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The usually calm Vincent Kompany has let loose on UEFA after their decision to ban all fans from Manchester City's visit to CSKA Moscow.
The ruling was made after CSKA fans were involved in a number of incidents, including racial chanting and crowd violence but a small amount of Russian fans still managed to make their way into the ground with passes that had intended to be for sponsors.
In contrast, no City fans made it into the ground, and Kompany was furious they'd been made to pay the price for CSKA's behaviour, BBC Sport quote the Belgian as saying: "Why the hell do we not have any fans here? What have our fans done wrong?"
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Despite officially being a behind closed doors fixture, around 650 people were present at the game, with press, sponsors and match day mascots and family allowed to attend.
Though the small contingent of CSKA fans in the stadium unlikely had any affect on the game, Kompany was outraged and what he deemed to be completely unfair.
The City skipper said: "You say no fans, all of a sudden you turn up and the team who has no fans is Man City. So who's getting punished? Who's being done for racism, Man City or Moscow?
"It needs to be looked at, it needs to be changed. Our fans shouldn't be punished.
"I don't have a problem, they'll say it's sponsors and so on and they need to give certain allocations, but why are we getting punished?"
"You say no fans, all of a sudden you turn up and the team who has no fans is Man City. So who's getting punished? Who's being done for racism, Man City or Moscow?" - Vincent Kompany.
Kompany was speaking after his side gave away a 2-0 lead to draw 2-2 with the Russians in what some considered a must win game, though he refused to blame the result on the issue.
"Again, because you'll have people in your papers writing columns saying 'He should be looking at his own performance and stuff' – so, done – we've analysed it and we know we should have done better, but things like this are unacceptable to honest. There's just no fairness in it.
"Obviously you can't deny there's a bit of frustration, and I'm not looking for an excuse, but if you want to play it fair then, fair enough, you've got to let your sponsors have some tickets but why the hell do we not have any fans here?
"What have our fans done wrong? So it needs to be looked at, it needs to be changed, because our fans shouldn't be punished," he said during his post-match television interview.
CSKA response
Predictably, CSKA have moved quickly to deny any involvement in the presence of their fans, with the club's media director Sergey Aksenov saying: "Those people you are talking about are 360 people from the Uefa Champions Club - partners, sponsors.
"If they are CSKA fans they are good for us. Everyone is invited by Uefa, not CSKA."


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{Due to a recent virus attack I lost a whole bunch of recipe on my blog. I am slowly working on posting them back one by one. I am going to start with the recipes I am getting most requests for. If you remember/want to try one of my earlier recipes which is now not in this blog please write to be at firstname.lastname@example.com and i'll try to post it as soon as possible. I am basically just going to re-post the recipe as it was. So some of the content might not be so relevant today but my intention is to get them all back and I have over 80 posts to re-blog. Thank you! }
I am actually sticking to my salad plan pretty well. I have been thinking that posting my salad recipes here will keep me motivated in making and eating more salads. So here I am with my todays lunch!
Please note that I am not going for zero oil, zero fat, only raw salads. I am making flavorful, fully loaded salads which will keep my tastes buds happy. I don't' really want to get tired of them within a couple of days. Adding roasted vegetables to your salad will make them taste different and very delicious. You can also serve them warm this way.
My todays salad has a very generous amount of olive oil used in it but that's what makes the salad so good! I made an eggplant and tomato salad with lots of garlic and olive oil. I have used the long green variety of eggplant which are locally grown. I was too lazy to bake the tomatoes and eggplants so I slowly roasted them in a pan as It takes much less time that way. For some crunch I added roasted watermelon seeds. There is no chefs for no dressing here. This salad has such robust flavors from roasted eggplant and tomatoes that it doesn't really need anything else. I just drizzled it with some good quality extra virgin olive oil which was perfect for the salad. Eggplant is meaty, tomato is juicy and sweet with the lettuce being crisp. Perfect!
You can use any variety of eggplant.
Replace watermelon seeds with pine nuts of sunflower seeds.
You can also roast the eggplant and tomato in the oven instead of a pan.
Roasted cherry tomatoes can make the salad look a lot prettier.
I like the flavors just right here but you can add some chili flakes to the salad to spice it up a little.
Serve it with some freshly toasted bread for a more filling meal.
- 2 loosely packed cups of romaine lettuce
- 1 cup eggplant cubed or sliced
- 1 big tomato sliced
- 2-3 cloves of garlic
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 tsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tbsp watermelon seeds
- salt
Wash and dry lettuce leaves.
Cut the eggplant into cubes or thin slices and let them soak in salt water for 10 minutes. Drain the water fully.
Heat 1 tbsp olive oil in a pan, add finely chopped garlic. Now add the eggplant and little salt and roast it in low flame till the eggplant is slightly golden and cooked.
Place the tomato in a griddle, drizzle with 1 tbsp olive oil and sprinkle with salt. Slowly roast on both sides on stove top.
Dry roast the sunflower seeds for a few seconds.
To assemble the salad – Tear the lettuce into pieces and place it in a bowl. Add the roasted tomato and eggplant. You can add them warm or wait till it cools down a bit. It rates good both ways. Sprinkle the sunflower seeds and top it with the extra virgin olive oil. Serve immediately.


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There are several highly useful resources provided to learn how to apply Jersey in Java-based web services, especially in the Project Jersey Community Wiki. The REST Web Services Developers Guide is available in both HTML and PDF formats. This 34-page document introduces basic concepts of REST (Representational State Transfer) and covers how to use Jersey to apply REST. The Jersey Getting Started page shows how to create a simple Hello World style REST-based web service. One thing I found particularly interesting about this is that it uses the Lightweight HTTP Server distributed with Sun's implementation of Java SE 6.
Another useful resource on using Jersey with REST is the Enterprise Java Technology Tech Tip Implementing RESTful Web Services in Java.
If you use the NetBeans IDE, two particularly useful articles on using NetBeans 6.0 with Jersey are Getting Started with RESTful Web Services on GlassFish and Getting Started with RESTful Web Services on Tomcat. In the remainder of this article, I will demonstrate how to use NetBeans 6.1 with Jersey and the Oracle database HR schema to generate a RESTful web service.
SIDE NOTE: I started working on this example before discovering the two NetBeans/Jersey articles related to Tomcat and GlassFish described above. However, even after discovering these articles, I decided that it could be worthwhile to publish this blog entry because I am going to use NetBeans 6.1 (the articles use NetBeans 6.0), I am going to use an external Oracle database, and I am going to add different commentary than that available in the two articles hosted on the NetBeans site. However, because the basic Jersey support seems to be largely the same between NetBeans 6.0 and NetBeans 6.1, I am going to try to not repeat much of what is already available in those articles unless the repetition is necessary to make this blog entry flow more smoothly.
The Jersey distribution can be downloaded, but this step is unnecessary with NetBeans 6.1. The snapshot below (click on snapshots to see larger versions) demonstrates the "Jersey (JSR 311) Libraries" library (and its content JARs) that is available with NetBeans and can be included in a project using Jersey.
NetBeans 6.1 includes a plugin for Jersey. This is shown in the next screen snapshot:
With the Jersey library added to my NetBeans 6.1 project and the plugin installation verified, it is time to start developing a simple Jersey-based web service. For this example, I will be using the Oracle HR database schema. When one runs a
SELECT table_name FROM user_tables SQL command in SQL*Plus on this schema, the following tables are shown
With existing database tables like those shown above, it is trivial to generate Java Persistence API (JPA) entity classes from the database tables in NetBeans 6.1.
The next three screen snapshots indicate how simple it is to generate "Entity Classes from Database," to select appropriate tables from which JPA entity classes should be generated, and to specify a package structure for the generated JPA entity classes.
You may have noticed some tables and generated JPA entities in the above screen snapshots that are not normally in the HR schema. These tables are in my schema because I created them and am using them for something else, but they are not significant for this example.
The next screen snapshot shows the generated JPA entity classes as they appear in the NetBeans 6.1 IDE.
The icons with exclamation points in the middle of red circles indicate classes that do not compile with the current NetBeans compiler classpath settings. To address this, I needed to add the TopLink Essentials (JPA 1.0 reference implementation) library to the project. This library is delivered with NetBeans 6.1, so this is a relatively easy task. The next screen snapshot indicates how the addition of the TopLink Essentials library allows the generated entity classes to build properly.
Thus far, NetBeans 6.1 has done most of the heavy lifting. We have not done anything REST or even Web Service specific, but we do have JPA entity classes generated and corresponding to the database tables we started with. The next step is to let NetBeans 6.1 generate the appropriate Jersey-based artifacts to support RESTful web services access of these newly generated entity classes. The next four screen snapshots show how to generate "RESTful Web Services from Entity Classes," how to select the entity classes from which REST/Jersey artifacts should be generated, which Jersey/REST artifacts are to be generated, and the generation of Jersey-based REST web services in action.
When the steps shown in the screen snapshots immediately above are executed, the Jersey-based web services artifacts shown in the next four screen snapshots are generated or set up.
Converters - Convert Between JPA Entities and Jersey Services
Services - Workhorse Classes for Jersey-based REST Web Services Support
Jersey Libraries Automatically Associated with NetBeans Project
NetBeans RESTful Web Services
NetBeans 6.1 has done most of the work to go from database tables to JPA entities and from JPA entities to RESTful Web Services. NetBeans does even more for us by providing an easy testing and monitoring mechanism. By right-clicking on the "RESTful Web Services" icon shown in the last screen snapshot (in NetBeans' Project window) and selecting , a web browser comes up with a basic "Test RESTful Web Services" web page that can be used to test and monitor the running REST-based web services. The next screen snapshot shows a snippet of this using a REST query for employee with employee ID of 170.
There is much to look at in the web page for testing, but my focus here is on the simplicity of the REST-style URL (see Resource toward top of web page), the tabs at the bottom that allow you to see the "raw" XML in addition to the useful Tabular View and HTTP Monitor tabs, and the URL for the WADL (see top left corner).
In this blog, I used NetBeans to create the RESTful web services from JPA entity classes that were generated by NetBeans from an Oracle database schema. I also performed simple testing of my newly generated RESTful web services using NetBeans' automatic support. I intend to follow up with additional blog entries in which I use non-NetBeans clients to contact these RESTful web services.


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In 2009-10 Ben Uri curated Forced Journeys to mark the 70th anniversary of the opening of the internment camps on the Isle of Man. The exhibition, highlighting many émigré artists, toured to the Sayle Gallery, Douglas, Isle of Man and the Williamson Gallery, Birkenhead. Many artists who were interned also featured in the accompanying publication, Forced Journeys: Artists in Exile in Britain c. 1933-45.
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Darlington 3 Tamworth 2
ON A night when Darlington's talented teenagers took on Arsenal's stars of the future, one of the graduates of Quakers' youth team fired the club into the second round of the FA Trophy.
Curtis Main's first two goals of the season helped give Darlington victory as they overcame a stubborn Tamworth at The Northern Echo Arena.
Quakers made hard work of overcoming their Blue Square Bet Premier rivals who had a man sent off just before the break but twice equalised before Aman Verma grabbed the winner after being teed up by Main.
Main, now 18, made his Darlington debut aged 15 in 2008 and while he was playing a starring role in the first-team last night, Quakers' youth side put in a valiant display before losing 6-1 at Arsenal.
Arsene Wenger was among the spectators at the FA Youth Cup tie, held at Barnet, as Craig Liddle's youngsters bowed out at the third round stage.
Rob Ramshaw equalised on 18 minutes before the Gunners went on the rampage with most of the goals coming before the break which was in contrast to last night's match at the Arena.
In front of a sparse crowd of 432, the lowest in the club's history, little of note occurred during an uneventful first 45 minutes in which the only chance fell to Tamworth's Kyle Perry who headed wide from close to goal.
His night got much worse soon after as he was shown a red card having elbowed Danny Hone when challenging for a high ball.
That gave Quakers the entire second half to ease their way into the second round, and within two minutes of the restart had gone ahead with Main tapping in.
The ball fell kindly to the South Shields-born teenager after Jefferson Louis had seen a shot parried by keeper Ross Atkins.
But ten minutes later tenman Tamworth were back in it after Darlington struggled to clear a corner.
Alex Rodman was allowed to curl home a shot from the corner of the penalty area, beating keeper Sam Russell at the near post.
In contrast to a dismal first half, the second period was much livelier with both team showing more attacking intent and soon Main scored again, this time planting a header beyond Atkins.
With Chris Senior sidelined for around two months due to medial knee ligament damage sustained in training, Main's goals will do his first-team chances no harm at all.
Though Main owed much to winger Chris Moore's whose lovely ball in from the right created the goal which put Darlington back in the driving seat.
Until Tamworth again drew level. This time substitutes Seb Lake-Gaskin and Jake Sheridan combining for the latter to drive home from the edge of the area, giving the 14 travelling Tamworth fans something to cheer.
Back to all-square and seemingly set for a replay next week, until Verma popped up to score his first goal for the club 11 minutes from time.
The midfielder, on loan from Leicester, collected Main's pass on the edge of the penalty area and with only the keeper to beat calmly fired beyond Atkins to give Darlington a second round home tie with Bath on January 15.
Manager Mark Cooper was pleased with his side's performance, saying: "It's always difficult to play against ten men as we know from our game at Bath and as Crawley know from when we got a point against them after Aaron was sent off.
"We wanted to work the ball and pass it. I think we did that tonight, probably as much as we have all season. That probably doesn't please some supporters who want to see us whack it 60 yards forward.
"If I'd paid to get in to see that I'd have been happy.
There were five goals, we won 3-2 and played some decent stuff.
"The only bad points were the goals we conceded.
"We made it a nervy last few minutes through sloppy defending."
Goals: Main (47, 1-0); Rodman (58, 1- 1); Main (67, 2-1); Sheridan (70, 2-2); Verma (79, 3-2)
Bookings: None
Sendings-off: Perry (42, violent conduct)
Referee: Andy Madley (Ossett) 7
Attendance: 432
Entertainment: **
DARLINGTON (4-4-2): Russell 7; Moore 7, Miller 7, Hone 6, Brown 6, Bridge-Wilkinson 7, Brough 6, Verma 7, Gillespie 5 (Wright 66, 6); Louis 6 (G Smith 83), MAIN 8 (J Gray 90). Subs (not used): Chandler, Austin
TAMWORTH (4-5-1): Atkins 5; Tait 6, Marshall 5, Mitchell 5 (Bojang 82), Barrow 7; Rodman 7, Oakes 5 (Sheridan 52, 7), McKenzie 5 (Lake-Gaskin 52, 6), Wilkinson 5, Thomas 5; Perry 4. Subs (not used): Lyttle, Connor
MAN OF THE MATCH CURTIS Main – two goals and an assist for the teenager


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From Laid-Off Seattle Reporter to Accidental Web Entrepreneur
Apr 10, 2009 4:00 AM PT
It's been another eventful week in the continuing original drama, "The Death of Journalism As We Knew It."
Our story so far:
- Near the beaches of San Diego, the leadership of the Associated Press drew a line in the sand Monday by announcing at its annual members meeting that it would sic its lawyers on online news aggregators that illegally use its material. It's also going to develop technology that will track its content usage. And although AP chairman Dean Singleton didn't mention its name, Google apparently was hounded enough in the Guilty Conscience department that it felt compelled to blog about its license to scrape AP content and its ability to help newspapers stay afloat with ad revenue.
- The next day, near those same sunny Southern California beaches, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told the Newspaper Association of America that it is imperative they find a new Web business model that included mobile options -- but please don't give up on those online advertising revenues. Say, did we mention that Google can help you sell those ads and is working on mobile options?
- On that same day in Dallas, reporters, photographers and editors at the Morning News started getting the dreaded human resources calls they were warned about in January as parent company A.H. Belo began implementing personnel cuts. The Metro section was gutted; sports also took a big hit, which can mean only one thing: The Cowboys/Mavericks/Rangers/Stars must be moving en masse to San Antonio. Dmncuts.blogspot.com gave those laid off, and those who remained, a chance to vent.
In their opposing corners of the Web, the usual media analyst suspects digested all this and either wailed about, or hailed the approach of, the Death of Journalism. Tweeps, Facebookers and LinkedIn-ites linked and shared and overshared.
None of this helps Kery Murakami get any closer to his goal: to once again be a working journalist in the city of Seattle.
Unemployed and Working Harder Than Ever
"I'm doing this mostly out of passion and belief for what we do, but also out of desperation, because you go to JournalismJobs.com and you look at the landscape, there are no jobs out there. In the old days, you'd think about selling your soul and going PR, but there are no PR jobs out there. There's nothing out there."
So Murakami, a 20-year-plus journalism veteran who covered city hall for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer right up until the daily newspaper folded in mid-March, is trying to create his next job out of thin air. That's meant working with several of his fellow laid-off colleagues 10 to 12 hours a day, six to seven days a week, transforming himself into journalist-entrepreneur. That's why his words tumble out in a rush during our phone interview late Tuesday night: This guy needs more sleep.
"Part of it is just starting any small business," Murakami says. "The gazillion details, and each and every detail will drive you crazy. The regulatory forms you have to fill out, where to get computers."
Luckily, he and his staff are working with local public broadcasting representatives KCTS-TV and KPLU-FM for what will be Seattlepostglobe.org, a news site which hopes to launch next Tuesday. KCTS is letting Murakami and company work out of their office space free for three months.
"They're looking into grant funding to hire a business consultant to create a business model, and also to look at us as a demonstration project and give us a little bit of operating funding at the outset," Murakami said. "That's the ultimate goal, to create a news site totally operated by all three entities that would share content and resources." Murakami wouldn't have to turn himself into an all-platform, multi-media journalist -- laptop computer in one hand, camcorder in the other. His public broadcasting partners would provide the audio and video content to ensure that everything looks and sounds professional and doesn't turn into amateur hour.
For Murakami, it's about one more choice for Seattle news consumers. "When the Rocky Mountain News closed, the people in Denver were affected by it, but they got no say in it. No one asked the people in Seattle what kind of journalism they wanted here. So that's part of what we're trying to do."
Professionals get paid. Murakami is still doing what Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein did to break open Watergate; he's following the money, but for slightly different reasons.
"We haven't been that successful," Murakami says. "We've met with potential investors and the question they ask is, 'How sustainable is the business plan?' I don't know. It really comes down to what people in Seattle are willing to pay for. I have no marketing studies, and no one I've talked to has any. Without a business consultant, we have no idea what the revenue is going to be."
At this point in our conversation, Murakami's frustrations with the business side of the Digital Age of Journalism rise to the surface. Some are encouraging him to focus on certain segments of the news-consuming population -- political junkies, environmentalists. It's not part of the grand plan: to continue providing general news. "We keep hearing 'niche and differentiation.' If I hear 'niche' one more time I'll scream. Maybe that works from a business standpoint, but from a societal level, it shouldn't matter if your primary concern is the environment or race or immigration or low taxes or whatever. Everybody ought to be concerned about their own issues, but if we just focus on that, then nobody is going to be able to reach out to the general public the way they used to.
"I hope to God folks realize that it's about a community issue. It's not about journalism or a jobs issue. Whatever you care about is affected by this."
"This" refers to the sudden lack of people keeping an eye on what's going on with public officials. "There are tons of aggregators out there, and tons of bloggers, and I don't mean to disparage what they do. They fulfill a goal in the media mosiac that's out there. But no one's out there doing what a city hall reporter does. He goes through city records, sits through hours and hours of incredibly boring meetings looking for that nugget that tuns into an important story. That's just not happening or being done. That bothers the hell out of me. I take what we did very seriously.
"There's one city hall reporter left in Seattle. God only knows what's going to go on when people aren't watching."
Burying the Lead
By the time you read this, Murakami will have taken part in yet one more panel discussion about the future of news in Seattle. The voices heard there will no doubt join the chorus raised, re-Tweeted and linked-to on the Internet by the likes of PressThink's Jay Rosen, BuzzMachine's Jeff Jarvis, authors Clay Shirky and Steven Johnson and media columnists David Carr of The New York Times and Jack Shafer of Slate.com. (Let's see, is that everybody on my media guru name-check list?)
At the end of that discussion -- if nobody shows up with a check or winning lottery ticket -- Murakami will go back to finding a way to get paid for doing what he's wanted to do since second grade: Be a reporter. He's ready for the talk to end and for people -- Seattleites for now -- to start voting with their pocketbooks for the kind of news they've always wanted.
Maybe Dean Singleton and the AP are feeling a similar sense of weariness with reading their profession's obituary over and over again; hence its stand against aggregators, no matter how hollow some may find the threat. It may also explain the recent trial balloons floated by New York Times executive editor Bill Keller regarding a return to paid online content and The Wall Street Journal's decision to offer more exclusive paid content.
Whatever. Just make a decision soon and see what news consumers will pay for. It might help Murakami with his biggest challenge since the P-I layoffs; getting his unemployed colleagues excited about continuing to practice journalism when they're worrying about the bills.
"For the nine years I worked at the P-I, the small core group of people who worked very hard are having a hard time just getting out of bed to figure out what to do with their lives," Murakami said. "All the things you have to do when you're unemployed. The parents are having really rough conversations with their children. Just trying to get people to do stories when they're overwhelmed is hard."
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When we build a product, scale a successful business or organize a conference, we do it with unmatched passion. From online stores to startup design products, and even heavy online games, we've helped our clients solve a broad spectrum of problems, and we've left them better equipped to continue to grow them. But don't take our word for it -- check out some of our success stories below.
decidim.barcelona is an innovative citizen participation tool build for Barcelona's City Council, currently focused in shaping the future of the city for the next 4 years. It is also the first ".barcelona" domain out there.https://decidim.barcelona/
Being the natural evolution of our two previous conferences, Full Stack Fest is a joined effort between Barcelona Ruby Conference and FutureJS. While keeping them separate experience, it packs an enormous learnng opportunity to the full stack developer.http://www.fullstackfest.com
Empresaula is a business simulation network where students from different schools can interact, send emails, make purchases, bank transfers and more. It provides a realistic, engaging experience for both teachers and students.http://empresaula.com/
Lead by the famous Barça player Gerard Piqué, Golden Manager has grown to be one of the most-known football manager games of the moment. We trained their team and provided in-house assistance leading the technical decisions and architecture to help them scale from thousands to millions of players.http://www.goldenmanager.com
What started as a fun side-project grew to be one of world's leading conferences about the Ruby Language. It's already been 3 successful editions since 2012 where we brought Ruby's leading experts and its creator, Yukihiro Matsumoto itself.http://baruco.org
FutureJS is Baruco's brother conference: Focused on JavaScript and the future of the language, this conference bring surprising topics on the stage as React.js' inner workings, multi-device incerfaces and much more.http://futurejs.org
We Pass is a mobile ticketing system that creates engagement and builds loyalty with customers. Sport promoters can communicate easily with their customers to offer promotions based on their ticket purchase, send alerts, additional services and more. We worked on a concise, semantic API for their mobile application and provided help and guidance during the development of the project.https://www.wepass.es/
Wunderlist is an app for cloud-based task and project management. It allows users to manage their tasks from a smartphone, tablet and computer. We worked side-by-side with their development team in Berlin to build new features and prepare their product to scale up to millions of users.https://www.wunderlist.com/
Dashmote's motto is We bundle the web. We worked remotely with their team and developed the backend for their multi-provider image search and helped them adopt a test-driven development approach, implemented a continuous deployment flow, and help them level up their team in the process.https://www.dashmote.com/
Sento, a product by Sisu labs, provides cutting-edge big data processing and sentiment analysis for Twitter. Having a rails-based backend in need of some gardening, we trained their team through a series of refactoring and helped them bring their infrastructure to Heroku, implementing a continuous deployment workflow in the process.http://www.sentoapp.com/


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By Lucy Buckland
She was often the picture of demure on this year's X Factor, in her long flowing gowns, but for her latest single Nicole Scherzinger is leaving very little to the imagination.
The fiery singer decided to mesh up her look with a very revealing tight black dress and a variety of prowling poses as she shot her new video in west London.
And what better way than to grab some attention for your new single than wearing a daring mesh dress, which left little to the imagination.
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Eagle eyed X Factor fans will remember the star invited her boys - James Arthur and Jahmene Douglas - to the shoot of her video during last year's series.
Both boy's jaw's dropped as they watched the Hawaiian-born beauty work her magic on camera.
But these sultry shots show off a rather different side to the Don't Hold Your Breath hitmaker and often hyperactive X Factor judge.
In one sch-mazing shot Nicole poses provocatively, showing off her pert derriere, in the sheer dress, with just a short jacket protecting her modesty.
In another the dazzling beauty, who is dating Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton, looks virtually naked in the revealing dress.
Her trademark long dark locks are gelled back, making her look extra edgy.
A source at the shoot revealed Nicole was absolutely freezing in the lacy number, but Nicole pulled it off with professional aplomb.
Although the video was filmed in the UK before Christmas it will be released later this week, with first radio play coming on Thursday.
And despite her ease infront of the camera Nicole confessed to Fabulous magazine that she isn't always so confident.
'I get very shy if I have to go to an event or walk a red carpet and be around a lot of people. It takes me a while to come out of my shell. I'm a loner - in the [Pussycat] Dolls, when I was in college, always a loner.'
'I think it's because I'm always in work mode with a million things in my head," Nicole continued. "It's just how I was made. It's got me to where I am today.'
Boomerang is the lead single from her second solo studio album, the follow-up to 2011's Killer Love.
The music video is expected soon after the song's debut.
VIDEO Preview Nicole shoting the video for Boomerang


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Field Safety Notices - 26 - 30 September 2016
Summary List of field safety notices (FSNs) from medical device manufacturers from 26 - 30 September 2016
If you receive a field safety notice (FSN) from a manufacturer you must always act on it.
MHRA publishes the following for information only.
If you have a question about a particular FSN contact the manufacturer.
Latest FSNs
Becton Dickinson: CD79b (SN8) PE
26 September 2016
IVDs, haematology
Model: 335833
MHRA reference: 2016/009/027/601/007
Biomet 3i
September 2016
Implants, dental
Model: Certain® Low Profile Abutment; Certain® Low Profile One-Piece Abutment; Low Profile Abutment Healing Cap; Low Profile Abutment (Hexed) Pick-Up Impression Coping; Low Profile Abutment Non-Hexed Preformance® Temporary Cylinder; Low Profile Abutment Quickbridge®; Low Profile Abutment Non-Hexed Temporary Cylinder; Low Profile Abutment (Non-Hexed) Transfer Impression Coping; Low Profile Abutment Titanium Retaining Screw
MHRA reference: 2016/009/019/701/014
Hamilton Medical: Hamilton
16 August 2016
Lung ventilators
Model: Hamilton C3
MHRA reference: 2016/009/021/601/003
IMPAC Medical Systems: Monaco RTP System
Radiotherapy planning and verification systems
MHRA reference: 2016/009/028/701/005
Medela: Swing / Swing Maxi / Freestyle
Active Wound Management
MHRA reference: 2016/009/020/299/002
Medivance: Arctic Sun® Temperature Management System
15 September 2016
Heating, patient, electrical pads & blankets
MHRA reference: 2016/009/022/601/008
Research Instruments: EZ-Strip
28 September 2016
Laboratory equipment associated with IVF
Model: Oocyte Recovery Needle
MHRA reference: 2016/009/026/701/006
Roche: Tina-quant HbA1c Gen.2; Tina-quant HbA1c Dx Gen. 2
22 September 2016
IVDs, clinical chemistry
MHRA reference: 2016/009/026/701/007
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust: Horsley's Bone Wax
22 September 2016
Bone cement and tools
MHRA reference: 2016/006/013/291/009
SenTec: SenTec Digital Monitor (SDM)
15 September 2016
Diagnostic measurement and monitoring
MHRA reference: 2016/009/023/299/004
Siemens: Dimension Vista Chemistry 1 Calibrator
22 September 2016
IVDs, clinical chemistry
MHRA reference: 2016/009/022/601/006
Surgical Specialties: BioSentry™ Track Sealant System
24 September 2016
Surgical instruments, minimal access
MHRA reference: 2016/009/027/291/010
Thermo Fisher Scientific: Centrifuge module
15 September 2016
Model: Centrifuge module Type 1020
MHRA reference: 2016/009/027/701/001
Zimmer: Zimmer Air Dermatome II
27 September 2016
Surgical power tools
MHRA reference: 2016/007/013/701/026


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None of our successes would be possible without our people, their hard work, determination and focus on getting it right for our customers.
From the chefs, to the commercial team, to the staff making sure the million spring rolls get to our customers bang on time, every time at our three sites, we're all part of the SK Chilled Foods team.
Aaron Hunt
What's your role?
I'm the IT and Communications Manager which in reality means I'm a bit of a jack of all trades as long as it involves IT, there's not really a bit of IT I don't cover. I've been here eight years. We've got a relatively small department which is good in many ways because we get to be specialist in all areas.
There are about 200 people who use the IT systems here at SK Chilled Foods, so there's always plenty to do. We're a proactive and preventative team and we're on call 24/7, 365 days a year. Because our operations are 24/7 there is all day production, orders and picking which means the calls into the department can literally be anything! And that old "Have you turned if off and back on again?" Yes, it's a cliché, but it can work!
I enjoy the diversity of what I can do. One week I could be in a roof void cabling or training people or just doing day to day stuff. I've had people say their computer isn't working and found it's not plugged in! You just have to laugh and get on with it.
What's your favourite food?
I'm a foodie – I enjoy Indian food which is great for working here! I also enjoy Italian, Thai – anything really with a bit of flavour and a bit of spice.
Paul Clarkson
What's your role?
I'm the Technical Director here at SK and that means I've got responsibility for food safety and food quality. The team has about 60 people across the three sites – there's the central technical team at Wynyard which look after raw materials assurance, quality assurance and suppliers – we have a team looking after customer specifications at Wynyard too and on the sites there is a technical team at both sites working across the shift patterns working in quality assurance. They ensure the quality and safety is correct and that we are making our ranges to the specifications we get from the customers and they also audit things like hygiene. We have taste panels every day.
I've probably been here 17 years, before that I worked at ASDA as a technical manager looking after ready meals and snacks. SK made garlic mushrooms for us, so I started coming up to the factory and got to know the team and I was asked to join.
I like the variation of what I do, there's no pattern to what I do.
What's your favourite food?
I like Italian because of the vast range it covers.
Derek Hodgson
What's your role?
I'm the Finance Director which means I'm in charge of publishing the accounts, paying employees and the bills and collecting money in from our customers. We deal with roughly 2500 supplier invoices per month now and we send out even more to our customers, as the company has more than doubled in size over the past 7 years.
Indirectly, we're pretty important cogs in the machine!
I've been here about seven and a half years and the business has changed extensively since then. This is my first job in the food industry but in my line of work they are transferable skills which has allowed me to work in several industries, though I have always enjoyed working with consumer products – I started my career at Electrolux – so I'm enjoying being in consumer goods again!
What's your favourite food?
Italian food, chicken or steak in a tasty sauce – chateaubriand is good!
Benna Davis
What's your role?
I'm the Head of Development and I head up a team of chefs, NPD managers and technologists to develop the very best snacks, sides and ready meals. It's all about innovating and working with individual customers or potential customers to make sure we're meeting their needs and that it all runs smoothly. I'm the WD40 really!
I've been working at SK for two and half years and the best thing about my role is the people – internally and externally and building relationships with people. Not eating all the food is the problem! You can read a more in-depth article on Benna and her role on our news page.
What's your favourite food?
Fruit! I juice a lot. Hmmm, or chocolate!
Majander Singh (Billa)
What's your role?
I'm Senior Production Manager for SK Foods which entails looking after the two production sites, ensuring that all the quality and efficiency targets are met and to manage teams who will raise any issues.
There's a lot of considerations in terms of quality and it's my responsibility to make sure everything goes out to the right standard. It can get very busy, one of my main roles is to co-ordinate the Christmas output and make sure the two sites make it on time.
I've been here for 18 years, and started working on the samosa line – it's very therapeutic! I like having pride in my work – I go into the supermarkets and I get a sense of pride looking at the products.
What's your favourite food?
I like food, but I'm not very adventurous – Indian food is my favourite cuisine but I do like a "parmo" as well!
Peter Simpson
What's your role?
I'm the Supply Chain Controller – what that means is that everything that the two main sites make, the point after they make it and they give it to me, I'm responsible for making sure the customer gets what they ordered, in the right amount, in the right quality at the right time.
It's all quite challenging – it's like a puzzle – having to move the right things around to complete the right picture. We work across all the departments, operations, NPD, manufacturing, marketing, sales and customers themselves, third parties, hauliers, IT – every department and I have to be flexible. Christmas is very stressful – volumes go through the roof – we're preparing well in advance so the logistics work properly.
I've been here almost 8 years. I enjoy it – it's good to deal with food because everyone loves it and I'm quite a foodie person. The interesting thing is every day is a different day because of the amount of different customers, priorities and requirements. It's a changing landscape of customer needs. You can read a more in-depth article on Peter and his role on our news page.
What's your favourite food?
In general I'm an Italian fan and I find that the easiest to cook at home. Working here though is constant temptation!
Ann Pearce
What's your role?
My role is quite diverse – From Administration Co-ordinator to looking after Jeremy as his PA. I've been here 15 years – where has the time gone? I originally started as PA to the MD and my role has expanded over the years which gives me the opportunity to work with many departments. At the time I started I got a good feeling, and it's got even better working here over the years. It has been really great being part of an ever expanding Company.
Being the first point of contact, you get to meet everyone and its nice to know anyone can come to me for advice or assistance.
What's your favourite food?
Always trying to be healthy my favourite would be a great fillet steak but on a naughty day you can't beat a good pizza.


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• Reality Winner? Seriously? Is this person a long lost child of Frank Zappa or something? Another case of where Reality is stranger than fiction. "Yes, folks, Trump promised us so much winning we'd get tired of all the winning, but we have a Real Winner in the house!" I give up.
Incidentally, just how did this leftist wacko loon get hired at the NSA in the first place? I thought the deep state was at least competent at hiring people who are, you know, on our side, at least nominally?
• If you want to understand why so many people regard Silicon Valley as part of a transnational elite—part of the Davoisie—that is fundamentally indifferent to America, you need look no further than here today:
Slap a huge wealth tax on these guys I say.
• In the "Oops I Thought the Europeans Were So Much Better Than Us Department":
• News breaking right now of some kind of violent attack outside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. No word yet on the identity of the attacker, but it's likely to be a Swedish Lutheran still mad about Pope Innocent III or something. In any case, I suspect this workplace poster will prove accurate:


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VIDEO] So after watching the Black Hawks tie their Stanley Cup Final series against the Boston Bruins tonight I see this video with Chicago Tribune editor Eric Krol and reporter John Keilman about why the Hawk's "indian head" logo don't elicit as much protest as other American Indian themed franchises.
This brings to mind the protests against Chief Illiniwek who was the mascot of the University of Illinois' athletic program. The Chief eventually was retired in response to these protest even though U of I athletic teams are still named for the eponymous tribe who once resided in Illinois once up on time.
They mentioned especially the Atlanta Braves who does have an American Indian Tomahawk Chop when they want to rally and then there's the Washington Redskins. As a matter of fact historically the Redskins have an unfortunate history when it comes to race relations and it doesn't just involve American Indians. All the same why doesn't the Hawks elicit the same protests as the Braves and Redskins.
Well one answer makes sense and is suprising. Chicago is home to a diverse number of American Indians representing different tribes. Even better, the Chicago Black Hawks have reached out to local American Indian institutions and have sent representatives to such events. To be sure this is a good move to make nice with that community.
At the same time, going back further in history, the Black Hawks nickname I believe honors American Indians. The "original six" franchise name was based on a 1st World War military unit which was nicknamed in honor of a leader of the Sauk tribe named Black Hawk who was a significant figure in early Illinois history. It seems the other teams that have American Indian themed team names can't make that claim for certain.
Anyway, hopefully I will show highlights of the last two games the Hawks have played. I at least had a chance to watch some of game 4, but didn't have a chance to watch game 3. Time to watch those highlights and hopefully I'll be able to do so in the near future.


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For more monday mood boards see Estella and Esther's blog.
1. LumiereDuMatin
2. Customquiltsbyeva
3. daimblond
4. MyMonography
Very clean and minimal! I love it!
Love this summer collection! Thanks for including my earrings!
Fantastic. I want to go to the beach too :)
great picks! sounds like you had a great time at your holiday!
have a great week too :-)
Oh, this is so gorgeous! Thank you so much for including my photograph :) I want to go to the beach now! Hehe :)
Great picks! I love beach time!
Lovely images ... wished summer was here ... ( from a cold and wet The Netherlands)
I would like to be there! Beautiful moodboard!


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Pedro Beato was called up from Triple-A Pawtucket this past June, but already Fenway Park has become one of his favorite places to play.
The young, right-handed pitcher took some time out before the Sox took on the A's on Sunday to field some questions from a group of little league all-stars from Pelham, N.H. The little leaguers also asked Beato about some of his favorite players, where he grew up and what his best pitches are.
Check out the video above to learn more about the relief pitcher.


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My new gynecologist changed my life. Despite my conditioned fear of doctors, she has relieved me of the occasional vaginal pain that I've had for years — quickly, and without the need for surgery, therapy, or anything invasive or expensive. Why is this story worth telling? Because every time I researched painful vaginal intercourse online, all I found were recommendations to consult doctors about surgical options or therapy involving graduated dilators. Nowhere did I find the simple solution that my gynecologist recommended. That's what I want to share with anyone else experiencing pre-menopausal vaginal pain not associated with any type of sexual abuse or trauma. I'm hoping to spare other vagina-bearers some frustration, time, money, and energy. (more…)
To my dear boyfriend, please read with caution, though none of this will come as a surprise.
In follow up to this article I recently shared on here as well as on my personal Facebook page about vagina-bearers having unintentionally painful sex, I've been doing a lot of soul searching lately. I know the pain the author talks about all too personally. Although my boyfriend and I have attempted intercourse several times in the past few months, it has never been pleasurable because I'm in too much pain for us to actually do anything. At best, we try to insert him into me, then lay motionless until I'm sufficiently numb from the stinging to naively think I can tolerate more. Thrusting hasn't even been a possibility yet, just (barely) insertion and the occasional wriggle forward and back a couple of times. Who'd have thought that something with such a soft, pliable tip could feel so sharp, like a dagger piercing through my flesh?
Borrowed from Elsewhere: Everything I Wish I'd Known During a Decade of Painful Sex
Painful sex — when you're not into pain — is a devastating reality about which far too few of us are talking. Ladies, we need to start speaking up to each other, our partners, and ourselves.
"It's sure as hell not getting any better, is it? You've slept with four men now — three of them long-term boyfriends — and it's hurt every time. Every single time. With condoms, without condoms, with lube, without lube. It doesn't matter how turned on you are, how badly you want them, or how badly you want it to just please, for the love of God, work. It hurts every time. When he puts it in, when he thrusts, when he pulls it out, and for a half hour afterward. Sometimes it feels like your body just won't let him in; the muscles that should be soft and giving, that shouldn't feel like muscles, are tight and tense. You want to give him sex. You have no give. It's like trying to dig change out of firm and tightly packed couch cushions, getting him in, and when you push him through the tension, you'd swear he's tearing a hole in you."
(Also shared on The Huffington Post)


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24,000 Indians still in six war-torn countriesApril 07, 2017 10:45
The Indian government announced on Tuesday that there are 28,084 Indians currently residing in sex war-torn regions, including in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs General V. K. Singh (retired) said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha that approximately there are about 11,000 Indians in Iraq, an estimated 8,000 are in Lebanon and 3,000 are in Afghanistan.
As per information available with the ministry, 27 Indians were kidnapped during 2015, 2016 and 2017, said Singh, while responding top a separate query on Incidents of Indians being taken hostage in foreign countries.
The minister said that one of the kidnapped continues to be in captivity in Yemen since 2016, while 25 have been released and one has died.
In yet another query on complaints about Non Residential Indians (NRI) marital disputes, the ministry has received 2,485 such complaints from 2014 to 2017 (till date) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said.
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Are you interested in working for a specialist team within the world of Corporate Finance? If so, we may have an interesting option for you. Pro Finance is assisting one of the UK's leading CA firms to hire into their Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA) Advisory team. This team provides specialist advice on the pricing mechanisms and financial aspects of Sale & Purchase Agreements (the legal document behind acquisitions & disposals).
This is a great opportunity if you have been working in a Transaction related role but are keen to learn the technical specifics of a particular area. The day-to-day role will be varied, involving:
- Creation of databooks
- Understanding the target business
- Considering the accounting and financial aspects of legal documents
- Advising buyers and sellers on their proposed transaction mechanics
- Assisting the senior team with larger transactions and taking a more significant role on smaller transactions
- Significant discussion with clients, lawyers, target business management and external financiers
- Involvement in business development including networking internally and externally, drafting thought leadership and delivering presentations
We are keen to hear from qualified accountants (ACA, CA or equivalent) with 3+ years' experience gained in an accountancy firm. Experience on transaction related work and/or SPAs is preferable. You should be highly motivated and able to demonstrate a commercial mindset as well as excellent interpersonal skills.
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A black police officer is pushed to the edge, taking out his frustrations on the privileged community he's sworn to protect.
Two women, who are dissatisfied with the dishonesty they see in dating and relationships, decide to make a pact to spend 24 hours together hoping to find a new way to create intimacy.
The lines of real life and fantasy begin to blur, as the director starts to suspect that he may only be a character in the story manipulated by the writer in order to get him to direct the play the way she wants, but also to stimulate her creativity.
During the course of an ordinary week in Hollywood, movie producer Ben (Robert De Niro) must navigate his way through shark-infested waters as he struggles to complete his latest projects. A demanding studio boss (Catherine Keener) demands extensive changes to a movie starring Sean Penn, while another chief won't greenlight a project unless star Bruce Willis shaves his beard. Meanwhile, Ben tries to reconcile with his wife and maintain a relationship with his young daughter.
Sheriff Rockwell is settling into an unwanted retirement until his old war buddy and neighboring Sheriff is mysteriously shot. When overlooked evidence points to corruption, Alden must take the investigation into his own hands or else standby while a greater evil takes over the town.
A man struggling to find purpose in life is enlightened by a drunk ailing widow.
Lee and Sol are hiding out on a beach in Southern India living a slacker life of sex, drugs and parties. Trouble comes to paradise when Vix, a beautiful girl from Lee's past, turns up. Things get worse when Lee accidentally kills a holy cow and the gang find themselves up against crooked cops, local hoodlums, gangsters…. and mysticism. How far do you have to go to get away?
Alex and Selma are a couple in love on a trip to the heart of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Suddenly, Selma feels a mysterious force is chasing them.
Rob Haley (Dougray Scott), an up-and-coming chef and restaurateur in London, is grief-stricken when he loses his wife. With encouragement from his infamous friend and real life TV Chef Gordon Ramsay, Rob decides to spice up his life by turning a run-down country pub into a gourmet restaurant. His food catches the eye – and taste buds – of beautiful American food critic Kate Templeton (Claire Forlani) and they soon both write a recipe for love that leaves both their hearts – and their stomachs – in full.
Waldemar Nods, a young man from Suriname, meets the older Dutch woman Rika van der Lans and they fall in love. In pre-WWII Netherlands they could not be more different. The one black, the other white, 17 years between them and on top of that Rika already has four children with another man. They love each other, but then Rika appears to be pregnant…
Tells the story of the greatest natural disaster of the ancient world, an event that experts believe inspired the legend of Atlantis.
In forgotten towns along the American border, a young mother drifts from one motel to the next with her intoxicating boyfriend and her 8-year-old son. The makeshift family scrapes by, living one hustle at a time, until the discovery of a mobile home community offers an alternative life.
United is based on the true story of Manchester United's legendary "Busby Babes", the youngest side ever to win the Football League and the 1958 Munich Air Crash that claimed eight of the their number. The film draws on first-hand interviews with the survivors and their families to tell the inspirational story of a team and community overcoming terrible tragedy.
A group of high school outcasts get revenge on the students that torment them.
It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving on. However, on the night of her engagement party, a young boy named Sean turns up, saying he is her dead husband reincarnated. At first she ignores the child, but his knowledge of her former husband's life is uncanny, leading her to believe that he might be telling the truth.
Fleeing 1930s New York and leaving behind a chequered past, the giltzy divorcee Mrs Stella Erlynne travels to Italy's sun-dappled Amalfi coast. Mrs Erlynne's appearance causes a stir amongst the visiting aristocracy. Based on the Oscar Wilde play Lady Windemere's Fan
The story of a heartbroken man who attends a spiritual retreat, only to discover that the course releases more than everyday toxins and traumatic experiences.
Narumi is on bad terms with her husband Shinji when one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a couple of days later, but seems like a totally different person, and is now gentle and tender. He goes for a walk every day. Meanwhile, Journalist Sakurai covers the story of a family that was brutally murdered, when an unexplained phenomenon takes place. Shinji Kase tells his wife that he came to Earth to invade.
Iva and Maria, a young lesbian pair, rent a favorable, nice dwelling in a less good area of Zagreb, Croatia. But unfortunately, included in the rent are the neighbors, the neighbors from hell. The curious landlady, foreigners flogging nationalists, an old man, who live with his dead wife and a man, who beat his wife regularly, are just one part of this neighbourhood. When one of the neighbors falls in love with Iva, the situation escalates – with the result of three dead people at the end.
An idealist young dancer named Zoe (Romina D'Ugo) tackles the difficult issue of resurrecting disco dancing in today's music business. She meets hostility beyond resistance on every dance floor where she spins and twirls. Fortunately, she has at least one ally, a nightclub owner and visionary named Michael (David Guintoli) who shares her zeal for the long-ago dance craze. With money to burn, Michael arranges for Zoe to test market bringing back disco, even with rival choreographers like Malika (Brooklyn Sudano). Soon dance takes a two-step in the wrong direction when hard-hearted Malika and Michael start vying to become Zoe's dance partner.
An elderly woman turns the tables on her kidnapper.
Portrayal of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar. Andrea Dunbar wrote honestly and unflinchingly about her upbringing on the notorious Buttershaw Estate in Bradford and was described as 'a genius straight from the slums.' When she died tragically at the age of 29 in 1990, Lorraine was just ten years old. The Arbor revisits the Buttershaw Estate where Dunbar grew up, thirty years on from her original play, telling the powerful true story of the playwright and her daughter Lorraine. Also aged 29, Lorraine had become ostracised from her mother's family and was in prison undergoing rehab. Re-introduced to her mother's plays and letters, the film follows Lorraine's personal journey as she reflects on her own life and begins to understand the struggles her mother faced.
In a mission in China in 1935, Agatha Andrews is a rigid missionary beset by Mongolian bandits led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan. With her are her assistant Jane Argent, staff members Emma Clark, Miss Russell and Miss Binns, head of the British mission, Charles Pather, a teacher at the mission and his pregnant wife Florrie. When Dr. D.R. Cartwright arrives, she agrees to sacrifice herself to the Tunga Khan in exchange for his letting the ladies go free.
This story takes place in a small town on the Hungarian Plain. In a provincial town, which is surrounded with nothing else but frost. It is bitterly cold weather — without snow. Even in this bewildered cold hundreds of people are standing around the circus tent, which is put up in the main square, to see — as the outcome of their wait — the chief attraction, the stuffed carcass of a real whale. The people are coming from everywhere. From the neighboring settlings, even from quite far away parts of the country. They are following this clumsy monster as a dumb, faceless, rag-wearing crowd. This strange state of affairs — the appearance of the foreigners, the extreme frost — disturbs the order of the small town. Ambitious personages of the story feel they can take advantage of this situation. The tension growing to the unbearable is brought to explosion by the figure of the Prince, who is pretending facelessness. Even his mere appearance is enough to break loose destructive emotions…
A woman tries to straighten out her life, even as her past as a con-woman comes back to haunt her.
The last movie from the team of Ismail Merchant, James Ivory, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Set in 1930s Shanghai, "The White Countess" is both Sofia (Natasha Richardson), a fallen member of the Russian aristocracy, and a nightclub created by a blind American diplomat named Jackson (Ralph Fiennes), who asks Sofia to be the centerpiece of the world he wants to create.
A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash.


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Complete DHS Report for December 15, 2015
Daily Report
Top Stories
• Nissan Motor Company Ltd recalled nearly 34,000 model year 2015 Rogue sport utility vehicles December 12 due to a faulty shift selector knob that can cause the vehicle to unexpectedly move out of the park position. – Associated Press
2. December 12, Associated Press – (National) Nissan recalling recent Rogue models with shift defect. Nissan Motor Company Ltd announced the nationwide recall of nearly 34,000 model year 2015 Rogue sport utility vehicles December 12 due to a faulty shift selector knob that can cause the vehicle to unexpectedly move out of the park position.
Source: http://www.wltx.com/story/news/2015/12/12/nissan-recalling-recent-rogue-models-shift-defect/77206448/
• The Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose announced December 13 that 368 parents, 308 employees, and 350 infants were possibly exposed to tuberculosis at the hospital after an employee was suspected of having active tuberculosis. – CNN
16. December 13, CNN – (California) 350 infants may have been exposed to tuberculosis at California hospital. The Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose announced December 13 that 368 mothers or parents, 308 employees, and 350 infants were possibly exposed to tuberculosis at the hospital due to an employee who was suspected of having active tuberculosis. The employee was placed on leave in mid-November and officials stated that the risk of infection is low.
• Security researchers from Bugsec Group and Cynet reported the flaw, FireStorm can exhausted enterprise-grade firewalls and extract data out of corporate networks via Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) handshakes.– Softpedia See item 24 below in the Information Technology Sector
• Officials reported that bomb threats across three States in several malls prompted the evacuation of thousands of shoppers and prompted mall closures while police crews searched the buildings for explosive devices December 12. – Reuters
26. December 13, Reuters – (National) Malls in 3 U.S. states evacuated on busy holiday shopping day. Officials reported that bomb threats across three States in multiple malls including Largo Mall in Florida, Shops at Riverside in New Jersey, and the Animas Valley Mall in New Mexico, prompted the evacuation of thousands of shoppers and prompted mall closures while police crews searched the buildings for explosive devices December 12. Police found no traces of bomb devices in the facilities and reopened all the malls. Source: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/malls-in-3-us-states-evacuated-on-busy-holiday-shopping-day/ar-BBntYWu?li=BBnb7Kz
Financial Services Sector
4. December 11, South Florida Sun-Sentinel – (National) Nine South Floridians charged in $6.6 million stock fraud. Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment December 11 charging 9 South Florida residents for allegedly netting $6.6 million in a fraudulent stock investment scheme affecting 150 victims through Oxford City Football Club Inc. The group claimed that the business was profiting millions through its sports, education, media, and real estate acquisitions. Source: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-fraud-oxford-city-20151211-story.html
5. December 11, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission – (National) SEC: Sports team offering is a penny stock fraud. Authorities from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced December 11 that Oxford City Football Club Inc., and its chief executive officer were charged for allegedly raising over $6.5 million from inexperienced investors who were misled to believe that the Florida-based penny stock company was profiting millions from sports teams, academic institutions, and real estate holdings through pressure tactics and a boiler room scheme. Source: http://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2015-278.html
6. December 11, U.S. Department of Justice – (National) Former New York City corrections officer pleads guilty to multimillion dollar tax refund conspiracy. A New York resident pleaded guilty December 11 for his role in a scheme to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of more than $3.4 million by submitting fraudulent 1099-OID tax forms. The man worked alongside a former IRS employee and a third co-conspirator who collected fees from clients and supplied correspondence containing false claims to send to the agency. Source: http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-new-york-city-corrections-officer-pleads-guilty-multimillion-dollar-tax-refund
7. December 10, Newark Star-Ledger – (New Jersey) 12 charged in 'elaborate' $3M credit card scheme, AG says. New Jersey officials announced December 9 that 12 foreign nationals and U.S. citizens were charged in connection to a credit card scheme that stole $3 million by passing bad checks and making fake credit card payments. The group would create false identities by pairing real Social Security numbers with phony names and birth dates to open checking accounts and credit cards online, which they would max out through shell companies. Source: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2015/12/12_charged_in_elaborate_credit_card_scheme_that_st.html
Information Technology Sector
22. December 14, SecurityWeek – (International) Twitter warns users of state sponsored hacking. Twitter reported December 14 that its customers' user names, Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses may have been compromised after a potential state sponsored attack occurred in its systems. Twitter officials advised users to use Tor Project, a software enabling anonymous communication, to protect affected users on social networks. Source: http://www.securityweek.com/twitter-warns-users-state-sponsored-hacking
23. December 12, Softpedia – (International) Malware spread via The Guardian's Article on cybercrime. Researchers from FireEye discovered a report, hosted on The Guardian's Web site about cybercrime, had a flaw in one of its links that was redirecting users to an Angler Exploit Kit installation that would search targets' personal computers (PC) for the CVE-2014-6332 flaw, which is a Windows Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) Automation Remote Code Execution vulnerability, triggered through VBScript. The Guardian is working to patch the vulnerability. Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/malware-spread-via-the-guardian-s-article-on-cybercrime-497519.shtml
24. December 11, Softpedia – (International) FireStorm vulnerability leaves next-gen enterprise firewalls open to attacks. Security researchers from Bugsec Group and Cynet reported a vulnerability, dubbed FireStorm, that can exhausted enterprise-grade firewalls and extract data out of corporate networks via Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) synchronize (SYN) packets by avoiding a full TCP connection, allowing the flaw to disguise its connection type, source, or target from corporate firewalls. Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/firestorm-vulnerability-leaves-next-gen-enterprise-firewalls-open-to-attacks-497481.shtml
For another story, see item 25 below in the Communications Sector
Communications Sector
25. December 14, SecurityWeek – (International) Wireless Routers plagued by unpatched flaws. Security researchers from Ethical Reporting discovered wireless SOHO routers from ZyXEL, Belkin, ReadyNet, Amped Wireless, Buffalo, and Netgear had several unpatched vulnerabilities including authentication bypass flaws, remote code execution flaws, default credential flaws, and DNS spoofing flaws, among other vulnerabilities, that can allow attackers to access potentially sensitive application program interface (API) and alter an infected device's settings. Source: http://www.securityweek.com/wireless-routers-plagued-unpatched-flaws


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Title: The Baby Clause
Series: The Contract #2
Series: The Contract #2
Author: Melanie Moreland
Genre: Short Story Romance
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Richard VanRyan can add another line to his resume—Daddy.
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The Baby Clause is a short continuation of Richard and Katy's story, containing humorous glimpses into his life as a father, and how his world has changed.
A must read for all fans of The Contract!
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