M Is FOR MASHUP - April 18th, 2018
Far Out! It's INTENSE PSYCHEDELIA 12 !
By DJ Useo
Over the last year I've recieved mail concerning my Intense Psychedelia mashup series, which had reached eleven
volumes. I never thought I'd even do two of them at first, but with people writing me personally, I was constantly
motivated to release more. I really like the psychedelic genre because it inspires such creativity. It certainly holds up with me, from the earliest 60's attempts to the modern refined psychedelia.
I relate to a fine group of fans of the style, who regularly supply me with artists I've never known, but appreciate instantly. Psychedelic music is released every day, from all corners of the globe. This has resulted in an interesting combination of mashups on this volume. There's pilfered tunes from a spread of over fifty years, with vocals that repeat the effect. I hope you experience the mind expansion intended from my mixing this content.
I didn't make any videos for any of the tracks, but you'll find many engaging animated gifs in the cover file. Add your favorite mind enhancer, & you'll enjoy a seventeen mashup listen that should have you sharing the links. There's combos like The Who vs Gravity Kills, Bob Dylan vs Alice In Chains, New Order vs The Moody Blues, & 14 more. If you want a sample before indulging, try the preview track "Drug Wall Reverence" ( Pink Floyd vs Mark Knight vs The Jesus & Mary Chain )
found here
( sowndhaus.audio/track/9236/pink-floyd-vs-mark-knight-vs-the-jesus-amp-mary-chain )
There's mirror links here for this new volume
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2018/04/dj-useo-intense-psychedelia-12-mashups.html )
If I'm still available next year, I don't expect to have any problems providing a 13th volume.The previous eleven albums are linked
down the page here
( djuseomashupalbums.blogspot.com/ )
Thanks for taking a moment to absorb my pitch. I almost forgot to mention there's no charge, as always. Mashups are your best purchase value, & will remain so, for the foreseeable future.
Have the day of good - DJ Konrad Useo
More DJ Useo stuff located here
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/ )
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Paul Krugman: Earth, Wind, and Liars (NY Times Column)
On energy, Trump and company are trying to stop technological progress.
Paul Krugman: Michael Cohen and the Busting of the Trump Crime Family (NY Mag)
The Trump investigation is becoming a mob story.
Jonathan Chait: White House Admits James Comey Swung the Election to Trump (NY Mag)
The Trump administration has been throwing every possible charge it can think of at James Comey, in order to scuff up the image of the fired FBI director. This morning, Kellyanne Conway made an accusation that she and her boss might not have thought through: "This guy swung an election," Conway told George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America. "He thought the wrong person would win." That is probably true, but also probably not something Conway should admit.
Jonathan Chait: The GOP's Never-Trumpers Are Really Just Never-Democrats (NY Mag)
One can make sense of the choices made by those Republicans, like Paul Ryan, most committed to the conservative movement's ideological goals. They fervently support ideas, like reducing taxes for the rich and allowing industry to pollute the atmosphere for free, that lack popular support. They have no choice but to harness their program to the ethnonationalist base that Trump commands.
The President is Not Above the Law (NY Times Editorial)
"This great nation can tolerate a president who makes mistakes," declared Senator Orrin Hatch, the Utah Republican. "But it cannot tolerate one who makes a mistake and then breaks the law to cover it up."
Eric Bennett: "Dear Humanities Profs: We Are the Problem" (Chronicle)
Dismayed about American politics? Look in the mirror.
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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
"I'M A PEELIEVER…"
BURN, BABY, BURN!
A LEAK IN THE ROOF.
THE MAN WHO LOVES MONEY!
JUDGEMENT IS MINE.
SUE HIM UNTIL HIS TONGUE FALLS OUT!
TWO ASSHOLES!
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny & seasonal.
3D Tours Of Cultural Wonders
Google 'Open Heritage'
With its new projet Open Heritage, Google is offering virtual access to the world's cultural treasures.
The partnership is a project between Google and CyArk, a non-profit organization that sets out to digitally preserve the world's cultural heritage sites before they are lost to natural disasters, human intervention or the passage of time.
After nearly 15 years of operation -- it was founded in 2003, motivated by the destruction of fifth-century Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan -- CyArk has recorded more than 200 monuments on all seven continents.
For many of the sites, Google has developed 3D models that allow viewers to see these cultural wonders from every angle.
The Open Heritage project is accessible online at artsandculture.google.com/project/cyark, or via the free Google Arts & Culture app for iOS and Android.
Google 'Open Heritage'
Fragment of a Lost Planet Found
Sudan
Something fell from the sky in the Nubian Desert of Sudan in 2008, and it could be a key to understanding lost planets from the early formation of our solar system.
In research published today in Nature Communications , a group of planetary scientists provide evidence that a fragment of a meteorite may be a piece of a protoplanet that was destroyed as the solar system was forming. This early formation period was a chaotic and violent time, and the four inner solar system planets are the only survivors of a brutal series of collisions. Several protoplanets amassed together, striking each other, fragmenting, coalescing, and repeating the process to finally form the rocky planets, moons and asteroids we see today.
The meteorite is thought to be a fragment from a large protoplanet, between the sizes of Mercury and Mars. Previously, scientists thought protoplanets did not get much larger than dwarf planet Ceres, or about a sixth the diameter of Mercury. The space rock in question is a unique type of stony meteorite called a ureilite, owing to the area of Russia where they were first found, Urey. Urelites have been previously discovered, but the reported rock is the first evidence that they may have originated in large protoplanets.
The meteorite likely formed at pressures around 20 gigapascals, which on Mars corresponds to the core-mantle boundary. This suggests the rock formed deep within an object the size of a current inner solar system planet. The proof is in the diamonds that formed in the rock, which have been polluted with elements and compounds that generally form under these intense pressures.
If this is where the meteorite formed, it confirms that some early solar system protoplanets were quite large. It also demonstrates that wherever the protoplanet once was, it has long since been destroyed, leaving behind only a series of ureilites, some of which come crashing down for scientists on Earth to study.
Sudan
France
3 Faces
In a medical first, a French surgeon says he has performed a second face transplant on the same patient - who is now doing well and even spent a recent weekend in Brittany.
Dr. Laurent Lantieri of the Georges Pompidou Hospital in Paris first transplanted a new face onto Jerome Hamon in 2010, when Hamon was in his mid-30s. But after getting ill in 2015, Hamon was given drugs that interfered with the anti-rejection medicines he was taking for his face transplant.
Last November, the tissue in his transplanted face began to die, leading Lantieri to remove it.
That left Hamon without a face, a condition that Lantieri described as "the walking dead." Hamon had no eyelids, no ears, no skin and could not speak or eat. He had limited hearing and could express himself only by turning his head slightly, in addition to writing a little.
In January, when a second face donor for Hamon became available, Lantieri and his team performed a second face transplant. But before undergoing the second transplant, doctors had to replace all of the blood in his body in a monthlong procedure, to eliminate some potentially worrisome antibodies from previous treatments.
3 Faces
Scottish Castle
'Very Angry Badger'
It's like something from a Monty Python sketch: Portions of a 16th-century Scottish castle were recently closed to the public due to a "very angry badger."
The tunnel at Craignethan Castle was closed last week because of the animal, said Historic Scotland, which manages the property. The badger apparently wandered in from the nearby forest, per the BBC.
It's not clear what the animal did to leave the impression that it was "very angry":
Observers on Twitter suggested feeding mushrooms, peanuts and peanut butter to the badger, but cameras sent in on Saturday revealed that Historic Scotland's cat food plot may have worked, as the creature appeared to have fled the scene.
However, the badger dug through loose soil and stonework, leaving behind a mess, the Scotsman reported. Although the tunnel will stay shuttered while it's cleaned, the rest of the castle will be open to tourists.
'Very Angry Badger'
Defamation Lawsuits
Sandy Hook Parents
Alex Jones has spent years claiming the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School - where a shooter killed 20 small children and six adults - was faked. He has claimed the parents of these dead children are liars and "crisis actors."
Now, those parents are coming after him.
In a pair of lawsuits filed late Monday, the parents of two children who died in the December 2012 shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, say Jones' repeated lies and conspiratorial ravings have led to death threats. The suits join at least two other recent cases accusing the Infowars host of defamation.
Neil Heslin, the father of a 6-year-old boy killed in the shooting, and Leonard Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa, who lost their own little boy, filed the suits in Austin, Texas, where Jones' conspiracy-minded media outlet is based. Each suit is seeking more than $1 million in damages from Jones, Infowars and a related company, Free Speech Systems LLC. Infowars reporter Owen Shroyer is also named in one of the suits.
"Even after these folks had to experience this trauma, for the next five years they were tormented by Alex Jones with vicious lies about them," Mark Bankston, the lawyer handling the cases for the parents, told HuffPost. "And these lies were meant to convince his audience that the Sandy Hook parents are frauds and have perpetrated a sinister lie on the American people."
Sandy Hook Parents
Losing Lead
Democrats
Taking Congress back from the Republicans in this year's midterm elections may be more difficult for Democrats than anticipated, according to recent polling.
A new poll from ABC News and the Washington Post shows Democrats' advantage is narrowing in a so-called "generic ballot", where voters are asked which party they plan to favour in the coming election. In January, Democrats lead Republicans in a generic matchup by 12 per cent. In April, that lead was just 4 per cent.
The polls come in advance of the November midterms, when the two parties will battle for control of Congress. The most potential for change exists in the House, where Democrats need to flip just 24 seats to regain the majority. The calculations thus far have looked to be in their favour, as President Donald Trump's approval ratings hit historic lows and dozens of Republican politicians announced their resignations.
But the ABC/Washington Post results show that lead is narrowing somewhat, with Republicans making sizeable gains among white voters. An average of the generic polls from Real Clear Politics had Democrats leading Republicans by 6.2 per cent on Monday, compared to 9.3 per cent at the beginning of last month.
Democrats have many other factors on their side, however - the first of which being history. Over the last 80 years, the president's party has usually lost control of Congress in the midterm elections. That effect is strengthened when the president himself is unpopular - a major factor for Mr Trump, whose 38 per cent average approval rating over the last 15 months is the lowest of any president in more than 40 years.
Democrats
Coral Reef
Amazon
Scientists aboard a Greenpeace ship have discovered a massive and unique coral reef near the mouth of the Amazon, in an area where the French company Total intends to drill for oil.
The 1,000km long and 56,000 sq km Amazon coral reef is a biome thought to contain dozens of undiscovered species that environmentalists say would be irreparably damaged if drilling for oil began - a vision at odds with the wish of oil companies hoping to explore the area's vast estimated reserves.
The reef was discovered in 2016, but Greenpeace's latest find shows that it extends into the area where Total plans to drill. The Brazilian government has estimated that the Foz de Amazonas, or Amazon Mouth area, could hold 15.6bn barrels of oil.
A group of oil companies led by French company Total that included BP and Brazil's state oil giant Petrobras acquired rights to five exploration blocks in a 2013 auction.
Greenpeace says that the recent discovery of coral in Total's FZA-M-86 block, located 120km off the coast of the Amazon state of Amapá, invalidates the company's last environmental impact assessment and their estimation that corals would be 30% affected in the event of an oil spill.
Amazon
Climate-Controlling 'Conveyor Belt'
Ocean
Freak floods drown buildings, bone-chilling air flash-freezes pedestrians and ice encases the Statue of Liberty. It sounds like a disaster movie, and well, it is: In 2004's "The Day After Tomorrow," the collapse of an ocean current in the North Atlantic sends the world into a whirlwind climate doomsday.
And while that ocean current has not actually collapsed, scientists reporting in two new studies have found that it's weakening, by a lot. In fact, the current hasn't been this sluggish in 1,500 years - a finding that could carry serious (although not disaster-movie serious) repercussions for weather and sea-level rise in locations around the world.
In the Atlantic Ocean, the current known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) ferries warm surface waters northward - where the heat is released into the atmosphere - and carries cold water south in the deeper ocean layers, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Its circulation transports heat around the globe like a conveyor belt, and if its movement were to stop, that heat would not get distributed, and weather havoc could ensue. [Doomsday: 9 Real Ways Earth Could End]
But the AMOC has been getting weaker, and cold, freshwater infusions by the runaway melting of glaciers, sea ice and permafrost are to blame, and the AMOC may weaken even further if temperatures on Earth continue to rise and ice reserves continue to melt, scientists reported in the two studies.
In one study, published yesterday (April 11) in the journal Nature, researchers analyzed ocean sediments in a core sampled off the eastern coast of the U.S., from depths where most of the water originated in the North Atlantic's Labrador Sea. They examined positions of different-size sand grains in the geologic record, to reconstruct how the flow of the currents that carried the grains may have changed over time, said study co-author Delia Oppo, a senior scientist in the geology and geophysics department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Ocean
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for April 9-15. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "Roseanne," ABC, 13.77 million.
2. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 12.78 million.
3. "Academy of Country Music Awards," CBS, 12.06 million.
4. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 11.7 million.
5. "60 Minutes," CBS, 10.57 million.
6. "Interview with James Comey," ABC, 9.87 million.
7. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 9.86 million.
8. "Mom," CBS, 8.94 million.
9. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 8.24 million.
10. "Survivor," CBS, 7.98 million.
11. "The Walking Dead," AMC, 7.92 million.
12. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 7.83 million.
12. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 7.83 million.
13. "American Idol" (Monday), ABC, 7.73 million.
14. "The Middle," ABC, 7.52 million.
15. "Hawaii Five-0," CBS, 7.48 million.
16. "Grammy Salute to Elton John," CBS, 7.21 million.
17. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 6.98 million.
18. "Chicago Med," NBC, 6.51 million.
19. "Life in Pieces," CBS, 6.48 million.
20. "NCIS," CBS, 6.41 million.
Ratings
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