M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - May 25th, 2016
Witness The Coming Of CHILLAX Come Down 2
By DJ Useo
I'm experiencing an intense satisfaction at the release of the
4th Audioboots
( audioboots.com/forum/ )
mashup forum group compilation. Fifteen International producers contributed thirty fantastic mixes, each & all firmly in the Chill style so popular with the modern "hipster".
Six years ago, Me, mARKYbOY, & Chocomang helmed the release of the first "CHILLAX Come Down" chill mashup album. Read of it
here
( www.suprmchaos.com/bcEnt-Wed-050416.index.html ).
Now, we return to our previous success, & perhaps surpass it. It's up to you to decide, but as much as I love the first volume, I am awash with joy due to the new release.
With contributors like mARKYbOY, DJ Gaya, Daw-Gun, chocomang, DRA'man, Rudec, rillen rudi, DJ Useo, Michmash, Zigmund Fraud, Mighty Mike, Mr Smuggler, oki, Skibilibop, & Joan Caramba how could I NOT BE? When you also consider the material we employed in the tracks it's no wonder the response has been overwhelmingly positive. You can find relaxing blends of Metallica vs Deep Purple, Bruno Mars vs P!nk, Sinead O'Connor vs Robin S, Goldfrapp vs AC/DC & so very many more.
The collection was premiered on KOPIMI RADIO w/ Mazanga Von Badman, a great 2wice weekly show that features mashups. The happy response of the live audience was notable, & demonstrative. The Radio Special is now posted and includes interviews, & other extra bits, including a batch of CHILLAX 1 cuts.
Stream, or download here
( hearthis.at/kopimi/chillax2-PLB/ )
You can watch an engaging CHILLAX 2 video trailer here
( vimeo.com/137184946 )
I also did a live mix where I played the 2 hour & 22 minutes album in 1 hour & 14 minutes
here.
( hearthis.at/vxmfxz7w/chillax-come-down-2-mix/ )
It's my "belief" that hearing my mixed version will cause you to get the full album available
here
( audioboots.com/Albums/Chillax2/ )
I offer huge praise to all involved. Everyone did an excellent job, especially Chocomang, & BastardW, the Audioboots administrator. If you want mellow bootleg tunes with lasting appeal, imho you can't do better than CHILLAX Come Down 2!
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Greg Sargent: Donald Trump's deliberate corruption of reality-based governing (Washington Post)
The White House and Republicans are bracing for bad news in the Congressional Budget Office score of the new GOP health plan, which could come as early as Monday. It is expected to find that the GOP effort - which President Trump has endorsed - could leave many millions without coverage, and on the Sunday shows, top Trump advisers sought to discredit the CBO's finding in advance.
Jeffrey Young: 24 Million People Stand To Lose Insurance Under GOP Obamacare 'Replacement' (Huffington Post)
Donald Trump had promised "insurance for everybody."
Tierney Sneed: "CBO: 24 Million More Uninsured By 2026 Under GOP Health Care Bill" (TPM)
Twenty-four million people would lose their insurance over the next 10 years under Republican legislation being pushed to repeal Obamacare, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said Monday. "In 2026, an estimated 52 million people would be uninsured, compared with 28 million who would lack insurance that year under current law," the CBO said.
American Health Care Act
Report by the Congressional Budget Office.
Tom Nichols: How America Lost Faith in Expertise (Foreign Policy)
In 2014, following the Russian invasion of Crimea, The Washington Post published the results of a poll that asked Americans about whether the United States should intervene militarily in Ukraine. Only one in six could identify Ukraine on a map; the median response was off by about 1,800 miles. But this lack of knowledge did not stop people from expressing pointed views. In fact, the respondents favored intervention in direct proportion to their ignorance. Put another way, the people who thought Ukraine was located in Latin America or Australia were the most enthusiastic about using military force there.
Michael Dirda: Neil Gaiman's suspenseful and surprising 'Norse Mythology' (Washington Post)
Gaiman's sentences appear so simple and plain that one wonders if the book is actually intended for 9-year-olds. At the same time, the author's penchant for short paragraphs, some of only a single sentence, adds an air of portentousness. This combination of the faux-naif and the melodramatic is then further complicated by the diction of the gods.
Michele Hanson: Young people are at the mercy of train services sucking up their cash - and freedom (The Guardian)
My younger friends are tied to price hikes and poor performance from the likes of Southeastern railways - and it's making it impossible to plan for their futures.
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Launched At University of Delaware
Biden Institute
Vice President Joe Biden is hoping a new public policy institute bearing his name will foster civic engagement and promote a spirit of bipartisanship.
"There's a whole range of things that have no ideology attached to them," Biden told reporters Monday after formally launching the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware, his alma mater.
"I think that the public is so sick and tired of the sort of political carnage going on," he added.
The institute is a new research and policy center focused on domestic issues including economic reform, environmental sustainability, criminal justice and civil rights. Biden will be the founding chair of the institute, which will be part of UD's School of Public Policy and Administration.
Biden stressed that the institute will be nonpartisan.
Biden Institute
US Applications For Citizenship Jump Post-T-rump
New Zealand
It's one thing to talk about changing allegiance to another country when a new president is elected. It's another thing to go ahead and do it.
But that's exactly what seems to be happening, on a small scale, in at least in one distant corner of the world.
In New Zealand, the number of Americans who applied for a grant of citizenship rose to 170 in the 12 weeks following the election of President Donald Trump (R-Grifter) from 100 in the same period a year earlier, immigration records obtained by The Associated Press show.
Most Americans who apply for New Zealand citizenship must first live in the country for five years.
New Zealand
Ship Corroded
Queen Mary
The Queen Mary is so corroded that it's at urgent risk of flooding or collapse, and the price tag for fixing up the 1930s ocean liner could near $300 million, according to a survey done by experts.
It would likely take five years to rehab the ship, a tourist destination docked permanently in Long Beach Harbor south of Los Angeles, according to documents obtained by the Long Beach Press-Telegram.
During its heyday, the Queen Mary carried Hollywood celebrities, such as Bob Hope and Elizabeth Taylor, royalty, such as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and dignitaries, such as Winston Churchill. It also spent several years ferrying 765,000 Allied troops during World War II, when it was nicknamed the "Gray Ghost."
But now, naval architects and marine engineers who compiled the survey warn that the vessel is probably "approaching the point of no return."
The hull is severely rusted and certain areas, including the engine room, could be prone to flooding, according to the newspaper report published Monday. And because the bilge system is inoperable, large amounts of water can't be pumped out and could cause the ship to sink to the lagoon floor.
Queen Mary
1.6 Billion Years Old
Fossils
Fossils unearthed in India that are 1.6 billion years old and look like red algae may represent the earliest-known plants, a discovery that could force scientists to reassess the timing of when major lineages in the tree of life first appeared on Earth.
Researchers on Tuesday described the tiny, multicellular fossils as two types of red algae, one thread-like and the other bulbous, that lived in a shallow marine environment alongside mats of bacteria. Until now, the oldest-known plants were 1.2-billion-year-old red algae fossils from the Canadian Arctic.
The researchers said cellular structures preserved in the fossils and their overall shape match red algae, a primitive kind of plant that today thrives in marine settings such as coral reefs but also can be found in freshwater environments. A type of red algae known as nori is a common sushi ingredient.
"We almost could have had sushi 1.6 billion years ago," joked Swedish Museum of Natural History geobiologist Therese Sallstedt, who helped lead the study published in the journal PLOS Biology.
The fossils were found in phosphate-rich sedimentary rocks from Chitrakoot in central India. The thread-like fossils contained internal cellular features including structures that appear to be part of the machinery of photosynthesis, the process used by plants to convert sunlight into chemical energy.
Fossils
Customs Seize 21 Rhino Horns
Thailand
Thai authorities said Tuesday they have seized 21 unusually large rhinoceros horns worth almost $5 million that were smuggled from Ethiopia.
The bags carrying the horns were discovered last Friday in a random customs search at Bangkok's main airport, the Thai Customs Department said in a statement. They discovered the horns, weighing almost 50 kilograms (110 pounds), inside hard-shelled luggage bags originating from Addis Ababa.
The bags' owners, two Thai women who had arrived on separate flights but went to claim the luggage, fled as officers searched their bags and have not been apprehended, the statement said. Arrest warrants have been issued for them.
Customs officials said the horns are unusually large and pristine.
It's the second time in two years that rhino horns have been seized at the airport, with the previous haul being worth around $600,000.
Thailand
Tax Dollars At Work
Florida
The Associated Press has documented that since Gov. Rick Scott took office in 2011, agencies under his control as well as the Florida Legislature and Cabinet officials have spent more than $250 million on private attorneys. Here's a look at some of the spending on outside lawyering Florida taxpayers have had to pay for under Republican leadership:
More than $100 million in fees paid to lawyers by state agencies, including an expensive water rights struggle with Georgia. The water wars have been waged for nearly 20 years, but costs soared after Scott pushed to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. This total also includes money billed by lawyers defending the actions of the Legislature and governor.
Nearly $16 million paid to opposing lawyers after losing battles over voting rights, gay marriage, drug testing and other controversial policies. This includes $12 million to attorneys who represented pediatricians who contended Florida violated federal mandates by failing to deliver critical health services to 2 million children on Medicaid; more than $800,000 to lawyers working for the American Civil Liberties Union; and nearly $513,000 to lawyers who defeated a state law targeting businesses doing business in Cuba.
Nearly $20 million spent by the Legislature defending budgets that advocates say shortchange public schools and Republican-drawn legislative and congressional districts. The state won the education lawsuit at its first turn, but the courts sided against them on districts and approved changes that upended the state's political landscape.
About $111 million since 2011 through its risk management division on legal cases over auto accidents, employment disputes and worker's compensation claims against state government.
Florida
White Nationalist Group's Tax-Exempt Status Revoked
Richard Spencer
The U.S. government has revoked the tax-exempt status of a group run by prominent white nationalist Richard Spencer for its failure to file tax returns.
Internal Revenue Service records show Spencer's National Policy Institute automatically lost its tax-exempt status as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit after failing to file tax returns for three consecutive years.
Spencer blamed the revocation on an IRS error that led his group to think it wasn't required to file tax returns. But he doesn't have any evidence the move was politically motivated and expressed confidence that his organization can regain its tax-exempt status.
Spencer popularized the term "alt-right" and is a leading figure in a fringe movement that has been described as a mix of racism, white nationalism and populism. Spencer, an outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump, hosted a postelection conference in Washington that ended with audience members mimicking Nazi salutes after Spencer shouted, "Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!"
IRS records indicate that, sometime in 2006 or 2007, the agency mistakenly reclassified the National Policy Institute as one that didn't need to file tax returns, according to Chuck McLean, a senior research fellow for the nonprofit watchdog Guidestar.
Richard Spencer
Ex-Member Challenges Sex Abuse Board
Vatican't
The clash between a former member of Pope Francis' sex abuse advisory commission and the Vatican heated up Tuesday, as prominent Irish abuse survivor Marie Collins challenged a top Vatican cardinal over his claims that his office had cooperated with the commission.
In an open letter, Collins pressed her case that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had ignored or scuttled commission proposals to protect children and care for abuse victims that had been approved by the pope.
Collins pointedly corrected Cardinal Gerhard Mueller's assertion that one of the congregation's staffers was a member of the board, when in fact he had stopped participating in 2015. And she noted that the commission's 2015 invitation to have another congregation official attend its meetings was flat-out rejected, though someone eventually attended a session last year.
Collins resigned from the commission March 1 citing the "unacceptable" lack of cooperation from Mueller's office, which processes canonical cases against pedophile priests. Her departure left the commission without any abuse survivors and dealt another blow to Francis' record on combatting sex abuse.
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400,000 Yr-Old Half-Skull
Portugal
The discovery of a 400,000-year-old half skull in Portugal has offered tantalizing hints about a possible ancestor of the Neanderthals, researchers said Monday.
The fossil was unearthed from the Aroeira cave site, and marks the oldest human cranium fossil ever found in Portugal, said the report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a peer-reviewed US journal.
But there is plenty of mystery around the skull. Researchers don't know if it was from a male or female, how the person died, or even what form of early human it was.
"There is a lot of question about which species these fossils represent. I tend to think of them as ancestors of the Neanderthals," co-author Rolf Quam, an anthropologist at Binghamton University, State University of New York, told AFP.
"It is not a Neanderthal itself," he added. "It has some features that might be related to the later Neanderthals," including a lump of bone near the ear called the mastoid process.
Portugal
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