M Is FOR MASHUP - May 23rd, 2018
Mashup for May
By DJ Useo
The new mashups posted contain many fine creations. Here's some of my faves -
01 - DJ Rudec - Nightingale Toy
( Netta vs Hugh Hardie )
( sowndhaus.audio/track/9821/netta-vs-hugh-hardie-nightingale-toy-rudec-mashup )
02 - Vipfm - Bootz Me Five
( Snap r vs Zucchero vs Mr. President vs Aqua l vs Dr Alban vs Supertramp )
( www.hulkshare.com/classicfm/bootz-me-five )
03 - SMASH - Settle Down With Friends
( Marshmello & Anne-Marie vs Kimbra )
( sowndhaus.audio/track/9649/settle-down-with-friends-marshmello-amp-anne-marie-vs-kimbra )
04 - DJ Rageface - I'm One Yesterday God Wall
( Wonder Thing ) ( F Peep, Charlie Shuffler, SH, Marcoiz, Zella Day )
( soundcloud.com/burn-upon-listening-1/im-one-yesterday-god-wall-wonder-thing-f-peep-charlie-shuffler-sh-marcoiz-zella-day )
05 - Chocomang - This Could Be Jah
( Bob Marley vs Maroon5 )
( soundcloud.com/chocomang-tracks/chocomang-this-could-be-jah-bob-marley-vs-maroon5 )
06 - YITT - 21st Century Digital Medication
( AFI vs. Bad Religion )
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEKv1TiRnJM )
Coming next week - The Audioboots 90s Mashed collection.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Paul Krugman: What's the Matter with Europe? (NY Times Column)
A discredited elite and dark forces rising. Sound familiar?
Josh Marshall: Predators of New York (TPM)
One of the deepest dynamics of the Trump presidency is his mounting rage at his inability to control the press. To a degree, this is simply that nothing is like the national political press in scandal mode. No matter what pond you're from or how big it was, nothing compares. But a major part of the story is how well Trump did working and directing and playing the New York City press for decades. They ate out of his hand. All the crime and money laundering and crazy bad acts went mostly unreported in the big papers - and this is in the national media capital.
Jonathan Chait: Trump Wishes He Could Destroy Obama's Legacy. He Hasn't. And Won't. (NY Mag)
Obviously Trump has undone some of Obama's work. But I think this conclusion makes three mistakes about Obama's legacy: It understates its breadth, its depth, and conceptualizes the whole idea of a legacy in the wrong way.
Jonathan Chait: In Year Two, Mueller Is Wading Into a Bottomless Pit of Trump Sleaze (NY Mag)
The unstated assumption of the case that Mueller should stay away from this topic is that Trump managed to evade scrutiny of his business record during the campaign, and the campaign was the public's one and only shot at accountability. Now the special counsel is the only force putting real pressure on the unethical and quite possibly criminal culture that Trump has nourished. What possible justification is there for Mueller to ignore this bottomless pit of sleaze?
Bev Vincent: The Dead Zone (Poetry Foundation)
Stephen King is one of the world's most popular writers. Why isn't his poetry more widely read?
Gwilym Mumford: "'I didn't have a stroke': Terry Gilliam on health scare and Don Quixote" (The Guardian)
As 'cursed' film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote premieres after three decades, director says reported stroke was a perforated artery no more painful than a stubbed toe.
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Presenting
Michael Egan
took the day off.
has returned to semi-retired status.
In memory.
Reader Suggestion
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Reader Comment
Current Events
The link says something about Jimmy Kimmel, but it DOES seem to link to the article with several new Jim Carrey works--love his new pledge!
from Marc Perkel
Marc's Guide to Curing Cancer
So far so good on beating cancer for now. I'm doing fine. At the end of the month I'll be 16 months into an 8 month mean lifespan. And yesterday I went on a 7 mile hike and managed to keep up with the hiking group I was with. So, doing something right.
Still waiting for future test results and should see things headed in the right direction. I can say that it's not likely that anything dire happens in the short term so that means that I should have time to make several more attempts at this. So even if it doesn't work the first time there are a lot of variations to try. So if there's bad news it will help me pick the next radiation target.
I have written a "how to" guide for oncologists to perform the treatment that I got. I'm convinced that I'm definitely onto something and whether it works for me or not isn't the definitive test. I know if other people tried this that it would work for some of them, and if they improve it that it will work for a lot of them.
The guide is quite detailed and any doctor reading this can understand the procedure at every level. I also go into detail as to how it works, how I figured it out, and variations and improvements that could be tried to enhance it. I also introduce new ways to look at the problem. There is a lot of room for improvement and I think that doctors reading it will see what I'm talking about and want to build on it. And it's written so that if you're not a doctor you can still follow it. It also has a personal story revealing that I'm the class clown of cancer support group. I give great interviews and I look pretty hot in a lab coat.
So, feel free to read this and see what I'm talking about. But if any of you want to help then pass this around to both doctors and cancer patients. I need some media coverage. I'm looking for as many eyeballs as possible to read these ideas. Even if this isn't the solution, it's definitely on the right track. After all, I did hike 7 miles yesterday. And this hiking group wasn't moving slow. So if this isn't working then, why am I still here?
I also see curing cancer as more of an engineering problem that a medical problem. So if you are good at solving problems and most of what you know about medicine was watching the Dr. House MD TV show, then you're at the level I was at when I started. So anyone can jump in and be part of the solution.
Here is a link to my guide: Oncologists Guide to Curing Cancer using Abscopal Effect
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
'MONEY, BURNS A HOLE IN HIS POCKET.'
OF THE TYRANT, FOR THE TYRANT AND BY THE TYRANT.
"SOUND OF SILENCE"
HE DIDN'T HAVE A "SHOOTING OVEN" PERMIT.
LET'S MAKE A DEAL!
"ALL IN THE FAMILY."
THE TRAITORS.
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sun peeked through for about half an hour late in the day.
Forever Stamp
Sally Ride
Physicist Sally Ride, the first American woman in space and the first astronaut to come out as having a same-sex partner, will be getting her own stamp.
Ride, who first launched into space on June 18, 1983 aboard the space shuttle Challenger, was herself an avid stamp collector, her partner of 27 years Tam O'Shaughnessy, said in a statement provided by the United States Postal Service.
"Sally started collecting stamps when she was a girl, and she continued to do so her whole life - especially stamps of the Olympics and space exploration," O'Shaughnessy said. "Sally would be deeply honored to have her portrait on a U.S. stamp."
Ride launched into space twice, in 1983 and 1984, both times aboard the Challenger. She was the third woman overall to reach space, after Soviet cosmonauts Valentina Tershkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savistskaya in 1982. She was the only person to participate in the investigations of both the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. Her physics career at the University of California, San Diego focused on movement of electromagnetic particles. She co-authored six children's books about science with O'Shaughnessy, and from 1999 to 2000 served as president of Live Science sister site Space.com. She died in 2012, and remains the youngest American woman to travel into space.
Long time NASA illustrator Paul Salmon painted the image used on the stamp. USPS spokesperson Mark Saunders told Live Science that he used a group photo of her first launch crew for inspiration. Ride's stamp pictures her smiling in her astronaut's jumpsuit, which reads "Sally K. Ride" in a patch on her left shoulder. Over that shoulder, the Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off into a blue sky.
Sally Ride
LGBQT Characters
GLAAD
The film industry has a long way to go until it achieves satisfactory representation of LGBQT characters in cinema, a new report found.
LGBQT advocacy group GLAAD released its sixth annual Studio Responsibility Index on Tuesday, surveying the films released in 2017 from major studios and their subsidiaries. The report found a "significant decrease" in LGBQT characters in Hollywood movies, with them featured in just 14 of 109 films. That comes out to 12.8% of major releases last year, down 5.6% from the previous year's 18.4%. In total, GLAAD says 2017's percentage is the lowest since it began its survey in 2012.
"On screen, record-breaking films like Black Panther and Wonder Woman prove that not only does inclusion make for great stories -- inclusion is good for the bottom line," GLAAD president and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said in a statement. "It is time for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer stories to be included in this conversation and in this movement."
GLAAD counted 28 LGBQT characters throughout mainstream releases last year, down from 70 in 2016 and 47 in 2015. The report notes that 2016's number was inflated by 14 characters featured in a single film -- Universal Pictures' PopStar: Never Stop Never Stopping. And GLAAD found there were no transgender or non-binary characters in mainstream films in 2017.
Of the major studios examined in the index -- 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, Walt Studios and Warner Brothers -- Universal and Fox ranked highest for quantity and quality of inclusion, but even that merited only an "insufficient" rating for the pair, compared to "poor" and "failing." Lionsgate and Warner Brothers, meanwhile, had the worst ratings.
GLAAD
Yale Speech
Hillary
Hillary Clinton has publicly mocked US president-for-now Donald Trump (R-Corrupt) by pulling out a Russian hat in the middle of a speech at Yale University.
The president's former Democrat rival brandished the distinctive Ushanka headgear in an apparent dig at Mr Trump over the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible links between his campaign and the Kremlin.
During Sunday's speech, Yale alumna Ms Clinton referred to the university's tradition of wearing outlandish hats on graduation day - explaining she had decided to join in.
"I see, looking out at you, that you are following the tradition of over-the-top hats so I bought a hat too. A Russian hat," she said, prompting raucous applause from the audience as she raised the furry garment aloft.
In case anyone was in doubt about what she was referring to, the former secretary of State, unexpectedly vanquished by Mr Trump in 2016, added: "If you can't beat them, join them."
Hillary
'Trench Coat' Control, Not Gun Control
Hugh Hewitt
Conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt has a novel idea to curb school mass shootings: Ban trench coats.
Hewitt, an MSNBC host, rejected limits on guns as a response to last week's school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas, where police say a student used his dad's shotgun and revolver hidden beneath a trench coat to kill 10 people.
"To the teachers and administrators out there, the trench coat is kind of a giveaway," Hewitt said Monday on "The Hugh Hewitt Show" on Salem Radio Network. "You might just say no more trench coats. The creepy people, make a list, check it twice."
Hewitt said he suggested coat control because he can't see stepping on gun rights. Even universal background checks for gun buyers and a ban on assault-style weapons probably wouldn't have prevented the Texas shooting, he said.
The Texas lieutenant governor said the problem in the Santa Fe attack was that there were "too many entrances" to the school. National Rifle Association head Oliver North blamed too many teenagers on Ritalin and a culture of violence.
Hugh Hewitt
Some Typos Reportedly Intentional
Fake Tweets
President-for-now Donald Trump (R-Crooked) has become known for his grammatically incorrect tweets - but it turns out he's not the only one writing them.
The Boston Globe reports that White House aides who write tweets for the president use questionable grammar, random capitalization, excessive exclamation points, and fragmented sentences on purpose in an effort to mimic the president's signature Twitter style, according to two people familiar with the process.
The proposed tweets are designed not only to imitate Trump, 71, but also to cater to his base.
"Some staff members even relish the scoldings Trump gets from elites shocked by the Trumpian language they strive to imitate, believing that debates over presidential typos fortify the belief within his base that he has the common touch," the Globe says.
While the president's Twitter feed may be chaotic, staff members do adhere to a process of sorts when submitting proposed tweets. White House officials write a memo to the president that includes three or four suggested tweets on a given topic, and the president then either picks his favorite and posts it as-is, or tweaks the language to his liking.
Fake Tweets
American Miners
Black Lung
Researchers have been "astounded" to discover a resurgence in the deadliest form of black lung disease in American miners - an industry that Donald Trump is attempting to revive.
Since 1970, there has been a "substantial" rise in the number of workers suffering progressive massive fibrosis despite efforts to introduce modern dust-control measures in mines. The increase has sped up since the turn of the millennium.
Scientists say one factor is a lack of investment in dust-reduction systems. Another is that miners have been working longer hours and more days each week as the industry has come under ever more pressure thanks to the abundance of cheap natural gas and the plummeting cost of renewables.
Researchers analysed data from the US Department of Labor collected from former coal miners applying for benefits from 1970 to 2016 under the Federal Black Lung Program, which provides payments and medical benefits to coal miners disabled by the disease, whose medical term is pneumoconiosis.
Over those 46 years, 4,679 coal miners were found to have the "disabling but preventable" condition progressive massive fibrosis (PMF) - the most severe form of black lung.
Black Lung
Barbarian Tribe
Denmark
Some 2,000 years ago, a ragtag troop of about 400 Germanic tribesmen marched into battle against a mysterious adversary in Denmark, and they were slaughtered to the last man.
Or at least that's the story their bones tell. Exhumed from Alken Enge - a peat bog in Denmark's Illerup River Valley - between 2009 and 2014, nearly 2,100 bones belonging to the dead fighters have given archaeologists a rare window into the post-battle rituals of Europe's so-called "barbarian" tribes during the height of the Roman Empire. In a new study published online May 21 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark dug into the bloody details.
"The ferocity of the Germanic tribes and peoples and their extremely violent and ritualized behavior in the aftermath of warfare became a trope in the Roman accounts of their barbaric northern neighbors," the authors wrote in the new study. Despite these historical accounts, little evidence of these practices has ever been discovered in archaeological finds - until now.
In the Alken Enge find, archaeologists unearthed 2,095 human bones and fragments from the peat and lake sediment across 185 acres of wetlands in East Jutland. These bones belonged to 82 distinct people - seemingly all men, most of them 20 to 40 years old - but likely account for just a fraction of the bones initially deposited in the area, the researchers wrote. After analyzing the geographic distribution of the bones, the team estimated a minimum of 380 skeletons were originally interred in the water.
This population "significantly exceeds the scale of any known Iron Age village community," the researchers wrote, suggesting the men were recruited from a large area to participate in a common battle.
Denmark
Spanish Galleon Found
The San Jose
US scientists found a Spanish galleon laden with treasure worth up to £12.6bn at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea, more than 300 years after it sank.
The San Jose, considered the holy grail of shipwrecks, was discovered three years ago off the coast of Colombia but few details were released at the time.
The 62-gun, three-masted galleon sank in June 1708, during a battle with British ships in the War of Spanish Succession, with the loss of nearly 600 lives.
Its treasure of gold, silver and emeralds has been described as the most valuable ever found and the precise location of the shipwreck was one of maritime history's most enduring mysteries.
The galleon was discovered using an underwater autonomous vehicle operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the agency has now disclosed.
The San Jose
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for May 14-20. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "NCIS," CBS, 12.71 million.
2. "Roseanne," ABC, 10.74 million.
3. "NCIS: New Orleans," CBS, 9.44 million.
4. NBA Conference Finals: Golden State at Houston, Game 1, TNT, 8.9 million.
5. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 8.7 million.
6. NBA Conference Finals: Cleveland at Boston, Game 2, ESPN, 8.42 million.
7. "60 Minutes," CBS, 8.36 million.
8. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 8.16 million.
9. "Billboard Music Awards," NBC, 7.87 million.
10. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 7.82 million.
11. NBA Conference Finals: Houston at Golden State, Game 3, TNT, 7.8 million.
12. "Dancing With the Stars: Athletes," ABC, 7.69 million.
13. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 7.6 million.
14. NBA Conference Finals: Golden State at Houston, Game 2, TNT, 7.56 million.
15. "Survivor," CBS, 7.54 million.
16. "American Idol" (Sunday), ABC, 7.47 million.
17. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 7.18 million.
18. "Young Sheldon, CBS, 7.04 million.
19. NBA Conference Finals: Boston at Cleveland, Game 3, ESPN, 6.83 million.
20. "Hawaii Five-0," CBS, 6.62 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Clint Walker
Clint Walker, who starred in the television Western "Cheyenne" and had a key supporting role in the WWII film "The Dirty Dozen," died on Monday in Northern California, according to the New York Times. He was 90.
After "Cheyenne" ended, Walker made some guest appearances on TV - "77 Sunset Strip," "Kraft Suspense Theatre" and "The Lucy Show," in an episode called "Lucy and Clint Walker."
But the actor became more interested in movies both theatrical and for TV. In 1964, he had a supporting role in the Doris Day-Rock Hudson comedy "Send Me No Flowers." His acting was not distinguished, but he did participate in a memorable sight gag in which the enormous man popped out of an exceptionally small car.
Walker in 1967 joined the all-star cast of WWII classic "The Dirty Dozen." The actor played one of the 12 miscreants rescued/recruited from military prisons for a particularly hazardous mission. Lee Marvin was a big man, but Walker was far bigger, and in their famous scene together, Marvin's character enjoins Walker's Samson Posey to take a swing at him; a reluctant Posey, essentially a gentle soul (except when pushed) says, "I don't want to hurt you, Major."
In the 1969 Western "More Dead Than Alive," Walker was first credited, above Vincent Price and Anne Francis. The New York Times paid him a half-baked compliment: "There is something winning about his taciturn earnestness as an actor, although real emotion seldom breaks through."
He made TV movies with names like "Killdozer" and "Snowbeast."
Walker starred with Kim Cattrall in 1977's "Deadly Harvest," about a famine plaguing the entire world.
The actor reprised the role of Cheyenne Bodie for an episode of "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues" in 1995 and retired after voicing Nick Nitro for the movie "Small Soldiers" in 1998.
He was married three times. He is survived by third wife, Susan Cavallari, and a daughter, Valerie, by his first wife, Verna Garver. His twin sister died in 2000.
Clint Walker
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