M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - July 11th, 2018
The Latest Hahnstudios Roundup
By DJ Useo
"mashup - Deutsch Deutsch - mashup" is the latest collection from well-known, & respected bootleg producer,
Hahnstudios
( mixes-for-the-masses.blogspot.com/2018/06/normal-0-21-microsoftinternetexplorer4.html ) .
Hahnstudios is a big favorite of mine. I've been enjoying his work since around 2004, & for all I know he was posting before then, even.
This new collection features the fine spin of each mix being a pairing of German artists. Among the tracks are such as Die Toten Hosen vs Rosenstolz, Sportfruende Stiller vs Wolfgang Ambros, & Ofra Haza vs Peter Fox. There's a few English artists snuck in there to ease the style transition, but it doesn't really need it, as all the tracks rule. Hahnstudios was skilled when he started, & has only become moreso over the years.
Once you become familiar with his mixes, you'll no doubt long for more. More of his gems are
easily available
from his sites
( hahnstudios.blogspot.com/ )
( mixes-for-the-masses.blogspot.com/ )
including his previous album "Make Mashups Great Again"
( mixes-for-the-masses.blogspot.com/2016/11/style-definitions-table.html )
He's a long-standing member in good terms at Audioboots Mashup Forum
( audioboots.com/frontpage.html )
where we anticipate with longing his creations.
"mashup - Deutsch Deutsch - mashup" is available from
user-friendly mirror links here
( mixes-for-the-masses.blogspot.com/2018/06/normal-0-21-microsoftinternetexplorer4.html )
As a teaser, here's a link to stream "Tanz den Cotton Eye Joe" ( Square Dance ) ( Rednex vs Ali As feat. Namika )
( hearthis.at/karlheinz.meier.33/hahnstudios-tanz-den-cotton-eye-joe-sqaure-dance/ )
I'm sure you'll be pleased with this album. More mashups next week.
Have the day of good - Konrad Useo
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Paul Krugman: The Economics of Donald J. Keynes (NY Times)
What's driving the economy now is, instead, deficit spending. […] But Republicans are still blocking any kind of useful spending. Not only are Senate Republicans opposed to infrastructure investment, the Trump administration is proposing big cuts in aid to children, especially health care and education. Deficits are apparently good only if they're incurred giving huge tax breaks to corporations, which use the money to buy back their stock.
Tom Nichols: Students Don't Run Universities (The Atlantic)
Trying to get professors fired because you don't like their views isn't activism-it's preening would-be totalitarianism.
Julie Bindel: Camille Paglia vs the trans-Taliban (Spectator)
The feminist thinker has a fight on her hands
Joe Humphreys: Why be good when it seems like nasty guys finish first? (Irish Times)
"As a comparative concept, success is about being better than others, which in part explains why success tends to bring out the worst in people: narcissism, egotism, vanity, pretentiousness. Success is profoundly anti-egalitarian. One should strive for a good life, not a successful life. If a good life brings about success, so be it, but if I had to choose between being good and being successful, personally I would always opt for the former."
- philosopher Vittorio Bufacchi.
Tara Brady: Mads Mikkelsen takes another icy role (Irish Times)
Danish actor stars in taut, survivalist drama set in a lonely stretch of the Arctic circle.
Ed Power: Where did Arya jump from? The Game of Thrones battle was riddled with problems (Irish Times)
Battle of Winterfell episode contained numerous non-sequiturs and plotting problems.
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Anecdotes
• Dominic Holden, a writer for the Seattle, Washington, newspaper The Stranger, used to work as a waiter. Four young Russians came into the restaurant where he worked and ordered something sweet and shots of room-temperature vodka. Mr. Holden happily served them their order, but trouble arose. The four young Russians had apparently drunk too much, and their table was covered with brown butcher paper on which a lit candle was sitting. The Russians used the candle to set on fire the brown butcher paper, and smoke began to fill the restaurant. Mr. Holden cheerily told them to put out the fire, and they obeyed, but soon they again set the paper on fire. This time, Mr. Holden ordered them more firmly to put out the fire. When the restaurant closed, the Russians paid their $75 tab and had only $1.52 in coins to leave as a tip. This tip was not satisfactory to Mr. Holden, who told them that they MUST leave a bigger tip. The Russians said that they had no more money, but Mr. Holden told them, "Go to the cash machine and get me a real tip." How much is a real tip? On a $75 tab, at least $10. The Russians got the money and left a $10 tip, but the next morning they showed up at the restaurant and complained to the manager, who fired Mr. Holden, who says, "Fair of him to fire me, but I'd do it again." Other Stranger staff worked in food places. For example, writer Lindy West worked in the Backdoor Bakery, kind of. Actually, she worked a few hours for free as she auditioned for the job, which she did not stay around to get. The bosses put her on the orange juicer - for hours. Ms. West says, "The Backdoor Bakery went through many, many gallons of fresh-squeezed orange juice every day. Math fact: The number of oranges required to make one gallon of fresh-squeezed orange juice is eleventy grillion. Backdoor Bakery fact: All of those oranges were juiced BY HAND. SPECIFICALLY, MY F**KING HAND. There was an 'electric' juicer, but it only 'worked' if you leaned into it mightily at an arm-torquing angle. I juiced and juiced and juiced for hours. I sweated, I groaned, my limbs cramped." Eventually, Ms. West found herself alone with an employee who whispered to her, "Get out. Run. Don't work here. Run. Get OUT." She did. Another Strangerwriter, David Schmader, served a regular customer who was known as "Total Bitch" - an affectionate nickname. In fact, she used the term when Mr. Schmader first served her. Mr. Schmader remembers that she said to him, without making eye contact, "I'm a total bitch. But I'm a stud tipper. Now bring me my sh*t." Her sh*t was a plate of scrambled eggs and a coffee with five creams, and she expected to be served that every time she entered the restaurant without anyone asking her what she wanted. She worked as a bartender at a strip club, and after working her shift, all she wanted was her eggs and her coffee - no chitchat. Mr. Schmader says, "I loved her honesty. Serving her was an honor. Her bill always came to four dollars and some change. She always left a five-dollar tip."
• The Hasidim loved Israel. Rabbi Velvele of Zbaraz moved to Eretz Israel, but money was hard to come by and so his wife became a washerwoman in order for her and her husband to avoid taking money from charity to live. Rabbi Yaakov Shimshon of Sheptivka came to visit and he saw the rabbi's wife washing laundry in the yard. Believing that the rabbi's wife would feel humiliated if she knew that he had seen her washing her laundry, he attempted to leave quietly without being seen. However, the rabbi's wife saw him. She knew why he had attempted to leave before revealing his presence, so she said to him, "Do not be concerned, Rabbi. This is not my personal wash, but rather work that I undertake, and which ensures our livelihood. Thank God that we are able to live in Eretz Israel and to live off our manual labor."
• When cartoon producer Leon Schlessinger asked Mel Blanc to create the voice of Porky Pig, Mr. Blanc asked for time to do some research. Mr. Schlessinger was surprised by the request, but agreed. Mr. Blanc drove out to a pig farm to study the pigs and listen to them grunt. However, he decided to turn the series of grunts into a stutter. He also decided to have Porky Pig attempt to say several words before saying a different word. He then drove to see Mr. Schlessinger and auditioned the voice: "Porky would say good-bye like this: 'Bye-b - , uh-bye-b - , so lo - , uh-so-lon, auf Wiede - , auf Wiede - , Toodle-loo.'" Mr. Schlessinger loved the voice and gave Mr. Blanc the job, but he also told him, "Go home and take a bath, will you?"
• When Jerry Lee Lewis was still a teenager, he performed for $15 a night, playing from 1 a.m. until dawn at an after-hours bar run by Roy Hall on Commerce Street in Nashville. Jerry Lee was the youngest person there, and patrons let him hold onto their watches and jewelry because they figured that because he was so young, police would not search him if they busted the bar. Sure enough, police busted the bar, and Jerry Lee, who had at least 15 wristwatches on his arms, was the only person who was not searched.
• On 10 July 2011 the British tabloid News of the World ceased publication, the result of a scandal involving reporters illegally tapping telephones. As a result of the scandal, many businesses ceased advertising in News of the World. The final crossword puzzle in News of the World contained a hidden message. The answers to four clues were these words: "TOMORROW WE ARE SACKED."
• Three men worked together. Two of the men were clever, and the third man was a fool. When the two clever men disagreed, the fool cast the tie-breaking vote.
• "Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another." - Anatole France
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Police have filed a criminal complaint against a woman after she allegedly trespassed on CIA's headquarters four times since April 22, once asking to speak with "Agent Penis."
The woman, 58-year-old Jennifer G. Hernandez, had attempted to enter the agency three days in a row on May 1, 2 and 3.
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Mark Twain Prize
Dave Chappelle
Dave Chappelle will be the recipient of this year's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The honor, in its 22nd year being handed out by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, will be bestowed at an gala performance event October 27 at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall in Washington, D.C.
The award recognizes individuals who have had an impact on American society in ways similar to the distinguished 19th-century novelist and essayist Samuel Clemens, best known as Mark Twain. Richard Pryor received the first honor in 1998. Recent recipients include Tina Fey, Will Ferrell, Ellen DeGeneres, Carol Burnett, Jay Leno, Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray, David Letterman and Julia Louis-Dreyfus last year.
"Dave is the embodiment of Mark Twain's observation that 'against the assault of humor, nothing can stand,'" said Kennedy Center President Deborah F. Rutter. "For three decades, Dave has challenged us to see hot-button issues from his entirely original yet relatable perspective. Dave is a hometown hero here in Washington, D.C., where he grew up. We're so looking forward to welcoming him back home."
Chappelle was the mastermind behind the 2003 sketch comedy hit, The Chappelle Show-one of the highest rated programs on Comedy Central. The show earned three Emmy nominations and went on to become the best-selling TV show in DVD history.
Chappelle won his first Emmy in 2017 for his debut episode on Saturday Night Live. He celebrated his 30th year in comedy that same year by releasing four stand-up specials on Netflix, all of which won Grammy Awards for Best Comedy Album in 2018 and 2019. He captured his second Emmy for Outstanding Variety Special with Equanimity in 2018.
Dave Chappelle
'The Jerk Store Called'
Jason Alexander
George is getting upset with Ted Cruz.
Or at least Jason Alexander, who portrayed George Costanza on NBC's iconic sitcom "Seinfeld," has taken to trolling the Texas Republican senator.
Last week, Cruz tweeted about presidential hopeful Michael Bennet: "Michael Bennet's campaign is a Seinfeld campaign-about nothing-that typifies the Left's empty rage in 2020. In a decade in the Senate, he's done very little...but he did stomp his foot & yell at me on Senate floor (which he features in fundraising emails)."
On Monday, actor Jason Alexander unleashed his inner George when he responded on Twitter:
"So @SenTedCruz has called @SenatorBennet a "Seinfeld campaign", claiming it's about nothing. I've met Bennett. He is a great man and real choice for POTUS. As for Cruz - the jerk store called and they're running out of you. I say, the faster the better."
Jason Alexander
Just Ducky
Robert Mueller
Spotting in D.C. of Special Counsel Robert Mueller spread quickly on social media, even more so in the aftermath of the release of his report on Russian election interference and Democrats' efforts to get him to testify before the House Judiciary Committee.
So there was a great deal of curiosity when photographer Al Drago posted a shot of Mueller leaving Martin's Tavern in Georgetown with an unidentified man carrying a notebook. Soon he was identified: David McCallum, who plays "Ducky" Mallard on "NCIS" and first gained fame as Illya Kuryakin, the Russian agent on the 1960s series "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."
As Nikki Schwab of the New York Post pointed out, Mueller was a guest at McCallum's book party for his novel, "Once a Crooked Boy," in 2016.
House Democrats have yet to announce whether they have reached an agreement for Mueller to testify on the 448-report. Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, said earlier this week that May 15 had been proposed as a date but "nothing has been agreed to yet."
Robert Mueller
Wants Concert To Fight Climate Change
Brian May
Queen guitarist Brian May says he hopes for another large concert like 1985's Live Aid to combat climate change.
The classic rock band was a large part of the iconic concert that also featured U2, Phil Collins, Madonna, Elton John, David Bowie, Mick Jagger and many others. The benefit for Ethiopian famine relief was the first true global concert and linked performances at London's Wembley Stadium and Philadelphia's JFK Stadium to reach an estimated TV audience of 1.5 billion people.
"It probably would take the younger generation to take that bull by the horns," May told The Daily Mirror. "We'd help in any way we can, but I think that's what it would require."
May admitted with the saturation of concerts and musical festivals nowadays it might not be as easy as it was then.
The 1985 spectacle was seen in more than 150 countries and raised an estimated $245 million. Though it wasn't the first benefit concert, it was the first of its size and impact.
Brian May
Racy 'Personal' Photos
Jerry Jr.
Months before evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr.'s game-changing presidential endorsement of Donald Trump (R-Corrupt) in 2016, Falwell asked Trump fixer Michael Cohen for a personal favor, Cohen said in a recorded conversation reviewed by Reuters.
Falwell, president of Liberty University, one of the world's largest Christian universities, said someone had come into possession of what Cohen described as racy "personal" photographs - the sort that would typically be kept "between husband and wife," Cohen said in the taped conversation.
According to a source familiar with Cohen's thinking, the person who possessed the photos destroyed them after Cohen intervened on the Falwells' behalf.
The Falwells, through a lawyer, declined to comment for this article. A spokesperson for Falwell at Liberty University told NBC News they had no comment. NBC News has not had an opportunity to hear the audiotaped phone call.
Cohen would later prove successful in another matter involving Falwell, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Cohen helped persuade Falwell to issue his endorsement of Trump's presidential candidacy at a critical moment, they said: just before the Iowa caucuses. Falwell subsequently barnstormed with Trump and vouched for the candidate's Christian virtues.
Jerry Jr.
Four Centuries Reveal
Corals
El Niños are among the most influential events affecting weather conditions, driving devastating droughts in some regions and floods elsewhere that can kill hundreds of thousands combined. They also seem to be becoming more common, but only now do we have the long-term data to confirm this.
Every credible climate model agrees that extra greenhouse gasses warm the world. However, there are other matters where their results conflict. "Most models predict an increase in El Niño frequency with global warming, but not all agree," University of Melbourne PhD student and lead author Mandy Freund told IFLScience. Adding to the confusion, climate scientists now recognize two types of El Ninos, beginning in the Eastern and Central Pacific respectively, that can affect many regions differently.
Confronted with this disagreement, the obvious thing to do is to see whether the last 30 years have had more El Niños than normal. Unfortunately, we lack the long-term records to know what normal is. Some weather events can be traced through their effects on tree growth, but it is difficult to identify past El Niños in this way and nearly impossible to distinguish the Central Pacific events from Eastern ones. The Pacific Ocean has no trees and, as Freund explained to IFLScience, nearby tropical forests most affected by these events don't have species that reveal seasonal variations through tree rings well.
So Freund turned to the Pacific's great resource: coral. Corals have growth rings like trees, with the isotopes deposited in them revealing information about sea temperatures and salinity in the area where they grow. Using data collected from coral cores at 27 sites around the great ocean, she trained an algorithm to recognize patterns that not only signify El Niños but to distinguish between the types based on the locations where anomalies appear first.
Not only was Freund able to distinguish El Niños by type but she found that the last 30 years were unprecedented, with Central Pacific El Niños almost tripling in frequency, while fewer but more intense Eastern Pacific events occurred, Freund reports in Nature Geoscience.
Corals
Earth's Crust
Portugal
In 1969, a giant earthquake off the coast of Portugal kicked up a tsunami that killed over a dozen people. Some 200 years prior, an even larger earthquake hit the same area, killing around 100,000 people and destroying the city of Lisbon.
Two earthquakes in the same spot over a couple hundred years is not cause for alarm. But what puzzled seismologists about these tremors was that they began in relatively flat beds of the ocean - away from any faults or cracks in the Earth's crust where tectonic plates slip past each other, releasing energy and causing earthquakes.
One idea is that a tectonic plate is peeling into two layers - the top peeling off the bottom layer - a phenomenon that has never been observed before, a group of scientists reported in April at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly held in Vienna. This peeling may be creating a new subduction zone, or an area in which one tectonic plate is rammed beneath another, according to their abstract.
The peeling is likely driven by a water-absorbing layer in the middle of the tectonic plate, according to National Geographic. This layer might have undergone a geological process called serpentinization, in which water that seeps in through cracks causes a layer to transform into soft green minerals. Now, this transformed layer might be causing enough weakness in the plate for the bottom layer to peel away from the top layer. That peeling could lead to deep fractures that trigger a tiny subduction zone, National Geographic reported.
This group isn't the first to propose this idea, but it's the first to provide some data on it. They tested their hypothesis with two-dimensional models, and their preliminary results showed that this type of activity is indeed possible - but is still yet to be proven.
Portugal
"Mother of God of Czestochowa"
Poland
Rights groups and government critics in Poland are protesting Tuesday after police temporarily detained a human rights activist for putting up posters depicting the country's most revered Catholic icon with the LGBTQ rainbow on the halos of Mary and baby Jesus.
Prosecutors in the central city of Plock said the woman has been questioned and has heard charges of hurting religious feelings and desecration of the icon of Mother of God of Czestochowa, popularly known as the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, a painting housed at the Jasna Gora monastery in Czestochowa, in southern Poland, since the 14th-century.
The activist, 51-year-old Elzbieta Podlesna, last month placed posters with altered images of the icon on walls, garbage bins and mobile toilets near St. Dominik's church in Plock. She did not physically damage the icon, which was venerated by pontiffs including Pope John Paul II.
The case has highlighted the clash in predominantly Catholic Poland between the freedom of speech and laws banning hostility against religious beliefs.
Podlesna could face up to two years in prison or a stiff fine if convicted.
Poland
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for April 29 to May 5. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 12.5 million.
2. "Game of Thrones," HBO, 11.8 million.
3. "NCIS," CBS, 11.7 million.
4. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 10.7 million.
5. "FBI," CBS, 8.9 million.
6. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 8.1 million.
7. "Billboard Music Awards," NBC, 8 million.
8. "Mom," CBS, 7.89 million.
9. "60 Minutes," CBS, 7.6 million.
10. "American Idol" (Sunday), ABC, 7.5 million.
11. "Survivor," CBS, 7.3 million
12. "The Voice," NBC, 7.24 million.
13. NBA Playoffs: Golden State at Houston, ABC, 7.23 million.
14. "NCIS: New Orleans, CBS, 7.2 million.
15. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 7 million.
16. "Hawaii Five-0," CBS, 6.8
17. "Bull," CBS, 6.5 million.
18. "Station 19," ABC, 6.4 million.
19. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 6.3 million.
20. NBA Playoffs: Houston at Golden State, Turner, 6.2 million.
Ratings
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