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Get yourself in between words and bodies!
Feb 28, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Calling all writers! Queens Council on the Arts’ 3rd Space is proud to present In Between the Lines, an inaugural writing workshop hosted by Queens-based performance collective The In Between Peopl...
St. Stan's Rosary Alter Society Annual Champagne Brunch
Feb 25, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 101 101 recommendations | email to a friend
Sunday, March 30, 2014  12:00 PM Noon St. Stan's - 57-15 61st Street, Maspeth 11378 Delicious Food - Great Prizes - Unlimited Champagne!  Call the Rectory for tickets, which are $17.00.  718-326-21...
A Step-by-Step Guide on Changing Home Door Locks
Feb 24, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 584 584 recommendations | email to a friend
Moving to a new apartment or a newly-acquired home sure is exciting and thrilling for a lot of reasons. You are finally in your own place! While moving to your own place sure is a thrilling experie...
Queens Council on the Arts Presents “A Night with Dancers”
Feb 21, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Queens Council on the Arts’  3rd Space  is proud to present an evening with Queens-based dancers and choreographers Monica Hogan, Hazel Lever and Selma Treviño who will be performing works-in-progr...
Identity Theft Prevention!
Feb 21, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 150 150 recommendations | email to a friend
On Sunday, March 2nd the Crime Prevention Section will host it's fourth Identity Theft Prevention Event at Gateway Center, 501 Gateway Drive, Brooklyn, NY from 10AM-2PM.  WE have partnered with Lio...
Timing Is Everything
Feb 21, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 396 396 recommendations | email to a friend
     While I was living in Nashville, I was continually learning about different plants and flowers that were native to the region. As I walked through a field one day, I spotted a cluster of daint...
Queens Council on the Arts Presents Senses Transport
Feb 20, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Queens Council on the Arts mixes up dance and food in the second Moveable Feast Artist Dinner Series which will raise money for a stop gap scholarship fund. The Moveable Feast Artist Dinner feature...
Resorts World Casino Hosts Mid-Winter Food Tasting Benefitting City Harvest
Feb 18, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 164 164 recommendations | email to a friend
Join Resorts World Casino New York City Wednesday, February 26, 2014, from 7:00 p.m-9:00 p.m at the Mid-Winter Taste for City Harvest, a special tasting event featuring food, wine, cocktails and ce...
Protect your company from discrimination complaints and lawsuits
Feb 18, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 189 189 recommendations | email to a friend
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ( EEOC ) reported it obtained a record $372.1 million in monetary relief for victims of private sector employment discrimination in year ending 2013...
Learn how to Build and Cultivate Relationships with Individual Donors
Feb 18, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Queens Council on the Arts invites you to learn how to build and cultivate relationships with individual donors. Good fundraising is all about cultivating relationships to build deep connections.  ...

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Quitting time
Dear Editor: That was a very informing letter from the president of the American Lung Association (2/27/14). Back when I used to smoke, I told myself that if the butts ever went to a buck a pack, I...
Mar 05, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
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Subway Wi-Fi a danger
Dear Editor: The MTA announced plans to extend Wi-Fi service to more subway stations, including 29 in Queens. Not so fast. A young woman was nearly killed when she fell onto subway tracks while tex...
Mar 05, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
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Trickle or tinkle?
Dear Editor: If Mr. Ed Konecnik is not careful, he will dislocate his shoulder due to his non-stop personal back slapping. Somehow his description of what to him is “freedom” is more akin to “greed...
Mar 05, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
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Safer 21st Street
Dear Editor: It is heartening to see the growing media attention to traffic-calming efforts in Queens in the wake of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s announcement of the Vision Zero initiative to end traffic...
Mar 05, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
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In response
Dear Editor: This is in response to Mirza Ghulam Haseeb of Jamaica whose letter about Americans’ reactions to his faith appeared in this paper on February 6. Mirza, I realize that at 11 years old y...
Feb 26, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 34 34 recommendations | email to a friend
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For love of country
Dear Editor: I am an American Ahmadi Muslim middle school student. I was born in America and will never leave it. I love this country, because this country is my homeland. For me, loving my homelan...
Feb 26, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 35 35 recommendations | email to a friend
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Freedom of choice?
Dear Editor: The government has expanded our freedoms and created a new opportunity. Jay Carney, at a recent press conference, heralded the administrations latest achievement: “Opportunity created ...
Feb 26, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 33 33 recommendations | email to a friend
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Waiting in the wings
Dear Editor: After hearing Public Advocate Letitia James’ recent illogical advice for Mayor Bill de Blasio to ban uniformed city employees from marching in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade since it wou...
Feb 26, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 33 33 recommendations | email to a friend
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Freedom from smoking
Dear Editor; Annually in the U.S., 392,000 people die from smoking-caused disease and an additional 50,000 from secondhand smoke exposure. The American Lung Association is dedicated to helping smok...
Feb 17, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 58 58 recommendations | email to a friend
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Not government’s job to help poor
Dear Editor: Many people think that the federal government should help the poor. The federal government is supposed to be limited by what it can do by the U.S. Constitution. Because it has overstep...
Feb 17, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 60 60 recommendations | email to a friend
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Watch Iran
Dear Editor: The recent news story that the Iranian Navy is moving some of its ships closer to our waters should be cause for concern by our government. Why is Iran doing this? Obviously,there is a...
Feb 17, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 59 59 recommendations | email to a friend
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Trouble at Creedmoor
Dear Editor: I found it quite troubling to read that a week ago a convicted killer who was at Creedmoor Psychiatric facility for observation had escaped. This is the second occurrence in ten months...
Feb 17, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 58 58 recommendations | email to a friend
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Buttermilk is sweet
Dear Editor: “Buttermilk Bakery opens doors, sells out day one” (Lydia Stetson - February 6) was a tasty treat! The article should be must reading by our public officials on a bipartisan basis, be ...
Feb 17, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 58 58 recommendations | email to a friend
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Seniors left waiting
Dear Editor: Hurry up and wait was a popular G.I. expression during World War II. Now it applies to members of Club Pride, a geriatric psycho-social center in Douglaston. Since its launch 18 years ...
Feb 12, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 69 69 recommendations | email to a friend
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Vote for Rand
Dear Editor: How refreshing to see the liberal New York Times run a major front page article ("Rand Paul's Mixed Inheritance - January 26). Kentucky Senator Rand Paul reminds me of the modern-day c...
Feb 12, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 63 63 recommendations | email to a friend
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Court won't hear dispute over 'boobies' bracelets
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Pennsylvania school district that wants to prevent students from wearing "I (heart) Boobies!" bracelets to promote breast cancer awareness among young people.
2014-03-10 10:02:32 -0400
EBay rejects Icahn board nominees, asks investors to do same

An eBay logo is projected onto white boxes in this illustration picture taken in WarsawEBay Inc on Monday rejected activist investor Carl Icahn's two nominees to its board, saying both were unqualified, and urged shareholders to vote against them at its next annual meeting. Icahn, who owns just over 2 percent of the e-commerce company, has been pressuring eBay for weeks to spin off its PayPal payments business. He has also repeatedly accused eBay of poor corporate governance. The billionaire nominated Icahn Enterprises LP employees Daniel Ninivaggi and Jonathan Christodoro, both of whom Icahn regularly nominates to boards.


2014-03-10 10:01:01 -0400
Pistorius vomits in court at Steenkamp autopsy details

Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius reacts during a testimony at the North Gauteng High Court in PretoriaBy Vanessa Romeo PRETORIA (Reuters) - Track star Oscar Pistorius, on trial for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, wept and vomited into a bucket in a South African courtroom on Monday after hearing graphic details from her autopsy. Pathologist Gert Saayman was interrupted several times by the 27-year-old Paralympic and Olympic athlete's sobbing and retching but the defense team argued against an adjournment, saying a break would not improve his state of mind. Earlier, Judge Thokozile Masipa imposed a broadcast blackout on Saayman's testimony out of respect for Steenkamp's family and to prevent children from accidentally hearing its contents. "Broadcast would compromise the privacy of the deceased, hurt the interests of the Steenkamps and be against the morals of society," Saayam said when he took the stand to ask for a temporary broadcast blackout of a trial that has so far been shown in its entirety on live television.


2014-03-10 10:00:30 -0400