M Is FOR MASHUP - September 16th, 2015
CRUMPLSTOCK 2 the 3 day Internet DJ Weekender
From DJ Useo
The first "CRUMPLSTOCK the 3 day Internet DJ Weekender" was received so well by the listeners, & those doing the DJ sets that the next one is on for this coming weekend! Read about the first one from these links - Crumplstock article 1 - before
( www.suprmchaos.com/bcEnt-Wed-042215.index.html )
Crumplstock article 2 - after
( www.suprmchaos.com/bcEnt-Wed-042915.index.html )
As we prepare for the audio feast before us, allow me to remind you that one stage is club music, & the other is mashups most CRUMP. This means there's a wild genre clash applied to the tunes to provide groovin' music with a slight "novelty" flavor. Here's a fine example of a nicely "crumped" set. It's "Scott Cairo on Mxlr 81" Newly posted, & a worthy set indeed.
( hearthis.at/8ghwctmr/scott-cairo-on-mixlr-81/ )
There'll be astonishing sets from lads like Pom Deter, Pilchard, KrazyBen, GenErik, Alvin Starburst & so very many more. I attended the first Crumplstock, & I highly advise listening in to the live streams. All will be posted afterwards, but live is much better. Here's my preview mix with only mashups by others. My actual set will be comprised of only my own mixes, because who else will do that for me? ;)
DJ Useo - CrumplStock 2 Preview Mix Sept 2015 ( 1:11:19 )
A preview of things to come -
hearthis.at/vxmfxz7w/dj-useo-crumplstock-2-preview-mix-sept-2015/
groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2015/09/dj-useo-crumplstock-2-preview-mix-sept.html
I hope you treat yourself to the festival atmosphere, & lively tunes. These DJ's know better than most how to please audiences. Here's the main link again, & remember it's September 18/19/20 2015.
Crumplstock
( crumplebangers.com/crumplstock/ )
More next week
-Konrad
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
SIMON CRITCHLEY: There Is No Theory of Everything (NY Times)
One thinks of Sidney Morgenbesser, long-time philosophy professor at Columbia, whom I once heard described as a "mind on the loose." The philosopher Robert Nozick said of his undergraduate education that he "majored in Sidney Morgenbesser." On his deathbed, Morgenbesser is said to have asked: "Why is God making me suffer so much? Just because I don't believe in him?"
Andrew Tobias: The Donald - II
Bush and the Koch Brothers do for sure want Trump to lose the primary - and have vast opposition-research resources at their disposal - so if this story could hurt Trump, it will probably come out. But why would it hurt him? The piece acknowledges that everybody who wanted to build anything in New York worked with certain facilitators they probably knew were connected to the mob. Confronted with this charge, Trump would likely just brush it off.
Helen Russell: 'There's no stigma': why so many Danish women are opting to become single mothers (The Guardian)
More and more women in the country are deciding to start families using donor sperm, rather than waiting for the right man to come along.
Scott Burns: How To Make Everyone Happy (AssetBuilder)
Let's make a scary assumption: You ran for office and won. You are a new member of Congress. Now you have the truly scary task of talking to constituents about things like Social Security and Medicare. What do you do? Where do you start?
Marina Hyde: What's the free world come to when a man can't make smutty jokes about his daughter? (The Guardian)
Bleakly mysterious new social mores about women and power have left dads like Donald Trump and Alexander Carter-Silk unprotected. It's game over.
Oliver Burkeman: If I don't see it, why should I clean it? (The Guardian)
"My brother's three-dude college apartment was so filthy, it was condemned by the [local] board of health," [Jon Chait] wrote. "It had a spilled milkshake on the floor that stayed there all year, forming a permanent, unearthly silver blob that became an object of curiosity."
Alison Flood: "Literary launches: how crowdfunding is fuelling the avant garde" (The Guardian)
The White Review, BOMB and Guernica are just some of the magazines turning to the wisdom of the crowd to publish quality literature.
Michele Hanson: Who would have thought politics could be fun, fun, fun? (The Guardian)
I normally find it embarrassing to be wildly positive but Jeremy Corbyn's last rally had me swept away by the joy and enthusiasm. Bring on the fight!
David Bruce's Amazon Author Page
David Bruce's Smashwords Page
David Bruce's Blog
David Bruce's Lulu Storefront
David Bruce's Apple iBookstore
David Bruce has over 80 Kindle books on Amazon.com.
wrote:
replied:
, replied:
Reader Suggestion
Michelle in AZ
David E Suggests
David
Thanks, Dave!
From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'
Team Coco
CONAN
St. Louis
Trump Piñata Bash
from Marc Perkel
Patriot Act
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Got a little over an inch of rain.
The cats were not amused.
Art Collection Sold
Maya Angelou
The art collection of celebrated writer and civil rights activist Maya Angelou sold for nearly $1.3 million on Tuesday.
A painted story quilt that hung in Angelou's Harlem home and was commissioned by Oprah Winfrey for Angelou's 61st birthday brought $461,000 at the Swann Galleries sale.
"Maya's Quilt of Life" by African-American artist Faith Ringgold depicts Angelou surrounded by flowers along with excerpts from some of her writings. The acrylic on canvas with a pieced fabric border had a pre-sale estimate of $150,000 to $250,000.
The nearly 50 artworks were consigned to the auction house's African-American Fine Art Department by Angelou's estate.
Her personal papers, including letters to Malcolm X and James Baldwin, are housed at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research unit of the New York Public Library.
Maya Angelou
Puti Called
Elton John
Elton John says Vladimir Putin has phoned him, after the musician requested a meeting to discuss Russia's anti-gay environment.
On Instagram, the star said "thank-you to President Vladimir Putin for reaching out and speaking via telephone with me today. I look to forward to meeting with you face-to-face to discuss LGBT equality in Russia."
John's publicist, Gary Farrow, confirmed the content of the Instagram post Tuesday.
Last week John criticized Russia's law against gay "propaganda" and comments by Putin suggesting that gay people prey on children. He told the BBC he would "love to sit down with him" and try to change Putin's mind.
Elton John
Covered With Blankets
Rhone Glacier
From afar, the Rhone glacier looks pristine, but on closer inspection the surface is covered with white blankets to slow the melting of the rapidly retreating ice.
The dusty, white fleece covers stretch out over a huge area near the glacier's edge, some in rumpled piles alongside sand, rocks, a few wooden planks and a ladder on its side.
With a red and white Swiss flag providing the only dash of colour, they looks like tents in a vast deserted refugee camp, out of place in the Alpine setting.
It is not the only Alpine glacier feeling the heat. Studies show that around two-thirds of the ice volume in the Alps has vanished since 1850.
Rhone Glacier
Medieval Skeleton
Collooney
When an old beech tree toppled over during winter storms in Ireland this year, a skeletal surprise was hiding in the gigantic mass of roots pulled from the ground: the remains of a medieval boy.
The 215-year-old tree was uprooted in May in Collooney, a town in the county of Sligo, on the northwest coast of Ireland. Preliminary analyses of the bones by osteoarchaeologist Linda Lynch and others at Sligo-Leitrim Archaeological Services (SLAS), a private consultancy, revealed the remains of a young man who was between 17 and 20 years old when he died.
The researchers also dated the bones by measuring the carbon-14, a naturally occurring radioactive isotope also called radiocarbon. Because this isotope (an element with a different number of neutrons in its nucleus) decays at a regular rate, scientists can tell how old an organic material is by measuring the amount of radiocarbon present. They found that the boy died during the medieval period, between A.D. 1030 and 1200.
And apparently, his death was a violent one, as Lynch found several injuries on the ribs and hand that were likely inflicted by a knife. The entire skeleton was buried, but when the tree was uprooted, it ripped the upper part of the body, which was entangled in the roots, out of the ground.
Collooney
Privatized Lottery Falls $136 Million Short
Chubbie
Two years after New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R-Pendejo) privatized much of the state's lottery operations, a big payoff remains out of sight.
Higher costs associated with the private company that Christie hired, Northstar New Jersey, have cut the state's income for the second straight year, creating a $136 million shortfall in the state's 2015 budget, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press. The results are poor enough that the state is entitled to fire the company if its performance doesn't improve in the current fiscal year.
The underperformance raises questions about the privatization strategy championed by Christie, who promoted lottery outsourcing as a way to shrink the government's payroll and bring in more cash.
Christie's push benefited some key political allies. During its ultimately successful pursuit of the state's business, Northstar New Jersey hired the communications firm of Christie campaign strategist Mike DuHaime. The law and lobbying firm of former Port Authority chairman David Samson received $460,000 for lobbying on behalf of Northstar between 2012 and the end of last year.
Northstar is a partnership that includes GTECH S.p.A, the largest global lottery business, and Scientific Gaming. The two companies have sometimes brought in other entities to pursue lottery management contracts in several states.
Chubbie
Club for Growth Volley
T-rump
Republican presidential candidates not named Donald Trump have raised hundreds of millions of dollars for their campaigns and allied groups. Yet none of that money is being targeted against the celebrity real estate mogul, the party's front-runner through the summer.
Now the first well-funded anti-Trump volley is coming, though not from another candidate. It's from the Club for Growth, a Washington-based tax-cutting advocacy group that just months ago asked Trump for a contribution.
The group said Tuesday it will spend $1 million assailing Trump on TV in the early caucus state of Iowa. Its 30-second commercials, which begin Thursday, call him "the worst kind of politician," highlight some of his most liberal positions and say he's playing voters "for chumps."
For now, though, Club for Growth is going it alone.
Some of the largest pro-Republican political groups - including the Koch brothers-led Americans for Prosperity, GOP strategist Karl Rove's Crossroads groups and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce - say they have no immediate plans to swat at him.
T-rump
Moving More Jobs Overseas
GE
Flexing its muscles amid a bitter congressional fight over the U.S. Export-Import Bank, General Electric Co on Tuesday revealed plans to shift up to 500 U.S. manufacturing jobs to Europe and China because it can no longer access EXIM financing.
The largest U.S. industrial conglomerate said it will move production of some heavy duty gas turbines and 400 jobs to Belfort, France, in exchange for a credit line from France's COFACE export agency. The deal will support GE bids for international power projects.
U.S. plants in Greenville, South Carolina; Schenectady, New York; and Bangor, Maine, will lose out on those jobs if GE wins the power bids, a GE spokeswoman said.
GE also said 100 additional final assembly jobs for smaller turbine generator sets derived from aircraft engines will move next year from outside of Houston to Hungary and China. No U.S. facility will close, a GE spokeswoman said.
GE
4th Lowest Level
Arctic Sea Ice
Summer Arctic sea ice shrank to its fourth lowest level on record this month, dispelling faint hopes of a recovery, federal scientists said.
The National Snow and Ice Data Center announced Tuesday that the Arctic hit its summer minimum last week with 1.7 million square miles of sea ice, down 240,000 square miles from 2014. That's a difference the size of California, New York and Maryland combined.
"The ice is decreasing over time, which you would expect because the Arctic is warming," data center scientist Julienne Stroeve said.
Summer minimum sea ice has shrunk since satellites started measuring in 1979. It reached a peak of 2.91 million square miles in 1980 and hit an all-time low of 1.3 million square miles in 2012. It went back up to 1.95 in 2013 and hovered near there in 2014.
The five years between 1979 and 1983 averaged 2.76 million square miles during the summer minimum. The last five years average 1.72 million square miles, a decrease of 38 percent and more than a million square miles.
Arctic Sea Ice
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Sept. 7-13. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. NFL Football: Pittsburgh at New England, NBC, 27.4 million.
2. NFL Football: N.Y. Giants at Dallas, NBC, 26.77 million.
3. "NFL Pregame Show" (Thursday), NBC, 20.99 million.
4. "NFL Pregame Show" (Sunday), NBC, 20.03 million.
5. "Football Night in America" (Sunday, 7:57 p.m.), NBC, 14.89 million.
6. "NFL Today Post-Game Show," CBS, 14.31 million.
7. "NFL Opening Kickoff Show," NBC, 12.56 million.
8. "60 Minutes," CBS, 11.46 million.
9. College Football: Ohio St. vs. Virginia Tech, ESPN, 10.59 million.
10. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 10.53 million.
11. "Football Night in America" (Sunday, 7:30 p.m.), NBC, 9.89 million.
12. "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday), NBC, 9.46 million.
13. "NCIS," CBS, 8.42 million.
14. College Football: Oregon at Michigan St., ABC, 7.9 million.
15. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 7.68 million.
16. "Fear the Walking Dead," AMC, 7.19 million.
17. "Miss America," ABC, 7.1 million.
18. "College Football Post-Game Show" (Monday), ESPN, 7.07 million.
19. "Big Brother" (Sunday), CBS, 7.02 million.
20. "Big Brother" (Wednesday), CBS, 6.56 million.
Ratings
| CURRENT MOON lunar phases |
