maurizio and ofc christian

#ferrari seb #blorbocedes ask

[beguines]

The worker exists as a mere possibility "outside of the conditions of its existence". The worker "has his needs in actuality", but "the activity of satisfying them is only possessed by him as a non-objective [gegenstandslose] capacity (a possibility) confined within his own subjectivity". This conjunction of potentiality and actuality allows capital to insert itself as "the social mediation as such, through which the individual gains access to the means of his reproduction". The worker is not merely a nothing, but, in a sense, she is less than nothing: not only is she excluded from the conditions of her existence (she is absolutely poor), she also owes her future to capital. The worker-subject is an indebted subject; under capitalism, life itself comes with an obligation to valorise value, and for this reason "the worker belongs [gehört] to capital before he has sold himself to the capitalist". As Marx perceptively notes, the accumulation of capital is "a stockpiling of property titles to labour", or, put differently:

"a draft on future labour. As such, it is a matter of indifference whether this exists in the form of tokens of value, debt claims, etc. It may be replaced by any other title. Like the state creditor with his coupons, every capitalist possesses a draft on future labour in his newly acquired value, and by appropriating present labour he has already appropriated future labour. The accumulation of capital in the money form is by no means a material accumulation of the material conditions of labour. It is rather an accumulation of property titles to labour."

At the most basic level, then, capital engages not only with present, but also with future labour, and "by means of the appropriation of ongoing labour [it] has already at the same time appropriated future labour". The debt incurred by the worker at birth is thus a kind of transcendental debt in the sense that it forms a part of the necessary conditions of possibility for social reproduction in a society ruled by the logic of capital. This debt is the continuing presence of the historical origins of capitalism; the existence of the past in the present. The historical creation of the capital relation was the original incurring of a debt inherited by every new generation of proletarians. As Maurizio Lazzarato explains, debt is, at its basis, a "promise of payment". From this perspective, surplus labour is a kind of interest the worker has to pay in order to live: "the wage-worker has permission […] to live only insofar as he works for a certain time gratis for the capitalist", as Marx puts it. This transcendental debt is the basis for interestbearing capital, in which:

"[a]ll wealth that can ever be produced belongs to capital […], and everything that it has received up till now is only a first instalment for its 'all engrossing' appetite. By its own inherent laws, all surplus labour that the human race can ever supply belongs to it, Moloch."

Søren Mau, Mute Compulsion: A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital

#søren mau #mute compulsion

[thommi-tomate]

Mario on Playmaker Podcast:

My career has been a brutal rollercoaster ride. I've been carried on my hands by people and celebrated by the whole of Germany, but I've also been an absolute bogeyman, booed by 70,000 people at an international home game

The diversity in my career has made me a bit like what I am today. In retrospect, you have to say that all the difficult moments have helped me a lot

I am convinced that you can only be successful if you are a good group. Perhaps these are also the German virtues that we always talk about. For example, this signal straddle, where the whole stadium now understands that he has given his all, is a myth

There are also players who are totally driven by their ego

You can't say that the center forward, who runs less than the six-man, gives less to the team. That's a completely different role

The boys are all self-made companies. The clubs need to understand that the players are now much bigger than the clubs.

(In this context, Mario recalls his childhood as a fan of Eintracht Frankfurt. When the coach at the time kicked out the three attacking players Jay-Jay Okocha, Maurizio Gaudino and Anthony Yeboah, he remained an Eintracht fan despite the less attractive attacking football that followed)

That doesn't happen anymore. Instead, the young fans are at the start with the players and go along with them. A lot of kids wear a Paris Mbappé jersey, but they often don't even know what Paris Saint-Germain is

#mario gomez

[watching-pictures-move]

Movie Review | The Big Racket (Castellari, 1976)

I’m no expert on poliziotteschi, but from the handful I’ve seen, it strikes me that they have no shortage of queasy morality and gleeful cruelty. My favourites would be The Italian Connection, in which a sleazy, two-bit pimp played by Mario Adorf (doing his own stunts and looking like he might die of a heart attack in the process) ends up being our hero, and The Tough Ones AKA Rome, Armed to the Teeth, which plays as an almost free-associative series of cop vs crook violence, Maurizio Merli and Tomas Milian trying to outdo each other in sadism as the movie escalates. This one, the second in the genre directed by Enzo G. Castellari that I’ve seen (after The Heroin Busters, with which this shares some terrific action direction), has its share of cruelty as well, largely meted out by a group of truly loathsome villains. We first meet them during the opening sequence, where they’re geared up in fearsome helmets as they mete out some pretty excessive property damage. The aesthetic choices here, between their wardrobe, the eerie red and yellow lighting, the slow motion and the blaring prog rock freakout on the soundtrack courtesy of Guido and Maurizio De Angelis (whose work here sometimes resembles a wilder and woollier version of “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”), suggest that this a newer, more vicious breed of criminal, totally beyond the pale of ordinary criminality.

And certainly, they make good on that promise, graduating pretty quickly from property damage to actual violence, sexual assault, murder and the works. A lot of this is relished by Castellari, starting with a great shot where the hero is trapped in a car that’s rolled over by the villains, the camera’s view spinning along with the body of the car as the hero gets roughed up inside. One scene of sexual violence is particularly ugly, but another earlier in the movie is handled with a bit of tact, conveyed with a somewhat touching and elegant shot of the camera refocusing to suggest the span from the victim’s rape to the discovery of her corpse by her father.

Now, with criminals this vicious, you’re gonna need a hero willing to go the limit, and we get that with Fabio Testi, towering over many of the other cast members as if his height correlates to his moral certitude. You’re not gonna get a nuanced view of police accountability in this genre, but to the movie’s credit, Testi is shown to be compassionate towards the victims and even tries to work with a relatively harmless criminal played by Vincent Gardenia to bust the criminals through less forceful means. At one point the villains disguise themselves as Marxists to stir up trouble, which probably betrays the movie’s politics, but it does try to mitigate this, with Testi insisting that these criminals have nothing to do with real leftist politics. And another scene where they incite mob violence against Gardenia’s son arguably positions their criminality as a social problem. So I didn’t find this as noxious as it could have been.

But ultimately, Testi has to go beyond the law and recruit a team, most of whom have been impacted by the villains personally, to take them out once and for all. And the gunplay here, both in a vicious train station shootout and the shooting gallery warehouse climax, is thunderous in its impact. The echoing of the rifle shots, the sometimes bruising editing, the sheer loudness of the gunfire (the violence feels as much sonic as physical), the liberal use of squibs combine to give every shot fired an entire movie’s worth of rage.

#film #movie review #the big racket #enzo g. castellari

[maiemorrae]

6 OC Question Tag Game

Don't mind me, just joining in on a cool thing I saw @amaiguri doing. The hardest part is deciding who to do this on, I love all my little guys too much.

Hmmm... I think for this I'll actually go for a slightly less obvious choice and go with Alexander Sinclair.

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Give me 5 words to describe your OC, or a picture, even better!

Gregarious, Loyal, Kind, Patient, and Talented. I don't exactly have a drawn picture of him, but I do have a sim version of him... that counts right?

Who inspired your OC?

So Alexander was very much inspired by Cullen Rutherford from the Dragon Age series of games. Add in a dash of Kaiden Alenko as well.

A song to define your OC

I'd have to say this song will almost always get me to think of Alexander. Just because of the warm feelings of love and cherishing of each other that the song has. I very rarely think of Alexander without Ellis, the two are just so intertwined in my mind and this song will always evoke those feelings for me of their love for each other.

If 1 met your oc on the street how would they greet me?

He'd greet you with a polite smile, asking "How do you do?" or if it seemed you needed it, he would ask if you required assistance with anything.

Can your oc be your best friend? Why?

Alexander is someone I would love to have as my best friend. To have someone by my side that would be there to help when I need it, or to simply support me during hard times? I don't think anyone could ask for a better friend. Though I don't know how much he would approve of my interest in supernatural topics lol.

1 adjective and 1 noun to describe your oc

A Gentle Guardian

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Have a repost of the questions if you want to do this for your OC

Give me 5 words to describe your OC, or a picture, even better!

Who inspired your OC?

A song to define your OC

If I met your oc on the street how would they greet me?

Can your oc be your best friend? Why?

1 adjective and 1 noun to describe your oc

#writblr #tag game #luctine #original character #Aleksandr Sinclair #writing #oc #Spotify

[antimonyandthyme]

Thank you @astronomical-light and @cuetheviolins for the tag!

Rules: Post the first lines of your last 10 fics posted to AO3. (Sort by date posted.) If you have less than 10 fics posted, post what you have.

Make Sound

Fernando wasn’t expecting to like him much. 

Waylaid Plans

Maurizio smelled it, as soon as he stepped into the presser. 

divest, attach

Sebastian always looked so lovely like that. 

Sized You Up Just Fine

Lewis gets the idea in the shower. 

The World is Yours

“No,” Fernando says.

won’t you bring me whiskey, and run your fingers through my hair

His pussy gapes messily and it makes his ears burn. 

That’s Subatomic, Baby

At seven years, he pulls a cookie from the top shelf, and cries as it crumbles before he can even take a bite. 

My Own Soul’s Warring

George gives him a couple of hours after the announcement, considerate as always. 

Surety in the Sand

“In the past, it was common for children to keep a Baku talisman by their bedside.” 

The Kind of Crash That Lifts

It’s Michael’s doing, for sure. 

No pressure tagging! @loveisworry, @sebrrari, @double-diffuser, @azzy421, @thelittlebirdthatkeptsomanywarm and anyone else who wants to do this!

#athy texts #me with a magnifying glass: #i like short sentences for openers it seems #fanfic

[beardedmrbean]

Four men were charged over the alleged theft of a gold toilet valued at $5.95 million, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Monday.

Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan’s piece, titled “America”, vanished overnight in 2019 while on display at the birthplace and ancestral home of Winston Churchill. The fully functioning 18-carat gold toilet — created as a pointed social commentary on excessive wealth and greed — was part of an art installation at Blenheim Palace, near the city of Oxford.

At the time, local police said that the theft caused "significant damage and flooding" because the toilet had been connected to the palace plumbing system. The country house, built in Oxfordshire, England, in the early 1700s, is the principal residence of the Dukes of Marlborough.

The four men, who are accused of burglary and conspiracy to transfer criminal property, will appear at Oxford Magistrates' Court on Nov. 28, 2023.

Cattelan also created that duct-taped banana that went viral in 2019 after going on display at Art Basel in Miami. ______________

Ok so it was a art project not something that was actually ever there and in use.

That's far less awful.

#nunyas news

[didanawisgi]

#folic acid #vitamins #psychiatry #family medicine

[gofigureelectra]

NHK Trophy 22 - Men’s Starting Order and Predictions

1. Shoma Uno - as long as he can skate with ~1.5 errors or less, he should easily take the gold even on anyone else’s best day. If he is in the same condition or better than he has been this season already, we should be in for a treat this weekend 🙏🏻

2. Junhwan Cha - if, and that’s a big if, he can skate clean — without <s, he really has been having a moment this season and I think he can carry it all the way to 4CC and Worlds. And today is his first test among this tough field.

3. Adam Siao Him Fa - especially riding high off of his 🥇 at home, combined with his great package of programs and an attentive audience, Adam could really make some magic. We will just have to watch out for some of his squirelier jumps.

More than anything with this field of men, including 6 current Grand Prix series medalists, it’s going to come down to cleanliness and who can maintain their Base Value. Not only is this field of men talented, but it is inconsistent. That means that regardless of what is on my predictions list, and even what happens in the SP, we will likely see an entirely different result come Saturday.

4. Sota Yamamoto — he has been looking the best he has in his entire career this season, and I want to believe that he can lay down another great competition here in front of a home crowd.

5. Matteo Rizzo - my boy, I think sadly even though I love him, and he has been not only upping his tech content but his consistency… but I don’t think it will either be enough (or consistent, with positive enough goes) for him to pull off a 2nd-4th placement. I sure hope he proves me wrong though!

6. Kazuki Tomono - again, I’m really looking forward to him hopefully making me eat my words. But a tendency to pop or flop means I do not have high hopes for a clean program, even if it’ll be one of my favorites of the night.

7. Gabriel Frangipani - he has had a strong season so far, and if he can keep it up, he is my pick to slide into any openings left by unclean skates.

8. Maurizio Zandron - he is my wildcard in this group, especially considering this is his Grand Prix debut (and I don’t believe he’s been super active in the challengers this season). Here’s hoping he can continue the momentum and growth he built on last year.

While I love the next 4 skaters, it is literally a coin flip for all 4 of them whether they will pop a jump, completely splat on another — and there is no ceiling to how much BV the 4 of these men have the potential to lose. I genuinely hope all 4 of them skate clean and prove me wrong, because they have some really great qualities as individual skaters (and at least some of their programs…). The good news is that it would be hard for any of them to do worse than their first Grand Prix… but I would honestly bet money that the 4 of them will place 9-12th in the final standings.

9. Conrad Orzel

10. Nika Egadze

11. Stephen Gogolev

12. Tomoki Hiwatashi - I will say, I can’t wait to hear Tomoki speak a lil Japanese in the kiss and cry 🥺

#nhk trophy #figure skating #mens figure skating #Grand Prix figure #IsU figure #nhk trophy 2022 #Shoma Uno #junhwan cha #team Japan #team South Korea #adam siao him fa #team france #Sota Yamamoto #Kazuki Tomono