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Business To Business / Re: deleted by ireneann: 9:53am On Feb 18, 2010
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Autos / Re: Pre-0rder Like No Other- - Guaranteed Satisfaction - - Never Be Undersold--@@ by ireneann: 8:20am On Feb 18, 2010
Oga Fhemmmy how much will it cost me to preorder a 2000 Toyota Camry XLE V6 with the following features:

Leather Seats, Alloy Rims, Boot Spoiler (Optional), Factory A/C, Car CD, Formica Dashboard (Optional).

Please reply to afuluchi@yahoo.com

Thanks.

P.S How long will it take to ship and clear in Nigeria?
Romance / Re: Why Do Some People Fall In Love Online? by ireneann: 3:10pm On Feb 16, 2010
Online dating is called e-love
Autos / Re: Gens For Sale-urgent by ireneann: 8:34pm On Feb 15, 2010
How much are you selling? and do you have pictures?
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Celebrities / Jackson Doctor To Surrender Friday Regardless by ireneann: 8:05am On Feb 05, 2010
LOS ANGELES – Michael Jackson's doctor plans to surrender to authorities Friday, regardless of whether prosecutors had filed a case against him, a spokeswoman said Thursday.

The assertion came after the legal team for Dr. Conrad Murray said they were tired of waiting for word from prosecutors about when he would be charged. Murray, who has a practice in Houston, has been in Los Angeles for the past week and available to surrender since Tuesday.

"We are going to be at the courthouse at 1:30 (p.m.) for his surrender," said Miranda Sevcik, spokeswoman for Murray's legal team. "We see no reason to perpetuate the arbitrary situation any longer."

The district attorney's office has not confirmed if or when it will be charging Murray, though prosecutors have been reviewing the case for weeks. Murray's team sees a charge as inevitable, Sevcik said.

"We know he's going to be charged with involuntary manslaughter and we are ready with a counterargument," Sevcik said. "He's not guilty — that's our argument."

It remains to be seen whether the bizarre prospect of Murray trying to surrender without a criminal case being filed will come to pass.

The move follows three days of negotiations in which Murray's lawyers have tried to arrange with prosecutors for the Houston doctor to surrender for booking and arraignment.

Those plans were derailed by haggling between prosecutors and law enforcement officials over whether the physician should be arrested or allowed to turn himself in.

Officials from the Los Angeles Police Department, which spent the past seven months investigating Murray, were unhappy with the idea of him surrendering and wanted to go to the residence he was staying at to arrest him, a law enforcement official close to the investigation told The Associated Press.

Various factors weighed into the desire to arrest Murray, including the possibility he might flee before arraignment, just as O.J. Simpson did, said the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity. Police officials also worried it could appear Murray was being given special treatment if he was allowed to turn himself in.

The official said the district attorney's office opposed an early plan for detectives to make the arrest Friday morning, upsetting police higher-ups, and negotiated with Murray's attorneys to allow the doctor to turn himself in.

District attorney's spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons could not immediately confirm if Murray would surrender Friday.

Chernoff told the AP earlier Thursday that an arrest would be purely for the benefit of news cameras.

"It's a waste of time, it's just a show," Chernoff said. "There's no reason to handcuff a guy, drag him downtown so you can take a photo when he's been sitting here for a week waiting to turn to himself in."

Gibbons denied there was any discord between the Police Department and the district attorney's office and said police and prosecutors had been fully cooperating since the case began.

"There is no big dispute," Gibbons said. "We are getting along fine."

Jackson, 50, died June 25 at his rented Los Angeles mansion while under the care of Murray, a cardiologist with practices in Houston and Las Vegas.

Three law enforcement officials have told the AP prosecutors plan to charge Murray with involuntary manslaughter, alleging he gave Jackson the powerful anesthetic propofol to help him sleep but that instead led to his death.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the case.

It's unusual for the district attorney's office to negotiate a surrender, with such talks usually occurring in high-profile cases.

Attorney Mark Geragos, who has represented Jackson and a string of other celebrities, said defense lawyers in such cases want to shield their clients from the embarrassing "perp walk," where a suspect is paraded before cameras in handcuffs.

"It's to let some people maintain some shred of dignity," Geragos said.

Several other celebrity attorneys, including Harland Braun and M. Gerald Schwartzbach, said they couldn't understand why the LAPD would want to arrest Murray if he was being cooperative.

"Otherwise, you are deliberately arresting someone to make a statement," Braun said. "It would reflect poorly on the prosecution if they don't let him surrender."
Health / Activists Want Makers To Come Clean On Cleansers by ireneann: 8:00am On Feb 05, 2010
NEW YORK – It's the mystery under the kitchen sink.

Exactly what's in floor cleaner? What's stain remover made of? And what effects, if any, might they have on human health or the environment?

Environmental advocates want to know, and they asked a court Thursday to use a 1971 New York state law to force such manufacturers as Procter & Gamble and Colgate-Palmolive to reveal just what makes up such household staples as Ajax, Ivory soap and Tide.

The cleanser industry — which recently ramped up voluntary efforts to unveil product ingredients — says that the legal case is unwarranted, and that fears about health risks are misinformed.

But groups including the American Lung Association and the Sierra Club want the public to know more.

Members "want access to the information so they can determine the kind of chemicals that they are introducing into their homes and whether there are any risks associated with them," Keri Powell, an attorney for the environmental firm Earthjustice, told a state judge at a hearing Thursday.

A victory in the New York case would require companies to report their contents only to the state. But the advocates hope it will fuel nationwide reform of regulations on chemicals in cleaners and other products.

The case comes amid growing concerns about potential toxins lurking in consumer goods, from the heavy metal cadmium in jewelry to the chemical bisphenol A in baby bottles. While lawyers argued the cleaning-products case in New York, a Senate subcommittee in Washington held a hearing to examine current science on the public's exposure to toxic chemicals.

Some studies have linked cleaning product components to asthma, antibiotic resistance, hormone changes and other health problems. The industry's major trade group, the Soap and Detergent Association, assails the research as flawed, says the products are safe if used correctly and notes that cleaning can itself help stop the spread of disease.

Federal environmental laws don't require most household cleaning products to list their ingredients, though there are congressional proposals to change that. The Consumer Product Safety Commission requires hazard warning labels on some cleansers, and the National Institutes of Health offer some health and safety information for hundreds of cleaning products, drawn from data gathered for industrial use.

Cleanser industry groups unveiled their own ingredient-listing initiative last month, offering information on participating manufacturers' Web sites. New York-based Colgate-Palmolive Co., Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble Co. and several other industry heavyweights are participating.

"We think we've done it in a meaningful way that provides more information than ever before," Soap and Detergent Association spokesman Brian Sansoni said.

Environmental advocates welcome the disclosures but say they are too selective and vague — some components can be listed simply as "fragrance" or "dye," for instance.

"We must be careful about exposures for all household chemicals," said Joseph A. Gardella Jr., a Sierra Club member from Buffalo.

The activists say only regulation can insure full disclosure, and they hope the New York law can serve as a model.

The law and subsequent regulations authorized the state Department of Environmental Conservation to make manufacturers detail household cleaning products' ingredients, as well as any company-led research on the products' health and environmental effects.

The DEC, and the companies fighting the lawsuit, say the law allows but doesn't require the agency to collect the data. The companies have said in legal papers they would make the disclosures if required but haven't been officially asked.

"The DEC has never enforced these regulations," John J. Kuster, a lawyer for New York-based Colgate-Palmolive, told the judge Thursday.

The companies — also including Church & Dwight Co. Inc., Procter & Gamble and Reckitt-Benckiser Inc. — asked a state Supreme Court judge to dismiss the case. There's no definite timeframe for a ruling.

Reckitt-Benckiser, a British company with its U.S. headquarters in Parsippany, N.J., makes products including Lysol and Woolite. Princeton, N.J.-based Church & Dwight makes Arm & Hammer cleaners, among other items.

Some other companies have sent ingredient lists to the DEC since Earthjustice and other organizations began asking in 2008.

Seventh Generation, which prides itself on its environmental bona fides, already listed ingredients on most of its cleaning products' packages. But the Burlington, Vt.-based company said it released more detailed information to the New York environmental agency, including the percentage of various ingredients within cleaners.

"We thought it was the right thing to do," said Dave Rapaport, Seventh Generation's senior director of corporate consciousness.

The DEC is looking at ways to publicize such information for consumers who want it, spokeswoman Maureen Wren said.
Autos / Re: I Need A Clean used 95 Camry Xle For 450k by ireneann: 6:01pm On Jan 13, 2010
toluxeey:

i am in urgent need of a registered toyota camry xle (94/95) for around 450k
pls contact me on

08098705336

or

toluxeey@yahoo.com

How soon do you need it? I have a 1992 model in perfect working condition.
Food / Re: Tough Meat. How Do I Make It Soft? by ireneann: 8:12am On Jan 12, 2010
Add chewing gum to the meat. All these Yoruba mama put use it in boiling tough meat and pomo. You can try that too.
Autos / Dealers In The House Invitation To Ouote! by ireneann: 10:53am On Jan 11, 2010
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