Kris Jenner to Lamar Odom: Quit the NBA!

This is very sad but true: Kris Jenner had a better year than Lamar Odom.

The matriarch of the richest family on reality TV just negotiated a new $40 million deal for her children... while a listless Odom averaged a career low in points and rebounds and was cut by the Mavs.

So we suppose it's not too shocking that Jenner thinks she can offer her son-in-law professional advice which, according to a Hollywood Life insider, goes like this: forget the NBA. Focus on E!.

“Kris is eager for Khloe and Lamar to do another season of their reality show," this Kardashian source claims, but:

"[Khloe] doesn’t want to push Lamar into doing anything he doesn’t want to do because she knows it will only backfire. Kris thinks doing another season will help their relationship, but the real reason she wants them to do another season of Khloe & Lamar is because she thinks the show keeps them relevant."

However, someone close to the NBA thinks Lamar needs to make a choice - and that choice is clear if he wants to ball professionally again.

“Teams have to deal with enough, and these outside distractions will not be welcomed," this insider says. "Teams are now worrying about younger and cheaper players that are not headcases who do reality shows - they are against it.”

What do YOU think Lamar do with his career?

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Former rival Rick Perry endorses Mitt Romney (reuters)

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Kardashian?s $40 Million Richer: Thanks E!

Well, if you weren?t already sick of the Kardashian klan already, you soon will be. The power family just signed a three year, $40 million deal with E!. The Kardashians certainly are raking it in. They already took over E! for seven strong seasons of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians? and they will continue for three more. I have to admit, it is the best show E! has and I used to watch like a train wreck. Till Kimmy went and got all stuck up with her quickie wedding, it totally turned me off. But I still tune in occasionally, cause like I said, it is the best show they have and sometimes nothing else is on. You will see the entire Kardashian Krew – Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian Odom, Rob Kardashian, Bruce Jenner, Kris Jenner, Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner. Scott and Mason supposedly penned a deal of their own. I hope we see more of that cutie, and I don?t mean Scott. The $3 million doesn?t include other endorsements or projects for the family, or their spin offs, “Kourtney and Kim Take New York” and “Khloe and Lamar.? The most recent season of “Keeping Up With [...]

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Tyra Banks on America's Next Top Model Firing: Time for a Boost!

America's Next Top Model will look very different next season, as long-time contributors Nigel Barker, Jay Manuel and J. Alexander were let go from The CW series this week.

What was the basis for their ousting?

"We reached a point where were feel the show needs a new boost," head honcho Tyra Banks told Access Hollywood at New York City's Matrix Awards. "It's very difficult because I love my guy."

Banks added that she's not against working with any of the trio down the line ("My partner Ken Mok and I have projects we're developing, and we're a family - it doesn't end," she said), though it's unclear if they feel the same way.

Barker has said he wasn't shocked by the decision to not renew his contract, but he also sounded a tad bitter this week when he wished good luck to his eventual replacement.

America's Next Top Model averages around one million viewers and will return for Cycle 19 this fall.

[Photo: WENN.com]

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Why is 30 Rock doing another live episode? Well, NBC asked them to do it, and they were "just dumb enough to say yes," says Tina Fey in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. This Thursday, the show will air live at 8:30 p.m. ET, and then restaged at 8:30 p.m. PT.

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BYD intros dual-mode electric Qin vehicle, Remote Driving key for outside-the-car operation

The New York Auto Show may be done and over with, but the 2012 Beijing International Auto Show is just hitting its stride. Predictably, BYD is attendance, and it's got a couple of new gizmos out of the red carpet. For starters, there's the Qin (pronounced "Chin," not Kin), a dual-mode electric vehicle that includes seven percent better efficiency, power and energy-saving in pure EV mode compared to the first generation's F3DM system. All told, the vehicle car scoot some 31 miles on a single 10KWh charge, and in hybrid mode, it can use both its 110KW electric motor and its 1.5 Turbo engine to output some 223KW of power and 440Nm of torque. For the technophiles, the car is also equipped with an intelligent cloud system platform, which incorporates things like "telematics, cloud-computing and a full-range of services 24 hours a day (like roadside assistance, vehicle positioning, remote monitoring, music and video downloads etc.)."

As if that weren't enough, the outfit's showcasing a new Remote Driving Controller for its F3 Plus, which enables owners to perform a variety of driving functions -- moving it forward / back, turning left / right and traveling at a "restricted speed" -- without having the owner inside of the vehicle. Naturally, we're anxiously awaiting a test unit of our own. Or, for a wave of lawsuits -- whichever comes first.

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Victoria Beckham turns designer hand to cars

BEIJING (Reuters) - British fashion designer Victoria Beckham had her soccer-superstar husband "David in mind" when helping create a new special edition of Range Rover's off-road vehicle, the "Evoque".

"I've stayed very true to myself. I've designed a car that I want to drive, a car that I think David wants to drive," the former Spice Girl told Reuters in an interview in Beijing, where she was promoting the vehicle, late on Sunday.

"I think that though women will drive this car, it has a masculine edge. I think it's very cool," she added.

Beckham, who admitted she had never done a project like this before, said she had learned "an enormous amount."

"And the bottom line is, would I drive this car, like when I'm designing a dress, would I wear this dress? I love what I do. I consider myself so blessed to do a job that I love and this has been a great experience for me," said Beckham, wearing a sleeveless striped dress from her own collection.

She said she searched for inspiration in many places.

"I did a lot of research and not just with cars, old and new, but boats, planes, movie stars, different locations," she said.

"It would be hard to pinpoint exactly where the inspiration came from. It's just what I like, that's the bottom line. I don't try to be too technical about it ... It's what feels real to me."

The special edition "Evoque" features exclusive, hand-finished matt paint, the first for a Land Rover-type vehicle.

The vehicle also has rose gold accents on the grille and gloss black forged alloy wheels. Inside, the four-seat coupe includes vintage-inspired leather seats, rose gold-plated accents and features trimmings of black lacquer, textured aluminum and mohair.

In addition, the vehicle has bespoke luxury accessories, such as a four-piece leather luggage set and a hand-sewn leather wallet for the owner's manual signed by (Victoria) Beckham.

The special edition "Evoque" costs 80,000 pounds ($129,000), twice the cost of a regular model. Only 200 will be made, the first of which will be rolled out in China as early as October.

Beckham has begun to make a name for herself as a designer, and in 2011 picked up a British Fashion Award.

Still, the singer-turned-designer said she "doesn't want to run, before she can walk" with her collection.

"I mean, each season, I add more retail partners to my list of retailers but because it's important for me, as a brand, to keep things quite small. I want my customer to feel quite special when she finds one of my dresses or handbags. I don't want it to get too big too quickly."

($1 = 0.6205 British pounds)

(Writing by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Ed Lane)

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Scissortape ? Another ?Why didn?t I think of that?? moment

Wrapping presents is one of those jobs I don’t enjoy.? And as bad as my wrapping skills are, it’s an added pain in my house because I can never find where the kids have left the tape. Worry no longer, one of those “Why didn’t I think of that?” gadgets is at hand.? The Scissortape [...]

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Homicidal Lunatics Busted Rigging a Popular Trail With Deadly Medieval Booby Traps [Wtf]

A U.S. Forest Service Officer on foot patrol along a popular trail in Utah made a shocking discovery over the weekend. A couple of crazy men rigged the entrances to a rudimentary shelter with booby traps. People could have died. More »

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Facebook Buys AOL Patents From Microsoft For $550 Million In Cash

Although Facebook didn't buy AOL's patent portfolio the other week -- it was sold to Microsoft for $1 billion -- it's going to get a good portion of those patents anyway: Microsoft and Facebook today announced that Microsoft would be selling Facebook 650 of the 925 patents that it bought from AOL to Facebook for $550 million in cash. It will also get a license for the remaining 275 patents that Microsoft bought from the AOL portfolio, which Microsoft will continue to own. Microsoft also has a license for the 300 patents that AOL still owns. At this point, Facebook will not have a license for those patents still owned by AOL. The deal gives Facebook a much stronger position in the world of patents, where it had been weak up to now and has been facing lawsuits, most notably from Yahoo, over infringement.

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Hydraulic Drilling or What The Frack?

Happy Earth Day! After seeing many campaigns promoting Earth Day and how we can try to improve the longevity of our beloved earth I came across many helpful and thought provoking articles. Topics like recycling, planting trees, carpooling, electric/hybrid cars and more. It seems that there are many possible ways we can make Earth Day [...]

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Jon Jones has a new respect for Rashad Evans; why you should, too

After defending the UFC light heavyweight belt on Saturday over Rashad Evans, Jon Jones said he had a new respect for his former training partner and friend.

"I would say Rashad is my toughest fight to date, and a lot of it is because of how talented and awesome of a fighter he is," Jones said after beating Evans in a five-round decision.

Since winning and defending the title, Jones has finished former champs Mauricio "Shogun" Rua, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, and Lyoto Machida. Evans is the first fighter ever to force Jones into the fifth round, and the first fighter to require judges' cards since Stephan Bonnar in 2009. Evans was wobbled several times throughout the fight, but was still standing for the final horn.

Somehow, there were still fans who were unsatisfied with Saturday's main event. On Cagewriter's Facebook page, one reader said Evans had no heart. Another called the fight boring, while another claimed Evans didn't want the fight.

Seriously?

Evans trained for months and months to face a man he once called his friend. He cut down his weight, went through countless interviews, had cameras follow him around incessantly for "Primetime," then traveled to Atlanta and got in a cage with someone who is considered one of the world's best fighters. He withstood elbows, punches and kicks for 25 minutes. At the end of it all, he lost, but was still standing.

And there are actually fans who think Evans did not want to be in there? For the final word on the subject, let's hear from the great Baltimore boxer (and fictional character), Dennis "Cutty" Wise.

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Hominick, Yagin, Browne and Rothwell pocker UFC 145 bonuses

The bonuses for UFC 145 were given to main card fighters, who put on a more exciting show than the preliminary bouts. Mark Hominick and Eddie Yagin's bloody decision was awarded Fight of the Night. Ben Rothwell's quick knockout of Brendan Schaub won Knockout of the Night, while Travis "Hapa" Browne won Submission for his arm triangle of Chad Griggs. Each bonus gave the fighter an extra $65,000.

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How Niche Content Sites Can Build And Keep Audiences

n Sept. 2007, I was on a well-deserved holiday, having spent an excruciating 11 months with a startup where 80-hour weeks were normal. I was the Chief Technology Officer and in my short tenure, I had gained new clients, setup the company infrastructure and trained a few interns. On the morning I came back from holiday, my office was packed up, and the bosses were in it to hand my stuff to me. They kicked me out of the door without so much as a thank you. I went through the various stages of depression, and then realized that I had to come up with an action plan quickly to pay for the massive mortgage and the new baby. With nothing more than an idea in mind, my wife and I started CraftGossip.com, a niche blog network covering everything that your grandma would be proud of, sewing, knitting, crochet. We also covered some new age favorites like indie crafts, edible crafts and home and garden. We decided to cover news related to the craft world (I explain later why we decided to start this site and not something else).

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How Basketball Came To Be

In earlier December 1891, Dr. James Naismith, a minister around the school of the university for YMCA pros (at this time, Springfield University) in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, sought a vigorous interior match to keep his college students occupied and at appropriate amounts of conditioning through the extended New England winters. Following rejecting other tips as either too rough or inadequately suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto an 10-foot (3.05 m) elevated observe. In contrast with modern basketball nets, this peach basket retained its bottom, so balls scored in to the basket experienced to become poked out having an extended dowel every time. A soccer ball was utilised to shoot targets.

Dr. Naismith?s handwritten diaries in the time point out that he was anxious concerning this invention, which included guidelines from a Canadian children?s match called ?Duck on a Rock?, as several experienced failed just before it. Dr. Naismith himself was originally from Canada.

Naismith?s new match is really similar towards the recreation of group handball, which experienced currently been invented in the earlier 1890s.

The initial official basketball recreation was played inside the YMCA gymnasium on January twenty, 1892 with nine players, on a court just half the size of a present-day National Basketball Association (NBA) court. ?Basket ball?, the title suggested by one of Naismith?s college students, was well known from your beginning.

Women?s basketball began in 1892 at Smith College when Senda Berenson, a physical training instructor, changed Naismith?s rules for women.

Basketball?s early adherents had been dispatched to YMCAs throughout the United states, and it swiftly distribute through the USA and Canada. By 1895, it was well proven at a number of women?s substantial colleges. Whilst the YMCA was accountable for initially establishing and spreading the game, inside a decade it discouraged the new sport, as rough play and rowdy crowds started to detract from the YMCA?s major mission. Even so, other beginner sports activities clubs, colleges, and skilled clubs promptly crammed the void. Inside the years before Globe War I, the Beginner Athletic Union and also the Intercollegiate Athletic Affiliation (forerunner with the NCAA) vied for manage more than the rules for that video game.

Basketball was initially played having a soccer ball. The first balls made specifically for basketball had been brown, and it was only in the late nineteen fifties that Tony Hinkle, looking to get a ball that could be extra visible to players and spectators alike, launched the orange ball which is now in frequent use.

Dribbling, the bouncing with the ball up and down although relocating, wasn?t portion from the unique game except for that ?bounce pass? to teammates. Passing the ball was the major means of ball motion. Dribbling was at some point launched but limited by the asymmetric form of early balls. Dribbling only grew to become a major element from the activity about the fifties as making enhanced the ball shape.

Basketball, netball, dodgeball, volleyball, and lacrosse would be the only ball video games which have already been discovered as being invented by North Us citizens. Other ball games, which include baseball and Canadian football, have Commonwealth of Nations, European, Asian or African connections.

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Anyone Can Invest, Regardless of Experience: Finance Friday ...

Apr 20, 2012 by admin

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This post is the first of two.? It is meant as a mini investing primer for someone with no investing knowledge. ?Wait before you close the window. ?This is even for Mothers and families with very little to save. ?It?s for anyone who wants to save money for a new car, a downpayment on a house, or that dream boat. ?It is designed to give you some easy, practical and actionable steps to improve your finances in a short amount of time.? It will also give you an understanding of a few basic financial tools that we will show you how to use.? This is designed for someone who wants to put a large part of their finances on ?auto-pilot? using solid rules. ?These rules can help you achieve a range of goals

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First though, as we alluded to, we have to take a few minutes to dispel several myths and define a few basic terms.

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Investing does not have to be complicated.? You can do it.? People often use complex sounding terms, especially pundits on TV and that can be intimidating.? If your parents weren?t good with money or never taught you anything about it, you might naturally shy away from these topics.? There are 100 other excuses out there.? Adopt a positive attitude and know that you can be a great financial success without being anywhere close to an expert.

Don?t be scared of stocks.? The US Stock Market is still your best wealth building vehicle.? US Stocks are still your best bet in the long term.? The drop that the market experienced in 2008-2009 does not change this.? Look at market down turns as a chance to buy stocks on sale; it?s an opportunity.? Other investment vehicles will not give you a great enough return to build significant real wealth over the long term.? Do not let large sums of money sit in the bank out of fear (except for an emergency fund of 3 to 6 months expenses or perhaps 12 months, if you are paid on commission or are a small business owner).? If you have large sums in the bank because you don?t know what to do with it, stay tuned.? Turn off financial news shows.? They will not produce anything positive.

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Now, I want to define just a few basic terms and concepts that we will be using.

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Mutual funds are a collection of many different stocks managed by professionals.? So, by investing in mutual funds, you are really investing in all the individual stocks that the mutual fund buys.? But, you don?t have to pick the stocks.? That is done for you.? You just make a single transaction, buying the mutual fund.? The goal of a mutual fund is to make money for its investors by wisely selecting individual stocks.

An index fund is a special kind of mutual fund designed to mirror the return of the general stock market.? You will often hear the return of the whole market represented by the Dow Jones, S&P 500 or Nasdaq.? So, if you invest in a mutual fund that is designed to follow the S&P 500, you are really investing in all of the stocks in the S&P 500, without having to manage all of that yourself.

A 401(k) is a special retirement account created by your employer.? A 401(k) can hold different types of investments, like stocks, bonds or mutual funds.? Think of the 401(k) as a special holding container for retirement savings that protects investments from taxes.? Another important thing to know is that your employer will generally give you some type of matching funds, meaning that as you save in this account, your employer will also save in this account for you as well.? It is ?free money,? in a sense.

An IRA or Individual Retirement Account functions much like the 401(k), except that you, as an individual, set it up separate from the retirement account that your employer set up.? It is another special holding container for retirement investments that provides tax protection.? Those investments could be stocks, bonds or mutual funds.

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Now that we are armed with some understanding and some common vocabulary, we can put this into action next week.? It will be very simple and powerful, I assure you.? We will help you participate in the stock market?s 11% per year average rate of return, regardless of how much you have to invest each month.? It will help you secure your retirement, ease money worries and gain control over your future.? Remember no matter how little you know, you are absolutely capable of investing.

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