Friday, July 28, 2006
Friday,
Evening Updates:
Bosnian Concentration Camp Trials Begin Today
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5226246.stm
Del Ponte Admired Milosevic
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1832806,00.html
Fisticuffs in Tirana Parliment, Natioal Guard Called out
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1832806,00.html
Woman in Serbia Freezes Herself to Death
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw115407702267B261
That's My Story and I'm Stickin' To it!
http://www.kfor.com/Global/story.asp?S=5200537&nav=menu99_1_1
I went to cool off at Trinity's house, we watched a couple movies and I cooled off. Did me some real good to do that.
Armed Defense of Kosovo 'Last Resort' Serbian Radicals say
http://www.seeurope.net/en/Story.php?StoryID=62295
Milosevic 'Fascinated' Del Ponte
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/07/85b2103d-ac02-4722-8821-92dc0b6149b2.html
EC Ambassador Condemns Attacks on Serb Returnees to Croatia
http://www.seeurope.net/en/Story.php?StoryID=62264
Police, Public Broadcasting Reforms in BiH face further delays
Albania to introduce electronic passports
http://www.seeurope.net/en/Story.php?StoryID=62266
Naked Scandinavians leave Albanian Police Speechless
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060728/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_albania_topless;_ylt=A86.I0ivHcpE2goBFhOdk3QF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--
This was a cultural competancy moment! Albania is 90% Muslim! They aren't hardcore, but public nudity of this sort is a 'no no' !!!
I remember reading that Enver Hoxa did not want to allow tourism, his words 'Would you invite pigs and sows into your home?' This is the sort of thing he meant. Albania isn't the only Balkans nation where this type of public nudity has been objected to. On the island of Krk a local priest objected as well to the let it all hang out attitude,
I think clothing optional beaches might be a good idea. There must be some places where that could be done, and then people who didn't want to take it all off, could be on different beaches.
NPR had an interesting report on San Francisco becoming so expensive that people with children, even fairly well off people with children can't afford it. I can tell you it's true, and while the reporter did not mention this, it was caused in part by tourism. Tourism is dangerous, on the one hand it's easy money, relatively speaking, on the other hand tourists bring up prices for everything, and God help the locals if they decide to buy property, and stay on. Then rents and real estate prices become a crushing burden on the locals. The tourists may love the beaches and so forth, but they never really become like the locals, and they displace them. This has happened to so many lovely parts of the world. Yes they inject a lot of cash into an economy, and sometimes cause reforms bit by bit, but the downside is the inflation which is beyond the normal sort of inflation that steady, measured progress by and for locals might make.This sort of inflatation disrupts the natural succession of generations and the traditions they carry over time.
Interesting Nature Note, I saw today a totally unusual thing, an albino baby Box Elder Bug, I tried to get a picture of it, but it dropped off my arm as I was trying to get at the camera. The coloration was quite interesting and pretty. Gray markings on white. I knew it was a Box Elder Bug because of it's other physical features. I was mildly bitten by an adult Box Elder Bug last night, it was an icky pinching sensation and I shook the bug off me. They have a straw like mouth piece, it probably was trying to drink some of my sweat.
Bosnian Concentration Camp Trials Begin Today
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5226246.stm
Del Ponte Admired Milosevic
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1832806,00.html
Fisticuffs in Tirana Parliment, Natioal Guard Called out
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1832806,00.html
Woman in Serbia Freezes Herself to Death
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw115407702267B261
That's My Story and I'm Stickin' To it!
http://www.kfor.com/Global/story.asp?S=5200537&nav=menu99_1_1
I went to cool off at Trinity's house, we watched a couple movies and I cooled off. Did me some real good to do that.
Armed Defense of Kosovo 'Last Resort' Serbian Radicals say
http://www.seeurope.net/en/Story.php?StoryID=62295
Milosevic 'Fascinated' Del Ponte
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/07/85b2103d-ac02-4722-8821-92dc0b6149b2.html
EC Ambassador Condemns Attacks on Serb Returnees to Croatia
http://www.seeurope.net/en/Story.php?StoryID=62264
Police, Public Broadcasting Reforms in BiH face further delays
Albania to introduce electronic passports
http://www.seeurope.net/en/Story.php?StoryID=62266
Naked Scandinavians leave Albanian Police Speechless
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060728/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_albania_topless;_ylt=A86.I0ivHcpE2goBFhOdk3QF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--
This was a cultural competancy moment! Albania is 90% Muslim! They aren't hardcore, but public nudity of this sort is a 'no no' !!!
I remember reading that Enver Hoxa did not want to allow tourism, his words 'Would you invite pigs and sows into your home?' This is the sort of thing he meant. Albania isn't the only Balkans nation where this type of public nudity has been objected to. On the island of Krk a local priest objected as well to the let it all hang out attitude,
I think clothing optional beaches might be a good idea. There must be some places where that could be done, and then people who didn't want to take it all off, could be on different beaches.
NPR had an interesting report on San Francisco becoming so expensive that people with children, even fairly well off people with children can't afford it. I can tell you it's true, and while the reporter did not mention this, it was caused in part by tourism. Tourism is dangerous, on the one hand it's easy money, relatively speaking, on the other hand tourists bring up prices for everything, and God help the locals if they decide to buy property, and stay on. Then rents and real estate prices become a crushing burden on the locals. The tourists may love the beaches and so forth, but they never really become like the locals, and they displace them. This has happened to so many lovely parts of the world. Yes they inject a lot of cash into an economy, and sometimes cause reforms bit by bit, but the downside is the inflation which is beyond the normal sort of inflation that steady, measured progress by and for locals might make.This sort of inflatation disrupts the natural succession of generations and the traditions they carry over time.
Interesting Nature Note, I saw today a totally unusual thing, an albino baby Box Elder Bug, I tried to get a picture of it, but it dropped off my arm as I was trying to get at the camera. The coloration was quite interesting and pretty. Gray markings on white. I knew it was a Box Elder Bug because of it's other physical features. I was mildly bitten by an adult Box Elder Bug last night, it was an icky pinching sensation and I shook the bug off me. They have a straw like mouth piece, it probably was trying to drink some of my sweat.
# posted by Katja R. @ 7:59 AM 
