Hey Y'all - I'm still having trouble with a post-surgery infection. Please enjoy this rerun article while I hopefully recover. Doctor ap'pt tomorrow. - Konrad
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Friends came to visit last Sunday. Amazingly, they had NEVER heard mashups, let alone heard OF them. This gave me the fun of selecting which tracks they'd be exposed to first. Well, they were perplexed some, & also pleased to a high degree. To process this new sound experience, their left, & right side of their brains had to percieve together what was happening audio-wise. This is not always an easy task for newbies. In many case, the artists mixed were unknown & the comment was made, & repeated "is this a mashup, or a regular song?". Here's a fine new batch of recently released blends. It's likely you won't know the artists employed. Give them a try, & see if you can tell which type of track it is.
Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress, director, and producer. She has received two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award. For her work as a director, she has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.
Foster began her professional career as a child model when she was three years old, and she made her acting debut in 1968 in the television sitcom Mayberry R.F.D. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she worked in several television series and made her film debut with Disney's Napoleon and Samantha (1972). Following appearances in the musical Tom Sawyer (1973) and Martin Scorsese's comedy-drama Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Foster's breakthrough came with Scorsese's psychological thriller Taxi Driver (1976), in which she played a child prostitute; at age 14, she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other roles as a teenager include the musical Bugsy Malone (1976) and the thriller The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976), and she became a popular teen idol by starring in Disney's Freaky Friday (1976) and Candleshoe (1977), as well as Carny (1980) and Foxes (1980).
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She had me at "The Courtship of Eddie's Father". Jodie Foster
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Jodie Foster. One of the few child actors to successfully transition to adult roles and win a best actor Oscar. She must be more intelligent than most people, Foster has been fluent in French since childhood and took time off from acting to earn a bachelor's degree in Literature from Yale.
Photos: "Nell" Natasha Richardson, Jodie Foster, Liam Neeson | "The Silence of the Lambs" Foster, Anthony Hopkins | "Taxi Driver" Foster, Robert DeNiro | "The Accused"
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Alicia Christian Foster is better known as Jodie Foster. I'm a fan of her work.
Still very seasonal and calm. Still not happy about the time change, but I'll adjust. It's funny that the dogs start campaigning for dinner at 3 (they think it's 4), when dinner is at 5.
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As the military dog's namesake, Conan thinks he deserves some accolades. The dog in the audience, who proudly served under Conan the dog, strongly disagrees.
• In 1975, body artist Chris Burden announced that he would perform a new work of art at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. The work of art consisted mainly of his lying down on the floor beneath a large sheet of plate glass near which was a clock. Previously, he had earned his master's degree at the University of California at Irvine by staying for five days in a locker. In the locker with him was a 5-gallon jug of water, and - for obvious reasons - a 5-gallon jug that started out empty. Students heard about the piece and talked to him through the locker's grillwork. This pleased Mr. Burden, who says, "I was a box with ears and a voice." At the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Mr. Burden lay still for many hours. The officials of the museum were worried about him and whether the work of art would result in permanent damage to his body - after all, he was not eating or drinking, not even taking a sip of water. Finally, after 45 hours, they placed a pitcher of water by him. Immediately, Mr. Burden got up, went to the bathroom, returned with a hammer, and smashed the clock, officially ending the work of art. He also had a sealed envelope that contained a note that explained that the work of art had three pieces: himself, the piece of glass, and the clock. The note also stated that the work of art would end whenever the museum officials acted on any of the three pieces. By bringing the pitcher of water to him, they had ended the work of art, which, by the way, was titled "Doomed." "I thought perhaps the piece would last several hours," Mr. Burden says. "I thought maybe they'd come up and say, 'Okay, Chris, it's 2 a.m. and everybody's gone home and the guards are on overtime and we have to close up.' That would have ended the piece, and I would have broken the clock, recording the elapsed time. On the first night, when I realized they weren't going to stop the piece, I was pleased and impressed that they had placed the integrity of the piece ahead of the institutional requirements of the museum. On the second night, I thought, 'My God, don't they care anything at all about me? Are they going to leave me here to die?'"
• Being a performance artist is like having a license to be creative and have fun. For example, Ohio University School of Art graduate students Nate Lareau and Marin Abell saw 2,400 ping-pong balls for sale on eBay. They immediately bought them for $80, then set about finding ways to make use of them. One thing they did was to put them in a dryer (on the tumble with no-heat setting) at a coin-operated laundry (with permission). According to Mr. Lareau, "That was a good one. The ping-pong balls in the dryer created quite a racket. They sounded like a hailstorm, and looked a little like a weather system." Another thing they did was to simply pour the ping-pong balls onto a street on a hill. The street was lined with bricks, and the sound the balls created as they bounced down the hill was interesting - like rain hitting a roof. Finally, Mr. Abell and a friend took the balls and a ping-pong-ball shooter and played a game where Mr. Abell tied 10 tennis rackets to his body and tried to hit the ping-pong balls being shot at him. Mr. Abell said he actually got very good at hitting the balls. Mr. Lareauand Mr. Abell still have the ping-pong balls, and the balls may yet appear in future pieces of performance art they create.
• In 1968, on the streets of Munich, Viennese performance artist Valie Export engaged in what she called "Touch Cinema." She cut out holes in a box so that she could wear it around her torso: one hole was for her head, two holes were for her arms, and two holes were cut in front. Inside the box were her bare breasts, which were hidden by the box and by a cloth that covered the opening in the box in front of her breasts. She told passersby, "This box is the cinema hall. My body is the screen. But this cinema hall is not for looking - it is for touching." She would then invite passersby to put their hands through the holes in front and touch her for 13 seconds. Some people took her up on the offer, and one thing that she noticed about the men was that they always looked her in the eyes as they touched her.
How cute! I wonder how many commuters enjoyed the ride because of this mini-equine?
Parenthetically, I've been riding a friend's horse 3-5 days a week since the first week of October. He's a cutting horse, highly-rated and high-dollar, but you'd never know it to walk him around a big pasture for an hour. He's rehabbing from an injury. I've owned a horse and worked with many Thoroughbred and Standardbred lay-ups (back when bucking a 50+ lb. bale of hay was easy). My doctor couldn't have prescribed better therapy - especially now that we're seriously into short days.
Looks like things are going well here in VA (I voted a couple of weeks ago--Democratic even down to the f-ing school board level!) And Kentucky--oh my!
Linda >^..^<
We are all only temporarily able bodied.
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Survivor', followed by a FRESH'SEAL Team', then a FRESH'SWAT'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Helen Mirren, Ian McKellen, and "MasterChef Junior" contestants.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Wiz Khalifa, Zach Woods, and Sara Bareilles.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Chicago Med', followed by a FRESH'Chicago Fire', then a FRESH'Chicago PD'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Henry Golding, Noomi Rapace, and Dan White.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Jim Gaffigan, Jenny Slate, Muna, and Brendan Buckley.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh is Ashley Graham.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'The Goldbergs', followed by a FRESH'Schooled', then a FRESH'Modern Family', followed by a FRESH'Single Parents', then a FRESH'Stumptown'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Shia LaBeouf, Lil Rel Howery, and Grace Potter.
The CW offers a FRESH'Riverdale', followed by a FRESH'Nancy Drew'.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'The Masked Singer'.
MY recycles an old 'Dateline', followed by another old 'Dateline'.
AMC offers the movie 'Vegas Vacation', followed by the movie 'GoodFellas'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-The Hardest Challenge
[7:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2-In The Grip of Seasons - Arctic
[8:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3-Hide And Seek - Jungles
[9:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4-Hunger At Sea - Oceans
[10:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5-Nowhere To Hide - Plains
[11:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 6-Race Against Time - Coasts
[12:00PM] PLANET EARTH - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-From Pole To Pole
[1:00PM] PLANET EARTH - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2-Mountains
[2:00PM] PLANET EARTH - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3-Fresh Water
[3:00PM] PLANET EARTH - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4-Caves
[4:00PM] PLANET EARTH - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 50Deserts
[5:00PM] PLANET EARTH - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 6-Ice Worlds
[6:00PM] PLANET EARTH - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 7-Great Plains
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 8-Jungles
[8:00PM] PLANET EARTH - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 9-Shallow Seas
[9:00PM] PLANET EARTH - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 10-Seasonal Forests
[10:00PM] PLANET EARTH - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 11-Ocean Deep
[11:00PM] PLANET EARTH - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 7-Great Plains
[12:00AM] PLANET EARTH - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 8-Jungles
[1:00AM] PLANET EARTH - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 9-Shallow Seas
[2:00AM] PLANET EARTH - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 10-Seasonal Forests
[3:00AM] PLANET EARTH - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 11-Ocean Deep
[4:00AM] WILD SINGAPORE - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-Hidden World
[5:00AM] WILD SINGAPORE - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2-Urban Wild (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ', then a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Dallas', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
Comedy Central has 3 hours of old 'South Park', followed by a FRESH'South Park', then a FRESH'Crank Yankers'.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show is Julián Castro.
Scheduled on a FRESHLights Out with David Spade are Jen Kirkman, Jessica Kirson, and Greg Fitzsimmons.
FX has the movie 'War For The Planet Of The Apes', followed by a FRESH'American Horror Story'.
History has 'Forged In Fire', followed by a FRESH'Forged In Fire: Cutting Deeper', then a FRESH'Forged In Fire'.
IFC -
[6:00A] Terminator 2: Judgment Day
[9:00A] Drillbit Taylor
[11:30A] Revenge of the Nerds
[1:30P] The Karate Kid Part II
[4:00P] The Karate Kid
[7:00P] I Love You, Man
[9:30P] The Longest Yard (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:10am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:45am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:20am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:55am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:30am] Stand by Me
[12:30pm] Almost Famous
[3:00pm] Law & Order
[4:00pm] Law & Order
[5:00pm] Law & Order
[6:00pm] Law & Order
[7:00pm] Law & Order
[8:00pm] Law & Order
[9:00pm] Law & Order
[10:00pm] Law & Order
[11:00pm] The Cry
[12:22am] Law & Order
[1:22am] Law & Order
[2:22am] Law & Order
[3:23am] The Cry
[4:45am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:20am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:55am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Fantastic 4: Rise Of The Silver Surfer', followed by the movie 'RIPD', then the movie 'The Losers'.
Twelve years ago almost to the day, ABC news correspondent Bob Woodruff - who was seriously wounded in Iraq while covering the war in 2006 - brought Conan O'Brien, Lewis Black, Robin Williams, and Bruce Springsteen to New York's Town Hall to raise funds for wounded veterans. The Stand Up for Heroes benefit (the start of the week-long New York Comedy Festival) has been held every year since, moving up to the Beacon Theatre and then the Theater at Madison Square Garden, raising over $55 million in the process and helping countless American heroes rebuild their lives.
The lineup rotates a bit each year, but Bruce Springsteen has been at every single one besides the 2017 show when it conflicted with his Broadway schedule. He's always joined by many of the biggest names in comedy for an incredible evening of music, laughter, and moving speeches about the incredible work of the Bob Woodruff Foundation.
The 2019 Stand Up for Heroes show was held on Monday night at the Theater at Madison Square Garden with Daily Show correspondent Ronny Chieng, former Daily Show correspondents Hasan Minhaj and John Oliver, and former Daily Show host Jon Stewart (see a pattern here?), along with Bruce Springsteen, Sheryl Crow, and Frédéric Yonnet. Here are 10 of the highlights from the evening.
Gimme Some Money - spoof rock band Spinal Tap once sang. Now after a three year battle with Universal Music the band's dreams have come true.
Cult movie This Is Spinal Tap, a film about England's (fictional) loudest heavy metal band was a modest success when it was released in 1984 but has grown into a cult classic.
Directed and co-written by Rob Reiner the film satirized awful behavior in the music industry and arguably launched the "mockumentary" genre with its depiction of a fake tour, featuring an accidentally tiny Stonehenge stage set, songs including Big Bottom and Sex Farm, and custom-made amplifiers that have volume knobs that go up to eleven.
Harry Shearer, who played bassist Derek Smalls in the film and later voiced characters in The Simpsons, launched the lawsuit against Universal and Studio Canal, both owned by media conglomerate Vivendi, in 2016 claiming "fraudulent accounting" and "anti-competitive behaviour".
He initially sought $125m in damages and claimed the "group" had been paid just $98 between 1989 and 2006 for royalties on soundtrack sales and $81 for merchandise between 1984 and 2006. The claim was increased to $400m after Shearer was joined in the suit by film-maker Christopher Guest, who played guitarist Nigel Tufnel; actor Michael McKean, who played singer David St Hubbins, and Reiner.
A new prize was just founded to honor the late Maryam Mirzakhani, a brilliant Iranian mathematician who died of breast cancer in 2017. The $50,000 prize will go to outstanding young female mathematicians who are no more than two years out from earning their doctoral degrees.
"We hope that the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize will help inspire young women to pursue their calling for mathematics," said Richard Taylor, the chair of the selection committee for the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, which is awarding the money. "Recognizing some of the many aspiring women in mathematics is a fitting tribute to the beautiful intellect of Dr. Mirzakhani."
Mirzakhani was just 40 when she died, only three years after winning one of math's most prestigious prizes, the Fields Medal. Mirzakhani was the only woman to have ever won the prize, which is handed out to mathematicians under age 40. Mirzakhani's close collaborator, mathematician Alex Eskin of the University of Chicago, won a $3 million Breakthrough Prize this year for work he did in conjunction with Mirzakhani. The pair had worked out a theorem to explain some of the features of a geometric concept called moduli space. Mirzakhani was also well known for her work in understanding the geometry of spheres, doughnuts and other curved, three-dimensional shapes, according to Stanford University, where she was a professor.
Mirzakhani was born in Tehran and in high school became the first female ever to compete on Iran's International Mathematical Olympiad team, according to her Stanford University obituary. She won gold medals in that competition in 1994 and 1995. She attended Harvard University for graduate school and solved two long-standing mathematical problems in her doctoral thesis.
The $50,000 prize money may be split between two or more individual mathematicians. Details on eligibility for the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize will be available on the Breakthrough Prize website.
ABC's Emmy-winning Live In Front Of A Studio Audience is returning December 18 with a re-creation of classic episodes from Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin's All In the Family and groundbreaking sitcom Good Times, created by Mike Evans, Eric Monte and developed by Lear. Additionally, Kerry Washington, who portrayed Helen Willis of The Jeffersons in the original special in the spring, will join as an executive producer.
The holiday-inspired live event produced by Sony Pictures Television, will reunite executive producers Lear, Jimmy Kimmel, Brent Miller, Will Ferrell and Justin Theroux, along with Washington.
ABC's Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons''was nominated for three Emmy Awards, and took home the prize for Outstanding Variety Special (Live). The May 22 premiere averaged 14.29 million Total Viewers and a 2.86 rating in Adults 18-49 across all platforms after 35 days of TV playback and reached 23.5 million Total Viewers for its original Wednesday broadcast and two encore airings on Saturday, May 25, and Saturday, Aug. 17.
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: 'All in the Family' and 'Good Times' will be produced by Kimmelot, ACT III Productions, Gary Sanchez Productions, D'Arconville, Simpson Street, and Sony Pictures Television. Norman Lear, Jimmy Kimmel, Brent Miller, Kerry Washington, Will Ferrell and Justin Theroux will executive produce.
Paul Maidment, a former Financial Times and Forbes editor who oversaw a remarkable exodus of staff members at the sports blog Deadspin, has resigned his post as G/O Media's editorial director.
A G/O Media spokesman confirmed the news, which made Twitter vibrate anew after days of froth over Deadspin's meltdown. The drama has played out against a backdrop of challenging times for the digital media business, which has been squeezed by the dual advertising behemoths of Facebook and Google.
"It is the right moment for me to leave to pursue an entrepreneurial opportunity," Maidment wrote in a memo to staff. "I admire the journalism that you produce and the unique voice that is otherwise missing from mainstream media. It has been a great honor and I wish you all the very best. I am certain that the sites will grow and thrive in the future."
Maidment and Jim Spanfeller, CEO of G/O Media, had worked together previously at Forbes and a newer outlet, the Daily Meal. But with G/O backer Great Hill Partners looking to make its private-equity math work on the acquisition of the former Gawker Media sites from Univision, things had gotten particularly tense at Deadspin.
Culminating months of roiling staff unrest since G/O entered the picture last spring, interim editor-in-chief Barry Pechetsky was fired last week. His ouster came after Maidment issued a directive that the editorial staff was to "stick to sports," rather than branching into the other topic areas that had helped define the site over its nearly 15-year run.
A trade war between the world's top two economies cut U.S. imports of Chinese goods by more than a quarter, or $35 billion, in the first half of this year and drove up prices for American consumers, a U.N. study showed on Tuesday.
Beijing and Washington have been locked in a trade feud for the past 16 months although there are hopes that an initial deal offering some relief may be signed this month.
If that fails, nearly all Chinese goods imports into the United States - worth more than $500 billion - could be affected.
U.S. imports from China subject to tariffs fell to $95 billion between January and June from $130 billion during the same period of 2018, the study released by the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) showed.
The sector hit hardest by the U.S. tariffs are U.S. imports of Chinese office machinery and communication equipment, which fell by $15 billion. Over time, the scale of Chinese export losses increased alongside mounting tariffs, the study said.
Last month was the hottest October ever recorded worldwide, according to data released by the European Union's satellite monitoring service on Tuesday.
Globally, temperatures were 0.69 degrees Celsius (1.25 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the average October from 1981 to 2010, and 0.01 C warmer than the previous record holder, October 2015.
This is equivalent to 1.2 Celsius above the pre-industrial average, the Copernicus Climate Change Service said in a statement.
September was also a record-breaking month, and July was the hottest since temperature records began.
Twenty of the last 22 years have been the hottest on record, according to the UN World Meteorological Organization.
Responding to a public furor, a Florida county board on Tuesday said it would revisit its decision to reject its library system's request for a digital subscription to the New York Times, whose reporting one member had called "fake news."
The Oct. 24 decision by the Citrus County commissioners drew sharp opposition as well as national attention when it came to light in a local report late last week.
Members of the five-person board in Citrus County, about 75 miles (121 km) north of Tampa, said the request for about $2,700 a year to fund the Times digital version would be taken up again their Nov. 19 meeting.
The board's initial decision drew coverage on Tuesday from national publications, including the Washington Post and USA Today, as well as an editorial in the Citrus County Chronicle that urged the body to rethink its decision.
"If you attended the meeting or watched the video, it was clear that the reason for rejection wasn't fully fiscal - it was personal," the newspaper said on Sunday. "It was also downright unprofessional."
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