SoundUnsound
( www.soundunsound.com ) is an internet forum for home producers. It features original music, mashups, remixes, podcasts & long dj mixes. I'm the 'super-moderator' . They call me Sgt. Useo. I mean DJ Useo. Around four times a year the staff of SoundUnsound picks a musical theme & we assemble mashups mixed along the theme. In the past there's been mashup compilations of Reggaeton, Surf, & Punk, among several others. You can find them for listening close to the bottom of
this page
( djuseomashupalbums.blogspot.com/ )
SUS (SoundUnsound) has been blessed with a moderator whose one of the best mashers around, France's
Chocomang
( chocomang.org/ ) . As we routinely take turns deciding the new comp themes, it was Chocomang's choice this time & he loved the last SUS 80's album so much he decided to go with a second volume. In a bold move he set the track submission number at five. Back when the project was announced, we had no idea the theme would catch on like wildfire. In addition to many of the SUS regulars like DJ MXR, mARKYbOY, MaxwellJump & others, we found additional people joining in like Bobby Martini, Mister NoNo, Jarod Ripley, & Worldwide Brotherhood. All well-known bootleg producers with plenty of past 'hits'.
I could go on about how great the tracks are we got from others like ToTom, Eternal Khaos, Qubic, & more, but I prefer to give you all three discs' playlists. That's right. Three discs! & they're great! We could've easily have attained four discs if we had moved the deadline. I must'a got ten more tracks sent in after the deadline. Wot a treat! Here's what we ended up with -
Hmm. That was much too long of a list for Bartcop E. I believe it's simpler to just check
the page for the SoundUnsound 80's Mashed Volume Two compilation
( chocomang.org/mashup/80smashed2.htm ) . Take a gander!
Here it is, 2012, the year of the mashup album, & I got to be involved with one of the very best. Hearing the work of DJ Flashard, G4Gorilla, Rillen Rudi, & so very many more is always satisfying, but put them all together & the effect is stunning & memorable. New SUS member Sjoersje really shines with five incredible mixes. You have to wonder "Where has this talent been hiding until now?" Then there's Voicedude, surely the top mashup artist in the USA. DJ Spider is well-known for his spectacular mashups & we got one of them from him. Sweet! Literally, every track & every mixer on this set leaves you with a thirst for more. Tweylo, Justincredible, Alan Black, DRA'man, these people all are established names with many a fine track released. Nonny Mouse may be an unknown commodity to the modern mashup audience, but he shows through his five tracks an ability that'll surely draw listeners. I even got a few tracks on it myself.
The album has tons of great 80s artists like BIlly Idol, Human League, The Cure, New Order, Toto, MARRS, Yello, Tom Petty, Blondie, Pet Shop Boys... I could go on indefinitely. My favorite mashup album so far this year is
SUMMER BOOTY : The Summer Mashup Album
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/06/summer-booty-2012-summer-mashup-album.html ) but this new SUS 80s vol. 2 comp is coming on strong. I worked on the album production-wise, but I'm in no way tired of hearing it. I've been playing it constantly for three days. I'm pretty confidant that you'll feel the same. Make sure to listen all the way through. The last 2 tracks, Eternal Khaos' Taylor Swift vs Nine Inch Nails & Chocomangs' AC/DC vs the Cult are such huge faves of mine. Please
check them out & see why
( chocomang.org/mashup/80smashed2.htm ).
More new Mashup albums next week.
Mix Of The Week
Ace Of Clubs pleases again with his latest work, 'Club Countdown' "Top 25 of 1982" (Total Time 79:43). Yes, it literally mixes it's way through the best of 1982. Ace Of Clubs has been doing this type of yearly rundown for ages now & all are great. Also available are a 44 minute version & most astonishing of all, a 6 minute version. All
are found here
( www.clubcountdown.blogspot.com/ )
Mashup Tip
Use more than one mix application per track for a more professional sound. It works!
Latest Useo Thing
'Bom Bom Afterglow' (Sam And The Womp vs Phaeleh vs Soundmouse vs Akira Kiteshi) uses only the most recent tracks. It's perfect for making you dance. It was getting a great reception when it was removed from my blog for some unreasonable gripe. Here it is on
Official FM
( official.fm/tracks/jJHo ) This was the 3rd track in a row of mine to have the link be removed. Not cool, I say. I quickly put up another new track to see if it would suffer the same fate. '
Rocking Bloodlines' has Neil Young singing over Dethklok, the cartoon band from the tv show Metalocalypse.
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/09/neil-young-vs-dethklok.html )
Good news so far is the links remain. Yay! I'm suspicious that some online fool is targeting me again out of jealousy. It's happened before, sadly. I hope you enjoy the mixes. You get your choice of club/techno, or classic rock/death metal.
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
A major snafu will occur tomorrow with the NSA when they forget to spy on us because they're too busy playing the new DJ Earworm mashup. Say la vee.
Christopher Riley: "Richard Feynman: Life, the universe and everything" (Telegraph)
In a celebrated book of anecdotes about his life - Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman - the scientist recounts how he applied an experimental approach to chatting up women. Having assumed, like most men, that you had to start by offering to buy them a drink, he explains how a conversation with a master of ceremonies at a nightclub in Albuquerque one summer prompted him to change tactics. And to his surprise, an aloof persona proved far more successful than behaving like a gentleman.
Lucy Mangan: "The Wombles by Elizabeth Beresford" (Guardian)
And now we live in a world where GUB's kindly explanations of the beastly "Pollu" and how to fight it, and Wellington's experiments in the greenhouse resulting in an organic mixture that destroys plastic, read like relics of a ridiculously optimistic bygone age. So not only have we ruined the world, we have ruined The Wombles. Brilliant.
Eric Greitens: "Stronger Ideals"
The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's great need. For you to build that vocation will take both compassion and courage. There are infinite possibilities for you for joy, for service, to make a contribution, and we need all of you to find your vocation. To develop your joys, your passions, and to match them to the world's great needs.
Scott Burns: Prius at Ten (AssetBuilder)
I will leave to readers whether a Prius is a good car to "wear." Driving a Prius can give you a deep sense of automotive inadequacy in the tonier areas of Dallas or Houston. My wife has worried about being crushed by a Ford F-250 while in the Tractor Supply parking lot. We've both happily balanced those awkward feelings with the ease of sliding into small parking spots throughout the known universe.
Bathing goddess deals with a stubborn perv in this silly cartoon short
Remember the old days when a goddess could just turn a peeping Tom into a stag and see him devoured by dogs? Well, that doesn't happen in Melanie Atwater's funny short film Moon Goddess. In fact, cursing the peeper doesn't seem to deter him one iota.
The Pilot Episode of Mike Rowe My Life (YouTube)
"The premise is one that we've all discussed at one time or another: you can make anything exciting if you have the proper dramatic music and a narration by Mike Rowe. To put this trope to the test, Rowe has started a series called Mike Rowe My Life. In the first episode, Janice McMillan's video of a family reunion group photo session is judged to be exceedingly dull to anyone who wasn't there. Can Rowe make it exciting? Watch and see." -- Neatorama
"Draft Dodger Rag" is a satirical anti-war song by Phil Ochs, a U.S. protest singer from the 1960s known for being a harsh critic of the American military industrial complex. Originally released on his 1965 album, I Ain't Marching Anymore, "Draft Dodger Rag" quickly became an anthem of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
"Draft Dodger Rag" was the first prominent satirical song about the draft during the Vietnam War. One writer says its humor can be appreciated on its own level, without respect to the political message of the song. Another says it added "much-needed humour" to the protest song genre.
Source
Charlie was first, and correct, with:
"Draft Dodger Rag"
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
... "Draft Dodger Rag"
Alan J responded:
All The News That's Fit To Sing
Adam answered:
Draft Dodger Rag.
STEPHEN F replied:
I will take a guess: "I ain't marching anymore."
Sally said:
As I recall, "Draft Dodger Rag" (or "I Ain't Marching Anymore") was the Phil Ochs' tune, and the first prominent satirical song about the draft during the Vietnam War.
Immensely talented guy who died a way before his time...
PS: Being sick to death of this witch hunt about Benghazi (and watching the Right Wing salivating over the prospect of impeaching the president) I flipped the TV dial, landing on, "The Maury Povich" show this morning. In case you are not familiar with this TV presentation, on it, a woman (pregnant, with a baby or young child/children) is the guest. She is upset because the man she claims is the father of the child, is denying it. He comes onstage, accompanied by a wife/gf, and/or relative(s). Whomever it is, they scream at the woman and call her vile names. She also brings her cheering section, who in turn, scream at the man and his supporters.
Then, the baby/child/children are shown for full audience impact, climaxing with Maury reading the DNA results. If he IS the father, the woman jumps up and down, squealing with the joy of socking it to him! (As she freely tells his so!)
If he is NOT the father, the man cheers, dances, and otherwise proclaims his joy - a 'happy dance' is often done. While this is happening, the relative/friends scream at one another...
I sat there, slack-jawed, in absolute awe.
It was like driving past the scene of an accident, not wanting to look, but unable not to do so.
I am thinking, "Where the Hell is the Department of Social Services here?" Can you imagine the kid, in a few years watching him/herself on the show when they were young? This is not to mention their despicable excuses for parents...
Maury, you should be ashamed of yourself for hiding behind the First Amendment in airing this trash!!
We need a new Constitution, one designed for TODAY!!!
Thank you, I'll get down off my soapbox now. (I am still in shock over this show.)
Dale of Diamond Springs, 5th Generation Native Norcalian, replied:
The Chris Hadfield You Tube of Bowie's "Space Oddity" is incredible. If you haven't seen it, do see it.
This is one of my favourite songs!!!
"Outside of a Small Circle of Friends"
Oh, look outside the window-There's a woman being grabbed-They've dragged her to the bushes-And now she's being stabbed
Maybe we should call the cops-And try to stop the pain-But Monopoly is so much funI'd hate to blow the game
And I'm sure-it wouldn't interest anybody-Outside of a small circle of friends
Ridin' down the highway-Yes, my back is gettin' stiff-Thirteen cars are piled up-They're hangin' on a cliff
Now maybe we should pull them back-With our towin' chain-But we gotta move and we might get sued-And it looks like it's gonna rain
And I'm sure It wouldn't interest anybody-Outside of a small circle of friends
Sweatin' in the ghetto-With the colored and the poor-The rats have joined the babies-Who are sleepin' on the floor
Now wouldn't it be a riot-If they really blew their tops?-But they got too much already-And besides we've got the cops
And I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody-Outside of a small circle of friends
Oh, there's a dirty paper-Using sex to make a sale-The Supreme Court was so upset-They sent him off to jail
Maybe we should help the fiend-And take away his fine-But we're busy reading Playboy-And the Sunday New York Times
And I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody-Outside of a small circle of friends
Smokin' marihuana is more fun than drinkin' beer-But a friend of ours was captured-And they gave him thirty years
Maybe we should raise our voices-Ask somebody why-But demonstrations are a drag-Besides we're much too high
And I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody-Outside of a small circle of friends
Oh, look outside the window-There's a woman being grabbed-They've dragged her to the bushes-And now she's being stabbed
Maybe we should call the cops-And try to stop the pain-But Monopoly is so much funI'd hate to blow the game
And I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody-Outside of a small circle of friends
Marian is enjoying some footloose and internets-free days.
Marine layer rolled in and the heat wave shoved off.
Tonight, Wednesday:
CBS starts the night with a RERUN'2 Broke Girls', followed by another RERUN'2 Broke Girls', then a FRESH'Criminal Minds', followed by a FRESH'CSI: The Original One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Ed Helms, Hoda Kotb, and Brad Paisley.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Ice-T and Paula Poundstone.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH'L&O: SVU', then a FRESH'Chicago Fire'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Usher, Nick Offerman, and Pyramids.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Julie Bowen, Demi Lovato, the Flaming Lips, and Treach.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Michael Fitzpatrick, Sarah Polley, and A Silent Film.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'The Middle', followed by a FRESH'Family Tools', then a FRESH'Modern Family', followed by a FRESH'How To Live With Your Parents (For The Rest Of Their Life)', then a FRESH'Nashville'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Jason & Jarron Collins, J.J. Abrams, and Huey Lewis & the News.
The CW offers a FRESH'Arrow', followed by a FRESH'Supernatural'.
Faux has a FRESH'American Idol', followed by a FRESH'So You Think You Can Dance'.
MY recycles an old 'Numb3rs', followed by another old 'Numb3rs'.
AMC offers 'CSI: The 2nd One', followed by the movie 'The Breakfast Club', then the movie 'Sixteen Candles'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 11 - Ep 4 - Jessie J, Simon Amstell, Julie Walters, Didier Drogba
[9:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 11 - Ep 5 - Kristen Stewart, Chris Rock, Engelbert Humperdinck, Stephen Mangan
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 1 - Ep 1 - Rose
[11:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 1 - Ep 2 - The End of the World
[12:00PM] BATTLESTAR GALACTICA - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Act of Contrition
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 2 - Piccolo Teatro
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Lanterna
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 2 - Lela's
[4:00PM] MERLIN - Season 1 - Ep 9 - Excalibur
[5:00PM] MERLIN - Season 1 - Ep 10 - The Moment of Truth
[6:00PM] MERLIN - Season 1 - Ep 11 - The Labyrinth of Gedref
[7:00PM] MERLIN - Season 1 - Ep 12 - To Kill the King
[8:00PM] HOOK
[11:00PM] HOOK
[2:00AM] MERLIN - Season 1 - Ep 9 - Excalibur
[3:00AM] MERLIN - Season 1 - Ep 10 - The Moment of Truth
[4:00AM] MERLIN - Season 1 - Ep 11 - The Labyrinth of Gedref
[5:00AM] MERLIN - Season 1 - Ep 12 - To Kill the King (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', another 'Real Housewives Of OC', 'Million Dollar Listing New York', followed by a FRESH'Million Dollar Listing New York'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Workaholics', 'Chappelle's Show', another 'Chappelle's Show', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and still another 'South Park'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Olympia Snowe.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Cyndi Lauper.
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'The Fighter', then the movie 'The Fighter', again.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', still another 'Pawn Stars', yet another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Only In America With Larry TCG', then the FRESH'Star Trek: Secrets Of The Universe'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Teaching Mrs. Tingle
[8:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[8:15AM] Network
[11:00AM] The Freshman
[1:15PM] Teaching Mrs. Tingle
[3:15PM] Escape From L.A.
[5:30PM] Stop-Loss
[8:00PM] O Brother, Where Art Thou?
[10:15PM] Maron-Dead Possum
[10:45PM] O Brother, Where Art Thou?
[1:00AM] Thirteen
[3:15AM] Tormented
[5:15AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[5:30AM] Maron-Dead Possum (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Freaks and Geeks-Tricks and Treats
[7:00AM] Bulletproof Salesman
[8:15AM] The New Protocol
[10:00AM] Sorry, Thanks
[11:45AM] Man Shops Globe-Australia
[12:15PM] Bulletproof Salesman
[1:30PM] The New Protocol
[3:15PM] Sorry, Thanks
[5:00PM] Orlando
[6:30PM] The Good Girl
[8:00PM] Swimming With Sharks
[9:30PM] Swimming With Sharks
[11:00PM] Killing Zoe
[12:45AM] X
[2:30AM] Dead Hooker in a Trunk
[4:00AM] Killing Zoe
[5:45AM] Next Floor (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Haunted Collector', another 'Haunted Collector', still another 'Haunted Collector', and 'Deep South Paranormal'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Zach Galifianakis, Jim Gaffigan, and Beware of the Darkness.
Director Steven Spielberg, President of the 66th Cannes Film Festival, holds a director's clap on the eve of the opening of the Festival in Cannes May 14, 2013. The 66th Cannes Film Festival will run from May 15 to May 26.
Photo by Eric Gaillard
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio and Christie's auction house raised $38.8 million through a charity art auction and donations, Christie's said on Tuesday, with proceeds to benefit environmental and conservation causes.
The 33 works in The 11th Hour Auction organized by the star of the new film "The Great Gatsby" sold for $31.74 million on Monday evening and set 13 records for artists including Carol Bove, Joe Bradley, Mark Grotjahn, Raymond Pettibon and Mark Ryden among others.
A $5 million matching donation for three of the lots and additional gifts from donors brought the overall total to $38.8 million for The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, according to Christie's.
A panel of environmental experts and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation will decide which conservation projects will benefit from the proceeds of the sale.
French actress Audrey Tautou, mistress of ceremony of the 66th Cannes Film Festival, poses during a photocall on the eve of the opening of the Festival in Cannes May 14, 2013. The 66th Cannes Film Festival will run from May 15 to May 26.
Photo by Jean-Paul Pelissier
Democrats have been having a rough week, as the Obama administration finds itself facing tough questions about the Justice Department's spying on the Associated Press, the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative nonprofits, and the ongoing investigation of the administration's handling of Benghazi. On Tuesday, however, liberals got a chance to celebrate, as the GOP faced the embarrassing revelation that its outreach director in the heavily Latino state of Florida had quit... and registered as a Democrat.
It gets worse. The official, Pablo Pantoja, wrote a letter saying he made the move because he believed there was a "culture of intolerance surrounding the Republican Party." This is particularly problematic since GOP leaders have made a very public effort to bounce back from their November election losses by reaching out to Latinos, blacks, and other minorities.
Pantoja specifically cited a recent controversy over a Heritage Foundation analyst who argued that Latinos have lower IQs than native-born white Americans. "Although the organization distanced themselves from those assertions," Pantoja said, "other immigration-related research is still padded with the same racist and eugenics-based innuendo." Conservatives shrugged off Pantoja's defection, if they addressed it at all. And predictably, says Meredith Jessup at The Blaze, "liberals are having a field day with this news."
Pantoja's defection also has potentially significant and symbolic political implications. "This may just be one individual," said Steve Benen at MSNBC , "but for the RNC's minority outreach efforts, it represents a major step backwards." Markos Moulitsas at Daily Kos went farther, saying that Pantoja's flight signaled that the GOP had abandoned its effort to win over a broader coalition of voters and beat Obama and his fellow Democrats at the polls. "They're in perpetual scandal mode," Moulitsas said, "and will be the rest of President Barack Obama's term."
"Downton Abbey" will be returning to American TV sets on January 5, 2014, Masterpiece executive producer Rebecca Eaton said Tuesday at the PBS Annual Meeting.
It will run for eight weeks, through February 23.
The upstairs-downstairs period British series is the highest-rated drama in PBS history.
Twenty-four million viewers tuned into the third season of "Downton Abbey," and its February 17 finale was the Number 1 show on television, beating all broadcast and cable in primetime.
"When it came up with, 'Your message cannot contain profanity,' I didn't get it. I'm obviously too innocent," Levy told the Daily Mail about trying to create the card on the Marks & Spencer website. "I thought it must be the word 'significant' that it thought was dodgy, but it still would not accept it. I tried various ways, taking out bits of text, but it still said no."
Levy wrote to the store to find out what was wrong. "I could not believe it when they sent me a prissy letter [back] saying it was because my friend is called Dick," she told the paper. "It is political correctness gone absolutely mad."
The company suggested that Levy call her friend instead. Levy handwrote a card and sent it through the mail.
"I don't mind them weeding out profanities-I'm glad for my grandsons to be shielded from the horrors of the Internet-but it should not be beyond the wit of man to have a system that knows Dick is a name," she said.
A jury on Tuesday dealt another defeat to casino mogul and GOP mega-donor Sheldon Adelson in his nine-year fight with a Hong Kong businessman, awarding the former consultant $70 million for helping Las Vegas Sands Corp. secure a lucrative gambling license in the Chinese enclave of Macau.
Suen claimed he was owed up to $328 million for helping the Las Vegas-based company secure a lucrative gambling license in Macau, the only place in China where casino gambling is legal.
The jury didn't know it, but the case was a retrial; Suen won the suit in 2008, but the verdict was thrown out on appeal.
The jury hearing the retrial deliberated for less than two days before delivering a unanimous consensus. But the fight, now entering its 10th year, is likely to continue through another appeal.
Actress Sigourney Weaver arrives for the American Ballet Theatre Spring Gala at the Metropolitan Opera House, Monday, May 13, 2013 in New York.
Photo by Jason DeCrow
Donald Trump took the witness stand Tuesday at a civil trial where the developer-turned-TV personality is accused of wooing investors into buying condos at his namesake Chicago skyscraper by promising profit-sharing, then reneging on that promise after the sales.
The real estate magnate gained famed for scrutinizing contestants and firing ones he deemed incompetent on his "Apprentice" TV show. But Trump himself was the one on the hot seat as a plaintiff's attorney sought to demonstrate to jurors that he and his companies engaged in a bait-and-switch.
The trial stems from a lawsuit filed by Jacqueline Goldberg, 87, who in 2006 agreed to buy two condos for around $1 million apiece at the 92-story luxury building. It boasts more than 300 hotel rooms and nearly 500 condominiums in a prime location - along the Chicago River and just two blocks from Michigan Avenue.
The lawsuit that alleges breach of contract and deceptive practices seeks the return of a $500,000 deposit Goldberg made for the properties and other unspecified damages.
Goldberg's lawyer portrayed the sale of the condos to his client as a bait-and-switch, where Trump and his executives sought to make the properties more attractive investments by telling would-be buyers they would reap a percentage of profits from banquet hall rentals, food sales, laundry, parking and other services.
"Saturday Night Live" star Bill Hader will be leaving the U.S. late night sketch comedy show following its upcoming season finale, the comedian's publicist said on Tuesday.
Hader, an eight-year veteran of the NBC show, is best known for his impressions of smug game show hosts, actor Al Pacino and Stefon, a gay TV journalist known for recommending over-the-top night clubs on the show's longtime "Weekend Update" segment.
Hader, 34, joins a recent stream of top talent to depart the show, which will finish its 38th season on Saturday. Popular mainstays Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg departed last year to focus on film work.
Hader, who is married to filmmaker Maggie Carey, told the New York Times he wanted to move his family to Los Angeles.
Actress Jane Lynch arrives at the 2013 FOX Programming Presentation Post Party at Wollman Rink in Central Park on Monday, May 13, 2013 in New York, New York.
Photo by Andrew Marks
Sotheby's auctioned off $78 million in jewels Tuesday night, fetching just under $3 million for a fancy yellow diamond belonging to actress Gina Lollobrigida that was once owned by a shah of Persia and she hoped would now bring more support for stem cell research.
The auction house said the diamond was a highlight in a collection of 23 jewels that the 85-year-old actress, who starred opposite Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra and other top actors in the 1950s and 1960s, was selling partly to fund an international hospital for stem cell treatment.
The 74.53-carat fancy yellow diamond that was sold off once belonged to Ahmad Shah Qajar, the shah of Persia from 1909 to 1925 and the last ruler of the Qajar dynasty. Its sale for $2,985,750 set both an auction record and a record price per carat - an eye-popping $40,061 per carat - for a fancy yellow diamond, according to a statement Sotheby's issued at the conclusion of the auction.
Lollobrigida said after the auction that her jewels had brought her much pleasure for many years, and she only thought of selling them after seeing a little girl named Sofia suffering from a disorder that required stem cell treatment which she could not find in her native Italy.
"Selling my jewels to help raise awareness of stem cell therapy, which can cure so many illnesses, seems to me a wonderful use to which to put them," she said. "It is my hope that the Italian parliament will approve this ground-breaking treatment, so that children and adults in Italy should have free access to it without having to travel abroad at great expense."
Earth's global thaw has reached Mount Everest, the world's tallest peak, researchers said today (May 14) at the Meeting of the Americas in Cancun, Mexico.
Glaciers in the Mount Everest region have shrunk by 13 percent in the last 50 years and the snowline has shifted upward by 590 feet (180 meters), Sudeep Thakuri, a graduate student at the University of Milan in Italy, said in a statement. Located in the Himalaya Mountains on the border between China and Nepal, Everest's summit is 29,029 feet (8,848 m) above sea level.
Thakuri and his colleagues tracked changes to glaciers, temperatures and precipitation at Everest and the surrounding Sagarmatha National Park. There, glaciers have retreated an average of 1,300 feet (400 m) since 1962, the team found. More recently, precipitation (both snow and rain) has dropped by 3.9 inches (100 millimeters) and temperatures have risen 1 degree Fahrenheit (0.6 degrees Celsius) since 1992.
While Everest isn't the only Himalayan region seeing the effects of climate change, not all of the region's glaciers are melting. The Karakoram Mountains, on the China-India-Pakistan border, are holding steady and may even be growing. But shrinking glaciers in the rest of the Himalayas have drawn significant global attention, because the glaciers provide water and power for roughly 1.5 billion people.
A large 1953 painting by abstract expressionist artist Barnett Newman has sold for $43.8 million at a New York City auction, setting an auction record for his work.
Sotheby's said Tuesday the record price for "Onement VI" includes the buyer's premium.
The painting is the last of six in Newman's Onement series. They're characterized by what's called the zip, a distinctive stripe running down the center of the canvas. Four are in museum collections.
"Onement V" sold at auction last year for $22.4 million, the artist's previous auction record.
A brake disk used by a musician of the New York Philharmonic is pictured during a rehearsal of the composition 'Kraft' (Power) by Finnish composer and pianist Magnus Lindberg, inside the Glaeserne Manufaktur (transparent factory) where Germany's car maker Volkswagen AG assemble the luxury model Phaeton, in Dresden May 14, 2013. The orchestra is using original car parts of the Phaeton as percussion instruments during their rendition of 'Kraft'.
Photo by Fabrizio Bensch
Thousands of rubber ducks float in the Nichupte Lake in Cancun May 12, 2013. Twelve thousand rubber ducks wearing sunglasses were dropped during the "The Great Rubber Ducky Race 2013" as part of an annual fundraiser.
Photo by Victor Ruiz Garcia
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