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Sunset Heat – Chapter One (Part Two)
Posted by Lexxie Couper on Monday, September 3rd, 2012
Sunset Heat, Book Two of the Bandicoot Cove: The Wedding series releases on the 4th of this month. YAY!!
So, to whet your appetite, here's the second half of Chapter One (the first half is over at the Down Under Diva's blog HERE). Enjoy…
Kennedy Collins hated butterflies. She knew it was a stupid, ridiculous phobia, but there it was all the same. Lepidopterophobia. The fear of butterflies and moths. Not spiders or snakes or sharks or axe-wielding psychopaths, but butterflies. Freaking flittery-fluttery little winged things no one in their right mind would be scared of. Kennedy was scared of them, though. Absolutely petrified of them. And Australian butterflies were worse. Who knew if they were as deadly and dangerous as the rest of the godforsaken wildlife in the country? Which meant she ran like a demon was on her tail when the multicolored little flittery-fluttery winged thing had flittered and fluttered its malevolent way into her suite through the open patio door just as she was about to go have a shower.
Ran like the petrified lunatic she was, leaving her recently worn yoga clothes on the floor behind her, her heart racing, her mouth dry, her pulse pounding. Fled her suite like a wimp, away from the unpredictable menacing butterfly, any hope of rational thought destroyed by unhinged terror.
Unhinged terror that now saw her standing—naked as the day she was born—outside her suite. Outside her suite, for Pete's sake. Outside her suite naked and in the direct path of two tall, stunned men. Well, one stunned man and one grinning…
Kennedy's flustered thoughts screamed to a halt. God save her, the stunned man was Luke Beasley.
Her heart—already smashing into her throat with abject terror—smashed some more. "Luke!" she burst out, throwing herself into the massive Australian's arms. It didn't matter that she'd snuck out of the guy's hotel room four months ago after a night of wild sex and hadn't spoken to him since. It didn't matter that he probably didn't remember her, due to the copious number of drinks they'd consumed in the New York bar in which they'd met. It didn't matter, because there was a goddamn butterfly in her room, a goddamn butterfly, and he was a firefighter, and firefighters saved people, and she needed saving, and he was going to save her, and she was—
Two strong hands wrapped around her upper arms, and Kennedy yelped. Her heart continued its wrecking-ball attitude in her throat and she plastered herself against Luke's hard body. The butterfly? What if the butterfly—
"You know her, convict?"
Another voice joined Luke's rumble, deep and cut with a crisp British accent, but Kennedy didn't care. "Luke," she all but cried, "there's a…oh God, help me there's a…" An image of the butterfly flashed through her mind, malicious and demonic and tiny and colorful, and her throat seized up. She clung to the man she'd had the most wicked one-night stand with four months ago, her mouth working but nothing coming out of it.
Serious brown eyes gazed down at her. The hands on her arms tightened. "Jesus, Kennedy, you look terrified. What's going on?"
She tried to tell him. Tried to vocalize the words, but at the mere thought of the winged creature in her suite her belly knotted, her tongue thickened, and all she could do was shake her head and cling to him.
"Is there someone in your room?" Luke's expression turned dark. Dangerous. "Did someone attack—" His fingers dug into her arms with brutal pressure for a split second and then he was letting her go, spinning away to barge into her suite.
Followed immediately by the other man.
Kennedy staggered back a step. Her blood roared in her ears. A rational part of her mind knew they thought she'd been attacked by a person. That they'd stormed into her suite looking for a rapist. Instead they would find a butterfly and—
Ice-cold terror sank into her belly, and she staggered back another step. Only to squeal and leap forward when her naked ass brushed against something soft and—
"Kennedy?" Luke bolted from the room, his stare swinging wildly around her. "Where is he? Where—"
She jerked her stare from the fern frond behind her and shook her head. No, her whole body shook. She stared at him, knowing she was naked, knowing she was ridiculous, but incapable of doing anything but shake. If only she could—
"Umm, cousin?"
Luke spun to face the other man appearing at Kennedy's suite door. "Did you find anything?"
The other man, a leaner version of Luke with dark hair instead of blond and blue eyes instead of brown, gave Kennedy a quick look. His eyebrows pulled together. "Not exactly."
Kennedy's belly rolled. She tried to step away, but Luke stopped her, one large, muscled arm snaking around her waist, his other covering her breasts. If she weren't so sick with fear she'd be grateful. "What do you mean, not exactly? She didn't just run out of her room naked for nothing."
The other man flicked her a sorry look, his eyebrows knitting together some more. "Not for nothing, cousin."
He lifted his arm. Kennedy cried out, fighting against Luke's arms, squeezing her eyes shut. No. No, no, no. She had to get away. From the butterfly. From the—
"Steady, love," the Brit said. "It's just a towel."
Kennedy opened her eyes and stared at the wide strip of fluffy white toweling in the man's extended hand.
She let out a wobbly breath, reaching around Luke to take the towel. She gave the Brit a slow smile and wrapped the towel around her body. Her heart still thumped hard in her throat, her blood still roared in her ears, and her belly was still knotted so tightly she wanted to throw up. But somehow, with Luke holding her, his massive body just as hard and solid as it had been four months ago, maybe more so, she could hold her ground.
Luke's fingers pressed beneath her chin, forcing her to look up at him. "Kennedy, what's going on?"
"She has a fear of butterflies, cousin," the Brit said, his voice smooth and gentle.
Luke's eyebrows shot up his forehead. "A what?"
She trembled. Oh man, this was not how she'd anticipated her first day at work. When she'd accepted the job as official photographer on Bandicoot Cove, a job vied for by more than one professional photographer she knew, she'd never imagined the job would come with dangers. Nor bring her face to face with her greatest fear and Luke Beasley. All on the same day.
"A fear of butterflies," his cousin continued. "Otherwise known as lepidopterophobia?"
Luke twisted about to frown at him. "Lepidowhatia?"
The other man's eyes twinkled with mirth, and despite the ludicrous situation, Kennedy felt a tight heat low in the junction of her thighs. She bit back a soft gasp. It had to be the situation causing it. The adrenaline rush, the fact she was naked under the towel, Luke's reappearance in her life…what else would explain it?
"Lepidopterophobia, convict," Luke's cousin repeated, his gaze holding Kennedy's. "A fear of butterflies."
Luke swung his stare back to her, the tension in his face and body softening. "Really?"
She nodded, a single, jerky dip of her head. "I-I'm sorry. I didn't…" She stopped, the shameful truth of the situation slamming into her.
Oh God, she'd run from her suite as naked as the day she was born and thrown herself into the arms of an Australian she'd known for a grand total of four hours and forty-two minutes.
And his cousin—a complete stranger to her—had witnessed the whole thing.
"I have to go." Fire flooded her face, and she ducked her head. Or tried to. Luke's fingers under her chin made it impossible. She looked everywhere but at the two men. "I have a meeting to get to."
Luke's fingers slipped from her chin. "A meeting?"
She wrapped her arms around her waist and stepped back from him. She wasn't in control of her body at the moment. Fear and adrenaline were messing with her. What other reason for the way her pulse quickened to a frenzied pace at his closeness?
Because he fucks like a demon, and you haven't been able to forget—
"I work here," she blurted out, killing the unsettling thought. "I'm the resort's photographer."
Luke's nostrils flared. "Since when?"
Kennedy swallowed. Why did his question sound strained?
"Yesterday. I mean, today. I…I arrived yesterday and…and start today." She looked at his cousin, her heart thumping faster in her chest. "Can…can you get rid of the but…butterfly, please?"
A slow smile curled the Brit's lips, and a distant part of Kennedy's mind, the part not unhinged by the damn thing in her suite, noticed how sexy he was. "Your wish is my command, my lady."
He bowed at the waist, a grin playing with his lips, and then disappeared back into her suite.
She stared at the open doorway. Partly because she was petrified the butterfly was going to swoop out at her on silent wings and flutter near her head if she didn't. Partly to avoid looking at Luke Beasley. What did she say to him? I'm sorry I screwed your brains out and took off while you were having a shower?
"Are you going to look at me, Kennedy?"
Kennedy's throat squeezed tight at his low question. Her breath grew shallow.
"I mean, you do owe me an explanation, after all."
She gnawed at her bottom lip and tugged the towel higher up her chest.
"One second we were talking about ordering room service, the next you were gone."
Dragging her stare from the cavernous interior of her temporary residence, she turned her attention to the hulking Australian firefighter beside her.
His gaze was fixed on her face, his jaw bunched. He crossed arms the size of tree trunks over his equally muscular chest. "Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought we had a connection." He paused, a moment of discomfort flickering on his face. "Apart from incredible sex, that is."
Kennedy's pussy constricted at his words, uttered with that sexy Australian accent that had drawn her to him in the New York bar all those month ago. Incredible was an understatement. The man had taken her to places she believed existed only in porn films. In fact, she was ninety-nine percent certain the people in the hotel room next to Luke's had thought they were making a porn film, what with the noises Kennedy was making. But the night she'd met Luke was the night she'd been dumped by her boyfriend of two years for being too "kinky", and Luke was Rebound Guy. Rebound Guy wasn't meant to be Incredible-Sex-and-Unexpected-Connection Guy. He was meant to be See?-I-Am-Desirable-So-Stick-It-In-Your-Ear Guy. That's what Rebound Guy was all about. And then Luke had gone and asked her if she wanted to visit the Statue of Liberty with him the next day and the word "yes" had been so damn close to forming on her lips she'd freaked out.
Freaked out and run away.
And now here she was, with him again. Thanks to freaking out and running away.
There was a perverse irony in that fact, but she was too freaked out to analyze it.
"Are you going to say anything?"
The rough edge of anger in Luke's voice scraped against her fraying control. She lifted her chin, meeting his stare.
Damn, she wished she hadn't. His gaze was as intense and focused and…and…as sexy as it had been four months ago.
Her throat grew thick. Her pussy grew tight.
"You were Rebound Guy."
The confession slipped from her before she could stop it. Luke's eyes widened. His shoulders straightened. So did his spine. He studied her, a muscle twitching in his jaw, his stare unreadable as he opened his mouth to say…
His cousin chose that exact moment to exit Kennedy's suite.
"Got the little bugger." He stopped at the door, his hands cupped together, his grin wide. "A red-bodied swallowtail, to be pre…" A frown pulled at his forehead. "What did I miss?"
A dry snort tore from Luke, and he shook his head, stepping back from Kennedy. "Nothing."
His cousin obviously didn't believe him, based on his own snort—this one so close to a laugh Kennedy almost smiled herself.
But she couldn't. And not just because of Luke. Because of the creature in his cousin's hand.
Oh God, Kennedy. He's got it. It's there. Just there in his…
She flicked her stare to the Brit's long-fingered hands, still cupped in front of his chest. Inside that prison of palm and fingers was a butterfly. The butterfly that had sent her fleeing.
Her pulse thumped hard in her neck. She licked her lips, jerking her gaze from his hands, to his face, to Luke's face and back to the Brit's hands again. "Can you…will you take it away…?"
His lips curled. The mirth in his eyes turned to a smoldering interest Kennedy couldn't miss, no matter how scared she was. "Of course." He leaned one bent elbow on Luke's broad shoulder, his hands shifting slightly as he did so. Enough for Kennedy to make out movement behind his fingers. Her heart leapt into her throat.
And then pounded harder and faster when he said, "For a kiss."
Her stare snapped to his face.
His grin turned languid. Sexy.
"For us both," he finished.
For the first half of Chapter One, head on over to the Down Under Divas' blog HERE
Check out the other books in the Bandicoot Cove: The Wedding series by Jess Dee and Sami Lee.
Go on. Who can say no to a tropical island resort?


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$599 from the outlet store for refurb vs. $1300 new from Henrys' ...hmmmmm. I'll take outlet store for $500, Alex.
The refurbs may not be available here but the Sigma warranty in Canda is considerably better than in the US and the price for new lens is the same or cheaper. I suspect that the refurb warranty is rather short.
Henry's will price match. I find that Aden in Toronto has the most attractive prices for Sigma lenses and Henry's in Ottawa has been happy to match it.
Last year I bought the Sigma 70-200/f2.8 OS HSM and this year I bought the Sigma 17-70/f2.8-4 OS HSM - each from Henry's and each for less than it would have cost to purchase from B&H.
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Annual Christmas show, featuring joyful renditions of class & contemporary gospel music. Director: Rawn Harbor.
ASUSF Voices Choirs Concert Monday, November 25 at 7:00pm in Presentation Theater. Annual holiday show featuring an entertaining mix of songs from popular traditions. Featuring Women's Voices, Men's Voices, Jazz Voices, and SIX Voices.
Rock Band ConcertMonday, November 25 at 9:00pm in Presentation Theater
Debut of USF's newest ensemble: rock-n-roll favorites reinterpreted by USF students. Director: Mike Fiorentino.
Jazz Band ConcertTuesday, November 26 at 5:00pm in Presentation Theater
A variety of jazz standards interpreted by USF students. Director: Pascal Thiam
Computer Music EnsembleTuesday, November 26 at 7:00pm in Presentation Theater
Improvisatory electronic music using all digitally created and manipulated sounds. Director: Daniel Cullen


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Florence Seriki at TEDGlobal 2007
In the spirit of the International Women's Day celebration, we present remarkable and influential Nigerian women in web and tech entrepreneurship.
These women have over the last year or so demonstrated remarkable boldness, brains and beauty in their entrepreneurial endeavours.
As we mark the 2011 International Women's Day, let's celebrate these women as they are inspiring a new generation of women in tech entrepreneurship in Nigeria.
The theme of the 2011 International Women's Day is:
Equal access to education, training and science and technology: Pathway to decent work for women
If you know any other inspiring and influential woman in tech that should be on this list, please don't hesitate to add them in your comments:)
Without much ado, here's TechLoy's list of Influential Women in Web/Tech Entrepreneurship.
1. Florence Seriki
Florence Seriki is the MD/CEO of Omatek Ventures Plc. Mrs. Seriki is a notable Entrepreneur and Industrialist.
She is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the first Completely knocked down Computer Factories in Nigeria and Ghana.
She is a fellow of the Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers, Nigerian Computers Society (NCS) and the Institute of Directors. She holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) and an MBA from the Lagos Business School.
2. Nkemdilim Uwaje
Nkem Uwaje is the Director of Future Software Resources Nigeria Ltd. She attained a BSc. Hons in Bioinformatics at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU), as well as the Technical University of Munich (TUM) Germany.
She has worked on various research projects at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatric Research in the department for Statistical Genetics and Proteomics, as well as for the Pharmaceutical Company Affectis Pharmaceuticals AG, Germany.
These research projects encompass the development of software solutions for complex biological as well as chemical calculations and simulations, database design and administration as well as statistical analysis.
After re-locating to Nigeria in 2005 Miss Uwaje was involved in various research projects, such as the Wazobia Linux initiative, the e-Government Interoperability Framework, as well as the deployment of e-commerce and e-portal solutions.
In early 2008, she took up her position as a Director of Future Software Resources Nigeria Ltd. and re-branded the company, thus changing its focus from stand-alone solutions to web-based educational, enterprise and business solutions.
3. Ore Somolu
Oreoluwa Somolu is Executive Director of the Women's Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC).
Oreoluwa worked for several years in the United States at an educational non-for-profit organisation on a number of projects, which explored the interplay between gender and technology and which sought to attract more girls and women to study and work in science and technology-related fields.
She has a Bachelors degree in Economics from Essex University, U.K. and a Masters degree in Analysis, Design and Management of Information Systems from the London School of Economics & Political Science.
Her research interests are the applications of technology in improving lifelong learning and also to raise the economic and social conditions of people (especially women and children) in the developing world.
4. Uche Eze
Uche Eze is a media entrepreneur and owner of the popular web property, BellaNaija.com. Uche aspires to make the site Africa's Number 1 fashion, music, style, movie, TV and beauty website.
Uche graduated from the Richard Ivy School of Business, University of Western Ontario, Canada.
She relocated back to Nigeria, established Bainstone, the parent company of BellaNaija.com, and in July 2009, quit her full-time job to focus her energies on building BellaNaija.com.
5. Titi Akinsanmi
Titi Akinsanmi is currently working as an independent Corporate Citizenship and Communications Consultant for a global consultancy headquartered in the UK as well as an independent researcher.
She has consulted for a range of international institutions including the IICD, UN-GAID and UNECA. Her area of interest and growing expertise is in policy research and development on ICTs, education, Virtual Organizations, Innovation and entrepreneurship as it speaks to empowering the members of a society in an equitable way in developing nations.
An avid public speaker, Ms. Akinsanmi is currently serving on nomination of the UN Secretary General, on the Internet Governance Forum Advisory Group, and as High-Level adviser of the United Nations Global Alliance for ICT for Development amongst other roles.
She has served since 2005 and still serves as a jury member for the Stockholm Challenge, the World Summit Awards and the World Summit Youth Awards. She is a graduate of the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile Ife, Nigeria and currently a Masters of Management student at the University of the Witwatersrand.
6. Nnenna Nwakanma
Nnenna Nwakanma holds a triple Bachelors, in the Social Sciences, History and English and a Masters degree in International Relations and Law.
She has done large-scale work within International development organizations and institutions in Africa on Information, Documentation and International Relations. Among them, The Home Health Education Service, The Helen Keller Foundation and The African Development Bank.
Co-founder of different pan-African organizations: The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA), The Africa Network of Information Society Actors (ANISA), and the Africa Civil Society for the Information Society (ACSIS).
One of the major Civil Society Actors in the World Summit on the Information Society, she represents the African Civil Society on the Digital Solidarity Fund, and advises on the Africa Information Society Initiative.
She is also Council Chair of the Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa, and also runs her own Platform of Development Consultants – nnenna.org
7. Uduak Oduok
Uduak Oduok is the President & CEO of Ladybrille Media Group, Inc., a dynamic multi-media company providing local and global niche market coverage to highly relevant hyper-targeted audience in fashion, film, music and the arts.
Recognized as a brilliant visionary, especially on Africa's emerging global fashion and entertainment markets, Uduak Oduok's experience of over 17years runs deep and diverse encompassing the disciplines of law, media, publishing, fashion, modeling, music, branding and public relations.
The founder of Ladybrille Media Group, Inc. whose insight and analysis is regularly sought, Uduak is also an attorney, fashion model and journalist. She is often quoted and has authored numerous published articles in national and international magazines and newspapers.
Uduak's passion for entrepreneurship has resulted in years of consulting experience and conducting seminars on entrepreneur topics with many small and medium size businesses. She is also often invited to speak to numerous organizations including SXSW, Jack & Jill of America, Inc., Nollywood Foundation Inc., San Joaquin County Honor Farm Jail Program, San Francisco Fashion Week, and Delta College. Uduak has also been a radio legal commentator on New York's 99.5FM WBAI and 107.5FM WBLS.
She also authors her fashion and entertainment law blog which is fast gaining notoriety among industry circles.
8. Nmachi Jidenma
Nmachi Jidenma is the Founder/Publisher of CP-Africa.com, a Pan-African website that features progressive African ideas, positive trends and inspiring entrepreneurs.
She is currently studying as a graduate student of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University.
Prior to Graduate school, she did agribusiness research focusing on African countries for a D.C. based NGO, TechnoServe and performed independent research as an undergraduate student on African Capital Markets.
Final Thoughts
To commemorate the 100th International Women's Day, ITU is organizing a High-level Panel Debate around the theme of female participation in the information and communication technology industry.
This High-level Panel Debate will look at how IT is taught in schools and universities, how girls perceive careers in technology – and what is informing their life choices.
While we expect to see more of such debates in the coming months, we hope that they'll help identify the cultural and economic barriers and how we might encourage more girls and women into the technology field in Nigeria.
Do you know any other inspiring and influential woman in tech that should be on this list, please don't hesitate to add them in your comments:)
Photo Credit: Andrew Heavens: MeskelSquare.com, TEDGlobal 2007


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Behind tall concrete walls and high voltage electric wire fences hides a secret that few lawmakers want to talk about for fear of public outcry. While the average voter is kept in the dark, America is fast becoming a penal colony. The statistics are so staggering, and the damage done so great, that society seems bent on turning a blind eye rather than consider new policy, or, worse, admit any poor judgment.
Consider. Fact: One out of every 100 adults in America will be incarcerated this year.
Fact: The incarceration rate in our country has increased 700 percent since 1970, when new laws created hundreds of thousands of new criminals.
Fact: Although the United States consists of only 5 percent of the world population, it now is host to roughly 25 percent of the world's entire prison population.
Fact: The incarceration rate in this land is five times higher per capita than our neighbor to the north, and seven times higher than any European country. The highest in the world, by a significant margin.
You have to ask yourself, why does the Unites States put and keep so many of its citizens behind bars? Are Americans more morally bankrupt than the citizens of Holland or France and therefore deserving of more punishment? Are there more murders, rapes and destructive behavior per capita in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world?
The answer is no. Not yet.
There are many factors that contribute to the explosion of our prison colonies but, at the risk of over simplification, let me suggest that they all boil down to one observation: We hate our prisoners. We throw them behind bars and make sure they understand just how unloved they are. We are bent on punishment, not rehabilitation. Lock them up and throw away the key. Do the crime, do the time. Three strikes and you're out. Slip up once and we will make your life so miserable that you learn to hate yourself. And they do learn, fairly quickly.
As a reader, you might think it just. An eye for an eye. The problem is, 40 years of history has now proven that current policy simply isn't working. In fact, it's backfiring. Our society is becoming more dangerous, not less.
Fact: Violent crime increased 18 percent over the prior year in 2011.
Take a puppy and throw it in the pen with snarling bulldogs and it will learn how to bite — plain and simple. Take an 18-year-old kid busted for pot and put him in an overcrowded cage with hard-timers and he is likely to harden. It's no wonder 70 percent go back, typically for more serious offenses than smoking a joint. Our prisons have become monster factories.
Our system of justice might feel fair, but it doesn't change hearts. Unless you change the hearts of those who have strayed from society's prescribed path, they will only continue to stray.
Think of those behind bars as you might a teenager under restriction. All experienced parents know that punishment levied without a greater helping of comfort and love only creates resentment and ultimately even greater rebellion in the hearts of our sons and daughters. A home without copious portions of love to balance out guidance is just another monster factory.
Those who commit crimes are usually members of society who have been mistreated. They've often been shown little love. They turn to crime and they do the time — in monster factories.
Business is very good for those factories; it's a thriving industry. But our penal system isn't helping the wayward find their way into the light. It's too dark in the hole.
At the risk of sounding absurd, let me suggest a change of heart, not among prisoners, but among we who are responsible for their rehabilitation. Love, not hate, heals. Not love with a whip or punishment out for revenge. Rather the kind of love that heals hearts, beginning with our own.
Consider the teachings of Jesus: You have heard it said, an eye for an eye, but I say do no harm to an evil man, and, Love your enemies and do good to those who hurt you. Jesus spoke specifically of prisoners alongside those who are thirsty and hungry, and had the audacity to insist that we treat them as if they were Him. It's strange that those in our nation who wave Jesus banners lead the charge for the harshest treatment of prisoners.
It's easy to look at the Middle East and see that an "eye for an eye only leaves the whole world blind," as Gandhi pointed out. It's much more difficult to see that we are no different, perhaps because we are already blind ourselves. But if we open our eyes, we will see that the sages of old were right: Only love heals. Until we embrace this truth, we ourselves are monsters.
Ted Dekker is a New York Times bestselling author of more than 20 novels. His new thriller, "The Sanctuary," explores crime and punishment in America.


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For example, quantitative precipitation
forecasts in the vicinity the US West Coast are sensitive to the water
vapor transfer that occurs horizontally (from offshore to coast) and
vertically (between the sea surface and the air). It has been
recognized that the capability of numerical models in describing water
vapor transfer at the air-sea interface is limited by insufficient
knowledge of physical property exchange between the surface and the
air associated with strong weather events.
When a weather system
approaches the coast, its interaction with the sea and coastal
topography is very dynamic. Offshore in light wind conditions, the
sea surface and air-sea interaction is relatively simple because there
is little wave breaking, but under high wind conditions or near the
coast, wave breaking, sea spray, surface currents, and differences
between wave and wind directions all contribute to the air-sea
interaction and create a complex challenge to modeling. On land, the
topography and land surface characteristics are highly irregular on
many spatial scales from meters to kilometers.
Properly simulating
the complex interaction of the weather system with the sea and the
coast is a major challenge in meteorology. PACJET will combine
airborne and ship-based flux measurements and will include intensive
wave observations. The intercomparison of airborne and ship measurements
require different assumptions about the spatial and temporal
sampling of fluxes. A similar
intercomparison will be performed on airborne scanning radar
altimeter measurements and ship borne measurements of waves.
However, many
questions remain.
PACJET will provide
observations that can be used for answering these questions. This
will be done in quasi-real time using parallel runs of key models,
including the MRF run at NCEP, an experimental version of the
RUC that
covers the eastern Pacific and is run at FSL, and a version of
MM5 run
at ETL. For each model, the difference between a run with and without
the experimental data will be calculated, and thus the impact of the
data on NWP will be assessed.


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Till death did they part: Helen and Kenneth Felumlee, an American couple from Ohio, met in early 1940s and spent the rest of their married life together totally devoted to each other, almost never spending a day apart, passed away within 15 hours of each other. It's a love story that will melt your heart.
A couple who met as teenagers and were married for 70 years, almost never sleeping apart according to their kids, died within 24 hours of each other.
Helen Felumlee, 92, died on April 12 at their home in Nashport, Ohio, about 88km east of Columbus, and her husband Kenneth Felumlee, 91, passed away the next day, both of natural causes according to their joint obituary. "We knew when one went, the other was going to go," daughter Linda Cody told the Zanesville Times Recorder. "We wanted them to go together, and they did."
Helen and Kenneth met in their home state of Ohio when she was 18 and he was 19. Three years later they eloped to get married on Feb 20, 1944, after lying to their parents that they were going for a day trip to Kentucky. They didn't tell their folks about the wedding until a few weeks later.
The American couple raised eight kids together, the obit said. Helen was a homemaker and Kenneth was a railroad worker (and later a mail carrier), and both were active in the Methodist church where they taught Sunday school. They spent their retirement travelling to all 50 US states by bus, and even after 70 years of marriage they still ate breakfast holding hands, Cody added.
The couple never slept apart until three years ago, when Kenneth had part of his leg amputated due to circulation issues, said Cody. Helen became his main caretaker and also started spending some nights on the couch. "She was staying strong for Dad and he was staying strong for her," said their daughter. "That's what kept them going."
Kenneth passed away surrounded by his family members at his bedside after saying "Mum's dead," Cody remembered. The couple also had 23 grandchildren and 43 great grandchildren, according to the obituary. – Reuters
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November 4, 2005
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Last Saturday in New York I addressed several hundred Tulanians about what the university has been through and will go through in the months ahead as a result of Hurricane Katrina. You can listen to this presentation and view accompanying video at http://arco.vo.llnwd.net/o2/cust5/tulane_live_10_29_05/
This story has three chapters: Survival, Recovery and Renewal.
The Survival chapter really started after the storm and lasted about three weeks. It involved rebuilding the university piece by piece from the immediate devastation of the hurricane. It was an arduous challenge but, as a result of a lot of hard work from many unsung heroes, we survived.
The Recovery chapter is under way as we restore Tulane and its campuses and provide the necessary assistance to help our displaced faculty, staff and students. As part of this recovery, we are partnering with our colleagues at Dillard and Xavier to assist them in their efforts to reopen in January. Our recovery culminates with our reopening on January 17 for the spring semester.
The final chapter in this journey is Renewal. Hurricane Katrina was the worst natural disaster in U.S. history and its impact will be long-lasting, resulting in people and institutions changing in ways unimaginable and probably impossible before the hurricane.
Out of every disaster comes an unprecedented opportunity for institutions like Tulane to rethink the future. Retaining and even enhancing our status among the nation's most prestigious academic institutions and remaining financially stable in the wake of Hurricane Katrina will require historic change and vision. I am extremely optimistic that the Tulane of the future, which will begin in January, will be positioned to be as academically strong as ever and even more distinctive.
The Renewal chapter started some time ago but has intensified since the hurricane because of the extraordinary impact it has had on the people and institutions of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region. Tulane's Board of Administrators has been intimately involved in these discussions and it has been the major topic of conversation in its meetings for the last two months, including a two-day board meeting in New York last week. This meeting involved an extraordinarily thoughtful and expansive dialogue that will continue in the weeks ahead. It generated enthusiasm and great interest among board members.
As this discussion proceeds, I will share with you the broad framework of our Renewal strategy that will redefine Tulane University for the 21st century as a model institution of higher education.
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Hello brothers and sisters. I have fallen in love with a titanium (so I am told) 110 anniversary model by Bianchi.
The fork is grafite and there are 110 embossed everywhere on this beauty, not just the painted Bianchi logos on the frame. Even the seat is embroided with Bianchi 110.
I do not know how much this bike is worth. I guess the sky is the limit if you were looking for one but I happen to walk into it by pure chance.
So, I come to the experts. All components are Campagnolo record (everything) and cosmetically on a scale 1 to 10 this one is a 9 1/2. It has some wear on the leather tightening the handle by the brake out of usage.
I found some pictures that DO NOT belong to this particular bike I am considering buying but it is the identical color and components (I do not know if the 110 only came in blue) so you get an idea as to what we are talking about.
The seller is telling me that the Bianchi emblem up front is 14k gold but I think that is hog's poo poo.
I went to test a Colnago and found this Bianchi calling my name.


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Rob Ford Crackstarter Money to be Split Among Four Canadian Charities
Crowdfunders have succeeded in raising nearly $200,000 for four Canadian charities through an Indiegogo fundraising initiative. Sound familiar?
Today Gawker editor John Cook took to his blog to announce that in the absence of any video showing Rob Ford smoking crack, a decision has been made to donate $46,195.65 to the Somali Canadian Associated of Etobicoke, The South Riverdale Community Health Centre, Unison Health and Community Services and Ontario Regional Addictions Partnership Committee.
"I'm disappointed to announce definitively that the money won't be going to purchase and publish a video of Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine," wrote Cook. "Instead, we are pursuing the Plan B we laid out when we began the project: donating the funds to Canadian organizations that address the fallout from substance abuse."
The latest news in the bizarre scandal involving Toronto's mayor underscores the less-than-glamorous aspects of crowdfunding websites like Indiegogo and Kickstarter. Particularly troubling is when large amounts of the public are convinced to donate money to causes that won't deliver on what they say they'll provide.
In this case it was a video of Ford smoking crack. In other cases it was the infamous Geode, a wallet for an iPhone and credit cards that attracted 1,784 backers and over $350,000 of crowdfunders money. Many of those people received nothing, a problem that likely won't go away in an absence of tougher regulations.
In an interview with Techvibes on June 19, Indiegogo cofounder Danae Ringelmann responded to inquiries about the company's moral stance on willingly perpetuating instances where crowdfunders may not receive anything tangible in exchange for their money.
According to the cofounder, crowdfunding is not a transaction, but a "social experience." It comes down to individual choice, she explained. "No one's forcing anyone to fund anything."
"One thing we encourage all funders to do is make sure they connect with the campaign owners if they don't know them or ask all the questions that they may want answered in order for them to feel comfortable funding," Ringelmann told Techvibes.
Of four possible funding models that platform creators can choose, just one allows crowdfunders to receive their money back. This is Indiegogo's "Fixed Funding" model in which money is only returned if the funding target was not reached.
Ringelmann also received criticism for nearly funneling money to admitted drug dealers. She responded to several media outlets that not one member from the community or the mayor's office issued a complaint. She called it a great example of how people can "vote with their dollar."
Similarly, Techvibes readers responded that crowdfunding isn't going anywhere. "People voting for their ideas with money is here to stay," wrote one commenter.
The article also elicited a response from Seeding Factory's Heri Rakotomalala. The cofounder of the crowdfunding consultancy said campaigns like crackstarter and products like the Geode will happen again and again.
"Is it a reason to claim that crowdfunding is a "general failure"? It's an all-too hasty conclusion," wrote Rakotomalala.
He argued that the success rate of VC and angel-funded companies is well below Kickstarter's 44 percent success rate (the number of projects that hit their targeted funding amount). Why not decry VC and angel funding as a general failure as well then, Rakotomalala seemed to imply.
In this case trained investors are taking on the risk, not thousands of people who might be duped into giving away their money.
He also wrote that for early-stage companies who are risking ventures in unproven markets, crowdfunding could be a viable option. As well, public monuments such as the Statue of Liberty, the Tesla Museum and Montreal's own Notman House were all made possible through crowdfunding.
Indiegogo may be differentiating itself from Kickstarter by accepting more risky and wild projects, but "for the sake of crowdfunding, it would be advisable for Indiegogo to select projects and raise the bar," wrote Rakotomalala. Here's where both Techvibes and Seeding Factory can agree on.
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ver since their classic first three albums, Wire has been a very unpredictable band—in the sense that you never know if they're going to release something great (A Bell is a Cup...) or abysmal (Manscape). Fortunately, the group's latest reunion (this is, what, the third time?) lands squarely in the former camp.
Read & Burn 01, the first in a planned series of 6-song EPs, has been compared to the band's debut, Pink Flag. Indeed, references to that seminal punk record may be relevant, but such comparisons don't quite tell the whole story. This EP hints at the newest Wire direction: heavy, stomping punk fused with the textured electronics of their 80s albums to create an abrasive, almost industrial, sound.
From the very first note, it's clear that this incarnation of Wire is not fooling around—they hit hard with one-and-two-chord assaults built on repetitive, jackhammering rhythms. The bouncy, hyper-speed "Comet" rockets along as Colin Newman intones, in his typical sarcastic monotone, "and the chorus goes/ blah blah blah blah bang," skewering modern pop music. The rest of the EP is similarly uncompromising—every song is a savage burst of raw anger, taking Pink Flag's sarcastic punk and updating it for the new millennium with cleaner production and even more minimalist arrangements.
As heavy as the first EP was, Read & Burn 02 is a whole different animal—the kind of animal that could rip off your face with one swipe of its claws. This EP builds off R&B 01, adding more electronic elements and taking a more experimental approach, while amping up the abrasion of the last EP. The hilariously fast-paced "Raft Ants" sounds like Pink Flag speeded up, with indecipherable shouted vocals that seem to consist of just random words.
"Nice Streets Above" practically veers into NIN territory, with a distorted chant adding to the caustic, mechanical atmosphere. The album's solitary glimpse of relief from this aggressive battering is the poppy "Trash/Treasure," which harkens back to the band's stabs at commercial success in the 80s—until, at least, the song is devoured alive by static at the end.
Taken as a pair, these two EPs represent a great new U-turn for the ever-changing Wire. It's rare for a band this old, with this long of a history, to still be making music that's as vital as when they first came out. It's the rare reunion project that actually adds something of significance to the band's catalogue.
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And yell your head off, I want to see them cry for clones21's mommy when it's all said and done.
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Are you averaging like 500 posts a day? Holy crap.
Agreed. Go Cyclones!!
I have to study.
I will be there!!! Anyone who isn't is a commie.
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Your *'s are not balanced.
I will be there!! HUGE game... this is the first time in a long time that a late season game in Hilton has meant something really big for conference tournament seeding....
Still trying to get tickets...if anyone isn't going to use theirs help your team and do the right thing....give them to me for free.
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Your *'s are not balanced.
Originally Posted by KFitzy87
I will be there!! HUGE game... this is the first time in a long time that a late season game in Hilton has meant something really big for NCAA tournament seeding....
I am going to go late. I know there will plenty of good seats in the students section!....kinda.....
Yep, this thread has just been pwned.
If I can get tickets you bet your *** my *** will be there.
We don't need a win, but the recruits we are hosting need to see a mad ISU team and an energized fan base.
I have an old roommate who hardly ever attends sporting events going to the game on Saturday. I don't have any doubt that it will be a packed house.
On the other hand, it NEEDS to be ROCKIN'!! We need this game.
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CG. No one knows what you're talking about.
Originally Posted by cowgirl836
Originally Posted by IdahoCyclone
We dont need a win, but the recruits we are hosting need to see a mad ISU team and an energized fan base.
LOL, you serious Clark?
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Denise Austin Shines as America's Favorite Fitness Expert
Denise Austin has been in the health and fitness industry for more than 25 years and is most known for her exercise videos/DVDs and her emphasis on staying fit naturally. A few of her accomplishments include being an American fitness instructor, author, columnist, spokeswoman for Idaho Potatoes and Nature Made, and a former member of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. Throughout her career, she has been known by her nickname, "America's Favorite Fitness Expert."
Austin was born on February 13, 1957 in San Pedro, California. At age 12 she began taking gymnastics lessons and increased her skills enough to later receive an athletic scholarship from the University of Arizona. While she was a member of their gymnastics team, she was named #9 in the NCAA on the balance beam. Though Austin did not complete her degree there, she eventually transferred to California State University Long Beach. In 1979 she graduated with her bachelor of arts degree in physical education and a minor in exercises physiology. In 1983 she married sports attorney Jim Austin and eventually gave birth to their two daughters in the early 90s.
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I have need for a LinkedBlockingQueue but what I am passing primitives to it. My data rates for adding to the Queue are about 4ms or 256 data points per sec. The issue that I am having is the data starts to delay immediately on start but over time it seems the JIT makes this more efficient and it ends up real time. I am trying to figure out where I need to decrease the initial delay and one of them is the "newing" up a Float object from autoboxing on each insert in the Queue. Does anyone have a LinkedBlockingQueue using primitives?
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Airmen serving as Joint Terminal Attack Controllers with the 169 Air Support Operations Squadron, Illinois Air National Guard, move through the forest at the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center during Operation Northern Strike, Aug. 11, 2014. Twenty-four units from 12 states and two coalition partners will participate in the three-week event. Operation Northern Strike will occur from Aug. 4 - 22, 2014, at the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center and Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center. Over 300 Total Force fighter, bomber, mobility, and rotary sorties are planned in support of live fire exercises in order to meet stated objectives for participating units. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. David Kujawa)
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We have a problem with database derby. Sometimes operation of writing takes many time. Is possible that many operations of reading blocking writing? Thanks.
Reads require a shared lock. Writes (updates) require an exclusive lock. To get an exclusive lock, a transaction has to wait for shared locks to be released. So a reader can block a writer.
Also see Derby's Type and Scope of Locks.
You might be able to reduce the impact by changing the isolation level of one or more transactions. Derby's default is
Another way to reduce readers blocking writers is to make the readers run faster. Tune your queries by reading the query execution plan, by using both single- and multi-column indexes wisely, and by periodically rebuilding the indexes to reduce fragmentation.


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our company has registered many tld for our domains (ie. company.com, company.co.uk, company.de and so on) and i would like to receive emails from all these domains and redirect each email to particular user, let me explain it on an example:
we have two users (user1, user2) with these emails: firstname.lastname@example.com, user2.company.com
we have these domains: company.com, company.co.uk, company.de
What i would like to achieve is:
- email for recipient firstname.lastname@example.com will be delivered to user1.
- email for recipient email@example.com will be delivered to user2.
- and so on...
I would like to achieve this without creating many aliases for each user - what would you recommend?
I was thinking about rewirite domains by postfix on ZCS, so that if recipient address has an "secondary" domain (.de, .co.uk) it will be rewriten to company.com domain, but I dont like this solution much.
I could make aliases on ZCS with bash & loop for each user quiet fast, but that doesn't seems to me as good global solution to have lets say 10 aliases (10 secondary tld domains) for each user.
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Newsletter for the Section on Statistical Education
Volume 14, Number 1 (Spring 2009)
The third biennial United States Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS 09) will be held on June 25-27, 2009 at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, hosted by CAUSE, the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education. The target audience for USCOTS is teachers of undergraduate and AP statistics, from any discipline or type of institution. Teachers of statistics at two year colleges and those planning a career in statistics education are especially encouraged to attend.
The theme of USCOTS 09 is "Letting Go to Grow." Are we trying to fit in too much to have a "good" statistics course? Can we retool and rethink our courses to better meet our goals? What should we let go of in order to grow?
USCOTS 09 is a 'hands-on' conference with plenary sessions from leaders in statistics education, working breakout sessions, interactive idea exchange forums, and networking opportunities. The distinguished plenary speakers for USCOTS 09 are Dani Ben-Zvi, George Cobb, Peter Ewell, Chris Wild, and Ronald Wasserstein.
USCOTS offers a unique opportunity of participating in on-going interest groups called clusters. Cluster group topics are Statistics Education Research, Study of Fun, Teaching Statistics in the On-Line World, and Student Attitudes. Participants in these interest groups will meet at varying times before, during and following the conference. Details about each interest group and how to become a cluster participant are available at http://www.causeweb.org/uscots/cluster/.
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Registration for USCOTS is $160 before April 1, 2009, and $220 thereafter. Faculty, staff and students of CAUSE institutional members receive a $20 discount. Registration includes conference lunches and a banquet dinner. Resource materials on teaching statistics will also be provided to all participants. Some registration grants are available.
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Jim Rogers: Biggest Event of Next 10-20 Years Just Happened in China
The initial reaction from many following this month's key gathering of communist-party leaders in China was of disappointment as Tuesday's blueprint left much to be desired. But on Friday came a significantly more in-depth document regarding issues like land reform, easing of the one-child policy and cleaning up pollution.
It's all left famed investor Jim Rogers believing "the most important economic event of the next 10 to 20 years is what happened in Beijing." And it's something he says has been largely ignored, notably by Western media.
During a visit at the Wall Street Journal, the former George Soros partner–who retired from Wall Street at age 37 to live a second life as world traveler—equates the plenum to those in 1978 and 1993. The first followed Mao Zedong's death and ushered in Deng Xiaoping's reformist agenda and his effort to remake China's economy, while 1993's plenum included a vow to deal with money-losing state enterprises.
In the just-concluded gathering, which occurred a year after President Xi Jinping became party chief and was seen as his stage to set forth the agenda for his possible 10-year tenure, reform was hoped to be a big focus.
Mr. Rogers, who moved with his family to Singapore seven years ago, senses change is coming.
The land reform includes increased rights for farmers. This group has long seen land taken from them but now are in position to amass large tracts for more-efficient production in a country struggling to keep up with a populace that has increasing amounts of money to spend on food.
Chinese agriculture has been ruined since Mr. Mao's tenure, says Mr. Rogers, capped off by the Cultural Revolution, during which teens were sent to the country to work on collective farms. But while current efforts, if followed through, could take upwards of a generation to really bear fruit, Mr. Rogers sees Chinese agriculture as a sector in which to invest, as well as railroads, medical care and defense.
"These industries will do well even" even if the country's stock market collapses, he contends. Mr. Rogers has been buying Chinese stocks, including financials, for the first time since 2008; he previously was a purchaser in 1999 and 2005.
Also seen changed by his perspective is politicians' resolve. "The overriding concept" from the plenum is "when in doubt, the market will decide." For a state-controlled economy, that sounds like a 180 to past practices.
So why think the new leadership isn't just giving reform lip service? Mr. Rogers admits he can't be sure, but the investor—who came to New York from China and will soon be back in country–senses something different. "As previous administrations tried to change, they ran into the bureaucracy." But now, policy makers "seem to have the wind at their back" and leaders have "put a lot of prestige on the line."
The reform effort would come amid years of talk about China's economy being a bubble or that its ascendance will end. Mr. Rogers says that reminds him what Europeans said about the US after the Civil War. Then, the New World was still considered an untamed backwater. But he notes things change quickly: Within a generation after World War I, the undisputed No. 1, the United Kingdom, was no longer that.


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Vijaya Henry, Master's, Pharmacy Administration, 1992
I entered the Pharmacy Administration Graduate School Program in the fall of 1990 after I received my B.S. in Pharmacy from UT that spring. It was my 2-year post graduate investment in myself and my career. I also completed a pharmacy residency in Houston, TX the year before I received my M.S. in Pharmacy Administration. Read more
Robert K. O'Leary, Doctorate, Pharmacy (Toxicology), 1969
In February 1965, Dr. John Autian, Professor of Pharmacy unexpectedly visited me at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals in Brooklyn, New York to tell me that as a recent Notre Dame chemist I was formulating toxic plastics used for medical devices. I visited his Drug-Plastics Research and Toxicology Labs at The UT College of Pharmacy to validate if he was correct. He was. I quit my chemist position in Pfizer Research and Development . . . Read more
Larry Guerrero, Doctorate, Pharmacy, 2005
At age 50 and with a BS in Pharmacy, I decided to jump back in to the learning arena to keep current with the ever growing medical field of Pharmacy. It was a very impressive program and being a graduate of the University of Houston, I now bleed a rusty orange - Go Longhorns.


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Cpl. Dennis Cox, a New York City native and scout sniper with 1st Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, Regional Command (Southwest), finishes of a foot patrol at the end of an interdiction operation in Helmand province, Afghanistan, Dec. 19, 2013. Cox has been in the Marine Corps for 5 years and is completing his third deployment.
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By Riley Manlapaz on December 09, 2013 3:55 PM
The San Francisco Chapter of the Links—one of the city's oldest and pre-eminient organizations with over six decades of service to the community—held a wonderful benefit concert at the luminous SFJAZZ Center, where the artistry of jazz blended with healing rhythms to create an intergenerational experience that touched the heart, soul, and spirit.
A Gallery of Jewels For The Unique Bride (And Groom) To Be
By Samantha Durbin on June 29, 2011 1:00 PM
The wedding industry is experiencing a much-needed redux. Un-bridal and classic bridal brands have contributed to newfound bridal chic; Anthropologie launched BHLDN, Vera Wang revealed her David's Bridal bridesmaid collection, alternative weddings are on the rise. It's an opportune time to step out of the wedding box and experiment in matrimonial mashup.


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Michigan's Upper Peninsula is going to need a new name if it secedes to become the 51st state.
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Brandi Glanville Confronts Eddie Cibrian's Mistress Scheana Marie
January 09, 2013 09:02 AM by Megan Wilson
Brandi Glanville, one of the leading ladies on The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills, has had her share of drama lately with LeAnn Rimes. While it seems that Brandi is letting up on Rimes for the present, she's changed her focus to Scheana Marie. Scheana is the waitress that came forward in 2009 admitting she'd had an affair with Eddie. The two had a confrontation recently which made it onto the latest episode of The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills. How did it go? Did they both make it out alive? Keep reading to find out!
Brandi Glanville and Eddie Cibrian's marriage became headline news back in 2009 when Eddie and Northern Lights co-star, LeAnn Rimes, were photographed together in some very intimate situations. When the affair hit headlines, SUR waitress Scheana Marie stepped forward to say she, too, had been involved with Eddie. Since the affair, Brandi has been targeting her anger toward LeAnn, but in last night's episode of The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills, Brandi sat down with the other mistress to clear the air.
Scheana started the interview off by admitting she was nervous, and saying "I just have so much I need to get off my chest with you. I'm shaking right now." Brandi seemed almost offended by the waitress' emotions, saying "Don't cry, really. I lost my family. I lost everything that I had. So if anyone's going to cry here, it's not going to be you."
Brandi kept her composure throughout the interview, maintaining her stance. "Look at where you are in your life. I'm in such a better place. I win. You know what I mean?"
After the confrontation, Brandi opened up to US Weekly about how she felt following the confrontation. "She kind of did me a big favor showing me that it wasn't a one-time thing with LeAnn. Basically, [Eddie] had been sleeping with every waitress in town. So it was a wakeup call that I desperately needed in order to push me out the door," Glanville admitted.
"I didn't know the extent of his infidelity…Had she not come forward, I might still be in that situation. Meanwhile, the whole time he was still seeing LeAnn and I didn't know it. So…I think everything happens for a reason," she confessed.
Did you think that Brandi did the right thing by talking with Scheana? Do you think this will be the end of Scheana's 15 minutes of fame? Let us know in the comments!
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Lydia Burks Says:
January 11th, 2013 at 11:58 pm
If Brandi continues to disrespect others in the way she speaks to people one day someone will fightback in a way she can't handle not everyone is out to get her or even cares.What about some anger management therapy, or look at the tapes see how you as a person in the public eye what character traits are you portraying for your children that you can't take back.It takes two to make a marriage.Cream rises to the top as do those of good character
Christina Wilkinson Says:
February 5th, 2013 at 11:22 am
I think Brandi is getting a real raw deal. She has been treated badly by everyone. husband, fellow cast members of RHOBHS esp Kyle and Kim and a woman who wants to gain fame be "being honest" about her affair. No wonder she is angry and at least she is honest. Other people seem to think it is acceptable to say what they want, however offensive, as long as they do it quietly and with a sly smile. I'm on your side Brandi and the rest can carry on with their miserable, pretentious lives.


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I'm afraid you will be bound by the AST unless the state of the property is so bad that it is unfit for human habitation.
If the state of repair (particularly damp) is very bad then you should contact the local authority environmental health department and ask them to send an officer round. If the state of the property is bad he will issue an enforcement notice against the Landlord to carry out works and this may prompt him in to making the repair. If he finds it unfit for human habitation then he will declare it as such and you will be able to terminate your agreement with the landlord on the basis of this breach, be sure to get written proof from the department that the find it uninhabitable.
I note you think it will cost a lot of money but you have a right to a property in repair under your tenancy agreement. You should formally write to the the Landlord & Agent (address it to both) specifying the disrepair, making a list of the reasonable repairs required and ask that they make those repairs within a reasonable time (eg. 7 or ten day). you should state that if the landlord does not make the repair within that time she will pay to have the repairs made and will seek to claim the expense from him and are prepared to make an application to court if necessary (use this initially as a scare tactic).If the landlord does not make the repair you can pay to have it done and then write formally again to him and the agent requesting the payment of the cost within 7 days. If the Landlord does not pay you can issue a claim for the money yourself through Her Majesty Courts Service's online service: http://www.moneyclaim.gov.uk/
All deposit under ASTs have to be placed in a tenancy deposit scheme within 14 days from the date of the tenancy and you can sue the landlord for the return of the deposit and a fine of three times the amount (payable to her) of the deposit if it has not been placed in a TDS. You may consider seeing how your other efforts go and keep this line of enquiry back to use as leverage later if they have not placed it in a scheme. Any agent/landlord worth their salt would have placed it but I thought you should know just in case.
If you start making noise in the above ways then the landlord may decide that he would rather just release you from the tenancy early, either that or he will carry out the repair works.
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Thank you for you're advice, it's all very useful. I'm pretty sure that out deposit has been placed in a TDS, thank god.
Just one more question -will it put us in a bad position for future references etc if we request to end tennancy early due to being unsatisfied?
we are depseratly unhappy and uncomforatble in the property and feel as though 6 months is a life sentance!
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Western New England University School of Law partnered with MassMutual Financial Group and the Just The Beginning Foundation, to bring the Summer Legal Institute to western Massachusetts for a second year.
Forty high school students from throughout Greater Springfield participated in the week-long institute. The programing involves a curriculum that is highly interactive and fun. Program activities are designed to motivate and encourage students on a path toward academic and personal success while immersing them in many aspects of the legal and judicial systems.
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