M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - November 23rd, 2016
Bartcop E! Live Show (2:00:00)
By DJ Useo
Celebrating 10 Years of Weekly Column "M Is For Mashup"
on Bartcop Entertainment
Broadcast November 16 2016 over mixlr.com/konrad-useo
I hope y'all dig these far out mixes. I played only classic rock mashups to give you some basis for familiarity. I doubt you'll have any problems listening. I also speak a few times about the site. Good fun. Name dropping. Here's the complete playlist -
01 - DJ Useo - I Dig Psycho Mantis Rock & Roll Music
( Peter, Paul & Mary vs Matteo Poker )
02 - RRodd - Come Together to Nasicilia
( The Beatles vs Dark Providers ) (Ben Preston Remix)
03 - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Commotion
( Hifi Banjo String's Popped His Ableton Cherry Remix )
04 - DJ Lobsterdust - Somebody To Praise
( Jefferson Airplane vs Fatboy Slim )
05 - Chocomang - Bigmouth Shelter
( The Rolling Stones vs The Smiths )
06 - DJ Fox - Come See About Down
( Jay Sean vs The Supremes )
07 - Pheugoo - Dip it Joe
( Christina Aguilera vs Jimi Hendrix Experience )
08 - DJ Zebra - Get It On My Mind
( Marvin Gaye vs The Pixies )
09 - Soundhog - John Barleycorn Must Ramble On
( Led Zeppelin vs Traffic )
10 - G3RST - Stand By Last Friday Night
( Katy Perry vs Ben E. King )
11 - Party Ben - This Tightrope's Made for Walkin'
( Nancy Sinatra vs Janelle Mon?°e )
12 - G4Gorilla - Born To Be Beautiful
( One Direction vs Steppenwolf )
13 - DJ Schmolli - In-A-Gadda-Blue-Monday
( Iron Butterfly vs New Order )
14 - DJ Prince - Macarena Tequila
( Pitbull vs Los Del Rio vs The Champs )
15 - DJ MikeA aka Mike Alegre - Light My Mother
( Danzig vs The Doors )
16 - Beat-Nick - Rock Mix ('87)(Edit)
17 - ithacaaudio - History Of Rock
( A History of Rock in 15 minutes. 348 rockstars,
84 guitarists, 64 songs, 44 drummers, 1 mashup )
18 - DJ Useo - Motown Abbey Road Medley
( As'st Motown Artists vs The Beatles vs Star Trek )
19 - Osymyso - Intro-Inspection (Full Length)( as'st)
Download the strong mp3 of
the show here
( drive.google.com/file/d/0B-xdMg4ByvpvSS15VTdnbXhPckE/view?usp=sharing )
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2016/11/bartcop-e-live-show.html )
Feedback would be extremely welcome. We can run any comments recieved in next Wednesdays column. :)
Lastly, feel the love from Wax Audio, as he has dropped
25 classic WA mashup videos here
( www.youtube.com/channel/UCLVD308bktzl6Z9sjodrkvA )
I assure you, the classic rock mashup fun is inexorable!
More mashups next Wednesday!
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Paul Krugman: Know-Nothings for the 21st Century (NY Times)
Trumpism is an all-out attack on the values that made America great.
Someone in Berlin has found a creative way to fight back against neo-Nazi Swastikas (OMG Blog)
Ibo Omari started a campaign through his NGO Die kulturellen Erben (The Cultural Heritage) titled Paintback, a movement to turn hate symbols and slogans on the streets into counter-hateful art.
Josh Marshall: "King, There Is Only One Thing Left For You To Do." (TPM)
The other thing about the "King" letter is that our heroes are complex and flawed. Clearly the FBI's efforts to collect incriminating information and use that information to attempt to blackmail King into suicide was horrifically wrong. But this history of infidelity could have come to light in legal ways. It's hard to believe that a couple decades later it wouldn't have come to light through aggressive media sleuthing. Would the country have been better off for having that information? It's very hard to see how the answer to that question can be a yes.
Josh Marshall: Thoughts on Dr. King's Day (TPM)
If you see the totality of King's thought and actions, particularly in the last years of his life, they will likely make you feel uncomfortable. And that's good.
Ryan Gilbey: Sam Rockwell got his award for playing a racist cop, not being one (Guardian)
His Three Billboards critics seem to expect fiction to deliver justice. Go on like this, and we'll have to say goodbye to Chinatown and The Godfather, for starters.
Charles McNulty: As artists fall into disgrace, must their art be consigned to oblivion? (LA Times)
The other day while paging through a collection of George Orwell's writing, I was startled by his angry dismissal of fellow writers Stephen Spender and W.H. Auden as "fashionable pansies." I shrugged my shoulders and kept on reading.
Chitra Ramaswamy: Why should women apologise for working with Woody Allen? (The Guardian)
From Rebecca Hall to Greta Gerwig, female stars are being held to account for the alleged actions of men, while silence flourishes elsewhere
Marija Bern: 10+ One In A Million Coincidences That Are Hard To Believe Have Actually Happened (Bored Panda)
Wherever your beliefs lie on the fate-coincidence scale, these odds-defying scenarios will blow your mind. Bored Panda has compiled a list of a few times when coincidences were just so perfect, occurrences so rare that even the most ardent skeptic may wonder if there weren't some supernatural forces at play.
Mexico: 500 years later, scientists discover what killed the Aztecs (The Guardian)
Within five years, 15 million people - 80% of the population - were wiped out in an epidemic named 'cocoliztli', meaning pestilence
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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
IT'S LIKE WATCHING PAINT DRY.
SHUT IT DOWN!
THE RACIST.
GOING DOWN WITH THE DRIP.
MINUTES TO LIVE.
SHIT HEAD TRUMP SAID 'SHIT HOUSE' NOT 'SHIT HOLE'.
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Last Night
Mostly sunny and still warmer than seasonal.
Heads To Haiti
Conan
Conan O'Brien is hitting the road again to hit back at President Donald Trump in a "Conan Without Borders" episode.
The late-night host said Sunday he will visit Haiti after Trump reportedly called the country a "shithole" as he discussed immigration protections for certain nations.
"Still reeling from @realDonaldTrump's very negative Yelp review of Haiti, which means I'll love it," O'Brien wrote in a tweet on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Trump declared himself "the least racist person," which should further sharpen O'Brien's satire from the Caribbean nation.
O'Brien skewered the president's border wall crusade in 2017 by visiting Mexico for a "Conan Without Borders" episode.
Conan
Waning
Democratic Freedoms
Basic rights and political freedoms in the United States are deteriorating at a faster pace under President-for-now Donald Trump (R-Crooked), exacerbated by attacks on key institutions like the press and the courts, according to a new report released Tuesday by Freedom House.
In its annual global assessment, the think tank slammed the Trump administration for withdrawing from America's "historical commitment to promoting and supporting democracy," calling it perhaps the most striking on a "long list of troubling developments" around the world in 2017. The report criticizes Trump for making false statements, refusing to disclose his taxes and other information, violating basic ethical standards and taking insufficient steps to counter Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican who ran against Trump in the election, said he believed American institutions were strong enough to withstand attacks, but was concerned about Trump's weak support for NATO, the Iran nuclear deal and other global alliances that serve as bulwarks against authoritarian governments. Previewing the report, Kasich said he was also worried that Trump's frequent disparagement of the press and judiciary could send a signal to autocrats overseas that it's OK to delegitimize those institutions in their own countries.
Freedom House, based in Washington, describes itself as a non-partisan watchdog group. Its annual report on the state of political freedoms examines countries around the world and has often focused on the decline of democracy abroad.
Its assessment of 2017 cites major setbacks in several countries, including a slide toward authoritarianism in Turkey and Hungary, internal repression in Russia and China, and an ethnic cleansing campaign in Myanmar against Rohingya Muslims. The report also notes the rise of right-wing populist parties that espouse anti-immigrant sentiments in France, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands.
Democratic Freedoms
Sells U.S. Confectionery Business to Ferrero
Nestlé
Nestlé today announced that it agreed to sell its U.S. confectionery business to Ferrero for USD 2.8 billion in cash. Nestlé's 2016 U.S. confectionery sales reached about USD 900 million. The transaction is expected to close around the end of the first quarter of 2018 following the completion of customary approvals and closing conditions.
Nestlé CEO Mark Schneider commented: "With Ferrero we have found an exceptional home for our U.S. confectionery business where it will thrive. At the same time, this move allows Nestlé to invest and innovate across a range of categories where we see strong future growth and hold leadership positions, such as pet care, bottled water, coffee, frozen meals and infant nutrition."
Nestlé's U.S. confectionery business represents about three percent of U.S. Nestlé Group sales. It includes popular local chocolate brands such as Butterfinger, Crunch, BabyRuth, 100Grand, Raisinets, Chunky, OhHenry! and SnoCaps, as well as local sugar brands such as SweeTarts, LaffyTaffy, Nerds, FunDip, PixyStix, Gobstopper, BottleCaps, Spreeand Runts.
The transaction covers the U.S.-focused confectionery brands only and does not include Nestlé's iconic Toll House baking products, a strategic growth brand which the company will continue to develop. Nestlé remains fully committed to growing its leading international confectionery activities around the world, particularly its global brand KitKat.
With sales of around USD 27 billion in 2016, the U.S. is Nestlé's largest market. Nestlé products can be found in 97 percent of U.S. households under brands such as Purina, Nestlé Pure Life, Coffee-Mate, Gerber and Stouffer's. The company employs 50,000 people in more than 120 locations across the US, including 77 factories and 10 R&D centers.
Nestlé
Freed Off Coast Of Hawaii
Humpback Whale
A humpback whale spotted off the coast of Hawaii entangled in 285ft of rope has been freed by rescuers.
The animal was first spotted on Thursday by the captain of a fishing boat near Makena Beach, on Maui island.
A rescue team arrived on the scene, but were forced to wait after the whale became "very active" at the approach of the small inflatable dinghy.
The team eventually begun to remove the line after it calmed down, according to Hawaiian TV channel KGMB-TV.
The rope will be analysed in an attempt to work out where it came from.
Humpback Whale
Yearlong Affair
Stephanie Clifford
A porn star who was reportedly paid $130,000 before the 2016 presidential election for her silence over an alleged sexual relationship she had with Donald Trump a decade earlier told Slate magazine that the alleged affair lasted "nearly a year," the online magazine reported Tuesday.
According to Slate magazine editor in chief Jacob Weisberg, Stephanie Clifford, the adult film actress also known as Stormy Daniels, told him that she first met Trump at a 2006 celebrity golf tournament in Nevada, where they had the first of numerous sexual encounters. At the time, Trump had been married to Melania for less than two years.
On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported the alleged $130,000 payment was arranged by the Trump Organization's longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen. According to the New York Times, the arrangement came as Clifford was "discussing sharing her account with ABC's 'Good Morning America'" and Slate.
Both the White House and Cohen fiercely denied the reports.
According to Weisberg, Clifford told him that she "was holding back on the juiciest details, such as her ability to describe things about Trump that only someone who had seen him naked would know." (Earlier Tuesday, Clifford's friend Alana Evans told NBC's Megyn Kelly that Daniels later told her that Trump had chased her around the bedroom "in his tighty whities." Evans relayed the same story to the Daily Beast.)
Stephanie Clifford
Pushes Two-Thirds Of Advisory Panel To Resign
Zinke
Most of the members of the National Park Service Advisory Board have tendered their resignation over frustrations with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, The Washington Post reports.
Nine of the 12 board members quit Monday night, citing Zinke's refusal to convene the citizen advisory panel or discuss matters with it since he came into office last March. Zinke has drawn criticism for a number of his actions in the Interior Department, including silencing scientists about climate change.
Zinke has rejected numerous requests to meet with the advisory panel, which is required to meet twice a year, despite his efforts to review restructuring national parks. Departing board Chairman Tony Knowles told the Post that the panel has waited to work with Zinke but has been "frozen out."
"We understand the complexity of transition but our requests to engage have been ignored and the matters on which we wanted to brief the new Department team are clearly not part of its agenda," Knowles wrote in a letter to Zinke, which was obtained by the Post.
All nine panel members, who are not employees of the Interior Department but are citizens who have shown a commitment to the National Park Service, have terms set to expire in May. Their early departure leaves the government without a functioning body to designate national historic or natural landmarks, according to the Post.
Zinke
Cited for Poor Maintenance
Mar-a-Lago
Broken staircases, improper food storage and inadequate smoke detectors - President-for-now Donald Trump's (R-Corrupt) Mar-a-Lago Resort in Palm Beach was cited for maintenance violations which could have posed a threat to public health, safety and welfare, according to a recent inspection of the 1920s beachfront property.
The bed and breakfast part of the resort required emergency repairs to pass its most recent inspection in November, according to state records reported by the Miami Herald. The B&B was cited for two high priority violations "which could pose a direct or significant threat" to the public, according to the inspection code. Those included the absence of smoke detectors capable of alerting hearing impaired guests through flashing lights, and chunks of missing concrete exposing steel rebar on a staircase.
Meanwhile, the exclusive club's kitchens were cited for 15 violations. The two main kitchens were written up for improper food storage, including milk that was stored at the wrong temperature and hot dogs stored on the ground floor of the freezer, according to the records. The kitchens passed the inspection, however, and did not need to be rechecked.
This isn't the first time Mar-a-Lago's catering services have prompted sanitation concerns. In February 2017, just days before the arrival of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, inspectors found sushi fish that had not been subject to necessary treatment for parasites, and cited the club for storing food in two defunct coolers which reportedly reached temperatures that could spoil fresh food.
Trump, who bought the 20-acre estate in 1985, spent his Thanksgiving vacation at the club, a week after the inspection. The President also spent Christmas and New Year at the resort, which takes a $200,000 membership fee.
Mar-a-Lago
Mystery Solved
Aztecs
Scientists believe they may have discovered the cause of an epidemic that struck Mexico's Aztec population in 1545, killing up to 15 million people.
In a paper published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, they describe how DNA extracted from the teeth of 29 skeletons buried in a cemetery in southern Mexico revealed previously unidentified traces of the salmonella enterica bacterium.
The bacterium is known to cause enteric fever, of which typhoid is an example. According to the study, the symptoms tally with those mentioned in records from the time, which describe victims developing red spots on the skin, vomiting, and bleeding from various body orifices.
The epidemic was one of several to hit the indigenous population soon after the arrival of Europeans in the early 16th century.
The cause of the 1545-1550 epidemic has been debated for more than a century. Measles, pneumonic plague and influenza have all been suggested as possibilities, but historians have never reached a consensus.
Aztecs
Rats May Not Be to Blame
'Black Death'
Rats get a bad rap for spreading the plague, or Black Death, that killed millions of people in medieval Europe.
But it turns out that rats might not be to blame after all - instead, the disease may have spread from person to person through human-feeding parasites, including fleas and lice, a new study suggests.
The findings challenge "the assumption that plague in Europe was predominantly spread by rats," the researchers wrote in their study, published online today (Jan. 16) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Plague is caused by bacteria called Yersinia pestis, which are carried by rodents and their fleas. The disease is perhaps best known for killing an estimated one-third of the population in Europe in the 1300s, during a pandemic called the Black Death. However, researchers are unsure about how exactly the disease was transmitted during this pandemic.
In modern times, the disease is most commonly spread to humans when fleas that have fed on infected rats go on to bite humans. This could also have happened during the Black Death - for instance, when infected rats died, their flea parasites could "jump" from the recently dead rat hosts to humans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
'Black Death'
In Memory
Hugh Wilson
Hugh Wilson, creator of the CBS comedies "WKRP in Cincinnati" and "Frank's Place" and writer-director of the first "Police Academy" movie, died Jan. 14 in Charlottesville, Va. He was 74.
Wilson was a writer for the "Bob Newhart Show" and "The Tony Randall Show" and won an Emmy for best comedy writing in 1988 for "Frank's Place." He received Emmy nominations for his work on "The Famous Teddy Z" and "WKRP in Cincinnati." He was twice awarded the Humanitas Prize, given for television and film writing that promotes meaning and human dignity.
The 1984 comedy "Police Academy," starring Steve Guttenberg, became a major hit and spawned six more films in the series.
Among the other movies he directed were "First Wives Club," starring Goldie Hawn and Bette Midler; "Blast from the Past"; and Shirley MacLaine and Nicolas Cage film "Guarding Tess." He also directed the 1999 romantic comedy "Dudley Do-Right" with actors Brendan Fraser and Sarah Jessica Parker. Wilson last directed the 2004 sport film "Mickey" starring Harry Connick Jr.
Born in Miami, Wilson graduated from the University of Florida in 1965 with a degree in journalism. He worked in advertising before segueing into TV writing. In 1982, the University of Florida presented Wilson with the Distinguished Alumnus award. He taught TV and screen writing at the University of Virginia.
He is survived by his wife, five children, and four grandchildren.
Hugh Wilson
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