I like to think of this as Chelsea Handler being on some worldly expedition, like some kind of explorer, going to all corners of the world, now that she’s got all the time in the world…including but not limited to the the arctic…just hoping to find someone who cares. She’s even taking off her shirt…to try to expedite the process…garbage.
New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez, who is being investigated in a homicide case, recently got into a nightclub altercation that involved a gun. Hernandez, who is separately being sued by a man who alleges Hernandez shot him in the face , was part of a skirmish at a Providence, R.I., club. According to a May 18 police report, the NFL star was being harassed for several blocks by the subject, who yelled, “(Expletive) the Patriots. I’m a Jets fan.” So original. Fearing the situation would escalate, police intervened and detained several subjects who were following Hernandez to his vehicle, the report states. Police allowed Hernandez to leave the scene, then spotted a “heavy-set black male” discarding a firearm under a vehicle. The man fled the scene. Officials seized the weapon, a .22-caliber Jimenez with several cartridges. The report does not say whether the man was with Hernandez, but it appears as if the football star was not a stranger to potentially troubling situation.
The summer solstice is here once again, marking this the longest 24-hour daylight period of the year and the start of astronomical summer in the U.S. At 1:04 a.m. EDT, the sun was straight overhead along the Tropic of Cancer, while the North Pole reached its maximum annual tilt toward the sun. As our amazing planet rotates on its axis, areas within the Arctic Circle see the sun circle through the sky for 24 hours. But that’s only a select few. Still, most places in the U.S. see the sun for 14-16 hours on the summer solstice , depending on latitude, with an elongated dawn and dusk as well. What makes this day so interesting, or significant in astronomical terms? A lot of things, actually. Here are some Summer Solstice 2013 fun facts: 1. North of the Tropic of Cancer, the sun takes its longest and highest path through the sky. The higher your latitude, the longer your day will be. This also means the sun will appear lower in the sky. In more northern locations, the sun is up longer, but shines from a lower angle at mid-day. 2. The sun rises and sets at its northernmost points on the horizon, relative to due east and due west, respectively, that you will see at any point. This is true even in the Southern Hemisphere, where the script is flipped – the June solstice is the shortest day of the year, and December’s the longest. 3. The farther one goes from the equator, the closer sunrise and sunset appear to due north on a compass, practically overlapping at the Arctic Circle. 4. The summer solstice has one of the earliest sunrises of the year (but not necessarily the earliest). Your earliest sunrise was likely a day or two ago. Even though the June solstice marks the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere overall, the earliest sunrise takes place a little before. The cause of this barely-noticeable misalignment is a discrepancy between our clocks and the apparent motion of the sun with respect to the horizon. 5. In addition to the day itself being as long as it’ll get, the twilight in the Northern Hemisphere is longer on the solstice than at other time of year. The fact that the summer solstice features the shortest night of the year also means that the sun doesn’t drop as far below the horizon at night. Therefore, the sun’s path tends to curve slowly below the horizon instead of plummeting, resulting in longer periods of twilight in morning and at night. While the longer period of twilight is less discernible at lower latitudes, northern cities experience noticeably longer dawn and dusk on the solstice. So there you go. Enjoy it!
Bieber and the ‘Kill Bill’ star will face off in the ‘As Long As You Love Me’ clip, out in full next week. By Jocelyn Vena Justin Bieber in the “As Long As You Love Me” teaser Photo: Island
Paul McCartney, the Arctic Monkeys, J.K. Rowling and more helped kick off the London Olympics during an elaborate Opening Ceremony. By James Montgomery Paul McCartney Photo: Lar Baron
Before IMAX became a way to boost action sequences — Tom Cruise dangling from the tallest building in the world, the Joker’s gang rappelling down from a Gotham City high-rise to rob a bank — the outsized format was primarily the domain of nature films like To the Arctic 3D , which aim to dazzle with large-scale shots of mountains and dolphins and Australia and other impressive-looking things. Forty minutes long and narrated by Meryl Streep , To the Arctic uses spoonfuls of cuteness — featuring walruses and caribou, though polar bears are its primary animal stars — to make its fairly grim environmental message go down a little easier. Directed by Greg MacGillivray, an old hand at IMAX docs, To the Arctic tries to balance out its underlying sense of global warming alarm with spectacular imagery and footage of the far north ecosystem at work. Of course, even when it comes to the most roly poly of polar bear cubs, life at the top of the world isn’t easy, and while the film discreetly leaves the majority of the process of hunting and gobbling down seals off screen, it does include some potentially troubling sequences involving the food sources the male bears turn to when desperate. Polar bears aren’t easy to film — a segment about how would-be cinematographers camouflage remote-controlled cameras in order to get closer shots of the animals shows one bear breaking a device like an enraged celebrity attacking a paparazzo. So when the filmmakers find a family of bears and are able to stick with them for several days, they end up catching a chase across the ice. It’s a mother polar bear and her two cubs who are the heart of To the Arctic , the trio traveling across the diminishing sea ice as the mother searches for food for her offspring in the lean summer months when hunting is more difficult. Survival isn’t a certainty — earlier footage shows a mother swimming for nine days and hundreds of miles in search of meat, her cub not surviving the journey. But in the case of these bears, their most dangerous enemy turns out to be males of their own species, who will eat cubs when they can’t find seals to nosh on. The mother anxiously herds her children across the ice floes, always on the lookout for other bears, though despite her caution one finds them and tries to track them down. (Parents with children and sensitive stoners planning on seeing the film can rest assured there are no scenes of violent polar bear cannibalism.) To the Arctic flutters from place to place, peering in at some Inuit hunters and researchers who dive beneath the ice, then traveling with a pair of scientists tracking caribou migrations before pausing to watch walruses loll in the sun and then jumping to a ship departing from Svalbard. The only thematic ties beyond a shared region are the environmental threats being posed by global warming, which is making it harder to polar bears and walruses to hunt and is wreaking havoc on the caribou migration patterns. The film is marked by a few jarring stylistic touches, like a score that wavers between dramatic instrumentals and Paul McCartney songs (“Mr. Bellamy,” “I’m Carrying” and “Little Willow”) and opening credits that explode into shards of ice that fly at you — narrated by Meryl Streep BOOM! Streep offers her voiceover with nary a sly twinkle, even when delivering lines about the “frisky dance of the northern lights” or urging that “we can help keep the Arctic white.” But it’s the visuals you’re here to see, and they look great on the massive screen in three dimensions, especially in helicopter shots that whirl past waterfalls cascading off of glaciers or travel over the fantastic tundra like there’s an army of orcs to be discovered just over the next bluff. 3-D and IMAX may no longer be new, but in moments like those, they can still summon a sense of awe. Follow Alison Willmore on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Facebook.com – Become a Fan! Twitter.com – Follow Us! David Hasselhoff arrives at a VIP area at Coachella, just in time to see British band Arctic Monkeys take the stage. Hit it, Hoff!
Troms, Norway is pretty far north — at a latitude of 70°, it’s above the Arctic Circle, and in January the Sun never rises. That might sound forbidding, but this video by Ville Kröger of the aurorae taken in January during the big solar storms might change your mind: What breathtaking scenery! The mountains look wonderful, and I imagine it’s a lovely place to visit… in the spring, or in the winter… Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : DiscoverMagazine Discovery Date : 28/03/2012 19:05 Number of articles : 2
Despite record gas prices Democrats killed another Arctic drilling project this month. This comes after Obama’s recent move to reject the Keystone pipeline project. US gas prices at the pump have doubled since Obama took office. Gas Buddy But this … Continue reading → Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Gateway Pundit Discovery Date : 25/02/2012 10:30 Number of articles : 2
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