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The article offers information on the Canadian Meat Council, which represents federally registered meat packers and processors in the country. Topics discussed include the council helps and advocates to secure and improve the global meat competitiveness of the country and the three priorities of the council include member services, regulation, and international trade.

Rational Decision-Making (RDM) models, which focus on individuals' cognitions and attitudes. have been applied to the explanation of HIV/AIDS risk behaviour. The concept of rational choice which underpins RDM models has, however, been found to be inadequate to explain young people's sexual risk-taking behaviour. The current paper uses primarily qualitative data from a study of HIV/AIDS risk behaviour among young drug injectors to explore whether or not needle sharing behaviour could be explained by RDM models. In general, we found it could not: some young injectors, despite knowing that HIV can be transmitted through needle sharing and thai AIDS is fatal, continued to share needles. It was clear, however, that behaviour that appeared irrational from the perspective of RDM models, was not irrational from the perspective of the actors. The paper concludes with a plea for health promotion and education to be based on understandings of injecting risk behaviour which address all the individual, cultural and societal constraints that operate to prevent young injectors from acting safely.

The paradigm of simulated annealing is applied to the problem of drawing graphs “nicely.” Our algorithm deals with general undirected graphs with straight-line edges, and employs several simple criteria for the aesthetic quality of the result. The algorithm is flexible, in that the relative weights of the criteria can be changed. For graphs of modest size it produces good results, competitive with those produced by other methods, notably, the “spring method” and its variants.

The article provides information on the Sandusky Library and Archives Research Center in Ohio. The Sandusky Library has served the community for more than a century. The first library building, opened in 1901, included an Historical Room, housing documents and artifacts describing Sandusky and its people. The Archives Research Center holds significant collections of original documents and artifacts describing the history of Sandusky and Erie County, and the lives of people from the community.

Presents a letter to the editor in response to the article "Failing to spread the wealth," in the August 27, 2005 issue.