Earlier this month, Bobby McFerrin and a cast of 20 incredible singers from around the world dazzled the Stimmen Festival in Basel with their performance of Bobble, Bobby’s new improvised opera with a wordless libretto. The performance retells and reimagines the biblical tale of the Tower of Babel, and our endless search for common language and true communication. This beautiful photo was taken by the Festival’s Artistic Director, Helmut Bürgel.
‘White Lotus’ villain Jon Gries reveals the true crimes that inspired his twisty take on Greg/Gary fixedfloat exchange When Season 3 of “The White Lotus” premiered last month the shock was palpable when returning character Belinda recognized a familiar face at the resort in Thailand: Greg Hunt the wily suitor of the late Tanya McQuoid. As the season has unfolded Greg played by Jon Gries has emerged as an antagonist particularly after Belinda dove into the investigation surrounding Tanya’s death and learned that Greg who now goes by Gary evaded questioning by authorities. On a show famous for reinventing itself the same has been asked of the actor who says that playing the ever-shifting character has been a welcome challenge and like “White Lotus” itself full of twists. “In the beginning I totally played him for a guy who was you know on his last legs” Gries said in a recent interview with CNN referencing Greg’s very apparent ill health in the first season of “White Lotus” which premiered to rave reviews in summer 2021. He added: “When you play a character you want to find his empathetic side and you want to understand where they came from and what got them to where they are.” But when he was contacted by creator Mike White about appearing in Season 2 Gries realized he would have to adjust his framing of Greg despite having previously imagined a “comprehensive history” for him on his own. “White said ‘I’m writing it right now and I’m writing you and I just need to know here and now: If you’re in I’ll continue writing. If not I’ll stop’” Gries recalled.
Of course he said yes to coming back to the series which eventually required him to live in Italy for a few months for filming. hop exchange During production White revealed to Gries that Greg is “very sinister.” That became rather irrefutable by the season’s climax which saw Tanya’s demise orchestrated by her now-husband. Come Season 3 Gries had to rewrite Greg’s backstory again this time drawing from some unlikely sources for inspiration like HBO docuseries “The Jinx” about late convicted killer Robert Durst and the case involving the man who came to be known as the Tinder Swindler. Gries said he was struck by Durst’s “kind of seemingly even keel personality” which served as a model for where Greg was headed someone “who doesn’t really show a great deal of emotion doesn’t seem to get too angry just gets a little bit irritated and is dangerous.” “There’s a bridled rage underneath. And those kind of people I find – at least with respect to Gary Greg Gary – fascinating” he said. And yet while searching for an empathetic way back to portraying his character Gries kept wondering if there was anything still redeeming about Greg. An important “wake up moment” came during a decisive conversation he had with White just before filming in Thailand in which the show’s creator said of Greg in no uncertain terms: “He’s a psychopath.” “And that was it. It was like ‘back to the drawing board.’ And it really did help me” Gries said. The penultimate episode of the series will air on Sunday an evening that thanks to “Lotus” and other shows has again become a night of appointment viewing amid a general move away from binge watching. Gries said he appreciates the shift. “We’re a society that in a weird way doesn’t understand the beauty of waiting. The beauty of the space between the notes” he shared. “If I binged ‘White Lotus’ I’d feel like I just ate too many chocolates. It just wouldn’t be the same. You need to process this.” “The White Lotus” airs Sundays at 9 p.m. EDT on HBO with the episode available to stream on Max. HBO and Max like CNN are owned by the same parent company Warner Bros. Discovery.
A tiny rainforest country is growing into a petrostate. A US oil company could reap the biggest rewards swell Guyana’s destiny changed in 2015. US fossil fuel giant Exxon discovered nearly 11 billion barrels of oil in the deep water off the coast of this tiny rainforested country. It was one of the most spectacular oil discoveries of recent decades. By 2019 Exxon and its partners US oil company Hess and China-headquartered CNOOC had started producing the fossil fuel.? They now pump around 650000 barrels of oil a day with plans to more than double this to 1.3 million by 2027. Guyana now has the world’s highest expected oil production growth through 2035. This country — sandwiched between Brazil Venezuela and Suriname — has been hailed as a climate champion for the lush well-preserved forests that carpet nearly 90 of its land. It is on the path to becoming a petrostate at the same time as the impacts of the fossil fuel-driven climate crisis escalate. While the government says environmental protection and an oil industry can go hand-in-hand and low-income countries must be allowed to exploit their own resources critics say it’s a dangerous path in a warming world and the benefits may ultimately skew toward Exxon — not Guyana.
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Space time: The continual question If time moves differently on the peaks of mountains than the shores of the ocean you can imagine that things get even more bizarre the farther away from Earth you travel. kraken войти To add more complication: Time also passes slower the faster a person or spacecraft is moving according to Einstein’s theory of special relativity. Astronauts on the International Space Station for example are lucky said Dr. Bijunath Patla a theoretical physicist with the US National Institute of Standards and Technology in a phone interview. Though the space station orbits about 200 miles 322 kilometers above Earth’s surface it also travels at high speeds — looping the planet 16 times per day — so the effects of relativity somewhat cancel each other out Patla said. For that reason astronauts on the orbiting laboratory can easily use Earth time to stay on schedule. https://kra30c.cc kraken войти For other missions — it’s not so simple. Fortunately scientists already have decades of experience contending with the complexities. Spacecraft for example are equipped with their own clocks called oscillators Gramling said. “They maintain their own time” Gramling said. “And most of our operations for spacecraft — even spacecraft that are all the way out at Pluto or the Kuiper Belt like New Horizons — rely on ground stations that are back on Earth. So everything they’re doing has to correlate with UTC.” But those spacecraft also rely on their own kept time Gramling said. Vehicles exploring deep into the solar system for example have to know — based on their own time scale — when they are approaching a planet in case the spacecraft needs to use that planetary body for navigational purposes she added. For 50 years scientists have also been able to observe atomic clocks that are tucked aboard GPS satellites which orbit Earth about 12550 miles 20200 kilometers away — or about one-nineteenth the distance between our planet and the moon. Studying those clocks has given scientists a great starting point to begin extrapolating further as they set out to establish a new time scale for the moon Patla said. “We can easily compare GPS clocks to clocks on the ground” Patla said adding that scientists have found a way to gently slow GPS clocks down making them tick more in-line with Earth-bound clocks. “Obviously it’s not as easy as it sounds but it’s easier than making a mess.”
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