A shadow is an area where direct light from a light source cannot reach due to obstruction by an object. It occupies all of the space behind an opaque object with light in front of it. The cross section of a shadow is a two-dimensional silhouette, or reverse projection of the object blocking the light. The sun causes many objects to have shadows and at certain times of the day, when the sun is at certain heights, the lengths of shadows change.
An astronomical object casts human-visible shadows when its apparent magnitude is equal or lower than −4. Currently the only astronomical objects able to produce visible shadows on Earth are the sun, the moon and, in the right conditions, the planet Venus.
Shadow length when caused by the sun changes dramatically throughout the day. The length of a shadow cast on the ground is proportional to the cotangent of the sun's elevation angle—its angle θ relative to the horizon. Near sunrise and sunset, when θ = 0° and cot(θ) is infinite, shadows can be extremely long. If the sun passes directly overhead, then θ = 90°, cot(θ)=0, and shadows are cast directly underneath objects.
Austin Carter Mahone (born April 4, 1996) is an American pop singer who became popular in 2011 due to viral videos of his performances. Mahone's debut single 11:11 was released on February 14, 2012. He headlined his first proper concert at the Czar Lounge in Houston, Texas on November 26th, 2011
Mahone first starting posting videos on YouTube with his friend Alex Constancio in June 2010. Music videos followed by January 2011, and he quickly began to build an online following. The young male singer has even been called the "second coming of Justin Bieber". Mahone's video covering Bieber's Mistletoe, released in late October 2011, became so popular that it eclipsed the views of Bieber's original.
In September 2011, Mahone debuted at No. 38 on the Billboard Social 50 chart, the youngest to appear on the list. He rose to No. 28 on the list as of December 2. And as of May 2012, Mahone has over 700,000 Twitter followers and 350,000 YouTube subscribers. Like previous teen heartthrobs, Mahone's growing fan base is dominated by teenage females. His fans have been dubbed "Mahomies."
Samuel "Sam" Tsui (Born May 2, 1989) is a musician and Internet celebrity who rose to fame on YouTube. He is best known for covering and performing songs by popular artists such as Adele and Bruno Mars, as well as original medleys and mashups. Tsui graduated from Yale University in 2011.
According to his profile on The Duke's Men of Yale's official website, Tsui is from Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. Tsui grew up a street away from Kurt Schneider, his producer and accompanist, with whom he attended Wissahickon High School. He was active in high school musicals, including Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Urinetown, and Miss Saigon. Tsui attended Yale University, where he was a member of Davenport College and The Duke's Men of Yale, an all-male a cappella group. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with a major in classical Greek in 2011. Sam is proficient in the C++ programming language, as stated in an interview on March 5..
Collaborations between Sam Tsui and Kurt Hugo Schneider began in high school with an electronic keyboard, primitive recording equipment, and GarageBand. Both attended Yale University, and there a musical partnership developed. They have produced videos ranging from covers and original medleys to the College Musical online series. As of February 2012, the YouTube channel "KurtHugoSchneider" has garnered over 350 million total views and a million subscribers. The most viewed video is Just a Dream, with more than forty million views. His videos have been described by Time as a combination of Glee and Attack of the Clones.
Lindsey Stirling (born on September 21, 1986) is an American violinist, musician, dancer, performance artist, and composer. In 2010 she competed on the fifth season of America's Got Talent. Stirling is noted for her versatility performing music from country to hip hop.
At the age of 23 Stirling was a quarter-finalist on the fifth season of America's Got Talent where she was known as the ‘Hip Hop Violinist’. After Stirling's performance, Sharon Osbourne said, "Wow... we love you Lindsey!” and Piers Morgan called her performance "Electrifying!".
At the age of 5, after being influenced by the classic music records played by her father, Stirling requested the opportunity to learn and play the violin.
Stirling was classically trained through private lessons for 12 years. When she was 16, she joined a rock band with four friends called Stomp on Melvin. As part of her experience with Stomp on Melvin, Stirling wrote a solo violin rock song, and her performance helped her to win both the title of Arizona’s Jr. Miss in 2005 and the talent category of the National Jr. Miss Pageant. As of May 2, 2012, Stirling is 5'3" tall.
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Edward 'Teddy' Brown lives for his suburban cricket club and his two best friends, Rick and Stavros. But when he realizes that his beloved team mates are moving on and growing up, he's forced to take matters into his own hands and remind them of just how good cricket can be. Rallying a boyhood dream and his own teenage obsession, 35 year old Teddy leads his very ordinary cricket team into the extraordinary heart of India, on an audacious three match tour and a mission to meet cricketing legend, Sachin Tendulkar. While Ted's best-laid plans are brought undone by the chaos of India, stumps fly, friendships fray and a life-changing comic adventure unfolds. The dream tour becomes a nightmare and the men are forced to face the realities of their friendship, confront their fears and Ted learns to move with the changing times.
One man's journey in another man's box.
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Robert, his wife Lynn, and their nine year old son, Derrick, seem like your typical, all-American family, but when Derrick begins having a visitor in his room at night, his parents begin to worry as they realize that he is not having bad dreams, due to the intensity of his visits, from a man called Sunshine. Lynn becomes distraught after finding out about their new and mysterious neighbor's past and is angered by her husband's lies. The suspense builds to a shocking end as Sunshine is finally revealed.
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The crack of gun shot breaks the still morning air outside a warehouse squat, where a young revolutionary is trying to come to terms with the loss of her best friend Sophie. After performing a crude first aid operation for a bullet wound on her lover, she tries to discover what had happened the night before. His verion of events is inconsistent with hers, confirming her worst supsicions and forcing her to take a capital decision.
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Three pets (Chance, a young dog unfamiliar with the world; Shadow, an aging, wise dog; and Sassy, a snobby cat) are left behind when their family goes on vacation. Unsure of what happened, the animals set out on a quest to find their family. This journey across America is very dangerous and the animals risk never seeing their masters again. The group of pets travel across forested mountains and areas of wide-open countryside, while their family searches for them in the same areas.
Keywords: affection, animal-attack, animal-escapes-pound, animal-shelter, based-on-novel, bear, boy, cat, cat-actor, chicken
Chance: [encounters a grizzly bear] What is this? [the bear growls] Uh... gosh, you look hungry.
Sassy: [chased by the fat guy] This way, Thunder Butt.
1st Dog at Pound: Hey, pussy cat!::2nd Dog at Pound: Yeah! Shake that tail, baby!::Sassy: Oh, great. Cat calls.
Chance: You were so awesome. You were like Rin Tin Tin.::Shadow: What?::Chance: Rin Tin Tin. Don't you ever watch TV?
Chance: [catapults the mountain lion] Hasta la vista, Kitty!
Chance: Are we going in circles? That tree smells familiar.::Shadow: It's pine, Chance.
[At the vet, having porcupine quills removed]::Chance: Okay, okay, I'll talk! I left a gift on the carpet. I let Sassy take the rap for when I unrolled the toilet paper all over the house. I stole underwear on three occasions. [the vet yanks a quill out of his face] Okay, okay, four!
Fat Guy: Here, kitty kitty kitty kitty.::Sassy: "Here, kitty kitty kitty." Not on your life, chubby.::Fat Guy: Here, kitty kitty. Here, kitty. Here, kitty kitty kitty.::Sassy: No, dummy dummy dummy dummy.
Shadow: Chance, you're a genius!::Chance: No, I'm not! Uh, what's a genius?::Shadow: Never mind.
Shadow: You've learned all you need to know, Chance. Now all you need to learn is how to say goodbye.
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A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he can't even count on the people he thought were on his side to help him, so he decides to track down the kidnappers himself.
Keywords: agent, airplane-hangar, audio-cassette, based-on-novel, blood, briefcase-as-weapon, british-secret-service, bug-in-telephone, bugging, cassette-player
The ultimate exercise in controlled terror.
Somebody warn the West. Nigger Charley ain't running no more.
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In the '30s, three prisoners flee from a state prison farm in Mississippi. Among them is 23-years-young Bowie, who spent the last seven years in prison and now hopes to be able to prove his innocence or retire to a home in the mountains and live in peace together with his new love, Keechie. But his criminal companions persuade him to participate in several heists, and soon the police believe him to be their leader and go after "Bowie the Kid" harder than ever.
Keywords: alcoholic, bank, bank-robbery, based-on-novel, betrayal, brother-brother-relationship, bus, cabin, car-accident, christmas
Cops or no cops I'm going through!
Arthur 'Bowie' Bowers: You having trouble?::Catherine 'Keechie' Mobley: Could be.::Arthur 'Bowie' Bowers: Who are you? You live around here?::Catherine 'Keechie' Mobley: Could be.::Arthur 'Bowie' Bowers: You haven't had a couple of visitors lately, have you?::Catherine 'Keechie' Mobley: That wouldn't be a sore foot making you limp, would it?::Arthur 'Bowie' Bowers: Could be.
Mr. Hawkins, Wedding Chapel Proprietor: [Bowie has just asked Hawkins to arrange a passage to Mexico for Keechie and himself] Son, I'd sure like that money. I'm old, and money's a real comfort to an old man. I believe in helping people get what they want as long as they pay for it. I marry people 'cos there's a little hope they'll be happy. But I can't take this money of yours. No sir. In a way I'm a thief just the same as you are, but I won't sell you hope when there ain't any.
Arthur 'Bowie' Bowers: Fifteen hundred bucks foe a second hand car?::Henry 'T-Dub' Mansfield: That's right.::Arthur 'Bowie' Bowers: Whoever sells them for that, that's worse than robbin' a bank!::Henry 'T-Dub' Mansfield: They're thieves - just like us.
Arthur 'Bowie' Bowers: She's got a real house!::Chicamaw 'One-Eye' Mobley: Why not? We're real people.
Chicamaw 'One-Eye' Mobley: We move fast. Can yuh take it?
Arthur 'Bowie' Bowers: Well, don't you have a place a little away from the others?::Mr. Lambert, Cabin Owner: [looking at their car and smiling] Ah, the 'Just-Married' auto.::Arthur 'Bowie' Bowers: Yeah.::Mr. Lambert, Cabin Owner: Learn that, Alvin. Just-married people like to be alone.::Alvin Lambert: I should think so.
Chicamaw 'One-Eye' Mobley: I'll take steps a block long. Anyone gets in my way, I'll stomp 'em!
Arthur 'Bowie' Bowers: [waking up mother on bus] M'am, you're baby's crying.::Mother on bus: Well, I've been on the bus three days. When we get to the next stop, I'll fix her bottle. [ignoring the baby and going back to sleeo] Till then, I just don't care.
Chicamaw 'One-Eye' Mobley: Everyone and his dog is comin'.
Opening Title Cards: This boy... and this girl... were never properly introduced to the world we live in... To tell their story... They Live by Night.