Mood:  a-ok

A new study from the University of California on twins and smoking has come up with some casual causal explanations as to why men and women take up the deadly habit.

Women seem to be more influenced by environmental factors and men: genetics.

 

Interesting study.

http://www.emaxhealth.com/58/6391.html

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Mood:  a-ok

Interesting blog comments made about the death of Assistant Secretary of Commerce
William Lash, also Chairman of the U.S. Iraq Reconstruction Task Force

http://www.rec-dev.com/conferences/conferences/past/irs/feb10_04/index.asp

 

Professor Lash was apparently father of an autistic child. Just last week, a trailblazing pioneer in the field of studies of autistism died at the age of 79.

http://www.newsobserver.com/161/story/458599.html

 

 

http://www.blackprof.com/archives/2006/07/professor_bill_lasch.html

The Devil Wore Prada
Mood:  chatty
Topic: Entertainment

 Limited movie selection here in Prince George BC. Oddly enough, I don't go to movies too often here even if the city-town is boring. So when the choice came down between seeing Superman or The Devil Wears Prada it was a cinch. Blue tights with red undies is poor fashion sense in any case.

But the real super-boss for Vogue had three newspapers and one magazine delivered daily along with her barristra prepared coffee : The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post (in THAT order) and Womens Wear Weekly  at the side.

I cant recall if they showed this in the film though. 

In any case, the director, David Frankel , is teamin up again with a

Aline Brosh McKenna to adapt the bestseller I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother by Allison Pearson .

According to Random House Publishing , the idea for this novel now being made into a big-screen film came about when a survey in Good Housekeeping reported that half of all working mothers were worried the relationship with their husband was suffering because of a: " terrible ‘time famine.’ "

Two-thirds were too exhausted to have sex. Three-quarters felt they never had time to do things properly (but, of course, that didn’t stop them from trying). And what did these poor demented creatures want for Mother’s Day – flowers, chocolates?

 No. A  bit of time to themselves.

Hmh. The thought is not lost on me.

Just BTW here, I have counted just 3 degress of seperation in the Kevin Bacon Game between

Vogue boss Miranda Priestly and Carl Bernstein who wrote for the Washington Post and broke Watergate if we are to believe the accounts told on books made into film.

 

Meryl Streep played Priestly but also previously played in a film called Heartburn in 1987 (a semi-autobiographical tale) written by Nora Ephron.

And Nora 

was once married to Mr. Bernstein! Cool, huh! later gators! 

 

 

Minnesota Meth Inc
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Crime and Punishment

How to live dirt cheap on just 250,000 dollars a month

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13774724/

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Yet I also noted theres enough in the news about legal drugs and teens to make your head spin... 

 

Just query "kids teens prescription drugs" in the Google news section...

Things you wont find @ The Flag
Mood:  don't ask
Topic: Crime and Punishment

A story located here

reports that Ken Saro-Wiwa has taken a job in his dad's former country.

 

Ken Saro-Wiwa 's dad and 8 others were hanged while under military dictatorship rule and henceforth Nigeria was ejected from the Commonwealth.

Friday Night
Mood:  special

Murs LA

Life and Death in PG,BC,CANADA
Mood:  not sure
Topic: Crime and Punishment
FYI, click if you dare: this IS Prince GEORGE.

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Other than logging accidents,("It’s safer to be a soldier in Afghanistan than a forest worker in BC,” .... the now notorious Highway of Tears, biggest danger here is breathing the air? Worst air quality in the province. I have not been without my moments of existential angst especially when it comes to complacent attitudes
and that inspid mix of white colonial rationalism
and vapid indifference.

The local peeps here "gave up" prime acreage of pristine waterfront property with beatific views to be moved to a reserve situated miles away. The sickest most vile twist in this end game of dislocation and cultural upheaval is the death of
14 year old Aileah-Sager Auger.

The news conference held with much media in attendance was at the traditional area where they were originally dislocated from. Meaning the old burial grounds are adjacent a park where the Aboriginal Day Celebrations were held.

Globe and Mail was there as well as CTV cameras

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060622.wxbcwomen22/BNStory/National/home


So where does the sadness end and the jubilation begin?


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See also

Logging deaths spark outrage

Australian indigenous art metes premium prices
Mood:  accident prone
Topic: Crime and Punishment

Reading recently how a museum in France gave indigenous works of art nominally from Australia the
international breezies.

And then I discovered this.

In contrast, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has agreed to give up many of its most prized antiquities, which were allegedly looted from Italy.

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060622-101406-8529r 

 '...the market for looted artworks "is second in value only to the drugs trade."


At the same time,the First International Forum of United Indigenous Peoples is being held this week in Pau, France.

Over 24 native indian elders, artists and political leaders have travelled from here in B.C. to France to participate running from June 19 to 26.


http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2006/06/19/haida-conference.html


In the same week that an official Haisla pole was also repatriated from Sweden. In Vancouver first,
then home. What a week it's been for the art world.

http://www.sculpture.org/portfolio/sculptorPage?sculptor_id=1000363

 

 

 

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South Africa: Jo'burg's Urban Poor 'Fear Crime As Much As Hunger'

 

Wahabbi wannabe
Popular American lingoism meets referential term to diatribical idealogical religious doctrine in a crash collision that jars the senses of English proffesor and mediveal scholar alike.

"wahabbi wannabe"

Whether or not Arab trained militants have been participating in Chechnyas war of independence seems to be the question of the ages at the Black Flag Cafe.

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Or vice verca. Someone should query search terms 'laundry list' on the BFC archives via way back machine to see what I mean.

Or maybe: "laundered" list?

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But life goes on here as normal as can be in Prince George BC. Thats my garangtuan sized summation so far.

Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Crime and Punishment

"Mrs.Junger, could you come down here please? I think theres something wrong with your washing macine."

--
In the early
sixties,
thirteen Boston
-area
women were raped
in
their apartments,
then
strangled to death
with
their own clothing.
Police
suspected the same
man was
responsible and the
killer
earned the moniker,
The Boston Strangler.


Listen to a CBC reporters interview with 'Perfect Storm' author Sebastian Junger.

absolutely chillingCBC's The Current : Sebastian Junger