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Good Charlotte is the debut album by American rock band Good Charlotte released September 26, 2000 through Epic and Daylight. Despite receiving favorable reviews, the album undersold expectations, charting at number 185 on the Billboard 200. The album's first single "Little Things" reached the top 30 on the Mainstream Top 40 and the Alternative Songs charts.

The band formed in 1996 with twin brothers Joel on vocals and Benji Madden on guitar, along with Billy Martin on guitar, Paul Thomas on bass and Aaron Escolopio on drums. A demo of "Little Things" received airplay from two radio stations and by early 2000, Good Charlotte had signed to Epic Records. Recording sessions with producer Don Gilmore for the debut album took place in four studios in California and New York.

A music video for "Little Things" started getting airplay in November 2000. In March 2001, "Little Things" was released as a single, which was followed by a music video for "The Motivation Proclamation". Between March and May 2001, the group went on tour with MxPx and appeared at HFStival, where a music video for "Festival Song" was filmed. After this, Escolopio left the group and was replaced by Nate Foutz of Vroom. Foutz remained with the group for six weeks before Dusty Bill replaced him. The group participated in Warped Tour between June and August. Also in August, "The Motivation Proclamation" was released as a single and was followed by "Festival Song" in 2002. The album was subsequently certified silver in the UK and gold in the US.

Background

The band Good Charlotte was formed  in Waldorf, Maryland, in 1995, after identical twin brothers Joel (vocals) and Benji Madden (guitar) had seen a Beastie Boys show. Following the brothers' graduation in 1997, instead of going to college they worked full-time on the band. The Madden brothers focused on getting the band signed, reading books and magazines that would aid them to achieve this goal. They made promotional packages and sent them to record labels. Joel Madden learned that the girl he took to homecoming was a sister of bassist Paul Thomas. Thomas met the brothers and was unimpressed with their performance skills. Soon afterwards, the brothers recruited their fellow high-school pupil Aaron Escolopio as a drummer and began playing clubs in the D.C. metro area. The Madden brothers moved to Annapolis, Maryland, and performed acoustic shows.

Guitarist Billy Martin went to one of these shows at the insistence of Jimi HaHa of Jimmie's Chicken Shack. Martin became friends with the Madden brothers and let them move in with him after they were evicted from their apartment. Martin joined Good Charlotte after the trio learned they had a shared interest in the Australian rock band Silverchair and the break up of Martin's band Overflow. They wrote new songs, and recorded and performed demos. The band began building a following by performing at HFStival in 1998, and support slots for Blink-182, Lit and Bad Religion. In 1999, Good Charlotte opened for Save Ferris in Philadelphia. After the performance, they left a demo of "Little Things" that soon got airplay on local radio station Y100. Benji Madden was certain of the song's potential hit status with its high-school theme and the reality of its lyrics.

A Sony Music employee passed the band's demo to regional promotion manager Mike Martinovich, who was impressed by the group's writing ability and the autobiographical nature of the songs. He contacted talent manager Steve Feinberg, who flew to Annapolis to watch the group perform and later began working with them. Around the same time, WHFS also began playing the demo. As the track became a hit in the area, record labels began showing interest in Good Charlotte. By the end of 1999, the band went on an east-coast tour with Lit.  Representatives from several major labels attended the New York City show of the tour. Starting in 2000, the band became a full-time touring act, performing support slots for Lit, Goldfinger, Sum 41 and Mest. Following a showcase in New York City, the band met with people in the music industry. Within a week, everyone that saw the performance wanted to sign them. David Massey, executive vice president of A&R at Epic Records, signed the band to the label in May 2000.

Recording and composition
Good Charlotte was recorded mainly at Encore Studios in Los Angeles, California, and was produced by Don Gilmore who also acted as engineer and was assisted by Mauricio Iragorri and engineer Bob Jackson. Additional engineering was done by John Ewing Jr. The band wanted to work with Gilmore as they liked his work on Eve 6's self-titled album (1998). Drums and bass were recorded at NRG Studios in Los Angeles with assistance from Matt Griffen in May 2000. Guitar and vocals were recorded in June with assistance from Paul Oliveira at Battery Studios in New York City. Martin, Thomas and Escolopio sang additional vocals on "Little Things" while HaHa contributed additional vocals on "The Motivation Proclamation". Vocals were recorded with assistance from Pete Novack at Larrabee West, Los Angeles. Gilmore mixed most of the songs except "Little Things", "Change" and "Seasons" at Encore Studios. He mixed "Little Things" at Battery Studios. "Change", "Seasons" and "Thank You Mom" were mixed by Tom Lord-Alge at South Beach Studios in Miami, Florida. Vlado Meller mastered all of the tracks except for "Little Things" at Sony Music Studios in New York City. "Little Things" was mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound in New York City.

Musically, the album has been described as pop punk, drawing comparisons to Green Day, Smash Mouth, Eve 6 and Lit. All of the songs on Good Charlotte were written by the Madden brothers. Josh Ian wrote additional lyrics for "Seasons" and "Let Me Go". Throughout the release are references to religion and God, who the group go as far to give acknowledgement to in the album's booklet. "Little Things" makes reference to the Madden brothers' upbringing with their parents. One of the lines mentions their father abandoning them, which made Joel Madden uncomfortable. Benji Madden reasoned it worked within the context of the song. "Waldorfworldwide" is about the brothers' ambition and frustration; according to Joel Madden it was written when they had no money. According to Martin, "The Motivation Proclamation" talks about "breaking out of a cycle if you're depressed on something ... getting over it and going on". Joel Madden wrote "Festival Song", which is about attending HFStival, a festival he grew up with. The album's hidden track "Thank You Mom" is a tribute to the brothers' mother, who raised them after their father left, reminiscing on childhood memories.

Release
Good Charlotte was released on September 26, 2000, through Epic and Daylight Records. The Japanese edition included "The Click", a cover of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's "If You Leave" and a live, acoustic version of "The Motivation Proclamation" as bonus tracks. Sales of the album did not meet the label's expectations and the group were nearly dropped from Epic. In October and November 2000, the group embarked on a US tour with Fenix TX, and another with MxPx that lasted until the end of the year. Also in November 2000, a music video for "Little Things" began receiving airplay on MTV. The video was filmed in Canada and was directed by Nigel Dick It depicts the band as troublemakers in high school; Joel Madden breaks into the principal's office and talks into a microphone addressing "Waldorf High School". The principal finds out and is angry with the band. He follows the microphone cable into the gym to find out who is causing trouble. The group are shown walking down a halfway and performing on a golf cart. Singer Mandy Moore, who appears as Madden's girlfriend in the video, is then seen. The clip ends with an impromptu concert in the gym.

In December, Good Charlotte appeared at HFSmas, the winter edition of HFStival. On March 1, 2001, "Little Things" was released as a single in Australia. The CD version includes "The Click" and "Thank You Mom" as extra tracks. Despite the lack of success of "Little Things", Epic allowed the band to make a video for "The Motivation Proclamation". The video was directed by Marc Webb; it depicts  the band members lying on the ground, waking up one-by-one and beginning to playing together. Scenes from Undergrads are shown being played on a television. Between March and May 2001, the group supported MxPx on their headlining US tour. In April, the video for "The Motivation Proclamation" received airplay on video outlets. While on the MxPx tour, Good Charlotte was consistently selling 3,000 copies per week. As a result, the group wanted to make a live music video. At the end of May, the group performed at HFStival. During their set, a music video for "Festival Song" was filmed; it was directed by Webb. The video is a mini-documentary about the day. Members of Mest, New Found Glory and Linkin Park appear in the video.

Sometime afterwards, Escolopio left the group to join his brother's band Wakefield. He was replaced by Nate Foutz of Vroom, who left the group after six weeks because Vroom signed a major label deal. Two days before the band went on tour, Dusty Bill was hired to play drums. The band gave him a copy of Good Charlotte and the following day, began practicing with him. Between June and August 2001, Good Charlotte appeared on the Warped Tour. Between tour performances, the group performed at Y100 FEZtival.

On August 6, 2001, "The Motivation Proclamation" was released as a single. Following this, the band supported Blink-182 on their US tour before embarking on a tour of Australia in October. The group closed the year with a US headlining tour called the Uniting the States Tour, with support from Mest, the Movielife, and Midtown. In 2002, "Festival Song" was released as a single. In September 2004, the album was reissued as a two-CD package with The Young and the Hopeless (2002). It was reissued again in January 2010 in a box set alongside The Young and the Hopeless, The Chronicles of Life and Death (2004) and Good Morning Revival (2007).

Reception

Critical reception
AllMusic reviewer William Ruhlmann said, "The beats come fast and furious, the simple guitar chords noisily fill the middle range, and the vocals are sung with snotty belligerence". He also said the lyrics touch upon "standard-issue stuff" with the only oddity being "an occasionally expressed religious interest". Chart Attack wrote that the group sounds "so much like a cross between Eve 6 and Lit that it's frightening". The website said Good Charlotte is "energized with angsty teenage punk, and though the lyrics are cynical, the music is peppy and autobiographical". David Hiltbrand of Entertainment Weekly said "crosscurrents of anger and optimism" appear throughout the album, and that the band has an "astringent punk style" combined with "crafty pop underpinnings".

Melodic writer Johan Wippsson praised Gilmore's "very nice" production and called the record a "very nice punk-pop album with no really bad song". His only complaint was the lyrics, which he found to be a "little bit to teenaged" at times. Steve Schwadron of Ink 19 wrote that the lyrics seemed "very simplistic, and the music isn't much more complicated", and apart from being "good party music", he does not "get much out of Good Charlotte". The Morning Call reviewer Joe Warminsky said the group "spares nothing in its effort" to join its contemporaries "of lame pop-rock bands that populate non-hip-hop radio". He said the album "wears thin quickly" and that most of the songs are "just plain shameless".

Commercial performance and legacy

Good Charlotte charted at number one on the Catalog Albums chart, number 13 on the Heatseekers Albums chart and number 185 on the Billboard 200. It also reached number 12 in New Zealand and number 194 in the UK. It was later certified silver in the UK and gold in the US. "Little Things" charted in the US at number 23 on both the Mainstream Top 40 and Alternative Songs charts. The album charted in Australia at number 61. "The Motivation Proclamation" charted in Australia at number 67.

Two tracks were remixed for inclusion on the band's Greatest Remixes (2008) compilation: "Waldorfworldwide" (retitled "Los Angeles World Wide"; by JNR SNCHZ) and "Little Things" (by Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy). "Little Things", "The Motivation Proclamation" and "Festival Song" were included on the band's Greatest Hits (2010) compilation. Rolling Stone ranked the album at number 46 on their list of the 50 Greatest Pop-Punk Albums. In 2016, Benji Madden said of the album; "We were young and excited kids who were full of dreams and still trying to figure out our musical identity". Later that year, Joel Madden said; "[W]e didn't over-think the pre-chorus, we didn't think how we could make the bridge bigger, we wrote the songs until they were done. It's more raw; the hope, the vibe and the spirit of that hopefulness has returned to the music." Jenna McDougall of Tonight Alive has expressed admiration for the album.

Track listing
All songs written by Benji and Joel Madden. Additional lyrics on "Let Me Go" and "Seasons" by Josh Ian.

Personnel
Personnel per booklet.

Good Charlotte
 Joel Madden – lead vocals
 Benji Madden – guitars, backing vocals
 Billy Martin – guitars, additional vocals (track 1)
 Paul Thomas – bass guitar, additional vocals (track 1)
 Aaron Escolopio – drums, percussion, additional vocals (track 1)

Additional musicians
 Jimi HaHa – additional vocals (track 3)

Production
 Don Gilmore – producer, recording, engineer, mixing (except tracks 7 and 13)
 Tom Lord-Alge – mixing (tracks 7 and 13)
 Bob Jackson – assistant engineer
 John Ewing Jr. – additional engineer, Pro Tools
 Matt Griffen – assistant
 Paul Oliveira – assistant
 Pete Novack – assistant
 Mauricio Iragorri – assistant
 Vlado Meller – mastering (except track 1)
 Ted Jensen – mastering (track 1)
 Kid Vicious – art concept
 Frank Harkins – art direction
 Julian Peploe – art direction
 Maja Blazejewska – design
 Topper – cover tattoo
 Rafael Fuchs – photography

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References
Citations

Sources

External links

Good Charlotte on Spotify (streamed copy where licensed)
Retrospective at Louder

2000 debut albums
Daylight Records albums
Epic Records albums
Good Charlotte albums

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Viewing China From Afar: Assemblage of Wall Sculptures, the Treasures of Longmen
Shakhrukh's Trip to the Longmen Grottoes in 2020
Press Release - updated: Apr 27, 2021
SAN FRANCISCO, April 27, 2021 (Newswire.com) - Why does a Buddha statue make a peace sign pose? What kind of smile can last through 1,000 years? The year 2020 marks the 1,560th anniversary of the excavation of Longmen Grottoes. Irgashev Shakhrukh, a young man from Russia, arrived at a place connected with a long history and started his journey at the Longmen Grottoes. Themed on "Assemblage of Wall Sculptures, the Treasures of Longmen,'' the new episode of the docuseries "Viewing China From Afar" Season III produced by People's Daily Online West USA Inc. narrates Shakhrukh's journey into the past.
The Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang, central China's Henan province, became a man-made landmark during the Northern Wei dynasty of China more than 1,500 years ago. It is one of the three largest grottoes in China along with the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang and Yungang Grottoes in Datong. Longmen Grottoes is the most complex one of the three. Because its excavation lasted 1,400 years, there are still more than 2,100 cave niches, 100,000 statues, and 3,600 inscriptions on steles. Longmen Grottoes ranks first among all the major grottoes in China due to its large quantities of niches, statues and inscriptions.
At the end of 2020, Shakhrukh embarked on a tour of the World Heritage Site led by a local guide named Ping Zhang. Shakhrukh was particularly interested in how the craftsmen at the time used tools to carve thousands of Buddha statues with various poses on the rocks. The work of carving these statues lasted for 1,400 years, which spanned more than a dozen dynasties. More than 100,000 Buddha statues with different aesthetic styles and artistic characteristics of each period have become the "history books of stone" reflecting the history and culture.
The Longmen Grottoes was built near a mountain and river. The scale of the landmark is magnificent. There are 45 main caves in existence, among which the most wonderful carvings are those of the Northern Wei and Tang dynasties. No matter where anyone stands in the grottoes, they can see her smiling at them. There is also a Buddha statue that is particularly eye-catching. This is the trending "peace sign pose" Buddha statue, which is also called the "cutest Buddha statue in history." The Buddha statue sits on a square platform with its right hand stretched forward. The two fingers held up are like a victory sign "V" so it is called the "Buddha with a peace sign pose."
How impressive is the Buddha's "Smile of a Thousand Years"? How was the trending "peace sign pose" Buddha statue formed? With this episode, "Assemblage of Wall Sculptures, the Treasures of Longmen," Shakhrukh reveals the mystery of the Longmen Grottoes, a historical work that dates back 1,460 years ago.
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Home SPORTS Abhinav Bindra hopeful of India recording best-ever medal haul in Tokyo Olympics
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India's solely particular person Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra is hopeful of the nation recording its best-ever medal haul in the upcoming version of the mega-event in Tokyo, saying every of the athlete could be counted as a "realistic" prospect.
India's finest exhibiting on the Games stays the six medals it gained in London in 2012.
"Tokyo Olympics could end up with our best ever medal haul even though the times are challenging due to the COVID-19 pandemic," Bindra mentioned on Monday throughout a webinar organised by Merchants' Chambers of Commerce & Industry.
"Sport is not scripted but I do hope that we come back with our best medal haul and that means we will come back with 5-6 medals and better the London haul, which, if I am not wrong, remains our best."
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"As an athlete you have to be very adaptable to changing situations, these are very useful in business as well," he mentioned whereas talking on his transition from a sportsman to an entrepreneur.
"The other thing that is very important is acceptance. Sometimes we have to learn how to accept and move on as soon. As you do that your mind opens, it opens up to look at solutions rather than whining. The mind is then very positive. But it is easier said than done."
He additionally mentioned the capturing scene has modified so much from the time when he had began 22 years in the past.
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Speaking in regards to the time after his Beijing heroics, when he contemplated giving up capturing, Bindra mentioned meditation helped him regain his deal with the game.
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CDC Director Walensky Flip-Flops On PCR Testing Guidance
Tuesday, Jan 04, 2022 - 07:45 PM
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky appeared to majorly waffle on her agency's controversial guidance to eliminate PCR testing at the end of Covid-19 isolation because the tests can remain positive for up to 12 weeks, long after a person is no longer contagious.
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"The big CDC news," said Late Show host Stephen Colbert, is that "y'all have now gone from recommending a 10-day isolation to a five-day isolation. Why the change?"
To which Walensky replied that "probably about 80 to 90 percent of your transmissibility has happened in those first five days," right before and after symptoms appear, "and we really want people to be sure if they're gonna be home, they're going to be home for the right period of time, when they're maximally transmissible."
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"Are these the rapid antigen test?" asked Colbert.
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The US administration of Donald Trump has shown interest in its predecessor's proposal to establish a "security plan" between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank, the Haaretz daily reported yesterday.
Named "the Allen plan", after retired US Marine Corps General John Allen who was charged with creating it, the strategy provides the US with the start of what would become a robust proposal to provide the necessary level of security for Israel in the day after a withdrawal from most of the West Bank, if a peace treaty were signed.
Within weeks of taking office, Trump's special envoy to the Middle East, Jason Greenblatt, met with dozens of officers and experts in the former US administration who worked to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and they recommended he look into the adoption of "the Allen plan". "Dozens of Israeli officers took part in the negotiations over it, working in a number of different teams. According to multiple Israeli sources, the conversations over the plan were 'very substantial' and took place in an atmosphere of 'openness and transparency'," Haaretz explained.
The plan, which was shelved three years ago, was never completed but parts of it had been shown to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, and the senior command of the Israel Defense Forces. "It won praise from senior military officers, but was rejected by Ya'alon and criticized by Netanyahu," Haaretz said.
As part of the terms of the plan, discussions had circulated around the Palestinians having an airport in the West Bank, however this had not been agreed upon.
The de-militarised Palestinian state would have a "special forces" unit which the government could dispatch using police helicopters to provide a "rapid reaction" unit against terrorism. This would require Palestinian pilots to pass annual security clearance checks carried out by American officers with Israeli intervention.
Closer intelligence cooperation will be intensified between the United States and Israel. The latter will receive intelligence from the assessment room as well as the reinforcement of the border wall between the West Bank and Jordan, in return for the lack of security control in the Jordan Valley area.
No information has been released about whether the Trump administration will employ any or all the suggestions of "the Allen plan", however what the plan made clear was that it was there to ensure that Israel's security was a top priority.


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AP source: Yankees, Rodón agree to $162 million, 6-year deal
NEW YORK (AP)The New York Yankees added Carlos Rodon to their rotation on Thursday, agreeing to a $162 million, six-year contract with the left-hander, a person familiar with the negotiations said.
The person confirmed the contract to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because it was pending a physical.
New York took care of its most pressing question when it persuaded AL MVP Aaron Judge to stay in the Bronx with a $360 million, nine-year contract – baseball's biggest free agent deal ever. The Yankees also re-signed first baseman Anthony Rizzo with a $40 million, two-year deal.
But the contract for Rodon is an addition for the reigning AL East champions.
Rodon went 14-8 this year with a 2.88 ERA in his lone season with the San Francisco Giants, setting career highs for wins, starts (31), innings (178) and strikeouts (237). He also earned his second straight All-Star selection.
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Rodon, a Florida native who turned 30 on Saturday, agreed to a $44 million, two-year contract with San Francisco in March. But he opted out after one season, giving up a $22.5 million salary for next year and becoming a free agent.
Rodon looked like a potential star when he went 5-2 with a 1.81 ERA over the last eight starts of his rookie season with Chicago in 2015. But injuries kept getting in his way.
He was limited to 12 starts in 2017 because of left biceps bursitis and left shoulder inflammation, and then had arthroscopic shoulder surgery that September.
He began the 2018 season on the injured list while he recovered from the shoulder operation and then returned that June. But he had Tommy John surgery on May 15, 2019, cutting short another season.
Rodon is 56-46 with a 3.60 ERA in 152 major league appearances over eight seasons. He has 947 strikeouts in 847 1/3 innings.
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A MAGA Nightmare Scene, Marketing to Incels and Reacting Against "Performative Wokeness": Eugene Kotlyarenko and Dasha Nekrasova on Their Reverse Romantic Comedy, Wobble Palace
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Dasha Nekrasova, Eugene Kotlyarenko, Wobble Palace
Wobble Palace is a reverse romantic comedy set in relationship hell tinged by the toxicity of Tinder hookups and Trump's political rise. "One of the early ideas was to make a movie about a happy break up," explains director Eugene Kotlyarenko. "The formula for a rom com is whatever happens for the first 90 minutes, by the end, the couple gets together." Flipping this arc, the film climaxes (spoiler alert!) in the couple splitting up instead. "In a relationship that's really toxic, staying together is really horrible and breaking up is really liberating," Kotlyarenko continues.
The film follows a millennial couple in an open relationship, cohabitating in Los Angeles — the boyfriend character Eugene is played by Kotlyarenko and the girlfriend character Jane is played by Dasha Nekrasova, who also co-wrote the film. The basic premise is that Eugene and Jane have agreed to timeshare their house for the weekend so they can both pursue other people. While the film rarely finds the two main characters sharing a scene, they have in common a deep unhappiness, though Eugene's brand of misery is goofy desperation and Jane's is biting angst.
"I remember texting you when you were trying to finance the film," Nekrasova says to Kotlyarenko. "I was like, 'I feel so hopeless. I hate myself.' And you were like, 'Good. Put that in your performance. This is exactly where you need to be to make this movie.'"
From its genesis, the film was based around the idea of having a fractured narrative. About half of the time, the audience follows Eugene's character, whose horny pursuit of sex via dating apps gets him blasted online as a "cuck," and about half the time we follow Jane, for whom getting laid is less of a challenge though she finds herself plagued by the anxiety she might be "basic." Kotlyarenko explains that this structure was partly inspired by a cultural moment he was noticing "when identity politics and gender politics were bubbling up." He adds, "I felt a lot of enmity in the air. I felt like there was a lot of negative energy between men and women." He thought it might be interesting to create a character in Eugene that men would relate to yet women would revile, and in turn, with Jane, create a character that women would understand but men would find baffling.
One of the influences on this fractured narrative was the 1956 Japanese novel The Key, by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki. "It's a book where a couple each keep different diaries and the chapters go back and forth between their diaries," explains Kotlyarenko. "At a certain point, they realize that the other person is breaking into their drawer and reading their diary so they start writing performatively for the other person and it starts destabilizing what is reliable narrative." Kotlyarenko and Nekrasova mention a few other works that offered some inspiration — La Bon Année (1973) by Claude LeLouch, they say, influenced their film's ending and Immoral Tales (1973) influenced a masturbation scene.
Said masurbation scene featuring Nekrasova elicited at least one complaint of misogyny. "This one writer critiqued the film for objectifying me — they were like, 'We're supposed to believe this woman sucks her thumb when she masturbates,'" recounts the actress and co-writer. "But I loved the part when [cinematographer] Sean [Price Williams] filmed me masturbating. And sucking my thumb was a creative choice that I made. No one was forcing me to suck my thumb," she affirms.
In a way, this review which erased Nekrasova's agency in the scene is an example of the sort of "performative wokeness" Wobble Palace was conceived in reaction to. Nekrasova explains that "Eugene's character very much postures as this feminist ally; Kotlyarenko adds, "but all the women he's going on dates with completely see through it." The character is also a total Bernie Bro. "I even made a fake Bernie sticker in the mirror at the beginning," says Kotlyarenko. "I made up this fake tagline 'Unbuyable 2016.'"
The film, which made its festival premiered at SXSW in 2018 and is now out on video-on-demand, takes place Halloween weekend 2016, a week before the most recent presidential election (and it was filmed then too). There's a Halloween party and a nightmarish dream sequence with Trump supporters in MAGA hats. "We thought we would capture this moment when Trump was in the air, and then by the time the movie came out, everyone would have forgotten that guy," recalls Kotlyarenko. "But then when he won, I was like, 'Wow, there is something subtextual about his horrible energy in this movie.'"
Nekrasova adds, "There's also a lot in this movie that in retrospect feels very anticipatory of the #Metoo movement." Jane's character has a sexual encounter with Ravi (Vishwam Velandy), a South-Asian Trump-supporting tech bro who cums in her without her consent.
With their long-term relationship coming to a close, both Eugene and Jane find themselves facing some ugly realities as they search for new routes of love, affection and intimacy. "People are desperate for sex," resolves Kotlyarenko. "I think that's when people are their most vulnerable, most sad, and most human. We are inundated with the idea that our sexual desirability is a referendum on our value. And hookup apps are a conduit for that. It's a game to constantly figure out if you are worth anything."
Nekrasova chimes in, "I think we were both pretty sexually desperate when we were making this film," before adding, "We should market it to incels!"
While the film captures both intersectional complexities of our cultural moment as well as some grim realities of the human condition, Wobble Palace is also radiant in its colorful glow and shining sense of humor. A big part of that comes from the fact that Kotlyarenko and Nekrasova are effortlessly hilarious. "We both really enjoy improvising," says Nekrasova.
Released by Breaking Glass Pictures, Wobble Palace is available on iTunes and other digital platforms today.
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Tutto bene è il primo singolo ufficiale del rapper italiano Ernia, pubblicato in download digitale il 22 marzo 2016.

Il singolo
Il brano, parte di un gruppo di dieci singoli (sei stand-alone e quattro inclusi nell'EP No Hooks), racconta la fine della storia d'amore tra Ernia ed una ragazza. Contestualmente alla sua pubblicazione su iTunes e Spotify, è stato reso disponibile il videoclip ufficiale del brano su YouTube, con regia di Emanuel Marletta.

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 Ernia - Tutto bene su Genius


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I love a good Shakespeare play. I have seen many, but I do tend to stick to the ones that I know and love. I'm slowly working my way through new ones to me – and I think the last ones for me to tackle are the historical ones, mainly because I am aware that they are going to be harder-going.
At the end of last year I saw for the first time both Titus Andronicus and Antony & Cleopatra, but there are still plenty that I am yet to see.
Julius Ceasar is the second production, and a Shakespeare I was unfamiliar with. And with the amazing David Morrissey in it, I again booked straight away and counted down the months!
As we went to take our seats, I realised that Bridge Theatre has mobile seating – the layout was very different to Young Marx. This was pit-style – and surprisingly, what seemed to be like a mini-festival was going on in the pit itself. In fact a live thrash metal version of Katy Perry's Firework was ringing out, much to the disdain of a couple of our more elderly seat-neighbours. I'd not even twigged that there were 'promenade' tickets available! We later realised that the 'band' was made up of some of the actors.
Nicholas Hynter's contemporary staging, including the promenade audience was fantastic. Different sections appeared and disappeared, stage hands and 'players' were within the crowd – swiftly setting up scenes and shouting, heckling and jeering at the main actors.
It worked so well because Julius Ceasar is really about power play and the mob. David Calder swaggered around as Ceasar – commanding the crowd. Ben Wishaw's Brutus was bookish and considering and David Morrisey as Mark Anthony was strong, loyal and cunning. However, I was captivated by Adjoa Andoh as Cassius – dry and witty.
It was Shakespeare – brutal but flowery. However, it was also very Hynter – stunning and memorable. I highly recommend!
Due to being ill, I'd had to postpone our outing to see Bananaman The Musical – but it ended up being the perfect first night out for 2018.
Southwark Playhouse is a great, intimate venue which was perfect for this night of cartoon-inspired tom-foolery, caricatures, great songs, live band, and generally happy atmosphere.
The songs were upbeat and easy on the ears due to some fantastic vocalists – the space was used inventively. Places where the lack of special effects could've fallen flat were played for laughs to great success. The choreography was great, the acting was excellent and it brought the Bananaman of my childhood afternoons back to life.
Hurrah for Eric Wimp! See the Bananaman – first episode if you've never watched it before.
Nicolette Farrell has returned to her rural hometown to help her brother to tie up things on their father's house now that his dementia has forced him to be put into a home.
It's been ten years since she left, she now has a huge rock on her finger from her hot-shot city lawyer fiance, her brother's wife is heavily pregnant and everything about her life feels so much more grown up.
So, it feels rather perverse when her ex-boyfriend's young girlfriend suddenly goes missing in circumstances very similar to the disappearance of her best friend ten years ago, with an intrusive investigation that centred on her circle of friends.
We follow Nic until the day of the second girl's disappearance, and then skip two weeks ahead when the story is told backwards day by day.
Life in a rural town is really explored well in this book, and the heat and oppression of a stifling summer mirrors the suffocation felt in a small town where everybody knows everybody else's business.
The drip-feed of information and knowledge kept the tension high, and towards the end of the book it became a real page-turner.
I definitely enjoyed it though – tense and well-paced.
All The Missing Girls by Megan Miranda will be published on 28th June.
I received an ARC copy of this book in return for an honest review.
Teenage 'Mean Girl' and Queen Bee Natasha is found in the water by a dog-walker one early morning. She is revived but was dead for 13 minutes.
She can't remember how she met her icy 'death', but is starting to mistrust her two closest friends who have been acting strangely around her since her 'accident', making her more dependent on her old geeky friend Becca. Could her friends have been attempting to kill her? Might they try again? Is she safe?
The story is told in a number of ways, mainly first hand by Becca, but also through transcripts of diary entries, counselling sessions and police interviews with Tasha. This gives the story a chance to give a multi-narrator view.
Having been one, I swear that teenage girls are one of the nastiest and hurtful groups of humans on the planet, and this book really encapsulates the underlying tensions that go on, in contrast to the veneer that they tend to show to the world.
I realised that there was going to be a twist when I got to about 80% and everything seemed to be wrapped up nicely – and it was a good one. Although I'd really enjoyed the story up to that point, it added another dimension and took it from good to great.
Well crafted characters – although almost all were completely unlikable and flawed, you really WANTED to know what happened, and what the outcome was going to be. A great skill for an author to have, and something that works really well in psychological thrillers such as this.
13 Minutes by Sarah Pinborough will be published on 18th February 2016.


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Lenovo's ThinkReality AR glasses can project virtual desktops into your eyes
By Luke Larsen January 10, 2021
Days before CES 2021 officially gets underway, Lenovo has announced a new pair of AR glasses that may have a particularly useful feature for people working from home. The ThinkReality A3 are a new pair of smart glasses that use augmented reality to project up to five virtual desktops right in front of your eyes.
That's a multi-monitor setup like no other. In a day when we're all fighting for proper workspace at home, it could really come in handy.
"The A3 is a next-generation augmented reality solution — light, powerful and versatile," said Jon Pershke, Lenovo Vice President of Strategy and Emerging Business. "Whether working in virtual spaces or supporting remote assistance, the ThinkReality A3 enhances workers' abilities to do more wherever they are."
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Lenovo has been working in the VR and AR space for years now, bouncing between the Windows Mixed Reality platform and its own. But the A3 is the first to be built on Qualcomm's Snapdragon XR1 platform, which provides the "high-quality performance" needed to support the stereoscopic 1080p displays.
Lenovo didn't show visuals for just what these AR displays would look like, but the idea is that they'd function just like a physical secondary monitor in Windows. Using Lenovo's own ThinkReality software, you can position and resize these virtual monitors however you like. "Immersive but not isolating" is how Lenovo describes the experience of wearing them. So, whether it's because you don't have room for multiple monitors at home or because you no longer have a personal desk space in your office, the A3 glasses give you that option as long as you have a laptop with you.
Who really needs five virtual screens? Well, Lenovo says it has been showing the A3 glasses to customers in very specific industries, such as finance, architecture, and engineering.
"Conceptually, you can think about what they mean," Adam Howes, the Director of Global Product Management for ThinkPad, told Digital Trends. "But when our customers put them on, it sent their wheels spinning. They really unleash all these capabilities of possible scenarios."
Howes zeroed in on the example of day trading, an occupation that requires access to streams of real-time data, usually in the form of many monitors. The A3 could, in theory, allow such a person to take their work on the go. The fact that this information is completely private to the wearer of the glasses is the icing on the cake.
Unfortunately, the A3 require that you be tethered to your PC via a USB-C cable. The glasses work with both Intel and AMD-powered laptops, as well as Motorola smartphones.
Lenovo says the A3 glasses "fit like sunglasses," though the company didn't provide specifics on weight. They do look less bulky than Microsoft's HoloLens 2 glasses. Lenovo says they fit comfortably in front of prescription glasses, as well.
The A3 glasses also include a 1080p 8-megapixel camera, which Lenovo imagines you could use for "remote expert use cases." Bundled in are dual fish-eye cameras for room-scale tracking.
Lenovo also has an Industrial Edition of the ThinkReality A3 glasses, which only work with select Motorola phones. These are purely a commercial solution, for use in industrial scenarios such as factories or laboratories, as well as retail or hospitality spaces that require hands-free working.
Lenovo didn't provide pricing details, but both versions of the ThinkReality A3 smart glasses will be available in mid-2021.
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GotQuestions: Is eternal security biblical?
Sometimes this position is held in conjunction with Reformed Christian Confessions of Faith in traditional Calvinist doctrine which argues that all men are "dead in trespasses and sins", and thus, apart from being ressurrected from spiritual death to spiritual life none choose salvation of their own accord.
Calvinists maintain that God (YHWH) selected certain individuals before the world began and then draws them to faith in His Son, Jesus Christ. They believe that when Jesus said, "No man can come unto Me except the Father which hath sent Me draw him", that Jesus was saying that men had to be drawn to Him by God before they would believe. Calvinists have long taught that when the apostle Paul wrote, "God hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world" (Ephesians 1:4), that it the passage is meant be understood that God actually choses believers in Christ before the world was founded. According to Calvinism, God begins a good work in some and then continues it. They attempt to prove this with the text from the book of Phillipians where the apostle Paul writes, "He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ".
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
There also are many non-Calvinists who also maintain that once a person is saved they can never be lost. This Free Grace or non-traditional Calvinist doctrine is found predominantly in "free will" Baptist theology, but chalso other Protestant chures of the evangelical tradition.
The doctrine of Perseverance of the Saints is distinct from the doctrine of Assurance which describes how a person may first be sure that they have obtained salvation and an inheritance in the promises of the Holy Bible including eternal life. The Westminster Confession of Faith teaches on Perseverance of the Saints and on Assurance of Grace and Salvation.
Paul the Apostle, in his Epistle to the Galatians, wrote, "And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
In his Epistle to the Hebrews, Paul the Apostle wrote, "For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.
Come Reason Ministries: Does Hebrews 6 contradict eternal security?
Certainly, this passage in the Epistle to the Hebrews seems to indicate that a believer can lose his salvation.
Todd Steandberg wrote, I think the most flagrant problem with the doctrine of eternal security is the notion that people can confess to be a Christians, and yet live a life so depraved that the devil himself would refuse to associate with them. Those who promote eternal security never mention the fact that people openly abuse the sin option. I remember one prime example.One day I was talking with a gentleman about prophecy, and from the start I was aware of the fact he was smoking, which usually doesn't bother me. However, when he begin using profanity, that did bother me. I thought it would be a good idea to ask him whether he believed that Christians could miss out on the rapture. He, of course, didn't think it was possible for believers to fall away, causing them to miss the rapture. As the conversation progressed, or better said digressed, he continued to chain smoke, curse repeatedly, and refer to certain racial groups by using inappropriate terms. He had little knowledge of the Bible, but he did know all the once-saved-always-saved Scriptures by heart. I quoted several responsibility Scriptures to him, but he refused to ponder one them. It was like talking to a member of some mind-control cult. Somehow, we got to talking about his smoking habit, and he gave me an explanation that I just could not believe. This guy, with a straight face. explained to me that because he's a child of God, whatever he did was God's will being done.He pointed to the cigarette he was smoking and said, "I'm smoking this because God wants me to, and when He wants me to stop, He'll tell me." I should have asked him, "How could it be the Lord's will that Christians should cheat on their spouses or abuse their children?" I've heard this demonic theory before, but I never thought I'd meet anyone who believed it. Well, after several hours of listening to his "it God's will" reasoning and after realizing I was getting nowhere, I decided I had enough. I bluntly told him, "That cigarette you have in your hand is your god, and until you make Jesus Christ number one in your life, you will never see the Kingdom of God." His reaction amazed me. He cursed God's name, saying, "There is no [expletive] way He is going to leave one of His own behind." It really wasn't the cursing that amazed me; what amazed me was that fact he had no idea that the Bible and his beliefs were so contradictory to the Bible.
Most theologians that hp;d to the doctrine of eternal security are leading many believers astray. In effect they are granting believers a "license to sin" through the under the grace of the atonement of Jesus Christ (Yeshua HaMashiach).
Paul the Apostle wrote, "Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. Do all things without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain" (Philippians 2:12-16 ESV).
Personally, there is too much at stake to play roulette with my eternal soul, I have my own salvation to work out with much fear and trembling. Paul the Apostle said, "Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies, but test everything; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:19-22 ESV).
It is my conclusion that "once saved, always saved:" is another false doctrine and tradition. A Christian can certainly become a serial killer. The only question remaining is, was he a Christian to begin with, or did he turn his back on and reject his faith?


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Season 3 of Orange is the New Black has a very dramatic conclusion brewing with both Alex Vause (Laura Prepon) and Taylor Chapman (Taylor Schilling) being in the same prison again. Judging by how the two left each other last season, there's no telling what will end up happening. We're also looking forward to the drama of other characters like Red, who just seems to be sick of it all, and Crazy Eyes. Orange is the New Black's 3rd season is set for release June 12th, 2015 on Netflix.
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Make sure you get to a store! Whether it is one of the accounts the supplier works with, a concession, stockist or retailer make sure you get in store look at and touch the product. Your portfolio really needs to be spot on and relevant to the brand/supplier/retailer you are interviewing with.
For example, if you are interviewing at a dress supplier to New Look, your handwriting/portfolio needs to reflect this. Send examples of your portfolio with your CV as JPEGs or PDFs. It's vitally important to tailor your application, as generic CVs and portfolios won't cut it. Believe it or not, lack of research is the number one gripe that employers have about jobseekers they interview!
Your portfolio needs to speak for itself to an extent but be confident talking through it. Most recent work at the front and running front to back. Trends first, then shapes & colour pallets, CADs and specs. You'll need to confidently talk through current key trends and you shouldn't have any work in your portfolio that is more than a year old, especially at entry level.
The company aren't hiring your portfolio, they're hiring you for your ability to produce fantastic work, so sell yourself and your skills.
It's easy, especially for less experienced designers, to start a presentation with "this is only…" if you're nervous, but when you've spent weeks on a piece of work, you should be proud of it and you'll be doing yourself a disservice if you play down your work.
4. To lead or to follow?
Also be prepared for the fact that every interviewer will approach the interview differently. Interviews tend to be fairly informal when it comes to fashion design so make sure you do take charge and talk passionately about your designs. When in the interview take your lead from the interviewer's body language as much as what they ask you.
If your interviewer doesn't mention a particular part of your portfolio that you're proud of, or doesn't ask enough about your great career experience, mention it yourself! This isn't a time to be polite and wait to be asked about your achievements – if you feel you've done some great work which is relevant to the company then make sure you tell them about it or they will never know!
Remember that if you get the job, you'll be spending every working day there and it would be best to learn as much about the environment and as early as possible! We advise people to take in a notebook with questions to show you are really prepared.
Whilst you should have already researched the brand and its ethos, this is a chance to get insider information. Ask your interviewer why this vacancy has come up, what the lines of progression are, how long they have been in the job and what their approach to design is. Whilst it is unlikely that their answers will dissuade you from accepting any job offer, it's a good chance to find out more about what you're getting into. Also make sure you tell the interviewer that you are interested in the role if you are. It's amazing how many people don't do this!
Design teams will be looking for someone who can add something new, or fill a gap in their business but not at the expense of your core skills. So if you have a particular specialism, mention these at the end in a way that the interviewer feels you can really add value to the business in the future.
They may well also ask you about how well you handle conflict. The creative industries are famously a hotbed of emotion, tight deadlines and strong personalities so the interviewer will want to know how you would react in a high stress situation. Have an answer prepared detailing a time where you turned a potentially negative situation into a positive one.


Used, handmade solar eclipse viewers created by the public from everyday ephemera.
On August 17, 2017, a 70-mile strip of solar eclipse totality swept across the United States. Solar Eclipse (August 21, 2017), an installation of used, handmade solar-eclipse viewers made by people for this eclipse-event, represents a partial selection from the artist's growing archive. Eclipse viewers employing a pinhole aperture emerge from a (pre-photographic) deep history of vision and representation. For the artist, these one-time-use eclipse viewers simultaneously emerge from history and portend complicated implications for the future of vision and representation. Embodied in the present moment, the eclipse viewers–constructed from the runoff of late-capitalism–becomes our lens.
Often responding to exhibition context and issues of social justice, for his installation at the Orlando Museum of Art, Lazarus chose to recreate a detail he found within a painting from the Museum's collection. Thomas Mickell Burnham's 1840 painting The Young Artist depicts an African American boy posing for a portrait being drawn by a white boy, while other children look on. The drawing is a simple outline in white chalk. It is a cheerful scene with everyone enjoying the young artist's display of talent. At the time The Young Artist was painted, Burnham was working in Boston, then the intellectual center of the American abolitionist movement and his painting was readily understood by Boston's public as a message of racial harmony and opposition to slavery. The Young Artist optimistically depicts America's children, its future, putting aside issues of race to play together.
Lazarus's The Young Artist (1840/2018) recreates the detail of young artist's white chalk portrait, dramatically enlarged and uses strips of white LED lights as his image-making tool, a medium he regards as an extension of his photographic process. Rather than framing a picture through a camera, Lazarus focuses on the charged lines he found in the painting. Burnham's portrait of a young African-American boy by a white companion is transfigured into a still incomplete portrait whose gaze is now settled on us with retinal jarring intensity. Additionally, Lazarus considers the path through the galleries to and from his installation and the source painting (now on view in the Orlando Museum of Art's "People and Places" exhibition, currently in the Carl and Gini Weyand Gallery) an integral part of the work.
As social justice is an important aspect of his practice, Lazarus has woven into this installation the additional roles of a call-for-entry* and call-for-action** in support of the Southeastern US Equity Scholarship, a new program which enables artists of color residing in the Southeastern United States to attend ACRE (Artists Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions) fully-funded in the summer of 2019.
*A fully-funded scholarship for artists of color living in the Southeastern US to produce new work, engage with international artists and curators, and exhibit work in Chicago. More information about this summer 2018 opportunity can be found at https://www.acreresidency.org/application/scholarships.
**For those with means to do so, the artist is seeking monetary donations of any size to help fund the second year (and future years) of the Southeastern US Equity Scholarship–a scholarship for artists of color residing in the Southeastern United States. To donate directly to the ACRE Southeastern US Equity Scholarship, please contact Emily Green, ACRE Executive Director, at emily@acreresidency.org.
"Since 2014, Lazarus has been fabricating reversed-tone photographs that feature a small magenta-colored focusing dot. The viewer is encouraged to stare at the dot for a period of time, close their eyes and engage a new vision of the original image as an afterimage—one that reveals itself over a period of a few seconds, and often in stages, as some details are either slow to appear or may not appear at all.


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It Could Be the Tomb
James Tabor	January 23, 2008 0 Comments 657 views Share
James Tabor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
1. There was no official "conclusion" made by the participants, nor were any polls taken, other than the agreement at the end that there should be further examination of the tomb itself in the future. My sense is that a few would say this tomb can not be the tomb of Jesus, but that the vast majority would say that although it might be possible, there is no compelling evidence, given what we now know or possibly can know, and for some, there is evidence pointing against such an identification. Since there are no bone reports, and apparently, the possibility of full DNA testing is now closed, we seem left with what we have. A very few of those who think it might be possible would go on to say it has a probability of being the Jesus family tomb. Still, to be fair here, of those who are not convinced, I would say most find the evidence in favor to be flimsy at best. Language here can be tricky of course. For example, Shimon Gibson said at the conclusion of the conference that based on all the evidence he "does not think this is the Jesus tomb," but that should not be taken to mean he would say it is impossible, which I have never heard him say. He simply, like most, does not find the evidence compelling enough to move to the "probably" side of things.
I am with the "possible to likely" group, and it is not always easy to take positions that are in the minority, but my conclusions are based on my own sense of "best evidence," and I have published them in Near Eastern Archaeology. I also think there is more to be said about the DNA testing as well as the statistical studies, some of which was misunderstood, in my view at least, at the Symposium. I will be writing more on this in coming days.
Lots of confusion comes at this point as people mix the matter of the "site" of Talpiot, with what was said in the "Lost Tomb of Jesus" film produced by Cameron and Jacobovici. I have urged, as much as possible, to separate consideration of the "site" from the "film," but as it turned out that was often not possible, given the ways in which the film had generated lots of the issues we discussed (DNA tests, statistical studies, etc.).
2. The headline that the Symposium "vindicated" the Jacobovici film is misleading and untrue and was apparently based on a misunderstanding of an interview in which Jacobovici said: "We feel totally vindicated. My work with James Cameron was the catalyst for an international symposium that has finally considered the evidence and is opening the door for further research." The truth is, the Symposium as a whole brought into question many important elements of the film and dealt with it rather critically. I think the word "vindicated" was ill advised, but the context helps to put it in proper perspective.
3. The statement that Rut Gat, the widow of the excavator Yosi Gat, read at the close of the Symposium has grabbed a few headlines but what is causing great rancor is the charge that Jacobovici somehow orchestrated or even wrote her statement as a publicity stunt, and that her husband never said such a thing—namely that he thought the Talpiot tomb belonged to the Jesus family. No one I have talked to, including Charlesworth, had any idea what Ms. Gat might say, other than expressing thanks for remembering her husband, and Jacobovici has stated that he did not in any way shape her statement and was surprised himself when he first heard it. I think it is understandable but unfortunate that the Gat issue has taken center stage at a conference that otherwise has offered so much in terms of debate and information on the Talpiot tomb. After all, the views of the late excavator are interesting, but really offer nothing evidentially in terms of the academic evaluation of the tomb. Given the time and money Charlesworth put into the Symposium, I hope we can all look toward the substance of the conference itself, the published volume that will result, and leave personality and media issues behind. For that reason I have done no media interviews whatsoever in that I have not wanted to contribute to this misdirected flurry and confusion.
What I find more interesting than Ms. Gat's recollection is the source that editor Horovitz quoted in his Friday Jerusalem Post story, which I think refers, more correctly to the 1996 "publicity" the tomb received as a result of the BBC film and was confused with the Gat matter:
In the wake of Wednesday's declaration by Mrs. Gat that her husband knew he'd found Jesus's tomb, an expert who insisted on anonymity charged to the Post Thursday that Israel had deliberately "covered up" the significance of the find for fear of the anti-Semitic backlash to which Mrs. Gat referred. "The Jews have suffered for 2,000 years, being blamed for the death of Jesus," the expert said. "The last thing Israel needed was to find proof of Jesus's earthly remains. Our relations with the Vatican would never have recovered."
Therefore, he said, Gat and other senior archeologists and experts decided they would reject any suggestion that the coincidence of apparent Jesus-related names on the ossuaries in the tomb was significant. "When that combination of names came up, it was like winning the lottery," this expert said. "But it was agreed that the 'Jesus talk' would be denied, and that it would be argued that the names were extremely common and their presence in a single Jerusalem tomb thus statistically unimportant. Mrs. Gat told the truth," he said, "because she's not a politician."
My understanding is that this "expert" was involved in the meetings and deliberations on this matter, that they involved IAA meetings called by late director Drori, but that this individual feels in the present atmosphere he can not agree to be identified. Unlike Gibson, quoted in the Post story, I would not characterize such things as "conspiracy" but simply a matter of practical fact—how could Israel best handle the unbridled speculations that would result as a result of the publication of the names in the tomb, especially in the media. My hope is in a new atmosphere the full story can emerge, but it looks like that won't be soon.
In any event I want to honor and thank Prof. James Charlesworth for all his hard work in making the Symposium possible and being willing to bring together in the same room all those who had been involved, regardless of emotions and passions. The concrete results of the conference lie ahead, both in new investigation and the publishing of the papers of this Symposium, to be published next year by Eerdman's Press. This product will prove more lasting and enduring than media reports for a day.
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The story is a very closely guarded secret in Hollywood, and while it is not a direct prequel "officially" it has more than just passing ties towards the Alien saga's canon. You will have all the things that worked in the Alien canon, and very new and fresh and some controversial ideas presented, sexuality is dealt with quite directly. There may even be a robot or two. And the ship, which I am told is the current titles name, Prometheus. Highly original, both in concept and design I hear.
You can head over to Market Saw to read more, though like I said, don't invest too much in seeing any of these details coming to light in the film. Prometheus is slated for release less than a year from now, on March 9, 2012, so it at least won't be that long a wait for all to be revealed.


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Q: Bullets will only fire to the right? I'm making a flash game for my course at college, I have been following a tutorial but been spinning it off for my own sake. One wall I hit is that when I fire a bullet, it will only fire to the right, with a little movement up or down, I have been trying to fix it for a while but nothing is happening and nothing works.
package {
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;

public class Wizard extends MovieClip {

    private var dx:Number;
    private var dy:Number;
    private var Bulletspeed:int;
    public var Angle:Number;
    public var newAngle:Number;
    var shotCoolDown:int;
    const MAX_COOLDOWN=20;
    public function Wizard() {
        //constructor
        //Shot cool down
        shotCoolDown=MAX_COOLDOWN;
        addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, update);
        //set up an event listener for when the turret is added to stage
        addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, initialise);

    }
    function initialise(e:Event) {
        //reduce shot cool down by one
        shotCoolDown=shotCoolDown-1;

        //add a click listener to the stage
        stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fire);
    }
    function fire(m:MouseEvent) {
        //Able to shoot
        if (shotCoolDown<=0) {
            //resets cool down
            shotCoolDown=MAX_COOLDOWN;
            //spawn bullet
            var B = new Bullet();
            //set position and rotation of the bullet
            B.rotation=rotation;
            B.x=x;
            B.y=y;
            //add the bullet the the wizard
            parent.addChild(B);
        }
    }

    function update():void {
        //Shot cool down
        shotCoolDown--;
        //Make the Wizard face the mouse
        if (parent!=null) {
            dx=stage.mouseX-this.x;
            dy=stage.mouseY-this.y;
            Math.abs(dx);
            Math.abs(dy);
            var Angle=Math.atan2(dy,dx);
            var newAngle = Angle * (180 / Math.PI);

            if ((0 < newAngle) && (newAngle <= 90)) {
                gotoAndPlay("Right");
            } else if ((90 < newAngle) && (newAngle <= 180)) {
                gotoAndPlay("Down");
            } else if ((-180 < newAngle) && (newAngle <= -90)) {
                gotoAndPlay("Left");
            } else if ((-90 < newAngle) && (newAngle <= 0)) {
                gotoAndPlay("Up");
            }

            this.rotation=Angle;

        }
    }
}

}
That's the code for my player class, with things such as bullets firing and what not. I think I know the problem, I need to link it to the rest of the Wizard update. But I don't know how, here is my bullet class if needed.
package {
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.Event;

public class Bullet extends Sprite {

    private var speed:int;
    private var myCharacter:Wizard;

    public function Bullet() {
        //constructor
        speed = 10;
        addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, update);

    }

    function update (e:Event) {
            //Move in the direction the bullet is facing
        x=x+Math.cos(rotation/180*Math.PI)*speed;
        y=y+Math.sin(rotation/180*Math.PI)*speed;
        //Clears bullet once it leaves the stage
        if (x<0 || x>500 || y<0 || y>500) {
            //removes the update listner
            removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, update);

            parent.removeChild(this);

        }
    }
}

}

A: You're setting the Wizard's rotation to Angle, which is in radians; the rotation is then passed on to the Bullet, which expects its rotation to be in degrees. It's probably better to set this.rotation=newAngle; at the end of update(), as the UIComponent class expects that value in degrees and uses it for rotating its drawing.

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Home Theatre Evan Frayne is master of The Arabian Nights
Evan Frayne is master of The Arabian Nights
UBC Theatre & Film presents Mary Zimmerman's The Arabian Nights. Photo by Emily Cooper.
University of British Columbia Master of Fine Arts candidate Evan Frayne directs Mary Zimmerman's The Arabian Nights as his thesis project.
I think Mary is trying to tell us about the essential nature of storytelling- not only is it important, it is essential in teaching us about the world and about ourselves. – director & MFA candidate Evan Frayne
In this Q&A we find out more from Frayne about the upcoming production which runs at the Frederic Wood Theatre at the University of British Columbia from March 17 – April 2. Visit http://theatre.ubc.ca for tickets and information.
Q[/dropcap]Why The Arabian Nights as your thesis production for your MFA in Directing?
A lot of different factors went in to choosing The Arabian Nights for my thesis. I really looked at this opportunity, the MFA in Directing, as a chance to challenge myself and to explore plays, processes and ideas that I haven't in the past. A friend of mine suggested I read the play and I was taken by it immediately. The chance to explore and to attempt to understand the diversity and depth of eastern cultures through their history of storytelling was something I just couldn't pass up, particularly in a University setting. The idea that we can change the world through storytelling is a value that I believe in and one of the big reasons I am in theatre, and this piece speaks directly to that.
Q[/dropcap]What is it about the story of Scheherezade that still captures the imagination with people today?
It's a survival story of the greatest imagination. Scheherezade is saving her life, and the life of her sister Dunyazade by telling stories. In a way she is also saving the soul of this man who is killing the women of his country so he can never be hurt again. Scheherezade is teaching him through these stories about how to open his heart to others, how not to vilify women and how to put the needs and wants of others first. She teaches him how to be a good and just king, husband and father. That's a pretty powerful, relevant and enduring story if you ask me.
Q[/dropcap]What is the playwright trying to say?
Mary is just as interested in the "how" as she is about the "what". Mary's productions are highly theatrical extravaganzas of physical theatre, dance, music and text. She really is using as many different theatrical tools as she can to tell these stories in the most interesting way she can. So if you're going to tackle her adaptations, you have to be willing to jump in to the theatrical world with both feet. What I also get is that she is trying to create a sense of wonder in her productions; to capture that sense of seeing and hearing a story for the first time with fresh eyes, like you would if you were a child. But I think Mary is trying to tell us about the essential nature of storytelling- not only is it important, it is essential in teaching us about the world and about ourselves.
MFA candidate Evan Frayne directs The Arabian Nights as his thesis production
Q[/dropcap]You're directing a cast of sixteen in this production – is a cast of that size a blessing or a curse for a director?
It's a blessing to have as many in the cast as we do for this production. There are so many elements to the production, physical theatre, music, dance, that it is a great luxury to say, "who has a moment to be a part of this dance" or "can someone help lift this actor here". There are just so many moving pieces that some extra voices or hands are lovely to have. It certainly is a challenge to negotiate that many performers, but I really enjoy it. Reminds me of my hockey days, playing with a team and relying on your teammates to support and help when you need it.
Q[/dropcap]It is also a cast of students – do you approach your job as director any differently?
Yes, I think I have a responsibility to teach as much as I can about the practice of being an actor when working with the students. I have enough experience that I can give them an inside track on professional behavior, protocol, and some of the challenges of being a pro. I also really want them to have a sense of ownership over their performances- I think it's really important that they engage with what we're doing so I am less likely to flat out tell them how to do something- I want them to explore for themselves as much as possible.
Q[/dropcap]The costumes are all in shades of blue – what was it about that color that works so well with the play?
All the costumes except the king's are in shades of blue. There are strong themes of day and night and the importance of sleep and rest. The stories are each told over the course of an evening or a series of evenings so we also considered that. Ultimately we wanted to create a design that was evocative of these cultures and stories that we are exploring and choosing a limited color pallet allowed us to explore some other design choices that we otherwise might not have considered.
Q[/dropcap]The cast also performs all of the original music from Andy Horka – why is the music important to the story?
It's ultimately a storytelling piece and music/song, like poetry, is a great way to tell story in an accelerated or heightened way. We travel from Baghdad to India in the course of one song, we experience years of a relationship between a girl and a boy over the course of a couple of minutes because we can do it through song.
Q[/dropcap]You've been acting and directing for some time now before going back to get your MFA. Why did you decide to go back to school?
I'm very practical about my work and I wanted to get some more skills and explore some other processes as a director. I think it's a natural progression to want to explore directing for an actor. I wanted to put my practice under a microscope, tear it apart and put it back together. It's been a much different experience that I expected, but I have certainly learned a lot and, now, I feel like I can start with just about any text and have some where to start, which is all you can really ask for from any kind of training program. I have also learned a lot about the role of the actor and will take those lessons into my practice as I head back out into the professional world.
Q[/dropcap]Do you have a particular memory from your recent studies that will say with you?
Sitting in a cramped little office, surrounded by books about theatre talking with Kirsty Johnson and Selena Couture about representation and intercultural theatre. The academic side of my studies has been equal parts maddening and illuminating. I really think that those discussions will inform a lot of the choices moving forward in my career in terms of what I projects I pursue, why and how I articulate those impulses and values.
Q[/dropcap]What's next after graduation?
I really miss acting. I'll start auditioning again once the end comes around. The project based theatre company that I run called Bleeding Heart Theatre is producing a small production for the Fringe this September and we are are also producing and I will direct the world premiere of Sean Harris Oliver's play, The Fighting Season which will be presented by the Cultch in January of 2017. I have some ideas for a new play which I'll make some time for this summer. I'm doing a little bit of teaching post- MFA and maybe I'll take a trip or two. Most likely you'll find me in Tofino.
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