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Since its inception in 1996, Jazz Haven has promoted the culture of Jazz through unique collaborations with artists, organizations, schools and other groups. The skill and passion that its Board members have demonstrated for the culture of jazz encourages a growing network of organizations and programs that help promote jazz education as well as jazz as an art form.
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Approximately 43,000 individuals now receiving unemployment benefits could lose them on Dec. 29, unless Congress reauthorizes the program.
Connecticut, like most states, provides 26 weeks of unemployment insurance but also counts on the federal government to fund an emergency extension of benefits during times of slow job growth. It will cost $30 billion to keep the program going.
“These federal benefits are providing a lifeline to many of our residents who are trying to make ends meet while looking for work,” Labor Commissioner Sharon M. Palmer said. “If Congress does reauthorize these benefits, the agency will be better poised to respond quickly to possible new program requirements — thus minimizing potential disruptions or delays in issuing UI payments
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43,000 Could Lose Unemployment Checks
In Connecticut without a Congressional vote by Friday deadline. Christine Stuart reports.
On this episode of Ignition, Carlos Lago finally tests the eagerly anticipated 2013 SRT Viper. Carlos runs the Viper through the gauntlet of Motor Trend's instrumented performance tests, while professional racing driver Randy Pobst hits the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca racetrack to see if he can charm the snake.
"Young Jeezy made a few stops at local community centers on Christmas Eve, as he embarked on his 'Snow Toy Tour' 2012. A mission to give back, meet some of his young fans, and put smiles on their faces."
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Chris Brown and Rihanna attend the NBA game between the New York Knicks and the Los Angeles Lakers at Staples Center on December 25, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Source: Victor Decolongon/Getty Images North America) more pics »Undeterred by the public's uniformly aghast reaction to their reunion, Rihanna and Chris Brown are apparently now appearing in public together. The two hit a Christmas Day Lakers Game in LA where they watched the Kobe Bryant and the gang defeat the New York Knicks
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New Haven has 64 fewer guns to worry about—including one less Bushmaster .223.
That Bushmaster .223”>Bushmaster— the same model of rifle used to murder 20 schoolchildren in Newtown—and 63 other lethal weapons were turned in Saturday afternoon in a local gun buy-back. The event was sparked by the Newtown massacre.
The day-long event was run by the police department at its training academy on Sherman Parkway. It was staffed by officers and employees of the Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital who are part of theInjury Free Coalition for Kids of New Haven
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Written by Chase Hoffberger @chasehoffberger Via Daily Dot
Google slashed the cumulative view counts on YouTube channels belonging to Universal Music Group, Sony/BMG, and RCA Records by more than 2 billion views Tuesday, a drastic winter cleanup that may be aimed at shutting down black hat view count-building techniques employed by a community of rogue view count manipulators on the video-sharing site.
Universal's channel is the one that took the biggest hit. According to figures compiled by the YouTube statistics analysts at SocialBlade, the record company's YouTube channel lost more than 1 billion views from its preexisting tally of 7 billion views Tuesday.
Sony/BMG was the second largest sufferer, dropping more than 850 million views in one day, bringing its total number of views to a mere 2.3 million. RCA, which got off scot free by comparison, dipped 159 million views. Its tally now sits more modestly at 120 million views.
In addition, each label's YouTube archives are now surprisingly thin. UMG, which had long held a heavy hand in YouTube operations, now only boasts five videos on its YouTube channel, none of which are actual songs—and none of which last more than 1:23.
Sony's page, by comparison, is currently empty. The company did not respond to the Daily Dot's request for comment.
Other notable channels affected include the ones belonging to Michael Jackson, Chris Brown, Beyoncé, and Avril Lavigne, among others. More than 500 prominent YouTube channels have been stripped of preexisting YouTube views in the past 30 days, something that causes concern when you consider that YouTube views counts, unlike subscriber statistics, are cumulative and cannot organically drop at any point throughout their existence.
Google's takedown of these major music channels came on the same day that hundreds of YouTubers took to Google forums and their own YouTube channels to inform their peers that they'd been subject to a series of video takedowns for violations of YouTube's Terms of Service (TOS). Some speculated that the widespread video takedowns were caused by a technical error, but YouTube confirmed that the users violated TOS item 4, Section H, which bans automated methods of inflating view counts.
"This was not a bug or a security breach. This was an enforcement of our viewcount policy," wrote a Google representative on the forums.
The apparent crackdown on fake views became a major talking point Wednesday on Black Hat World, a forum where users trade tips about unethical search engine optimization tactics.
The thread's first post alluded to a friend of the poster who "sells likes" and was recently told by four different customers that their videos "got deleted due to TOS violation."
"Now I also got a message from a customer who ordered views from me that his video was removed," the individual wrote, sparking a six page conversation that continues on to this moment—and mentions Universal Music Group throughout.
"I spoke with some people on Skype and 2-3 more have the same problems with videos being removed for fake views," the original poster added in a later post. "Likes are from YLH (YouLikeHits) and AddMeFast and views from ViralSocial in my case."
Later in the thread, the conversation turned towards an individual known in some online circles as Tapangoldy, a 16-year-old seller of YouTube views who is prominent on the cheap favors website Fiverr and claimed last month to have already raised $60,000through the site. Recently, he closed up shop for a few days "to fix all issue thanks."
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Tapangoldy, who among other things had offered YouTubers an excess of 10,700 new views to any video of their choosing for $5, held a 98 percent "Gig Rating" before becoming inundated with negative reviews on Wednesday, most of which painted him as a fraud who uses bots to accrue YouTube views.
Although Tapangoldy seems to be one of the top-rated sellers of YouTube views, he isn’t the only Fiverr user whose business has been affected. One Black Hat World user wrote, “I'm just having great fun watching the Fiverr bloodbath. Most the top rated gigs for views are either paused or being flooded with bad reviews.”
How closely is Tapangoldy tied to Universal, Sony, and RCA? It's something we can't presently confirm. The Daily Dot has been unable to contact him during his temporary exile, and he could have nothing to do with the labels’ overnight YouTube collapse. But Tapangoldy's sudden change in fortune comes at an interesting time considering all of the preexisting elements, their pertinence to the major label music structure or otherwise.
YouTube did not respond to the Daily Dot's request for comment.
UPDATE: Universal acknowledged the sudden drop in views, and told the Daily Dot that the Universal Music Group channel, though popular, has been mostly dormant since the company shifted its focus to individual channels hosted on Vevo, which Universal founded in conjunction with Sony Music, Abu Dhabi Media Company, and E1 Entertainment in 2009.
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It should come as no surprise that Quentin Tarantino's latest film — which we'll remind you is a slavery-era tale told in Spaghetti Western style — has stirred up some controversy. What is slightly shocking, however, is that much of the controversy is coming from media coverage of "Django Unchained" as opposed to the movie itself.
Last week the Drudge Report posted a splash image of Tarantino across the top of its front pages with the N-word written below it seven times. The censored words linked to the Hollywood Reporter's review of "Django Unchained," without any further context.
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Quentin Tarantino Isn't Fazed By 'Django Unchained' N-Word Controversy
Mixtape Daily OD Exclusive
Artists: Busta Rhymes, Reek da Villian and J-Doe
Mixtape: Catastrophic
Real Spit: Good thing the Mayans were wrong, because if their end-of-the-world prediction had been correct, hip-hop fans would've missed out on Catastrophic, the 17-track mixtape that Busta Rhymes and his Conglomerate group released on Friday (December 21).
"If you're listening to this song right now, blessings, that means the world didn't end. But this sh-- is Catastrophic," DJ Khaled says on the mixtape's intro song, "Catastrophe."
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Busta Rhymes, Conglomerate DropCatastrophic 'Heat' On New Mixtape
