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Leaving "prana energy" behind, Jaden's app allows users to stream his new album CTV2, while looking at photos of him and his collaborators. It also has a skip feature, which lets users pass over a song on the app by swiping the screen.
So far, the app seems to be doing well, with fans sticking around to listen to the tracks. "The interesting thing so far with Jaden's [app] is the amount of time spent listening," said Phil Elias, co-founder of PointBurst, the company that created the Jaden Experience. "He's getting amazing longevity of listeners."
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Dazza's Millwall Report
The Den
19th April
Attendance: 13,395
Well I am back in one piece!!
April 19th, you expect to be going to a football game in short sleeved shirts. Yesterday was more like a winter's day on a cold and windy day with the occasional bit of rain in the air! Not that I would have wanted to just have my Leeds shirt on as I was sitting with the Millwall lot!
I don't think I have ever seen so many police, the metropolitan police were out in force and it was like watching an episode of the Bill! I was talking to some Leeds fans who had come down Saturday morning and they was saying a lot of Leeds fans couldn't even get past Kings cross station with a huge police presence at the station.
Anyway onto the game, after Tuesdays disappointing defeat to Huddersfield Leeds made three changes. Prutton replaced the suspended Douglas, Sheehan, back from suspension replaced Kenton (cone #2) and Elding was given a start ahead of Kandol (cone #1).
When Millwall came to Elland Road earlier in the season I thought they was the better team apart from a fifteen minute spell when Leeds scored four they was the better team. This game went in a very similar vain for Millwall and if they had somebody who could score goals I am sure they would be much nearer the play offs than fighting for their lives at the bottom.
From the off they were the better team and I thought it was only a matter of time before Berkovic scored who could have quite easily had an hat trick in the first half! Millwall were playing some good football and Craig probably missed the best chance of the half when he missed a good chance from inside the six yard box.
Even though it was mainly Millwall, Ankergren was never really stretched and when Millwall managed efforts on target they were pretty easy to deal with. Leeds rarely threatened in the first half but could have taken the lead late in the first half when Elding shot over the bar from the edge of the area. Howson also had a chance on the stroke of half time. Leeds finished the half better so I was hoping for a better start to the second half.
Unfortunately the second half started much in the same vain. Millwall were unlucky not to take the lead when a good effort hit the underside of the bar and was then cleared to safety.
Leeds steadily began to get into the game as Millwall started to tire. Freedman had a couple of half chances to give Leeds the lead but put one wide and hit the other straight at the Millwall keeper. Leeds finally took the lead with about twenty minutes left when a lovely volley from Prutton from 25 yards crept into the bottom corner. Andy Hughes replaced Elding soon after to give Leeds a more defensive looking side, it wasn't long after though that a wonderful one touch passing movement by Leeds found Hughes unmarked five yards from goal to sweep into an empty net.
That really finished the game off as any sort of contest and Leeds happily saw out the remainder of the game. For me, it was exactly what we have seen most of the season. We haven't played brilliantly but we have grinded out a result and come away with the three points. Millwall will be wondering how they have lost the game but Leeds managed to keep the majority of Millwall's chances to long range efforts and when they did get a chance in the box weak finishing let them down.
With other results going our way a win at Yeovil on Friday night will clinch the minimum of a play off place (who knows what will happen at the arbitration hearing?!)
I have seen Millwall on three occasions this season and if they had a centre forward I am sure they would be nearer the play offs than fighting relegation; I would like to wish them luck against Carlisle next Saturday!
I have to admit I really enjoyed the atmosphere in the ground with Millwall and Leeds fans at each other all afternoon. There was the odd little incident but nothing for the tabloids to get their dirty little pens warmed up on.
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Serena Williams made a big statement at the WTA Championships with a comprehensive 6-4 6-1 win over Angelique Kerber.
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Williams was playing in her first match after a five-week lay-off following her US Open win in New York when she took her tally of grand slam titles up to 15, and apart from a couple of first set games she looked as good as ever.
Kerber matched the American shot-for-shot early on, with both players grabbing a break of serve, but Williams found top gear towards the end of the first set and the pressure started to tell on Kerber, in what was the toughest match possible for her to make her debut in the event.
The German had game point in the tenth game of the set but double-faulted for the third time and Williams pounced on the error by winning the game, and the set after 45 minutes on court.
Kerber was up against it from then on, and never really got a foothold in the second set with Williams breaking her in the fourth and sixth games to lead 5-1.
The two-time former champion then had to see off two break points as Kerber showed some fighting spirit, but Williams would not be denied as she finished off the contest after an hour and 18 minutes.
Williams has been almost unstoppable this year, losing just four matches, and she now takes charge of the red group in the round-robin portion of the competition in Turkey.
The Wimbledon and Olympic champion will now face Victoria Azarenka and Li Na in the rest of her round robin matches - ties that will also prove no easier for Kerber after such a testing first match in the event.
After the match Williams said she was glad to finally get back in competitive action following her US Open triumph.
"I felt like I practiced too much, and if I hit another practice ball I'm going to go nuts," she told the WTA's official website.
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She added of Kerber: "I could feel she was really excited all week long. She's really happy to be here and feels honored to be here, and she deserves to be here, because she worked hard and has been one of the most consistent players on the tour.
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As a sports fan you know your team has a Twitter account and most of them are pretty bland with nothing but links and maybe some in-game tweets but most of the time it isn't anything fun. Sometimes you do get people that run the teams Twitter page and they do an outstanding job. Look no further than the Los Angeles Kings account which was absolutely outstanding during their Stanley Cup season last year. They had jokes and were quick to respond in a respectable and unique way.
Well another LA team was in the midst of a really funny Twitter reply that happened yesterday and while this isn't really Pittsburgh related or anything in particular I think it goes to show what Twitter can be about if used correctly with people that aren't affraid to try something new.
It all started with the Arizona Diamondbacks making a joke at the expense of the Mayans and the LA Dodgers:
So the world didn't end today. Good for us. Means we get to #BeatLA again next season! twitter.com/Dbacks/status/…
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Cute. RT @dbacks: So the world didn't end today. Means we get to #BeatLA again next season! twitter.com/Dbacks/status/…
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Nokia's myriad of Internet and media sharing services can now be accessed with only one account and one password, via the Ovi.com website.
According to Reuters, Nokia "unified" its services on Sunday, thus allowing users to have a better control over them, since now they all require only one Nokia account.
Nokia has big plans with Ovi and its other Web-related services (including navigation, music and messaging services): in 2011, the Finnish giant intends to gain more than €2 billion from them.
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The latest read on where the U.S. economy is heading suggests activity will slow a bit in the coming months.
The private group The Conference Board said its Index of Leading Economic Indicators unexpectedly fell in March following three straight monthly gains. This gauge, used to measure the outlook of the economy over the next three to six months, declined 0.1% following a 0.5% increase in both February and January.
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Post #545064
2:21 pm, Apr 11 2012
Posts: 449
Well they are trying to make money and someone out there is spreading their stuff around for free. But I dont think this or really anything will stop piracy. This guy isnt the first one to get in trouble over something like this and he definitely wont be the last. If people can choose between free or any price they are gonna want to choose free. People like him make it easy to do. So long as they keep uploading it will keep happening.
Post #545068
2:31 pm, Apr 11 2012
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Those examples are probably quite bad to argue for the pirating of anime/manga/dramas. These industries have been allowing an awful lot of copyright infringement and distribution by fans without their permission to global audiences (though mainly english). It is important that they make case studies of individuals to send the message that they will not let it spread passed a certain level which they tolerate. It's the principle in practise.
While I'm not saying that the cases used here can be used to support piracy, I think there are situations where the consequences of piracy are less severe.
Take, for example, anime and manga series that are not being translated/subbed into english (using America and the UK markets as my example here). The companies lose no money from people whose first language is english watching pirated subbed anime or reading scanslated manga. The anime/manga was never available in the english speaking markets in the first place so therefore there was no money to lose.
hmm, I suppose it becomes an issue if companies ever wanted to publish it in english as the material would already be in circulation...
Anime has additional issues, though. Subbed anime still retains the original sound track and people who speak the original language (Japanese) can watch the anime and make sense of it, while not paying. However, this can be mitigated if online video sharing sites (youtube etc.) block videos in certain countries (which is already being done on Youtube).
Even this banning of videos in certain countries becomes useless as time passes. Manga goes out of print (examples: Mars, Bound Beauty etc.) and drama and anime series are become unavailable or were never stocked in the first place (example, Coffee Prince).
Piracy is illegal, but just because it's illegal doesn't mean the situations where it is (I'll stick a "relatively" in here) undamaging shouldn't be ignored. The spread of anime/manga/asian dramas out of asia is inevitable and to be desired. When companies fail to provide reasonably priced products with a large selection of series people turn to other methods to get what they want. Whether companies should condemn this or try to mitigate the consequences and work around it is a question that demands you consider piracy as more than just illegal.
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Post #545078
3:18 pm, Apr 11 2012
Posts: 389
Did I in any way say or hint that I am entitled to something that doesn't belong to me?
Don't make false assumptions!
I am looking at the bigger picture here. There is always a limit to greed. Always penny pinching will end up costing more than what its worth. Going that far for a made for tv series is not practical as only the hard core fans of the show will actually go out and buy the dvds while majority will be like I already saw that on TV. In a way they are fighting for DVD sales number that never existed and never will exist. Going this aggressive will eventually lead to production companies going bankrupt which leads to loss in jobs and less anime for us because it costs money to hunt uploaders down.. I said channels pay production companies atleast enough to cover all production costs but production companies can demand more depending on the popularity of the show. Do you have any idea how much earnings channels get from tv ad revenue? Depending on the popularity of the show one 30 second ad is enough to cover the sale of a few thousand to several thousand dvd sales. Multiply that by 16 since most shows are around 22 mins long and that is how much a channel makes airing one episode of the show.
You know one programmer can actually make a 3d game provided that he/she has the graphic pictures of parts without an actual animator. There is an actual college course that teaches this and its just so happenes one of my friends took this course and he made a fully fuctional 3d game in 3 months. He showed me while working on it and also showed the finished project. You do realize when colleges teach you programming they teach you the hard way first then teach you the easyway few courses later but by this time most future programmers loose their patience and leave programming for good.
Why are they underpaid? It is greediness on someone's part. In otherwords the boss.
The companies will be saying otherwise once they get wrapped up in all kinds of legal fees.
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3:30 pm, Apr 11 2012
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Greedy or not, piracy is illegal and it is within their right to go after the perpetrator so it doesn't really matter if it aired on TV. Costing more or not, it's their company and their choice to do so.
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3:47 pm, Apr 11 2012
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You know one programmer can actually make a 3d game provided that he/she has the graphic pictures of parts without an actual animator. There is an actual college course that teaches this and its just so happenes one of my friends took this course and he made a fully fuctional 3d game in 3 months.
I'd really like to see that game. Not to diminish your friends achievement, but the game probably isn't anything to be really proud of. There are game making kits(not sure if that's the correct name) out there with the necessary graphics and even parts of code out there, but with those you can mostly make extremely generic games. I've seen good indie games made with these kits, but most of the time they were good because they had interesting stories and not because of game-play or mechanics.
Post #545085
4:06 pm, Apr 11 2012
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Subscribe to crunchyroll for all your anime needs. Or at least use the free services the site provides. That's probably the best affordable way to support the anime industry for international fans, since not everyone can afford to import expensive blurays in today's economy.
As for my opinion on the industry... The anime industry has been in need of modernization for a long time and I think companies can benefit financially from subbing their shows into other languages and uploading them on their official site or alternatively an official youtube channel or crunchyroll or sell them via PSN, etc... The more mediums the better IMO. There is a huge untapped international market and even providing anime for "free" (via youtube for example) can net significant ad revenue. Funimation started providing its licensed anime via official youtube channel and their own site a long time ago (I think some shows are even available with japanese voice and subs).
As for cracking down on pirates (specifically the Japanese nationals who upload) it's within the companies rights to do so, which is exactly why they do it. Unfortunately that won't stop piracy. If the companies continue to resist adapting to the realities of the internet the anime industry won't have a very bright future. Especially since the poor folk who work their asses off to draw anime are extremely (and I stress that) underpaid.
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I'd really like to see that game. Not to diminish your friends achievement, but the game probably isn't anything to be really proud of. There are game making kits(not sure if that's the correct name) out there with the necessary graphics and even parts of code out there, but with those you can most ...
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4:32 pm, Apr 11 2012
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I highly doubt that professor allow such a thing. Being a Stanford graduate, he has a bad reputation for years being an insanely hard CS professor and on top of that all his research topics are involved in gaming, graphics, artificial intelligence, and robotics. If my friend were to take his game up a notch he could of easily made the game as complex as the most recent Indiana Jones game.
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4:55 pm, Apr 11 2012
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Well that still doesn't convince me and I probably won't change my mind until I see the game, but we are getting somewhat off topic.
The main thing I want to say: You are seriously underestimating the difficulty of game development.
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5:09 pm, Apr 11 2012
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"A lot" is two words
No. They are definitely not going overboard, and they are definitely not being too greedy for taking action on something they are entitled to do. Piracy is illegal. Simple as that. Good for them for making that arrest, I say.
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5:15 pm, Apr 11 2012
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I am not underestimating it. It requires lots and lots of patience thats why I got out of programming after the first introduction to gaming project in a previous course. That was a generic boardgame. The code for for this project was no comparison to my friend's project. His was 100's of pages long. That is testing patience to the limit.
Post #545103
5:32 pm, Apr 11 2012
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I think piracy is an equalizer that will always exist in our civilization. This is a good thing as industry giants try to create monopolies, the pirates gives the consumers alternatives and anyone can be a pirate.
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5:34 pm, Apr 11 2012
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The movie and gaming industry are doing better than ever before, the once suffering have been the once that are too small to to survive among the big company and to big to be indie. To argue about the effects of piracy on the industry is pointless. There are to meny veribal to make any estimat and the consumers wont have any more money to give to them just because they wished it. Ultimatly the big coroperations that drive this questions are just investor looking to make more money, not saying that that the creator havent spoken out against it but just as meny have spoken out against how the problem been handled by the industry.
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5:53 pm, Apr 11 2012
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I'm sure most if not all of us have uhh, heard of people downloading music, etc. illegally. But less than one in a million people get in trouble for it. The idea of it being safe comes from the industry's inability to arrest so many people for it. They do so once in a while to try to set an example, but really, it's far too late to stop online pirating.
These new bills are just plain silly and only the aging, technologically inept in government are supporting them. Honestly, they are justified in trying to do something, but at some point, they'll have to realize they
do anything.
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8:48 pm, Apr 11 2012
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I highly doubt that professor allow such a thing. Being a Stanford graduate, he has a bad reputation for years being an insanely hard CS professor and on top of that all his research topics are involved in gaming, graphics, artificial intelligence, and robotics. If my friend were to take his game up a notch he could of easily made the game as complex as the most recent Indiana Jones game.
But he didn't.
Your friend may have made a game, but it wasn't a AAA game like RE4 is, so basing that for your judgment on how easily games are made today is totally ridiculous and is evidence that you
underestimating game development. Just...stfu.
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2:24 am, Apr 12 2012
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There you go again with your assumptions. All I said is he made a fully functional 3d game The 3d quality is on par with the latest released Indiana Jones game. I did not say he made an extravagent game. You completely missed my point. One person was able to do all that imagine how much a team of 10-20 programmers can do. Is it that hard for you to accept the the bar raised on the average programming skill required now!
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IF someone said that you sound very similar in your tone and expression to Chris de Burgh, how would you react?
I suppose I'll find out when I meet local singer/songwriter Niall Boyle again.
Niall has just released his third album, 'A Place in the Sun' and what a great CD it is. It features ten songs, Niall behind most of them, and while they all excel, one classic is 'Jekyll and Hyde'.
I think Niall is in the same mould as the aforementioned de Burgh and I'm sure if he had his money he'd be thrilled!
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Tucked into the dusty corners of my mind right next to the the relics I so rarely visit, like everything I ever learned in algebra, are those topics I'd like to dust off so I can say I'm sorry and, perhaps for the first time ever, admit that you were right. You nearly always are.
So, in the spirit of full disclosure, Dad, I'd like to apologize for:
Or check the oil. Or that it's never a good idea to play Russian roulette with the gas gauge. But, even more so, thanks for not saying "I told you so" every time I called you frantically from the side of the road somewhere in my pretty new pumps and full panic mode as cars whizzed by without stopping.
I get it now. And at the risk of inflating your ego, I credit you with my excellent taste in music and my uncanny ability to name a song before the first lyric is even delivered.
The one you said lacked respect. The one you said was a dead end. The one you said was lazy. You know, the one I was convinced was the love of my life — and the one I eventually dumped for being every single thing you warned me about.
I now realize that an invitation to watch football with you wasn't merely a way to get me to sit down and be quiet (although it was likely that too), but it was also your special way of saying you love me more than Super Bowl Sunday.
The other day, I caught myself telling someone, "Two heads are better than one, even if one's a cabbage." So, um, thanks for that little gem.
I know that ol' trick always gives you a good chuckle and I hate denying you that momentary joy, but it's never gonna happen, old man.
Despite the gutty tackle, the squirmy bait and the insufferably long stretches of silence, I really enjoyed whiling away long afternoons on the water with you.
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Actor Salman Khan's hearing in the 2002 hit-and-run case has been adjourned to September 5. Salman is being tried for culpable homicide not amounting to murder. A Mumbai sessions court framed charges against the popular Bollywood actor on July 24, 2013. If convicted, the actor could face up to 10 years in jail.
The busy actor has been exempted from appearing in court for each hearing. The court announced that the case will now be heard by a different judge.
In September 2002, Salman reportedly ran over a group of people sleeping on the pavement in a suburban Bandra area, killing one person was killed and injuring four others. Salman has also been charged under sections 279 (for rash and negligent driving), and 337 and 338 (causing grievous hurt).
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By Cris D. Putnam
Everyone, believer or non-believer, is naturally born once and will die naturally once. This is apparent to all and is noncontroversial. But the biblical worldview includes a supernatural component which is not seen by the natural man. There are two additional possibilities, one of which will occur, depending on one's spiritual status relating to Jesus Christ. These two conditional supernatural events are difficult to accept.
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.(1 Co 2:14)
It wasn't always this way. God created man in a state of spiritual communion which entailed an intimate connection to him. Adam's fall into disobedience ruined that intimacy and put mankind under a curse (Gen 3:14-19). But notice neither Adam nor Eve were struck dead instantly when God pronounced the curse upon them and the creation. It seems that the physical nature of death was always a logical possibility because God had put two trees in the garden. One was the tree of knowledge of good and evil and the other was the tree of life. Adam and Eve were not immortal beings; it was the tree of life that sustained them. This can be deduced from the account that God saw physical death as a merciful release from their fallen state.
"Then the Lord God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—" therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.(Ge 3:22–24)
In this way, natural death is a blessing but only if you are in the book of life (Phil 1:21). When one is moved on by the Holy Spirit, repents of their sins and convinced by the evidence for Jesus' resurrection, one is "born again" and released from the second death. Jesus explains this to Nicodemus in John 3:
"Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.' The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."(Jn 3:5–8)
When one believes the good news of Jesus resurrection, one's name is written in the book of life:
"Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years."(Re 20:6)
If one rejects this good news and chooses not to accept Jesus resurrection, one gains a second death.
"And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.(Re 20:12–15)
So whether you are believer or an unbeliever you are going gain a supernatural element: a second birth or a second death. If you earnestly seek God, he will reward your faith (Heb 11:6).
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
(Ro 10:9)