Notorious B.I.G. autopsy details released

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The Los Angeles police department released new details about the death of rapper "Notorious BIG" 15 years later. 

Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera dies in plane crash

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Federal authorities inspect the site of the plane crash in El Tejote locality, Nuevo Leon State, Mexico, where Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera along with six other people died as they were travelling from Monterrey, in northern Mexico, to Mexico City.

By NBC News and news services

Updated 9:05 p.m. ET: Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera died in a plane crash Saturday night, her father and brother confirmed on Telemundo.

The wreckage of the plane was found Sunday in northern Mexico with no apparent survivors, authorities said.

The wreckage was found in the Ejido La Colorada, Municipality of  Nuevo Leon. Gerardo Ruiz Esparza, secretary of communications and transport, said that the plane is not recognizable, but the evidence suggests it was the aircraft carrying the singer, Telemundo reported.

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La historia de la música en 5 minutos

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Ese es precisamente el título de este tema de Stringfever, en la que recorren un montón de conocidos temas en algo menos de seis minutos, al estilo de aquellos Hooked on classics de antaño:

00:00 Greensleeves
00:32 Coro Aleluya
00:37 Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
00:42 Himno de la alegría
00:54 Obertura de Guillermo Tell
01:00 Nessun Dorma
01:16 Preludio nº 1 en do mayor de El clave bien temperado
01:27 Sinfonía Nº 5 de Beethoven
01:36 Así habló Zarathustra - amanecer
01:48 Can-Can
01:52 Marcha del torero
01:59 Danza húngara nº 5
02:04 Danza del hada de azúcar
02:12 En la gruta del rey de la montaña
02:21 Tema de James Bond
02:26 En la gruta del rey de la montaña (de nuevo)
02:34 The entertainer
02:40 Cantando bajo la lluvia
02:46 Do Re Mi
02:57 There's no business like show business
03:09 Summertime
03:23 In the mood
03:35 New York, New York
03:39 Hound Dog
03:53 Oh, Pretty Woman
04:09 Yesterday
04:23 Stayin' Alive
04:31 Money, Money, Money
04:46 Another one bites the dust
04:52 Layla
05:00 Billy Jean
05:07 Smoke on the water
05:14 Tema de Tiburón
05:20 Escena del cuchillo de Psicosis
05:30 Cabalgata de las valquirias
05:33 Tema de Dallas
05:35 Rule Britannia
05:38 The Sailor's Hornpipe
05:43 Fin charramangueiro

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La actividad mental convertida en música (o «así suena el cerebro humano»)

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Investigadores han convertido la actividad mental en música, y suena increíblemente parecida a una improvisación de jazz con piano. El traductor cerebro-a-sonido convierte las variaciones eléctricas del cebrero en el tono de la notas y la circulación sanguínea en su intensidad.

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The Punks on G Street: Tracking Cuba’s Rebellious Youth 50 Years After the Revolution

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I met Liván, Takeshi and the rest of their band of frikis—rock and metal fans of the punk-and-anarchist subcategory—around nine one Thursday night on the median of Havana's G Street. I'd come to Havana to write a book about what it was like to be a young adult in the post-Fidel city and, since G Street was the biggest party in town, it was where I began.

Every weekend and some weekday nights, clouds of cliquey, fashion-conscious, loud-talking teenagers and young adults descended on the avenue. By nine, dozens already stood on street corners in loose circles that, since the night was particularly busy, grew amorphously into traffic until drivers honked horns and policemen shuffled toward them and the kids retreated to their sidewalks. Surrounded by so much youth, the impossibility of 80-somethings governing in perpetuity felt as evident as the statues of martyred leftists lofting impotent machetes above the grass below.

These boys loped down the hill four in front, and then three, pushing each other into onlookers. They wore torn jeans, wallet chains, boots, scruffy Converse, inked limbs. Each had sculpted his hair into a Mohawk or some variation of it. They wanted to take up space, and they did: as I sat on a bench, watching, their group stopped a few feet away from me and a photographer out to capture images of the more colorful Cubans on the avenue asked to take a few shots. The camera's flash made the shiny leaves of the bushes in the background gleam along with the studs in the boys' lips, eyebrows, noses.

"So, what kind of music do you listen to?" I asked the boy who sat down on the opposite end of the bench. In the five years since I'd first lived in Havana for an electrifying teenaged semester at the University of Havana, G Street had bloated from a few stonefaced friki hanging out after weekend shows into the nexus for all tribes of young Cubans. It was both threatening and threatened: People rumored that the government would shut it down—send policemen in on a Friday night and round everyone up under the charge of "social dangerousness" or "a pre-criminal danger to society," hazy legal terms that carried with them up to four years in prison. So much collective youth was undesirable to Cuba's government. Understandable, in light of the average age of dissenting movements across the history of one-party political systems.  More >>

Ryan Seacrest confirms #JLo is leaving ’American Idol’

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Just one day after Steven Tyler announced he was leaving "American Idol," host Ryan Seacrest has confirmed that Jennifer Lopez will also be departing the show's panel.

"Just confirmed with @JLo she's made up her mind...will leave idol. :( gonna miss her," he tweeted.

The singer made the announcement when she did an interview with "On Air With Ryan Seacrest" Friday morning. 

"I really was dreading this phone call with you," Lopez told Seacrest. "I honestly feel the time has come that I have to get back to doing the other things that I do that I've put kind of on hold because I love 'Idol' so much. ... I could keep just doing 'Idol' for the rest of my life, but that would be giving up a bunch of other things and I just ... I don't know. We had an amazing run."

Seacrest offered to be her assistant to give the time to do all she wants and convince her, but it wasn't enough for the superstar.

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Steven Tyler won't return to 'American Idol'

theclicker/ By Anna Chan

Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler announced Thursday that he won't be returning to judge season 12 of "American Idol."

"After some long ... hard ... thoughts ... I’ve decided it’s time for me to let go of my mistress ‘American Idol’ before she boils my rabbit," Tyler said in a statement. "I strayed from my first love, AEROSMITH, and I’m back – but instead of begging on my hands and knees, I’ve got two fists in the air and I’m kicking the door open with my band."

Tyler joined the show as a judge in season 10. 

“It’s been a tremendous honor to have Steven – one of the most prolific artists in the world – on 'American Idol' for the past two seasons,” Mike Darnell, Fox's president of alternative entertainment, said in a statement. “He’s been a terrific judge, a true friend and great mentor to everyone involved with the show, and we know he’ll continue to be a huge inspiration to 'Idol' hopefuls for years to come. We are very sad that Steven has chosen to focus more on his music, but we always knew when we hired a rock ’n’ roll legend, he would go back to the music.  We all wish him all the best and would love to have him back on the show anytime.”

Tyler's two-season stint on the ratings juggernaut featured many colorful comments -- some of which had to be censored -- and a lot of praise for the contestants. He also drew criticism for comments he made about some young female hopefuls, with viewers complaining that his quips were inappropriate.

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Canada : Pro-Taliban rapper gets taxpayer subsidies - Jihad Watch

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We might as well just all cut our own throats and be done with it. There needs to be a wholesale housecleaning at the top in both Canada and the U.S.: not just an electoral turnover, but a thorough cleaning-out and replacement of the entrenched bureaucracies, unaccountable to anyone, that are working toward our own destruction. Does any candidate have the courage to call for that, or to undertake it once in office?

"Pro-Taliban rapper gets taxpayer subsidies," by Daniel Proussalidis for the Toronto Sun, June 29 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

OTTAWA - A video glorifying Taliban attacks in Afghanistan and the slaughter of Canadian soldiers disappeared from YouTube and other sites Friday, mere hours after QMI Agency began questioning taxpayer subsidies for the francophone rapper who made it. "The enemy approaches," rapper Manu Militari declared in the video. "I recognize Canada's colours."
Later he says, "In a few seconds they'll understand how much I hate them."
The rapper has said he tried to "humanize" Islamists by presenting a sympathetic view of Taliban fighters detonating a roadside bomb and killing Canadians.
Manu Militari says a "disproportionate" response to the video convinced him to remove it from the Internet, though on Friday afternoon his website continued to promote its official September 11 release.
Meanwhile, questions persist about taxpayer subsidies for the rapper.
"Why are we funding this garbage that gives comfort to Canada's enemies?" National Citizens Coalition director Stephen Taylor asked.
Between 2008 and 2013, Manu Militari will have received $110,000 in grants for various projects from MusicAction - a francophone arts-promoting body that gets 75% of its $8 million annual budget from taxpayers through Heritage Canada....

Shameful.

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Singing vet gave ’America’s Got Talent’ a photo of another soldier

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A photo of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Norman Bone from the U.S. Dept. of Defense website was wrongly submitted by Timothy Poe as himself and shown on "America's Got Talent."

By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper

Troubles continue to pile up for Timothy Michael Poe, the U.S. Army veteran whose successful singing audition was shown on NBC's "America's Got Talent" Monday night.
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When the segment about Poe ran on the show, photos were shown supposedly illustrating Poe's time in Afghanistan. But the main photo, of a helmeted soldier toting an M4 carbine in front of mountainous terrain, wasn't Poe at all. It was Staff Sgt. Norman Bone, and it was indeed taken in Afghanistan, but in 2006 -- Poe's time in Afghanistan was one month in 2009.

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Timothy Michael Poe on "America's Got Talent."

Poe himself provided the photo of Bone to "America's Got Talent," the show confirmed to TODAY.com."We sincerely apologize to U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Norman Bone for using a photo of him in our story on Tim Poe," the show's producers, FremantleMedia, said in a statement. "It was supplied to us by Tim and used on the show in good faith. It has now been removed and will not be used again."

The photo of Bone is downloadable from the U.S. Department of Defense website, but it is not clear where or why Poe submitted the photo.

In a lengthy interview with the You Served military podcast on Tuesday night, Poe admitted that he had in the past claimed medals he did not earn, and was unable to explain why the Minnesota National Guard says it has no record of him being injured by a grenade in Afghanistan. More >>

’America’s Got Talent’ singer admits to claiming military medals he didn’t earn

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The controversy surrounding "America's Got Talent" contestant Timothy Michael Poe's military service record only continues to grow.

Poe appeared on Monday night's show, singing a Garth Brooks song and earning standing ovations for his performance and for his emotional story about being injured by a grenade in Afghanistan. But later, the Minnesota National Guard issued a statement saying that Poe's military records do not show the injury.

On Tuesday, Poe was interviewed by C.J. Grisham on the military-focused You Served podcast, and admitted that he once claimed medals he didn't earn, and that his story as given on the NBC show may not have been accurate.   More >>

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