From July 14th

From “Crime in Minneapolis” from 1977, Most purse snatches occurred on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Most business robberies occurred on Tuesdays and Fridays, while personal robberies peaked on Saturdays. 60% of personal robberies, 54% of purse snatches and 70% of business robberies occurred between 3 pm and midnight. Nearly a quarter of all business robberies occurred in November. 15% of purse snatches occurred in December and another in 15% in February. 97.8% of suspects were male and almost always between the ages of 18 and 25.
77% of all commercial burglary occurs at hotels/motels, followed by office buildings (28%), banks (12%), schools (11%) and jewelry stores (11%).

From “Publisher’s Weekly, June 5, 2006”: “More vampire fiction has been written in the last 30 years than in the 200 years preceding it. Once a subgenre of horror fiction, the vampire tale has become a genre in its own right, with its own imaginative subcategories, branchings and cross-genre fusings.”

From NYPG copy on “Land Use Planning Report” by the Minnesota State Planning Agency.
In the 590 field (local note): Gave up hope of more.
Sad! They gave up hope!

From Public Interest Litigation : Shahla Zia vs WAPDA:
“It went on to report one US researcher found that electrical utility workers were 13 times more likely to develop brain tumors than the rest of the population. A Midlands doctor discovered a higher than average rate of depression and suicide in people living near electric power cables.”
“For while research clearly demonstrates that electromagnetic fields can affect such processes as bone growth, communication between brain cells, even the activity of white blood cells, it also shows that weak fields sometimes have greater effects than strong ones.”
A doctor researched magnetic field exposure of people living in multi-story buildings (9 stories or more) with a single rising cable. Those that lived closer to the cable had significantly more cases of hypertension, heart disease and depression.
Regarding the question of why exposure to magnetic fields (such as through power lines) would cause leukemia:
“According to basic physical principles, magnetic fields can produce electric fields in any material that conducts electricity. Because cells can conduct electricity, external magnetic fields can generate an electric field across the cell membrane. These changes in the cell membrane may cause abnormal biochemical reactions in the cells, which may result in increased rates of cell division leading to the establishment of cancer.


From a recent survey conducted by BizRate Research for Shopzilla:
After restaurants, bookstores are the second most popular place to meet a blind date.
The most popular venue for reading is in the home. Next is while on vacation, followed by being on a plane.
3% of survey respondents say they read to make themselves look more intelligent.

I finally finished most of the duller committee reports. I’m now in the criminal section, so that’s been a little more interesting. (My next monograph is: The effect of the availability of community residential alternatives to state incarceration on sentencing practices: the social control issues by the Minnesota Dept. of Corrections.)