Young Jeezy’s TM103 seems to have hit the Gold Mark yesterday after 500,000 units moved in a little over a month! Great Job SnowMan!

LAS VEGAS – Floyd Mayweather Jr. made the only choice he could since being unable to land a fight with Manny Pacquiao, announcing at a Nevada Athletic Commission licensing hearing Wednesday that he would fight World Boxing Association super welterweight champion Miguel Cotto on May 5 at the MGM Grand Garden.

Mayweather and Pacquiao are widely considered the world’s top two fighters and have been negotiating to fight each other on and off since late 2009.

But given an impasse in talks, and with Pacquiao moving toward a June 9 bout in Las Vegas against World Boxing Organization super lightweight champion Timothy Bradley, Mayweather chose to face Cotto. There weren’t a lot of credible options, and Cotto represents likely the sternest he could have faced other than Pacquiao.

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Floyd Mayweather Jr. said he was disappointed not to be fighting Manny Pacquiao.
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The Nevada commission last month ordered Mayweather to appear before it after he requested a boxing license because of a guilty plea Dec. 21 to a domestic violence charge. The commission approved Mayweather’s request by a 5-0 margin, granting him a conditional license. Among the conditions are that he agree to report to the Clark County Detention Center to serve his 90-day jail sentence June 1 without attempting to delay it, that he completes his community service and that he remains out of trouble.

The commission will check on Mayweather’s progress toward completing the community service May 1.

After the hour-long meeting, Mayweather said he was excited to fight again.

“I think Miguel Cotto is a hell of a fighter,” a somber-appearing Mayweather said following the hearing. “He’s a strong, solid 154-pounder. Pacquiao was trying to fight him at 147, but you know me. I don’t never want to put a guy in a position where he’s not comfortable. I want to beat a guy when he’s at his best. If he’s his best at 154, and he’s strong and he’s solid, that’s the weight we’re fighting at.”

Cotto, 37-2 with 30 knockouts, was stopped by Pacquiao in the 12th round of a Nov. 14, 2009, fight. Cotto is coming off an impressive 10th round technical knockout of Antonio Margarito on Dec. 3 at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Mayweather, 42-0, had considered bouts against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, Robert Guerrero and Erik Morales, among others. For a variety of reasons – inexperience, size and age – none were would result in a high-end pay-per-view show.

At the hearing, Mayweather was grilled about his guilty plea and said he made it in order to prevent his children from having to testify. He was asked extensively about counseling and whether his training would interrupt it. He said it would not.

Mayweather said he was disappointed not to be fighting Pacquiao but said he made every effort to get the fight made.

“I presented Pacquiao with the fight, and all I got to say is, Pacquiao’s blowing a bunch of smoke up everyone’s ass,” Mayweather said. “He don’t really want to fight. I gave him a chance to step up to the plate. We’re talking about a $10 million fighter who I tried to give $40 million to. We didn’t even talk about the back end.

“Everything everybody is hearing is just a bunch of lies. I’ve got the proof. The proof is in the pudding and I’ve got the proof from all my meetings with [Pacquiao adviser] Michael Koncz. Floyd Mayweather has proof. When it’s all said and done, like I said before, I’m honest and a stand-up type guy.”

Top Rank has yet to announce that Pacquiao will fight Bradley, but the other finalists on promoter Bob Arum’s lists are committed. Cotto took the fight against Mayweather and Arum plans to match Juan Manuel Marquez and Lamont Peterson at Cowboys Stadium in the summer.

Pacquiao trainer Freddie Roach told Yahoo! Sports, “It looks like Bradley is going to be the guy.”

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i DONT have too much to say about Tyrese but GREAT job Chilli! Here are some Photos aand a lil teaser to hold you over until the video is released February 14TH!!!

“Sexy, smart, classy , grace and integrity doesn’t come easy all in one woman these days. When Chilli agreed to do my “Nothing On You” video, I just knew it would be special. The wait is over – on Valentines Day, through this song and video we’re gonna remind you of what grown and sexy love is all about.” – Tyrese

“Working with Tyrese, didn’t feel like work at all. There was so much chemistry between us, everything flowed naturally. Tyrese has such a beautiful voice and when you hear “Nothing on You” it just makes you want to embrace LOVE. I’m so proud of Tyrese’s accomplishments, he’s so talented…music, movies, books-(and we certainly can’t forget those breath-taking features) and there’s still so much more to come from him.” – Chilli

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Tyler Perry:
I have been speaking to the FBI, attorneys and radio hosts… Right now, I have a call into the attorney general. This reminds me of black men being lynched and disappearing in the 60′s.

Tyler Perry:
I Am Beyond Outraged By This!

For the past two days I have had a knot in the pit of my stomach. I was watching a show on Discovery ID called Disappeared. I couldn’t believe what I was witnessing. What outraged me the most is that in 8 years, not one national news outlet has picked up this story. 8 YEARS and nothing has been done. Wait until you read this! I did some research, and from the few articles I could find on this matter, here is the summary of one I’d like to share with you.

Still no answers about men last seen with deputy

By JANINE ZEITLIN, Sunday, January 22, 2006 NapelsNews.com

Marcia Roberts is haunted by her only child. She used to watch “Unsolved Mysteries” in her East Naples apartment in hopes of triggering her mind into unlocking what happened to her son. He’s been gone more than two years. And she doesn’t know where he is, or was. If he’s alive or dead. But her answering machine has remained the same since the questions started:”Whatever is now covered up will be uncovered and every secret will be made known, Matthew Chapter 10, verses 26 through 28.” Terrance Williams has been missing since January the 12th, 2004. The family would like to thank you for your continued prayers and your thoughts and acts of kindness.” And she won’t change it until she finds answers. And she will never stop looking. And she will never stop praying. “My mind just wanders and I wonder if that’s good or not. I pray every night. I know God is tired of me,” she says. And she will never give up.

The night he slipped from her life — Jan. 11, 2004 — Marcia said she picked him up from a Bonita Springs Pizza Hut where he worked as a cook and drove him to a friend’s house. A day later, the last person confirmed to see him alive was a Collier County sheriff’s corporal — the same man last spotted with Felipe Santos, a 23-year-old Mexican laborer just three months before. The corporal said he gave both men rides to Circle K convenience stores in North Naples within four miles of each other.

What happened between Jan. 11 and when Williams ran into Cpl. Steven Calkins, a nearly 17-year Collier Sheriff’s Office veteran on Jan. 12, gnaws at his mother. Times, lies, inconsistencies and a story that doesn’t jibe keep running through Marcia’s head. Three witnesses told Sheriff’s Office investigators they saw Calkins wave over Williams near Naples Memorial Gardens, a North Naples cemetery, between 9 and 10 a.m. Williams was driving a 1983 two-door white Cadillac with an expired plate and registered to someone else. He could have been picked up or cited for six violations, sheriff’s investigators said. Shortly after noon, Calkins said, they met at the cemetery along 111th Avenue North when he spotted Williams having car trouble. Calkins didn’t call in the traffic stop as required. Calkins blames the time discord on confusion and memory problems. Instead of taking him to jail, the corporal said he gave him a ride to a Circle K near Wiggins Pass Road on U.S. 41 because Williams said he was late for work and looked nice and “clean-cut.” Calkins called a friend in dispatch, asking him to run information on an abandoned vehicle, even though he later said he had met Terrance by then.

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Telephone call: 01-12-04/ 1249 PM

Caller: Cpl. Steven Calkins/Dispatcher: Dave Jolicouer.

Dispatcher: “What are you doin’ sucka?”

“Well I got a “Homie” Cadillac on the side of the road here, signal 11, signal 52 nobody around,” Calkins says.

“I’m at the cemetery here at the corner of Vanderbilt and 111th,” Calkins says later in the call.

“Oh yeah, you be doin’ some prayin’? Been prayin’ to the heavenly father?” Jolicouer says.

“Maybe he’s out there in the cemetery. He’ll come back and his car will be towed,” Calkins says.

A half-hour later, Calkins contacted dispatch with Williams’ full name, date of birth and asked the dispatcher to run a search, though Calkins later told investigators he only knew Williams’ first name. Calkins called with a fake birth date Williams had used before and possibly when he got in trouble.”4-1-75. Black/male. (singing)…,” a transcript of Calkins’ call to the dispatcher says.

After much pressure from Marcia to the police department this is another dispatch call.

Dispatch: 1-16-04

“I hate to bother you at home on your day off, but this woman’s been bothering us all day. You towed a car from Vanderbilt and a hundred … Do you remember it?”

Calkins: “Uhhh, no.”

“Do you remember … she said it was near the cemetery.”

Calkins: “Cemetery?”

Calkins assures the dispatcher there was no one with the vehicle.

“Uh, well, somebody’s at the cemetery telling the mother that you picked up the driver and he’s been missing since Monday.”

“Oh, for pete’s sake.”

Seven days later, Calkins wrote an incident report. He later told sheriff’s officials he wrote it “to cover his butt.” After dropping off Terrance, Calkins said he returned to the Cadillac and found there wasn’t proper registration in the car. He felt duped so he called Circle K and asked for Terrance from his cell phone. The clerk told him she didn’t know any Terrance, he said. Records showed Calkins never made the call.

More than two weeks after her son vanished, on Jan. 28, Marcia lodged a misconduct complaint against Calkins and an internal investigation ensued. Calkins was fired from the Sheriff’s Office in August 2004. Eight pages in the Sheriff’s Office internal probe outline Calkins’ lies and inconsistencies about what happened. He hasn’t been charged with any criminal wrong doing. An appeal by Calkins cited a report that Williams was seen at an East Naples gas station, though the investigators viewed video and didn’t see Terrance. The appeal was shot down by Sheriff Don Hunter.

Williams owed child support. He has four children — now 13, 11, 5 and 8 — by four different women, his mother said. He spent time in a Tennessee prison in the mid-1990s in connection with an aggravated robbery, a Department of Correction spokeswoman said. Trespassing, DUI and driving on a revoked license were his other offenses.

Maybe he didn’t always make the best choices, but Marcia said her son was trying to shape up and support his children. She said she and her son were too close for him to leave without a good-bye. He gave her away at her October 2002 wedding. And all of his things were just left behind. “They’re going to tell me he just went somewhere,” Marcia said. I’m his mother. His mother knows.”

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Marcia’s crusade for answers is heightened by questions about another missing man. Felipe Santos was last seen by his brothers getting into Calkins’ squad car in October 2003. Calkins said he dropped him at Circle K on Immokalee Road. Marcia discovered the link when the Mexican Consulate in Miami called to tell her about Santos after her son vanished.

Asked during a recent interview with the Daily News to explain, Calkins said: “Coincidence extreme and that’s all it is.” “It was just bad luck. It was bad luck … I didn’t think anything of it.”

Acute coincidence helped the families tap lawyers for their cases.”The coincidences are so extreme I want to get to the bottom of it,” said Mark Miller, a Fort Pierce civil rights attorney representing Marcia.”Sooner or later, I believe sooner, we’ll find out what happened.”

Linda Ramirez, the St. Petersburg lawyer for the Santos family, said it struck her that Calkins said he took both men and dropped them at a Circle K instead of at the sheriff’s substation or jail.”It would just seem to me you’re not likely to find two people who have gone missing under similar circumstances without there being some kind of connection,” she said.

END OF SUMMARY OF ARTICLE

To read the entire article, go to http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2006/jan/22/still_no_answers_about_men_last_seen_deputy/

This story reminds me of a time, when black men were lynched and no one was ever prosecuted for it. These families deserve answers! They have been trying to get national press on this story for years, to no avail. I have been on the phone with the FBI, Reverend Sharpton, reporters, the NAACP and anyone else who will listen. This can’t go on in our America anymore. No matter what your race, this should outrage us all!

I’ll be on the Tom Joyner Show in the morning trying to bring some light and attention to this and help these families. Also, I’ll be following up with you in the near future to discuss our next plan of action. Please help me give Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos something that many people don’t think the poor or disenfranchised have… A VOICE!! You’ve helped me do a lot of things, but none as important as this.

Talk to me! Tell me what you think.

If you have any information at all about these cases, please contact the following office:

Tampa FBI Office:

866.838.1153 (24/7)

Tyler

I see Alot of people talking about tax Refund money so i wanted to ask:What are you doing this year with your REFUND?????

Soccer phenom David Beckham has decided to part ways with his limited edition Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe after spending four years together.

Beckham took a nontraditional route when selling the vehicle — he used eBay. The Englishman bought the car in 2008 for almost $550,000 and spent thousands more having it customized. The mods included having it completely blacked out and fitted with 24-inch alloy rims.

The car features a 6.75 liter V12 which develops 450bhp and can do 0-62 mph in 5.9 seconds, with a top speed of 150mph.

The three ton beast averages just 11 miles per gallon, so probably isn’t the best choice for hauling your kids to school and back.

Kontrol Magazine celebrated the release of the ‘SHAPE ISSUE’ with a Private release party at the Josephine Lounge Last Night. Hosted by A&R star Memphitz and his crew ‘DO WORK’ along with his Lovely wife Toya Carter-Hitz lol. Head Stylist and C.E.O. Julian Lark ended the night by showing a sneak-peak of the KONTROL TV series plus announcing the National Release of the Magazine in the U.S. and Canada. Photos by:Kingsmen Media

Everybody knows Im a ‘MAC’ man so when i was invited out to the Microsft store in the lenox Maall for Media Appreciation Luncheon i was excited to see what they had! The appreciation luncheon was organized by Enchanted Pr and AWMedia Group and consisted of a tour of the store and products they had to offer. The event was sponsored by Microsoft, Carols Daughter and Fab’rik Buckhead.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson is entering the fray over The Recording Academy’s cuts to its Grammy categories: He’s asking to meet with the president of the organization and has raised the possibility of protests with the awards less than two weeks away.
The civil rights activist sent a letter to Neil Portnow, the president and CEO of the Academy, and expressed his dismay over the academy’s decision last April to cut its categories from 109 to 78, the biggest overhaul in its then 53-year history. In the letter, Jackson said he had been talking to members of the entertainment community and asked that his organization, Rainbow Push Coalition, “meet with you urgently to express our concerns and to see if we might help resolve this conflict … and allow the Grammys to do what they do best.”
In a statement to The Associated Press on Friday, Portnow said he was willing to talk with Jackson.
“We are receptive to meeting with the Rev. Jackson to explain how our nomination process works and to show the resulting diverse group of nominees it produced for the 54th Grammys — many in the musical genres he cited in his letter,” Portnow said. “We also agree with the Rev. Jackson that the Grammys are about music, not sales. They have, and always will, stand for excellence in music and celebrating the impact all music has on our culture.”
In an interview with the AP on Thursday night, Jackson said he wanted “cooperation, not confrontation” with the Academy. However, he did raise the possibility of a protest of the Feb. 12 Grammys, to be held in Los Angeles, if his talks with the Academy did not go well.
“We are prepared to work with artists and ministers and activists to occupy at the Grammys so our appeal of consideration of mercy really might be heard,” he said.
The Academy decided last year to shrink its voluminous categories after a yearlong examination of the awards structure. Among the changes: elimination of some of the instrumental categories in pop, rock and country; traditional gospel; children’s spoken-word album; Zydeco or Cajun music album; and best classical crossover album. In addition, men to women compete head-to-head in vocal performance categories instead of separate categories for each sex.
Some musicians in the Latin jazz community have filed a lawsuit against the Academy claiming the reductions in categories caused them irreparable harm.
The Academy contends the changes simply make the awards more competitive, but do not prevent people from entering into competition.
But Jackson said he’s concerned that it limits participation of those who have been disenfranchised.
“Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive,” he said. “So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.”
While some have gone so far as to call the cuts racist, Jackson said he did not believe that.
“I don’t think that we have to prove that to make our point. We’re talking about expansion,” he said.
“Sometimes inclusion is inconvenient but it’s the right thing to do,” he added