NJ.comMonday night’s game between the Cowboys and Detroit Lions will help shape the NFC’s playoff seedings heading into Week 17. The Cowboys are locked into the conference’s top seed, and the Giants will be the No. 5 seed. But seeds Nos. 2-4 are fluid.Detroit Lions Playoff Scenarios: Team Could Be No. 2 Seed Or Miss […]
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2017 NFL Draft: Draft Radar Heading into NFL Week 17 – Bleacher Report
Bleacher ReportCollege football bowl season is off and running, and some 2017 NFL draft prospects are taking that literally. With brilliant performances from workhorse runners Jamaal Williams of Brigham Young University and Anthony Wales of Western Kentucky, the boys … and more …read more From:: NFL Draft News By Google News
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Quick Lane Bowl: Maryland vs. Boston College | NFL Draft prospects Eagles should watch – NJ.com
Quick Lane Bowl: Maryland vs. Boston College | NFL Draft prospects Eagles should watchNJ.comMeasurables: 5-foot-7, 175 pounds. 2016 Statistics: 32 tackles, 4.0 tackles for loss, 1.0 sack, 3 pass breakups, 1 forced fumble, 1 fumble recovery. Projected draft round: 6-7. Why the Eagles should look: Likely is a bit undersized to play cornerback … …read […]
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UPDATED NFL playoff picture: Where Giants, Steelers, Raiders, Broncos, others stand after wins by Steelers and Chiefs – NJ.com
NJ.comThe Defending Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos were knocked out of playoff contention with a last-minute loss to the Kansas City Chiefs on Christmas, and now the entire AFC playoff field is set: New England, Oakland, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Houston …With AFC playoff picture in focus, game of musical quarterbacks beginsLos Angeles TimesSteelers clinch AFC […]
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George Michael Update Singer Died Of Heart Failure – 20 Essential Songs
George Michael Update Singer Died Of Heart Failure – 20 Essential Songs
George Michael Update Singer Died Of Heart Failure – 20 Essential Songs by George Michael Earlier it was reported that George Michael, head of the 80s singing group called WHAM!, died on Christmas Day at his home but the reasons for his passing were not provided at the time. George Michael was just 53 years old. “It is with great sadness that we can confirm our beloved son, brother, and friend George Michael passed away peacefully at home over the Christmas period. The family would ask that their privacy be respected at this difficult emotional time. There will be no further comment at this stage.” That was the statement, but now comes word that Mr. Michael died of heart failure. Tributes to George Michael have come pouring in. Carrie Underwood took to Instagram to report that “"As a child, his was the first voice I could pick out of the sea of voices I heard on the radio. Before I knew anything about him, I knew his voice. As an adult, I cried when I saw him in concert. His songs and his voice helped to teach me how to sing. I will forever regret not letting him know. Thank you, George, for giving the world your gifts." George Michael's songs came to define the 80s. His romantic “Careless Whsipers” was the song that, when it was played at The Dry Gulch Nightclub on the campus of The University of Texas At Arlington, where I attended as an undergraduate before going to UC Berkeley for graduate school, when that song was played, the lights were turned down, and you asked a woman you were serious about meeting to dance. If you were already out on the floor with her, staying out there when “Careless Whsipers” played indicated that you were an item – if only for the night. Rolling Stones has a list of George Michael 20 songs you have to listen to: 1. Wham!, "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" (1984) 2. "Careless Whisper" (1984) 3. Wham!, "Everything She Wants" (1984) 4. Wham!, "Last Christmas" (1985) 5. Wham!, "The Edge of Heaven" (1986) 6. "A Different Corner" (1986) 7. Aretha Franklin and George Michael, "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" (1987) 8. "I Want Your Sex" (1987) 9. "Faith" (1987) 10. "Father Figure" (1988) 11. "One More Try" (1988) 12. "Praying for Time" (1990) 13. "Freedom! '90" (1990) 14. Elton John feat. George Michael, "Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me" (1991) 15. "Too Funky" (1992)Queen feat. George Michael 16. "Somebody to Love" (1992) 17. "Jesus to a Child" (1996) 18. "Fastlove" (1996) 19. "Outside" (1998) 20. "Amazing" (2004) George Michael. An amazing talent for the ages. RIP. Stay tuned.
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George Michael Update Singer Died Of Heart Failure – 20 Essential Songs by George Michael Earlier it was reported that George Michael, head of the 80s singing group called WHAM!, died on Christmas Day at his home but the reasons for his passing were not provided at the time. George Michael was just 53 years old. “It is with great sadness that we can confirm our beloved son, brother, and friend George Michael passed away peacefully at home over the Christmas period. The family would ask that their privacy be respected at this difficult emotional time. There will be no further comment at this stage.” That was the statement, but now comes word that Mr. Michael died of heart failure. Tributes to George Michael have come pouring in. Carrie Underwood took to Instagram to report that “"As a child, his was the first voice I could pick out of the sea of voices I heard on the radio. Before I knew anything about him, I knew his voice. As an adult, I cried when I saw him in concert. His songs and his voice helped to teach me how to sing. I will forever regret not letting him know. Thank you, George, for giving the world your gifts." George Michael's songs came to define the 80s. His romantic “Careless Whsipers” was the song that, when it was played at The Dry Gulch Nightclub on the campus of The University of Texas At Arlington, where I attended as an undergraduate before going to UC Berkeley for graduate school, when that song was played, the lights were turned down, and you asked a woman you were serious about meeting to dance. If you were already out on the floor with her, staying out there when “Careless Whsipers” played indicated that you were an item – if only for the night. Rolling Stones has a list of George Michael 20 songs you have to listen to: 1. Wham!, "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" (1984) 2. "Careless Whisper" (1984) 3. Wham!, "Everything She Wants" (1984) 4. Wham!, "Last Christmas" (1985) 5. Wham!, "The Edge of Heaven" (1986) 6. "A Different Corner" (1986) 7. Aretha Franklin and George Michael, "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" (1987) 8. "I Want Your Sex" (1987) 9. "Faith" (1987) 10. "Father Figure" (1988) 11. "One More Try" (1988) 12. "Praying for Time" (1990) 13. "Freedom! '90" (1990) 14. Elton John feat. George Michael, "Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me" (1991) 15. "Too Funky" (1992)Queen feat. George Michael 16. "Somebody to Love" (1992) 17. "Jesus to a Child" (1996) 18. "Fastlove" (1996) 19. "Outside" (1998) 20. "Amazing" (2004) George Michael. An amazing talent for the ages. RIP. Stay tuned.
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Chiefs eliminate defending Super Bowl champion Broncos from playoff contention – Newsday
NewsdayKANSAS CITY, Mo. — With their postseason spot already secured, the Kansas City Chiefs turned to Travis Kelce and Tyreek Hill to beat the Denver Broncos, 33-10, last night and keep their AFC West title hopes alive. Kelce had 11 catches for 160 yards …Chiefs end playoff hopes of NFL Super Bowl champion BroncosYahoo SportsChiefs’ […]
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Chiefs beat Broncos, knocking Denver out of playoffs and keeping AFC West title chances alive – Yahoo Sports
Yahoo SportsPoe is the heaviest player to throw a touchdown pass in NFL history. The Chiefs knew before the game that they were guaranteed a playoff spot, thanks to the Pittsburgh Steelers’ win over the Baltimore Ravens in the first game on Sunday. Getting to the …Chiefs built roster to compete with AFC West opponents […]
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AFC playoff picture: Don’t count out Raiders – NFL.com
NFL.comWith fourth-year pro Matt McGloin now behind center, any playoff win will feel like overachieving. Yet it’s worth noting McGloin joins a situation that could hardly be better. The Raiders have one of the NFL’s best pass protecting offensive lines. (In …NFL Playoff Picture Week 16: AFC, NFC Scenarios Ahead of Sunday’s GamesBleacher ReportNFL playoff […]
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Is The YouTube Subscriber Issue Just A PewDiePie Phil DeFranco Maker Studios Problem?
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Is The YouTube Subscriber Issue Just A PewDiePie, Phil DeFranco Maker Studios Problem? Recently, this year, a number of prominent YouTubers have complained about subscriber channels being dropped from their rolls, most notably PewDiePie and Phil DeFranco. In his vlog, PewDiePie threatened to quit and shut down his PewDiePie YouTube Channel once it reached over 50 million subscribers because of this subscriber problem. And Phil De Franco chimed in to echo that there was a problem as well. The problem in this entire discussion is that a lot of truths are being avoided. The first truth of all is that buying YouTube subscribers and views is so frequent to this day that it's become something of a cottage industry. It's also something I have been very afraid to do because when some YouTubers started the practice back in 2008, one person I know who was a blogger on one of my city blogs, Oakland Focus, rapidly added 80,000 subscribers and a pretty cool self-made opening for his YouTube vlogs. We lost touch for a while, and then he contacted me in 2009 to give me an update, which included the news that his channel had been deleted for adding what are referred to as “fake” YouTube subscribers. That was all the reason I needed not to take up the practice myself, even as I didn't know what a “fake subscriber” was if some person actually made the YouTube channel – that leads me to the second truth here. These large YouTube channels can't possibly reach something like 50 million subscribers and all of them are real. Think about it. There are something like over 300 million people in America alone, and the demographic most likely to watch YouTube probably numbers around 100 million, or about one out of every three people, today. So half of all of those people, or some giant number, are all subscribed to PewDiePie? Really? Even if you say, that doesn't include the entire World, I'm still questioning this. Yes, the gaming community is enormous, but I can't remember seeing any session or event at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco where PewDiePie was featured. Even with that, I'm not trying to take away from PewDiePie's unquestioned and documented influence over the gaming industry. But I am openly daring to ask how much of his following consists of real people or real views – and what is a real person? This is a question that's hard to ask, but it must be. In 2012, Google / YouTube stripped the World's largest music companies of something like two billion views – yes, billion with a B. Universal was said to have lost 1 billion views to YouTube's take away, with Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, and Justin Bieber named as artists who were impacted by the action. Sony was hit as well. To be fair, the music industry show back with the claim that they migrated to Vevo, and so that was the reason for the view take away – but that doens't pass the logic test, because migrating to a new channel or platform in the present does not alter past statistics. But my point is, did this practice of view or subscription purchases come to impact the growth of PewDiePie's channel? Or what about other giant YouTubers? Is there any really “authentically big” YouTuber of 30 million or more subscribers? Why is it that websites like VidStatSx.com show “top losses” of subscribers where some channels drop over 100,000 subscribers over a 60 day period? Were those real people who didn't like something or closed accounts? Why were those accounts closed? You see? Given that PewDiePie and Phil DeFranco are both complaining about this problem, and are both with Maker Studios, then I have to ask if this is a Maker Studios concern? Truth be told, I'm not putting down Maker Studios (although I am not happy that they took down my Blip.tv Zennie62 channel after changing their terms of service to not favor standard video-blog formats, then said my channel wasn't in line with the company's new direction for Blip.tv. They didn't even give me a chance to recover my classic Blip.tv vlogs – they could have sent them to me.) So we as a community and with YouTube need to have a real talk about subscribers, views, community and favorites. In the past, YouTube staffers had favorite vloggers they promoted over others. I begged to be on the front page for my political vlogs in the early days, and once I was promoted – just once. The truth is YouTube and it's CEO the great Susan Diane Wojcicki need to really take the bull by the horns and create a system that better promotes all YouTube Partners, and bring the focus back to the YT Partner via that system. The issue is money. YouTube Partners who have watch time numbers good enough to be able to email staff directly should also have a largers percentage take of revenue sharing. That would help a lot.
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Is The YouTube Subscriber Issue Just A PewDiePie, Phil DeFranco Maker Studios Problem? Recently, this year, a number of prominent YouTubers have complained about subscriber channels being dropped from their rolls, most notably PewDiePie and Phil DeFranco. In his vlog, PewDiePie threatened to quit and shut down his PewDiePie YouTube Channel once it reached over 50 million subscribers because of this subscriber problem. And Phil De Franco chimed in to echo that there was a problem as well. The problem in this entire discussion is that a lot of truths are being avoided. The first truth of all is that buying YouTube subscribers and views is so frequent to this day that it's become something of a cottage industry. It's also something I have been very afraid to do because when some YouTubers started the practice back in 2008, one person I know who was a blogger on one of my city blogs, Oakland Focus, rapidly added 80,000 subscribers and a pretty cool self-made opening for his YouTube vlogs. We lost touch for a while, and then he contacted me in 2009 to give me an update, which included the news that his channel had been deleted for adding what are referred to as “fake” YouTube subscribers. That was all the reason I needed not to take up the practice myself, even as I didn't know what a “fake subscriber” was if some person actually made the YouTube channel – that leads me to the second truth here. These large YouTube channels can't possibly reach something like 50 million subscribers and all of them are real. Think about it. There are something like over 300 million people in America alone, and the demographic most likely to watch YouTube probably numbers around 100 million, or about one out of every three people, today. So half of all of those people, or some giant number, are all subscribed to PewDiePie? Really? Even if you say, that doesn't include the entire World, I'm still questioning this. Yes, the gaming community is enormous, but I can't remember seeing any session or event at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco where PewDiePie was featured. Even with that, I'm not trying to take away from PewDiePie's unquestioned and documented influence over the gaming industry. But I am openly daring to ask how much of his following consists of real people or real views – and what is a real person? This is a question that's hard to ask, but it must be. In 2012, Google / YouTube stripped the World's largest music companies of something like two billion views – yes, billion with a B. Universal was said to have lost 1 billion views to YouTube's take away, with Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, and Justin Bieber named as artists who were impacted by the action. Sony was hit as well. To be fair, the music industry show back with the claim that they migrated to Vevo, and so that was the reason for the view take away – but that doens't pass the logic test, because migrating to a new channel or platform in the present does not alter past statistics. But my point is, did this practice of view or subscription purchases come to impact the growth of PewDiePie's channel? Or what about other giant YouTubers? Is there any really “authentically big” YouTuber of 30 million or more subscribers? Why is it that websites like VidStatSx.com show “top losses” of subscribers where some channels drop over 100,000 subscribers over a 60 day period? Were those real people who didn't like something or closed accounts? Why were those accounts closed? You see? Given that PewDiePie and Phil DeFranco are both complaining about this problem, and are both with Maker Studios, then I have to ask if this is a Maker Studios concern? Truth be told, I'm not putting down Maker Studios (although I am not happy that they took down my Blip.tv Zennie62 channel after changing their terms of service to not favor standard video-blog formats, then said my channel wasn't in line with the company's new direction for Blip.tv. They didn't even give me a chance to recover my classic Blip.tv vlogs – they could have sent them to me.) So we as a community and with YouTube need to have a real talk about subscribers, views, community and favorites. In the past, YouTube staffers had favorite vloggers they promoted over others. I begged to be on the front page for my political vlogs in the early days, and once I was promoted – just once. The truth is YouTube and it's CEO the great Susan Diane Wojcicki need to really take the bull by the horns and create a system that better promotes all YouTube Partners, and bring the focus back to the YT Partner via that system. The issue is money. YouTube Partners who have watch time numbers good enough to be able to email staff directly should also have a largers percentage take of revenue sharing. That would help a lot.
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Chiefs end playoff hopes of NFL Super Bowl champion Broncos – Yahoo Sports
Yahoo SportsLos Angeles (AFP) – The Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos saw their slim hopes of returning to the NFL post-season extinguished with a 33-10 loss to the Chiefs in Kansas City. The Chiefs went into on Sunday’s contest assured of a playoff spot after …Chiefs eliminate defending Super Bowl champion Broncos from playoff contentionNewsdayChiefs’ […]
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