2004/01/02
'Won't it be a great day when the Air Force has to hold bake sales to get a new bomber and the schools have all the money they need?'" --Charles Gibson
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2004...2004...2004...
Wow it just seems like yesterday or the day before was 2003!
It's -10 deg c and snowing in Winnipeg today. That's 4 parsecs to a freckle on the end of your nose in Tishomingo..."Ya wanna sac o ass???"
Catherine is the new "keeper of the books" (Librarian) for the Humanist Assoc. of Man. (HAM). That seems right up her alley, doesn't it? And as such, we went over to pick up the books from the prior "keeper". Catherine will have them straightened out in no time! It will be her job to bring a selection of books to every meeting and to keep track of the people that borrow them.
Sounds as if Margot and Joel had a good time New Years Eve. Stayed up late and all.....Why I remember when I was a Youngun'.....Why I'd be up all night too. I remember once I went to the wrong party....missed the right house by a couple of houses....well we had a good time anyway until I realized that I didn't know anyone there, but we were having such a good time that they did not want us to go! This year we just went to dinner with the 'Friends' and had a real good time. We had a fondue with shrimp, steak,scallops, etc. and we used an oil fondue, a cheese fondue, a broth (lobster bisque) fondue and a chocolate fodue and about 9 different sauces. It was a long meal and we savoured a few bottles of vins-extrodinaire ( even polished of a bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau). We were already making plans for next years New Years Eve fondue by learning from this one...for 6 people you need 2 oil fondues (for meat), one broth fondue (for seafood), one large cheese fondue to serve as an appy, and a choclate fondue for a later desert....Oh yeah and more wine.
Who knows , maybe next year we would do like Nana does at the Manor...celebrate at 10 o'clock instead of midnight so we can get to bed early!
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Here is aome "perspectives" about risks that I got from a friend:
There's a real disconnect with the publics view on what's risky and what's
not. And I have to say, it's the urban medias fault. Mad cow disease,
SARS and West Nile are some examples of the mass media's desire to
sensationalize something that is really a non-story. Or a least a story
that should be buried at the back of the paper. With mad cow disease, the
real story was the U.S. border shutting down, not that eating beef is
dangerous.
Your chances of getting variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (vCJD), which
scientists say you get mainly from eating the brain, spinal cord or eyes of
an affected cow, are about 1 in every 10 billion servings of beef -- in
Britian. So, your chances of getting sick from Canadian beef are so low,
it's not worth worrying about. As for SARS, well, over 700 people have
died of SARS, many of them very old. If you divide 700 by the number of
people in the world, your odds of dying from SARS are one in 8.5 million.
Outside of the SARS zone in Asia, the chance of dying of SARS is about 1 in
100 million.
Couldn't find the odds of you dying of West Nile, but here are some stats
found on the web for the lifetime odds of dying in one way or another.
This data was collected in the U.S.
Car accident - 1 in 244
Bus accident - 1 in 57,371
Falling of the bed, a chair or furniture - 1 in 5,700
Falling down the stairs - 1 in 2,503
Firearms discharge - 1 in 4,317
Bitten or hurt by a dog - 1 in 142,279
Drowning while in or falling into a bathtub - 1 in 11,116
Hornets, wasps or bees - 1 in 82,720
Lightning - 1 in 55,578
If you take lightning, the odds are that one person in a town a little bit
bigger then Brandon, Moose Jaw or Medicine Hat
would be killed every 76 years or so.
Now, lets look at vCJD. If every man, woman and child in Moose Jaw would
eat one serving of British beef, every day, 375 days a year, it would take
830 years before one case might show up. In that much time, probably 6 or 7
people from Moose Jaw would have been killed by lightning.
So, if you're still worried about dying from eating meat, from mosquito
bites or SAR, don't ever take a bath, pet a dog, rid in a car or bus, use
the stairs or go outside when it is raining. Those things are way more
dangerous then eating beef.
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2004...2004...2004...
Wow it just seems like yesterday or the day before was 2003!
It's -10 deg c and snowing in Winnipeg today. That's 4 parsecs to a freckle on the end of your nose in Tishomingo..."Ya wanna sac o ass???"
Catherine is the new "keeper of the books" (Librarian) for the Humanist Assoc. of Man. (HAM). That seems right up her alley, doesn't it? And as such, we went over to pick up the books from the prior "keeper". Catherine will have them straightened out in no time! It will be her job to bring a selection of books to every meeting and to keep track of the people that borrow them.
Sounds as if Margot and Joel had a good time New Years Eve. Stayed up late and all.....Why I remember when I was a Youngun'.....Why I'd be up all night too. I remember once I went to the wrong party....missed the right house by a couple of houses....well we had a good time anyway until I realized that I didn't know anyone there, but we were having such a good time that they did not want us to go! This year we just went to dinner with the 'Friends' and had a real good time. We had a fondue with shrimp, steak,scallops, etc. and we used an oil fondue, a cheese fondue, a broth (lobster bisque) fondue and a chocolate fodue and about 9 different sauces. It was a long meal and we savoured a few bottles of vins-extrodinaire ( even polished of a bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau). We were already making plans for next years New Years Eve fondue by learning from this one...for 6 people you need 2 oil fondues (for meat), one broth fondue (for seafood), one large cheese fondue to serve as an appy, and a choclate fondue for a later desert....Oh yeah and more wine.
Who knows , maybe next year we would do like Nana does at the Manor...celebrate at 10 o'clock instead of midnight so we can get to bed early!
------------
Here is aome "perspectives" about risks that I got from a friend:
There's a real disconnect with the publics view on what's risky and what's
not. And I have to say, it's the urban medias fault. Mad cow disease,
SARS and West Nile are some examples of the mass media's desire to
sensationalize something that is really a non-story. Or a least a story
that should be buried at the back of the paper. With mad cow disease, the
real story was the U.S. border shutting down, not that eating beef is
dangerous.
Your chances of getting variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (vCJD), which
scientists say you get mainly from eating the brain, spinal cord or eyes of
an affected cow, are about 1 in every 10 billion servings of beef -- in
Britian. So, your chances of getting sick from Canadian beef are so low,
it's not worth worrying about. As for SARS, well, over 700 people have
died of SARS, many of them very old. If you divide 700 by the number of
people in the world, your odds of dying from SARS are one in 8.5 million.
Outside of the SARS zone in Asia, the chance of dying of SARS is about 1 in
100 million.
Couldn't find the odds of you dying of West Nile, but here are some stats
found on the web for the lifetime odds of dying in one way or another.
This data was collected in the U.S.
Car accident - 1 in 244
Bus accident - 1 in 57,371
Falling of the bed, a chair or furniture - 1 in 5,700
Falling down the stairs - 1 in 2,503
Firearms discharge - 1 in 4,317
Bitten or hurt by a dog - 1 in 142,279
Drowning while in or falling into a bathtub - 1 in 11,116
Hornets, wasps or bees - 1 in 82,720
Lightning - 1 in 55,578
If you take lightning, the odds are that one person in a town a little bit
bigger then Brandon, Moose Jaw or Medicine Hat
would be killed every 76 years or so.
Now, lets look at vCJD. If every man, woman and child in Moose Jaw would
eat one serving of British beef, every day, 375 days a year, it would take
830 years before one case might show up. In that much time, probably 6 or 7
people from Moose Jaw would have been killed by lightning.
So, if you're still worried about dying from eating meat, from mosquito
bites or SAR, don't ever take a bath, pet a dog, rid in a car or bus, use
the stairs or go outside when it is raining. Those things are way more
dangerous then eating beef.
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