• Surrealist artist Salvador Dali was outrageous. He once greeted reporters while waving a loaf of bread - which was eight feet long - over his head. He also once wore a tuxedo to a public event - a close look at the tuxedo revealed numerous artificial flies pinned to it. Another time, he arrived in a Rolls-Royce for the opening of an exhibition - the car was filled with cauliflowers. In 1936, he began to give a talk while dressed in an airtight underwater diving suit. Unfortunately, this stunt nearly resulted in his death. He wasn't able to breathe, and it took his audience some time to figure out what was wrong and get his diving helmet off. What kind of art did such a man create? An old Cadillac forms part of a work of art called Rainy Taxi - put a coin in a slot and rain falls inside the Cadillac.
• R. Crumb's "Keep on Truckin'" drawing became omnipresent during the late 1960s and early 1970s. As so often happens, business later tried to co-opt what was once considered avant garde and controversial. Toyota wished to pay Mr. Crumb lots of money so it could use the drawing and its characters in advertisements for its vehicles. However, Mr. Crumb was unwilling to let Toyota use that particular drawing, suggesting instead that it use a drawing of a headless woman being stuffed into the trunk of a Toyota. Unfortunately, Toyota disliked that idea.
• A marble cutter once took advantage of an unusual opportunity for an advertisement. On his deceased wife's grave monument, he carved, "Here lies Jane Smith, wife of Thomas Smith, marble cutter. This monument was erected by her husband as a tribute to her memory and a specimen of his work. Monuments of the same style 350 dollars."
• Dr. Seuss always said that he couldn't draw, and therefore his drawings were always filled with "exaggerated mistakes." While working as a commercial artist creating drawings for advertisements, he drew a goat that an ad representative thought was a duck. Dr. Seuss then drew a duck - the ad representative thought it was a goat.
AIDS
• The very first panel in the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt commemorated Marvin Feldman, whose best friend was Cleve Jones, founder of the Names Project. Mr. Jones was despondent following the death of Mr. Feldman. One afternoon he and a friend were in a garage talking about the friends they had lost to AIDS, and as they talked they painted names and designs upon some fabric. This was therapeutic, so Mr. Jones invited other people to help create a quilt of panels commemorating people who had died of AIDS. Today, the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt is the largest collectively created work of art in the world.
• While studying at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, Keith Haring used to create art on long lengths of paper - the paper was so long that he rolled it out the door and onto the city sidewalk. Passersby used to talk to him about his art. Mr. Haring later said, "Most of them weren't the type to go to art galleries, but a lot of their comments struck me as more perceptive than those of my teachers and fellow students." In 1990, Mr. Haring died of AIDS.
Animals
• Rosebud, the pet cat of children's book author (and artist) Tom Wharton, enjoyed a good book. She liked to sit on whatever book Mr. Wharton was reading, so after a while, Mr. Wharton started giving her books of her own to sit on - Moby Dick, Puss in Boots, etc. For a couple of years, she sat happily on Gone With the Wind as Mr. Wharton read another book. Being a cat, she is a slow reader. Mr. Wharton turns the page for her only every couple of days.
The Munsters is an American sitcom depicting the home life of a family of benign monsters starring Fred Gwynne as Frankenstein's monster-type head-of-the-household Herman Munster; Yvonne De Carlo as his vampire wife, Lily Munster; Al Lewis as Grandpa, the over-the-hill vampire who relishes talking about the "good old days"; Beverley Owen (later replaced by Pat Priest) as their teenage niece Marilyn Munster, whose non-monster persona made her the family outcast; and Butch Patrick as their half-vampire, half-werewolf son Eddie Munster. The series was a satire of both traditional monster movies and the wholesome family fare of the era, and was produced by the creators of Leave It to Beaver. It ran concurrently with the similarly macabre themed The Addams Family (which aired on ABC) and achieved higher figures in the Nielsen ratings.
The Munsters live at 1313 Mockingbird Lane in the city of Mockingbird Heights, a fictional suburb in California. The running gag of the series is that the family, while decidedly odd, consider themselves fairly typical working-class people of the era. Herman, like many husbands of the 1960s, is the sole wage-earner in the family, though Lily and Grandpa make short-lived attempts to earn money from time to time. While Herman is the head of the household, Lily makes many decisions, too. According to the episode in which Lily and Herman were trying to surprise one another for their anniversary, they were married in 1865. Despite the novel approach of the family being mostly supernatural creatures (except for niece Marilyn, who is "normal"), the show followed the typical family sitcom formula of the era: the well-meaning father, the nurturing mother, the eccentric live-in relative, the naďve teenager, and the precocious child.
The costumes and appearances of the family members other than Marilyn were based on the classic monsters of Universal Studios films from the 1930s and 1940s. Universal produced The Munsters as well and was thus able to use these copyrighted designs, including their iconic version of Frankenstein's monster for Herman.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
The Munsters -- Herman, Lily, Grandpa, Marilyn, and Eddie.
Alan J answered:
The Munsters.
Billy in Cypress U$A said:
The Munsters
mj wrote:
That was the home of
Herman, Lily, Eddie, Grandpa, and Marilyn Munster.
Stephen F responded:
The Munsters
Dave replied:
The Munsters. My parents weren't fans of that show because they thought it would scare my 3 younger siblings. Other series my Mom thought were too scary were Lost In Space and Star Trek. I did watch The Munsters though, maybe after syndication? As far as the Munster's house goes, it was an exterior set on the Universal Studios lot. After The Munsters the set was altered and used on the Desperate Housewives set.
Roy, the retired Enemy of the People in Tyler, TX wrote:
That fine Munster family were (maybe still are) the residents of 1313 Mockingbird Lane. That was one rad set of wheels they had there.
Cal in Vermont said:
The Munsters. The TV program ran for two years, but their ratings cratered due to the advent of Batfrikkenman which was in color, a development which doomed the show.
David of Moon Valley said:
…The Munsters….(always liked the hugely talented Fred Gwynne…from Car 54 to the Munsters (which 'haunted' him throughout his career) to a cool turn in Pet Sematary and then My Cousin Vinny with his line "What's a Ute?", with a whole lotta stage, big screen and little screen work in between... )
Harry M. answered:
The Munsters
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
The Munsters
Deborah, the Master Gardener, replied:
Another easy one: The Munsters lived at 1313 Mockingbird Lane.
Typical NorCal summer; hot days, cool nights.
Happy Weekend!
John I from Hawai`i says,
The Munsters
Rosemary in Columbus wrote:
The Munsters
DJ Useo said:
The Munsters live at that address. I was watching "Car 54, Where Are You?" last night with Fred Gwynne.
He doesn't look like Herman Munster at all on that show, imho.
( I sent this pic extra large, so readers could discern it. Nifty pic, eh? )
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Tonight, Saturday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Bull', followed by '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by an old 'SNL' (from 10/04/08) with Anne Hathaway hosting, music by The Killers. .
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN with RuPaul Charles hosting, music by Justin Bieber.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a RERUN'Shark Tank', then a RERUN'The Good Doctor'.
The CW offers some local crap and some old '2½ Men'.
Faux has a RERUN'Beat Shazam', followed by a RERUN'Ultimate Tag'.
MY recycles an old 'Major Crimes', followed by another old 'Major Crimes'.
A&E has the movie 'Jack Reacher: Never Go Back', followed by the movie 'Wanted', then 'Court Cam'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Green Mile', followed by 'Line Of Duty'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] CHIMPS OF THE LOST GORGE
[7:00AM] THE POLAR BEAR FAMILY AND ME - Spring
[8:00AM] THE POLAR BEAR FAMILY AND ME - Summer
[9:00AM] THE POLAR BEAR FAMILY AND ME - Autumn
[10:00AM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - To the Ends of the Earth
[11:00AM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - Spring
[12:00PM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - Summer
[1:00PM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - Autumn
[2:00PM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - Winter
[3:00PM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - The Epic Journey
[4:00PM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - North America: Extended
[5:00PM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - Antarctica: Extended
[6:00PM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - South America: Extended
[7:00PM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - Asia: Extended
[8:00PM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - Australia: Extended
[9:00PM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - Europe: Extended
[10:00PM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - Africa: Extended
[11:00PM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - North America: Extended
[12:00AM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - Antarctica: Extended
[1:00AM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - South America: Extended
[2:00AM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - Asia: Extended
[3:00AM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - Australia: Extended
[4:00AM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - Europe: Extended
[5:00AM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - Making Of (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has the movie 'Jurassic Park', followed by the movie 'Jurassic Park', again, then the movie 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Joe Dirt', followed by the movie 'Knocked Up'.
FX has the movie 'Transformers: Age Of Extinction', followed by the movie 'Transformers: The Last Knight'.
History has 'The UnXplained', another 'The UnXplained', followed by a FRESH'The UnXplained', then a FRESH'Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation'.
IFC -
[6:15A] John Wick
[8:30A] A Walk Among the Tombstones
[11:00A] The Warriors
[1:15P] Oblivion
[4:15P] John Wick
[6:30P] The Fast and the Furious
[9:00P] 2 Fast 2 Furious
[11:30P] The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
[1:45A] Zombieland
[3:30A] The Warriors (ALL TIMES ET)
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] the andy griffith show
[9:30am] the andy griffith show
[10:00am] the andy griffith show
[10:30am] the andy griffith show
[11:00am] hogan's heroes
[11:30am] hogan's heroes
[12:00pm] hogan's heroes
[12:30pm] hogan's heroes
[1:00pm] hogan's heroes
[1:30pm] hogan's heroes
[2:00pm] hogan's heroes
[2:30pm] hogan's heroes
[3:00pm] hogan's heroes
[3:30pm] hogan's heroes
[4:00pm] hogan's heroes
[4:30pm] hogan's heroes
[5:00pm] hogan's heroes
[5:30pm] hogan's heroes
[6:00pm] cujo
[8:00pm] silver bullet
[10:00pm] christine
[12:00am] silver bullet
[2:00am] christine
[4:00am] thinner (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows: Part 1', followed by the movie 'Harry Potter & The Deathyly Hallows: Part 2'.
NASA has announced a new target launch date for the James Webb Space Telescope after it was delayed - yet again - due to the coronavirus pandemic and some technical challenges. The agency moved the target date from March 2021 to October 31st, 2021 based on "recently completed schedule risk assessment of the remaining integration and test activities..." Of course, it remains to be seen whether the Hubble successor will actually be blasting off to outer space by October next year.
James Webb was originally scheduled for a 2018 launch, which got moved to May 2020 and then again to March 2021 due to its complex construction needs and a series of technical issues. It wasn't even until April this year that NASA was able to put its enormous mirror to the test for the first time. There's also this continued uncertainty around the pandemic, which could still cause further delays.
The telescope is being built to replace the Hubble, which has long outlived its lifespan. It has longer wavelength coverage than the Hubble and has greatly improved sensitivity, giving it the power to detect light from the first galaxies that formed after the Big Bang. The telescope can also be used to observe the atmospheres of nearby exoplanets to look for signs of habitability.
The James Webb team still has to complete a set of "extremely difficult environmental tests" before the observatory can be shipped to its launch site in Kourou, French Guiana. If everything goes well and the pandemic doesn't cause additional issues, the telescope will be folded "origami-style" for shipment and will be fitted inside its launch vehicle early next year.
Captain Tom Moore has officially become a knight of the realm, after he was knighted by the Queen in a private ceremony in Windsor Castle.
The Queen, 94, used her father's sword to bestow the honour on him, surrounded by his family.
It's the first investiture she has carried out in months, having postponed several ceremonies because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Sir Tom won the hearts of the nation - and raised Ł33 million for NHS charities - after he set out on his challenge to walk 100 lengths of his Bedfordshire garden before his 100th birthday earlier this year.
The ceremony was staged in the open air in the Windsor Castle Quadrangle, shortly after 3pm.
In a break with tradition, the White House of President Donald Trump (R-Manbaby) has removed the portraits of two recent presidents, Bill Clinton and George W Bush, from the building's entrance hall, CNN reported Friday.
The two paintings were moved from the Grand Foyer, where the portraits of recent presidents usually hang, to the Old Family Dining Room, which CNN described as "a small, rarely used room that is not seen by most visitors."
It said the room was mainly used to store tablecloths and furniture.
In place of pictures of Trump's recent predecessors, there now hang pictures of William McKinley, who was assassinated in 1901, and of Theodore Roosevelt, his vice president who succeeded him upon his death, sources told CNN.
The news network said that Trump would have seen the two portraits on a daily basis in their previous position.
President Donald Trump (R-Corrupt)'s campaign sent nearly $400,000 to his private business in just two days, The Washington Post's David Fahrenthold reported on Friday.
Documents showed that the campaign channeled $380,000 to the president's personal business in 43 transactions, Fahrenthold said, adding that the Trump Organization told him the money was for a weeklong "donor retreat" at Mar-a-Lago in March.
Open Secrets, an arm of the Center for Responsive Politics that closely tracks money in politics, first spotted the payments in Federal Election Commission filings from the Trump Victory Committee, a joint fundraising committee between Trump and the Republican National Committee.
In February, The Post reported that the Trump Organization charged the Secret Service exorbitant rates to protect the president when he travels to his properties.
Citing federal records and people who had seen the receipts, The Post reported that the Trump Organization billed US taxpayers up to $650 per night at the Mar-a-Lago resort dozens of times in 2017 and $396.15 on dozens of occasions in 2018.
Mike Pompeo has sought to redefine the US approach to human rights by giving preference to private property and religious freedom as the foremost "unalienable rights" laid down by America's Founding Fathers.
Pompeo, launching a draft report by a Commission on Unalienable Rights he established a year ago, also claimed that a proliferation of human rights asserted by different US and international institutions had the effect of diluting those rights he viewed as the most important.
"Many are worth defending in light of our founding; others aren't," Pompeo said at a launch ceremony in Philadelphia. He did not specify which rights he thought were superfluous, but the state department during his tenure has been aggressive in opposing references to reproductive and gender rights in UN and other multilateral documents.
In the report launched on Thursday, the authors - a mix of academics and activists - said they could not agree on the application of human rights standards to issues like "abortion, affirmative action, and capital punishment, to name a few".
The Trump administration's own human rights record has come under scrutiny for its policy of separating immigrant children from their parents and holding them in cages and its response to nationwide protests driven by anger over police treatment of black Americans. Donald Trump (R-Grifter) has also sought to intimidate journalists, frequently referring to the press "the enemy of the people".
Nearly a third of more than 40 large companies seeking U.S. bankruptcy protection during the coronavirus pandemic awarded bonuses to executives within a month of filing their cases, according to a Reuters analysis of securities filings and court records.
Under a 2005 bankruptcy law, companies are banned, with few exceptions, from paying executives retention bonuses while in bankruptcy. But the firms seized on a loophole by granting payouts before filing.
Six of the 14 companies that approved bonuses within a month of their filings cited business challenges executives faced during the pandemic in justifying the compensation.
Even more firms paid bonuses in the half-year period before their bankruptcies. Thirty-two of the 45 companies Reuters examined approved or paid bonuses within six months of filing. Nearly half authorized payouts within two months.
Eight companies, including J.C. Penney Co Inc and Hertz Global Holdings Inc, approved bonuses as few as five days before seeking bankruptcy protection. Hi-Crush Inc, a supplier of sand for oil-and-gas fracking, paid executive bonuses two days before its July 12 filing.
After it appeared the coronavirus might prevent it from going ahead, and against a backdrop of outrage from environmentalists, the Faroe Islands' whaling tradition began this week with the killing of some 300 mammals.
The ancient grindadrap (slaughter), which began more than 1,000 years ago, is a cultural mainstay of the archipelago, an autonomous Danish territory in the North Atlantic islands -- where whale meat is a dietary staple.
But activists have long condemned the practice and environmental NGO Sea Shepherd did so again after some 250 long-finned pilot whales and some Atlantic white-sided dolphins were killed Wednesday off Hvalba, a village on the southernmost island of Suduroy.
Local media quoted Sea Shepherd as once again demanding an end to what it terms a "barbarous practice."
For the first time in modern history, the global population is projected to decline within the next century, bringing with it a "revolution in the story of our human civilization" and profound shifts in the way people live their lives.
The world's population currently stands at around 7.8 billion people. That number is forecasted to grow over the next few decades and peak in 2064 at around 9.7 billion people, before falling to 8.8 billion by 2100, according to a new study published in The Lancet.
"The last time that global population declined was in the mid 14th century, due to the Black Plague. If our forecast is correct, it will be the first time population decline is driven by fertility decline, as opposed to events such as a pandemic or famine," Stein Emil Vollset, lead study author and Professor of Global Health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), told IFLScience.
Up to 23 countries could see their populations shrink by more than 50 percent, including Japan, Thailand, Italy, Spain, Portugal, South Korea, and other countries marked by a low birth rate and aging populations. Even China, a country often associated with unfettered population growth, is set to fall from 1.4 billion people in 2017 to 732 million in 2100.
The new study by researchers from the IHME at the University of Washington's School of Medicine looked at how mortality, fertility, and migration will affect the global population over the coming 80 years using data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. It also accounts for how war, natural disasters, and climate change might affect the number of deaths in different parts of the planet.
Since the first complete characterization of the human genome in 2003, understanding of our DNA and how it varies between each person has become magnitudes better. We use the reference genome to look for disease variants, discover gene functions, and act as a scaffold to sequence other large pieces of DNA - mapping out the location of our genes within the chromosomes is vital to genetics. So it may surprise you to know that our current reference has a lot of gaps in it.
That is, until now. In a paper published by Nature on Wednesday, researchers have reached a huge milestone in genetics by producing the first-ever end-to-end (telomere-to-telomere) sequence of the human X chromosome. The researchers sequenced the entire 155 million base pair X chromosome, even managing to sequence highly repetitive regions that weren't previously possible.
The team, led by Karen Miga from UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, used a combination of sequencing techniques to complete the chromosome and said the key to their success was the use of modern ultra-long read nanopore sequencing. Traditional sequencing technology chunks the DNA into lots of tiny fragments, before piecing them together like the world's most complicated jigsaw puzzle. This works for the most part, but if there are bits of DNA that are extremely similar to each other, the sequencing software can struggle to fit them into the right place. Some regions of the chromosome are made up of huge amounts of repetitive DNA, and researchers in the past haven't been able to get accurate maps of them.
The development of ultra-long-read nanopore sequencing has since improved this. By squeezing DNA through a tiny pore and measuring the changes in current across the pore, the technology can read long pieces of DNA accurately and with fewer gaps.
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