M Is FOR MASHUP - September 25th, 2013
Gimme Your Mashup Thoughts
By DJ Useo
Mashups abound! Every hour, literally, new mashups appear. Yet, for many mixers, comments remain very scarce. Mainly "Thanks", and "Good 1". If you do get comments, chances are they'll come from another masher. Not a bad thing at all, but we do wonder what the non-mixers think of the tracks.
So today in this column I gives you some questions that we mashers want your thoughts on.
01-Have you ever heard a mashup?
02-Would you prefer your favorite music to NOT be mashed?
03-Do you want your mashups produced so that they sound like a normal song, or should they sound like a dj is making lots of changes?
04-What type of music should NOT be mashed? ( I ask because I get complaints when I use polka music )
05-Is profanity ok in a mashup or should we leave that out?
06-Should mashup mixers be allowed to charge money for their mashups?
07-How much should a mashup cost, if it could be sold?
08-Do you understand how mashups are created?
09-Do you have any mashup mp3's on your computer?
10-Have you ever shared a mashup link with your online pals?
Send your completed questionnaire to useo8@yahoo.com and I'll run your responses here at BARTCOP E.
As a thank you for taking the time to respond, here's a link for my swell new dubstep long mix. It's called '2013 A La Useo', and is only the latest tunes mixed into one streaming set. Complete set list , and
links for streaming or
downloading here
( www.bmbx.org/2013/09/3302/ )
or here
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2013/09/2013-la-useo-dubstep-long-mix.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
A new mashup from DJ Leekee will actually be able to cause rain! Not sure when. Weather is cloudy! Lol.
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… in my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes when they vote to cut food stamps. Some of these same members travel to foreign countries under the guise of official business. They dine at lavish restaurants, eating steak, vodka and even caviar. They receive money to do this. That's right, they don't pay out of pocket for these meals. Let me give you a few examples.
Paul Krugman: Attack of the Killer Hipsters (New York Times)
I don't know whether anyone thought this out in advance, but the battle of the exchanges is indeed being fought on remarkably favorable ground for the reformers. And I, for one, find the thought of conservatives humiliated by an army of tweeting hipsters remarkably cheering.
Gary Younge: The American dream has become a burden for most (Guardian)
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Luisa Dillner: Should I cut out sugar? (Guardian)
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13 Mind-Blowing Tricks Advertisers Use to Manipulate Photos (Cracked)
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Breaking Bad
Hi Marty,
I think I've figured it out for the final episode. I was thinking that Walt and Jesse were going to go out together in a blaze of glory like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. But I changed my mind. And he is'nt going to do a Tony Montana with his new toy, the M60 macchine gun. I think this will end like Taxi Driver, except Travis Bickle(Walter White) dies at the end.
The reason I say this is at the second to the last episode ending, something finally snapped in Walter White. Sitting at the bar, waiting for the cops to show up, he saw his old college alumni ragging on him for one of his positive accomplishments. And these days everybody is ragging on Walter White, including his own son. So something snapped. I think Walter is gonna go in guns blazing and blast the prison nazies to hell. And then rescue Jesse and possibly rescue Jesse's adopted son from the prison nazies. I think the corporate bitch who wants to rake in all the drug money and not get her hands dirty(remind anyone of Wall Street banksters?), is going to recieve Walter's poison ricin pill in her chamomile tea.
After that Walter struggles over to an office of the American Cancer Society and hands over the $70 million looted by the nazies over to the ACS. Under his new assumed name. Then he collapses and dies.
I think the venerable actor Robert Forster is gonna make good on a promise he made to Walter and get the remaining $10 million to Skylar White and her children. That's how I think it's gonna end.
Or I could be full of shit.
We'll find out Sunday night.
David L
Thanks, David!
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Miss Piggy
Miss Piggy is finally joining her love, Kermit the Frog, in the Smithsonian Institution's collection of Jim Henson's Muppets, and Bert and Ernie will have a place in history, too.
Henson's daughter, Cheryl Henson, is donating more than 20 puppets and props Tuesday to the National Museum of American History, including Miss Piggy and the Swedish Chef from "The Muppet Show," Bert and Ernie from "Sesame Street" and Boober Fraggle and Travelling Matt from "Fraggle Rock."
Many of the puppets are the first constructions of the characters.
The museum currently holds Oscar the Grouch, Kermit and the cast of Henson's early TV show "Sam and Friends." The collection includes the original Kermit the Frog creation, as well as the more famous Kermit from "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show."
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Power Flour
Hult Prize
A team of McGill University MBA students has won the $1 million Hult Prize for a project that aims to improve the availability of nutritious food to slum dwellers around the world by providing them with flour made from insects.
Mohammed Ashour, Shobhita Soor, Jesse Pearlstein, Zev Thompson and Gabe Mott were presented with the social entrepreneurship award and $1 million in seed capital by former U.S. president Bill Clinton in New York City Monday evening at the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting.
The money will help them grow Aspire Food Group, an organization that will produce nutritious insect-based food products that will be accessible year-round to some of the world's poorest city dwellers.
"We are farming insects and we're grinding them into a fine powder and then we're mixing it with locally appropriate flour to create what we call power flour," Ashour explained to CBC News.
Protein and iron, the students noted, are nutrients in short supply in the diets of many people in developing nations, but found in high amounts in insects. For example, they note, crickets have a higher protein content per weight than beef.
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"Their First Misunderstanding"
Mary Pickford
Carpenter Peter Massie has come across some interesting finds over the years - antique bottles, old newspapers stuffed in walls. But his biggest discovery of all is the only known copy of a 1911 Mary Pickford movie that marked a turning point in the silent film star's career.
The Library of Congress is funding a project to restore the film, titled "Their First Misunderstanding," and it will be shown next month at Keene State College, where a retired professor has overseen the restoration.
The film is the first one Pickford wrote and the first for which she was given credit in the advertising materials. Before that, movie studios didn't want actors to become household names because they'd demand more money, said Pickford scholar Christel Schmidt, editor of "Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies."
Massie, who discovered the film along with six other vintage reels in a New Hampshire barn he was tearing down in 2006, is looking forward to seeing it.
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Ontario Exhibit
David Bowie
The Art Gallery of Ontario's set-to-launch exhibition "David Bowie Is" amounts to an exhaustive treasure-trove of more than 300 objects from Bowie's personal archive, including rare artifacts of both a personal and professional nature that offer a fascinating window into the influential Brit with a gift for constant reinvention.
Those pieces were selected from David Bowie's personal archive - home to more than 75,000 objects - and sifting through that mountain of material gave curator Victoria Broackes (working with Geoffrey Marsh) new insight into the 66-year-old legend.
"I didn't know that he had created those images very much himself, that he controlled every aspect of his production. I had no idea how hard he worked - that was really a revelation," Broackes said Tuesday at a press preview of the two-floor exhibit.
"He does directly control every aspect of what he produces - and that's not just the music, it's also the costumes, the stage sets, right down to the merchandise that goes on tour with him."
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Americans Spent $2.6 Billion
Online Gambling
Americans spent $2.6 billion on gambling websites in 2012, according to a study released Tuesday by the casino industry as it renewed a push for Congress to regulate online betting.
The American Gaming Association, which released the study, said it highlights the need for federal legislation to end the state of "ambiguity" on Internet wagering.
The study by the British-based research firm H2 Gambling Capital found Americans accounted for a significant share of the $33 billion worldwide online gambling market, despite the legal limbo of most Internet betting.
After years of treating online gambling as criminal, the US government quietly shifted its stand in late 2011 when the Justice Department released an opinion stating that only sports betting should be prohibited under a 1961 federal law known as the Wire Act.
Data from H2 showed Americans betting on online poker fell from a peak of $1.6 billion in 2006, when the US barred financial transactions for online betting, to $219 million last year.
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor
A day after winning the $30,000 Polaris Music Prize, Montreal band Godspeed You! Black Emperor issued a statement lambasting Monday night's awards gala and its "tone-deaf" corporate sponsorship.
The band did not attend the ceremony, but said in a statement posted on the website for their label, Constellation Records, that they strongly disagreed with the tenor of the event.
"Holding a gala during a time of austerity and normalized decline is a weird thing to do," said the statement, which also said the band was "grateful" to receive the prize and "shy to complain."
"Organizing a gala just so musicians can compete against each other for a novelty-sized cheque doesn't serve the cause of righteous music at all."
A spokesman for the band who took the stage Monday night said that Godspeed You! Black Emperor - who won the Polaris for their album "'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!" - would be directing the prize money toward music education and instruments in Quebec prisons.
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Swiped From Stage
Ol' Dillo
A missing toy armadillo with a connection to Willie Nelson has sparked a search in the New York suburbs.
The Capitol Theater's general manager says a stuffed armadillo beloved by a member of Nelson's crew was stolen from the stage after a Nelson concert last Thursday.
Tom Bailey says grainy video shows a woman walking onto the stage as the crew packs up, boldly grabbing the armadillo and sauntering off with it. He says the critter is known as Ol' Dillo and is a treasured possession of Nelson's monitor engineer, Aaron Foye.
A posting on Nelson's Facebook page asks for help finding the thief. And a commenter says, "We hang armadillo thieves in Texas."
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Gettsyburg Photo Stirs Debate
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In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln stirred the soul of an embattled nation with the famous speech he delivered in Gettysburg, Pa. And now, 150 years later, Lincoln has again aroused passions by appearing in a stereoscopic photograph taken on the day of the Gettysburg Address.
But is Abe Lincoln really in the photo? And, if so, which of two images of a bearded man in a black stovepipe hat is Lincoln? These questions have set off a dustup in the normally staid world of archival photography, according to Smithsonian magazine.
Six years ago, John Richter, an amateur historian and director of the Center for Civil War Photography, magnified a stereograph taken by photographer Alexander Gardner on the day of Lincoln's now-famous Gettysburg speech. Richter identified a tall figure on horseback, wearing a stovepipe hat and saluting the troops, as the 16th U.S. president.
Richter's finding was celebrated as a rare gem of a photo, since only one other image of Lincoln is known to exist from that fateful day. But ever since the finding was announced, skeptics questioned the veracity of the supposed Lincoln photo.
Lincoln?
Attacking Deer
Golden Eagle
A camera set up in the far east Russian wilderness has documented the rare, dramatic moment when a golden eagle took down a young deer.
Researchers Linda Kerley and her husband Misha Borisenko of the Zoological Society of London had mounted a camera trap in the hopes of photographing endangered Siberian tigers, they told media, but instead they found images of a golden eagle, its wings spread over the back of a young deer as it tried to pull away from its attacker.
Bambi didn't make it: Kerley said she found the sika deer's carcass nearby the camera and she was confused at first, because there were no tracks in the snow.
"It was only after we got back to camp that I checked the images from the camera and pieced everything together. I couldn't believe what I was seeing," Kerley said in a release by EurekAlert.
The photos appeared in the Journal of Raptor Research this month alongside an article about the unusual attack. New Scientist reported this was the first documented case of a golden eagle preying on a deer; however, they do sometimes eat big prey such as coyotes, and on at least one occasion, a golden eagle has flown off with a brown bear cub.
Golden Eagle
Defy Tide Of Time
'Ama' Divers
Mieko Kitai takes a huge gulp of air as she surfaces from the clear, blue waters of Japan's Pacific coast with a large abalone in her hand.
Now in her 70s, the dive -- with nothing more than a mask -- does not get any easier and the pickings get slimmer with every passing year.
But she and her fellow divers or "ama" -- which roughly translates to "sea woman" -- reap the fruits of the sea in a way that has been practised in parts of Japan for thousands of years.
They chatter loudly from excitement and necessity -- some have suffered hearing loss because of the high pressures experienced at depth -- as they rub their masks with a kind of slimy algae to prevent fogging.
'Ama' Divers
"Purr Therapy"
"Cafe des Chats"
Customers braving the rush at Paris's newest cafe to order their coffees and croissants, are now able to enjoy them in the company of a dozen resident cats.
The "Cafe des Chats" in the heart of the capital's chic Marais district is home to a dozen felines who weave in between the tables or curl up on armchairs as diners tuck in.
The establishment is aimed at Parisians unable to keep pets in cramped city-centre apartments and though the idea may seem eccentric, cafe manager Margaux Gandelon says the potential health benefits of "purr therapy" are real.
This month's opening weekend saw queues snaking along the pavement and bookings taken from now until November. Some 300 potential customers had to be turned away.
"Cafe des Chats"
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