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THE HALTON HILLS HOMESTYLE Saturday October IBM The need for education continues to be stressed helpwanted index may be down but the economic slump will not last forever Whether you are starting high school or a second career this is a good time to think about what skills will be needed most In future What will be a good thing to do for a living the next decade A few areas stand out education services health travel and leisure and financial serv ces especially retirement planning One of the best things to be in the future will be a university professor in the sciences The existing crop of professors is aging rapidly What would have been the next generation have chosen to become lawyers and investment bankers instead So ex predict there will be shortage of professors in Canada in or 15 years Women professors especially will be in strong demand as universities strive to redress staffing inequities Good areas to specialize in will be math physics chemistry and biology for example Expels in Mexico and Central and South America may also be needed EDUCATION BOOM Indeed from the universities down the demand for education and training is forecast to boom Hon will not end with graduation As well people will have to tram themselves for more than one Job Dianne Matey Your Builnett during their lifetime as the need for particular skills change Teachers of English as a second language will continue to be popular as more people choose to emigrate to Canada Spanish teachers will be needed especially if Canada joins in a continental freetrade agreement with Mexico as well as the United States Spanish alreadv is the se cond language in the United States Mutual fund salesmen should do well as should independent retire ment planners An aging and in wealthv population will lead to the need for people who offer good objective advice on retirement planning Financial planners associations in Canada and the United States offer courses that lead to certification Mutual fund salesmen also must complete a course to get their 1 As well as money the aging population will have leisure time They will want to travel But being aging baby boomers they will not settle for the package tours that have been popular in the past In stead they will want custom tours preferably with an educational com learning Spanish in San Miguel d for example or going on an dig in Israel INFORMATION BIG Also needed will be people who can make some sense of the flood of in formation that has resulted from the global marketplace The business including newspapers magazines and even television will have to become more sophist icated Executives meanwhile will find themselves unable to read the amount of published matenal that confronts them They will be more selective creating opportunities for well focused information services Many of these will be ed Subscribers of certain data bases already are able to read summaries of newspapers on their computer screens Summaries of The Globe and Mail are transmitted by fax machine In future householders may be able to pull up on their home computer screens only the subjects they want to read about Survey Completed Wednesday October MORTGAGE RATES ANNUAL INTEREST SIX MONTH ONE run mo THREE TEAR rauii YEAR FIVE TEAR TRUST COMPANIES Canada Trust 13 13 13 13 Municipal Trust NA 13 13 13 13 50 13 NRSRoyal Trust 13 13 13 13 13 CHARTERED BANKS Bank of Commerce NA 13 25 13 13 13 13 Bank of Montreal 13 13 13 13 Bank of Nova Scotia NA 13 13 13 13 Royal Bank 13 13 13 13 13 Toronto Dominion 13 13 13 13 13 13 This survey was prepared to help the Herald readers track weekly Bank and Trust Company rates Autumn superb for tree planting Many owners of older homes in cities across Canada are facing a problem with shade trees or they have a large open space where a large tree once stood In some cases older trees such as elms or huge sugar maples have died and owners though they would like to have another tree realize they dont want one that will grow as large as the original one now dead On many other properties owners see their maple birch or even elm in a state of decline and realize it is not going to be there to shade them much longer Still other home owners have a property with many large trees which do not allow enough sun through to grow any vegetables or even other than a shady flower garden Their dilemma is how to get more sun and yet still have some trees on the property for shade in specific areas such as the patio or deck The answer to all of thee tions of the same problem having to do with former or existing large shade trees according to the Cana dian Garden Council is planting new smaller trees In the case of homes which have lost huge trees recently the space left open allows for the planting of a smaller tree in the same spot or near the trunk of the older one However before planting there it is wise to consider if there is a better spot at which to site a new tree or trees as replacements If the older tree is still present and either in decline indicating it will not be around for too many more years or even if it or several such older specimens appear to be grow well it is not too early to con planting at least one new smaller tree to take over when the larger one succumbs In such cases by planting now the younger smaller tree or trees are able to be well established and achieve some impressive growth before It is necessary to remove the older specimens There is still one other scenario in which some homeowners especially of newly purchased resale homes may find themselves In this new homeowners buy a resale home because they like the house but they do not like the garden The property often overgrown with shrubs and small trees may also be dominated by one or several huge trees which allows limited choice in garden planning a shade or woodland planting While such a planting may be popular with some It will not be with those who wish to grow a wide range of vegetables and flowers such as roses lilies and other sun lovers The answer in this scenario is the removal of virtually all of the old ex garden including the huge old shade trees regardless of their con While this may appear to be committing a sin in view of all the publicity regarding the need to plant more trees homeowners who decide on this path will actually be plan ting more trees and shrubs than they are removing And the Canadian Garden Council points out that they will be planting for the future for in most cases the new plants will be helping to purify our air and moderate our climate long after the old shade trees would be dead any case However it takes a great deal of pondering and soul searching before proceeding In all the foregoing scenarios the answer is the planting of one or several tretfe and the time to plant these in virtually all cases is this Autumn In the last several decades the choice of smaller growing shade trees has improved substantially Before deciding on just what tree to plant the Canadian Garden Council suggests visiting a local arboretum city parks university campus showdisplay garden or even a public cemetery to view some of the trees that grow well in your location The next stop should be a local garden centre for further advice on the range of smaller trees available Before narrowing your choice you should consider just what type of tree you wish Choices include the ultimate size shape of the head growth habit upright weeping globe how fast the growth is special features such as unusual foliage colour flowers Autumn col fruits edible by birds and whether the shade cast is just what your garden needs There is a great variation in what are commonly called smaller trees Generally many hor might consider anything from white beam mountain ash aria which grows to a height of ten metres 35 ft down to a weeping mulberry which will never exceed three to four metres 1012 ft as a dwarf or ornamental tree The choice is wide and all possibilities should be considered If we were to take a look at some of the newer or lesser known of the smaller trees heading the list likely would be the Japanese tree lilac particularly a known as Ivory Silk and one or two newer or namental pear trees All of these trees are relatively disease and in sect free have attributes such as good growth habits ultimate heights of from to 10 metres flowers which make them live and any fruit that is produced in the case of the ornamental pears only is small about one centimetre in diameter These trees are only a small Bam pie from a fairly lengthy list of dwarf or ornamental trees worth considering for all of the reasons The Canadian Garden Council recommends a visit to your favourite garden centre or nursery for advice on which of the smaller trees are hardy in your area Autumn is a superb season for the planting of trees and now is the time to prepare to plane or or several trees at your home Behavioral conditioning may help body resist diseases ByJOHNEBERLEE A University of Toronto im- munologist has show that the brains perception of sensations can in fluence the bodys ability to resist in vasion by foreign tissues Using behavioural conditioning a standard technique of psychological research Dr Reginald trained mice to associate a certain flavour with Impaired immunity In doing so he found he could prolong their ability to accept skin grafts Normally drugs that suppress the immune system which protects the body against infection are necessary to prevent the bodys re jecting foreign tissue such as transplanted organs The logical next step is to see behavioural conditioning techniques can be applied to human transplant recipients in hopes of reducing their need for immunosup pressive drugs says GorczynskJ Although essential to the survival of transplant recipients long term use of these drugs can prove dangerous known side effects range from hair loss and gastrointestinal upsets to kidney failure and cancer In conducting his research Gore borrowed from Ivan Pavlov the famous Russian physiologist and Dr Robert Ader a University of Rochester psychologist Pavlov the first scientist to use behavioural conditioning trained dogs to salivate In response to the ringing of dinner bells Decades later Ader accidentally conditioned mice to associate saccharineflavoured water with in jections of cyclophosphamide an immunosuppressive drug Weeks after the mice were taken off the drug was astonished to find that sweetened water by itself could lowera mouses Immunity Gorczynskis mice like Aders were given sweetened water along with cyclophosphamide before receiving their skin grafts Follow the transplant operations the mice were given regular doses of saccharine but no more presants By using conditioning we got them to accept the grafts for 25 to 30 days reports Nor mally mice reject grafts in only IS to 12 days He Bays its not entirely clear how an animals perception of flavour can influence its Immune system so dramatically However scientists have pinpointed a number of chemicals that may communicate messages between sensory centres in the brain and the immune system The basic science is only now be ing unravelled but it appears theres a lot of crosstalk going on Gorc- says Chemicals once thought to be specific to the brain are now being found in the immune system and vice versa These chemical interconnections also appear to exist in humans Logically it may be possible to con dition people immune responses like those of the experimental mice Gorczynski speculates that people may even someday learn how to con sciously regulate their immunity just as they can now regulate Mood pressure using biofeedback tedini ques The problem is finding some way of monitoring the immune system so individuals know immediately whether their thoughts are having an impact There aren t too many immune responses we know of that change as quickly as blood pressure he says