Departing Space Station Commander Provides Tour of Orbital Laboratory (YouTube)
In her final days as Commander of the International Space Station, Sunita Williams of NASA recorded an extensive tour of the orbital laboratory and downlinked the video on Nov. 18, just hours before she, cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency departed in their Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft for a landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan. The tour includes scenes of each of the station's modules and research facilities with a running narrative by Williams of the work that has taken place and which is ongoing aboard the orbital outpost.
Jonah Goldberg: Watch out, your character is showing (LA Times)
Once, teenagers learned how to have a good time while avoiding embarrassing entries in their permanent records. Now, they'll have to learn how to manage their online presence to maintain their reputations.
Robert T. Gonzalez: Americans - why do you keep refrigerating your eggs? (io9)
Given the sanitary benefits of refrigeration, why don't other countries ship, package, and store their eggs at cold temperatures, like we do in the U.S.? Well, because, unlike America, they may not actually need to. Why? Because here in America, we wash our eggs - and while it may sound counterintuitive, the cleaning process may actually make eggs more susceptible to contamination
109' 9" - World Record Basketball Shot!!! (YouTube)
Globetrotters rookie Thunder Law today smashed the official Guinness World Records® record for the longest basketball shot -- connecting from 109 feet 9 inches, besting the old mark of 104 feet 7 inches, set nearly three years ago.
Minnie Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character created by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney. The comic strip story "The Gleam" (published January 19-May 2, 1942) by Merrill De Maris and Floyd Gottfredson first gave her full name as "Minerva Mouse." Minnie has since been a recurring alias for her. Minnie is currently voiced by actress Russi Taylor. Both Minnie and Mickey were first drawn in 1928 by Ub Iwerks.
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Minnie also has a sister called Mandie Mouse. She is a naughty mischievous lady.
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
Mandie Mouse
I never knew her, actually.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
Mandie Mouse
Alan J took the day off.
Adam answered:
Why, heh... I didn't even know she had a naughty sister >whew<.
Mandie Mouse.
Marian responded:
Mandie Mouse
Sally said:
Minnie Mouse has a sister named, "Mandie Mouse."
Who knew...
You certainly see the family resemblance...
(Love that Mouse family!)
PS: @Lois of Oregon, thank's for the advice. My eyesight is poor, so I need to be on guard at all times. :)
@JoeS - when I read that the sainted Carla had , "Completed her 67th trip around the sun," I immediately though of this:
Don't know why, just did...
(Love ya Mr S!)
Lois Of Oregon replied:
Ugh, now I remember how much I hate Disney. All the forced
cuteness. Yeah, that's Minnie's baby "sister" Mandie
(inspiration of Barry Manilow? I can see him dating a
rodent), although one can't help but notice the MANY years
difference in their ages. At least Donald passed his
bastards off as the more believable "nephews". For a good
time Google Image search "Rodents in Dresses" to see what
strange people are up to.
P.S.Today is MY birthday too (and I look a little like Ed
Asner) so I'm riding the Bingo Bus to the Casino to try to
get lucky!
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norfallcali, responded:
Mandie Mouse!
MAM wrote:
Mandie Mouse
BttbBob answered::
I rarely watched Mickey Mouse. Not up to my standards - No Bugs, No Moose and Squirrel, No interest... So, I do not know the answer. However, the word "naughty" did pique my interest as it wood - er, would, any man and I had to find out who Minnie's "naughty" sister was... seems her name is Mandie. Oh, indeed, that's a "naughty" name, dontcha know... naugh-ty... I'll bet she's all grown up now...
( Insert 'risque' photo here)
Yo, guys! Did I just make your mind go to a nice place? Har! Mine did!
Sometimes, I revel in my 'Badness'... I really do... roll around on the ground like a dog jus' gettin' it all over me an' rubbin' it in, I'm tellin' ya... But, then again, aren't all men dogs? Yeah, I'm thinkin' so... Ya jus' gotta 'own' what ya are, I'm thinkin'...
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That was fun...
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Okay, what's next? Oh, yeah... Old business...
Memo to Lady Gaga: Hey! That photo I saw a few days ago here on the E! of you wearing those weirdo glasses? C'mon! Mylie's twerking and smokin' doobs on stage and this is your response? Yer gonna have to come up with somethin' a bit more flashy if'n ya want to keep that "Pop Tart" crown... Otherwise, it'll be 'Le reine est mort, viva le reine!" Ya know what I mean, girl? (Attn: Katy Perry - Not to worry... You are in a class by yourself)
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(61) I really dig this guy's demeanor. He is 'Bad' with his voice and a look. Witness him as Mr. Escobar in Get Shorty (1995) ...
"Why are you talking to me this bullshit? I think maybe I have Ramon and Cesar staple your tongue to your chin! What do you think?"... See? Bad...
(40) Missi is catching my phone number... no, sorry, that's a lie...
Born this day:
(1907-1997) He successively managed to bring the same character to all of his roles - himself... I think that's a rare talent.
(1916-1988) DAWS BUTLER -
Aesop's Son (in the "Aesop and Son" segment of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show), Augie Doggie, Baba Looey (from Quick Draw McGraw), Cap'n Crunch, Dixie Mouse (of Pixie and Dixie), Elroy Jetson, Huckleberry Hound, Mr. Jinks (of Pixie and Dixie), Quick Draw McGraw, Smedley the dog (from the Chilly Willy cartoons), Yogi Bear...and more.
And, Joe S replied:
Let me guess....Jessica Rabbit? No, wrong species. Minnie the Moocher? No, same name, that won't work. Hmmmm, I'll have to look it up, hang on.
Oh, it's Mandie Mouse. I should have known, Mandie, a naughty and mischievous lady.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'2 Broke Girls', followed by a RERUN'Mom', then the Dan Rather-less FRESH'As It Happened: JFK 50 Years', followed by '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'The Voice', followed by a RERUN'The Blacklist', then an hourlong RERUN'SNL'.
'SNL' is FRESH, with Lady Gaga.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Castle'.
The CW offers an old '2½ Men', followed by another old '2½ Men', then an old 'Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY has an old 'Burn Notice', followed by another old 'Burn Notice'.
A&E has 3 hours of old 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Flipping Vegas'.
AMC offers the movie 'Red Planet', followed by the movie 'Ghost Rider', then the movie 'Ghost Ship'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 10
[7:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 11
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 2 - Lela's
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 13 - Cafe Hon
[10:00AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 19
[11:00AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 20
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 12 - Episode 5
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR: TOP 41-Episode 5
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 9 - Episode 2
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 9 - Episode 3
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 9 - Episode 4
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 7 - The Enemy
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 8 - The Price
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 9 - The Vengeance Factor
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 10 - The Defector
[9:00PM] TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY - Season 4 - Ep 10 - The Blood Line NEW
[10:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 14 - Episode 5 NEW
[11:00PM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 10 - Endless Forms Most Beautiful
[12:00AM] TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY - Season 4 - Ep 10 - The Blood Line
[1:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 14 - Episode 5
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 7 - The Enemy
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 8 - The Price
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 9 - The Vengeance Factor
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 10 - The Defector (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of BH', another 'Real Housewives Of BH', followed by the movie 'How To Lose A Guy In 40 Days'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Life', followed by the movie 'Happy Gilmore', and 'Amy Schumer: Mostly Sex Stuff'.
FX has the movie 'Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen', followed by the movie 'Real Steel'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:30AM] The Birthday Boys-Cool Machine
[7:00AM] Robin Hood: Men in Tights
[9:00AM] A Day in the Country
[9:15AM] Filter
[9:30AM] Chucked
[9:45AM] Here and Now
[10:00AM] Dominus
[10:15AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[10:30AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Forbidden Girlfriend
[11:00AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Malcolm Holds His Tongue
[11:30AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Boys at the Ranch
[12:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Grandma Sues
[12:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-If Boys Were Girls
[1:00PM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[1:15PM] Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
[3:45PM] I Think I Love My Wife
[6:00PM] Pathfinder
[8:00PM] The Hills Have Eyes 2
[10:00PM] Hostel Part II
[12:00AM] The Hills Have Eyes 2
[2:00AM] Hostel Part II
[4:00AM] Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Robin Hood
[8:15AM] A Few Good Men
[11:15AM] A Day in the Country
[11:30AM] Filter
[11:45AM] Chucked
[12:00PM] Here and Now
[12:15PM] Dominus
[12:30PM] Dream School-The Final Test
[1:30PM] Charley Varrick
[4:00PM] The Right Stuff
[8:00PM] The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
[11:30PM] Changing Lanes
[1:45AM] Moon
[3:45AM] Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Blade II', followed by the movie 'Hulk'.
French actress Marion Cotillard (L) and Greenpeace activists protest inside a mock prison cell, in support of fellows activists who were detained on the boat Arctic Sunrise, during a protest action at Palais Royal place in Paris November 15, 2013. The group, consisting of 28 activists and two journalists, were arrested after coastguards boarded the Greenpeace icebreaker Arctic Sunrise following the protest at an oil platform owned by state-controlled Gazprom off Russia's northern coast on September 18.
Photo by Christian Hartmann
Macy's is moving rocker Joan Jett and her band off the South Dakota tourism float in itsThanksgiving Day parade after ranchers complained about having a vegetarian and animal rights advocate representing their state.
"I've decided to switch from South Dakota to another float because people's political agendas were getting in the way of what should be a purely entertainment driven event," Jett said in a statement released Friday. "I will remain focused on entertaining the millions of people watching, who will be celebrating a great American tradition."
Orlando Veras, Macy's parade spokesman, told The Associated Press on Friday that a new performer for the South Dakota float will be announced later. Veras said that the annual parade in New York City is about entertainment, not advocacy, and that Macy's was making the change "to prevent any further distraction from our entertainment mission."
The South Dakota float, which has appeared each year since 2010, features Mount Rushmore, the Badlands, the Black Hills and more.
Newly appointed U.S. ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy arrives at the Narita International Airport in Narita, suburban Tokyo November 15, 2013. The daughter of slain U.S. President John F. Kennedy is expecting to present her credentials to Japanese Emperor Akihito at the Imperial Palace next week, starting her formal duties as envoy.
Photo by Yoshikazu Tsuno
In Yoko Ono's new exhibition "War is Over (if you want it)" in Australia, the writer, artist and peace activist hopes to unite people to dream and work towards a better future through art.
"It's what we can do to change society," Ono, the widow of Beatles frontman John Lennon, told a news conference at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in Sydney, where the show opens on Friday and runs until late February.
The interactive parts of the exhibition were designed to encourage collaboration between people, linked to a central theme of world peace, she said.
The mixed-media presentation, Ono's first solo show in Australia, features works from more than five decades including sculptures, vintage collage spreads and a chess game with all-white pieces.
Actress Kristin Davis carries confiscated ivory to be destroyed during an event at the National Wildlife Property Repository, at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, in Commerce City, Colo., Thursday Nov. 14, 2013. Six tons of banned elephant ivory was destroyed Thursday after being accumulated over the past 25 years, seized during undercover investigations of organized smuggling operations or confiscated at the U.S. border.
Photo by Brennan Linsley
Bob Dylan is highlighting the iron in his soul in an art exhibition in London.
The show at the Halcyon Gallery features iron gates and sculptures by the musician, who has said that his early years in Minnesota's "iron-ore country" sparked a lifelong fascination with metal.
The "Mood Swings" show includes seven iron gates welded by Dylan from scrap iron and other metal parts, including a wrench, a roller skate, a meat grinder and lawn tools.
The exhibition also includes paintings and car doors full of bullet holes alongside newspaper reports about underworld icons including Pretty Boy Floyd and Machine Gun Kelly.
CBS is planning a two-hour special to mark the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' groundbreaking first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
The Feb. 9 special will be billed as a Grammy Awards salute to the Beatles. It will be recorded the day after the Grammys are held two weeks earlier. Top contemporary artists will cover songs the Beatles performed on Sullivan, a historic night in music that launched Beatlemania in the United States.
The special will be aired 50 years to the day the Beatles appeared on Sullivan, in the same time slot and on the same network.
From left, producer Gabrielle Tana, Philomena Lee, Sophie Kennedy Clark, and Philomena's daughter Jane arrive at AARP's Movies for Grownups Film Festival on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013 at Regal Cinemas at L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles.
Photo by Vince Bucci
Newly declassified documents reveal more detail about past use of the mysterious Nevada test site known as Area 51 and the concern for maintaining secrecy about the work done at the facility.
The recently released papers, which date mostly from the early 1960s into the 1970s, spotlight the U.S. government's desire for tight security at Area 51 , also known as Groom Lake. The area was photographed with American reconnaissance assets to better assess what the Soviet Union's spy satellites might be able to discern.
The documents also detail the debate over the possible release of a photograph "inadvertently" taken of the secret facility by NASA astronauts aboard the Skylab space station in 1974. [Flying Saucers to Mind Control: 7 Declassified Military & CIA Secrets ]
More than 60 declassified documents in an Area 51 file were posted on the Internet by the National Security Archive late last month, compiled and edited by archive senior fellow Jeffrey Richelson. The archive is located at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
A prosecutor has defended her demand for jail time for a 27-year-old concert pianist and the musician's parents who were sued by a neighbor for allegedly causing years of noise pollution.
During Friday's summation, prosecutor Emma Ruiz said professional pianist Laia Martin should serve 16 months for noise pollution and four months for causing her neighbor "psychological harm." Ruiz also asked that Martin be disqualified from any professional piano playing for six months and pay a fine of 6 euros ($8) a day for nine months.
The case has caused a storm of ridicule and disbelief due to the harshness of the sentence being sought at a criminal court in the northeastern city of Girona.
For most people, noise pollution would be jet engines roaring overhead late into the night or mechanical jack-hammers pounding ceaselessly in a neighboring building site.
But for Sonia Bosom, it was Martin's practicing on the keyboard in an apartment above her, allegedly five days a week for eight hours at a sitting - from 2003 to 2007 - that prompted the legal action.
Japanese director Takashi Miike (L) poses with cast member Toma Ikuta (C) and manga artist Takahashi Noboru during the red carpet event for the movie "The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji" at the Rome Film Festival, November 15, 2013.
Photo by Max Rossi
A 40-foot high Playboy bunny logo that had upset some residents of the West Texas town of Marfa will be removed from a roadside display and hauled to a Dallas museum, where it will be featured in an exhibition.
The neon bunny that's part of the "Playboy Marfa" sculpture by New York contemporary artist Richard Phillips will be dismantled this month and taken from U.S. 90 to the Dallas Contemporary museum near the city's downtown. The move to Dallas, about 500 miles northeast of Marfa, is the result of a deal with the Texas Department of Transportation.
The bunny will be installed at the museum in March and displayed in April. It will be part of an exhibition highlighting Phillips' work, said museum spokeswoman Erin Cluley.
The "Playboy Marfa" sculpture debuted last June in Marfa, about 180 miles southeast of El Paso. Some Marfa residents were upset that their town - known as a hub for artists and creative types - was being used for marketing purposes. Also, Texas transportation officials said the sculpture lacked a state permit required for outdoor billboards and moved quickly to give Playboy 45 days to remove it.
For many tourists, the experience of seeing Uluru for the first time in the middle of the Australian desert heartland brings a feeling that is difficult to suppress -- an urge to clamber up the daunting formation once known as Ayers Rock.
But while a modest link-chain rail guides climbers up the formation's steepest slopes, the traditional Aboriginal owners of Uluru, whose connections to the sacred site date back tens of thousands of years, don't want climbers -- especially given that more than 35 people have died attempting the physically demanding feat.
"Uluru is sacred in our culture. It is a place of great knowledge," the traditional Anangu owners say in a sign at the base of the rock which is translated into six more languages.
"Under our traditional law climbing is not permitted.
For visitor safety, cultural and environmental reasons the park is working towards closing the climb. It is currently left up to visitors to decide whether they tackle the sandstone monolith which rises 348 metres (1,148 feet).
For years, scientists have been dogged by this evolution question: Just where did man's best friend first appear?
The earliest known doglike fossils come from Europe. But DNA studies have implicated east Asia and the Middle East. Now a large DNA study is lining up with the fossils, suggesting dogs originated in Europe some 19,000 to 32,000 years ago.
Scientists generally agree that dogs emerged from wolves to become the first domesticated animal. Their wolf ancestors began to associate with people, maybe drawn by food in garbage dumps and carcasses left by human hunters. In the process they became tamer, and scientists believe people found them useful for things like hunting and guard duty. Over a very long time in this human environment, wolves gradually turned into the first dogs.
Researchers gathered DNA from fossils of 18 ancient wolflike and doglike creatures that lived up to 36,000 years ago in Argentina, Belgium, Germany, Russia, Switzerland and the United States. They compared the genetic material to modern samples from 49 wolves from North America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, 77 dogs of a wide variety of breeds including cocker spaniel, basenji and golden retriever, and four coyotes.
The DNA of modern dogs showed similarities to the genetic material from the ancient European specimens and modern-day European wolves, the researchers reported.
The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
1. (1) Taylor Swift; $1,857,574; $81.43.
2. (2) Marc Anthony; $1,186,546; $85.53.
3. (4) "Honda Civic Tour"/Maroon 5/Kelly Clarkson; $925,471; $50.28.
4. (5) Depeche Mode; $913,053; $64.45.
5. (3) Bruno Mars; $907,101; $65.18.
6. (6) Michael Buble; $881,383; $83.79.
7. (7) Luke Bryan; $683,446; $38.33.
8. (8) John Mayer; $674,118; $50.78.
9. (10) Brad Paisley; $667,506; $61.35.
10. (9) Jason Aldean; $660,743; $38.28.
11. (11) Blake Shelton; $632,906; $39.70.
12. (12) Rascal Flatts; $560,796; $38.07.
13. (13) Miranda Lambert; $493,423; $33.80.
14. (New) Selena Gomez & The Scene; $475,077; $52.22.
15. (14) Steely Dan; $463,280; $87.85.
16. (15) Blue Man Group; $336,213; $50.51.
17. (17) Fun.; $322,356; $39.15.
18. (18) Fall Out Boy; $233,482; $35.50.
19. (New) Il Volo; $232,460; $57.44.
20. (19) The Lumineers; $231,405; $37.92.
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