Mood:  not sure

RE: Swine Flu

Just this week alone, Nunanvut went from 6 to 96 !

...the article front and center on Yahoo vis a vis Helen Branswell, Medical Reporter, The Canadian Press...

"... recent spikes in Nunavut, with 96 cases, and Manitoba, with 56, have been described by the WHO as being of serious concern"

Indigenous populations were badly hit in previous pandemics and evidence of severe illness in some northern Manitoba First Nations communities has the WHO worried that [a] pattern may be playing out again with this virus."

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Meanwhile, 25 percent or 1/4  i.e. four of the 16 new H1N1 flu cases expected to be announced by Manitoba health officials by the end of the day are aboriginal -- an indication of how fast the virus is spreading in First Nations communities.

Ontario is the hardest hit province, with 1,562 confirmed cases and a third of those have been reported since Friday. And of those one third reported since Friday, one third are from Toronto.

http://www.sootoday.com/content/news/full_story.asp?StoryNumber=39887

If theres any so-called pattern of an outbreak, maybe its more remindful of the SARS outbreak.

Posted by mach1231 at 10:15 AM PDT

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Mood:  lazy

http://www.ckpg.com/news/5773-tunnel-mural-video.html

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I probably wont soon forget the day I walked into a 7-11 to grab a newspaper called the Prince George Free Press, looking to see how the article on the above mentioned highway underpass turned out. I thought there would be a little five paragraph story on page 38 with maybe a b&w 2 inch photo of me...b ut-,...there I was-lol,..in full technicolor color , right on the front page cover. gee thanks guys-lol...and I did hear from the woman in the video too I am glad she has seen it through. You know you're from PG when...

Posted by mach1231 at 8:45 PM PDT

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Mood:  d'oh

Former safe cracker, war time double agent and later journalist, Eddie Chapman

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Youtube has the film/movie made about him in the sixties, and theres been a book out ('Agent ZigZag-Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy,' by Ben MacIntyre.) ...maybe there'll even be a redux version if you can count on Hollywood chatterboxes

Looks good.

Posted by mach1231 at 1:48 PM PDT

Updated: Tuesday, 9 June 2009 9:33 PM PDT

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Mood:  chatty

Would you ever think that planes and jet airlines could be controlled by remote perhaps in case of hijacking?

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Instead of trying to retrieve black boxes from downed flights, the site Safelander.com

makes a case for real live time flight path/ time transducing of information to be saved the same way space shuttles currently operate. In light of his stated case and comments found here on the WSJ blog (by the safelander sites' progenitor)

and the fact that it has been reported that Air France received recommendations from the manufacturer (Airbus) (note: recommendations not orders eh?)..that speed sensors be changed a week before the jet went missing and presumed crashed into the Atlantic...

.. I'd say the time has passed already.

More support can be found here for better and new technology than solely relying on "post-autopsy" black boxes..

Accidents waiting to happen, who needs them?

Posted by mach1231 at 1:02 PM PDT

Updated: Saturday, 6 June 2009 1:22 PM PDT

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Heres an article that suggests theres something akin to the smell of raw fish in our humble yet proud national security "apparatus"..

note the somewhat arresting headline, it bodes well for us as citizens to pay attention to stories like this

even though CSIS has no powers of arrest, they can issue Security Certificates and detain people indefinitely, they are responsible for our nations security. Lets hope the security oversight committee does its job. Otherwise we'll have people begging for a reason for its existence.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Polygraph+results+CSIS+under+fire/1669147/story.html

Whats the problem? Did they want to avoid getting sued?

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Did you know where the terminology 'top secret' comes from btw? Bottom drawer, middle drawer and top drawer. All things filed away for secrecy in a simple filing cabinet...the one at the top?

But heres something else to pay attention to:

 Our Canadian Security Intelligence Service gets a new director on June 27.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/645334

Get busy.

Posted by mach1231 at 12:42 PM PDT

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Mood:  energetic

I am amazed to learn that since the murder rate in Los Angeles has continued to fall and go down,(could this be thanks to one William S. Bratton?) ..that a case from as far back as 1986 can thus be re-opened thanks to the freer time afforded to detectives and investigative officers...amazing as it is, its shocking to learn that evidence in this case over 20 years later  points to none other than a decades long veteran of the Los Angeles Police force..

.. and that the accused in this case (the bars were drawn down on her yesterday) is actually a woman who  jumped from after being quoted less than two months ago in an LATIMES blogged article where her partner crowed:  "This is the only full-time art-theft unit in the country. Hey, even New York (note: Bratton is formerly from City of New York Police Department) doesn’t have one,” ...

..to being the prime suspect in a 20 year old murder investigation.

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The murder rate in Canada has also been declining I have recently read/heard. We can hope there might be requisite results as experienced with LA and the US. We can hope too it is not any current or former police officer all we like.

CNN covered this story too..Bratton sure is uh-,....showing his efforts from his time on the force in the forms of that expression..I knew him (or 'of him' more like it) when his hair was shoe polish brown..he's a good writer/author. Are you busy William?

Posted by mach1231 at 12:10 PM PDT

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..since last year there has been a book out called :

Dispersing the Fog: Inside the Secret World of Ottawa and the RCMP?

http://www.dispersingthefog.com/

Posted by mach1231 at 1:12 AM PDT

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Actor Sir Roger Moore demanded officials throughout the world to end sexual abuse of children, by persecuting all paedophiles all over the world, even across their own state borders., ..

The actor (81) held a speech in Germany on Tuesday, regarding UNICEF`s new report.

Posted by mach1231 at 12:41 AM PDT

Updated: Friday, 5 June 2009 1:27 AM PDT

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Mood:  crushed out

• Where did passports come from?
• Why did 1930s stewardesses carry wrenches?
• And how did teetotalers shape the modern vacation?

Wanderlust answers these questions and more..

Yes indeed, if you click the pic, you shall see she also wrote a book called Secret Ottawa. In case you want to know where to buy candles and lingerie if ever in the nations capital. You might be surprised to learn has Canadas ONLY cordon bleau cooking school...

Posted by mach1231 at 12:17 AM PDT

Updated: Friday, 5 June 2009 12:26 AM PDT

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Mood:  lyrical

NOT  'The Price is Right'!

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So, what is..........Cobell?

Yes but whats the answer and how much is the prize?:)

http://www.indiantrust.com/

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Posted by mach1231 at 12:45 PM PDT

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