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Ravens Cheerleader, Courtney Lenz Dropped From Super Bowl Trip Over Weight Gain [Pictures]
Courtney Lenz is a cheerleader for the Baltimore Ravens, but she won't be making the trip to the Super Bowl with the rest of her team and she claims it's because she put on a few pounds!
Lenzis part of the 60 person Ravens cheerleading squad, but Super Bowl rules dictate that the team could only take 32 women. She figured she was a lock since she had seniority, has been featured in the Ravens' cheerleader calendars and appeared as a team representative on numerous occasions.
The Ravens left her home and Lenz thinks it's because she might have put on a couple during the season.
"She thinks it's because she gained 1.4 pounds during the season. She has told various news outlets that she added the weight to her usual 124-pound frame. The organization wanted her to get down to 120 pounds, she claims."
Friends of Courtney Lenz have started an online petition to get her to New Orleans.
So the big question is, what is the actual reason that the Ravens chose not to bring her? If it was her weight, would they be wrong to base their decision on that factor?
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Vista to 7 upgrades starting 7/1/09(9 posts)
Hmmmm. Sounds like computers are going to be a rough sell in the month of June.
wait..Beta is out alreaddy right? i heard that the final will come out in 2010 http://www.engadget.com/2008/0.....ill-gates/
where could i find the download to get W7 Beta?
dose it work from XP to Windows7 or do i need Vista to upgrade it to 7?
humm.. i was just reading online and i heard from many people saying that it will be an upgrade from Vista, not a clean install. you could be right Rick, who knows.
From the original post on this by Scott (Mod), the article referenced is probably referring to a free (UPGRADE) Version of Win7 in (2) SKUs as opposed to a (Full) OEM or Retail Version.
The Win7 download is a (Full) (Timed Limited) (Beta) Version of the O/S to my knowledge which should be Clean Installed and configured as Dual Boot or Primary O/S.
Rick is right - it is a full installation disk. The time limit is apparently August 09.
i tried the links from a few posts here from HTG but none of them worked. Strange.
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<p>What sells beer better than boobs? Short answer: nothing. </p>
Beer. Has there ever been a better way to wind down a week than with a beer?
You would think with such mass appeal that the marketing behind beer wouldn't be such a hard sell; beer can pretty much be sold anywhere, at any time, to anyone, for any number of reasons, and yet the brands behind the bottle go to advertising extremes to hock their hops to you.
It's a bull market out there for beer; the options are endless, so how to choose the right one? What distinguishes one beer from another?
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Submitted to: Journal of Fish Diseases
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Publication Acceptance Date: 11/25/2008
Publication Date: 5/6/2009
Citation: Darwish, A.M., Mitchell, A.J. 2009. Evaluation of Diquat against an acute experimental infection of Flavobacterium columnare in channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus. Journal of Fish Diseases. 32:401-408. Interpretive Summary: Columnaris disease, caused by the bacterium Flavobacterium columnare, exists worldwide and affects a wide variety of fish. In the United States, columnaris is one of the two most costly diseases to the channel catfish industry. Because of the serious losses attributed to the disease, therapeutants are needed to control columnaris. The present study was designed to assess the therapeutic potential of diquat (6,7-Dihydrodipyrido[1,2-a:2',1'-c]pyrazinediium dibromide) against an acute columnaris infection. The results demonstrated that one application of diquat at 5 mg/L or higher concentration will significantly reduce mortalities of acutely infected fish. The results also demonstrated that diquat will have more practical applications in tanks rather than ponds. Further research will be warranted to optimize the dose concentration and the application frequency and duration.
Technical Abstract: A trial was performed to evaluate the efficacy of diquat (6,7-Dihydrodipyrido[1,2-a:2',1'-c]pyrazinediium dibromide) against an acute experimental infection of Flavobacterium columnare in channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus. Diquat is an Environmental Protection Agency-approved herbicide and has the potential to be legally and practically used against columnaris. Channel catfish were challenged, by cutaneous abrasion and waterborne exposure to F. columnare, and treated once at 22 h post challenge with 2.5, 5.0, 10.0 and 15 mg L-1 of diquat active ingredient for 6 h. At the conclusion of the trial, 21 d post challenge, diquat at 5.0, 10.0 and 15 mg L-1 significantly (P<0.05) reduced the mortality of infected fish from 95 % in the challenged non-treated fish to 68, 59 and 49 %, respectively. In vitro, the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of 23 isolates of F. columnare was assayed. The majority of the isolates had an MIC value of 5 ug mL-1 (15 of the 23 isolates). Infected fish exhibited acute clinical signs similar to a natural infection. The skin had severe ulcerative necrotizing dermatitis and the muscles had severe necrotizing myositis. The gills had severe multifocal necrotizing branchitis. The identity of the bacteria isolated from the challenged fish was confirmed by polymerase chain reaction and by genotyping. The results demonstrate that diquat would reduce mortalities caused by an acute columnaris infection.


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January 28, 2016
It was a couple weeks after we all returned to work from a short break over the Holidays, and it was the last week before our return to Parliament. What a whirlwind of a week it was. It started with a very productive Cabinet retreat in St. Andrews-by-the-Sea, where my colleagues and I had the opportunity to look ahead and plan for the Parliamentary session, but also for the years to come in order to make sure we build the economy Canadians need for these challenging times. Of course, for us at Infrastructure Canada, this means doubling our infrastructure investments over the next 10 years to build vibrant, inclusive and sustainable communities. It also means investing rapidly in order to get the economy moving and create good quality jobs now. It's a great challenge we have set for ourselves, and it won't always be easy, but working together it's one we will meet.
After the Cabinet retreat I headed to Fredericton and Halifax where I got to meet our provincial and municipal partners from all four Atlantic Provinces. Here is a short summary.
Meeting our partners face-to-face in Atlanic Canada
From my perspective, meeting and consulting with our partners is crucial to achieving our vision of creating economic growth and sustainable communities across Canada. All communities have pressing infrastructure needs and engaging them early and continuing that dialogue is vital to the success of any long term plan. The first stop was Fredericton, where I met with New Brunswick's Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Roger Melanson and his team to discuss their needs and priorities.
It was a short stop but as always, the people of New-Brunswick proved to be very welcoming.
We then headed to Halifax! My first meeting was with Newfoundland/Labrador's Transportation and Works Minister Al Hawkins to discuss the St. John's wastewater project as well, the ongoing need for social housing and long-term care facilities.
Shortly after meeting with Minister Hawkins, I met with Nova Scotia's Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal Geoff MacLennan and Minister of Municipal Affairs Zach Churchill to discuss the New Building Canada Fund priority projects that have been identified by the Province.
We were then met for lunch by the Minister of Transportation, Infrastructure and Energy, Paula Biggar, and PEI's Deputy of Transportation, Infrastructure and Energy John MacQuarrie to discuss a series of issues including the province's updated infrastructure plan.
For my final meeting of the day, it was a pleasure to meet with Halifax Mayor Michael Savage and his colleagues. During the meeting, Mayor Savage took me through a detailed presentation on Halifax and some of the infrastructure priorities – such as wastewater infrastructure – that the city has identified.
My visit to Atlantic Canada, while short, was very productive and allowed me to better understand the priorities of the Atlantic provinces as well as the on-the-ground pressures that communities are facing across the region. The knowledge and expertise our partners bring to the table is crucial to building a plan that meets actual local needs and creates strong communities over the long term.
After my visit to Atlantic Canada Came to an end, I had the pleasure of visiting Toronto to participate in a Civic Action meeting with mayors from across the GTA who were gathered to speak about the future of our cities.
Following an informative and dynamic discussion with Civic Action GTHA, I headed over to the Toronto Regional Board of Trade to deliver opening remarks and participate in a roundtable discussion focused on infrastructure investments, innovation, and technology. My speech touched on our government's commitment to partnership, highlighted our key focuses for investment, and outlined our plan to get infrastructure investments into the economy immediately to create economic growth and jobs, while also ensuring that we are laying the foundation for long-term and strategic investment in communities.
During the afternoon, I toured Regent Park with Toronto Mayor John Tory where we discussed the state of Toronto's social infrastructure and where we could work together to invest strategically in projects that will make a difference for all Torontonians.
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They made Stephen Parry man of the match on Sunday for his three for 32. Or rather David Lloyd did, an act of generosity and genuine encouragement from him to an honest lad on his debut. Parry won't forget the day and Bumble is clever enough to understand and place things in context.
But Ravi Bopara was the helmsman who steered England to the three-wicket win that kept the three-match series alive and it was no less important for him than was Parry's performance to the spinner. Bopara has batted at the Sir Vivian Richards stadium before, almost seven years ago, in fact, when his international career was in its infancy, and the memory of it is something that has been hard to erase: 4 April 2007.
England are playing Sri Lanka in a World Cup Super Eight match at the new stadium, purpose built, with the generous aid of Chinese money, for this competition. They are not in a good position, at 133 for six in pursuit of a further 103 to win. But then the wicketkeeper Paul Nixon joins Bopara, playing only his fourth innings in one-day international cricket, and together they add 87 for the seventh wicket before Nixon falls to Lasith Malinga for 42.
England require 16 from the final seven balls of the innings. The batsmen had crossed though and Bopara promptly leathers the final ball of the over to the cover boundary. England need 12 from the final over, to be bowled by the seamer Dilhara Fernando, and Sajid Mahmood immediately puts Bopara on strike with a single. Bopara calmly and sweet as a nut, paddles a boundary to fine leg and then takes three from the next two deliveries, with Mahmood scampering a single from the penultimate delivery to put him back on strike.
England now require three runs from the final ball, but realistically a boundary, to win. Fernando runs in to bowl but then aborts when almost in his delivery stride, playing games perhaps. Bopara settles again, and then makes a call. He believes Fernando will go for the yorker, so at the last moment, knowing that his best chance would be to try to carve it away square on the offside, he steps to leg.
Whether Fernando was incredibly intuitive or simply got it right by chance, he sent down the one delivery, on a good length, that the situation ought not to have warranted. Bopara, fooled, flailed, missed and the ball clipped the top of the off stump. England had lost by two runs and Bopara had got them so close with his 57 but had not been able to close the deal. Fernando, consensus had it, had delivered the wrong ball but got the right outcome.
For his part, Bopara had rationalised the situation well (at least the great Adam Gilchrist, man of the match in the forthcoming final, told me as much later that evening back at our hotel) but was outfoxed. How much damage that did to the young batsman is hard to gauge but to get his side so near without closing the deal must have taken its toll. Even someone as outwardly calm can churn inside.
And now, here he was, almost seven years later, playing his 101st one-day international, with some sort of catharsis at hand. This time it is a lower total England are chasing, 160, but they are making every bit as much a mess of it, with a middle-order collapse, so that when Stuart Broad joins Bopara, 55 runs are still needed from the last three wickets. No pressure of overs but the situation demanded a cool head.
Instead, Broad thrashed away but rode his luck before Bopara calmed him down. And then clinically the pair hunted down the runs before Broad leathered the winning boundary. Bopara's unbeaten 38 might appear insignificant in the fullness of time, and the Sri Lanka match was almost a cricketing lifetime away. He has seen England over the line eight times since, on six of the occasions involving significant partnerships with the team in trouble, including an unbroken 225 with Eoin Morgan against Ireland last September when England were 48 for four and he made his only ODI century. But that Sri Lanka match hurt and to a sportsman, these things matter. In hauling England over the line on Sunday he removed what they call the monkey from his back.


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Three Big Ten Softball Squads Advance
May 19, 2006
Michigan 4, Youngstown State 0
Sophomore Alessandra Giampaolo (Pasadena, Calif./Polytechnic) fueled the Wolverines offense, going 2-for-3 with a double, a home run and three runs driven in. Michigan also got a boost from senior catcher Becky Marx (St. Joseph, Mich./Lakeshore), who drove in a run with a sacrifice fly and drew a walk which eventually turned into a run.
The Wolverines opened the scoring in the bottom of the second on Giampaolo's solo shot. The sophomore ripped an 0-1 offering over the right-centerfield fence for her first homer of the season to give the Maize and Blue a 1-0 lead. Full Story
Iowa 0, Nebraska 1
Linke collected her third walk of the game to leadoff the bottom of the tenth. Meghan Mullin followed with a bunt single to put Nebraska's first two hitters on base. Iowa got the next two batters out and nearly escaped the Cornhusker threat, but Waldecker ripped a 2-1 pitch off Iowa pitcher Brittany Weil to record the game-winning RBI. Waldecker and Weil were high school teammates at Pacifica High School in California for three years.
The game was a pitcher's dual, as both hurlers yielded only one hit each through the first five innings. Nebraska had only three base runners through five innings and Iowa one. Nebraska's Ashley DeBuhr struck out five batters and scattered three Hawkeye hits, while Weil sat down seven and yielded five hits. DeBuhr threw 139 pitches, 106 strikes, while Weil tossed 151 pitches, 83 strikes. Full Story
Penn State 4, Hofstra 4 [Suspended]
After two scoreless innings, Hofstra lead-off hitter Laura Sweeney lifted a single to left field to begin the third inning and second baseman Lisa Wambold moved the runner over with a sacrifice bunt. All runners were safe on the next play, a throwing error that put Pride runners on first and third base with no outs. A fielder's choice got Sweeney home to score the game's first run with runners on first and second and only one out. After a strike to Carolann Lubach, lightening struck in the distance behind the stadium and the rain followed, delaying the game for over two hours. Full Story
Ohio State 3, Arizona 6
The winner of the game tonight will face No. 1 seed Arizona (46-9) Saturday in the regional championship game at 6 p.m. (EDT) on ESPN2.
When these two teams met February 25 in Palm Springs, Calif., Hollowell (25-4) struck out 18 Buckeyes and allowed two hits in Arizona's 5-1 win. Friday, however, OSU had four hits and scored three runs in the fifth inning in its bid for what would have been the first-ever win for the Buckeyes over the nation's top-ranked team. Full Story
Northwestern 4, Southern Illinois 0
Northwestern's win Friday upped its record to 43-12 on the season, matching the program's 1987 team for the best win total in school history. The shutout is NU's 21st of the season, tying the 1982 and 1983 teams for the fourth-best total in program history. The Wildcats now are 4-0 in their opening NCAA Tournament game in the last four years.
Northwestern starter Eileen Canney (Paradise, Calif./Paradise) began the game in dominating fashion, striking out the first four and 7-of-9 batters in Southern Illinois' first trip through the lineup. Canney already had racked up eight K's through three innings. She finished with 13 strikeouts against just a pair of walks to move to 22-6 on the season and move her into a tie for seventh on NU's single-season wins list. Full Story
Indiana 3, Utah 0
"I am not surprised with how we started the NCAA Tournament," head coach Stacey Phillips said. "We have talked a lot about being aggressive and capitalizing on our scoring chances. We came out today and played IU softball."
Indiana notched the game's first run in the bottom of the second innings as junior center fielder Kim Richards crossed the plate on a standing double to left center by freshman second baseman Sarah Padove. Richards reached on a leadoff single up the middle. Full Story
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21 year old male. I have been considering an upper blepharoplasty for some time now. Except that I wanted only the inner corners of my eyelids operated on(closest to the nose) All I want is extra skin excised from that area so the result is an inner eye lid crease(on both sides of my face, pictured with q tips). It would suit me well I thought. Giving my eyes a more rested relaxed appearance. Is this possible through surgery?
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Limbaugh: Romney's endorsement of McCain is suicidal
posted at 10:11 pm on February 23, 2010 by Allahpundit
Via Ben Smith, not for a moment do I believe this is true but it's amusing to watch talk radio start to turn on their favored candidate from 2008 this early.
I like Mitt Romney, but I think he's risking his career over a guy, endorsing McCain, who is so out of step with what's going on right now. McCain's always conservative when he's running for reelection in Arizona. The tea parties have produced a wave of conservatism that have swept Republicans-in-name-only aside. I understand Palin endorsing McCain. She's got no choice. Loyalty, plus if she doesn't the media will cream her, "Oh, he's good enough to be president but you won't endorse him to be Senator?" And it's understandable Romney would endorse Brown, but I don't understand Romney endorsing McCain. I just don't think it's going to fly. These endorsements are unnecessary. What is there to gain by this? Look, it's unfortunate, but people are weeding themselves out of the process all the while engaging in this kind of behavior. So in one sense it has a cleansing aspect to it…
This is what I'm telling you now, I tried to say that the Republican Party is trying to fight this off right now, they're trying to fight off the tea party people. They're trying to avoid being run over by them. Nobody is willingly going to give up a position of leadership they think they hold and a lot of people, it's very difficult for people to change their core. Now, again, with Romney endorsing McCain, this is all about the future. This is Romney wanting McCain's endorsement in 2012 if he runs for president. This is all about Republicans hanging together and this is one of the things that irritates people, especially new arrivals, to what is considered to be the same old politics. It is tone deaf, it's suicidal, at least it seems to me, but at least you find out where people think things are important early on in a process like this so it's got its value even though it does make you mad…
Okay, so imagine you got this tent, and we all know that McCain is still ticked off that he didn't win the presidency, and he's still ticked off that he had to fight so hard to win the nomination. So 2012 comes along, let's say McCain loses the Senate run, so now he's out there really ticked off, and some people just might — just throwing this out there, I'm not trying to convince you of this. I don't even know if it's true or even accurate. But maybe they're just figuring down the road they'd rather have McCain not outside the tent throwing bombs at 'em, rather have him inside the tent doing whatever he's doing, I think either way it's irrelevant because I think you're right, the era of McCain's over.
Well, look. Granted, Romney can't go around endorsing every centrist against every tea-party darling; that would alienate the base irretrievably and he needs them for the general election if he's the nominee. But he's not stupid. He will endorse some tea-party faves, most likely starting with Rubio in Florida. That race is practically a foregone conclusion already and Crist screwed him two years ago by backing McCain so Mitt should have no reservations. If he jumps in for Rubio — the earlier the better — it'll help offset his support for Maverick. As for why he shouldn't support Hayworth too, what good would it do him if he did? Romney's never going to be a grassroots all-star. He could endorse every last candidate touted by Rush Limbaugh and the base will still view him suspiciously, partly because of RomneyCare, partly because he's an, ahem, "elitist," and partly because of his record of opportunistically flip-flopping on social issues. (And, for some social cons, partly because he's a Mormon.) Why alienate his natural base — centrists — to woo a faction that'll never warm to him? As radical and risky as Romney's "concede the south" strategy is, and as impressive as the growth of the tea-party movement may be, there's no reason to believe that a center-right candidate is doomed to fail against a more conservative one in the primary, especially if the conservative is someone whom 70 percent of Americans think is unqualified. McCain's endorsement will help Romney with centrists but Hayworth's endorsement would help him with … who, exactly? The sort of people who already screech "RINO!" when they see him? I don't get it.
Update: A commenter objects that Romney wasn't talk radio's favored candidate in 2008. He certainly was among the McCain/Mitt/Huckabee big three, but if you include Fred Thompson in the equation, I suppose that's fair enough.
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Verizon Replacing Rebate Checks With Pre-Paid Visa Cards
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Verizon Wireless announced this week that effective immediately, they will no longer be issuing paper checks when they process your rebate. Instead, you will receive a pre-paid Verizon-branded Visa card, which you can use in the same manner you use any pre-paid debit card.
The details from Verizon are as follows:
"Effective September 2, 2008, Verizon Wireless branded Prepaid VISA cards will replace Rebate Checks for all mail-in rebates, offering customers more choices to access rebate funds. Customers will have the option of spending their rebate card immediately, redeeming for cash, completing a bank transfer or requesting a paper check. Customers will also have the ability to track the status of their rebate by visiting www.verizonwireless.com/rebates or by calling Parago (800) 457-0864. Customers can check the balance of their cards by visiting www.verizonwireless.com/rebates, emailing email@example.com/rebates, text messaging BAL to #VZWR (8997) or by calling Citi (877) 899-8980. The rebate card may take up to 6 weeks to process."
This new rebate format will allow customers to use their rebate money immediately without a taking a trip to the bank. The drawback is that if you prefer a check you will have to put in a special request; also, Verizon has stated that they will not be responsible for rebate cards lost or stolen in the shipping process.
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Nicole Richie — mother, wife, actress, fashionista — has joined the ranks of celebrities who have created their own fragrances. Due out this September, Nicole Richie has announced the forthcoming release of her first-ever perfume called simply, Nicole. While it may seem odd when other, non-fashion conscious, celebs release fragrances (like, say, Shania Twain for example), it makes perfect sense that Richie would decide to create her own perfume. Actually, I'm surprised she hasn't released a fragrance sooner. Click below to see the Nicole by Nicole Richie bottle and learn more about the scent.
Reality star, designer, author, mother — now Nicole Richie is adding "fragrance creator" to that list. Due in September, the eponymous scent is being produced by TPR Holdings LLC; Richie noted that the scent came about via her fellow "Fashion Star" cast member, designer John Varvatos, who introduced her to TPR chief Brian Robinson. The juice, Richie said, was inspired by the layered scents her mother wore when Nicole was a child, which she describes as a combination of oils and lotions. "I have a very traditional Southern mom — you never left the house without lotion," said Richie during a phone interview with WWD. "Over her lotion went oil and perfume — she was very put together from head to toe. It wasn't just a one-dimensional smell — there were many different layers." She noted vanilla, amber and cashmere woods were among the notes she wanted to include in her own scent. Richie worked with Steve DeMercado of Fragrance Resources to put her juice together. It opens with notes of succulent blackberry and Seville orange, has a heart of golden amber, Moroccan rose, lily of the valley and papyrus, and a drydown of sensual cashmere woods, sandalwood, sugared patchouli and vanilla absolute. Eaux de parfum in two sizes, 1.7 oz. for $55 and 3.4 oz. for $69, will be offered, as will a 6.7-oz. body lotion, $35, and a 6.7-oz. bath and shower gel, $28. Richie created the Art Deco-inspired bottle with designer Dale Brandon Kan. The outer box combines Art Nouveau and vintage touches. "I wanted it to represent different layers of a woman, which is what I try to do with Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960," said Richie, speaking of her apparel and accessories lines, both named for her four-year-old daughter, Harlow Winter Kate Richie Madden. "I'm very particular in the way that I create. We're in an interesting time right now where women aren't just one thing — there are many different parts to a woman. So I wanted to create a very intricate bottle that was still elegant, but not so in-your-face girly at the same time." Richie also avoided an overall girly-girl image in the print advertising, which was shot by Anthony Mandler and will begin running in September fashion, beauty and lifestyle magazines. "I always shy away from anything that's too girly, but I consider myself a feminine girl," said Richie of the ad. "Anthony knows how to shoot something and make it be feminine and sexy, but not so in-your-face girly." Of her collections, she notes: "It's really about curating a world that I hope women will want to be a part of, and nothing brings that to life like a fragrance." The scent will be sold in about 2,000 department and specialty stores in the U.S., including Macy's, Nordstrom and Dillard's; international markets include the U.K. and Australia … While Richie and Robinson declined to comment on projected sales, industry sources estimated that the scent would do upwards of $20 million at retail in its first year on counter. Richie is said to be planning to launch a second pillar fragrance in August of next year, and a summer flanker for 2013. She is also working on her spring 2013 collection for Winter Kate and fall 2013 for House of Harlow 1960, along with a capsule collection for Macy's called Nicole Richie for Impulse … As far as next steps in beauty, Richie said she'd like to focus on hair. "I'm not great with makeup, so it wouldn't make sense for me to do a makeup line at the moment, but hair is something where I know the world very well, and so I probably will be focusing on that sometime soon," she said.
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Contender: The Justin Trudeau Story (eBook PART 3)
EDITOR'S NOTE: In the new eBook Contender: The Justin Trudeau Story, The Huffington Post Canada's Ottawa bureau chief Althia Raj paints a vivid portrait of Trudeau's formative years in Ottawa, Montreal and Vancouver and takes us behind the scenes of his rapid political ascent.
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Friend Thomas Panos first learned that Justin Trudeau was in love when he called in June of 2004 asking for a business-class ticket to Athens for his girlfriend. Trudeau was attending the Olympic Games as a reporter for CKAC.
"She's the one," he told Panos. He had met Sophie Grégoire, a childhood friend of his brother, Michel, when she and Justin co-hosted a Starlight Children's Foundation event. They'd hit it off, and the following day she sent him an email suggesting they meet up. But Trudeau never responded.
"I knew that the day I went out for coffee with her, that would be the last day I would ever have as a single man," Trudeau told CPAC's Catherine Clark on the program "Beyond Politics" in 2009. He had a few loose ends to wrap up, he said. Three months later, Trudeau bumped into Grégoire in Montreal and apologized for not writing back. They went out and over dinner he told her they would have to skip dating and go straight to engagement. "I am going to spend the rest of my life with you," he declared.
There was nothing impulsive about his decision, he told Clark. "It was a deep recognition that Sophie was the person I wanted to spend my life with."
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Justin Trudeau, son of the late prime minister Pierre Trudeau, leaves with his new bride Sophie Gregoire in his father's 1959 Mercedes 300 SEL after their marriage ceremony in Montreal Saturday, May 28, 2005.
Sophie Gregoire waves to the crowd as she arrives for her wedding to Justin Trudeau, son of the late prime minister Pierre Trudeau, in Montreal Saturday, May 28, 2005.
Former prime minister Jean Chretien meets Justin Trudeau at the Liberal leadership convention, Friday, Dec. 1, 2006, in Montreal.
Justin Trudeau raises his arms in victory after being voted in as the Liberal representative in Montreal's Papineau riding, on April 29, 2007.
Liberal Justin Trudeau, then a candidate in the riding of Papineau, on the campaign trail in Montreal, Tuesday Sept. 23, 2008 with his mother, Margaret.
Liberal MP Justin Trudeau waves to the crowd of supporters as he holds his son Xavier and his wife Sophie Gregoire holds their daughter Ella-Grace after announcing he will seek the leadership of the party Tuesday, October 2, 2012 in Montreal.
Liberal MP Justin Trudeau announces he will seek the leadership of the party at a news conference, Tuesday, October 2, 2012 in Montreal.
Prime Minister Trudeau and his then-wife Margaret leave the city's Notre Dame Basilica Sunday afternoon after the christening of their 22-day old infant Justin Pierre James, Jan. 16, 1972. Tasseled shawls kept the baby hidden from photographers and the 10-degree-below-zero weather.
Eleven-month-old Justin Trudeau, urged on by his mother Margaret Trudeau, crawls up the steps of an aircraft in Ottawa Dec. 5, 1972 to meet his father, then-prime minister, Pierre Trudeau on his return from Britain.
Pierre Trudeau is saluted by RCMP Officer as he carries son Justin to Rideau Hall in 1973. Justin Trudeau teared up when he was presented with a framed copy while visiting Loyalist College in 2013.
Alexandre (Sacha) Trudeau delivers a right hook to his older brother Justin during a play fight in 1980 at Ottawa airport as the boys await a flight with the return of their father, then-prime minister, Pierre Trudeau. Nobody was injured. Justin was born in 1971 and Sacha in 1973 - both on Christmas day.
March 1979 photo of the Trudeau children: Michel (front), Alexandre (Sacha) and Justin (rear).
It was a big day for Dad, but a long day for the three Trudeau children. Left to right, Justin, Michel and Alexandre (Sacha) Trudeau attended the swearing in ceremonies of their father Pierre Elliott Trudeau as Prime Minister March 3, 1980 at Government House.
Then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau and 10 year-old son Justin walk toward a plane at CFB Ottawa on Nov. 7, 1982.
Then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau, left, watches as his 11-year-old son Justin swings on a chain during a tour of an old fort in the Omani town of Nizwa Dec. 2, 1983. Trudeau and Justin spent the day visiting the towns of Jebel and Nizwa 165 kilometres south of Muscat.
Then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau's 11-year-old son Justin jumps off an old cannon while visiting a fort along with his father in the Omani town of Nizwa and Jebel.
Justin Trudeau and friend Mathieu Walker in the Sahara desert in October, 1994.
Justin Trudeau and friend Mathieu Walker in the Sahara desert in October, 1994.
Justin Trudeau with friends Mathieu Walker and Allen Steverman in Shanghai in 1994.
Justin Trudeau with friends Mathieu Walker (left) and Allen Steverman (centre) at the Great Wall of China in 1994.
Former prime minister Pierre Trudeau (L), his son, Alexandre (Sacha), ex-wife Margaret Kemper and son Justin weep as they leave a memorial service for their son Michel in Montreal in 1998. Michel Trudeau drowned after being swept into a lake during an avalanche in British Columbia.
Justin (left) and Alexandre (Sacha) Trudeau lean out of the funeral train to show appreciation to mourners who turned out to pay their respects to former prime minister Pierre Trudeau in Dorval, Que., Monday Oct. 2, 2000. Trudeau's casket was moved from Ottawa to Montreal for a state funeral. ()
Justin Trudeau is consoled by his mother Margaret after reading the eulogy for his father, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau during his state funeral in Montreal, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2000.
Justin Trudeau delivers a eulogy for his late father Pierre Trudeau during the state funeral for the former prime minister at the Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2000. Trudeau first caught the public heartstrings in October 2000, when he delivered a moving, deeply felt eulogy for his legendary father, weaving an emotional spell from inside the cavernous Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal.
Justin Trudeau breaks down on his father's casket after reading the eulogy during the state funeral for former prime minister Pierre Trudeau Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2000 in Montreal.
Justin Trudeau gives a rose to a young girl, one of thousands of mourners who stood outside Notre-Dame Basillica in Montreal Tuesday, October 3, 2000 during a state funeral for his father, former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
An enthusiastic Justin Trudeau talks to reporters during a news conference to promote avalanche awareness in West Vancouver Thursday Jan. 25, 2001.
Justin Trudeau stands at the base of a mountain near the evidence of a controlled avalanche at Lake Louise, Alberta, Friday January 12, 2002.
Justin Trudeau spoke to students as Sisler High School about the benefits of joining the Katimavik Project on March 9, 2004
Justin Trudeau poses in London, Ont., on Tuesday, June 5, 2007 with a group of youth who participated in the Katimavik national youth service program that he has been actively involved in. The funny faces came from a request by a parent taking a photograph.
Justin Trudeau carves through a gate during a celebrity slalom race in Mont Tremblant, Que. Friday, Dec. 12, 2003. Trudeau was taking part in a 24-hour ski-a-thon for charity organized by Jacques Villeneuve and Villeneuve's manager Craig Pollock.
Trudeau with adviser and friend Gerald Butts in July 2003 at Virginia Falls, Nahanni National Park Reserve in the Northwest Territories.
Justin Trudeau poses in this official photo for his boxing match with Senator Patrick Brazeau.
Senator Patrick Brazeau, right, and Liberal MP Justin Trudeau take part in a weigh-in for a upcoming boxing match Wednesday March 28, 2012.
Senator Patrick Brazeau, right, and Liberal MP Justin Trudeau take part in a weigh-in for a upcoming boxing match Wednesday March 28, 2012, in Ottawa.
Liberal MP Justin Trudeau, left, fights Senator Patrick Brazeau during charity boxing match for cancer research Saturday, March 31, 2012 in Ottawa.
Senator Patrick Brazeau, right, and Liberal MP Justin Trudeau take part in a charity boxing match for cancer research Saturday, March 31, 2012 in Ottawa .
Liberal MP Justin Trudeau celebrates after he defeated Senator Patrick Brazeau during charity boxing match for cancer research Saturday, March 31, 2012 in Ottawa .
Liberal MP Justin Trudeau kisses his wife Sophie Grégoire after winning a boxing match against Senator Patrick Brazeau on Saturday, March 31, 2012 in Ottawa.
Liberal MPs, including Justin Trudeau, look on as Senator Patrick Brazeau holds a Liberal hockey sweater on Parliament Hill Ottawa, Monday April 2, 2012.
Liberal MP Justin Trudeau trims the end of Senator Patrick Brazeau's pony tail out of respect in the Foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill Ottawa, Monday April 2, 2012.
Mathieu Walker says he understands what hit Justin. In his last year at Brébeuf, Walker was looking for a prom date and was set up with Sophie. After meeting her once, Walker wrote in his agenda: "She's the most beautiful girl, I am in love with her, she's so fantastic." A week later, she called him and said her dad wouldn't let her go to the dance. "My heart was kinda' broken, even though I had only met her once," Walker says.
Friends say Sophie, 38, is ideal for Trudeau: she is a strong independent woman who had her own career and wasn't besotted with the Trudeau name.
"Justin can be pretty charming and can charm his way out of most things," DiMonte says. "In Sophie, he met his match."
To be Justin's wife, you need a certain skillset, says Walker. "You have to have a certain personality, you have to like being looked at or spoken about, you have to be social and you've got to be accepting of this lifestyle and I think she's perfect for him."
Friends say Sophie thrives on attention, is high energy, likes action and needs to be entertained. Recently certified as a yoga instructor, she enjoys travel and has a great sense of humour. Unlike Trudeau, she's a big spender with a soft spot for luxury hotels.
She's a supportive wife who has always backed Trudeau's political aspirations, and she believes in destiny, his aunt Janet says.
An engaging speaker, Sophie talks often about motherhood and her volunteer activities with Plan and Shield of Athena, a non-profit organization for victims of family violence that operates in Trudeau's riding.
Trudeau and Grégoire were married on May 28, 2005. Always the showman, Trudeau arrived at the church in his father's 1959 Mercedes wearing a gold suit. Their first child, Xavier James, was born on Oct. 18, 2007, Pierre Elliott Trudeau's birthday. Their daughter, Ella Grace, was born on Feb. 5, 2009.
Married and earning several hundred thousand dollars on the public speaking circuit, Trudeau was ready for a professional change. (According to documents provided by his campaign, and first published in The Ottawa Citizen, Trudeau earned $290,000 in 2006 and $462,000 in 2007). Public speaking had bolstered his confidence. People wanted to hear what he had to say. Although he continued to chair Katimavik and sit on the board of directors of the Canadian Avalanche Foundation, he felt politics calling.
The Liberal leadership race in 2006 was a pivotal point. At the federal leadership convention, Trudeau backed Gerard Kennedy, an affable unilingual Ontario cabinet minister who ended up as kingmaker, crowning Stéphane Dion as leader over Bob Rae and Michael Ignatieff. Kennedy was preaching a message of party renewal, and Trudeau delivered, in the words of Bruce Young – one of his current leadership organizers in British Columbia – a "half-decent speech" to party delegates. Trudeau basked in the media and public spotlight.
"Frankly, I think he got a taste of how much he liked it and how good he was at it," Butts says.
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Leadership candidate Stéphane Dion crosses paths with Justin Trudeau, a supporter of Gerard Kennedy, at the Liberal Leadership Convention on Nov. 30, 2006 in Montreal. The day after he won the leadership, Dion told Trudeau he needed his help and urged him to run (CP PHOTO/Ryan Remiorz)
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Justin Trudeau's greatest political achievement to date is his electoral victory in Papineau. Trudeau likes to say he "outworked everyone else on the ground" and won a contest that no one expected him to take.
It is a testament to his political skills and calculation that he pulled it off.
In order to silence some of the critics who would predictably contend he was was riding on his father's coattails, he felt he needed a fight. He needed to run and win in a riding where he would be viewed as the underdog.
The Papineau decision was long in the making. The day after he won the 2006 Liberal leadership, Stéphane Dion told Trudeau he needed his help and urged him to run. Trudeau mulled it over, talked about it with his wife, but was still unsure. Later that December, he sat down with Butts, Dick O'Hagan, his father's former communications adviser, and Gordon Ashworth, the Liberal party's former national director under Pierre Elliott Trudeau and the man who ran the Liberals' last election campaign. Both veterans strongly encouraged him to run. It was not clear then that Dion would lose the next election, but even if he did, he might win the next go-round and give Trudeau the chance to serve in cabinet and gain experience.
The Liberal party had made overtures about offering Trudeau Outremont, a safe Liberal seat and the riding in which he lived. A few days before Christmas, Trudeau called Dion from a Canadian Tire and asked him if he could run in Outremont. In late January, after then-Liberal MP Jean Lapierre resigned his seat in Outremont, Trudeau says Dion offered him Saint-Lambert instead, a riding that had been held by the Bloc Québécois since 2004. But by then, Trudeau had his eye on Papineau.
"If I would have given him a safe seat, he wouldn't have had the ability to show that he had a first name," Dion says in an interview.
In mid-February Trudeau met with the riding executive for Papineau.
The multicultural riding is Canada's poorest, with the lowest average family income in the country, and is the smallest federal district at nine square kilometres. In 2006, it fell under the Bloc Québécois' hold. Vivian Barbot, the francophone MP, had beaten the Liberal incumbent by less than 1,000 votes. And although in enemy hands, it had a fifty-plus-year history of electing Liberal MPs. A section of the district had once formed part of Trudeau's father's Mont Royal riding.
Barbot was popular, especially in Villeray, a sovereigntist-heavy section in the middle of the district. Nearly 49 per cent of the riding was francophone. Another 46 per cent claimed neither French nor English as their first language and 5 per cent ranked English as their mother tongue. There were lots of Greeks, as well as South Asians, Arabs, Latin Americans, Italians and a number of anglophones. Some of the Greeks remembered volunteering for Trudeau's dad, and they were ready to lend his son a hand.
Justin's first meeting with Luc Cousineau, the president of the Papineau Liberal riding association (and now the chief financial officer for his leadership campaign) was at the Queen Elizabeth, a downtown luxury hotel.
"Ça pas été smooth," Cousineau says over lunch at a Montreal food court. It was a bit bumpy, he says of their chat.
Trudeau thought the meeting was at 4 p.m. while Cousineau was sure it was scheduled for 4:30 p.m. When he arrived, possibly 30 minutes late, Trudeau was frustrated, Cousineau says.
Then Cousineau's cellphone rang. It was his ailing father's oncologist, so he kept 35–year-old Trudeau waiting while he spoke with the doctor. After hearing Trudeau's pitch, Cousineau informed him that he hoped for a race and as riding president planned to stay neutral. "That may not have been the message he wanted to hear," Cousineau says.
Butts also had misgivings.
"I thought maybe he hadn't thought through what winning the nomination, let alone winning an election, in Papineau would entail," Butts recalls. "He said to me, 'If I can't beat a separatist in Montreal, what good am I in politics?' "
Butts thought Trudeau was brave and crazy. He told him: "This may be a much shorter lived political career than you had anticipated."
But Trudeau knew, just as he had told Terry DiMonte years earlier, what was in store. If he beat the pavement, he would not only prove his friend wrong, but he would create his own narrative about the candidate who ran and won in in a longshot riding.
On Feb. 22, 2007, Trudeau announced he would seek the nomination in Papineau.
The announcement hit Mary Deros, a popular city councillor since 1998 for Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension, a borough that was part of the federal riding, particularly hard.
"It was like the wind was punched out of my stomach, you know," Deros says, with a loud sigh, during an interview in her Park Extension office in Montreal.
That fall, Liberal incumbent Pierre Pettigrew had informed Deros he wouldn't run again, and she thought Ottawa might be her next career move. She called the Liberals, sent in her c.v., had meetings with officials and started to assemble her team. Then she heard that Justin Trudeau – the Justin Trudeau whom she had been so excited to meet and get her picture taken with at the Liberal convention that fall – would be her opponent.
Deros thought of pulling out, but her supporters wanted to see her through and the party wanted a race. "It was good for Justin to have a battle, so I stayed. And because I understood that it was good for the party, I stayed. I worked hard also, but I knew it wasn't going to happen," she says.
Deros watched Trudeau's team. Nearly everything was organized to make sure that he won, she says, pointing to the army of people from Ottawa and volunteers from all across the country who arrived to help. Trudeau gave a moving speech about his father's legacy and on April 29, he won 690 of the 1,266 votes to rout Deros, who came in second with 350 votes.
Dion says he told Trudeau he was "very pleased for him because he achieved something personally that would show that he has what it takes."
Trudeau did his homework, pounded the pavement, contacted all the associations, Deros says.
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Justin Trudeau, then Liberal candidate for the riding of Papineau, on the campaign trail with his mother, Margaret, in Montreal on Sept. 23, 2008. Trudeau snatched the riding from the Bloc Québécois by 1,189 votes. (CP/ Graham Hughes).
On Oct. 18, 2008, in an election that saw support for the Liberals led by Stéphane Dion plummet and the party lose 18 seats, Trudeau managed an unexpected upset. He narrowly won the riding by 1,189 votes. Trudeau captured 17,724 votes cast compared to Barbot's 16,535.
In Ottawa, where he thought his new colleagues might expect him to throw his father's name around to gain special treatment, Trudeau says he kept his head down and went out of his way to be a humble and hard working MP.
In the riding, he has been a regular presence on the weekends. "He goes walking the streets with his children, he eats in our restaurants, and when you see him and he's genuinely interested in the people, he will sit down and exchange with them," Deros says. "He's not just someone who shakes your hand while looking elsewhere to shake someone else's hand."
Around Park Extension many people are fond of Trudeau. When George Karazginiannidas, the owner of Afroditi, a Greek bakery shop on St-Roch St., hears that I will be seeing Trudeau later on, he prepares a box of pastries to take to him.
"Justin Trudeau is a very nice young man," Karazginiannidas says. "He always comes in to say hello, and his father was a great man."
Karazginiannidas likes having Trudeau as his MP, but he isn't sure he should be running for the Liberal leadership. "He has the family in the back, but not the experience," he says.
Over at the barbershop Salon de coiffure pour homme, George Glicakis will not talk about Trudeau.
"I believe that if you have nothing good to say about somebody, you should not say anything at all," he says, between haircuts.
"He's a rich boy," patron Philip Hatzimanolis says.
"People think he hasn't earned his stripes to be a leader, he's too young and he's going through this because of his father and not because he's earned his stripes," he says between sips of raki, a smooth Greek moonshine that Glicakis serves in styrofoam cups.
Hatzimanolis helped Trudeau campaign in 2008, afraid that the young man wasn't smart enough to win the seat. But in 2011, he sat on the sidelines knowing Trudeau would easily win the riding.
Despite the NDP's orange wave in Quebec and Liberal fortunes' being in a free fall, Trudeau won his riding in 2011, leading his second-place NDP challenger by more than 4,000 votes compared with a 1,200-vote lead over the Bloc candidate in 2008. His margin of victory in 2011 surprised several of his caucus colleagues.
Trudeau's youthful energy and honesty impress Hatzimanolis, but he thinks "Justin is too much in a hurry" and compares him to Icarus, the iconic figure in Greek mythology who flew too close to the sun on wings made of feathers and wax.
Politically, at least, Trudeau concedes that he has grown up "in a very sort of compressed time frame from a simple rookie opposition backbencher to a simple leadership candidate opposition backbencher, I guess," he says with a laugh.
Trudeau, of course, has a large number of fans in the riding. At Marché Janata, grocery store clerk Malik Muhmmad says he is always there when you need him, attending every community event and "always listens to the people."
"Actually, I like him, because my English is not good, that is why I cannot explain to you good. I want to say many things about him: I appreciate him and I want to elect him prime minister of Canada," Muhmmad says from behind the counter of his brother's crammed shop. "I trust him not 100 per cent but 200 per cent," he adds.
Deros thinks Trudeau has more work to do to look and sound prime ministerial. "I am hoping that the people around him will make him more polish. He is not the top top, but he is the best that we have."
"You can't help but like him," she says with a bright smile. "What's the right word?" she says, pausing.
"He has seduced us."
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What is more exciting than still pictures, star sound bites and story details from the set of 'Fast and Furious 7'? How about some videos from the stars of the film Vin Diesel and Ludacris?
Staying in touch with fans is becoming an increasing part of 'Fast and Furious' stars' jobs and since shooting started only this month, the stars have not disappointed so far. With set photos being released of funeral scenes, Kurt Russell on set and lots of stern faces suggesting a moody tone to 'Fast and Furious 7', it is nice to see the other side of the story with the stars eager to reach out to fans and give them a sneak peek of the latest film in the series.
Vin Diesel
The man himself Vin Diesel released a video showing just how incredulous he is to be on the set of the seventh film of the series and how thankful he is to the support of 'Fast and Furious' fans for sticking with the franchise and making it bigger and better with every recent entry. From the lake location in Atlanta that fans will be familiar with from the first official still, Diesel states that they are shooting the first scenes of the production and thanks fans for their support and 'for being the best fans in Hollywood'.
On his Instagram account, Ludacris has also released a somewhat less refined but equally tantalising video from the set of 'Fast and Furious 7'. Splitting the screen in two, Ludacris may not appear in the video but he sneakily films some of the vehicles lined up to appear in the latest film. It might only be a quick trawl through the automotive armoury of the film but eager eyed fans will be able to catch quick glimpses of some very impressive looking vehicles before Ludacris conforms the location of the video by showing a 'Fast and Furious 7' director's chair.
Previous videos
These are just the latest two video released by the stars on the set of 'Fast and Furious 7'. Previously both Ludacris and Tyrese Gibson had posted videos to their Instagram accounts confirming the status of the film as very much in production and their own presences on set. It all goes to show very clearly that the stars of the 'Fast and Furious' franchise really do appreciate their fans and wish to keep this connection alive and well even between the releases of the films. Expect plenty more in the way of videos and stills before 'Fast and Furious 7' is released in July 2014.
Do you enjoy these videos from the set or would you rather the stars just got on with getting this film out as quickly as possible?
Pete is a cautious fan of the Fast and Furious films; enjoying the fast cars and furious fights but not so keen on the cheesy dialogue. However he's not going to be telling Vin Diesel that last bit any time in a hurry…
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There's adventure. There's love. There are baby Kevins. There are also many, many great friendships in the movie Up. Some of maybe the greatest friendships ever. They span generations and species. They defy gravity and biology (read: Dug, the talking dog). So let's whip on some goggles and take a gander at some of our favorite friend moments from Up:
Carl and Ellie: The Handshake
There's a point in every friendship where we take a chance and say "welcome aboard," and you invite someone into your life. We just hope it always happens while wearing goggles.
Dug: Best. Greeting. Ever.
"I have just met you, and I love you." Friendship gold.
Russell and Kevin: Hanging Out
Is there any other way?
Carl and Ellie: Encouragement
Friends sometimes need a nudge in the right direction.
Kevin and Carl: Sincerest Flattery
Take it as a compliment when your friends imitate you. We're sure that's Kevin's intent here.
Carl and Russell: Snack Time
Food is an integral part of friendships. And eating ice cream while counting cars with the Spirit of Adventure overhead might be the best way to spend an afternoon.
Carl and Ellie: The Ellie Badge
The highest honor any friend could receive.
Carl and Russell: The Ellie Badge
Cue the tears. We're not sure any friendship moment can surpass this one.
Carl and Dug: Joy
All friendship reunions should be like this. The longer we look at this GIF, the more we love Carl and Dug. All we want is to be their friends.


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When it comes to Social Media, of all the things I find that clients are apprehensive about, Twitter is probably the most intimidating. Maybe it's because it has its own vernacular, or because it is so often referenced in the news.
Twitter can be a world wide megaphone. So, for those who take special care with their words, it can seem daunting. Once your words are out there, they can be seen by millions. But Twitter is more than a quick way of disseminating information. It can also be a method to learn clear concise writing.
No really. Twitter allows the writer to comment about What's Happening in 140 characters or less, including spaces. While some take the opportunity to use awkward abbreviations and word choices, others have taken to the format with literary aspirations.
I can validly say that Twitter has made me a better writer. When it comes down to it, Twitter requires using writer's best practices such as avoiding unnecessary words, using descriptive verbs, and not burying the lead. Twitter has made me learn to use effective language that gets to the point fast.
As a rule, I avoid using abbreviations, and cutting corners with punctuation. (I will however use standard Twitter codes such as RT, and #FF.) It becomes a challenge, a game against myself to see if I can do it. Also, since most Tweets include an abbreviated link that takes up 20 characters, it means I have even less space to get my message out. Repeating this practice over and over has bled into my blog writing and journalism work.
So give yourself the challenge of using Twitter as a tool to learn concise writing. You might be surprised what you can convey in 140 characters or in this case, just over 300 words.


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Pausing and Resuming Threads
The most common ways to synchronize the activities of threads are to block and release threads, or to lock objects or regions of code. For more information on these locking and blocking mechanisms, see Overview of Synchronization Primitives.
You can also have threads put themselves to sleep. When threads are blocked or sleeping, you can use a ThreadInterruptedException to break them out of their wait states.
The Thread.Sleep Method
Calling the System.Threading.Thread.Sleep method causes the current thread to immediately block for the number of milliseconds you pass to System.Threading.Thread.Sleep, yielding the remainder of its time slice to another thread. One thread cannot call System.Threading.Thread.Sleep on another thread.
Calling System.Threading.Thread.Sleep with System.Threading.Timeout.Infinite causes a thread to sleep until it is interrupted by another thread that calls System.Threading.Thread.Interrupt, or until it is terminated by System.Threading.Thread.Abort.
Interrupting Threads
You can interrupt a waiting thread by calling System.Threading.Thread.Interrupt on the blocked thread to throw a ThreadInterruptedException, which breaks the thread out of the blocking call. The thread should catch the ThreadInterruptedException and do whatever is appropriate to continue working. If the thread ignores the exception, the runtime catches the exception and stops the thread.
If the target thread is not blocked when System.Threading.Thread.Interrupt is called, the thread is not interrupted until it blocks. If the thread never blocks, it could complete without ever being interrupted.
If a wait is a managed wait, then System.Threading.Thread.Interrupt and System.Threading.Thread.Abort both wake the thread immediately. If a wait is an unmanaged wait (for example, a platform invoke call to the Win32 WaitForSingleObject function), neither System.Threading.Thread.Interrupt nor System.Threading.Thread.Abort can take control of the thread until it returns to or calls into managed code. In managed code, the behavior is as follows:
System.Threading.Thread.Interrupt wakes a thread out of any wait it might be in and causes a ThreadInterruptedException to be thrown in the destination thread.
System.Threading.Thread.Abort is similar to System.Threading.Thread.Interrupt, except that it causes a ThreadAbortException to be thrown on the thread. For details, see Destroying Threads.
Suspend and Resume (Obsolete)
In the .NET Framework version 2.0, the System.Threading.Thread.Suspend and System.Threading.Thread.Resume methods are marked obsolete and will be removed in a future release.
You can also pause a thread by calling System.Threading.Thread.Suspend. When a thread calls System.Threading.Thread.Suspend on itself, the call blocks until the thread is resumed by another thread. When one thread calls System.Threading.Thread.Suspend on another thread, the call is a non-blocking call that causes the other thread to pause. Calling System.Threading.Thread.Resume breaks another thread out of the suspend state and causes the thread to resume execution, regardless of how many times System.Threading.Thread.Suspend was called. For example, if you call System.Threading.Thread.Suspend five consecutive times and then call System.Threading.Thread.Resume, the thread resumes execution immediately following the call to System.Threading.Thread.Resume.
Unlike System.Threading.Thread.Sleep, System.Threading.Thread.Suspend does not cause a thread to immediately stop execution. The common language runtime must wait until the thread has reached a safe point before it can suspend the thread. A thread cannot be suspended if it has not been started or if it has stopped. For details on safe points, see Thread.Suspend, Garbage Collection, and Safe Points.
The System.Threading.Thread.Suspend and System.Threading.Thread.Resume methods are not generally useful for applications and should not be confused with synchronization mechanisms. Because System.Threading.Thread.Suspend and System.Threading.Thread.Resume do not rely on the cooperation of the thread being controlled, they are highly intrusive and can result in serious application problems like deadlocks (for example, if you suspend a thread that holds a resource that another thread will need).
Some applications do need to control the priority of threads for better performance. To do this, you should use the Priority property rather than System.Threading.Thread.Suspend.


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Me and my guide (Hang) off to Mai Chau
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We set off at 8 and headed out through the mopeds towards the edge of Hanoi. It took nearly an hour before we hit the real countryside. Soon the hills started to get bigger and more and more old women were working in the fields with hand tools, digging, reaping and sowing the rice. We stopped at a village market to stretch our legs and have a look around. We bought a big bag of mandarins from the lady in the picture, a huge bag for 40p
After about 3 1/2 hours we were at the top of the mountain pass and way below us in a flat plain surrounded by the hills was Mai Chau. Mai Chau is a district containing a town and some small villages. We passed through the main town of Mai Chau to Lac, which means a small village in the fields.
The people in this area are of Thai Den (Black Thai) decent and in addition to speaking Vietnamese they also have their own language.
After a lovely lunch of local style food, rice, fried vegetables, fried pork, fried chicken, cucumber and mandarins we set off for a walk to the next village to visit Hang's friend Xuan. We had some tea (which is served very strong) and a big plate of cucumber which tastes nicer than that found in England. So nice in fact that Hang finished the whole plate full. She is only 43kgs but she can sure eat a lot. We then headed on further and sat on the edge of a dam and watched the daily life. Men were in the fields catching crickets which they eat fried. A lady passed by carrying a basket of water lilies which are used for feeding the pigs. At 5pm everyone in the fields finished work and headed home across the dam to their village.
Again some great food, although despite loving Asian food I think even I would get bored of rice meat and veg after a while. Later the Grandfather of the house who is 83 made up my room, he hangs some sheets from the beams for walls, lays my futon on the floor and puts mosquito net over the bed. It is soon time for bed, this area rises with the sun and goes to bed equally early.


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Ryanair is a low-cost airline, and likes to remind passengers of this whenever they expect fancy frills such as airports that are where it says they are and a voice at the end of the telephone line when things go wrong.
One luxury Ryanair has dispensed with is an email address or even a web link for passengers with problems or queries. Instead, anyone who wants to amend a booking or chase missing paperwork has to ring a national-rate phone number and pay 10p a minute as they hang on indefinitely for an answer.
Michael Coulston is a Shopping reader who has found an innocuous way of helping travellers get in touch with the airline: back in 2003 he registered the domain name ryanair.org.uk as a forum for disgruntled passengers and on it he publishes three useful email addresses for customer services and reservations. Ryanair, however, sees this as a breach of data protection rules and is threatening to sue Coulston. It is also demanding that he surrender his domain name since it claims it was "abusively" registered.
Coulston did withdraw the email addresses on condition that Ryanair made it possible for customers to email customer services, if only by web form, but the airline refused, so it is back online again along with an archive of articles and complaints about the company.
Ryanair's interest in Coulston's domain name "seems to be solely in order to censor criticism," he says. "If they are successful in their attempt to claim my domain name, customers will be left with no way of finding out how to contact them. I was getting many emails from people who wished to correct mistakes in their bookings or who had not received confirmations, or who simply wanted to ask questions about baggage allowances. All I want is for Ryanair to improve its customer service, and I'm happy to remove sections from the website each time there's evidence that complaints have been responded to fairly."
Naturally I put all this to the airline, which responds baldly: "We will pursue any such abuses of the Ryanair trademark fully." I ask why it is using such heavy-handed tactics, and why it is so reluctant to chat to its customers, but the effort of its previous statement has exhausted it and I hear no more.
You can rue it if you B&Q it
Once upon a time (nine months ago to be exact) Karen Short ordered a new kitchen from B&Q. A delivery date was agreed for February, but one day in December her partner was startled by a call announcing that the units would arrive the following day. He explained the mistake and all went quiet until early February, when B&Q's warehouse burnt down with the couple's kitchen inside.
The store was desolate and offered compensation, and a new delivery date was fixed for the end of March. Although Short re-confirmed the arrangement the week before, no one turned up, and when Short rang to ask why, she was told that she had had her kitchen back in December, the day after the mistaken phone call. Apparently the system showed that the delivery had been made, and the system is impossible to override.
None the less, a customer services representative finally agreed to take on the computer and, by dint of prodding numerous buttons, produced 17 carcasses, which turned up without warning on Short's doorstep one day. This miracle achieved, all went silent and Short and her carcasses were left stranded until an amiable lady rang to ask how the installation had gone.
She promised phone calls that never came, April melted in to May and June, and Short is no nearer the end of her adventure.
Amazingly, once the Guardian interferes Short is told she is in the care of the chief executive and within a few weeks installers have been magicked up. "We are very sorry for the delays and frustrations experienced by Ms Short, which have been as a result of communication errors on our part," says a spokeswoman, who says the store will discuss further compensation.
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Spring Pea Soup with Bacon Croutons
This fast, fresh-tasting soup is greatly enhanced with a few bacon fat–gilded croutons. If you don't save your bacon fat for cooking, butter works as well, especially if you season the finished soup with a smoked salt. If a slightly more indulgent soup is in order, substitute crème fraîche for the yogurt.
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- Servings: 4
- 2 cups chopped yellow onion
- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- Salt
- 4 cups water
- One 16-ounce bag frozen peas
- 2 to 3 thick slices of fresh bread, cut into 3/4-inch cubes (about 2 cups)
- 1 tablespoon rendered bacon fat (or butter), melted
- 1/4 cup low-fat yogurt
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon minced mint leaves
How to make this recipe
Preheat the oven to 400°. In an enameled cast-iron casserole, combine the onion and olive oil, season with salt and cook over moderately high heat until the onion is soft, 8 to 10 minutes. Add the water and peas and bring to a boil. Cover and simmer over moderately low heat for about 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, spread the bread cubes in a single layer on a baking sheet and bake for 6 minutes, until they just begin to brown. Drizzle the toasted cubes with the melted bacon fat or butter and toss to coat. Return the bread to the oven and bake for 6 minutes longer, until golden brown and crunchy. Set aside.
Using an immersion blender, puree the soup until completely smooth. Alternatively, transfer the soup to a blender and puree, then return to the pot; keep warm over very low heat.
In a small bowl, combine the yogurt with 1/4 cup of the pureed soup. Whisk until smooth. Add another 1/4 cup of the soup and whisk again. Whisk the pea soup–yogurt mixture into the rest of the soup and season with salt and pepper. Ladle the soup into bowls, garnish with mint and bacon croutons and serve immediately.
One serving: 224 cal, 8 gm fat, 2.8 gm sat fat, 32 gm carb, 6 gm fiber, 8 gm protein. Tip: Top with a dollop of Greek yogurt and eat chilled for lunch the next day. Tip: Double the crouton recipe and use on salads throughout the week. Tip: Make toasts grilled in a little bacon fat and spread with any leftover cooked peas smashed with herbs and a bit of ricotta or goat cheese.


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All you fantasy football champions that won your league last week and are just reading my blog for fun, congratulations on a game well played, my friends! For all you guys visiting my blog to get the latest scoop on any Chargers you have on your bench, it's been a long season. The good news is the Chargers will probably not be resting any of their key starters in preparation for playoffs. In addition, they have a great contest against their hated rivals, The Oakland Raiders. With pride (and possibly jobs) at stake, this could turn out to be a game with BIG fantasy implications.
Antonio Gates will finally get a solid start em' from me. Gates has a nice matchup where the Raiders are top 10 in allowing fantasy points to opposing tight ends. Gates has certainly performed better in the last couple games. It's a shame that it only took 14 weeks for him to break out. Ah, but that's the past. Focusing on the present, Gates has managed to get fantasy owners about 9 points a game. Against the Raiders, it's safe to say that he'll produce for fantasy owners. Gates' estimated 9-10 points is a long way from the 3-4 points that owners were typically getting this season. I say start Gates in week 17.
Danario Alexander was the player we have all grown to rely on to get us a win. In week 16, Alexander lit up the woeful Jets for 69 yards and a touchdown. Alexander is still Rivers' most reliable target and should continue to see the same action against the Raiders. There's a reason why Alexander is continuously getting a start em' in my book. It's because he's the best player on the team.
Chargers defense has a very favorable match up this week. I'm not putting them in my top five this week but their match up is favorable enough to get a start.The Raiders are coming off a Carolina loss in week 16 where they were limited to only 6 points. However, if you want to gamble on getting extra fantasy defense points, see if you can get your hands on the Steeler's Defense. The Steelers are another team with something to prove and beating up on a 3 win, but spunky Cleveland Browns may just be what the doctor ordered for the NFL's top rated defense. Some may call the Steelers old, but I prefer to call them sleepers. And expect these sleepers to wake up angry after being eliminated from the playoff picture. The blue collar crew will be facing a banged up and perhaps limited Trent Richardson and likely the debut of Browns' third string quarterback, Thad Lewis. This has tasty match up written all over it, so pull up a chair and dig in.
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Jeanie...I was thinking if your quilt while making breakfast this morning and thought a dark blue would be nice and then....it appeared! The fusion has a play of shades too so it's just perfect.
Mirabelle....I understand your sad moment. I too am ready to show my block and vote for having Anael as first viewer. We would have to send it by regular email. BTW, our anniversay is March 3 but it's only 3 years.
OK...have fun at the state meeting. There are always old friends and lots if "cow" talk. You have a very busy and interesting life. Never a dull moment.
QuiltE...I've never seen more than one pineapple per block but if you want to get creative, have at it.
Anael...thanks for the heads up about the 6 inch in Sylvia. I'll check it out. I started Sylvia when I started the FWS and did the blocks that were duplicates. I think about 20. Both are in the UFO stage. They are moving up so maybe this year.
Carrie...have fun at the tourney and good luck to the youngsters.


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CVS Green Tag
In addition to CVS' customer card, they offer a green tag for 99 cents. Use the green tag every time you buy at CVS [once per day max] and you will get 25 cents instead of a plastic bag. After four transactions, you will get a $1 CVS extra buck. I bought my green tag several months ago and it has saved me lots of money.
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Do you mean they give you a quarter instead of putting your things in a plastic bag? So you should bring along reusable bags?
They are building a CVS a couple of blocks from us, CVS is fairly new to our area. I'm trying to figure out how to use their offers to my best advantage. Any suggestions will be welcome!06-26-2012, 08:38 PM #3
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If you have a canvas tote bag or any reuseable bag, just slip the CVS green tag on it and carry it with you when you go to CVS. Everytime you purchase something from CVS, they will scan that green tag and place the item(s) in your reuseable bag. After you make 4 seperate purchases using a reuseable bag with the tag from CVS, a $1 Extra Care Buck will print from the register at the end of your receipt. You can use it next time you shop.~*Michelle*~~Wife to Rick since Dec. 19, 1986~~Mother to Richard, 27, Chris, 24, and Dakota, 21~~Special Education Teacher~Sponsored Links Remove Advertisements06-29-2012, 05:33 PM #4
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Thanks, now I have a better idea of what this green tag thing is. I'm looking forward to seeing how well the deals work at CVS.07-13-2012, 04:05 PM #5
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The green tag is GREAT.....I got one a few months ago and according to the records I used it 105 times so far...so that means I spent .99 for the tag and they have given me $26 ECB's so far! How can you go wrong??????
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Trail of vandalism
Vandals in Stratford on Friday night and early Saturday morning left a trial of destruction in their wake.
A rock was thrown through a window at a home on Pembroke Road, a vehicle on Celia Street dented and a rock thrown through the window of a car parked outside a home on Regan Street. Rocks were thrown through two windows of a house on Cassandra Street. In other incidents the same night petrol was stolen from a vehicle on Hamlet Street and on Orlando Street a pet rabbit was discovered killed.
Broken toe suspected
Apart from a suspected broken toe no one was seriously injured when two vehicles last Tuesday crashed on the corner of Broadway and Romeo St in Stratford.
Bike stolen
Police are seeking information on a small to medium-sized orange mountain pushbike stolen from a London Street home in Eltham overnight last Monday/Tuesday.
The MOTO bike, valued at $300, was allegedly left on the porch for the night.
Teenagers assaulted
Police arrested a 17 and 19-year-old male from Stratford last Friday after an alleged assault on two 16-year-old boys on Hamlet Street, leaving both with a black eye and one with a bruised body and bloody nose.
Drink driving
An 18-year-old Eltham female was apprehended for drink driving, blowing 375mcg. She will appear in the Hawera District Court in due course, say police.


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From one section to another, the dancers change into various new costumes, by Adam Kimmel. These creations all look like designer adaptations of thermal underwear, but though they're zanily crumpled or slashed, they can't conceal the dancers' unflagging virtuosity.
I'm not sure there's a real progression, but the dance seems to get more extreme. There's more turning and jumping, with explosive jutting arms. People heave their partners into stretched-out balances and cartwheels. A quartet changes partners several times on the run. The music seems to get denser, and nine dancers are all circling and leaping, and then calming down at last, to cluster at the edge of the stage in what must be exhaustion.
But no, they walk off, and the solo woman returns to do her turning, reaching dance as the others rejoin her. There's a piano playing, and we hear the chorus again, the high voices blending in what might be a prayer.
The idea of multicultural fusion performance has been around for at least two decades now, and Black Grace, which was founded in 1995, exemplifies the aspirations and limitations of the genre. In this program of short pieces and two excerpts from a longer work, the company celebrates Pacific Islanders' identity, a tribal heritage now imprinted with European culture and religious practice, and including jazz and modern dance.
Mainly we sampled a modified Samoan male dancing style — beefy, wide-stanced stomps and body slaps, virile acrobatics, and rhythmic singing — and a more restrained, bouncy, swishy women's style. All the short pieces were arranged for simple clusters of dancers with changing sequences of repeated movements.
Ieremia's Gathering Clouds is a nationalistic narrative asserting the beauty and faith of Pacific Island people, though the selections seemed to make these points with the same movement ideas as in the shorter numbers. One section used some of Bach's Goldberg Variations as a "sound garden," according to the program note. Some technical glitch prevented the showing of a video that might have given a stronger context to the work. When the men began running and sliding to the floor, all I could think of was Paul Taylor's Esplanade, which is also set to Bach.
The official opening of the Paramount will take place in the fall, but Emerson College, which has converted the old movie house into a new performing-arts center and residence, is hosting several performances this spring. (Tim Rushton's Danish Dance Theater from Copenhagen will be here April 27-28.) In addition to the 600-seat mainstage, the complex houses a black-box theater, studios and practice rooms, a sound stage for the use of film students, and state-of-the-art backstage facilities.
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Discuss with your peers what is important in your area of research right now.
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Life is constructed of the aspirations that stem from the dreams of humans. Embrace those dreams and just have fun in a forum as peaceful as slumber.
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The subject of this forum to establish our communication as a class. With the help of this site, it can help us open some stuffs that we can't say in person. Thanks!
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By DAVID WILLIAMSON
UNC-CH News Services
CHAPEL HILL -- A gene called ARF attaches to and disables a protein known as MDM2 and in the process helps protect the body against cancer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine researchers have discovered.
The mechanism appears to be one of the most potent natural ways of fighting tumor development, the scientists say. After more research, it might be manipulated to treat cancer more successfully or detect it earlier.
"While this work is not a cure for cancer, it is very important for several reasons," said Dr. Yue Xiong, assistant professor of biochemistry at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. "First, it provides a mechanism by which ARF suppresses tumor growth. It also may explain why a certain genetic locus, or site on a chromosome, is frequently missing in human cancer." A report on the discovery appears in the current (March 20) issue of Cell, a scientific journal. Besides Xiong (pronounced "Jong"), authors are Dr. Yanping Zhang, a postdoctoral fellow at the Lineberger center, and Dr. Wendell G. Yarbrough, assistant professor of surgery.
In human cancers, a gene known as P53 is mutated in about 50 percent of cases, Xiong said. The ARF gene is missing in about 40 percent.
"When activated, both these genes suppress tumors. When they are absent or damaged, we have a much greater chance of developing tumors," he said.
Soon after the body detects damage to DNA that might lead to cancer, normally low levels of P53 skyrocket and halt cell proliferation similar to how a fire extinguisher smothers a blaze, Xiong said. Healthy cells keep P53 in check when it is not needed by degrading it with the MDM2 protein.
"When DNA is damaged, MDM2 must be decreased to allow the protective P53 to increase," he said. "If cells get too much MDM2, that will reduce P53 even in case of damage that might cause cancer."
MDM2, which researchers call a proto-oncogene, is amplified, for example, in almost half of sarcomas, a cancer of bones, blood vessels and other tissues. A proto-oncogene is a gene all humans carry that results in cancer if it is altered in certain ways.
In complicated experiments involving both yeast and human genes, the UNC-CH researchers found the ARF gene physically binds to MDM2 and destroys it.
"When DNA is damaged, ARF degrades MDM2 to allow P53 to accumulate," Xiong said. "However, when ARF is deleted, which happens in about 40 percent of human cancers, it can't stop the MDM2 from degrading P53. Then there's not enough P53 to fight tumors."
On a one-to-10 scale, Yarbrough said he thought the new finding rated a 10. He is interested in the research because he performs surgery on head- and neck-cancer patients.
"The fact that one gene makes two products that control two major tumor suppressers I think has some potentially huge implications for cancer development and possibly future treatments," the surgeon said. "It looks like this is going to evolve into a pretty big deal."
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