L JAMAR'S POINTS VALID BUT LOST: TALIB KWELI

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WHO LIED ON DA CHAMP!??! MAYWEATHER BEATDOWN A HOAX!??!

3/15/2014 06:13:00 PM 0 Comments



LAS VEGAS, NV - SEPTEMBER 14:  (R-L) Floyd Mayweather Jr. throws a right to Canelo Alvarez during their WBC/WBA 154-pound title fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on September 14, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada.  (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)

Mayweather, the top boxer in the sport, is alleged to have 

'orchestrated' an assault on two 

employees 'several weeks 

ago' he believed to have stolen the jewelry from his Las Vegas 

home, according to TMZ.

Despite a TMZ report alleging that boxer Floyd Mayweather 

Jr. organized the beat-down of some underlings who stole 

jewelry from his home, the Las Vegas Metro Police 

Department are not currently investigating the incident

,which at this point is nothing more than a “rumor,” a police

 spokesman told the Daily News on Friday.

Mayweather, the top boxer in the sport, is alleged to have

 “orchestrated” an assault on two employees “several weeks ago” he believed to have stolen the

 jewelry from his Las Vegas home, according to TMZ. Laura Meltzer, a public information officer 

for the Las Vegas police, said that so far no victim has come forward to file a criminal report.

“So I’ve been trying to put this rumor to rest all week,” she said in a phone interview. “We’ve 

had a variety of reports that have come out stating this event occurred. We have not had a 

victim come forward and make a report like what is being alleged. So if this event occurred, it’s 

something where the victim has not come forward to the police to make an official complaint.”

As a result, the police, led by the violent crimes unit, have not launched an investigation into the incident.

“As of right now, the bureau commander over there is not aware of any complaint that has been 

officially filed,” she said. “So again, if this is a victim who is choosing not to come forward and

 make a report - then that’s up to the victim to do. We don’t have any say in that. There is no 

criminal complaint on file so there is no reason to go and contact Mr. Mayweather.”

There’s also been no contact from an attorney representing any of the victims, despite a 

reference to a lawyer for the injured parties in the TMZ report. An attorney or a third party 

cannot bring forward a criminal complaint, anyway, Meltzer said.
Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. checks out the Knicks during last season's NBA playoffs.
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MAYWEATHER VS. ORTIZ THE SUCKER PUNCH DEBATE #FIGHTTALK

3/14/2014 05:58:00 PM 0 Comments




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BREAKING NEWZ~~~>ATTEMPTED MURDER, KIDNAPPING, ASSUALT- MAYWEATHER #CHAINSONDACHAMP

3/13/2014 11:05:00 AM 0 Comments

Floyd Mayweather Jr., seen here celebrating a majority decision victory over Canelo Alvarez in September, reportedly beats up two employees over theft of jewelry from a Las Vegas home.
Floyd Mayweather allegedly orchestrated a savage attack on two of his employees he suspected of stealing his jewelry ... TMZ has learned.

Sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ Sports ... the two men had been hired to work on Floyd's Vegas homes ... but when jewelry went missing, Floyd pointed the finger at them. 

We're told the men claim they were contacted several weeks ago and instructed to meet Floyd at an off-site location. 

When the men arrived, they claim Floyd was waiting for them -- along with a number of his "people" --  who proceeded to beat the living crap out of them with various weapons, including clubs. 

Our sources say the attack was so brutal the men could have easily died.  Both men had broken arms and legs and were hospitalized for several days.

One source put it this way, "It was some 'Breaking Bad' s**t."
Boxing champ Floyd Mayweather Jr. is next scheduled to fight in May.
We're told the men are adamant they never took anything from Floyd and it appears Floyd realizes that now.  But here's the problem for the champ -- sources familiar with the situation say the attack amounts to attempted murder, mayhem and kidnapping.  We're told the men have retained a lawyer. 

We reached out to Floyd's people for comment -- so far, no word back.


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DIS DOPE~~> AVERAGE TYPE- NACICYST FEAT. MERYEM SACI #HIPHOP #TRUSKOOL

3/13/2014 09:45:00 AM 0 Comments




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LET'Z GET THIS INTERNET PAPER Y'ALL #EGWOP

3/07/2014 11:13:00 AM 0 Comments

“Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That’s the only thing.”
- Ernest Gaines
You write words in your marketing emails. Many or few, you use them to communicate your ideas.
But you don’t write words to communicate alone. You write them to request an action. Sometimes it’s subscribing, responding, purchasing – whatever you want readers to do.
The words that carry most of the weight of the request are the few at the end, where you normally provide a link to proceed: your call to action. This is the decision point. The words you use here could sway readers either way.
So how can you know which ones to use? You can guess, based on your own preferences. Or you can know for sure by running a split test.

A Case of Textual Turn-Off

The Cabot Heritage Corporation, a stock advisory, ran a split test on two opt-in buttons. The buttons were identical in design and location. The difference was in the wording: one read “Send My Free Report”; the other, “Start My Free Subscription.”
Split Testing CTA Opt-in Text
Just two words changed, but that change had a powerful effect. The “subscription” button decreased conversions by 22.9% in the span of just two days.

What Happened Here?

Different words trigger different associations, and those can make or break the response.
In the above case, it looks like readers associated “send my report” with a single contact and “subscription” with regular communication, requiring more commitment.
But your readers’ responses will partly depend on your subject and the relationship you already have. The phrase that crashed and burned for Cabot Heritage might take your opt-in rate soaring.
That’s why you need to test for yourself. But when you do, don’t forget to…

Think About the Long Run

In Cabot Heritage’s test, it looks like people preferred the idea of one mailing to regular updates. But whichever button they pushed, they were added to the same mailing list.
It would be interesting to see how people who didn’t expect regular mailings reacted when they started getting them. Did the unsubscribe and spam report rates go up with the opt-in rate?
When choosing the words you want to test, keep in mind that you need to set correct expectations. A well-informed subscriber is a happy subscriber.

How To Test Your Call to Action

Your first step is to write several options that set those expectations and fit the usual “voice” of your brand – how you usually represent your brand in writing.
There are several approaches you could take:
Subscribe Here
You could go with a simple directive.
Sign me up
You could put words in the subscriber’s mouth.
Sign up for a monthly newsletter and a free T-shirt
You could restate the benefits that the subscriber will get.
Once you’ve designed a few options, split test them against each other. (If you use AWeber, here’s how to test your web forms and your broadcasts.) Soon you’ll know just what phrase calls your audience to action best.

Who Answers When You Call?

Are you getting the response you want from your calls to action? Are the subscribers you collect interested and engaged? Do they click and purchase?
Have you split test your call to action in the past? How could you test it now for an even better response?
Share your thoughts below!
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THE NO.1 TIME MANAGMENT MISTAKE OF CAPABLE PEOPLE

3/06/2014 10:22:00 AM 0 Comments





















    Afriend of mine is an executive for an organization with global reach. He is intelligent and driven, but constantly distracted. At any given time he will have Twitter, Gmail, Facebook and multiple IM conversations going. The majority of them are useful in some way. Yet, in the back of his mind, he knows there are more important deliverables to get to. But the days slip by and he finds himself working all weekend to catch up. Staying up Sunday night until the early hours of Monday morning has become his modus operandi.
He told me, while checking his Blackberry again, that it results in having no social life. It’s so bad that he tried having his EA pull all of the internet cables on his computer. But there were still too many ways to get online. When he was struggling to complete a particularly big project, his brother took away his Blackberry and left him at a motel with no internet access. Yet, even there, he still found a workaround within 10 minutes using his ancient Nokia phone to check his email. Eventually, after eight weeks of almost solitary confinement, he was able to get the project done.
Why do otherwise intelligent people find it so easy to be distracted from what really matters?
Social media did not create the problem of distraction, but it is clearly an amplifier. Indeed, a study [PDF] by Clifford Nass et al. at Stanford showed that heavy media multitaskers aremore susceptible to interference from irrelevant environmental stimuli than light media multitaskers. Heavy multitasking may encourage even heavier multitasking because it leads to a “reduced ability to filter out interference.” Could the part of our brain that is processing deeper cognitive thought actually be atrophying in the process?
None of this would matter if activity and reward were linearly related. But we live in a world where almost everything is worthless and avery few things are exceptionally valuable. This is a counterintuitive idea. After all, the idea that 50% of results come from 50% effort is appealing. It seems fair. Yet, research across many fields paints a very different picture.
As far back as the 1790s, Vilfredo Pareto observed this nonlinear pattern in Italy, where he found that 80% of the land was owned by 20% of the people. Much later, Joseph Moses Juran, one of the fathers of the quality movement, called the insight the “Pareto Principle” and applied it beyond economics. In The Quality Control Handbook, Juran called it “The Law of the Vital Few.” His observation was that you could massively improve the quality of a product by resolving a tiny fraction of the problems. He found a willing audience in Japan, where the country had been producing low-cost, low-quality goods. By adopting the quality processes, the phrase “Made in Japan” gained a totally new meaning. And gradually, the quality revolution led to Japan’s rise as a global economic power.
Distinguishing the “trivial many” from the “vital few” can be applied to every kind of human endeavor and has been done so persuasively by Richard Koch, author of several books on how to apply the Pareto Principle to everyday life. Indeed, the examples are everywhere.
Think of Sir Isaac Pitman, the inventor of shorthand, who discovered that just 700 words make up two-thirds of our language (further validated by Zipf's Law).
Think of Nathan Myhrvold, the former Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft, who said (and then confirmed to me in person for this article), “The top software developers are more productive than average software developers not by a factor of 10x or 100x or even 1,000x, but by 10,000x.” It may be an exaggeration, but it still makes the point that effort and results do not share a linear relationship.
Once we unlearn 50/50 logic, a whole set of behaviors become instinctive. We start scanning our environment for what is really essential. We eagerly eliminate the nonessentials. We say no to 1,000 projects in order to say yes to the one that is exactly what we are looking for.
Just think of Warren Buffett’s philosophy, quoted by Mary Buffett and David Clark in The Tao of Warren Buffett, “You only have to do a few things right in your life, so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” The authors continue, “Warren decided early in his career it would be impossible for him to make hundreds of right investment decisions, so he decided that he would invest only in the business that he was absolutely sure of, and then bet heavily on them. He owes 90% of his wealth to just ten investments. Sometimes what you don’t do is just as important as what you do.”
First, Do This.
To get started, I recommend a simple action list.
1. Before you leave the office today, write down your top six priorities for tomorrow on a Post-it note.
2. Cross off the bottom five.
3. Write down your priority on a Post-it note and put it on your computer.
4. Schedule a 90-minute window to work on your top priority — preferably the first thing of the day.
5. Every time you are about to check email, Facebook, Twitter etc., write down what you are about to do.
The cumulative impact of this small change can be profound. Indeed, I just received an email from an executive about a member of his team who has a particular tendency to want to do everything. Interestingly, this team member is the most productive member on his team. When he was young, he learned to push past his tendency.
Here are two videos. The first is five minutes from a recent interview I did with Stanford University about why it is that otherwise successful people don't break through to the next level.
The second is a very funny video with "a handy tip" for those of us who are easily distracted.
Most of us just haven’t fully learned how to eliminate the nonessentials.
But we can.
To preorder Greg's new book go here: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less.
Adapted from a piece on Harvard Business Review.
Follow Greg on Twitter @GregoryMcKeown.
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ADRIEN BRONER SHOULD EASE UP ON THE RAPPIN'- MAYWEATHER

3/05/2014 02:27:00 PM 0 Comments





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THE BRONZE BOMBER:UPCOMING FIGHT WITH MALIK SCOTT #AMERICANHEAVYWEIGHTS

3/05/2014 10:10:00 AM 0 Comments


Wilder Scott Wilder vs. Scott Malik Scott  deontay wilder

By Scott Gilfoid: 
     Deontay Wilder (30-0, 30 KO’s) will be trying to accomplish two tasks this Saturday night when he faces Malik Scott (36-1-1, 13 KO’s) on Showtime at the Coliseo Ruben Rodriguez, Bayamon, Puerto Rico. Deontay’s first goal is to get the win to become the mandatory WBC heavyweight challenger in order to face the winner of the Bermane Stiverne vs. Chris Arreola bout later this year.
Deontay’s second goal is to win by a stoppage to give him his 31st consecutive knockout. That goal is obviously secondary to Deontay winning the fight to become the WBC mandatory challenger. Deontay mainly wants to get a win over Scott so that he can lock himself in as the mandatory challenger for the WBC belt.
     With a win over Scott, Deontay will be in the position to become the next American heavyweight champion depending on if Arreola loses to Stiverne again, which is highly likely. Having Deontay as world champion would open a lot of doors for him in terms of much larger purses and endorsement deals. With the way that Deontay knocks his opponents out within the first four rounds, he’s the perfect guy to become a huge star in the U.S. Additionally, with him being so approachable, he’s someone that will likely get a lot of endorsement deals if he can capture the WBC title and hold onto it for 6-10 years the way that Wladimir Klitschko has been able to hold onto his titles since 2006.
     Scott is a slick fighter, who won’t make it easy for Deontay to land his big right hand bombs on him. He’s going to present a constantly moving target in this fight, so Deontay is going to have to be deadly accurate with his Tommy Hearns’ like right hands if he’s going to poleaxe hm the way he’s done most of his other opponents. For the most part, Scott is an undefeated fighter because his loss to Dereck Chisora was a result of a rabbit punch and a controversial 9 count stoppage rather than a normal 10 count.
     Scott will be giving it his all on Saturday night in hoping to pull off a big upset against the talented Deontay. Can it happen? Yes, will it happen? It’s not likely unless Deontay runs out of gas in the 2nd half of the fight like a young George Foreman tired out in his loss to Mumhammad Ali many years ago. The thing is Deontay has a very good jab, and he paces himself a lot better than Foreman did in his youth.
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