I've added three horizontal bars to make it a little easier to separate one post from the next, but can't seem to find a better way to do it (eg these bars are before the comments link).

Also, I will generally be finished updating any given day's post by 7pm.

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1.) http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070924.w2myanmar0924/BNStory/International/home
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Burmese_anti-government_protests

I saw that the front page of the Globe and Mail today had a beautiful photo of monks and nuns at the Shwedagon Pagoda, praying before they march. It's unbelievable that this is happening in a country (Myanmar) in which if you speak against the government you are apparently likely to disappear. I hope for the best for these people.

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2.) http://wc06.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:348416

David Cronenberg's newest movie, released ten days ago; two years since A Brief History of Violence. Eastern Promises.

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3.) My coworker has informed me that current issues are being emphasized more in public school and at younger grades. Her kids have studied women in Afghanistan and there was a unit done on Tibet.

What else is happening in public school?:
http://healthyschools.sd61.bc.ca/pdf/HSCInitiatives.pdf
http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2005-2009/2007EDU0113-001078.htm
http://www.sd61.bc.ca/edsrvs/Discrimination_Committee/May_16th_2007_Homophobia_Day.pdf
http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/irp.htm
(This last URL links to the Curriculum information from the BC Government's Ministry of Education.)

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4.) The term diabetes (Greek: διαβήτης) was coined by Aretaeus of Cappadocia. It is derived from the Greek word διαβαίνειν, diabaínein that literally means "passing through," or "siphon", a reference to one of diabetes' major symptoms—excessive urine production. In 1675, Thomas Willis added the word mellitus, from the Latin meaning "honey", a reference to the sweet taste of the urine. This sweet taste had been noticed in urine by the ancient Greeks, Chinese, Egyptians, and Indians. In 1776, Matthew Dobson confirmed that the sweet taste was because of an excess of a kind of sugar in the urine and blood of people with diabetes.

The ancient Indians tested for diabetes by observing whether ants were attracted to a person's urine, and called the ailment "sweet urine disease" (Madhumeha). The Korean, Chinese, and Japanese words for diabetes are based on the same ideographs (糖尿病) which mean "sugar urine disease".

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetes#Terminology

and:

The discovery of a role for the pancreas in diabetes is generally ascribed to Joseph von Mering and Oskar Minkowski, who in 1889 found that dogs whose pancreas was removed developed all the signs and symptoms of diabetes and died shortly afterwards.

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetes#History

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