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Recorded October 16, 1930
Track Time 3:31
Written by Eubie Blake and Andy Razaf
Recorded in Los Angeles, CA
Louis Armstrong, trumpet, vocal; George Orendorff, Harold Scott, trumpet; Luther Craven, trombone; Les Hite, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone conductor; Marvin Johnson, alto saxophone; Charlie Jones, clarinet, tenor saxophone; Henry Prince, piano; Bill Perkins, banjo; Joe Bailey, bass; Lionel Hampton, drums
Originally released on OKeh 41478
Currently available on CD: It's on the JSP two-disc set The Big Band Sides, 1930-1932. The alternate take in on an old Columbia disc Volume 7: You're Driving Me Crazy.
In 2015, I began what I hoped would be an extended series celebrating the 85th anniversary of all the great songs Louis Armstrong recorded while in California from July 1930 to March 1931. Alas, my wife's pregnancy and the ultimate arrival of Baby Lily put an end to that but anniversaries be damned, I still want to celebrate these sides so I'm soldiering on.
On October 16, 1930, Armstrong and Les Hite's Orchestra recorded two numbers composed by the great team of Eubie Blake and Andy Razaf for "Lew Leslie's Blackbirds." The first one was "Memories of You," which I've covered in the past, but the second one is new to this blog: "You're Lucky to Me."
Ethel Waters introduced it in "Blackbirds" and according to Elmer Snowden, she "hit the ceiling" when "Memories of You," sung by Minto Cato, became the show's big hit. Waters got to it first on recording waxing it on September 1, 1930. Here's her version, opening with sweet strings and the verse:
Waters treats it as a passionate love song for the first half of the performance before she swings out gently in the second half, backed by some pretty athletic piano playing (is that Eubie? He backed her on it during the show so it would make sense).
Though "Memories of You" became a bigger hit (and better-known standard), that didn't stop "You're Lucky to Me" from being recorded by a variety of musicians in late 1930. The first jazz recording I can find is this stomping version by the Charleston Chasers done on September 30, 1930 and featuring Phil Napoleon, trumpet, Tommy Dorsey, trombone, Jimmy Dorsey, clarinet and alto, Frank Signorelli, piano and Stan King on drums--dig King's press rolls!
The Charleston Chasers version demonstrates that jazz musicians already found it an appealing song to rough up a bit but remember, jazz was still not "America's popular music" quite yet. To get a taste of what was still selling the most records in 1930, here's a dance band treatment byJustin Ring and His Dance Orchestra with a typical vocal for the period by Irving Kaufman. Really let this sink in--the muted straight reading of the melody by the trumpet, Kaufman's don't-change-a-note vocal, everything:
Okay, got that in your head? Now let's listen to Louis Armstrong and His Sebastian Cotton Club Orchestra romp on October 16, 1930:
I say it all the time, but it's like he's from another planet (my real favorite example of this comes on "You're Driving Me Crazy," which I'll update and post something about it the hopefully not too distant future). After the neat little arranged opening, Louis is on his own to deliver the melody as only he could; in fact, it almost sounds like he's playing the melody and an obligato at the same time, as he answers the melody statements with perfect little responding phrases (the descending arpeggio leading into the bridge is classic Armstrong vocabulary). The rhythm section swings behind him, Lionel Hampton keeping it swinging on drums while guitarist Bill Perkins plays such an attractive countermelody, it could almost be considered a trumpet-and-guitar duet.
The band takes a short interlude to allow Louis to step up to the microphone to deliver another one of those classic early 1930s vocals that drove the likes of Irving Kaufman into a new line of work. Perkins's guitar still doesn't quit but the main attraction is Louis who immediately enters by singing a new melody rather than the one Blake had written. Except the the moan before the second eight bars, the "oh baby" before the bridge and the "Nowwww" before the last eight bars, Louis is very respectful from a linguistic standpoint, actually singing Razaf's lyrics and not breaking into any scat detours. Still, someone should transcribe the melody Louis sings and compare it with Blake did because its really its own marvelous creation.
After the passionate, soulful end to the vocal, it's time for another instrumental soloist to step up, this time bandleader Hite and his baritone saxophone. The solos on these California recordings never bother me, mostly because the soloists are good (though Lawrence Brown had left by this point) and the rhythm section swings like mad (take a bow, Hamp). Hite burps and croaks effectively while the other horns riff simply, but swingingly. I wonder if they even had an arrangement on this one; beside the introduction and the setup to the vocal, everything is very sparse and sounds like a "head" creation. Piano takes the bridge, or should I say "pianos"; discographies list Henry Prince and Harvey Brooks as pianists on this session. Does anyone hear two pianos? It's possible but I'm not quite sold.
Hite finishes the chorus before Louis enters with a perfectly placed single note, foreshadowing late such entrances on records like "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues." Louis is so ultra relaxed here, swinging easy, but he wakes up for a surprising, twisty break before resorting back to the lower register for more floating, including a mini-gliss. His second break contains more prime Armstrong language but he fluffs one note and it doesn't quite come off as he intended.
We're halfway through the final chorus and though Louis's playing is wonderfully loose, he hasn't quite flexed the muscles yet. In fact, he sounds like he's conserving his strength for the end of the record. He hits a few high ones in the bridge but leaves an awful lot of space; it's a nice dramatic effect, building up the tension. For a minute, one might wonder, "Hm, are his chops hurting?" Just keep listening: he comes out of the bridge with a dazzling break, ends up in the upper register and powers through the melody an octave higher building up the the big ending where he glisses up to a high concert F for the first time on record. It's a bit of a squeak but he hits it. It's a good example of Louis gradually starting to expand his register; that high F would be super fat and crystal clear in just a short time.
As if to emphasize their leader's super ending, the band shouts, "Gate!" in unison, something, again, sorely lacking from many dance band records of the time. "You're Lucky to Me" went on to be a moderate standard in the jazz world, once again, thanks to Louis, but I don't think he ever returned to it (the flip side, "Memories of You," had a longer association in his career). Still, there's no duds in Armstrong's California bunch, something proved next time out when I finally tackle "Sweethearts on Parade" for the first time in the nearly nine-year history of this blog. Stay tuned!

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Marlboro College is intentionally small, with a student-faculty ratio of 6:1. In addition to discussion-based classes, faculty members interact with students through one-to-one tutorials, Plan advising sessions, service-learning trips, and collaborative projects ranging from scholarly papers to films.
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Getting Started with Conjoint Analysis
Strategies for Product Design and Pricing Research
Would you like to have a good introductory book on conjoint analysis that isn't too technical and academic? One that goes beyond the general introductory chapters found in marketing textbooks? A book that is substantial yet remains accessible?
If so, then Sawtooth Software is pleased to announce the availability of the 3rd edition of "Getting Started with Conjoint Analysis," an introductory book on conjoint analysis, written by our president, Bryan Orme.
This 234-page book, published by Research Publishers, LLC, assembles and updates introductory white papers that have been available on our website. New to the 3rd edition is a chapter on Menu-Based Choice analysis.
The late Paul E. Green (Professor Emeritus of Marketing, University of Pennsylvania) and the "father of conjoint analysis" wrote the foreword for Getting Started with Conjoint Analysis. He remarked: "Getting Started with Conjoint Analysis is a practical no-nonsense guide to what happens when one designs, executes, and analyzes data from real marketplace problems. It should appeal to academics and consultant-practitioners alike. The book is easy to follow, while at the same time being almost encyclopedic in its coverage of topics ranging from study design to the presentation of results to clients."
Read the review of the 1st edition from Marketing Research Magazine, Winter 2005
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Inevitably new geocaches pop up that are in parks with playgrounds. We always approach these with trepidation - especially DH. While it seems like a good spot for a geocache, think about how suspicious it looks for a guy with a backpack to be lurking around, looking under this and that. As a mom with a child, I know how alert *I* am to anyone that looks out of place or suspicious when I'm out with DD at a park. We moms can give a real mean "evil eye" ya know. Not to mention that if you get a paranoid mom, you may suddenly be having to explain geocaching to the police.
Now luckily for us, we ARE a family with a young-ish child, so if we all go to the playground, it's not quite as suspicious - I hang out with DD and let her play while DH hunts for the geocache. But DH will rarely attempt a geocache at a park like this alone and I don't blame him.
So, if you ever are thinking of placing a geocache at a park with a playground, at least try to place it away from the playground equipment. In the case of the photo above, we ended up DNFing (DNF - Did Not Find) the geocache. We believe it was under the gazebo. You can only try for so long to poke around reaching under a gazebo that is smack dab in the middle of a playground when there are people around. It was impossible to look without anyone seeing you. DH tried for a short while, but it wasn't worth the evil stares of the other families, and when one of them pulled out their cell phone, we decided to bag it.
It's ok to place a geocache where "stealth" is required, but try to make sure it's even POSSIBLE to BE stealthy! And let's be sensible and not put it in an area where parents are going to view you as a threat. Like a mama bear with her cubs, you do not want to make a mom suspicious. Trust me on that one.
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Calling all Artists, Makers, Doers!
It's that time of year again! We invite you (and friends!) to participate in the 2011 Papergirl San Francisco - complete with art-wielding bike riders and bike-riding artists! Send us your art, tell your friends and foes, and we'll see you in October with tires full of air and roll-tops full of artwork, ripe for the giving.
Send rollable artwork by October 3rd to:
Papergirl SF
PO Box 410156
San Francisco, CA 94141
The sooner you send it, the more time we'll have to brag about your artwork online and share the spotlight!
This flyer is getting cut off (!?), copy image URL to see the whole thing!
If you happen to be around, you can also drop artwork off in San Francisco at any of these places:
Public Bikes - 123 South Park Ave, 94107
Mission Bicycle - 766 Valencia St, 94110
Arch Drafting Supply - 99 Missouri St, 94107
Exhibition - October 15th - 22nd
All artwork will be exhibited at the amazing Incline Gallery here in SF. If you're in town, please join us for the opening event!
Roll, Ride and Throw - October 29th
The artwork rolling and starting point for the ride will be at Arch Drafting Supply (rad art supply store) also in SF!
For more information and submission details, check us out on line: www.papergirl-sf.com
We are stoked to see what wonderful art we receive this year, and can't wait to hop back on our bikes and spread the art love once again, papergirl style! Happy riding and art making everyone!
-Papergirl San Francisco (Heather, Coll, Nazir)
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The latest cartoon from Cat Versus Human is this handy little diagram that represents all the areas of a human's body as our feline friends see them. Ah, so that's why my kitty likes to bounce on my stomach — to them it's a fancy trampoline de flesh!
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The description of this subforum a écrit :Welcome to the Fermat's Pub.
Here, we speak english only... Are you able to do that ?
How is it possible that the incorrect use of a definite article in the first sentence has gone unnoticed for years ? Also, the E in English should be capitalized. Or am I being trolled ?


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Charlie Sheen's Pink Slip/
First off, a note about this week at the blog: SPRIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNGGG BREAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKK!!!!!
Spring break is kinda my favorite time of year for a number of reasons, the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament being the top two of those reasons, but I'm getting ahead of myself. To kick off Spring Break week, nothing seemed more appropriately debauched than a cocktail in honor of Mr. Full of Bad Decisions himself, the opprobrious Carlos Irwin Estevez.
Yes, the man who brought down Two and a Half Men has already been granted a cocktail in his honor here -- and to be honest, I couldn't give a shit about Charlie Sheen -- but I came across this recipe for a Charlie Sheen cocktail and, post-Sheen's shitcanning, it seemed the only way to improve upon it was to represent said sacking with a color-coordinated draw of grenadine.
I'm not usually one for cocktail recipes that try to pass off literal-minded cutesiness as wit, but I gotta admit, the two-and-a-half (get it? *honk* *honk*) ounces of white whiskey made me laugh, as did the use of Coke (get it?? *snort* *snort*) a-Cola.
Does Charlie Sheen's Pink Slip taste any good? Not especially, but does it really matter?
Charlie Sheen's Pink Slip
(Adapted from TheDailyMeal.com)
2 1/2 ounces Georgia Moon Corn Whiskey
4 ounces Coca-Cola
1 teaspoon grenadine
Granulated sugar, for the rim
Maraschino cherries, for garnish
Rim a big, fat drinking glass with granulated sugar. (Hey, I just got that! Another cocaine joke!)
Fill glass with ice, pour in liquid ingredients, stir quickly, garnish with cherries that have been stabbed. (Didn't Charlie Sheen once stab a hooker? No wait, he just tried to strangle one...)


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Afghanistan received a downward trend arrow due to a steady increase in violence and further deterioration in the independence of the judiciary.
In 2011, the Afghan political landscape still reverberated from the flawed 2010 parliamentary elections, and the president's ultimately unsuccessful attempts to alter the election results by means of an unconstitutional special court demonstrated the weaknesses of the judicial system. A series of high-profile assassinations further undermined the stability of the already embattled government, raising doubts about the ongoing transfer of control over security from coalition troops to the Afghan army and police. A broader increase in civilian casualties, continued government corruption, reported abuse of prisoners, and violence against women, along with sectarian attacks, further eroded the credibility of Afghan state institutions.
After decades of intermittent attempts to assert control and ward off Russian influence in the country, Britain recognized Afghanistan as a fully independent monarchy in 1921. Muhammad Zahir Shah ruled from 1933 until he was deposed in a 1973 coup and a republic was declared. Afghanistan entered a period of continuous civil conflict in 1978, when a Marxist faction staged a coup and set out to transform the country's highly traditional society. The Soviet Union invaded to support its allies in 1979, but was defeated by U.S.-backed guerrillas and forced to withdraw in 1989.
The mujahideen guerrilla factions finally overthrew the Marxist government in 1992 and then battled one another for control of Kabul, killing more than 25,000 civilians in the capital by 1995. The Islamist Taliban movement entered the fray, seizing Kabul in 1996 and quickly establishing control over most of the country, the rest of which remained in the hands of other factions. In response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States launched a military campaign to topple the Taliban regime and eliminate Saudi militant Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, Al-Qaeda.
As a result of the December 2001 Bonn Agreement, an interim administration took office to replace the ousted Taliban. In June 2002, the United Nations oversaw an emergency loya jirga (gathering of representatives) that appointed a Transitional Administration (TA) to rule Afghanistan for another two years. Interim leader Hamid Karzai won the votes of more than 80 percent of the delegates to become president and head of the TA.
In 2004, Karzai won a presidential election under the country's new constitution, taking 55 percent of the vote and forming a cabinet that was a mix of technocrats and regional powerbrokers. Relatively peaceful elections for a National Assembly and 34 provincial councils were held in September 2005. However, a large number of warlords and others involved in organized crime and human rights abuses were elected.
The new parliament made little progress over the next several years on addressing political and economic reforms or passing key legislation. While some analysts had expressed concern that the legislative branch would be largely subservient to the executive, it was often at odds with the president, making it difficult for him to advance the government's agenda.
The UN-mandated International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which had been managed by NATO since August 2003, completed the expansion of its security and reconstruction mission from Kabul to the rest of the country in 2006. Despite tens of thousands of additional U.S. and allied troops, and the ongoing development of the Afghan army, Afghanistan largely remained under the sway of local military commanders, tribal leaders, warlords, drug traffickers, and petty bandits. Meanwhile, the resurgent Taliban increased their attacks on the government and international forces, and steadily extended their influence over vast swaths of territory, particularly in the southern provinces of Kandahar and Helmand, but also in previously quiet areas of the north and west.
The constitution called for the 2009 presidential election to be held by April, with Karzai's term due to expire in May, but delays in passing the electoral law and slow international coordination resulted in the election being postponed until August. Fraud and manipulation during the voter registration process, low turnout, a compromised electoral management body, and insecurity across the country undermined the balloting. Karzai initially emerged as the outright winner with more than 50 percent of the vote, but the confirmation of large-scale fraud significantly reduced his total, necessitating a November runoff against his main opponent, former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah. However, Abdullah withdrew before the vote, arguing that the flaws in the electoral system had not been adequately addressed, and Karzai was declared the winner.
Lingering doubts about the Karzai administration's legitimacy, combined with the continued deterioration in security, posed a major challenge to the central and provincial governments as they struggled to control areas under their jurisdiction, deliver basic services, and engage in vital reconstruction efforts.
The country's institutional integrity was dealt another blow when the September 2010 parliamentary elections also proved to be deeply flawed, with low voter turnout, at least 1,000 electoral workers accused of fraud, and the discovery of misplaced ballots from over 500 polling stations. Karzai did not inaugurate the new parliament until January 2011, ruling by decree in the interim. The delay was largely due to disputed votes and the establishment in December 2010 of an unconstitutional Special Election Court (SEC), with judges appointed by the president, to review complaints from losing candidates. Six months later, in June 2011, the SEC ruled that 62 candidates for the 249-seat lower house who had been considered losers or were disqualified should be reinstated. This decision triggered an international outcry which led to the SEC's dissolution in August. The Independent Election Commission, which had declared the final results in November 2010, agreed to replace only 9 of the lawmakers, bringing Karzai's nine-month effort to change the parliament's makeup to an end.
Also during 2011, the government was shaken by a series of high-profile assassinations and terrorist attacks, including an assault on Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel in June; the murder of Ahmad Wali Karzai, the president's half-brother and a leading Kandahar Province powerbroker, in July; an attack on the U.S. embassy in September; and later that month, the assassination of former president Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was leading efforts to initiate peace talks with the Taliban.
Despite such incidents, the United States announced in June that it would withdraw 10,000 troops by year's end and another 23,000 by the end of September 2012. The United States and its NATO allies proceeded in July with the transfer of responsibility for security to Afghan forces in the provinces of Bamiyan, Kabul, and Panjshir as well as in the eastern town of Mehtar Lam, the western city of Herat, and the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif. The second phase of security handover, announced in November, involved the handover of Balkh, Takhar, Daikundi, Samangan, Kabul, and Nimroz provinces, along with the cities of Jalalabad, Cheghcheran, Sheberghan, Faizabad, Ghazni city, Qalai-e-Naw, and Maidan Shahr.
Though the Afghan army and police met their growth targets, their competence was cast into doubt by a major jailbreak in Kandahar in April and by a UN human rights report that alleged torture and abuse of detainees. The year was also marred by an increase in Afghan civilian casualties. A separate UN report documented 1,462 Afghan civilian deaths from January to June 2011, a 15 percent increase from the same period in 2010; most of the deaths were attributed to insurgents.
Afghanistan is not an electoral democracy. The overall results of the 2004 presidential election and delayed 2005 parliamentary elections were broadly accepted by Afghans and the international community, despite allegations of intimidation by militias and insurgent groups, partisanship within the electoral administration, and other irregularities. However, the 2009 presidential and 2010 parliamentary elections were critically undermined by fraud and other problems, and state institutions have failed to provide effective governance or transparency. Afghanistan's district council elections, which were scheduled to take place in 2010, were canceled.
The directly elected president serves five-year terms and has the power to appoint ministers, subject to parliamentary approval. In the directly elected lower house of the National Assembly, the 249-seat Wolesi Jirga (House of the People), members stand for five-year terms. In the 102-seat Meshrano Jirga (House of Elders), the upper house, two-thirds of members are indirectly elected by the provincial councils for three- or four-year terms, and one-third are appointed by the president for five-year terms. Ten of the Wolesi Jirga seats are reserved from the nomadic Kuchi community, including at least three women, and another 65 seats are reserved for women. Provisions for women's representation have also been implemented for the Meshrano Jirga and provincial councils.
Violence, insecurity, and repression continue to restrict political activity nationwide, particularly outside urban areas. Critics have warned that vague language in the 2003 Political Parties Law could be exploited to deny registration to parties on flimsy grounds. In addition, analysts viewed the adoption of the single-nontransferable-vote system for the 2005 legislative elections as a disadvantage for new political parties. Parties lack a formal role within the legislature, which further weakens their ability to contribute to stable political, policymaking, and legislative processes. There have been regular violent and often deadly attacks against government officials at all levels, including assassination attempts aimed at the president. The victims of assassinations in 2011 included the provincial council chairman, deputy governor, mayor, and provincial police chief of Kandahar; the former governor of Uruzgan; the police chief for a nine-province zone in the north; and the chief peace negotiator, a former president.
Corruption, nepotism, and cronyism are rampant at all levels of government, and woefully inadequate salaries encourage corrupt behavior by public employees. The international community, concerned that government corruption is crippling the counterinsurgency campaign, has pressed the administration of President Hamid Karzai to make the issue its top priority. However, a massive scandal involving fraud at Kabul Bank that emerged in 2010 continued to plague confidence in Afghan financial institutions in 2011. The International Monetary Fund withheld approval for transfers of donor funds until late in the year, when it finally acknowledged sufficient progress in Afghanistan's efforts to address the damage from the banking scandal. Afghanistan was ranked 180 of 183 countries surveyed in Transparency International's 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index.
Afghan media continue to grow and diversify, but face major challenges including physical attacks and intimidation. Though a 2007 media law was intended to clarify press freedoms and limit government interference, a growing number of journalists have been arrested, threatened, or harassed by politicians, security services, and others in positions of power as a result of their coverage. Media diversity and freedom are markedly higher in Kabul than elsewhere in the country, but some local warlords display limited tolerance for independent media in their areas. Dozens of private radio stations and several private television channels currently operate. Some independent outlets and publications have been criticized by conservative clerics for airing programs that "oppose Islam and national values," or fined by the authorities for similar reasons. The use of the internet and mobile telephones continues to grow rapidly and has broadened the flow of news and other information, particularly for urban residents, but increased Taliban attacks on mobile-phone transmission infrastructure has recently worked against this trend. In September 2011, an Afghan journalist with the British Broadcasting Corporation was killed by NATO forces who mistook him for a suicide bomber during a battle against insurgents.
Religious freedom has improved since the fall of the Taliban government in late 2001, but is still hampered by violence and harassment aimed at religious minorities and reformist Muslims. The constitution establishes Islam as the official religion. Blasphemy and apostasy by Muslims are considered capital crimes. While faiths other than Islam are permitted, non-Muslim proselytizing is strongly discouraged. A 2007 court ruling found the minority Baha'i faith to be a form of blasphemy, jeopardizing the legal status of that community. Hindus, Sikhs, and Shiite Muslims—particularly those from the Hazara ethnic group—have also faced official obstacles and discrimination by the Sunni Muslim majority. Militant groups have targeted mosques and clerics as part of the larger civil conflict, with two particularly brutal attacks against Shiites in Kabul and Mazar-i-Sharif in December 2011 that left 60 people dead and over 200 wounded
Aside from constitutional provisions regarding the role of Islam in education, academic freedom is not officially restricted, but insurgents have attacked or destroyed schools associated with the government or foreign donors, particularly girls' schools. The quality of school instruction and resources remains poor, and higher education is subject to bribery and prohibitively expensive for most Afghans.
The constitution guarantees the rights to assembly and association, subject to some restrictions, but they are upheld erratically from region to region. Police and other security personnel have occasionally used excessive force when confronted with demonstrations or protests.
The work of hundreds of international and Afghan nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) is not formally constrained by the authorities, but their ability to operate freely and effectively is impeded by the worsening security situation and increasingly restrictive bureaucratic rules. Both foreign and Afghan NGO staff members have been targeted in a growing number of kidnappings and violent attacks by criminals and insurgents. Civil society activists, particularly those who focus on human rights or accountability issues, continue to face threats and harassment. Despite broad constitutional protections for workers, labor rights are not well defined, and there are currently no enforcement or dispute-resolution mechanisms. Child labor is reportedly common.
The judicial system operates haphazardly, and justice in many places is administered on the basis of a mixture of legal codes by inadequately trained judges. Corruption in the judiciary is extensive, and judges and lawyers are often subject to threats from local leaders or armed groups. Traditional justice remains the main recourse for the population, especially in rural areas. The Supreme Court, composed of religious scholars who have little knowledge of civil jurisprudence, is particularly in need of reform. Prison conditions are extremely poor, with many detainees held illegally. The national intelligence agency as well as some warlords and political leaders maintain their own prisons and do not allow access to detainees.
In a prevailing climate of impunity, government ministers as well as warlords in some provinces sanction widespread abuses by the police, military, local militias, and intelligence forces under their command, including arbitrary arrest and detention, torture, extortion, and extrajudicial killings. The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) receives hundreds of complaints of rights violations each year. In addition to the abuses by security forces, reported violations have involved land theft, displacement, kidnapping, child trafficking, domestic violence, and forced marriage.
U.S. forces have reportedly made some improvements to their detention practices in recent years, but Human Rights First has found ongoing violations of due process and other rights, and Afghan detainees who are handed over to Afghan authorities continue to suffer abuses. An October 2011 UN human rights report revealed egregious violations of detainee rights in the custody of Afghan security forces. U.S.-led forces have also bred popular resentment through the growing use of nighttime raids on households that are aimed at killing or capturing suspected Taliban commanders.
The Afghan security forces continued to grow in 2011, but the army and especially the police have been plagued by inadequate training, illiteracy, corruption, involvement in drug trafficking, and high rates of desertion. The intelligence service, the National Directorate of Security, lacks transparency and stands accused of serious human rights violations.
Disarmament programs have stalled, and foreign military programs to rearm informal militias as a counterinsurgency force are actively undermining efforts to curtail and regulate the distribution of weaponry. Ongoing programs aimed at reintegrating former insurgents have failed to ensure that they disarm.
As of December 2011, approximately 400,000 civilians were displaced within the country, according to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Humanitarian agencies and Afghan authorities are ill-equipped to deal with the displaced. Factors like the poor security situation and widespread land-grabbing have prevented refugees from returning to their homes, and many congregate instead around major urban centers. In the absence of a properly functioning legal system, the state remains unable to protect property rights.
Women's formal rights to education and employment have been restored, and in some areas women are once again participating in public life. They accounted for about 16 percent of the candidates in the 2010 parliamentary elections, and roughly 41 percent of registered voters were women; 69 female parliamentarians were elected. There were two women among the 41 candidates for the 2009 presidential election, but on the whole female participation was limited by threats, harassment, and social restrictions on traveling alone and appearing in public. Another major setback to women's rights came with the passage in 2009 of legislation that derogated many constitutional rights for women belonging to the Shiite Muslim minority, leaving questions of inheritance, marriage, and personal freedoms to be determined by conservative Shiite religious authorities.
Social discrimination and domestic violence against women remain pervasive, with the latter often going unreported because of social acceptance of the practice. In 2010, the AIHRC recorded 2,765 cases of violence against women, a 22 percent increase compared with 2009. President Karzai's controversial pardon in December 2011 of a rape victim provisional on her marrying her attacker further confirmed the precarious situation for Afghan women. The case first came to light in an EU documentary on women's moral crimes in Afghanistan which the organization chose to withdraw in fear of security reprisals despite criticism from human rights workers who wanted to bring to light the inadequacies of the Afghan government in terms of women's rights and protections. Women's choices regarding marriage and divorce remain circumscribed by custom and discriminatory laws, and the forced marriage of young girls to older men or widows to their husbands' male relations is a problem. Nearly 60 percent of Afghan girls are married before the legal age of 16, according to UNICEF, and in 2009 UNICEF ranked Afghanistan as the world's worst country in which to be born. Though men, women, and male children have been used to perpetrate suicide bombings in Afghanistan, a June 2011 attack in Uruzgan Province was committed by a young girl and one of the youngest child bombers in the decade-long conflict.


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Used 2017 ToyotaCorolla LE Sedan
- Stock: F945903
- Odometer
- 41,928 miles
- Fuel Economy
- 28.0/36.0 mpg City/Hwy
- Exterior Color
- Super White
- Interior Color
- Steel Gray
- Body/Seating
- Sedan/5 seats
- Transmission
- continuously variable automatic
- Drivetrain
- front-wheel
- Engine
- 1.8L I-4 cyl
Toyota Corolla
Highlighted Features
- Lane departure
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- Wireless phone connectivity
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Clean CARFAX. Super White 2017 Toyota Corolla LE 4D Sedan FWD CVT 1.8L I4 DOHC Dual VVT-i
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28/36 City/Highway MPG
* 2017 KBB.com 10 Best Sedans Under $25,000 * 2017 KBB.com 5-Year Cost to Own Awards * 2017 KBB.com 10 Most Awarded Brands * 2017 KBB.com Best Resale Value Awards
KBB.com Consumer Reviews
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Not bad, not great.
By Jon on Friday, June 02, 2017I bought a 2016 corolla LE new last year with 5 miles on the odometer. One month later my wife and I took it on a road trip across the country and back. The car performed great and gas mileage was as advertised. Fast forward several months later and while driving to work a small rock flew off a dump truck and penetrated my grill and out a hole in my AC condenser. Toyota didnt cover it under warranty so I had to get it repaired myself. Not the cars fault but Ive never had that happen with any other car. I went problem free for awhile until I heard a banging sound coming from my rear brakes. It took toyota two weekends to replicate the sound and figure out that I needed new rear brake shoes. They covered it but at 23000 miles no car should need that repair. And I dont drive it hard. Another complaint is the climate control system. It makes a strange sound like the sound of a cd player when you change tracks. Its a slight buzzing sound and it comes from behind the glove box. Its pretty annoying and very random. Toyota had no answer and couldnt find anything wrong so it is what it is. The climate control also has an auto mode but sometimes even if the auto selection isnt turned on it will adjust the fan speed and fan location as if it is turned on. That too is random. The cloth seats are just okay. They stain very easily and are a bit hard to sit on. I will say as a grown man I have plenty of leg room and no problems with seating. In fact, the rear seats almost feel like a mid sized sedan. So good on toyota for adequately sized seating. Driving the vehicle is downright boring but I didnt buy it to have fun, I bought it to commute in. Gas mileage is good and you can get 40 mpg on the highway if you drive conservatively. If youre looking for a decent car to commute in and for a cheap price Id definitely give it a look. It has modern standard features and its overall a solid vehicle.
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|Westwood, Mass.
|High School:
|American studies
|Previous Team:
|Connecticut Stars
USA Hockey: Attended USA Hockey's Open Olympic Tryouts in summer of 2009.
Notes: Finished career in Yale's top 20 in goals (30, 20th), assists (31, t-19th) and points (61, 20th).
2011-12 (Senior): ECAC Hockey All-Academic ... Elected captain by her teammates ... Coach Wooden Citizenship Cup winner ... BNY Mellon Wealth Management Hockey Humanitarian Award winner (second year in a row as a finalist) ... Sarah Devens Award winner, joint award for leadership among ECAC Hockey and Hockey East players ... Finalist for ECAC Hockey's Mandi Schwartz Award as student-athlete of the year ... Finalist for National Consortium for Academics and Sports' Giant Steps Award as founder of Mandi Schwartz Foundation ... Won Yale's Molly Meyer Humanitarian Award (senior female who has done the most for others) ... Earned Yale team's Bingham Award for leadership ... Earned Yale team's Brodhead Award for academic excellence ... Led team in points and assists (4-11-15) ... Incurred only seven penalties in 29 games ... Finished her career having played in all 116 games.
2010-11 (Junior): Hockey Humanitarian Award finalist … ECAC Hockey All-Academic for the third straight season … For the second straight season, earned Yale's Mandi Schwartz Award for courage, grit and determination … Led team in goals and was fourth on team in points (10-3-13) … Scored all 10 of her goals in ECAC Hockey games ... Scored game-winning goal in overtime for 3-2 win vs. Clarkson Nov. 20.
2009-10 (Sophomore): ECAC Hockey All-Academic … Earned Yale's Mandi Schwartz Award (known at the time as the Bulldog Award) for courage, grit and determination … Second on team in goals (9) and points (17) … tied for third on team in assists (8).
2008-09 (Freshman): ECAC Hockey All-Academic … Tied for third on team in goals (7) … Fourth on team in assists (9) and points (16) … Incurred just four penalties all season ... Had a goal and an assist in her first collegiate game Oct. 25 at New Hampshire.
Before Yale: Played for the Connecticut Stars for four years, earning two bronze medals and one silver at Nationals ... Also played at Hotchkiss ... Was Hotchkiss team captain and made the All-New England Division I team in 2007-08 ... Was All-Founder's League the two previous years ... Also captained the Hotchkiss field hockey team, and was on lacrosse, softball and track teams ... Father, George, played hockey for Harvard and is seventh on the Crimson's career scoring list (66 goals, 95 assists) … Uncle, Jack, played for Harvard and the NHL's Colorado Rockies ... Mother, Allison, played for BU ... Older brother, George, plays at St. Lawrence... Younger brother, Gunnar, will play at St. Lawrence.
Off the Ice: Member of Berkeley College … American studies major … Coaches Yale Youth Hockey team … Co-chair of committee organizing annual Mandi Schwartz Marrow Donor Registration Drive at Yale ... Organized marrow donor drive and "Goals for Mandi" fundraiser for teammate Mandi Schwartz in her battle with cancer at the Chowder Cup tournament in the summer of 2010 … Event raised more than $5,800 … Also organized the Nov. 12, 2010 "White Out for Mandi" fundraiser at Ingalls Rink, raising more than $15,500 ... Organized event again Dec. 2, 2011, and raised more than $25,000 … Serves as Yale women's ice hockey team's representative for Yale Athletic Department's Thomas W. Ford '42 Community Outreach Program … Takes part in Yale Athletics' Kiphuth Leadership Academy ... founder, Mandi Schwartz Foundation.


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Recipient: City of Edina
To provide professional development for two staff members at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.
Fund Availability:
08/01/2014 - 08/01/2015
Legal Citation / Subdivision
Laws of Minnesota for 2011 Chapter 6, Article 4, Subdivision 5, Statewide Historic and Cultural Grants.
Appropriation Language
Statewide Historic and Cultural Grants. $5,250,000 the first year and $5,250,000 the second year are for history programs and projects operated or conducted by or through local, county, regional, or other historical or cultural organizations; or for activities to preserve significant historic and cultural resources.
Funding Amount: $1,085
Direct Expenses: $1,085
City of Edina
4801 W 50th Street
Edina, MN 55424
Members of Recipient's Governing Body: Peter Sussman, Ryan Weber, Michael Birdman, Jennifer Christiaansen, Connie McDermott, Joyce Mellom, Robert Moore, Tim O'Brien, Bruce McLellan, Nathan Johnson/student, Andrew Brandt/student
Subject: History
Minnesota Historical Society
Board Members:
Minnesota Historical Society Governing Board: William R. Stoeri, President Suzanne Blue Ex-Officio:
Missy S. Thompson, Vice President
Ruth Huss, Vice President
D. Stephen Elliott, Secretary
Dean M. Nelson, Treasurer
Brenda J. Child
Robert Bruininks
Judith S. Corson
D. Stephen Elliott
Phyllis Rawls Goff
William D. Green
David R. Hakensen
Ruth S. Huss
Martha Kaemmer
Dennis L. Lamkin
David M. Larson
Charles Mahar
Dean M. Nelson
Elizabeth M. Nordlie
Dennis Nguyen
Peter R. Reis
Hussein Samatar
Simon Stevens
Susan Kenny Stevens
William R. Stoeri
Karen Wilson Thissen
Missy Staples Thompson
Eleanor Winston
Mark Dayton, Governor
Yvonne Prattner Solon Lieutenant Governor
Mark Ritchie, Secretary of State
Lori Swanson, Attorney General
Rebecca Otto, State Auditor
Minnesota Historical Society Governing Board:
William R. Stoeri, President
Suzanne Blue
Advisory Group Members:
Historic Resources Advisory Committee Mark Peterson, Winona (Chair) Leanne Brown, Eden Prairie Jack Byers, Minneapolis Tamara Edevold, Bagley Ram Gada, Eden Prairie William Latady, Tower Benjamin Vander Kooi, Luverne Brenda Child, Minneapolis Nicole Foss, Bemidji Kris Kiesling, Roseville Jan Louwagie, Marshall Ann Meline, Saint Cloud Peter Reis, White Bear Lake William Stoeri, Minneapolis Missy Staples Thompson, Saint Paul
- Executive Director, Winona County Historical Society
- Governor's appointee to Minnesota Sesquicentennial and Minnesota Humanities Commissions
- Qualified in history, historic preservation and history museum administration
- Director of Development, Carver County Library/Library Foundation
- Formerly, Executive Director, Carver County Historical Society
- Qualified in history, project management and museum studies
- Manager, Minneapolis Community Planning and Economic Development Department (CPED)
- Manages CPED's Preservation and Design Section
- Qualified in historic preservation, architecture, urban geography and planning
- Executive Director, Clearwater County Historical Society
- Active in Minnesota's Historic Northwest, regional historical organization
- Qualified in history, archaeology, anthropology and history museum administration
- Engineer
- Active in the documentation of Minnesota's East Indian community
- State Historical Records Advisory Board (SHRAB), former member
- Qualified in engineering, energy consulting and grants administration
- Bois Forte Deputy Tribal Historic Preservation Officer
- Curator, Bois Forte Heritage Museum
- Qualified in archaeology, anthropology, historic preservation and history museum administration
- Attorney practicing as Vander Kooi Law Offices, P.A., in Luverne, MN
- Active in Vote Yes! Campaign
- Past chair, MN State Arts Board
- Advisor, National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Qualified in historic preservation, nonprofit and grants administration
- Chair, Department of American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota
- Enrolled member, Red Lake Nation
- Qualified in history, American Studies and American Indian Studies
- Executive Director, Beltrami County Historical Society, Bemidji, MN
- Qualified in anthropology, historical archaeology, library and museum fields
- Director of Archives and Special Collections at University of MN Libraries
- State Historical Records Advisory Board (SHRAB) member
- Qualified in library and archives, digital services and history
- Coordinator, Southwest Minnesota Regional Research Center, Southwest Minnesota State University
- Founding member of Society for the Study of Local and Regional History
- Former member of State Historical Records Advisory Board (SHRAB)
- Qualified in history and archival administration
- Deputy Director, Stearns History Museum, St. Cloud
- Formerly Assistant Director/Public Programs managing Exhibits, Collections and Education Departments
- Former grant reviewer for Institute of Museum and Library Services
- Qualified in history, nonprofit and museum administration
- President, White Bear Lake Area Historical Society
- Chair, Minnesota Historical Society's Grants Review Committee
- Qualified in history and nonprofit and grants administration
- Ex-officio member (president of the MHS Board)
- Ex-officio member (treasurer of the MHS Board)
Historic Resources Advisory Committee
Mark Peterson, Winona (Chair)
Leanne Brown, Eden Prairie
Jack Byers, Minneapolis
Tamara Edevold, Bagley
Ram Gada, Eden Prairie
William Latady, Tower
Benjamin Vander Kooi, Luverne
Brenda Child, Minneapolis
Nicole Foss, Bemidji
Kris Kiesling, Roseville
Jan Louwagie, Marshall
Ann Meline, Saint Cloud
Peter Reis, White Bear Lake
William Stoeri, Minneapolis
Missy Staples Thompson, Saint Paul
Conflict of Interest Disclosed: None
Project Type: Grants
Recipient: City of Edina
Funding Amount: $1,085
Source: Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Status: In Progress
Appropriation Years: 2015
Recipient Type: Local/Regional Government
Activity Type: Grants/Contracts
MN Senate District: 49
MN House District: 49A
This site is updated regularly with descriptions and data related to Legacy projects funded through the Minnesota Historical Society by the Legacy Amendment's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund (ACHF).
Further information about the use and impact of all Legacy Funds can be found on the Minnesota Legislative Coordinating Commission's Minnesota's Legacy site.


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Dato' Azmi bin Mohd Ali
Non-Independent Non-Executive Director
Age: 57 years
Nationality: Malaysian
- LL.B (Hons), University of Malaya
- Master of Laws (LL.M) in the United States of America & Global Business Law, University of Suffolk, Boston, USA
Position on the Board
Non-Independent Non-Executive Director
Date of Appointment to The Board
8 October 2010
Working Experience and Occupation
Dato' Azmi is currently the Senior Partner of Azmi & Associates, a corporate and commercial law firm of close to 70 lawyers, which he co-founded in 2000. He has over 30 years of experience in the areas of, amongst others, corporate, commercial, business, capital market and projectrelated law, where he started as an in-house counsel in Petronas in 1984 for 6 years before venturing out into private law practice since 1990.
Dato' Azmi's directorships in other public companies include SP Setia Berhad, CCM Duopharma Biotech Berhad and Perbadanan Nasional Berhad and he is also the chairman of Cliq Energy Berhad, a special-purpose acquisition company, which is now under court-sanctioned liquidation. He has also served on the main Board of Sime Darby Berhad for more than 5 years from 2010 until early 2016.
He is also a director of a public university, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and a director of Financial Reporting Foundation, a Government-sponsored foundation related to the advancement of accounting standards in Malaysia. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor at the Law School of International Islamic University of Malaysia and the Law School of National University of Malaysia.
Membership of Board Committees
- Chairman, Risk Management Committee
- Member, Finance and Investment Committee
Directorships of Other Public Companies
- SP Setia Berhad
- Cliq Energy Berhad
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|Non-Independent Non-Executive Director
|Senior Independent Non-Executive Director
|Independent Non-Executive Director
|Independent Non-Executive Director
|Non-Independent Non-Executive Director
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Plenty To Do This Summer
As spring and summer event lineups have begun trickling in, it's clear Chautauqua County will offer the region a wide range of entertainment options this year. Now, it's up to area residents to support them.
The Lucille Ball-Dezi Arnaz Center will bring in Bill Engvall and Kathleen Madigan to headline its summer comedy festival Aug. 1-4. The center also booked comedian Martin Short as the featured performer for the Lucy Town Half-Marathon and 5K weekend this fall. Like Engvall and Madigan, Short is a nationally known performer whom area and regional comedy fans should be excited to see live.
With an equally impressive lineup, Chautauqua Institution readies to launch its Friday night popular entertainment series June 28 with an Amphitheater performance by Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers. The season also includes performances by Travis Tritt, The Beach Boys, KC & The Sunshine Band and the Village People.
For the 22nd time, the Great Blue Heron Festival will be held in Sherman from July 5-7. A wide range of local and touring acts will be featured, some of whom include Lake Street Drive, The Campbell Brothers, Donna The Buffalo and Big Leg Emma.
Those who prefer some indoor entertainment might consider a visit to Jamestown Savings Bank Arena. The arena continues its own comedy series each Friday, and the Jordan World Circus will make a stop at the arena for multiple shows May 13. The Big City Concert Series will return to the arena patio Friday nights, beginning June 14.
The Jamestown Jammers will launch their home schedule in style with fireworks June 20 at Russell Diethrick Park. The team's home games will continue throughout the summer.
Park 60 Drive-In has opened for business once again with Friday, Saturday and Sunday night double features. Local residents will have several months to enjoy the best spring and summer films from the comforts of their automobiles.
Just outside county lines, the Seneca Allegany Casino and Hotel's Summer Rush Concert Series features B.B King, Jeff Dunham, Alabama, Howie Mandel, and Huey Lewis and the News.
As per usual, many other cultural and music festivals will be held throughout the area during the summer season, along with numerous outdoor concerts series, bar shows, parades and town picnics.
With a plethora of things to do as the weather gets nicer, area residents who stay in will be doing so by choice – not because they can't find anything to do. The "there's nothing to do here" line should be met with laughs in the coming months. Chautauqua County has a lot to offer.


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Evidence That UK Needs Mandatory Porn Filters? Informal Survey Done At One School
from the serious-policymaking-much? dept
In the UK there is currently a campaign and associated petition from the organization "Safety Net: Protecting Innocence Online", which calls for mandatory Net filtering of pornography -- people would need to opt out of the system if they wanted to view this material. The justification -- of course -- is the usual "won't someone think of the children?" Here's the pitch:
Every day children and young people are accessing mainstream pornography on the internet, including the most hardcore, violent and abusive images. Evidence clearly shows pornography has a detrimental impact on children and young people including premature sexualisation, negative body image and unhealthy notions about relationships. This cannot be allowed to continue.
Nick Pickles from Big Brother Watch looked into what that "evidence" might be, and found something rather interesting:
One of the key statistics relied upon by the campaign is that "1 in 3 10 year olds have seen pornography online". They do recognise it was published in Psychologies Magazine in 2010, but the appearance is given that this is a serious statistic. It's also used in their 'Key Facts' briefing.
Actually, it's even more ridiculous than that. That "statistic" states "[a]lmost one-third first looked at sexual images online when they were aged 10 or younger." But as is well known, UK newspaper titles like Rupert Murdoch's "The Sun" carry "sexual images" -- pictures of topless women -- every day. Given the large circulation of the those titles, it's far more likely that children will have seen "sexual images" there, rather than online, and that their attitudes to women will have been harmed more by this kind of relentless objectification than by isolated images they come across on the Internet. And yet strangely no one is calling for Rupert Murdoch's newspapers to be censored.
When you dig a little deeper however, that definitely isn't the case. The full section in the magazine reads:
"We've had plenty of letters from concerned readers on this very topic, and when we decided to canvass the views of 14- to 16-year-olds at a north London secondary school, the results took us by surprise.
So, the statistic -- […] at the heart of the petition's press release -- is based on one magazine's anecdotal research at a single school.
Almost one-third first looked at sexual images online when they were aged 10 or younger."
It's a classic demonization of the Internet that ignores the broader context, and is based on the flimsiest of pretexts. Worryingly, the UK government is sending out clear signals that it supports this campaign regardless. It's currently conducting a consultation on "Parental Internet controls", which closes on September 6. It's extremely poorly worded and clearly biased in favour of the idea of making blanket censorship the default.
If such Net blocks are brought in, legitimate sites will inevitably be blocked by mistake, but it's not so clear that the objectives of protecting children will be achieved. With blocks in place, parents may be lulled into a false sense of security, and so fail to supervise their children's online activities adequately, which will leave the latter exposed to greater not lesser risks. Meanwhile, young people will find ways to circumvent the blocks -- or just buy a copy of "The Sun".
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The International Children's Painting Competition on the Environment is organized annually by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Japan-based Foundation for Global Peace and Environment (FGPE), Bayer and Nikon Corporation. It has been held since 1991 and has received over 3 million entries from children in over 100 countries.
The theme of the 21st painting competition is "Green communities" and participants have until 15 February 2012 to submit their entries. The organizers are inviting children all over the world to submit their paintings to the UNEP office in their regions. Addresses of these offices are indicated on page 3 of the pdf brochure.
The winner in each category - the film which receives the most views on tve's Inspiring Change YouTube channel - will receive US$1500!
Entry Rules and Conditions:
Children between the age of 6 and 14 years.
TUNZA is a word in Kiswahili (the common language of most East African countries) that means to "treat with care".
The programme is based on a strategy that aims to provide young people with information and tools on how to "treat Mother Earth with care" and how to Act for a better world.
UNEP works in partnership with Children from all over the world. Children are represented by Junior Board which is elected every 2 years during UNEP's TUNZA International Children's Conference.
→ Complete list of Competitions organized by the United Nations System and partners.
Source: UNEP
The Brussels based United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe - UNRIC provides information on UN activities to the countries of the region. It also provides liaison with institutions of the European Union in the field of information. Its outreach activities extend to all segments of society and joint campaigns, projects and events are organized with partners including the EU, governments, the media, NGOs, schools and local authorities.
United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe (UNRIC Brussels)
Residence Palace, Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 155, Block C2,7th and 8th floor, Brussels 1040, Belgium
Tel.: +32 2 788 8484 / Fax: 32 2 788 8485


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Q. What are the disconnecting means requirements for a water heater?
A. For appliances rated over 300VA or 1/8 hp, a switch or circuit breaker located within sight from the appliance can serve as the appliance disconnecting means. If the switch or circuit breaker is capable of being locked in the open position, it doesn't need to be within sight. The provision for locking or adding a lock to the disconnecting means must be on the switch or circuit breaker and remain in place with or without the lock installed. A portable locking means doesn't meet the "locked in the open position" requirement [422.31(B)]. "Within sight" is defined as being visible and located not more than 50 ft from one to the other [Art. 100].
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Showing kids the way
We can combat bullying by coming down hard on the bullies, but we also need to prevent kids from becoming bullies in the first place. In a recent New York Times Opinionator column, David Bornstein writes about Roots of Empathy, a Canadian program that helps children grow their empathy.
Bornstein describes the program:
Roots arranges monthly class visits by a mother and her baby (who must be between two and four months old at the beginning of the school year). Each month, for nine months, a trained instructor guides a classroom using a standard curriculum that involves three 40-minute visits – a pre-visit, a baby visit, and a post-visit. The program runs from kindergarten to seventh grade. During the baby visits, the children sit around the baby and mother (sometimes it's a father) on a green blanket (which represents new life and nature) and they try to understand the baby's feelings. The instructor helps by labeling them. "It's a launch pad for them to understand their own feelings and the feelings of others," explains Gordon. "It carries over to the rest of class."
Bornstein visited several classes and found that kids change around babies: "tough kids smile, disruptive kids focus, shy kids open up. In a seventh grade class, I found 12-year-olds unabashedly singing nursery rhymes."
* Read Bornstein's article, or visit Roots of Empathy.
* Check out CHARACTER COUNTS! lesson plans designed to help students become caring people.


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Blood levels of BPA become source of controversy
Values reported for humans appear high, study charges, possibly suggesting contamination or exaggerated exposures
BOSTON — The ubiquity of the pollutant bisphenol A in many plastic products, food-can linings, cash-register receipts and dental resins means that everyone is exposed to it daily. But controversy remains about how much BPA people actually ingest or otherwise encounter. New data reported at a February 16 symposium raised red flags over the accuracy of previously reported human blood concentrations of BPA — amounts described over the years as being representative of the general population.
Those values appear to be roughly 1,000 times higher than most people actually encounter, concludes toxicologist and symposium organizer Justin Teeguarden of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash. His assessment, reported at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting, was based on a reanalysis of data from previously published studies, including BPA values measured in more than 30,000 people.
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Olive Garden
Food Poisoning 4 years ago
Total all time reports: 1
Total all time sick persons: 1
Reported By Iwaspoisoned.com User
1 person had — diarrhea and nausea
More incidents from:
Too Much Power to the People? A Food Safety Site Tests the Limits
How crowdsourcing can improve food safety
'I Was Poisoned': Can Crowdsourcing Food Illnesses Help Stop Outbreaks?
The Food Chain. A Poisonous Business


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The New England Patriots' fascination with former Rutgers players has been well documented since the 2013 NFL Draft. Bill Belichick's son, Steve, now a coaching assistant with the Patriots, was on former Rutgers coach Greg Schiano's 2011 team.
Top 10 quarterbacks 25 or under
Buoyed by the draft class of 2012, the NFL has a surplus of promising young passers. Around the League counted down the top 10 QBs 25 years old or under.
» No. 10: Josh Freeman
» No. 9: Andy Dalton
» No. 8: Sam Bradford
» No. 7: Ryan Tannehill
» No. 6: Matthew Stafford
» No. 5: Russell Wilson
» No. 4: Cam Newton
» No. 3: Colin Kaepernick
» No. 2: Robert Griffin III
» No. 1: Andrew Luck
Throw in Belichick's friendship with Schiano, and it's easier to understand the pipeline. Eight players currently on the Patriots' roster played at Rutgers, which seems like an insanely high amount. It is. Only one other NFL team has as many players from one college on its roster.
Mike Reiss of ESPNBoston.com did the research, and you probably can guess what connection tied the Patriots.
Most players from same college
on NFL roster
1t. New England Patriots-Rutgers: 8
1t. Tampa Bay Buccaneers-Rutgers: 8
3. Cincinnati Bengals-Georgia: 7
4t. Buffalo Bills-Florida State: 6
4t. Minnesota Vikings-Florida State: 6
In short, if other NFL teams want to take a Rutgers player in the 2014 NFL Draft, they probably should grab him a round or three early before Belichick or Schiano does.
Follow Gregg Rosenthal on Twitter @greggrosenthal.


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|This is Box 3 of a 6-box collection of diaries written over the course of 56 years (1895-1951) by a farmer in Petersboro, Utah. Box 3 covers the period 1911-1916 and is organized into 12 folders: Folder 1: Vol. 16A, 1911 Jan.-Feb. (bound vol. 6.75 x 8.25 inches) Folder 2: Vol. 16B, 1911 Mar.-Apr. (bound vol. 6.75 x 8.25 inches) Folder 3: Vol. 16C, 1911 May-June (bound vol. 6.75 x 8.25 inches) Folder 4: Vol. 16D, 1911 July-Aug. (bound vol. 6.75 x 8.25 inches) Folder 5: Vol. 16E, 1911 Sept.-Oct. (bound vol. 6.75 x 8.25 inches) Folder 6: Vol. 16F, 1911 Nov.-Dec. (bound vol. 6.75 x 8.25 inches) Folder 7: Vol. 17, 1912 (bound vol. 8 x 12.75 inches) Folder 8: Vol. 18, 1913 (bound vol. 8 x 12.5 inches) Folder 9: Vol. 19A, 1914 (bound vol. 4 x 7 inches) Folder 10: Vol. 19B, 1914 (bound vol. 8 x 12.5 inches) Folder 11: Vol. 20A, 1915 (bound vol. 4 x 7 inches) Folder 12: Vol. 20B, 1915-1916 (vol. 21) (bound vol. 8 x 12.75 inches)
|Oliver Larsen Peterson was born in Logan, Utah in 1879 to Mary and Peter Peterson. Oliver, or O. L. as he was known, and his twin brother Edward were the first two of seven children. Shortly after birth of the twins, the family moved from Logan to their dry farm in Petersboro, Utah. Established by their father between 1875 and 1878, this was a large dry farm and cattle ranch located on the west side of Cache Valley directly north of Mendon, Utah. Here O. L., an astute observer as his diaries attest, spent his life as a rancher and farmer. On October 2, 1913 O. L. married Navieve Haws of Logan and they later had eight children. O. L. Peterson died April 7, 1955. O. L. kept a daily diary from 1895-1951. Due to Peterson's discerning eye for detail, his journal entries are voluminous. The diaries comprehensively describe the changes in a turn-of-the-century dry farming operation in Cache Valley. Peterson not only throughly described the daily farm routine, but also the seasonal occurrences of plowing, planting, harvesting, and winter livestock care. He concluded each year's entries with an inventory of equipment, livestock, and the amount of feed stored for winter. For example, in the 1903 volume (Box 1, Folder 10) he listed all of the farm machinery along with purchase dates and costs. The same volume also inventories the livestock, going as far as stating the names and weights of the horses. Box 1 Folder 1 contains a 'daybook', which spans the period of 1895 to 1915 and presents an overview of Peterson's thoughts and labor. In addition to describing farm operations, Peterson mentioned important social and political events, but without any comment about his feelings toward those events. He recorded weather conditions, natural occurrences such as earthquakes, and local flora and fauna. As well, he described the physical geography of the Petersboro-Benson area both before and after the building of the Cutler Dam, noting the dam's effects on area drainage.
|Peterson, Oliver Larsen, 1879-1955
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Petersboro, Cache County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5779635/
Cache Valley, Cache County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5772316/
Cache County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5772317/
Franklin County, Idaho, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5593547/
|Subject (LCSH)
Peterson family--History--Diaries
Peterson, Oliver Larsen, 1879-1955--Diaries
Farmers--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--Diaries
Agriculture--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--History
Agricultural machinery--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--History
Dry farming--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--History
Family farms--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--History
Livestock--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--History
Threshing--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--History
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|Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, Historical Photoboards Collection. Oliver L. Peterson diaries, 1895-1951. COLL MSS 101, Boxes 1-2, 4-6
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Knockout Noodles: Bon Bon Vietnamese Sandwiches
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If I had to describe the website for Bon Bon Vietnamese Sandwiches, I'd probably go with an alliterative takedown: aggressively amateur. The Wicker Park restaurant's dining room—a gaggle of mismatched chairs, cubby shelving, houseplants, and random artwork—has a kind of thrown-together, kindergarten classroom quality. Judging by such cues, you might go into a meal at Bon Bon with the sense that the proprietors don't take their enterprise all too seriously. Check that attitude at the door, because boy are you wrong.
The menu at Bon Bon is divided between Vietnamese and Japanese cuisines—bánh mì meets bento box. And in addition to the sandwiches, there are warm Vietnamese noodle salads and two choices of phở, one vegan and one with beef. This is where things get serious; noodles like these are only made possible by discipline.
The beef phở ($7.95) is a beautiful example of the traditional Vietnamese noodle soup. The broth, made from simmering par-boiled beef bones, is a fine and nuanced extract, full of savory, meaty flavors and sporting just-right salt and oil levels. A generous helping of steak swims in the broth amid soft, slightly smoky onion slices. The beef is tender and delicious, reminiscent for me of meat cooked in a Japanese shabu shabu hot pot. Bon Bon traffics in exceedingly fresh herbal accompaniments, including crisp and pungent mint leaves, cilantro, and gorgeous bunches of anise-laced Thai basil, its stems the color of Asian eggplant.
The outstanding rice noodles push this phở over the finish line. First of all they're spaghetti-thick, so you can really experience their slightly roughened texture and supple yet resilient structure. They nicely take on some traits of the broth, while maintaining the clean, starchy flavors of the rice that made them.
I was only smitten by the chicken rice noodle salad ($7.95) on a recent visit. Beautifully marinated and glazed dark meat chicken co-stars in this bowl with fluffy, sticky rice noodles—these being flat in shape like fettuccine. Fresh greens, ribbons of carrot, crushed peanut, and more fragrant mint round out the ingredients. A cup of spicy-sweet dressing accompanies the bowl.
Go ahead and toss in the cool, unctuous stuff; it'll help to tie the flavors together and keep these more well-done noodles from clumping up as they rest. After all, you've been handed a delicious bowl of food— the least you could do is take it seriously.
Bon Bon Vietnamese Sandwiches
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The 2018 season will be head coach Warren Russ' 12th season at the helm of the Georgia Southwestern men's soccer program. He is the second head coach in the history of the program, which began NCAA Division II play in 2006.
Georgia Southwestern soccer has been honored as one of the Peach Belt Conference's most academically recognized programs. During the Warren Russ era, a Hurricane has been elected to a PBC All-Academic team in every season. A total of 30 Hurricane players have received conference accolades since Russ took over before the 2008 season.
Building a program from the ground up is part of Russ's pedigree. He was an assistant at the University of Georgia (1995-2000) when the Bulldogs started their women's soccer program beginning in 1995. In three short years, the Bulldogs made their first NCAA Tournament debut. The program followed up that milestone by advancing to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament the following season.
Prior to his coaching stint in Athens, Russ spent four seasons as an assistant coach at his alma matter the University of Central Florida (1990-1994). Russ was also a four-year letter winner at UCF.
Russ also has coaching experience outside of college soccer as well. His coaching career includes stints with the Florida Olympic Development program, Gwinnett Soccer Association and several high schools in Florida.
In addition to his work on the sidelines, Russ spent ten years playing professionally with the Orlando Lions Soccer Club, South Carolina Shamrocks Professional Soccer Club and Wrexham Football Club in Wales. He has earned two League All-Star awards and played for clubs in a semifinal and two championship matches.
Coach Warren Russ is a native of Coral Springs, Florida and earned his bachelor's in Business Administration-Marketing from UCF.


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The company will hire the top eye specialists to set the standard in eye care for everyone, ultimately spreading throughout the world. The four pillars of the company will be acquiring and retaining the best, most innovative technology, specialist talent, research, and public education about the health and diseases of the eye. The vision is to have fully-staffed company facilities throughout the USA.
Examples of eye ailments that will be treated include cataracts, nearsightedness (glases, contacts, or LASIK), and reconstruction of damaged structures within the eye. People of all ages will be treated and, hopefully, nearly all health insurances will be accepted.
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Saying the Republican party has left her and is now owned by ideologues, former GOP state Sen. Nancy Argenziano, 56, of Crystal River says she will run for the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat. Argenziano will seek the District 2 seat now held by freshman Republican Steve Southerland of Panama City, who unseated longtime Democrat Allen Boyd in November 2010.
"The Republican Party has left me, and I will run as a Democrat, in a sense permitting a claim to ultimate bipartisanship, along the lines of Ronald Reagan. The current iteration of the party abandoned real Republican principles long ago to cater to ideologues and corporations – the Koch entities, most notably – whose interests lie in the profiteering of America and the sacking of the middle class," Argenziano wrote in a letter announcing her candidacy. "Current Republican leaders have neither patience with nor allowance for honest elected officials, and they demand that members of the various legislatures – who, after all, have sworn to uphold the Constitution – instead just follow the hijacked party line and shut up."
She says she plans to file for the race by Aug. 10.
Argenziano has long been a vocal critic of the Republican party. An avid motorcyclist, she earned a reputation as a state lawmaker for her salty language and as a consumer advocate and defender of nursing home patients. She left the legislature when Gov. Charlie Crist appointed her in 2007 to the Public Service Commission. She left the PSC in October 2010 to help Democrat Alex Sink with her failed run for governor.
Argenziano was involved in one of the most bizarre incidents in Tallahassee when she sent a 25-pound box of manure to a lobbyist with whom she clashed on a nursing home bill.


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A new "residential village" under construction at Hope College will create a mini-neighborhood for 60 students starting in the fall of 2013.
The four townhouse-style apartments, the "Tom and Ryan Cook Village," will be placed in a "U" design along 11th and 12th streets and Lincoln Avenue, a configuration that will give them a shared quadrangle-style backyard. Construction began earlier this month with completion in time for the 2013-14 school year. The total project cost is approximately $3.6 million.
The addition is timely, with Hope currently experiencing an enrollment boom. Overall enrollment during 2011-12 was 3,249 students, a record high for the college. Hope enrolled its largest freshman class ever, some 848 students, in the fall of 2011, and is anticipating an even larger incoming class, likely more than 900 students, this year.
The exterior design will feature large back porches meant to make a focal point of the quadrangle space created by the four structures. Sidewalks through the space are planned to help make the site a more welcoming backyard for the residents and an integral part of the campus.
"From a programmatic standpoint, it connects the core campus with some of the other facilities on the eastern side of campus, and provides a high-end apartment-style residential opportunity for some of our upper-level students," said Dr. James E. Bultman, president of Hope College.
Bultman noted that Hope has sought to develop a project that will blend well into the existing neighborhood, which includes not only the DeVos Fieldhouse to the north and college-owned houses to the west, but private residences to the east and south.
"The college has worked very closely with the architects, the city and the neighbors to create a size and scope for the village that would be compatible with the surrounding residential community," he said. "Hence the design of smaller units with less height than a typical residence hall might entail."
Built of brick and featuring the Flemish-style architecture and angled roofs of campus landmarks like the Van Wylen Library and other recent additions to the campus, the two-story buildings are designed to offer apartment-style living in space designed from the ground up with students in mind, according to Dr. Richard Frost, who is vice president for student development and dean of students at Hope.
"Our priority was to develop the right kind of housing for Hope students and the Hope College experience, to support community as well as the academic mission of the college," he said.
"It's also going to be drop-dead gorgeous," Frost said. "Any way you look at it, from my standpoint it's going to be hard to beat."
Two of the units will be duplexes housing 10 students on each side, and two will be single structures housing 10 students each. The overall complex will be co-educational, but each of the six units will be single-gender, housing either men or women.
Each unit will total between 4,800 and 4,900 square feet, and will include five double-occupancy bedrooms spread across the first and second floors, a first-floor kitchen and living room, small study areas on the top floor and a large study area/meeting room on the basement/ground level.
Approximately 2,450 of the college's students live on-campus. Hope has 11 residence halls ranging in capacity from 48 to 265, 19 apartment facilities and approximately 70 cottages, houses on or near campus that serve as student residences.
The new units, Frost said, are meant to capture the home-like atmosphere of the cottages but with amenities that complement having 10 students living together, like three full bathrooms, two refrigerators and air conditioning. While the new buildings will help accommodate Hope's enlarged enrollment, in the long term the college plans to retire some of the cottages that have been in use for many years.
Architectural design for the project was by Design Plus Inc. of Grand Rapids. The construction manager is Lakewood Construction of Holland.
The complex is being named in honor of a major gift to the college from the Peter C. and Emajean Cook Foundation. Thomas M. Cook of Grand Rapids and Ryan T. Cook of Ada are a son and grandson respectively of the late Peter C. and Emajean Cook. Father and son, Thomas and Ryan graduated from Hope in 1967 and 1996 respectively. The college's Cook residence hall on 10th Street, which was completed in 1997 and expanded in 2006, is named in honor of Peter C. and Emajean Cook.