Europe opens first detox clinic for video game addicts
Amsterdam based Smith Jones Addiction Consultants opens Europe's first detox program for video game addicts aged 8 to 30. Treatment begins in July with four to eight week plan including therapy and alternative activities. Bakker notes early signs include withdrawal symptoms and social isolation. many youths receive their first game from parents.
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
Europe
Keith Bakker
Smith & Jones Addiction Consultants
Bakker
Korea
Hyke van der Heijden
van der Heijden
Smith & Jones
Tim
Center
Illinois poll backs making flag burning illegal
A Springfield poll shows 70 percent favor a national amendment to ban flag desecration, with 65 percent supporting the amendment and 78 percent saying flag burning should be illegal. The Citizens Flag Alliance backs changing constitutional law, aiming to overturn the 1989 Supreme Court ruling on flag desecration.
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Citizens Flag Alliance
American Legion
U.S. Supreme Court
People
Marty Justis
High
U.S
Congress
House
Senate
Alliance
Illinois
Richard Durbin
Barack Obama
Durbin
New Jersey
North Suburban Mayor Charged With Mail Fraud On 78th Birthday
Nicholas B. Blase mayor of Niles and Steven Weiner of Wheeling were arrested on mail fraud charges alleging payoffs to steer clients to an insurance agency. FBI said bribe money funded a shell company paying a lawyer in Blase’s office. both were released on recognizance with a June 21 preliminary hearing set.
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Chicago
Niles
FBI
Nicholas B. Blase
Gary S. Shapiro
Steven Weiner
Northbrook
Ralph Weiner & Associates Insurance Agency
Wheeling
Shapiro
Blase’s
Weiner
Shell
Blase
U.S
Michael T. Mason
Blagojevich touts Illinois job gains in campaign clash
Governor Rod Blagojevich and opponent Judy Baar Topinka exchanged figures on Illinois job growth. Blagojevich said April added 23,100 jobs statewide, leading the nation, while Topinka argued Illinois ranks near the bottom for job growth during his tenure. A new poll shows Blagojevich ahead 41 to 34 percent.
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Rod Blagojevich
Judy Baar Topinka
Blagojevich
Illinois
Topinka
West Side
Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics
Glengariff Group
Former state official says FBI questioned hiring practices
Ray Coleman, former Horseshoe Lake State Park superintendent, says the FBI interviewed him about the Blagojevich administration hiring practices. Coleman, who settled a discrimination suit, says agents visited about three weeks ago in East St. Louis. He claimed his removal was to clear a spot for Sam Flood’s son. defendants Brunsvold and Flood denied wrongdoing.
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FBI
Rod Blagojevich
Ray Coleman
Horseshoe Lake State Park
Granite City
Coleman
East St. Louis
Sam Flood
Metro East
Downstate
Blagojevich
Joel Brunsvold
Department of Natural Resources
Flood
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