M Is FOR MASHUP - April 4th, 2018
10 Volumes of Frikkenfrack - Always Too Much!
By DJ Useo
In the large world of mashups, there are "normal" tracks, & there are strange ones as well. I make both. Over the years, the numbers prove that the strange ones are way more popular. The best numbers for my regular mashups seem to peak at about 2000, but the most popular of my weird tracks have made it over 5000. Go figure! So here's my latest new collection of "frikkenfrack"-style mashups.
To keep the fun going for me, I usually post a normal mashup, & a strange one at the same time to see which wins.
The strange ones are at my Hulkshare account
( www.hulkshare.com/DJUseo )
&
the normal ones art at my newest hosting, Sowndhaus
( sowndhaus.com/index.php?a=profile&u=djuseo )
.
Until the last few years, no normal track has ever got more listeners than it's weird counterpart. It's an interesting phenomenon, isn't it? You can see why I make the bizarre little bootlegs I do. They're the ones you most request!
There are actually a few mashup groups out there just for the stranger mashups. which is cool. When it comes to comments, I find that people ask most for the novelty-type bootlegs, & praise me for making them accessible. That type of response keeps me motivated to provide these "frikkenfrack"-style tracks.
"Frikkenfrack 10"
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2018/04/frikkenfrack-10-dj-useos-strangest.html )
has 24 completely mad, yet enjoyable tracks featuring mixes with the Residents, Glen Campbell, Kermit The Frog, & McHales Navy, plus tons more.
Here's the preview tune "Get Your Jazz On" ( Missy Elliott vs The Raymond Scott Quintette )
( www.hulkshare.com/djuseo/get-your-jazz-on )
Obtain the complete zip file from mirror links.
No doubt this series will continue. You've made it clear you want more. & more you shall have.
- DJ Konrad Useo
More DJ Useo here
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/ )
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Paul Krugman: What's the Matter with Trumpland (NY Times Column)
On the economics and politics of America's growing economic disunion.
Josh Marshall: McCabe, Amazon and Defending the Republic from Donald Trump (TPM)
So jumping into the breach to visibly back up the targets of his arbitrary actions isn't some blinkered liberalism that loses the forest for the trees in its rage and opposition to Donald Trump. It's really the only way to oppose him. Because his attack on the rule of law and democracy itself is the heart of the danger he poses for all of us.
Jonathan Chait: Corruption, Not Russia, Is Trump's Greatest Political Liability (NY Mag)
Trump's core proposition to the public was a business deal: If he became president, he would work to make them rich. Of course, the fact that Trump was able to reduce the presidency to such a crass exchange, forsaking such niceties as simple decency and respect for the rule of law, exposed terrifying weaknesses in the fabric of American democracy. But the shortest path to resolving this crisis is first to remove Trump's party - and it is Trump's party - from full control of the government in 2018, and then to remove Trump from the White House in 2020. The clearest way to do that is to demonstrate that Trump is failing to uphold his end of the deal.
Jack Rhysider: 4 Lessons We Should Never Forget From Historic Breaches Of Security (Modern Rogue)
According to Rapid 7 the oldest vulnerability they list in their database is the use of known default passwords. Specifically the username "admin" and password as "password". This has been a widely used username and password combination since 1970. Surely by now we have learned our lesson not to ship devices that have this username and password right? Unfortunately, no.
Mark Bauerlein: Is This the Hardest Course in the Humanities? (Chronicle)
When enrollment opened last semester, the unexpected happened. The course filled up within minutes. Harper had already warned his students, "This is the hardest class you will ever take." The syllabus was posted online in advance, so that students knew exactly what they were getting into. The course meets a general-education requirement at Oklahoma, but so do many other courses with half the workload. To accommodate the unexpected demand, the class was expanded from 22 to 30 students, the maximum number that the assigned classroom could hold.
William H. Pritchard: On Harold Bloom's new book on Shakespeare's King Lear. (New Criterion)
Harold Bloom's new book on King Lear is one in a series he is writing about Shakespeare's personalities, including Hamlet, Falstaff, and Cleopatra.1 It is a short book of 160 pages, many of them taken up with long quotations from the play usually followed by rather brief comments from the critic.
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Presenting
Michael Egan
took the day off.
has returned to semi-retired status.
In memory.
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Dog Survival Kit
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Bonus Links
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Reader Comment
Current Events
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We are all only temporarily able bodied.
Thanks, Linda!
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
STUPID CONSERVATIVES.
THE LITTLE RATS TAKE THE FIRST HIT.
PRUNE WHIP!
PAINTING THE BUMMERS.
Visit JD's site - Kitty Litter Music
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Deep marine layer rolled in and hung around most of the day.
Offer For Viacom
CBS
CBS has formally submitted an offer for Viacom, a person with knowledge of the negotiations told TheWrap, pricing Viacom below its current market value.
The all-stock pitch is contingent on CBS' management team leading the mega-company. Should this go down, CBS wants CEO Les Moonves and president Joe Ianniello to run the combined corporation.
Since this is an all-stock deal, the exact dollar value of the offer has fluctuated since talks began, and could continue to shift. After a tough day of stock trading, Viacom's current market cap is now $12.222 billion, based on a VIAB per-share price of $29.42, which is where the U.S. markets closed at 4 p.m. ET today. That was down $1.13 per share from Monday's close, or minus 3.70 percent.
CBS and Viacom were one company once before, though they spun off from one-another back in 2005. Since then, CBS has been the more successful of the two publicly traded corporations.
Both companies are controlled by the Redstone Family. The ailing Sumner Redstone's holding company National Amusements Inc. carries about 80 percent of the voting shares for both CBS and Viacom, and his daughter Shari Redstone is a vice chairman for each. She's been leading the charge for CBS and Viacom to recombine.
CBS
Station Hits Back
News Anchor
An evening news anchor at a Sinclair Broadcast Group-owned station in Seattle cut right to the bottom line Monday when she criticized President Donald Trump's defense of the conservative media company.
The president had praised Sinclair on Monday morning after reports surfaced over the weekend that the company had ordered its broadcasters to recite a script criticizing other media outlets for "biased" news. Trump said it was "so funny to watch Fake News Networks ... criticize Sinclair Broadcasting for being biased." He doubled down on his praise in a tweet on Tuesday.
"Actually, this isn't funny at all," Mary Nam, who anchors the news at 4, 6 and 11 p.m. at TV station KOMO, tweeted in her response. "None of it."
Then she turned to the question of Sinclair's growing influence across the nation's local news stations.
Other journalists not connected to Sinclair criticized the message as well. Former CBS national anchor Dan Rather called it "propaganda."
News Anchor
Students Protest
Clear Backpacks
When survivors of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting returned to classes after spring break on Monday, they were met with a slew of new security measures, including a widely resented policy: mandatory clear backpacks for everyone.
Students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 people were killed in a mass shooting in February, were quick to express their disdain for their new accessory.
Junior Cameron Kasky stuffed his backpack with tampons on Tuesday to protest what students have called an invasion of privacy.
Senior Carmen Lo took a jab at Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and the National Rifle Association by hanging a $1.05 orange price tag on her bag - the value of the donations Rubio has accepted from the NRA divided by the number of students in Florida. "This backpack is probably worth more than my life," read a note that Lo had penned and stuffed inside her bag.
Stoneman Douglas students - many of whom have led a national call for stricter gun control - say the measure is only window dressing and does not actually address the problem of gun violence.
Clear Backpacks
Rare Dinosaur Prints
Isle of Skye
Dozens of rare footprints belonging to dinosaurs made some 170 million years ago have been discovered on Scotland's Isle of Skye, offering an important insight into the Middle Jurassic era, scientists said on Tuesday.
"The more we look on the Isle of Skye, the more dinosaur footprints we find," said Dr Steve Brusatte of the University of Edinburgh's School of GeoSciences.
"This new site records two different types of dinosaurs - long-necked cousins of Brontosaurus and sharp-toothed cousins of T. rex - hanging around a shallow lagoon, back when Scotland was much warmer and dinosaurs were beginning their march to global dominance."
The find is globally important as it is rare evidence of the Middle Jurassic period, from which few fossil sites have been found around the world, the university said on its website.
The footprints were difficult to study owing to tidal conditions, the impact of weathering and changes to the landscape, it added.
Isle of Skye
Climate Change Denial
Public Opinion
A new Gallup survey shows that independent voters are less concerned about climate change than they were a year ago. In the last year, independents have become less likely to accept that global warming is happening and that humans are the cause, and less likely to perceive that there's a scientific consensus about global warming.
In 2017, 71 percent of independent voters were aware that most scientists believe global warming is occurring; this year it's 65 percent. There has long been a significant gap between public perception of global warming and the scientific consensus: Between 90 percent and 100 percent of climate scientists agree humans are causing global warming, with studies converging on 97-percent consensus. But surveys since 2010 offered hope that the "consensus gap" had been shrinking over the last eight years. Gallup's new data indicates this trend has reversed. The consensus gap widened over the last year.
Independents aren't the only ones on the move. The American public has become more polarized on climate change in the last year: Climate concern and acceptance has dropped among Republicans, and Democrats have become more accepting of climate change.
There are a few ways to account for these shifts in public opinion. One is the cues we've heard from our political leaders, which are a leading driver of people's concerns and perceptions about climate change.
An analysis of 74 studies from 2002 to 2010 showed that when congressional Republicans issued public statements opposing climate action or voted against environmental bills, public concern about climate change tended to drop. It should come as no surprise that under President Donald Trump's administration, Republicans have become less accepting of climate change. Political cues, such as the Environmental Protection Agency head arguing that global warming is beneficial, or the energy secretary claiming that global warming is caused by "ocean waters," are large, loud signposts pointing the way for the conservative community.
Public Opinion
Approved Pipeline Project
EPA
The Environmental Protection Agency approved a pipeline project last year during the same time period that administrator Scott Pruitt was renting a room from the wife of a lobbyist who represented the pipeline's owner, The New York Times reported on Monday.
The news comes amid a growing controversy surrounding Pruitt's unusual housing arrangement, in which he paid $50 a night to rent a room in a luxury condo from Vicki Hart, whose husband runs Williams & Jensen, a well-known energy lobbying firm.
The rental agreement, which was open-ended, offered a rate that was well below market value. The White House is conducting an informal review of the matter, unnamed officials told the Wall Street Journaland CNN.
At the same time that Pruitt had access to the condo, the EPA signaled its approval for a pipeline project from Enbridge Inc. The Canada-based company hoped to expand its Alberta Clipper pipeline and ship hundreds of thousands of barrels of additional oil to the U.S. each day.
Williams & Jensen was a registered lobbyist for Enbridge at the time, the Times reported. However, a spokesman from the firm told the newspaper that Williams & Jensen did not lobby the EPA or Pruitt on the project's behalf.
EPA
Clean Water Law
Pruitt
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Scott Pruitt is taking incoming fire from multiple directions these days. Scandals emerging over his first class airline travel, large security detail, and unorthodox living arrangements in a Capitol Hill townhouse have combined to raise doubts about his future in President-for-now Donald Trump's (R-Corrupt) cabinet.
The most egregious Pruitt scandal, though, involves the use of a little-known provision in the Safe Drinking Water Act, which permits the EPA administrator to hire up to 30 people into the agency without White House or congressional approval.
According to reporting by Elaina Plott and Robinson Meyer of The Atlantic, the provision exists in order to give the agency the ability to bring in experts and help relieve personnel shortages in key offices. (The Washington Post subsequently confirmed The Atlantic's reporting.)
Pruitt, however, used the provision to give significant pay raises to two political aides - Sarah Greenwalt and Millan Hupp - even though the White House had turned down a separate request from Pruitt for salary increases to those two political appointees in a meeting in early March.
One of the staffers saw their salary balloon by $28,130, compared to 2017 levels, and the other got a $56,765 raise, according to The Atlantic. The latter salary increase brought Greenwalt's salary to more than $160,000, higher than what most senior-level employees at the EPA typically earn.
Pruitt
Underwater Ice
Antarctica
When you imagine an Antarctic glacier melting, you probably envision great walls of ice avalanching into the ocean in jagged, splashing chunks. This is certainly happening - but it's only half the story.
At the same time, hundreds of feet inland and deep underwater where even remote-controlled submersibles cannot venture, the warming ocean is also chipping away huge swaths of Antarctica's frosty underbelly. According to a new study published yesterday (April 2) in the journal Nature Geoscience, ice is receding deep below eight of Antarctica's largest glaciers at an alarming rate - roughly five times faster than it should be. If this marine ice recession continues, it could lead to a total collapse of the world's largest ice sheet, the study found.
"Our study provides clear evidence that retreat is happening across the ice sheet due to ocean melting at its base," lead study author Hannes Konrad, a climate researcher at the University of Leeds in England, said in a statement. "This retreat has had a huge impact on inland glaciers, because releasing them from the sea bed removes friction, causing them to speed up and contribute to global sea level rise."
In the new study, Hannes and his colleagues at the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM) at the University of Leeds used a combination of satellite imagery and buoyancy equations to map out the invisible retreat of underwater ice across roughly 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometers) of Antarctica's coastlines - roughly one-third of the continent's total perimeter.
The researchers focused on a geographic feature known as grounding lines - a vertical line projected upward from the underwater edge where glacier ice finally meets with solid ocean bedrock. On one side of this line, solid sheet ice sits atop the ocean floor like a sturdy continent; on the other side, ice swoops outward like a precarious ledge, which can float more than 0.6 miles (1 km) above the ocean floor. The further inland a glacier's grounding line retreats, the faster inland ice can flow into the attached ice shelf - and ultimately into the sea.
Antarctica
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for March 26-April 1. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "Roseanne," ABC, 18.45 million.
2. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 13.27 million.
3. "NCIS," CBS, 11.94 million.
4. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 11.92 million.
5. NCAA Men's Final Four: Loyola-Chicago vs. Michigan, TBS, 10.75 million.
6. NCAA Men's Final Four: Kansas vs. Villanova, TBS, 10.7 million.
7. "Bull," CBS, 10.65 million.
8. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 10.51 million.
9. NCAA Men's Final Four: "Bridge Show," TBS, 9.86 million.
10. "Jesus Christ Superstar Live," NBC, 9.61 million.
11. "The Good Doctor," ABC, 9.52 million.
12. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 9.02 million.
13. "Black-ish," ABC, 8.59 million.
14. "Mom," CBS, 8.56 million.
15. "NCIS: New Orleans," CBS, 8.53 million.
16. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 8.43 million.
17. "60 Minutes," CBS, 8.33 million.
18. "Survivor," CBS, 8.16 million.
19. "American Idol" (Monday), ABC, 7.81 million.
20. "Hawaii Five-0," CBS, 7.8 million.
Ratings
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