Something very, very wrong is going on in this exchange between Ryan Seacrest and Larry King, taped during Seacrest’s Thursday broadcast.

Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com

Champion Manny Pacquiao called online video posted by Floyd Mayweather Jr.,  an “uneducated message” and choosing to instead focus on his upcoming fight with Antonio Margarito, this coming November.

In the widely circulated video, Mayweather goes on an expletive-filled and sometimes racist rant against Pacquiao a newly elected Congressman from the Philippines who faces Margarito at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

“I just heard about that, but I didn’t see the video,” Pacquiao said Friday. “But it’s an uneducated message.”

“It’s a really cheap low-blow, but again, consider where it came from,” said trainer Freddie Roach. “We tried to fight him. He said no. He doesn’t want to fight.”

In the video , Mayweather refers to pacquiao as “ poochiao” “a yellow chump,” and said “Once I stomp the midget, I’ll make that [expletive] make me a sushi roll and cook me some rice.” In addition, he said, “I’m going to cook that [expletive] with cats and dogs. Have some rice with a little barbecue dog.” He also referred to Pacquiao by using a derogatory slang term for a homosexual.

“I do want to apologize for what happened the other night,” Mayweather said. “I want to apologize to everybody. They felt it was a racist comment that came from me. I don’t have a racist bone in my body, you know. I love everybody. Some of my guys are Muslims. Some of my guys are Jews. Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, whites, it doesn’t matter. There is nothing but love in my heart, you know what I’m saying?

“I heard this from a few people. The only thing I want to say is, anybody who was offended by what I said the other day, I apologize as a man. I apologize. Forgive me for saying what I said. I was just having fun. I didn’t really mean it, nothing in a bad way. So let’s stay on this roller coaster ride and keep riding, baby. It’s all love.”

Mayweather also sent condolences to his former promoter, Bob Arum of Top Rank, with whom he has long had a contentious relationship. The body of Arum’s 49-year-old son, John, was discovered in the Cascade Mountains in Washington state Friday. John Arum appeared to have fallen 300 feet in a hiking accident.

John Arum had been missing for several days and it’s not clear in the video whether Mayweather was aware the body had been discovered. However, he offered consoling words to Bob Arum.

“God bless Bob Arum and his whole family, because I heard that Bob Arum’s son had a bad accident,” Mayweather said. “Love to the whole Arum family.”

Source: sports.yahoo.com/box/news
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Dragon Con (also Dragon*Con) is a North America multigenre convention, held annually in Atlanta, Georgia. The 30,000-plus-member convention encompasses four hotels in downtown Atlanta near Centennial Olympic Park, and is hosted by a 1500-member volunteer staff. Dragon Con has hosted the 1990 Origins Game Fair and the 1995 North American Science Fiction Convention (NASFiC). It is operated by a private for-profit corporation. Since its inception in 1987, it has raised thousands of dollars each year for local and national charities.

Dragon*Con is the largest multi-media, popular culture convention focusing on science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music, and film in the universe!

This year, Dragon*Con will be held Labor Day weekend (September 3–6, 2010) in Atlanta, GA.

(CNN) — Aaron Douglas, better known as “Chief Tyrol” on “Battlestar Galactica,” is a Dragon*Con veteran. Well known for being open with fans and the life of the Dragon*Con party, Douglas made a pit-stop at CNN to answer some of our BSG-fan questions.

CNN: Had you seen the original BSG before taking the role?

Aaron Douglas: Absolutely, I grew up on the original BSG, I grew up on “Star Wars.” The great thing about “Battlestar” was that it was basically “Star Wars” but once a week, as opposed to waiting for three years for the movie to come out. I was a huge “Battlestar” fan.

CNN: Tell us about when you first auditioned for “Battlestar Galactica” — was it for the part of Capt. Tyrol?

Douglas: No, no I originally auditioned for the part of Apollo (Capt. Lee Adama) which Jamie Bamber got, which is good because Bamber has to go to the gym and I never did. That was good for me. And my callback was for [the role of] Lt. Gaeta, which went to Alessandro, who’s great. He’s a great actor and he can do the tech talk really well. When they got to the end of the casting there was just no one for the Chief, this Tyrol character that they had left, and David Eick [one of the creators of the show] said, “Why don’t we get Aaron to do this?” because David had seen my auditions and quite liked me. So, they offered me this and it grew into what it was.

Read more: www.edition.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/09/04/dragoncon.aaron.douglas/index.html?section=cnn_latest#fbid=9T4CfRwtm42&wom=false

source:wikipedia.org

The Sony Bloggie Touch is a Full HD pocket camcorder which also captures a clear, crisp still photos at 12.8MP resolution.. Available in 4GB (MHS-TS10) or 8GB (MHS-TS20) models, the Sony Bloggie Touch features a 3.0” touch screen LCD screen that automatically adjusts for vertical or horizontal shooting and viewing, enabling you to shoot video right-handed, left-handed, right-side-up or even upside-down.

Just pull the Bloggie^™ Touch camera out of your pocket and you’re ready to capture Full HD video and 12.8-megapixel still shots at a moment’s notice. You’ll notice the elegant simplicity of a single record button and a large touch screen for showcasing your shots. All the fun is stored on built-in memory, and you can easily upload your movies to your favorite social networking sites like Youtube^™ and Facebook^™1.

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Lateral Raise tutorial video by Priscilla, showing the right position and the proper execution of the exercise.

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Larissa graduated from a University in Brazil with a degree in tourism, at first, she works in a travel agency and a hotel doing desk jobs and on the side she was also doing some modeling. One day, Larissa received an invitation to do a contest for Playboy magazine.  She was lucky and ended up as a Playmate and became a member of the Playboy team.

After working with Playboy, a supplement store in Brazil invited her to do a marketing campaign for their store.  It was while she was speaking with the owner of the store that she saw, for the first time, a poster of Monica Brant on the wall. Larissa was shocked because had never seen a woman like that before in her life. She was inspired and started to learn more and more about the sport,  and the more that she learned, the more she wanted to do it.

“I wanted to be more than a simple model and I was looking for a challenge.  I felt this was something that I could pass on to people; to let them know they were capable of making a change as well. “- Larissa Reis

She was lucky and fortunate to have great trainers who taught her the best way to train and helped to educate about nutrition. 

She began competing in 2008, and Larissa became the first figure competitor from Brazil to take 1st place in a Pro Show (Atlantic City 2009).  It also allowed her to take part in the Olympia ‘09 where she placed well for being a first-time competitor.

Competition History :

• ‘10 Arnold Classic – 6th Place
• ‘09 Olympia – 12th Place
• ‘09 New York Pro – 2nd place
• ‘09 Atlantic City Pro – 1st Place
• ‘08 New York Pro – 10th
• ‘07 World Championship, Barcelona – 2nd Place (Received IFBB Pro Card)
• ‘06 World Championship, Barcelona – 3rd Place
• ‘06 Brazilian Championship – 1st Place
• ‘05 South American Championship – 1st Place

• Height:  5′7″
• Birth Date: 05/21/79
• Nationality: Brazil, Holland, Portugal
• Off-Season Weight: 143
• Competition Weight: 135
• Training Location: Gold’s Gym – Ft. Lauderdale, FL
• Favorite Training Day: Shoulders and Glutes
• Favorite Pro Bodybuilder: Monica Brant
• Hobbies: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Extreme Sports, Futvolley, Swimming, Biking, and Longboard Skating

• Career Goals: My last goals had been to get my Pro Card and to compete in Olympia and the Arnold Classic. Now that I have achieved this, I have to think about what to do next!

See video below: 

Source: larissareis.net

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Pacquiao said he just doesn’t believe his next opponent was unaware he was wearing illegal hand wraps before a fight nearly two years ago. Though he agrees Margarito deserves a second chance in boxing, Pacquiao isn’t buying Margarito’s defense and the passionate arguments of Bob Arum, who promotes both fighters.

“Of course, I believe he knew,” Pacquiao said. “He’s the one who wraps his hands. He’s just making some alibi for some reason. What do you think? My belief is you [would] know that.”

During an otherwise genial get-together Tuesday at the Beverly Hills Hotel, boxing’s pound-for-pound champion said he wants somebody watching Margarito’s hands getting wrapped before they meet in Texas, which is hosting the bout partly because Margarito still is banned from the ring in Nevada and California. “My concern is that we have somebody in the dressing room, someone else watching him,” Pacquiao said.

The Philippines’ newly minted congressman will fight for a title in his eighth weight class when he meets Margarito on Nov. 13 in a bout at Cowboys Stadium, which could be filled with more than 70,000 fans. Although the bout is for the vacant WBC 154-pound title, they will meet at a 151-pound catch weight.

One reason was evident when the fighters exchanged handshakes and stood together. Both cracked up when they attempted the usual staredown pose, with Pacquiao laughing as he craned his neck to look up at Margarito, who’s about 5 inches taller.

Pacquiao (51-3-2, 38 KOs) has won 12 straight fights, including a one-sided decision over Joshua Clottey at Cowboys Stadium in March. Although Pacquiao has redefined the importance of weight classes during his near-unprecented rise, the matchup is undeniably dangerous.

Pacquiao’s hand-wrap observers will make sure it isn’t even more perilous to fight Margarito, whose promising career was derailed when trained Javier Capetillo was caught packing his wraps with a substance resembling plaster before Margarito’s loss to Sugar Shane Mosley in Los Angeles in January 2009. “They’re welcome to watch the wraps,” Margarito said through a translator. “I’m going to prepare myself the best I can to give a great fight. I always stay in the gym, learning and training.”

Margarito (38-6, 27 KOs) has a significant size advantage and a remarkable ability to take a punch, but he also has fought just once since his loss to Mosley, winning a tuneup bout in Mexico in May. Margarito has been fairly defiant about his role in the scandal, which led to Capetillo’s banishment from the sport and Margarito’s inability to resume his career in California or Nevada, which generally respects another state’s suspension.

Source: sports.espn.go.com; The Associated Press

She’s also a very positive person who have learned to believe that the sky is the limit. The reason why she started competing was for a Personal goal, and to have a motivation to wake up everyday and feel accomplished by the end of the day. Nathalia truly believe that she is a very blessed person, because she have gone much further than what she ever expected. Nathalia competed in one NPC Bikini competition just to experience it, and since then her life has completely changed. The night of her contest she got signed by one of the biggest management companies in the Industry, which was unheard of. After that she received a full published page in Flex Magazine, again, something completely unheard of for a rookie. She came to find out she couldn’t compete in the NPC National Bikini Championships because of her citizenship and she couldn’t go back to her home country to compete because they don’t have the Bikini division yet. Nathalia did not let that get her down, so she petitioned the IFBB Professional League for the opportunity to receive her pro card as an International Athlete and got granted with it shortly after. Then the big invite to become a part of the Nutrex Team. Before she was just dreaming to become the indorser of it now , she’s a part of it, living in her dreams .

• Height:  5′5″

• Birth Date: 01/19/84

• Nationality:  Brazilian (Italian Background)

• Off-Season Weight: 127lbs.

• Competition Weight: 122lbs.

• Training Location: Gold’s Gym – Fort Lauderdale, FL

• Favorite Training Day: Legs and Back

• Favorite Food: Chocolate Chip Cookies, Snickers Bars and anything with chocolate

• Career Goals:  My goal in the sport is to qualify to the inaugural 2010 IFBB Bikini Olympia, which I am working very hard for and hopefully place well in it.

As a successor to the Nikon D3000, the new camera features Nikon’s new EXPEED 2 image processor, Nikon’s 14.2-megapixel Nikon DX format CMOS sensor, Active D-Lighting, sensor cleaning and airflow control system, a 3.0-inch 230,000-dot resolution fixed TFT LCD display, a continuous up to 3 frames per second, Live view mode, full time AutoFocus in movie mode, a 3D Color Matrix Metering II with Scene Recognition System, a 3D Tracking Multi-CAM 1000 AutoFocus sensor module with 11 AF points and an ISO sensitivity 100 to 3200 (6400 and 12800 with boost). This camera also supports JPEG, NEF (Nikon’s RAW, 12-bit compressed) file formats. Like Nikon’s other entry-level DSLRs, the D3100 has no in-body AutoFocus motor, and fully automatic AutoFocus requires a lens with an integrated AutoFocus-motor (Nikon AF-S lenses).

Nikon D3100 Key Features

• 14.2MP CMOS Sensor
• 1920 x 1080 at 24p Video Capture
• 1280 x 720 at 24p/30p Video Capture
• H.264 AVCHD Codec (.mov file)
• Full-time Video and Live View Autofocus
• ISO 100-12800 (equivalent w/ expansion)
• 3″ LCD
• 11-point AF
• 3 fps
• Quiet Shutter Release Mode
• HDMI Output
• Shutter Rated to 100,000 Cycles
• SDXC Compatibility

The Nikon D3100 should be available in September 2010. Check availability below.

Nikon D3100 Availability

B&H Photo

Amazon.com

Source: photographybay.com