Atmospheric doc is a tone poem for the already-convinced.
Opens
Friday, Nov. 8
Director
Liz Marshall
Following the animal-rights mission of a photographer who hopes dramatic pictures of caged animals will help change minds about their exploitation, Liz Marshall's Ghosts in Our Machine trades didacticism for first-person atmospherics. The moodily subjective work is best suited to viewers who already share most if not all of subject Jo-Anne McArthur's values; despite its obvious aesthetic appeal, its commercial value seems limited to niche bookings and special-event screenings for the activist community.
"I feel like a war photographer," McArthur says, carrying her camera into places she certainly isn't welcome and hoping what she finds will shock viewers back home out of their complacency. She sneaks into vast farms where thousands of animals are raised for their fur, stealing images of cramped quarters and infected wounds before employees arrive for the morning shift. "I'm not here to liberate them, she says," though she doesn't explain why; presumably, she'd be too easy to prosecute if she and her local guides opened hundreds of cages and then published photos from the site.
As the scene changes, visiting sanctuaries for abandoned farm animals, marine theme parks, and other settings, voiceovers elaborate on McArthur's conviction that her subjects are sentient creatures with as many rights as humans. She clearly identifies with the vegan protesters seen here, but the thesis gets muddy late in the film, where footage of slaughterhouses is accompanied by quotes from Temple Grandin, whose work is widely viewed as a way of making humanity's killing of cows more palatable to animal advocates.
Scenes where McArthur meets with editors and photo agents suggest the challenges she has getting work in front of non-activist newspaper and magazine readers. Make the work moving but not disturbing, she's told -- a big request for a woman who is so deeply pained by what she has seen.
Production Company: Ghosts Media
Director: Liz Marshall
Producers: Nina Beveridge, Liz Marshall
Executive producer: Mila Aung-Thwin
Directors of photography: John Price, Iris Ng, Nick De Pencier, Liz Marshall
There's only so much that Instagram filters can do. For everything else, there's the Olloclip 4-in-1 iPhone lens. This slick little clip-on accessory—the next iteration of Steve Wozniak's daily carry—adds four powerful lens effects to your iPhone's camera.
Debuting tonight at the Pepcom's event in San Francisco, the Olloclip 4-in-1 offers a fishbowl, a wide-angle, and two macro (10x and 15x magnification) lenses in a single slip on accessory. The entire assembly weighs less than an ounce and easily slips into a fifth pocket when not in use.
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Additionally, Olloclip also rolled out a mini-telephoto lens that offers an additional 2x magnification ability, as well as an iPhone 5c/s case with a flip-out corner allowing the lens to slip directly onto the phone without requiring the user to pull then entire case off first. The case also offers a tripod and microphone ports as well. It fits 4/4s/5 series iPhones as well as 5th Gen iPod Touches.
Tristram Stuart, founder of Feeding the 5000, is helping to organize several disco soup events across Europe for World Food Day.
Courtesy of Feeding the 5000
Tristram Stuart, founder of Feeding the 5000, is helping to organize several disco soup events across Europe for World Food Day.
Courtesy of Feeding the 5000
Wednesday is World Food Day, an occasion food activists like to use to call attention to world hunger. With 842 million chronically undernourished people on Earth, it's a problem that hasn't gone away.
This year, activists are trying to make the day a little spicier with pots full of disco soup to highlight the absurd amount of food thrown away that could feed people: one-third of all the food produced every year.
What is disco soup, you ask? It's the tasty outcome of a party designed to bring strangers together to cook food that would otherwise end up in the trash. Oftentimes, the soup is donated to the hungry. Oh, and as the name suggests, there's music involved, too.
The first disco soup party was held in Germany in early 2012 by some folks affiliated with the Slow Food Youth Network Deutschland. The organizers collected discarded fruits and vegetables from a market, blasted some disco music and made a huge pot of soup.
Two months later, a group in France threw a disco soup party and attracted 100 people. More parties followed, in Australia, South Korea, Ireland and beyond. You can check out an earnest little video of another French disco food event here:
The idea eventually caught the attention of Tristram Stuart, a British food waste activist and writer who started Feeding the 5000, a campaign named for an event held in London in 2009 and 2011, where 5,000 members of the public were given a free lunch made with perfectly edible ingredients bound for the rubbish bin.
Stuart is adamant that consumers and businesses in the developed world have a moral obligation to reverse "the global scandal" of food waste. In addition to throwing events to cook up blemished but edible produce, his campaign is working to change European Union legislation on feeding food waste to pigs through the Pig Idea project.
For World Food Day, Feeding the 5000 is hosting a "flagship" disco soup party in Brussels. And the group says more pots full of disco soup will be bubbling away today in the Netherlands, France, Germany, Greece and Macedonia. The event hub is the Disco Anti Food Waste Day Facebook page.
And what if you don't like disco? Can you still have a disco soup event?
"We play anything that gets people dancing as they peel and chop the vegetables and fruit," Dominika Jarosz, event coordinator for Feeding the 5000, tells The Salt in an email.
While there are no disco soup events scheduled for Oct. 16 in the U.S., Feeding the 5000 says disco soup is starting to get traction here. The first U.S. disco soup event was held on Sept. 20 in New York, with the support of Slow Food NYC, the Natural Gourmet Institute, chef Paul Gerard of the East Village restaurant Exchange Alley and the United Nations Environment Program.
In advance of the soup blitz, Stuart visited local farms in New York and New Jersey and gleaned blemished tomatoes, oversized watermelons, squash, eggplants and other fresh produce that the farmers were unable to sell. A rotating crew of DJs provided a soundtrack at the soup-making party at the Chelsea Super Pier, and most of the food was donated to the Bowery Mission. Such events, he says, help raise awareness among food donors like grocery stores and farmers and help them forge long-term relationships with organizations that feed the hungry.
Americans may be getting more motivated to address food waste, but we have to hand it to the Europeans, who do seem to be out in front on the issue. It was a group of Austrians, after all, who started a reality cooking show centered around Dumpster diving.
Food waste was also a talking point for world leaders who spoke up on World Food Day. "Reducing food waste is not, in fact, only a strategy for times of crisis, but a way of life we should adopt if we want a sustainable future for our planet," Nunzia De Girolamo, Italy's minister for agriculture, food and forestry policy, said at a ceremony Wednesday at the Food and Agriculture Organization's headquarters in Rome.
Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court considered whether state referendums can ban race and sex as factors in university admissions.
In 2006, the US state of Michigan voted on a measure to disallow so-called affirmative action in college admissions.
The high court heard arguments Tuesday on whether the ban is constitutional, considering the US constitution's equal protection guarantees.
Outside, on the Supreme Court steps, some 200 mostly minority protesters gathered to defend affirmative action.
Inside the court Chief Justice John Roberts, a conservative appointed by former US president George W. Bush, said the point of the constitution's Equal Protection Clause was specifically designed "to take race off the table."
Conservative Justice Antonin Scalia weighed in similarly.
"We've held that the 14th Amendment protects all races," he said.
"You say now that we have to proceed as though its purpose is not to protect whites, only to protect minorities?"
Of the nine justices, progressive Sonia Sotomayor, who is of Puerto Rican descent and was appointed by US President Barack Obama, defended affirmative action the most vehemently.
"Affirmative action favors diversity as opposed to discrimination," she said.
"You can't take away a tool of diversity, simply because you change plans," the justice said.
Justice Elena Kagan, a progressive and former solicitor general, has recused herself from the case due to a conflict of interest linked to her previous professional functions.
This means the remaining eight justices -- three progressives and five conservatives -- will decide on the matter, although their ruling is not expected before next year.
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette asked the justices to uphold "Proposition 2," adopted in Michigan in 2006 but struck down by an appeals court.
The proposition prohibited Michigan's public universities, colleges, and school districts from "discriminating against, or granting preferential treatment for any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin."
But a coalition of groups backing affirmative action along with 17 former students argued the reform violates the US Constitution -- specifically its provision on equal rights.
The Michigan case comes on the heels of a high-court decision just over three months ago concerning affirmative action at the University of Texas.
In that case, the justices elected not to rule on the constitutionality of using race and ethnicity in admission, instructing a lower court to take another look at the matter.
The decision left unchanged the principle of affirmative action, an enduring legacy of the 1960s civil rights movement originally meant to give African-Americans a leg up in applying for jobs and education to counter decades of racism.
Brian Soucek, acting professor at the University of California, Davis School of Law, said repercussions from the court's upcoming decision will be felt well beyond Michigan's universities.
Apart from Michigan, seven other states -- California, Arizona Florida, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Oklahoma and Washington state -- have banned affirmative action.
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — Josh Freeman will be the starting quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings on Monday night against the New York Giants.
Vikings coach Leslie Frazier made the announcement after practice Wednesday. Frazier said Christian Ponder will be the backup, not Matt Cassel.
Freeman will be the third starter in the last four games for Minnesota, assuming he makes it through the week without problems.
Freeman was cut by Tampa Bay on Oct. 3 and signed by Minnesota five days later. The 25-year-old started 59 games over four-plus seasons with the Buccaneers. The former first-round draft pick got a one-year contract with the Vikings (1-4).
Running back Adrian Peterson was missing from practice because of a personal matter. Frazier said he expected him back on Thursday.
MADRID (Reuters) - The number of mobile phone connections in Spain increased for a fourth straight month in August, data published on Tuesday showed, marking a tentative recovery after two years of client losses.
Cash-strapped consumers in Spain, where one in four of the workforce is jobless, have been cutting mobile usage and switching to cheaper deals to save money as recession dragged on. Yet the economy is expected to have returned to growth in the second half of the year, prompting a gentle pick-up in consumer confidence.
Mobile customers increased by 5,536 in August, Spain's mobile watchdog said in a statement, though growth remained focused on cheaper deals and the market overall was still 4 percent smaller than a year earlier at 52.19 million connections.
"Although the increase in mobile phone lines was not spectacular, we must bear in mind that August is not usually a favorable month for taking out phone contracts," the regulator said.
So-called virtual mobile operators, which rent network capacity from traditional operators, attracted 159,056 new sign-ups in August, continuing a shift in the market towards smaller operators who often offer discounted deals.
Their market share has risen to 11.4 percent from 8 percent a year ago.
Market leaders Telefonica and Vodafone have shed hundreds of thousands of clients in the last year and in August Telefonica recorded a loss of 147,687 connections, while 58,642 customers cancelled their lines with Vodafone.
Telefonica had 34.1 percent of the market, compared with 37.3 percent in August 2012, while Vodafone's market share shrank to 25 percent from 27.6 percent a year earlier.
The broadband market also grew in August, with 55,903 new customers, 15,752 of which took out superfast fiber optic connections. There are now 484,662 fiber lines in Spain, marking an 87 percent increase over the past year.
Spain last month revised up its economic growth forecast for 2014 to 0.7 percent from its previous projection of 0.5 percent, and the government has projected the economy will grow slightly in the third quarter, marking the beginning of an exit from a two-year recession.
Authorities in Moscow have rounded up more than 1,600 migrant workers after an ethnic riot took place over the weekend. Russian nationalists and soccer hooligans attacked a market area in a gritty industrial suburb of Moscow that's home to many migrant workers from the North Caucasus. The riot broke out after police announced that they were searching for a North Caucasian man suspected in the stabbing death of a young, ethnic Slav man. The situation highlights Russia's immigration problem — the country needs migrant labor, but fears what it perceives as foreign influence.
The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday passed a measure to waive fees for producers who shoot television pilots on location in the city.
The measure, which comes after years of declining pilot production in L.A., was first authored last year by Eric Garcetti, who in his recent campaign for mayor promised to find ways to stem runaway production and improve the environment for movie and TV production.
Garcetti is expected to sign the measure into law within a week and it should take effect soon after.
"Our economy is my top priority" said Garcetti, "and the entertainment industry generates more than 500,000 jobs in L.A. Focusing on TV pilots not only supports a key part of the industry, it can lead to a huge long-term dividend if a series gets picked up."
The production of TV pilots in Los Angeles, as tracked by Film L.A., has fallen from 2006-2007 when 82 percent were shot in the city to about 52 percent in the most recent pilot season. Studies have shown that there is a direct link between where a pilot is shot and where the show is ultimately produced, so grabbing pilot activity is crucial to keeping the jobs in Los Angeles.
In urging passage, L.A. City Councilman Paul Krekorian told his fellow council members: ""When production leaves Los Angeles, the loser is not the big studio, the loser is not the famous producer, the loser is not the A-list actor. The loser is the person who gets up early in the morning, drives to work in a pick-up truck in order to serve as a carpenter on a set, or the person who has been working their entire career as an electrician in the film industry, or the seamstress, or the other below-the-line workers or other middle class workers who don't travel to Vancouver or to New Mexico or New York to go with a production. Those are the people who don't work when we don't have production here in Los Angeles.
This is another step by Garcetti, who in late September appointed former TV Academy president and Hollywood executive Tom Sherak as his film czar, to work to stem runaway production and lobby Sacramento legislators to increase and extend the current $100 million annual allocation of tax incentives to keep movie and TV jobs in California.
Contact: Emily Walker emily.walker@monash.edu 61-399-034-844 Monash University
Scientists have combined cutting edge computer modelling with pharmacology and medicinal chemistry to reveal new insights into how the body interacts with novel drug treatments, in research that could lead to the creation of drugs that are more targeted and with fewer side effects.
In a paper published today in Nature, researchers from the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS) were part of an international team who investigated alternative drug recognition sites on G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) - the largest and most important family of receptor proteins in the human body.
GPCRs play a role in virtually every biological process and most diseases, including neuropsychiatric disorders, cardiovascular disease, obesity and diabetes, inflammation and cancer. Almost half of all current medications available use GPCRs to achieve their therapeutic effect.
The new research into how GPCRs work at the molecular level has unlocked vital insights into how drugs interact with this therapeutically relevant receptor family.
Professor Arthur Christopoulos from MIPS said it was hoped the research would lead to the creation of drugs that are more targeted, and with fewer side effects.
"This study has cracked the secret of how a new class of drug molecule, which we have been studying for some time now, actually binds to a GPCR and changes the protein's structure to achieve its unique molecular effect," Professor Christopoulos said.
"This research can explain the behaviour of such drugs at the molecular level and facilitate structure-based design for new and more potent drugs."
By starting with a known crystal structure of a GPCR as a template, the team used computer simulations to map how different drugs and the receptor can "find" each other, and how they change their shape and orientation as they interact. Importantly, the predictions made by the computer simulations were validated by new biological experiments and by the rational design of a more potent molecule that targets the GPCR.
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The research was conducted by the teams of Professors Arthur Christopoulos and Patrick Sexton, who lead the Drug Discovery Biology (DDB) program at MIPS, Professor Jonathan Baell, from the Medicinal Chemistry program at MIPS, and their collaborators from D. E. Shaw Research and Columbia University, New York.
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Scientists have combined cutting edge computer modelling with pharmacology and medicinal chemistry to reveal new insights into how the body interacts with novel drug treatments, in research that could lead to the creation of drugs that are more targeted and with fewer side effects.
In a paper published today in Nature, researchers from the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS) were part of an international team who investigated alternative drug recognition sites on G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) - the largest and most important family of receptor proteins in the human body.
GPCRs play a role in virtually every biological process and most diseases, including neuropsychiatric disorders, cardiovascular disease, obesity and diabetes, inflammation and cancer. Almost half of all current medications available use GPCRs to achieve their therapeutic effect.
The new research into how GPCRs work at the molecular level has unlocked vital insights into how drugs interact with this therapeutically relevant receptor family.
Professor Arthur Christopoulos from MIPS said it was hoped the research would lead to the creation of drugs that are more targeted, and with fewer side effects.
"This study has cracked the secret of how a new class of drug molecule, which we have been studying for some time now, actually binds to a GPCR and changes the protein's structure to achieve its unique molecular effect," Professor Christopoulos said.
"This research can explain the behaviour of such drugs at the molecular level and facilitate structure-based design for new and more potent drugs."
By starting with a known crystal structure of a GPCR as a template, the team used computer simulations to map how different drugs and the receptor can "find" each other, and how they change their shape and orientation as they interact. Importantly, the predictions made by the computer simulations were validated by new biological experiments and by the rational design of a more potent molecule that targets the GPCR.
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The research was conducted by the teams of Professors Arthur Christopoulos and Patrick Sexton, who lead the Drug Discovery Biology (DDB) program at MIPS, Professor Jonathan Baell, from the Medicinal Chemistry program at MIPS, and their collaborators from D. E. Shaw Research and Columbia University, New York.
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The Hague (AFP) - Dutch police have arrested several airport workers at Amsterdam's Schiphol who allegedly picked up cocaine packages stashed aboard planes arriving from Latin America, a gendarme spokesman said on Tuesday.
A total of 15 people have been arrested since July, seven of them employed by the same company at Schiphol, spokesman Robert van Kapel told AFP, declining to name the company.
"Further arrests are not excluded," he added.
The men, aged 23 to 65, are Dutch, Turkish and Colombian citizens, he said.
They were arrested in raids on homes in and around Amsterdam.
Van Kapel said "tens-of-kilos" of cocaine had been hidden on flights from Central and South America, but he declined to say where on the planes the drugs were stashed.
"The flights were never put in danger as a result," he added, saying the investigation was ongoing.
The 15 men are to face charges of drug smuggling and some also face illegal weapons charges, Van Kapel said.
Last year Dutch authorities arrested 12 airport workers suspected of helping to smuggle cocaine from the Caribbean.
In March last year, gendarmes at Schiphol confiscated 300 kilos of cocaine from South and Central America with an estimated street value of 12 million euros ($16 million).
The haul was one of the largest in recent years at the airport.
Schiphol is Europe's fourth-busiest airport with between 120,000 to 140,000 passengers passing through daily.
BARUERI, Brazil -- Fabio Maldonado won two consecutive fights in the UFC for the first time after his split decision victory over Joey Beltran at UFC Fight Night 29, and he believes that is enough for him to face a higher-ranked opponent next.
"I would like to fight Chael Sonnen, who I’m a big fan of, or James Te Huna, who is a great striker," Maldonado told the media on Wednesday. "Many people think that Chael Sonnen is a bad match-up for me, that he would take me down, but I believe I could beat him. I believe I can beat him. And against Te Huna, I’m a better striker and I can do well against him."
Maldonado is 3-3 in the UFC, but he said his UFC record should be 5-1 since he disagrees with the judges in his decision losses to Kyle Kingsbury and Igor Pokrajac.
"I’m far from being a champion, far from the title shot, but I’m getting better," he said. "I could have done better today. (Beltran) was happy just to get beaten. He wasn’t fighting, and he thinks he won? Are you crazy? You did nothing, man. It was not a beat down, but you didn’t win it. Do you think you’re going to knock me out by kneeing my thigh?"
"MMA is a mix of styles, but you can’t score points if you’re holding your opponents close to the fence," he continued. "It’s a mistake from the judges. My only loss in the UFC was to Glover Teixeira. I didn’t lose the other fights. I know I still have a lot to improve, but Glover was the only one who defeated me in the UFC."
After a 15-minute brawl with Beltran, Maldonado revealed he hid a knee injury to fight in Barueri, Sao Paulo.
"I tried to hide it. I even used makeup to hide an injury in my right knee," he said. "My team wanted me to pull off the card, but I wanted to fight here."
HTC's newest phone, the 5.9-inch HTC One Max, includes a fingerprint scanner -- although unlike the one in Apple's latest iPhone, it's located on the back of the device.
The HTC One Max will go on sale globally later this month and is the company's latest attempt to revive its smartphone business. The Android handset is essentially a larger version of HTC's critically acclaimed One flagship phone, with otherwise similar specs.
Unlike the HTC One, the One Max can be locked or unlocked with a touch on its fingerprint scanner. The scanner can also be used to launch up to three favorite apps, each triggered by a different finger, HTC said Monday.
The phone has a 5.9-inch 1080p HD screen, a quad-core 1.7 GHz processor from Qualcomm, and 2GB of RAM. The front-facing camera has a resolution of 2.1 megapixels, while the 4 megapixel rear-facing camera uses HTC's UltraPixel design, which the company says uses a larger image sensor to offer better low-light performance.
Talk time on the WCDMA version of the phone can reach 25 hours on its 3300 mAh battery. The One Max also has a microSD card slot for expandable memory, a feature not found in the U.S. version of the HTC One. It will be on sale in 16GB and 32 GB versions.
The HTC One Max arrives just a month after Samsung unveiled its own large-screen phone, the Galaxy Note 3. The Note 3 has a slightly smaller screen than the One Max, at 5.7 inches, with a 13-megapixel camera rear-facing camera, 3GB of RAM, and a 3,200 mAh battery.
HTC and its Korean rival have been sparring on product strategy, and both have previously launched smaller versions of their flagship phones. In HTC's case, it was called the HTC One mini and unveiled in July.
Despite positive reviews for its phones, HTC has been struggling to lift its earnings. Earlier this month, it posted a loss of about $101 million in its third quarter.
Family and friends begin to clap as Bride Sarah Nagy holds her father's hand as they wait for Reverend Charles Knerem to begin her wedding ceremony on Oct. 12, in Strongsville, Ohio.
By Simon Moya-Smith, Staff Writer, NBC News
A terminally ill man from Ohio was able to give his daughter away at her wedding Saturday — with the assistance of an all-volunteer hospital caravan.
Lying in a gurney and connected to a portable ventilator and heart monitor, Scott Nagy, 56, who suffers from metastatic urethral cancer, was transported by ambulance from University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center in Cleveland to First Lutheran Church in Strongsville, nurse practitioner Jacky Uljanic, who helped organize the event, told NBC News.
"The planning had to be pretty strategic," she said. "It took probably about three weeks to get everything together."
Uljanic said two paramedics had volunteered their time as well as their ambulance to take Nagy to the wedding. Other volunteers included a nurse, an additional nurse practitioner and a doctor who followed the ambulance to the church.
"When we walked in with him at the church there were tissues to faces," she said. "The entire congregation started clapping."
Uljanic said Nagy was able to stay for the entire wedding and even had a little extra time after to pose with family and friends in the church parking lot.
Janice Guhl, director of media and public relations with University Hospital Seidman Cancer Center, lauded the staff for their willingness to volunteer.
"The nurses really rallied and were able to take him to the church," she told NBC News.
Alicia Reale, media relations manager with Seidman, said the nurses even had scheduled a barber to visit the hospital to groom Nagy's beard and cut his hair.
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Scott Nagy's wife Jean pins the corsage to her husband's jacket before the start of their daughter's wedding ceremony at First Lutheran Church in Strongsville, Ohio, on Oct. 12. University Hospital sent a medical team along with Scott who is bound to his bed. The ambulance ride to the church was donated by Physicians Medical Transport.
“I think it went so far as they helped to get sheets for his gurney that would match the wedding colors," Reale said.
Nagy, who was first diagnosed with the deadly disease last November, has been at Seidman's intensive care unit since August and has undergone chemotherapy, Uljanic said.
Scott’s wife, Jean, told NBC News that she was sharing texts with her husband before he arrived at the church and that she was grateful for the efforts of the volunteer hospital personnel.
“I was just teary eyed most of the day,” she said.
Jean added that the family had rented a big screen and a projector so that her husband could give the ceremonial toast from his hospital room.
She said his toast included well wishes to the newlyweds as well as an encouragement to the wedding revelers.
“He wanted to make sure everyone had enough to drink and enough to eat and dance as much as they could – to have a good time,” Jean said.
Uljanic said it was Nagy's goal to survive long enough to attend his daughter's wedding, which was originally scheduled for next year, but moved up in March, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"He was very thankful we could make this happen for him," she said.
I still think that this is one of my favorite physics problems. Why? Why not. First, it’s just a cool event. But other than that, the physics is both simple and complicated at the same time. The simple part is that there are essentially only two forces acting on Felix as he falls to the ground. There is the air resistance force and the gravitational force. The complicated part of this problem is the fact that the air resistance force depends on both the density of air and the speed of the jumper. Really the only way to model the motion in this case is to create a numerical calculation with a computer.
I’ve looked at many different aspects of this Red Bull Stratos jump. Here are a few of my favorite posts on the subject.
Rhett Allain is an Associate Professor of Physics at Southeastern Louisiana University. He enjoys teaching and talking about physics. Sometimes he takes things apart and can't put them back together.
Supportive -- and very sexy -- baby mama! Kim Kardashian was happy to play a quiet, secondary role in Hollywood on Wednesday -- bringing covered-up baby daughter North West, 4 months, to the studios where love Kanye West faced off with Jimmy Kimmel on the comedian's titular late night show. Although mum, the reality star, 32, made a big statement in a tight, blue v-neck dress that showed off her impressively toned post-baby curves, which she paired with tan thigh-high boots and a navy coat; Kardashian's dyed-blonde locks looked more flattering and glamorous than ever.
West, 36, surely appreciate his two favorite ladies on the planet as he and Kimmel, 45, officially ended their Twitter-based feud during a very memorably, very Kanye hour of television.
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian push daughter Nori in a stroller outside Jimmy Kimmel Live in Hollywood, California on October 9, 2013 Credit: Premiere/FAMEFLYNET
Though making nice with Kimmel, West continued to make no apologies for the over-the-top, grandiose statements made during a recent BBC interview. "It's really something extremely fearless for someone in my position to do because most people bow down to TV," West said.
The rapper's priority in life -- in addition to his music, fashion, and art in general -- appear to be his family. "I could care less about any of these cameras in all honesty. I care about protecting my girls, protecting my baby, and protecting my ideas and dreams."
Kardashian's famous mom, meanwhile, is striking out on her own: Kris Jenner revealed to Us Weekly earlier this week that she and Bruce Jenner have amicably separated -- with no immediate divorce plans -- after 22 years of marriage. Kim's younger sister Khloe Kardashian was spotted reuniting with her own estranged spouse, Lamar Odom, for a visit to Kris' Calabasas, Calif. home on the day the split news broke.
Dwight Howard responded to a girl on twitter that he wasn?t going to win any [NBA Championship] rings with the Houston Rockets by saying ?with that face you ain?t getting a [wedding] ring either.? Pretty childish of Dwight to respond like this.
Michigan Football: Coach?s Corner ? The Big Boys ? Where It All Starts
The central theme of Coach Mattison?s defensive philosophy and scheme is to stop the run at all costs. Progress has been made in the interior trenches the past two years and this year offers reasonable depth and versatility. The terms one-tech, three-tech, and five-tech have replaced more common terms of nose tackle, defensive tackle, and defensive end in discussions of interior types.
Quinton Washington is a red-shirt senior. His improvement was noticeable last year and it is a fair evaluation that Quinton was an average or slightly above average major college interior defensive lineman. It is just as clear that this year could also yield more improvement and increased contributions. Quinton only has one career sack and like the other members of Michigan?s interior defensive line had great difficulty getting to the quarterback. This led to the use of blitzburg tactics with mixed results.
November 10, 2012; Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Michigan Wolverines defensive tackle Jibreel Black (55) celebrates after the game against the Northwestern Wildcats at Michigan Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Rick Osentoski-USA TODAY Sports
Jibreel Black is also a senior. When he was recruited by Michigan the Wolverines were impressed with his quickness and potential for creating some mayhem. Jibreel can play the three and five technique positions and has been a valuable asset to the Wolverine defense. Still, Jibreel has only been a reserve or part-time starter during his career. Like the rest of the Michigan interior defense, Jibreel is working hard to contribute in 2013. Jibreel had three sacks in 2012. But again Coach Mattison has made it known that improvement in the front four pass rush is critical to the overall success of the Michigan defense.
Richard Ash has been through much in his career at Michigan. Unconfirmed reports of illness and injuries have been frequent. Richard is a reserve interior lineman. He is low to the ground and is currently in the 315-pound range. His long-term endurance may come into question, but 2-10 plays a game of relief in the middle may be Richard?s contribution. Richard may also be an extra space plugger on the goal-line unit. Ash is one of the Pahokee, Florida guys who have played hard, earned degrees, and represented Michigan well.
January 1, 2013; Tampa, FL, USA; Michigan Wolverines defensive tackle Ondre Pipkins (56) against the South Carolina Gamecocks works out prior of the 2013 Outback Bowl at Raymond James Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports
Ondre Pipkins was a highly ranked high school player when he signed with Michigan. He did not red-shirt but played in a reserve role. Ondre was reported by some as being a little out of shape. And like most true freshmen linemen (on both sides of the ball), Ondre found out that the young lion does not necessarily whip the older veteran. His off-season obviously focused on conditioning and technique. The current roster information lists Ondre at less than 310 pounds, down from last year. Ondre will play nose tackle this year and has great athletic ability and quickness for a 300 pounder. The coaching staff is waiting for Ondre to take charge and become the run stuffer and push up the middle force Michigan needs from a nose tackle.
Willie Henry is now a red-shirt freshman from Cleveland Glenville. He has size and quickness. Henry?s success will depend on strength and improvement of technique. Henry has good upside and it would make sense that he sees action at the 1 and 3 technique as a rotating reserve this year.
Michigan signed two talented interior defensive linemen last year, Maurice Hurst and Henry Poggi. Looking at the list of above available inside players, and adding in Chris Wormley, who may move between tackle and end assignments, it becomes logical to conclude both Poggi and Hurst will red-shirt. Poggi clearly needs strength and weight and Hurst will likely play nose-tackle, a position where there is now depth.
No doubt this unit has worked hard since the South Carolina game. Success here will lead to more success for the linebackers and defensive ends. The rush to the quarterback will continue, the question is can the front four take the lead?
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When Zach Gilford emailed photographer Jonas Peterson to shoot his Dec. 29 wedding, the "Friday Night Lights" star first wanted to explain how he fell in love with his bride-to-be, "Lost" actress Kiele Sanchez.
"It's a very long email. I can't think of any specific thing, but the whole email is amazing," Peterson told ABC News. "[He said], 'I want to tell you the story of how I met the love of my life.'"
Gilford said that when he met Sanchez, they were both involved with other people, "but [he said], 'We knew we had to spend our lives together,'" said Peterson. "It's just a long story about him and her and personal loss -- and by the end I said, 'I'm doing this.'"
And shoot it he did. After getting to know the grounded couple, Peterson, who did not realize that they were celebrities until he met them, photographed the groom and his "stunning movie star" bride at their low-key wedding in Napa, Calif. (How low-key? At one point, the bride was curled up in flannel by a fire and smiling at her groom, who held a mason jar of moonshine.)
"It's amazing to meet people who treat me like family," he said. "I was honored and amazed. There's such a facade of actors and there was no facade with them at all. This was them being themselves, crying and all of that. This was them." The pictures capture a range emotions, from the couple's tearful vow exchange ("It was pretty special," Peterson said) to their joyful celebration afterward. However, some of the most smile-inducing shots are not of the newlyweds at all, but rather, of the couple's famous pals, Michelle Hurd, who acted with Sanchez on "The Glades" and her husband, "Raising Hope" star Garret Dillahunt, and Gilford's "Friday Night Lights" co-star Jesse Plemons (who played Landry Clarke).
"Oh man, that guy [Plemons] can play guitar!" Peterson added with a laugh. "He's in a band called Cowboy and Indian and they were good -- very good! [Gilford and Sanchez] are the most normal people in the world. It's so nice to see that celebrities can be completely normal and down-to-earth because, trust me, that never happens."
"They are the most in-love couple you'll ever see," he added. "It's really amazing. Zach said, 'This is the love of my life and I want you to come capture that.' And that's how it was, and that's how they act. To see them doing this thing was spectacular."
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) ? Two space station astronauts are taking care of a little maintenance outside their orbiting home.
Russian flight engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin floated out of the International Space Station on Monday morning. The spacewalkers will replace valves, install clamps and retrieve science experiments. Some of the work will pave the way for the arrival of a new Russian compartment later this year.
This is the third spacewalk conducted so far this year. Monday's excursion is under the direction of Russian Mission Control outside Moscow.
The four other space station residents monitored the action from inside.
Yurchikhin arrived at the space station just a few weeks ago. Misurkin has been on board since March.
The crew includes three Russians, two Americans and one Italian.
PHOENIX (AP) ? Jason Kubel's legs are feeling better and the Arizona Diamondbacks are reaping the benefits.
Kubel hit a two-run single in the ninth inning to rally the Diamondbacks past Aroldis Chapman and the Cincinnati Reds 4-3 Saturday night for their fourth straight victory.
"It's just being comfortable," said Kubel, who missed two weeks this season with a strained left quadriceps. "I'm not searching or cheating on pitches. I finally feel like I have two legs under me and I'm using them now."
Kubel's big hit came shortly after Jay Bruce's second home run of the game gave the Reds a 3-2 lead in the top of the ninth.
Paul Goldschmidt lined a leadoff single in the bottom half that deflected off the glove of first baseman Joey Votto and into right field. Chapman (3-3) then issued consecutive walks to Miguel Montero and Cody Ross. With the infield drawn in, Kubel singled over second base for his third career game-ending hit and first since May 22, 2010.
"You hate to lose it like that," Reds manager Dusty Baker said. "Of late, we've lost quite a few of them like that. It seemed like Chapman was overthrowing some today."
Brad Ziegler (4-1) replaced Heath Bell after Bruce's second home run and earned the win.
Gerardo Parra hit a two-run homer for Arizona.
Bell, who had converted nine straight saves, came on in the ninth to protect a 2-1 lead. But he walked Brandon Phillips leading off the inning and Bruce followed with his team-leading 18th homer.
Bell, who has served as the Diamondbacks' closer since J.J. Putz went on the disabled list May 8 with a strained right elbow, has allowed a home run in each of his last five appearances.
Putz could return as early as this week.
"We might have to put some thought into that," Arizona manager Kirk Gibson said. "He's done a pretty good job for us also. Today wasn't his day and I got him out of there pretty quick. I recognized it."
Starting pitchers Mike Leake and Patrick Corbin dueled for eight innings before turning the game over to the bullpens.
Leake retired the first 17 batters he faced and scattered four hits over eight innings with a walk and a strikeout for the Reds, who have lost three straight.
"It's a tough one to swallow but we will be right back there tomorrow," Leake said.
Corbin allowed one run and three hits over eight innings and was handed his fourth straight no-decision in his quest to become the first Diamondbacks pitcher to win his first 10 decisions.
"Obviously, I'd love to get that 10th one and get it out of the way," Corbin said. "Fortunately, we came back and won the game."
Bruce gave the Reds a 1-0 lead when he led off the second inning with a line drive to the balcony overhanging center field, about 20 feet from where his ninth-inning shot landed.
The 472-foot drive was the longest home run at Chase Field this season and the fourth-longest ever by an opponent. Bruce has homered in seven of his last nine games.
"The big night offensively didn't really mean a whole lot," Bruce said.
Corbin broke up Leake's nascent bid for a perfect game when he looped an opposite-field double into the left-field corner with two outs in the sixth.
"It was a terrible swing," Corbin said.
Two pitches later, Parra drove a cut fastball just over the fence into the pool area in right-center for his second home run in two games to give Arizona a 2-1 lead.
Corbin allowed Bruce's first home run, a single by Devin Mesoraco in the seventh and Derrick Robinson's one-out triple to center in the eighth.
With Robinson representing the potential tying run, the 23-year-old lefty struck out Shin-Soo Choo and Votto to escape the jam and turn the game over to the bullpen.
"I was coming inside early and he worked the count full like he always does," Corbin said. "He's a tough batter to face. If he's going to beat me, I was going to throw it as hard as I could by him and if he got me, he got me."
NOTES: Chapman's blown save was his first since May 19 at Philadelphia. ... Arizona has six walk-off wins. ... Gibson tied Buck Showalter for third place on the franchise's victory list with his 250th. ... Bruce had his 13th career multihomer game and first this season. ... Two of Corbin's four hits this season have been doubles. ... Corbin's three walks were his most since issuing five free passes against Atlanta on May 14. ... Leake threw only 52 pitches over the first five innings and 92 total. ... Parra's home run was the second allowed by Leake in his past five starts. ... RHP Randall Delgado will make his second start for the Diamondbacks against RHP Mat Latos in Sunday's series finale. Latos is coming off his first loss of the season Tuesday against Pittsburgh.
Emmy Award-winning television producer and writer Gary David Goldberg died from brain cancer Sunday at his home in Montecito, Calif., his son-in-law and "The Colbert Report" writer Robert Dubbin confirmed to TODAY.com. He was 68 years old.
Goldberg mined his own life for some of the shows he created, including "Family Ties," the sitcom that made Michael J. Fox a star and ran from 1982-89. He later re-cast Fox in the political comedy "Spin City," which he created with "Cougar Town's" Bill Lawrence. That series ran from 1996-2002.
Initially a sports enthusiast, the Brooklyn-born Goldberg was expelled from two universities; when he met his future wife, flight attendant Diana Meehan, they hitchhiked around the world for a year with his black Labrador Retriever Ubu, a dog who became the symbol of his future production company, Ubu Productions. (The post-credits slate that ran after his shows featured a picture of the dog and Goldberg's voice saying, "Sit, Ubu, sit! Good dog.")
He was 31 when he took a writing class at San Diego State, and encouraged to write for television he took jobs on series like "The Bob Newhart Show" and "Lou Grant." He won a WGA award for a 1978 episode of "M*A*S*H." In 1980 he formed Ubu Productions, and shifted between television and film, also writing and directing 1989's feature "Dad" with Ted Danson and 2005's "Must Love Dogs" starring Diane Lane and John Cusack. Over the years he won two Emmys (for "Lou Grant" and "Family Ties" and was nominated five other times; he also earned a second WGA award, six Humanitas Prizes and a Peabody Award.
In 2008 he penned a memoir: "Sit, Ubu, Sit: How I Went from Brooklyn to Hollywood With the Same Woman, the Same Dog and a Lot Less Hair." (He and Meehan eloped in 1990, over 20 years after they first met.)
Friends and co-workers began immediately Tweeting their condolences and tributes:
As noted by The Hollywood Reporter, Goldberg said in his Archive of American Television interview that he would like to be remembered as "a guy who showed up for work and took the chance on finding out whether I could do it or not. ... I'd like to think I made my success not at the expense of anyone. Success was accidental."
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