Jennifer Lopez: Famed and Rich But Loveless at 45

 Jennifer Lopez . (Photo : getty images)

Inspite of Jennifer Lopez net worth today of $300 million according to Celebrity Net Worth, she has remained alone after her failed relationships. The most recent break up was with her dancer and choreographer Casper Smart.

The "bootylicious" singer-dancer-actress also married Criss Judd for a year in 2001 and after two years, JLo married her longest relationship with Marc Anthony that started in 2004 and ended in a divorce this year. She and Marc Anthony have twins, Max and Emme.

But amidst all her love, JLo admitted in Today Show with Maria Shriver that her biggest heartbreak was with Ben Affleck in 2004 when she was already engaged with the actor-director.

The 45-year-old singer also admitted that she fall in love easily and has a bad habit of entering into new relationship without self introspection.

Jennifer Lopez net worth ramped to its height in 2012 where she was ranked no#1 by Forbes during her "American Idol" times as judge. She received a huge amount of $12 million yearly. This year, as her love life seemed troubled, her earnings fell landing her at 33rd place in the Celebrity 100 list by Forbes.

Chunks of Jennifer Lopez net worth came from her successful films including biopic "Selena," "Anaconda," "Out of Sight," "The Wedding Planner," "An Unfinished Life" and more.
Aside from films and singing career, Jennifer Lopez net worth was also formed by her business engagements including her clothing line JLo and her first fragrance "Glow."

With Jennifer Lopez net worth of $300 million, she remained loveless after series of heartbreaks. The actress- singer stated, "I think it's better to just be on my own for a minute and learn more about myself."

George Weah wins Liberian Senate seat

George Weah

George Weah political struggle to win election in Liberia has finally paid off as he won a seat in Liberia’s Senate to represent the capital. Mr. Weah won the Montserrado County seat that includes the capital Monrovia with 78 per cent of the vote, defeating Robert Sirleaf, the son of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf,

Mr. Weah, leader of the country’s largest opposition party, the Congress for Democratic Change, lost the 2005 presidential election to Ms. Sirleaf and lost again in 2011 when he was a vice presidential candidate. He is expected to stand again in 2017
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Rice ball, a different way to enjoy rice this season

Rice and chicken is a must this season, I think Christmas will be complete with it. Rice comes in a variety of ways, jollof rice, fried rice, rice and stew or sauce, but what is not common is rice ball.

Add, this recipe to your list of different ways to prepare rice.

What you need:

1. 1 deric of rice

2. Pepper

3. Tomatoes

4. Onion

5. salt

6. Thyme

7. Canned beef

8. Eggs (2)

9. Groundnut oil for frying.



Method

Boil rice until soft but not mushy.

Saute pepper, tomatoes and onion.

Add the pepper mixture and corned beef to the rice season well

Bind rice mixture with some beaten egg.

shape on a floures board

Coat in beaten egg

Fry in hot oil

Celebrating the light of the world.

Christmas is an annual festival celebrated among billions of people around the world to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ. Christmas is widely observed on December 25 as a religious and cultural feast. Christmas Day is a public holiday in many of the world's nations,

A depiction of the Nativity of Jesus with a Christmas tree backdrop

Today as always, christians turned out en mass to celebrate the child that was born to be the light of the world, the prince of peace.

Merry Christmas to all. Have a fun filled celebration.

Adoration of the Shepherds by Gerard van Honthorst depicts the nativity of Jesus

An Argentinian town bans beauty contests

Beauty contestants

Beauty contest is one event that attracts poms and pageantry world over, there have been commendation and condemnation of the event, many countries are rising up and trying to make changes in the way it is being organised

However, a town in Argentine, the city of Chivilcoy became the first to ban beauty contests calling them sexist and discriminatory. They say the practice is damaging to women as it forces them to live up to a 'stereotypical' ideal of beauty which can lead to them developing eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia.

The ruling has caused heated debate in the country where beauty pageants are a common element in regional festivals where a 'queen' is chosen to represent the town for a year.

This decision was supported by the mayor of Chivilcoy and several NGOs, and passed by the local council. Outlining the reasons for its decision the councillors said such contests 'reinforce the idea that women must be valued and rewarded exclusively by their physical appearance, based on stereotypes'.

They added that they are 'a discriminatory and sexist practice', and an 'act of symbolic and institutional violence against women and children.'

Also, the French government banned beauty contests for girls under the age of 16 on grounds that participants are subjected to hyper-sexualisation.

Elton John marries long time lover

^{Elton John and David Furnish               (Instagram)}

Sir Elton John and his long time partner David Furnish have finally tie the knot of marriage to become husband and husband.

Elton John who opened an Instagram account to post invitation and pictures of the event was very happy, the event was made possible as a result of the legalization of same-sex marriage in Britain. According to him, "I'm very proud of Britain and the laws that we've seen come into existence since we've been together,"

They had a civil partnership ceremony in 2005, after 12 years together.

They have two children — Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John and Elijah Joseph Daniel Furnish-John

Today in History, December 21, the invention of the first crossword puzzle

December 21 is the 355th day of the year. There are 10 days remaining until the end of the year.

crossword puzzle

Today's Highlight in History.
1913 – Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.

A crossword is a word puzzle that normally takes the form of a square or a rectangular grid of white and black shaded squares. The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues which lead to the answers. In languages that are written left-to-right, the answer words and phrases are placed in the grid from left to right and from top to bottom. The shaded squares are used to separate the words or phrases.

Arthur Wynne was a British-born inventor, best known for the invention of the crossword puzzle in 1913. He created a page of puzzles for the "Fun" section of the Sunday edition of the New York World. For the December 21, 1913, edition, he introduced a puzzle with a diamond shape and a hollow center, the letters F-U-N already being filled in. He called it a "Word-Cross Puzzle."

Although Wynne's invention was based on earlier puzzle forms, such as the word diamond, he introduced a number of innovations, like the use of horizontal and vertical lines to create boxes for solvers to enter letters. He subsequently pioneered the use of black squares in a symmetrical arrangement to separate words in rows and columns. With the exception of the numbering scheme, the form of Wynne's "Word-Cross" puzzles is used for modern crosswords.

A few weeks after the first "Word-Cross" appeared, the name of the puzzle was changed to "Cross-Word" as a result of a typesetting error.Wynne's puzzles have been known as "crosswords" ever since.

Arthur Wynne became a naturalized US citizen in the 1920s.He died in Clearwater, Florida, on January 14, 1945.
On December 20, 2013, he was honored with an interactive Google Doodle commemorating the "100th anniversary of the first crossword puzzle" with a puzzle by Merl Reagle. Numerous other constructors also created tribute puzzles to Wynne to commemorate the anniversary.
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World Events

1913 – Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.
1919 – American anarchist Emma Goldman is deported to Russia.
1923 – United Kingdom and Nepal formally signed an agreement of friendship, called the Nepal–Britain Treaty of 1923, which superseded the Sugauli Treaty signed in 1816.
1973 – The Geneva Conference on the Arab–Israeli conflict opens.
1988 – A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270.
1992 – A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport, killing 56.
1994 – Mexican volcano Popocatépetl, dormant for 47 years, erupts gases and ash.
1995 – The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
2004 – Iraq War: A suicide bomber killed 22 at the forward operating base next to the main U.S. military airfield at Mosul, Iraq, the single deadliest suicide attack on American soldiers.
2012 – The world was predicted to end on December 21, 2012 according to some calendars.
2012 – The Walt Disney Company completed its acquisition of Lucasfilm and of the Star Wars franchise.