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There's a storm a-brewin' on next week's fall finale. It looks like Schmitt & Dr. Kim take shelter in an ambulance, and... PLEASE let Meredith & Andrew get it on!!!

I accidentally hit 7 on my remote and got taken to ABC. DANCING WITH THE STARS was on & one of the judges was critiquing a young guy I'd never seen before. Suddenly they cut to the audience and there was Camryn Manheim, beaming from ear to ear. As the judge droned on, he called the kid Milo, which is Camryn's son's name. I have no idea what the fuck he's done to warrant being on that show with such illustrious show biz luminaries. Around the time Camryn got THE PRACTICE, one of her best friends was a woman named Adele. After she started making $$$, Camryn paid for the process for Adele to adopt a kid; they were that close. I don't know if they still are. ANYHOO... Adele's sister is married to my ex-roommate's brother. My ex-roommate went out clubbing with them once and wound up dancing with Alan Cumming.

One of the first 45's I bought at the age of 7

Currently, DWE refers to Driving While Eating for me. Hopefully, it's a good many years before it also stands for Driving While Elderly.

Scientists know a lot about Mars, at least when it comes to what it looks like. Sound, on the other hand, is a lot more challenging and it’s not like we have high-powered microphones listening to the wind sweep across the Martian plains. Now, researchers from Anglia Ruskin University and the University of Exeter in the UK have created an interesting piece of music that wasn’t just inspired by Mars but was actually composed by a computer algorithm using a Mars sunrise as data. The result is a surprisingly pleasing piece of music and you can listen to it yourself. So how was it created? Anglia Ruskin University describes its creation as follows: Researchers created the piece of music by scanning a picture from left to right, pixel by pixel and looking at brightness and color information and combining them with terrain elevation. They used algorithms to assign each element a specific pitch and melody. As you might assume, the quieter notes and flowing background sounds come from the dark area surrounding the sun in the image. Higher-pitched notes are brighter pixels near the bright orb in the center. “We are absolutely thrilled about presenting this work about such a fascinating planet,” Dr. Domenico Vicinanza, one of the scientists involved in the project, said in a statement. “Image sonification is a really flexible technique to explore science and it can be used in several domains, from studying certain characteristics of planet surfaces and atmospheres, to analyzing weather changes or detecting volcanic eruptions.” The piece will actually be “performed,” so to speak, at the SC18 supercomputing conference in Dallas on Nov. 13. Audience members will hear the song through traditional speakers as well as “vibrational transducers” that will let them feel it. Pretty neat.

Scientists know a lot about Mars, at least when it comes to what it looks like. Sound, on the other hand, is a lot more challenging and it’s not like we have high-powered microphones listening to the wind sweep across the Martian plains. Now, researchers from Anglia Ruskin University and the University of Exeter in the UK have created an interesting piece of music that wasn’t just inspired by Mars but was actually composed by a computer algorithm using a Mars sunrise as data. The result is a surprisingly pleasing piece of music and you can listen to it yourself. So how was it created? Anglia Ruskin University describes its creation as follows: <i>Researchers created the piece of music by scanning a picture from left to right, pixel by pixel and looking at brightness and color information and combining them with terrain elevation. They used algorithms to assign each element a specific pitch and melody.</i> As you might assume, the quieter notes and flowing background sounds come from the dark area surrounding the sun in the image. Higher-pitched notes are brighter pixels near the bright orb in the center. “We are absolutely thrilled about presenting this work about such a fascinating planet,” Dr. Domenico Vicinanza, one of the scientists involved in the project, said in a statement. “Image sonification is a really flexible technique to explore science and it can be used in several domains, from studying certain characteristics of planet surfaces and atmospheres, to analyzing weather changes or detecting volcanic eruptions.” The piece will actually be “performed,” so to speak, at the SC18 supercomputing conference in Dallas on Nov. 13. Audience members will hear the song through traditional speakers as well as “vibrational transducers” that will let them feel it. Pretty neat.

Weird Al Yankovic to perform with the Queens Symphony Orchestra in Forest Hills next summer A new show has been added to the Forest Hills Stadium that will bring some “mandatory fun” to the performance. On July 20, 2019, “Weird Al” Yankovic will take the stage at the Forest Hills Stadium for his new “Strings Attached” tour but with a twist – his back-up band will be a symphony orchestra. “I wanted to follow up my most bare-bones tour ever with my most elaborate and extravagant tour ever,” Yankovic said. “We’re pulling out all the stops for this one.” Yankovic, known for his parodies of popular songs such as “Eat It,” “Smells Like Nirvana,” “White & Nerdy,” “Tacky” and “The Hamilton Polka,” will perform with the Queens Symphony Orchestra. The show will also include props, costumes and a video wall as he performs his high-energy rock set. Yankovic’s 14th studio album “Mandatory Fun,” which was released in 2014, was the first comedy album to hit the number one spot on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart, making it the first comedy album to reach the top of the chart in over 50 years. Tickets will be available starting on Nov. 16 at 10 a.m. For more information, visit foresthillsstadium.com.

Weird Al Yankovic to perform with the Queens Symphony Orchestra in Forest Hills next summer A new show has been added to the Forest Hills Stadium that will bring some “mandatory fun” to the performance. On July 20, 2019, “Weird Al” Yankovic will take the stage at the Forest Hills Stadium for his new “Strings Attached” tour but with a twist – his back-up band will be a symphony orchestra. “I wanted to follow up my most bare-bones tour ever with my most elaborate and extravagant tour ever,” Yankovic said. “We’re pulling out all the stops for this one.” Yankovic, known for his parodies of popular songs such as “Eat It,” “Smells Like Nirvana,” “White & Nerdy,” “Tacky” and “The Hamilton Polka,” will perform with the Queens Symphony Orchestra. The show will also include props, costumes and a video wall as he performs his high-energy rock set. Yankovic’s 14th studio album “Mandatory Fun,” which was released in 2014, was the first comedy album to hit the number one spot on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart, making it the first comedy album to reach the top of the chart in over 50 years. Tickets will be available starting on Nov. 16 at 10 a.m. For more information, visit foresthillsstadium.com.

Colleen Rose Dewhurst (3 June 1924 – 22 August 1991) was a Canadian-American actress. She is known most for playing Avery Brown, the feisty mother of Candice Bergen's title character; this role earned her two Emmy Awards, the second being awarded posthumously. She married and divorced George C. Scott twice.

OY! You're as uninformed about TV trivia as Trump is about environmental issues. Who do you think Avery was named after? Hint... she's in this picture:

General Patton married Avery Brown twice. I laid it all out in pictures above.

DUH... and her brother is Charlie McCarthy.

You know his daughter is Murphy Brown, right? MARRIED (TWICE)

Utah man is state’s first rabies death in 74 years A Utah man who caught bats and let his wife play with them, died of rabies — the first death of its kind in the state in 74 years. Gary Giles, 55, first began having neck and back pain on Oct. 19 and doctors thought he’d just pulled a muscle. But the pain only got worse and turned to numbness and tingling. “Being touched, he felt like he had pins and needles all over his skin,” Giles’ daughter Crystal Sedgwick told Fox13. “He felt like his skin was on fire.” It wasn’t until Giles died on Sunday at Utah Valley Hospital that doctors realized he’d been infected with rabies, Sedgwick said. The state’s health department believe he contracted the deadly virus from bats, which literally hung around his home, but they’re still working to confirm the theory. “My mom has always thought that bats were really cute, so he would sit there and hold them for her and let her pet their heads, and they would lick them,” Sedgwick said. Sedgwick’s mom, Juanita Giles, said she didn’t realize the bats that infested their home could be carriers of the highly contagious ailment. “I had no clue,” she told KSL. “We would wake up in the night and they would be walking on our bed.”EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!! “I’ve always thought bats were kind of cute, but I had no idea the kind of risk we were at.” Since her husband’s death, Juanita said she and the rest of the family are getting vaccinated — just in case. The last time someone died of rabies in Utah was 1944. According to the CDC, there have only been 23 cases of human rabies reported in the US between 2008 and 2017.

California's Woolsey Fire destroys homes of singer Robin Thicke, reality star Camille Grammer (link) The Woolsey Fire currently ravaging southern California has claimed the homes of several stars, including singer Robin Thicke and reality star Camille Grammer. Also Neil Young, Gerard Butler (not to be confused with Jerry Butler, the late porn star and ex-Mr. Wednesday Addams)

Dorothy: Now look, all this nonsense has to stop, Rose. What we saw was not a UFO. Rose: Well, it wasn't a plane. Planes aren't that thin, or that bright. Dorothy: Neither is Oprah Winfrey, but that doesn't make her a flying saucer.

Holy Cow! Astronomers Agog at Mysterious New Supernova An event known as "Cow" that has rocked astronomy since June likely offers a close look at the birth of a neutron star or black hole https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/holy-cow-astronomers-agog-at-mysterious-new-supernova/

I don’t know if it's just that this was the slowest, most boring episode ever, or that the current cast is totally bland, or that I am just so sick of hearing and reading about sexual harassment, but I just cannot get through it. I started it Thursday night, resumed watching it twice yesterday, and still have 15 minutes to go. I don’t know if I’ll even bother finishing it. I’ve already deleted THE COOL KIDS from my dvr; any more episodes like this, and SVU will be next. That’s what Dick Wolf gets for allowing a former paramedic to direct a 20-year-old dinosaur.

A bit late to the party, aren't we? https://www.companyofmen.org/threads/300-400-now-the-norm.108820/page-7#post-1645680

These last 2 posts are just lovely