M Is FOR MASHUP - July 9th, 2014
A New Batch of Bootleggers July 2014
By DJ Useo
I made a bigger attempt to locate some of the fine new mashup mixers abounding. I discovered so much. Here's ten of them.
Jay Z vs Dolly Parton - Jolene Is Mine
(Country Hiphop Mashup) KMT Mix
Salkin When I Say Go! F*** Dat B****!
(feat. Jacob Plant, Dro)
DJ JimiG The Fancy Hustle (Iggy Azalea vs Van McCoy)
Kanye West X Notorious B.I.G. - Send It Up X Party & Bullshit
(Medley Edit)
Jubel Coming Back Kids
(Mashup)
Breathe Unconditionally [Underwater Mix] - Laura B Mashup
(Faith Hill x Katy Perry)
Pharrell Williams-Happy Vs 40 Thief's Riddim
(Prod. By J.A.R)
HOLY MOLY! Leave Your Wrecking Ball At Home
[Chemical Brothers : Miley Cyrus]
Triple Q Mashups Like This
Time's A Bitch - Nas & AZ v. Pete Rock
(K Deegz mash)
Back next week with a ton of new Useo tracks. :D
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ALECIA PHONESAVANH: "A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son (UPDATE)" (Salon)
That's right: Officers threw a flashbang grenade in my son's crib -- and left a hole in his chest. It gets worse.
Andrew Tobias: VA
There's no excusing the management failures at and poor oversight of the VA - which, having come to light, are now being corrected. (Until Congress increases funding to meet increased demand, the correction will not be complete.) But it may be worth noting that "customer satisfaction" with the V.A., as recently rated in an independent survey, is high. And that for every unsatisfactory - let alone tragic - experience among the tens upon tens of millions of patient visits each year, there are many good ones. One of you writes: …
Paul Krugman: Just Because You're Paranoid Doesn't Mean They're Not Trying to Get You (NY Times)
OK, that's interesting: I got an email from Instagram to confirm that a new account was indeed mine. I don't have an Instagram account. In fact, I don't do social media of any kind …
Tom Meltzer: The fake Star Wars filmset footage that's still amazing (Guardian)
Supposedly leaked footage of Star Wars vehicles at Frankfurt airport has been viewed more than a million times on YouTube - despite it being an obvious hoax.
Rowan Pelling: How is this painting 'pornographic' and 'disgusting'? (Guardian)
You might think that in an art world that encompasses the Chapman brothers' phallus-nosed children and Jeff Koons' lascivious studies of La Cicciolina (sample title: "Dirty Jeff On Top"), you would have to sweat blood to produce a work so offensively sexual it would be ejected from a top London gallery. This, however, was the fate meted out to …
Henrik Bering: A bookman of the people (New Criterion)
A review of The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life by John Carey.
7 Myths About The Brain You Thought Were True (YouTube)
"There are certain bits of knowledge that are repeated so many times in popular culture that we eventually start to believe them. Many of these "facts" are oversimplifications and exaggerations of early research which is later refined and found to be not true at all." - Neatorama
WI Lumberjack rescues BLACK BEAR with milk can stuck on head (YouTube)
"What do you do if you see a bear with a milk canister stuck on his head? If it's you or me, there's nothing we can do, because it's a bear. But this guy in Wisconsin happens to be a forestry worker with a piece of heavy equipment called a forwarder. It's like a giant claw, and he knows how to use it. Watch him use it to free this bear, and allow him to skedaddle off to the forest away from that big scary machine." - Neatorama
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from Marc Perkel
BartCop
Hello Bartcop fans,
As you all know the untimely passing of Terry was unexpected, even by
him. We all knew he had cancer but we all thought he had some years
left. So some of us who have worked closely with him over the years are
scrambling around trying to figure out what to do. My job, among other
things, is to establish communications with the Bartcop community and
provide email lists and groups for those who might put something
together. Those who want to play an active roll in something coming from
this, or if you are one of Bart's pillars, should send an email to
active@bartcop.com.
The most active open discussion is on Bart's Facebook page.
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You can listen to Bart's theme song here
or here.
( www.bartcop.com/blizing-saddles.mp3 )
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We have opened up the radio show archives which are now free. Listen to
all you want.
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Bart's final wish was to pay off the house mortgage for Mrs. Bart who is
overwhelmed and so very grateful for the support she has received.
Anyone wanting to make a donation can click on this the yellow donate
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But - I need you all to help keep this going. This note
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it on blogs and discussion boards so people can sign up then when we
figure out what's next we can let more people know. This list is just
over 600 but like to get it up to at least 10,000 pretty quick. So
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
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Vet Sues Cemetery
Madelynn Taylor
A U.S. Navy veteran filed a civil rights lawsuit Monday after the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery refused to allow her to be buried with the ashes of her late wife.
Seventy-four-year-old Madelynn Taylor filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Boise after she tried to make advance arrangements last year to have her ashes interred with Jean Mixner, whom she met on a blind date in 1995 and married in California in 2008 when gay marriage was briefly legal.
Though federal veterans cemeteries allow the spouses of gay veterans to be interred with their loved ones, Taylor said she was surprised to find the Idaho cemetery - which is owned and operated by the state - does not.
Taylor wants a judge to order the cemetery to allow her ashes to be interred in a memorial wall along with those of Mixner, who died in 2012.
The case was filed as Taylor's health is deteriorating. She has serious heart and lung problems and uses a cane, walker or scooter to get around. She laughs easily at her predicament, though, joking that she expects to win the case before she has the heart attack that "could happen any day now."
Madelynn Taylor
Math, Science Grads Earn Top Dollar
Survey
What you study - math and science are a plus - seems to matter more than whether your alma mater is public or private when it comes to finding a high-paying job after college, according to a report released Tuesday by the Education Department.
The survey of the class of 2008, by the National Center for Education Statistics, provides an interesting snapshot of the nation's educated elite following a crushing economic recession: Overall, college grads reported lower unemployment rates compared with the national average, although black and Asian college graduates were twice as likely to be out of work than their white classmates. College grads from private four-year schools earned about the same as those from public four-year schools, about $50,000 a year.
But while a paltry 16 percent of students took home degrees in science, technology, engineering or math, or STEM disciplines, those who did were paid significantly better - averaging $65,000 a year compared with $49,500 of graduates of other degrees.
The survey found a strong correlation between earning money and highly specialized degrees. More than 95 percent of grads who studied computer and information sciences, for example, were employed full-time at the time of the survey and earned $72,600 on average. Engineering students reported similar job and salary prospects. That's compared with a humanities graduate who was more likely to report working multiple jobs and earn a full-time salary averaging only $43,100.
Survey
He's Back
Harry Potter
Harry Potter is back - mysterious, married, and going gray.
J.K. Rowling has given fans a glimpse of the grown-up boy wizard in a new story posted Tuesday on her Pottermore website.
It's the first update since "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" was published in 2007, but Rowling spokesman Mark Hutchinson said there are "no plans" for a new Potter novel.
The 1,500-word story describes Harry, about to turn 34, attending the final of the Quidditch World Cup with his family and old friends Ron and Hermione.
The story is written in the style of a gossip column for the Daily Prophet by reporter Rita Skeeter, a minor character in the novels.
Harry Potter
Semantics Lesson
UN
United Nations officials are pushing for many of the Central Americans fleeing to the U.S. to be treated as refugees displaced by armed conflict, a designation meant to increase pressure on the United States and Mexico to accept tens of thousands of people currently ineligible for asylum.
Officials with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees say they hope to see movement toward a regional agreement on that status Thursday when migration and interior department representatives from the U.S., Mexico, and Central America meet in Nicaragua. The group will discuss updating a 30-year-old declaration regarding the obligations that nations have to aid refugees.
While such a resolution would lack any legal weight, the agency said it believes "the U.S. and Mexico should recognize that this is a refugee situation, which implies that they shouldn't be automatically sent to their home countries but rather receive international protection."
Most of the people widely considered to be refugees by the international community are fleeing more traditional political or ethnic conflicts like those in Syria or the Sudan. Central Americans would be among the first modern migrants considered refugees because they are fleeing violence and extortion at the hands of criminal gangs.
Central America's Northern Triangle of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras has become one of the most violent regions on earth in recent years, with swathes of all three countries under the control of drug traffickers and street gangs who rob, rape and extort ordinary citizens with impunity.
UN
Iowa Kangaroo Court
Benton Mackenzie
An Iowa terminal cancer patient showed up to court Tuesday wrapped in a blanket, still wearing hospital identification wristbands, to testify at his trial on felony marijuana charges. He's been barred from a defense that explains the marijuana was to relieve his aggressive and rare cancer of the blood vessels.
Benton Mackenzie, 48, faces up to five years in prison if he's convicted of marijuana manufacturing and conspiracy for growing plants he says he used to make canabidiol, or CBD, a non-psychoactive compound in cannabis, to treat his tumors.
Mackenzie was rushed out of Scott County District Court on Monday to a hospital after complaining of extreme pain and hallucinations. He suffers from severe angiosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer of the blood vessels that produces large skin lesions. His family said he was treated for anemia and other symptoms overnight, Quad City Times reported.
District Judge Henry Latham in May barred Mackenzie from using his condition as a defense for growing marijuana, The Associated Press reported.
Mackenzie has said he's been threatened with jail if he discloses his medical condition in court.
Benton Mackenzie
Amazon Courts Authors
Hachette
Amazon.com Inc ratcheted up the pressure on Hachette Book Group by proposing the publisher's authors get all the revenue from ebooks sold by the ecommerce company, as both sides try to resolve their bitter months-long contract dispute.
Hachette rejected the offer on Tuesday. The fourth-largest U.S. book publisher, owned by France's Lagardere, instead asked Amazon to immediately withdraw "sanctions" on its books. Amazon's reply to Hachette's response: "We call baloney."
At the center of the highly charged dispute is the price Amazon can charge for e-books. Earlier this year, Amazon delayed delivery of some Hachette titles, including sought-after print versions and, at one point, it removed a pre-order option for "The Silkworm," by Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith.
Amazon's actions have alienated authors including top-sellers James Patterson and Malcolm Gladwell, who mocked the situation in a spoof video posted on Slate.com this week.
Hachette
Water Levels Drop To New Low
Lake Mead
Drought in the southwestern U.S. will deplete the vast Lake Mead this week to levels not seen since Hoover Dam was completed and the reservoir on the Colorado River was filled in the 1930s, federal water managers said Tuesday.
The projected lake level of about 1,080 feet above sea level will be below the level of about 1,082 feet recorded in November 2010 and the 1,083-foot mark measured in April 1956 during another sustained drought.
But U.S. Bureau of Reclamation regional chief Terry Fulp said water obligations will be met at least through next year without a key shortage declaration. The result will be full deliveries to cities, states, farms and Indian tribes in an area that's home to some 40 million people and the cities of Las Vegas, Phoenix and Los Angeles.
The dropping level since the reservoir was last full in 1998, at just under 1,296 feet above sea level, has left as much as 130 feet of distinctive white mineral "bathtub ring" on hard rock surfaces surrounding the lake.
Lake Mead
Luxury Car Sales Soar Worldwide
Rolls-Royce
They are rolling symbols of wealth and excess, starting at $263,000 a pop, with many buyers choosing custom options that can easily double the price. And they are more popular than ever before.
The British-made cars, updated to reflect the technical know-how and marketing might of parent company BMW, have become must-haves for the new global elite. That group is growing in number even as much of the world struggles to get by in an era of low growth, low expectations and high unemployment.
The company said 1,968 cars were sold in the first half of this year compared to 1,475 in the same period last year.
The 33 percent rise in sales for the first six months of 2014 compared to the same period last year is explained not just by the cars' plush leather seats and gleaming paintwork - those are old standbys for the brand, which used to focus on the British aristocracy - but also by the rising number of billionaires worldwide.
Rolls-Royce
No More Naked Apollos
Russia
Naked images of the Greek God Apollo have graced buildings and paintings for centuries, but his disrobed body has so shocked one Russian lawmaker that he wants to change the country's 100-rouble banknote.
The note, worth less than $3, depicts an image of a statue of Apollo riding a four-horse chariot atop the Bolshoi Theater, one of Russia's main cultural symbols.
"You can see clearly that Apollo is naked, you can see his genitalia," Roman Khudyakov, a member of parliament for the nationalist LDPR party, told Reuters Television.
He said he had been stirred into action when he saw two children looking at the banknote: "The girl screamed at the boy: 'Can you see that? I told you, there is a penis here!'. I was shocked, you know."
Russia
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