Mood:  bright

Kylie Minogue was diagnosed and treated for breast cancer in 2005 at the age of 36. Even before her diagnosis, she was supporting the cause. In 2002, she donated one of her bras to a London auction which raised $7000 for breast cancer awareness. Kylie is currently on the November 2007 cover of the UK edition of Glamour and talks about her battle with cancer and her dreams for the future. (credit: George Pimentel/WireImage.com ) 

See 7 other women who are but a small representation of breast cancer survivors who have helped raise awareness of the disease in their own, unique way 

http://healthandfitness.sympatico.msn.ca/HealthyLiving/articles/famousbreastcancersurvivors

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I think a touch o pink at le Cafe is a great

There are literally hundreds of ways to show your support

http://www.pinkribbonshop.com/

 or

https://www.pinkribbonstore.com/gifts/aboutus.do?siteId=343

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Even Sony is in on the action. Frankly Im a little bit jealous. Not-lol!

Posted by mach1231 at 4:41 PM PDT

Updated: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 9:10 PM PDT

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Mood:  don't ask

Ta-da

 Dear WaPo: Do You Know What a Retraction is?

Good little running commentary here

on the continually unfolding saga of Carol Gotbaum

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(Elected officials and other prominent New Yorkers were among hundreds of mourners at the funeral of Carol Anne Gotbaum, who died in police custody at an airport in Phoenix.

Gotbaum, the stepdaughter-in-law of New York City Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, died Sept. 28 at Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport. She had been arrested on a disorderly conduct charge after she was kept off a connecting flight that was to bring her to Tucson, where she was to enter an alcohol treatment center.

The 45-year-old was married to Noah Gotbaum, son of retired labor leader Victor Gotbaum. The couple lived on the Upper West Side with their three young children.

John Jakobson, another family friend, said Noah Gotbaum spoke of his wife's final moments during the service.

"Her husband said that if only one person in that airport had helped her she would be alive today," he said

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jtT6mK0J-jZRgOQhUl8y_McJ-GCwD8S4IFTO0

See also

Posted by mach1231 at 3:58 PM PDT

Updated: Sunday, October 28, 2007 4:41 PM PDT

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Tribunal orders woman to stop spreading hate

The Canadian Press

The commission has fined Jessica Beaumont $1,500 for posting messages that hold Jews, gays, lesbians, Chinese, blacks, aboriginals and other non-whites to hatred or contempt.

It also ordered Beaumont, 21, who once lived in British Columbia, to pay $3,000 in special compensation to a man that she posted hate messages about.

In a judgment released Friday, the tribunal said Beaumont admitted posting more than 1,000 messages on the website under the pseudonym "Jessy Destruction.''

Richard Warman filed the complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

The tribunal said Warman has also filed a criminal complaint with the British Columbia Hate Crime Team but no criminal charges have been laid.

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Updated Fri. Oct. 26 2007 7:06 PM ET

Hmhhh.

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"The high Canadian dollar is having a devastating impact on manufacturing jobs and it's causing real difficulty for thousands and thousands of working families who are finding themselves on the street because of it. " - NDP Leader J. Layton in a statement to the press ahead of Prime Ministers drop in visit to a town affected by layoffs

The Prime Minister did not meet with hard-pressed workers or offer any solutions.

The Tories may be, key words may be,  in hot water with Elections Canada over alleged cheating with the rules and guidelines to skirt authority but that doesnt stop them from issuing warnings about a potential lawsuit if the Oposition doesn't watch their language. 

For more STFU see also.

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http://joecarr.ca/interests/coffee.htm

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Sudanese human rights lawyer Salih Mahmoud Osman is the winner of this year's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

Over two decades during Sudan's various civil wars Salih Mahmoud Osman (b.1957) has risked his own life to provide legal and medical aid to the countless victims of the conflict.

More here.

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The group leaders also decided to find an appropriate way to honour Anna Politkovskaya, the Russian journalist who was killed last year and was also on this year's Sakharov shortlist. They will decide at their next meeting how this should be done.
 

Chinese human rights defenders Zeng Jinyan and Hu Jia, had also been nominated for the prize.

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See yuh later guys..thanx for dropping in..

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Mood:  caffeinated

Vince Vaughn

and Vanessa... | I just think they make a super-couple and wanted

to say so!

He's so tall and

elegant looking ( the goof!!)

and well, you know

shes...like 44.

How cool is that!

Mr. Vince is 37.

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Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston are set to battle it out on the cover of W magazine! I will buy my copy in November.

As anyone who knows moi by now will know, I am going with Lettermans screen captured guest seen here:

- - Headlines that also ran (form your own pictures)

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In 1985, this guy moved to introduce a bill to amend the Criminal Code to require that every unborn child be represented by legal counsel at therapeutic abortion committees across the country.

You read that right: the Criminal Code.

He is also quoted as saying on July 27, 1988:

"It appears that there is widespread acceptance of the notion that a mother should have the right to control her body. There is no such right."

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Well, personally I don't have a uterus, hence unable to become pregnant, I don't know what else I should say here. I just hope that theres at least one female out there who will not hold it forever against me that I have my own opinion as a man, my own person,..

and would agree with me its good to spout off my opinion on some things and on other things, agree with me its better to keep my own mouth firmly shut.

This is one of those things.

Posted by mach1231 at 8:48 PM PDT

Updated: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 9:01 PM PDT

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This looks interesting:

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A woman with the resolve required to write objectively about the circumstances that led to her brothers death.

A small-town doctor killed by another doctor.

http://www.doctorscalling.ca/

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Another movie of the week? I hope not but if they ever do, "Still Waters" might be a good title.

Additionally, such renewed focus might help bring up the change so desperately required.

In 2006, 18 kids aged 12 to 17 were accused of homicide in the 39 slayings in Manitoba.

Alberta was a distant second with less than half that number, and all other provinces had less than five.

Manitoba and Alberta also each reported that youths accounted for about one in four persons accused of homicide, the highest proportion among the provinces.

Experts say what drives the higher numbers in Manitoba is poverty in isolated First Nation communities, drug and alcohol use and participation by youths in gangs.

Violent crime on the rise

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Also in the news...just in case you forgot about the post-Apartheid era long enough to realise it's over, but, its still not over.

The corporations who were er,uhm...complicit in apartheid era crimes are being sued to the tune of 400 billion dollars.

Posted by mach1231 at 7:58 PM PDT

Updated: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 8:11 PM PDT

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Mood:  special

 German explorer Chris Breier had already travelled the length of the Yukon seven times by the time he realized his long lost cousin, Ralf Breier, was a filmmaker.

The two had not spoken in more than 30 years since losing touch as children.

 Ralf Breier, director of a new documentary about two men was in Yellowknife retracing Alexander Mackenzie's journey.

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 http://nnsl.com/northern-news-services/stories/papers/oct1_07fi.html

Alexander Mackenzie was the first European to complete an overland journey across North America north of Mexico.

This is where I am today. Thank you for being here and sharing with me on my journey.

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SOUND BYTES

After more than 60 years of flying adventures, including hazardous ventures into the heart of wartime Germany, Peter Garrison died the way no pilot would want to.

While friends and family mourned the death of a local flying legend, they were trying as well to deal with the fact that Mr. Garrison perished when the beloved aircraft he had owned since 1974 inexplicably slammed into a high-rise apartment building, injuring two of the occupants.

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So how would you like it if I posted on YOUR message board: "How not to fly an aeroplane", or, "Mini- 911"....

A spokeswoman said members of his immediately family were too distraught to talk to the media about their loss.

Carry on Flaggers carry on...heres more jokes for your margins

Sexual Misconduct Plagues US Schools

 2,570 educators whose teaching credentials were revoked, denied, surrendered or sanctioned from 2001 through 2005 following allegations of sexual misconduct. 

SUKREE SUKPLANG/REUTERS

Suspected Canadian pedophile Christopher Paul Neil sits inside the detention cell in Bangkok, Oct. 20, 2007.

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