M Is FOR MASHUP - February 13th, 2019
Bootalicious - The Funky Masters - Volume 4 Premieres!
By DJ Useo
DeeM
( www.m3ga.net/mashup/ )
, well known as one of the world's most prominent home producers has arranged another album in his excellent Bootalicious" series. As with the past three volumes, DeeM brings with him a batch of similarly talented bootleggers, resulting in a cool 20 track compilation.
Residing on this collection are popular, & skilled mixers like Happy Cat Disco, DRA'man, Assal, & Rudec, & even more of the finest talent available. Each brings the best blends with tracks employing artists like Chic, The Bee Gees, Jamiroquai, Mariah Carey, plus many more.
"Bootalicious - The Funky Masters - Volume 4"
( www.m3ga.net/mashup/btfm4/ )
is totally worth the listening experience, as the previous 3 volumes were. The link is down the page, right after the preview stream links. You can still obtain the previous releases, in addition. ( I recommend that )
The motivation sounds in place so much, that I expect there'll be many more to come in this series. I have no say in the matter, but I hope that's what occurs. Remember to patronize Mashup Albums in general ; they're your best entertainment value. ( Unless U2 gives away another free album. ) ;)
More new mashup albums next week!
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Paul Krugman: Democrats, Debt and Double Standards (NY Times Column)
Don't let the deficit scolds scare you into thinking small.
KIERYN DARKWATER: I Was Trained for the Culture Wars in Home School, Awaiting Someone Like Mike Pence as a Messiah (Autostraddle)
I was working the polls on election day, handing people ballots and explaining how to fill them out properly. I made it my mission to come up with interesting uses for the removable tabs and entertain people for the 30 seconds that I had their captive attention. When 7 pm hit, people came in looking grim. "Did you hear about the polls?" they'd ask. "No," I said, "but don't tell me, I need to get through the next hour." I guarded my polling location from news of what was happening because we still had to close - I still had to close - and needed to be able to focus without dealing with the sheer terror of reality.
Zoe Strimpel: Dating apps are full of 'woke' profiles - no wonder we're no longer having sex (Spectator)
Has online dating really ruined relationships?
Heather Hogan: Helen Keremos, Pulp Fiction's First Dyke Detective, Is Getting Her Own Graphic Novel (Autostraddle)
The first few pages of Work for a Million have a real Strangers in Paradise vibe to them. Terry Moore successfully published that series for 13 years, and even recently revived it. Plus, with the success of shows Jessica Jones and Killing Eve there's never been a better moment for complex stories about complicated women. And with The L Word on the way back, you know that Shane archetype is never going away.
Alex Renton: British private schools now resemble five-star hotels - with a Russian and Asian clientele (Spectator)
So what if we did abolish private schooling? It's not going to happen, if the past 80 years are anything to go by. But Green and Kynaston have a handy example in Finland, which did it by consensus back in the 1970s, when Finnish education was mediocre at best. The results were dramatic. By 2001 Finnish school children were leading all international indices of educational attainment. Today Finland is ranked by various finger-wagging bodies as top - or in the top three - of all nations in safety, stability, good governance, social justice, lack of corruption and happiness.
Caroline McCarthy: The digital age hasn't made society more forgiving (Spectator)
Internet guilt is obscenely subjective.
This Is Me - Kaylee Rogers and the Killard House School Choir (YouTube)
This Is Me - Kaylee Rogers and the Key stage 2 and 3 pupils of Killard House School perform 'This is Me' from The Greatest Showman.
Kaylee Rogers - Killard House School - "Never Enough" Official Video (YouTube)
Kaylee Rogers, a Killard House School pupil sings "Never Enough" from 'The Greatest Showman.'
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Anecdotes - Food
• Donald Houston was asked his opinion about the survivors of an airplane crash who had resorted to cannibalism to survive. He replied, "I think they started off on the wrong foot."
• Australians swear by this recipe for cockatoo: Put the cockatoo and an ax-head in a can, then boil until the ax-head is soft. At that time, the cockatoo is ready to eat.
• James Boswell once asked Dr. Samuel Johnson whether good cooks were more essential than good poets. Dr. Johnson replied, "I don't suppose that there is a dog in town but what thinks so."
• Mark Twain once put a spoonful of very hot soup in his mouth and then turned his head and spit it out. He then remarked to his friends, "Some darn fools would have swallowed that."
• Professional musicians are often asked to entertain at the dinners they attend. A wealthy society woman asked Fritz Kreisler to come to her dinner and to bring his violin, but he replied, "My violin never dines out."
• At a dinner Herbert Cardinal Vaughan asked Rabbi Hermann Adler, "When may I have the honor of serving you some ham?" Rabbi Adler replied to the cardinal, "At Your Eminence's wedding."
• According to Reuben "Bud" Robinson, a pig eats so much not because he's greedy, but because he's trying to make a hog of himself.
• I'm a self-made man. It took a lot of pasta dishes to get where I am today." - overweight actor James Coco.
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"The Wrong Side Of History"
Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford offered an emphatic plea on Tuesday for protecting the world's oceans, calling out President-for-now Donald Trump (R-OfVlad) and others who "deny or denigrate science."
The 76-year-old actor, best known for his roles in "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones," stressed the importance of acknowledging the effects of climate change on the world in a speech on the closing day of the World Government Summit in Dubai.
Though never saying Trump's name, he clearly targeted the American president within the opening moments of his remarks.
"Around the world, elements of leadership - including in my own country - to preserve their state and the status quo, deny or denigrate science," Ford said. "They are on the wrong side of history."
"We are faced (with), what I believe, is the greatest moral crisis of our time," Ford said. "That those least responsible for nature's destruction will suffer the greatest consequences."
Harrison Ford
'Another Slap in the Face'
Oscar Nominees
The Oscars have stepped in it again.
On Tuesday, Hollywood filmmakers and leading craftspeople roundly condemned a decision by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to hand out four awards during commercial breaks. The hope is that will trim the show's run time and keep it to a relatively brisk three hours.
Nominees and their colleagues from the commercial-banished categories of cinematography, makeup and hairstyling, film editing, and live action shorts slammed the decision in interviews with Variety and via heated posts on social media. ABC, the network that airs the broadcast, said it would live-stream those categories online and air the speeches at a later point in the show. That did little to soothe bruised feelings.
"I find it depressing that they are doing this," said cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, a nominee this year for "Never Look Away" from Sony Pictures Classics. "Hopefully it won't be like the part of the show where they play clips from the Sci-Tech awards dinner. That always feels a bit sad, like they didn't get invited to the real party."
Deschanel is referencing the Academy's annual Scientific and Technical Awards, held two weeks before the Oscars and typically hosted by a celebrity, which honors technical achievement in film. The main Oscars broadcast only shows a highlight reel from that night. Relegating a job as pivotal to filmmaking as that of the cinematographer to commercial breaks undermines the entire craft, argues Deschanel.
Deschanel has been nominated six times stretching back to 1983's "The Right Stuff," but has yet to win. If he were to finally hear his name called this year, the moment would be akin to longtime category bridesmaid Roger Deakins finally winning last year for "Blade Runner 2049." Deakins received a standing ovation and his victory was seen by many as one of the highlights of last year's telecast.
Oscar Nominees
Family Guy and Bob's Burgers
Renewed
Animation will continue its domination of Fox's Sunday night lineup: The network has renewed Family Guy and Bob's Burgers for next season, TVLine has confirmed.
The renewals, which were decided upon months ago to allow the shows' lengthy animation process to get started, will take Family Guy to Season 18 and Bob's Burgers to Season 10. (Family Guy was briefly cancelled in 2003, but was revived by the network in 2005 following an outpouring of support from fans.) Fox also renewed The Simpsons for two additional seasons just last week, locking down three key pieces of Fox's animation-heavy Sunday roster.
Live-action freshman comedy Rel joined the trio on Sundays this fall, but has already wrapped its initial 12-episode order and is considered "a long-shot" for a Season 2 renewal, according to TVLine's Renewal Scorecard. But the Griffins and the Belchers might have new neighbors soon. Fox has already handed series orders to two new animated comedies for next season: Bless the Harts, starring SNL veterans Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph; and Duncanville, starring Parks and Recreation co-stars Amy Poehler and Rashida Jones.
Renewed
'Last Call' To End
Carson Daly
Last call for "Last Call": After 2,000 episodes, Carson Daly is stepping away from "Last Call." That means the NBC (very) late-night show is coming to an end.
The move is Daly's decision, an NBC spokesman told TheWrap. Daly intends to focus on his other jobs, as host of the Orange Room on "Today" and host and producer on "The Voice," and to spend more time with his family.
During his tenure on all three shows, Daly was working in three dayparts - morning, primetime and late-night.
A date for the final "Last Call" telecast will be announced at a later time, and a new 1:30 a.m. show "will be announced shortly," NBC said.
"Last Call" was known for its personal long-form interviews and breaking new musical artists with intimate performances, per NBC (and we don't disagree). The show was among the first to recognize such major artists as Maroon 5, Halsey, 21 Pilots, Ed Sheeran and Kendrick Lamar.
Carson Daly
Border Wall Activity
National Butterfly Center
The nonprofit National Butterfly Center has asked a federal judge to stop border wall activity on its property as the Trump administration gears up to build new walls and fencing in South Texas.
In a motion filed late Monday, center director Marianna Trevino Wright said heavy machinery has been driving through their property for a week, including a road grader accompanied by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) vehicle. Wright alleged that someone had cut the lock on a center fence and replaced it with a lock belonging to CBP.
CBP has announced it will start this month on the first of 33 miles of new walls and fencing in South Texas' Rio Grande Valley, the southernmost region of Texas. Congress funded construction last year.
The planned construction would eventually cut through the butterfly center, a state park, and a century-old chapel on the bank of the Rio Grande, the river that forms the Texas-Mexico border.
While the construction Congress funded last March was labeled by many as fencing, CBP's plans call for a concrete wall that extends to the height of the existing levee, topped by 18-foot steel bollards and with a 150-foot enforcement zone cleared in front.
National Butterfly Center
Announces Run
Mark Kelly
Retired astronaut Mark Kelly, who became a prominent gun-control advocate after his wife, former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, was shot in a failed assassination attempt, announced Tuesday he will run to finish John McCain's last term in the U.S. Senate.
Kelly, 54, is a top Democratic recruit to take on Republican Martha McSally in one of the most closely contested Senate races of the 2020 election.
McSally is a former Republican congresswoman who was appointed to McCain's seat last year after she narrowly lost to Democrat Kyrsten Sinema. McSally leaned heavily on her record as the first woman to fly a combat mission as a fighter pilot, but she was hurt by her embrace of President Donald Trump.
If Kelly is nominated, the race would pit a Navy veteran and astronaut against a trailblazing Air Force pilot in the contest to replace McCain, a legendary Navy flyer who was famously shot down and held captive.
The 2020 election will decide who finishes the last two years of McCain's term. The winner would have to run again for a full six-year term in 2022.
Mark Kelly
Tops $22 Trillion
National Debt
The U.S. national debt has topped $22 trillion for the first time in history, according to daily figures released by the Treasury Department on Tuesday.
The debt has ballooned by more than $2 trillion in the two years since President Trump (R-Grifter) took office in January 2017, when the debt stood at $19.9 trillion. It surpassed $21 trillion for the first time in history in March 2018. Under the Obama administration, the national debt grew from $10.6 trillion to $19.9 trillion, an increase that drew sharps criticism from Republicans.
In an interview with the Washington Post in 2016, Mr. Trump vowed to eliminate the national debt "over a period of eight years." Top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow, who joined the White House after the president said he would eliminate the debt, told CBS News last month Mr. Trump probably didn't mean he would eliminate the debt entirely.
"I don't know, you know, I wasn't there, I read about some of this - I think what he was really referring to was he would stop the upward rise as a burden on the economy," Kudlow said in January. "In other words, to me, the measure is not, what is the deficit or this or that. It's as a share of GDP. That's your burden on the economy. And I would argue that it is and will continue to come down as a burden on the economy."
But the ratio of debt-to-GDP has also increased, something that's unusual in a strong economy. In June 2018, the Congressional Budget Office said in a report that the level of debt as a share of GDP had reached its highest levels since World War II.
National Debt
Giant Stone Monuments
Europe
From simple rock arches to Stonehenge, tens of thousands of imposing stone structures dot Europe's landscapes. The origins of these megaliths have long been controversial. A new study suggests that large rock constructions first appeared in France and spread across Europe in three waves.
The earliest megaliths were built in what's now northwestern France as early as around 6,800 years ago, says archaeologist Bettina Schulz Paulsson of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Knowledge of these stone constructions then spread by sea to societies along Europe's Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts, she contends in a study posted online the week of February 11 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Around 35,000 megalithic graves, standing stones, stone circles and stone buildings or temples still exist, many located near coastlines. Radiocarbon dating has suggested that these structures were built between roughly 6,500 and 4,500 years ago.
Scholars a century ago thought that megaliths originated in the Near East or the Mediterranean area and spread elsewhere via sea trading or land migrations by believers in a megalithic religion. But as absolute dates for archaeological sites began to emerge in the 1970s, several researchers argued that megaliths emerged independently among a handful of European farming communities.
The earliest megalithic graves consisted of two or more standing stones topped by a third stone or by a mound of earth. That construction style spread from northwest France down the Atlantic coast and into the Mediterranean between around 6,800 and 6,000 years ago, Schulz Paulsson says. Large earthen graves without stones were built shortly before the rise of megaliths and appear only at sites in northwest France, pegging that region as the likely birthplace of megalithic graves, she contends.
Europe
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Feb. 4-10. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "The Grammy Awards," CBS, 19.88 million.
2. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 14.16 million.
3. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 12.14 million.
4. "State of the Union," Fox News, 11.29 million.
5. "State of the Union Analysis" (10:30-10:38 p.m. ET), Fox News, 10.72 million.
6. "America's Got Talent Champions," NBC, 9.83 million.
7. "State of the Union Intro" (9-9:06 p.m. ET), Fox News, 9.44 million.
8. "Chicago Med," NBC, 9.38 million.
9. "Chicago Fire," NBC, 8.8 million.
10. "State of the Union Response," Fox News, 7.9 million.
11. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 7.62 million.
12. "Chicago PD," NBC, 7.38 million.
13. "The Masked Singer," Fox, 7.14 million.
14. "Grammy Awards Red Carpet," CBS, 7.06 million.
15. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 6.86 million.
16. "State of the Union Analysis," NBC, 6.46 million.
17. "Bull," CBS, 6.38 million.
18. "Ellen's Game of Games," NBC, 6.31 million.
19. "The Bachelor," ABC, 6.25 million.
20. "Man with a Plan," CBS, 6.2 million.
Ratings
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