Torn Apart 2006 Full Movie Watch Online

[Lynne Pruskowski]

Capturingpost-war Iraq in three chapters, IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS focuses on the lives of individuals to tell a larger story of a country torn apart by war and ethnic division.

IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and an Emmy for Best Cinematography. The film was honored with awards at the Sundance Film Festival for Best Documentary Directing, Editing, and Cinematography.

IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS received top prize at the Chicago International Film Festival, Full Frame Film Festival, the Gotham Awards, the IDA Awards, and won the Nestor Almendros Award at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival.

IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS was included in The Guardian's list of 50 Documentaries You Need to See and Paste Magazine's 25 Best Documentaries of the Decade (2000-2009).

"James Longley's mesmerizing "Iraq in Fragments" shakes off the oversaturated video vocabulary that has defined media coverage of the war-torn country and brings a cinematic beauty, both terrifying and ethereal"

-- Stephen Garret, Indiewire

""Iraq in Fragments" is the latest entry in the crowded field of documentaries from that war. It is also one of the best, partly because it is more concerned with exploring daily life and individual destinies than with articulating a position. ... Whether you think the war is right or wrong, "Iraq in Fragments" is a necessary reminder of just how painful and complicated it is."

-- A.O. Scott, The New York Times

"In beautifully shot, almost poetic images, it takes us inside this fractured country, letting us feel what its like from the inside from three points of view--Sunni, Shiite and Kurd. ... A fascinating glimpse of an Iraq the mass media never shows us, the movie is a quiet revelation."

-- David Ansen, Newsweek

"... a one-man production of startling audacity and aesthetic provocation. ... if Longley's astonishing feat of poetic agitation has a precedent in the entire history of documentary, I'm not aware of it."

-- Rob Nelson, The Village Voice

If the title above sounds familiar, it's because I recently wrote about a star torn apart by a supermassive black hole in the center of one of a pair of colliding galaxies (collectively called Arp 299).

The kind of black hole you usually hear about has a mass of a few times to a few dozen times the mass of the Sun, and they're created (typically) when a high-mass star explodes in a supernova event. We call these stellar-mass black holes.

It's been theorized that there is a third class, in between the two: Intermediate mass black holes (or IMBHs), with some thousands up to hundreds of thousands of times the Sun's mass. There have been lots of candidates found, objects that behave like these middleweights, but nothing conclusive has ever been seen.

First, although I explain it in the other article, here's a brief recap of an event so ridiculously violent that only astronomers could give it as bland a name as a tidal disruption event. Basically if a star wanders near a black hole, the side of the star closer to the black hole feels a stronger pull from gravity than the side of the star facing away from the black hole. If the star gets too close, this change in gravity (called the tide) is so strong it can overcome the internal gravity of the star itself. The star gets ripped apart, torn to vapor by the black hole.

A lot of the material gets ejected by the energy of the event, while some falls down to the black hole, where it forms a swirling disk that gets intensely hot, so hot it emits X-rays. It can take years for this material to cool and fall into the black hole, so what you see (if you have a clear view) is a bright flash, followed by a decline in brightness than can take many years.

A team of astronomers decided to look for the signature of such events in X-ray data taken by the orbiting observatory XMM-Newton. And they found something that looked about right: An observation in 2006 showed a bright blob of hot material emitting X-rays, while a second observation in 2009 showed it had faded considerably. It was also seen in Chandra X-ray Observatory data in 2006.

The next step was to look for it using visible light telescopes. They searched Hubble data using the coordinates of the X-ray source, and happily found an observation of that area taken in September 2003. Right next to those coordinates is a big galaxy called 6dFGS gJ215022.2-055059 (named for the Six Degree Field Galaxy Survey, and its coordinates on the sky). It's what's called a barred lenticular, a lens-shaped galaxy with a rectangular bar of stars across its nucleus, and is about 800 million light years from Earth.

At the time of the Hubble observations (September 2003) nothing odd was seen at that location. But then between May and November 2005 (two years after the Hubble observations) observations of that same part of the sky using the Canada France Hawaii Telescope detected an optical brightening of the blobby cluster, and also that it appeared bluer. By 2014 or so it was red again.

That's a big deal! Whatever caused the brightening and X-ray burst must have happened between September 2003 and May 2005. That narrows down the time of the event! The astronomers got follow-up observations using the Neil Gehrels Swift satellite and again with Chandra. When they looked at the data, it became clear they were seeing a colossal event, a tremendous blast of energy that then faded over several years.

What makes this one special is the black hole itself. The temperature of the swirling disk of matter around the black hole depends on the mass of the hole itself; the smaller the black hole the hotter the disk gets (that math is somewhat complicated, but a smaller black hole has a steeper gravitational gradient as you get close to it, so the forces inside the disk heat it up more). So, by calculating the temperature of the disk, the astronomers could then find the most likely mass of the black hole.

I purchased two metal Milanese loop bands on Amazon, one a nice emerald green color and one a dark blue/black color and those were $20 each and work just fine with no sharp edges to dig into my wrist and look great!

Mine broke apart at the metal end piece after 6 months. Apple Support agreed it was covered by limited 1 year warranty. Took a very very long time on phone to sort out. Agent was great but it was a crazily laborious process. Now waiting for return box to arrive in mail.

I have only had my apple watch for a short period of time. My watch band solo has broken. I want to order another, but feel there should be some type of discount. Evidently I cannot purchase a different band as my watch only is made for this type of band. Please inform me as to how to get a new band for my watch. For this price, I feel I should get some type of assistance.

Call Apple support about your failed solo loop. Failure of the band after normal use is covered by the Apple accessories limited 1-year warranty: I was so informed after a very long time on support line with an Apple specialist. (She had to put me on hold several times and check with others before telling me it was covered.) She sent me a box in which I could return the broken watchband. I received it overnight and returned to a Fedex dropbox yesterday. It is already out for delivery to the return center in PA. I presume they soon will be sending me a new solo loop band to replace it. There certainly does seem to be a problem with the solo loop. The need to pull on it to get it on and off is the problem. The joint that slides into the Apple watch where the silicone band is joined with the embedded metal hinge piece fails. Can't take al the pulling. Fails in a matter off months. Design flaw.

A DAY OR TWO AFTER POSTING MY PREVIOUS REPLY, I checked the status of my "repair" after I had sent back the band in the box provided by Apple. Its status was shown as "cancelled." No further explanation. I have now spent 2 hours on chats and on phone over 2 days trying to find out what's going on. Apple support people seemed greatly puzzled, have to put me on long holds. Now I have just been told that I will receive the band back from Apple with a letter explaining why the case was cancelled and, when I do receive that, I'm supposed to leave a voicemail with my latest Apple support person telling her what the letter says. ..... All this to have a failed watchband replaced under its 1-year warranty, with success not assured.

Following an hours long "chat" with apple support, when I finally was able to speak with a real person over the phone, who said he had spoken with his supervisor about my broken watchband, I was told that I could go to the apple store in my city and that they would replace the broken watchband. I went to the store at my scheduled appointment time, and after a rather long wait, was informed that the single loop watchband break was NOT covered under warranty. The only break that would be covered, he said, was if it had broken at the point where it connects to the watch. I had sent photos of the watch break to the apple support person on the chat so it was clear that my watchband split and broke on the actual band itself, not where it attaches to the watch. To make matters worse, the apple store did NOT have a replacement band in stock-- if I wanted to purchase a new one for $49, it would have to be ordered, take about a week, and I would have to return to the store to pick it up. Super annoying. I have looked on Amazon at the cheaper knock offs, but the sizes are a wider range, and reviews not great. Very disappointed in apple service, or rather, lack thereof, and the quality of their watchbands.

This happened to my watch also after 8 months. Warranty did cover it, but this should not happened after this short time. Apple also made me get the same band and not get another. I would have like to get something else

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