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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Real Madrid Plan To Sell Kaka To Fund New Ronaldo Deal by Captain2012(m): 5:25pm On Nov 29, 2012
Real Madrid are considering selling Kaka in January to fund Cristiano Ronaldo's new contract.

The spending power of PSG has Real president Florentino Perez concerned, particularly with Ronaldo's agent Jorge Mendes now getting closer to the club's Qatari owners.

Marca says Florentino is ready to improve Ronaldo's contract and fund the deal by cashing in on Kaka.

Kaka's father, Bosco Leite, has already informed Real his son is now ready to pursue his career elsewhere after previously digging in his heels when given the option to leave.

http://www.tribalfootball.com/articles/real-madrid-plan-sell-kaka-fund-new-ronaldo-deal-3662911
Sports / Real Madrid Coach Mourinho Way Out In Front On Manager's Rich-list by Captain2012(m): 5:18pm On Nov 29, 2012
Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho is the top earning manager in the game.

Mourinho's €15.3 million salary is over double Barcelona rival Tito Vilanova and outstrips Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson.

Top managerial earners:

1. Jose Mourinho (Real Madrid €15.3m)

2. Carlo Ancelotti (PSG €13.5m)

3. Marcello Lippi (Guangzhou Evergrande €10m)

4. Alex Ferguson (Manchester United €9.4m)

5. Arsene Wenger (Arsenal €9.3m)

6. Guus Hiddink (Anzhi €8.3m)

7. Fabio Capello (Russia €7.8m)

8. Tito Vilanova (Barcelona €7m)

9. Jose' Antonio Camacho (China €5.9m), Roberto Mancini (Manchester City €5.9m)

11. Frank Rijkaard (UAE €5.3m)

12. Jupp Heynckes (Bayern Munich €5.2m)

13. André Villas Boas (Tottenham €4.5m)

14. Harry Redknapp (Queens Park Rangers €4m)

14. Jorge Jesus (Benfica €4m)

16. David Moyes (Everton €3.6m), Manuel Pellegrini (Malaga €3.6m), Paulo Autuori (Qatar €3.6m)

19. Abel Braga (Fluminense €3.5m)

20. Luciano Spalletti (Zenit €3.3m)

21. Antonio Conte (Juventus €3m), Cesare Prandelli (Italy €3m), Vanderlei Luxemburgo (Gremio €3m), Muricy Ramalho (Santos €3m), Tite (Corinthians €3m)

26. Ottmar Hitzfeld (Switzerland €2.6m)

27. Joachim Loew (Germany €2.5m), Marcelo Bielsa (Athletic Bilbao €2.5m), Martin O'Neil (Sunderland €2.5m), Roy Hodgson (England €2.5m)

http://www.tribalfootball.com/articles/real-madrid-coach-mourinho-way-out-front-managers-rich-list-3664471
Entertainment / Oprah Reveals Breast Cancer Scare, Best Friend Gayle Visibly Upset by Captain2012(m): 4:35pm On Nov 27, 2012
In what was a shocker to both the audience and apparently to her best friend Gayle King, Oprah Winfrey announced at O Magazine's annual conference in Los Angeles last month that she had recently weathered a breast cancer scare, according to The New York Times.

She did not share much detail, aside from saying that it had only been a false alarm and that she is in good health. According to the Times, Gayle King, who was onstage with Oprah at the moment, appeared to be surprised and upset at the announcement. One woman on stage noticing King's surprise, chided Oprah for not telling her friend in private and asked her to apologize in front of the audience.

Oprah's representatives did not respond to Yahoo! Shine's request for comment.

Oprah's health scare is just one of many struggles the media mogul has dealt with over the past year. Her popular television show ended after 25 years on the air and her new cable network, OWN, continues to strive for a foothold in ratings and audience.

25 years of The Oprah Winfrey Show

In recent interviews and appearances, Oprah has criticized the press's characterization of the network's troubles. At the conference she claimed "the press tried to cut me off at the knees," and appeared to "bristle at questions about the challenges the magazine has confronted."

O Magazine has seen a 22 percent decrease in newsstand sales since Oprah's television show ended. They had predicted a 25 percent decrease, The New York Times reports. And though Oprah hopes to attract younger readers to the magazine, at the conference she made it very clear that she would shutter the magazine if it stopped being profitable.

Though the press may be eager for a story of failure, it's worth noting that OWN is Oprah's second chapter. At 58, she has built an empire and is one of the wealthiest women in the world. Most might feel content to retire after achieving that level of success, but not Oprah.

The reason why Oprah didn't tell Gayle King in private about her breast cancer scare, before announcing it to the audience at the conference, is a mystery. Perhaps she felt she had more important things to address.

http://shine.yahoo.com/work-money/oprah-reveals-breast-cancer-scare-best-friend-gayle-201800152.html;_ylt=Asb_ab2RFQbSVfw82.ysMwllbqU5;_ylu=X3oDMTR1Z2NqdXVtBGNjb2RlA2N0LmMEbWl0A3NoaW5lIG5ld3MgZm9yIHlvdQRwa2cDNDM1ZDM0YjMtY2ZjYi0zOTRlLThkMjUtYTA1M2RkM2Q5NmI5BHBvcwMyBHNlYwNNZWRpYUJMaXN0TWl4ZWRNb3N0UG9wdWxhckNBVGVtcAR2ZXIDNTNiY2RjZDAtMzgwZS0xMWUyLWJmYjYtNWU0NWZkMDE2YWZl;_ylg=X3oDMTMwMDRuNm9hBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDNmI2ZDE1N2ItNzJiYS0zNGRkLWEwOGUtMTgyZjBmM2Q0YTYxBHBzdGNhdANoZWFsdGh5bGl2aW5nBHB0A3N0b3J5cGFnZQ--;_ylv=3

Entertainment / Real Benjamin Buttons Brothers: Matthew And Michael Clark Are Aging Backwards by Captain2012(m): 4:29pm On Nov 27, 2012
By the looks of their home, Tony and Christine Clark are raising two rambunctious 7-year-old boys. Model train tracks and Monopoly pieces are scattered on tables and cartoons flicker on the TV set.

But the Clarks' two sons are grown men who share only the same interests and emotional fluctuations of little boys. Like the character portrayed by Brad Pitt in the 2008 film "The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons," Matthew, 39, and Michael, 42, are aging backwards.

Diagnosed with a terminal form of leukodystrophy, one of a group of extremely rare genetic disorders that attack the Myelin, or white matter, in the nervous system, spinal cord, and brain. In the Clarks' case, the condition has not only eroded their physical capacities, but their emotional and mental states as well.
Only six years ago, both brothers were holding down jobs and growing their families. Today, they spend their days in the care of their parents, both in their sixties, playing with Mr. Potato Head, fighting over Monopoly, and in rare lucid moments, struggling to understand why their lives have changed so dramatically.

http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/real-benjamin-buttons-brothers-matthew-michael-clark-aging-193400085.html

Health / Re: Smoking Doubles Risk Of Skin Cancer by Captain2012(m): 1:58pm On Nov 24, 2012
Smokers are liable to die young only if u smoke the pack that it was written on also. They no write am for the cigarette or Indian hemp na..
Politics / Re: Punchng.com Possibly Hacked? by Captain2012(m): 2:20pm On Nov 21, 2012
Checked it this morning and just now but saw no sign of it being hacked..
Nairaland / General / Are These Men The 5 Biggest Liars Of All Time? by Captain2012(m): 6:27pm On Nov 16, 2012
To mark this year World's Biggest Liar competition in Cumbria, where competitors have five minutes to tell the biggest and most convincing tall tales, Yahoo! News looks back at five of the biggest fibbers in history.

RICHARD NIXON

In 1972, a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington's Watergate hotel complex led to one of the biggest scandals in U.S. political history.

When the FBI found evidence that connected cash stolen in the raid to a fundraising group for the re-election of Richard Nixon, the America's 37th President faced some very difficult questions.

As the scandal unfolded over the next year, it emerged that aides close to Nixon had given the orders to the burglars who broke into the Democrat HQ, possibly with the intention of planting wire taps inside the building.

Amid increased suspicion that he knew of or even approved the break-in, Nixon initially denied any connection to the scandal.

His famous declaration of, "I'm not a crook" to the media in November 1973 has since gone down as one of the most iconic Presidential moments in history.

However, after White House conversations on the matter were recorded, the scandal ended up in the U.S. Supreme Court.

Taped conversations implicated President Nixon in the cover-up of the scandal, and as impeachment proceedings began, Nixon resigned from office in August 1974.

He remains the only U.S. President to resign from office thanks to a porky which left a lasting scar on the face of U.S. politics.


[Read more: Are your children’s secrets and lies normal?]


BERNIE MADOFF

Former businessman and financier Madoff, 74, engineered one of the biggest frauds in U.S. history by conning thousands of investors out of billions of dollars.

In running a lucrative 'Ponzi Scheme', the New York stockbroker conned around $50bn out of investors by pretending to invest their money, when in reality the cash was being used to pay out returns to other investors.

In 2008, Madoff confessed that his investment firm was in fact 'one big lie' - a year later he admitted 11 federal felonies in court and was jailed for 150 years.

He said the Ponzi Scheme began in the 1990s, but investigators looking into the fraud believe it may have gone back as far as the 1970s.


FRANK ABAGNALE


Arguably one of the greatest conmen of the 20th century, Abagnale's antics as a confidence trickster in the 1960s inspired a Hollywood movie and saw him recruited by the U.S. federal government.

Beginning when he was merely a teenager, Abagnale assumed no fewer than eight separate high-profile fake identities, including an airline pilot, doctor, lawyer, college professor and pediatrician.

He also cashed $2.5m in fraudulent cheques in every U.S. state and 26 foreign countries before he was seized by French police in 1969.

He was jailed for five years aged 21, but after serving his sentence, was released on the condition he would help the U.S. government. Abagnale, 64, now works as a security consultant.

GREGOR MACGREGOR

A less recognisable name on the list of the greatest ever fibbers, MacGregor perpetrated one of the major fraud scandals of the 1800s.

His deception - the Poyais Fraud - was arguably the most audacious and imaginative of anyone on the list, as it involved creating a fictional country in Central America.

MacGregor served in the British army and was involved in various operations in the Americas.
During his travels, he visited the coastal areas of present-day Honduras and Belize.

MacGregor claimed to have received a land grant from a local native leader, and upon his return to London, announced the new nation of the Republic of Poyais.

MacGregor created a flag, a coat of arms, currency and other trappings of a sovereign nation and then proceeded to sell off land to investors and settlers in the London markets.

He also issued sovereign debt backed by the promise of this new nation, and induced settlers with glowing accounts of the capital city and the fertility of the soil.

The first group of settlers arrived in Poyais in 1823, and found nothing except dense jungle and abandoned wood shacks.

Three other shiploads of settlers arrived over the next few years and found a similar situation.
Disease and hunger soon worked through the settlers and almost 200 colonists died.


CHRISTOPHE ROCANCOURT

A confidence trickster and impostor in a similar vein to Frank Abagnale, the 45-year-old Frenchman scammed the affluent by posing as a French heir to the Rockerfeller fortune.

Rocancourt, who listed Jean-Claude Van Damme, Naomi Campbell and Mickey Rourke among his friends, used at least a dozen aliases and persuaded the rich and powerful to invest in his schemes.

His first major con involved faking the deeds to a Paris property he didn't own, before selling it on for $1.4m.

He claims to have made $40m in his lifetime, during which he also pretended to be an ex-boxing champion, movie producer and venture capitalist.

After twice jumping bail following arrests, Rocancourt was extradited to New York and charged with theft, perjury, bribery, among other charges, was fined $9m and jailed for five years.

Having 'found God' in prison, born-again Christian Rocancourt insists he has learned from his mistakes and is currently in talks to make a Hollywood movie of his biography ‘I, Christophe Rocancourt: Orphan, Playboy and Convict.

http://m.yahoo.com/w/legobpengine/news/world-s-biggest-liar-competition-richard-nixon-frank-abagnale-bernie-madoff-16112012.html?orig_host_hdr=uk.news.yahoo.com&.intl=GB&.lang=en-GB
Phones / Re: How Long Does Your Smartphone's Battery Last? by Captain2012(m): 6:15pm On Nov 07, 2012
Tgirl4real: It really depends on the device and the activities going on on the phone.

A typical BB battery will last 3 hours with constant pinging and internet usage.

Well, a Nokia will last longer than that. But if u are running multiple apps, talk, sms, chat and all, it shouldn't last more than a day.

My bold2 last 7hrs wit constant pingin and surfing the internet
Music/Radio / Re: Olamide - Voice Of The Street by Captain2012(m): 8:01am On Nov 02, 2012
Nice song
Romance / Re: True Talk From The Bachelors' Club To The Single Ladies. by Captain2012(m): 8:52pm On Oct 16, 2012
So damn true
Art, Graphics & Video / Re: Chicken Core: The Rise Of Kings - Nigeria's 1st Animated Short Film by Captain2012(m): 4:55pm On Oct 15, 2012
Great work
Nairaland / General / JTF Takes Over Boko Haram’s Command & Control Center by Captain2012(m): 9:59pm On Sep 18, 2012
The military Joint Task Force today further dealt a massive blow to the operational capabilty of the terrorist group Boko Haram following a successful operation launched at the group’s command and control center in Kano.

 

Recall that two members of the sect had been captured yesterday after a gun battle with the military and officers of the SSS. One of those captured is believed to be Abu Qada, the group’s spokesman and “media coordinator.”

 

The JTF in a statement emailed to Newsmensaid, “Following further operation in the suspects heavily wired IED hideout, the following items were recovered: Two AK 47 rifles, Two Pump Action Rifles, One Berretta Rifle, One Smoke Discharger, 433 rounds of 7.62 Nato ammunition, 80 rounds of 7.62 special ammunition, 2 AK 47 magazines, 36 Prepared IEDs, 13 Laptops, Two motorcycles, Four Printers, One photocopier, One 33 slots Zenith Disc writer, One TG 3900Ez Generator set, Religious Books, large quantity of CD plates, Two decoders, Two Satellite dish, One 21'' Television set, One DVD player, 2 Bags of Urea fertilizer, One Elite dry cell 12v battery, One blue gate UPS, One stabilizer, 10 Hand held Motorola radios and 5 Battery chargers.

 

 

The JTF further said, “this latest encounter with the terrorist group have foiled its planned attack to wreck havoc on the good people of Kano state. It has equally further depleted the capacity of the terrorist group to operate. The JTF would like to use this medium to reiterate its resolve to continue to work assiduously towards the protection of lives and property in the state.

 

“The relative peace which Kano enjoys today can be attributed to the collective effort and prayers of the good people of Kano State.”

 

The JTF appealed to the general public to continue to volunteer information while assuring the utmost confidentiality in dealing with such information.

 

“Residents are therefore enjoined to go about their normal lawful business activity without any fear as security agents are ready and will respond swiftly to any treat to life and property in any part of the state,” the JTF added
Education / Re: I Bet More People Will Answer It Wrong: If You Do, Give Yourself A Month Break by Captain2012(m): 8:59pm On Sep 16, 2012
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Phones / BOLD 2 Not Downloading... Pls Help by Captain2012(m): 4:10am On Sep 14, 2012
My bold 2 is not downloading from mobilemovies.net.. Pls help me out
Adverts / Re: Can You Help Me With A Valid Uk Billing Address by Captain2012(m): 8:10pm On Sep 12, 2012
Contact
Jokes Etc / Re: I Bet U Will View This Pic Twice by Captain2012(m): 7:11am On Sep 10, 2012
Got it right now
Programming / Make Mozilla 10x Times Faster by Captain2012(m): 7:43pm On Sep 05, 2012
Make Mozilla 10x Times Faster

THIS IS A VERY simple TRICK.....NO SOFTWARE REQUIRED......NO DLL REQUIRED

Un-Hidden Text:
1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit enter. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.

NOTE:this trick only works for broadband users not for dialup
Music/Radio / Re: Wizkid And P Square by Captain2012(m): 12:15pm On Sep 04, 2012
For your mind.. You dey deceive yourself big time....

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Jokes Etc / Re: Solve The Riddle by Captain2012(m): 7:24am On Sep 01, 2012
Saturday
Business / Re: Exchange Rate For Aus.dollar by Captain2012(m): 5:13pm On Aug 30, 2012
Check xe.com
Romance / Re: Blunders You Have Made Infront Of Opposite Sex by Captain2012(m): 4:04pm On Aug 30, 2012
Never had one. Always practising my approach.
Dating And Meet-up Zone / Re: What Would You Do? by Captain2012(m): 7:31pm On Aug 24, 2012
She'll soon call you again to reveal another secret.. She's taking you for a fool....
Politics / Re: New-List Of President Goodluck Jonathan's Achievements by Captain2012(m): 5:09pm On Aug 23, 2012
The first president to give his people a gift on the 1st day of a new year.(REMOVAL OF FUEL SUBSIDY)

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Jokes Etc / Re: Puzzle! Puzzle!! Puzzle!!! by Captain2012(m): 2:04pm On Aug 22, 2012
Thursday
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: There Are Consequences When You Leave Arsenal by Captain2012(m): 6:21pm On Aug 21, 2012
Well written
Webmasters / Re: 10 Online Security Tips You Need To Know by Captain2012(m): 10:37pm On Aug 17, 2012
If you use mozilla firefox, and love remembering your passwords, use a Master password for your browser. Always scan your system at least once in 2weeks. Dont use dictionary words, birthdays or your names for your passwords.

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