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Today we received this info from LW: The UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Radhika Coomarawamy, will visit Afghanistan from 28 June to 3 July to inaugurate the monitoring and reporting system introduced by Security Council resolution 1612 in 2005 and to ascertain the impact of the conflict on children. Please find, and disseminate to your local media, a press release on the visit. Also, www.un.org/childrenconflict >for more background, please check the CAAC website and the following documents. - Annual report including Afghanistan: http:// daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N07/656/04/PDF/N0765604.pdf?OpenElement - Webpage on Afghanistan - Bio of the SRSG - Res 1612&Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism - SC working Group on CAAC Thank you and best regards, Margaret Novicki Chief, Communications Campaign Service Department of Public Information United Nations, New York

Tanks to A.d'S. for the following link: http:// queenscrap.blogspot.com/ They focus on the overdevelpment and other issues facing Queens, NY

I was on the QM2 express bus headed to Manhattan on LIE. There was police activity and here is what has happened: http://queenscrap.blogspot.com/2008/06/sand-avalanche-in-maspeth.html

A new custom search engine for Sub-Saharan African governments. It was created to help students and faculty at Berkeley Library to find primary resources from Sub-Saharan African governments. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/govinfo/foreign/gov_africa.html

List of companies that would exhibit at Web 2.0 Expo New York

Resources for Children with Special Needs, Inc. Presents What’s Out There and How to Get It 2008-2009 Free Training Series For Families and Professionals Needing Programs and Services for Children with Disabilities Gary Shulman, MS.Ed.:212-677-4650 gshulman@resourcesnyc.org www.resourcesnyc.org www.resourcesnycdatabase.org searchable website Bronx Jewish Child Care Association 555 Bergen Ave. Bronx 10455 November 5, 2008 Transition from School to Adult Life 10 AM-1 PM December 3, 2008 Advocacy Skills for Parents 10 AM-1 PM January 8, 2009 Getting Appropriate Educational Services 10 AM-1 PM February 4, 2009 Turning 5: Transition to School Age 10AM-1PM March 4, 2009 Transition from School to Adult Life 10 AM-1 PM April 1, 2009 Community Resources 10 AM-12 Noon May 6, 2009 Early Childhood Services: Birth to 5 10 AM-1 PM June 3, 2009 Getting Appropriate Educational Services 10 AM-1 PM Bronx Family Center of the Children’s Aid Society 1515 Southern Blvd. Bronx 10460 November

Here is a new info for future reference regarding the Armenian Genocide and the International Community: "Summary of the Advisory Opinion of 28 May 1951 RESERVATIONS TO THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE Advisory Opinion of 28 May 1951" the complete text is found at the following link at ICJ - International Court of Justice

I stumbled upon this Kurdish blog - i have no idea what it says, but has some English there. (The green line in Beirut started because one of their teens was killed in skirmishes in the border... the kidnapped 4 Christians going from Hamra towards east on Fouad Chehab highway... I saw them do the looting, their camions loaded with stuff from the houses of those their women did the cleaning... also, they wanted to get us out of our house and take over... hmmm the old mentality that they can take your stuff and posessions anytime an opportunity presents itself...): http:// kordn.blogspot.com/ Blog about Spanish community: http:// misolpark.blogspot.com/ About Oradour and Limoge: quote from the blog: .... We also went to a small town just north of Limoges called Oradour sur Glane. A truly moving experience for all of us. This place was completed anihalated by two hundred German SS on 10th June 1944 and 642 of the 648 people in the community at the time were shot and burned and the place i

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