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Page Saturday ll Hills newspaper of Hills Division of Canadian Newspapers Company 1 at Street Ontario I 711J law Mail ItcRMerrd PUB Don Itowrio ADVERTISING MO It Paul HI lit- SI- NT Sharon lath Mike Ilium Outlook Thieves respond to economic flows Business mfi us Iness Ana ly t TtiomsonNewi Service Thieves respond to the ebb and flow of the economy in surprising ways Statistics Canada numbers In and I960 as the boom gathered momentum thieves broke into people homes in pre Rented numbers Break ins It that thieves feel less com stealing from other people when the economy Is on a roil and there wealth a plenty When times Bet tough many leave their neighbors alone focusing Instead on business which they seem to believe has more to spare Break and enter offences as Statical calls them have tripled over the past years and most of them occur in private homes alarm systems ore big business one of the lowest rates of break and entry In the country which goes to show bow much perception over shadows reality NORTH On a per capita basis break ins were worst In the Northwest Ter ritories In the latest year for which numbers are available Statscan says The territories fereci at a rate of break ins for every 100 population Next came British Columbia with a rate of 16S per 100 population followed by the Yukon and Manitoba The lowest break in rates belonged to Newfoundland with break Ins for every loo population and Prince Edward Island with 837 Of 17 Cities surveyed Vancouver topped Ihe list of B E In with a rale of offences for every 100 people Stolscan says Victoria was hard on Its heels with 1G6 followed by with Quebec City Saskatoon and Winnipeg Big bad Toronto ranks down there second to lost with a mere 1 rating out done only by St John with Things were worse in Edmonton with a rote of Ottawa with Halifax i Charlottetown 1444 and Frederick ton WHILE CATS AWAY says most break Ins take place during weekdays when people are at work Thirty six per cent of B i and E victims do not report the crime because the offence is loo minor or because Ihey believe the police can not do anything about it which is often the case Break Ins cost Insurance com more than million In for property loss damages says The agency blamed burgeoning break ins on social changes that have resulted In entire family go ing off to work and on expensive relatively portable consumer Roods Berrys World LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND INFAMOUS can buy a lot of Pampers These have made break and enter a more profitable crime says Berrys World Yitzhak let me tell you about TRADING LAND FOR PEACE eirs View By Ian Weir Thomson New Service It Is of course a myth that our so ciety offers equal opportunities tooll Oh we all like to talk about principles It nice for Instance to be able to soy that practically any body can become prime minister The cynics might add that practically any body does But the plain fact Is that precious few of us have any chance of growing up to be which doesn bother us rruch since so few of us really want to be anyway It much belter to have a rela live became prime minister so you can get appointed to the Senate I digress The point is that the mental inequities in our society can be come depressing and demoralizing To cite a particularly demoralizing example if this is supposed to be such an egalitarian society then how come the rest of us never had the chance to apply for the position of Duke of York The truth is that one of my earliest ambitions was to become a member of the British Royal Family This would have ensured that I was much belter treated at home I can recall protesting my on occasions when I was being par ill treated that Prince Charles was never forced to clean his stupid room before he could go out and play My mothers reaction was that Prince Charles did live in this particular house which as Tar I was concerned was a lucky thing for Prince Charles This sort of confrontation gradually made meobondon my Royal ambitions Ifl win fair treatment from my mother by becoming Pjinccjtf Wales then 1 would become a rest her instead In any case these childhood longings for Royalty come flooding back just laslwcek The annual stipend of Andrew which more than doubled after he married and became Duke of York is now deemed insufficient to meet his expenses So he has just been handed a further increase bringing his annual salary to Well a family man Involves increased expen dltures But let be realistic Two grand buys a whole lot of Pam pers Let even concede the fact that It probably costs more to run a Duke family than a regular family The Duchess needs nice clothes and If family finances gel tight you con t really expect her to host parties Their children will need spend ing money and it highly unlikely that any of them will ever lake on a paper All the same do you know of anyone else who has been offered a raise to a year Just for gel ting married Personally I been engaged for more than three months and the editor has yet to mention the words two hun dred thousand to Now it that this has just slipped his mind and that he a meaning to get round to It but one does not hold one breath Let face it you don need ooo to get married After a few years it might take to persuade you to STAY married but this Is another mot And this brings us bock to the heart of the Issue If there arc actually jobs that offer 000 per annum for getting married Ihen why don t the rest of us chance tonpply for them To put it bluntly was his job posted in the Careers section of The Globe and And if only I were Duke of York had to be added she t bo able to make do the laundry The wonder of weight With all the advances in modern science and nutrition I still have to wonder if health agencies have caught up with modem health habits The Regional Health Deportment has released a body weight formula chart as a part of its Healthy Weight in 88 campaign The chart gives a formula for healthy body weight called the Body Moss Index The index plots a chart which helps you find out if you re in the danger zone The formula works tike this You take your weight in kilograms multiply your weight in pounds by to find that out and divide It by your height in metres squared your height in metres times Itself That gives you your BMI rating A Body Mass Index rating of is set boundaries for healthy weights Between Is the caution area above you re dead almost Sounds fair enough right In many cases its bunk I suppose it okay to use charts like this lo come up with a very general Idea of body weight sometimes But should be taken any more seriously than wilh passing in I ve seen many different charts wilh body weight ranges for height ranges Some actually take your bone structure into cons lion Hurray for them It so start But there too many exceptions The formula virtually eliminates anyone who touches weights with any regularity When you lift weights you get heavier Muscle you see is heavier than fat Then you don fit Into the proper category Relax proponents say It on ly a guideline That very Irue Many won fit into these ca t It would be fine and dandy If it ended there But some organizations actually take these things seriously Some insurance companies use these charts lo determine health risks Tor life insurance In some cases the results are ab surd A couple of years back a male steward on an airline In he United Slates was told he had to lose 40 pounds or his job He t have a pound of excess bodyfat on him In fact he was probably In better shape lhan per cent of the people in North America He was a bodybuilder He appealed he insurance com a decision and losl They stuck to the charts According to that I at 93 and dying quickly At five feet eleven Inches I weight about pounds Hefty you might say But I too hit the weights much of that weight is dare I say It not Tat but muscle I sure because I m currently in what known in weight ting circles as the bulking up phase that probably got my fair share of bodyfot But lifting weights two hours a day five days a week and eating a bit more certainly put my health in jeopardy as the suggests If you really want to find if you re in shape go for a run around the block then go home and have a lookin mirror