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Ponce De Leon Back on the Warpath
Ponce De Leon Back on the Warpath – Some of the hardiest people in the world, the indigenous Tarahumara, reside in the sierras of Chihuahua, Mexico. For centuries, a mix of below zero winters, high altitudes, drought stricken summers and a lack of modern technology, have made the area habitable only to the truly rugged.
Daniel Ponce De Leon, of Cuauhtémoc, Mexico, a former world champion and Tarahumara himself, was lucky enough to escape those harsh conditions and through sheer guts, some luck and determination, rose to become an Olympian boxer and eventually a world champion in the 122 pound division.
"The Tarahumara have gone through a lot but they always persevere," De Leon, 31, said from his home in Southern California. "I always carry their resilience and fighting spirit into the ring with me."
De Leon (41-4, 34 KO's) is looking to make a run for another world title after two consecutive losses to current world champions Yuriorkis Gamboa and Adrien Broner. In losing, De Leon still managed to put on competitive showings against both men. "There are some who felt I won the fight against Broner," he stated. "He's a good, fast fighter but he couldn't do much to me and I got to him. I lost but the experience helped me grow as a fighter quite a bit."
Currently fighting in the featherweight division, he gave his career a serious shot in the arm after signing a management deal with Frank Espinoza, who also manages the careers of world champion Abner Mares and several undefeated prospects. "For a few years I was handling matters myself and it was very difficult. It was hard for me to focus," he stated. "It makes me motivated to know I have Frank taking care of the business aspect of my career. All I have to do now is train hard and win."
Espinoza thinks De Leon has a lot left despite coming off two losses. "He put on good performances. I don't think those losses brought his stock down very much," Espinoza said. "He's proven he has what it takes to be a world champion. He did it before and he'll do it again. He has the punching power and mindset of a champion."
De Leon must first try and get through tough Tijuana fighter Omar Estrella (15-3-2, 10 KO's) on Saturday, January 21st in Ensenada, Mexico. Anyone in the boxing business knows to never count out a fighter who's come through the Tijuana boxing system. They may have spotty records sometimes but they're usually well-tested and usually full of bad news for their opponents. "I know a little bit about Estrella. He's strong and has a solid technique. He has a deceptive record," De Leon said. "I would never look past him. I trained just as hard for him as I did for any world champion."
De Leon's awkward technique, or lack thereof, has been the subject of debate by critics who believe that throwing power punches with such reckless abandon leaves De Leon open to sharpshooters like Gamboa and former world champion Juan Manuel Lopez who devastated De Leon with a first round stoppage. "The fact is that he caught me cold," De Leon remembers of the 2008 loss. "He's a good fighter but it was a lucky punch. I've worked on tightening my defense since then."
His quest for self improvement has led him to devouring hours of Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao fights. "I've been really studying them," he said. "I've actually made some small changes to my style from what I've learned."
But let's face it. There's no way to teach a 31 year old boxer new tricks. De Leon at his core is a heavy fisted brawler who shows up to dish out punishment. He loads his punches with ill will and terrible intentions. If he connects, his opponents feel the power. If he connects enough, they usually end up on the canvas. That's just the way Daniel Ponce De Leon is and no amount of studying Pac-Man and Mayweather footage will ever change that.
He insists he's improved his defense quite a bit since the Lopez fight. "I don't get hit as much as I used to. What happened against Lopez would never happen again because I'm not the same fighter," he stated. "If the re-match against Juan Ma doesn't happen it won't be the end of the world but I'd love to face him again."
He may not have to wait long if everything lines up properly. Lopez is scheduled to fight a rematch against Orlando Salido who stopped the Puerto Rican star and stripped him of his undefeated status with an eight round stoppage in April of 2011. If Lopez wins, De Leon will have his sights set on him. "There are a lot of great fights for me. There's W.B.C. champion Jhonny Gonzalez which I think would be a great fight for me also," he said. "But getting a fight against Juan Ma Lopez would be tremendous. Revenge is always sweet."
He's determined to get back on top this year. "My goal for 2012 is to get a featherweight world title," De Leon said. "I've always accomplished my goals. Even as a young kid, I always set my sights high and eventually succeeded at whatever I set out to do."
He realizes he's at the age where the window of opportunity starts slowly closing for most fighters. "I've had a career where I haven't taken much punishment and I've always maintained myself in great shape but I realize I have to make the best of the next few years," said De Leon. "God willing, I expect to be champion and I expect the next stage of my career to be even more successful than the first. Keep watching me. You won't be disappointed. The least you'll ever get from me is a war inside the ring."
Saturday night's De Leon vs. Estrella fight will be broadcast on Televisa from La Bodega De Boxeo in Ensenada, Mexico. Also on the broadcast will be bantamweights Leo "Terremoto" Santa Cruz (18-0-1, 10 KO's) vs. Alejandro "Payasito" Hernandez (24-8-2, 13 KO's).
Golden Boy Promotions and Box Latino will promote the event.
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An Unofficial Judge Scored 9 Rounds for Canelo; Feel Free to Hoot and Holler
The auxiliary press section at the T-Mobile Arena is quite a distance from the boxing ring. I've been in auxiliary press sections before, but never one that was up so high. It was here that I found myself on Saturday night, peering down on the ring far below and like everyone else checking out the big screen between rounds for a closer look at key moments.
From this vantage point, the ring is both smaller and bigger. It's bigger in the sense that it opens things up a bit. Your eyes see more space between the fighters and you are better able to judge which fighter is controlling the distance. Think of the picture from the overhead cam in a football game. Looking straight down, the playing field doesn't look as congested. The holes that open for a North-South running back bursting into the secondary get wider and from this panorama you are better able to judge the work of the offensive line.
Having said that, this is really no place to adequately judge a boxing match, so I can be forgiven for scoring the fight 9-3 for Canelo. For what it's worth, however, the fellow on my right had it the same. The fellow on my left had it somewhat tighter, but also scored it for Canelo. And for the record, neither of these guys were Hispanic so they weren't blinded by tribal loyalty.
At the T-Mobile, when the main event ends, the scribes in the auxiliary press section are literally held hostage. They are prevented from going down to the post-fight press conference until the arena has thinned out.
This reporter couldn't get his laptop to function properly and had no patience. I'm not comfortable working on my cellphone, so it was imperative that I get home in a jiff and be there when David Avila's ringside report turned up in my e-mail. On a fight of this magnitude, the boss wants the bread-and-butter post-fight story up on the site in a hurry.
Aware of the hostage situation, and my own technological limitations, I had the foresight to scope out the arena for an escape route just in case I needed to get away fast. And so, before a hostage-taker could rope me in, I was off and running, scurrying down a little used staircase. I had my car parked in the right spot for a quick getaway, traffic was light, and I was home at my work desk in less than 30 minutes.
I didn't wait around to hear the scores. To me it was a foregone conclusion that Canelo would have his hand raised. Heading home, I had the car radio tuned to an all-sports station. And when the scores came across the radio, I thought to myself, well, I was wrong and I was right. I thought GGG would win and I was wrong about that, but I was right, I thought to myself, that the judges would be disposed to give GGG the close rounds. In my mind, the scores (114-114 and 115-113 twice) gave GGG the best of it. Granted, several rounds were tough to score, but yet the fight wasn't that close.
Au contraire !
To my amazement, the vast majority of those seated in the ringside press section scored the fight a draw or had it shaded toward Triple-G. In fact, according to one survey, which included those in the building and a select few watching at home or in a TV studio, only two of the 59 people that were polled had it for Canelo with 17 scoring it even. The most cantankerous of the GGG faction was ESPN analyst Teddy Atlas who apparently had it 117-112 and labeled the decision a robbery.
No I won't defend my scoring. Let me see the fight on TV (and with the sound off, natch), and I'll get back to you. But I'm still flabbergasted that my score was so out of whack with the consensus.
Odds and Ends
Although the fight was announced as a sellout, there were empty seats scattered around the arena. The announced attendance was 21,965, roughly 1,400 less than for the first encounter last September.
The first Canelo-GGG bout set the attendance record for an indoor fight in Nevada and came in third all-time in gate receipts, surpassed only by Mayweather-Pacquiao in 2015 and Mayweather-McGregor in August of last year. But that's a distant third to the leader. The gross gate for Canelo-GGG I ($27,059,850) was far below Mayweather-Pacquiao which raked in an astounding $72,198,500.
Although there's more money in circulation each year and more fat cats willing to pay an enormous sum to attend a mega-fight, I doubt the Mayweather-Pacquiao record for gate receipts will be broken any time soon.
The crowd, needless to say, was skewed heavily toward Mexicans and Mexican-Americans. And while it's often said that members of this ethnic group are true fight fans, the reality is that when they come to Las Vegas they act just like the Anglo high rollers, which is to say that they arrive at a big fight fashionably late.
When the first of the four PPV fights started, the arena was not more than 15 percent full. When the semi-main started, the arena was perhaps one-third full, notwithstanding the fact that it was a title fight featuring a boxer from Tijuana.
The old outdoor fights at Caesars Palace were thick with celebrities who were acknowledged by the ring announcer. Saturday's fight at the T-Mobile was something of a throwback. The roll call included movie stars Denzel Washington, Will Smith, and Mark Wahlberg, comedians Dave Chappelle and Cedric the Entertainer, and sports personalities Lebron James, Charles Barkley, Dale Earnhardt Jr., and Triple H – to name just a few.
Standing in the ring as GGG and Canelo made their way from their dressing rooms was a fashionably dressed woman wearing a dress that one would associate with a Latin country. I assumed she was there to sing the Mexican National Anthem. In my younger days, the Mexican National Anthem was sung so often at big fights in Las Vegas that I could eventually mouth the words.
But no, there was no National Anthem whatsoever, neither U.S., nor Mexican, nor Kazakhstani. I was told that they did do anthems before the first of the preliminary fights. This would have been about 3:00 in the afternoon when there were not more than a few hundred people in the joint.
Was this a reaction to the brouhaha set in motion by Colin Kaepernick? That's a fair assumption.
Not only were the anthems missing, but so also was Michael Buffer, a fixture at HBO shows for decades. I'm told that he now works exclusively for Eddie Hearn. He'll be back on the job this coming Saturday at Wembley Stadium in London.
Joe Martinez, Buffer's replacement, did a solid job, as did referee Benjy Estevez who was working his first big fight in Nevada. Of course, Canelo and GGG made it easy for him. No matter your opinion of the scoring, I think we can all agree that these two great warriors engaged in a very clean fight.
By all accounts, this was a very good fight for the bookies. The expectation that there would be late Canelo money in Las Vegas on Mexican Independence Day weekend wasn't born out. At one establishment, the odds favoring GGG rose from 7/5 to 9/5 (minus-180) in the last few hours of betting. I'm told that it nicked above 2/1 at a few places offshore.
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How Much Is Left for Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez?
I first wrote about Roman Gonzalez in 2010. He was a baby-faced 105lb shotgun then, but was not widely known. I predicted that he would be the world's number
I first wrote about Roman Gonzalez in 2010. He was a baby-faced 105lb shotgun then, but was not widely known. I predicted that he would be the world's number one fighter one day and also that when he eventually came undone, it would be against a southpaw.
I also predicted that, for Gonzalez, there would be no second act. Once undone, he would stay undone. Gonzalez was no Jake LaMotta, no sponge for acid, and to describe him as face first would be to do a disservice to the high guard and sleek slippage of punches that, even as a minimumweight, he was already exhibiting. I felt, however, that the purity of the violence he dealt in required a commitment that a hurtful defeat might undo. I also felt that super-flyweight would be his roof and that when he landed there he might find himself tangling with various immovable objects, where once give had been guaranteed.
So I was not surprised when southpaw superflyweight deluxe thug Srisaket Sor Rungvisai dropped him like a stone down a well late last year. I did have a bad feeling as regarded his comeback this weekend though.
An earlier aborted attempt at a return to action seemed to have been caused by the most disappointing of reasons, his perceived inability to make the 115lb limit in time. Once a fighter has decided to eat himself into the divisions above it's rare to see him back at his old trim; the nightmarish vision of Gonzalez trying to compete with Naoya Inoue and Zolani Tete reared its ugly head momentarily, but Gonzalez set to work and made the grade, like he so often has.
A fight with Moises Fuentes at 115lbs was his reward.
Quantifying this opponent is important. Fuentes had, at one time, been ranked among the very best light-flyweights in the world. He exited that division after winning a crackling match with perennial warmonger Francisco Rodriguez and then losing by knockout to Kosoei Tanaka. After straying dangerously close to 120lbs and splitting a pair with Ulises Lara, he struggled back down to 112lbs only to be brutalized by Japanese prospect Daigo Higa in a single round. The word "shot" started to be muttered in connection with Fuentes in the wake of this result.
Gonzalez meanwhile was being marooned on the wrong side of history in his native Nicaragua as the country fell down around his ears. The political disaster wrought upon his people left him in an isolated position politically and, undoubtedly, with severe personal financial problems of his own.
So there were two desperate men sharing the ring on the undercard of Golovkin-Alvarez contest but to my eye, Gonzalez-Fuentes was far and away the most interesting match.
Gonzalez looked old and dry during the referee's instructions, his expression hangdog, new folds of expression on his once smooth features. He looked down, not unusual, but he radiated a sliver of defeat where once there had been only surety.
Until the bell rang.
Gonzalez, in his prime, was among the best combination punches of the modern era. This has always been his stated mode of expression, eight to twelve punches his declared and terrifying target and he has proven himself capable of landing at the lower end of this range. Nor are these the "mixing" punches of, say, Joe Calzaghe, who cuffed and slapped and looked to land a meaningful punch in among the a stream of less hurtful shots. Gonzalez meant business.
As business boomed and he became the lineal flyweight champion of the world, he continued to add layers. By the time of his flyweight reign he had developed one of the most dangerous right hands in the world. He shaped it in all ways, he threw it at all ranges, he targeted head, body, chest, and such was his balance and stance that he did all of this without selling the punch. When Gonzalez dipped his left shoulder to throw a left-hook or uppercut, he could instead transplant that punch with a straight right.
Certainly not all of the above was confirmed against Fuentes. He wasn't buying the space like he used to, developing strange angles to begin the withering barrages that we saw in his prime, but we did see him throw the same explosive and unexpected combinations, sometimes leading with the left-uppercut, a suicide punch for many fighters. And we saw him use that right hand.
We saw him feint with it to open up for the left and we saw him use it as a prop punch for a hook or uppercut, and we finally saw him unleash it, on the button, for what may be the knockout of the year. Gonzalez rounded the brave Fuentes up, cornered him, and then knocked him unconscious with a punch that traveled through the target and "frightened" Gonzalez into thinking that he had legitimately hurt the Mexican.
His relief when Fuentes returned to us, cross-eyed and confounded, but unharmed, was palpable.
My pre-fight wish was that Gonzalez would look very bad and be forced to consider retirement, or very good, thereby hoping that my final prediction would be denied and "Chocolatito" could be declared back in the title hunt.
Though what we got is certainly more the latter than the former, in truth it is neither.
Gonzalez's speed of foot had begun to betray him even before Rungvisai pole-axed him and although he looked sprightly at times here, he's not going to be as quick at 115lbs as he was at 108. More, he landed a lot of punches on Fuentes and Fuentes stood up to them. When Gonzalez hit that kind of stride at 112lbs, even burning heart warriors like Akira Yaegashi wilted; Fuentes was able to rally several times which was good for the contest but makes clear that Gonzalez left his truly destructive power behind when he left his flyweight title behind. Murderous in landing the perfect shot, clubbing super-flyweight foes into submission is going to remain extremely challenging.
So when he comes up against a meaningful challenger, he will have to defeat him with craft, guile, and what remains one of the most fluid offenses in the sport. Many of his potential opponents will be faster than him and some will be able to hit as hard or harder.
Gonzalez will no doubt be in pursuit of a strap. This leaves him with three choices.
Rungvisai, the legitimate champion, we know about. Gonzalez may want a third fight and given the weakness of the matches on the most recent HBO Superfly card, it is far from impossible that it can be made. If it was made next, Rungvisai must be considered a heavy favorite.
The wonderful Filipino Jerwin Ancajas, too, holds a strap at the weight and he, too, should be avoided unless Gonzalez is determined to undertake an all-or-nothing swoop at a fighter entering his prime. This contest is not unwinnable for Gonzalez, but all things considered, it would arguably be the very best victory of his career if he were to pull it off.
Finally, there is Englishman Khalid Yafai.
Yafai is the right man. He is the type of fighter that Gonzalez has specialized in breaking since he turned pro; a fleet-footed, clever boxer short on dig and high on flurries. Yafai is definitely good enough to stay ahead for spells, he might even be good enough to win seven rounds, but he is not going to brutalize Gonzalez while he does it. Here is a fight for a strap that Gonzalez would be favored to win.
Alas, promotional vagaries also make it the most difficult to make. But perhaps Gonzalez will bide his time. There are other meaningful contests to be made in a sprightly division undergoing yet another quality iteration. Perhaps Gonzalez will seek a rematch with old foe Juan Francisco Estrada, still dangerous but underwhelming in his most recent contest. Perhaps a battle of the veterans can be sold to HBO and Gonzalez can tangle with Donnie Nietes. Or maybe power-brokers would be more excited to see him in with another mysterious old man from foreign shores and Gonzalez-Kazuto Ioka can be made.
These are all exciting fights and most of them can be made with a minimum of fuss.
So it's Roman Gonzalez then, perhaps not quite back, but certainly warming up in the wings. And if the division isn't quite trembling, it can at least be said to have thrown a quick look over its shoulder into the gathering gloom.
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A Tactical Change Paid Dividends for Canelo Alvarez vs. GGG
This past Saturday night Canelo Alvarez 50-1-2 (34) won a majority decision (114-114 and 115-113 twice) over Gennady Golovkin 38-1-1 (33) to capture Golovkin's
This past Saturday night Canelo Alvarez 50-1-2 (34) won a majority decision (114-114 and 115-113 twice) over Gennady Golovkin 38-1-1 (33) to capture Golovkin's three middleweight title belts at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. And like their first fight last September that ended in a majority draw, the decision has provoked controversy.
The amazing thing about Canelo and GGG is how evenly they're matched and difficult their fights are to score. I scored the rematch 6-5-1 Canelo, (after seeing the first meeting 8-4 GGG) but it was so close that it could as easily gone to Golovkin by a point. But let's get one thing clear: This fight was too close to be considered a robbery regardless of who had their hand raised. And when you take into account that Canelo forced Golovkin to fight in retreat, landed the more eye-catching shots, worked his body from the onset, and that Golovkin's face was much more puffed up and lumpy at the end (although Canelo was cut), no way was the decision in favor of Canelo an injustice.
Stylistically, GGG is an attacker and Canelo is a counter-puncher. However, Canelo answered Golovkin's trainer Abel Sanchez's call and didn't run. No, he didn't run in the first fight either, but in this fight, unlike the first, Canelo moved forward and initiated the exchanges. Golovkin's jab, which is always reliable, worked overtime and kept Canelo from owning the exchanges, but like most attackers, GGG can't hit as hard or be as effective if forced back. And because of that Canelo had no reservation in regards to forcing the fight. So when looking at what stood out the most, it was Canelo's more imaginative offense and body punching, thus forcing Golovkin to go away from what he's done best and in every other fight of his career, and that no doubt influenced the judges. Moreover, Golovkin noticeably flinched a few times at feints and was unwilling to pay the price of going to the body entailed to win.
Prior to the rematch it was said in this space how two things would unfold when they met the second time. Quoting from the June 20th TSS preview:
Based on the strategic options for both, Canelo has more room to be better and change things up to level the fight. And then there's the business side of the equation and I've been around too long to fathom that if it's closer this time GGG will get the decision. A Canelo win sets the rubber match up perfectly because in the eyes of boxing fans and PPV buyers they'll view them as being 1-1. For the reasons stated above, as much as I'd like to be wrong (and there's no fun pouring cold water on something so widely anticipated), I don't think that will be the case. It's a monumental reach for me to think GGG can win a decision unless he beats Canelo beyond recognition – which I don't believe he can. Therefore Canelo-GGG goes the distance and Alvarez, being more competitive this time, gets the decision and that sets up the rubber match for Cinco De Mayo weekend 2019.
The fact is, Canelo being the more versatile fighter completely flipped the script after fighting mostly in retreat and with his back to the ropes during most of their first encounter. His aggression and willingness to stand his ground the way GGG did the first time, projected that Canelo was the more willing fighter and he was obviously rewarded for that. Granted, Golovkin really dug down and showed his strong constitution during the second half of the fight after being told by his corner he was losing. He fought a terrific fight, as did Canelo, but it wasn't enough for GGG because he left too many rounds up for grabs, which was suicide with Canelo forcing the fight.
The result shouldn't have come as a surprise to anyone, especially since the fight was so close and could come down to whose style you liked better or who you were rooting for. There was no definitive winner of this fight. Sure, a draw would've been a fair call. The problem with that, however, is that Team Golovkin knew they had to be more assertive and erase any semblance of doubt this time, due to GGG being excoriated in some circles for not getting off enough in the last bout and never slamming the door to prevent Canelo from tightening the fight with a rally, the way he did down the stretch. This time GGG got off a little more, but that was because he was mostly fighting to prevent Canelo from overwhelming him with his aggression. In a way it's ironic how Canelo accepted the challenge and fought Golovkin in a more macho way and it knocked Golovkin off his game.
One tries not to be redundant, but like the NFL, NBA, NHL and MLB…..boxing is a business and is star driven. Saul "Canelo" Alvarez is a superstar fighter in the eyes of the boxing establishment and many fans. There's no guesswork needed to grasp that it's good for business for him to keep winning. His determination, skill and toughness exhibited against a monster like Golovkin might endear him to fans more than ever. Canelo fought a better fight than the first time and put to rest the rumor that he was aided by PEDS.
The net result is exactly what the boxing establishment, not the fans, needed. And that was a win for Canelo in a fight where it was tough to pick the winner with Canelo acting as more the predator than the prey. By forcing GGG to break more exchanges, working both the body and head, along with never appearing tired or overwhelmed, it was just enough to win the borderline rounds in the eyes of the judges and tilt the fight in his favor. In fact, Golovkin, over Canelo's protest, had Dave Moretti as a judge for the fight. He was the only judge who scored the first clash for Gennady. And this time he scored it for Canelo and may have tipped his hand when he gave the 12th round to Canelo, perhaps knowing it could swing the fight in his favor….and it did.
This decision cannot be lambasted like others we've seen. GGG didn't suffer a loss of esteem in losing and Canelo finally has a statement win over a marque fighter. They'll fight a third time and it will be perceived as a rubber match. Golovkin will be almost another year older and less than what he was this past weekend and Canelo will win more conclusively while avoiding the young lions nipping at his heels named Charlo, Saunders and Andrade.
Because boxing is and always has been star driven, Gennady just can't put enough separation between he and Canelo to get the decision. Their rematch is one of the few fights I've seen that really could've gone either way – it's just that a push usually goes to the combatant who is better for business.
The next time there's a real close fight on paper, and it's unlikely to end in a knockout or stoppage, you must ask what result better sets up the next big bout. The formula isn't fool proof. De La Hoya-Trinidad and Pacquiao-Bradley I are glaring exceptions, but more often than not you'll cash your ticket. In this case a Canelo win sets up fight three more than a Golovkin win would've….and knowing GGG won't walk away from the fortune at stake, he'll go for it.
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Between 1977 and 1982, Frank Lotierzo had over 50 fights in the middleweight division. He trained at Joe Frazier's gym in Philadelphia under the tutelage of the legendary George Benton. Before joining The Sweet Science his work appeared in several prominent newsstand and digital boxing magazines and he hosted "Toe-to-Toe" on ESPN Radio. Lotierzo can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Big Red's 2014 Signing Class Best in History
Lincoln - A five-player recruiting class with each ranked among the top 25 nationally by ESPN at their position has earned the Nebraska women's basketball program its best recruiting class ranking in school history for the Class of 2014.
Tennessee Class 2-AA Player of the Year Jasmine Cincore, Kansas Class 4A Player of the Year Kaylee Page, California prep stars Natalie Romeo and Darrien Washington, and Washington High School standout Chandler Smith are all expected to join Coach Connie Yori's Huskers as freshmen in 2014-15 after signing National Letters of Intent in the past week.
Nebraska's class was ranked No. 16 nationally by ESPN, before the addition of Smith. The 6-0 guard from Washington signed her letter of intent Monday, after being ranked as the No. 62 player in the nation by ESPN. Her addition could propel the Huskers upward in the recruit rankings for 2014 later this week. Page and Romeo also headline the Husker class. The 6-2 Page was ranked No. 42 nationally by ESPN, while Romeo was No. 55. Romeo, a 5-7 point guard from the Bay Area in California, has been ranked as high as No. 27 nationally by one recruiting service and as the No. 6 point guard in the country.
Romeo's club teammate, the 6-2 Washington, was ranked as the No. 16 post player in the nation by ESPN, while Cincore was ranked as ESPN's No. 24 point guard in the 2014 class, despite being projected as a combo guard for the Huskers.
"We are excited about the potential of this recruiting class, and we hope all five players have outstanding senior seasons in high school this year," Yori said. "We have built quite a bit of momentum in recruiting the past few years and this class is part of it."
Overall, Nebraska's current No. 16 national ranking eclipses NU's previous top recruiting class, which came with the Huskers' current junior class of Emily Cady, Hailie Sample, Tear'a Laudermill and Brandi Jeffery, which was ranked No. 24 nationally in November of 2010.
Nebraska's five-player class will be expected to replace the loss of Jordan Hooper, a two-time All-American who is the only senior on the Huskers' 11-player roster in 2013-14.
Page, a 6-2 senior at Wamego High School in Kansas, was ranked as the No. 13 wing/shooting guard nationally by ESPN. She averaged 20.8 points, 8.1 rebounds, 4.3 blocked shots, 3.0 assists and 1.8 steals per game as a junior. A gifted shooter, Page knocked down 57 three-pointers for the Red Raiders in 2012-13. She helped Wamego to the Kansas Class 4A state championship while playing for her father, Jim Page, who was the Kansas Coach of the Year.
Romeo, ESPN's No. 12 point guard nationally as a four-year starter at Carondelet High School in California, averaged 21.4 points, 6.7 assists and 6.3 steals per game as a junior to help the Cougars to the North Coast Section Division II title for the third consecutive season. Along the way, she earned East Bay Athletic League MVP and Nor Cal Prep Player-of-the-Year honors in 2012-13, helping Carondelet to a top 20 national ranking as a team. Romeo has been a starter for one of the premier club programs in the nation, the Cal Stars Elite, since she was an eighth grader. As a member of the Cal Stars program, Romeo has earned all-tournament or MVP honors at 16 national tournaments.
Smith's signing brought even more talent to the Husker 2014 class. Smith plays point guard for her high school and club teams, but was ranked as the No. 18 wing in the country by ESPN. The 6-0 guard from Brewster High School in Washington, averaged 21.3 points, 9.2 rebounds, 6.9 assists and 4.2 steals as a junior to lead the Bears to a Class 1A state championship. She had 26 points and 10 rebounds in the 2013 state title game, after producing 35 points and 12 boards in the 2012 Class 2B championship game.
Cincore brings more athleticism and strength to the perimeter for the Huskers. The 5-8 guard will add a gritty defensive presence along with an expanding offensive game to the NU backcourt. As a junior at Briarcrest Christian in 2012-13, Cincore averaged 15 points, seven rebounds, four assists and three steals per game while leading her team to the state semifinals.
Washington adds size and potential to the Nebraska inside game. The 6-2 Washington plays at Skyline High School in the Bay Area and on the Cal Stars Elite. She is relatively new to basketball, but brings excellent athleticism to the court.
Jasmine Cincore
5-8, Guard, Arlington, Tenn. (Briarcrest Christian)
No. 24 Point Guard in Class of 2014 (ESPN)
Jasmine Cincore brings strength and athleticism to the Husker backcourt in 2014-15. The 5-8 combo guard from Arlington, Tenn., averaged 15 points, seven rebounds, four assists and three steals per game while leading Briarcrest Christian to a 27-2 record, a 26-game winning streak and the Class 2-AA state semifinals in 2013. For her performance, she was named Miss Basketball in Tennessee Class 2-AA. She played for Coach Lee Smith at Briarcrest Christian. She was a first-team Class 2-AA all-state selection by the Tennessee Sportswriters Association.
Cincore, who ranked as the No. 24 point guard in the nation despite being a combo guard, also played club basketball for the Tennessee Glory. A tremendous all-around athlete, Cincore finished third in the girls shot put at the 2013 Tennessee Division II High School Track and Field Championships with a throw of 35-6.
"Jasmine is a strong, scrappy, physical kid who goes hard on every possession," Nebraska Coach Connie Yori said. "She is a good teammate, a good leader and selfless. She attacks the paint offensively and does a great job of scoring at the basket with her athleticism and strength. She also has the ability to get to the free throw line and might remind Husker fans a little bit of former Husker great Dominique Kelley. She is a high character young lady and student who put a lot of thought into her decision to become a Husker."
Cincore chose Nebraska over Michigan, Marquette, Memphis, Tennessee Tech, Kansas State, Auburn and Georgia State.
Kaylee Page
6-2, Forward, Alma, Kan. (Wamego)
No. 13 Wing/Shooting Guard, No. 42 Overall Player in Class of 2014 (ESPN)
Kaylee Page, a 6-2 senior at Wamego High School in Kansas, was ranked among the top 50 players nationally in the class of 2014. She averaged 20.8 points, 8.1 rebounds, 4.3 blocked shots, 3.0 assists and 1.8 steals per game as a junior. A gifted shooter, Page knocked down 57 three-pointers for the Red Raiders in 2012-13. She helped Wamego to the Kansas Class 4A state championship while playing for her father, Jim Page, who was the Kansas Coach of the Year.
"Kaylee's a great shooter and can score in multiple other ways. She is well coached and really has a feel for the game," Nebraska Coach Connie Yori said. "She is a gym rat, very competitive, engaged and focused. She is a good leader, student and teammate. She is a very active and aggressive offensive player. She will be a great fit for our system and our style of play because of her versatility."
Kaylee's father played college basketball at Johnson County Community College and Pittsburg State. Her mother, Wendy, played collegiately at Emporia State. Her brother, James, is a 6-6 freshman at Grinnell College in 2013-14.
Page chose Nebraska over Stanford and Oklahoma State.
Natalie Romeo
5-7, Guard, Martinez, Calif. (Carondelet)
No. 12 Point Guard, No. 55 Overall Player in Class of 2014 (ESPN)
Natalie Romeo brings a floor general's mentality and tremendous ball-handling skills to the Nebraska program. The 5-7 point guard from Carondelet High School in California is ranked as high as No. 27 and among the top 50 nationally by several major recruiting services. She is listed No. 55 overall as the No. 12 point guard by ESPN, but was ranked as the No. 6 point guard in the class of 2014 by another major recruiting service.
As a junior, Romeo averaged 21.4 points, 6.7 assists and 6.3 steals per game to help the Cougars to the North Coast Section Division II title for the third consecutive season. Along the way, she earned East Bay Athletic League MVP honors and the Nor Cal Prep Player of the Year in 2012-13, helping Carondelet to a top 20 national ranking as a team. Entering her senior season at Carondelet, Romeo has amassed 1,541 points, 393 rebounds, 499 assists and 444 steals.
She has been a starter for one of the premier club programs in the nation, the Cal Stars Elite, since she was an eighth grader. She was coached by Kelly Sopak with the Cal Stars Elite. Romeo was either a tournament MVP or All-Tournament selection in 16 tournaments as a club player, including the 2012 Nike Boo Williams Invitational. She also led the Cal Stars to the 2012 adidas National Championship.
"We absolutely love her toughness and passing ability. Natalie is a floor leader who scores, sets others up to score, and brings energy and intensity every time she steps on the court," Nebraska Coach Connie Yori said. "She likes to push the tempo and she is an aggressive defender. She is a really good fit for our offense and our style of play."
Romeo chose Nebraska over Boston College, Oregon State, Utah and Arizona.
Chandler Smith
6-0, Guard, Okanogan, Wash. (Brewster)
No. 18 Wing, No. 62 Overall Player in Class of 2014 (ESPN)
The final piece of Nebraska's recruiting class, Chandler Smith completed a class that was ranked 16th nationally even before she was added. Smith, who plays point guard for her high school and club teams, is ranked as the No. 18 wing in the country and No. 62 player overall by ESPN.
The 6-0 guard from Brewster High School in Washington, averaged 21.3 points, 9.2 rebounds, 6.9 assists and 4.2 steals for the Bears as a junior. Smith, who lives on a ranch outside of Okanogan, Wash., powered Brewster to a Class 1A state championship as a junior in 2013. She scored 26 points and had 10 rebounds in the Bears' 72-46 victory over Castle Rock in the state title game in Yakima on March 2. Smith hit four three-pointers and had 22 points in the first half alone to fuel the championship game victory. The Bears finished with a 26-1 record and Smith was a first-team all-state selection for the second straight year for Coach Roger Boesel.
Smith, who will enter her fourth season as a varsity starter in 2013-14, erupted for 35 points, 12 rebounds and four blocks as a sophomore in the 2012 Class 2B championship game against Reardan. Brewster fell by a narrow margin in the title game, but Smith was named a first-team Class 2B all-stater. As a freshman in 2010-11, Smith averaged 16.7 points, 6.9 rebounds, 5.3 assists, 5.7 steals and 1.5 blocked shots in 23 games for Brewster.
"Another player that will thrive in our offensive system. Chandler is a great passer, both in transition and half court. She has very good handles and can shoot," Nebraska Coach Connie Yori said. "She is a good three-point shooter and can hit the dribble jumper. She is smart, competitive, has great length and size on the perimeter and is a savvy player. She played in the same AAU organization as former Husker All-American Lindsey Moore, and may actually be ahead of Lindsey offensively at the same age. Chandler is a mature young lady and a great student."
Smith played her club basketball for the Northwest Blazers Orange.
She chose Nebraska over Gonzaga, Arizona State, Washington State, Oregon, Oregon State and Baylor.
Darrien Washington
6-2, Forward/Center, Oakland, Calif. (Skyline)
No. 16 Post Player in Class of 2014 (ESPN)
The most recent addition to Nebraska's 2014 class, Darrien Washington followed her Cal Stars Elite point guard to Lincoln, committing to the Huskers in September. Washington teamed with fellow Husker recruit Natalie Romeo to power the Cal Stars Elite to a 54-3 overall record in 2013 and an national runner-up finish. A late-comer to basketball, Washington averaged 16.4 points, 12.6 rebounds and 4.9 blocks for Oakland Skyline High School as a junior in 2012-13.
Washington, who ranked by ESPN as the No. 16 post player in the nation, is a back-to-the-basket player who can catch the ball and go to work in traffic on the block, something Nebraska has not featured in several seasons. She was a first-team All-Oakland selection in the Bay Area League in 2012-13.
"We love Darrien's size and mobility. She is strong, runs the floor well and works hard on defense," Nebraska Coach Connie Yori said. "She has played with some of the top guards in the nation on her Cal Stars Elite team, so she knows how to play with great players. She has good instincts, can move really well for a big, and finishes in transition. She is also a pretty good back-to-the-basket scorer. Darrien has a lot of upside, and we're excited to help develop her skills."
Washington chose Nebraska over Utah, Oregon, Oregon State and UC Santa Barbara.

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Noir: From Page to Screen - Mitch Brian
Screenwriter Mitch Brian employs original texts and film clips to illustrate how classic (Chandler, Hammett, Thompson) and modern noir literature has found its way to film and television. His presentation is part of While the City Sleeps, this year's Adult Winter Reading Program.
Brian has written teleplays for all the major networks and screenplays for directors including Chris Columbus and Oliver Stone.
He is a visiting assistant professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he teaches screenwriting and directing.


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Two new shops are headed to King Street and another has moved.
A France-based retailer of body, face and home products is coming to the Shops at Charleston Place. L'Occitane en Provence plans to move into a space at 246 King St., according to King Street Marketing Group. No opening date has been announced, but the company is running an ad on the Internet for a store manager.
Also on the way is a new, locally owned jewelry store. Buddy Bebergal and Kit Regnery of Carolina Commercial have leased 1,400 square feet to Gabrielle's Jewelry at 123 King. It's the previous location of Heirloom Books. The new store plans to open in early April and will feature hand-crafted designs in sterling and gold by Gabrielle Egan and other jewelry artisans. Owners Gabrielle and Brennan Egan also own Atelier Gallery at 153 King St.
Lastly, Williams-Sonoma kitchenware store has now moved up Charleston's premier shopping district to 359 King St., the former Sportsman's Shop. The retailer had been at 281 King, a site that is rumored to be the new home of H&M, a trendy Swedish-owned retailer.
Twin Rivers Capital is developing a new 8,320-square-foot Family Dollar store at Dorchester Road and Purcell Drive in North Charleston, according to Phil Rose of TRC. That's just west of Cross County Road. The new all-brick store will open in early summer.
Manny's Mediterranean Cafe will soon expand to the Charlotte area. The new restaurant is targeting the Matthews area for the third Manny's Mediterranean Cafe. Others are in Charleston and North Charleston. Manny's also operates a Neighborhood Grille. Those are in Charleston and Statesboro, Ga.
Read's Uniforms, an Asheville-based uniform retailer with six store locations in the Carolinas and Tennessee, has acquired the retail operations of Charleston-based Odle Uniform Co. at 946 Orleans Road.
Odle Group LLC sold its retail division to focus on its core business of product-based marketing, including screen printing, embroidery and promotional products.
Also, it will continue to provide corporate store branding and other programs under Image Branding Group LLC.
Image Branding Group will continue to operate its corporate and manufacturing facility at 5809 North Rhett Ave. in Hanahan.
Look for a new layout and more products at the newly acquired shop.
The operator of a fitness center has applied for a zoning variance on East Bay Street in downtown Charleston. Blake Stouffer of Peak Cardio and Velocity Cycling Studio at 140 East Bay St. wants to open at 6:30 a.m. instead of 7 a.m. A city zoning panel will take up the request at 5:15 Tuesday at 75 Calhoun St.
Bottles 'n Brushes is taking its sip-and-paint classes on the road. The business's Brush Bus is a fully stocked mobile art studio that will travel to homes or businesses for birthday parties, private gatherings, corporate functions and team-building events.
The business, owned by Julia Allen and Alyssa Maute, has studios at 1017 Wappoo Road in West Ashley and 120 N. Main St. in Summerville.
Customers at Jersey Mike's Subs restaurants in Charleston can make a donation during March to Windwood Family Services as part of the sandwich chain's third annual "Month of Giving" fundraising campaign.
Windwood Family Services of Mount Pleasant, part of Windwood Farm Home for Children in Awendaw, offers residential and outpatient/outreach programs for kids who have been abused or neglected.
Do you know of a business that is opening, closing or expanding? Reach Warren L. Wise at 937-5524 or twitter.com/warrenlancewise.


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*1/2 (out of four)
All bleak atmosphere and no story, "Everybody Has a Plan" proves that a film that can in fact be dull enough to waste not one but two roles for the usually engaging Viggo Mortensen.
The actor ("A History of Violence," "Lord of the Rings") plays Agustin, a Buenos Aires pediatrician who's tired of his work and marriage for extremely vague reasons. When his identical twin brother, Pedro (also played by Mortensen), diagnosed with terminal cancer, turns up and asks Agustin to put him out of his misery, the doctor assumedly recalls the plotlines of his favorite telenovelas and decides to pose as Pedro after doing what his brother asks.
Here's a question, Agustin: Is Pedro's life really better? After saying you're no longer interested in adopting a baby, you bail on your job and wife (Soledad Villamil) to try your hand at beekeeping while occasionally being threatened by the goons looking for Pedro's missing partner in crime. I know you're happy to cozy up to your bro's 20-year-old assistant (Sofia Gala) who thinks you're Pedro, but you could just go somewhere else, where you don't have to spend your entire life maintaining a ruse.
Mortensen almost always contains layers when little happens around him, but writer-director Ana Piterbarg provides few dimensions to the characters and labors to stretch a short story into two hours of well-rendered mood and poorly told exposition. Her attempt to use bees as a metaphor for people, on the other hand, is as gentle as a hive falling on your head—which at least would deliver more excitement than people routinely gazing at old photographs and hoping they'll fill in the gaps.
Nope, still confused, still bored.
Watch Matt on "You & Me This Morning," Friday at 6:55 a.m. on WCIU, the U
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OCONOMOWOC, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man did more than seek out the wife he terrorized for years during a shooting rampage last weekend. He also killed two of her co-workers at the Milwaukee-area spa, leaving behind seven grieving children and a community wondering when the violence will end.
On Sunday morning, police say, 45-year-old Radcliffe F. Haughton stormed into the Azana Spa and Salon in Brookfield, carrying a .40 caliber handgun. He was apparently looking for his wife, 42-year-old Zina Haughton, who'd been granted a four-year restraining order two days earlier.
Radcliffe Haughton opened fire, sending employees and customers fleeing for cover. When the rampage ended, Zina Haughton, 35-year-old Cary L. Robuck of Racine and 38-year-old Maelyn M. Lind of Oconomowoc were dead. The gunman was found in a locked area, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Of the four other women injured, one was released from the hospital Monday and the others were in satisfactory condition Tuesday.
The attack prompted an outpouring of grief, including vigils, prayer services and touching remembrances.
Spa owner Tami Gemmell remembered the victims as hard-working mothers who were dedicated to their families and always had a smile for everyone. She told reporters Tuesday that if any good were to come of the tragedy, it would be that the shooting could encourage a dialogue about domestic violence.
Lind had four children between the ages of 11 and 19, as well as two young grandchildren. At a somber news conference Tuesday night, her father said a sheriff's deputy told him his daughter died while intervening to save Zina Haughton's daughter.
"It does not surprise me at all. She died a martyr," Keith Hanson said, later adding, "She did what was right."
Diana Lewis, the assistant principal at the Oconomowoc school that Lind's two youngest sons attend, remembered Lind as a loving, caring woman. She said Lind took in one of her children's troubled friends for at least six months because the boy had nowhere else to go.
If one of Lind's kids rebelled in school, Lind would support both her child and the school officials who meted out discipline, Lewis recalled.
"She'd say, 'Hey, you know what you did, here's what the consequences will be, but I still love you,'" Lewis said. "There was no yelling, no 'wait till your father gets home.' Just very supportive."
Robuck, a nail technician, had a 17-year-old daughter and was like a mother to her boyfriend's 16-year-old daughter. Loved ones said she was a strong woman who worked for everything she had and never expected anything from anyone.
Her daughter, Mariah Sturm, turned to Twitter after she heard about the shooting. She wrote that she was scared and was having trouble coping with the uncertainty. Later, she tweeted, "Thank you everyone for being here for me....just to let everyone one know my mom did not make it today."
When dozens of people showed up at a park vigil in Robuck's memory, about half wore purple — which Sturm had tweeted was her mother's favorite color.
Zina Haughton was devoted to her two daughters, friends said, decorating her salon station with their photographs as a respite from an increasingly tumultuous marriage. She had just obtained a four-year restraining order last week after Radcliffe Haughton slashed her vehicle's tire in front of her co-workers.
"She was a wonderful mom," Kristin Guadagno, one of Zina Haughton's clients, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "She had two daughters who were the foundation of her family. She was their everything. She worked so many hours every week to provide for them and take them on nice trips."
Dinesh Ramde can be reached at dramde(at)ap.org.


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M9 Talks To Ringtone King, Technokid1974
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Sep 1 2009, 12:08 AM
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Previously, we interviewed the theming queen. Today, I'm glad to catch up with the mixing king. (IMG:http://www.emoticons.free.fr/smileys/Action-Music/music_dj.gif) Who is he? I'm sure you know or at least heard of his big name or seen his huge trophy room.
Please welcome Technokid!! (IMG:http://www.emoticons.free.fr/smileys/Emotion-Yes/clap2.gif)
Hello Goran, can you introduce yourself to M9ers who don't already know you? Why Technokid1974?
OK as you all know my name is GORAN i am from AUSTRALIA and when i joined mobile9 I chose technokid360. technokid used to be my nickname I gave my self when I was young.
- techno stands for the music I love which is dance music
- kid because I feel like I kid all the time in my heart
- 360 was added coz back then I loved my XBOX360 but later I changed ships and went to PS3 ... So later I wanted to change my name to only technokid but it was taken so I choose technokid1974, 1974 is the year i am born which says i am a bit old know (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)
That's right. I forgot that you changed your username. So how did you you find M9 and what makes you stay?
I visited mobile9 gallery initially, i was looking for cool wallpapers, themes and screensavers. There were no mp3 ringtones. When i got my 1st mp3 mobile phone, the Sony Ericsson P900, i wanted mp3 ringtones badly so i started to search for sites but was not successful. Then i remembered about mobile9 and visit it again and started to download mp3 ringtones but i was still not a member. Then 1 day as i love music and have so many songs i wanted to make my own ringtones and when I ended up know how to make some myself I decided to join mobile9 and share my ringtones to everyone who visit mobile9 gallery.
There are many reasons why I stay here for this long
- always loved to upload stuff to mobile9 and see the feedback I get
- meeting some lovely people. I have them as my real friends now, also love the admins here ... but at time i have got bit upset with them (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)
- Ringtone Challenge. I have had some amazing times in RC and meet some amazing people
- love the activities of the forums.
- I am a MOS member which keeps me active
- I have so many lovely sweet friends in profile section. I love to shout to my friends and keep in touch and i have to admit its one of my fav... section in mobile9
- I am a gallery moderator which is fun as well. I could go on and on so i better stop now (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)
You participated in nearly every Ringtone Challenge. How did you get into RC?
I think I have missed only 2 weeks coz i had troubles with my internet provider and for the other week ... I entered 1st but I was sick in the next few day and when I come back I forget to post my parts I used for my mix and was disqualified.
As for how did i get into RC, after some time, I ended up joining MOS at the time it was a small fun group with our leader called Vanja, we had our little ups and downs (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) so Vanja had the idea of making a Ringtone Challenge and he asked if we were entrusted and give it a go with a test run for the 1st week see if it will take off and it did but it was slow at the time we did not have many people entering RC but i loved it and look what it has come to day the most popular competition in mobile9 also thanx to the RC managers who been doing an awesome job to make RC a magical fun place to be.
Can you describe how you create a ringtone mix from start to the end, including the tools you use?
I started with searching for a nice intro. Then I choose my songs I might use for my mix save them to a folder. Later, I will open all songs using Audacity 1.3.8 (it's a freeware and its an awesome program I would recommend to everyone) and choose all the parts i could use in my mix and save them to my desktop. After that, I look for a good ending. Once I have got all my parts I start to make my mix and play around. When I am happy with the parts, I save them. Later, I concentrate on putting each part to come out just right and sometimes it can take some time. At times i just want to give up then i come back and try again till I finish my mix the way i want it to sound lol.. The fun part come uploading it to gallery and seeing what people will say about my mix, and if i get nice feedback then i am happy with my work.
What's the most important aspect you're looking for when you decide which mixes are the best (like when voting for RC entries)?
Mmm that's a good question. When voting i must try and be fair to all music style coz my love is dance music so i have to try and not let my love for that style get a hold of me and vote for mixes which i like to hear, but when i do listen 2 mixes before voting i look that there are no mistakes in the mix, look at sound quality, and all mix sounds at same pitch, look at the start and ending of the mix, look at the parts that were used to see if it matches the whole mix, look for the mix to catch me into the groove (which means the whole mix is awesome could listen to it repeatly for a while), also sometime I think that to much effects in mixes can kill the mix that's about it.
The last time I checked, you have uploaded 5429 ringtones. I know it's hard but what's your 3 favourite mixes so far?
That's hard coz i have so so many but here are the ones I have picked:
ALL ABOUT U Rmx - RC WEEK 122
IN MEMORIES OF MJ Rmx - RC WEEK 119
SUMMER DANCE Rmx - RC WEEK 120
What are the phones you have had so far? Which one are you're currently using?
i have had few. Here is my collection from day 1 till now (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wow.gif)
Nokia 5110
Nokia 3310
Siemens S45
Nokia 3510
Nokia 3510i
Nokia 7210
Nokia 3650
Nokia 6600
Sony Ericsson T610
Sony Ericsson P900
Sony Ericsson S700i
Sony Ericsson K750
Sony Ericsson W800
Samsung SGH-D600
Sony Ericsson W850
Sony Ericsson W890i
And the current 1 i am using is LG KM900 Arena.
Apart from mixing tunes, what else do you enjoy doing (offline hobbies)?
I have so many hobbies so i will name few: bike ridding, mountain climbing, skiing, fishing, night clubbing, going on drives with music pumping loud, tennis, soccer, basketball, watching sport, watching movies. Watching cartoons, listening 2 music, shopping, PS3 and so many more things. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
Huge thanks to Goran for taking time for this interview. It's a long interview, but the man joined the M9 community back in Nov '06 and have since achieved a lot. So his history is surely not something that he can explain in just a few sentences of words. Hope you enjoy the interview!
Sep 1 2009, 12:22 AM
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Nice to really get to know you goran (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
Sep 1 2009, 12:31 AM
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Very good interview. It made me go all nostalgic, while mentioning MoS back than (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/thumbsup.gif)
Sep 1 2009, 01:14 AM
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really really cool interview. i really wanted to know Goran more and more, how he mix, how he vote, what is important for him, it's a really cool interview. thank u both Goran (IMG:style_emoticons/default/notworthy.gif) and Arthur (IMG:style_emoticons/default/notworthy.gif)
Sep 1 2009, 03:56 AM
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this was a really good interview, nice knowing you Goran and good luck in any future projects
Sep 1 2009, 04:09 AM
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nice to know you Goran (IMG:style_emoticons/default/byebye.gif)
I loved your mixes alot (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif)
may be with all the mobiles you got you could open a shop (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)
another nice interview Aw to a great person and a great mixer (IMG:style_emoticons/default/thumbsup.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/thumbsup.gif)
Sep 1 2009, 04:16 AM
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helps me to know my bro techno better
Sep 1 2009, 05:17 AM
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i am thinking about what the meaning of Technikid360 i got the meaning from u goran (IMG:style_emoticons/default/clapping.gif) you are a great and phenam DJ in m9 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/notworthy.gif) you have used 16 cell currently using 17th as LG (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cheers.gif)
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Really great interview... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wow.gif) ...nice to know more about you goran.....mixing king........ (IMG:style_emoticons/default/notworthy.gif)
Sep 1 2009, 06:13 AM
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Great interview (IMG:style_emoticons/default/10.gif) Really great is nice to know about Goran (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
Sep 1 2009, 07:41 AM
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I havent read so much in forum for a long time (maybe never (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) ) - great interview! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/thumbsup.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/10.gif)
Btw.... Why didnt you tell us something about your passion for mini skirts Gorane? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/haha.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
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Great interview!! like any kid to heart you're a very active one, congratz!!
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 4:15 pm
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So how bout it Techno? Do you support holding the taxes of 98% of Americans hostage to get those low rates for the rich?
Or should they allow Republican Congressmen to vote on that issue?
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"No change" of Medicare, SS, and Medicaid, as several Democratic legislators are demanding, means guaranteed bankruptcy of those programs. The fools advocating that should and would be voted out of office if so many voters didn't base their votes on free money, skin color (sorry, mac; they admit it and voting statistics prove it), and the like. Where are the Obamamoney leeches and the legitimate Medicare/SS/Medicaid recipients going to turn when their sources run dry?
Not to me, not while the Democrats keep promising them ever more unearned handouts. As long as that continues, my charity well is dried up. Until it is reversed, every cent I receive goes towards guaranteeing that I and my wife do not starve towards the ends of our lives. If we die owning money our relatives don't need and the Dems are still paying competent but greedy leeches outright unearned gifts to vote for them, our remaining funds will go to animal welfare, because of those two groups only they, as a group, deserve it. As long as our president is having dozens of meetings (30 already) with Mexican government and civilian agencies to find ways to pay Mexican citizens U.S. food stamps for emigrating to the U.S. (and of course, vote Democrat the minute Obama gives them that right), I will not give one cent to any charity benefiting humans. That constitutes bribery, malfeasance, misuse of public funds, and theft, just for starters, and should be grounds for impeachment.
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The middle of both parties understand that there need to be some combination of benefit cuts and revenue to take care of the deficits--projected in the future, not current--in Social Security and Medicare. The ACA is part of that--it is intended to slow the rate of increase of Medicare costs. It might work, it might not, but pronouncements from Fox news are so much nonsense right now. There is plenty written about the relatively minor adjustments necessary--and when. there is no reason to go over a fiscal cliff.
The idea that most Democrats aren't interested in shrinking the role of government, and haven't been doing it, is more claptrap from the corrupt for those who can't think critically. Look at the interesting graph of us government employees here:
Funny thing, US employees have dropped by about 500,000 under Obama--while they increased by three times that much under Bush. That inconvenient math.
We all know that shrinking Federal employment won't balance the budget--the big dogs are the military, social security, and medicare. But most Democrats are unwilling to chop a few million jobs and damage the economic recovery in order to start doing something about a future problem-quite a ways off--in Social Security. Remember, the Tea Party thugs walked away from a deal that would have had 3 times the amount of cuts as revenue increases--and they were willing to hold the economy hostage. Obama outsmarted them (there is a pattern here) see this commentary:
The interesting things here are first, the math. Obama managed to squeeze $238 billion in economic stimulus from the Republicans who oppose Keynsian approaches, in exchange for $114 billion in tax cuts for the high income. A pretty savvy deal with Tea partiers gumming up the works. The second interesting thing is that the Republicans had much more leverage then.
I agree with Techno, there is a lot of posturing and breast thumping going on. But I don't think Boehner is stupid enough to go over the cliff and then cry about it. I do think he is in way over his head negotiating with Obama. Obama and his crew knew when they cut the extension deal that they needed economic stimulus more than a big bruising symbolic battle. The stimulus was good for the economy--and good for Obama's re-election chances.
Without the benefit of math skills, the Tea Party folks signed onto a deal that wasn't as much in their interest as the one they rejected. Maybe some of the right should go back to school, study data bases to be able to manage a ground game, study economics to be able to figure out how to negotiate in their own interest.
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So how bout it Techno? Do you support holding the taxes of 98% of Americans hostage to get those low rates for the rich?
That's not what I suggested or said. I think the right will give in on the taxing of the top 2%, if the left will offer a compromise. However, so far I haven't seen anything from the left. Now that they won the election, I guess they think they don't have to work with the right.
It seems that the left's strategy is - Hold firm, don't compromise and when we go off the cliff, blame it all on the right.
By the way for those that have some answers. If we do go off the cliff, but at some point later (Jan or Feb) an agreement is reached, what happens to the Bush tax cuts? Reinstated? Stuck the the pre Bush tax rates forever? Is the cliff really a cliff or just scare tactics? I haven't heard anything from the news regarding this question. Seems obvious to me, but not a word.
What I am impressed with is the not popular, but bold efforts of the right to begin working on the SS and Medicare problems now. The simple and easy tact is to just move on, claim a few tweaks will fix it, and leave it to the poor suckers down the road to solve when the situation becomes bad enough to send people into the streets in protest. Again, just an opinion.
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 11:24 am
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Techno--you are entitled to your opinion--but not your own set of facts. Obama would have negotiated along the outline of the Bowles-Simpson recommendations, which identified the need to cut the military budget, the social security payouts, and medicare. Your boy Paul Ryan threw it under the bus.
Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it.
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 2:54 pm
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I am pretty sure that I didn't state any facts, but you are welcome to make up your own.
What "would have" is now water under the bridge. I think we had an election and since our leadership didn't change, as the right had hoped, why look back at the failed negotiations from the past. We are in somewhat of a new circumstance, so working toward a compromise solution seems reasonable, but ONLY if both sides do some compromising.
So is it a cliff or hype?
You were the one espousing "compromise", so now you have nothing to say when your side is causing the gridlock. Don't forget, 47% of the voting population doesn't think much of Obama so in my opinion, it's a pretty equal split between right and left, so the compromising in negotiations should pretty much follow suit.
I guess you heard about the new offer from the left today which sent the right into laughing mode because it was such a joke. Look it up and see if you think it was a viable, compromise offer.
No doubt, hitting the cliff/bump/obstacle/whatever seems pretty likely now.
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 3:08 pm
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You are right pf course. It is not what you suggested or said. It is an offer by tne Dems to give the GOP 98% of the tax agenda they have asked for.
The Dems ask nothing in return for it. Powerful conservatives who support this as well as those opposed have both said it would pass GOP muster if the leadership allowed a vote.
Polls say the American people, both GOP and Dem support this by a large margin.
It is a win /win on all sides.
Boner says no. The Gop leadership are going to have get something in return before we allow the American people to benefit in any way from a Dem offer.
The GOP House wants this
The American People want this.
we need it now.
My question is: do you think the GOP leadership is representing tne American people ,and yourself by refusing to allow most their own tax agenda to go forward?
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 4:48 pm
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If the GOP caves without Democratic concessions and the FAR bigger apolitical economic collapse predicted by many successful experts materializes, the Dems will have no one to (credibly) blame that collapse on. Result: we'll all be bankrupt but the Democratic party will be destroyed for decades. Only time will tell whether that outcome is good or bad.
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 5:58 pm
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The "facts" you have invented is that the Republicans have offered any concessions. They've suggested elimination of a few loopholes, which will generate chump change, in the unlikely event they make it past the lobbyists. They've demanded trillions in cuts--which Obama can't sell, and won't. Obama won the election, running on a platform of raise the rates for the two top tiers. What part of your guy lost do you not understand? What part of the GOP's leverage is weaker now do you not understand? What part of Ryan single-handedly tubed what was probably a better overall package for moderates do you not understand?
You want to ignore the past, despite what it tells you about the judgement of those still involved--Boehner and Ryan to be specific. You'd rather be governed by a white Republican who is astonishingly fiscally irresponsible, and of moderate intelligence, than a black Democrat who can actually get his party to compromise. And you are too ill-informed to realize how much Boehner got pantsed the last time, even when his leverage was greater.
Doomed to repeat your failures I fear.
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 7:25 pm
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So who are these rich people the middle class tax cut is being held as hostage by the GOP leadership?
Fact check says about 5000 of them are folks who pay no taxes despite huge incomes. They are part of Romneys speech that they are leeches who want a free ride. One is my friend who inherited millions in timber but lives on a modest income as a landlord. She has never gotten a dime from the Gov. and was moved to vote for Obama as a result. Most of that two percent are not really people at all.'
They are Corps who can vote millions of times with their money.
Actual Americans are not represented by the GOP leadership, and that fact has become crystal clear since the GOP leadership is stopping 98% of their supposed agenda from being enacted, while screwing the actual American people.
Wake up conservatives. You are being used by folks who do not represent you. It isnt your principles that need changing.
It is our so called GOP leadership who abandoned us long ago.
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Life, Work, and the Walk-Out Strike of 1929 in Elizabethton, Tennessee, Textile Mills: Christine Galliher describes life and work in Elizabethton, Tennessee, during the late 1920s through the 1940s. She also discusses their participation in the 1929 walk-out strike at the Bermberg and Glantzstoff textile mills; Christine's attendance of the Southern Summer School for women workers; life during the Great Depression; and balancing work and family.
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Mark Hayward's City Matters: Manchester takes on goliath over cell tower
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AT&T has a problem with south Manchester.
One problem is technical: Its signal strength sucks. So as the wireless carrier tries to promote its whiz-bang 4G-LTE network in Manchester, it has an embarrassing soft spot in one of the city's most heavily traveled and populated areas.
Its other problem is with south Manchester residents, specifically a couple dozen who live along South Mammoth Road near Green Acres School. For 2½ years, AT&T has tried to build a 100-foot cellphone tower on a residential lot off South Mammoth Road, a tower the company says is needed to beef up that weak south Manchester signal.
City regulators have rejected the tower, siding with a roomful of angry citizens who don't think a cell tower fits in their neighborhood. Elsewhere, aldermen have said no to building it on Water Works land just up Mammoth Road. And the nearby Assumption Greek church and the Sisters of Holy Cross convent have also said no to a modern-day Tower of Babel on their properties.
And so what does a huge telecom company do when City Hall and neighborhoods stand in its way? It brings in the lawyers.
This week, a trial was supposed to start in U.S. District Court pitting AT&T against the city over the tower.
But in a last-minute agreement, lawyers for the city and AT&T opted to bring the tower before the Zoning Board of Adjustment again, sometime before Oct. 31. If the board rejects the tower, AT&T will be able to quickly revive its lawsuit.
The Zoning Board can expect to hear from residents on South Mammoth Road, such as Sean Hines. He lives on Pratt Court and would see the tower every morning from his front door, peeking over the 80-foot pine trees that surround his house.
"They say there's not that much radiation, but I'm going to be pelted with it," he said. He has two small children who will be growing up within about 300 feet of the tower.
The tower would be visible from Alex Saidel's daughter's bedroom. Like Hines, he worries about radiation, as well as the effect the tower will have on his property values.
"How many people want to live near high-tension wires?" he asked.
AT&T has lots of reasons for the tower.
Weak signal strength encompasses the Mall of New Hampshire, the Manchester airport, neighborhoods along South Mammoth, Island Pond and Bodwell roads. Ditto for about a mile of highway each way from the T-shaped junction of interstates 293 and 93.
Mobility isn't the company's only concern. AT&T needs more capacity to promote in-building coverage, meaning it wants to provide homeowners with the ability to give up their land lines and go totally wireless.
AT&T spokesman William Keyser said it's not uncommon to have neighbors complain about tower sites.
"We work very hard in every community we go into," Keyser said. Fifteen alternative sites have been considered, according to information he provided. Owners either refused or the site couldn't provide enough signal strength.
As for fears about electromagnetic radiation, he said AT&T follows federal guidelines. "They're the experts, we defer to them," he said.
Keyser said the tower is needed because as more people use mobile devices that demand faster speeds, more antennas and towers are needed.
But where does it end? In early 2011 when AT&T first brought its request to the zoning board, it promoted 3G coverage. Since then, it's gone through 4G and now promotes WiFi-like 4G-LTE in Manchester.
Wireless companies have become like tobacco companies. They run campaigns to encourage us to not text and drive, while boosting signal strength and promoting ubiquitous connectivity.
"Do we really need to have 3G, 4G on a highway?" Saidel asks.
Kathy Sullivan, another South Mammoth Road resident (and fellow Union Leader columnist) said AT&T and other wireless companies have built their Manchester network piecemeal. They need to develop a comprehensive plan for coverage with Manchester's zoning restrictions in mind.
It may mean relocating some of its current towers and antennas, Sullivan said. After all that, if some areas still lack coverage, then the company can look to neighborhoods.
"I would really like to see Manchester fight for the integrity of its zoning ordinance," Sullivan said.
But in this fight, Manchester is a pipsqueak. The city has assigned one lawyer to the case, but no money to hire experts.
On its side, AT&T has three lawyers and loads of consultants who put numbers to coverage gaps, signal strength and network demands. And it has the Telecommunications Act of 1996, a federal law that allows companies to override local zoning ordinances if it can prove significant gaps exist and no alternative site is available.
This is a new century of communication. The old-fashioned telephone poles and wires were democratic — sure they were ugly, and who knows if they leak small amounts of radiation. But everyone had to deal with them.
Towers inflict their unsightliness and health worries on a select few. But do they?
As we demand faster speeds so we can connect anytime, anywhere — whether to play Words with Friends or sext ourselves into news feeds — the demand for wireless will continue to grow. As will the number of towers.
Keyser said AT&T has spent nearly $75 million on its New Hampshire network so far and plans to increase service in every jurisdiction across the country. Where will those towers be?
That information, he said, is highly confidential because of the competitive nature of the business.
Mark Hayward's City Matters appears Thursdays in the New Hampshire Union Leader and on UnionLeader.com. You can reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com, which he can access on his AT&T networked iPhone 4, but not on weekends, holidays or days off.


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