I’m really late on bringing this to you guys, but you still have some time.

Hey KOM and I are about to bang out out right now.

enjoy.

VTech Presents the Monthly FILTER Mixed Contest with Empire Of The Sun
by Staff | 05.07.2009

Thank you to everyone who submitted their remix for The Presets track “Kicking and Screaming”, we will announce the winning remix within a week so stay tuned.

DJs, remixers and producers, welcome to the second installment of FILTER’s monthly remix series with Empire of the Sun! We want to hear your interpretations of EPOS track “Walking On A Dream” from their album Walking On A Dream. Click the flyer below to download the 24-stem bundle and return your finished track to remix@filter-mag.com.

The winning track will be selected by Empire Of The Sun with lots of love and appreciation to follow. Submissions to enter the contest are due to remix@filter-mag.com no later than June 7th, 2009.

Good Luck!

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Please tell me you Texas folk have heard the Horrors album by now.. Well if you have no idea what i’m talking about then get on board with this. I find it to be the greatest album out all year, and so does everyone else. Except you.

Maybe someone should talk Big B into bringing these guys to the summer blowout.

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02 – Three Decades.mp3

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03 – Who Can Say.mp3

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04 – Do You Remember.mp3

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05 – New Ice Age.mp3

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06 – Scarlet Fields.mp3

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07 – I Only Think Of You.mp3

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08 – I Cant Control Myself.mp3

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Here we go. The biggest event this summer I promise you. Lets do it. Line up to be announced.

Watch yo self. Avoid the piggies. So sad, I love bacon in the mornings….

Symptoms:

• fever

• cough

• sore throat

• body aches

• headache

• chills

• fatigue

• diarrhea

• vomiting

*In severe cases*

• pneumonia and respiratory failure
• deaths
• underlying chronic medical conditions

LOLZ.

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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT OF 2009
CONFERENCE REPORT – SENATE VOTE

Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate now
proceed to the conference report to accompany H.R. 1, the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Who yields time on the conference report?
The Senator from South Carolina.
Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, I ask that I be recognized for 7 minutes
and be informed when I have used 6 minutes.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator is recognized.
Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, this debate is coming to an end, and it
never really started. We are bringing a conclusion to a process that
will spend $1.1 trillion over the next 10 years, and there has never
been a thoughtful discussion between the parties to figure out how we
can get there from here…blahblahblah…
I yield the floor.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nevada.
Mr. ENSIGN. Mr. President, I claim the 7 minutes that is part of the
unanimous consent agreement.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator is recognized.
Mr. ENSIGN. Mr. President, the scope of this legislation is enormous
and endangers our country’s future economic health.
Currently, the U.S. debt burden is huge, but it is going to rise to
54 percent of the economy in just the next 2 years. That is before we
take into account this omnibus spending bill that
is still to come before the Congress, another round of TARP, and
approximately $1 trillion that we have in the bill before us today.
When we add the Children’s Health Insurance Program that was passed,
TARP, a supplemental, the omnibus bill, we will add an additional $2
trillion to our national debt. That means higher taxes for our
children, our grandchildren, and actually just in a few years for
almost all Americans.
We have been borrowing against future generations. Keep in mind that
we have a $60 trillion debt out there in Social Security, Medicare,
Medicaid, and other entitlement programs. That money has to be paid
someday…
Mr. President, I yield the floor.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Tennessee.
Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, may I be informed when 6 minutes of my
7 minutes has expired?
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair will notify the Senator.
Mr. ALEXANDER. I thank the Chair.
Mr. President, here is what we know of the so-called stimulus bill.
This bill will give American workers $8 a week in their paychecks in
exchange for passing along a $1 trillion debt to our grandchildren. The
entire New Deal, in today’s dollars, cost only half of what this bill
costs. We know that if we were to spend $1 million a day, every day
since Jesus Christ was born, we would still spend less money than the
cost of this bill.

THANK YOU OBAMA

Heads up Houston. 

	U.S. Satellite Destroyed in Space Collision  By Becky Iannotta and Tariq Malik posted: 11 February 2009 6:00 p.m. ET

This story was updated at 7:28 p.m. EST.

WASHINGTON – Iridium Satellite LLC confirmed today that one of its satellites was destroyed Tuesday in an unprecedented collision with a spent Russian satellite and that the incident could result in limited disruptions of service.

According to an e-mail alert issued by NASA today, Russia’s Cosmos 2251 satellite slammed into the Iridium craft at 11:55 a.m. EST (0455 GMT) over Siberia at an altitude of 490 miles (790 km). The incident was observed by the U.S. Defense Department’s Space Surveillance Network, which later was tracking two large clouds of debris.

“This is the first time we’ve ever had two intact spacecraft accidentally run into each other,” said Nicholas Johnson, chief scientist of NASA’s Orbital Debris Program Office at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. “It was a bad day for both of them.”

The collision appears to be the worst space debris event since China intentionally destroyed one of its aging weather satellites during a 2007 anti-satellite test, Johnson told SPACE.com. That 2007 event has since left about 2,500 pieces of debris in Earth orbit, but more time is needed to pin down the extent of Tuesday’s satellite collision, he added.

“We’re tracking more than 500 pieces of debris which pose an additional risk to satellites,” said U.S. Navy Lt. Charlie Drey, a spokesperson for the U.S. Strategic Command which oversees the U.S. Space Surveillance Network.

In a prepared statement, the Bethesda, Md.-based Iridium characterized the incident as a “very low probability event” and said it was taking immediate action to minimize any loss of service. Iridium, which operates a constellation of 66 low Earth orbiting satellites providing mobile voice and data communications globally, said its system remains healthy and that it would implement a “network solution” by Friday.

“Within the next 30 days, Iridium expects to move one of its in-orbit spare satellites into the network constellation to permanently replace the lost satellite,” the statement said.

The 1,234-pound (560-kg) Iridium 33 satellite involved in the collision was launched in 1997; the 1,984-pound (900-kg) Russian satellite was launched in 1993 and presumed non-operational. It did not have a maneuvering system, NASA said.

Iridium’s spacecraft circle the Earth along a near-polar orbit once every 100 minutes and fly at a speed of about 16,832 mph (27,088 kph), the company states on its Web site.

An unprecedented crash

Johnson said outdated spacecraft, rocket stages and other components break apart in space every year, but there have only been three relatively minor collisions between such objects in the last 20 years. Never before have two intact satellites crashed into one another by accident, he added.

The debris created in Tuesday’s collision is being tracked to assess its risk of damaging other satellites and the International Space Station, which is currently home to two American astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut.

The space station flies at an altitude of about 220 miles (354 km), well below the impact point between the Russian and U.S. satellites 490 miles (790 km) up. Johnson said that only a very minor portion of debris from the two clouds is expected to descend across the space station’s orbital path.

“We believe that the increased risk above the normal every day background risk is very, very small,” Johnson said

NASA’s orbital debris experts are also assessing the threat to other spacecraft. The agency’s Earth Observing System satellites, which orbit at 438 miles (705 km), “are of highest interest for immediate consideration,” NASA said in its e-mail alert, a copy of which was forwarded to Space News, a sister publication to SPACE.com.

Drey told SPACE.com that the first hint of the collision came when Iridium officials contacted a U.S. Strategic Command support office to report that they had lost contact with one of their satellites.

“Shortly after, our space surveillance center reported that they had observed multiple new objects in low orbit,” Drey said. The U.S. Space Surveillance Network continuously tracks more than 18,000 separate man-made objects and debris at any given time, he added.

Tuesday’s collision is the latest in a series of satellite woes in recent weeks.

Last month, the nascent Eutelsat W2M telecommunications satellite failed in orbit just five weeks after it launched into space. Another communications satellite, ASTRA 5A owned by SES Luxemburg, also failed and was adrift in orbit. The loss forced its operators to warn the owners of neighboring satellites to be prepared for the remote possibility of having to maneuver their spacecraft to avoid a collision with Astra 5A.

NASA’s Orbital Debris Program Office also released an update last month on Russia’s Soviet-era satellite Cosmos 1818stating that the spacecraft appeared to spew a cloud of debris on July 4, 2008 that may be the result of leaking reactor coolant from a debris strike or fragmentation.

 

 

Metal object falls from the sky into a Dallas home

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Feb. 25, 2009, 11:17PM

AP

This photo released by the Dallas Police Department Wednesday shows the metal object that dropped out of the sky with enough velocity to tear a hole through the roof and the second floor of a Dallas home. The unidentified object hit the house Thursday evening when the person who reported the incident wasn

DALLAS — Police say an unidentified falling object dropped out of the sky with enough velocity to tear a hole through the roof and the second floor of a Dallas home.

Senior Cpl. Kevin Janse said Wednesday the six-pound piece of metal with two drill holes in it fell Tuesday evening when the person who reported the incident wasn’t home. Janse said there were no injuries.

Officers couldn’t determine the source of the debris. Janse said radioactive tests on the metal were negative. Several state agencies were notified of the incident, but Janse said none offered a theory about what happened.

Janse said there were no other reports of similar incidents in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

So i’ve been hanging out with this cool cat i met out in LA he runs this site. 

Shit’s good. 

if you know what i mean.?

Complicated Dance Steps is the site. 

here’s what he had to say last week. 

Fly Girls!

    

‘Fly Girls!’ celebrates the 30th anniversary of female rap on record!

This double-CD (and limited edition two volumes of super-loud double-vinyl) narrates the story of female rap from its birth in the tenement block parties in New York City’s outer boroughs through to the dizzying career heights of Queen Latifah, Missy Elliott and other modern day power brokers. ‘Fly Girls!’ also discusses the influence of an earlier generation of black female poets whose ideals (both in their art and how they established career paths) helped lay the foundations for birth of the genre.

The history of female rap on record begins in 1979 in New York City as the clamour of the city’s artists, record companies and producers strove to make it onto vinyl in the wake of The Sugarhill Gang’s squillion-selling hit, ‘Rappers Delight’ – released that year on the former soul singer Sylvia Robinson’s Sugarhill Records. It would be the Winley family – comprising sisters Tanya, Paulette – who made the first female rap record produced by their mother Ann and released on their father’s label, Paul Winley Records.

Aside from the singing/rap styles that earlier soul artists such as Aretha Franklin, Shirley Ellis, Millie Jackson and Laura Lee would occasionally adopt in their songs, female rap (like rap itself) had its antecedents in the groundbreaking black poetry of the 60s and 70s with radical, free-thinking poets such as Nikki Giovanni, Camille Yarborough and Sarah Webster Fabio – all of whom are included here – vocalising hitherto unheard expressions of female and black self-determination in their work. These strong, educated, political women not only led the way stylistically but also helped define how a female artist could make their own career path – weaving creativity, politics and family in a way that Missy Elliott, Queen Latifah and others have since followed – establishing the boundary-breaking career paths of many female artists in rap. Hip-hop is a culture of which music is only a part; nowadays (and to an extent from the very beginning) the most successful female hip-hop artist is often singer, DJ, actress, manager, political and social agitator and more in multiple combinations.

Hip-hop’s story begins in the tenement blocks and community centres of the South Bronx. In the first three years-or-so history of hip-hop (1976-9) – before the first rap records were made – aspiring female artists could watch onstage the early female MC role models of Sha-Rock (the first female MC in the group The Funky Four plus One) or the Mercedes Ladies (the first female MC and DJ crew). With Tanya and Paulette Winley’s ‘Rappin and Rhymin’ on vinyl by 1979 it would not be until the following year that the first all-female crew made it onto vinyl when Sequence (featuring a then unknown Angie Stone) was astutely signed, once again, by Sylvia Robinson to Sugarhill Records.

Robinson was not the only woman on the business side of hip-hop. There was Kool Lady Blue who first brought rap out of the Bronx and into downtown NYC at the Roxy nightclub and also later managed The Rocksteady Crew. Monica Lynch who rose to head of A and R and president of Tommy Boy Records, and later vice-president of Warners, comments that because hip-hop was new it did not have the hierarchy of the traditional music industry and women were thus able to move more easily into executive roles. Later, as we shall see, many of the artists moved into the business themselves taking control of their careers and aiding others.

Roxanne Shante is certainly the first female rapper to make a career out of her music. Shante and fellow Queens-resident and producer Marley Marl fought their corner for both their borough (taking on Boogie Down Productions and the Bronx) and anyone else who dared call themselves ‘Roxanne’ in a slanging-match known as ‘The Roxanne Wars’. This verbal jousting had its antecedents dating back to the ‘dozens’ of the playground and tower-block (‘Your mother is a …’, ‘No, your mother is a …’) and to th e Griot storytellers of Africa. Roxanne Shante, and many others here, effortlessly subverted this – and many other – male-dominated traditions to create and re-write new histories.

Female rap is thirty years old (yes, thirty) and it just don’t stop. Here is a snapshot of that history. The album includes so many firsts – first solo record, first crew on record, first number one, first grammy winner, that it would be easier to list the few records featured here that are not historical landmarks in the ongoing tale of female hip-hop.

Posted by Blackeyed Donkey

Sorry i just can’t hate it. 

I mean i’d like to, but i can’t.

SATURDAY 02.
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