M Is FOR MASHUP - August 28th, 2019
What I Mashed Last Summer Album
By DJ Useo
Here's the latest great new IOB mashup collection, chock full of excellent mixes by talented home producers from around the globe.
"The Institute Of Bootleggers Presents The World Of Mashups"
theinstituteofbootleggers.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-institute-of-bootleggers-presents.html
Everybody did their own thing, resulting in tons of great variety.
I hope you discover tunes you love in this newest volume, & meet some
mixers you'll be enjoying many more tracks from in the future. The contributors this round represent some of the most beloved bootleggers, along with a few newer producers who are quickly gaining in the scene.
I had the enormous pleasure last night of hearing DJ Winkle play some of the tracks on his Mashup Radio Show "
Bangers and Mashups".
( radioboise.org/2019/01/show-spotlight-bangers-mashups/ )
Check it out. It's always a great set.
Big thanks to all the contributors, & to anyone named Charlie, for being great motivators. I mastered & arranged this volume driven solely by love of the genre, & like-minded individuals really help. When I show support to mixers, they always reward in kind.
A must not miss video of Robin Skouteris' "Old Bad Senorita" ( Billie Eilish vs Lil Nas X vs Billy R. Cyrus vs Shawn Mendes vs Camila Cabello ) as
crafted by Panos T is here
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRFaxDsESGM )
On this comp you can check out mixes from folk like SMASH, Grave Danger, DRA'man, MsMiep, & more as they combine artists like Ariana Grande, Whitney Houston, Smashing Pumpkins, Santana, & plenty more besides. I had a premiere party of this comp & the response was overwhelmingly positive. Hear for yourself.
More INSTITUTE OF BOOTLEGGERS collections are expected as the year progresses. Be sure & grab previous IOB comps available
down the page here
( theinstituteofbootleggers.blogspot.com/ )
& here
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com )
DJ Konrad Useo
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Paul Krugman: Trump and the Art of the Flail (NY Times Column)
The "very stable genius " in the Oval Office is, in fact, extremely unstable, in word and deed. That's not a psychological diagnosis, although you can make that case too. It's just a straightforward description of his behavior. And his instability is starting to have serious economic consequences.
Moira Donegan: Elizabeth Warren's Radical Idea (Atlantic)
She believes that if voters are given the opportunity to support an agenda that's both coherent and compassionate, they will take it.
Jason Bailey: 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette,' Reviewed (FlavorWire)
Richard Linklater is a filmmaker who wears his heart on his sleeve, and that might be the key to understanding his filmography, which is about as erratic as one can imagine for a genuinely gifted director - when he's on he's untouchable, but when he's off, he's really off. His latest feature, Where'd You Go, Bernadette, is basically a miscalculation from end to end, full of bizarre narrative turns and inexplicable craft decisions. Yet, as with his earlier critical and commercial misfires, there's never any question that Linklater is fully committed, and it's hard to consider a movie "bad" that's made with this much care. But it certainly doesn't work, not in any meaningful way.
Matt Mckinzie: How Is It That Agnès Varda Is So Well Known - Yet So Unknown? (PopMatters)
Our pop culture landscape is controlled by capitalistic saturation and a deeply-entrenched machismo ethic. It might not be powerful enough to erase Agnès Varda's genius, but it is shameless enough to eliminate her from the common discourse.
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
The garage thief returned while I was out buying a lock for the door this afternoon.
Today they took a couple 16lb bags and three of cases of canned cat food, an open box of laundry detergent, a big can of nails,
the kid's old car seat, a 4-man tent, and about 30lbs of charcoal.
Leaving 'Saturday Night Live'
Leslie Jones
One Saturday Night Live favorite won't be returning this fall while another one has opted to come back. Leslie Jones has will be leaving NBC's venerable late-night sketch comedy program after five seasons. Kate McKinnon, whose contract was up in May, has decided to come back for what would be her eighth season on the show.
According to sources, it was Jones' decision to depart SNL before the end of her contract. The standard SNL cast deals are for seven years but the actors' options are picked up every year, and the performers also can ask to be released early.
Jones, who originally joined SNL as a writer, quickly established herself with a couple of buzzy Weekend Update appearances, leading to her joining the cast in fall 2014. Her list of memorable impersonations includes Whoopi Goldberg. She also has taken on a slew of hot-button topics in her Weekend Update commentaries, most recently on the new anti-abortion legislation in some states.
Jones had been toiling away for years when she got her break on SNL, becoming the oldest cast member ever to join the cast. The show opened a lot of doors for her and, after five years on SNL and two Emmy nominations for her work on the show, Jones has decided to take advantage of those new opportunities. They include her first standup comedy special Netflix, which was recently announced, and several feature and TV projects, including a role in the Coming To America sequel.
Season 45 of SNL premieres on September 28 with Woody Harrelson, in his fourth appearance as host, and musical guest Billie Eilish.
Leslie Jones
Tours Greenland
Conan O'Brien
By now you've probably heard President Trump (R-Pantywaist) wants to buy Greenland. While some people think the idea is nuts, Conan O'Brien is intrigued.
On Monday night's episode of Conan, the TBS late-night host said he flew to Greenland "on behalf of the United States" for an exploratory mission.
"I left Wednesday night and just got back," he explained, adding that he took a camera crew along and shot an upcoming special. "It's going to be called Conan in Greenland," the comedian said.
O'Brien didn't give away much about his special, although he did show the audience a famous statue of a topless woman called "Mother of the Sea"
"I think Trump will be more interested after he sees this statue," O'Brien quipped.
Conan O'Brien
Bans Star Wars Coke Bottles
TSA
The Transportation Security Administration has banned the "thermal detonator" Coca-Cola bottles sold in Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland and Disney's Hollywood Studios from checked and carry-on luggage on U.S. flights.
TSA officials confirmed that the souvenir collectible Coke bottles exclusively available in the new Star Wars lands are prohibited on U.S. flights because they look like replica explosives.
The Coca-Cola bottles sold in Galaxy's Edge look like palm-sized thermal detonator grenades emblazoned with logos rendered in the Aurebesh language used throughout the galaxy far, far away.
In a response to an online inquiry, the official AskTSA Twitter account replied that the Galaxy's Edge Coke bottles were prohibited on flights because "replica and inert explosives aren't allowed in either carry-on or checked bags."
The Coke, Diet Coke and Sprite bottles were designed to look like the spherical explosive weapons used by bounty hunters and stormtroopers in the Star War universe.
TSA
Tops Syndication Ratings
'Judge Judy'
"Judge Judy" led all syndicated programs for the 2018-2019 syndication season with a 6.8 household rating, according to Nielsen. It was the long-running court show's 10th consecutive year leading, all "first-run" (i.e. not repeats of old sitcoms) syndicated programs.
It was also the show's sixth straight year leading all syndicated shows in household ratings. This season, "Judy" drew an average audience of 10.17 million total viewers in Nielsen's live-plus-seven metric.
"Jeopardy," which saw a ratings infusion from James Holzhauer's 31-game winning streak, finished in second for the season with a 6.2 rating, narrowly topping "Family Feud" (6.1). The six-week run helped the show improve by 2% over last year and jump ahead of "Feud," which dropped 6% from a year ago.
Holzhauer's streak-busting episode back in June was the show's highest-rated since 2004. It drew a 10.1 rating overall and 2.2 among adults under 50, beating that night's highest-rated broadcast show, ABC's "The Bachelorette," by more than double.
"Dr. Phil" led all talk shows with a 2.7 rating, extending its own winning streak to eight years as the top-rated talk show in syndication (which includes one first-place tie in 2015-2016). "Dr. Phil" has finished first in his vertical for 154 straight weeks (or nearly three years). "Live With Kelly and Ryan" came in second among talk shows with a 2.2 rating, while "Ellen DeGeneres" finished in third with a 2.0 average rating.
'Judge Judy'
Ends Obama's Climate Change Task Force
US Navy
The US Navy quietly shuttered a task force created under former President Barack Obama to prepare the military branch for the impact of global warming, reportedly saying the team was "no longer needed".
Its ending, which happened in March and was first reported on Tuesday by the environmental site E&E News, reflects a trend under Donald Trump in which federal agencies have shuttered operations designed to combat climate change nationwide and around the world.
Before the president seemingly fired former Defence Secretary Jim Mattis, the career military official wrote in 2017 to the Senate Armed Services Committee: "Climate change is impacting stability in areas of the world where our troops are operating today."
"It is appropriate for the Combatant Commands to incorporate drivers of instability that impact the security environment in their areas into their planning," he added.
Under Mr Trump, the US has withdrawn from the Paris Climate Accord, an international effort to mitigate the rise of global temperatures; the Environmental Protection Agency scrubbed its website of a page dedicated to providing the public with information related to climate science; the White House significantly weakened the Endangered Species Act by making it more difficult to protect wildlife in areas threatened by climate change.
US Navy
What Climate Change?
Indonesia
Indonesia's president says the country's capital will move from overcrowded, sinking and polluted Jakarta to a site in sparsely populated East Kalimantan province on Borneo island, known for rainforests and orangutans.
President Joko Widodo said Monday intense studies over the past three years had resulted in the choice of the location on the eastern side of Borneo island.
The new capital city, which has not yet been named, will be in the middle of the vast archipelago nation and already has relatively complete infrastructure because it is near the cities of Balikpapan and Samarinda, Widodo said.
He said the burden has been become too heavy on Jakarta on Java island as the center of government, finance, business, trade and services as well as the location of the country's largest airport and seaport.
Currently 54% of the country's nearly 270 million people live on Java, the country's most densely populated area.
Indonesia
Steered Land Deal
Falwell
Evangelical leader and prominent Don-Old Trump (R-Crooked) backer Jerry Falwell Jr (R-Grifter) personally approved real estate transactions by his nonprofit Christian university that helped his personal fitness trainer obtain valuable university property, according to real estate records, internal university emails and interviews.
Around 2011, Falwell, president of Liberty University in Virginia, and his wife, Rebecca, began personal fitness training sessions with Benjamin Crosswhite, then a 23-year-old recent Liberty graduate. Now, after a series of university real estate transactions signed by Falwell, Crosswhite owns a sprawling 18-acre racquet sports and fitness facility on former Liberty property. Last year, a local bank approved a line of credit allowing Crosswhite's business to borrow as much as $2 million against the property.
Falwell, one of the most influential right-wing "Christian" leaders in the United States, has been buffeted by disclosures about his private dealings over the last year and a half.
A Florida lawsuit brought public scrutiny to a relationship between the Falwells and Giancarlo Granda, a young man they befriended while he was working as a pool attendant at a luxury Miami Beach hotel and later backed in a business venture involving a youth hostel. Falwell filed an affidavit in 2018 saying he used his own wealth to lend $1.8 million to the $4.65 million project with Granda.
And U.S. President Trump's now-jailed fixer, Michael Cohen, has said he helped the Falwells suppress racy personal photos, as Reuters reported this May, in the months before Cohen persuaded Falwell to endorse Trump's 2016 White House bid. There is no evidence that Cohen's efforts to suppress the photos were a quid pro quo for Falwell's vital political backing.
Falwell
Moab National Park
Castleton Tower
Scientists at the University of Utah have made the first detailed seismic measurements of a pillar-shaped sandstone formation in Moab National Park known as Castleton Tower. The structure vibrates at two key resonant frequencies, according to a new paper in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. That means it's likely to withstand earthquakes of low to moderate magnitudes. The methodology the Utah team developed can also be applied to other natural rock structures to determine how vulnerable they are to seismic and other similar activity.
"We often view such grand and prominent landforms as permanent features of our landscape, when in reality, they are continuously moving and evolving," said co-author Riley Finnegan, a graduate student at the University of Utah. "Because nothing is truly static, there is always energy propagating throughout the earth, which serves as a constant vibration source for the rock."
The research team has an entire Web page devoted to its seismic recordings of the natural resonances (vibrations) that come out of the Utah arches. The arches are the impressive red rock formations dotted about Castle Valley, about 10 miles from the town of Moab, and the team has sped up the recordings into audible sound. Those structures can bend, sway, and shake in response to any number of factors: wind gusts, distant seismic tremors, thermal stresses, local traffic, and so forth. The arches often amplify the energy passing through them if the frequencies are just right. Understanding those dynamics is crucial to being able to predict how the structures will respond in the event of an earthquake or similar disruption. Yet there haven't been many ongoing efforts to do so over the years, despite a great deal of research on manmade civil structures.
One of the major challenges to studying the arches is gaining the access necessary to make those vibrational measurements in the first place. Either the formations are restricted (the better to preserve them for posterity), or it's simply too difficult to place sensors in hard-to-reach spots of the formations. That's what makes this new dataset of ambient vibrations from the 120-meter (393-foot) Castleton Tower so significant.
Finnegan and his colleagues managed to collect their data with the help of two experienced rock climbers. They were able to climb the tower and place seismometers in key spots: at the base of the structure (to serve as a reference) and another at the top. The climbers stayed with the instrument for three hours as it recorded data, then climbed back down to return it to the researchers.
Castleton Tower
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Aug. 19-25. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 9.43 million.
2. "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday), NBC, 8.12 million.
3. "60 Minutes," CBS, 7.07 million.
4. NFL Exhibition Football: Pittsburgh at Tennessee, NBC, 6.24 million.
5. College Football: Miami at Florida, ESPN, 5.97 million.
6. "Celebrity Family Feud," ABC, 5.21 million.
7. "NFL Pre-Game Show," NBC, 4.9 million.
8. "Bachelor in Paradise" (Monday), ABC, 4.8 million.
9. "Big Brother" (Sunday), CBS, 4.64 million.
9. "NCIS," CBS, 4.64 million.
11. "America's Funniest Home Videos," ABC, 4.56 million.
12. "Big Brother" (Wednesday), CBS, 4.53 million.
13. "The "$100,000 Pyramid," ABC, 4.48 million.
14. "American Ninja Warrior," NBC, 4.47 million.
15. "Big Brother" (Thursday), CBS, 4.38 million.
16. "Bachelor in Paradise" (Tuesday), ABC, 4.13 million.
17. "FBI," CBS, 4.07 million.
18. "NCIS: New Orleans," CBS, 3.95 million.
19. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 3.93 million.
20. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 3.81 million.
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