The struggle for eternal life as depicted on the Mao Kun Map.

Immortality or eternal life was the state living indefinitely for an infinite or indeterminate amount of time. It was an ability to live forever, or put another way, an immunity from death. In religious contexts, eternal life was often stated to be among the promises by God (or other deities) to human beings who show goodness or else follow divine law (cf. resurrection). Moreover, only God was regarded as truly immortal, hence it is only through God's resources for resurrection and salvation that human beings may transcend death and live eternally.

During the time of Ancient Greece, the boy Melikertes had to escape the wrath of Hera, the queen of the gods. He and his mother jumped off a clif into the sea for protection, becoming powerful as gods. Through his newfound powers, Malikertes learned how to drain people of their souls so he could keep himself young for all eternity. Over the next centuries, he became known as Palaimon.[1] When he he began to study alchemy, the infamous Pirate Lord Henry Morgan devised a way to live forever.[2] The treasure of Corts rendered those who stole from it as immortal skeletons until all the Aztec gold coins were returned and a blood debt repaid.[3] Under Davy Jones, the crew of the Flying Dutchman lived as immortal beings.[4][5] The Fountain of Youth was a legendary spring that restored the youth or grant immortality to anyone who drank from its waters, thereby live forver[5], though at a cost of another's death.[6] For the Fountain, the struggle for eternal youth was depicted on the Mao Kun Map, symbolized by a tug of war between a skeleton and an angel, aligned with the symbol of the Fountainthe Chalices.[7]

In another sense, immortality can also mean being unable to be forgotten by history. For example, Jack claimed that by finding the Fountain of Youth when the legendary explorer, Juan Ponce de Len, failed to do so, he will be remebered throughout time and thus, in a way, never die.

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Altered Carbon: Resleeved may be set hundreds of years before the events of Altered Carbon season 2, but thanks to the power of immortality the two are connected by a returning character. Tanaseda Hideki, the yakuza leader whom Takeshi Kovacs turned to for help in Altered Carbon season 2, also appears in Altered Carbon: Resleeved. Not only that, we get to see how the strong relationship between the two characters began.

Based on the books by Richard Morgan, Altered Carbon is set in a future where humans have discovered a way to digitize their minds and store them on disks called cortical stacks, which are inserted at the top of a spine. If a person's body is killed, their stack can be recovered and put into a new "sleeve," creating the potential for immortality. Altered Carbon: Resleeved is an anime feature spin-off of the live-action series, which follows Takeshi Kovacs in his early years as a mercenary for hire, who himself is on the run from the authorities.

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In Altered Carbon season 2, Takeshi reluctantly returns to his home planet, Harlan's World, and seeks out his most powerful contact there: Tanaseda Hideki. The head of the Tanaseda yakuza clan has a long history with Takeshi (seriously - they first met more than 280 years ago). When they meet again, Hideki explains to his great-grandson that Takeshi carried out a job for him after the fall of Stronghold, and that after Takeshi was caught and tortured by the Protectorate "in every way they knew how," he still never gave Hideki up. Significantly, Hideki once recited his family's death poem to Takeshi, making him perhaps the only person outside of the Tanaseda clan to know the poem.

In Altered Carbon: Resleeved, we get to see the first meeting between the two characters. Takeshi is carrying out a mission for Hideki, investigating his brother's death within the Mizumoto clan on Latimer, in exchange for Hideki using his influence on Harlan's World to wipe Takeshi's record there. Hideki suspects foul play within the Mizumoto clan that's somehow connected to their upcoming sacrificial ceremony, in which power is handed over to a new leader. By the end of Altered Carbon: Resleeved, Hideki discovers the terrible truth about what happened to his brother - thanks to Takeshi.

The end of Altered Carbon: Resleeved reveals Hideki's more conniving side, as he tells Takeshi that he hasn't even begun to make moves on wiping his records on Harlan's World. First, he wants Takeshi to carry out another mission for him. If viewer interest in Altered Carbon continues, Netflix may well produce more anime spin-offs as a follow-up to Resleeved, and perhaps even reveal the circumstances that led Hideki to recite his family's death poem for Takeshi.

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Hannah has been with Screen Rant since the heady days of 2013, starting out as a humble news writer and eventually clawing her way up the ladder through a series of Machiavellian schemes and betrayals. She's now a features writer and editor, covering the hottest topics in the world of nerddom from her home base in Oxford, UK.Hannah enjoys weird horror movies, weirder sci-fi movies, and also the movie adaptation of Need for Speed - the greatest video game movie of all time. She has lived and studied in New York and Toronto, but ultimately returned home so that she could get a decent cup of tea. Her hobbies include drawing, video games, long walks in the countryside, and wasting far too much time on Twitter.Speaking of which, you can follow Hannah online at @HSW3K

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At the start of every sporting season, there is a debate over who the best rookies will be, what new talent will rise up from the lower scenes and take their place among the highest levels of their sport and which ones will collapse. We expect the rookies to be the surprises, the ones who rise up and surpass their expectations and lead their teams to victory. We talk about experienced players very differently.

For veterans, we ask who will fail, get caught by age or a change in technique or style that renders their previous job obsolete. This is especially the case in esports, because the age range skews much younger than traditional sports. Most of the competitors are done by 30 and it often feels like theres a never-ending line of rookies ready to take their places. Veterans are often seemingly only there to give an experienced voice to a roster, if theyre there at all. But over the weekend, we saw the benefits of having veterans on talented rosters.

Schalke 04, who went into the weekend on a 7-game winning streak, certainly benefited from Gilius and Odoamnes playoff experience.Odoamnes experience in particular proved helpful in game one of their series against SK gaming.SK went for a lane swap, a maneuver that was relatively popular in season three but has been uncommon in pro games since then.Afterword, S04s jungler Gilius said in an interview that Odo is the king of laneswaps, the guy shot called everything and told everyone what to do.

Odo would, in his own interview, comment that back when I first started playing in LEC, thats when lane swaps first started. His experience as a veteran who had played at the highest levels through that meta allowed S04 to survive the game and get out to an early lead in the series, on their way to a 3-0 victory over SK. On the other hand, we saw the much less experienced MAD Lions fall 3-1 in a bloody series against G2. The more experienced roster, G2, excelled in the playoffs even though this split they had been worse. Their experience in best-of-fives certainly helped them on their way to this victory, though it was far from the only factor.

Now MAD, who was one game from Worlds in week eight, has to win a best-of-five against Schalke in order to advance. Schalke, who have won ten games in a row including a victory over the Lions in week eight which helped keep them out of Worlds, are one series from immortality, one series from unseating 2018 summer Cloud9 for the best comeback performance resulting in a Worlds appearance.

In North America, were reminded that as good as veteran players can be, theyre not always enough. When Golden Guardians played against TSM in the lower bracket on Sunday, it was midlaner-turned-support Huhi who excelled in the first few games, despite the fact that prior to the season most people had considered him washed-up. His efforts were not enough to win the series and keep Golden Guardians in the playoffs, but they still earned him high praise from the community and showed that the veteran player can still perform despite the fact that most people assumed he was past his prime.

Heading into next week and the semi-finals for both the LEC and the LCS, the final team from each region going to Worlds will soon be decided. Can Cloud9 beat TSM one more time and secure their place at Worlds, or will TSM finally return to the World stage and deny Cloud9 an appearance at Worlds for the first time in the organizations history?

Will Schalke 04 beat the MAD Lions and deny the rookie roster their Worlds appearance, or will Schalkes win streak finally be ended in a devastating defeat that leaves them inches from glory, but still forever so far away?

Ashton Stansel is a campus correspondent for The Daily Campus. He can be reached via email at ashton.stansel@uconn.edu.

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Immortality. Regeneration. Stem Cells. Have you heard terms like these flying around the science fiction sections of the film world? Have you ever wondered just how accurately these films portray real science? Well, my friends, today is your lucky day: this column, Fantasy Science & Coffee aims to bridge the gap between science and science fiction in films and, occasionally, popular culture. My hope is to explain things in a fun way like were chatting over coffee.

You may be thinking: who is this person, why does she think she can explain science, and why the heck would I want to have coffee with her? Well, Im Radha, a researcher in India, currently pursuing a PhD in theoretical quantum physics. I quite like hot beverages. Ill also pay.

In this seventh part of the series published on the second and fourth Tuesdays of every month, we are going to chat about naturally occurring biological immortality.

Lets begin.

The obsession with life extension and immortality does not lie solely within the realms of science fiction: one of the driving forces of medical research throughout history has been to prolong life. There are a number of ways this has been attempted both in reality and in science fiction, from triggering certain biological processes to using bionics as biological replacements. To go into each will require a number of those coffees I promised you, so for now, we will focus on one type: biological immortality that has not been artificially stimulated.

A beautiful film that focuses on just this is The Man from Earth. Rather than being affected by medical advances, the protagonist is simply a man who was born about 14,000 years ago and has not aged beyond 35 years.

The Man From Earth (2007) source: Anchor Bay Entertainment

John Oldman pun very likely intended is a history professor, who claims to his colleagues that hes been around since what he believes to be the upper Paleolithic period, making him a Cro-Magnon.

Naturally, his colleagues dont believe him, but as a group of esteemed professors in biology, archaeology, anthropology, and psychiatry, they are intrigued by the intellectual nature of his story. They play along, and contemplate how this immortal caveman could theoretically be possible.

Their suggestion was that the immortals body undergoes perfect cellular regeneration and detoxification. This would mean that not only does John recover from wounds, but that he would recover from fatal illnesses as well, which he later affirmed:

The suggestion is not misplaced; there really are biological processes that nod to these claims, particularly regeneration. Biological immortality as such isnt really fiction it does manifest in real life in certain ways! There arent any cavemen walking around that are thousands of years old that we know of! but there are a few fascinating natural phenomena that nod towards immortality. Lets look at a few of them.

You may recall that the character, Harry, suggested that John Oldman has a plethora of stem cells that are constantly renewing organs and repairing damage in his body. This isnt far from the truth at all.

Stem cells are undifferentiated cells, that is, cells that have as yet to develop into a particular type of cell. This makes them powerful natural tools for regeneration. Adult stem cells lie within our tissues and organs, waiting to be triggered when needed to repair damage caused by an injury or a disease. They also play a part in what is called homeostatic maintenance, a process that keeps our organs healthy through renewal.

So, we naturally have these little regeneration machines in our bodies, even though they dont work as amazingly as those in Johns body. It is no wonder that medical research targets these powerful biological tools there are already stem cell therapies and trials available out there! The hope is to artificially activate stem cells for repair, and potentially eradicate diseases like cancer. This artificial process is beyond the scope of this article, but there are a few links Ive added at the end that you may explore to learn about the type of research thats happening in this field.

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While humans are faced with aging issues, and our stem cell regeneration is far from being superhero-like, there actually are a few animals out there that display abilities seemingly straight out of science fiction. They arent truly immortal, but heck, theyre better off than humans are!

Some lizard species, for instance, can shed their tail at will to confuse a predator, only to regrow their tail back later. Lobsters shed and regrow their exoskeletons, with no set limit on how big they get. Turtles shed scutes to give way for bigger ones as their shells grow.

Turtles and lobsters, in particular, are sometimes claimed to be immortal because they display negligible senescence. That is, they have an absence of aging symptoms as they grow older. What causes the death of these creatures isnt really old age but illness or accidents. Lobsters, for instance, reproduce right up to the end, and only die when the process of shedding their exoskeletons becomes too exhausting.

HeLa Cells source: Wikipedia

Apart from a few animals that display negligible senescence, there is biological immortality at a cellular level for cells that do not hit the Hayflick limit the maximum number of times a normal human cell can divide. There exist immortal cell lines that circumvent this limit. The first of these was the HeLa cancer cell line, originating from an African American woman named Henrietta Lacks.

With immortal cell lines, researchers can repeatedly experiment with treatments, giving rise to new vaccines and cures. Modern medicine is actually where it is because of HeLa cells; for instance, the vaccines for polio and HPV directly arose due to experimentation with the HeLa line.

As mentioned, the special thing about these immortal cells is that they do not succumb to the Hayflick limit. Usually, cells taken from the body die through a process called apoptosis. Due to a combination of factors, however, HeLa cells can divide indefinitely. Some scientists actually view them as a new species of unicellular organisms, close to but not quite human.

Nowadays, an immortal cell line is either created through genetic engineering, or discovered by chance in much the same way Lacks was. To learn more about the woman behind the cell line, check out the book The Immortal Life by Henrietta Lacks, and the 2017 film by the same name.

Weve talked a bit about naturally occurring biological immortality with respect to the story of the film The Man from Earth. What are some other means of immortality, both natural and artificial, that you have spotted across science fiction?

Online Resources

Ageless Animals a project studying negligible senescence in animals

EuroStemCell.Org

ArticlesInverse.Com: The Science Behind Henrietta Lacks Immortal Cells (2017)

Medical News Today: What are Stem Cells? (2017)

HowStuffWorks: Can a turtle outgrow its shell?

Huffington Post: Scientists Have Figured Out How Lizards Regrow Their Tails, And Thats Good News For Humans (2014)

Smithsonian: Dont Listen to the Buzz: Lobsters Arent Actually Immortal (2013)

Harvard Stem Cell Institute: The Seeds of Regeneration (2008)

Discover: No Longer Human (1992)

Papers

Transcriptomic Analysis of Tail Regeneration in the Lizard Anolis carolinensis Reveals Activation of Conserved Vertebrate Developmental and Repair Mechanisms, PLOS ONE (2014)

Representing life as opposed to being: the bio-objectification process of the HeLa cells and its relation to personalized medicine, Croatian Medical Journal (2013)

Emerging Area of Aging Research: LongLived Animals with Negligible Senescence, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (2006) (full text can be found on the Ageless Animals website )

Books

Handbook of Theories of Aging, Edited by Merril Silverstein, PhD, Dr. Vern L. Bengtson, PhD, Michelle Putnam, PhD, Norella M. Putney, PhD, Daphna Gans, PhD

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

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Disclaimer: This article contains major spoilers for Afsos. So, please read it after youve finished watching the show.

I have been watching Gulshan Devaiah since 2011 when he appeared in an incredibly under-appreciated crime thriller called Dum Maaro Dum as Ricky. Since then he has appeared in movies like Shaitan, Hate Story, Goliyon ki Rasleela Ram-Leela, and Death in the Gunj and delivered some brilliant supporting acts. However, I wanted him to see him in more prominent roles and thats when I stumbled across Hunterrr (which is another under-appreciated movie of his which you should definitely watch) and, of course, Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota. All that said, I dont no one as highlighted Devaiahs true potential like Anubhuti Kashyap has done in Afsos.

Devaiah plays a suicidal man, Nakul, who cant seem to kill himself even though he wants to. Hence he hires someone, Heeba Shahs Upadhyay, to do the job for him. However, after doing so he falls in love with his therapist, Anjali Patils Shloka, and hence doesnt want to die. In the meantime, he also gets embroiled in a mystery about the immortal man, which leads to a chaotic journey into the topic of life and death. But amongst all that chaos, Devaiah stands strong while portraying one of the most psychologically weak characters put to screen. Theres not a single frame in the show where youll doubt the fact that Devaiahs Nakul is doubting himself. And although it seems like a pretty simple thing to do, its actually quite integral to the tone of the show and is what gives Afsos its uniquely Indian dark comedy vibe.

If I have to pick my favourite scene out of all the scenes that Devaiah is in, it has to be his conversation with Robin Das Fokatiya Baba when they realise that their captor, Danish Saits Jim, is dead. Devaiahs desperation when he admits that he is not immortal and that he doesnt care about Fokatiyas guruji had told him to do with the immortality potion (amrit) is palpable as f*ck. What we know and have seen of Devaiah throughout his filmography completely vanishes and you can see only and only Nakul trying to negotiate with his fate in a way that will undoubtedly make you laugh your guts out. But wait a second. I know what youre thinking. Youre thinking that this article was supposed to be the meaning of Afsos. However, just like one might feel while watching the show or probably something that the makers must have encountered, we got so engrossed in Deviahs brilliant acting chops that we forgot all about the main point of the show.

SEE ALSO: Afsos Review - Gulshan Devaiahs Suicidal Act Kills It In This Dark Comedy. No Regrets Here!

So, without digressing any further, lets try and understand what Afsos is actually trying to say. And since we are talking about Devaiah, lets start with Nakul. On the surface, Nakul might seem like a one-note guy who wants to end his life but cant. He embodies the frustration most of us feel when nothings going our way in our life. Even the most basic thing like walking out of his house is littered with obstacles and by the time he overcomes them, he has lost the will to live. However, somewhere inside him there is a will to live that involuntarily kicks in his survival instinct, which is in complete contradiction to what Shloka says about the depth of his depression, thereby allowing him to evade death. So, whats the message that comes along with Nakul? That our inherent urge to survive and the hope that maybe theres some light at the end of the dark tunnel, something that is literally spelt out by Inspector Bir Singh, is what makes us immortal. Not in the literal sense of course. But in the metaphorical sense, as in our actions live on in the minds of others. Yes, it might need some fuel but it is there.

Then lets come to Karima Upadhyay, played viscerally by Heeba Shah. She is the embodiment of death itself. She has become death by seeing and delivering so many deaths in her life. She even says that she feels like she is born to kill. During one particular scene involving Ratnabali Bhattacharjees Maria and her daughter at a restaurant where some man misbehaves with the little child, it seems like she has some respect for the concept of life. However, if you have seen the series and the way she treats Maria and her daughter while attempting to kill Nakul, youll notice that she has nothing inside her. And that very nothingness inside her is what makes her immortal. The raging drive that exists within her helps her surpass the pain of being stabbed or the emotional distress of losing her lover (I am guessing Vikram was her lover). Additionally, it is that very rage which helps her stay in her preys mind tax-free. But the drive only comes to an end when she falls into the tricks of the catalyst. Whos the catalyst you ask? Well, its Shloka.

Shloka is another layered son-of-a-b*tch who neither respects life nor respects death. She lies to people to save their life. She lies to people to push them over the edge. She lies to herself to the extent that she doesnt even know (or may she does and we dont know) that her husband is dead or alive. Hence she doesnt have satisfaction in life nor a painless death. I am going to be honest with you, and this might make me look like a douche, but I never felt the chemistry between Shloka and Nakul. It always felt like she was finding the next person who she can control, just like she probably controlled Dibakar (her husband), and she made the mistake of thinking that Nakul was the one. However, in reality it was Upadhyay who had the ability to match her skills and play the same game of life and death that she was playing. Once that was over, you could see the level of disinterest she had on her face while going to meet Nakul. I know these are little details which makes the show worth watching and are much more interesting than the overarching narrative about the amrit and Dr. Goldfish.

So, in my opinion, said overarching narrative actually muddles the intricacies that writers Anirban Dasgupta and Dibya Chatterjee have woven into Nakuls story. I understand that they have delved into the campier aspects of Afsos' story and instilled it with a sense of mythology. However, since it largely feels so haphazard and incomplete by the end of the last episode that I felt like it robbed the show of its comforting, oddball charm. I feel like if the show wouldve stuck to its core messaging about finding the source of your immortality i.e. the thing that will help us stay long after we are gone, it wouldve stuck its landing a little. That said, since Afsos stands on the shoulders of Anubhuti Kashyap, Gulshan Devaiah and more, it deserves your attention and all the deconstruction you can subject it to.

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Art is subjective, its interpretation and scale of worthiness living inside our minds. In that sense, its not an abstract theory that some artists can achieve immortality. For black fine artists, the percentage of celebrated creators is stark in contrast to that of their European counterparts and seldom includes women. For artists of color, art is not subjective; its objectifying, political, and sometimes discriminatory.

No single black artist has ever been held to a more god-like standard than Brooklyns own Jean-Michel Basquiat. Born under alarming circumstances of poverty and abandonment, Basquiat rose from street kid to global phenomenon in a flash of brilliance that lasted just over a decade. His heroin-induced death in 1988 at the age of 27 created even more recognition for his complex work, solidifying Basquiat as the poster child for black artists. Today, his name is on the lips of every cool teenager and mainstream rapper; a flame that will never extinguish.

In the same breath, as we pay homage to an influential artist, its worth asking if his legacy has opened the doors for black artists after him to achieve the same status. Is Basquiat the Martin Luther King Jr. of the art world? Are we doomed to learn and relearn the same works? Who carries Basquiats torch, and pushes the art world forward?

Multidisciplinary artists like Gianni Lee, Reginald Sylvester, Eric Mack, Quiana Parks, and Uzumaki Cepeda are just a handful of todays legends in the making, and the list grows as you dig past the surface. It used to be that black creativity was limited to sports and entertainment. In 2020, you can now be as free and open as you want without the stigma, though black artists are still not reaching the levels of success that they should. Are the prevailing issues of Basquaits generation still present?

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I spoke with a few multidisciplinary artists including my mother, a painter of 30 years on Basquiat, the art world, discrimination, value, success, side hustles, and other black artists you should study up on.

Gianni Lee: I dont even know if its really up to me to decide if Im a fine artist or not; I just label my work that way because honestly, thats what I make, and I believe it wholeheartedly. I believe I can produce fine art, and nothing is going to stop me from doing that. But I feel its up for the public to decide if I am a fine artist or not.

Quiana Parks: Ive always known I was an artist, but I started to study fine art when I was 12 years old.

Julia Kito Kirtley: I knew about art at a young age because my mother used to practice drawing portraits of my siblings and I. Most of my education comes from elementary art school teachers and community center programs [back in the 70s]. I did not formally study art until I enrolled in Pratt Institute in my 30s.

Anthony Jamari Thomas: I certainly decided to make a firm decision to start sharing my thoughts creatively in the last few years. At this point, I am deeply concerned with the politics of memory, history, and, more recently, mortality. I believe I have incredible synchronicity with photography and performance, but I plan to return to traditional painting shortly.

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Malik Kirkwood: I am intrigued by Basquiat the person, first and foremost. His spirit is alive. Thank you for your work, for your passion, for your inspiration.

AJT: JEAN! I love JMBs work. A part of the reason why Im here is studying the intensity of his mind and his fearlessness. He is a shaman, conjuring portals in each piece, melodic and very forceful like a wind, but his handling of history, although bold, was also so delicate. That sweet spot that sweet, sweet spot.

JKK: I am a big Basquiat fan. I loved his cityscapes because it had a lot of movement. Like you can hear the horns honking and people talking and the music of some underground dance club [through the work].

GL: No. Im a fan of his process, though.

QP: I am, and Im also not so much. I absolutely love Basquiat, but sometimes when I look at certain works of his Im not feeling the energy. But I mean its Basquiat, his work is legendary.

GL: I feel like theres no way I cannot create from the lens of blackness because that is indeed the person I am. As a black person, blackness will always covertly or overtly will show up in my work. I cant control that.

AJT: I mean, its there, it isnt going anywhere. As I take the photo, as I perform or paint, my blackness is in the corner of the room, staring at me transitioning between my eye, my hand, and my mind. Every work is a mirror; I dont have to work hard to speak on my identity because I am what I am. Its eternal; this is my skin, my position. I guess I spend more time understanding this specific identity I have received how does it want to perform, where does it want to go? Im very interested in the concept of destiny: What does the black body have to look forward to in the endgame?

JKK: My ethnicity is a great inspiration. Black features are magical to me. I often look at African masks and artifacts for inspiration when doing my characters. But Im also inspired by Ernie Barnes and Al Hirschfeld.

GL: All the time. It doesnt mean that I will make a move because [of it], but I feel a responsibility because I am sharing this with many others who are consistently discriminated against, policed, and abused. So I have to speak up.

AJT: I used to, but not anymore. Going back to what I said previously, I am black, so this will always peer and live within my work. However, labeling the work by my identity or ethnic position is a bit troubling for me. Ultimately, I would like our thoughts, issues, and concerns to be considered just like any other community. In the past, [Ive noticed] when black is tethered to a concept such as art, commerce, or other agents of social exchange bring the excuse or potential for [negligence].

QP: People are more often surprised. Theyre always like, So what do you do for work, though?

JKK: I get a lot of people who say, Are you still doing art? Im like, This is all I know. So I will always be doing art. Art keeps me sane.

MK: I dont care, in the most respectful way possible.

AJT: Im pretty sure Ive come across prejudice in this industry, unknowingly, but Ive never felt so to an explicit degree. I have peers who have been kept away from opportunities because of their creed, gender, or sexual orientation. I mean, were telling narratives about our experience, personal truths about the spiritual, historical pilgrimage of blackness. I can see how this may turn some people away, who dont want to hear Americas artifacts speak or dont care to acknowledge the perspective.

GL: Yes, Ive felt discrimination from my own even. I dont want to get into much detail, but I always felt like I am currently compiling and creating the work that is on the level of people that are in places Im not, but when I attempt to be in those same places, I feel ignored or overlooked.

QP: No, honestly. I have yet to be a part of the art world.

QP: Im focused on fear right now. Mostly on how fear affects the black woman.

GL: Im focused on telling the story of the black man and woman smiling. Its getting way more layered than that, but to keep it simple, I want more images of black people in capes, more images of black people smiling.

MK: Honest ones. Inclusive ones. Responsible ones. Informed ones.

AJT: Right now, all of them are screaming very loudly in my head. Theres a huge range. Lets just say its somewhere in between the first track on Terrace Martins last album and my mothers smile.

MK: Kandis Williams. David Hammons. Anthony Jabari Thomas.

AJT: Ill just drop a few names. You, my brother Reginald Sylvester, Medhane, LoftBlue, Craig Handfield, Martine Rose, Brandon Weems, Eric N. Mack, Grace Wales Bonner, Tremaine Emory, my momma and all my homies of the melanated tribe who are expressing their minds freely without hesitation.

GL: Ramelzee died and many say it was because of the inhalation of spray can fumes. Ed Clark has the dopest single stroke art using push brooms as his brushes, legendary. Noah Davis, no explanation needed. Look him up.

QP: I love Charles White, David Hammond, Tschabalala Self, Keegan Carter.

JKK: Me. Me. Me.

Words byGyasi Williams Kirtley

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Fans, writers and players of the game of baseball all have their own opinions about qualifications and meaning for the MLB Hall of Fame, giving it a unique and powerful air of baseball prominence.

All play their own special roles in defining the game and its most treasured resting place.

This arbitrary set of membership standards is what gives the development of a big league players resume such meaning. Players who are voted in are typically the ones who have not only succeeded on the field, but have also impacted and embraced the game, the fans, and the writers.

Great stats with a forgettable or negative memory left behind usually isnt enough. To be a Hall of Fame baseball player is to be great, humble, impactful, and embracing all together.

To be a fan of the game is to appreciate the skill, passion, historical relevance that comes with playing and following the game.

To be a writer who covers the game and votes for its ingrained legends is to understand and appreciate everything that goes in to being a player, a fan, a voice, and a true enthusiast of the game of baseball.

This years list of eligible candidates highlights these points very well. The 2020 results will be announced by the Baseball Writers Association of America on January 21, which is littered with statistically strong-positioned individuals, many of whom have complicated reputations left behind.

Steroid ties, shaky intersport reputations and lack of outstanding general perception will play a factor in the destiny for guys like Curt Schilliing, Barry Bonds, Manny Ramirez and more.

Fair or not, the system is set up in a way that it is impossible to not hear the noise. It is still up to each voter to determine what constitutes a Hall of Famer, taking everything into account.

In an alternate universe where I was somehow given the opportunity to cast votes for this years class, I would be forced to make some tough decisions regarding the aforementioned complicated resume dealings.

Voters are allowed to vote for up to 10 balloted players with no requirement to cast any vote.

With no hesitation, however, my first vote would be cast for Yankee legend Derek Jeter, who is making his first appearance on a ballot in 2020.

Jeter is a no-brainer in my opinion, leaving behind a remarkable footprint on the game, while also reaching significant statistical milestones such as reaching 3,000 hits, making 14 All-Star Games and winning five Gold Gloves (to name a few). Its hard to imagine not voting for Jeter in any scenario.

A second vote wouldnt be as easy, but would still be made for pitcher Roger Clemens. Clemens has the baggage of PED ties that make this difficult and complex, but his statistical weight with 354 wins, 7 Cy Young Awards, and 4,672 strikeouts are very strong.

The facts I have in front of me make it hard to leave him off my ballot.

While I weighed the possibility of placing additional votes for guys like Barry Bonds, Larry Walker and Omar Vizquel, I would not cast any more votes, leaving my ballot with just the two.

I would not be surprised nor upset with a few other candidates garnering enough from other voters, but didnt feel comfortable placing votes I couldnt convince myself of.

So there you have it. My fantasy world of being a BBWAA voter for the 2020 MLB Hall of Fame concludes with 2 votes, and 8 unused.

Interesting even in a fake reality to imagine the pressure and responsibility the writers are granted.

Dozens of players who all have cases to be made for themselves to be voted into baseball glory forever are reliant on a system that includes an arbitrary, yet worthy group of individuals that rely on a shared passion of the best sport in the world.

Maybe thats why Tony Gwynn, the most worthy Hall of Fame candidate ever in the running, used the word validation when describing what being inducted would mean to him.

Even the best know how complex but meaningful the honor is. Its a full circle realization that a players greatness was witnessed and enjoyed by people who can best make that judgement.

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Jrgen Klopp is right to dismiss any notion that the league is wrapped up. Asked about a phony inevitables tag on Friday, Klopp wasnt having any of it. We couldn't care less about these kind of things, as far as I'm concerned, Klopp said. "I think at this moment we are not even mathematically qualified for the Champions League for next year.

That quite is telling. Its right as fans to focus on ending the league title drought. But Klopp isnt seeking inevitable status, he wants immortality. That not only means winning the league in dominant fashion a mid-March end-date is in play but taking another run at the Champions League.

Football history is littered with sides who have run away with their league domestically and faltered in the Champions League. Pep Guardiolas Bayern Munich springs to mind. Guardiolas team practically broke German football for three seasons, racking up a ridiculous 257 points in three seasons. Klopps Dortmund finished a distant 29-points behind Peps team in the Spaniards first-year in Germany before Klopp left to take a sabbatical. No doubt Peps bunch left a lasting impression.

In Guardiolas final two years in Germany, Munich won the league by ten points apiece but had the league title wrapped up well before the final few weeks of the season. Yet they still faltered in Europe: players took their foot off the gas. Ramp things down by even a fraction of a percent, and it can have a debilitating effect at the business of the season a time other clubs have been building toward.

Each year, Bayern crashed out of the Champions League in the semi-finals, with Guardiola left fuming over his tactics and the lack of intensity he felt around the club on a day-to-day basis once the domestic title was taken care of. Nobody should get too comfortable, Guardiola told Mart Perarnau in Pep Confidential once he team took a post-title dip. I want them to work like bastards to earn their place. In every training session. If we dont well end up like other teams. Guardiola couldnt stave off the complacency.

That Bayern team serves as an important benchmark for this years Liverpool side. The same stuff that is chucked at Paris Saint-Germain each and every year was lobbed at Guardiolas side: they dialled it back against weaker domestic foes and couldnt crank back through the gears when they needed to most.

Last years Premier League title race kept Liverpool and Man City sprinting to the very end. Liverpool bottled that ferocity and dumped it on a bewildered Barcelona.

Klopp will want more of the same down the stretch in this campaign, a trickier task to navigate with two months of uncompetitive league action. Europes top clubs are struggling. You can count Munich, Dortmund, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, Juventus, and Man City among the teams unhappy with their season thus far. Even PSG has lost three games 20 games, a weak return for a squad with 13 of the 15 highest-paid players in League 1. No one else in Europe has shown the same level of domestic dominance as Liverpool.

Klopp knows how special his group is. The other teams Guardiola was referring to was not Augsburg and Schalke. It was Sacchis Milan, Michels Ajax, and Peps Barcelona. And thats who Klopp is competing with now; a double or treble is there for the taking if his Liverpool side dares to dream.

Fans should focus on ending the 30-year drought; theyve waited long enough. But Klopp knows this is a rare chance to accomplish something that would cement this side among Europes all-time greats. Keeping the pedal to the floor for an entire season isnt easy. When the title win comes eyes will naturally wander. Klopp is doing all he can to get his squad to stay the course.

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When the great death called delusionmistaking the body and its associate connections such as members of the family for the selfis conquered, one becomes fit to attain that state of immortality, says Sri Adi Sankaracharya in the Vivekachoodamani.

One method adopted by Vedanta is to condemn something that we have to withdraw our attention from. We pay attention to something because we think it gives us joy, it is eternal and it is real.

For these reasons, we identify with our own body and believe it to be real and suffer as a result.

So what is the physical body made up of? Though we know the contents well, the naturally well-packaged body, seamlessly covered by the skin, will never make us experience the true identity.

So the Acharya spells out its contentsskin, flesh, blood, nerve strings, fat, marrow and bones. The mixture of all these is filled and tightened with excretory matter.

The body is a result of the mixing of five elements in a mathematical formula called quintuplication or Pancheekaranam.

The shape, size, colour and health of the body we get is dependent on our past actions. This gross body is an abode or a counter for different experiences of sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, thoughts and feelings. It is able to have the various experiences of perception in the waking state.

Through the help of the sense organs, the gross body comes in contact with gross objects such as garlands, sandalwood paste, other human bodies and objects of various sizes and shapes.

The individual consciousness considers this body to be the self and it has a variety of experiences in the waking state.

Just as a house gives shelter to the one who lives in the house, the body gives shelter to the individual who lives in the body, occupying it.

The special characteristics of the body arising out of its gross nature are that it is subject to old age and death.

It has many qualities such as being fat or thin. It goes through various states such as being a toddler, a little child and growing up.

There are many disciplines that the body is subject to such as living in the Varnashrama. The several other experiences are that the body is sometimes worshipped, some time belittled and at other time it is given many gifts and presents.

In this body are situated the organs of perception (eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin), the organs of action (mouth, hands and legs) and the organs of excretion and reproduction.

While the sense organs of perception help us understand the different objects, beings and situations around us, the organs of action helps us in expressing in this world through our actions.

The writer is Sevika, Chinmaya Mission, Coimbatore (www.chinmayamission.com); email: brni.sharanyachaitanya@gmail.com

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JUSSI HALLA-AHO, the chairperson of the Finns Party, has drawn attention to the judgement delivered yesterday in a case related to the expulsion of an Iraqi asylum seeker by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

Unfortunately Finland cant guarantee immortality to the people removed from here, not even to the people here, he stated in the Finnish Parliament on Thursday.

The ECHR on Thursday ruled that the expulsion violated articles two and three of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Finnish authorities, it said, failed to adequately assess the risks the expulsion presented to the middle-aged man, especially the risks arisingfrom tensions between Shia and Sunni Muslims.

The Sunni man was killed shortly after returning voluntarily to Iraq.

Halla-aho reminded that the criteria for granting international protection is set forth in both domestic and international legislation. He added that although it is regrettable that there is violence in Iraq, the country will not become any less violent by relocating its residents to Finland.

Is the foreigners security taking precedence over that of Finns, he asked Maria Ohisalo (Greens), the Finnish Minister of the Interior.

The question is difficult in a number of ways, Ohisalo replied, expressing her reluctance to juxtapose a population group with another. We live in a rule-of-law state. You can apply for asylum from a rule-of-law state. A rule-of-law state must safeguard the basic rights of every human being.

Also Veronika Honkasalo (Left Alliance) asked how the government intends to ensure it no longer infringes the non-refoulement principle.

The judgement is shameful for Finland, replied Ohisalo. Its the first time and hopefully also the last time.

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Riccardo Montolivo hasnt played a Serie A match for 18 months.

For some, hearing that a 34-year-old midfielder failed to get much game time in the final few years of his AC Milan career, with plenty of competition for places, isnt perhaps too surprising.

But for the former Italy international who announced his retirement from football on Wednesday after being released from his contract by Milan at the end of last season its the principle of how his career ended thats left a bad taste.

I will continue to live in Milan with my family, he told Corriere dello Sport.

What Ill do now, I dont know. I have to think about it.

You could say [Milan] forced me to stop playing. I didnt even get the chance to say goodbye to the fans after seven years.

But few Milan fans will care too much about his departure or subsequent retirement; nor willthe fans of his former club Fiorentina, for that matter.

The midfielder spent seven seasons at Fiorentina, even captaining the side, before joining Milan on a free transfer in 2012.

And the general feeling in Florence following his retirement is what goes around, comes around, with fans believing he traded immortality for mediocrity when he moved to their rivals.

In an open letter to supporters after leaving the club to much controversy, he wrote: In life and in professions, relationships can break down and not always in an understandable and painless way for everyone.

Although some see me as an enemy, I can only wish joy and satisfaction to Fiorentina, Florence, to my former comrades and all the people who work every day in the club with passion and dedication.

An apology, of sorts, but not one fans were willing to accept.

At Milan, he had the world at his feet.

Following his role in Italys route to the final of Euro 2012, his arrival to the San Siro was met with much optimism.

Of course, he was booed mercilessly by the Florentines upon his first visit back to the Artemio Franchi Stadium in 2013, but silenced them temporarily with a great goal and an assist in a swashbuckling 2-2 draw.

But the beginning of his Rossoneri spell coincided with the clubs firm fall from grace, which has included a lack of Champions League football in the last six seasons and no league title since the 2010/11 campaign.

In fact, Montolivios only honour in the colours of Milan is the Supercoppa Italiana in 2016, which is Italys equivalent of the Community Shield.

Whats worse is that his time at the club especially the last four years have been blighted by a lack of form, problems with injuries, and controversy.

When club legend Clarence Seedorf was appointed as manager mid-way through the 2013/14 season with Milan just four points above the relegation places at the time he begun by benching some of the senior players who werent performing.

Montolivo was one of them and reportedly led to the captain leading a mutiny against the Dutchman, ultimately leading to his sacking just four months into his tenure.

With Seedorf, there wasnt much harmony, the decision to sack him was for the good of Milan, Montolivo told the media afterwards.

If going against Seedorf wasnt enough to irk the fans, then his string of mediocre performances certainly were taking their toll.

But much to the fans dismay, he signed a contract extension in 2015 just a month before his 31st birthday the same age that Andrea Pirlo was when he was told he couldnt have a renewal.

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The same player / manager strong-arming occurred with Gennaro Gattuso, another Milan hero, who coached the team between 2017 and 2019.

It appears Gattuso was harder on the midfielder than previous regimes, and the two seemingly fell out behind the scenes.

I was marginalised, answers were never given. But I dont hold a grudge, Montolivo said, hinting at Gattusos term.

Those who have been wrong with me, those who have disrespected me, repeatedly, will probably come to terms with their conscience.

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Montolivo also lost the Milan captaincy to Leonardo Bonucci upon the defenders arrival from Juventus in 2017, a decision that came with very little prior warning.

I didnt deliver [the armband] to him, he said.

They told me that [then owner] Li Yonghong had decided the armband would be passed to one of the new signings.

When they told me about it, I explained that I found it unfair, that they were making a big mistake because there are hierarchies in the locker room that should always be respected.

He then didnt make a single appearance for Milan last season, despite being named on the bench 17 times in the Serie A.

He ultimately described his final year-and-a-half at the club as an ordeal.

As a free agent, Montolivo clearly struggled to find a new club and his decision to retire prematurely will be met with a shrug by much of his former clubs fan base.

He finishes his career with a reputation as one of Italys most stylish deep-lying playmakers in recent times, a nearly-man whose injuries overshadowed his promising early-years, and a captain who lacked leadership qualities that polarised his fans.

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DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) Hundreds of pills, expensive machines and constant blood testing.

They are among the keys to immortality according the ultra-wealthy who are becoming devout followers of whats known as biohacking.

A rich Dallas and Austin developer is offering CBS 11 News a rare glimpse into the lifestyle.

Ari Rastegar (CBS 11)

Ari Rastegar goes to bed in special clothing on a temperature-regulated bed.

It has this metallic mechanism inside of it that helps flush lactic acid and eliminate inflammation, says Rastegar.

He also wears a mask.

Orange glasses that illuminate the the light so I dont disrupt the circadian rhythms, he says.

Thats just Rastegars nightly routine.

During the day, he takes nearly 150 vitamins customized to his current needs by his doctor.

Rastegar also gets his blood tested monthly.

The 37-year-old has a $15,000 vapor machine thats supposed to reduce stress and another $15,000 machine designed to calm his brain two hours before bedtime.

He says its paying off and making him healthier than ever.

I am my asset, he says.

Ari Rastegar and his vapor machine. (CBS 11)

Biohacking is all part of an effort to extend life beyond anything humans can imagine.

The data will tell you the folks that are living this type of lifestyle are living well in excess of 120 years old, says Rastegar.

The goal of biohacking is to keep strands of DNA from aging.

Rastegar has already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars.

But the real estate developer can afford it with the money he makes as CEO of Rastegar Property.

He owns buildings in Austin and is planning a $100,000,000, 26-story residential tower in the uptown section of Dallas next year.

I dont know if Im trying to live forever. Im trying to live as long as I can contribute, he says.

Rastegars exhausting daily routine also includes a hyperbaric chamber, meditation and he employs a life coach.

Rastegar is one of a growing number of longevity devotees who also undergo hormone therapy.

Others, not Rastegar, have even resorted to blood transfusions and stem cell treatments stay young.

My biological age is now that of about a 4-year-old, he says.

But medical doctors say not so fast when it comes to treatments that promise to slow down aging.

We dont have any long-term evidence-based studies to correlate whatever biohacking techniques people are using to prolong or extend life, yet, says Dr. James Pinckney of Diamond Physicians.

While physicians are cautious, Rastegar says hes seen the proof by lowering his cholesterol and raising his testosterone.

Rastegar along with a number of other millionaires and billionaires are spending vast amounts of their fortunes in the search for immortality.

But he says that doesnt mean he fears death.

I think were all little bit apprehensive, he says. I like to focus more on living, even with all this biohacking and all this stuff you dont know if youre going to make it to the next day.!

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Duane Michals/DC Moore Gallery, New YorkDuane Michals: The Illuminated Man, 1968

Months before he turns eighty-eight, the photographer Duane Michals is in the full throes of a remarkable old-age efflorescence. Evidence to that effect fairly leaps off the brightly colored walls of his fascinating new exhibition, Illusions of the Photographer, at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. Michals has long been renowned for three great innovations: his hauntingly atmospheric, teasingly Surrealistic, almost cinematic sequences of pictorial narratives; his use of handwritten texts on small-scale black-and-white silver gelatin prints (the antithesis of the current rage for billboard-sized digitized color images); and his celebratory normalization of homoerotic male beauty, years before Robert Mapplethorpes freak-show fetishism and Bruce Webers consumer-culture beefcake. Yet, unlike artists who hit upon a commercially lucrative formula and then crank out endless fungible reiterations, Michals is something of a superannuated Huck Finn, an incorrigibly subversive and inimitably American scamp always lighting out for new creative territories.

It took me nearly an hour and a half to work my way through the single large gallery in which Michals and the Morgans astute photography curator, Joel Smith, have assembled nearly a hundred works by him and other artists (including Carlo Galli Bibiena, William Blake, and Egon Schiele, as well as the photographers Lewis Carroll, Eugne Atget, and Irving Penn), along with literary artifacts such as Voltaires red leather portfolio, Goethes quill pen, and an origami-like paper boat folded by Nathaniel Hawthorne, in a kaleidoscopic mash-up that is part mini-retrospective and part artists choice survey. The latter format has become increasingly popular at museums with deep storage that can be raided for neglected holdings to illuminate the guest artists own body of work. Here, Smith combed through the Morgans quarter of a million objects and discovered an array of treasures that perfectly resonate with Michalss quirky sensibility. The photographer in turn made the final selection, and even added items from his personal collection, including Victorian illustrated childrens books of the sort that beguiled the Surrealists. The collaborators then grouped their finds under ten rubrics that reflect the subjects major concerns: Death, Illusion, Image and Word, Immortality, Love and Desire, Nature, Playtime, Reflection, Theater, and Time.

Among the many surprises are sixteen short color films (with running times from under two to over twelve minutes) that Michals has produced and directed since 2015, all of which will be screened at the Morgan during the run of the show. They range from a scatological one-liner (Trickle Down, 2018, in which Michals urinates on a Rolls Royce, his commentary on conspicuous consumption) and a tense domestic drama (Interruptus, 2018, features a women walking in on her husband as he puts the moves on another man), and from topical political protest (Deport Trump, 2016) to an enigmatic fantasy that blends Commedia dellArte, Cocteau, and Sixties psychedelia (YORT, 2019). Also on view are several other late-life Michals enthusiasms, including the anonymous nineteenth-century tintypes that he overpaints with abstract motifs inspired by his favorite modern art movement, Cubism. There are also examples of his postmillennial fan-shaped color photos inspired by nineteenth-century Japonisme and epitomized by a lyrical quartet of views of his upstate New York garden in all four seasons.

I came away from this physically compactyet psychically enlargingdisplay with a feeling of utter exhilaration that I havent often had in recent years of gallery going. It also occurred to me, after this latest time-out-of-mind immersion in the personal universe that the photography critic Andy Grundberg has called Duanes World that Michals might be best described as a magusa sorcerer who uses means beyond our ken to explain mysteries of existence that normally elude us.

Always industrious, Michals has been especially productive since the death, two years ago, of his life partner, the architect Fred Gorre, with whom hed lived since 1960 and married in 2011. Gorre suffered from Alzheimers and Parkinsons Disease during his last seven years, when the photographer attentively cared for him in their townhouse in the Gramercy Park neighborhood. Michalswho, like writers including Joan Didion and Nora Ephron, considers everything that happens to him potential subject mattercollected Gorres random utterances during his dementia and included some of them in his 2014 book ABCDuane: A Duane Michals Primer. Those pronouncements could be as Surrealistic as some of Michalss photographyI wonder what Marco Polos doing now?or like rays of light piercing through a dense cloud cover, as when Gorre suddenly declared, Why are we here? To help each other. Whether Michalss new burst of creative energy is attributable to losing himself in cathartic activity after his bereavementa not uncommon and often effective remedy for griefor perhaps because of an increased sense that times wingd chariot is bearing down on him I do not know, but it is inspiring to witness such renewed vigor at his age, whatever the reason.

As a child of the Great Depressionhe grew up just outside Pittsburgh, where his father was a steelworker and his mother a salesclerkMichals has always had a strong work ethic and was never ashamed to accept commercial assignments that have funded his parallel art career. Although the Morgan exhibition includes no examples of his advertising images (which were always unattributed on the page, unlike the present-day practice of naming celebrity photographers), it could have incorporated them without any taint of the marketplace. Still implanted in my minds eye is the breathtaking double-page-spread he did in 1991 for the launch of Este Lauders latest perfume, Spellbound. His tight black-and-white head shot of a man and a woman facing each other in profile has the iconic power of the legendary cinematographer Sven Nykvists very similar use of black and white close-ups in Ingmar Bergmans psychological drama Persona (1966). There is no need to apologize for work of this quality, and indeed when some self-righteous young photographer rudely told him, Ill never sell out, Michals coolly replied, Youve got nothing to sell.

The spheres of commerce and art have intersected for Michals when, for example, hes been commissioned to photograph cultural luminaries because of his uncanny ability to capture an aura of their work through his insightful portraits of the artists. This was never more evident than in his justly celebrated 1965 series on Rn Magritte, at home in Brussels. The shoot occasioned an unforgettable channeling of the Belgian masters spirit through a double exposure image of the bowler-hatted artist sitting in front of a blank canvas and appearing to simultaneously morph into the picture plane and vanish from the room. Im hard-pressed to name any other photograph of an artist more evocative than this one.

Magritte tops Michalss personal artistic pantheon (along with [t]hree people I met [who] intimidated me to the point of being speechless: Giorgio de Chirico, Robert Frank, and Saul Steinberg), as he tells Smith in their uncommonly informative catalog interview. Their probing interchange also offers a great deal of otherwise fresh personal information about its subject, who, though hardly closeted by any possible definition, has always been extremely discreet about his private life, in the same way that countless other high-achieving gay men in the postwar New York art and design world were. Yet it comes as news when he talks to Smith about the invariably beautiful young men whom he recruited for his art photography over the years and admits that, I got involved with my modelsI fell in love with my modelsbut my models were always straight.

Although death and immortality are recurrent motifs in Michalss artWhenever some magazine does an article on life after death I get a call, he once told mehis increasing defense against actuarial reality is another of his major themes: humor. One wall label in the photographers distinctively rangy pen-and-ink script reads, I decided what I wanted engraved on my tombstone: Having a wonderful time, wish you were here.

Although Michals in old age can be as avuncular as his great avatar Walt Whitmanthe Good Gray Gay Poet (to slightly tweak the famous nickname conferred by Whitmans great friend, William Douglas OConnor)there is also a restless persistence that underlies his explorations into metacognition: thinking about thinking, or knowing about knowing. The conclusion that comes across so clearly in his thought-provoking Illusions of the Photographer is that whatever we know, attempt to know, or cant possibly know, we are all winding up at the same destination. But that inevitability does not dampen this philosophical explorers determination to make some sense of what hes rightly called questions without answersthe Big Things in Lifeand his curiosity and vision remain undaunted and undimmed as he heads toward his tenth decade.

Illusions of the Photographer: Duane Michals at the Morgan is on view until February 2, 2020. A catalog is published by the Morgan Duane Michals: Mischievous Eye, and an exhibition of Michalss most recent work will be on view at the D.C. Moore Gallery in New York City from November 15 to December 21, 2019.

An earlier version of this article misidentified the Este Lauderperfume advertisement that Duane Michals photographed as Beautiful from 1985. It was Spellbound in 1991.

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House speaker Nancy Pelosihas thrown some serious shade at Donald Trump over the impeachment inquiry.

Previously, Speaker Pelosihas clapped back at Trump with withering irony at his State of the Union address and dismissed him as "not worth" impeaching. Until his quid pro quo call with Ukraine came to light and changed her mind, that is.

Giving a press conference on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Pelosiwas asked about the mounting evidence against Trump and commented:

If the president has something that is exculpatory - Mr President, that means you have anything that shows your innocence - then he should make that known, and that's part of the inquiry.

So far we haven't seen that but we welcome it.

Trump does claimhis favourite book is his own ghost-written business manual The Art of the Dealso it's entirely possible he doesn't know the meaning of the word.

Pelosi also said during the conference that Trumps alleged wrongdoings make what Nixon did look almost small" - referring to the Watergate scandal - and went further responding to the first public day of impeachment testimony from acting Ukraine ambassador Bill Taylor and George Kent of the State Department:

The devastating testimony corroborated evidence of bribery uncovered in the inquiry and that the president abused power.

The 79-year-old has been on fire in recent weeks and her contemptuous tone here had plenty of fans.

One person who was less taken with her droll remark was Trump himself, who tweeted angrily on Friday ahead of Marie Yovanovitch'simpeachment testimony:

Nervous Nancy Pelosi, who should be home cleaning up the dangerous & disgusting Slum she is making of her District in San Francisco, where even thefilth pouring into the Pacific Ocean is rapidly becoming an environmental hazard, is getting NOTHING DONE.

She is a Do Nothing Democrat as Speaker, and will hopefully not be in that position very long.

The speaker clearly struck a nerve.

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30 Rock is filled with insane cartoon-like characters that you'd find nowhere else. Each back story is complicated and outrageous to the point where it sounds both believable and completely fantastical in a "They must be lying," sot of sense.

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It makes it a curious thought on what their Alignments would be considering most of the characters are mostly out for themselves in their crazy world of immortality and pets as father figure replacements who also die horribly. 30 Rock may be based on reality but it is a crazy world with eccentric characters ripe to analyze. Whether good, neutral or evil, here are the alignments of some 30 Rock characters.

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Kenneth puts up with a lot of malarky from the 30 Rock crew and does it with a smile. His obedience under crazy conditions that he gets put through shows his association with up-holding rules like a lawful good. He'd do anything for the good of television.

Even for his co-workers, he shows his Lawful Good faults of selflessness when they were stuck in the elevator in the episode "Believe in the Stars." Here, he offers to take his own life, in comedic fashion, to save enough air for the others. True to the show's nature, he even encourages his friends to kill him by using his tie as a makeshift noose. His life matters very little to him as he would just get back up later because of his immortality.

Pete is your standard good guy character to contrast from the other crazy characters of 30 Rock. He's mostly self-sacrificing to keep others, including his wife, happy.

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He shows through the series he is just an average good person, sometimes with not enough courage to do more with his life then be the simple man archetype. He acts as a balance to the craziness and a sound of reason and neutrality to the outrageous problems presented in the series.

While not usually meaning harm to others, she has a very carefree spirit looking for freedom much like you'd see in any Chaotic Good. Even her end goal to marry someone rich is a sign of her carefree personality. It's the type of trait that draws ire from others who are jealous.

Rules of love in marriage matter to her very little, as her care is self-centered on having a comfortable life by marrying rich so she can design handbags and be a young mother.

Jack is mostly out for himself, but his usual position of power through his success puts him in a position of telling others what to do. Most of his decisions are usually self-centered but good in a business sense, which he does to keep his job going.

What he tries to do to get ahead and add to his list of accomplishments are often for his sake, unlike someone who is a Lawful Good. Looking out for himself places him in either evil or neutral, but since what he does is with NBC in mind, this puts him at a confrontation point with all other characters on the alignment scale, he qualifies as a Lawful Neutral.

Josh isn't afraid to mock and make fun of anyone even if he's saying a compliment or an outright insult to that person. It's his job so he is quite neutral about his opinions of those he mimics.

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He's a True Neutrtal because what he does doesn't have malice and is simply his work, but what he usually does doesn't have a positive outcome for many people (including himself) when other actors and crew workers are insulted.

The psychotic persona that Tracy Jordan neatly keeps fits him in with a Chaotic Neutral. Another self-centered character whose goal is fame through insanity and unpredictable shenanigans. His immature demeanor keeps him as a wild card, and a laugh a minute.

Tracy Jordan doesn't qualify as an evil on the scale because he can do things for the good of others socially as we see with his relationship with Kenneth. Tracy does want to do good things but still puts himself first, and a self-centered character will go both ways on the scale to fulfill their needs making him a neutral kind of guy.

The head of censors at fictional NBC, Gaylord Felcher uses his power to be as inappropriate as possible. He strictly makes others follow the rules, even though he's not as strict as Kenneth is with rules when he is in power, but Gaylord uses those rules only for others.

His name even is an ironic slur for someone who is the head and in charge of the rules of the censor board. He uses his powers for evil, as he lords over the cast of 30 Rock.

Devon Banks is your standard bad guy. He plots evilly against one of the protagonists, Jack Donaghy, as his goal is ultimate control of the corporation and his motives are fully self-centered without care for the consequences of others.

Like a Saturday morning cartoon villain, he comes up with complicated schemes to set everyone up so he can take over, only to hilariously fail in the end. True to bad guy fashion, he never has one scheme and each one is more complicated than it needs to be. He's only a Neutral Evil because of his apparent antagonist traits.

Hazel Wassername is the constant causer of destruction and over complicated plots to take down the main characters for the benefit of her own career. She's a chaotic in nature looking for destruction all the way to the point of being turned on by things set on fire.

Being one of the few characters on 30 Rock whose goal is to kill another shows her chaotic and destructive nature. She's a completely unreliable character who lies constantly to get what she wants to the point of being pathological. It's hard to predict what her next plot is to take down the characters and what steps she'll take because of a loose cannon aspect that she shares with Tracy, however being more subtle about it.

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The Immortal Hulk has proved to be both a commercial and critical success, to the point that its comics have sold over Batman and Amazing Spider-Man. It took Hulk's story to another tangent as he rose from the grave post 'Civil War II'. Writers Al Ewing and Joe Bennett didn't just give him a do-over in life but made the Jade Giant invincible to the point of immortality.

The drastic shifts in Hulk's character are terrifying elements of horror, religious symbolism, character pacing tangential to upheavals, almost. Having said that, The Immortal Hulk performs amazing at each level. Forget the angry giant that punched into things, The Immortal Hulkis a fantastic horror comic that may have given a new life to an otherwise vanilla character.

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It is one thing to take a divergence from a character but it is another to break down a character who stood alongside Avengers, the likes of Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, Black Widow to save the world from anti-heroes such as Thanos, Loki, Ultron and many more.

It doesn't just end there, in the latest The Immortal Hulk #26, Bruce Banner makes a speech from an undisclosed place, eventually getting to the point that he has "officially declared war against the human species". The issue glorifies him to be the most dangerous man in the world.

Whilst Hulkhas talkedsince he first appeared in comics, he never had proper speech. But as his character progressed, the comic books made him less talkative, partly attributable to his representation in the popular media, The Incredible Hulk that starred Bill Bixby as Dr. David Banner and Lou Ferrigno as Hulk. But that's not the end of Hulk's articulation, in more comic arcs such as the Plant Hulk, he did articulate well, until his "Hulk Smash!" line in The Incredible Hulk (movie). So to summarise, in the comics Hulk was a different character than he was in popular media.

But The Immortal Hulk is different. Forget the dumb, brute character you knew. This one waxes eloquent, he is quite the chatty Kathy, who listens to what his enemies have to say before smashing their skulls.

Okay, so remember the good old Hulk Smash? Turns out, The Immortal Hulk can do more than that. Intentionally, Hulk may have caused collateral damage to property, exploded gas lines, smashed people across and led to the loss of lives while escaping the army, but that's as far as he got with the rampages and accidents.

The Immortal Hulk is different. He may talk to enemies before killing them, or even stop to reconsider the kill he's about to execute, but he won't stop. The Immortal Hulk is a killer in every sense of the word, from beating an Elder of the Universe to chasing demigods.

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There was no doubt to Hulk's prowess, but The Immortal Hulk is the most powerful of all (take Thor's word for it) and that is because he possesses retroactive immortality, new to The Incredible Hulk. His heart, for one, beats through his fingers and he has a gamma burst ability.

The Immortal Hulk's gamma burst ability can level mountains, when amped enough. He absorbs gamma radiation for fun and due to these capabilities, he can sense liars. For instance, he broke Captain Glory's spine in a single punch.

Would The Immortal Hulk burst into flames like a vampire? Nah, Al Ewing has made it clear that it isn't due to sunlight that Hulk doesn't like to come out during the day time. The Immortal Hulk only comes out during the nighttime. While The Incredible Hulk could be channeled almost any time by Bruce Banner.

Banner only turns into The Immortal Hulk when the sun sets, in lieu of Hulk from the yesteryears. The darker the moon, the more powerful Hulk.

This may be a rendezvous to the past, a good thing that has happened to the character of Hulk. The Immortal Hulk leads Bruce Banner to different locations of crimes through hunches, gut feelings, strange synchronizations, and intuitive connections.

Bruce knows himself to be the scientific self and calls Hulk unreasonable.

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From Absolute Carnage: The Immortal Hulk #1,comes the Savage Hulk who rebels against Banner and wants to be free. Since Bruce wants to be free from the Government and the Avengers, Savage Hulk is almost running from everyone.

Savage Hulk is born when the dual symbiote comes into contact with PTSD patient Bruce Banner who brings three different Hulks to the table, one of which is Savage Hulk who comes out at night and is more powerful than The Immortal Hulk.

Remember Deadpool's hand with a middle finger salute to Colossus? This one gets worse. The Immortal Hulk #7 almost like Deadpool has the ability to regenerate himself. There is one more thing that he shares with Deadpool, that is, possessing full mind control over the dissected parts of his body.

The Avengers use Helios to destroy him and he revives from the Petri dishes his body parts are kept in.

Dr. Bruce Banner's love interest from his pre-Hulk identity, their relationship suffered a major dent when Betty's father Thunderbolt Ross invested all of his mind and energy into stopping Hulk.

In The Immortal Hulk #19,readers are introduced to a brand new iteration of Betty Ross - her gamma transformation. Betty now is cross between Harpie and the Red Hulk and she resents The Immortal Hulk for almost everything.

It so happens that Hulk loses badly to Abomination in a one on one, he begs for help. With Betty around, she tears open his chest and plucks his heart out, thereby killing him.

Out of all the incredible things, some bad and some good, with this one, they went too far. In a shoot out at the gas station, a 12-year-old girl becomes a victim. Not sure how you feel about this? The gas station attendant is next and an anonymous man is holed in the head. This causes Hulk to inflict some brutal retribution to the thief, but in a more controlled and mindful style than the Hulk is usually accustomed to.

The child murder was uncalled for, still. It showed right away that this new book wasn't messing around.

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A new patch for the Overwatch PTR dropped on October 23 and it contains an update for Mei, Baptiste, and Sigma along with bug fixes and someWorkshop updates.

The latest PTR update isn't massive, but it does contain a lot of updates for the Workshop along with changes that might be helpful to Mei mains.

Hero updates are also included for Sigma and Baptiste, along with a number of bug fixes for various heroes.

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The PTR patch comes in the middle of the Halloween Terror event.

The hero update apply to Mei's Ice Wall, Sigma's Gravitic Flux and Baptiste's Immortality Field, which willall now more heavily prefer edges over placing as far away as possible.

This should make it easier to place the abilities in the most effective spot - especially when it comes to Ice Wall.

Ice Wall should be a bit easier to place accurately after the latest patch.

Bug fixes include a hilarious-sounding glitch thatcaused Anas legs to twitch when her Halloween TerrorPharaoh skin is equipped.

They also fixed a bug thatcaused Roadhog'sChain Hook tosometimes incorrectly connect with Symmetras Teleporter, Ashes Dynamite, and Junkrats Steel Trap and Concussion Mine.

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Hog should have less problems hooking things he didn't mean to.

Also included in the update is a new gameplay option forHigh Precision Mouse Input whichwill allow Overwatch player's to use their mouses native polling rate when determining exactly where to shoot.

A mouse's polling rate is how often it reports its position to a computer andahigher polling rate can decrease the lag between when you move your mouse and when the movement shows up on your screen.

The full list of updates in the October 23 PTR patch are listed below:

New Gameplay Option: High Precision Mouse Input

Enabling this option will allow Overwatch to use your mouses native polling rate when determining exactly where to shoot. Note: There may be a slight performance cost to enabling this option.

New Workshop Features:

New Workshop Values:

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Doomfist

D.Va

Moira

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AN hour after masterminding one of Englands greatest sporting triumphs, Eddie Jones was already thinking dark thoughts.

This workaholic, insomniac head coach has experienced two World Cup final weeks before and he knows how such immense occasions can play tricks with a players mind.

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Jones said: The mindset you create during the week is very important and its about not inventing shadows.

Everywhere you look there are shadows, so you have to make sure youre looking at the right shadows.

England had just wiped the floor with New Zealands back-to-back world champs the 19-7 semi-final scoreline having seriously flattered the outclassed All Blacks.

But Jones was already concerned about those shadows the fears and insecurities which can affect a player before a showpiece as grand as Saturdays final with South Africa.

Whatever Jones says publicly, he knows bringing down the All Blacks team he described as rugbys God was the pinnacle of their achievements in a one-off match.

Yet unless they lift the Webb Ellis Cup in five days time, that mighty feat will end up tainted.

Up until this year, England had won two World Cups in 68 years of contesting such events in their three major mens team sports at Wembley in 1966 and against Jones Australia in Sydney in 2003.

Yet now the English could celebrate World Cup glory for the second time in 111 days following the intoxicating chaos of cricketing success against New Zealand in a Super Over at Lords in July.

During that competition, England also produced a near-perfect semi- final, hammering the Aussies only to face lesser opposition in a final which they could and should have ended up losing.

That is a shadow worth looking at for Jones, who also worked as a consultant to South Africa when they defeated England in the 2007 final.

There was an encouraging sign at the final whistle on Saturday, though.

With the slight exception of replacement flanker Mark Wilson, who momentarily held his arms towards the heavens, Englands players barely celebrated.

Some went down on their haunches to catch breath, most just shook hands with the vanquished All Blacks, seemingly marking it down as a half-decent day at the office and on to the next one. On that lack of euphoria, Jones said: Its because weve got another week to go.

Now it is about the attitude of the players and the messaging the leadership gives the players.

Its about making sure no one gets too far ahead of themselves and this team has got no reason to, as we havent achieved what we want. All its done is give us another week.

Gesturing to the massed ranks of media, Jones continued: This week wont be normal because you have this and youll have people on the street patting you on the back and telling you how good youve been.

Im sure the newspapers will be full of praise so youve got to work hard to keep yourself focused.

As favourites for the final, England will have to adjust their mindset and they are likely to be quieter, more self-contained than last week.

But as underdogs against the All Blacks, their psychological approach was spot-on bullish in their words, determined not to be bullied by the pre-match Haka and like bulls in a china shop in the opening minutes.

Englands rapid start including a Manu Tuilagi try after just 96 seconds was key.

Jones said: A Test match against New Zealand is like the start in Formula One. Youve got to be on your mark ready to go because if youre not, you get left behind and you can never find your way back.

We had to come out of the blocks hard early and establish some physical and mental ascendancy early. You dont win the game there but it puts you in a good position.

Jones was fulsome in his praise for skipper Owen Farrell, who soldiered on after suffering a dead leg in the first half with George Ford having to take over kicking duties and landing four penalties.

Jones said: Owen was outstanding. He wasnt at his best but he managed the team so well.

That second half becomes a leadership challenge and he got the boys focused and got us doing the simple things well. He understood where we could get an advantage and did that brilliantly.

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As for the injury, I think you would have needed a samurai sword to get him off!

Now boss Jones must lead his men forward, knowing that, while the Gods have fallen, sporting immortality is still to be achieved.

He knows the pathway to those bright lights. And he knows his men must sidestep the shadows.

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"Immortality" is the thirteenth episode of the third season of Fringe.

As the story shifts back to life "over there," the absence of Colonel Broyles shifts the dynamic of the Fringe Team as they investigate a bioterrorist armed with an insect that has a taste for human flesh. Meanwhile, alternate Olivia is reunited with her beau, and Walternate remains determined to save his world but discovers there are certain lines he will not cross.

Dr Armand Silva, a scientist obsessed with now extinct skelter beetles, infects people on purpose to find out how to revive the beetles from extinction. Lincoln Lee (Alternate Universe) is now the new head of Fringe Division since Phillip Broyles (Alternate Universe) went missing and Walternate has not released the news about his death.

Brandon Fayette (Alternate Universe) tells Walternate that Cortexiphan worked on a certain subject, giving him telepathic powers before killing him. Brandon believes that younger patients will yield more promising results; however, Walternate firmly rejects that idea, showing that that is one line he will not cross.

Fauxlivia and her boyfriend, Frank Stanton, reunite after months of being apart although she keeps her distance, with memories of Peter Bishop still lingering. Frank reveals that he's going to propose to Fauxlivia, and she says yes despite her reservations.

When the Fringe team catches the scientist, they believe that he's infected Fauxlivia because she's showing symptoms of the previously infected. When he reveals that he is the final host and not Olivia, a beetle eats its way out, completing the scientist's work. Frank and the medical team are trying to help Olivia when they find movement in her stomach while performing an ultrasound. Frank is about to inject her with a powerful anti-parasitic when he is stopped by another member of the medical team, who shows him Olivia's blood work.

At the hospital, Olivia and the baby are both revealed to be healthy. Frank asks how long she has been pregnant. Olivia is actually six week's pregnant with Peter's baby; when Frank asks her if she loves "him," her silence reveals that she does actually harbor feelings for Peter and not Frank. Frank tells her that is all he needed to know and leaves.

Other Brandon tells Walternate that he believes he has found a way to bring Peter back to the other side.

Later, Olivia returns home to a house that is filled with boxes and Frank is obviously moving out. Walternate comes to visit Olivia and tells her that he will take care of her, as she is carrying his future grandchild.

Fauxlivia: Ugh, you know how I feel about bugs.Lincoln: Not Charlie. Charlie loves bugs.Charlie: Look lively, people. New boss is here.Lincoln: How is it that when you say "boss," it sounds like insubordination?Charlie: You see, that's my tone. Maybe that's why I didn't get the promotion.Lincoln: Yeah, maybe, or else I'm better than you.

Mona: I'm Foster... Mona Foster.Charlie: We, uh--we--we met before?Mona: I treated you for your arachnid infestation. I'm not surprised you don't remember me. You were in a lot of pain. So how are the spiders?Charlie: Uh, they're good. They--they--sometimes they just itch a little bit.Mona: Maybe you just need somebody to scratch it.

Fauxlivia: Bug girl's got a crush on Charlie.Charlie: Bug girl has a crush on the fact that I got spiders in my blood, kiddo.Fauxlivia: Come on, everybody's looking for someone that's gonna like them for who they are inside, right?

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Immortality is the term given to people who won't die naturally. It is a common power for supernatural beings such as Gods, vampire, werewolves, etc. Other causes can be cosmic powers, mutation, etc. There as several types of immortality, each varying in usefulness.

Type 1: Immortality through longevity

Longevity grants the user the ability to live indefinitely and the inability to die of old age, illness, or natural causes, but does not prevent death through means such as being stabbed.

Examples: Elves from Lord of the Rings.

Type 2: Spiritual immortality

Spiritual Immortality is where the user can be killed (also depends on durability for usefulness in combat), but they can recreate a new body in their spirit form.

Examples: Sauron from Lord of the Rings, Ganondorf from Legend of Zelda, Darkseid from DC Comics, various Greater Daemons from Warhammer 40K.

Type 3: Immortality through regeneration

Where the user can be maimed, blown to peices, reduced to a pool of blood and still regenerate from death. Normally only higher types of regeneration qualify for this level of immortality.

Examples: Dante from Devil May Cry, Wolverineand Deadpool pool from Marvel, Alucard from Hellsing, Dark Schneider from Bastard!!, Lobo from DC Comics, Jedah Dohma from Darkstalkers.

Type 4: Immortality through godhood or protection via deity

This type of immortality is granted by a god or by sheer virtue of godhood.

Examples: Lucifer Morningstar from DC Comics, Juggernaut from Marvel, Kharn the Betrayer from Warhammer 40K, Shendu with the Dog Talisman from Jackie Chan Adventures.

Type 5: Perfect Immortality

Cannot die by any means whatsoever. Normally only omnipotents and high tier cosmic beings fit this category.

Examples: One-Above-Allfrom Marvel, The Presencefrom DC Comics,Vishnufrom Hindiusm andAbrahamic God

Type 6: Parasitic Immortality

Can be physically destroyed but can live on by latching onto another body for survival.

Examples: Orochimaru from Naruto, Venom from Marvel, Violator from Image Comics, Darth Sidious from Star Wars, Lucius the Eternal from Warhammer 40K.

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