M Is FOR MASHUP - March 6th, 2019
Crumplbangers presents : The Baby Shark Project
By DJ Useo
Oki
( www.mashstix.com/mashups-by-Oki )
, in representation of the
Crumplbangers
( crumplebangers.com )
, has done the near impossible, & released a fine albums' worth of Baby Shark related bootleg mixes. Need I say more? Yes, you say? So shall it be.
The project features many fine talents creating all new versions of the Baby Shark audio manifestations. Those Crumplbanger guys really have an astute manner with unconventional material.
Of course, that comes as no surprise since it involves folk like pomDeter, MsMiep, Justincredible, & more. You can
stream the audio here
( crumplebangers.com/baby-shark/ )
In addition to the streaming links, you can obtain
a zip file of all the tracks
( crumplebangers.com/baby-shark/ ) from the shiny green button link at the top of the page.
When it come to mashups, remixes and other stuff, all things baby shark related, you can't do better than Oki did. If you fancy more of the same Crumplgoodness, previous
Crumplbanger projects are linked here
( crumplebangers.com/#projects )
I'll be back next week with another new mashup album review. Chin up!
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Paul Krugman: America the Cowardly Bully (NY Times)
The whole world now knows two things about us. First, we're not reliable - an agreement with the U.S. is really just a suggestion, because you never know when the president will invent some excuse for breaking it. Second, we're easily rolled: The president may talk tough on trade, but in classic bully fashion, he runs away if confronted.
10 best black comedies of all time, from Dr Strangelove to Withnail and I (Independent)
From Dr Strangelove to Bad Santa via Withnail and I, these are the movies that some sections of the audience just didn't get. Graeme Ross chooses the 10 best.
Kind of Blue: The jazz album by Miles Davis that transformed music (Independent)
To mark its 60th anniversary, Martin Chilton tells the story of how the trumpeter created a multimillion-selling masterpiece that still ranks as one of the greatest albums of all time.
Siobhan Long: Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi are fascinated with the influence of Islamic music on the West (Irish Times)
"Othering people is something that humans have done for ever," Giddens acknowledges, "but when it got wrapped up in the economic explosion that happened in the 1700s and 1800s, then it becomes very economically important for people to stay othered, so they could still be exploited. And of course it's so politically important because the more that we come together, the more that we realise that we outnumber the folks who are trying to run the world and keep everything for themselves."
Matt Ridley: "Lying with science: a guide to myth debunking" (Spectator)
Pseudoscience is on the rise - and the media is completely hooked
Lionel Shriver: "Why I hate 'the N-word'" (Spectator)
The pretense is that you're not saying it, when of course you are.
Sian Cain: "Hallie Rubenhold: 'Jack the Ripper's victims have just become corpses. Can't we do better?'" (The Guardian)
Jack the Ripper has passed into legend, while his five victims are forgotten. The historian talks about her shocking research and standing up to Ripperologists.
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Anecdotes
• A caddy at the Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St. Andrews in Scotland once received a three-penny tip. Even though this happened a long time ago, three pennies was not a good tip. The caddy looked at the three pennies and then told the golfer he had caddied for that he could tell his fortune from the three pennies. Then he explained that he learned from the first penny, "Yer no' a Scotsman." The second penny told him, "Yer no' married." Finally, the caddy said, "The third one tells me that yer father wasn't married either."
• Sir Rudolf Bing, the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, disliked union negotiations, especially when the union negotiators were loud in making their demands. He once said to one such union negotiator, "I'm awfully sorry. I didn't get that. Would you mind screaming it again?" On another occasion, a negotiator asked Sir Rudolf, "Are you trying to show your contempt for the way I conduct a bargaining session?" He replied, "On the contrary, I am trying very hard to conceal it."
• Marie Dressler starred in the movie Dinner at Eight, where her dumpy character made fun of the character played by the beautiful Jean Harlow. First, Ms. Harlow's character says, "I was reading a book the other day," and Ms. Dressler does a double take. Then Ms. Harlow's character says, "Do you know, machinery is going to take the place of every profession?" Ms. Dressler replies, "My dear, that is something you need never worry about."
• Critic George Jean Nathan was often cursed by theatrical producers, but he gave as good as he got, Once, he was asked whether he had been called a "pinhead" by a particular Broadway producer. He replied, "Impossible. 'Pinhead' is a word of two syllables."
• Not everyone liked Oscar Wilde. At the first night of one of Mr. Wilde's plays, an enemy presented him with a rotten cabbage. Mr. Wilde replied, "A million thank-yous, my dear fellow. Every time I smell it, I shall be reminded of you."
• Fouché was the chief of Napoleon's secret police. Once Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord was told that Fouché was profoundly contemptuous of human nature. Talleyrand replied, "Of course, he is much given to introspection."
• A man once insulted Benjamin Disraeli by saying that his wife had picked him out of the gutter. Mr. Disraeli responded, "My good fellow, if you were in the gutter no one would pick you out."
• The ancient Greek orator Demosthenes once got into an argument with General Phocian, telling him, "The Athenians will kill you someday when they are in a rage." General Phocian replied, "And you someday when they are in their senses."
• Tommy Douglas, the former premier of Saskatchewan, Canada, was a small man. A voter once told him, "You little pipsqueak, I could swallow you in one bite." Mr. Douglas replied, "And if you did, my friend, you'd have more brains in your belly than you have in your head."
• Bob Dole once saw Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, and Richard Nixon standing together. "There they are," he said. "See no evil, hear no evil, and evil."
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Two Nobel Prizes This Year
Literature
Two Nobel prizes will be awarded for literature this year after the Swedish literary academy that chooses the winner cleaned house following scandals that prevented last year's prize from being given, the Nobel Foundation said on Tuesday.
The foundation, which administers the prizes, had blocked the Swedish Academy from awarding one last year and threatened to strip it of its role in future, after a scandal that led to the rape conviction of the husband of an academy member and allegations that prize winners' names had been leaked.
"The Nobel Foundation's board of directors believe the steps that the Swedish Academy has taken and intends to take will create good opportunities for restoring trust in (it) as a prize-awarding institution," it said in a statement.
"The Nobel Prize in Literature will once again be awarded, and this autumn Laureates for both 2018 and 2019 will be announced."
The Swedish Academy, set up in 1786 to safeguard the Swedish language, picks the winner of the Nobel Prize only in the field of literature. Other Swedish academic institutions select winners of the awards in scientific fields, and a Norwegian committee names the recipient of the peace prize.
Literature
Outlaw Music Festival
Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson returns this summer with his annual Outlaw Music Festival. Now in its third year, the largest traveling North American festival will hit the road from June 14th through July 3rd, 2019.
For the 2019 lineup, Nelson has enlisted acts like Phil Lesh & Friends, The Avett Brothers, Alison Krauss, The Revivalists, Counting Crows, and Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats. Also along for the ride are Old Crow Medicine Show, Dawes, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Steve Earle & The Dukes, Hayes Carll, Casey Donahew, Matt Mays, Colter Wall, and Particle Kid. More artists will be added in the coming weeks.
This year's Outlaw Music Festival is scheduled to touch down in Bangor, Maine; Hartford, Connecticut; Toronto, Ontario; and Burgettstown, Pennsylvania. There are also dates marked for Columbus, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois; St. Louis, Missouri; and Dallas, Texas. Additionally, Nelson's festival will have a presence at Milwaukee's Summerfest and Mountain Jam, which this summer takes place at the site of the original Woodstock Festival in Bethel, New York.
Each date boasts different lineups. Tickets go on sale beginning March 8th on the festival's official website. They can also be purchased here.
Willie Nelson
Network Faces Backlash
'Brownface'
Yeka Rosales, a TV personality for the Mexican multimedia network Televisa, faced backlash Monday after wearing "brownface" and an artificial nose to parody "Roma" star and indigenous Oaxacan actress Yalitza Aparicio.
On Rosales' social media, the TV personality posted videos and photos of herself wearing thick lips, brown skin and a long, black-colored wig while holding an Oscar statuette. The parody was meant to correlate with the network's season premiere of "La Parodia," a comedy TV series.
The week before, Aparicio attended the Academy Awards with her mother; she was nominated for lead actress for playing Cleo in Alfonso Cuarón's Oscar-winning "Roma."
Televisa spokesman Alejandro Olmos told the Associated Press in an email that the network does not support racism and that some of the comments in the show would be edited for "bad taste."
'Brownface'
Renamed
Mormon Websites
The Mormon church said Tuesday it will rename websites, social media accounts and employee email addresses to get rid of "Mormon" and "LDS" as the faith continues a push to be known by the religion's full name and not shorthand nicknames it previously embraced and promoted.
The changes mark the latest step to implement a shift ordered last year by Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Nelson, 94, has said the Lord impressed upon the importance of the full name and that removing the name from titles is "a major victory for Satan."
The faith's presidents are considered prophets who lead through revelations from God. Nelson ascended to the post in early 2018. The faith believes that the full church name was given by revelation from God to founder Joseph Smith in 1838.
In October, the world-renowned Mormon Tabernacle Choir was renamed the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square.
The Utah-based faith of 16 million worldwide members said in the news release Tuesday that the website "LDS.org" will become "ChurchofJesusChrist.org." The website designed for media and outsiders known as "MormonNewsroom.org" will become "Newsroom.ChurchofJesusChrist.org." The website created for church missionaries will change from "Mormon.org" to "ComeUntoChrist.org."
Mormon Websites
Sonar Disturbs Feeding
Blue Whales
High-intensity military sonar can have a major impact on the feeding habits of blue whales, scientists have concluded after a a five-year project to track the endangered species' behaviour.
The majority of whales would immediately stop feeding on deep patches of krill when they encountered sonar, and many fled the area, a research team from the University of California found.
"We wanted to understand better what the common behavioural responses are in blue whales when they are exposed to sonar," said Dr Brandon Southall, who led the study.
The acoustic frequencies used in sonar systems vary from very low (infrasonic) to extremely high (ultrasonic). It is thought some sonar systems could interfere with sea animals' echolocation and have previously been linked with whales beaching, as well as disrupting feeding and mating.
When the results were logged, statistical ecologist Stacy DeRuiter of Calvin College, Michigan, led a team analysing the information logged by the tags, which Dr Southall then combined with observations at the surface, to look for patterns and potential changes in the whales' behaviour.
Blue Whales
Skull Fragments Confirmed
Denisovans
A breakthrough discovery has been made in Russia which will reveal more about an enigmatic early species of human . Paleo-archaeologists have now identified some skull fragments from the long-extinct species or subspecies of early hominins known as the Denisovans ( Homo denisova ). The find will add more to our knowledge of this ancient human and allow us to have a greater understanding of how it contributed to the evolution of modern people.
Experts are due to announce that they have confirmed the finding of the two pieces of a Denisovan skull, which is the first find of its kind. 'Only four individual Denisovans had been identified previously' reports Science Alert , and none of the previous fragments included parts of the skull. The discovery of the skull fragments is very important as it is only the fifth member of that species to have been found.
This historic find was made by a Russian team in a cave in the Altai mountains in Southern Siberia not far from Mongolia and Kazakhstan. The discovery was made in a deep cave and it is the fifth remains from an Denisovan individual to be found in this location. Known as the Denisova Cave , the early human species are named after this remote cavern.
The Denisovans emerged in Africa and it is believed that they are related to the Neanderthals. The two early human species separated approximately three quarters of a million years ago and both left Africa over a quarter of a million years ago. It is believed that Homo denisova ranged over a wide area of Asia and that they mated with Neanderthals and another unknown archaic human species . Scientists have not established when the archaic humans became extinct . Genetic testing has demonstrated that some ancient populations in Asia, such as the Papuans have inherited up to 5% of their DNA from their Denisovans ancestors.
Perhaps of all the various hominins, the Denisovans are the most mysterious. All that we really know about this human species is from the discoveries in the Denisova cave. Indeed, these early humans were only definitively identified in 2010 when a bone from the pinkie finger of a teenage girl was found in the Siberian cave. The only other remains found have been three teeth, and this is what makes the discovery of this hunk of a skull so important. Interestingly it appears that the Denisova cave was also inhabited by Neanderthals .
Denisovans
Century-Old Mystery
Green Icebergs
Most icebergs appear white or blue when floating in seawater, but since the early 1900s explorers and sailors have reported seeing peculiar green icebergs in certain parts of Antarctica.
The strange green icebergs have always baffled scientists, but now a new study suggests iron oxides in rock dust from Antarctica's mainland are turning some icebergs green.
According to the study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, marine ice varies in color due to the "abundance of foreign constituents in the seawater," particularly iron-oxide materials. Researchers formulated the theory after they detected "large amounts of iron" during a 2016 research trip to the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica.
"Previously, dissolved organic carbon (DOC) had been proposed to be responsible for the green color," authors Stephen Warren, Collin Roesler, Richard Brandt, and Mark Curran explained in the paper. "Subsequent measurements of low DOC values in green icebergs, together with the recent finding of large concentrations of iron in marine ice from the Amery Ice Shelf, suggest that the color of green icebergs is caused more by iron-oxide minerals than by DOC."
Iron is a key nutrient for phytoplankton, microscopic plants that form the base of the marine food web. But iron is scarce in many areas of the ocean. If the researchers' theory is confirmed, it would mean green icebergs are ferrying precious iron from Antarctica's mainland to the open sea when they break off, providing this key nutrient to the organisms that support nearly all marine life.
Green Icebergs
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Feb. 25-March 3. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "NCIS," CBS, 11.8 million.
2. "The Masked Singer" (9 p.m. ET), Fox, 11.5 million.
3. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 10.8 million.
4. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 10.6 million.
5. "60 Minutes," CBS, 10.2 million.
6. "FBI," CBS, 9.5 million.
7. "American Idol," ABC, 8.7 million.
8. "The Masked Singer" (8 p.m. ET), Fox, 8.6 million.
9. "Chicago Med," NBC, 8.5 million.
10. "Big Bang Theory," CBS, 8.29 million.
11. "Chicago Fire," NBC, 8.27 million.
12. "NCIS: New Orleans," CBS, 7.19 million.
13. "Chicago PD," NBC, 7.1 million.
14. "Survivor," CBS, 7 million.
15. "The Neighborhood," CBS, 7.07 million.
16. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 6.99 million.
17. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 6.97 million.
18. "God Friended Me," CBS, 6.8 million.
19. "The Bachelor," ABC, 6.7 million.
20. "Bull," CBS, 6.7 million.
Ratings
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