• When Louis Armstrong was a young man growing up in New Orleans, one of his friends was a tough man named Black Benny Williams. Sometimes Black Benny had money, and sometimes he did not. When he had money, he wore a suit. When he did not have money, he pawned his suit. Once, he had money and was wearing a suit, but a police officer tried to arrest him. Black Benny, however, declined to be arrested, saying, "Oh, no. I just got my suit out of pawn, and I'm going to wear it for a day before I go to jail." The police officer grabbed hold of Black Benny, but Black Benny - a big, strong man - walked away, dragging the police officer until the police officer gave up and stopped trying to arrest Black Benny. By the way, Black Benny had an interesting way of getting money. He would tell people, "Let's see your gun." When he saw the gun, he would say, "I'm taking it." Black Benny was tough enough that no one ever objected. After collecting a few guns, he would pawn them and then do some drinking and gambling.
• Red West is an actor who was a member of Elvis Presley's "Memphis Mafia" and served as Mr. Presley's driver and bodyguard. Someone was bringing drugs to Mr. Presley and Mr. West didn't like it, so he broke the man's foot and said, "I'll work my way from your foot up to your face."
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• • Both comedian Amy Poehler and singer Liza Minnelli have many gay fans. Ms. Poehler and a friend saw a concert by Ms. Minnelli and afterward they visited Ms. Minnelli in her dressing room. Ms. Poehler says, "I told my friend, who was pregnant at the time, that Liza had to bless her baby so that it would either be gay or be a big supporter of the gays for the rest of his or her life." Ms. Minnelli agreed. She put her head down by the pregnant friend's belly and sang a couple of slightly altered lines from Cabaret: "What good is sitting alone in your womb? Come hear the music play!"
First introduced in the mid-1960s, this style of women's footwear, originally white, low-heeled, and mid-calf in height, were further popularized with a song performed by Nancy Sinatra. What is the name of this women's fashion necessity of that era?
Go-go boots are a low-heeled style of women's fashion boot first introduced in the mid-1960s. The original go-go boots, as defined by André Courrèges in 1964, were white, low-heeled, and mid-calf in height, a specific style which is sometimes called the Courrèges boot. Since then, the term go-go boot has come to include the knee-high, square-toed boots with block heels that were very popular in the 1960s and 1970s; as well as a number of variations including kitten heeled versions and colours other than white.
The term go-go is derived from the French expression à gogo, meaning "in abundance, galore", which is in turn derived from the ancient French word la gogue for "joy, happiness". The term "go-go" has also been explained as a 1964 back-formation of the 1962 slang term "go", meaning something that was "all the rage"; the term "go-go dancer" first appeared in print in 1965. The go-go boot is presumed to have been named after the dance style.
In 1966, the song "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" was released and performed by a go-go boot wearing Nancy Sinatra, who is credited with further popularising the boot. Tim Gunn suggests that Sinatra helped establish the boot as "a symbol of female power". Female dancers on the television shows Hullabaloo and Shindig! also wore the short, white boots. This led to the boots sometimes being called 'hullabaloo boots,' as in an advertisement run in American newspapers in January 1966 for hullabaloo boots with "kooky heels and zipper backs" for the "Go-Go Getter".
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Cal in Vermont was first, and correct, with:
Go-go boots. Nancy Sinatra's were made for walkin' and that's just what they'll do I guess. They were accessorized with miniskirts and a really goofy hat. Good times!
mj wrote:
Nancy's were made for walkin'
But go-go boots were usually reserved for dancing.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Those boots were made for walking
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame replied:
That would be go-go boots, which are made for walkin' according to Ms. Sinatra.
Deborah, the Master Gardener, wrote:
That description calls to mind go-go boots. Seen on Nancy Sinatra, Shindig, Hullabaloo, and the Dick Clark show (among others). They were fine, I guess, for those with thin legs. Those of us with more substantial calves occasionally had trouble fitting into them.
I know we're living in some very historic times, and now NASCAR has banned the Confederate flag (finally), so it's as though our peaceful protests and BLM are actuating change in real life, not twenty years from now. It's exciting and kind of scary, like jumping into a cold river rather than easing into it.
Dave in Tucson said:
Go-Go boots. That were made for walking.
Dave answered:
Go-Go Boots. In the 60's skirts got shorter and boots got taller.
Michelle in AZ responded:
go-go boots
DJ Useo replied:
Go-Go Boots. Pretty cool looking' footwear, imho.
Daniel in The City said:
Go go boots. "The Boots Were Made for Walkin'" is one of my wife's favorite songs.
Billy in Cypress U$A wrote:
Go Go Boots are made for walking or dancing not fiding.
Jacqueline answered:
GoGo Boots. When I was 9 years old I had a pair. They were vinyl I suppose. Alot of good memories from that era! Glad I was there.
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The lad across the street had a high school graduation ceremony in the front yard, followed by about 40 honking cars, trucks, and motorcycles, circling the block, with city provided warning cones, carving out a special traffic lane for them.
There was music, and balloons - about 30 people socially distancing with cameras - all suprisingly festive.
Tonight, Friday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'MacGyver', followed by a RERUN'Magnum PU', then a RERUN'Blue Bloods'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 5/19/20) are Gayle King and Amy Sedaris.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 6/1/20) are Keegan-Michael Key and Dr. Michael Eric Dyson.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'World Of Dance', followed by a RERUN'The Wall', then 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Kevin Bacon, Aunjanue Ellis, and Christine and the Queens.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 2/26/20) are Nick Jonas, Travis Kelce, Finesse Mitchell, and Michel'Le Baptiste.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 4/1/20) is Terry Crews.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'Shark Tank', followed by '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel it's TBA.
The CW offers a FRESH'Masters Of Illusion', followed by a RERUN'Masters Of Illusion', then a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', followed by another RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?'.
Faux fills the night with FRESH'WWE Friday Night SmackDown'.
MY recycles an old 'CSI: Miami', followed by another old 'CSI: Miami'.
AMC offers the movie 'Gladiator', followed by the movie 'Caddyshack', then a FRESH'Friday Night In With The Morgans', followed by the movie 'Footloose'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Reunion
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Future Imperfect
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Final Mission
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Loss
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Data's Day
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Wounded
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Devil's Due
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Clues
[2:00PM] THE NAKED GUN: FROM THE FILES OF POLICE SQUAD!
[4:00PM] THE NAKED GUN 2 1/2: THE SMELL OF FEAR
[6:00PM] NAKED GUN 33 1/3: THE FINAL INSULT
[8:00PM] THE PRINCESS BRIDE
[10:00PM] THE PRINCESS BRIDE
[12:00AM] ROBIN HOOD
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Wounded
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Devil's Due
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Clues (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has all old 'Chrisley Knows Best' all effing night.
Comedy Central has 'South Park', another 'South Park', and s hours of old 'Key & Peele', and 'Pete Davidson: SMD'.
FX has the movie 'Maze Runner: The Death Cure', followed by the movie 'Star Trek Into Darkness'.
History has 'American Pickers', another 'American Pickers', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers', and another 'American Pickers'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges - Up in Daisy's Penthouse
[6:05A] The Three Stooges - They Stooge to Conga
[6:30A] Argo
[9:15A] Total Recall
[11:45A] Face/Off
[2:45P] Fury
[5:45P] The Departed
[9:00P] The Wolf of Wall Street
[1:00A] The Departed
[4:15A] The Three Stooges - Squareheads of the Round Table
[4:45A] The Three Stooges - Tassels in the Air
[5:10A] The Three Stooges - They Stooge to Conga
[5:35A] The Three Stooges - Three Dumb Clucks (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00am] the andy griffith show
[6:30am] the andy griffith show
[7:00am] the andy griffith show
[7:30am] the andy griffith show
[8:00am] the andy griffith show
[8:30am] the andy griffith show
[9:00am] cujo
[11:00am] silver bullet
[1:00pm] law & order
[2:00pm] law & order
[3:00pm] law & order
[4:00pm] law & order
[5:00pm] law & order
[6:00pm] law & order
[7:00pm] law & order
[8:00pm] law & order
[9:00pm] law & order
[10:00pm] law & order
[11:00pm] law & order
[12:00am] law & order
[1:00am] law & order
[2:00am] thinner
[4:00am] the andy griffith show
[4:30am] the andy griffith show
[5:00am] the andy griffith show
[5:30am] the andy griffith show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Harry Potter & The Goblet Of Fire', followed by the movie 'Jurassic Park'.
Tucker Carlson has one of the most-watched shows on cable news, but the Fox News Channel host is losing advertisers - again.
Whereas in 2018, when 20 companies yanked their ads after Carlson obtusely proclaimed that undocumented immigrants made America "poorer, and dirtier, and more divided," this time the exits are over the host's stance on the death of George Floyd and the ensuing nationwide protests against police violence and racism.
Both Disney and T-Mobile have cut ties with the primetime Tucker Carlson Tonight over the host's polarizing point of view on the Black Lives Matter movement and the desire for justice and equality in America that many of its members advocate. Along with Papa John's, the media giant and the telecommunications brand faced a backlash in recent days for their association with Carlson and his belief that the well-attended protests were "Black Lives Matter riots."
Or, put another way, putting money in Rupert Murdoch's corporate pocket was not a branding position Disney or T-Mobile wanted to be in at this moment in America.
SAG-AFTRA leaders today called upon police unions to change with the times "or lose all support from their fellow labor organizations and the public at large."
In a joint statement, SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris and national executive director David White said: "We support convening a meeting of affiliate unions, including law enforcement unions, to discuss police reforms and necessary systemic change. We support working directly with affiliated police unions to achieve meaningful changes to the law enforcement culture of discrimination and brutality."
Many critics believe that police union rules often prevent bad cops from being fired, and Carteris, who is a vice president of the AFL-CIO, said she presented several recommendations to its committees last week They include an expression of support for Black Lives Matter; a call for "all affiliate members of the AFL-CIO to explicitly and loudly demand that police unions disavow those officers who target black people"; and convening "all parts of the labor movement, including non-affiliated unions, to issue a public statement condemning racial injustice."
Carteris and White stopped short of joining the WGA East in calling for the AFL-CIO to disaffiliate with the International Union of Police Associations, a labor organization that represents more than 100,000 police officers around the country.
They also noted that "As a labor union representing members and staff who have been personally and directly affected by police violence, we recognize the simplicity and simultaneous complexity of the challenges facing police unions at this time in our nation's history."
Lady Antebellum, one of the most successful groups in country music, announced Thursday that it is dropping the word "antebellum" from its name "after much personal reflection, band discussion, prayer and many honest discussions with some of our closes friends and colleagues."
The trio will henceforth be known as Lady A, the nickname most fans and colleagues have used almost from the start.
The trio says it is "regretful and embarrassed" not to have taken associations with the slavery era into account when choosing the name a decade and a half ago.
Historically there had been little public pressure on the group to drop or adjust the name, but it had quietly come up as a topic of discussion and sometimes concern in country music circles for years.
While some groups with a rowdier image or audience might face some blowback from fans in the South for backing off a name or image that is beloved by many in the region, Lady A is unlikely to face that kind of backlash, since the trio has always maintained a gentler attitude and has a fan base that is likely to support the move.
Italian authorities on Thursday unveiled a stolen artwork by British artist Banksy that was painted as a tribute to the victims of the 2015 terror attacks at the Bataclan music hall in Paris.
L'Aquila prosecutors said the work was recovered on Wednesday during a search of a home in the countryside of Tortoreto, near the Adriatic coast in the Abruzzo region's Teramo province. It had been "hidden well" in the attic, prosecutors said.
No arrests have been made.
French officials last year announced the theft of the piece, a black image appearing to depict a person mourning that was painted on one of the Bataclan's emergency exit doors.
A defiant Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (R-Dominionist) denounced the International Criminal Court as a "highly politicized" institution on Thursday morning as he announced new sanctions against it for its investigation into potential war crimes by U.S. forces during the years-long conflict in Afghanistan.
"We cannot, we will not stand by as our people are threatened by a kangaroo court," Pompeo said. He was joined at the press conference by Defense Secretary Mark Esper, Attorney General William Barr (R-Opus Dei) and national security adviser Robert O'Brien.
In his own remarks, Barr noted that the United States would pay no heed to a body he described as guided by "unaccountable international elites." The court is based in The Hague.
The United States has never been a party to the Rome Statute, which in 1998 created the court to prosecute "the most serious crimes of international concern," including war crimes, crimes against humanity, aggressive war and acts of genocide. Past indictments have named Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony and Moammar Gadhafi, the Libyan dictator.
The new U.S. measures include "economic sanctions against International Criminal Court officials directly engaged with any effort to investigate or prosecute United States personnel without the consent of the United States," according to an announcement released by the White House. In addition, both ICC officials and their family members will face "visa restrictions."
More than 1,000 tons of microplastic rains in protected areas across the western United States every year - the equivalent to more than 123 million plastic bottles - new research suggests. Long-term accumulation of small pieces of plastic measuring less than 5 millimeters long is "reminiscent of the global dust cycle but distinctly human in origin," posing potential consequences for vulnerable ecosystems around the world.
Microplastics are small pieces of plastic that began its lifecycle as a larger piece that has fragmented over time. Previous research has shown that it's "raining plastic" in America's Rocky Mountains and snowing microplastics in the Arctic and with more than 340 metric tons of plastic produced in 2017, the world shows no signs of global production slowing down. As such, it is estimated that 11 billion metric tons of plastic will have accumulated in the environment within the next five years.
Using high-resolution atmospheric deposition data, researchers at Utah State University set out to identify samples of microplastics and other particulates collected over 14 months in 11 national parks and wilderness areas located in Arizona, Wyoming, Idaho, Colorado, California, Utah, and Nevada. Pieces were compared by their size and shape and identified through their composition in order to identify sources of plastic emitted in the atmosphere, whether they moved through dry or wet conditions, and where they were ultimately deposited.
"We were shocked at the estimated deposition rates and kept trying to figure out where our calculations went wrong," said study author and Assistant Professor Janice Brahney in a statement. "We then confirmed through 32 different particle scans that roughly 4 percent of the atmospheric particles analyzed from these remote locations were synthetic polymers."
Plastic was present in 98 percent of all wet and dry samples amounting to a daily deposition rate of 132 plastics per square meter. Most plastic deposited through precipitation was sourced from cities and areas with high population densities while, on the other hand, plastics that were deposited under dry conditions showed indicators of having traveled long distances through atmospheric patterns, in some cases across continents.
A surprising new discovery has revealed a previously unknown structure located deep beneath the Pacific Ocean between the Earth's core and mantle. It is not currently known what this structure - and others found near it - are composed of, but researchers note that their finding provides an opportunity to better understand the intricate processes that have allowed our planet to evolve and change over time.
When an earthquake occurs, it produces seismic waves below the Earth's surface capable of traveling thousands of miles. As these waves encounter changes in temperature, composition, or density of rocks, their speed may change, bend, or scatter in ways that create echoes that can be detected by seismographs strategically placed in locations around the world. Measuring the time and amplitude of these echoes can reveal subsurface physical properties and reveal structures, but research has largely been limited and only able to illustrate this landscape in a "piecemeal way."
To overcome these limitations, geophysicists at the University of Maryland (UMD) analyzed thousands of recordings of seismic waves as they traveled beneath the Pacific Ocean basin looking at a specific type of wave called a shear wave named for its "s" shape. These waves can be difficult to differentiate from random noise, but analyzing multiple recorders allowed the team to pinpoint similarities and patterns in echoes from the boundary between the molten core and the solid mantle layer above it. A machine learning algorithm called Sequencer analyzed 7,000 seismograms from hundreds of earthquakes with a magnitude of 6.5 or higher occurring around the Pacific Ocean basin between 1990 and 2018 in order to "systematically detect seismic echoes".
In nearly half of the waves that were diffracted, the researchers found three-dimensional structures near the core-mantle boundary. In particular, a large feature was located below the volcanic Marquesas Islands in the Pacific Ocean, which is likely the result of a plume root, a volcanic feature responsible for creating many volcanic islands.
In July of 2018, NASA announced an incredible achievement. They had created the coldest spot in space - right there on the International Space Station, in orbit around Earth.
They took atoms of a soft metal called rubidium, and cooled them to temperatures around 100 nanoKelvin - one ten-millionth of a Kelvin above absolute zero.
This resulted in a super cold cloud called a Bose-Einstein condensate, the exotic 'fifth' state of matter, and one that could help us understand the weird quantum properties of ultra-cold atoms. But the research did not stop there.
Using the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Cold Atom Laboratory, scientists went on to produce Bose-Einstein condensates less than a nanoKelvin above absolute zero - exploiting the microgravity conditions aboard the space station to learn more about this state than we could on Earth.
Bose-Einstein condensates are pretty weird. They are formed from bosons cooled to just a fraction above absolute zero (but not reaching absolute zero, at which point atoms stop moving). This causes them to sink to their lowest-energy state, moving extremely slowly, and coming together close enough to overlap - producing a high density cloud of atoms that acts like one 'super atom' or matter wave.
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