M Is FOR MASHUP - January 31st, 2018
Les Boom 18 New Mashups!
By DJ Useo
So, like, hey everybody, I have 2 new DJ Useo mashup albums
completed, & this is the first to be released.
Les Boom is the title because explosions!
Initially, I did these mixes up just for me,
& then I tweaked & tweaked in an effort to make them
appealing to all of you.
DJ Petrushka generously went through them all &
selected the
Simple Minds / Olly James track as the preview
( sowndhaus.audio/track/8681/dj-useo-gloria-invictus-simple-minds-vs-olly-james-maddox- ).
Thanks DJ P!
I find that while these cuts are great in stereo,
they shine even more in surround-sound.
Give it a try.
The tracks employ swell artists of many styles, all combined into genre clash combinations that will surprise you. There's Devo vs The Stranglers, Pink Floyd vs The Cramps, & Steely Dan vs T. Rex, among 15 other tracks.
As I mentioned, I have another complete mashup album ready,
but, will wait a few weeks to release.
Hope this Les Boom gets you worked up for more.
More DJ Useo Mashup Albums available here
( djuseomashupalbums.blogspot.com/ )
Meanwhile everything Useo can be found as always here
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/ )
& all my stuff is generally posted at
AUDIOBOOTS MASHUP FORUM
( audioboots.com/ )
Big thanks to everyone of you for being there.
It's appreciated.
- DJ Useo
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Paul Krugman: Bubble, Bubble, Fraud and Trouble (NY Times Column)
So is Bitcoin a giant bubble that will end in grief? Yes. But it's a bubble wrapped in techno-mysticism inside a cocoon of libertarian ideology. And there's something to be learned about the times we live in by peeling away that wrapping.
Julie Pace: Despite Strong Economy, Trump Will Address Lawmakers From Weak Position (TPM)
President Donald Trump will herald a robust economy and push for bipartisan congressional action on immigration in Tuesday's State of the Union address, as he seeks to rally a deeply divided nation and boost his own sagging standing with Americans.
Lorde's Grammys dress made a powerful statement (Spy)
Lorde may have skipped the Grammy's red carpet but her dress made a powerful impact online instead. The Kiwi star, who is nominated for Album of the Year at today's Awards, uploaded a new photo in solidarity with the White Rose movement, featuring a feminist poem on the back of her dress. She captioned it: "My version of a white rose - THE APOCALYPSE WILL BLOSSOM - an excerpt from the greatest of all time, Jenny Holzer."
Stephen Moore: It's Trump's Economy Now (NY Times)
Ultimately, the most important statistical indicator for Mr. Trump will be wages for middle-income workers. […] If those wages go up, Mr. Trump may not get credit from the news media or Democrats, but it's a good bet he will get re-elected.
Laurie Penny: Life lessons from weightlifting: "strong women" are used to justify inequality (New Statesman)
Today's young women are absolutely tough enough to tolerate any amount of misogynist bullshit - they just don't want to and they shouldn't have to. They are not "weak". They do not want to be "empowered". They are angry and they are right to be; and they want more power and they deserve it. They are sick of being shamed for refusing to carry the burdens that their mothers and grandmothers were forced to. If that's what strength is, I am happy to be puny.
Hadley Freeman: What does Hollywood's reverence for child rapist Roman Polanski tell us? (The Guardian)
It's 40 years this week since the director and convicted sex offender went on the run. What does his continued success reveal about the film world's true attitude towards sexual assault?
Sarah Kliff: An ER visit, a $12,000 bill - and a health insurer that wouldn't pay (Vox)
A new insurance policy expects patients to diagnose themselves.
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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
WHY DO DOGS HAVE FLOPPY EARS?
SAVE THE WILD HORSES!
THE CORPORATE TAX CUT.
RIGGING THE ELECTION.
GOODBYE "WAHOO".
THE ENDLESS WARS.
"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES."
Visit JD's site - Kitty Litter Music
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Beautiful summer day - in the middle of winter.
Ailes Had Secret Recordings
Andrea Tantaros
In her latest legal action against Fox News, ex-host Andrea Tantaros claims that the late Roger Ailes "was recording female employees disrobe without their consent."
Tantaros, who previously starred on Fox News' "The Five" and "Outnumbered," makes that claim in an amended lawsuit, where she alleges that she was sexually harassed during her time on the network. In the amended complaint, Tantaros maintains the Ailes had a CCTV system installed to surveil female employees as they changed outfits in the Fox offices. "Fox offices are where most Fox female talent, including Ms. Tantaros, disrobed daily from their regular clothing into their on-air attire, sometimes multiple times a day," reads the suit.
Additionally, the lawsuit, which was obtained by Variety, references a "bi-annual trunk show" where "female talent was expected to disrobe down to their undergarments to try on new on-air dresses for the next season, without even the benefit of a curtain." The complaint alleges that the women were being secretly recorded at the truck show as well.
Tantaros also claims that malware was installed on her laptop in August 2015, after the company asked employees to bring their personal laptops into the office (something, Tantaros says in the suit, that she had never done before) in order to participate in a Live Tweet Session.
The complaint alleges that a forensic investigation found malware on both her laptop, and "Fox was using an outdated operating version of [employees' work BlackBerrys] that enabled them to turn on the microphone and camera of the device at will without the knowledge or consent of the person who had the Blackberry in his or her possession."
Andrea Tantaros
Joins ABC News
Christie
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R-Shameless) is coming to a small screen near you.
Christie will join ABC News as a contributor, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to HuffPost. The news was first reported Monday by The Star-Ledger.
The famously blunt politician will make his debut as a contributor on Tuesday's "Good Morning America." He'll return to the network later that night to contribute to the coverage of President Donald Trump's State of the Union address.
The former governor, who left office earlier this month after serving eight years, has been a staunch backer of Trump since the presidential campaign. Once Christie dropped his own primary bid, he put his support behind Trump. Even though he was one of the few high-profile campaign surrogates not given a top position in the Trump administration, he's remained loyal to the president.
Christie
Emotional Support Peacock
United Airlines
United Airlines turned away an emotional-support animal - a proud peacock - at a New Jersey airport this weekend, as airlines have been considering with new guidelines for service and comfort animals.
United Airlines said in a statement to NBC News that the peacock "did not meet guidelines for a number of reasons, including its weight and size." The incident took place in the lobby of Newark Liberty International Airport on Saturday.
"We explained this to the customer on three separate occasions before they arrived at the airport," the airline said in its statement to the peacock network.
The Jet Set, a travel and lifestyle show, first reported the incident. The site included images of the flamboyant bird on Facebook Sunday in a post saying the emotional-support peacock was denied boarding. It was unclear if the passenger and peacock made it to their destination.
United Airlines
Displays Looted Art
Louvre
The Louvre Museum is putting 31 paintings on permanent display in an effort to find the rightful owners of those and other works of art looted by Nazis during World War II.
The Paris museum opened two showrooms last month to display the paintings, which are among thousands of works of art looted by German forces in France between 1940 and 1945.
More than 45,000 objects have been handed back to their rightful owners since the war, but more than 2,000 remain unclaimed, including 296 paintings stored at the Louvre.
The paintings in the new showrooms are from various artists of different eras and horizons, including a remarkable landscape from Theodore Rousseau, "La Source du Lizon."
Other more famous looted works had already been on display in the museum, but visitors did not necessarily know they had been stolen by the Nazis. In museums, pieces of art retrieved by the French authorities are identified with the label "MNR," French initials for National Museums Recovery.
Louvre
'Cheats Like Hell' at Golf
T-rump
President-for-now Donald Trump (R-Crooked) "cheats like hell" when he plays golf and is not nearly the caliber of player he claims to be, a top LPGA player told a Norwegian newspaper during an interview.
Suzann Pettersen, who has won two majors and 15 tour events and has known Trump for more than a decade, employed an old adage that likens one's golf game to how one conducts himself or herself in the business world.
"He cheats like hell," Pettersen said, according to golf.com. "So I don't quite know how he is in business. They say that if you cheat at golf, you cheat at business."
The Norway native also said Trump's drives often look they are flying well off the fairway but somehow stay out of the rough-and suggested he might be paying his caddies to help him on the course.
"He always says he is the world's best putter. But in all the times I've played him, he's never come close to breaking 80," she said, according to golf.com. "But what's strange is that every time I talk to him he says he just golfed a 69, or that he set a new course record or won a club championship some place. I just laugh."
T-rump
Sold 10,000 Flamethrowers
Elon Musk
Entrepreneur Elon Musk has captured the world's imagination with his electric cars, space rockets and renewable energy systems, and now the billionaire is looking to corner the market in a slightly less benevolent area: flamethrowers.
Musk, the founder and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has recently made headlines with the launch of his company's Falcon 9 rocket late last year and the impending launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket in February. But besides sending spacecraft into the sky, preparing for the release of the Tesla Semi electric truck and all the other things a genius billionaire businessman does in his day-to-day life, Musk has also launched an actual functional flamethrower for consumers, and he claims he has already sold 10,000 of the $500 weapons.
One of Musk's newest endeavor is The Boring Co., which aims to quickly dig tunnels while "dropping costs by a factor of 10 or more," according to its website. Tunnels might sound, well, boring, but the company is linked to Musk's vision for a rapid-transit Hyperloop system that would use tunnels.
So far, however, The Boring Co. hasn't been digging as much as it's been joking. In late 2017, Musk started selling branded capsthrough the company's website, raising $1 million from the sale of 50,000 hats. At the time, he made what was thought to be a joke; now it appears to be very real.
And so it has come to pass. Over the weekend, Musk tweeted about the flamethrower several times, including posting an Instagram video of himself using the gun to produce a flame about 2 feet long. The short flame length keeps it from meeting the federal definition of an illegal flamethrower, Musk claimed.
Elon Musk
Thanks To Climate Change
Large Beetles
If you're afraid of giant insects, climate change has a silver lining for you. A new study shows that as temperatures have increased over the past century, the world's biggest beetles may have been shrinking, some downsizing by as much as 20% in 45 years.
This new work "is a powerful demonstration of how climate change is influencing this group of beetles," says Robin Snook, an evolutionary biologist at Stockholm University in Sweden, who was not involved in the study. She and others think that climate change may affect the dynamics of entire ecosystems, including who preys on whom and how many offspring certain animals sire. "If the size of cold-blooded animals is changing around the world, we can expect it will have consequences," adds Alan Ronan Baudron, a fish biologist at the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom, also not involved with the work.
The study began with a deep dive into the scientific literature. Michelle Tseng, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and her undergraduate students combed through all the articles they could find, looking for laboratory studies of temperature effects on insects. They found 19 that indicated at least 22 beetle species shrank when raised in warmer than normal temperatures. The ground beetles, which in include tiger beetles and beetles that eat millipedes, shrank 1% of their body weight for every 1°C increase in rearing temperature.
To see if this pattern held true in the wild, the team made use of the university's 600,000-specimen insect collection, which included thousands of bugs collected locally since the late 1800s. To save wear and tear on the specimens themselves, the researchers took photographs of more than 6500 beetles from the eight species with the most extensive records. They focused on the length of the insects' hard wing cover, the so-called elytra, which is a good proxy for overall size. The team also looked at climate records to determine trends in rainfall and other factors besides temperature.
Five of the eight species have shrunk over the past century, Tseng and her students report today in the Journal of Animal Ecology. "We were surprised," Tseng says. She had thought that changes in the availability of food and the presence of predators would have such a strong influence on the size of the beetles that her team would not see any trends when comparing just their size and climate change. But they did, especially after they sorted the beetles into size categories. The four largest species of beetles, including the snail killer Scaphinotus angusticollis, shrank 20% in the past 45 years, they report. In contrast, smaller beetles were unaffected or have even slightly increased in size.
Large Beetles
Don't Die of Old Age
Naked Mole Rats
Just when it seemed the naked mole rat couldn't get any weirder, it turns out the buck-toothed, bare-skinned rodents don't even age.
Unlike literally every other mammal, naked mole rats don't become more likely to die as they get up there in years. In humans, for example, with all else being equal besides age, a person's risk of dying doubles every 8 years after age 40. For naked mole rats (Heterocephalus glaber), there is no increase in the risk of death even when the rats are 25 times older than the onset of sexual maturity.
"It doesn't matter how old you are," said Rochelle Buffenstein, a senior principal investigator at Calico Life Sciences LLC, a research company in San Francisco. "Your death is random."
Naked mole rats are famously wrinkled rodents, native to East African deserts. They live in colonies underground, headed by a queen who does all the breeding, by mating with just a few males at any given time. The animals' biology is downright weird. They can live without oxygen for up to 18 minutes without ill effect, by switching over to metabolizing fructose instead of the more usual glucose. They almost never get cancer. Their sperm is of "dismal" quality, according to one researcher, yet they are still perfectly fertile. And they live bizarrely long, over 30 years in captivity and up to 17 years in the wild. Based on their size, naked mole rats should live about 6 years in cushy conditions, just like lab mice. Now, it seems their lack of normal aging might help explain their longevity.
The researchers based their findings on 3,329 naked mole rats living in colonies in their research facility over more than 30 years. They found that on any given day, an average rat's chances of dying were 1 in 10,000. (Most naked mole rats never breed, but the small proportion of rats that do breed fared even better, said study co-author J. Graham Ruby, a Calico principle investigator.
Naked Mole Rats
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Jan. 22-28. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "Grammy Awards," CBS, 19.8 million.
2. "NCIS," CBS, 13.97 million.
3. "Bull," CBS, 11.08 million.
4. "The Good Doctor," ABC, 9.61 million.
5. "This is Us," NBC, 9.38 million.
6. "NCIS: New Orleans," CBS, 9.31 million.
7. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 8.62 million.
8. "Ellen's Game of Games," NBC, 7.57 million.
9. "Kevin Can Wait," CBS, 7.37 million.
10. "Grammy Awards Red Carpet," CBS, 6.96 million.
11. "The Big Bang Theory," 6.9 million.
12. "Chicago Med," NBC, 6.85 million.
13. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 6.848 million.
14. "Man With a Plan," CBS, 6.74 million.
15. "911," Fox, 6.57 million.
16. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 6.54 million.
17. "The Bachelor," ABC, 6.37 million.
18. "The Amazing Race," CBS, 6.18 million.
19. "America's Funniest Home Videos," ABC, 6.17 million.
20. "The Goldbergs," ABC, 6.09 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Mark Salling
Mark Salling has reportedly died in an apparent suicide weeks before being sentenced to prison for possession of child pornography. He was 35.
TMZ, The Blast and E! all reported his death. LAPD PIO told PEOPLE that officers responded to a death investigation at the 11900 block of Big Tujunga Cyn Road Tuesday morning at 8:50 a.m. but could not identify Salling.
The Glee star pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography involving a prepubescent minor Oct. 4, 2017. After striking a plea deal in December, he was due to be sentenced in March and expected to serve four to seven years in prison.
Federal investigators say they found more than 25,000 images and 600 videos depicting child pornography on computers and thumb drives that belonged to Salling. The content depicted children as young as 3 years old being abused, according to court documents.
Born in Dallas, Texas, Salling played jock Noah "Puck" Puckerman on the hit Fox show Glee from 2009-15. His other credits include a guest-role in Walker, Texas Ranger in 1999 and the TV Movie Rocky Road in 2014.
Mark Salling
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