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NGO OKAFOR IN NEW ELLE MAGAZINE ARTICLE: A BOD FOR SIN

June 13, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

Black male model, Ngo Okafor has just been featured in Elle Magazine for living out one of his life’s many passions…FITNESS!! READ MORE

For five days straight, ELLE editor Justine Harman puts herself at the mercy of professional fitness concierge service, SIN Workouts, to experience the lifestyle of the rich and flawless.

Day 3: TKO with Ngo

After yesterday’s double workout I wake up not exactly in pain but feeling an allover tightness, like I could already be one size smaller. (Is that even possible?)

One of the things I mentioned in my initial consultation with my fitness concierge, S.I.N.’s Vanessa Martin—the woman who is cheerfully leading me into new circles of hell this week—is that I like to box. Growing up watching fights on TV with my dad, a former welterweight fighter, I learned to love the rhythmic sounds of pad work and the squeak of high tops on canvas.

And, as I’ve found out through dozens of group classes at Gotham Gym in the West Village, there’s nothing quite like the satisfaction of connecting a solid jab. As it turns out, one of the benefits to having a Vanessa of my very own is that she has unrivaled access to the best facilities in the city—including some, like Peak Performance, that are usually only open to clients who buy pricey personal training packages. “There’s no other training facility that even scratches the surface of what Peak offers,” she says. “The staff is completely comprised of career trainers—no actors looking for part time gigs to make money.” Plus, Vanessa is friends with the manager. “I know she will personally take care of my clients when I’m not there.” I’m beginning to get the hang of this V.I.P thing: Basically, all I have to do is show up and sweat.

Peak, a 10,000 square foot loft space in Chelsea, looks exactly the way I imagine the Miami Heat’s training room would: spacious, full of high-tech machinery including vibrating Power Plate platforms and speed-enhancing Woodway Force treadmills. It’s also equipped with private bathrooms the size of my apartment. This time around, Vanessa will not be working out by my side, though she does meet me upon arrival to quickly introduce me to my trainer, Ngo, then vanishes behind mammoth steel elevator doors.

The hulking and handsome Ngo escorts me into a private studio, wraps my hands, and asks me what kind of music I like. For the next hour, to the sounds of Drake, Kanye, and Hova, we alternate between gym class calisthenics (squats, lunges, push-ups, and burpies) and increasingly difficult boxing combinations. At one point, when I think I’ve completely maxed out, Ngo makes me punch him backwards, across the room and into a corner. The blood is ferociously pumping in my ears and my shoulders are so tired I think they might collapse; but every time I connect with his pads, a hint of a smile betrays Ngo’s steely stare. As we stretch afterwards on parallel mats, I ask him about the Peak clientele. He explains that it’s a mix of professional athletes, stay-at-home hotties, and actors. As if on cue, Kyle MacLachlan strolls by in a baby-blue bandana.

After a hot shower and another round of Malin + Goetz goodies (those guys have the specialty fitness market on lock), I treat myself to lunch (a protein shake at Peak’s well-stocked juice bar) and check my email. Like clockwork, a note from Vanessa pops up: “How was Peak? Feeling good? See you tomorrow at Uplift Studios for the 9:30 a.m. class.” Here we go again.

Written by Justine Harman for Elle Magazine

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GLUTEN FREE DOES NOT MEAN CALORIE FREE: WEIGHT GAIN ON A GLUTEN FREE DIET

May 28, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

Gluten Free is Not Calorie Free

I see several people, proudly posting pictures of massive portions of food and dessert on Instagram. There’s a general misconception that it’s fine to consume larger portions of food because it’s Gluten free. When it comes down to it, in order to lose weight on any diet, one must technically consume less calories than expended in order to have a deficit.

If a person is following a gluten-free diet, make sure that portion sizes are still accountable and a balance is found in all the food groups such as gluten-free grains/starches (potatoes, yams, rice, quinoa, etc.), vegetables, proteins, fats, fruits, milk/dairy. Also, make sure to read the labels on gluten-free packages because a brownie is still a brownie. Even if the brownie is gluten-free, it still has calories, fat, and sugar. One should still be aware of portion sizes and frequency with packaged goods.

Going gluten-free does not guarantee that your diet will be either healthy or lower in calories. It just means you’re avoiding foods with gluten, a protein found in wheat. There is nothing magical about gluten-free for weight loss. Your body still does the age-old calorie math of “Calories In (food) vs. Calories Out (exercise and metabolism)”. Too many Calories In means weight gain. When Calories In equals Calories Out, you just stay the same weight. Even when the calories are from gluten-free foods.

If you’re gaining weight, you’re eating more calories than you need. A gluten-free diet that’s full of gluten-free cookies, gluten-free cakes, gluten-free snack foods and bars is easily going to be high calorie. Soda pop, candy and ice cream are technically gluten-free, but they’re still high calorie.

The best way to lose weight is to stick to simple, unprocessed foods: vegetables, fruits and non-wheat whole grains like rice or quinoa, lean meats and dairy products. This is always good advice, whether or not you’re eating gluten-free. A diet of gluten-free junk food is not going to help you lose weight.

It’s a surprising statistic, but a study found that 81% of people suffering from celiac disease (gluten intolerance) who followed a gluten-free diet gained weight. That’s because there is a common misconception that anything labeled “gluten-free” must be good for you.

Many processed gluten-free foods and gluten-free junk foods not only contain almost twice the calories as their traditional counterparts, but they can also be double the price. In addition, processed gluten-free foods are lower in fiber, so you won’t stay full as long, and many people who follow a gluten-free diet are missing out on the benefits of good carbohydrates like brown rice, fruits or beans, which all help to regulate blood sugar.

Armed with this information, go forth with an awareness that GLUTEN FREE IS NOT CALORIE FREE!!!!

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NGO OKAFOR STARS OPPOSITE JONAH HILL AND JAMES FRANCO

May 13, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

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NGO OKAFOR STARS OPPOSITE JONAH HILL AND JAMES FRANCO IN “TRUE STORY”, PRODUCED BY BRAD PITT

New York, New York, May 13th, 2013—The star meter for the most downloaded black male model, Ngo Okafor, continues to skyrocket. Okafor’s body of work as an actor is stacking up at a furious pace. Ngo has just wrapped shooting his part in the feature film, “True Story”, opposite Hollywood heavy hitters Jonah Hill and James Franco. “True Story” is produced by Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment. Ngo Okafor plays the part of Ibrahim, an Ibo (Nigerian language) translator, in the film.

“True Story,” an adaptation of New York Times journalist Michael Finkel’s 2006 memoir of the same name, chronicles Finkel’s discovery that his identity had been stolen by Christian Longo, a fugitive who was placed on the FBI’s Most Wanted list after murdering his family and fleeing to Mexico. Hill is portraying Finkel on screen, with James Franco playing the role of Longo.

Mr. Finkel was banished as a contributing writer for The New York Times in early 2002 for faking much of a magazine cover storyabout the travails of a young African plantation worker, who turned out to be a composite. Seeking redemption, he quickly struck up what proved to be a mutually exploitive relationship — mixing friendship, journalism and some bizarre exploration of shared reality — with one Christian Longo.

Mr. Longo had just murdered his wife and three children in Oregon. And then, improbably, Mr. Longo assumed Mr. Finkel’s identity as he went on the lam outside the United States.

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LOSE WEIGHT WITH HIGH INTENSITY TRAINING

May 9, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

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Push your muscles harder: Using heavier weights, in reducing the amount rest between sets, may help you blast more fat, according to new research in the Journal of Translational Medicine.

In the study, scientists had two groups of trained lifters do different workouts. One group performed four sets of 8 to 12 reps of these 8 exercises: 1. Bench press 2. Machine row 3. Military press 4. Biceps curl 5. Triceps extension 6. Leg press 7. Leg curl 8. Situp

They did the exercises in straight sets—a traditional method—completing all four sets of the first exercise before moving on to the next. They rested for 2 minutes after each set of the compound exercises, but just 1 minute after the biceps curl, triceps extension, leg curl, and situp. They lifted to failure in each set.

The second group of men used used a “rest-pause” technique and did just three exercises: 1. Leg press 2. Bench press 3. Machine row

For each exercise, they chose the heaviest weight they could lift six times. (Their six-rep max.) Then they performed six reps. As soon as they were done, they rested 20 seconds, and using the same weight, immediately did as many reps as they could—usually two to three more. Then they rested another 20 seconds, and did as many reps as they could again. After the third series, they rested for 2 minutes and 30 seconds. That counted as one total set. They did three of these sets of the leg press, and then did two sets of the bench press followed by two sets of the machine row.

This created a workout that used heavy weights to “induce mechanical effects on the muscles,” while the short 20-second recovery periods gave it an effect “comparable to high intensity endurance training,” say the study authors. (Note: The rest-pause technique has been around for years, but hasn’t been studied for its benefits as a potential fat-loss protocol.)

Twenty-two hours later, the rest-pause group had a resting metabolism that was 452 calories higher than it was before their workout; the other group saw an increase of just 98 calories. This is despite the fact that the rest-pause lifters exercised for just half the time as the conventional lifters.

The reason: When your muscles work harder, they have to do more post-workout rebuilding. That burns calories and lifts levels of metabolism-boosting hormones, says study author Antonio Paoli, M.D., of the Università degli Studi di Padova in Italy.

One caveat: The researchers didn’t measure energy expenditure during the workouts. And given that the traditional-lifting group did a significantly higher volume of work, it’s likely they burned a greater number of calories in their actual training session than did the rest-pause group.

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HOTEL GYM AND HOME WORKOUT: THE JET SETTER GUIDE TO FITNESS

May 7, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

If you’re a businessman or woman, on the go or a frequent vacationer, there’s a good chance that at some point you’re going to end up away from your gym and on the hunt for a place to work out. While many assume that every hotel comes equipped with a gym, this is often not the case. Even some pricey boutique hotels do not include an exercise room, so it’s important to have a workout backup plan.

This is where hotel workouts come into play: you can use items found in your hotel room as props to help you work out and maintain your physique while out of town. The key to an effective hotel workout is finding creative ways to challenge the muscles, all while using your own body weight or props. For the cardioportion of your hotel workout, options include stepping up and down on a chair or bench, running stairs located in the hotel, skipping (outside if you’re not on the bottom floor), or simply going for a run. For strength training, you’re going to need to put a spin on traditional exercises to create your hotel workout. Here are some useful ways to get an effective hotel workout.

Props

To complete your hotel workout, you can use the following props:

2 2-liter bottles of water obtained at a nearby grocery or convenience store
2 chairs found in your room

The objective of your hotel workout is to move through the following exercises as quickly as possible.

Body weight squats with wall squats

Start your hotel workout by holding one of the water bottles directly out in front of you with your feet shoulder-width apart. Begin to squat down, keeping your toes pointed forward and going as low as possible. Complete a total of 30-50 reps, depending on your fitness level. Then, stand with your back against a wall and move down into the squat position so that your knees are at a 90-degree angle. Hold this position for 20-30 seconds.

Push-up sequence

To add more difficulty to regular push-ups, place your feet on top of the bed while keeping your hands on the floor. Your body should be on a flat decline. From there, perform push-ups as usual. Once you’re finished doing 15-20 reps, turn your body while lifting one hand off the floor so that you are sideways with one arm fully supporting your body. Maintain this position for 20 seconds. After you’re finished, repeat the push-ups, only this time place your hands in a triangular position. Repeat once more on the other side, holding the sideways position to complete this sequence.

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CHRIS BROWN: ANGER MANAGEMENT MAY NOT BE WORKING!

March 8, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

Shocking, we know. Anger management class graduate Chris Brown apparently forgot to take his chill pills before heading out into the world on Wednesday. The hot-tempered singer was allegedly involved in two separate arguments in the course of one day. First, an incident in Bermuda stalled Breezy’s departure before his private

plane finally took off without his security guard, Big Pat, on board, according to the Bermuda Sun. A worker at the airport tells the paper that Big Pat got off the plane and announced he wasn’t getting back on because of some sort of argument with his boss, who reportedly flew back home short one entourage member.

Later that day, TMZ cameras caught Chris bickering with a bowling alley valet in Studio City, Calif., over the cost of having his car parked. While someone in his crew attempts to tamp down the tension, Breezy, who is reportedly worth $22 million, can be heard yelling, “F— ten dollars … We gonna turn this whole thing on out.” The kicker? He was at the bowling alley for a charity event.

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HIV CURE: BABY BORN WITH HIV CURED

March 5, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

Doctors in the US have made medical history by effectively curing a child born with HIV, the first time such a case has been documented.

The infant, who is now two and a half, needs no medication for HIV, has a normal life expectancy and is highly unlikely to be infectious to others, doctors believe.

Though medical staff and scientists are unclear why the treatment was effective, the surprise success has raised hopes that the therapy might ultimately help doctors eradicate the virus among newborns.

Doctors did not release the name or sex of the child to protect the patient’s identity, but said the infant was born, and lived, in Mississippi state. Details of the case were unveiled on Sunday at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Atlanta.

Dr Hannah Gay, who cared for the child at the University of Mississippi medical centre, told the Guardian the case amounted to the first “functional cure” of an HIV-infected child. A patient is functionally cured of HIV when standard tests are negative for the virus, but it is likely that a tiny amount remains in their body.

“Now, after at least one year of taking no medicine, this child’s blood remains free of virus even on the most sensitive tests available,” Gay said.

“We expect that this baby has great chances for a long, healthy life. We are certainly hoping that this approach could lead to the same outcome in many other high-risk babies,” she added.

The number of babies born with HIV in developed countries has fallen dramatically with the advent of better drugs and prevention strategies. Typically, women with HIV are given antiretroviral drugs during pregnancy to minimise the amount of virus in their blood. Their newborns go on courses of drugs too, to reduce their risk of infection further. The strategy can stop around 98% of HIV transmission from mother to child.

In the UK and Ireland, around 1,200 children are living with HIV they picked up in the womb, during birth, or while being breastfed. If an infected mother’s placenta is healthy, the virus tends not to cross into the child earlier in pregnancy, but can in labour and delivery.

The problem is far more serious in developing countries. In sub-Saharan Africa, around 387,500 children aged 14 and under were receiving antiretroviral therapy in 2010. Many were born with the infection. Nearly 2 million more children of the same age in the region are in need of the drugs.

In the latest case, the mother was unaware she had HIV until after a standard test came back positive while she was in labour. “She was too near delivery to give even the dose of medicine that we routinely use in labour. So the baby’s risk of infection was significantly higher than we usually see,” said Gay.

Doctors began treating the baby 30 hours after birth. Unusually, they put the child on a course of three antiretroviral drugs, given as liquids through a syringe. The traditional treatment to try to prevent transmission after birth is a course of a single antiretroviral drug. The doctor opted for the more aggressive treatment because the mother had not received any during her pregnancy.

Several days later, blood drawn from the baby before treatment started showed the child was infected, probably shortly before birth. The doctors continued with the drugs and expected the child to take them for life.

However, within a month of starting therapy, the level of HIV in the baby’s blood had fallen so low that routine lab tests failed to detect it.

The mother and baby continued regular clinic visits to the clinic for the next year, but then began to miss appointments, and eventually stopped attending all together. The child had no medication from the age of 18 months, and did not see doctors again until it was nearly two years old.

“We did not see this child at all for a period of about five months,” Gay told the Guardian. “When they did return to care aged 23 months, I fully expected that the baby would have a high viral load.”

When the mother and child arrived back at the clinic, Gay ordered several HIV tests, and expected the virus to have returned to high levels. But she was stunned by the results. “All of the tests came back negative, very much to my surprise,” she said.

The case was so extraordinary, Dr Gay called a colleague, Katherine Luzuriaga, an immunologist at Massachusetts Medical School, who with another scientist, Deborah Persaud at Johns Hopkins Children’s Centre in Baltimore, had far more sensitive blood tests to hand. They checked the baby’s blood and found traces of HIV, but no viruses that were capable of multiplying.

The team believe the child was cured because the treatment was so potent and given swiftly after birth. The drugs stopped the virus from replicating in short-lived, active immune cells, but another effect was crucial. The drugs also blocked the infection of other, long-lived white blood cells, called CD4, which can harbour HIV for years. These CD4 cells behave like hideouts, and can replace HIV that is lost when active immune cells die.

The treatment would not work in older children or adults because the virus will have already infected their CD4 cells.

“Prompt antiviral therapy in newborns that begins within days of exposure may help infants clear the virus and achieve long-term remission without lifelong treatment by preventing such viral hideouts from forming in the first place,” said Dr Persaud. “Our next step is to find out if this is a highly unusual response to very early antiretroviral therapy or something we can actually replicate in other high-risk newborns.”

Children infected with HIV are given antiretroviral drugs with the intent to treat them for life, and Gay warned that anyone who takes the drugs must remain on them.

“It is far too early for anyone to try stopping effective therapy just to see if the virus comes back,” she said.

Until scientists better understand how they cured the child, Gay emphasised that prevention is the most reliable way to stop babies contracting the virus from infected mothers. “Prevention really is the best cure, and we already have proven strategies that can prevent 98% of newborn infections by identifying and treating HIV-positive women,” she said.

Genevieve Edwards, a spokesperson for the Terrence Higgins Trust HIV/Aids charity, said: “This is an interesting case, but I don’t think it has implications for the antenatal screening programme in the UK, because it already takes steps to ensure that 98% to 99% of babies born to HIV-positive mothers are born without HIV.”

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4 EXAMPLES OF HOW LIST PRICES ARE MEANINGLESS: LIST PRICE=FAKE PRICE

March 5, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

After reading this, I wondered why these practices were not ilegal. When almost no one pays full price, what does “full price” even mean? From cars to college to health care, consumers today are surrounded by huge markdowns—which, when you think about it, wouldn’t exist if goods and services weren’t marked up so high in the first place.

Why is the consumer landscape filled with prices that no one is really expected to pay? You know, the “original” or “compare to” prices, also known as “MSRPs,” which are typically listed right next to the actual purchase price. If almost no one pays a list price, isn’t it meaningless?

Not entirely, says Kit Yarrow, a consumer psychologist and occasional contributor to Time.com. “People really aren’t very good at calculating the worth of a product or service,” she says. “It might seem like they should be jaded, but consumers still absolutely, positively rely on list prices to determine value.”

Marketers love to use the concept of an “original” or “suggested” price as a way to convince shoppers they’re getting a can’t-pass-up bargain. As a result, we’re surrounded by initial prices that buyer and seller alike know are unrealistic and inflated, and yet that somehow serve a purpose—as a point of comparison, or as a starting point for negotiations. Life would probably be a lot less frustrating and confusing if fake “full” prices didn’t exist in many areas, including these:

Health Care Anyone who has ever looked closely at a bill from a hospital knows that the health care pricing systems in the U.S. are completely absurd. In Steven Brill’s recent TIME cover story about overinflated medical bills and why health care in general has become so expensive, many hospital representatives admitted that the initial prices listed on bills—decreed by someone or something called the “chargemaster”—are basically meaningless. “Those are not our real rates,” one hospital spokesperson told Brill, flatly, when asked about prices listed on a bill. “I’m not sure why you care.”

The justification for such as system seems to be that it allows hospitals to use a crazily inflated price as a starting point for negotiations with insurers—and also for patients who have no insurance. The argument is also made that hospitals want to be able to charge wealthy foreigners top dollar for services, with the idea that these easy profits will be used to help provide subsidized services for the poor.

The sad truth, detailed in the story by Brill, is this:

I quickly found that although every hospital has a chargemaster, officials treat it as if it were an eccentric uncle living in the attic. Whenever I asked, they deflected all conversation away from it. They even argued that it is irrelevant. I soon found that they have good reason to hope that outsiders pay no attention to the chargemaster or the process that produces it. For there seems to be no process, no rationale, behind the core document that is the basis for hundreds of billions of dollars in health care bills.

Cars The new-car purchase is probably the most obvious, well-established example of how the “sticker price” isn’t a real price. Due to auto dealership incentives and rebates, leasing and financing deals, and old-fashioned haggling, virtually no one pays the price listed on a new vehicle.

Despite the fact that consumers hate that’s it’s a hassle just to get to a final price for a new car, the system persists because, well, it just always has. Most dealerships apparently think that it’s still in their best interests to operate this way, though some admit that the process is designed for idiots.

College For decades, we’ve watched in horror as tuition and fees have soared at public and private colleges alike. Costs at state schools have increased by 40% or more overnight, while dozens of private universities have crossed over the $50K-per-year barrier.

At the same time that students and their families are instructed to freak out due to skyrocketing costs, they’re also told that it’s wise to ignore the numbers when navigating the college search. Why? Because relatively few students pay full price.

Studies have shown that thanks mostly to scholarships and financial aid private college students get a 33% discount, on average, off the full price of tuition. Many of the public and private institutions recently named as “Best Value” colleges made it to the list not because of low starting prices—but because the widespread availability of discounts brings costs down. Many students get 40% or 50% off the college list price, once grants, scholarships, and aid are factored in.

Retail Think about how many easy ways shoppers can “save” on everyday purchases—store reward programs, online coupon codes, and old-fashioned weekly sales to name three. It seems as if every price tag must point out a “Compare to” or “Original” price to demonstrate the discount being offered, and every receipt must proudly tell the customer “How Much You Saved.”

First off, this has been pointed out by loads of personal finance wonks, but it bears repeating once more: When you’re spending money, you’re not saving money. That goes even when something is “on sale.”

Secondly, the ubiquity of markdowns and discounts via sales, loyalty programs, and such has brought to light something of an existential bargain-shopper conundrum: When everything is always “on sale,” what exactly is a sale? Do the terms “full price,” “original price,” “compare-to price,” and “manufacturer’s suggested retail price” mean much of anything? Do they have any relationship to genuinely good prices?

About a year ago, JCPenney CEO Ron Johnson came clean about how the store’s original prices were fake prices cooked up mainly to make the inevitable markdowns seem more impressive and tempting to shoppers. The strategy is known as “price anchoring,” and it’s standard practice at most stores. Johnson said that perhaps 1% of all JCPenney merchandise was sold at full price—the rest was bought “on sale.” The plan was to replace fake prices with a new, “fair and square” system that got rid of pricing games involving coupons and sales.

While the new system sounded great to many consumer advocates, it proved to be a failure with shoppers, and JCP scrapped the idea. The result is shoppers should expect “sales”—and artificially inflated “original” or “suggested retail” prices—to keep appearing at JCPenney and the majority of stores out there.

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BRAND NEW IMAGES OF BLACK MALE MODEL, NGO OKAFOR

March 4, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

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Good Morning All!!! It’s Monday, a brand new day, a brand new week, a brand new opportunity to do something great. Recently, I shot with a new photographer and have posted quite a few of the pics in the photo gallery of my website. Click on the link http://www.getingo.com/ngo-gallery/, then scroll down to to check them out.

Let me know what you think.

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WORK HARDER THAN YOU THINK YOU POSSIBLY CAN: BEN AFFLEC OSCAR ACCEPTANCE SPEECH

March 2, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

Ben Afflec’s Oscar acceptance has stuck with me for quite a while now. I ususally fast-forward acceptance speeches of all kinds, because they are usually self serving and boring, but this time, I listened. I’m glad I did. Not because I like Ben Afflec, but because he has been able to show that hard work pays off. He has been able to transform himself from a so-so actor, who gets no respect, to a multiple award-winning director. I think that he has become a much better actor in the process. If you have seen “The Town”, then you’ll get what I’m saying.

This is a excerpt from his acceptance speech at The Academy Awards …because of so many of you who are here tonight, because of this Academy, because of so many wonderful people who extended themselves to me when they had nothing to benefit from it in Hollywood. You know what I mean, I couldn’t get them a job.

I want to thank them and I want to thank what they taught me, which is that you have to work harder than you think you possibly can. You can’t hold grudges. It’s hard but you can’t hold grudges. And it doesn’t matter how you get knocked down in life because that’s going to happen. All that matters is you gotta get up.

This rings true for everything in life. Allow yourself to dream, work hard and it will come true.

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VIDEO: MAN SQUATS 905 POUNDS EASILY!!!

March 2, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

Good morning, happy Saturday to you all. It’s been a while since I posted. I found this cool video of this big, black dude, squatting 905 pounds. He almost makes it look easy. Check it out.

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AFRICAN MOTHERS: BE PATIENT WITH YOUR UNMARRIED DAUGHTERS

February 18, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

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Happy Monday!!! It’s the first day of the week and I hope that we are all ready to grab the bull by the horns today. Speaking of grabbing the bull by the horns, I found an extremely well written article and wanted to share it with all of you. This article speaks to understanding and taking control of our lives. Read more…

By China Okasi, Special to CNN

Editor’s note: China Okasi, an entrepreneur and frequent commentator on various TV networks, is the founder of the Daily Mocha and executive director of Women of Media.

Moms everywhere like to ask their unmarried daughters dreaded questions like: Why are you still single? Are you married yet? Anyone catch your eye? Especially around Valentine’s Day.

Sure, we’ve seen Carrie Bradshaw agonize over the issue, watched Bridget Jones’ awkwardness around it, heard Amelie’s lamentations au Francais, and we’ve even heard from the lovable Mindy Kaling vis-a-vis her Indian-American perspective. But, we haven’t heard the modern African woman’s story.

Being an unmarried African woman in her childbearing years is like being a manicurist with a hand tremor: very odd and rather tricky. She is expected to marry early and marry well.

African mothers, then, are in a deep crisis. They immigrated to the United States with the hopes that their daughters would get a good education and fulfill the American Dream. But they never considered that, along with having all that modernity, their daughters would, like the rest of America’s young, empowered women, be so “late” in marriage.

Granted, African moms are not alone in their hopes. But still, some of them seem particularly affected. What shall they do?

Well, first, they might accept that their daughters have not just a “double consciousness,” as W. E. B. Dubois termed it, but rather infinite consciousnesses, complicating their very blackness. If an upper middle-class girl has one or more African parents, for example, she has likely schooled in the United States or Europe — maybe even a generation after her own parents have.

And she has likely spent a fair amount of time in London via Lagos, a common lifestyle practice for those of formerly colonized African countries. If she has lived down South, say in Texas, for some time, she has likely acquired a George Bush twang for survival sake. If she has taken up a neuroscience residency in Boston (which, of course, she must, if she is African), she might now sound like Matt Damon’s sister. And the minute she wins an accolade in some not-so-diverse department (which, of course, she must, being African), she’ll be labeled the “first African-American” to have done so.

In short, she is global. If she is living in a melting pot like New York, she is global on steroids. Naturally, global girls outgrow such local traditions as arranged marriages, dowry and bride price, which have not been exclusive to African tradition (see the English period drama, “Downton Abbey”) but have certainly lingered longer in homes of African descent.

African moms need to accept that globalism has allowed their daughters to know the world better, and as a result, seek partnerships more wisely. This process of self-determination takes a tad longer to form than setting up an arranged marriage.

Thankfully, my mom, educated in America, a New Yorker and rather global, has not been as insistent on marriage with me. But it seems like only yesterday her older sister, my aunt, warned about the dangers of waiting too long, or being too educated, to be married.

Really, if you’ve watched Maggie Smith’s blunt character, Lady Violet Crawley, in “Downton Abbey,” you have watched my aunt. Despite being an accomplished woman who acquired a Ph.D. later in life, she praised my graceful exit from my doctoral program. I’d just turned 21 when I’d chosen a rather eccentric doctoral study. In her words: “What man would marry a 20-something-year-old Ph.D.-holder?” It would be too intimidating to men.

“I’d do better to tone it down a bit,” she suggested. Which brings me to my second plea to African moms. If you want your daughter to be as happy or happier than you have been in marriage, it makes no sense that she should dumb down the colorfulness of her character, the boldness of her spirit and the fire that made her the “first African-American” this or that in order to appease those who are potentially intimidated by her.

If you’d never match a conservative Christian with a flagrant porn star, it’s not clear why today’s educated woman should edit herself in hopes of attracting a feeble idiot. Yes, she’d be married, but then she’d live only to repress herself for someone else’s ego — and what kind of message would that be for the children?

You see, dear African moms, global girls need global boys. Not intimidated ones.

We can sit and try to make sense of why one kind of match would work or not work for a global girl, but we must concede that love is messy and unpredictable. Love is not like your daughter’s medical career with a blueprint to follow, or like a GPS map that can calculate the distance between Addis and Accra.

Yesterday’s woman wanted marriage. Today’s woman wants love — and marriage, if it turns out that way. Olivia Pope’s character in the TV series “Scandal” spoke quite unapologetically for today’s woman when she said: “I could probably give all this up, and live in a country house and have babies and be normal. I could. But I don’t want to. I’m not built for it. I don’t want normal and easy…and simple. I want…painful, difficult…devastating…life-changing…extraordinary love.”

Extraordinary love? Sometimes, dear African moms, that process is just a little more complicated than marrying your cousin like in the 18th century. So, you’ll just have to be patient.

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A MIDNIGHT WINTER’S RUN: HOW TO GET LEAN FOR A PHOTO SHOOT OR EVENT

February 17, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

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I have a video and photo shoot today for a new exercise product, which will hit the market soon. We are negotiating terms for me to become the face of the product on TV and other media. I’ve been preparing for the shoot for a few days. I’ve stepped up my ab and cardio regimens for the past few days in order to guarantee that I’m at my leanest at the time of the shoot. I have also cut back on my carbohydrate intake. I feel ready. I will post pictures from the shoot once I get to the set. Stay tuned.

Many male and female models do severe water restriction in order to achieve maximum leanness. Many even take ‘water pills’ or diuretics. I don’t like severe water restriction , because being extremely dehydrated causes me to cramp up. I have never used ‘water pills’ or diuretics either. I choose to train harder. This is why I went out for a 4 mile run last night, a little after midnight.

Weight loss is a highly controversial use of water pills. Water is heavy and can contribute to a puffy or overweight appearance, so removing excess water is one way to shed pounds and look a little trimmer. Celebrities often use techniques to shed water weight before photo shoots and other events for this reason.

Using diuretics in this way is problematic for multiple reasons. They can create electrolyte imbalances because of how they affect sodium and potassium levels, which can cause problems such as muscle cramps and irregular heartbeat. Problems such as dizziness and fainting can happen if dehydration and a drop in blood pressure are too extreme. Lastly, the body naturally will try to replenish its supply of water once diuretic use ends, so weight loss under this method is not sustainable.

Psychologists and psychiatrists are especially concerned about the use of both water pills and laxatives in cases of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Even though these medications are not meant to be taken for an extremely long time even in cases of medical necessity, individuals suffering from these conditions use them over extended periods to keep weight as low as possible. Stopping the use often means working through intense mental and behavioral issues such as distorted body image.

Stay safe and continue to work hard!!

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THE DOG ATE MY HOMEWORK: MOST UNUSUAL EXCUSES FOR BEING LATE TO WORK

February 13, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

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Early on in my career as a model and actor, I had a reputation for being late. Part of it was cultural (in African culture, extreme lateness is accepted), but most of it was just poor time management. I’m never late now though!!!! Getting ready for work may take a few minutes for some or a few hours for others. No matter how long it takes you to head out the door, there may be some days when it seems as though the clock’s against you. According to a new CareerBuilder study, 26 percent of workers admit to being tardy at least once a month, and 16 percent are late once a week or more.

“Employers understand that every now and again circumstances will arise that are out of a worker’s control and, unfortunately, cause a late arrival to work,” says Rosemary Haefner, vice president of human resources at CareerBuilder. “It escalates to a problem when the behavior becomes repetitive, causing employers to take disciplinary action. More than one-third of hiring managers reported they had to fire someone for being late.”

Excuses, excuses
Hiring managers shared some of the most memorable excuses they’ve heard from employees who were late getting to the office. While 31 percent of workers pointed to traffic as the most common cause for tardiness, some answers were more memorable than a bad commute:

Employee dropped her purse into a coin-operated newspaper box and couldn’t retrieve it without change — which was in the purse.

Employee accidentally left the apartment with his roommate’s girlfriend’s shoes on and had to go back to change.

Employee’s angry wife had frozen his truck keys in a glass of water in the freezer.

Employee got a late start because she was putting a raincoat on her concrete duck in her front yard, because rain was expected later that day.

Employee’s car wouldn’t start because the device measuring blood-alcohol level showed he was intoxicated.

Employee attempted to cut his own hair before work and the clippers stopped working, so he had to wait until the barber shop opened to fix his hair.

Employee’s car was attacked by a bear. (Employee had photographic evidence.)

Employee drove to her previous employer by mistake.

Employee claimed to have delivered a stranger’s baby on the side of the highway.

Avoiding a late arrival

The key to being punctual and avoiding your employer’s frustration is to understand your schedule and be prepared. If you have free time in the evening, take advantage of the extra minutes and prepare your meals, clothes and bag or briefcase then. Likewise, if you need daylight to get moving, set the alarm for an earlier wake-up time to avoid rushing and running late. Also check how the weather may affect your commute, and leave ample time to get to the office. These small steps can get you to work on time and save you from trying to come up with a believable story.

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HOW TO GET SEXY MALE MODEL ABS

February 10, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

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If you treat your abs like an after thought, they will look like an after thought.

Good morning all!! It’s Sunday morning, which means that another week has come to an end and another week is set begin in a few hours. Sunday is a great day to reflect on the week past and plan/get ready for the new week. My Sundays are usually spent researching ideas and articles on varying subject matters and then write about them. Today I’m going to write about how to get sexy male model abs. I don’t have to research this topic because I live it….everyday.

Abs are the key to being successful as a model. It is especially important for someone who has a desire to become a fitness model. Abs are the ultimate measure of fitness. Ripped abs shows that you have put in the work in the gym and you have discipline to eat healthy in order to get lean. In order words, it means that you are in beast mode!!

When you walk to into a modeling agency, seeking to become a fitness model, the first thing the agent will ask is for you to take off your shirt. This request is not personal. They are not trying to put you down. The truth is that if you do not have ripped, sexy abs, you cannot work as fitness model. PERIOD!!!

In this blog post today, I will share how I got my abs to become more muscular and ripped. Contrary to what many people may say, you have to treat your abs just as you would treat any other muscle in your body. You have treat your ab muscles just as you would your chest, biceps or triceps. You have to work them hard. Many people do not train their abs until the end of their workouts and then they wonder why their abs do not grow and get ripped. If you treat your abs like an after thought, they will look like an after thought.

I will share one example of my workouts in this blog today. This way, you will get a chance to try this routine without getting overwhelmed by information. When you have tried it, please write back and let me know how you fared with it. I will share more workouts shortly, so stay tuned.

No matter what movement or body part(s) that I’m working on for each day, I begin every workout by doing 20-30 minutes of cardiovascular activity on a treadmill, bike or jumping rope. I then move on to abs, before lifting any weights. To start, I do side planks for 45 seconds on each side and then I do 60 seconds in a regular plank position. After this, I move over and do the weighted rope crunches-leg raises combination. This means that I will do a set of weighted rope crunches and then go over and do a set of leg raises, without resting. The rope crunches work the muscles in the mid to upper region of the abs and leg raises work the lower region of the abs. See the pictures of the exercises below. My goal for working my abs in this routine is to get my ab muscles stronger and make them more dense by using heavy weight on the rope crunches. I would not suggest using heavy weights on leg raises because the lower ab region is weak on most people and may cause abdominal or lower back injury.

The workout is as follows:

Weighted Cable Crunches:

1 Warm up set followed by 4 Sets of 8-10 reps

Leg raises on an incline bench:

1 warm set followed by 4 sets of 10-15 reps

Stretch out your abs and then move on to your movement/body part lift for the day. ENJOY!!!

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CHRISTOPHER DORNER: EX-LAPD OFFICER WANTED IN TRIPLE REVENGE MURDER

February 7, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

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A massive manhunt was under way Thursday for an ex-LAPD cop suspected of murdering at least two people and seeking to kill many others including police officers and their families on a vengeful rampage.Christopher Dorner — who posted what appeared to be his plan in a chilling online manifesto — was playing a deadly game of cat-and-mouse that had California cities from Los Angeles to San Diego on high alert, while officers guarded the homes of at least 40 people who could be on his hit list.

At an emotional press conference, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck cataloged the bloody trail that began Sunday with a double murder and continued Thursday — leaving one cop dead, two more wounded and two civilians shot by officers in a case of mistaken identity.

“Of course he knows what he’s doing,” Beck said of the suspect. “We trained him.”

Dorner — a 270-pound former Navy reservist who was tossed off the police force in 2008 — has an arsenal of weapons, including assault rifles, police said. Citizens were told to call 911 if they see his dark gray 2005 Nissan Titan truck, but warned not to approach him.

Dorner, 33, graduated from Southern Utah University in 2001 with a major in political and a minor in psychology. He also played football for at least two of those years, the university confirmed.

He was a lieutenant in the Navy Reserves from 2002 until this week, and earned a ribbon for rifle marksmanship and a medal for pistol expertise. He was honorably discharged.

He joined the Los Angeles Police Department in 2005 and was fired for making false statements in 2008.

Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck provides a briefing on the case of Christopher Dorner, the fired LAPD officer wanted in revenge slayings in Irvine, California.

In his 11,300-word blueprint for vengeance — a cached version of which was obtained by NBCLosAngeles.com — Dorner made it clear he is out for the blood of his perceived enemies and their loved ones.

“I never had the opportunity to have a family of my own, I’m terminating yours,” Dorner wrote in his rambling manifesto, addressing LAPD officials he blamed for ruining his career.

“Look your wives/husbands and surviving children directly in the face and tell them the truth as to why your children are dead.”

Police say Dorner began killing on Sunday.

Monica Quan, 28, and her fiancé, Keith Lawrence, 27, were fatally shot while parking their car at their apartment complex after a Super Bowl party. Quan is the daughter of retired LAPD Capt. Randy Quan, who represented Dorner at the internal review that led to his ouster.

On Wednesday, they say Dorner tried and failed to steal a boat in San Diego, Beck said. No one was hurt in that incident.

Hours later, he began targeting cops, they said.

At 1:25 a.m., in Chino, LAPD cops assigned to protect someone named in the manifesto came under fire. One cop suffered a graze wound to his head, “literally inches from killing him,” Beck said.

Twenty minutes later, in Riverside, he ambushed two cops stopped at a red light. One officer was killed and the other is in stable condition.

The attacks left cops on protection and search details across the region on edge — with tragic results.

At 5:15 a.m. in Torrance, police assigned to watch the home of a potential target got a report of a vehicle like Dorner’s in the area, and then spotted it driving with the lights off. Shots were fired and the two people in the vehicle were struck; both are expected to survive.

“Tragically we believe this was a case of mistaken identity by the officers,” Beck said.

Later in the day, dozens of cops surrounded a motel in San Diego where a man matching Dorner’s description was reported to be holed up. KNSD said police eventually confirmed the man inside was not the suspect.

“It’s extremely intense,” Sgt. Rudy Lopez said of the dragnet to capture the suspect before anyone else is killed.

“We’re trying to identify where he’s been, where he’s going. In this case, we are the targets. He’s brazen. He’s on a hunt to do whatever havoc he can.”

Dorner’s manifesto, titled “Last Resort,” is a road map of his rage over being tossed off the force. He claims that he was punished for accusing his field training officer of brutalizing a mentally disabled man.

“The attacks will stop when the department states the truth about my innocence, PUBLICLY!!!” he wrote.

Half of it chronicles the wrongs Dorner says he suffered, stretching all the way back to a racial slur used against him in the first grade. He portrays the LAPD as rife with racism, corruption and abuse.

There is a long passage in which he expresses support for an assault-weapons ban, and a plea that his brain be preserved for scientific research on the effects of depression.

The document also contains page after page of praise for friends, political figures, journalists and celebrities and opinions on issues of the day — from women in combat to the boycott of Chick-fil-A.

Mostly, though, he talks about his bloodthirsty plans. He claims his arsenal includes “Bushmaster firearms, Remington precision rifles” and silencers and boasts that his knowledge of police tactics will allow him to elude capture.

“I know I will be villified (sic) by the LAPD and the media,” he wrote. “Unfortunately, this is a necessary evil that I do not enjoy but must partake and complete for substantial change to occur within the LAPD and reclaim my name.”

Police chiefs giving press conferences in Riverside and in Los Angeles, when asked what message they have for the suspect, said they would urge him to stand down.

“I would tell him to turn himself in, said Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck. “This has gone far enough. No one else needs to die.”

Offering a similar message Riverside Police Chief Sergio Diaz said of the fugitive: “His grievances will not be further aired by further violence.”

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CALVIN KLEIN SUPERBOWL 2013 COMMERCIAL: WATCH IT NOW

February 3, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

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PEGGIELENE BARTELS: FIRST FEMALE KING OF OTUAM, GHANA

February 1, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

When Peggielene Bartels went to bed on a summer night in 2008, she was an ordinary administrative assistant living in a modest one-bedroom condo just outside Washington D.C.

But a few hours later, when a persistent ringing phone woke her up in the dead of the August night, the 55-year-old found out she was much more than simply a secretary.

At the other end of the line was Bartels’s cousin, from Otuam, a small fishing village on the coast of Ghana. Excited and humble, he congratulated her on being the new king of Otuam.

“I said, ‘listen, it’s 4 o’clock in the morning in the U.S., I am very tired, let me sleep,’” remembers Bartels. “I thought he was trying to really play games with me.”

But this was no time for games.

The previous king of Otuam, who was Bartels’s uncle, had just died. The village elders, who remembered Bartels from the times she’d visited with her mother, had decided to anoint her as their new ruler.

After the initial shock, Bartels decided to accept the kingship. Over the course of a few days, she went from being plain old Peggielene Bartels, who had worked for nearly three decades at the Ghanaian Embassy in the United States, to becoming King Peggy — the first female king of Otuam, reigning over approximately 7,000 people.

“It never ever occurred to me [that I'd be Otuam's king],” says Bartels, who’s been living in the United States since her early 20s. “I realized that on this earth, we all have a calling. We have to be ready to accept it because helping my people has really helped me a lot to know that I can really touch their lives,” she adds. “I would have really regretted it if I hadn’t really accept this calling.”

Although she still works at the Ghanaian Embassy, Bartels uses all her holiday every year to spend a month in Otuam.

King is the traditional title of Otuam’s ruler, and Bartels says she’s happy to be called a king, rather than queen, because it means she can achieve more.

“Most of the time, a king is the one who has all the executive power to do things, while the queen is mostly in charge of the children’s affairs and reporting to the king,” she says. “So I really love this.”

King Peggy was born in Takoradi, southern Ghana, in 1953. She studied in England before moving to the United States, where she became an American citizen in 1997.

But after inheriting the throne, Bartels has been living two very different lives in two different continents.

In Washington, her secretarial duties include typing letters, answering phone calls and booking appointments. In her little apartment her life is far removed from the luxuries of her royal roots.

“When I am in the United States I do everything by myself,” she explains. “I do my own laundry, I do my own cooking, I do my own driving and I do my own bed when I wake up in the morning.”

But back in Ghana, she stands out as a gold crown-wearing, scepter-holding king who lives in a refurbished palace. Otuam residents usually address her as “Nana” — an honorary title given to royalty but also to women with grandchildren — and bow when they see her.

“When I am back home they see me as their king and they want to pamper me,” she says.

“They have to cook for me, they have to carry me around and they have to protect me from people. They want to do everything for me which I usually refuse … Sometimes I say to them ‘please, don’t bow.’ I just want them to be free and comfortable so that way we can really address issues.”

But beyond the bows, the royal attire and certain luxuries that come with her title, being a king in an impoverished place like Otuam is all about dealing with the pressing needs of the community and improving the lives of the people, says Bartels.

“To be a king in an African village or some places like this, it’s not like European queens where everything is on a silver platter for them,” she says. “I have to really work hard to help my people. I have to give myself to people to better their lives.”

In the last few years, she’s helped poor families pay school fees for their children and brought computers to classrooms. With the help of other Americans she’s also provided Otuam with its first ambulance, as well as access to clean, running water. Her next priority, she says, is to bring state-of-the-art toilets to Otuam.

And even when she’s not in Ghana, her royal duties do not stop; she wakes up at 1am every morning to call Otuam and be informed about what’s happening in the community.

“I talk to my regent, I talk to my elders,” Bartels says. “If there is something that I want to know, they tell me. If there is something that I want them to do, I tell them.”

Last year, King Peggy’s real-life fairy tale was documented in a book written by her and author Eleanor Herman. And now she says her amazing life journey from secretary to king will be told in a film, after Hollywood star Will Smith bought the rights to the book.

“Next year, God willing, we are going to have a movie out there,” says King Peggy. “Queen Latifah is going to play me and I’m so happy to at least let the whole world know that a secretary can become a king and lead wisely and help the people.”

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BRAZIL NIGHTCLUB FIRE CLAIMS 233 YOUNG LIVES

January 28, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

Santa Maria, Brazil (CNN) — Guitarist Rodrigo Martins was preparing to launch into the sixth song of his band’s set when he saw embers fall.

The acoustic foam insulation on the ceiling of the KISS nightclub in the southern Brazilian city of Santa Maria was on fire, and it was beginning to spread.
The hot ash fell onto the stage and dance floor.

In front of him, a sea of people who moments earlier were dancing and singing along to the country-pop sounds of his band Gurizada Fandangueira began to realize something was wrong.

Suddenly, concert-goers were stampeding toward the club’s only exit, pushing and shoving each other trying to get out.Then, according to investigators and witnesses, somebody fell in the narrow, dark hallway that led to the windowless exit.
And then another person fell.And then another.

It was the last weekend of Brazil’s summer break for many of the students, and the KISS nightclub was packed early Sunday with young people, many of whom attended one of a number of universities and colleges in Santa Maria.

At least 231 people died and hundreds more were injured in the fire that authorities believe began about 2:30 a.m. Sunday when the band’s pyrotechnic show ignited insulation material.
Many apparently died from smoke inhalation. Others were trampled in the rush for the exits.
Of the dead, 101 were students at the Federal University of Santa Maria.
Another 120 remained hospitalized Monday morning, 79 in critical condition, authorities said.
About 2,000 people were inside the club when the fire broke out — double the maximum capacity of 1,000, said Guido de Melo, a state fire official.

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The roof collapsed in several parts of the building, trapping many inside. Firefighters found piles of bodies in the club’s bathroom.It looked, said state lawmaker Valderci Oliveira, “like a war zone.”

For others, escaping was complicated by the fact that guards initially stopped people from leaving, said a reporter from CNN affiliate Band News, echoing comments from the state fire official.
“Some guards thought at first that it was a fight, a huge fight that happened inside the club and closed the doors so that the people could not leave without paying their bills from the club,” the reporter, Glauber Fernandes, said.But Rodrigo Moura, a nightclub security guard, said the fire moved fast.”All of a sudden the fire just took off and was all around us. We tried to tell people to get out,” he said.

The owners of the nightclub, meanwhile, pledged to cooperate with the investigation into the fire, according to a statement released by the law firm of Kummel & Kummel.
“We are open to all authorities and inspections,” said the statement, obtained by Globo TV.
The club’s license had expired in August and had not been renewed, a local fire official told Globo TV.The owners, however, said the nightclub was properly permitted and had been inspected by the fire marshal.

The band, Gurizada Fandangueira, was a popular attraction at KISS in part because of its pyrotechnic show, according to Billboard.com. It played at the nightclub about once a month, and was there Sunday to promote a new album.Martins, the guitarist, told Radio Gaucha the band had been on stage for about 20 minutes, finishing the fifth song of its set, when it set off its “sputnik” pyrotechnics — sparkler columns that shoot up in the air.”We used it all the time. …We never had this problem before,” he told the radio station late Sunday.

Martins said he first noticed a small ember, and then he looked up at the ceiling and saw the flames.A backstage hand attempted to put out the blaze with a fire extinguisher. “But, it didn’t work,” he said.Martins said as he and the other band members got off the stage, there were 20 to 30 people in front of him who were “being blocked by security.”People started pushing and shoving, and then they tripped over one another to the door.Martins said the band’s accordion player, 28-year-old Danilo Jacques, died in the fire. “I saw him, and then I lost him in the crowd.”

Esequiel Corte Real and his friends arrived late for the show and ended up with what they thought was one of the worst locations to watch — by the exit.
The same happened with Norton Basson and his friends, who were at the club to celebrate his 29th birthday.
They are alive, they believe, because of where they were — making them among the first to make it out alive.
After the fire started, the dark, narrow hallway that led to KISS nightclub’s exit was choked with smoke and people trying to find their way out.
Outside, Corte Real and his friends could hear the screams of people trying to escape.
He told Globo TV that he and his friends ran back in to the club to try to help.
They pulled out one body. Then two more.
“Somebody must be alive,” he said.
Basson and his friends, meanwhile, grabbed rocks, sticks and an axe they found at a nearby building and began trying to knock a hole in the side of the club to help those trapped inside. Others soon joined them with shovels and more axes.
Firefighters used the hole Basson and his friends created to get inside the club.
There, they were greeted by the eerie sounds of cell phones ringing in the pockets and purses of the dead. Many of the calls were from parents desperate to reach their children.

The missing
Later Sunday, family members wept as they searched for information outside a local gymnasium where bodies were taken for identification.
Inside, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff met with relatives as they waited on bleachers for word of their loved ones. She had been attending a regional summit in Chile, but cut short the trip and returned to Brazil early to deal with the aftermath of the tragedy.
“The Brazilian people are the ones who need me today,” she said. “I want to tell the people of Santa Maria in this time of sadness that we are all together.”
Ericmar Avila Dos Santos went from hospital to hospital Sunday, searching for his 23-year-old brother.
Hours earlier, he learned in a telephone call from a friend that his older brother was among those missing following the fire.
His family scanned lists, talked with police officials. They checked with friends, searched everywhere.
They finally found him — among hundreds of bodies laid out on body bags at a makeshift morgue at a local gym.
Rhode Island victims ‘can’t help but watch’
“I was supposed to go with him. I didn’t feel like going out. He ended up there without me,” Avila Dos Santos said, openly sobbing over his brother’s coffin outside the gym.
On Monday, the first of Brazil’s three days of mourning, the three cemeteries in the city of 260,000 were packed with families readying to bury their dead.
Among them: Avila Dos Santos’ family.
“We did everything together. We were even studying the same major,” he said, remembering his brother. “Now that he’s gone, I’m lost. I don’t know what I’m going to do with my life.”

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NOROVIRUS STOMACH BUG: WHAT IS IT? WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS?

January 25, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

A new strain of norovirus accounted for 58% of the reported cases of what some people call “stomach flu” last month.

As if this year’s robust flu season weren’t enough, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports today that a new strain of the vomiting disease norovirus has reached the USA from Australia. Last month, the bug, which causes nausea, forceful vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain, accounted for 58% of outbreaks of norovirus nationally.

It’s not clear whether this strain is more likely to infect people or make them more ill than previous strains, but according to Aron Hall, an epidemiologist with the CDC’s division of viral diseases, any time a new strain emerges, it has the potential to increase disease “because people haven’t been exposed to it before, so they’re more susceptible.”

The norovirus season typically runs from November through March and peaks in January.

“This year, that unfortunately coincides with an early increase in flu season,” Hall said. Some people mistakenly call norovirus “stomach flu,” but aside from timing, “there’s no connection between them at all,” he said.

Norovirus typically begins very suddenly and lasts one to three days. Most people recover without treatment, but some require rehydration with liquids or intravenous fluids. The disease is most severe in the elderly and can also hit young children hard. Every year, more than 21 million Americans become infected with acute stomach bugs, called gastroenteritis by doctors, and approximately 800 die, according to the CDC. Much of that is probably from norovirus, Hall said.

The new strain was first detected in Australia last March and has caused outbreaks in several other countries. From September through December, it was the leading cause of norovirus outbreaks in the USA, according to this week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the CDC. Norovirus mutates rapidly, and new strains are common, typically showing up every two or three years, said Jan Vinjé, director of CaliciNet, an outbreak surveillance network for noroviruses in the USA.

Norovirus is extremely contagious. The best protection is vigilant hand washing with soap and water. If surfaces may have been contaminated, the CDC recommends disinfecting them with a diluted bleach solution made of five to 25 tablespoons of household bleach to a gallon of water.

Researchers are working to create a vaccine for norovirus, but nothing is ready for the market, Vinjé said. “I think in the next five to 10 years, probably closer to 10,” he said.

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MOVE YOUR BODY!! EXERCISE CAN DRAMATICALLY CURE AND PREVENT DISEASE

January 25, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

It wasn’t too long ago that people with conditions such as high blood pressure, high blood sugar, arthritis, asthma and heart disease, were told by Physicians to “take it easy”,”stay in bed” or ingest several medications in order to stabilize these conditions. Today, there is little doubt how the impact of lifestyle changes, including exercise, can dramatically prevent, treat and even cure many of these ailments.

Any sustained movement, like walking, bicycling, swimming, or cross-country skiing, will reduce the risk of several life-threatening diseases, such as coronary heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, and possibly cancer. Exercise does not need to be boring, expensive, time-consuming, or inconvenient. Moderate forms of exercise will give the benefits needed to prevent disease. Gardening, dancing, walking, household chores, and even shopping expeditions can give you enough exercise to meet the daily requirement. All that’s needed to personalize your fitness plan is a creative and adventurous spirit.

Exercise v.s. diet is often the debate that many health professionals evaluate. By examining each disease through clinical trials, we can better determine the efficacy of both exercise and diet in the treatment of many common ailments. Diet, for example, is the cornerstone of diabetes care, but if diet is combined with exercise, diabetics dramatically improve their condition by more than 45% than with diet alone. “The problem with our health today, is that people are just not moving enough. You’re talking about a dramatic decrease in our level of physical activity from just 30 to 50 years ago. That’s a relatively insignificant amount of time for our bodies to adapt in comparison to the activity levels we had evolved to before the technological era. This combined with irresponsible eating habits is creating the health crisis you see before you today.”

For people with chronic ailments, exercise used to be viewed as asking for trouble. However, current evidence suggests that in both health and disease, the overall prognosis is better for the exerciser than for the sedentary. For example, a recent study showed that intensive workouts can not only slow the progress of coronary disease, but actually restore lost coronary function when the disease is still stable.

Clinical trials indicate that exercise can help reduce the pain and joint damage caused by arthritis, decrease attacks and the need for medication in asthma sufferers, and ease anxiety and depression. Other research 11indicates that regular workouts may cut the risk of symptomatic gallstones by one-third. Exercise has also recently be found to reduce the side effects of chemotherapy and improve adherence to such treatment.

For chronically ill individuals, the psychological as well as physical benefits of exercise can be profound. Even ten minutes of light exercise a day, can help most chronically ill patients feel more vibrant, energetic and alert.

One of the most effective killers in North America is cardiovascular disease. It is also a disease which is so easily preventable through proper exercise and diet. Out of a recent study conducted by Consumers Reports, almost 60% of people who had heart conditions, reported that exercise and diet (types of exercise and diet were not specified) helped them feel much better. Hypertension, a common precursor to cardiovascular disease is also directly influenced, treated and prevented by supervised exercise and diet.

Studies still show that most doctors still fail to advise patients about lifestyle changes to prevent and treat disease. Economic pressure for briefer doctor visits, lack of formal training in nutrition, exercise and lifestyle medicine, seem to underlie doctors’ poor performance in this area.

People with chronic medical problems should insist their health-care providers give them information on how execise and lifestyle changes can affect the course of a disease. If patients cannot obtain this information from their doctors, they should find an appropriate health professional who can.

The Chart below indicates the maximum improvement for both diet and exercise for 6 common disorders, based on well designed clinical trials. These lifestyle changes can also lead to weight loss, which eases many of these disorders, thus increasing the maximum improvement.

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NGO OKAFOR IN THE 40 UNDER 40 FOR APPLAUSE AFRICA MAGAZINE

January 24, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

On the evening of December 8, 2012 approximately 300 people gathered in New York City for the African Diaspora Awards (ADA) at the SVA Theater to celebrate excellence. The star studded event was hosted by actress Ebbe Bassey from Nigeria and South African radio personality Sduduzo Ka-Mbili, with highlight performances by Les Nubians and Nigerian sensation Bez as well as an impromptu performance by Grammy Award Winning artist Angélique Kidjo.

Notable faces included boxer and actor Ngo Okafor, movie director Andrew Dosunmu, supermodel Oluchi Orlandi, supermodel Ayan Elmi, former America’s next top model runner up Aminat Ayinde, Mid Atlantic Committee Co-Chair of the African Women’s Development Fund USA and President Emerita of the Africa-America Institute,

The African Diaspora Awards is a special initiative of Applause Africa that aims to identify and celebrate exemplary Africans who have excelled in various spheres of life, as well as individuals in society who have contributed to the advancement of Africans in the Diaspora and Africa as a whole.

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RUNNING GETS YOU RIPPED! THE BEST RUNNING SHOE FOR YOUR FEET AND WHY

January 22, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

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RUNNING GETS YOU RIPPED!!! Contrary to what many people may say, I am living proof that running burns the most calories, helps with weight loss and wll bget you lean. When boxers and wrestlers need to lose weight and get to their fighting weight, what do they do; THEY RUN!!! Running is tough and not everybody can do it. Before you embark on a running program, be sure to consult a physician.

Before you get out there and start running, you must make sure that you have the proper equipment. YOU MUST HAVE PROPER SHOES IN ORDER TO PREVENT INJURY!!! To figure out what type of running shoes you should buy, you first need to know that kind of feet you have. A knowledgeable salesperson at a running specialty store can help you find the right running shoe for your foot type, but you can also figure out what type of foot you have on your own. One way is to just look at your foot. A more accurate method is to examine your footprint by either running in the sand or on paper with wet feet.

There are three different types of feet:

Flat Feet

If you’re looking at your foot, you’ll know you have flat feet if you don’t see any arch. The bottom of your foot, from your toes to your heel, is completely flat. If you do the footprint test, your print will look like a foot-shaped blob. You won’t see an inward curve from your big toe to your heel.

Problem? If you’re flat-footed, you’re most likely an overpronator, which means that your feet roll inward when you run.

What to Buy: You will probably need a running shoe that maintains your stability. Look for the words “motion control” and “stability” on the box of running shoes you are considering. In addition to motion-control shoes, some flat-footed runners also need to wear orthotics (custom-made shoe inserts that correct foot issues).

High-arched Feet

You should be able to easily determine if you have high arches — you’ll notice a high and definite arch on your foot. If you do the footprint test, your print will curve inward, making the middle part of your foot look very skinny. When you push your hand against the bottom of your foot, your arch will stay rigid.

Problem? If you have high arches, you probably supinate or underpronate, which means your feet roll outwards as you run. It’s very important that runners with high arches periodically re-measure their feet because running will cause their arches to gradually fall, making their feet longer.

What to Buy: You need to look for flexible running shoes with a soft midsole that absorbs shock. When buying running shoes, look for options with the words “flexible” or “cushioned” included in their descriptions.

Neutral or Normal Feet

If you’ve examined your foot or your footprint and it doesn’t look flat-footed or high-arched, you most likely have a neutral or normal foot. Your footprint will have a noticeable curve inward, but not by more than 3/4 of an inch.

Problem? As long as you pick a running shoe that doesn’t counteract your foot type, you shouldn’t encounter any problems. This is the most common type of foot, and it’s also the least susceptible to injury provided it’s outfitted with proper footwear.

What to Buy: If you have normal feet, you can choose from a wide variety of running shoes, including ones made for neutral runners or those with slightly flat-footed or high-arched feet. Don’t pick running shoes that have a lot of stability or motion control.

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WORRY NO MORE! 5 TIPS TO HELP YOU QUIT WORRYING

January 21, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

Its Monday morning. its Martin Luther King day. I lay in bed for a few moments reflecting on Dr. King’s life and legacy. what will my legacy be? i start to worry. We have all been through it – Worrying ourselves nearly to death over something that usually never happens and things that are out of our control. Here are five tips to eliminate or either help you reduce anxiety and quit worrying!

5 Ways To Quit Worrying:

1. Get Busy: Do not sit in idle mode with your thoughts running rampant. Do something productive. Try reading a book, go dancing, exercise, go on an outing with the family, and or watch a funny movie or television show. Find a good distraction. Quit Worrying.

2. Listen to Music: Good positive music is such a wonderful thing and most often it relieves you of all anxiety and worry. Let the melody of a great song take you to another place and escape the stressors of the moment. Let the music move you, relax you.

3. Meditate and Pray: You must find time to relax and for many there is no better way to accomplish this than through prayer and meditation. Practice inhaling and exhaling. With each exhale, feel the worry and anxiety leave your being. Release it. No worries. If you pray, quit worrying.

4. Be Thankful: When worry starts to show its ugly head, immediately begin to be thankful. Count your blessings. Shift your thoughts. By shifting your thoughts, you will shift the atmosphere. When you shift the atmosphere, your reality changes. Be thankful and know that whatever may be, you’re more than equipped to handle it. Quit worrying!

5. Have a GOOD CRY: Yes that’s right, CRY! Get it out. Let out all those pent up emotions and anxiety. Ever wonder why after a good cry you seem to feel much better? Well it’s simply because you’re releasing stress and worry. Don’t keep your emotions bottled up. Get them out- remember the old saying, “There’s more room on the outside than the inside.”

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BLACK MALE MODEL, NGO OKAFOR IN A PHOTO SHOOT AT PEAK PERFORMANCE NYC

January 20, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

Here are the photos and videos from my shoot today at Peak Performance in New York City. Find some of the cool images at the bottom of the post. More images coming from the photographer shortly. Stay tuned

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MANTI TE’O TOLD HIS FATHER AND FAMILY THAT HE MET HIS ONLINE GIRLFRIEND

January 19, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

Manti Te’o — one of the best defenders this season in college football — defended himself in an ESPN interview Friday night, saying there was no way he was part of a hoax involving a deceased girlfriend.

“I wasn’t faking it,” he told ESPN’s Jeremy Schaap in an off -camera interview highlighted on the network. “I wasn’t part of this.”

For the past few days, the former Notre Dame linebacker has been the subject of ridicule after reports surfaced that the girlfriend he’d gushed about and said died this fall of leukemia never existed.

Te’o rose to national prominence by leading the Fighting Irish to an undefeated regular season, amassing double-digit tackle games and becoming the face of one of the best defenses in the nation.

As he and his team excelled, Te’o told interviewers in September and October that his grandmother and girlfriend — whom he described as a 22-year-old Stanford University student — had died within hours of each other.

The twin losses inspired him to honor them with sterling play on the field, Te’o said. He led his team to a 20-3 routing of Michigan State after he heard the news.

“I miss ‘em, but I know that I’ll see them again one day,” he told ESPN.

He was second in the Heisman race and led his team to the championship game, losing to Alabama.

The fairy tale story ended on Wednesday when sports website Deadspin published a piece dismissing as a hoax the existence of Te’o's girlfriend and suggesting he was complicit.

Te’o released a statement on Wednesday saying he was a victim of a hoax but Friday night was the first time he publicly addressed the issue.

“When (people) hear the facts, they’ll know,” Te’o told ESPN. “They’ll know that there is no way that I could be part of this.”

After a two-and-a-half hour interview, veteran sports reporter Schaap said Te’o's story sounded convincing.

“He made a very convincing witness to his defense,” Schapp said on ESPN. “He answered all my questions pretty convincingly. If he is making up his side of the story, he is a very convincing actor.”

The twisted tale of the Heisman Trophy runner-up and the mystery woman named Lennay Kekua has left many with questions.

Te’o sought to answer many of them Friday night.

Who created the hoax?

Te’o told Schaap that the hoax was created by a man named Ronaiah Tuiasosopo and that Te’o had no role in creating the hoax.

He said Tuiasosopo contacted him Wednesday via Twitter and explained that he created the hoax and he apologized, Schaap said. Tuiasosopo told Te’o he created the hoax along with another man and a woman, ESPN reported. CNN has not seen the tweets Te’o allegedly got from Tuiasosopo.

“Two guys and a girl are responsible for the whole thing,” Te’o said, according to ESPN.

CNN has been to the California home of Tuiasosopo, but could not get a response to the accusations.

Tuiasosopo was also named in Wednesday’s Deadspin article. That article implied that both Te’o and Tuiasosopo perpetuated the hoax.

Why did relatives say they had met her?

In September and October, when the story of Te’o and his girlfriend was getting a lot of press, there were several vivid stories about how they met. There was one written by South Bend Tribune in Indiana, the newspaper of Notre Dame’s hometown, that said the couple met at a football game in Palo Alto, California, in 2009.

Te’o's father is quoted in the article that gushed about them shaking hands, exchanging phone numbers and sparking a love affair.

On Friday,Te’o said he lied to his father about meeting Kekua because he was embarrassed to tell his family that he was in love with a woman he never met.

“I knew that — I even knew that it was crazy that I was with somebody that I didn’t meet,” he told ESPN. “And that alone, people find out that this girl who died I was so invested in, and I didn’t meet her as well.”

The lie he told his father led his family to tell reporters that Te’o had met his girlfriend, he told ESPN.

Why continue to talk about her after December 6 phone call?

Te’o received a call from a woman claiming to be his girlfriend on December 6, telling him she was not dead, Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick said at a news conference this week. Those calls continued, but Te’o did not answer, Swarbrick said.

The Heisman Trophy was awarded two days later, and Te’o continued to make comments about losing his girlfriend.

In the ESPN interview Te’o said he wasn’t fully convinced that it was a hoax until Wednesday, Schaap said. That is why he continued to speak about and answer media questions about Kekua.

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LANCE ARMSTRONG CONFESSES TO USING DRUGS IN OPRAH WINFREY INTERVIEW

January 18, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

Calling himself “deeply flawed,” now-disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrongsays he used an array of performance enhancing drugs to win seven Tour de France titles then followed that by years of often-angry denials.

“This is too late, it’s too late for probably most people. And that’s my fault,” he said in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired Thursday night. “(This was) one big lie, that I repeated a lot of times.”

Armstrong admitted using testosterone and human growth hormone, as well as EPO — a hormone naturally produced by human kidneys to stimulate red blood cell production. It increases the amount of oxygen that can be delivered to muscles, improving recovery and endurance.

In addition to using drugs, the 2002 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year admitted to Winfrey that he took blood transfusions to excel in the highly competitive, scandal-ridden world of professional cycling. Doping was as much a part of the sport as pumping up tires or having water in a bottle, Armstrong said, calling it “the scariest” that he didn’t consider it cheating at the time.

The same man who insisted throughout and after his career that he’d passed each of the “hundreds and hundreds of tests I took” contended in the interview that he wouldn’t have won without doing what he did. While Armstrong didn’t invent the culture of doping in cycling, he said, he admitted not acting to prevent it either.

“I made my decisions,” Armstrong said. “They are my mistakes.”

Armstrong: I was “a bully”

The first installment in his interview, which was conducted earlier this week with the talk-show host, aired Thursday on the OWN cable network and on the Internet. The second installment will be broadcast Friday night.

Armstrong admitted he was “a bully … in the sense that I tried to control the narrative,” sometimes by spewing venom at ex-teammates he thought were “disloyal,” as well as suing people and publications that accused him of cheating.

He described himself as “a fighter” whose story of a happy marriage, recovery from cancer and international sporting success “was so perfect for so long.”

“I lost myself in all of that,” he said, describing himself as both a “humanitarian” and a “jerk” who’d been “arrogant” for years. “I was used to controlling everything in my life.”

The scandal has tarred the cancer charity Livestrong that he founded, as well as tarnished his once-glowing reputation as a sports hero.

Those who spoke out against Armstrong at the height of his power and popularity not only felt his wrath but the wrath of an adoring public.

Now, with Armstrong stripped of endorsement deals and his titles, those who did speak out are feeling vindicated.

They include Betsy Andreu, wife of fellow cyclist Frankie Andreu, who said she overheard Armstrong acknowledge to a doctor treating him for cancer in 1996 that he had used performance-enhancing drugs. She later testified about the incident and began cooperating with a reporter working on a book about doping allegations against Armstrong.

Armstrong subsequently ripped her, among others. More recently, he said he’d reached out to her to apologize — in what Andreu called “a very emotional phone call.”

“This was a guy who used to be my friend, who decimated me,” Andreu told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Thursday night. “He could have come clean. He owed it to me. He owes it to the sport that he destroyed.”

In his interview with Winfrey, Armstrong said he understands why many might be upset that it took him so long to speak out, especially after going on the offensive for so long. He said he’s reached out in recent days to several people, such as Andreu, who publicly accused him of doping and then were attacked — and in some cases sued — by him.

And the former athletic icon also conceded he’d let down many fans “who believed in me and supported me” by being adamant, sometimes hurtful and consistently wrong in his doping denials.

“They have every right to feel betrayed, and it’s my fault,” he said. “I will spend the rest of my life … trying to earn back trust and apologize to people.”

Years of success and defiance, then a rapid fall

The Texas-born Armstrong grew up to become an established athlete, including winning several Tour de France stages. But his sporting career ground to a halt in 1996 when he was diagnosed with cancer. He was 25.

He returned to the cycling world, however. His breakthrough came in 1999, and he didn’t stop as he reeled off seven straight wins in his sport’s most prestigious race. Allegations of doping began during this time, as did Armstrong’s defiance, including investigations and a lawsuit against the author of a book accusing him of taking performance enhancing drugs.

He left the sport after his last win, in 2005, only to return to the tour in 2009.

Armstrong insisted he was clean when he finished third that year, but that comeback led to his downfall.

“We wouldn’t be sitting here if I didn’t come back,” he told Winfrey.

In 2011, Armstrong retired once more from cycling. But his fight to maintain his clean reputation wasn’t over, including a criminal investigation launched by federal prosecutors.

That case was dropped in February. But in April, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency notified Armstrong of an investigation into new doping charges. In response, the cyclist accused the organization of trying to “dredge up discredited” doping allegations and, a few months later, filed a lawsuit in federal court trying to halt the case.

In retrospect, Armstrong told Winfrey he “would do anything to go back to that day.”

“Because I wouldn’t fight, I wouldn’t sue them, I’d listen,” he said, offering to speak out about doping in the future.

The USADA found “overwhelming” evidence that Armstrong was involved in “the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program.”

In August, Armstrong said he wouldn’t fight the charges, though he didn’t admit guilt either.

And the hits kept on coming.

In October, the International Cycling Union stripped him of all his Tour de France titles. Even then, he remained publicly defiant, tweeting a photo of himself a few weeks later lying on a sofa in his lounge beneath the seven framed yellow jerseys from those victories.

Then the International Olympic Committee stripped him of the bronze medal he won in the men’s individual time trial at the 2000 Olympic Games and asked him to return the award, an IOC spokesman said Thursday.

The USOC was notified Wednesday that the IOC wants the medal back, USOC spokesman Patrick Sandusky said.

“We will shortly be asking Mr. Armstrong to return his medal to us, so that we can return it to the IOC.”

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NIGERIA’S SUPER EAGLES FOOTBALL TEAM LINEUP FOR NATIONS CUP IN SOUTH AFRICA

January 17, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

Goalkeepers: Vincent Enyeama (Maccabi Tel Aviv, Israel); Austin Ejide (Hapoel Be’er Sheba, Israel); Chigozie Agbim (Enugu Rangers, Nigeria)

Defenders: Elderson Echiejile (SC Braga, Portugal); Juwon Oshaniwa (Ashdod FC, Israel); Joseph Yobo (Fenerbahce, Turkey); Efe Ambrose (Celtic FC, Scotland); Azubuike Egwuekwe (Warri Wolves, Nigeria); Kenneth Omeruo (ADO Den Haag, Netherlands); Godfrey Oboabona (Sunshine Stars, Nigeria)

Midfielders: John Mikel Obi (Chelsea FC, England); Nosa Igiebor (Real Betis, Spain); Ogenyi Onazi (SS Lazio, Italy); Obiora Nwankwo (Calcio Padova, Italy); Fegor Ogude (Valerenga FC, Norway); Reuben Gabriel (Kano Pillars, Nigeria);

Forwards: Ahmed Musa ( CSKA Moscow, Russia); Emmanuel Emenike (Spartak Moscow, Russia); Victor Moses (Chelsea FC, England); Sunday Mba (Enugu Rangers, Nigeria); Ikechukwu Uche (Villarreal FC, Spain); Brown Ideye (Dynamo Kyiv, Ukraine); Ejike Uzoenyi (Enugu Rangers, Nigeria)

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MANTI TE’O: IS THE NOTRE DAME LINEBACKER CRAZY OR JUST SEEKING ATTENTION?

January 17, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

I walked in to my apartment yesterday after a long day of work, plopped down on the couch and turned on the TV. My TV was on CNN and Anderson Cooper 360 was on. The story that he was talking about the Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o, who is supposed to be drafted in the first round to the NFL. As I watched, the story got more and more bizzare. Manti Te’o said Wednesday he was the victim of a “sick joke” that had him and legions of fans believing in a “girlfriend” who may never have existed.

Te’o was the subject of an inspirational story in which he overcame the deaths of his real-life grandmother and his girlfriend as his team marched toward the BCS National Championship Game.

Te’o, the Heisman Trophy runner-up, released a statement and Notre Dame held a news conference Wednesday night after the sports website Deadspin published an article that called the girlfriend story a hoax.

Last September and October, Te’o told interviewers the losses of the women, who reportedly died within hours of each other, inspired him to honor them with sterling play on the field.

“I miss ‘em, but I know that I’ll see them again one day,” he told ESPN.

That and other media reports led to a gripping human interest story of determination. The girlfriend was identified as Lennay Kekua, who had supposedly died of leukemia.

Jack Swarbrick, director of athletics at Notre Dame, told reporters that Te’o was the victim of an elaborate hoax. “And he will carry that with him for a while,” Swarbrick said. Investigators don’t know how many people may have participated in the hoax, he said.

Notre Dame said the relationship between Te’o and the supposed girlfriend involved online and lengthy telephone communication.

As part of the hoax, several meetings were set up, including in Hawaii, but Kekua never showed, Swarbrick said. The linebacker grew up in Hawaii.

Te’o's father, Brian, told the South Bend (Indiana) Tribune last fall that his son did have the opportunity to meet Kekua.

“They started out as just friends,” Brian Te’o said, according to the newspaper. “Every once in a while, she would travel to Hawaii, and that happened to be the time Manti was home, so he would meet with her there. But within the last year, they became a couple.”

Media reports indicate the parents never met Kekua.

According to Swarbrick, Te’o in early December received a call from a woman claiming to be his girlfriend and telling him she was not dead. Those calls continued but Te’o did not answer, Swarbrick said.

Te’o's grandmother did in fact die in September, according to Deadspin, but there is no Social Security Administration record of the death of the athlete’s supposed girlfriend, described as a Stanford University student.

Stanford University’s registrar’s office told CNN that it has never had a student registered by Kekua’s name or an alternative spelling.

“Outside of a few Twitter and Instagram accounts, there’s no online evidence that Lennay Kekua ever existed,” Deadspin contends. “There was no Lennay Kekua.”

According to the website, Kekua, 22, had reportedly been in a serious auto accident in California and was later diagnosed with leukemia.

Photographs showing a young woman identified as Kekua in online tributes and news reports actually are photos from social media accounts of a 22-year-old California woman who is not named Lennay Kekua and does not have leukemia, according to Deadspin. The woman never met Te’o, it said.

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After Notre Dame upset No. 10 Michigan State on September 15, Te’o told ABC about his late grandmother and girlfriend.

“They were with me. I couldn’t do it without them,” Te’o said. “I couldn’t do it without the support of my family and my girlfriend’s family.”

“I’m so happy that I had a chance to honor my grandma and my family and my girlfriend,” Te’o said. “That’s what it’s all about, family.”

Timothy Burke, co-author of the Deadspin article, told Miami sports radio host Dan Le Batard, “We got an e-mail last week saying something isn’t right” with the girlfriend story.

Te’o said Wednesday he “developed an emotional relationship with a woman I met online. We maintained what I thought to be an authentic relationship by communicating frequently online and on the phone, and I grew to care deeply about her.”

In his statement reported by ESPN, the star said, “To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone’s sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating.

“It further pains me that the grief I felt and the sympathies expressed to me at the time of my grandmother’s death in September were in any way deepened by what I believed to be another significant loss in my life.”

Manti Te’o previously told reporters he and his girlfriend would spend hours speaking on the phone.

Notre Dame said it hired an independent investigative firm to look into the situation.

Swarbrick said the independent investigation found that the perpetrators were involved in “online chatter” indicating that it was a hoax, and Te’o was a victim.

“I will refer you to the documentary ‘Catfish,’” the athletic director said.

“Catfish” is no longer simply a river dweller, but rather a verb defined as “to pretend to be someone you’re not online by posting false information, such as someone else’s pictures, on social media sites usually with the intention of getting someone to fall in love with you,” according to an MTV show of the same name.

Swarbrick said he met with Te’o's family two days before Notre Dame played in the January 7 championship game and lost to Alabama. The linebacker is expected to be a first-round pick in the NFL draft this spring.

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CNN marked a milestone Monday. Just before noon, the @cnnbrk account topped 10 million followers on Twitter. That puts our Twitter account in the company of Lady Gaga, President Barack Obama and Cristiano Ronaldo.

To mark the occasion, it’s worth reflecting how we got here.

The first tweet on @cnnbrk wasn’t news, and it wasn’t written by an employee of CNN.

“Testing” is what James Cox tweeted in January 2007.

Cox said he started the account as a way to receive CNN’s breaking news alerts on his phone. The account started to grow and gain attention. Journalist and fellow developer Brian Boyer posted this to his blog back in 2008: “@cnnbrk ain’t CNN but with >30K followers, he owns the brand.”

Cox wrote a response to that post: “I’ve been in contact with CNN — they won’t sue, i’m fairly sure, however i’m constantly dealing with the problem of confusion — users still think that @cnnbrk is an official feed, therefore making me a defacto CNN employee, which is a problem.”

We didn’t sue, but we did work out a deal to get the handle.

As we celebrate reaching the 10-million-follower mark, Cox is the first person we should thank.

The second person to thank, naturally, is Ashton Kutcher. In 2009, he challenged CNN to a competition to see who could first reach 1 million followers. Kutcher won. At more than 13 million followers, @aplusk is still in the lead. And we’re still coming after him.

We have a simple approach to @cnnbrk, and we believe that’s one of the keys to its success. Breaking news, from an organization that built its brand on breaking news. Straight up.

Some of our most retweeted items include colorful observations from events such as last year’s conventions, slightly offbeat news and old-fashioned big breaking news.

This isn’t to say we aren’t still “testing.”

We haven’t always been first. It’s rare that we get it wrong, but when we do, we’ve tried to be transparent about it. We believe that’s another key to our success.

And we have a dash of fun on occasion.

The CNN homepage team has managed @cnnbrk for the past three years, hand-crafting every tweet, 24-7, mostly from our home base in Atlanta. They deserve the bulk of the cake and Champagne for this latest accomplishment. That team is headed by Carl Lavin (@FromCarl), our lead homepage editor. Lila King (@lilacina), our senior director for social news, is a spirit guide over all of CNN’s social media efforts.

“B-R-K,” in newsroom shorthand, isn’t the only Twitter account at CNN. We have more than 100. Our second most popular account is @cnn, and it’s no small fry with more than 7 million followers. What’s the difference between @cnnbrk and @cnn? On @cnn, you’ll find breaking news — and lots more.

Some of our biggest and brightest names and shows have active, highly followed accounts. Many of our sections and beats, such as @cnnopinion, have their own accounts.

The news team at Twitter called @cnnbrk the “Lady Gaga” of news. Some of the staff is now suggesting that we wear meat dresses to work. Instead, we’ll thank those who got us started, tweet a thank you to all 10 million of our followers, and press on to 11, 12, 13 million and beyond.

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