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NASA will host a news teleconference at 10 a.m. PST 1 p.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 19, to announce new observations from its high-energy X-ray mission, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array NuSTAR . The findings reveal new information about supernovas, the tremendous explosions that mark the ends of massive stars lives.The briefing participants are:-- Paul Hertz, director of NASA s Astrophysics Division in Washington -- Fiona Harrison, NuSTAR principal investigator, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.-- Brian Grefenstette, astronomer, Caltech-- Robert Kirshner, astronomer, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.Audio and visuals will be streamed live online at: http://ustream.tv/nasajpl2. Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live on NASA s website at: http://nasa.gov/newsaudio.A link to the graphics will be p stanley mug osted at the start of the teleconference on NASA s stanley and starbucks NuSTAR site: http://nasa.gov/NuSTAR.NuSTAR is a Small Explorer mission led by Caltech in Pasadena and managed by NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, also in Pasadena, for NASA s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The spacecraft was built by Orbital Sciences Corporation, Dulles, Va. Its instrument was built by a consortium including Caltech; JPL; the University of Californ stanley becher ia, Berkeley; Columbia University, New York; NASA s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.; the Danish Technical University in Denmark; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, Calif Sjzi Bryan Cranston: Black Voters Are Being Silenced at the Polls
By Lily RothmanDecember 6, 2018 12:31 PM ESTIn the second season of Amazon award-winning 1950s-set comedy The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the show takes its protagonist away from the Manhattan milieu where her journey from housewife to comedienne began. And, just as the show draws on real comedy history in its New York City scenes, Midge Maisel adventures out of town likewise rely on an important part of that past.When Midge and her stanley quencher family get away for the summer, they head up to the Catskill Mountains, the New York State region that played home to a number of mid-century resorts that drew city residents mdash; most notably, a subset of Jewish New Yorkers mdash; looking to escape the heat. As a result of their demand for entertainment, the resorts became a hothouse of comedy talent. While today, what became known as the Borscht Belt is probably best known for its de stanley mugs piction in Dirty Dancing, Midge assumption that everyone she knew would know what it meant to go to the Catskills would have been reasonable back then. And even if that type of holiday has faded from fashion, the impact of the Catskills can still be felt throughout American comedy.TIME spoke to Jeremy Dauber, a professor of Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture at Columbia University and author of Jewish Comedy: A Serious History, about the true story behind M stanley water bottle rs. Maisel 8216 summer vacation.TIME: Why the Catskills How does this particular region become part of |
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