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The Bad Boy is Back: Watch Badr Hari on Dutch TV
- Written by Dave Walsh
Do you know how long I've been waiting to say, "The Bad Boy is Back?" It has almost been a year now, and finally we have good news about Badr Hari. There have been persisting rumors over the past few months that Badr Hari might have fractured from his training group at Mike's Gym, but the photos we posted the other day, along with this video we are posting (oh yeah) is enough proof that all is well in Mike's Gym and that Badr Hari is back in training.
The rumor, which was confirmed by Simon Rutz himself, is that Badr Hari will make his official return to action on May 14th in Lyon, France. The opponent is yet to be officially locked in as the sponsor was yet to be officially locked in. Well, that is, until today, as legendary Muay Thai fighter Kader Marouf will be presenting It's Showtime Lyon, featuring Badr Hari. This is huge, great news for It's Showtime and the kickboxing world.
Well, here is video footage of Badr Hari from his training session last week, as well as an interview, in Dutch. So, if you speak Dutch, please feel free to provide us with a gist of what is going on in the comments!
UPDATE: From Yari on the Team Takeover forums:
|- He didnt want to give a scoop on his next opponent, and still claims he fights in May. I guess he wont replace Hesdy Gerges.
- He said he wants to stop surrounding himself with negative news, and be known as a athlete again.
- Didnt want to promise/guarantee he will never go beyond the ref's call again (ala Remy/Gerges).
UPDATE 2: Now with full translation courtesy of an anonymous friend through Bloodstain Lane.
Presenter: <P>
Other Athlete: <M> (guy next to Badr. Mark Tuitert gold medalist in speed skating)
Badr: <B>
<P> 1:55: He's an unbelievable strong k-1 fighter, in 2007 he became world champion in this sport of granite. On a regular basis
10s of thousands of people are in awe at the big body in the ring. Badr Hari is a fighting machine, he kept fighting when the
referee stopped a fight, he gave himseld a year suspension and went to Morocco and now he is here Badr Hari
<p> 2:21: Yes, badr we just watched u in training in footage of last week, i was wondering in your sport when u are actually in the ring
and the fight is about to start with 30 thousand spectators, sometimes 60 thousand that are all screaming they want to see a hard fight,
what happens with u (inside u) at that moment?
<B> 2:44: The fight starts way earlier than when i enter the ring, it stars in the gym already, where I am very focused and work in detail for the fight,
so the tension is already high, you build that up in the 6 or 7 weeks u need to prepare for the fight, little by little you become more
fired up and tensed up and before a big tournament u become a little unkind to people around u.
<M> 3:16: reckognizable
<B> 3:16: reckognizable right?, so you get a little more fired up and at the moment you are standing there to enter the arena is actually a relief,
it's more of a relief than a build up of tension because the time has finally arrived that u are allowed to enter the ring.
<P> 3:34: So what are u allowed to do then, because you see your opponent, you may know him or not, what is the mentality you must have in a k-1 fight?
<B> 3:43: You can finally show what you've trained so hard for
<P> 3:46: But what are your thoughts on the guy on the other side of the ring?
<B> 3:48: You have to win
<P> 3:49: That sounds very "nicely said" Badr
<B> 3:52: This is a "conservative public acces channel" right?
<p> 3:55: Then say it fit for "commercial television".
<B> 3:57: It's not about the opponent, you have to win and...
<P> 4:00: Badr c'mon you're saying to yourself this guy has to die right?
<B> 4:02: Well, well, yes yes i HAVE to knock him out that's what im thinking.
<P> 4:04: Wreck him is what they call it in this sport?
<B> 4:06: Demolishing they call it.
(both laugh)
<M> 4:11: Friendships don't exist when you fight right?
<B> 4:13: Yes they do, yes they do.
<M> 4:16: Can you really think i'm going to demolish my friend?
<B> 4:19: Yeah, yeah but in a good way, maybe his nose is a little crooked i'll put it back a little to left or something, so you can help him out sometimes.
<P> 4:31: Badr can you see your opponent, thinking I am going to completly demolish this guy, in his eyes.
<B> 4:35: Well it's a great moment, the moment you are standing there, i mean footballplayers or speedskaters don't have that staredown,
but we do and sometime you see fear in the opponents eyes or the same determination that I have, but if u do good their determination will go down
while you are fighting, and if your not doing so great you see the determination growing.
<P> 4:58: You are somebody who wants to go for the knockout right? That's your objective when u enter the ring.
<B> 5:03: That is also what the people want to see, you can say what u want, but it's the most beautiful way of taking somebody down, that is knocking
somebody down, it might sound a little unhealthy, but that's the way it is.
<P> 5:20: You yourself have been knocked out 11 times, you have won a lot i know that, but also got knocked out 11 times don't u sometimes think this
isn't good(healthy) for me?
<B> 5:27: I don't think i've been knocked out that many times, but i lost a few times due to knock out, the best thing about getting knocked out is that
you don't remember anything.
<M> 5:37: How long does it take you to recover fully, because from a speed skating race i will take about two days, but how long when u really
get knocked out?
<B> 5:46: It depends, it depends on how hard you got knocked out, you will be fully recovered in a few minutes sometimes it's a matter of seconds,
it depends on how hard you got hit.
<M> 5:57: I've seen videos of guys like Peter Aerts after a match and they look completely blue and smashed up.
<B> 6:01: Yeah but that's a fight i mean the injuries are serious, but the difference between these kind of injuries and let's say
in football(soccer) or speedskating will take a lot longer to recover from, we are trained so sustain it, i mean if we tear something it's over for us
like for everyone else, but we are used to take a hit.
<P> 6:20: It seems to me that when you are in this sport, you get fired up for a match, you have a very strong body, something of an animal comes out,
you want to manhandle someone, you want to win, is that a pleasurable feeling for you? that the beast inside you get loose a little bit?
<B> 6:39: Well everyone experiences it in a different way, in my case it is like that, when i am ready and about to fight i feel a beast inside
me coming out, then i really want to RARR you know, this primal thing enters my body which sometimes is a great feeling and then when u win your
walking around the ring with your chest out, but it's the same thing for speedskating when u win a 1500m race you'll skate with your chest out in stead
of slouching a bit.
<p> 7:08: In 2007 u became a world champion then u really had this great feeling, but let's now take a look at a fight where it didn't go your way,
you were fighting Remy Bonjasky and you were doing well but you couldn't stop and you kept fighting when the referee broke up the fight. Let's take a
look at the clip.
(Clip Badr stomping on Bonjasky)
<p> 7:55: This doesn't seem right to me Badr.
<B> 7:57: No that's a wrong situation (smiles) i don't know who did that, i don't know that guy.
<P> 8:07: But seriously, what do you think of this when u see it?
<B> 8:10: This is wrong
<P> 8:12: You did this again so you sort of have a name of this guy that always keeps kicking when the referee stops the fight, explain,
why do you keep fighting?
<B> 8:20: The funny thing is i can't explain that, it's not like i train in the gym to do this, it's different for every person, it happens in a moment
for outsiders it's very easy to point the finger and say WHy does he do that? sitting in the stands or watching a fight on tv.
<P> 8:42: But can't you cement it in your head, that when a referee steps in you have to stop fighting instantly?
<B> 8:50: Yes, that's how it's supposed to be, but when im completely in it, there is so much passion, so much emotion, so much determination, sometimes
you lose youself in those emotions.
<P> 9:03: But that's kind of dangerous right? I mean it's a good thing about the sport that it's dangerous that's why so many people watch this but...
<M> 9:08: You are a great fighter and you have the talent to be the very best, maybe you are the very best already, but isn;t that little bit of control all
u need to become the best undoubtly?
<B> 9:23: Yes 100% procent, i completely agree with that...
<M> 9:26: than in some way or another you'll have to train it.
<B> 9:29: But that's untrainable, it maybe something i need to talk about with people..
<p> 9:39: Then you've decided to quit the sport for a year, you went to Morocco, you've spent a couple of months there, why did you do this?
<B> 9:50: Well after this Bonjasky ordeal i was a little bit to proud to admit i was wrong, i was like it happens, Zidane headbutts someone, Cantona
flying kicks a football fan, people make mistakes, but then it happened a second time i have to say i was a little bit scared of myself, i felt like
something had to change and i had to find myself back again.
<P> 10:18: And did that work?
<B> 10:20: Yes yes, i think....
<p> 10:23: So you promise that you'll never do this again, you have fight coming up in may....
<B> 10:26: No i can't promise that, i COULD SAY i would never do it again, but i can't say it will never happen again, i would be lying to myself.
<P> 10:50: You want to be an athlete, you've trained a long time for that, but there are also a few personal things going on in your life, 2006 you were
convicted because you beat up some neighbours you did some time for that, now there is a ongoing case involving a doorman in Amsterdam where you allegedly
beat up somebody, that's still ongoing there isn't much proof in that case, the first case was right since you did some time for it? (Answer: Yes, i did
some time and did some community service.) why is it that you're involved in that world? Because you're an athlete you train very hard but u use that to
do harm in your personal life, what do you think about that?
<B> 11:41: I wouldn't say it's using my strenghts in bad ways, look i made mistakes that's obvious, i mean those were some of those mistakes, i mean
a fight with a neighbour yeah you could try discussing something with them but in this case that didn't happen and i feel remoursefull about that, because i
did myself short by doing that.
<P> Because people now might say that's that guy that gets himself in trouble all the time, shall we take a look at one of your trainers, Tom Harinck i
think this is, this is a clip of him telling you what you should be looking out for.
<TOM HARINCK IN THE CLIP> Im noticing you getting more famous, you're starting to become a great fighter, guys are going to be around you, there will be
some bad guys in that group as well, i told you this before don't make them influence you, most of the times it's guys with a lot of money that made it
in a bad way but that's their problem who are we to judge that, but dont let them influence you or use u. I mean i know everyone in this city and i sometimes
i see people i don't feel good about, but i think you're smart enough to realise that. that you don't do the short-term work.
<p> 13:05: Can i say you didn't listen REALLY good to him?
<B> 13:07: Oh i don't know, i mean i've been doing this sport since i was seven, and in this sport if acclompished a lot and great things, and that i was
involved in a neighbourargument is true, and that there is now the situation at the Leidse Plein (Beaten up Bouncer) is true also.
<P> 13:39: And he says those people around u in the sport, he (TOM) says there wrong (bad) people around u in the clip.
<b> 13:41: Yes, but u can't talk negativly about the sport because of that, i mean this is a great sport and we would be doing it no favour when we
talk about the wrong (bad) people around it. I mean everyone is a supporter of sport in it's own way, i mean i am secretly a supporter of Mark Tuitert
(speed skating bozo next to him) i mean i have to admit that even though i am a tough guy i have to say it anyway.
<p> 14:20: So what have we learned today? (isn't as weird in dutch as it sounds in eglish)
<b> 14:26: i think we're going to approach it positively again, i am a fighter and there's been a lot of negativity around me, but i want people to see me as
an athlete again, because that is who i am.
<P> 14:45: When is the comeback?
<b> 14:47: May,
<P> 14:48: Versus?
<B> 14:50: not sure yet.
<P> 14:55: would you rematch Bonjasky?
<B> 14:56: Im up for it.


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Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Thuringia (Germany), on March 21, 1685, and died in Leipzig, Saxony (Germany), on July 28, 1750. The chronology of his keyboard concertos is subject to speculation. The Keyboard Concerto in E major was probably arranged in the 1730s from music Bach had written for cantatas in 1726. We have no information about the first North American performance. These are the first San Francisco Symphony performances. Performance time: about twenty minutes.
The Keyboard Concerto in D minor was likely created sometime in the late 1720s or early 1730s as a transcription from an earlier violin concerto penned during the period 1714-17. The first North American performance was given in January 1878 in New York; Leopold Damrosch led an unnamed orchestra, and the soloist was B. Boekelman. Tanya Ury was the first to play this work with the San Francisco Symphony, with Pierre Monteux conducting, in January 1946; Robert Taub was soloist in the most recent performances, in November 1992, with Herbert Blomstedt conducting. Both concertos are scored for solo harpsichord with strings and basso continuo; today the solo part is often performed on piano. Performance time: about twenty-five minutes.
The principal source for Johann Sebastian Bach's seven concertos for solo keyboard instrument—plus a fragment of an eighth—is a manuscript collection the composer copied out as a self-standing collection, seemingly in the period 1737-39. Bach did not waste paper; he began inscribing each concerto immediately after writing out the one that preceded it, even to the extent of beginning a new piece on the same page, if space allowed. As with the Brandenburg Concertos, which he assembled to support his application for a job with the Margrave of Brandenburg in 1721, there must have been a reason for Bach to go to such an effort.
The most likely explanation is that he created his harpsichord concertos to be played by the Collegium Musicum he directed in Leipzig from 1729 through 1741, except for a two-year absence in 1737-39. Since the collection dates from exactly the time when Bach was absent from the Collegium Musicum, he may have prepared it to use on his return.
Bach had moved to Leipzig in 1723 to oversee music at the city's principal churches and to teach at the Saint Thomas School, but the Collegium Musicum presented a supplemental freelance opportunity that would have been very appealing to a middle-aged musician with a large and ever-growing family. (Seven of his children—ages one to twenty-one—were living in 1729, when he began his Collegium job; six had already died and seven were yet to be born.) The Collegium Musicum was a society of university students, interested amateurs, and a few professional musicians who met most weeks to play music for their own pleasure and the delectation of an audience. In cold months, the group gathered on Friday evenings at Gottfried Zimmermann's coffee house in Leipzig's Catherinenstrasse; during the summer, the concerts took place on Wednesday afternoons, generally at the same proprietor's café on the outskirts of town. Among similar organizations in Germany the Leipzig group was renowned. Johann Heinrich Zedler, in his 1739 Grosses Universal Lexicon, wrote that a Collegium Musicum was "a gathering of certain musical connoisseurs who, for the benefit of their own exercise in both vocal and instrumental music and under the guidance of a certain director, get together on particular days and in particular locations and perform musical pieces. Such Collegia are to be found in various places. In Leipzig, the Bachian Collegium Musicum is more famous than all others." This was a serious concert organization rather than just a recreational hobby group. After Bach relinquished his post, the enterprise was renamed first the Neues Concert and then, in 1743, the Grosses Concert, which would eventually grow into the acclaimed Gewandhaus Concerte, one of Europe's most venerated musical organizations.
Bach's first large-scale biography was published in 1802 by Johann Nikolaus Forkel, who augmented hand-me-down information from eighteenth-century biographical dictionaries with information he gleaned directly from Bach's sons Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emmanuel. Writing about the Collegium Musicum, Forkel stated: "It performed vocal and instrumental music and was the medium through which Bach presented his secular Cantatas, Clavier and Violin Concertos, and Orchestral Suites to the public. The proficiency of his elder sons and pupils, and his wife's talent as a singer, were a farther source of strength to the Society, whose direction undoubtedly made these years the happiest in Bach's life." Of his elder sons, Wilhelm Friedemann lived in Leipzig until 1733, Carl Philipp Emmanuel until 1734, and a third, less-remembered musical son, the organist Johann Gottfried Bernhard, until 1735. This wealth of talent would have justified Bach's focusing on keyboard concertos as repertory for his Collegium Musicum. During these years he produced concertos that spotlighted one, two, three, and as many as four harpsichords. Of the bunch, only one seems to have been originally conceived for the keyboard: his Concerto in C major for Two Harpsichords, BWV 1061. The rest are arrangements of concertos he had written earlier for other instruments.
This recycling was apparent to nineteenth-century Bach scholars, including Wilhelm Rust, a principal editor of the monumental Bach Gesellschaft edition of the composer's complete works, which appeared from 1851 to 1899. Rust went so far as to analyze Bach's process of transcription, observing how the composer characteristically began by setting down the original solo line (of a violin concerto, for example) as the harpsichord's right-hand part and its basso continuo line as the left hand, sometimes transposing the music to fit the compass of the harpsichord, and then developing the parts further to make them more idiomatic in their new setting.
The two solo-keyboard concertos performed here mirror one another in their general structures: three movements in a fast-slow-fast arrangement. Buoyant fast movements typically adhere to a ternary da capo plan (where a previous passage is repeated), with lots of alternation between the keyboard soloist and the accompanying ensemble, while slow movements plumb poignant emotional territory. The E major Keyboard Concerto (BWV 1053) was arranged out of movements Bach had previously used in cantatas he had unveiled in 1726: the first two movements from Cantata No. 169 (Gott soll allein mein Herze haben), and the third movement from Cantata No. 49 (Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen). Even these settings, however, may not represent the first form this music took; one school of thought imagines that these movements originated during the Cöthen period as a now-lost oboe concerto.
The D minor Keyboard Concerto (BWV 1052), the longest of the set, almost surely started out as a violin concerto. This is audible in extended passages in the first and third movements in which a melody weaves in close proximity above and below a repeated drone note. That's not especially idiomatic harpsichord writing; it's violin writing that would have involved quick alternation between two strings—one for the melody, the other (an open string) for the drone. The impact of such passages remains effective as Bach elaborates them for the keyboard, but their ancestry seems clear.
The outer movements of the D minor Keyboard Concerto come across as moody or even angry. Even the middle movement has an uneasy presence. Set in G minor, it prolongs the minor-mode feel of the opening movement, and its elaborated solo line is akin to similarly serpentine passages of extended introspection that surface in Bach's sacred music.
This has long been the most frequently played of Bach's solo keyboard concertos. Wilhelm Friedemann's pupil Sarah Itzig Levy is known to have performed this concerto in Berlin in 1807 and 1808, and it was also in the active repertory of her great-nephew Felix Mendelssohn, who was performing it in Berlin by 1832 and on at least one occasion presented it at the concerts he directed at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the revered organization that had grown through the course of a century out of Bach's own Collegium.
—James M. Keller
More About the Music
Recordings: For piano versions, András Schiff with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (Decca); Schiff has also recorded the Concerto No. 1 with George Malcolm and the English Chamber Orchestra (Dal Segno) | Murray Perahia with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields (Sony) | For a harpsichord version, Richard Egarr with the Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze conducting (Harmonia Mundi)
Reading: Oxford Composer Companions: J.S. Bach, edited by Malcolm Boyd (Oxford) | Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, by Christoph Wolff (Norton) | The Cambridge Companion to Bach, edited by John Butt (Cambridge) | J.S. Bach: A Life in Music, by Peter Williams (Cambridge) | Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and Work, by Martin Geck (Harcourt) | Johann Sebastian Bach, by Johann Nikolaus Forkel (Da Capo Press)
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So I normally do not care about the presidential ads, they attack one side that side attacks back. Now the Obama Campaign has hit an all time low. In a radio ad set to Northern VA. My issue is first it starts off like a traffic report, it happened to mention roads I was heading towards taking were backed up, then it goes into talking about Ryan destroying roads and not wanting infrastructure. That wasn't even the worst part. I heard it 19 times in 1 hour and 30 minutes, and yes I changed the station but oddly it would be on the other stations at the same time, almost like when the Emergency broadcast stuff comes on.
If I was voting for him, this would lose my vote. First fake traffic reports can make traffic happen, 2nd it is just annoying.
4 times it played on my way to work this morning, what a way to start off the day.


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By Shuli Ren
China has a new rule on libel: web users could face jail time if the "rumors" they spread online are read by more than 5000 people or re-posted more than 500 times, which is not much for a populous place like China. Bloomberg explains:
The interpretation is a way to control "Big Vs," or people with verified microblog accounts and many followers who can direct online debate.
Wall Street Journal reports China has detained 55 activists since Xi Jinping took office. On Friday, police arrested a prominent venture capitalist, a reformer, a billionaire, a romantic.
This sends chill to China's microbloggers and probably Sina (SINA)'s management as well.
I have more than once been skeptical of Sina's valuation. It is scary that most of its value is embedded in Weibo, which barely starting generating revenue and no doubt faces outsized political risk. In addition, it seems Weibo will primarily make money through the advertising model. In China, the mobile gaming and e-commerce models are likely to make money first. The government is OK with fan boys and shopaholics, but not cool with thinkers.
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There are two kinds of Tea Partiers," said Benedict. "One kind is so blinded by its hatred of Obama and Democrats that it cannot see fault with Republicans. It's the other kind the Libertarian Party is reaching out to."
I got that from the Libertarian website. that is what I have been trying to say all along. This fits some of our fellow members here like a glove.


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Richie Sambora Fired From Bon Jovi World Tour Over Money (REPORT)
Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora reportedly will not be caught dead or alive on the band's current Because We Can world tour.
According to RumorFix.com -- and reported by Billboard and Hollywood Reporter -- the band allegedly fired Sambora from their tour due to financial differences. Sambora was reportedly earning 20 per cent of the tour profits while earning $2 million per month.
Sambora and the group had already dealt with a similar situation earlier this year. "Due to personal issues, Richie Sambora will not be performing on this upcoming leg," the band said in a brief statement April 3 on its official site. "All shows will go on as scheduled."
Sambora was replaced by Philip "Phil X" Xenidis, a musician who is reportedly making far less than Sambora with sources estimating approximately $10,000 per month. Sambora will not be crying poor, however, given he'll receive royalty cheques from merchandising and songs performed which he co-wrote. That said, a source told RumorFix that "Richie wants to go back onstage -- that's his first love. He's really upset over the news."
Earlier this month Sambora released a new song entitled "Come Back As Me" which fans took to be pointed at Jon Bon Jovi. However Sambora quickly put those thoughts to rest. "This songs gettin' some traction, so I would sincerely appreciate any help," he tweeted on Aug. 4. "BTW this has nothin' to do with Jon..."
While neither the band nor Sambora have commented on this recent report, Matthew Bongiovi -- Jon's brother -- took to Twitter today to offer his opinions before stating he would be shutting down his Twitter account.
Time to go
Time to go
Time to go
Bongiovi also responded to one fan who claimed the group didn't support Sambora when he was dealing with alcohol problems. "@JBJsWildflower LMAO really...," Bongiovi said. "we take it very serious and supported him while he was sober."
Bon Jovi continues the tour with a South American leg next month before another string of North American dates in October and early December. The group rounds off 2013 with stops in New Zealand and Australia in support of their new studio album "What About Now."
Quite simply, LeAnne stole Brandi's husband, Eddie Cibrian, and made him her own. Since then, the Real Housewife has been getting her public revenge (book included), and the feud between the two women just keeps making headlines.
It's a known fact that Courtney Love hates former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, and he is by no means fond of her. The two have been feuding over the rights to Nirvana's music since Kurt Cobain killed himself in 1994. Most recently, Courtney explained why she hates the Foo Fighters frontman, after playing a show in Brazil. "What I was saying, is Dave makes $5 million a show, he doesn't need the money. His mother's a banker, his father's a stock broker and he's making $5 million a show. Why the f**k then does he have a Nivana Inc. credit card and I don't? And last week he bought an Aston Martin on it," she said.
It's quite the saga with these three, really: It all started when Kelly Osbourne called Gaga a"Butterface," then jokingly asked if the singer is pregnant when she gained weight. Gaga's loyal fans took it to heart, apparently, and in an interview later on, Osbourne said they bullied her and called them "the worst." In response (and in her Little Monsters defense), Gaga wrote an open letter to the young Osbourne and said her work "is rooted in criticism, judgment." That's when Kelly's mother, Sharon Osbourne, jumped in and called Gaga a "publicly seeking hypocrite and an attention seeker." Two days later, Gaga replied to Sharon and urged the Osbournes to cease fire and make the world a better place.
When Lawrence's "The Hunger Games" came out, it was naturally compared to "Twilight," both huge YA franchises. Rumors circulated at the time that "Jennifer really wants to overthrow Kristen as Hollywood's young darling," and that Stewart called Lawrence "plain" in response. But after the two beauties chatted it up at the Oscars (Lawrence inquired about Stewart's crutches, Stewart cheered on when Lawrence won best actress), the rumors subsided. Until the sequel?
Take two Disney starlets and one prepubescent popstar and you have a recipe for one of the most discussed celebrity feuds of the 2000s. Back in 2002, Aaron Carter reportedly broke up with or cheated on Hilary Duff, who he was dating for two years, to hook up with Lindsay Lohan. The 15-year-old Casanova then left Lohan to get back together with Duff. Though the girls should have been furious with Carter, they instead turned on each other. Their feud played out in the pages of magazines with both actresses taking shots at each other for years. By 2007 the girls put their past behind them and made up. "We are both adults and whatever happened, happened when we were young," Duff told People. "It's over."
"Mad Men" star Jon Hamm recently made some unflattering comments to Elle UK about celebrity culture, putting reality TV queen Kim Kardashian in his crosshairs. "Whether it's Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian or whoever, stupidity is certainly celebrated. Being a f**king idiot is a valuable commodity in this culture because you're rewarded significantly," he told the magazine. Kim responded on Twitter, writing: "I just heard about the comment Jon Hamm made about me in an interview. I respect Jon and I am a firm believer that everyone is entitled to their own opinion and that not everyone takes the same path in life. We're all working hard and we all have to respect one another. Calling someone who runs their own businesses, is a part of a successful TV show, produces, writes, designs, and creates, 'stupid,' is in my opinion careless." When asked about his comments, Hamm told E! News, "It's surprising to me that this has become remotely a story. I don't know Ms. Kardashian. I know her public persona. What I said was meant to be more on pervasiveness of something in culture, not personal, but she took offense to it and that is her right."
Disney starlets do not play nice. In 2008, teen queen Miley Cyrus went head to head with Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato. BFFs Selena and Demi used to make goofy videos they would post to YouTube, much to the chagrin of Miley as it turned out. Miley and her BFF Mandy made a parody video where they mocked the other girls, making fun of their makeup and the gap in Demi's front teeth. The feud appeared to come out of nowhere. "To be honest I don't know what happened," Selena told MTV. "I though we were okay, but to be honest, I don't even know [Miley and Mandy]. And Demi has never met Miley. It's interesting -- that's all I'm going to say about it." They all eventually made up and became friends. Miley addressed the feud in a YouTube video in 2009: "So everyone's thinking there's a big feud between me and Selena and Demi. Actually, I'm going to have meatloaf with Demi tonight. I'm riding my bike to Demi's house. So I'm going to be partying with Demi 'cause we're friends, and I love her and she is always there for me. She is one of my bestest friends."
There are many celebs who have feuded with Donald Trump, but his ongoing fight with Rosie O'Donnell remains the most memorable. In 2006, Rosie criticized Trump for not dethroning Miss USA Tara Conner after her drug scandal and she called him a "pimp" and "snake oil salesman." Never one to take things lying down, Trump responded by calling her a "big, fat pig" and a "loser." Their feud dragged on until no one wanted to hear what either of them had to say and it unfortunately started up again. In December 2011, Trump tweeted, "Same last name, same bad ratings - @lawrence and @rosie," and linked to a YouTube clip of himself ranting about how neither of their talk shows were doing well. Rosie tweeted back, "How many billionaires sell ties and have crappy non reality shows -- none - go back to selling snake oil #bankruptmuch?" Neither will spare the public of their immaturity and their feud continues today.
Gossip blogger Perez Hilton was confronted by the Black Eyed Peas at the Much Music Video Awards in 2009 and began hurling insults at Will.i.am and the rest of the band. Perez was punched in the face by Will.i.am's manager and the blogger later tweeted, "I was assaulted by Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas and his security guards. I am bleeding. Please, I need a police report. No joke." Will.i.am later denied Hilton's claims and Hilton shot back with a 12-minute video blasting the Black Eyed Pea as a "disgusting human being" and "a fucking liar." Perez later sued Will.i.am's manager and a settlement was reached.
Who needs enemies when you have friends like Brandon Davis? Back in 2006, Lindsay Lohan was pals with Paris Hilton, until Paris accused her of trying to steal her boyfriend, Greek shipping heir Stavros Niarchos. Once Lindsay was on the outs with her socialite friends, oil heir Davis took it upon himself to brand Lohan with a nickname. While drunk in LA one night, Davis was filmed ranting about Lohan, dubbing her "fire crotch," and making other rude and disgusting claims.
These ladies need to learn to keep their comments to themselves. Back in the day, Christina Aguilera apparently used to call Kelly Osbourne fat, and now that Kelly has slimmed down and Christina has gained a few pounds the tables have turned. Osbourne made sure to call attention to the singer's weight gain, not once, but twice in 2011. "Maybe she is just becoming the fat bitch she was born to be. I don't know. She was a c**t to me. And she bought my house," Osbourne said during an episode of "Fashion Police" that aired in August. "She called me fat for so many f***ing years, so you know what? F**k you! You're fat too." Then in October, the singer was again the topic of discussion on the show: "Lady Marmalade got into the peanut better again," quipped co-host Joan Rivers when criticizing Aguilera's too-tight outfit. "She called me fat for years, I was never that fat," Osbourne said and later added, "Trust me, I'm a 2/4. That is not a 2/4."
Shannen Doherty has a reputation as Hollywood's bad girl and feuded with nearly all of her "Beverly Hills, 90210" castmates, and yet it was her feud with Alyssa Milano that will go down as the worst. The "Charmed" co-stars began fighting on set during the third season and it was reported that Shannen was jealous of Alyssa's popularity. Tension ran high on set and things grew so heated, producers had to bring in a mediator to resolve their issues. When they couldn't work things out, Shannen left the show.
Is there anyone Eminem hasn't feuded with? Eminem and Mariah Carey began to spar after he claimed that they used to have a sexual relationship. Mariah denied the relationship, telling Larry King, "I hung out with him, I spoke to him on the phone. I think I was probably with him a total of four times. And I don't consider that dating somebody." Mariah later mocked his claim in her video for "Obsessed," which featured an Eminem look-alike who was obsessed with her. The rapper retaliated with a number of songs that mentioned Carey and threatened to release nude photos of the singer as well as voicemails to prove they dated. In the song "The Warning" he raps: "Shut the fuck up before I put up all the phone calls you made to my house when you were "Wild N' Out" before Nick, when you was on my dick and give you something to smile about."
When Charlie Sheen lost his mind in 2011, he dug his own grave and lost his job as the highest paid actor on television. Sheen went on a rampage, verbally attacking "Two and a Half Men" showrunner Chuck Lorre, after CBS suspended the series due to Sheen's insane behavior. After Lorre make a joke about Sheen, the actor attacked him, calling Lorre a "clown" , and made a strange anti-Semitic dig, saying his real name is "Chaim Levine" (though his name is actually Charles Michael Levine). Sheen continued to blast Lorre as a "stupid, stupid little man and a p*ssy punk that I never want to be like." Now that Sheen appears to be sober, Lorre has chosen to take the high road. "I wish him well. I'm glad he's happy and sober," he said in January 2012.
"You know what you did," Lauren Conrad screamed at Heidi Montag on an episode of "The Hills." Lauren and Heidi's friendship began to dissolve in 2007, when Heidi started dating Spencer Pratt. "He's a sucky person," she infamously told her one-time best friend. Heidi chose a relationship with Spencer over a friendship with Lauren and spread a rumor there was a Lauren Conrad sex tape floating around. Heidi tried to repair things with Lauren, but she wasn't having it. "I want to forgive you and I want to forget you," Lauren told her as mascara ran down her face. The feud eventually ended but they never repaired their friendship. As Spencer began to fade into obscurity he tried make himself relevant by burying the hatchet with Conrad, wishing her a happy birthday on Twitter in February 2012.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has no love for the "Jersey Shore" cast and Snooki isn't fond of him either. Christie has been vocal about his distaste for the cast and has referred to them as "losers," and also vetoed a $420,000 tax credit for the MTV reality show in September 2011. Snooki doesn't appriaciate being called a loser and the pint-size reality star tweeted that she wouldn't be voting for Christie for president and added, "Love always, the "buffoons" from that degrading Jersey Shore show." Christie wasn't and isn't running for president, but Snooki regardless explained: "I DEF don't want a judgmental president who has NEVER met me in person. F that. idc who exploits me. But for a man wanting to be president&calling us names when he's never met us..no thanks. I'll stick w Obama."
Kid Rock had a big problem with Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler taking on a new gig as a judge on "American Idol" in 2010. Kid Rock didn't believe a true rock star would even think about working for a show like "Idol" and proceeded to trash Tyler for it. Rock told Entertainment Weekly, "I think it's the stupidest thing he's ever done in his life. He's a sacred American institution of rock and roll, and he just threw it all out the window. Just stomped on it and se it on fire." At a press conference, Tyler responded, "He's just jealous, he's just jealous. And he's working on his new record, so God bless him."
Miranda Lambert was not happy to see Chris Brown performing at the Grammy Awards. "And Chris Brown Twice? I don't get it. He beat on a girl...Not cool that we act like that didn't happen," she tweeted referencing Brown's brutal 2009 assault on Rihanna. Brown responded indirectly by tweeting, "Hate all you want because I got a grammy now! That's the ultimate f*** off." Then at her concert, Lambert held up a handwritten poster that read, "Take notes Chris Brown" and said to the audience, "Listen, I just need to speak my mind. Where I come from, beating up on a women is never OK. So that's why my daddy taught me early on in life how to use a shotgun." Brown fired back in a series of tweets: "Using my name to get publicity? I love it! Perform your heart out! Go buy @miranda_lambert! So motivational and "PERFECT." Goodnight to all the people who live life and who aren't stuck in the past!"
In actress Olivia Munn's book "Suck It, Wonder Woman," she recounts her brief romantic dalliance with director Brett Ratner and didn't have anything nice to say about the size of his penis. Ratner addressed the claims on "Attack of the Show" saying, "I used to date Olivia Munn, I'll be honest with everyone here, when she was Lisa...she wasn't Asian back then." He continued: "She was hanging out on my set of 'After the Sunset,' I banged her a few times. But I forgot her...because she changed her name...I didn't know it was the same person, so when she came and auditioned for me for a TV show I forgot her, she got pissed off, and she made up all these stories about me eating shrimp and masturbating in my trailer." Munn responded by tweeting a link to a Cosmo article she had written titled, "How to Stand up to an A-Hole," that detailed an incident with a director she called the "Douche."
LeAnn Rimes is skinny -- so skinny that she has people worrying that she's not eating. The equally skinny Giuliana Rancic was one those people. Pot, meet kettle. The two skinny ladies battled it out telling each other to eat a sandwich.
Rihanna and Ciara -- who both dated Chris Brown in the past -- got into a heated public spat in February 2011. First Ciara made a dig at Rihanna on "Fashion Police," saying: "I ran into her recently at a party. She wasn't the nicest. It's crazy because I've always loved and respected what she's done in fashion. It wasn't the most pleasant run-in." When Rihanna heard what Ciara had said, she fired back on Twitter. "My bad Ci, did I forget to tip you? How rude of me.... You gangsta huh? Ha." They volleyed insults and threats at each other and then Rihanna called a truce. "Ciara baby, I love you girl! You hurt my feelings real bad on TV! I'm heartbroken! That's why I retaliated this way! So sorry! Let's make up." Ciara accepted the apology and that was that.
This might be one of the most ridiculous celebrity fights of all time. "Teen Mom" cast member Farrah Abraham didn't think things through when she criticized Kourtney Kardashian on Twitter. "I'm shocked Kourtney Kardashian is pregnant again Did she not learn anything from TEEN MOM? Maybe its a fake pregnancy like kims wedding SAD," she tweeted. Kourtney was understandably confused by the attack and tweeted back, "Why would I have anything to do with Teen Mom? I'm 32 years old! I may look young, honey, but don't get it twisted." While Kourtney suggested that Farrah had no idea what she was talking about, the "Teen Mom" star couldn't resist firing back at her: "Guess what! Age and money honestly do not change a person's poor choice. Quit making excuses," she tweeted. Kourtney's boyfriend Scott Disick also got in on the fight, sarcastically tweeting at Farrah, "We're not teenagers, ya f**king moron." When asked if he knew who she was, he responded, ""I just thought she was some shit stain on Twitter, no?" Sadly, this Twitter fight actually continued with Farrah later tweeting, "4 all who mistunderstood: regards to kourtney K.~I hope she takes her relationship w/her boyfriend more serious 4 their children-takecare." Shortly after, however, she couldn't resist getting one more word in with a jab at Disick: "Caught wind of these dramatic articles, w/ loser scott disick or some boyfriend of kourtneys, is Shit Stain < racist 4 black?" she wrote. "Great dad! NOT."
Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain is not a fan of Paula Deen's cooking. In 2011 he told TV Guide she was "the worst, most dangerous person to America." Deen responded, claiming, "You know, not everybody can afford to pay $58 for prime rib or $650 for a bottle of wine. My friends and I cook for regular families who worry about feeding their kids and paying the bills . . . It wasn't that long ago that I was struggling to feed my family, too." Months later, after Deen announced she has Type 2 diabetes and was now a paid spokeswoman for a diabetes medication, Bourdain responded with a thinly veiled tweet: "Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later." Deen fired back that Bourdain should "get a life".
Jonah Hill made it clear he was no fan of "Glee" star Matthew Morrison, when he appeared on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" in September 2011. Hill recalled a "douchey Hollywood party" where he tried to eavesdrop on a conversation between "Gossip Girl" actor Chace Crawford and Morrison, who had made a joke at Hill's expense at an event a few weeks earlier. He then overheard the two drop his name and start laughing. Hill took the opportunity on "Late Night" to call out the "Glee" actor: "Matthew Morrison, you better bring your sh*t next time I see you...I'd like to see him sing his way out of this one," he said. Morrison responded by sending a goofy video to "Late Night," where he finished his joke about Hill and then accepted the actor's challenge, saying, "Nobody messes with someone from musical theater!" This extremely dorky feud eventually just blew over.
Chelsea Handler started a feud with Jesse James' tattooed mistress Michelle "Bombshell" McGee in 2010, with a joke she wrote on her blog: "I guess she doesn't read magazines which makes sense, since she basically has one on her face." McGee responded on her Facebook page writing: "Chelsea, here's some free advice: Use some of that Botox from your forehead and put it in your flabby underarm skin. I've seen better wings in a bucket of KFC chicken." And later wrote, ""In all seriousness, Im a big fan of 'Chelsea Lately' ... I was laughing my ass off.... feel so honored to have a transexual [sic] poke fun of me ..." Don't mess with a comedian -- Handler didn't hold back with her response to McGee: "First of all, look at my forehead, you dumb bitch, okay? It moves ... You have a tattoo on your forehead, so you have had a needle in your forehead -- and probably Jesse James' balls. So shut your face."
This feud started after Kings of Leon declined to allow the Fox series "Glee," to cover one of its songs on a future episode. "Glee" creator Ryan Murphy was pissed and sent a message to the band via The Hollywood Reporter: "F**K you, Kings of Leon," he said. "They're self-centered assholes, and they missed the big picture. They missed that a 7-year-old kid can see someone close to their age singing a Kings of Leon song, which will maybe make them want to join a glee club or pick up a musical instrument. It's like, OK, hate on arts education. You can make fun of Glee all you want, but at its heart, what we really do is turn kids on to music." KOL member Nathan Followill fired back with a homophobic dig at openly gay Murphy, tweeting: "Dear Ryan Murphy, let it go. See a therapist, get a manicure, buy a new bra. Zip your lip and focus on educating 7yr olds how to say f**k." Realizing how his comments could be seen, Followill later tweeted: "I'm sorry 4 anyone that misconstrued my comments as homophobic or misogynistic. I'm so not that kind of person. I really do apologize."
In 2005, Tom Cruise seemed to have lost his marbles when he jumped on couches on Oprah's talkshow. He then lashed out at actress Brooke Shields, while on the "Today" show, telling Matt Lauer that Shields should not have taken antidepressants to combat the postpartum depression she was suffering from after the birth of her first child. Cruise, a Scientologist who shuns psychiatry, insisted the depression could be treated with "vitamins and exercise." Shields responded by writing an op-ed piece in the New York Times, writing: "I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Mr. Cruise has never suffered from postpartum depression ... And comments like those made by Tom Cruise are a disservice to mothers everywhere ... If any good can come of Mr. Cruise's ridiculous rant, let's hope that it gives much-needed attention to a serious disease." Cruise later apologized to Shields, the actress told Jay Leno a year later. "He came over to my house and he gave me a heartfelt apology. And he apologized for bringing me into the whole thing and for everything that happened," she said.
Kayne West infamously hijacked Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the 2009 Video Music Awards, interrupting her to say, "I'm really happy for you. I'ma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time." Swift was dumbstruck by the incident and it seemed as if she didn't want to get into it with the rapper. "I don't know him, and I've never met him, so..." she said. "I don't want to start anything because I had a great night tonight." A year later she was literally singing a different tune. At the 2010 VMAs she performed her new song "You're Still an Innocent," a reference to the previous year's incident with West, basically calling him immature. "Thirty-two and still growing up now / who you are is not what you did / you're still an innocent," she sang. Kanye didn't have any right to fire back, but of course he did. At a concert in New York City, West blasted Swift to his fans: "Everybody needs a villain, don't we? We need to blame someone at all times ... I was emotional, that was not exactly the way I wanted to word it, but I wrote it, I rode it, just as Taylor never came to my defense in any interview, and rode the waves and rode it and rode it." The feud seems to have blown over, as Swift wore a blouse from Kanye West's spring 2012 collection in the pages of Harper's Bazaar.


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By Marty Russell
It's the first day of the school year since Mississippi's new Student Religious Liberties Act became law. A high school student approaches his school's principal in the hallway and makes a request.
"Sir, I'd like to get on the schedule to give a morning prayer over the PA system now that the Legislature and governor say it's OK to do so in a limited public forum sort of way," the student says.
"Son, that's very commendable," the principal replies. "What do you intend to pray for?"
"I want to pray to the Holy Trinity," the student says, "so more students can come to know them and recognize their place in their lives."
"Excellent," the principal says, breathing a quiet sigh of relief. "Young people your age need to become more acquainted with the Father, Son and Holy Ghost."
"Who?" the student asks, furrowing his brow.
"The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost," the principal says. "The Holy Trinity."
"Oh," says the student. "Not that one. I'm talking about the real Holy Trinity – Google, Microsoft and Apple, the foundations of the religion of new media."
"That's not a real religion!" the principal flusters.
"Sure it is, especially among people my age," the student responds. "There are many of us who believe that Steve Jobs died so we could have a social life and that Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are his disciples here on Earth. That when we die we go up into the cloud where we are redeemed."
"You mean your sins are forgiven and you have eternal life?" the principal asks.
"No," says the student. "Every time you use an Apple, Google or Microsoft product you earn points which you redeem in the afterlife for apps and cool stuff and free upgrades for all eternity."
"That's not a real religion!" the principal huffs. "Prove it!"
"Any religion is valid to those who believe in it," the student says. "You're a Christian, right?"
"I most certainly am!"
"You believe in God and creation and heaven and hell, right?"
"Absolutely," the principal proudly says.
"Prove it," replies the student.
"But whoever heard of a religion based on social media? That's ridiculous!"
"Sure has a lot of followers," says the student. "There's lots of religions out there besides Christianity. Would you deny a Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist or even Wiccan student the right to express their religion in the state-sanctioned, so-called limited public forum?"
"Maybe," the principal admits.
"Then you're saying you won't allow the rest of the students to hear me pray to mine?"
"Absolutely no way will I allow it!"
The student pulls a smartphone out of his pocket.
"Hey!" the principal shouts. "You know cellphones aren't allowed in school!"
"This isn't just a cellphone," the student says. "In my religion it's a religious artifact, just like a cross necklace or a T-shirt with a Bible verse on it. All allowed under the new law."
The student punches in a number.
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Vodafone Group finally may be getting closer to a sale of its hugely valuable 45% stake in Verizon Wireless to Verizon Communications, vz -1.4569256756756757% Verizon Communications Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD46.67 -0.69 -1.4569256756756757% /Date(1493326962058-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 16439646 AFTER HOURS USD46.74 0.07 0.1499892864795372% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 398894 P/E Ratio 15.556666666666667 Market Cap 193053006237.969 Dividend Yield 4.949646453824727% Rev. per Employee 768321.939092604 More quote details and news » the 55% owner of the top U.S. cell-phone operator.
Such a sale, which could reap more than $100 billion, probably would provide a nice lift to Vodafone (ticker: VOD) shares and a potentially smaller boost to Verizon stock (VZ). Shares of U.K.-based Vodafone, now around $28, might rise into the mid $30s, while Verizon, now at $49, could appreciate into the low $50s.
Verizon Wireless is the biggest wireless operator in the U.S., with 98 million subscribers. Karen Bleier/Newscom
Verizon Wireless doesn't get a lot of investor attention because it's not a separately traded public company, but it's one of the most valuable and profitable businesses on the planet. It could be worth $300 billion, placing it behind only ExxonMobil xom -0.171990171990172% Exxon Mobil Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD81.26 -0.14 -0.171990171990172% /Date(1493326851235-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 11508164 AFTER HOURS USD81.2 -0.06 -0.07383706620723603% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 877098 P/E Ratio 43.40116434332105 Market Cap 345114185863.849 Dividend Yield 3.7903027319714497% Rev. per Employee 2716891.33425034 More quote details and news » (XOM) and Apple aapl 0.07655902004454343% Apple Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD143.79 0.11 0.07655902004454343% /Date(1493326800257-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 13850144 AFTER HOURS USD143.87 0.08 0.0556366923986369% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 396204 P/E Ratio 17.220359281437126 Market Cap 753822834385.693 Dividend Yield 1.5856457333611518% Rev. per Employee 1874836.20689655 More quote details and news » (AAPL).
Verizon Wireless had 98 million subscribers at the end of 2012 and is expected to generate $81 billion in revenue this year. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, or Ebitda, could come in at $33 billion, according to Citigroup analyst Michael Rollins, with $23 billion of free cash flow after capital expenditures. With the country's most robust network, Verizon Wireless has captured more than 100% of the industry's net additions of so-called post-paid subscribers in seven of the past eight quarters. Post-paid subs get traditional monthly bills rather than prepaying for service.
What's Verizon Wireless Worth?
|Est Value (bil)
|2013 Sales
|2013 Cash Flow
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|Vodafone's 45% Stake
|Verizon's 55% Stake
|E=Estimate *Assumes a cash-flow multiple of eight
In a report last month, Rollins put the chance of a deal this year at 55%, noting that Vodafone probably can pull off the sale with only a modest tax payment of $5 billion. Favorable conditions in the capital markets would allow Verizon to finance a $100-billion-plus deal—which could be the second largest transaction ever based on Dealogic data—with a mix of debt, preferred stock, and equity.
AFTER YEARS OF SPECULATION about a deal, the rumor mill heated up last week as the Financial Times reported that Verizon and rival AT&T t -1.3105835806132542% AT&T Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD39.91 -0.53 -1.3105835806132542% /Date(1493326871413-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 22161628 AFTER HOURS USD39.94 0.03 0.07516913054372337% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 484443 P/E Ratio 19.563725490196077 Market Cap 248342031566.62 Dividend Yield 4.911049862189928% Rev. per Employee 606776.119402985 More quote details and news » (T) were considering a joint bid for all of Vodafone. That prompted a denial from Verizon and a reiteration that it would be a "willing purchaser" of Vodafone's 45% stake in Verizon Wireless. The Wall Street Journal reported in February that Vodafone is open to a sale, with its CEO, Vittorio Colao, saying, "I don't know," when asked whether Vodafone would still hold that 45% stake in a year.
Both Vodafone and Verizon shares have rallied this year on hopes for such a deal. Vodafone's U.S.-listed shares are up 12% to $28 after hitting a high of $30 at midweek. Verizon shares, at $49, have gained 14% this year.
Vodafone's stock, which has lagged behind Verizon's in recent years, looks like the better bet. It trades for a lower price/earnings ratio than Verizon and has a higher dividend yield. Vodafone, which has wireless businesses throughout Europe, fetches about 11 times projected profits in its fiscal year ending in March 2014 and yields 5.4%. Verizon trades for nearly 18 times estimated 2013 profits and yields 4.2%. The P/E discount of Vodafone relative to Verizon is near its widest point in the past nine years.
In a note last month, Citigroup analyst Simon Weeden stated that "the low-interest-rate environment, strong operating performance from Verizon Wireless, improved balance-sheet flexibility at Verizon, strong dollar relative to sterling, and the increase in U.S. telco valuations are all favorable factors" for a deal. He carries a $32.50 price target on Vodafone shares. If Vodafone gets a top price for its stake, he thinks the shares could reach the mid to high $30s.
One Vodafone fan is Greenlight Capital chief David Einhorn, who wrote in his annual investor letter that there is a "huge valuation disparity between what the market thinks Verizon Wireless is worth to Verizon…and what it ascribes to Vodafone."
What's Verizon Wireless worth? The Citi analysts value it at seven to nine times estimated 2013 Ebitda, or a range of $236 billion to $303 billion. At a multiple of eight, it would be worth $269 billion, or about $116 billion for Vodafone's stake after estimated taxes. That's almost $24 per Vodafone share. Vodafone's core business, mostly European wireless, generates about $20 billion in annual pretax cash flow. That means Vodafone, ex Verizon Wireless, would be valued at just three times annual cash flow, reflecting its $35 billion in net debt.
The Bottom Line
Vodafone's shares could climb 20% or more if it sells its 45% stake in Verizon Wireless to Verizon Communications. In the meantime, investors collect a rich 5.4% dividend yield.
Verizon, excluding Verizon Wireless, appears to be valued at seven times annual cash flow of about $9 billion, reflecting its net debt of $40 billion, pension and health-care obligations. Citigroup's Rollins argues that a deal could boost earnings by more than 50 cents a share annually.
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Fall 2006 saw the opening of the new 88,000 sq. ft. Dillard College of Business Administration building, made possible in part by donations from the A.R. Dillard family, Priddy Foundation, Bryant Edwards Foundation, and J. S. Bridwell Foundation.. The $18 million building incorporates $1.1 million in state-of-the-art technology. Besides classrooms and faculty offices, the two-story complex boasts a 140-seat auditorium, a community seminar room, auditorium dining room, faculty library, computer labs, and its very own real-time stock ticker in the Cyber Café.


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In less than three months, back-to-school spending will gear up.
Recession or not, kids still need backpacks, crayons, glue, hand soap and, of course, toilet paper.
And then there are the clothes, shoes and, depending on the age of your "kid" perhaps a laptop computer.
For several years, a sales tax holiday for Mississippi has been proposed – but killed – in the state Legislature.
But earlier this month, Gov. Haley Barbour signed into law a bill that gives a little break to those back-to-school shoppers.
Mississippi now joins 13 states and the District of Columbia in providing some kind of BTS sales tax holiday.
Give credit to Sen. Walter Michel, the Republican who represents Madison and Hinds counties. Since 2000, he's been trying to get the BTS sales tax holiday, only to run into a wall.
This year, on July 31 and Aug. 1, shoppers will have the 7 percent state sales tax lopped off their purchases of clothes and shoes under $100.
But the tax holiday in Mississippi isn't as broad as some states' programs.
For example, computers are included during the sales tax holidays in Alabama and Tennessee. In Louisiana, purchases up to a total of $2,500 are included.
In Mississippi, the exemption "covers clothing or footwear designed to be worn on or about the human body if the sales price of the article is less than $100."
Not included are accessories, including jewelry, handbags, luggage, umbrellas, wallets, watches, backpacks, briefcases, garment bags; rentals of clothing or footwear; and skis, swim fins, roller blades, skates,and "similar items worn on the foot."
Mississippi is merely dipping its toes into the water. But at least we're not stuck on dry land as we have been, and in these stressful times, every little bit helps.
However, opponents of the sales tax holiday say Mississippi cities will be losing much-needed revenue.
Proponents of the holiday say that we're already losing money to neighbor states because of their tax holidays. Plus, consumers who save money on shoes and clothes might spend money on other items that aren't tax-free.
Still, to make cities feel a little better, they can opt out if they don't like the numbers they get from this year's tax holiday.
Starting in January, a Mississippi municipality can suspend the holiday, as long as it sends a resolution to the State Tax Commission at least 90 days in advance of the suspension.
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Olivia Langdon Clemens
Olivia Langdon Clemens is Twain's wife. Often referred to as "Livy," or ''Mrs. Clemens,'' Olivia is an invalid most of her life due to a partial paralysis from a fall on the ice at age sixteen. Twain first learns of Olivia from her brother Charley, one of Twain's shipmates on the Quaker City excursion.
Twain meets Olivia for the first time following the Quaker City excursion. He begins to court Olivia, and proposes to her on several occasions, but she initially denies his proposals. Twain then fakes an injury following an accident at Olivia's house, and she ends up nursing him back to health. The next time he proposes, she accepts. As a wedding gift, Olivia's father buys the young couple a house in Buffalo, New York. Olivia's father tells Olivia about the house, but she and her father hide the fact from Twain for a time, using it as the basis to play a joke on him.
Olivia is much more affectionate than Twain, who was brought up to be reserved. She acts as Twain's inspiration through their many years of poverty and debt, and edits most of his written works. Olivia helps preserve her husband's literary reputation in other ways as well. When his publishing company fails, Olivia is the one who first suggests to her husband that he pay back everything that is owed to the company's creditors, so that Twain's character is not stained. She also supports Twain's decision to destroy lower quality manuscripts before he is tempted to sell them and...
(The entire section is 372 words.)
Orion Clemens
Orion Clemens is Twain's oldest sibling. He is an enterprising individual with many optimistic ideas, but his bad business sense gets him into trouble when he puts money into a string of ill-fated investments. He is so honest that as soon as he buys a business, he reduces the price of the product so far that he cannot afford to pay his overhead.
Orion has other misadventures. He gets engaged to two Illinois girls, until one of them forces him to break off the other engagement and marry her. He and his new wife move to her hometown and buy a newspaper office. Twain often helps out Orion, such as when he works in Orion's newspaper office after leaving his printer's apprenticeship.
Through a friend, Orion secures the office of secretary of the new territory of Nevada, working under Governor Nye. His extreme honesty makes him popular with the legislature, who cannot trust one another. Nye is often absent from the territory, leaving Orion to act as governor. When Nye lobbies to turn the territory of Nevada into an official state, it is assumed that Orion will become secretary of state. However, on the day that he is to be nominated, Orion suddenly shifts his views from supporting alcohol to banning it, and the pro-alcohol community refuses to nominate him.
Jobless, Orion and his wife sell their Nevada house at a reduced price, squander the money on a vacation in New York, then eventually settle in Hartford, Connecticut, where Twain...
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel Langhorne Clemens is the author and main character in his autobiography, in which he is referred to by both his real name, Clemens, and by his pseudonym, Mark Twain. In his autobiography, Twain sometimes paints himself in a positive light and sometimes not. He admits that he does not get all of his facts right, and states that he does not care, because the facts he presents will do just as well. He also jumps from topic to topic, talking about experiences when and how it pleases him. He notes that his intentions are to tell his story the way he wants to tell it, and not to censor himself.
A fiery, independent temperament is characteristic of Twain, who shares many of his experiences as a troublemaking child. After his father dies and the family is plunged into poverty, Twain is sent to work as a printer's apprentice, learning a trade that will serve him well in various other jobs throughout the United States.
Twain devotes his considerable energies towards many jobs as a young man, including working as a riverboat pilot, laborer, reporter, and lecturer. Eventually Twain's fiery spirit manifests itself in his sharp sense of humor—demonstrated throughout his autobiography—for which he becomes famous. Twain is also adventurous and travels extensively throughout his life, producing many lectures and books as a result of his travels. He mentions these works throughout his autobiography, and also notes the various people—celebrities and...
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General Ulysses S. Grant
General Grant is the Union general who eventually defeats Robert E. Lee and the Confederate army, thus winning the Civil War for the North. He also serves as President of the United States from 1869 to 1877.
Twain notes that during his two weeks in the Confederate army, he was almost captured by Grant, who was then a colonel. Twain meets Grant briefly on two separate occasions. Twain's literary status earns him an invitation to give a toast on Grant's behalf. During his toast, Twain tells a slightly irreverent joke about the general, who finds it very funny. From this point on, Twain and Grant become friends.
When Twain hears that Grant is going to publish his memoirs, he visits Grant to see what kind of deal Grant is getting from his publisher. When Twain realizes that the publisher is trying to swindle Grant, Twain offers to publish Grant's book himself, offering Grant a much better deal in the process.
Grant is hesitant at first, concerned that Twain will lose money on the deal. After one of Grant's friends examines Twain's publishing operation and finds it sound, the general relents and Twain publishes the book.
Grant's book is a huge success, and nets Grant's heirs about a half-million dollars, although Grant does not live to see it. On Grant's deathbed, his last request—to die as a general and not a president—is granted by Congress, even though Congress is officially out of session.
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Bret Harte
Bret Harte is one of Twain's writer friends, who becomes famous for his story "The Luck of the Roaring Camp.'' Twain meets Harte in San Francisco, when Harte is the private secretary of the superintendent of the United States Mint, a position with very few duties that leaves him much free time to write.
Twain says that once Harte went east, all of Harte's good qualities departed. Twain goes on at length about Harte's vanity and the injustices that Harte has visited upon others, including Twain. Harte generally lives beyond his means—especially when it comes to his fashionable clothes—at the expense of his family, whom he has abandoned. At one point, Harte deliberately encourages his son to seek out the help of one of Harte's friends, then tries to stab him in the back.
Harte secures assignments that he does not complete, such as when he receives ten thousand dollars from the Atlantic Monthly for a year's worth of writings, then produces almost nothing. He goes on a streak of borrowing money from friends and acquaintances, most of whom he never pays back.
Harte's literary fame turns sour when he deliberately antagonizes his critics, after which time they give his works bad reviews. As a rule, he generally does not line up writing work until he is desperate for money, and he seems to only be able to write under deadline pressure.
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Charles L. Webster
Charles L. Webster is Twain's nephew-in-law, whom Twain initially hires to manage one of his investments. Twain loses forty-two thousand dollars on the investment, but does not hold Webster responsible for the loss.
Later, when Twain forms his own publishing company, he offers to put Webster in charge of it. Webster demands a large salary, which Twain thinks is very bold, since Twain himself never got paid to learn a new trade. Twain believes that Webster's initiative will make him rich, and even names the company after him.
The first book from Webster and Company, Twain's Huckleberry Finn, is a success. Although he had intended to use the company only to publish his own books, Twain does end up publishing General Ulysses S. Grant's memoir.
However, by signing a series of bad contracts that Webster's lawyer creates, Twain inadvertently gives away his decision-making power and profits to Webster. Eventually, Webster's mismanagement weakens the business. In an ironic twist, Webster places his trust into another employee, who ends up swindling Webster out of his profits. When Webster experiences problems from his increasing drug habit, Twain steps in and buys Webster's share of the business for twelve thousand dollars, although the company fails shortly thereafter.
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Elisha Bliss
Elisha Bliss, who works for the American Publishing Company, offers Twain the contract for The Innocents Abroad, then delays publication of the book, for fear its humorous quality would offend readers, until Twain threatens a lawsuit. Ironically, the book is a success. Twain publishes several more books with Bliss, and it is only after Bliss's death that Twain finds out from the publishing company how badly Bliss had swindled him in skimming money from the company.
Clara Clemens
Clara Clemens is Twain's second-born daughter. In her twenties, Clara is known as being extremely honest, and her mother Olivia believes that she...
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I've just returned from a two-semester exchange at the Charles University[1] of Prague. There I had the chance to take a course about classical cryptography, for which I wrote an essay that might be interesting to others:
Everybody knows about the Enigma machine[2]. It was a cryptographic device developed by the Germans, used extensively by Hitler's troops, and famously broken by the allies at Bletchley Park. It was an "offline" device in that the plaintext was keyed in letter by letter, indicating the corresponding ciphertext character with each keystroke. Now, what many are not aware of is that the Germans also used a series of online crypto devices during WWII. One of these was the Siemens T52[3], a.k.a. the "Geheimschreiber". This machine was an actual teleprinter with built-in automatic encryption and decryption, i.e. it encrypted and transmitted the characters as they were typed (or fed via punched tape), and vice-versa. It's cryptographic algorithm is considered significantly more sophisticated than that of the Enigma.
When Germany leased several telegraph lines from Sweden they were immediately tapped but the T52 was soon employed on them. My essay[4] describes how the Swedish cryptanalyst Arne Beurling broke the encryption without ever having seen one of the machines. It's mainly a condensed form of the description from "Codebreakers"[5], with less history and more mathematics.
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For those of you who, like me, are not completely fluent in CSS (and maybe a little stuck with HTML wisdom of the 90's), here's how you produce hanging indents as in the reference list above:
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- Put the left column text into a
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I was in Target two nights ago... I was there for specific shopping only, but my friend and I decided to go to the toy aisle and check stuff out. I have a 7mth old daughter and she is preggers with her first, so we were looking at those kinds of toys. But like the collector I am, I did go down every aisle... was actually looking for Eeyore things for her, as that is her passion and we did find loads for her However, we got to the last aisle in the toy department which was summer toys... low and behold if I did not spot a Darth Vader sprinkler!!! He has a cloth cape, an idiotic looking saber and turns 'round when hooked to a hose. He was $9.99, I could not pass it up!! Now, if only summer would get here and all this snow disappears so I can play with it!!! LOL Of course my husband thought I should not take Darth out and play with him, trying to get me to believe that it would be worth loads down the road... I did tell him I could always go back and buy another if he really wanted me to!!! LOL
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The appellation of Côtes du Rhône encompasses much of the land of the area, not to mention much of the wine – over two-thirds of the wine produced here is of the Côtes-du-Rhône appellation. Wines here need only be from the Côtes de Rhône geographic area (which is fairly large) and consist of one or more of the 22 varieties permitted. Being such a wide classification, it's a surprise and joy that so many of these wines reach such a high quality. While there are areas in the Northern Rhône that meet the classification of Côtes du Rhône, most all of this appellation is in the Southern Rhône. Wines here are based mostly on Grenache, like other Rhône reds, while the whites focus on Marsanne and Roussanne. Viognier is also allowed although typically used in smaller quantities.


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it was a tough go for me during the fall shotgun season - not so much seeing and calling in birds, but making contact with the right birds.
hunted at least a couple hours in 5 of the 9 days. spent most of the time making gobbler calls in an area where i have shot several fall toms but no luck. i did have a tom come in one morning and make a single cluck, but i never saw him.
called in several flocks of hens/poults and a couple gangs of jakes but passed on the shots.
so ... with time running out on the season in the last day i had to hunt, i worked my way toward a roosting ridge late afternoon.
set up and made some soft calls as the sun began to sink toward the horizon and the wind finally died down.
20 minutes before sunset, i hear birds scratching and moving up the ridge. heads began showing over the rise but, dang, blue heads - another hen flock.
waited until about 10 birds came over the hill - all hen/poults - but still didnt have a clear shot through the trees and underbrush. finally, the lead hen stepped out into a clearing about 15 yards away. BEARD! BOOM! at the shot, about 20 other birds took flight down the hill.
wish that 7-inch beard was on a big tom but at least i won't have to "eat" my tag.


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New HFEA Guide to infertility shows birth rates following IVF treatment continue to increase
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New information helps patients to balance risks and benefits of treatment
Birth rates for women having IVF treatment in the UK have continued to increase according to the clinic data with the 2006–07 HFEA Guide to Infertility, launched today (Friday).
The HFEA Guide to Infertility is the most authoritative guide to infertility and infertility treatment in the UK, bringing together details of the various causes and conditions which give rise to infertility, information on the range of the various treatment options available and real-life stories showing how people have dealt with their infertility.
The associated clinic data is available through an interactive search facility on the HFEA website www.hfea.gov.uk . It combines details of every licensed fertility clinic in the UK and the services offered with details of every cycle of IVF treatment given and every child born.
The new clinic data was based on 38264 cycles of treatment given to 29688 women between 1 April 2003 and 31 March 2004.
During this period there were:
- 8251 births giving rise to 10242 children. This gives an overall live birth rate for all IVF of 21.6%, up from 20.4% on the previous year
- Birth rates saw an increase across all age groups
- However multiple births – the single biggest risk of IVF – remained high, despite falling from the previous year. Nearly 1 in 4 (23.6%) of IVF births resulted in either twins or triplets
Dame Suzi Leather, Chair of the HFEA, said
"One in seven couples across the UK, roughly 3.5 million people, have trouble conceiving and we know that when people start to experience fertility problems they eagerly search out all the information they can on the subject.
"Patients are becoming increasingly demanding of information to help them choose their medical care. The new HFEA Guide to Infertility and interactive clinic search provides the single and authoritative source of expert information that people can trust.
"We have done a lot of work with patients and professionals over the past year to make sure our Guide and clinic data gives people what they need in the form that they want it.
"We have developed a powerful interactive internet search facility to ensure people get information about clinics tailored to their individual circumstances rather than generalisations which could, at worst, be misleading.
"With patients telling us that they typically put aside between £4000 and £8000 for each IVF attempt, this Guide enables them to make better informed choices about how and where they seek treatment."
Angela McNab, Chief Executive of the HFEA, said:
"We are pleased to see that overall live birth rates have improved from last year's Guide to Infertility across all age groups.
"However we are still concerned about the levels of twin and triplet pregnancies, which provide the single biggest risk to mothers and their children from IVF treatment. Multiple births risk endangering the health of both mother and the children they are carrying and can lead to problems which can last a child's lifetime."
She added: "With tens of millions of pounds of NHS money going into fertility treatment each year, we hope the detail and quality of the information with this years Guide to Infertility will help the people making NHS funding decisions to make the wisest use of their limited resources."
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STARKVILLE – Dak Prescott has become Mississippi State's go-to guy in the red zone.
The backup quarterback came through again in Saturday's 45-14 win over Arkansas, scoring on a 4-yard run in the third quarter to give MSU a 24-14 lead.
After being stopped just short on a third-down run, Prescott and the Bulldogs gathered on the sidelines during a timeout. Players were given the option between two plays – one for Prescott, one for starting QB Tyler Russell.
"Tyler actually told them to call the play, put Dak in, Dak would get it," Prescott said. "That's a lot coming from that guy. He's like a big brother."
On the season, Prescott has rushed for four touchdowns and passed for three more. That sort of balance makes him tough to scheme against when MSU gets near the goal line.
"We've showed a little bit of my power fake to the pass. Now they can't just load up the box and come at me," he said. "They've got to be ready for the pass as well."
In his wheelhouse
Tailback LaDarius Perkins had touchdown catches of 13 and 24 yards, both of them on wheel routes out of the backfield, down the right sideline. That route has become a staple for the junior.
"It's something we saw on film, that you have an opportunity to get them in some man coverage," MSU coach Dan Mullen said.
It was a matter of QBTyler Russell making the right read.
"If the 'backer came underneath the dragger, then I go to Perk," Russell said. "If he goes over the top, then I go back side. And both times he came underneath, so I gave Perk a chance."
Key drive
MSU was leading 24-14 when it came up with an Arkansas fumble in the third quarter. Two plays later, Russell hitting Perkins for a 24-yard score.
Key number
1 – Arkansas only reached the red zone once, scoring a touchdown in the second quarter. After that, Arkansas only crossed midfield once.
"The energy, the fan base, gotta tip our hat to them. The whole stadium went wild. That was kind of a turning point when we got rolling, and once we got rolling we couldn't be stopped." – MSU linebacker Cam Lawrence, on a big fourth-down stop in the third quarter
Next weekend
MSU closes out the regular season with a trip to Oxford to play Ole Miss (5-6, 2-5 SEC), which lost 41-35 at LSU on Saturday. The Bulldogs have won three in a row in the series.
Bulldog bites
For the first time since 1999, MSU had back-to-back 300-yard passing games. … MSU had a school-record 389,354 fans in seven home games. … Tailback Nick Griffin's 60-yard TD run in the fourth quarter was a career long. … End Preston Smith had 1.5 tackles-for-loss, a sack and a forced fumble. … MSU rushed for 203 yards, 11 more than it did the previous three games combined.


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Figured Id start it up....
Cool only 2 minutes away until kickoff
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This will be my last post until tonight I need to have all my attention on this game.Peace
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