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Neuroscientist Valorie Salimpoor
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Why Does Music Feel So Good?
By Virginia Hughes
One day several years ago Valorie Salimpoor took a drive that would change the course of her life. She was at the peak of what she now calls her "quarter-life crisis," not knowing what kind of career she wanted or how she might use her undergraduate neuroscience training. Hoping an outing might clear her head, that day she jumped in her car and switched on the radio. She heard the charging tempo and jaunty, teasing violin of Johannes Brahms's Hungarian Dance No. 5.
"This piece of music came on, and something just happened," Salimpoor recalls. "I just felt this rush of emotion come through me. It was so intense." She pulled over to the side of the street so she could concentrate on the song and the pleasure it gave her.
When the song was over, Salimpoor's mind raced with questions. "I was thinking, wow, what just happened? A few minutes ago I was so depressed, and now I'm euphoric," she says. "I decided that I had to figure out how this happened — that that's what I'm going to do with the rest of my life."
Music moves people of all cultures, in a way that doesn't seem to happen with other animals. Nobody really understands why listening to music — which, unlike sex or food, has no intrinsic value — can trigger such profoundly rewarding experiences. Salimpoor and other neuroscientists are trying to figure it out with the help of brain scanners.
Yesterday, for example, researchers from Stanford reported that when listening to a new piece of classical music, different people show the same patterns of synchronized activity in several brain areas, suggesting some level of universal experience. But obviously no one's experience is exactly the same. In today's issue of Science, Salimpoor's group reports that when you listen to a song for the first time, the strength of certain neural connections can predict how much you like the music, and that these preferences are guided by what you've heard and enjoyed in the past.
After Salimpoor had the car epiphany, she rushed home to her computer and Googled "music and the brain." That led her to graduate school at McGill University, working in the lab of neuroscientist Robert Zatorre.
A few years ago, Salimpoor and Zatorre performed another type of brain scanning experiment in which participants listened to music that gave them goosebumps or chills. The researchers then injected them with a radioactive tracer that binds to the receptors of dopamine, a chemical that's involved in motivation and reward. With this technique, called positron emission tomography or PET, the researchers showed that 15 minutes after participants listened to their favorite song, their brains flooded with dopamine.
The dopamine system is old, evolutionarily speaking, and is active in many animals during sex and eating. "But animals don't get intense pleasures to music," Salimpoor says. "So we knew there had to be a lot more to it."
In the new experiment, the researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to track real-time brain activity as participants listened to the first 30 seconds of 60 unfamiliar songs. To quantify how much they liked the music, participants were given the chance to buy the full version of each song — with their own money! — using a computer program resembling iTunes. The program was set up like an auction, so participants would choose how much they were willing to spend on the song, with bids ranging from $0 to $2.
You can imagine how tricky it was to design this experiment. All of the participants had to listen to the same set of never-heard-before songs, and yet, in order to get enough useable data, there had to be a reasonable chance that they would like some of the songs enough to buy them.
Salimpoor began by giving 126 volunteers comprehensive surveys about their musical preferences. "We asked them to list all of the music they listen to, everything they like, everything they've ever bought," Salimpoor says. She ultimately scanned 19 volunteers who had indicated similar preferences, mostly electronic and indie music. "In Montreal there's a big indie scene," she says.
To create the list of unfamiliar songs, Salimpoor first looked at songs and artists that showed up on many of the volunteers' surveys. She plugged those choices into musical recommendation programs, such as Pandora and iTunes, to find similar but less well-known selections. She also asked people who worked at local music stores what new songs they'd recommend in those genres.
Here's a sampling of 3 songs from the final list of 60:
The brain scans highlighted the nucleus accumbens, often referred to as the brain's 'pleasure center', a deep region of the brain that connects to dopamine neurons and is activated during eating, gambling and sex. It turns out that connections between the nucleus accumbens and several other brain areas could predict how much a participant was willing to spend on a given song. Those areas included the amygdala, which is involved in processing emotion, the hippocampus, which is important for learning and memory, and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, which is involved in decision-making.
The data are "compelling," especially because the study objectively quantified the participants' preferences, notes Thalia Wheatley, a psychology professor at Dartmouth College who has studied links between music, motion and emotion. The emphasis on connectivity between regions, rather than any particular region by itself, is also intriguing, she says. "Cortical activity alone does not predict bid value. Hooking up the temporal and evaluative processing in the cortex with the (more primitive) reward areas appears to be the key."
So why is it that one person might spend $2 on a song while another pans it? Salimpoor says it all depends on past musical experiences. "Depending on what styles youre used to — Eastern, Western, jazz, heavy metal, pop — all of these have very different rules they follow, and they're all implicitly recorded in your brain," she says. "Whether you realize it or not, every time you're listening to music, you're constantly activating these templates that you have."
Using those musical memory templates, the nucleus accumbens then acts as a prediction machine, she says. It predicts the reward that you'll feel from a given piece of music based on similar types of music you've heard before. If you like it better than predicted, it registers as intense pleasure. If you feel worse than predicted, you feel bored or disappointed.
"New music is presumably rewarding not only because it fits implicitly learned patterns but because it deviates from those patterns, however slightly," Wheatley says. But this finding leads to new questions. "It just made me wonder whether people have different preferences or tolerances for how much a new song deviates from the well-worn path of previously heard music structures."
There are lots of other questions for future studies to probe. How does our brain make those musical templates? How long do we have to listen to a song before we know whether we like it? Why did my sister and I have such drastically different musical tastes growing up, even though our exposures were pretty much the same?
But for now the study has given Salimpoor a new way to think about what happened to her that day in the car. "That day, it all seemed like such a big mystery — what the heck is happening in my brain?" she says. But if she heard the song again today, she'd be able to tell a reasonable story of her mind's workings.
"I'd be like, oh my god I just released dopamine, and my nucleus accumbens is now communicating with the superior temporal gyrus, and that's pulling up some other memories of when I was 12 and playing the violin," she says, laughing. "And then that's linking it to my visual centers, so I can imagine this perfect synchronized orchestra and me playing a violin in there. And I'd be predicting the next sounds from each instrument in the orchestra, and the whole orchestra, so it's a local and global prediciton going on at the same time."
Music, she says, is an intellectual reward. "It's really an exercise for your whole brain."


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According to Deadline, filming on the upcoming third season of The CW's Charmed has been temporarily shutdown again in Vancouver due to an individual from the production recently testing positive for COVID-19. This isn't the first time that the reboot drama has been delayed as it also previously halted production last month because of delays regarding the cast and crew's COVID-19 test results. Despite the filming setbacks, Charmed is still set to return next year on Sunday, January 24.
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In The CW's Charmed, "Stronger together." That's what Marisol tells her daughters, firebrand social justice warrior Melanie "Mel" Vera, and her sister, fun-loving Maggie, about their family. Mel is a graduate student in the women's studies department her mother heads at Hilltowne University; Maggie is a freshman considering rushing a sorority (to Mel's amused dismay) and going "on" again with her on-again off-again boyfriend Brian. But then, a shocking tragedy shatters their world and threatens their sibling bond: Marisol dies in a horrifying accident. Or was it? Three months later, we find Mel unable to accept the official explanation of their mother's death, while Maggie accuses her of being morbidly obsessed. And then, another huge shock shows up at their front door: they have an older sister, brilliant geneticist Macy, whom their mother kept a secret all these years! Macy is new in town and doesn't know a soul (except for Galvin, the cute fellow scientist who's been showing her around). Macy is eager to connect with Mel and Maggie, but Mel can't handle another shock, and shuts her out.
With the emotions of all three sisters running high, each of the girls suddenly exhibit impossible new abilities: Mel can freeze time, Maggie starts hearing others' thoughts, and Macy has telekinetic powers. But don't worry, there's a perfectly reasonable explanation…or so says Harry Greenwood (who as far as they know is the officious new chair of the women's studies department), when he gathers the three sisters together to reveal they're actually powerful witches, as was their mother. And he's not really a professor, he's their "Whitelighter," a witch's advisor and guide! Not only that, but Mel was right: their mother's death was no accident – she was murdered by unknown dark forces. It's a lot to take in, but ultimately the sisters accept their new destiny as The Charmed Ones…and their new duty to protect humankind from the demons that walk among us…one of whom killed their mother. With the Power of Three, they are stronger together… even if they have no idea what they're really up against.
The reboot is being led by Madeleine Mantock as Macy, Melonie Diaz as Mel and Sarah Jeffery as Maggie. It also stars Rupert Evans as Harry Greenwood, Nick Hargrove as Parker Caine, and Valerie Cruz as Marisol Vera.
The series is based on a story by Jennie Urman (creator of Jane the Virgin). She executive produces with Jessica O'Toole and Amy Rardin (Jane the Virgin writers) who will also pen the script. Brad Silberling (Jane the Virgin, Dynasty, Reign) directs and also executive produce swith Ben Silverman. CBS Television Studios is produced by rebooted Charmed series.
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The original Charmed, launched on the now-defunct The WB channel, ran for eight seasons and 178 episodes. It followed the adventures of three Halliwell sisters, Prue (Shannen Doherty), Piper (Holly Marie Combs) and Phoebe (Alyssa Milano), who discover that their family is part of a long line of powerful witches. Doherty left the series at the conclusion of the third season. The finale saw Prue die, but it was revealed at the beginning of the fourth season that the Halliwells had a hidden half-sister, Paige (Rose McGowan), who joined the headlining cast from then on.
Although it went off the air in 2006, the story has continued in comic book form. Zenescope published two additional Charmed "seasons." Season Nine ran for 24 issues while Season Ten just concluded this past September at issue 20.
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Hannah Bladon: life abundant cut short
Hannah Bladon was killed in Jerusalem on Good Friday. Here is my eulogy delivered at her funeral today,
I met Hannah soon after I came to Burton in 2014. We were waiting for mass to begin in St Paul's. Although we'd never before set eyes on each other, Hannah, characteristically direct, came over and made some intelligent remark about the liturgy. I was dumbstruck. The thought that a young person in today's Church of England might be interested in liturgy was intoxicating.
We chatted some more. Within seconds it became clear that this was a most unusual young lady: bright, intellectually supple, intellectually resilient, intellectually fearless and completely open-minded. I had to reach for the sal volatile before I fainted, for this was almost too much for my system. An intellectually supple and open minded Anglican. Can you imagine such a thing? I said so and we dissolved into laughter.
It seems that not only did I instantly take to her, but she also took to me. I think this is the reason I have the heart-rending honour of speaking to you on this desperately sad occasion. I thank everyone who has told me about Hannah, but particularly Stella and Max.
Not only intellectual resilience
Hannah was born with a dislocated hip undiagnosed for 18 months. Treatment involved hip traction, the wearing of heavy boots, and frequent hospital visits. But never a word of complaint. In fact it was those visits, usually accompanied by Granddad Colin that resulted in 'granddad' being Hannah's first spoken word.
Hannah knew what she wanted. Parents wonder is this determination or pig-headedness? She was the first player to sign for Burton Ladies rugby club juniors. Even though she was quiet and slightly built, you learned to underestimate her at your peril, as her opponents discovered. She was a winger—nippy, a different sort of resilience. She was the first girl to come off the pitch with blood on her shirt, but soon bounced back.
In Jerusalem Hannah was up at 5 am to get to the dig site by 6. Her friend said that Hannah would arrive back in the evening filthy and exhausted—often too exhausted to shower—and go straight to bed. One of the people Hannah worked with was Bob Henry, a retired chemist from Alabama. Bob flew home at Easter, but when he heard about Hannah he was devastated, and flew back to Israel to meet Stella and Max when they went to bring her home.
Hannah knew justice, mercy, humility
Prophet Micah advises us to do justly, love mercy and walk humbly with God. Hannah did not need to be told any of that. Her last act of kindness on the day she died—one that according to friend Christina was common for Hannah—was to give up her tram seat to a young mother. She was not political, but believed all people should be equal. She had a profound sense of justice for the underdog. She did not think she was special. She lacked self-confidence. She never expected to get the HSBC scholarship that enabled her to go to Birmingham University in 2015. She never expected her application to the Rothberg International School at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to be successful. The assessors could see what she did not: what a wonderful ambassador she could be.
An upward trajectory
Hannah was a member of a local archaeology group, and had a great interest in history. During the dig that was completed on Maundy Thursday, she excavated a vase of a type not previously known to have existed at that time. She was interested in the past but did not live in it: she used the past to inform the present for the future. One of her lecturers in Jerusalem described Hannah's career as being on a 'steep upward trajectory', and said that he would have given anything to work with her when she'd completed her doctorate. Others have said that whatever came out of Hannah's mouth was worth listening to—certainly my experience. Her impact on others was recognized by Mr Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister ,who mentioned Hannah in his Remembrance Day address on 1 May, and by the Archbishop of Canterbury who was with the Bishop of Lichfield and the Chief Rabbi in Jerusalem a couple of days ago. The Bishop told me that he sensed that Hannah was regarded with awe by her colleagues.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that people can be divided into two categories—not sheep and goats, but drains and radiators. In pastoral ministry one comes across a lot of drains. They suck the life force from you as they enjoy ill health, or enjoy finding fault. They try to draw you into their jaundiced world view. They are full of ordure. Hannah was no drain. She radiated energy. She loved a discussion. She had, as I've said, a sense of justice that made her dogged and protective. All these characteristics say something profound about the family. Quite clearly they recognized the extraordinary young lady that Hannah was. To their credit never once did they try and mould her into something less challenging, as many parents would have done. They marvelled at her.
In conclusion, some personal remarks
Let me offer you all some advice. You will not know what to say to Stella and Max, to Colin, June and Malcolm. There is nothing you can say that makes any sense. The best thing that people said to my wife and me when our son died was 'there's nothing I can say'. Don't say 'I know how you're feeling' because you don't. Don't say 'time heals everything' because it doesn't. Don't say 'she's in a better place' for I suspect that she'd rather be up to her armpits in sand. Much better to do something than to say anything, so give them a cuddle and weep with them. Often. And when you meet them in the street, don't go out of your way to avoid them, but take them for a coffee. Or a gin.
And finally to Stella, Max, Colin, June and Malcolm. Grief at the loss of an adult child is in my experience fierce, bitter, and overwhelming. It is malignant and insidious. It blots out heaven. Your psyche has suffered the most violent attack imaginable. You will need all your energy to look after yourself, so do not waste it on other people. Be kind to yourselves and to each other, indulgent even. Have no expectations. Don't do anything you don't want to do. Don't let anyone tell you what's good for you—they're just trying to make themselves feel better. Learn from dogs. When a dog is injured it retreats to its basket and there it stays until it feels better. After 18 months my basket remains the place of safety where I find solace. And when you're in your basket, you will weep for the loss of that glorious creature whose life was taken in a random act of violence by a sick man.
4 thoughts on "Hannah Bladon: life abundant cut short"
David MacMunn on 13/05/2017 at 16:13 said:
A lovely eulogy for your friend Stanley.
carolannpalmer on 11/05/2017 at 17:04 said:
Wonderful thought-provoking writing as well as being a lovely piece about Hannah.
Nigel Day on 11/05/2017 at 10:45 said:
Stanley, this is a most moving Eulogy. A tragic loss, but I hope Hannah is remembered for all reasons you have described. Nigel
kiwianglo on 11/05/2017 at 10:24 said:
My Dear Brother in Christ. This is a most beautiful eulogy – reflecting the life of God's Little Ones.
My condolences on your loss. – Father Ron


To me, India is empowered when at least 80 per cent of its people are empowered. As most of India's population live in rural areas, just a few urbanites being empowered will be unfortunate for this country. India will be truly empowered when people at the grassroots start feeling confident about themselves, their way of life, their tradition and their language.
Rajiv Malhotra explains how to fit modern science into the Vedic framework.
A common desire among Hindus today is to see their Vedic tradition through the lens of modern science. There are good reasons for doing this. After all, modern science has accomplished so much and given us many gifts, thus attaining the status of being the gold standard of truth. Therefore, according to most persons, the legitimacy and worthiness of any body of knowledge should be determined by the extent to which it is in conformity with modern science.
Why is there a presumption that the adhikara to think creatively is reserved only for the academicians?
I was recently "bombed" by an online petition with a sensational charge that I had "plagiarised" in my earlier book, Indra's Net. The demand was that publishers must withdraw my books. The accusation is that in nine different instances in Indra's Net, I should have cited a certain book by Andrew Nicholson, which I failed to do.
The sanctity of the mela is under threat from many directions. Keeping a traditional gathering open to all is different from losing control of it.
When Harvard University created a major new initiative called the Harvard Kumbh Mela Project, Hindus naturally became impressed and proud. After all, it brought global importance to our heritage. However, it is my nature to cross check such foreign interventions, and, therefore, I decided to study the project more closely. I also decided to take a look at various other international interventions on the Kumbh Mela besides those by Harvard. What I found has disconcerted me on several counts.
An anti-Hindu clique used an unwieldy administrative mechanism to cancel Subramanian Swamy's courses, making a mockery of academic freedom. The result has been a fierce backlash. NS Rajaram writes more.
Georges Clemenceau (1841 – 1929), prime minister of France during World War I once said: "War is too important a matter to be left to the generals." This wisdom can now be applied to those calling themselves by names like Indologist, India Studies Expert, South Asia Expert (the latest fashion) and so forth. Thanks to their ham-handed expulsion of the economist and visiting professor Dr Subramanian Swamy, Harvard now has a major public relations problem on its hands.
"Indology is an anachronism with colonial and racist roots that has outlived its purpose. India Studies should outgrow Indology if it hopes to be relevant and not join Indology in the dustbin of history." NS Rajaram writes more.
To understand the visceral reaction of Diana Eck and her colleagues within and outside Harvard, it helps to recognize that the discipline they are part of is on its way into the dustbin of history. This is thanks to science and progress. The fact that Eck, a religious scholar who knows little or no Sanskrit should be the chair of the Sanskrit Department (or was until a few months ago when the department became part of South Asia Studies) is testimony to the state of Sanskrit at Harvard. There are village schools and undergraduate colleges in India with better Sanskrit scholars—and students—than Harvard today.


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On the afternoon of March 2, 2016, a Silver Alert was issued. The Knightdale Police Department is requesting the public's assistance in locating Harvey Richardson, an 81 year-old Knightdale resident who was last seen in the early afternoon on Tuesday, March 1, 2016, in the area of Hodge Road near Hodge Road Elementary in Knightdale, NC.
Mr. Richardson was last seen walking and wearing a black cowboy hat, beige shirt, and dark blue work pants. He is 5'10" tall and weighs 180 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.
Mr. Richardson suffers from multiple ailments, including Alzheimer's and is without his medication. He may be visiting Sweepstakes establishments in the Raleigh area.
As of Thursday, March 3, 2016 around noon, Mr. Richardson is still missing. Please keep your eyes open and help to find this gentleman and bring him home safely.
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Ten Best Songs In Car Commercials
Tamara Warren
I write about people, cars, culture and art.
Oct 24, 2011, 05:12pm EDT |
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There's more than one way to measure the best songs used in car commercials. Since "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" became a diddy for California Raisins, it's hard to hear the classic Marvin Gaye track without picturing those darn dancing raisins wearing sunglasses. If you see a flash of a vehicle and a song pops into your head, that's is the mark of an agency's effective commercial campaign. The drawback, of course, is that a decent song becomes a tiresome jingle. The song will never sound the same, but you can bet that the artist or label that holds the publishing has garnered a splendid licensing fee for granting the rights for commercial use.
Both Paste Magazine and Esquire have compiled lists of their favorite songs from car commercials. But I use different criteria for my top ten-- the more pervasive the commercial has become in pop culture, the better. Here are ten of the most memorable songs in car commercial form:
10. George Thorogood's "Bad to the Bone" for Buick
The song was released in 1982, but licensing it to Buick for the Regal Grand National from 1984 to 1987 gave it legs, as perfect mood music for bragging about 200 hp. A modified version of the song was actually made for the Buick commercial. The song draws from Bo Diddley's "I'm A Man" and Diddley appears in the original video. Jalopnik reports only 30,500 Grand National turbo cars were produced but the point was made. You also might remember the track in 1991's "Terminator 2.
9. Black Sheep "This or That" for Kia
Black Sheep's party favorite was used for this 2010 Kia commercial. It was reported that one of the group's members wasn't aware that Universal had licensed the song according to Vibe until after the commercial aired.
8. Wilco "Sky Blue Sky" for Volkswagen
Wilco released this statement when they were accused of being sellouts for licensing their music (via Brooklyn Vegan)
As many of you are aware, Volkswagen has recently begun running a series of TV commercials featuring Wilco music. Why? This is a subject we've discussed internally many times over the years regarding movies, TV shows and even the odd advertisement. With the commercial radio airplay route getting more difficult for many bands (including Wilco); we see this as another way to get the music out there. As with most of the above (with the debatable exception of radio) the band gets paid for this. And we feel okay about VWs. Several of us even drive them.
7. Sting's "Desert Rose" for Jaguar
Sting's manager reportedly sent the video to Jaguar, and then collaborated with Jaguar's agency Ogilvy & Mather on two commercials, opening up the doors for commerce and art to mingle on television with some degree of credibility.
6. Vampire Weekend - "Holiday" for Honda
This Vampire Weekend song was also licensed to Tommy Hilfiger according to the Baltimore Sun, raising the question, do Honda Civic owners wear Hilfiger?
5. Cat Power covering David Bowie's "Space Oddity" Lincoln
In 2008, Lincoln opted for cool to introduce the MKS, but conceptualism didn't go over well with Adweek's interpretation of Bowie's lyrics. In the song an astronaut is lost in space. Here's a sample:
Ground Control to Major Tom your circuit's dead/there's something wrong/Can you hear me, Major Tom?/Can you hear me, Major Tom?/Can you hear me, Major Tom?/Can you....
Here am I floating round my tin can/Far above the Moon/Planet Earth is blue/And there's nothing I can do.
4. Sheryl Crow's "Every Day Is A Winding Road" for Subaru
Sheryl Crow explained the use of her hit song to sell Imprezas to Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air. According to AdAge:
"I get a bit itchy about things like that. And I'm sure most artists do. When I was coming up, an artist would never have sold a song to a commercial. That would be the quintessential selling-out, and I think when Sting got in the Jaguar (See #7) and Bob Dylan was in the Victoria Secret commercial, it felt like 'okay the floodgates have been opened and now that our industry is really suffering so badly, the best way to get marketing dollars and to have your music heard is through a commercial.
3. Dirty Vegas "Days Go By" for Mitsubishi
It was reported that the licensing of this song jumpstarted Dirty Vegas in the U.S. club circuit. MTV News devoted an article to the resurgence of commercial pop locking that happens in the comfort of the Mitsubishi interior. Here's the lowdown from the article:
"Dirty Vegas had already chosen "Days Go By" as a single when a Mitsubishi executive saw the video in a hotel room in Europe. That person tracked the trio down and they agreed to license the song because they felt good about the company. "I don't think we'd do a burger commercial," Smith. "With a car commercial, you know, Sting does it. Massive Attack. Fatboy Slim does it. I think it's changed because you've got cool directors directing the [commercials], so visually, you know they're really rich and colorful." "In America, with your segregation of radio stations, you can't get your music to a massive audience at once," Paul added. "Everybody watches TV, and the advertisement gets every sort of person in one hit."
2. Bob Seger's "Like A Rock" for Chevrolet
When Chevy dropped Bob Seger's iconic commercial hit "Like A Rock" in 2004, the news made headlines on AutoBlog and other car news outlets. The song was adapted to the Chevy truck image in 1991 and became the ultimate car commercial song long after the ads retired into the sunset. Anyone born before 1995 remembers those big Chevy climbing boulders over the dramatic strums.
1. Eminem "Lose Yourself" for Chrysler
Eminem's "Lose Yourself" tops the list of car commercial songs. The commercial debut edat the 2011 Super Bowl and stopped viewers in their tracks. It actually attracted a fan base of its own, receiving tons of hits in the digital realm. It was a win for Chrysler and the company is still riding in its advertising campaigns with the first few bars of the track first made famous on the soundtrack to movie 8 Mile. The Detroit Free Press deconstructed the landmarks that accompany the soundtrack and Eminem cameo. The commercial actually eclipsed the car, the Chrysler 200.


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Kaur, Mandhana, Sharma, Rodrigues, Verma signings for The Hundred confirmed
Teams have officially confirmed the signing of five Indian players – Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues and Shafali Verma - for The Hundred. England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced on Thursday (June 10).
As reported by Women's CricZone earlier, swashbuckling opener Verma will replace Sophie Devine at Birmingham Phoenix after the New Zealand skipper opted out of the tournament. India's T20I skipper Kaur will represent Machester Originals while her deputy Mandhana will turn up for Southern Brave. Sharma, who played for Western Storm in the now defunct Women's Cricket Super League (WCSL), will join her Storm skipper Heather Knight at London Spirit and Jemimah Rodrigues has been signed by Northern Superchargers.
"It's so good to finally be able to confirm the involvement of some of the superstars from the India team," said Beth Barrett-Wild, head of The Hundred Women's Competition. "They're a hugely exciting group of players and they'll bring a lot to the competition. I can't wait for July 21, I can't wait for the whole competition, and I can't wait for fans to see these world-class players doing what they do best."
The 32-year-old Kaur will be in action when Originals face Oval Invincibles in the opening match of the competition on July 21. She will be joined by her Lancashire teammates Kate Cross, Sophie Ecclestone and Alex Hartley at the Originals.
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"It's very exciting that I'm going to get to play in the first ever game of The Hundred. It will be special to make history, especially with a women's match at such a big ground. We've played in front of some large crowds in India and it's always a great experience for the players," Kaur said.
Mandhana will form a potent opening partnership with Danielle Wyatt for Brave while Verma will have the company of Ellyse Perry at Phoenix.
Other than Devine, Australia vice-captain Rachael Haynes has also opted out of the tournament owing to COVID-19 restrictions. There has been reports about chances of more Australian players opting out of the tournament, but there hasn't been any official development regarding this.
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SHORT STORY – Viv Mah
Posted by Porridge Magazine on March 28, 2019 April 11, 2019
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Viv Mah is a Melbourne-based writer, editor and occasional theatre-maker. Her work has been published by Pidgeonholes, the April Reader, the Literary Review, and performed on stage at the Melbourne Fringe Festival. When she's not shopping for zines, you can catch her studying a masters of writing and publishing or interning at Going Down Swinging. She shouts into the void on Twitter at @mahginalatbest.
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In the worst of Anna's dreams, Eric is always at his best: more alert, more alive, and more charming than she can remember.
Eric, blue-eyed and bristle-jawed, Eric laughing like his whole chest is full of pennies he wants to donate; Eric actually saying what's on his mind. Eric, the way she used to want him; like a freshly-shelled yolk spotted with blood.
Eric like a gunshot.
Eric like a bag around the head.
Either way, always, Eric.
It's the heat's fault, she tells herself as she makes coffee. This terrible, infernal heat that has her rolling and unrolling in her blankets like a small child.
But last night she dreamt of him again, except this time with her there. They'd been in some great white apartment — arguing, probably — where she'd found her way to the bathroom, only to note he'd relocated his condom packet from her drawer to the side of his tub.
You're seeing someone? she'd said when she'd returned, and in the dream, Eric had only partially hunched his shoulders to avoid letting her see him smile. Yeah, he'd said, I didn't think I was going to after you, but my boyfriend, Heeban —
… Heeban?
— Jason Heeban. (The mind, correcting something. That dream smile thickening, elusive.) From high school. We fell out of touch ages ago, and then ran into each other at our reunion, and it just kind of happened. It's — been nice. We've been — good to each other, happy. I've —- been happy. I didn't expect to be.
can a dream you had about someone you used to love that you want to stop dreaming about be a projection or the truth or rophetic??, Anna asks Google.
Google asks, did you mean 'can a dream […….………] be […] prophetic?'
Anna tries again, gut still roiling.
how do you know if your dreams are real or not and why
how can you tell which parts
hey eric i heard u moved interstate, she writes instead. Four hours later, he responds: Yeah, I didn't really like being around anymore.
good for u! Anna says, almost immediately. She debates using emojis. what do u mean, u 'didn't really like being around', anyway? She sends a little sticker of a dancing penguin, question marks exploding out of its head in time to its steps. He sees it.
Haha, he begins, and Anna's heart sinks. I think you're kind of worrying about this too much. Honestly, I just wanted a change of scenery! I worded that first response poorly. Sorry.
ok cool, she writes, so which state is it?, and he sees it. did u move with someone else?
He sees it.
why can't u just tell me where it is u've gone?
There's this song on the radio, that always makes Anna's teeth hurt. It's a little like a love song and a little like a plea although truth be told, it's getting harder to tell the two apart.
Below her, the car groans and sighs. Bathwater heat floods crushed polyester seats. It's a quarter to five.
When Eric opens the door, she knows exactly what she will say.
She knows exactly what she will do.
Hi, she will say first, for the sake of appearances. Behind her, the sun's rays will tumble down across the buildings in his street and colour them Crayola red and orange. It will be seven or close to. Hey, Eric, she will say, did I ever tell you the kinds of things you brought out in me?
This is what you brought out in me, she will say, and she will swing her arms wide and leave them there, laughing because it's easier.
It will be good to see his face and everything that's finally on it. Her chest will feel just like it does after all those dreams: swollen, and sore, and waiting.
Didn't I bring something like this out in you, too?
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Вікові́ дуби́ — ботанічна пам'ятка природи місцевого значення. Розташована у Козятинському районі Вінницької області (Козятинське лісництво кв. 10 діл. 10, 12, 17). Оголошена відповідно до Рішення Вінницького облвиконкому від 29.08.1984 р. № 371. Охороняється група вікових дерев дуба звичайного віком понад 200 років, висотою 25—28 м та діаметром стовбурів 64—98 см.

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Peter Jackson to direct new documentary
Wednesday 13th March 2019
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"The 55 hours of never-before-seen footage and 140 hours of audio made available to us, ensures this movie will be the ultimate 'fly on the wall' experience that Beatles fans have long dreamt about - it's like a time machine transports us back to 1969, and we get to sit in the studio watching these four friends make great music together." - Peter Jackson
Academy Award-winning director Peter Jackson (Lord Of The Rings) and The Beatles recently announced that they would be collaborating on a new film. It will be based on 55 hours of previously unreleased archive footage from the 1968 recording sessions which resulted in The Beatles' final album 'Let It Be'. An album that was not released until 18 months later in May 1970 - shortly after The Beatles had disbanded.
Jackson will be working with producer Clare Olssen and Editor Jabez Olssen. He previously worked with both of them on 'They Shall Not Grow Old' the BAFTA nominated World War One documentary. Techniques developed to restore footage for the recent acclaimed WW1 documentary will also be used on the archive Beatles footage used.
The as yet untitled film promises to uncloud the mystery surrounding the band at the time, with tension high and relationships stretched between the four band members. That said, Jackson added that he was "relieved to discover the reality is very different to the myth. After reviewing all the footage and audio that Michael Lindsay-Hogg shot 18 months before they broke up, it's simply an amazing historical treasure-trove. Sure, there's moments of drama - but none of the discord this project has long been associated with. Watching John, Paul, George, and Ringo work together, creating now-classic songs from scratch, is not only fascinating - it's funny, uplifting and surprisingly intimate."
Peter Jackson's involvement with the film may spark a sense of pleasing serendipity in the astute Beatles fan. In the late '60s, following 'A Hard Day's Night' in '64 and 'Help!' in '65, the band wanted to make a third feature film based on J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy 'The Lord Of Rings'. Reportedly, John Lennon would have starred as Gollum, Paul McCartney as Frodo, Ringo as Sam and George as Gandalf. The Fab Four wanted a fellow icon, Stanley Kubrick, to direct it. Kubrick turned down the offer stating that the books were too complex to faithfully adapt for the big screen. Kubrick opted to continue working on two of his finest films '2001: A Space Oddysey' (1968) and 'A Clockwork Orange' (1971). Tolkien still owned the film rights to his books at the time and refused to allow The Beatles to make the film ensuring the curious project would never get off the ground. Tolkien eventually did sell the film rights and in the early 2000s, Peter Jackson released his critically acclaimed, multi-award winning adaptations.
The film, currently in production, is being made with the full co-operation of Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono Lennon, and Olivia Harrison and will climax with The Beatles' legendary performance on the roof of Apple's Savile Row London office which took place a little over 50 years ago on 31st January 1969.
A release date for the film will be announced in due course and following the release of this film, a fully restored version of the original 'Let It Be' by Michael Lindsay-Hogg will also be made available.
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Mexico Tour ends with all rankings in Grand Prixs
29 November 2021 /in Chacco's Lady, General news /by Eva van den Adel
We end the final Grand Prix in Mexico at the Balvanera Polo & Country Club on a high with Jana & Chacco's Lady finishing in 5th place.
With this result we could not be prouder of Jana on placing in every Grand Prix she jumped in Mexico over the past six weeks! We cannot compliment all the show organizations and the Major League Show Jumping enough on all their efforts and great events that we got to compete at dring our tour.
Jana and Michael have scored many top results and will return home with lots of ranking points and new experiences. We also owe a big thanks to the rest of the team who've been in Mexico working behind the scenes contributing to the success of Ashford Farm.
Click here to view the photo albums of the Mexico Tour.
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Why do homebrew cartridge releases get discontinued?
Post subject: Why do homebrew cartridge releases get discontinued?
It has come to my attention after a discussion on NESdev Discord that several NES homebrew games have been produced on cartridge in small quantities and then discontinued without a ROM release. Examples include Super Russian Roulette (whose "Get a copy here" button on its Kickstarter campaign page just redirects back to Kickstarter) and a bunch of KHan Games releases. Spook-O-Tron appears not to have been made available at all other than to Kickstarter backers.
Why are NES homebrew games taken out of print? It's not like there are minimum order quantities and long lead times for a second printing, as they're produced with CPLD mappers and flash memory, not ASIC mappers and mask ROM. One can just flash on another game using the same mapper or another mapper that the board supports, as with print-on-demand. I know things like Tetris, movie tie-in games, and league-based sports games get pulled when licenses expire. But last I checked, the vast majority of NES cart releases weren't produced in nearly enough quantity to even qualify for an opportunity to license something from an upstream licensor.
If games are discontinued because replicating them has become too expensive or too time-consuming, why is a ROM withheld? If a developer is no longer selling copies of a particular game, what measurable financial impact would mass copying of the game have on the developer? If it has to do with sales years later, I don't think NES homebrew has been around long enough for a counterpart to Buena Vista's "vault" strategy, where a movie is rereleased on home video every seven years and then put on moratorium in order to pump up the perceived resale value. Have developers produced extra cartridges in small quantities to subtly trickle onto eBay once a game becomes a collector's item? Or is it that providers of shopping cart software as a service bill sellers per available SKU?
Or would NintendoAge forums be a better venue for this question?
pubby
Post subject: Re: Why do homebrew cartridge releases get discontinued?
Sales come in a hockey-stick shaped graph. A few months after release they're down to practically nothing. There's very little money to be made after the first run.
Printing is cheapest in bulk. Most printers will charge you through the nose if you only want to print a few copies.
ROMs are withheld because doing so can dissuade people from buying your future games. Why pay $60 for a game when you know in a years time it will be released for free? It's sort of like the Osborne effect.
With that said, I'm sure it's viable to keep games for sale as long as they're cartridge-only and no box. You can do that at home without needing a printer.
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pubby wrote:
Why pay $60 for a game when you know in a years time it will be released for free?
Having a ROM available does not necessarily meant it would be available for free. It's very easy to put up a ROM for sale on a site like itch.io and that's what several homebrew games have done.
If someone doesn't provide me a way to give them my money for something at all I don't mind if I acquire it for free though. :p
Why pay $60 for a game when you know in a years time it will be released for free? It's sort of like the Osborne effect.
Why buy any game on launch day when it'll go on Steam sale or PSN sale in a year?
Some of the more anti-copyright users of another forum I'm on would claim that if you don't get enough preorders from Kickstarter to cover the cost of developing and shipping the game, the game ought not to be developed in the first place. They say if you can't release a computer program under a free software license from day one, it's unethical, and this makes the vast majority of the video game industry unethical.
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Besides boxes and manuals having MOQs, it may not be worth their time to produce one cart copy a month.
Yeah my impression is that there's a combination of multiple things at work here.
First of all, as everyone mentioned, once your first batch sells out, any additional interest would usually be a cart here and there, and very rarely a continuous flow of shipped products, so producing more than the initial batch might be a lot of extra work, with little actual purpose.
Meanwhile a game like Battle Kid never dropped out of production, which I assume is due to the interest in it having been pretty consistent.
On top of that, once you are in aforementioned situation and haven't sold any carts since the initial batch, it would be logical to assume that you could produce new batches a few years later down the line. And while this isn't unlikely, and it's definitely happened before, we now have the silly issue of collectability to consider.
If only 200 carts were sold originally, and none have been sold since, it's likely that used copies will trade hands for a decent amount of money that might even be higher than the original going price. And in some cases quite a bit higher, too.
While most people really aren't obliged to take this aspect into account, it might still be considered a good idea to try to stay on the good side of people who actually bought your product in the first place. And if you actually originally announced that only 200 copies would be sold, making more batches later on would definitely hurt your credibility as both a developer and a person.
All that said, I see absolutely no reason why people wouldn't be selling the ROM image on the side. Have some more people actually try your game.
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Most of the sales comes from collectors, aka the people who get mad when a game they own gets a reprint. If there's perceived future "rare" value to be had people will buy it regardless of the actual game in the cart.
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But who cares what random people at Slashdot/Soylent think?
The difference with so much of NES dev is that for most people, it's a hobby. Which means people's motivation isn't always the same -- for some it's side profit, but for other people, it's something else. I personally would want the most people to play my game as possible, but for some people, they want to make a cart release and be done. Others care about the collector market, like previous posts here said.
I guess my point is that the answer is going to be different for everyone.
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Some people do a game and release it and then move onto other projects. I still think that the owner should have the game available for sale somewhere because sometimes an interest in a game happens later and sometimes very interested people miss the release.
For me personally, I would like to play a lot of the homebrews that I see being released and so in my mind I plan on buying certain titles later down the road, so I hope that I can still get them when that time comes.
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It seems to me that the problem of low popularity, as has already been correctly said, is in a narrow format, not for a large public, therefore there are no such sales as on consoles and PCs.


Finally the time for warm weather is here, wardrobe adjustment anyone. There are a ton of trends that come and go, but Denim is here to stay! I can't tell you how many pairs and cuts of jeans I have, from boot-cut to high rise, mom jean to boyfriend, I think denim checks every box when it comes to versatility. Denim is a all time classic fabric that plays well with any trend, color, or style. I have prepared a few denim favorites that will work well with any spring collection.


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Is It Always Wrong to Discriminate?
25 Sep 2015 Gary DeMar
We're seeing a radical push by so-called Progressives to redefine human nature by an appeal to the God who created the natural world and all things in it. You may have seen this meme:
When did using your religious beliefs to discriminate against others become a Christian value? Choose love.
This is an example of the loaded question fallacy, "When did you stopped beating your wife?" The question assumes something that is not in factual evidence. The person being asked the question is assumed to be guilty about something that he did not do.
"Whether the respondent answers yes or no, he will admit to having a wife and having beaten her at some time in the past. Thus, these facts are presupposed by the question, and in this case an entrapment, because it narrows the respondent to a single answer, and the fallacy of many questions has been committed."
What's being presupposed by the authors of the meme is that to oppose same-sex sexuality is to be involved in "discrimination" and a lack of love. Because of the rainbow background of the meme, the loaded question is about same-sex sexuality.
What's missing in the meme is a definition of "discriminate." The meme assumes that a moral stand against certain sins fits the modern definition of discrimination.
First, what standard is being used to make a moral judgment about same-sex sexuality? The meme does not say. It's inferred that the standard is the Bible since the meme is being directed at Christians, and Christians believe the Bible is the standard for morality. Therefore, the Bible must be used to evaluate the claim of the meme.
Second, what does the Bible say about same-sex sexuality? From the beginning, men and women were designed to be complimentary sexual beings (Gen. 1-2). The sexual parts were made to fit. The result of a sexual union between a man and woman results in a complementary offspring. This is positive feedback that heterosexuality is the standard. In addition, there are passages that condemn the practice of same-sex sexuality in the Old Testament (Lev. 18:22; 20:13) and the New Testament (Rom 1:25-27; 1 Cor. 6:9-11; 1 Tim. 1:8-11).
Third, because there are moral standards in the Bible that apply to all of life, not all discrimination is wrong. In fact, the meme itself is making a value judgment about Christians who hold to a set of biblical moral values. This is called "discrimination." People who hold the position that same-sex sexuality is immoral (based on the Bible) are being discriminated against in hiring, public profession (people on Facebook who wrote comments in opposition to the meme were blocked), and in businesses. Discrimination is an inescapable concept. Everyone discriminates based on the operating assumptions of their worldview.
Fourth, same-sex sexuality is not the only sexual sin condemned in the Bible. In fact, there are many types of behaviors that are considered to be sinful. Is it morally wrong to "discriminate" against people who do sinful things? Is it wrong to discriminate against a person who has a history of stealing? Is it wrong to discriminate against someone who does not get along with fellow workers? This is why the Bible commands us to "judge with righteous judgment" (John 7:24; also Lev. 19:15; Isa. 11:3-4; Zech. 7:9; John 8:15).
Fifth, Jesus made a moral judgment about a Samaritan woman who had "five husbands" (John 4:18, 39) and the woman caught in the act of adultery (John 8:1-11). What were Jesus' parting words to the woman, "From now on, sin no more." Is this not "discrimination" according to the context of the meme? Jesus was calling adultery a sin. Adultery is in the same category as same-sex sexuality.
Sixth, it is an act of love when a person is confronted with his or her sin based on God's Word. Before Jesus said, "From now on, sin no more," He said, "I do not condemn you." Those who constructed this meme only want to hear Jesus say, "I do not condemn you." They don't want to hear, "From now on, sin no more." But that would not be an act of love on Jesus' part.
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Q: Weird icomoon / ie 9 & 10 / :before / apache DNS issue I have a really weird problem that I am not sure how to go about solving.  I'm using an @font-face icon font on my site.  This works fine in most places except when I go to the site with internet explorer 9 or 10 and don't use the www. prefix.  The site works fine in internet explorer 8, and it also works fine if you use the www. prefix.  Not only that but the site works fine in another almost identical site.  Not sure how to go about fixing this.  I think it is a DNS or apache issue (something to do maybe with how the files were set up), but I could use any suggestions.
Sites it does not work (ie 9 & 10 only):
http://itascainternational.com

Sites the icon font does work:
http://www.itascainternational.com
http://itascacg.com
http://www.itascacg.com

A: If you access your site using www, the font works.
One option, not recommended, is to redirect itascainternational.com www.itascainternational.com. It's a good practice to prevent duplicate content. But It not solves the problem.
It's probable that you have problems with Access-Control-Allow-Origin
. You have to add it in your apache config.
<FilesMatch "\.(ttf|otf|eot|woff)$">
  <IfModule mod_headers.c>
    Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "http://mydomain.com"
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</FilesMatch>

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One male was pronounced dead after a car crash in Raleigh, Memphis police said.
One person was pronounced dead after a two-vehicle crash Tuesday morning in the Raleigh neighborhood of Memphis, police said.
Officers responded to the wreck at 10:35 a.m. at Stage Road where one vehicle was overturned and another was on fire.
A male was pronounced dead at the scene. Another male was transported to Regional One Hospital in non-critical condition.
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A FEW YEARS AGO, I lived for 18 months or so in a caravan in the south of France. Despite being at the bottom of my parents' garden, I was to all intents and purposes isolated from the rest of the world. It sounds bohemian in many respects and yet it was a deeply challenging experience—my parents were both very poorly at the time (and hence the reason why I was there in the first place) and the extremes of temperature (from 50 degrees Celsius to sub zero) coupled with the resident wildlife (spiders, snakes, mosquitoes, ants, plus the occasional feral cat) nearly drove me insane.
By far and away the most taxing element of the experience, however, was the enforced solitude for hours at a time, ticking by relentlessly and predictably day after day, like the ebb and flow of the sea. As Antony Gormley says in his inspirational talk, which still remains to this day my favourite TED presentation of all, I initially dreaded the singular confinement in such an intemperate sarcophagus-like space, with only my thoughts as companions and confidantes.
When I was a child—I don't know how many of you grew up in the '50s—I was sent upstairs for an 'enforced rest'. It's a really bad idea. I mean, after lunch, you know, you're six, and you want to go and climb a tree. But I had to go upstairs to this tiny little room that was actually made out of an old balcony. It was incredibly hot, small and light, and I had to lie there. It was ridiculous! But anyway, for some reason, I promised myself that I wasn't going to move, that I was going to do this thing that Mummy wanted me to do. And there I was, lying there in this tiny space, hot, dark, claustrophobic, matchbox-sized, behind my eyes … But it was really weird—after this went on for days, weeks, months, that space would get bigger and darker and cooler until I really looked forward to that half an hour of enforced immobility and rest, and I really looked forward to going to that place of darkness.
The French philosopher, Blaise Pascal, in his Pensées, famously said, "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." And he's right. It is the perpetual yearning for sentient and sensory experience beyond the confines of our immediate position, in front of our eyes as it were, that drives our restless beings into emotional pain and psychological purgatory. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his own soul?
Like Gormley, the enforced rest in my caravan meant I similarly had to face myself, embrace the inner darkness, and thus, I too came to love the immobility and silence of my condominium cell where, paradoxically, a rich interior life was revealed to me and The Culturium website was born.
So close your eyes for a minute. So here we are, in a space, the subjective, collective space of the darkness of the body. I think of this as the place of imagination, of potential, but what are its qualities? It is objectless. There are no things in it. It is dimensionless. It is limitless. It is endless.
That's the space that I think sculpture—which is a bit of a paradox since sculpture is about making material propositions—but I think that's the space that sculpture can connect us with.
Educated at a Benedictine boarding school and then the University of Cambridge where he read Archaeology, Anthropology and the History of Art, Sir Antony Mark David Gormley, OBE (born 30th August 1950) travelled to India and Sri Lanka to learn about Buddhism before returning home to complete his sculptural studies at Saint Martin's School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art in London.
Dark matter now placed against a horizon … If minds live in bodies, if bodies live in clothes, and then in rooms, and then in buildings, and then in cities, do they also have a final skin, and is that skin perceptual?
Is art about trying to imagine what lies beyond the horizon? Can we use, in a way, a body as an empty catalyst for a kind of empathy with the experience of space-time as it is lived, as I am standing here in front of you trying to feel and make a connection in this space-time that we are sharing? Can we use, at it were, the memory of a body, of a human space in space to catalyse a firsthand experience of elemental time?
Indeed, the spiritual component of Gormley's work, none so beautifully personified than the human sculptures intermittently submerged in the spuming sea as part of the installation, Another Place, move me so very deeply that I yearn to stand right next to them and discern what exactly it is that holds them transfixed as they stare, unwaveringly, out to the ocean's seam.
Like silhouetted bodhisattvas, their inner resolve and stillness evoke an intuitive desire to dive deep within our very own inner selves to dissolve unto the darkness and reconnect with the limitless and dimensionless space of the elemental void.
I am utterly unable to connect wth most post-modernist art—be it the visual arts, performing arts or literature—that champions art for art's sake, devoid of anything sacred or profound or meaningful. And yet, once in a while, a pharos of brightness produces a body of work of such artistic creativity, imbued with an inner wisdom, that I thank God for these aesthetic alchemists who walk amongst us, blessing us and bestowing us with their transcendental light.


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The 2022 Arizona Wildcats football team represented the University of Arizona during the 2022 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by second-year head coach Jedd Fisch, and played their home games at Arizona Stadium in Tucson, Arizona. It was the Wildcats' 123rd season overall and 44th as a member of the Pac-12 Conference. The Wildcats finished 5–7 overall (3–6 in conference play) and failed to qualify for a bowl game.

Previous season

Offseason

Position key

Team departures
Over the course of the off-season, Arizona lost 48 total players. 18 players graduated, while the other 28 entered the transfer portal.

Coaching staff departures
During the off-season, Arizona lost 2 position coaches and 1 support staff members. The two position coaches that departed the team were defensive coordinator Don Brown and linebackers coach Keith Dudzinski. Brown took an upgrade by becoming the 30th head coach to return at UMass, while Dudzinski was return to became the defensive coordinator at UMass. Furthermore, Brown and Dudzinski were the final 2 coaches that were under current head coach Jedd Fisch.

Outgoing transfers
Twenty-four players elected to enter the NCAA Transfer Portal during or after the 2021 season.

†
Note: Players with a dash in the new school column didn't land on a new team for the 2022 season.

Acquisitions

Incoming transfers
Over the off-season, Arizona added nine players from the transfer portal. According to 247 Sports, Arizona had the 27th ranked transfer class in the country. The first transfer was quarterback Jayden de Laura. de Laura transferred from Washington State. On the offensive side, Arizona also added Florida State running back D.J. Williams, UTEP wide receiver Jacob Cowing and New Mexico offensive lineman Jack Buford. However, Arizona only took 5 defensive transfers in UCLA defensive back DJ Warnell and UCLA defensive lineman Tiaoalii Savea, Michigan linebacker Anthony Solomon, USC Trojans linebacker Hunter Echols and Utah linebacker Jeremy Mercier.

2022 recruiting class

Arizona signed 25 players in the class of 2022. The Wildcats' recruiting class ranks 19th in the nation for 247Sports and 22nd in Rivals rankings. Four signees were ranked in the ESPN 300 top prospect list. Arizona also signed walk-ons during national signing day period.

*= 247Sports Composite rating; ratings are out of 1.00. (five stars= 1.00–.98, four stars= .97–.90, three stars= .80–.89, two stars= .79–.70, no stars= <70)
†= Despite being rated as a four and five star recruit by ESPN, On3.com, Rivals.com and 247Sports.com, McMillan received a four star 247Sports Composite rating.
Δ= Left the Arizona program following signing but prior to the 2022 season.

2022 overall class rankings

Walk-ons

2023 recruiting class

2023 overall class rankings

Coaching staff additions

Returning starters

Offense

Defense

Special teams

† Indicates player was a starter in 2021 but missed all of 2022 due to injury.

Preseason

Spring game
The 2022 Wildcats spring game is tentatively scheduled to take place in Tucson, Arizona on April 9, 2022. The Wildcats were scheduled to hold spring practices on March 2 to April 7, 2022.

Award watch lists
Listed in the order that they were released

Pac-12 Media Day
The Pac-12 Media Day was held on July 29, 2022 at the Novo Theater, LA Live (Pac-12 Network) with Jedd Fisch (HC), Jacob Cowing (WR) and Christian Young (DB). The preseason polls will be released on July 28, 2022. Arizona was picked to finish 11th in the annual Pac-12 football media poll released by the league Thursday.

Preseason All-Pac-12 and All-American honors
First Team

Second Team

Source:

Roster

Depth chart

True Freshman

Injury report

Schedule
The Wildcats' 2022 schedule consists of seven home and five away games for the regular season. Arizona will play against three non-conference opponents from the Mountain West, SEC, and Missouri Valley Football conferences to begin the season.

The Wildcats will face San Diego State (Mountain West) on the road and Mississippi State (SEC) and North Dakota State (Missouri Valley Football) at home. The Wildcats are scheduled to host Colorado, Oregon, USC, Washington State and archrival Arizona State for the 96th annual Territorial Cup to close out the Pac-12 regular season at home. They are scheduled to travel to California, UCLA, Utah, and Washington. Arizona is not scheduled to play Pac-12 opponents Oregon State and Stanford this season.

Game summaries

at San Diego State

Mississippi State

No. 1 (FCS) North Dakota State

at California

Colorado

No. 12 Oregon

at Washington

No. 10 USC

at No. 14 Utah

at No. 12 UCLA

Washington State

Arizona State

Rankings

Statistics

Team

Individual Leaders

Offense

Defense

Key: POS: Position, SOLO: Solo Tackles, AST: Assisted Tackles, TOT: Total Tackles, TFL: Tackles-for-loss, SACK: Quarterback Sacks, INT: Interceptions, BU: Passes Broken Up, PD: Passes Defended, QBH: Quarterback Hits, FR: Fumbles Recovered, FF: Forced Fumbles, BLK: Kicks or Punts Blocked, SAF: Safeties, TD : Touchdown

Special teams

Scoring

Arizona vs Non-Conference Opponents

Arizona vs Pac-12 Opponents

Arizona vs All Opponents

After the season

Awards and honors

Sources:

Individual National Awards

All-Americans

Bowl games

All Star games

NFL draft

The NFL Draft will be held at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, MO on April 27–29, 2023.

Wildcats who were picked in the 2023 NFL Draft:

NFL Draft combine
No members of the 2022 team were invited to participate in drills at the 2023 NFL scouting Combine.

† Top performer

DNP = Did not participate

Media coverage

Radio
ESPN Radio – (ESPN Tucson 1490 AM & 104.09 FM) – Nationwide (Dish Network, Sirius XM, TuneIn radio and iHeartRadio)
KCUB 1290 AM – Football Radio Show – (Tucson, AZ)
KHYT – 107.5 FM (Tucson, AZ)
KTKT 990 AM – La Hora de Los Gatos (Spanish) – (Tucson, AZ)
KGME 910 AM – (IMG Sports Network) – (Phoenix, AZ)
KTAN 1420 AM – (Sierra Vista, AZ)
KDAP 96.5 FM (Douglas, Arizona)
KWRQ 102.3 FM – (Safford, AZ/Thatcher, AZ)
KIKO 1340 AM – (Globe, AZ)
KVWM 970 AM – (Show Low, AZ/Pinetop-Lakeside, AZ)
XENY 760 – (Nogales, Sonora) (Spanish)
KTZR (1450 AM) - (FoxSports 1450) - (Tucson, AZ)

TV
CBS Family – KOLD (CBS), CBSN
ABC/ESPN Family – KGUN (ABC), ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN+,
FOX Family – KMSB (FOX), FOX/FS1, FSN
Pac-12 Network (Pac-12 Arizona)
NBC – KVOA, NBC Sports, NBCSN

TV ratings

All totals via Sports Media Watch. Streaming numbers not included. † - Data not available.

See also
2022–23 Arizona Wildcats men's basketball team
2022–23 Arizona Wildcats women's basketball team

References

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Arizona Wildcats football seasons
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Four-dimensional ray tracing in a curved spacetime
Corvin Zahn, October 14, 1990
A few movies show various objects (black holes, neutron stars, a gravitational collapse) in a Schwarzschild spacetime. This serves to illustrate the effect of gravitational light deflection on the visual appearance of these objects.
The movies show various objects in a Schwarzschild spacetime. This serves to illustrate the effect of gravitational light deflection on the visual appearance of these objects.
They do not show real astronomical objects, sizes and colors are chosen so that the effects of light deflection are clearly visible.
In the descriptions, the parameters are given in geometric units in dimensionless form. If the unit length is 2 km, the values are typical for a neutron star. Unit mass then corresponds to 1.5 solar masses.
Movie: Neutron star
Neutron star with radius 4. The mass is increased from M = 0 to M = 1.78. A mass of 1.78 corresponds to a ratio of radius to Schwarzschild radius of 9/8. Theory predicts that a smaller ratio is not possible for a stable star.
MPEG4 320×240 (299 kB), MPEG4 640×480 (928 kB)
Movie: Orbiting a massless sphere
A massless companion orbits a massless central star.
Mass of the central star: 0, radius of the central star: 4, radius of the companion: 8, orbital radius: 20.
Movie: Orbiting a neutron star
A massless companion orbits a neutron star.
Mass of the neutron star: 1, radius of the neutron star: 4, radius of the companion: 8, orbital radius: 20.
Movie: Ring around a black hole
In the center of a ring (inner radius 8, outer radius 12, height 1) a black hole forms with increasing mass.
Movie: Rotating ring
Movie: Rotating ring around a black hole
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Movie: Massless sphere with accretion column
The position of the accretion column is different from that in the previous movie.
Movie: Neutron star with accretion column
Movie: Gravitational collapse of a neutron star
Gravitational collapse of a neutron star with mass M = 1 seen by a distant observer.
Gravitational collapse of a neutron star with mass M = 1 seen by a freely falling observer. Initially the neutron star has radius 4 M, the observer is located at 6 M. The neutron star surface and the observer start falling at the same Schwarzschild time.
More: The simulations shown above are based on light deflection in a Schwarzschild spacetime. You can find the relevant equations in Light Deflection Near Neutron Stars.
Authors: Corvin Zahn, Date: October 14, 1990


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Weekly Shot 7 — AI that can write code?
Are machines going to write code for themselves in the future? Is automating machines also going to get automated? These do seem quite possible now that tools like GitHub Copilot are popping up. This week we'll be taking a look at the capabilities of GitHub Copilot with a small commentary on what to expect in the near future.
What is GitHub Copilot?
GitHub recently unveiled it's brand new product — GitHub Copilot. Marketed as a "Pair Programming" tool for developers, it is intended to aid developers in writing code quickly and remove the need to manually write a lot of things. It is available as a technical preview as of now and GitHub says it plans to commercialize it once testing is completed. We managed to get hands-on with this tool and needless to say, it is as good as they say it is.
So what can it do?
Copilot can suggest code in a lot of different ways. Let's look at a few ways it can do that. (Note that the grey text that appears is the code suggested by Copilot).
In the above scenario, as soon as I write a comment on what the subsequent code should do, Copilot immediately suggests appropriate code based on my comment.
One more way Copilot suggests code is based on function names. When I defined a function with the name "generate_random_string", it understood my intent and aptly gave me code to generate a random string.
It also understood that I had imported the Crypto module so it suggested the code based on what I had already written and imported.
One thing that developers, including me, find really tedious is writing repeated and boring code. To write such code, I would usually resort to searching for the code online and copy-pasting it. This is essentially eliminated with Copilot. In the above example, Copilot understood that I wanted all the numbers and alphabets in lists and automatically suggested it to me.
If you don't like a suggestion, you can ask Copilot to fetch 10 more suggestions and pick from those (demonstrated below).
Copilot is designed in such a way that it understands what to suggest based on the context. It understands the way previous code is written and implements that same style in its suggestions. This feature, in my opinion, is what sets Copilot apart from other code helpers and sets a new bar in terms of code suggestions. It can understand what libraries I have imported, functions I have previously written, style of variable names, the content of functions and correlation to its name, and a lot more. This is only going to get better as development continues.
How does all this work? What are the possibilities?
All the suggestions are powered by a cutting-edge AI model developed by OpenAI and trained on billions of lines of code available publicly. Copilot takes context from your editor, runs it through the model to get predictions and provides them. GitHub says that all this is done completely securely and anonymously.
With this level of code help available, the need to constantly take help from a search engine is drastically reduced. I don't need to manually search for boilerplate code or repeated functions when it is directly available in my editor with a single comment or function name. I also don't need to constantly read the documentation for a new library I am learning.
Risks, responsibilities and the future of software development.
Since the AI is trained on publicly available code and given the fact that every line of code can't be manually checked for bugs, security issues and errors, it is entirely possible that the suggestions provided can sometimes be wrong, outdated and even outright dangerous. There can also be cases where personal info in someone's code is auto-suggested putting the developer at risk. This means that YOU the developer needs to make sure that your code conforms to the standards (there are a lot of tools available for this like Dependabot and CodeQL) and be aware that you are in charge of the code you write.
There is no doubt in the fact that machines are getting better day by day at automating tasks and replacing the need for humans in many areas. But a future where machines write code for themselves without a need for a developer might still be ways away but fast approaching. Let's keep a lookout for more technologies like this and pray that our AI overlords will show us mercy when and if they take over.
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Blog | From the CEO: Everyday People Can Do Exceptional Things
Ambassador (ret.) Mary Ann Peters is the chief executive officer of The Carter Center.
At The Carter Center, we believe people can improve their own lives when they have the right skills, knowledge, and access to resources. I'd like to introduce you to a few people who are making a real difference in their communities.
Abudala Kakooza collects black flies along the Victoria Nile River in southern Uganda. It's harder than you'd think, and it's important: Black flies transmit river blindness, a parasitic disease that causes severe itching, bumps under the skin, and, eventually, irreversible blindness.
We have been partnering with Uganda since 1996 to eliminate river blindness. Kakooza's district has been free of the disease since 1973. It must be closely monitored, however, because World Health Organization verification requires Uganda to show it has eliminated the disease throughout the country. So, Kakooza diligently hunts black flies and sends them off for testing.
Mongia Nefzi Souahi is a university professor in Tunisia and a participant in our Preventing Violent Extremism workshops, in which we're training religious and community leaders from six countries to counter extremist propaganda.
Mongia Nefzi Souahi, a professor in Tunisia, is trying to keep young people from joining extremist organizations. (Photo: The Carter Center/A. Tardy)
Souahi and two colleagues recently led workshops for 100 young people identified as being at risk for jihadi recruitment. Her efforts produced many success stories.
One young man came to her, kissed her forehead, and said she had saved him. Another—one she described as a thief and a terrorist—became a musician.
Haboubacar Mamane Nassirou, a 32-year-old nurse in the Zinder region of Niger, received training and support from The Carter Center to conduct a simple surgery to correct eyelids that have been scarred by trachoma. After two years, he's experienced and efficient.
"I can operate on seven to 10 patients a day, depending on whether they need one eye or both eyes done," he said.
These three people exemplify the passion, innovation, determination, and skill of our in-country partners and serve as inspiration for us all.


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Le droit d'exclusive (en latin : jus exclusivæ) est un privilège de veto qu'ont possédé la France, l'Espagne et l'Autriche (en tant qu'héritière du Saint-Empire romain germanique) dans le cadre de l'élection pontificale. Ces pays pouvaient officiellement exclure un cardinal susceptible d'être élu. Ce droit était normalement confié au cardinal de couronne du pays concerné, qui se charge de signifier le veto aux autres cardinaux.

L'exclusive se distingue de l'approbation impériale, en vigueur dans les premiers siècles du christianisme, par laquelle l'Empereur sanctionne après coup le résultat du scrutin.

Histoire

Émergence du droit d'exclusive
Le droit d'exclusive tire son origine du poids croissant de certains souverains dans l'élection des papes à partir du . C'était alors notamment le cas du roi d'Espagne. Si Charles Quint s'est contenté de pressions officieuses, son fils Philippe II fournit en 1590 une liste de sept cardinaux parmi lesquels le conclave est censé faire son choix, posant ainsi son veto contre tout autre. Si ce pouvoir ne lui était conféré par aucun droit mais par sa simple puissance, les cardinaux obtempèrent, et élisent Grégoire XIV, qui figurait bien parmi les sept préconisés impériaux. En 1591, Philippe II fait de même pour le conclave qui élit Innocent IX.

L'attitude de la papauté vis-à-vis de ces pressions officielles n'est pas claire. Pie IV les reconnaît dans sa bulle In eligendis (1562), mais il les fait apparaître comme de simples recommandations. En 1621, Grégoire XV, dans Æterni Patris, condamne les conventions d'élection, mais sans les nommer. Clément XII en 1732 fait de même. La couronne d'Espagne continue donc à distribuer des vetos ou listes de  officiels.

En 1655, le roi de France Louis XIV prohibe l'élection du cardinal Sacchetti. Le roi reste toutefois timide en la matière, et laisse élire le cardinal Chigi, futur Alexandre VII, lors de ce même conclave. Le terme de jus exclusivæ (« droit d'exclusive ») commence à apparaître, mais le prétendu « droit » n'a jamais été reconnu officiellement.

L'exclusive moderne
En 1691, Léopold , empereur romain germanique, émet son veto contre la probable élection du cardinal Barbarigo. Le conclave voit un tournant : auparavant, les vetos devaient, pour fonctionner, être soutenus par des cardinaux convaincus de leur utilité. Désormais, c'est la seule voix du monarque qui compte. Le nombre des pays susceptibles de porter l'exclusive se stabilise à trois : l'Espagne, le Saint-Empire (dont le droit sera récupéré ensuite par l'Autriche) et la France. Le roi du Portugal essaie, en vain, de se faire reconnaître le droit d'exclusive, mais n'est pas admis.

Le droit de veto se réduit à un seul et unique nom, annoncé de manière officielle par l'ambassadeur du pays près le Saint-Siège ou un cardinal ressortissant du pays, qui prend le nom de « cardinal protecteur » (ou « cardinal procurateur ») du pays. Cette formalisation de l'exclusive pousse paradoxalement les monarques à recourir de nouveau aux pressions officielles, quand leur droit d'exclusive a été épuisé.

On peut mentionner les exclusives :
 du Saint-Empire contre le cardinal Paolucci en 1721 (Innocent XIII est élu) ;
 de l'Espagne contre le cardinal Imperiali en 1730 (Clément XII est élu) ;
 de la France contre le cardinal Cavalchini en 1758 (Clément XIII est élu) ;
 de l'Autriche contre le cardinal Severoli en 1823 (Léon XII est élu) ;
 de la France contre le cardinal Albani en 1829 (Pie VIII est élu) ;
 de l'Espagne contre le cardinal Giustiniani et de la France contre le cardinal Macchi en 1830 (Grégoire XVI est élu) ;
 de l'Autriche contre le cardinal Mastai Ferretti en 1846 : le cardinal Gaisruck, porteur de l'exclusive arrive trop tard pour empêcher son élection sous le nom de Pie IX ;
 de la France contre le cardinal Bilio en 1878 (Léon XIII est élu).

Il faut y ajouter la tentative d'exclusive du conclave de 1644, où Mazarin, mandaté par la France, arriva trop tard pour empêcher l'élection du cardinal Pamphili qui a d'ailleurs été élu comme Innocent X. On peut remarquer la France de la , qui, en 1878, reprit une prérogative autrefois attachée à la couronne de France.

Fin du droit d'exclusive
L'exclusive la plus célèbre, car la dernière, est celle portée le  par le cardinal Puzyna (prince-évêque de Cracovie) contre le cardinal Rampolla, qui réunit alors sur son nom 29 voix. Malgré les protestations des cardinaux, l'exclusive porte ses fruits : lors du second vote, Rampolla gagne une voix, mais en perd six, puis encore huit, le lendemain.

Afin de limiter le pouvoir des souverains étrangers, le pape nouvellement élu, Pie X, fait voter la Constitution apostolique Commissum nobis le . Elle interdit sous peine d'excommunication à un cardinal de porter une exclusive, « afin d'empêcher les chefs d'État de s'interposer ou de s'ingérer sous quelque prétexte » dans le conclave. Cette disposition fait désormais partie du serment d'observance prêté par tout néo-cardinal, ainsi que du règlement du conclave. Elle n'a été remise en question par aucun successeur de Pie X.

Débats
La question de la survivance de ce droit de veto a été posée en interne par le ministère des Affaires étrangères français en 1922. La France vient de rétablir ses relations diplomatiques avec le Vatican, et Louis Canet, conseiller technique du ministère pour les affaires religieuses, rédige une note sur les effets de la loi de séparation des Églises et de l'État et de la Constitution apostolique de 1904 sur le droit d'exclusive français. Il soutient dans une note interne que : . Il conclut que .

Notes et références

Bibliographie
 A. Battandier, « L'exclusion dans l'élection des souverains pontifes », Annuaire pontifical catholique, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1910 ;
 Pierre Blet, « La diplomatie française et l'élection de Pie X », Pro fide et iustitia, Mélanges pour le  du cardinal Agostino Casaroli, Berlin, 1984,  ;
 Philippe Levillain (dir.), Dictionnaire historique de la Papauté, s. dir. Philippe Levillain Fayard, 2003
 Joël-Benoît d'Onofrio, article « veto »,
 Pierre Blet, article « Exclusive » ;
 G. Vidal, Du droit d'exclusive en matière d'élection pontificale, Toulouse, 1906.

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Why Didn't The Dogs Bark?
Roger A. Lohmann, West Virginia UniversityFollow
Shirley Stewart Burns, West Virginia UniversityFollow
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Eberly College of Arts and Sciences
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This study examines patterns of news coverage of five West Virginia mining disasters in local, regional and national news media. It grew out of an effort to follow up an earlier study of relief efforts at the Monongah mine disaster of 1907. One of the principal findings is that local newspapers consistently provided limited coverage of mining disasters and almost no coverage of relief efforts carried on in the wake of disasters. National coverage, by the New York Times and regional coverage by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reveals a number of persistent themes and some important differences.
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Lohmann, Roger A. and Burns, Shirley Stewart, "Why Didn't The Dogs Bark?" (1995). Faculty & Staff Scholarship. 766.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/faculty_publications/766
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