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For the second time in less than two weeks, an employee of a northwest suburban Libertyville spa has been arrested on prostitution charges.
In early January, police received a complaint from a Lake County resident that he was propositioned at the Dragon Spa at 402 Peterson Rd. in Libertyville, according to a Libertyville police release.
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text: Today is Melville Louis Kossuth (Melvil) Dewey's birthday. He was born December 10, 1851. Dewey is best remembered for inventing the Dewey Decimal System [1], which is a book organization system. The Belk Library's Instructional Material's Center, which mirrors a K-12 school libary, uses this system. The library's main stacks use the Library of Congress Classifcation System [2]. He also helped found the American Library Association, and was interested in simplfying spelling.


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Udall's stamp of approval aided EARTHWORKS mining reform fight
By Michael McCloskey
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Michael McCloskey, cofounded EARTHWORKS (then Mineral Policy Center) with Stewart Udall and Phil Hocker. He also was EARTHWORKS' board chair from 1997 to 2001, and Sierra Club executive director from 1969-1987. He writes:
I had known Stewart Udall from the time when he was Secretary of the Interior under President Kennedy. During Kennedy's time, he embodied a surge of optimism that Kennedy's presidency would usher in a new wave of progress on conservation, particularly in protecting nature.
While things did not always work out that way, especially after Kennedy's demise, nonetheless Udall carried the mantle of that period of hope into his future life.
We were delighted when he agreed to give his stamp of approval when the Mineral Policy Center was formed and become its chairman. When he had been Interior Secretary, he emphasized the importance of reforming the mining act of 1872 and gave that hope historical stature.
I heartily agreed and served with him from the outset and was delighted to renew my acquaintance with him. In his mind, I was always an environmental lobbyist, who was up-to-date on events on the hill. His attitude reminded me of the times I was in his office when he was Interior Secretary and what an exciting time it was.
He had a long and productive life and did important work, both writing books and working as a lawyer in the southwest trying to reform and improve things. But in my mind, I will always think of him as the idealistic Secretary of the Interior who was devoted to reforming the mining laws. We shall miss him.
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A bride-to-be and three friends were today injured when a hotel balcony collapsed and they fell 12ft.
The hotel owner was also hurt after he invited the four women on to the refurbished bridal suite's balcony, which then gave way.
Jack McDaid, boss of the Casa Del Lago Hotel in Brighouse, West Yorkshire, suffered head injuries.
He was flown by air ambulance to Leeds General Infirmary while the women were taken by road to Huddersfield Royal Infirmary.
An ambulance service spokesman said today: "All sustained serious injuries but none are believed life-threatening at this time."
A hotel source said: "It was a local girl who is planning her wedding and she wanted to see the new suite.
"The owner was showing the girls the balcony when it came crashing down. The girls were screaming."
Sam Holmes, general manager of the hotel, said: "After an unfortunate incident today all persons involved are receiving professional care.
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China's extraordinary historical treasures are under threat from increasingly aggressive and sophisticated tomb raiders. The thieves use dynamite and even bulldozers to break into the deepest chambers, and night vision goggles and oxygen canisters to search them. The size and value of the relics demonstrates the audacity of the raiders - last year, Chinese authorities recovered a 27-tonne sarcophagus stolen from Xi'an and shipped to the USA.
"Before, China had a large number of valuable ancient tombs and although it was really depressing to see a tomb raided, it was still possible to run into a similar one in the future," said Professor Wei Zheng, an archaeologist at Peking University. "Nowadays too many have been destroyed. Once one is raided, it is really difficult to find a similar one. Archaeologists are now simply chasing after tomb raiders."
With thousands of sites - many in remote locations - the scope of China's heritage poses a particular challenge. The problem became worse as China's economy opened up, with domestic and international collectors creating a huge market for thieves. One researcher estimated that 100,000 people were involved in the trade nationally.
Luo Xizhe of the Shaanxi provincial cultural relics bureau told China Daily: "If we don't take immediate and effective steps to protect these artefacts, there will be none of these things left to protect in 10 years." Police have already stepped up their campaign against the criminals and the government is devoting extra resources to protecting sites and tracing offenders. This year it set up a national information centre to tackle such crimes.
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Abortion is becoming something of a theme at the Venice film festival. The screening of Mike Leigh's Vera Drake, the story of an abortionist in 1950s London, was enthusiastically received here this week. Now Todd Solondz's Palindromes has provoked controversy and bafflement.
Featuring references to foetuses in dustbins, images of placard-waving campaigners and even a gruesome sequence in which an abortionist and his child are assassinated, the film wades into what is one of the most contentious debates in the US election campaign.
Hollywood, Solondz said, didn't want to go near such incendiary material, so the director ended up bankrolling Palindromes himself. "This movie was made for very little money ... nobody would touch it," he said.
As ever, Solondz, director of Happiness and Storytelling, takes a quizzical approach to his subject matter. The heroine is a 12-year-old girl who longs to be a mum. When Aviva sleeps with an obese neighbour, her own mother (Ellen Barkin) insists on the pregnancy being terminated. Aviva then runs away from home. She ends up staying with Mama Sunshine, a loving Christian matriarch who has adopted dozens of disabled children. Mama Sunshine will do anything to protect an unborn child - even kill. Disconcertingly, Aviva is played by actors of different ages, races and sizes: two women, four teenage girls, one 12-year-old boy and one six-year-old girl.
Solondz argues that the debate around abortion in the US has long since ossified, so that little dialogue is possible. . In Palindromes, he shows "a pro-choice family which gives no choice to the child and a pro-life family which kills. Somewhere between the two, Aviva is suspended."
Is he pro-choice himself? It certainly seems that way.
"They [the pro-life movement] have been winning the war for a long time," he said, referring to the bombing of abortion clinics in the US and the harassment of doctors who perform abortions.
"In our country, we have ... this movement which is just growing exponentially and creating its own base to set policy. And what sets policy in the US of course has ramifications throughout the world."
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Melvin Snyder was last seen in May 1985 at his home near Greencastle, Pa. His truck was found in a parking lot in Reistertown, Maryland, two days later.
His body was never found, but his neighbour, Ronald Harshman was developed as a suspect when police learned Harshman had an affair with Snyder's wife the prior year. Charges were not filed, however, when police were unable to find a body or other evidence that Snyder had actually been killed.
The case was dormant for 15 years even though police said they suspected Harshman of killing Snyder.
Then in 2000, police uncovered a spent shell casing from a .25-caliber gun on the property where Harshman once lived. The shell casing matched one found in Snyder's barn immediately after his disappearance. Based on that evidence, Harshman and Snyder's ex-wife, Joan Snyder Hall, were charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Charges against Hall were dropped a few days before Harshman's trial began.
Ronald Harshman was found guilty of the first-degree murder of Melvin Snyder in 2001.
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In the media uproar and rush to be vaccinated against Swine Flu or H1N1 there is a quiet discussion about exactly what are the deadly ingredients in these vaccinations. Many parents, rightly so, are concerned about the levels of Thimerosal and the potential for mercury poisoning that some blame for autism in some vaccines. While there may be Thimerosal-free vaccines available, most of the first shipments of the H1N1 vaccine apparently contain very high levels of Thimerosal. To vaccinate a child in the face of some statistics showing autism rates of 1.4% for children today, versus virtually zero before widespread vaccinations programs began, gives one pause for concern. What is even more disturbing to those in the pro-life movement is the knowledge that these vaccines designed to prevent the flu are possibly tainted with the tissues from voluntarily aborted babies.
To date, according to a multiple sources, dozens of the vaccines used by Americans today are contaminated with human diploid cells; the tissues derived from the cells of voluntarily aborted babies. What is even more alarming is there are no laws to require that people be informed as to which vaccines have these tainted tissues as their root base and which do not. Vaccine makers, attempting to get around what they know to be controversial information, label their ingredients in such a way to mask the fact that there are cells from electively aborted babies in the formulation of their vaccines.
What is a pro-life parent or person to do? Catholic experts give conflicting information at best. The Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, who serves as the Director of Education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia, says parents may vaccinate their children with these tainted vaccines because by doing so, "they are not involved in any illicit form of cooperation with the original abortion."
Further Father Pasholczyk explains that parents who use these tainted vaccines should educate themselves and others about the facts of their origination. They should demand that alternatives and morally-derived vaccines be developed. But in the end he says, "Parents may vaccinate their children because vaccinations are critical to preventing serious, life-threatening diseases and to safeguarding large segments of the population from cataclysmic disease outbreaks and epidemics."
Do all of the nearly two dozen vaccines contaminated by voluntarily aborted babies rise to a "cataclysmic level" as Father Pasholczyk suggests? For many baby-boomer parents, mumps, measles and chicken pox were almost a rite of passage. In fact, there is a growing school of thought in medicine that these childhood illnesses help to strengthen a child's immune system for later in life. Ironic to think that the very vaccines designed to prevent these illnesses now, tainted with the blood of electively aborted babies, may be producing a new generation of children with weakened immune systems.
Remember that Father Pasholczyk is not speaking for the Magisterium of the Catholic Church when he tells parents that it's okay to use tainted vaccines. From Rome, we have a different Catholic perspective, in a letter from Bishop Elio Sgreccia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life to Mrs. Debra Vinnedge, executive director, Children of God for Life in July, 2005. Bishop Sgreccia says that Catholics have "a grave responsibility to use alternative vaccines and to make a conscientious objection with regard to those which have moral problems. The lawfulness of the use of these vaccines should not be misinterpreted as a declaration of the lawfulness of their production, marketing and use, but is to be understood as being a passive material cooperation (emphasis added) and, in its mildest and remotest sense, also active material cooperation , morally justified as an "extrema ratio" due to the necessity to provide for the good of one's children and of the people who come in contact with the children — especially pregnant women. Such cooperation occurs in a context of moral coercion of the conscience of parents, who are forced to choose to act against their conscience or otherwise, to put the health of their children and of the population as a whole at risk. This is an unjust alternative choice, which must be eliminated as soon as possible."
So what is a pro-life Catholic to do? We are left simply with the lesser of two evils. Either we participate in (at least) "passive material cooperation" to abortion or decide to take our chances and not vaccinate our children, hoping that if they do catch one of these illnesses our modern American medical system can provide care for a full recovery. And yet, even those in the pro-life movement who decide a "passive material cooperation" is their moral choice are left with some other rather startling information.
It is clear, with the power of the pharmaceutical lobby and the present leadership of the U.S. government, there is going to be no effort to "force" vaccine manufacturers to create vaccines that are not tainted with the blood of voluntarily aborted babies. And to complicate the matter even further, in nearly all current vaccines products there is a statement that declares there is residual DNA in their formulation. Each new vaccine is a virtual cocktail that contains ingredients built from the ingredients made in the last one. Trying to even discern which vaccines are truly "abortion-free" may be impossible to tell.
According to Dr. Theresa Deisher president of the Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute (SCPI), as well development director for Ave Maria Biotechnology Company, which promotes pro-life biotechnology, it may not be Thimerosal in vaccines that parents, concerned about autism, need to worry about, but, in fact, the residual DNA from the tissues of voluntarily aborted babies. In an article Dr. Deisher wrote for the SCPI June, 2009 newsletter she said:
There are groups researching the potential link between this DNA and autoimmune diseases such as juvenile (type I) diabetes, multiple sclerosis and lupus. Our organization, (SCPI), is focused on studying the quantity, characteristics and genomic recombination of the aborted fetal DNA found in many of our vaccines. Preliminary bioinformatics research conducted at SCPI indicates that "hot spots" for DNA recombination are found in nine autism-associated genes present on the X chromosome. These nine genes are involved in nerve-cell synapse formation, central nervous system development and mitochondrial function. Could genomic insertion of the aborted fetal DNA, found in some of our childhood vaccines since 1979, be an environmental trigger for autism? Could the fact that genes critical for nerve synapse formation and nervous system development found on the X chromosome, provide some explanation of why autism is predominantly a disease found in boys? Could the "hot spots" identified in these autism-associated genes be sites for insertion of contaminating aborted fetal DNA?
These are the questions just now being look into by the same organizations and research firms, like the National Vaccine Advisory Committee, that assured us that Thimerosal was not the link between vaccines and autism. In the meantime, good pro-life people will have to decide between the lesser of two evils: Whether to have "passive material cooperation" and allow ourselves to be immunized with vaccines known to be tainted with the tissues from electively aborted babies, or take our chances that we won't get these diseases or viruses.
Although H1N1 makes this issue especially relevant, it is not a new one. As far as 1994 at the Catholic Bishops conference of England and Wales, religious leaders prepared a report on this very same subject which called vaccine use of voluntarily aborted babies,"a kind of evil which is widespread in biomedical research and which people rightly think they should combat when they can…the practice of medicine is being made parasitic on the evils of abortion and fetal experimentation."
Fifteen years ago they called on Catholics to refuse vaccination as "one way of seeking to turn medicine from a course which will increasingly subvert people's confidence in it." For many of us, we cannot "passively materially cooperate" in the killing of the unborn and so refusing to vaccinate is our only choice. Maybe if enough pro-lifers took this stand, we could turn medicine from its course of continuing to kill and using the unborn to save the rest of us.


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But his wife, Tanja Macken, says: "His German was not that good when we met. He chatted me up in English."
They married in February last year and now live in married quarters in Fallingbostel, not far from Hannover. Their daughter Zoe was born in May.
Tanja says: "My sister, Anke, was married to a Dutch soldier and my family didn't have a problem with me marrying a British soldier."
Since they have been together Corporal Macken, who serves in the 2nd Battalion Royal Tank Regiment (2RTR), has been posted to Cyprus, Kosovo and Iraq.
When they are separated the couple communicate by phone, letter or a system of Army e-mails known as "e-blueys".
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Like all army wives Tanja was left behind and had to learn to cope on her own.
But she says: "A lot of my friends were married to soldiers so I knew what I was letting myself in for."
It was especially hard for Tanja last year when Jan's regiment was among those which invaded Iraq as part of Operation Telic.
She says: "I was terribly worried that he might be injured or something. The e-blueys were very good. They only took two or three days to arrive whereas letters were taking two weeks.
"I was very relieved when he eventually came home."
"We go to each other's houses or meet in the family centre and we take it in turns to babysit," says Tanja.
The director of the Army Families Federation in Germany, Claire Bascopé, said: "As far as I'm concerned if you're an Army wife, you're an Army wife whether you're British, German or whatever."
Mrs Bascopé, whose husband is in the Royal Logistics Corps in Osnabruck, said: "I have a few German friends and I don't see them any differently. The majority of German wives get along just fine."
Like father like son
Jan was born in Germany when his father, Phil, was serving with REME in Detmold.
He says: "When I was younger I had German friends and more or less grew up with them.
"People in the UK reckon that Germans are arrogant and don't have a sense of humour but that's not true. You come over here and travel around and get more broad-minded."
Under German law it is forbidden to hang washing out on Sundays or wash your car in the street.
The Mackens plan to bring up Zoe bilingually but have not yet decided where to educate her.
Zoe may end up going to school in England as 2RTR are due to move to Tidworth camp on Salisbury Plain next year - after 12 years in Germany.
Tanja says: "I will go where Jan goes and if that means going to England then so be it."


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Specialists of Russia's Mission Control Center raised the orbit altitude of the International Space Station (ISS) in the early hours of Sunday to prevent a possible collision with a Chinese satellite fragment, a spokesman for the Center said.
"The maneuver was performed using Zvezda service module engines," the spokesman said.
The altitude of the ISS orbit was raised by 1.7 kilometers to 391.6 kilometers, he said, adding that the maneuver lasted 64 seconds.
NASA earlier reported on its website that 32 hours after Russia's Progress-M-14M docks with the ISS - which occurred at 4.08 am Moscow time (00:08 GMT) on Saturday - a fragment of the Chinese Fengyun-1C weather satellite is likely to pass in dangerous proximity to the space station.
The satellite fragment approached the ISS several times in the past, most recently on January 24, but there was no need to change the station's altitude at that time, the spokesman said.
The aging Fengyun-1C satellite was destroyed in 2007 during Chinese anti-satellite missile tests. Thousands of its fragments have since remained in orbit.
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NEW YORK, Sep 10, 2013 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) has assigned senior long-term and short-term debt ratings of BBB+ and K2, respectively, to SunTrust Banks, Inc. (SunTrust), a bank holding company. In addition, KBRA has assigned a long-term rating of A- and short-term rating of K1 to the deposits of the parent's lead subsidiary, SunTrust Bank (Bank). This rating was not solicited by SunTrust Bank and the bank did not participate in the ratings process.
The outlook on all ratings is stable. The ratings are based on SunTrust's sound financial fundamentals, as evidenced by continued improvements in asset quality, healthy capital levels and an improving earnings trend. The ratings also reflect the organization's amplified focus on wholesale banking, its notable concentration in nonperforming residential mortgages, and the Bank's geographic concentration in the southeastern region, which was relatively weakened by the crisis.
This rating is based on publicly available information and utilizes KBRA's Global Bank and Bank Holding Company Rating Methodology, published on May 2, 2013.
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KBRA was established in 2010 by Jules Kroll to restore trust in credit ratings by creating new standards for assessing risk and by offering accurate, clear and transparent ratings. KBRA is registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization (NRSRO). In addition, KBRA is recognized by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) as a Credit Rating Provider (CRP).
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"After eight years in the black, this year, it won't happen."
That was the stern dose of reality Henry County Judge-Executive John Logan Brent delivered to the Henry County Fiscal Court as it gathered April 28 for the first reading of the 2011-2012 budget.
According to the 2011 FFA shirts, the Henry County High School FFA is about Tractor Day, muddy trucks and the FFA. And on Thursday, May 5, they showed what they were about in greens, reds and yellows across new and old makes and models of tractors.
Delayed by a couple of days, the students had crystal clear weather as they made the annual tractor parade from 4 Seasons BP to the parking lot of Henry County High School, where their fellow students waited to cheer them on.
The goal to provide better nutrition for the most vulnerable segments of the population starts with fresh produce "from apples to zucchini."
So says Tamara Sandberg, executive director of the Kentucky Association of Food Banks.
Capstone Produce Auction owner David Neville also has been looking for a way to help narrow that gap.
Two adults and two children squeeze into the family's gas-saving compact car and head for an evening at the Louisville multiplex theaters nearest to Henry County.
What will it cost?
In dollars, roundtrip gas could run about $10 plus at least $32 for movie tickets. Then there's the popcorn and drinks. If the grown-ups split a large and the little ones each have their own small (they don't share quietly) the concession stand collects about $18.
That adds up to $60... not including sales tax.
Hayden Hughes
Hayden Hughes is a Henry County High School junior who admits he can't possibly keep track of all his activities both in and outside of school.
It took him a few seconds to recall the subjects of two essays he wrote for his application to the Governor's Scholars program this summer. "I try to get all that stressful stuff out of the way," he said, "and then forget about it."
He and Casey Davis were chosen from this years crop of juniors for the prestigious five-week program.
Court Appointed Special Advocates of the River Region serving Henry, Oldham and Trimble Counties is proud to announce the 1st CASA Walk: A Walk for Kids in Need. The CASA Walk is a family-friendly, three-mile event to support the CASA mission, which is to support and promote volunteer advocacy for abused and neglected children. The walk will begin at 9 a.m., Saturday, May 14, at Seven Counties Services (2141 Spencer Court) in La Grange. Participants can pre-register by visiting www.casarr.org/walk. Event-day registration begins at 8:15 a.m.
The Henry County Historical Society member meeting will be "Remembering Veterans" with in character presentations by two Henry County notables on Monday, May 16 at 6:30 p.m. at New Castle Christian Church Fellowship Hall.
When: Wednesday, May 18; 12:15-2:15 p.m.
Where: Henry County Library, 172 Eminence Terrace; Eminence.
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Selected with the 46th pick in the 2011 NBA Draft, in his first interview with a local press corps unfamiliar with him and his skill set, Andrew Goudelock filled in the blanks. "Unless something happens, unless I gain some kind of disease where I forget how to shoot, I'm gonna keep shooting until the day I die," he said.Jayne Kamin-Oncea/US Presswire
Andrew Goudelock surprised many by making the team, and even more by contributing.
Certainly he'd done just that at College of Charleston, where Goudelock averaged 23.7 points a game as a senior, and over four years hit over 40 percent of his 3's. This as an undersized 2-guard. But in the NBA, would he be able to get his shot off? Would he be able to defend guys far bigger than he? (Goudelock is no more his listed 6'3" than I am.)
He addressed that back in June, as well.
"Being competitive on the offensive end also means being competitive on the defensive end. So I'm gonna get better every day," he said. "I'm gonna strap down on defense and if it means I'm gonna have to guard somebody 6'5" or 6'6", I'm gonna have to do that. I'm gonna have to figure it out, just like I figured out everything else."
The last phrase is key. Goudelock carries the shoulder chip of a guy told at every level he wasn't good/big/quick enough to make it, and always found ways to succeed. It's an appealing quality, but nonetheless after the draft a lot was stacked against him. Thanks to the lockout, he couldn't work out at the facility, learn the new system, or gain experience in summer league.
In the end, though, the lockout may have worked in Goudelock's favor, particularly after the Chris Paul trade was nixed by the league. Had it gone through, the Lakers suddenly would have had a full complement of guards -- Paul, Derek Fisher, Steve Blake, and Kobe Bryant -- and no space for him. But it didn't, the Lakers were put in scramble mode. Goudelock showed enough in the truncated preseason to impress Mike Brown and his staff, and voila!
Goudelock was a Laker, and surprisingly enough, the kid came in handy.
4.4 points per game, 39.1 percent shooting, 37.3 percent 3-point shooting, .8 rebounds, .5 assists in 10.5 minutes over 40 games played.
Goudelock hit a pair of triples in the season opener against Chicago, but playing time was hard to come by until Steve Blake suffered a rib injury in December. Pressed into service on a guard-thin team, Goudelock showed he could score at the NBA level, notching 14 points against the Clippers on January 25th, 13 on the 28th in Milwaukee, 12 two days later against Charlotte, and 13 more against the Nuggets on February 3. Goudelock showed confidence from distance, and a willingness to put the ball on the floor to attack, where he'd typically finish with a nifty floater. Still, like most rookies, he was on a short leash, and Goudelock struggled to find minutes as the season went along.
Not surprisingly, Goudelock struggled defensively, and when asked to play the point as opposed to the 2, had trouble initiating the offense smoothly, and the Lakers lost a lot of possessions. Learning at the NBA level isn't exactly easy, after all. These two issues, along with inexperience, were the big limiting factors on his playing time. He wasn't a turnover machine, but Goudelock struggled to maintain a 1/1 assist-to-TO ratio. In short, there were times he looked a lot like the 46th pick in the draft.
The Lakers hold a team option on Goudelock for next season, and it certainly wouldn't surprise anyone to see them use it if he's able to show improvement over the summer. He'll certainly need to improve his point guard skills, though at his exit interview Goudelock made it clear he's a 2, and will sink or swim in the NBA as such.
The coaching staff likes him, and the Lakers need young, cheap talent.
He often looked in over his head this season, but that was to be expected. More importantly, Goudelock showed a knack for scoring, and the ability to create his own shot despite lower than top-shelf athleticism. Basically, he has a knack for it, explaining why Goudelock was unquestionably the bench player fans wanted to get more minutes. Often, I agreed. Overall, it's fair to say he performed pretty well relative to expectations.
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depressionposted 10/05/2009 10:00:00 AM
Today's post comes from abby jean who blogs at think on this. She recently wrote a series on her experiences with, and knowledge of mental health.
eta: this post was previously titled depression 101, which incorrectly suggested that it was an authoritative or comprehensive discussion of the topic. it is not. it is a pile of information colored significantly by my own experiences and perspectives.thanks to those who raised this with me.
depression is what i have the most experience with - with myself, my friends, my family, my clients. prevalence numbers for depression (and any mental health condition) are notoriously difficult, as lots of people are never diagnosed or treated so aren't captured by statistics. but the feds currently estimate (pdf) around 8% of adults have had an incident of major depression in the past year, with higher rates of incidence and lower rates of treatment among low-income folks and immigrants.
depression is commonly used to mean a sad mood and is often used in common parlance. "the media coverage of the town halls is totally depressing." "i'm so depressed about that huge stain on my favorite shirt." but the clinical definition of depression, from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 4th edition (i'm putting aside issues with the DSM for another time) is very specific:
Five or more of the following symptoms present during the same 2-week period and represent a change from previous functioning - one of the first two symptoms required to be present:
- depressed mood most of the day, nearly every day, as indicated by either subjective report (ie feel sad or empty) or observations from others (ie appears tearful)
- markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all, or almost all, activities most of the day, nearly every day
- significant weight loss or gain (change of over 5%) without dieting, or decrease in appetitie nearly every day
- insomnia or hypersomnia nearly every day
- psychomotor agitation or retardation nearly every day, observable by others
- fatigue or loss of energy nearly every day
- feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt nearly every day
- diminished ability to think or concentrate, nearly every day
- recurrent thought of death, recurrent suicidal ideation without a specific plan, or a suicide attempt or specific plan for suicide.
quick neurochemistry refresher: the brain works by passing signals between neurons. one neuron releases neurochemicals which then activate another neuron to act. the neurochemical serotonin is understood to be affected by depression, and it controls the feeling of "satiation," of having had enough, which is why eating and sleeping are affected by depression.
when i experienced major depression, i had a whole bunch of those symptoms. more than sad, i felt "flat affect" — like i was wrapped in cotton wool or a thick layer of fog and nothing could penetrate that to affect me. so i didn't feel especially happy or sad, i felt like i was incapable of feeling anything at all. i also lost interest in doing anything at all except lying in my bed. this included going to class, talking to people, taking a shower, and eating. my friends would try to get me out and about, but nothing sounded even vaguely interesting - since i would feel flat and empty whatever i did, i might as well just stay in bed.
i also felt completely hopeless that things would ever change and didn't just believe, i knew that i would continue to feel that way forever. so what was the point of doing anything? no need to make sure i wasn't failing a class, because who cared if i graduated or not? wouldn't make any difference. nothing would ever make any difference.
so, i might as well die. no sense in prolonging my useless pointless life of doing nothing and feeling nothing - i was burdening my friends, annoying my roommate, letting down my parents, disappointing my professors. and since things would never, ever, get any better, it'd be best to just let everyone off the hook and get out of their way. nobody would miss me because who cares about a smelly lump girl who just stays in bed?
somewhere deep inside i could still hear a part of me that was a bit freaked out by the thought of dying. i got a card from my mom and pictured her face when being told i had killed myself and realized she probably wouldn't be happy to be rid of me. but these voices were so small and so soft and i could barely hear them through the chorus of "you're stupid and a waste and a burden and will be forever" that pounded through my head every second of the day.
the practical effects: i could not carry out tasks that were painfully simple. i remember a day i skipped all my classes because the idea of opening my closet and trying to figure out what to wear was too overwhelming. i got derailed very easily and had a hard time following through if there was even the slightest barrier. (i made myself walk over to student health to try to see a counselor, the woman wasn't at the desk, i gave up and went home and it took two or three weeks before i could try again.) by far the easiest option for taking care of anything that came up was just to kill myself so i wouldn't be bothered by anything.
clearly, i didn't do that, although i have made a number of serious attempts. i have had friends so unable to find any relief that they tried and tried until they were successful in dying. my treatment (medication combined with literally thousands of hours of therapy) has been successful to the point where i have hope for the future and think life is worth living. but i can feel the fog come back sometimes and if it comes back strong, i know that overwhelming agony will shut out all hope and optimism and i'll be right back where i was.
the knowledge that that possibility is always there is terrifying - i could be knocked down by a recurrence at any moment. i'm always vigilant - is this negative mood because of a reasonable reaction to an event? is it free floating? how serious is it? is this the time it will overtake me for good?
(Originally posted here.)
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- At Mon Oct 05, 06:29:00 PM niemaodpowiedzi said...
Great post. It resonated pretty personally with my unmedicated, self-diagnosed depression.
i remember a day i skipped all my classes because the idea of opening my closet and trying to figure out what to wear was too overwhelming.
I have those days. Oh, sweet FSM, I have those days. But the blankets are comfy! I rationalize to myself. Won't I be happier in bed today? Won't have to deal with listening to people, won't have to deal with maybe crying in front of them for asinine things like the hiccups. Yeah,
and I'd have to get dressed. That settles it then. Bed.
but these voices were so small and so soft and i could barely hear them through the chorus of "you're stupid and a waste and a burden and will be forever" that pounded through my head every second of the day.
That overwhelming chorus drowns out the little, positive voices so thoroughly that when I can hear them, all I hear is such a contradiction of my understanding of myself that I can't believe much of anything good about who I am. And in the process, I tend to push those who would challenge my poor sense of self-worth away. So the cycle - the self-hating, bitterly negative cycle - continues until enough people challenge me, and then I change by margins.


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Here's some scoop on Rookie Blue from this week's (Posted on 9/25/12) Ask Ausiello column.
Question: Any early scoop on the new season of Rookie Blue? I can't wait until next summer! —Amy
Ausiello: Two new cops are coming to the precinct, including "a hilariously filter-less" rookie, previews executive producer Tassie Cameron. "She brings up a lot of stuff with the other characters because she's one of those fun characters who says exactly what's on her mind all the time." The other, meanwhile, is a no nonsense senior officer who's "weary" of the young officers at 15. "She's tough. She's nine years on the force, including a stint in SWAT as a negotiator," shares Cameron. "So she's a very experienced officer with some fast decision making skills that are in obvious contrast to the new rookie, for example. It's fun always to bring somebody in to the series who's not dying to make friends with people right away, who's assessing our characters a little bit and not jumping in saying, 'I want to be your best friend.'"
I never thought the show would make it this far, but Rookie Blue was picked up for a forth season by Global and ABC on June 26, 2012. Rookie Blue is by no means a ratings monster but it's extremely consistent and that's a good thing.
Season one of Rookie Blue averaged 4.995 million viewers a week and season 3 averaged 4.945 million viewers a week. Year-to-year ratings don't get more consistent then that, and thus the renewal. Besides, it's a solid show, not great, but a good cop drama.
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Ken Hinkley reckons it's over-rated. Kane Cornes says it's irrelevant.
The Port Adelaide coach and stalwart dismiss any theory of inside knowledge in Sunday's AFL elimination final against Richmond.
Hinkley has ex-Tigers Jay Schulz and Matt White on his playing roster.
And Richmond have some of Port's favourite sons.
Tiger coach Damien Hardwick was a member of Port's 2004 premiership side - an outfit coached by Mark Williams, now Richmond's development coach.
And Richmond's forward coach Brendon Lade also won a flag at Port, where he played 234 games and won a club champion award.
Then there's Tiger defender Troy Chaplin, who infamously walked out of Port at the end of 2012 by sending an email to his Port teammates criticising the club's culture.
And also Richmond utility Matt Thomas. Though doubtful to break into the Tiger side on Sunday, he crossed from Port at the end of last season.
Hinkley, in typically blunt fashion, says the links won't offer either club an advantage in the knockout final at Adelaide Oval.
"Nup. I don't think it does," Hinkley said.
"I think it's over-rated.
"They have got plenty of knowledge. But the competition says you have got knowledge on every team you play against.
"It doesn't count for much. On game day, it will come down to the 22 (players) that take on their 22 and the best side will come out on top."
His veteran tagger Cornes agreed.
"It just adds to the build up ... but when it comes down to it, it's going to mean nothing in terms of the result of the game," Cornes said.
- Damien Hardwick. Played in Port's 2004 premiership side, one of 54 games for the club. Coach of the Tigers since 2010.
- Mark Williams. Coached Port's 2004 flag, one of 12 seasons at the helm at Alberton. Now Richmond's development coach.
- Brendon Lade. Also played in Port's 2004 premiership. A club champion at the Power, where he played 234 games from 1997-2009. Now Richmond's forwards coach.
- Troy Chaplin. Played 140 games for Port between 2004-2012. Now a key Richmond defender.
- Matt Thomas. An 87-gamer for Port between 2001-2013 before joining the Tigers at the end of last season. Has played 13 games this year but an unlikely starter in Sunday's final.
- Jay Schulz. Played 71 games for the Tigers between 2003-09. Will be Port's leading goalkicker for the fourth season.
- Matt White. Played 105 games for Richmond from 2006-2013. Crossed to Port as a free agent seeking greater playing time and has been a stunning success for the Power.


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Ron Lepofsky
January 30, 2004
People are justifiably concerned about their identity being stolen by perpetrators of fraud. Victims of identity theft suffer disruption of lifestyle, severe emotional stress and financial losses.
In this age of corporate accountability, employees and private individuals are entrusting companies with holding their personal information and keeping it confidential and secure — and therefore not susceptible to being compromised for use in identity-theft-related fraud.
To combat identity theft, and to protect the privacy of individuals, the governments of Canada and the United States are passing laws compelling corporations to protect personal information under their custodial responsibility.
Legal counsel should play an important role in educating their clients how privacy regulations apply to them, and then helping them to write the appropriate policies so that their clients will comply with the privacy legislation.
Counsel may need to take further initiatives to educate their clients who may not understand that they are not already compliant.
However, a policy alone is not enough to ensure compliance to regulations. A policy that is not enforced uniformly is in reality not a policy at all.
It is therefore incumbent upon the executives of a client organization to monitor how well their employees are complying with the policy, and to implement modifications to procedures, in order to alleviate instances of non-compliance.
The space between counsel writing a privacy policy and counsel hearing from their clients when there is a problem with non-compliance is where a compliance auditing firm can be of valuable assistance.
A compliance auditing firm should identify non-compliance and make recommendations to mitigate procedural problems before they fester into legal liability problems.
Some executives have preconceived notions that they do not need to spend any money on implementing a privacy policy because their organizations must already be compliant.
Counsel can perform a valuable service to those executives, by recommending a service that would provide proof to their executive clients that their organizations are indeed non-compliant with privacy legislation, and that the executives need to engage the services of counsel to create the appropriate policy. Providing this "evidence of non-compliance before the fact" is another situation in which a compliance auditor may be of service.
The key to successful compliance is creating an internal compliance process. This process should include the client's executive management team, a designated privacy officer, an outside privacy/security audit firm and the education, understanding and full co-operation of all employees. The key elements of the process are:
In addition, management needs to:
The auditor provides an impartial, third-party view of both employee compliance with the policy and the security of the underlying personal information.
The auditor will report any infractions of the policy and any security vulnerabilities to the privacy officer and to the executive committee. The privacy officer then must work with human resources to deal with behavioural infractions. The privacy officer may need to consult legal counsel about modifying the corporate privacy policy and modifying employee contracts with respect to the privacy policy, court decisions and regulatory changes that affect the corporate privacy policy.
The new privacy laws will work only if corporations engage their counsel to create effective privacy policies, tuned to the specifications of each organization. A policy is only effective if it is uniformly enforced by the executives who are responsible for implementing the policy.


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The myth of User-Centered Information Architecture
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Published on October 23, 2002
One of the first things you learn about information architecture is that your Web site needs to be organized the way users think it should be organized. Unfortunately, this never happens. In fact, it should never happen. User-centered information architecture is a myth.
A successful information architect understands the way users access information, but also realizes that there are other variables and important factors that need to be taken into account when doing the job.
At its core, information architecture is a balance between user needs and business requirements. While the increased visibility of Web usability has taught us to focus on the visitor, it has overshadowed the fact that there are business needs that need to be addressed. By matching user needs and business objectives it is possible to produce a system that is useable and useful but also meets the needs of the sponsoring party.
First there was night; then there were functional specifications
Originally, most projects focused only on business requirements and did not even take into account user needs. The goal of projects was to meet the functional requirements that the business demanded. It didn't matter if people did not understand how the interface worked, or what the categories were called. Users received extensive training, were forced to learn on their own for their job, or weren't given a choice due to lack of competition. Systems were difficult to use, lacked necessary features, and didn't help users get the information they were looking for.
As usability and information architecture started to gain prominence, the scales started to move in the other direction, sometimes too far. The cult(ure) of usability made people disregard the business aspects and throw their full faith in the users. This led to decision paralysis, where no decision could be made--no matter how small--without donning the white lab coat and testing it on the users. What is good for the user, however, is not always good for the business. Users were happy, but businesses failed.
Help me reach the middle ground
Can a happy medium be reached? How does one temper user-centric tendencies with a concern for the business?
Lou Rosenfeld recently addressed the question, "Can two or more entities have identical or nearly identical information architectures?" The basic answer was, well, they can, if they have the same type of content, the same types of users, and the same business context, which is a fancy way of saying theoretically "yes," but realistically "no."
His example showed how the differing business models of two similar companies--Gateway and Dell--contributed to their different site architectures. Gateway sells through retail outlets, whereas Dell's business relies on the factory direct model. It's not just the business model that impacts the architecture of the site, though. Two sites with the same basic business model could still have different information architectures. The major factor that influences the design from the business side is the business goals for the site.
Using the example of two hypothetical computer manufacturers... both may be trying to sell low-cost computers to a general consumer audience. They both may direct all sales through their Web site, and sell the same basic models and options.
Their organization schemes and labels, however, depend on the business goals of the site. One business may want their site to encourage add-ons (scanners, printers, digital cameras) to meet the goal of increasing the price of the average sale. The other may not care about add-ons but focus on selling extended warranties and support plans to meet the goal of creating recurring revenue. These are two similar companies with two similar business models and two similar user groups but two very different business objectives for their sites. Their sites should be designed accordingly.
Gooooooaaaaaaahh-oh, wait, no goals
The problem is that, many times, there are no defined business goals. A goal of getting the site up and running--that is to say, to have a Web presence, no more, no less--as quickly and cheaply as possible may be the closest thing to an actual business goal that is attached to a project.
The responsible information architect should never begin a project unless they understand what the business goals of the project are. If the goals aren't defined, it is the information architect's job to work with the business so that the business goals of the project can be determined.
Well-defined business and user goals are essential to the success of any project, and the establishment of those goals before the project begins helps you achieve the most elusive of all tasks: proving your value as a professional.
C'mon baby and show me what you're worth
There is an ongoing struggle in the IA community to "monetize" IA or prove the ROI (Return On Investment) of our work. People complain that it's not possible to show the value of IA. It's only impossible if you don't know how you're measuring the value, and that's where business goals come in.
You need to establish and understand business goals, and meet those goals by understanding the corresponding user needs. If you can meet those business goals, you can prove the value of IA without undue complications.
The skeptics will argue that it is impossible to separate information architecture's contribution from the contributions of all of the other Web-related disciplines, and I won't argue with that. No one questions HTML production's contribution to the site's ROI, and server administrators are never asked to "monetize" their efforts. If the business goals are reached, everyone should be judged as successful.
To borrow an example from another (somewhat related) industry: a common saying is that half of all money spent on advertising is wasted, and the trick is just figuring out which half. An advertising campaign is deemed a success if it meets is goals. No one questions whether the media planning proved its ROI, or whether the color scheme was "monetized." There may be a project postmortem or after-action review where each individual element of the project is analyzed, and suggestions for improvement are offered, but involvement in a successful project is usually indicative enough of a worthwhile contribution.
Using information architecture to meet business goals by focusing on user needs not only proves your professional worth, but makes users happy and helps businesses succeed--something that wouldn't be possible by a focus on users alone.
Conclusion: looking at all sides
Information architecture goes beyond deciding what content should go where and how it should be labeled. It's more than just blindly listening to what users say. It's more than just making the client happy. Giving all of your attention to only one of these three aspects of account service is irrational, irresponsible, and impractical. The key to successful information architecture is understanding all of the variables involved in meeting project goals, and coming up with an appropriate balance.
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Jeff Lash is a User Experience Designer in the Health Sciences division of Elsevier. He is a co-founder and Advisory Board member of the Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture (AIfIA) and has also written articles and tutorials for Boxes and Arrows and WebWord. His personal website is jefflash.com.


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Michael Nettles, professor of education at the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, was selected by Black Issues in Higher Education as one of the 15 most influential college faculty members in the country. The magazines staff selected faculty who most personified outstanding scholarship, service and integrity. He helped create and was director of the Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute, established by the United Negro College Fund in 1996. The institute is the first major center devoted to Black educational data analysis and policy research.
Ball appointed to new commission
Deborah Lowenberg Ball, professor of mathematics education and of teacher education, has been named by Education Secretary Richard Riley to the National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century, chaired by John Glenn. Appointed for a year, the 24-member Commission is charged with developing strategies for raising the quality of mathematics and science teaching in K-12 classrooms.
Eldersveld honored with festschrift
Samuel Eldersveld, professor emeritus of political science, was presented with a festschrift, a book of research authored by his colleagues and students, at the Department of Political Sciences annual reception during the American Political Science Associations annual meeting.
Comparative Political Parties and Party Elites (U-M Press) was a collaborative effort under the direction of Birol Yeshilada of Portland State University. In presenting the book of essays honoring Eldersveld, Yeshilada noted that the articles covered the range of topics that were the focus of Eldersvelds 54 years of scholarly work. Work by the 22 contributing scholars drew on theories and data covering parties and elites in 10 countries.
Matthaei program cited
Design work done for Out of Africa, A Celebration of Botanical Excellence by the Price Design Group L.L.C. of Ann Arbor received a silver award for design excellence from the Michigan Museum Association. The Matthaei Botanical Gardens program featured botanical wonders and their histories from Africa and the Caribbean.
The minority-owned Price Design Group provides visual communications and creative services. The award recognizes the companys success in helping businesses and institutions market to diverse demographic groups.
Elder to serve on medical board
J.T. Elder is one of seven dermatologists appointed to serve on the National Psoriasis Foundations (NPF) Medical Advisory Board until June 2002. Elder is associate professor of dermatology and of radiation oncology and a faculty member in the Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology and the Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics.
The NPF Medical Advisory Board counsels the NPF on technical and scientific matters and provides guidance in effective application of the organizations resources in improving the medical treatment and control of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.
Ma receives Whitaker grant
Peter X. Ma, assistant professor of biologic and material science, has received a $210,000 grant from the Whitaker Foundation for research on engineering new cartilage tissue.
Damaged cartilage has little healing capacity and millions of Americans suffer from cartilage trauma and diseases. The ultimate goal of Mas work is to engineer new cartilage tissue in vitro that can be used to repair traumatized and diseased articular cartilage.


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Greece Turns Balkan, Serbia Joins Europe in Key VotesTim Judah
May 15 (Bloomberg) -- Two elections took place in the Balkans on May 6, and when historians look back, I think they'll see a tipping point: The day Serbia ceded to Greece its place as the region's most troublesome country.
In the late 1800s, Otto von Bismarck, famously said that the next war in Europe would begin because of some "damned foolish thing in the Balkans." Of course, he was right. This year marks the centenary of the start of the Balkan Wars in 1912, pitting Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria and Montenegro against the Ottoman Empire. The conflict served as a prelude to World War I, triggered two years later when a Serb assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, in Sarajevo.
In a few years' time, it may be conventional wisdom to say that the demise of the euro, or whatever else now lies ahead of Europe, was again sparked by some damned foolish thing in the Balkans. Only this time, war is unlikely and Serbia won't be the culprit. That honor would go to mendacious Greek leaders, their statisticians and an election in which Greek voters put their country's position in Europe at risk.
Serbia's May 6 elections were also a milestone. In parliamentary and presidential votes, Serbs chose parties and candidates that, whatever their differences, overwhelmingly shared a vision of where the country should be heading: to European Union membership and continued economic reform.
Ultra-Nationalists Out
The ultra-nationalist Serbian Radical Party, a fixture on the Serbian political scene for more than 20 years, failed to get enough votes to make it back into the legislature. And within three days, some of the main parties had struck a deal on the broad outlines of a new coalition government. Meanwhile, a compromise allowed Serbs in Kosovo to vote peacefully, even though Serbia utterly rejects its secession.
The Serbian Progressive Party, led by Tomislav Nikolic, became the largest in parliament, although the party alleges that electoral fraud has taken place. Nikolic was once a leader of the Serbian Radical Party, whose founder is on trial for war crimes in The Hague. But Nikolic split away in 2008, and now says he stands for European values and joining the EU.
Ivica Dacic, the leader of the Socialist Party and possible next prime minister, was former President Slobodan Milosevic's wartime spokesman. Dacic came back from the political dead by jettisoning a lot of past ideology. He too signed up to a pro-EU path, and his Socialists won 15 percent of the vote on May 6, placing third after Nikolic's Progressives and the Democratic Party that played a major role in toppling Milosevic and sending him to The Hague.
Serbia still has deep unresolved problems that can't be wished away, including the stalemate over Kosovo and an unemployment rate slightly higher than in Greece. As interior minister in the last government, Dacic controversially had several ethnic Albanians arrested shortly before the elections, a move that may have brought him some extra votes from nationalists. Still, the country's trajectory is increasingly clear.
Neo-Nazis In
Contrast that with Greece. As extremists were leaving the Serbian parliament, neo-Nazis were entering the one in Athens. The winners are still struggling to form a government, making a repeat election likely. Anti-Europe parties did well. Greece has also been plagued by violent unrest on the streets, something that has become rare in the Western Balkans. Today, Greece is probably the main generator of instability in the region.
That's not just about the euro. Ian Lesser of the German Marshall Fund recently pointed to Greece's relations with its historic rival Turkey, and their competition for energy resources in the eastern Mediterranean, worrying that the political turmoil in Athens could reignite tensions. "Greece's domestic political woes may grab the headlines, but over time, the geopolitical implications of a more isolated and nationalistic Greece may be even more profound," Lesser wrote.
Think back exactly 13 years. Belgrade was under attack from planes and missiles from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The stated reason was a humanitarian crisis in Kosovo. The intervention came four years after the end of the Bosnian and Croatian wars. But, in the case of Kosovo there was a deadly serious unstated reason for intervening. This was the doomsday scenario that saw Albania and Macedonia being sucked into the conflict, as hundreds of thousands of civilians poured over their borders. Greece and Turkey -- two NATO members -- would then pile in behind on opposite sides, a scenario with echoes of the Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913.
The modern Balkan Wars largely ended in 1999, with Serbia's capitulation. In 2003, in the Greek city of Thessaloniki, the EU gave a firm commitment that the whole region would, when ready, join the organization. Ever since, slowly but surely, the Western Balkans have been moving toward the European mainstream.
Slovenia joined in 2004; Croatia will join in 2013; Serbia was given candidate status in March; and Montenegro should get the green light to begin accession talks in June. Kosovo has just begun the process of EU integration. Things are slower in Bosnia, Albania and Macedonia but they are all committed to integration with Europe.
Greece Rejoins Balkans
A counter-trend since the collapse of communism two decades ago has been Greece's reintegration into the Balkans. Greek companies, and especially banks, have invested heavily in the region and Greece has played a significant role in prodding its Balkan neighbors in the right -- European -- direction. At the same time, Greeks were swept away in the 1990s by nationalistic anxiety over Macedonia, whose name they believe implies a territorial claim over the part of historical Macedonia that Greece conquered in 1912. Since 2008, Greece has blocked its neighbor's NATO and EU accession over the issue.
During the years of the Yugoslav wars, Orthodox Christian Greeks supported their co-religionists in Serbia because they viewed the Muslim Bosniaks and mostly Muslim Kosovars through "Turkish" lenses, along the lines of "my enemy's friend is my enemy." Greek volunteers fought in Bosnia on the Serbian side and some participated in the capture of Srebrenica, after which some 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were murdered. (No one has alleged that any Greeks participated in the killing.)
Greece's gradual return to the Balkan mainstream should not come as a big surprise. On the eve of World War II, Greece was just another Balkan country, little different from its then neighbors Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. It was fate that left Greece a Western country, and the other two communist, after the war.
In 1981, against the recommendation of the European Commission and for reasons of largely Cold War politics, Greece was accepted into the EU, and 20 years later it joined the euro. It wasn't ready for either club. Had Greece been forced to meet the stringent rules for EU membership that are now being applied to the ex-communist countries of the Balkans, it would have had to undergo many more years of preparation.
We're living with the consequences of those decisions now.
(Tim Judah is the Balkans correspondent for the Economist and the author of books on Serbia and Kosovo. The opinions expressed are his own.)
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According to the USF Sports Bulletin, junior forward Jarrid Famous will not start against the Friars after being snowed out in New York.
Famous snowed in, won't start vs. Friars
Fatherhood and mother nature have conspired to keep Jarrid Famous away from Tampa, as the junior center was stuck in New York with weather canceling his scheduled flight back to campus after spending time with his newborn daughter, London.
Dominique Jones also might not be at 100% for the match-up on Saturday night.
USF guard Dominique Jones, who scored a school-record 46 points in the first meeting with Providence, continues to be limited by illness — he was eating chicken noodle soup courtside before Friday's practice. He'll certainly play Saturday, but hasn't been himself lately.


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The relatively recent food movement toward local, responsibly produced, and unprocessed foods is one example of a broader social movement afoot. We're moving beyond simply conspicuous consumerism. People realize that their purchases matter and that realization has naturally extended into how we buy clothes.And that leads to a certain tension. Should I buy only fair-trade clothing? Should I avoid fast fashion chains (like Forever 21 and H&M) that are said to use exploitative labor? Is it … [Read more...]
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