Source: http://www.mmamania.com/2011/8/4/2344641/what-does-the-future-hold-for-fedor-emelianenko
Thursday, 4 August 2011
Britney Spears' Tourmates Nervo Tease New 'Club Records'
Aussie twins tell MTV News they haven't strayed from dance music roots in spite of 'amazing' Femme Fatale Tour experience.
By Akshay Bhansali
Nervo
Photo: Michael Buckner/ Getty Images
With Britney Spears' flashy Femme Fatale Tour closing out its remaining North American dates later this month, it's fair to say that many of Ms. Spears' concert-going fans have gotten to know Olivia and Miriam Nervo pretty well.
In fact, when Brit first announced her Femme Fatale lineup back in April, promising on her website, "Nervo will get everyone on the dancefloor," dance music fans were ecstatic about the inclusion of the DJ/producer twins whose writing credits include a song for Spears and David Guetta and Kelly Rowland's "When Love Takes Over."
MTV News recently caught up with the Australian sisters (and former models), and they told us that bussing across the States and sharing the stage with Nicki Minaj, Jessie and the Toy Boys, and Brit herself, has been a stellar opportunity.
"We've definitely seen both the girls, [Britney and Nicki], and we interact with them," Miriam, a.k.a. Mim, told us. "You are traveling to each city and you see the same people every day and it really becomes a family. So it's been an amazing experience."
"It's an amazing show," Liv added. "The girls, the lineup really works well together. You've got Britney, who I think is looking the best she's looked in a really long time and who really gives it her all on this tour. And then you've got Nicki, who definitely brings her edge to it. I'd never seen Nicki live, and I'm just so blown away. The girl can sing, rap — total respect to her!"
As the Femme Fatale Tour winds down Stateside before heading to Europe, Nervo are now looking to expand the fanbase they've built in the U.S. But while Liv and Mim have been a part of what might be considered the mother of all pop music tours, the duo insist that they intend to remain true to their dance music and DJ roots.
"When we signed the record deal, it was really important to us that we could take our DJing seriously and release club records," Liv explained of their Astralwerks label.
"Yeah, we want to be DJ artists," Mim added.
"That's what we love so, luckily, we can release some club records alongside our Astralwerks album," Liv said. "It just so happens that the Astralwerks single that we're coming out with is with two major club guys: Afrojack and Steve Aoki. It's called 'We're All No One.' We love it!"
While Liv and Mim do the singing on "No One," the beats are delivered by hard-hitting EDM producer Aoki and David Guetta protégé Afrojack (who's also behind Pitbull's smash summer anthem "Give Me Everything." So exactly what should fans expect to hear? According to Liv and Mim, they should expect the unexpected.
"It doesn't sound anything like Afrojack or anything like Steve Aoki," Mim teased. "It's gonna be an interesting one. It could fly, and it could flop. It's very different. It's nothing like any of the stuff we've done with any of the pop stars we've worked with."
And Nervo have worked with a few. Though nothing is locked in yet, the twin sisters have been busy exchanging ideas with the likes of Omarion and Macy Gray, as well as dance music acts Avicii, Norman Doray and John Dahlbäck.
"We're All No One" drops later this month. Fans can catch Nervo on the Femme Fatale Tour's remaining U.S. dates and on select dates of the Identity Festival, America's first traveling EDM fest, which kicks off August 11 in Indiana.
Related ArtistsSource: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1668350/nervo-britney-spears-tour.jhtml
Fedor?s brother lashes out at coaches
Fedor Emelianenko's skills may be eroding, but it's not helping that he seems to enter the cage without any sort of gameplan. It's not just fans and media noticing that Fedor simply employs a "go for broke" strategy, his brother Aleks (on the right) is fed up with some of the folks around the former heavyweight king.
"They sat like two amoebas, and did not know what to say. They were asked direct questions and would say, 'It is difficult to say? we will see in the fight,' - what kind of a coach says that? Only one who doesn't understand the sport," Aleksander Emelianeko told FightersOnly Magazine. "I just call them 'Stopwatch' and� 'Towel'. That's as much use as they are, that's it."
Aleks thinks that Fedor has been in a stale training camp for years.
"[MMA] is constantly improving, but 'Stopwatch' and 'Towel' have not changed anything in the program - just frozen in time and not been able to develop the base that Fedor already has," Aleks said. " Fedor could train himself, he must take on it personally, to rethink many of the training points to learn and develop. Suffer and work! We'll talk with Fedor - whether he wants to change something in his preparation. If he wants to, I will make the effort."
Fedor lost his third straight fight on Saturday night against Dan Henderson. He lost to Fabricio Werdum by making an amateurish mistake and getting caught in a triangle choke. Against 6-foot-4, 285 pound Antonio Silva, Fedor failed stay at a distance and use his athletic advantage. He was taken down and couldn't get back to his feet. Henderson has freakish punching power and Fedor decided to stand and trade with him.
If Fedor is to return to the cage, his support staff has to get two things done. First, he needs to get down to the light heavyweight division and secondly, it's time to employ a game plan against all future opponents.
Nothing ?tricky? about St. Preux tonight at Strikeforce Challengers 17, a big knee ends Cason?s chances
Ovince St. Preux had no intentions of going from the gridiron to the cage, but trainer Eric Turner tricked him into fighting mixed martial arts. Turner saw the potential in the former Tennessee Volunteers' linebacker and convinced him that the punches in the cage weren't that hard.
Four years later OSP is the one dishing out the pain. Joe Cason felt his power tonight in Las Vegas when he ate a knee to the face and a shin to the ribs. Cason was shot. Seconds later, the fight hit the deck where St. Preux eventually got off five huge shots, splattering Cason's blood on the canvas, and the downed fighter tapped due to strikes at 1:12 of the first round at Strikeforce Challengers 17.
The Haitian-American, who was a high school football star in Immokalee, Fla. prior to his time at Tennessee, has won eight straight and is 5-0 with Strikeforce. OSP thinks it's time for step up in competition and a promotion to Strikeforce's bigger shows.
"I think the fans have been talking about it. I think the fans want it. I'll be calling out lots of people ... Gegard [Mousasi], [Renato] 'Babalu' [Sobral]. I'm definitely ready to step up," said St. Preux, 28.
OSP (11-4) still works out of Knoxville, Tenn. the home of the University of Tennessee, but with some time off after his last fight in January, he made sure to travel around the country to train with new camps.
Most of his learning in 2010 came in the cage as he fought six times. With some time away from active fights, he worked with Dan Henderson's camp in Temecula, Ca. and also made his way to Denver to train at Grudge Training Center, the home of fighters like Brendan Schaub, Nate Marquardt and Shane Carwin.
Cason comes from a good camp as well, with Duke Roufus in Milwaukee, and it was clear the formerly unbeaten light heavyweight had a swagger about him and came to fight. But his aggression actually cost him as OSP used good footwork to avoid big shots and get off some counterstrikes.
The strike that destroyed Cason was unique. Cason charged St. Preux and the rangier ex-football star attempted a body kick. The leg never fully uncoiled, but with Cason coming forward he got drilled under his chin by OSP's knee and his shin crushed his ribs. The double-dose of pain wobbled Cason and he never recovered.
St. Preux has told the "tricked into fighting" story many times including again this week when he appeared on ESPNRadio1100 in Las Vegas.
"My biggest thing was about getting hit," said St. Preux, who played football at 6-foot-3, 248 pounds. "[Turner] had some 18-ounce boxing gloves on; he kind of hit me in the arm. He said, 'This is the hardest you're going to get hit.'"
When St. Preux fought for the first time and got blasted by an opponent who was wearing MMA's official five-ounce gloves, OSP realized he'd been duped. St. Preux knew he was in a fight, but he didn't freak out. His athleticism showed when he first started in the game and it's really paying off now. Cason was too slow to avoid the inevitable beating tonight in Sin City.
Andrei "The Pit Bull" Arlovski Recorded Live Video Chat July 8th 2011 - Andrei Arlovski
Andrei "The Pit Bull" Arlovski Recorded Live Video Chat July 8th 2011 Video by Andrei Arlovski
Today's Lady News: Lesbian Couple Saved Lives In Norway Massacre
- Hege Dalen and Toril Hansen are a married lesbian couple who were camping on the island of Utoya in Norway when the shooting massacre occurred. Together they saved 40 teenagers by taking their boat on four trips back and forth across the lake to bring the kids to safety. An astounding 92 people were killed in the massacre by a right wing extremist gunman. Who knows how many more may have died if not for Dalen and Hansen's bravery? [Guardian UK]
- Bill O'Reilly has somehow linked women's health care and "breastfeeding stuff" to unemployment. My brain hurts trying to make sense of this. [Think Progress]
- DC Comics chiefs are addressing their lack of female characters. [IndieWire]
Source: http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-todays-lady-news-080311/?eref=RSS
John Legend Interview Music and Charity
At 32 years old, John Legend has won nine Grammy Awards, performed at Barack Obama's presidential inauguration, and launched his own nonprofit organization, the Show Me Campaign, which works to eliminate poverty and encourage educational reform. But he would not have accomplished all of that without the help of his high-school guidance counselor, who encouraged Legend to dream big and and apply to Ivy League schools.
"If you have people like that in your life that are able to set those kinds of expectations for you and say you can do things bigger than your small world is, then it can really be transformative in your life because it will make you think bigger than you originally thought," the singer told iVillage recently.
Music was another factor that connected Legend to his school. Thanks to the confidence it gave him, he excelled academically and was accepted to the University of Pennsylvania at the age of 16.
"(Music) made me look forward to going to school and feel like I had a personality that people wanted to pay attention to and care about," Legend explains. "The fact that I sang and was on stage made me more confident and made me communicate with people in other ways."
And Legend is helping a new generation of kids find their own mentors through his work with P&G GIVE Education's "School the Nation" campaign to combat the alarmingly high student dropout rate in the United States. On July 31, GIVE Education brandSAVER coupons appeared in newspapers around the country with discounts for P&G products. For each brandSAVER coupon that consumers redeem, P&G will donate two cents to Communities in Schools (CIS), the nation's leading dropout prevention organization.
iVillage spoke to Legend about why he's so passionate about his charity work around education, his upcoming album produced by Kanye West and who he'd love to do a duet with.
Did your parents encourage you to put education first?
Absolutely. It was important in my house. They didn’t say it, they just showed by example. They made sure we were reading when we were very young. They made it a house where education was something that was very important.
You were homeschooled on and off as a child. How did your homeschooling experience affect the rest of your educational trajectory?
I think it gave me a bit of a head start because when I came to public school, I handled my fears because the independent study and individual attention that my parents gave me helped me a lot.
Were you nervous about going off to college at such a young age?
When I first got to Penn, I felt like a fish out of water. I was 16, I was from small town, I just definitely didn’t fit right away with everyone.
How did you connect with the other students?
I think music was the main way. It made me feel like I was a part of something. I joined an a cappella group. It just made me feel connected to the whole campus.
What has driven you to work with so many different charities?
I’ve always felt the desire to speak out and find ways to give back. I have a particular interest in social justice and helping people who don’t have the advantages in life; they get overlooked. Most of the work I do is involved in that.
When did you become involved with the GIVE Education campaign?
I got involved with Harlem Village Academies in the last couple years. The more I got involved with them, the more I started to understand a lot of issues that were going on in school reform. It made me want to have my voice heard because I felt like there was an opportunity to help a lot of kids have a better school experience and have a better chance in life. I didn’t want to let that go to waste.
What makes the GIVE Education campaign different from the other charitable causes you’ve supported?
I think it’s great because it’s so broad-paced in that Proctor & Gamble is such a huge company and they reach so many households. I felt like the reach of this campaign would be really important and significant. It’s a great organization that we’re supporting, CIS, they do great work and it’s proven to be successful. I felt like it was the right combination of circumstances for me to be proud to be part of something that was going to really help people.
What do you think is the best way that parents can support their children’s education?
I think there are a lot of things. Reading is very important; it’s such a key to being successful in school, so anything parents can do early on to get their kids reading is really important. Just letting their kids know that it’s a priority that they do well in school. Interact with the teachers, interact with the administrators at school. Hold them accountable and be aware of what’s going on there. I don’t have kids so I’m not the best person to give advice to parents I think, but I think I do know that every school that I work with, they try to encourage parents to get involved and they know it really makes a difference.
Does your charity work influence your music?
Certainly. I think my last album (Wake Up!, a collaboration with The Roots) was influenced by a lot of work I do.
What upcoming projects are you working on?
I’m working on my next album. Kanye (West)’s executive producing it. We’re going to finish it this fall and put it out early next year.
Who would be your dream duet?
I’d love to duet with Adele, that’d be fun.
Source: http://www.ivillage.com/john-legend-interview-music-and-charity/1-a-368865
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