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"Exceptionally poor customer service. They refused to honor promo codes that they had put out. They also refused to cancel my order even though it was literally 2 minutes since it had been placed. I Ordered from Camden Grey because they are local. I like to support local businesses. Besides all of the other problems I also ordered from a company in Ohio on the same day. I received there order before Camden grey even packed mine for shipping. The oils were of OK quality as was the essential oils from them. There are others that are of similar or better quality for the same prices. I will buy from another company with better customer service even if i have to pay more.
Edit: I received my recent order from them that I was having trouble with. They did not include the Tee Tree essential oil that I ordered and still charged me for it. They have not responded to me despite 3 attempts at contacting them. Two emails and a voice message. As far as I can tell they just stole that money from me. I will follow up with the police if this is not resolved with Camden Grey shortly. I will update if there are any new developments."
"I have ordered from them numerous times over the years and have always gotten good results with the products. Good, quick service and have never had an issue. I am currently waiting on my most recent order which shipped out 1 day after I placed it and tracking shows it will arrive three days from now!
Not sure about those stating they have had bad experiences with this company, I have had nothing but good products and excellent service with Camden-Grey. I will continue to purchase from them."
"I ordered $700 worth of EOs from Camden Grey. The shipping was rather slow, but that was not a big deal to me. The total weight of all the products I ordered was 64#, they charged me $70 for S/H (that is quite expensive but it was not a big deal because they did tell me it would be that high at checkout).
The problems started when they charged me an extra $40 a few days later for additional S/H, they never invoiced me for it, nor did the tell me in any other way that they were going to charge extra, I had to find out from my bank because the account was overdrawn. I emailed their customer service to see why they charged me extra, several days later I get a reply from Vivian stating that it was for S/H at which point I told her that had not received any notification that I would be charged and I had not agreed to an extra charge. This is when Vivian's horns and tail come out (if you've ever seen Monty Python's "Argument Clinic", multiply that by 1000, ad some crazy insults that only Vivian understands, name calling and a little foul language, and voila you have Vivian), she told me that they had sent an invoice and that it was in their Terms & Conditions that they could charge any amount of extra shipping they wanted to (I read their Terms and Conditions page and they never stated that), all of this of course was mixed with a plethora of abuse. I asked her to send me a copy of the invoice she said they had sent, she just shot back with more and more emails about how they can charge whatever they want, and that she didn't have time to mess with dissatisfied customers, the emails went on forever and I finally just dropped the subject and let them steal the $40 from me, this however did not stop her from sending nasty emails to me.
As for the quality of the oils; most of them were reasonably good quality but two of them seemed watered down a bit, I know EOs vary from place to place but those two were not of acceptable quality.
Live and learn, I will never buy from them again.
If they can't even provide civil customer service on a $700 order, I'd hate to see what you get if you order $30 of EOs. "
"After reading the reviews posted here, I was a little worried abut ordering from this company. Those worries were completely unfounded. I have ordered twice now from them. Both shipments were very, very quick, shipped Fedex, and packaged well beyond my expectations. The pricing is amazing for the product. No inferior quality stuff here. I'm a soap maker, and I think I've found my regular supplier."
"Plain and simple, this company has a no refund, return or cancellation policy. If you still plan on ordering from them you better not make a mistake or be unhappy with the purchase. They will offer you nothing but a snarky unwillingness to help. Horrible, very unprofessional lines of communication. I ordered something for 12 dollars , and was basically made to spend 20 to even get my order. On top of that shipping was over 10 dollars. The story goes on but I ended up filing a case with them on paypal. Horrible company would advise against ordering from them!! PLEASE WRITE A REVIEW IF YOU UNFORTUNATELY DO END UP ORDERING FROM THEM as it most likely will be negative. Help save someone from making a mistake."
"Do not order from this company! I ordered annatto seed powder. I opened the bag to store part of the product in a reusable plastic container and left the other part in the bag and resealed it. About 1 week later, both the container and the bag was filled with small, strange looking bugs! I didnt' know what they were at first, so I started messing around with the strange specs. They started to move! They looked like some sort of roly poly bug. They burrowed and made holes all throughout the powder! These people never return phone calls! They don't care about you or your satisfaction. Trust me!"
"First time customer of this company. I wish I read the reviews before ordering. I am EXTREMELY disappointed in the product that I ordered and they will do nothing about it. They will not even consider that maybe this product is incorrect. It has a HINT of what I ordered, but seems VERY diluted with something terrible. I would NEVER use this in my products or for ANY reason. The smell is awful. Is this due to the plastic bottles they package in? I've never seen anything other than glass or aluminum.
No returns? No standing behind their product? No replacement?
How can a company be in business when they are not interested in satisfying their customers in ANY way? It kind of makes you wonder about a company that puts very direct instructions on an answering machine that are not service friendly. They clearly avoid speaking directly to customers, must be because they have a product they don't stand behind. Terrible integrity.
Camden-Grey Essential Oils will not remain in business long at this rate."
"Please do not waste your money on Camden Grey essential oils. I bought a 16$ 1/8 ounce bottle of rose otto and it was a nauseating smelling liquid. Rose is one of the most known, used and easily recognized smells. If you have ever bought rose absolute or otto, you know it is a warm and heavenly scent. Also it is a very expensive oil. Camden Grey does not care what the customer needs wants or anything.They will not refund me or give me credit. I would suggest New Directions Aromatics or Mountain Rose to buy supplies from. I wish I had read all the horrible reviews of Camden Grey before wasting my time and money. Just want to help others who buy these kind of products online."
"I've ordered from Camdey-Grey quite a few times and have had good experiences all times. They are a little slow on responding to emails and it is frustrating that products go "out of stock" for long periods of time, but other than that, their prices are very reasonable and a great place to go for purchasing the more expensive and exotic essential oils."
"Camden Gray offered me very poor customer service on the last two orders I placed for essential oils and lye. (I'm a 10 year cold process soap maker). I had a problem with $40.00 in bonus rebates that were not applied to my account. At no time could I speak directly with a customer service representative about my issue. It sometimes took 3 or 4 days for a reply. I will not do business with them in the future."
"I have been purchasing from Camden Grey for years. I have always received quality products and good service."
"I placed an order with the Camden-Grey Company (have ordered a few times in the past) and was sent an email invoice. A few days later I noticed an additional charge on my credit card from the company for approximately $12. I contacted them, asking what the charge was for, and asked them to let me know within 48 hours. Customer service was EXTREMELY RUDE! The charge was evidently for extra shipping charges, which they assigned after the order was shipped. Not a big deal for the charges, but Elisa in customer service sent such rude emails that I would NEVER order from them again."
"I purchase many products from Camden-Grey and never got less than the best. Items have always been as described. Customer service gets back to me quickly with answers to questions and they have always been polite to me. It seems like the other person reviewing CG probably was not telling us the whole story.
Every EO has been true and most of the FOs are true. Every once in awhile I get a FO that I don't care for but that happens with every company I order from. And, so far, even if I hate it, there is a customer of mine who loves it. (I suppose this has to do with us all being unique).
Anyway, I assume if you are reading THIS review, you have also read the bad reviews and since you can't take my or their word for anything, you would just have to try CG for yourself. I recommend with ANY NEW STORE, purchase in small quantity to begin with. Let them win you over from your own personal experience. "
"CamdenGrey sells items they don't have in stock (was trying to purchase a scale).
Customer service is very rude, here's the last email I received from Vivian Valdes:
"As I indicated earlier, Your Highness, this matter is now closed.""
"I purchased a fragrance oil from this company that was purported to be Grapefruit Ginger. Shipping took three weeks, and the oil I received was not even remotely close to being the correct product. However, the co-owner Vivian refused to correct the situation, often ignoring my messages for weeks at a time.
It took 4 months for me to get a refund of the product, and this is after going so far as to mail back a sample of the incorrect fragrance oil that was sold to me. The only way I finally got a response was by threatening to contact the Better Business Bureau and to post negative reviews like this one online. The response I got was shockingly rude!
"We're shaking in our sandals! You must have lots of free time on your hands to be able to "embark on a personal campaign". Good for you!
We will refund your item's purchase price and expect to never hear from you again. Please do not visit our site or purchase from us in the future.
We don't have time for the nonsense of 'The oil doesn't smell like citrus or ginger, it just smells floral'. We're very clear on our site about all sales being final and no returns. That's the reply I should have given you when you started this whole thing."
Imagine, a company that sells essential oil and fragrance oil not caring that their product doesn't smell like what it is supposed to smell like! That is absurd. This is a terrible company that I would never order from again."


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This large retail park in Speke offers a good range of stores and facilities. Shops here include Currys, Mothercare & Early Learning Centre, HMV, Smyths (toys), Harveys, River Island, Clinton Cards, New Look, M&S, Next, Carphone Warehouse, Boots, Clarks, Comet, Laura Ashley, B&Q, Argos, Halfords, CSL, Pets at Home, Mamas & Papas, and DFS.
Facilities at New Mersey Shopping Park include restaurants such as Pizza Hut and McDonald's, free car parking for almost 2,000 vehicles, and toilets (in store). All shops are open 7 days a week. Opening times vary by store.
The shopping park, also known as Speke Retail Park, is situated on the A561, close to Liverpool John Lennon Airport. Visitors using satellite navigation systems should note that the postcode for the New Mersey Shopping Park is L24 8QB.
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Dear Dr. White:
I am only 37 years old, too young to be diagnosed with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), but that's what the doctor told me yesterday. I thought it was asthma because my symptoms are almost exactly like my husband and 9-year-old son, both of whom have asthma. COPD happens to old people, doesn't it? I have only smoked for 20 years. I presently manage a restaurant and just can't be coughing like this. I know I should quit smoking and I am going to try, but COPD? Help!
C.G., Chevy Chase, MD
Dear C.G.:
Smoking-related chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD) can cause a constellation of symptoms very similar to asthma, including cough, wheeze, increased airway mucus production, and shortness of breath. Both disorders are characterized by blockage of the airways, but in asthma the blockage is intermittent and reversible, while in COPD the blockage is fixed.
Although the symptoms are similar, the underlying problems are different. Smoking causes progressive damage to the airway tissue that is irreversible, leading to trapping of air in the lungs and/or increased mucus that plugs the airways, causing cough and shortness of breath, and setting the stage for pulmonary infections such as bronchitis or pneumonia.
The risk of developing COPD is determined not only by how long a person smokes, but also by how heavily they smoke and how "strong" the cigarettes are. Thus, a person smoking one pack of cigarettes per day for 20 years is at the same risk as a person smoking two packs of cigarettes a year for 10 years or four packs a day for five years. The younger a person is when they start smoking, especially if they smoke during or before adolescence, the more likely they are to develop COPD. Continued smoking can lead to progressively more debilitating COPD; however, the good news is that if you stop smoking, you can prevent further damage to the lungs.
There are medications, some of which are now available over-the-counter, which may help individuals to quit; however, there's nothing to substitute for good old-fashioned determination in smoking cessation. Please be aware, though, that some people temporarily feel a little worse right after they stop smoking. Don't let that discourage you.
For people with severe COPD, there are pulmonary rehabilitation programs that can help. These are often located at hospitals and usually involve a time-intensive initial phase, followed by long-term follow-up sessions. You didn't say how severe your COPD was, but it's usually pretty mild at your age, so now is definitely the time to throw away the cigarettes before things get worse. Good luck — you've already taken the first step by trying to learn about COPD.
Martha White, MD, is director of research at the Institute for Asthma and Allergy in Wheaton, MD and medical editor of The MA Report.
First published: The MA Report, September 2003
Reviewed: February 2009


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Naxxramas gone from Plaguelands in 3.0.2
The whole of the Eastern Plaguelands has already changed, in fact. When you open your map, you can already see Archerus looming ominously over Light's Hope chapel and the remains of the Scarlet Crusade's holdings in Eastern Plaguelands. As a result, the entire map has shifted, but I still combed the Plaguewoods looking for the entrance to Naxxramas.
Due to the map shifting, the old locations for Naxxramas are rather off. At the original location coordinates for Naxxramas stands one of the old ruined villages that dot the area. The area where Naxxramas used to be relative to that Scourge ziggurat on the map is now marked by a plague cauldron. Regardless, It looks like the entrance is gone. Come 3.0, it looks like Naxxramas will have retreated to Northrend, and we'll have to bide our time before we can follow it.
So if you've been waiting on getting those last few splinters, or you've been thinking about picking up a Corrupted Ashbringer or what have you, you'd better get on it fast. When the 3.0 leaves the PTR and goes to live servers, 40-man Naxxramas will be gone indefinitely.
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Campbell has boosted the LNP, says Brandis
PUBLISHED: 06 Apr 2011 10:42:49 | UPDATED: 06 Apr 2011 10:48:19PRINT EDITION: 06 Apr 2011
Campbell Newman. Photo: Glen Hunt
Campbell Newman's elevation to Queensland opposition leader has given the party a huge morale boost, opposition senator George Brandis says.
Senator Brandis says the mood in the Liberal National Party is full of optimism after the former Brisbane lord mayor was anointed to lead the party to the next election.
He says the number of candidates vying for preselection to run for the party is the proof.
"There are very competitive preselections going on for marginal Labor seats," he told the ABC on Wednesday.
He said a preselection for the Gold Coast-based seat of Burleigh, to be held on Wednesday night, involved up to a dozen candidates.
"When you have lots of candidates putting up their hands it's a sign a party has its tail up," he said.
Senator Brandis said public opinion polls showed Mr Newman was very likely to beat Labor Premier Anna Bligh.
Mr Newman is leading the LNP to the election but cannot take part in the parliament until he wins a seat.
On Tuesday, Scenic Rim mayor John Brent said he would follow Mr Newman into state politics, and seek LNP preselection for the seat of Beaudesert.
Senator Brandis dismissed speculation that Mr Brent had designs on the deputy leadership.
"I just think that's conjecture," Senator Brandis said.
He said Mr Brent was "a very considerable figure" as Scenic Rim mayor and he'd be a great asset to the LNP team.
Mr Brent has denied rumours he has been offered the deputy leadership, but would not rule out seeking the job if his colleagues supported him.
Federal Trade Minister Craig Emerson said Labor faced the traditional problems associated with long-term incumbency.
"Anyone in the position of premier of Queensland, or any other state, should rightly believe there is a real contest on, no matter what state that premier leads," he told the ABC.
He said the general rule was that the longer a party had held power, the more enticing the prospect of change seemed.
But he said as long as a party was regenerating, that could be managed.
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Police violence against protesters adds fuel to poisoned
medicine scandal
US government plans to extradite Noriega to France,
ex-dictator's lawyers will fight it Beatings of protesters bring DEG scandal back to center stage by Eric Jackson Violent incident leads to storm of criticism A July 19 incident in which members the presidential guard (SPI, or Institutional Protection Service) beat and kicked family members of those died from toxic cough syrup distributed by the government as well as some ailing survivors of the mass poisoning has re-ignited passions in a long-running political scandal. The incident took place when a group of about 60 protesters gathered at Plaza Catedral, not far from the presidential palace, to express their concerns about a court decision releasing legal representatives from a chemical wholesale company from jail and the cutoff of government financial assistance to the victims. The protesters demanded to talk with the president. Instead the government sent the vice minister of the presidency to talk with the families and this being taken as an insulting blow-off, the crowd moved toward the presidential palace's police perimeter. An order was given and the SPI charged, clubbing, kicking and punching protesters. Two protest leaders were arrested for disrespecting a law enforcement officer, but as this offense had been decriminalized several years ago they were released from custody after a few hours. Two protesters were hospitalized due to the beatings they suffered. After an initial presidential declaration condemning the protesters for attacking the presidential guards --- a claim not supported by the videos shown on the PRD-aligned Telemetro television network or in the still photos published by the PRD-aligned La Prensa newspaper --- President Torrijos appointed a commission composed of his legal adviser José Pío Castillero and SPI officers Omar Alvarado and Marcelino Ibarguen to conduct an investigation and report back within 15 days. The latter two men's boss, SPI director José Gómez, was present at the incident. The president then took off on a foreign vacation to destinations unannounced, although it later turned out that one of his stops was in Nicaragua, where along with Venezuela President Hugo Chávez and other dignitaries he celebrated the anniversary of the Sandinista revolution with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. Torrijos has not been available to answer questions about the incident, even from reporters for news organizations aligned with his political party. In the president's absence the initial sketchy reports began to be fleshed out and a wave of criticism grew. It turns out that Beatriz Villar, a DEG survivor fitted with a catheter as part of her medical treatment and one of the hospitalized protesters, had that instrument smashed by the clubbing she took. Scenes of a SPI officer standing with his boot on a young protester's neck elicited unpleasant old memories. Old allegations of José Gómez's involvement in prison beatings, and the fact that he had been part of Noriega's Panama Defense Forces, were aired in El Panama America. Two would-be opposition presidential candidates weighed in. In El Panama America Cambio Democratico leader Ricardo Martinelli called the president's vacation during the crisis "a sign of cowardice" and predicted that the Gómez investigation would find that "no functionary gave the order for the repressive forces to beat these people." In a statement sent to The Panama News and others Vanguardia Moral leader Guillermo Endara rhetorically asked whether the beatings mean a return to the repression of the Noriega era and criticized the presidents "predictable reactions." "Instead of acting like a man and assuming the responsibility that he has as president of the republic and facing up to the unjustified beatings of defenseless persons, among them sick people fighting for their lives, Mr. Torrijos once again named a useless and complacent COMMISSION." Former President Endara blasted the current administration for showing little interest in holding those in high places responsible for their parts in the DEG tragedy, and this opinion was echoed in a statement by Panama Center for Human Rights Research and Legal Aid (CIDHS) leaders Otilia de Koster and Juan Lombardi T. In addition to the beatings, Koster and Lombardi noted "the scant interest in finding the truly guilty administrators (in the Ministry of Health of Panama) who allegedly hide under the government's protection." La Prensa, which is aligned with the ruling Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), blamed the protesters for starting a riot. However, the new national ombudsman, Ricardo Vargas, himself a PRD stalwart, told that daily that the SPI's conduct was "unacceptable." The administration's man in charge of the assistance to the DEG victims that had been cut off, Juan Antonio Tejada, told La Prensa that "evidently there was an excess use of police force." Long-running crisis Almost exactly a year ago, doctors, nurses and pharmacists in Panama's public health care system began to notice a strange series of deaths and illnesses, mostly involving kidney failure, and brought the matter to the management's attention. It wasn't until October that the Social Security Fund and Ministry of Health said anything to the public and declared an emergency. It turned out that the patients had been poisoned by cough syrup mixed in a government lab using Chinese-made diethylene glycol (DEG) that had been mislabeled as glycerin. DEG, commonly used as automotive antifreeze, is a deadly toxin. The material had been marked "TD glycerin" (imitation glycerin) by its Chinese manufacturer, was sold by a Chinese wholesaler to a Spanish wholesaler as medical grade glycerin, which sold it to a Panamanian wholesaler, which sold it to Seguro Social (CSS). After months in a warehouse, it was mixed into medicines at the decrepit CSS Medicine Lab near the University of Panama, which has since been closed. Somewhere along the chain of distribution, probably at multiple somewheres, the labels on the plastic jugs of DEG were switched to alter expiration dates and misrepresent the material as medical grade glycerin. Neither the CSS nor the wholesalers tested the stuff to verify that it was what it had been represented to be. The CSS not only didn't test the medicines it made for purity and safety, it didn't have the budget or equipment to do so. When the government finally did call an emergency, it was a matter of about a week before, after a false start or two, experts from the US Centers for Disease Control identified the problem. It was found that some 20,000 bottles of DEG-laced sugar-free cough syrup had been distributed and the government called for people to turn them in and sent out investigators to visit patients who had been prescribed the medication and recover the material. Fewer than 3,000 of the bottles of tainted medicine were recovered. President Torrijos initially set up an investigation that had the Ministry of Health and the Social Security Fund managements investigating themselves and their subordinates, but later under a storm of criticism created the Administrative Technical Commission, a broader committee of trusted government loyalists to look into the matter. Meanwhile, the Public Ministry opened a criminal investigation under prosecutor Dimas Guevara and several relatives of those who died filed a series of private criminal charges, most notably against Health Minister Camilo Alleyne and CSS director René Luciani, the latter arguing various theories of the alleged crimes. Rather immediately the Public Ministry and the presidential commission came to different conclusions about many things. Although polls show huge majorities of Panamanians want to see Alleyne and Luciani removed from their posts, the presidential commission found them blameless. The commission also regularly cited numbers of those killed or made ill that were far lower than the prosecutors' figures. The families of many of the victims and some of the ailing survivors organized the Comite de Familiares por el Derecho a la Salud y la Vida (Relatives Committee for the Right to Health and Life), which put the ouster and prosecution of Alleyne and Luciani near the top of its list of demands. In response the ruling Democratic Revolutionary Party found an employee of the Judicial Technical Police (PTJ) whose mother had been sickened by the DEG and set her up as the head of a rival paper organization that defends Alleyne, Luciani and the Torrijos administration. The latter organization has not thrived, except in the pages of La Prensa and other administration-aligned media. As the prosecutors' investigation proceeded a number of people at the CSS lab were arrested, as were the legal representatives of MEDICOM SA, the Panamanian wholesaler who passed the poison on to Seguro Social. (The owner or owners of MEDICOM SA? Under Panamanian corporate secrecy laws this person or these persons is or are anonymous and prosecutors have not been able to pierce the corporate veil.) Later, the current and two previous CSS directors were charged with negligence leading to deaths. The outlines of the tragedy's size slowly expanded, and are still expanding, but early in the investigation the Torrijos administration and the PRD-controlled legislature made a budgetary decision designed to place a cover on the scandal. They had their estimate of some 70-odd people whom they admitted had been affected, that was based on a revisionist history of the crisis that dated back only to September of 2006, even though the public health institutions had been informed that there was a problem in July. They gave the Public Ministry's Institute of Legal Medicine only enough funding to perform the medical tests on about that number of victims. But meanwhile many others came forward to prosecutors with claims that they or their relatives had been poisoned by the tainted cough syrup. The government had announced that compensation would be paid to DEG victims or their survivors, so the Public Ministry, wary of the tendency of all manner of fakers to claim benefits after any notorious tragedy, didn't take the claims at face value. They asked a lot of questions and demanded such proofs as could be shown, and eliminated a bunch of the claims. Those claims that were possibly credible, they referred to the Institute of Legal Medicine for tests. The number of cases to investigate ballooned to more than 300, the great majority from the country's urban areas where it wasn't a significant problem for most people to get to a prosecutor's office and register their complaint. As the Institute of Legal Medicine began exhuming bodies of claimed victims who were not on the Torrijos administration's list of those conceded to have been affected, the first results mostly indicated that the cadavers indeed had residues of DEG. More and more, however, the tests came back negative not necessarily because the deaths were not caused by DEG but because whether this was the case or not too much time had passed and too much chemical decomposition had taken place to positively identify any toxic remains. It's now too late to prove or disprove by toxicology tests whether claims of deaths due to DEG poisoning are accurate. The official death toll --- those proven by forensic medical tests or conceded by the government to have been caused by DEG --- is at 102. The Torrijos administration is holding the line at that number on the list of people who might get compensation. Meanwhile, a group of Ngobe students at the University of Panama complained that in remote communities of the Ngobe-Bugle Comarca there were many deaths and illnesses that went unreported and uncounted because it's just not practical for many in that area of the country to make their way to a prosecutor's office. Investigators from the Public Ministry went out to the comarca and the prosecutors' list of suspected DEG deaths climbed over 600. (How did the poisonous cough syrup get out to the comarca, given that almost nobody there is covered by Seguro Social and the institution barely has a presence the area? First, some of the tainted medicine was distributed by the Ministry of Health, which has a more substantial presence than the CSS in indigenous communities. Second, in a lot of these communities friends and relatives living in the cities bring in supplies, including medicines. And then during the 2006 canal expansion referendum campaign the president and first lady crisscrossed the indigenous comarcas making vitriolic speeches against the "no" campaign, passing out envelopes with $35 in cash, and distributing medicine.) At this point in the criminal investigation, the courts have released all but one of those who were arrested, prosecutors are waiting for counterparts in Spain and China to provide information and take depositions and some of the most obvious questions have apparently not been asked by the Public Ministry: 1. How was it that, although several health care professionals say that they warned people in the CSS and Ministry of Health in July of 2006 that there was an unusual rash of illnesses and deaths, the public was not informed and a health emergency was not declared until October? 2. Did top government officials know that there was a problem but suppress news of it for political considerations? 3. How many people got sick or died because of the delay in informing the public of the problem? Those questions may nevertheless still be part of the Public Ministry's case. We don't know everything that's going on in the case. At the outset Attorney General Ana Matilde Gómez predicted a long and complex investigation and asked the public to be patient as the process unfolded. Although the arrests of two former CSS directors as the international press was gathering here for an OAS summit had the appearance of a staged media show, that was an exception. By and large prosecutors are not trying this case in the press, but only announcing new developments after long processes that the ministry had not publicized. Meanwhile in China... The mass DEG poisoning here is but one part of a broader scandal in China about unsafe food, medicines, toothpastes, pet foods and chemical additives for such products. The Beijing government, which carries out more executions than all other world governments combined, responded by executing the former head of its food and drug safety agency for taking more than $800,000 in bribes to approve products, some of which were unsafe and actually killed people. Chinese authorities have also closed a number of companies implicated in various international scandals, including the Taixing Glycerin Factory that marketed DEG as the "TD glycerin" that found its way into the Panamanian medicine supply. China, however, still maintains that the primary fault for the DEG deaths here rests with Panama, which mixed the deadly chemical into cough syrup without first verifying that it was the harmless glycerin that the people at the CSS Medicine Lab thought it was. Also in this section:
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 7pm at Denver Film Center/Colfax Artist Jay Rosenblatt in person! Jay Rosenblatt of San Francisco is an internationally recognized artist who has been working as an independent filmmaker since 1980. In films both personal in their content and universal in their appeal, Rosenblatt's work explores the emotional and psychological core of human experience. His films have screened at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Sundance Film Festival, among many other venues. Films screening in tonight's program: Afraid So 3 min. The Smell of Burning Ants 21 min. Human Remains 30 min. Phantom Limb 28 min. The D Train 5 min.
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Blair's parting drive to aid Africa
The British prime minister wraps up his farewell tour to Africa this week, ahead of next week's G-8 summit in Germany.
Johannesburg, South Africa
Not so long ago, many in the West hailed British Prime Minister Tony Blair as Africa's new savior: the European leader who shamed other rich countries into helping the impoverished continent he called the "scar on the conscience of the world."
But as he wraps up his final visit to Africa as prime minister this week, Mr. Blair is fighting growing criticism from aid groups and African governments that the Group of Eight (G-8) countries' much-heralded promises of assistance have come to naught.
Blair says the trip will build momentum ahead of next week's G-8 summit in Germany, where he will push for leaders to follow through on promises made in 2005. But it also shows the complexities of the G-8's relationship with this continent, as well as the skepticism with which many Africans view Western interventions.
"His personal leadership did ensure that Africa was high on the G-8's agenda like never before," says Aditi Sharma, head of the HIV-AIDS campaign for the nonprofit group Action Aid. "But now ... with lots of those promises off track, African people are starting to lose their trust."
This week, Blair visited Libya, where he praised improved relations with Muammar Qaddafi, and Sierra Leone, where he pledged $10 million for African Union peacekeepers. In South Africa on Thursday, Blair met with anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, called for tougher action against Sudan over the crisis in Darfur, and emphasized the priority he has given to Africa during his tenure.
In a speech at the University of South Africa, Blair said both the West and Africa faced two possible paths.
"One is chosen by countries like South Africa, Ghana, Tanzania, Mozambique, Botswana and many others, reinforcing economic growth with good governance and the stamping out of violence and corruption," he said. "The other, the path of Zimbabwe or Sudan, where bad government and violent oppression send the country's economy spiraling down. Our choice is to support the good. Africa's challenge is to eliminate the bad."
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Cameron Cotton Drape
Neatly finished on both sides, our unlined Cameron Cotton Drape is a good choice for dressing a window, dividing a room or draping a doorway.
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| January 24, 2014, 1:41 pm
Fox loses bid for rehearing of ad-skipping ruling in Dish Hopper case
Score another win for Dish Network in the battle with broadcasters over the controversial ad-skipping technology that's included in the satellite-TV company's Hopper set-top box.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday denied Fox Broadcasting's request for a rehearing on its request for a preliminary injunction to bar Dish from offering the AutoHop commercial-skipping technology and PrimeTime Anytime, which allows subscribers to automatically record prime time shows.
A lower court previously denied the request and an appeals court panel from the 9th Circuit affirmed the decision last year. Read more…


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I saw THIS fabulous magazine clippings Earth Day Collage at Artsonia and put it on our To-do list for Earth Day this year. I love how ours turned out!
We started with a circle cut out of cardboard (ours was about 10" in diameter), and a rectangle backing for our artwork. You can see in the picture below that I free handed part of the world onto our circle in pencil to help us make our collage.
We also looked through several old magazines that I keep for crafting and tore out pages that had lots of black, green and blue on them.
To start our collage, we tore little pieces of the black colored magazine pages and glued them around our cardboard backing, leaving a circle empty in the middle to put our Earth. It is helpful to trace your circle onto the cardboard backing before starting.
Next we got started on our Earth. I knew getting the blue pieces to line up around the countries would be difficult so I helped my kids with this part and just let them know it didn't need to be perfect. After outlining the countries with the blue torn magazine pages, we added glue in the rest of the water areas and finished putting the water pieces in place. You can see below that my toddler was a big helper.
Here is what ours looked like after we were done with the blue water pieces. We did the same process for adding the green land pieces and finished filling in the Earth.
After adding the green land pieces, I trimmed around the Earth to cut off any pieces that were hanging off the ends, and then we glued it onto our cardboard backing. It looks so cool! My boys found a page that had a bunch of sugar on it and they glued those pieces around to look like star clusters. I love it!
One thing we talked about this year was how big our Earth is and how small our town is when we compare it to the size of the Earth on a map or globe. To go along with this theme and with a book we checked out at the library (I'll show you in a minute), I made this little flag for us to put at our location on the Earth.
These Mini Wooden Sticks that I received from Craftprojectideas.com came in so handy when making my flag. They are so much safer than using toothpicks because they don't have the sharp edges, and they are made out of real wood. They come in this huge pack of 500 so you can accomplish so many different projects with just one package.
My boys helped determine exactly where to put the stick after looking at a globe we have. I poked a little hole in the spot with a small screw driver and after filling it with some school glue, we put the flag in it. I wished we had family or friends that lived in different parts of the World because it would be fun to make lots of little flags to show different locations.
I always enjoy talking about our Earth to my children and all the different kinds of things we can each do every day to try to help out. Books are obviously a fun way to incorporate learning and these are some that we read this year:
I Can Save the Earth by Alison Inches
Cute, cute story! Max is a cute, furry green monster who is an environmental nightmare. Among other things, he leaves on all the lights, keeps his computer plugged in, blasts the TV, hoards his old toys and uses so much toilet paper it clogs the toilet until finally, his excessive ways cause a power outage. With no TV to watch, computer to play on, video games to play with, Max finds there is a whole big world outside that he can make a difference in the environment.
Dora Celebrates Earth Day! by Emily Sollinger
If you have a Dora fan, this is a great Earth Day read. It's Earth Day, and Dora is making a scrapbook filled with tips about what we can all do to help save our planet. My toddler is currently loving Dora so this was a fun book for her.
It's Earth Day! by Mercer Mayer
After watching a film about climate changes at school, Little Critter decides to do his part to slow down global warming to help save the Polar Bears. With the help of his family and friends, Little Critter begins to reduce, reuse, and recycle.
This is Me and Where I Am by Joanne Fitzgerald
This is the book that inspired us to use the little flag in our Earth Day Craft. This is a simple book that helps explain to children where their physical
location is in the world. In the world there is a country. In that country there is a city. In that city there is a neighbourhood. In that neighbourhood there is a street. etc. It opens up lots of discussion for helping kids learn their address, their city, State and Country.


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On the 40th anniversary of the famous 'Blue Marble' photograph taken of Earth from space, Planetary Collective presents a short film documenting astronauts' life-changing stories of seeing the Earth from the outside – a perspective-altering experience often described as the Overview Effect.
The Overview Effect, first described by author Frank White in 1987, is an experience that transforms astronauts' perspective of the planet and mankind's place upon it. Common features of the experience are a feeling of awe for the planet, a profound understanding of the interconnection of all life, and a renewed sense of responsibility for taking care of the environment.
'Overview' is a short film that explores this phenomenon through interviews with five astronauts who have experienced the Overview Effect. The film also features insights from commentators and thinkers on the wider implications and importance of this understanding for society, and our relationship to the environment.
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The Game
Through a grant from PBS KIDS, WFSU was able to present WATER MOVES, an outdoor game involving water and puzzles, to kids in the Tallahassee area.
WATER MOVES, asks children between the ages of 7 and 11 to think about ways water moves within our local environment and society.
The game is set up outdoors; it involves sprinklers, a kiddie pool, and your imagination! (Bathing suits are not necessary.) It encourages kids to think up creative ways to move water.
Reperesentatives from the City of Tallahassee and TAPP attended our kick-off event. They helped to explain the science behind our local water system.
Pilot Station Project
WFSU was chosen as a PBS KIDS pilot station to create a 'street game' that embodied the principles of systems thinking. The reason to incorporate systems thinking, in this sense, was to encourage kids to think about how systems in our world behave, how they interact with their environment, and how they can have influence on outside systems. Kids were encouraged to think about the relationships of different components within the game and how to leverage those relationships to their advantage, resulting in a win for their team.
For complete information on how to recreate this event (for other PBS stations, or anyone who is interested), please read our WATER MOVES project report.
From the WFSU Ecology Blog
EcoAdventure - Water Moves Into and Out of Your Home and Watershed
WFSU made a game out of learning how water moves through our community. Producer Rob Diaz de Villegas takes it a step further as he discovers how all of our local waterways connect and eventually lead back to our drinking water. This post kicks off a summer series that will follow water's journey from our homes to the coast.
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Ukraine Won't Become a Cold War Throwback
This story has been updated from 3:09 pm EST on 2/27 with comments from American University's Keith Darden amid new developments in Ukraine.
NEW YORK (TheStreet) - The ongoing turmoil in Ukraine has prompted speculation about a potential flashpoint between East and West, particularly after Russian President Vladimir Putin began moving 150,000 troops into Western Russia, a stone's throw from Kyiv.
On Friday, the situation further escalated when armed men occupied the Sevastopol airport in the country's Crimea region. The Ukrainian government said the armed men were Russian naval forces even as Russia's Black Sea fleet, which is based in Sevastopol, denied its forces were involved.
The BBC reported that another airport in the regional capital of Simferopol, had also been occupied by armed men also thought to be members of a pro-Russian militia. Ethnic Russians form the majority of the population in Crimea.
Yet even as the situation in Ukraine grows increasingly tense, political observers said the country is unlikely to become a Cold War flash point.
"We will not see much of a Western response beyond the warning rhetoric that we already hear," wrote Joerg Forbrig, senior program officer at The German Marshall Fund, in an email to TheStreet on Thursday. The Berlin-based policy expert pointed to the brief conflict between Russia and Georgia in 2008 which saw Russia gain control of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
"The Georgia example of 2008 should serve as reminder that there is little the West can and will do to shield its Eastern neighbours [sic] against Russian interference," Forbrig said.
On Wednesday, NATO defense ministers issued a joint statement vowing "to support Ukrainian sovereignty and independence, territorial integrity, democratic development, and the principle of inviolability of frontiers."
Months of civil unrest and increasingly violent confrontations culminated in last week's ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych. In November, Yanukovych had rejected a trade agreement with the E.U. in favor of closer economic ties with Russia, sparking a massive protest movement known as 'Euromaidan' centered on Kyiv's Maidan Square. Tensions, however, remain high between pro-European and pro-Russian factions within the country. On Thursday gunmen seized government buildings in Crimea. The U.S. and E.U. will be closely watching how events in the Crimean peninsula unfold. The region is also of critical importance to Moscow thanks to the Russian naval base in Sevastopol.Keith Darden, associate professor at the School of International Service at American University in Washington D.C., said that the west will be urging the Ukrainian government to show restraint. "I expect them to urge moderation on the part of the central government in Kyiv," he explained, in an email to TheStreet late on Thursday. "Temporary periods of provincial autonomy are entirely tolerable, and the US and EU would do well to keep all sides from taking any extreme actions."
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Landslide Hazard Areas – Landslide hazard areas are areas throughout Whatcom County where there is potential for slope failure due to a combination of geologic, topographic, and hydrologic factors. These include any areas, including bordering uplands that are susceptible to landslides because of any combination of bedrock, soil, slope, slope aspect, structure, hydrology, or other physical factors.Seismic Hazard Areas –Seismic hazard areas are areas that are subject to a severe risk of earthquake damage as a result of seismically induced ground shaking, differential settlement, or soil liquefaction. These include areas where there are:
Mine Hazard Areas – Mine hazard areas are lands located in proximity to abandoned coal mines and associated underground mine workings. Mine workings include mine entrances, tunnels, rooms and chutes (large voids), drifts (water level tunnels), pillars (coal left for support), and air shafts. Related hazards include:
Alluvial Fan Hazard Areas – An alluvial fan is a fan shaped deposit of sediment and organic debris that forms where a stream flows, or has flowed, out of a mountainous upland onto a level plain or valley floor. As a stream flows out of a mountainous environment, it abruptly loses capacity to transport sediment and debris resulting in an accumulation of transported materials. As materials accumulate and build on top of older deposits, stream channels can shift and begin building in other areas.
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Karl Haendel
Instructor, Painting and Drawing (2009). BA, 1998, Brown University, Providence; 2000, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; 1999, Whitney Independent Study Program; MFA, 2003, University of Califormia, Los Angeles. Exhibitions: New Museum, NY; Serpentine Gallery, London; Lever House, NY; Suzanne Vielmetter Projects, LA; Milliken Gallery, Stockholm; Harris Lieberman, NY; Guggenheim Museum, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, LA; Monique Meloche, Chicago; Yvon Lambert, Paris. Bibliography: Artforum, Art in America, Art Papers. Collections: Whitney Museum, NY; Anstrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo; Museum of Contemporary Art, LA; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Guggenheim Museum, NY.
Disclaimer: All work represents the views of the INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS & AUTHORS who created them, and are not those of the school or museum of the Art Institute.


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Plumbing apprenticeships for School Leavers
You may easily be employed as a plumbing apprentice if you have left school, getting paid as you work and train with a professional.
Plumbing Apprenticeships for Adults
There are many opportunities for adults to embark on a plumbing apprenticeship. There are incentives available by the government in support of plumbing apprenticeships for adults. As well, adults may require less training, based on what they have experienced in the past.
Starting wage
The salary for all plumbing apprenticeships is determined according to the relevant industry award. You can find the award for the apprenticeship you're interested in by clicking here.
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However, some variation needs to be allowed for depending on competency level, previous training and age.
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Once qualified and following the completion of a plumbing apprenticeship, plumbers can generally expect to make around $41000 to $80000 per year.
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Food Swaps To Lose Weight
Ok, so you started your diet at the beginning of the year (yeah me too) but your progress has reached a plateau (yeah me too). What else can you do to lose those pounds that just don't want to leave? Today Dr Oz invited Terri Trespicio on to his show to talk about foods that can boost the flavor but with much less calories than their unhealthy alternatives. Also be sure to check out the segment on sugar substitute swaps and if they are healthy for you. If you are looking to lose weight fast, check out the Dr Oz 7 Day Crash Diet to lose 10 lbs in 7 days!
Coconut Milk Creamer
Have you come to the terms that it is very unlikely that you will ever be able to give up your creamer? Well, if you think all hope is lost, consider swapping out your regular creamer for coconut milk creamer. If your wondering why coconut milk creamer is the better "swap", consider this :
- Coconute milk creamer is soy and dairy free
- Contains healthy fats
- Gives your coffee a hearty flavor that you just may enjoy
- Only costs approximately 3 bucks in grocery stores
Dr Oz put an audience member to the "taste test" and she loved it. Now, check this out….. Regular creamer has 50 calories. coconut milk creamer only has 10 calories. Simply making this daily swap in your morning coffee will having you weighing 12 less pounds in a year! That's all I needed to hear!
Sundried Tomato Paste Swap For Ketchup
Regular ketchup that you buy in grocery stores are generally loaded with sugar and sodium. Try using sundried tomato paste. You only need a quarter tablespoon to provide all the flavor that you need. It is 4 times stronger so you don't need to spread nearly as much on your food.
Calorie breakdown : Ketchup contains 30 calories per serving. Sundried tomato past has 12. If you can make this food swap, you will lose an extra 3 pounds a year. This is another one that I think I could do!
Roasted Garlic
I think this food swap is pretty reliant on if you enjoy garlic. I love garlic so this is another alternative that I'm going to use. Swap out butter with roasted garlic. Regular butter has 100 calories per serving (I probably use more than one serving!) Garlic only has 12 calories. Making this swap will help you lose an extra 5 pounds a year. Now we are getting somewhere!
Miso Paste For Salad Dressing
Mix miso paste with vinegar. Then add some lemon juice as an excellent alternative to salad dressing. Miso also has the added benefit that it is a pro-biotic. Listen to this!! Salad dressing has 180 calories per serving. Miso paste has 20! Make this swap several times a week and you can lose 13 pounds in a year. These are easy alternatives to make. Increase your exercise, and just think how much you will lose!
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I have had the comforter less than two months, and it is coming apart at the seams. It already has some type of discoloration. Not happy at all.
I have to say it does not look as luxurious as the photo but overall a pretty good decor for your room, embroideries are nice, not spread thin like other cheap comforters, good filling, neck roll is not so evenly filled tho, but good for the price* Got a lot of complements form my guests.
got this set as a gift and so far liking it, not as comfortable as the cotton set i use to have but the embroidered flowers look very nice and very detailed, saw some reviews on the quality but so far haven't had any problems for a month, i guess given the price this is not that bad.l
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Robin E. Bell; Jennifer D. Laird
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- Women, Work, and the Academy
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Laird, Jennifer D. - Date:
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- Harvard University President Lawrence Summers triggered an avalanche of media coverage and debate about the status of women in science in a 14 January 2005 speech. When Summers posited that the persistent absence of women in science could be due to a lack of "intrinsic aptitude" and an unwillingness to pursue high-intensity academic careers, he placed the blame on women and minorities. Summers also made reference to economist Gary Becker, who developed the theory that market forces will eventually address any persistent discrimination because discrimination is costly and inefficient in a competitive market. These arguments are not supported by current research on implicit bias and organizational behavior.
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Alps Gunnison Prowler Pack
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Hit the trail with the Alps Gunnison Prowler Pack to carry your gear and protect your camera.
If you love to be in the great outdoors and capture every moment, you gotta have the Gunnison Prowler. It has it all... a large center pocket, a camera pocket with removable pads, side mesh pockets, a full length pocket and small and medium Buddy-Lok pockets. One pack for great organization, convenience and protection is all you need. No separate case for your camera, and no worrying about it getting knocked around on the trail. The Gunnison Prowler Pack scores big in the comfort category, too, with a padded back and waist belt, plus a center aluminum stay that contours nicely to your back.
Geared up for adventure:- Rain cover included!
- Large center top pocket
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- Size: 2,900 cu. in.
- Weight: 5 lbs.
- No-nonsense Brushed Realtree® AP&trade HD nylon.
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In the News: Jackie Mason Cries Blues, Short Fuse, Sues Jews, No Schmooze, Who'll Lose?
By now, you've probably heard that Jackie Mason has slapped a $4 million lawsuit on Jews for Jesus - for using his public likeness on a public pamphlet (although he is a public figure; details at the Jews for Jesus main site) and for, get this, confusing his audience ("Now they're going to wonder, is he a Jew or a Gentile? I'm going to have to write a whole new act" - WCBS-TV interview). Mason did not attempt to contact Jews for Jesus before launching his suit. Did Jews for Jesus slip up? Will Jackie Mason have to write a new act?For an audio opinion about the suit, listen to this MP3 file (and for permission to reuse, contact Jews for Jesus).


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You may hear politicians criticize video games today, but that's hardly new. Back in 1987, Leisure Suit Larry got the establishment all hot and bothered with its tale of one loser's quest for carnal satisfaction. It may not have the same effect almost 26 years later, but the comedic adventure still has more than a few laughs to share, as we find out in today's RadarPlays…
Want to hang out with GamesRadar's editors while taking a look at retro games, new releases, and totally random experiences? RadarPlays is for you. Mondays we'll be checking out blasts from the past, Wednesdays (and sometimes Tuesdays and Thursdays, depending on the week) is reserved for new releases, and Friday is packed with the strangest titles you've never (hopefully) heard of.
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Women's Professional Soccer
espnW -- Will latest women's professional soccer league be a succ...
Julie FoudySaturday's launch of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) brings one question to the lips of many: Will the third version of a women's professional soccer league be the charm?
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The Word: Women's Pro Soccer
November 28, 2012
Why Hope Solo and Abby Wambach still back MagicJack owner Dan Bor...
Shaun Assael and Peter KeatingIn ESPN The Magazine, Shaun Assael and Peter Keating look at why, despite accusations that he sabotaged the women's professional soccer league, many of women's soccer's biggest stars continue to support MagicJack owner Dan Borislow.
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espnW -- Julie Foudy explores whether women's pro soccer can make...
Julie FoudyWill a women's professional soccer league ever thrive in the United States? With WPS folding, Julie Foudy says it may be time to consider an option even she once thought wasn't possible.
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WPS playoffs -- Western New York Flash defeats Philadelphia Indep...
Beau DureThe Flash drew players from all over the soccer map, melding their talents into a WPS force that out-muscled the Independence in Saturday's championship.
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Reporting from the Jock-o-sphere: Can Twitter and LPGA be a good ...
Ryan CorazzaNow that the LPGA is encouraging players to add Twitter or other social media to their bags, it's going to be interesting to see if any players pull off updates in mid-round.
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Rodriguez selected as first pick in WPS draft
The Boston Breakers had the overall No. 1 pick and selected forward Amy Rodriguez, a member of the U.S. national team and an Olympic gold medalist last year.
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LZ Granderson: Even in retirement, Mia Hamm still inspires
LZ GrandersonMia Hamm's image is the logo for the new women's pro soccer league, but she's happy to stay retired, raising her twins.
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Women's Professional Soccer announces home openers
The Women's Professional Soccer league took the next step toward its inaugural season Tuesday when it announced the home openers for all seven teams.
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Women's pro soccer returning to San Francisco
Professional women's soccer will be returning to the San Francisco Bay area.
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New women's pro soccer league to launch in 2008
A new women's professional soccer league, with help from Major League Soccer, will be launched in 2008 with teams in Los Angeles, Dallas, St. Louis, Chicago and Washington.
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New women's pro soccer league to launch in 2008
A new women's professional soccer league, with help from Major League Soccer, will be launched in 2008 with teams in Los Angeles, Dallas, St. Louis, Chicago and Washington, D.C.
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Mainstream buzz may survive loss of star
Will cycling continue to grow after Lance Armstrong racks his bike for the final time? Or will it wither like the women's pro soccer league that couldn't capitalize on the success of the national team's 1999 World Cup title?
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U.S. players feel problem can be solved
Barry WilnerJulie Foudy vowed the WUSA is not dead yet. Her teammates on the U.S. national team preparing for the Women's World Cup opener this weekend also chose the optimistic approach.
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espnW -- Portland Thorns FC's Veronica Boquete might be NWSL's be...
Graham HaysPortland midfielder Veronica Boquete, who honed her soccer skills in Spain, is perhaps the best playmaker in the NWSL and has Thorns FC still in the hunt for another pro women's soccer title.
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New U.S. women's eight-team soccer league to be launched
U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati held a conference call Wednesday to announce the launch of a women's professional league.
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Plans take shape for new U.S. women's soccer league
Four former Women's Professional Soccer league teams could form part of a new U.S. women's league that would take shape around five teams and begin play in the spring of 2013.
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Macbeth Fate and Free Will Quotes
How we cite our quotes:
Quote #7
MACBETH Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw. Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going; And such an instrument I was to use. (2.1.1)
"The dagger made me do it" isn't a defense we've heard before, but it seems to work for Macbeth. Look at that "Come, let me clutch thee": it sounds a lot like he doesn't have a choice.
Quote #8
MACBETH If't be so, For Banquo's issue have I fil'd my mind, For them the gracious Duncan have I murther'd, Put rancors in the vessel of my peace Only for them, and mine eternal jewel Given to the common enemy of man, To make them kings -the seed of Banquo kings! Rather than so, come, Fate, into the list, And champion me to the utterance! (3.1.8)
Well, this is interesting. Here, Macbeth is calling fate to his aid, asking it to "champion" him, or fight for him, in the "lists," or the tournament grounds. This doesn't sound like a fate-or-free-will situation; it sounds like a fate-and-free-will deal.
Quote #9
THIRD APPARITION Be lion-mettled, proud; and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are: Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him. Descends MACBETH That will never be Who can impress the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound root? Sweet bodements! good! Rebellion's head, rise never till the wood Of Birnam rise, and our high-placed Macbeth Shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath To time and mortal custom. (4.1.1)
When Macbeth comes knocking on the three witches' doors again, he wants another glimpse into his future. They give him riddles. (Thanks, gals.) But look at those riddles: they're designed so Macbeth interprets them to mean that he's safe, which obviously affects his decision-making. Is his death fate? Or is just savvy manipulation?


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Turin Basks in Post-Olympic Glow
In 1999, when Turin, Italy, was chosen to host the 2006 Olympic Winter Games, observers attributed the International Olympic Committee's selection over favored Sion, Switzerland, to Turin's million-person population and its close proximity to the Western Alps.
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Then there was the city's promise of manmade wonders: 2.6 billion euros in government investment that included the construction of new sporting venues and hotels in and around the Piemonte city. In the urban core, those projects included a 2,500-bed Olympic Village designed by a variety of European architects; the Palasport Olimpico, a stadium designed by Arata Isozaki with Pier Paolo Maggiora; and Lingotto Oval, a speed skating arena designed by HOKSVE, Studio Zoppini Associati, and Buro Happold. The city's grand plan also called for renovating two existing sporting venues: the mid-century Palavela and the Deco-era Stadio Comunale, which had closed in 1990.
Olympic venues don't always prove useful for host cities once the Games end, but Turin so far has managed to successfully repurpose the dozen major facilities it constructed for the two-week-long sporting event. Moreover, the buildings have contributed to the northern Italian city's long-time effort to redevelop itself into a vibrant, post-industrial metropolis. With all eyes turned toward the upcoming summer contests in China, Turin's conversion of Olympic facilities to everyday use offers a view to the tasks that Beijing officials will soon have to undertake.
According to Carlo Spinelli of the Turin-based Metropolitan Urban Center, preserving Olympic venues helps "sustain Torino's Olympic legacy." But it's more than that. These facilities have reinvigorated neighborhoods, says Benedetto Camerana, principal of Camerana & Partners, the firm that oversaw the design of the Olympic Village. The million-square-foot complex—which wraps around a Modernist fruit-and-vegetable arcade constructed in 1934—is now a thriving multi-use area featuring offices and social housing. It should become even livelier in the next several months as Pirelli Real Estate, a private company, takes over common-area maintenance and rents out the remaining residential units.
Moreover, the Olympic Pedestrian Bridge continues to be heavily trafficked. It connects the Olympic Village to Lingotto, the Fiat factory converted by Renzo Piano into an entertainment and retail center in 1994. Designed by Camerana with the French architect Hugh Dutton, the footbridge is characterized by a 230-foot tall red arch. "It is a symbol of lightness that contrasts the heavy industry of the city's past," Camerana explains.
Responsibility for operating former Olympics destinations belongs to Torino Olympic Park, a 50-person foundation with offices in the former Olympic Village. The city created the foundation in September 2006 to manage and develop the Winter Games venues so they continue to draw tourists. So far, the foundation is meeting its goal, says spokeswoman Linda Brizzolara, noting that the recent quarterfinals of the Union of European Basketball Leagues, held within the Palasport Olimpico, attacted 2,000 foreign visitors.
And tourism is vital to the foundation itself: The Italian government initially funded Torino Olympic Park with a 20-million-euro grant, but expects the organization to start paying for itself through facility rentals by 2011. Downtown buildings should produce most of that revenue, Brizzolara says, thanks to their convenient location and original designs that are more flexible than farther-flung sporting venues.
Indeed, the centrally located, 13,000-seat Palasport Olimpico has been a hot venue. In 2007, it was booked 200-plus days for corporate functions, concerts, sporting games, and other events; the foundation hopes to boost that activity by 50 percent this year. Moreover, the city is building on that momentum by constructing a swimming pavilion on an adjacent site. Also designed by Isozaki and Maggiora, the new pavilion will serve as a visual counterpoint to the Palasport Olimpico, taking its straightforward rectilinear volume, tilting it upward on one side, and topping the structure with a folded roof. The 20-million-euro project should be finished by 2009.
Overall, former Olympic facilities hosted events totaling 938 days and drawing 860,000 spectators in 2007, and those numbers are expected to nearly double this year, says Brizzolara. It's a potent shot in the arm for Turin, which launched its revitalization effort in the 1980s with the Lingotto factory conversion. More recently, the city redeveloped three factory zones into neighborhoods known as "spines"—an undertaking that gave rise to the modern Santo Volto church, designed by the Swiss architect Mario Botta, on the site of a former steel mill. Nontraditional in its design, the church embodies Turin's eagerness to embrace the 21st century.
Even without a decades-old master plan to guide it, Beijing can look to Turin for guidance. In the long-term, Olympics venues can be a great asset to a city, Brizzolara says, but reuse strategies must be considered early on and implemented soon after the Olympic torch leaves town.
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By Torstar News Service
Environment Canada is warning that a winter storm arriving overnight will bring massive amounts of snow and rain to the GTA.
As much as 15 centimetres of snow could fall by Wednesday morning, enough to break a snowfall record.
The agency said Tuesday to except rain along Lake Ontario starting around 7 p.m., but snow in the north part of the GTA, including Halton Hills.
Within the GTA, it remains unclear whether the storm will drop rain, snow or a mix of both, as temperatures are fairly close to the freezing mark.
The agency expects to make a more accurate forecast Tuesday afternoon, but it says precipitation will be significant, with most of it falling overnight and into the morning rush hour.
"The morning and evening commute on Wednesday may be quite slow," Environment Canada said in a statement.
"Driving conditions are expected to deteriorate and may become hazardous due to rapidly accumulating snow on untreated roads and low visibility in heavy snow."
Constant precipitation is forecasted to last until midday Thursday.
According to Environment Canada, the record snowfall for Feb. 27 was 7.1 cm in 1967.


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Capcom's Resident Evil 5 has now shifted more than 400,000 units on PlayStation 3 in Japan, according to the latest Media Create data.
The action horror sequel, which launched in the Land of the Rising Sun on March 12, has now drummed up approximately 410,000 sales in the region on Sony's black box, outpacing its Xbox 360 counterpart in the process.
So far the game has turned in a solid performance around the globe, having topped the UK Charts for the past fortnight as well as outselling Irish rockers U2's latest album.
For those who have yet to pick up Capcom's latest instalment in the franchise, be sure to check out our review here to see what we thought.