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One has to wonder to what extent he was speaking independently or merely speaking words that the government put in his mouth. Hillier is, supposedly, an expert in media relations. He recognizes the importance of manipulating public opinion. The timing is about as bad as it could get because he effectively eliminated the potential for a compromise position. Dion was about to move the LPC towards moving for a position whereby the mission essentially continued as is under the guise of a training mission. By backing Dion into a corner he is gambling that the LPC will split their vote on this. However, the LPC increasingly recognizes that a split vote only harms their position in the eyes of the electorate. Any increase or maintenance of the latest poll results showing a slight LPC lead (ignore the Ipsos-Reid because of their lack of consistency with other pollsters--see www.nodice.ca) will increase the likelihood that they will vote as a block regardless of the presence of factions within the party.
Olympics beware, rednecks going for gold
Blake Harris belly flops into the mud pit during the Texas Redneck Games at the Pool Ranch in Athens, Texas, last week. For three days, hordes of legit and wannabe rednecks convene to drink, race their ATVs, and compete in events such as spam eating and mattress throwing. .
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It's usually in track and swimming that milliseconds mean the difference between victory and defeat. But Victoria Salmon Kings defenceman Gary Gladue lifted a page from those sports yesterday at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre. His power-play goal with less than one second remaining in overtime -- 00.07 seconds to be exact -- gave the Salmon Kings a hairy 5-4 ECHL victory over the Las Vegas Wranglers before 4,802 fans. "I heard the fans yelling 'shoot, shoot," said Gladue. .
Boiling water spikes bisphenol A levels
Adding boiling water to polycarbonate plastic bottles causes a dramatic spike in the amount of bisphenol A, or BPA, leaching from containers into drinks, according to a U.S. research team. The finding suggests that parents sterilizing polycarbonate baby bottles by heating them in water or in a microwave may be inadvertently increasing the amount of the estrogen-mimicking chemical leaching from the containers. It also indicates hikers who use the bottles as a thermos to store hot tea or liquids may be doing the same. The addition of boiling water increased BPA migration rates by up to 55-fold compared with water at room temperature, according to experiments run at the University of Cincinnati. A paper outlining the findings is being released today in Toxicology Letters, a peer-reviewed journal.
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