New Posts on News Junkie Canada & 'Unbiased' Media? VEGF & Heart Attacks, Gay Marriage

There are two compilations on News Junkie Canada for January 20, 05.

Compilation 2: Polygamy-Same Sex 'Marriage', Terror Threats-Border, UNSCAM-Reid Morden, Tsunami Arrivals-Medical Care, Iraqi Reality

Compilation 1: Tamil Terrorists, Sgro's Accuser-Whistleblowers, Terrorism-Montreal School, Justices-Free Speech, Pipeline Decision-JC's Legacy?


Update:

* Links from The Shotgun -- 'unbiased' media?
* Just one tablet a day could keep heart attacks away -- Breakthrough to prevent arteries from clogging up -- vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)
* Making your bed is a health hazard -- Study says mites love tucked-in sheets
* Calgary bishop wants government to act against gays -- actually gay "marriage" -- for the good of children and families
* A quick mind and a sense of humor

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Links from The Shotgun

(Other CBC related, exclusively Liberal contributors from the news and entertainment industry - Canadian Television Fund , Salter Street Films Limited and Torstar Corporation .)

UPDATE: Zerbtesias in the Star:

Among the fun facts for media watchers, a $557.64 contribution to the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in 2003 by — hunh? — CBC Radio and thousands to the Liberals by CanWest's David Asper and Bell Globemedia's Ivan Fecan.

"Unbiased" media -- of course.




Just one tablet a day could keep heart attacks away -- Breakthrough to prevent arteries from clogging up -- vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)

Just one tablet a day could keep heart attacks away Robin McKie, science editor, January 9, 2005, The Observer

Scientists are developing a pill to stop people suffering heart attacks and strokes. The drug would be taken regularly by middle-aged men and women to prevent their arteries clogging up or developing fatal blockages in later life.

[. . . . ] The group - whose work was recently highlighted at the European Commission's Descartes Prize awards in Prague - has concentrated on a substance called vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), a natural body chemical that stops arterial cell division.

Sometimes, however, VEGF does not act quickly enough and too many cells are produced. These form mounds inside the artery. Cholesterol floating through arteries sticks to the mounds. White blood cells also get trapped there.

The mound turns into a major blockage, the artery closes, and eventually a stroke or a heart attack is triggered.

'The root of the problem lies with those initial mounds,' said Yla-Herttuala. 'If we stop the mounds in the first place, then cholesterol will have nothing to stick to and no blockages will occur.' [. . . . ]

Making your bed is a health hazard -- Study says mites love tucked-in sheets

Making your bed is a health hazard National Post, Jan. 19, 05

LONDON - A messy bed may be good for your health, according to a British study that says unmade beds discourage the dust mites that have been linked to asthma, hay fever and skin diseases.

The study says the tiny creatures thrive in moist and warm conditions, most likely to be found in a bed with taut sheets and tucked-in blankets, but they cannot survive in the dry conditions created by airing the bed. [. . . . ]

Finally, justification.




Calgary bishop wants government to act against gays -- actually gay "marriage"

Calgary bishop wants government to act against gays Jan. 17, 05, CBC

[. . . . ] "Since homosexuality, adultery, prostitution and pornography undermine the foundations of the family, the basis of society, then the state must use its coercive power to proscribe or curtail them in the interests of the common good," Bishop Frederick Henry said in a pastoral letter. [. . . . ]

There are other links on the CBC site.




A quick mind and a sense of humour -- "police car recordings"

Thanks, JK, for a chuckle.

The following conversations were taken from actual police car recordings
around the country:

"Relax, the handcuffs are tight because they're new. They'll stretch out
after you wear them for awhile."

"If you run, you'll only go to jail tired."

"So you don't know how fast you were going. I guess that means I can
write anything I want on the ticket, huh?"

"Warning? You want a warning? O.K., I'm warning you not to do that again
or I'll give you another ticket."

"Just how big were those two beers, fellah?"

"No sir we don't have quotas anymore. We used to have quotas but now
we're allowed to write as many tickets as we want."

"I'm glad to hear the Chief of Police is a good personal friend of yours. At least you know someone who can post your bail."

"You didn't think we give tickets to pretty women ? You're right, we don't. Sign here."