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That's one way to get attention! Aubrey O'Day tweets bikini-clad selfie as she reunites Danity Kane WITHOUT Diddy
It's been four years since Diddy destroyed his girl-group Danity Kane.
But former frontwoman Aubrey O'Day is set on reuniting four of the original members for a new album and tour without the 43-year-old rapper's blessing.
And the 29-year-old singer tweeted a very revealing bikini-clad selfie on Monday - the same day she was spotted having lunch with her former bandmates.
Attention world! Aubrey O'Day tweeted a very revealing bikini-clad selfie on Monday - the same day she was spotted having lunch with her former Danity Kane bandmates
'LOVE my 1st new bikini of the season! Diane's in HB is the BEST!' she tweeted to her 1 million followers.
The Playboy cover girl flaunted her 34D cleavage in a white-fringed halter top and barely-there bikini bottom.
to TMZ, Aubrey joined Shannon Bex, Dawn Richard, and Aundrea Fimbres
for lunch in Los Angeles alongside a new manager Monday.
Wanita 'D. Woods' Woodgette will reportedly not be included in the new line-up.
'We're starting a new verse like': The 29-year-old singer further fueled rekindling rumours when she tweeted a snap at a BBQ of herself hanging out with Dawn Richard (M) in April
When asked whether the artist formerly known as Sean Combs was going to be involved, the ladies coyly replied, 'Who's that?'
three-time Grammy winner will most likely respond to the reunion with
his legal team having formed the band in 2004 during his reality
competition, Making the Band 3.
Kane - which opened for Christina Aguilera's Back to Basics Tour - made
Billboard history by becoming the first female group to debut their
first two albums at the top of the charts.
Sources told TMZ that money was the main reason behind the disbandment in 2009.
'Who's that?' Diddy will most likely respond to the reunion with his legal team having formed the girl-group in 2004 during his reality competition, Making the Band 3
However, Aubrey was fired from the group in 2008 due to her too-sexy image.
Coincidentally, O'Day was also fired from Donald Trump's The Celebrity Apprentice 5 last year.
Wrecking Ball singer was supposedly hard at work on her solo album, Two
Evils, which was set to be released this year by SRC/Universal Motown.
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But it's unclear whether she's dropped the idea to focus on Danity Kane full-time.
She further fueled rekindling rumours when she tweeted a snap at a BBQ of herself hanging out with Dawn Richard in April.
Meanwhile Diddy has been preoccupied shilling Aqua Hydrate bottled water, Ciroc Ultra Premium vodka, and his on/off girlfriend Cassie's latest tunes.
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As Ukraine's Minister for Tax and Revenue under Viktor Yanukovych, it was Oleksandr Klymenko's job to go after the oligarchs who had a stranglehold on one of the most corrupt and inefficient economies in Europe.
They bitterly resented his actions, however – and since Mr Yanukovych was ousted they have been getting their revenge.
That is the charge levelled by Mr Klymenko, 35, who is now in exile in Moscow and is accused of corruption and organising violence in his native country. He has been placed on the European Union's sanctions list at the request of the post-revolutionary government in Kiev, meaning his assets are at risk and he cannot travel to or through the EU; and now he has decided to come out fighting against the claims.
"It is nothing but political persecution aimed at demonising me," the former minister told The Independent. "This is payback from those who have vested interests and are now in a position of power."
His persecutors, he claimed, include Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine's Western-leaning President, who was elected in June last year after the popular uprising in Kiev, four months earlier, that caused Mr Yanukovych to flee to Russia. Mr Poroshenko's company, the Roshen Confectionery Corporation, was among those that Mr Klymenko's ministry had investigated.
The change of government in Ukraine was the catalyst for the pro-Russian separatist movement in eastern Ukraine that – after two years of fighting – still holds sway over much of the Donbas region.
Mr Klymenko insisted that he himself believes in a unified Ukraine and did not want the Donbas – where his own roots lie – to break away; he supports the Minsk Agreement, meant to end the fighting between the Ukrainian government and the separatists.
A management graduate with a master's degree in finance, his own businesses have included commercial property, packaging and publishing. He insisted that he was not anti-Western; indeed, he said, he had worked "productively" with the International Monetary Fund on reforms of the Ukrainian tax system and had brought in the accountancy firm, PWC, to advise his ministry.
In the process, Mr Klymenko claimed, he made formidable enemies who now "want to keep me away from politics" by levelling what he says are unfounded charges against him. His intention to try to clear his name has been bolstered by a recent decision by the General Court of the European Union.
The court ruled that the European Council acted wrongly when it put another Ukrainian official, Andriy Portnov, on the EU sanctions list solely on the basis of a letter from the Kiev government accusing him of fraud.
Mr Klymenko maintained that he was merely a "technocrat" in the Yanukovych government, and had not been close to the President who was to be overthrown by the Maidan protests in February last year.
"The new authorities in Kiev have tried to create the myth I was close to Mr Yanukovych," he said. "Mr Poroshenko himself actually had good access to the government.
"The last time I saw Mr Yanukovych was in Ukraine in February 2014. I have not seen him in Russia apart from on television, when he was talking about ostriches – make of that what you will. Did he make mistakes in handling the Maidan? Yes, we all made mistakes, there was no proper dialogue."
The current Ukrainian President's office pointed out that Mr Klymenko is accused of extremely serious charges, including the creation of bogus companies, extortion and money laundering; and Mr Klymenko can be accused of being self-serving in making allegations against it, given his bitter legal confrontation with the authorities in Kiev.
Mr Klymenko maintains that the fateful encounters which he claims were a key factor in what has befallen him occurred when his tax ministry investigated the business affairs of the Roshen Corporation, the multinational confectionery empire which led to Mr Poroshenko being nicknamed the Chocolate King. Significant penalties were imposed on Roshen by the inspectors and these were bitterly disputed by the billionaire entrepreneur and his company, who felt they were being unfairly treated.
Mr Klymenko told The Independent: "When we were investigating Roshen, Mr Poroshenko himself came to see me personally, and not just once, to express his disapproval about what we were doing. He also spoke to other members of government. Roshen was insistently requesting that we change the course of the investigation. They were addressing me publicly, but also privately. But we stood our ground and they had to agree to pay the taxes they owed. And now this is payback time for me."
The new President's office refused to comment on Mr Klymenko's claim of meetings between Mr Poroshenko and him during the Roshen investigation.
Mr Poroshenko has been much in the international headlines since he became President, as Ukraine fell into its bitter separatist conflict and Russia annexed Crimea. As leader of a country seen as being in the front line of a new Cold War, he has received both political and financial backing from the West.
But an opinion poll conducted two months ago found that just 3 per cent of Ukrainians were satisfied with the pace of reform and, astonishingly, 51 per cent believed that the Yanukovych government, accused by its opponents of being a kleptocracy, had actually been better at combating corruption.
Speaking over breakfast at a Moscow restaurant, Mr Klymenko, a burly, bearded and jovial figure, said that after the revolution Roshen had refused to pay the penalty charges imposed by the tax investigation, and the government under Mr Poroshenko had meanwhile begun prosecutions of tax inspectors. Roshen claims that the penalties were wrongly imposed, and the current government says that the tax inspectors abused their power.
Mr Poroshenko, it is clear, had been deeply concerned by the investigation into his companies and raised his concerns at senior levels of the government at the time. In November 2013, he complained that the main threat to Roshen was not from Russia – where the firm has assets – but that of "the so-called security forces, including tax authorities [in Ukraine]."
He expressed his gratitude that at a meeting with Ukraine's then Prime Minister, "it was very clearly stated that the Ukrainian government will be tough in preventing such illegal intervention of the tax authorities into the activities of enterprises".
According to Ukraine's ministry of taxes and revenues at the time, inspections were carried out on 11 enterprises connected to Roshen in 2010, 2011 and 2012. These established that "a number of violations of tax legislation were taking place" and imposed additional taxes of 47m Ukrainian hryvnia – equivalent to £1.3m. Almost 5m hryvnia had already been paid into the state budgets, it said.
Mr Poroshenko's predicament was recalled by an amused Mr Klymenko as he sipped coffee. "You must understand – at that time Poroshenko was trying to build his resumé as a Western-oriented, transparent businessman, paying all his taxes.
"But we were saying 'Excuse me, there is a problem here with this very "Western" businessman, problems of fictitious contracts and not paying taxes.' So it wasn't as beautiful as it looked. It was not purely commercial for him, it was about his reputation, so he was getting very upset."
But almost exactly as President Yanukovych was ousted, according to recent court documents, "all allegations against Roshen were lifted ... as not having reasonable basis." The Poroshenko government's internal affairs ministry is now investigating alleged abuse of power by those same tax inspectors, and papers lodged in a Ukrainian court two months ago claimed there was no "reasonable basis" for the inspections of Roshen – which, the document said, meant that "businesses of current President Poroshenko were charged additional tax in the amount of 118.2m hryvnia and 23 criminal proceedings were initiated".
The ministry, the papers showed, requested that a VAT tax official should be suspended for two months – a request denied by the court.
It was in March 2014, while under the caretaker presidency of Oleksander Turchynov, that the Ukrainian government asked the EU to place 20 former officials in the Yanukovych government on the EU sanctions list, imposing travel restrictions and freezing their assets, mostly over alleged widespread theft of public funds.
One of those on the list, Andriy Portnov, was accused of misappropriating land and wrongfully claiming a state salary, as well as nothing less than mass murder of activists during the Maidan protests.
But a court in Kiev threw out the charges and the EU removed him from its sanctions list, along with three others accused by the Kiev authorities of various crimes.
In its ruling last month, the General Court of the EU stated: "The court finds that the [EU] Council identified Mr Portnov as responsible for the misappropriation of Ukrainian state funds solely on the basis of a letter of 3 March 2014 from the Public Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine, which stated that the investigation into, amongst others, Mr Portnov had 'made it possible to establish misappropriation of sizeable amounts of state funds and the subsequent illegal transfer of those funds outside Ukraine'."
It said the letter had failed to provide any details of the case against Mr Portnov and concluded that the inclusion of his name on the list "does not satisfy the criteria for designating persons whose funds are to be frozen",
Like Mr Portnov, Mr Klymenko – along with the former Prime Minister Sergei Arbuzov – had also been accused by the Ukrainian secret service of being involved in violence. The two men, it was claimed, financed the disturbances in the port of Odessa which led to 46 deaths. However, no charges were brought and Mr Klymenko subsequently won a civil case, for defamation, against the secret service in Ukrainian courts.
"I have no idea why they decided to say myself and Arbuzov were involved in the terrible events at Odessa, as the court case showed here was no connection at all," said Mr Klymenko.
"I suppose it could be because we were both in the news at the time; they had accused us of stealing a lot of money and thought they could say we have financed it. It is unbelievable that officials can tell such lies publicly. I don't think this would happen in Britain or Germany. I won my case and proved there was not a single word of truth in the claims, but no one has ever apologised."
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Embezzlement charges still hang over Mr Klymenko, although he has won a separate civil case for defamation in relation to some of the allegations. "They claim I have stolen 6bn hryvnia (£174m)," he said.
"Of course I totally deny it. The stupid thing is that if you make such a serious charge, you need to be sure of your evidence and you would want to show what you have.
"But it took my lawyers nine months even to get access to the case files, I had to go to court to make that happen. The EU sanctions were based on these. Prosecutor generals keep changing and each new one says, 'What happened under my predecessor is nothing to do with me'. I have written to Swiss banks asking them to tell the EU if I have any assets; the sanctions haven't led to any country cancelling my visas.
"I want to be able to go to court on the criminal case as I did in the civil ones as soon as possible. But the idea is to keep me away from Ukrainian politics. I used to be a technocrat, but now I have a political vision for my country. People may not agree with what I have to say, but I want a chance to say it in my country, Ukraine."
Meanwhile, he points out, Mr Poroshenko's company maintains business operations in Russia, among other countries, despite Ukraine's stand-off with Moscow. Russian authorities claim that Roshen received illegal VAT refunds amounting to £2.3m, and have ordered the seizure of one of its factories. The company denies the claims which, it says, are politically motivated and arise from Mr Poroshenko's fierce criticism of Moscow's backing for separatist forces in eastern Ukraine.
At an international conference in Kiev three months ago, the President was asked why he had failed to sell his shares in Roshen, which had revenues of $1bn (£670m) last year, and 10 other concerns, as he had promised he would after winning the election 16 months ago. Mr Poroshenko said it had not been possible to find a buyer in the current economic climate – though recently published figures showed the value of his assets rose 20 per cent to £653m in the last year.
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The deputy head of the President's administration, Dmitry Simkin, has repeated that Mr Poroshenko would fulfil his promise to sell Roshen, although it would not be easy. "It's like asking Bill Gates to sell Microsoft", he said.
Mr Klymenko said: "Despite what my enemies say, the fact is that I wanted the system to be transparent. That's why I brought in PwC, for instance. How transparent are the people running Ukraine now?"
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The BBC's Mike Wooldridge said that the attack would be "deeply worrying for the government" as there has been a significant rise in sectarian violence in parts of Pakistan.


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The CDEnviro Recycling plant installed at Eastern Waste Disposal, Brightlingsea, which can recycle road sweepings, gully waste and trommel fines, is a UK first, the companies say.
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Hedge fund honcho Steven Cohen is poised to ask a judge to junk his ex-wife's racketeering lawsuit against him, in which she seeks a big chunk of his SAC Capital Advisors.
Cohen's lawyer, Martin Klotz, will file a motion to dismiss Patricia Cohen's lawsuit, which stems from their divorce in 1990, on Friday, he wrote to U.S. District Judge Richard Holwell. Patricia Cohen accuses her ex-husband of hiding millions in assets from her and the authorities during their divorce, and has also accused him of insider-trading while they were married. Her suit seeks a "substantial, if not controlling, interest in SAC Capital."
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All Whites striker Chris Wood's Leicester City have returned to the Premier League for the first time since 2004 despite not kicking a ball on Saturday (local time) after Queens Park Rangers and Derby County both lost.
Leicester, who beat Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 on Friday (local time) after goals by Riyad Mahrez and Anthony Knockaert, have 89 points from 40 matches, and are guaranteed to finish in the top two positions in the second-tier Championship after results went their way.
QPR lost to Bournemouth 2-1 while Derby went down 1-0 to Middlesbrough, meaning neither side can overhaul Nigel Pearson's side with six matches remaining.
Leicester are unbeaten in 21 matches, and lead second-placed Burnley by nine points.
Wood immediately tweeted the joy of reaching English football's top flight.
Premier league!!!!!!!! Go on!!!!
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Goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, son of former Denmark and Manchester United great Peter, also tweeted: "Premier league! So proud of all the boys and everyone at the club!!!"
Promotion to the Premier League brings vast financial rewards, with a 2013 report by the Sports Business Group at Deloitte saying it could be worth up to £120 million, much of that from broadcast rights.
Even immediate relegation triggers parachute payments of around £60 million over four years.
Leicester, owned by Thai businessman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, missed out on automatic promotion last season after winning only two of their final 13 matches before being knocked out in the playoffs by Watford after Knockaert missed a last-minute penalty and their opponents scored at the other end in a dramatic finish.
They have lost only five matches this season, going from strength to strength on the back of leading scorers David Nugent (18) and Jamie Vardy (16), and after numerous managerial changes since their last stint in the Premier League, have found a level of consistency under Pearson.
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Jay Cutler proved to the Denver Broncos in 2006 that he was destined to be an elite quarterback. He was picked as an 11th overall draft pick and followed that with a stint in the 2008 Pro Bowl. But it didn't take long for that destiny to be transferred to another team who would embrace him as their possible franchise quarterback, the Chicago Bears. Despite being a Type 1 diabetic and having to check his blood throughout a game, Jay Cutler can perform at a top level. Anyone who says that he does not have the strength to endure and cut it in the NFL has not witnessed the hard-knocks that he has had to endure.
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What can't be ignored is the left tackle position. This had to be the first area that general manager Phil Emery needed to fix. The struggles of LT J'Marcus Webb in this position became a painstaking event to watch. In 2012, Cutler showed his frustration with Webb's inability to protect his blindside by a sideline shoulder bump. Though it made headlines in sports news, it was a clear sign that Cutler was done impersonating a heavy bag. His frustration was no longer ignored with the acquisition of LT Jermon Bushrod of the New Orleans Saints. However, if Bushrod is hurt OT Jonathan Scott will have to step it up.
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The Vision of an Informed Africa
COMPUTING| Oct. 27, 2011, 2:54 p.m.
By Richwell Phinias, founder and CEO of Dariro.com, a Zimbabwean online communication platform.
The Vision of an informed Africa involves an Africa that is connected with the world and in the same way connected among its own citizens.
Today, people of African origin across the globe share experiences, skills, knowledge and information among themselves but within the jungles of global communication platforms. Having learnt global languages, etiquette, value systems and technologies, we share what we share but at the same time trying to perfect our adoption of global tools at the distortion of our own beliefs.
The next wave of technology flowing through Africa will see the people creating their own platforms of communication in their own understanding.
As internet access reaches all corners of Africa, there will be a growing need for e-inclusion among even generations who might not be so schooled and exposed to global communication etiquette.
For example, with the penetration of 3G internet in rural Zimbabwe, it now means that folks in the rural areas with internet-enabled handsets are also coming on Facebook. That is coming to the internet without having used a computer before but just following the trend to reconnect with relatives and friends in urban areas and abroad.
Facebook makes communication quite easier and cheaper compared to telephones, fixed or mobile.
As more and more people become internet and technology savvy, it is creating opportunities for developers to work on platforms and applications from an African perspective.
Mobile applications addressing communication and knowledge sharing needs among farmers, traders, schools, health services, religion and other general spectrums of society will start mushrooming in Africa.
These applications are not going be just customization of similar applications from across the world, I believe not, for certain areas like traditional customs cannot be benchmarked from outside as some of the practice are only limited to Africa.
We are going to see as many mobile applications and communications platform developed with a heavy bias towards local content even in the mainframe of the systems.
We already have investors and developers coming from the Silicon Valleys out there coming to develop local content platforms for Africa but in the long run I am quite sure and certain that it is only those platforms and applications developed by the Africans themselves that are going to ultimately dominate the market.
Unlike all the other forms of business, the barriers to entry are low and what will rules will be the ability to innovate and a deeper understanding of cultural needs of the people which can only be executed and managed so well by the Africans themselves.
A couple of years ago I anticipated a future where Africans in the Diaspora who had first access to broadband services, skills and knowledge of the internet, would take advantage of the platform to tell the African story.
Today, that is a reality as we have as many locals fully utilizing various communication platforms from social networks, cloud computing platforms to even the ubiquitous email technology.
So as we move away from hindrances like online payment gateways for Africa and bandwidth access and cost, soon rather than later, Africa's economy, politics, religion and social life is going to embrace the internet technology on a broader scale.
At the moment the Asian tigers and China will really be an inspiration in as much as localizing technology is concerned.
In the coming few years as tablets and smart phones invade Africa making less attractive internet access devices cheaper, more and more people are going to be online. This is going to create lots of opportunities for business in web and mobile applications development.
The ecosystem which will also involve online payments is also going to create for us financially success stories that will motivate more business minded and innovative entrepreneurs. Just as such stories of technology luminaries as that of Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, the late Steve Jobs and recently Mark Zuckerburg have lighted the way for more adventurous and innovative entrepreneurs, the same is going to happen in Africa.
A few successful individuals are going to ignite a spark of innovation on the continent for the continent.
The vision of an informed Africa is in our control. The platforms will change, they will get renewed and re-launched but in the end the people of Africa will be more connected, networked and informed than before.
About Richwell Phinias
Richwell Phinias is an internet marketing consultant and website developer based in Zimbabwe. His burning vision is to see the development of local content on the internet allowing African communities and businesses to interact seamlessly first among themselves and then with the world. This will be achieved by creating online platforms that are easily adopted by people as for their various businesses.
He is the founder of Dariro.com, an online communications, networking and information sharing platform that opens up opportunities for business, artists, churches, NGOs and individuals to benefit from the advancement of internet technology. His passion and desire is to use the internet as an affordable avenue for various users to network and interact with their respective stakeholders, albeit on a global scale.
He believes that people are as developed as the information they can access.
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Perhaps the anti-smoking lobby is a victim of its own success, as the prevalence of smoking in the United States is at nearly all-time lows. In fact, according to Gallup, only 20 percent of adults last acknowledged that they smoked, tying the record low. A report from the National Center for Health Statistics put the smoking cohort at closer to 18 percent.
For whatever reasons, there seems to be an uptick in controversies related to anything about smoking. Recently, e-cigarettes have become a popular whipping boy, a crusade in which we have yet to find merit; for one thing, the electronic devices produce nicotine-infused water vapor, not smoke.
Now, hookah lounges seem to have caught the attention of smoking cessationists.
Costa Mesa has taken up the issue of hookah lounges, extending a moratorium on new establishments last week to study regulations and zoning, citing "concerns about secondhand smoke, noise and parking issues related to the hookah lounges," the Register reported.
And the Anaheim City Council is slated to discuss at its Tuesday meeting a possible moratorium as well, after plans to add a hookah lounge to a banquet hall on Brookhurst Street were met with concern from nearby residents.
The residents have been assuaged, as the developer agreed to reduce the size of the hookah lounge, along with more than 40 other conditions, but the council majority still seems to think it necessary to look at the city's smoking codes.
"We want to ensure that the residents who live in close proximity to any place where a hookah lounge might be located are protected," Councilwoman Gail Eastman told the Register.
Hookahs are Middle Eastern-style water pipes for smoking tobacco, often flavored. Lounges are analogous to a coffeehouse.
California law bans smoking in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants, but Anaheim businesses are required to get another permit to allow outdoor smoking, the Register reported.
"The hookah lounges generating complaints are in close proximity to homes or allow patrons to smoke outdoors when it hasn't been approved by the city," said Sheri Vander Dussen, Anaheim's planning director.
But the Anaheim zoning code already requires a conditional-use permit for hookah lounges within 200 feet of residentially zoned property and a staff report showed that local standards require "80 feet between smoke sources and people."
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The Bird White's Scary Friends attraction as seen from the top of a volcano
Enjoy a trip into the scary tableux and chills from Bird White's legend. Invade the twin bachelors' cave, the lush woods, and the shed of the Impertinent Witch's summer home. But don't worry -- it will all end up always ever after!
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