Friday, August 30, 2013

"LATE NIGHT" 12,326

The master of
"Late Night"

"LATE NIGHT" TURNS 20
WITH DAVID LETTERMAN !

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by Felicity Blaze Noodleman

Los Angeles, CA

08.30.13

From "wikipedia.com" Image supplied from the CBS television network.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Show_with_David_Letterman

* Special thanks to "Google Images", "wikipedia.com", "The Hollywood Reporter",
"about.com", and "The Washington Post".

This has been a very busy week for me with the new article I’ve been writing. This is also the Labor Day weekend and I’m running short of time! There has been much research and analyzation for this piece we are still writing and it still is not ready to post. My apologies for presenting this story on David Letterman and his “Late Night” show which has always been “sometimes worth watching TV”. If you have not heard David is celebrating 20 years with his “Late Night” show on the CBS network.

Hopefully by next week the new article will be polished and ready to post. We’re still not sure of a title for the piece but it is a look at slavery and how it is being adapted for use into today’s world. We hope you’re going to have a great holiday week end as it is the official end of summer, make it a big blow out! We also want thank all of our wonderful reader who have stayed with us over the summer. You all are a big part of the "Noodleman Group" and have been growing lately. All of you are just as important as the contributing sources in the group! Until next week, all my love, Felicity.

Late Show with David Letterman

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Late Show with David Letterman is an American late-night talk show hosted by David Letterman on CBS. The show debuted on August 30, 1993, and is produced by Letterman's production company, Worldwide Pants Incorporated and CBS Television Studios. The show's music director and band-leader of the house band, the CBS Orchestra, is Paul Shaffer. The head writer is Matt Roberts and the announcer is Alan Kalter. Of the major U.S. late-night programs, Late Show ranks second in cumulative average viewers over time and third in number of episodes over time. The show leads other late night shows in ad revenue with $271 million in 2009.

In most U.S. markets the show airs at 11:35 p.m. Eastern/Pacific time, but is recorded Monday through Wednesday at 4:30 p.m., and Thursdays at 3:30 p.m and 6:00 p.m. The second Thursday episode usually airs on Friday of that week.

In 2002, Late Show with David Letterman was ranked No. 7 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. CBS has a contract with Worldwide Pants to continue the show through 2014; by then, Letterman will surpass Johnny Carson as the longest tenured late-night talk show host.

When Letterman moved to CBS and began Late Show, several of Late Night's long-running comedy bits made the move with him. Letterman renamed a few of his regular bits to avoid legal problems over trademark infringement (NBC cited that what he did onLate Night was "intellectual property" of the network). "Viewer Mail" on NBC became the "CBS Mailbag". and Larry "Bud" Melman began to use his real name, Calvert DeForest. Paul Shaffer's "World's Most Dangerous Band" became "The CBS Orchestra", a jab at NBC regarding the show's new home, and a play on the NBC Orchestra of the long running The Tonight Show. Letterman's signature bit, the Top Ten List, was perfunctorily renamed the "Late Show Top Ten List" (over time it was simply referred to again by its original name).

After Letterman was introduced on Late Show's very first episode, NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw accompanied him on stage and wished him "reasonably well". As part of a pre-arranged act, Brokaw then proceeded to retrieve a pair of cue cardswhile stating that "These last two jokes are the intellectual property of NBC!" After he carried them off stage, Letterman responded, "Who would have thought you would ever hear the words 'intellectual property' and 'NBC' in the same sentence?" In his opening monologue, Letterman said "Legally, I can continue to call myself Dave" but joked that he woke up that morning and next to him in bed was the head of a peacock (while the orchestra played the theme from The Godfather).

In ratings, Letterman's Late Show initially dominated Leno's Tonight Show for its first two years. However, Letterman was more reluctant than Leno's Los Angeles-based show to capitalize on the 1994–1995 O. J. Simpson murder case. Finally, Leno pulled ahead on July 10, 1995, starting with a Hugh Grant interview, after Grant's much-publicized arrest for picking up an LA prostitute. Leno also benefited from the lead-in provided by NBC's popular Must See TV prime time programs of the mid-to-late 1990s. Likewise the CBS network was hurt by affiliation switches in late 1994 relating to Fox picking up CBS's National Football League rights, stunting the Late Show just as it was beginning to gain traction.

"wikipedia.com"

David Letterman, through the years: The comedian has been a mainstay of late-night television for three decades and a Kennedy Center honoree. He will celebrate his 20th year as the host of “Late Night” Thursday.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/david-letterman-2012-kennedy-center-honoree/2012/11/30/77d96768-38bd-11e2-b01f-5f55b193f58f_gallery.html

David Letterman, Bill Murray to mark 20 years of ‘Late Show’ on CBS

“The Washington Post”

By Dan Zak, E-mail the writer

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that Bill Murray was the guest on the final episode of "Late Night with David Letterman"; Murray last appeared on the show in February 1993, four months before Tom Hanks was Letterman's final guest on NBC. This version has been updated.

On Thursday night, David Letterman marks 20 years on CBS, a length of time that is nearly one-third the age of the network’s average viewer (cue rimshot). His guest will be fellow sexagenarian Bill Murray, who was also the guest on Letterman’s first show on CBS, in August 1993, and his first late-night show ever, on NBC in 1982. If the pair’s 24 previous interviews on “Late Show” are any indication, this one will involve a costume, a song, some kind of gag, and the trading of unpleasantries between two men who have settled into a good-natured glumness about their elder statesmanship.

Letterman made his initial mark by subverting the talk-show template, and Murray proved an enduring and capable foil by subverting the role of the talk-show guest. They were troublemakers of television, equals in their rebellion.

Paul Shaffer, Musical Director, The Late Show with David Letterman on CBS. Late Show With David Letterman . Paul is David's partner "in comedy"!

“I swear, Letterman, if it’s the last thing I’m gonna do,” said a 31-year-old Murray during the first “Late Night,” on Feb. 1, 1982, “I’m gonna make every second of your life, from this moment on, a living hell.”

Nobody would’ve said that to Johnny Carson, and nobody would say that to Jay Leno. Now Leno is preparing to pass the “Tonight Show” torch — for real this time — when he airs his last show Feb. 6. The baby boomers, represented by Leno, are surrendering to Jimmy Fallon and Generation X, hoping to also lure millennial viewers and whichever tortured demographic watched the entirety of Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards, at which Fallon, literally genuflecting, introduced Justin Timberlake as if he were Nelson Mandela.

“I am so honored to be standing right here next to you!” Fallon gushed to his fellow 30-something, who was receiving the equivalent of a lifetime achievement award.

Letterman, a Kennedy Center honoree last year, would never have given such an obsequious introduction without laying on sarcasm with a trowel. But Fallon’s hosting shtick is buddy-
buddiness, evidenced by his sunny jam sessions with musicians on his late-night show. Letterman has always been a cynic. Fallon will take over his ratings rival as an optimist, an Eddie Haskell without the smarm, a real ESFP (for you HR types). It’ll be grump vs. cherub — vs. whatever Jimmy Kimmel is — in the 11:35 p.m. time slot.

Letterman’s contract is up next year, and in an interview with The Washington Post in November, he implied that he can’t see beyond a 25th anniversary with CBS. As for an heir to “Late Show,” he pulled a familiar name out of the air.

“I would be eager to see what the next thing is,” Letterman said during the interview, which took place in his production offices in New York. “And I don’t wanna keep jumping up and down for Jimmy Fallon, but I think — I can’t tell whether he’s figured something out, or, I dunno. I don’t think he’s radically different enough for the form to say it’s breakthrough, but he’s doing different things that people respond to.”

Fallon, of course, was offered the “Tonight Show” job and took it. Regardless, we are witnessing the final years of David Letterman’s late-night career, which has staked territory for rough-hewn absurdity in an otherwise polished and regimented environment. For 20 years, “Late Show” has been Letterman’s attempt to conjure chaos within the strict talk-show format, whether by inviting and then needling unpredictable guests, hurling objects off the top floor of his building at 53rd and Broadway, or rendering zany non-sequiturs into a Top 10 list. As always, Letterman will mark a special milestone in this career with his peer in sarcasm, Bill Murray.

The actor was David Letterman's first guest when the CBS late-night talker premiered Aug. 30, 1993. He will be back on the couch to celebrate the Late Show's 20th anniversary on Thursday, Aug. 29, marking his 26th time on the show. (“The Hollywood Reporter”)

There was Bill, in 1982, performing Olivia Newton-John’s “Physical” after his sit-down interview.

There was Bill, in 1993, spray-painting “DAVE!” on Letterman’s desk on the first “Late Show.”

There was Bill, in December, turning his entrance into a rendition gag, arriving on the stage of the Ed Sullivan Theater after being hooded and tasered, because why not?

Murray has shown up in football gear, a smoking jacket and beret, and, most extravagantly, on crutches and wearing a ushanka, with a sequined magenta leotard underneath a winter coat. Paul Shaffer always plays him on with “Physical” or the theme to “Star Wars,” which Murray memorably set to words on “Saturday Night Live” during the Carter administration.

Letterman knows to step out of his way, and Murray knows how to push the host’s buttons.

“Well, I got a message, a phone call, in my dressing room from a hysterical woman,’ Murray said in 1994, speaking in a frontiers-y accent and wearing a cowboy getup. “May I borrow your phone for a moment, please?”

“Bill, I’m going to ask you to stop talking like that,” Letterman said. “Or I’ll take your little kerchief there, tighten it up and hook it to a bus on Broadway.”

For 30 years, David Letterman has redefined the late-night talk show while

perpetuating its traditions.

They laughed, and Letterman gave him the phone, and Murray called Letterman’s mother, and told her that her son hadn’t given up smoking, and then asked about Indiana’s corn crop.

In 2007, to celebrate Letterman’s 25th year on late-night TV, Murray showed up in a top hat and tuxedo, uncorked a bottle of champagne and then asked for the phone to call CBS chief Les Moonves for Super Bowl tickets. In June 2012, Murray, inspired by the Tupac Shakur hologram at Coachella, appeared with his own hologram.

Murray, by virtue of his comic legacy and carefree attitude toward stardom, has stayed relevant with the 18-to-35 demographic, and Letterman has stayed relevant, in part, by booking people like Murray with high frequency. Charged next year with ferrying “The Tonight Show” into a new era while maintaining the institution’s dedicated older viewership, Jimmy Fallon’s best move might be to snag Murray as his first guest, and then offer him a standing invitation when Letterman retires.

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Friday, August 23, 2013

TRACKING THE SUN 12,036

SOHO

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by Felicity Blaze Noodleman

Los Angeles, CA

08.23.13

TRACKING THE SUN

This week NASA released an article announcing images of a "Coronal Mass Ejection" or "CME" from the Sun captured by the SOHO satellite orbiting the Earth's Sun. This "Solar Storm" has for the second time this week sent it's positively charged particles towards Earth numbering into the billions of tons.

SOHO, short for Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, studies our Sun collecting and sending data back to the US Space Agency as it observes the massive star at the center of our solar system. We are posting the NASA article and photos below along with a report Noodleman wrote last year entitled "Noodleman Goes To The Sun". This article is a look at our Sun and NASA's commitment to study and document the star's activity hoping to better understand how Earth's Sun effects our planet.

NASA Spacecraft Capture an Earth Directed Coronal Mass Ejection

On Wednesday at 1:24 am EDT, the sun erupted with another Earth-directed coronal mass ejection, or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of particles into space and reach Earth one to three days later.
http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/20130821-another-earth-directed-cme/#.UhZXrtKOTj4

The SOHO LASCO C2 instrument captured this image of the Earth-directed CME. SOHO's coronographs are able to take images of the solar corona by blocking the light coming directly from the Sun with an occulter disk. The location of the actual sun is shown with an image taken by SDO.

Image Credit:

ESA & NASA/SOHO, SDO

http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/20130820-nasa-spacecraft-capture-earth-directed-coronal-mass-ejection/#.UhZVIdKOTj4

"NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md"

Susan Hendrix

On August 20, 2013 at 4:24 am EDT, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon which can send billions of tons of particles into space that can reach Earth one to three days later. These particles cannot travel through the atmosphere to harm humans on Earth, but they can affect electronic systems in satellites and on the ground.

Experimental NASA research models, based on observations from NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory show that the CME left the sun at speeds of around 570 miles per second, which is a fairly typical speed for CMEs.

Earth-directed CMEs can cause a space weather phenomenon called a geomagnetic storm, which occurs when they funnel energy into Earth's magnetic envelope, the magnetosphere, for an extended period of time. The CME’s magnetic fields peel back the outermost layers of Earth's fields changing their very shape. In the past, geomagnetic storms caused by CMEs of this strength have usually been mild.

Magnetic storms can degrade communication signals and cause unexpected electrical surges in power grids. They also can cause aurora.

NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (http://swpc.noaa.gov) is the U.S. government's official source for space weather forecasts, alerts, watches and warnings.

Updates will be provided if needed.

The SOHO LASCO C3 instrument captured this coronographic image of the Earth-directed CME. The bright white object to the right is the planet Mercury.

Image Credit:

ESA & NASA/SOHO

http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/20130820-nasa-spacecraft-capture-earth-directed-coronal-mass-ejection/#.UhZVIdKOTj4

Susan Hendrix
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

We are also running this amazing photo from July 18, 2013 revealing a

Large Coronal Hole Near the Sun’s North Pole.

The European Space Agency/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, captured this image of a gigantic coronal hole hovering over the sun’s north pole on July 18, 2013, at 9:06 a.m. EDT.

Image Credit:

ESA&NASA/SOHO

http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/large-coronal-hole-near-sun-north-pole/#.UhePhdKOTj4

* All art courtesy of "Google Images" and NASA. Special thanks to "wikipedia.com"
and "answers.com".

A while back, Aug 17, 2012 we did an article about the “Weather” in which we briefly mentioned the Sun and how it could affect our weather. The specific question raised was - would we be able to use solar data to assist in the prediction of our weather here on earth. The information uncovered was a little more scientific than anticipated but has been translated into relatively simple and understandable terms. As it turns out, the Suns “dark spots or sun spots” do affect earth weather and the Suns solar cycles occur every eleven earth years. The Sun affects the conditions throughout our solar system with what has been termed as a “solar wind” which emanates from the corona of the Sun and Earth is also affected.

Since the study of the Sun is a whole field of science in itself as it pertains to our solar system and to the overall study of space in general, I thought it would be interesting if we knew a little more about our Sun. Helioseismology is the area of science dedicated to the study of the Sun and is studied by Solar or Helio Astronomers. NASA has used satellites for this purpose since the early 1960's in the "Pioneer" program.

Our solar system - relative size comparison to the sun

NASA has several satellites is place to assist astronomers with their work. One of the latest generation solar satellites is known as “SOHO” (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory). Launched in 1995 it is orbiting the Sun at a distance of 1.5 million kilometers from earth (about four times the distance to the moon). This satellite is the joint venture of many different countries. From its construction and including the instrumentation on board to the shared use of the data which SOHO collects and returns to Earth.

Originally designed for a two year mission, SOHO’s mission has been extended up through 2012 and may continue as long as the satellite is operational. An interesting unexpected side benefit of the satellite has been the discovery of about 2,000 comets which has aided astronomers in this area of space study. The other NASA Satellite is called the “Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (Stereo)” and is capable of transmitting 3D images from space. There are also other nations studying the sun from their own satellites.

(Left) "SOHO" - Solar and Heliospheric Observatory

(Right) Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory "Stereo"

This illustration shows how the "STEREO" spacecraft work together. On February 6,

the two STEREO spacecrafts will be 180 degrees apart and for the next 8 years the

STEREO spacecrafts and SDO will be able toobserve the entire 360 degrees of the Sun.

Credit: NASA.

STEREO Beauty Pass

An artist's conception of one of the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft. The two observatories currently lie on either side of the sun, providing views of the entire sun simultaneously. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

Staring Into the Sun

Launched on Dec. 2, 2005, SOHO observes the sun's deep interior and also its interactions all the way out to Earth's orbit and beyond, where the magnetized solar wind of atomic particles sweeps through interplanetary space. Image credit: NASA/ESA

One of the biggest questions I have about space and in this case the Sun is how do scientist know what they are talking about? For example the age of our solar system and the Sun. Is it a guess or do they have evidence to support their statements. I mean we are talking about billions of years after all. Are the numbers they are stating as fact real or are they just working numbers? Clearly they could be millions of years off of their guess and still be in the ball park! We hear about adjustments astronomers and scientist have made in their respective areas of study occasionally from time to time in the news so they are still clearly discovering and learning.

Two charts display cut away

of the suns construction into six layers and the life cycle of the sun .

The remainder of this article will be devoted to answering specific questions about the Sun and will help us grasp the information rather than just trying to digest all the raw data.

HOW OLD IS THE SUN? 4.57 billion years old. Scientists have arrived at this number using computer models of stellar evolution through the nucleocosmochronology (a relatively new technique for dating astrological objects).

WHAT KIND OF ORBIT IS OUR SUN IN? The Sun is in an orbit around the center of our galaxy, “The Milky Way”. One rotation in known as a solar cycle and is approximately 11 years in duration. The Sun also rotates on its own axis. Because the Sun is comprised of gases it has different rotational speeds and therefore a variance of rotational times. At the equator the Sun is rotating at about 7,189 kph or 4,467 mph. Being made of gas different parts of the sun (north to south) rotate at different speeds but the equatorial regions rotate once every 25.05 days. The Sun is currently traveling through the Local Interstellar Cloud in the Local Bubble zone, within the inner rim of the Orion Arm of the Milky Way galaxy.

The Suns rotation around the center of the "Milky Way". In physics,
the center of mass or barycenter is the weighted average location of all the
mass in a body or group of bodies.

WHAT IS THE SUNS DISTANCE FROM EARTH? 93 million miles. There are two other planets between the Earth and the Sun - the planets Venus and Mercury.

WHAT IS THE SIZE AND COMPOSITION OF THE SUN? Scientist have informally designated it as a G2V dwarf star but its total mass in more than everything in our solar system (99.86%). Its radius is approximately 1,392,684 km or 864,938 miles and is 330,000 times that of earth. The Sun is made up of hydrogen and helium with less than 1 % of other trace elements.

Artists conception of the Suns core.

WHAT IGNITED THE SUN? I think this is where the “Big Bang” theory originated and comes into our discussion. A colossal explosion which created everything in the universe. The mater created in this explosion is still growing, traveling and moving outward.

Artist conception of "The Big Bang" and expansion of the universe.
The universe is still expanding and growing.

HOW HOT IS THE SUN? At the photosphere the temperature is 6,000 degrees Celsius - 5,778 k (58,000K for the sake or round numbers) and the corona is measured at 5x10 to the sixth power. The sun generates its energy by nuclear fusion of hydrogen nuclei into helium. In its core, the Sun fuses 620 million metric tons of hydrogen each second. This generates the Suns energy and is referred to as “plasma”.

WHAT ARE SUN SPOTS? These dark spots on the suns surface are cooler than average areas of the photosphere and usually last about two weeks. Visible to Earth, these dark spots have been studies by astronomers for century's and were the first clues to the rotation of the Sun.

WHAT ARE SOLAR FLARES? A sudden eruption of magnetic energy released on or near the surface of the sun, usually associated with sunspots and accompanied by bursts of electromagnetic radiation and particles. Ultraviolet and x-ray radiation from solar flares often induce electromagnetic disturbances in the earth's atmosphere.

Views of the suns corona from the surface showing solar flares

Two views of the Sun
(Left) This composite image combines EIT images from three wavelengths (171Å, 195Å and 284Å) into one that reveals solar features unique to each wavelength. Since the EIT images come to us from the spacecraft in black and white, they are color coded for easy identification. For this image, the nearly simultaneous images from May 1998 were each given a color code (red, yellow and blue) and merged into one (NASA).
(Right) Solar eclipse reveals the suns corona.

It is a theory about the origin of our universe. According to the big bang theory, the universe began as the result of an explosion that occurred between 15 and 20 billion years ago. Over time, the matter created in the big bang broke apart, forming galaxies, stars, and a group of planets we know as solar systems. The theory was first put forth by Edwin Hubble (1889-1953), who observed that the universe is expanding uniformly and objects that are greater distances are receding at greater velocities. In the 1960s Bell Telephone Laboratories scientists discovered weak radio waves that are believed to be all that remains of the radiation from the original fireball. The discovery further supported Hubble's theory, which puts the age of the universe between 15 and 20 billion years.

The Sun is a magnetically active star. It supports a strong, changing magnetic field

Magnetic field. A magnetic field is a mathematical description of the magnetic influence of electric currents and magnetic materials. The magnetic field at any given point is specified by both a direction and a magnitude ; as such it is a vector field.Technically, a magnetic field is a pseudo vector;.. that varies year-to-year and reverses direction about every eleven years around solar maximum. The Sun's magnetic field leads to many effects that are collectively called solar activity.

As there are three distinct periods which we know about in the earth’s history; the prehistoric age, the ice age and the period which we are now living in or the modern age, we can see how the Sun has a great affect on life in our world. Life on earth is also determined by how the earth is rotating on its axis. It is all determined by the power of our Sun.

Four images of a filament on the sun from August 31, 2012 are shown here in various wavelengths of light as captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Starting from the upper left and going clockwise they represent light in the: 335, 171, 304 and 131 Angstrom wavelengths. Since each wavelength of light generally corresponds to solar material at a particular temperature, scientists can compare images like this to observe how the material moves during an eruption. Credit:
NASA/SDO/AIA/GSFC

Swirls of green and red appear in an aurora over Whitehorse, Yukon on the night of September 3, 2012. The aurora was due to the interaction of a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the sun with Earth's magnetosphere. The CME left the sun on August 31 and arrived on September 3. Image Courtesy of David Cartier, Sr.

I would like to thank wikipedia, answers.com and NASA for their assistance in producing the information contained in this article. The study of the Sun is in so many ways foreign to physics and concepts in our world and is mind boggling with respects to the numerical statistics and terminology involved in the Suns description and how it works. Scientist and solar astronomers are working and thinking on a completely different level of thinking in their approach to analyzing the sun. With continued study the Sun may unlock many of the secrets of our world and universe. It could eventually take us beyond our temporal universe.

Now as we set a course to return to the planet earth we can feel a sense of accomplishment for the information we have gleaned from our voyage and study of the Sun and our solar system. We now have a better understanding of how our solar satellites are working and sending their data to Earth. Our satellites are in place and functioning properly as we leave. I'm Felicity Blaze Noodleman and you've been our guest aboard the USS Noodleman for this voyage to the Sun as we engage for Earth. See you next week!