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brèves images de l'olympique cette saison /// short images of the olympique's season

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Korea 1930 - South Korea 2019

The Handmaiden directed by Park Chan-Wook (2016)

Parasite directed by Boon Joon-Ho (2019)

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TYLA

66th Grammys

styled by Lee Trigg

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Nova Twins at the 2023 Brit Awards

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Bracket Winner: The Faves

Oilbird (Steatornis caripensis)

"They are the only nocturnal, flying, fruit-eating bird in the world." (The kakapo, also nocturnal, is flightless) - Wikipedia

eBird sightings: 3,559; IUCN Redlist Rating: Least Concern

Beaten: Blakiston's Fish Owl, African Penguin, Bonin Petrel, Pygmy Nuthatch, Rook

Also known locally as the guácharo, these birds are the only extant member of their family and order. Fossils of other oilbirds have been found, but this species is the only one that has survived until the present era. They've got excellent eyesight and use it to find fruit, but oilbirds also use echolocation to help navigate. As they've been found to roost and nest in caves, this is likely the most important place for their echolocation.

These birds got their name from the fact the chicks are so heavy with fat that they made good lanterns. Most flying birds are heaviest before leaving the nest, but oilbird chicks weigh up to 21 oz, which is substantially heavier their adult weight of 12-17 oz.

Venezuela's first national monument is The Guacharo Cave, sitting as a centerpiece of its national park. According to some estimates there may be 15,000 or more birds living there.

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Images: Full Body (Óscar Meneses); Portait (Andres Vasquez Noboa)

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ITS MY BIRTHDAY!!! HUZZA

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RvB Ship Bracket Winners Round 1:

showdown 16!

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Kartiki Gonsalves’ documentary debut, “The Elephant Whisperers,” shines a spotlight on the ways in which climate change and human encroachment are rapidly destroying the habitats of Asian elephants. The film’s dire warning is subtly woven into a heartfelt narrative about forging family in unlikely places with elephant caretakers Bomman and Bellie at its core. The duo raise an orphaned elephant named Raghu, whom they’ve cared for since infancy, as well as another calf named Ammu. 

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Within one week Australia gave us this guy

and now there’s this guy

A trans-identified male has taken home the championship at the Australian Women’s Classic golf tour which took place at the Bonvile Golf Resort in New South Wales this weekend.

Breanna Gill, a trans-identified male, made off with a women’s professional golfing trophy and a large cash prize. While WPGA Tour of Australia stated that it was Gill’s first professional win, he has dominated competitions in the past. In 2019, Gill was named the New Zealand Professional Women Golfers Trust Pro-Am champion.

The year prior, in 2018, Gill was named the “first woman” to win an official women’s professional golf tournament held in the South Pacific Islands after taking home the Pro-Am title at the New Caledonia Deva Golf Resort.

On Twitter, WPGA Tour of Australasia posted multiple photos of Gill holding the prize, and even changed their Twitter account header to a picture of Gill, but were met with overwhelming backlash as users piled into their replies to denounce them for allowing a male to participate in the women’s tournament.

Some name-dropped Danni Vasquez, the female golfer who placed second, as the “true winner” of the competition. Vasquez and Gill were in stride throughout the match, and the winner was ultimately decided after they faced each other in a sudden death playoff.

WPGA Tour of Australasia quickly locked down their replies section as negative sentiment flowed in, preventing public comments. The users who had been able to slip in their replies before the setting was changed on the tweet have since all had their comments “hidden” by WPGA Tour of Australasia.

“Why are men allowed in women’s sports? Why has a woman been cheated of her prize,” Haringey ReSistersasked as one of the few users who had been able to leave comments prior to WPGA Tour of Australasia turning their replies off. 

“This is not fair. Keep men out of women’s sport,” Speak Up For Women responded.

“This is cheating you are allowing someone with a known male physical advantage to steal females prizes [and] prize money that should be theirs! It’s sex discrimination [and] shameful inequality in sport, a physical activity,” Olympian Sharron Davies added in a quote-retweet.

Riley Gaines, a spokeswoman for the Independent Women’s forum and an accomplished All American swimmer, also brought attention to Gill’s trophy-kissing photo, condemning WPGA Tour of Australasia with a cutting remark. 

“Who’s surprised a male is being recognized as the ‘winner’ in the women’s category… you’re right @WPGATour, real nerves of steel,” Gaines wrote.

As of the writing of this article, there are over 2,600 overwhelmingly negative quote-retweets compared to just 95 ‘likes’ on WPGA Tour of Australasia’s tweet about Gill. 

Women’s athletic competitions have become a major issue in the debate on gender ideology and its impact on women.

The issue mounted in public attention after a trans-identified male swimmer, Lia Thomas, began breaking women’s records and winning medals intended for female athletes in 2021. Since then, there have been several instances of trans-identified male athletes taking the podium in women’s sporting events. But multiple cases of resistance by female athletes and their allies have also been recorded.

Last week, Reduxx reported that a male powerlifting coach in Canada self-identified into a women’s category in order to mock the gender self-identification policies. Avi Silverberg, a powerlifting expert who has worked with Team Canada, participated as a woman at the Heroes Classic Powerlifting Meet held in Lethbridge, Alberta, in order to highlight the unfair advantage males have when competing in women’s athletics.

In February, a young women’s basketball team made international headlines after withdrawing from their state tournament in protest of a trans-identified male being on the opposing team. The Mid Vermont Christian School Eagles (MVCS) forfeited their playoff game against the Long Trail School Mountain Lions (LTS) after learning that LTS star player Rose Johnson is male, and have since been banned from participating in state competitions.

While fairness and opportunity have been cited as primary causes of the backlash against “inclusive” sport policy, others have also noted that women or girls competing against male athletes would be at higher risk for injury. 

Last week, thousands of complaints were submitted to Football New South Wales in Australia after a trans-identified male reportedly left multiple female players injured after competing in the female leagues. One female player allegedly had to seek medical attention as a result of her injuries.

After some digging I found that it’s another older man in women’s sports

While Danni is within that range Gill is 32

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DALLAS — As the crowd roared with displeasure, Caitlin Clark’s jaw dropped. Mouth agape, she looked stunned as she walked toward the Iowa bench. She held her palms up as if to ask: What did I do?

For some, the lasting image of the 2023 women’s basketball national championship game will be Kim Mulkey’s tears of joy or Angel Reese taunting Clark in the final seconds. For me, it’s the absurdity of the technical foul levied against Clark for casually flipping a basketball behind her back. The foul, Clark’s fourth, put the most exciting player in the sport on the bench with 63 seconds left in the third quarter. LSU thoroughly outplayed Iowa on Sunday, but that’s not what everyone was buzzing about afterward.

Women’s basketball deserves better. It deserves better officiating. It deserves smarter commentary from the peanut gallery. Most of all, it deserves to be treated as the serious sport it is.

There were 37 fouls called in 40 minutes of play on Sunday, split evenly between the teams. Both LSU and Iowa endured ticky-tack calls that forced their best players to ride the bench in the biggest game of their lives. Reese missed the entire second quarter due to a couple of early foul calls. Clark picked up two early, too — called for push-offs, not even on the defensive end of the floor. “I thought they called it very, very tight,” she said afterward. “Obviously, foul trouble is not really what you want in a national championship game.”

Iowa head coach Lisa Bluder went even further, saying that she was most frustrated because the officials weren’t even listening to her on the court. Three of her five starters began the fourth quarter on the bench. Her counterpart at LSU, Kim Mulkey, seemingly had much more success working the refs; she was never T’d up despite walking onto the court many times and even making physical contact with an official.

Kim Mulkey made contact with an official and nothing happened! https://t.co/gSmyOQxNlU

— Nicole Auerbach (@NicoleAuerbach) April 2, 2023

It was, in a word, embarrassing.

The players did not deserve such a poorly and inconsistently officiated game. The coaches didn’t, either. And the sellout crowd and record-setting number of fans tuning in to watch Clark and Reese (9.9 million, ESPN said in a release Monday) did not pay for those tickets or turn on their television sets to see stoppage after stoppage and hear the screeching of the whistle.

“From a fan standpoint, there was enormous disappointment with how the game was officiated because the best players were not playing,” said John Adams, former NCAA national coordinator of men’s basketball officiating. “Having that level of officiating in that type of game, I think, really hurt the meteoric rise of women’s basketball. There is not perfect officiating anywhere ever, but, man, that was awful.”

“Here’s the T on Caitlin Clark… I mean… you have GOT to be kidding me.” – @RyanRuocco

“No player in this game should get a technical foul for that.” – @RebeccaLobo pic.twitter.com/qQuJD6bUTz

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) April 2, 2023

Adams, who headed up the men’s officiating program from 2008 to 2015, said he used to remind his Final Four officiating crews that the games were always better when the best players were playing. It was the only time over the course of the entire tournament that he met with them personally — the reminder was that important.

Women’s basketball has endured sorry officiating for some time, but it has not always been given this kind of spotlight in front of audiences this big. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, as they say, and it’s time to fix this now. That means a more robust recruiting program, better training and a stricter evaluation process to determine which officials advance to the biggest games. This can never happen again, not as the sport continues to grow.

For so long, fans and media members alike have treated women’s basketball — and women’s sports in general — as some sort of charity case. It wasn’t about the product on the court as much as it was about patting yourself on the back for being one of the good guys. It didn’t matter if those tickets you got for the game came as part of some discounted package to try to fill seats, or if they were free. Brownie points counted just the same.

More than 6 million people tuned in to watch Iowa play South Carolina in the Final Four on Friday night. Iowa-LSU was broadcast on ABC, easily accessible to even more eyeballs. The cheapest single ticket to get into American Airlines Center on Sunday was more than $400. Clark and Reese are bona fide stars, attracting massive followings on social media and big-money NIL deals. The demand to see them square off was real; no one watched this game simply to support the sport but rather because they wanted to watch a great game with compelling figures.

We witnessed a sport take a giant leap this weekend. It’s not often you realize something like that is happening in the moment, but it was undeniable. That’s why the officiating bothered me so much. It’s also why I couldn’t stand the discourse that popped up after the game around Reese and Clark, who are both elite trash-talkers. Of course, there was the racial undertone of comments praising Clark for her behavior on the court but calling Reese “classless” (a word that was trending on Twitter in the aftermath) for her taunting. Cultures clashed in a big way on multiple fronts.

Angel Reese postgame presser: pic.twitter.com/RgCYbIibfa

— Nicole Auerbach (@NicoleAuerbach) April 3, 2023

So many of the male pundits who rushed into the conversation ostensibly on Clark’s behalf wanted to paint her as a victim, despite the fact that Clark expressed no anger or hurt feelings afterward and said she didn’t even see Reese’s hand-waving because she was trying to get to the handshake line. Clark is a trash-talker and a relentless competitor, just like Reese, and they’ll both continue to play that way because it’s what makes them great. But the pundits who teed off on Reese to somehow protect Clark were doing so with arrogance and such obvious paternalism, in addition to the thinly veiled racism.

Caitlin Clark does not need a white knight. She is not your charity case, either. She is an athlete who handles her business and should be treated as any elite male athlete would be. This is a sport that should be treated as a real sport, which means there are winners and losers and also debates about which player is best. It’s OK to criticize players and coaches who make mistakes. For so long, the gatekeepers of the sport believed they needed to be advocates for women’s basketball at all times for it to grow, and that meant only writing positive stories or treating players with kid gloves. We should be well past that now.

So, let’s level up the sport to meet its moment. Fix the officiating that has been subpar and unacceptable for way too long. Treat the product as the money-maker it is when its media rights deal comes up. And allow these tough-as-hell women to fight their own battles.

That is what this sport deserves.

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Say what you will about Bungo Stray Dogs but the fact is that it has inspired a good number of an entire generation to pick up 1800s to 1900s great literature from Japan, North America, and Europe and i think that's very cool of it really

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Watch "In the Heat of the Night performed by Ray Charles (1967) Stereo HD 1080p60 Quincy Jones" on YouTube

One of the very best movies made in the 1960s, winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor. Quincy Jones music director and theme song by Ray Charles. A dramatic time capsule of America when racism announced itself with blaring trumpets instead of dog whistles.

Watch the full movie with commercials but free.

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Bracket Winner: True Hipsters

Sickle-winged Nightjar (Eleothreptus anomalus)

Eleothreptus, from Ancient Greek, means "marsh bred"

eBird sightings: 267; IUCN Redlist Rating: Vulnerable

Beat: Palawan Peacock-pheasant, White-tailed Ptarmigan, Kagu, Palau Kingfisher, Capuchinbird

There is not a lot of information on this bird, as nightjar are already cryptic and the common distribution of this bird hasn't been fully studied. They're currently found in northeastern Argentina, southern Paraguay, and southern Brazil. The Sickle-winged Nightjar shares its genus with a single other nightjar, which is also sparsely distributed across South America.

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Images: wing - Kristof Zyskowski, body - Martjan Lammertink