Madonna Crowned 'Greatest' Woman In Music

Whitney Houston, Adele and Lady Gaga also top VH1's list of '100 Greatest Women in Music.'
By Jocelyn Vena


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Madonna is already dubbed the Queen of Pop, so fans of the iconic singer probably aren't surprised that she tops VH1's "100 Greatest Women in Music" list.

The network's weeklong countdown wraps up Friday and features the greatest female artists of the last twenty years (those who have released music from 1990 to today). The list includes the likes of P.J. Harvey, Sheryl Crow, the Spice Girls, Miley Cyrus, Cher, Aaliyah, Ke$ha, Florence and the Machine, Liz Phair, M.I.A. and the White Stripes drummer Meg White, to name a few.

As the countdown comes to a close, it seems that Madonna is the only lady who can top the list. Also making the top 10 is Pink, Mary J. Blige, Christina Aguilera, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, Adele, Lady GaGa, Beyoncé and Mariah Carey, who landed at #2 on the list.

Britney Spears narrowly missed the top 10, landing at #11. The other girls in the top 20 are Rihanna (who just made it at #20), Kelly Clarkson, Missy Elliott, Katy Perry, Jennifer Lopez, Alanis Morissette, Alicia Keys, Gwen Stefani and TLC.

The nod for Madge comes just as she's prepping to release her next studio album, The album will hit shelves in March. "I think the majority of the record is more action-packed. More high-energy," she teased about the release to MTV News back in January. For it, she worked with a number of producers, including her "Gimme All Your Luvin' " producer Martin Solveig, as well as her longtime collaborator William Orbit.

"We've worked on stuff for so many years that we kind of finish each other's sentences. He knows my taste and what I like," she said about Orbit, who also worked with her on Ray of Light. "Magic happens when we get into a recording studio together."

Who do you think is the greatest woman in music? Sound off in the comments section below!

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Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1679384/madonna-music-greatest-woman.jhtml

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The former Northwest Airlines passenger who had threatened to blow up a plane headed to the U.S. was sentenced on Thursday. NBC?s Brian Williams reports.

>>> the man who will be forever known as the underwear bomber who tried to blow up that northwest airlines passenger plane headed for the u.s. on christmas day two years ago, he was sentenced to life in prison today. in court, prosecutors played this videotape showing the explosive force of the device similar to the one he was wearing.

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>> the would-be bomber spoke briefly during the hearing and yelled out "god is great" when the sentence was announced.

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Blue-Eyed Devil: Don?t get scammed looking for work while in college

Finding a job while you're in college isn't easy. Finding a good job while you're in college is impossible.

Vector Marketing LLC has an answer though ? they're the guys who put those ?"flexible hours, student work" fliers all over campus.

They want to pay you and all of your friends oodles of cash to walk around and sell knives door to door, and that's not on the flier. But that's the gist of it.

If it seems too good to be true, that's because it is.

Vector isn't what it purports to be. Not even close.

Vector is a New York-based distributor of high-quality cutlery. They've had a branch in Baton Rouge for a while now, and I've had the opportunity to sit down with several of their many former employees.

Except "employees" isn't quite the right word: The folks who go to work for Vector are considered independent contractors in its "multi-level marketing business model."

If you've never heard that term before, I wouldn't be surprised. It isn't on the fliers either.

Vector's model is both completely legal and utterly diabolical. Baton Rouge resident and former Baton Rouge Community College student Latif Abuhajah, one of Vector's former knife peddlers, described Vector as deceptive.

"You go in, they pump you up in this seminar-type thing and tell everyone how they're about to go into business for themselves," Abuhajah said. "They ask you questions, they're super friendly. Then they take everyone aside."

That's when it got weird. They asked Abuhajah to make a list of all his friends and family, with their phone numbers.

That's also when they informed him he would have to fork over more than $100 to buy his "demo" set of knives.

Oh, and it wasn't $16 an hour the way they had explained it in his initial interview. It was $16 per appointment ? which, they said, normally took about an hour.

"I never had an appointment that was less than an hour-and-a-half or two hours," Abuhajah said. "They say it's all about being a good salesman. They don't profit off of sales ? they profit off the suckers who come in looking for a job."

Abuhajah was quite vehement in his sentiment. He also explained how Vector management wasn't very forthcoming with his pay, along with how they didn't explain to him that he made either $16 per appointment or commission off of his sales ? not both.

Jack Langston, also a Baton Rouge resident and former Vector employee, disagreed with Abuhajah. He felt Vector was a great company, but said most people weren't cut out to work there. He said the advertising had to be misleading, or else the company would never find any employees.

"Of course it is [misleading]. It has to be," he said. "Vector's like a funnel: the company has to lure in a lot of people to find the one or two good salesmen out there. The ads are definitely bait."

Langston explained that there was nothing wrong with the company in principle, and that if a contractor worked hard enough he could earn a decent living.

"Look. Those fliers seem too good to be true, and that's what they are," Langston said. "They're deliberately meant to draw in people, and 99 percent of them can't hack it."

Vector Marketing is not an illegal enterprise ? it's a dishonest and manipulative one.

With things the way they are, a lot of students can't afford to waste their time and money on a venture that isn't going to pay off.

A lot of us are living paycheck-to-paycheck and struggling to make rent every month. We can't afford to be preyed upon by the likes of Vector. Don't be fooled by this sham, nor the others like it.

If it seems to good to be true, it is.

Nicholas Pierce is a 22-year old history junior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on twitter @TDR_ nabdulpierc.

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Yahoo's talks to sell Asian assets unravel

(AP) ? As Yahoo tries to head in a new direction, the fate of the struggling Internet company's Asian holdings remains in limbo.

The negotiations to sell Yahoo's stakes in China's Alibaba Group and Yahoo Japan abruptly broke off in a disagreement over the sales price and the best way to get the complex deal done, according to a person familiar with the matter. Another person familiar with talks said Yahoo had second thoughts after agreeing to the sales price in a 300-page proposal outlining the proposed deal in late December.

"It was the culmination of a lot of little items," one person said of the deal's collapse.

Both people spoke to The Associated Press on Tuesday on the condition of anonymity because the negotiations are considered to be confidential, despite repeated leaks about the discussions during the past few months.

All Things D, a technology blog affiliated with The Wall Street Journal, reported earlier that the talks had unraveled.

It's the latest twist in the drama that has been swirling around Yahoo Inc. since it fired Carol Bartz as CEO five months ago.

Since the start of the year, Yahoo has hired former PayPal executive Scott Thompson as CEO and announced the departures of five board members, including Chairman Roy Bostock and company co-founder Jerry Yang. One of Yahoo's major shareholders, New York hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb, outlined plans Tuesday to shake things up even more; he intends to wage a campaign to win a board seat for himself and three of his allies.

Thompson, Yahoo's fourth full-time CEO in less than five years, has pledged to engineer a turnaround that eluded his predecessors.

For now, though, investors are disillusioned with Yahoo's inability to close the deal on the Asian assets. The company's shares shed 76 cents, or 4.7 percent, to close at $15.36 ? below their price six weeks ago when Yahoo announced Thompson's hiring.

The Asian impasse comes as a surprise, given that Yahoo and the prospective buyers, Alibaba and Yahoo Japan shareholder Softbank Corp., all seemed motivated to seal a long-awaited deal. Yahoo was confident enough to dispatch negotiators to Hong Kong last week while Alibaba had been seeking financing to pay for its part, one person said.

But the sides couldn't agree on the value of Yahoo's holdings, which have been steadily rising in the past few years as Alibaba's electronic-commerce services prospered in China's rapidly growing Internet market. Analysts have also differed on how much Yahoo could fetch by selling its stakes, with estimates ranging from $11 billion to $18 billion.

To compound the challenges, the deal was arranged in a way that would have enabled Yahoo to avoid paying taxes. That proposal, according to both people who spoke to the AP, was structured a "cash-rich split-off" that would have resulted in Alibaba and Softbank contributing money and other assets into a special entity in exchange for Yahoo's stakes in the Asian companies. Yahoo then could have used the money generated from the Asian sale to placate its long-frustrated shareholders with a special dividend or other measures that might reverse a three-year slump in its net revenue.

The downturn has turned Yahoo's Asian stakes into the most valuable part of the company, even though its own operations still include websites boasting an audience of about 700 million people.

But Yahoo is having trouble attracting the advertisers who have been spending more money on the Internet in recent years, a trend that has been enriching online search leader Google Inc. and Facebook, the owner of the largest online social network.

Yahoo remains open to reviving the negotiations to sell its Asian assets at the right price, one of the people familiar with the matter said. That could include a new proposal that would taxable in the U.S., the other person said.

When Yahoo appeared reluctant to sell its Asian stakes late last year, investment firms Blackstone Group and Bain Capital considered teaming up with Alibaba and Softbank in a joint bid to buy Yahoo in its entirety, according to media reports that cited unnamed people. Yahoo also considered selling partial stakes of the company to other investment firms.

Bostock publicly acknowledged the different proposals that Yahoo had been considering last week when he announced he will be stepping down as the company's chairman. At that time, he stressed "we are not in a position at this time ... to provide assurance that any transaction will be achieved."

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