M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - June 7th, 2016
Mash Of The Titans 6
By DJ Useo
The gifted bootleg video artist
Panos T
( panost.net/ )
has done the impossible once more, & has brought us the marvelous
6th edition in the "Mash Of The Titans" series
( panost.net/mash-of-the-titans/mash-of-the-titans-6/ )
. As before the formula is adhered to, yielding another refined two-disc set of new mashups from top talent. The theme is mainstream-style mashups, & they deliver in the best way possible.
Over the course of 26 blends, this volume displays only the highest production standards. Additionally, the source pairing of the tracks shows the advanced deejay skills of the home producers.
Panos himself provides a divine video for Deelirious Mashups' "Apologize Symphony" [Timbaland / Clean Bandit / One Republic / Zara Larsson]
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMIHv8GaKOA )
Panos also whipped up a super video for Megamix Central's "Fire Away" Britney x Selena Gomez x Ciara x Gaga x Sia]
( www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=pNddQSiWNd8 )
& thirdly, Panos does a video for Deejay Paris & Alex Iatrou's "Chained To The Cold Feeling" [Maroon 5 / Katy Perry / Bebe Rexha + More]
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXHvH7Q1YJs )
More videos from the comp are available from
Panos site
( panost.net/ ) .
Here's the full playlist to aid in increasing your desire for this collection.
Mash Of The Titans 6 Tracklist
CD 01:
MixmstrStel - I Really Love You (Video)
DJ J-Brew - Shut Up and Dance On Castle Hill
Titus Jones - Kiss That Cheap 24K Sax (Video)
DJ Schmolli - Epic Love All Night
Megamix Central - Fire Away
DJ Sunsite - My Way Is Better Than Hell (Video)
Deejay Paris & Alex Iatrou - Chained To The Cold Feeling (Video)
MMTMixes - Hands To My Love
Happy Cat Disco - Stay And Dance
Deelirious Mashups - Apologize Symphony
T10MO - No Desires
Robin Skouteris - Careless Starboy
Kill_mR_DJ - Take Me Down
CD 02:
Adamusic - Don't Leave - The Megamix (Video)
DJ CROSSABILITY - A Mashup Something Just Like This (Video)
Logan Mashups - Let Me Drum You
Andy Wu - The Greatest Rhythm
DJ Ryson - You Relax Me Against The Music
Shahar Varshal - Swalalalala
InanimateMashups - Scary Monsters And Nice Skyscrapers
DJ Surda - White Dibby Noise
Mashup Bambi - What If Love
Xouth - I Feel It Pop
Dylan Vasey - Juicy Trouble
Joseph James - Thinking Bout Love
I give this release my highest recommendation. The price ( free ) is right, & the files are totally pleasing.
Obtain "Mash Of The Titans 6" & the previous 5 volumes here
( panost.net/mash-of-the-titans/mash-of-the-titans-6/ )
Have the day of good - Konrad
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Paul Krugman: The Force of Decency Awakens (NY Times)
A funny thing is happening on the American scene: a powerful upwelling of decency. Suddenly, it seems as if the worst lack all conviction, while the best are filled with a passionate intensity. We don't yet know whether this will translate into political change. But we may be in the midst of a transformative moment.
Andrew Tobias: Getting a Fair Shot
His plan is to tax income above $250,000 - including dividends and capital gains - at 50%. Along with other revenue-raisers he proposes, he calculates it would be enough to provide $500 a month to every worker who earns less than $50,000 a year - including students who work at studying, and parents who work at raising kids or caring for their parents. And that, in turn, would cut poverty dramatically - and do good things for our economy overall.
Stuart Heritage: "Small scream: why TV's horror shows are scarily bad" (The Guardian)
The development of a series based on The Blair Witch Project suggests a terrifyingly misjudged idea and highlights a problem with genre TV.
Steve Rose: "Ripe for a kicking: Hollywood's love-hate relationship with Rotten Tomatoes" (The Guardian)
Twenty years after its launch, the movie-review aggregator's verdict is now seen as vital to a film's success or failure. Is the site too influential for its own good?
Steve Rose: "Woody Allen's Oscar-winning women: how did his direction affect them?" (The Guardian)
In the wake of ongoing allegations, how do we process Allen's reputation for writing award worthy roles for women?
Cath Clarke: Why The Shape of Water should win the 2018 best picture Oscar (The Guardian)
Ahead of the 2018 Oscars, Cath Clarke argues that the quiet female steeliness at the heart of Guillermo del Toro's fish-love fable should make the Academy rethink its aversion to fantasy.
Andrew McCallum: Don't knock kids for rereading books. Encourage them to read, full stop (The Guardian)
A report that claims returning to old favourites such as Jeff Kinney stalls 'progress' misunderstands what reading is about.
Michele Hanson: My parents ate my pet ducks - but they still had happier lives than most poultry (The Guardian)
Birds today are treated terribly, overfed and debeaked to satisfy our appetite for eating such numbers of them. Can't we all be a little less wasteful?
Lauren Smith: Mirrors have revealed something new about manta rays - and it reflects badly on us (The Guardian)
Humans make huge use of marine vertebrates, but manta rays may pass the self-awareness test and fish potentially could too. Ethically, where does that leave us?
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Bonus Links
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Reader Comment
Current Events
Wonkette on Princess Pussy
Good one, but if for nothing else, DO watch the one-minute clip from Howard Stern. I despise Stern and generally refuse to watch anything he does. Someone ought to broadcast this clip on a continuous loop 24/7/365 outside the WH:
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
A SHORT HISTORY OF REPUG WHOREMONGERS.
THE HEAT IS ON!
THE 'GATES' OF HELL!
"THE CENTER WILL NOT HOLD."
"LET THEM EAT CAKE."
*ACTUAL CARTOON.
IT'S POLAR BEAR DAY
Visit JD's site - Kitty Litter Music
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Argle bargle, looks like next week is gonna be even more fun than this one.
Literacy Program Donates 100 Millionth Book
Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton made a special appearance Tuesday in Washington D.C., not only to celebrate a huge milestone for her book-giving literacy program, but also to launch a new venture with the nation's largest library.
Alongside Carla Hayden, who heads the Library of Congress, the iconic country singer dedicated the 100 millionth book from her Imagination Library to the research library. Through the nonprofit, she has been donating millions of books to children for more than 20 years.
Parton also helped kick off a new initiative between the Imagination Library and the Library of Congress, in which a book will be read during a live-stream and shared with libraries across the U.S.
The award-winning singer and philanthropist read her children's book "Coat of Many Colors" to children in the audience at Tuesday's event.
Parton, who grew up in the Great Smoky Mountains in east Tennessee, told Hayden that she started the program in 1996 as a tribute to her father. She said he was a hardworking man but had not attended school or learned to read and write.
Dolly Parton
Ellen DeGeneres Surprises
Jimmy Kimmel
Since first announcing that his son Billy was born with congenital heart disease last May, Jimmy Kimmel has continued to publicly discuss his child's health on his eponymous late-night show.
In doing so, Kimmel often gets emotional - especially when making pleas for health-care reform in Billy's name, or thanking the doctors and nurses who treated him at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. Kimmel also teared up while delivering monologues about a number of tragedies - most recently, the school shooting in Parkland, Fla.
DeGeneres and her viewers had previously raised $1 million for Children's Hospital Los Angeles when Kimmel's son was undergoing heart surgery.
"You're such a great guy, and that was so emotional to see you go through that," DeGeneres told Kimmel before revealing her "surprise" for him.
"We called our friends at Children's Hospital LA, including Billy's surgeon," DeGeneres said. "We have named one of the rooms of the Heart Institute floor in honor of Billy."
Jimmy Kimmel
'I'm Not Alone Anymore'
Monica Lewinsky
Monica Lewinsky has waited 20 years for the Me Too movement.
"I'm so sorry you were so alone," Lewinsky wrote in a recent essay for Vanity Fair, recalling a message she received from a leader of the Me Too movement. "Those seven words undid me."
Lewinsky's essay in the magazine's March edition describes how she grappled with isolation and trauma after her affair with then-President Bill Clinton became public in 1998. Only recently, with the help of the Me Too movement against sexual misconduct, has she felt less alone. A private exchange with a leader of the movement was powerfully reassuring, she wrote.
"Somehow, coming from her - a recognition of sorts on a deep, soulful level - [those words] landed in a way that cracked me open and brought me to tears," Lewinsky continued. "Yes, I had received many letters of support in 1998 ... But by and large I had been alone. So. Very. Alone. Publicly Alone ? abandoned most of all by the key figure in the crisis, who actually knew me well and intimately. That I had made mistakes, on that we can all agree. But swimming in that sea of Aloneness was terrifying."
Lewinsky's poignant essay describes how it felt to be the infamous centerpiece of a scandal that rocked a presidency: The investigation; the onslaught of media stories and cruel "Saturday Night Live" skits; her own mother being forced to testify against her; and seeing details of her sex life and personal life displayed to the world.
Monica Lewinsky
Female Logo
'Jane Walker'
Johnnie Walker is rolling out a female version of its iconic logo, an attempt to draw more women to the world's best-selling scotch and acknowledge a broader push toward gender equality.
A limited U.S. edition of the whisky will have a striding woman on the label - rather than the traditional top-hatted man - and carry the name Jane Walker. Brand owner Diageo Plc is hoping the move widens the appeal of the product while celebrating women, said Stephanie Jacoby, vice president of Johnnie Walker.
Diageo isn't alone in putting a female face on a traditionally male mascot. KFC, the fried-chicken chain run by Yum! Brands Inc., tapped country singer Reba McEntire in January to appear as Colonel Sanders in its latest marketing campaign.
The Jane Walker launch is the latest part of the brand's "Keep Walking America" push, which began in 2016. The campaign is an attempt to speak to a broader audience, with ads spotlighting Latinos and veterans.
'Jane Walker'
Ends NFL Partnership
Papa John's
If you're a fan of corny commercials featuring prominent NFL faces peddling mediocre pizza while you watch football, we've got bad news.
The NFL and Papa John's broke up on Tuesday.
The NFL and Papa John's released a joint statement that the pizza chain will still do business on a regional level with teams in 22 markets.
Papa John's announced in its earnings report that sales fell by 3.9 percent in the fourth quarter with executives citing "negative consumer sentiment."
Former CEO and face of the company John Schnatter stepped down from his role leading the company on January 1 after his statement during a November conference call criticizing the NFL for its handling of players protesting social justice issues during the national anthem.
Papa John's
Doesn't Intend to Keep
Makes Promises
You may not be surprised that Donald Trump (R-Crooked) hasn't kept a number of promises as president, but you should be.
It's a truism that politicians make promises they don't intend to keep, but decades of academic research has actually shown the opposite: that presidents try to keep an average of about two-thirds of their campaign pledges.
That's not exactly the case in the current administration, however. In several notable cases, President-for-now Trump has either directly broken a promise - such as his vow to release his tax returns - or simply not taken action on an idea - such as his pledge to enact term limits on members of Congress.
PolitiFact, a fact-checking website, has tracked Trump's promisessince his campaign began. Out of 102 promises on its Trump-o-Meter scorecard, 33 are currently stalled and seven broken, while only nine have been kept and seven ended with a compromise. Almost half - 46 - are considered in the works, but those include some hard-to-achieve targets like achieving energy independenceand reversing China's entry into the World Trade Organization.
By comparison, over eight years, the same scorecard ranked President Obama as having kept 258 promises, compromised on 146 and broke 129 - meaning he kept or compromised on three-fourths of his promises.
Makes Promises
Federal Well Cleanups
Drilling Boom
Cleaning up the tens of thousands oil and gas wells on U.S. federal land after they stop producing could cost over $6 billion, and taxpayers may need to pitch in, according to an analysis of state and federal data commissioned by a conservation watchdog group.
The analysis by consultancy ECONorthwest on behalf of the Center for Western Priorities, estimates the potential reclamation costs for the 94,096 oil and gas wells now producing on federal lands at $6.1 billion.
The study pointed out the figure is likely several times higher than the amount the government has collected from oil and gas companies for the purposes of well reclamation - and taxpayers could be liable for some of the difference.
The Interior Department requires oil and gas companies to post reclamation bonds of $10,000 per well when they drill on federal land, to ensure that wells are cleaned up once they are retired or if a company goes bankrupt.
The report estimated, however, that the average cost of a well reclamation is now $65,200, with deeper wells that are becoming more common due to improved drilling technology costing around $100,000 to clean up.
Drilling Boom
Trippy Reason
'Magic' Mushrooms
"Magic" mushrooms seem to have passed their genes for mind-altering substances around among distant species as a survival mechanism: By making fungus-eating insects "trip," the bugs become less hungry - and less likely to feast on mushrooms.
That's the upshot of a paper published today (Feb. 27) in the journal Evolution Letters by a team of biologists at The Ohio State University and the University of Tennessee.
The researchers studied a group of mushrooms that all produce psilocybin - the chemical agent that causes altered states of consciousness in human beings - but aren't closely related. The scientists found that the clusters of genes that caused the 'shrooms to fill themselves with psilocybin were very similar to one another, more similar even than clusters of genes found in closely related species of mushrooms.
That's a sign, the researchers wrote, that the genes weren't inherited from a common ancestor, but instead were passed directly between distant species in a phenomenon known as "horizontal gene transfer" or HGT.
HGT isn't really one process, as the biologist Alita Burmeister explained in the journal Evolution, Medicine and Public Health in 2015. Instead, it's the term for a group of more or less well-understood processes - like viruses picking up genes from one species and dropping them in another - that can cause groups of genes to jump between species.
'Magic' Mushrooms
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Feb. 19-25. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. Winter Olympics (Tuesday), NBC, 17.53 million.
2. Winter Olympics (Monday), NBC, 16.37 million.
3. Winter Olympics (Thursday), NBC, 15.24 million.
4. Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony, NBC, 14.78 million.
5. Winter Olympics (Wednesday), NBC, 14.17 million.
6. Winter Olympics (Friday), NBC, 12.9 million.
7. Winter Olympics (Saturday, 9-10 p.m.), NBC, 11.69 million.
8. Winter Olympics Gala (Saturday, 10-11 p.m.), NBC, 10.85 million.
9. "60 Minutes," CBS, 8.33 million.
10. "The Walking Dead," AMC, 8.28 million.
11. "The Big Bang Theory" (Thursday, 8 p.m.), CBS, 7.91 million.
12. "NCIS," CBS, 7.2 million.
13. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 7.04 million.
14. "Pyeongchang Gold," NBC, 6.98 million.
15. "The Big Bang Theory" (Thursday, 9 p.m.), CBS, 6.36 million.
16. "The Bachelor," ABC, 6.29 million.
17. "A.P. Bio," NBC, 5.89 million.
18. "Big Brother" (Wednesday), CBS, 5.54 million.
19. "Bull," CBS, 5.48 million.
20. "NCIS: New Orleans," CBS, 5.31 million.
Ratings
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