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Jan 23, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Companies often find that staffing agencies are valuable resources for helping them fill temporary or permanent positions and for handling human resources issues. However, recently, an outside staf...
How Do 2015 Minimum Wage Increases Affect NY Restaurants?
Jan 15, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 42 42 recommendations | email to a friend
Author: Stephen D. Hans Minimum wage increases took effect on December 31, 2014, raising the New York minimum wage from $8.00 to $8.75 per hour for employees who work based on hourly wages. By the ...
This Month in Queens Real Estate: JANUARY 2015
Jan 14, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 44 44 recommendations | email to a friend
January 2014 Queens NY Market Update  The pace of existing home sales increased in December, but remained below that in the same month of the previous year. Home prices declined as we moved in to t...
Negligence of Oregon Hospital Led to Wrongful Death of Patient
Jan 12, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 54 54 recommendations | email to a friend
Author:  Mark H. Sackstein, Esq. All it takes is one small mistake for a disaster to occur. No matter how much research is done when choosing a hospital, it is impossible to predict a situation suc...
Matching Workouts With the Results You Want
Jan 10, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 61 61 recommendations | email to a friend
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard friends complain about not getting the results they want, despite how much energy they’re putting into their workout.  People who want bigger muscles go t...
How Do 2015 Minimum Wage Increases Affect NY Restaurants?
Jan 08, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 70 70 recommendations | email to a friend
Author: Stephen Hans Minimum wage increases took effect on December 31, 2014, raising the New York minimum wage from $8.00 to $8.75 per hour for employees who work based on hourly wages. By the way...
Immersed in ancient times; the performance of Aida at the Metropolitan Opera. A review.
Jan 03, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 121 121 recommendations | email to a friend
Written By:  Tiziano Thomas Dossena   Imagine being immersed in an ancient world, with colossal stone columns, palaces and images of deities, a marvelous music surrounding you and, thank God, no ce...
What to Eat Before Your Workout
Jan 03, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 101 101 recommendations | email to a friend
by Mary Murphy Fueling up before a workout is the best thing you can do for your body.  But it’s important to eat the  right  things at the  right  time.  Eating too far in advance of your workout ...
Static vs. Dynamic Stretching
Jan 03, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 98 98 recommendations | email to a friend
by Mary Murphy  So you’ve already heard that you should stretch before you work out, but did you know that some types of stretching can be more harmful than helpful?  The American Council on Exerci...
From "Lost Side Of Suburbia" to "Poptropica," An Exclusive Interview with Artist Kory Merritt
Dec 29, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 128 128 recommendations | email to a friend
Written By:  Tiziano Thomas Dossena   Kory Merritt started cartooning and illustrating while attending SUNY Brockport. His weekly comic strip, Brockport Chronicled, won the John Locher Memorial Awa...

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Patriotism on full display at Memorial Day parade
Photos:Michael O'Kane Patriotism, sun and smiles were all on display at the Maspeth Memorial Day parade. The parade began at 72nd Street and Grand Avenue and marched several blocks to Maspeth Memor...
May 31, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 79 79 recommendations | email to a friend
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Martial Arts expert gets kick out of teaching
What started out as a hobby in martial arts and jiu-jitsu fighting turned into a career for black belt Carmine Zocchi. He gave up fighting professionally to become a trainer, and now owns his own j...
May 27, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 53 53 recommendations | email to a friend
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Maspeth street changes stir debate
Rez have mixed feelings on plan
May 24, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 57 57 recommendations | email to a friend
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Msgr. McClancy H.S. will go co-ed next year
School plans a 25% enrollment increase over four years
May 24, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 56 56 recommendations | email to a friend
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104th Precinct Police Blotter (5/16/11-5/22/11)
Monday, May 16 Richard Candeloro was arrested at 67-05 Myrtle Avenue for criminal trespassing by Officer Bianchini. Victor Ramirez was arrested at 703 Fairview Avenue for criminal contempt by Offic...
May 24, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 53 53 recommendations | email to a friend
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A view of the five-leg intersection, where Maspeth and Maurice avenues meet 58th Street and 56th Terrace. The city has proposed changing its layout, but business owners are critical of the plan.
Small biz block board vote on Maspeth street change
Say “normalization” of five-leg intersection would kill business
May 17, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 55 55 recommendations | email to a friend
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Two to be honored at annual parade
Two Purple Heart Medal recipients, Arigo Fruner and Robert M. Reilly, will be recognized on Sunday, May 29, at a ceremony after the Maspeth Memorial Day Parade. The 2 p.m. ceremony will take place ...
May 17, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 52 52 recommendations | email to a friend
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104th Precinct Police Blotter (5/10/11-5/15/11
Monday, May 10 Anthony Rattoballi was arrested at the intersection of Cooper Avenue and Cypress Hills Street for making graffiti by Officer Dambinskas. Serrad Krcio was arrested at the intersection...
May 17, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 49 49 recommendations | email to a friend
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2011 grand marshals revealed
Virginia and Andrew Frazier have been named the grand marshals of the 2011 Maspeth Memorial Day Parade, which will take place on Sunday, May 29. Andrew is a WWII veteran and was part of the U.S. Mi...
May 13, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend
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Elmhurst Park gets thumb's up
Parents, kids flock to new open space
May 10, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 51 51 recommendations | email to a friend
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An early-morning transfer operation near this site in Middle Village could get moved farther south under a deal being worked out by railroad operators and officials.
MidVille rail operation could be moved to cut noise
Deal being finalized to relocate transfer site
May 10, 2011 | 2 2 comments | 49 49 recommendations | email to a friend
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104th Precinct Police blotter (5/2/11-5/8/11)
Monday, May 2 Carlos Borja was arrested at 46-25 Metropolitan Avenue for driving while intoxicated by Officer McCarren. Mariusz Sulowski was arrested at 1913 Bleecker Street for criminal contempt b...
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Bin Laden's death greeted with a mixture of relief, frustration
Osama bin Laden's death won't bring back Paula Guido's cousin, who died at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. It won't replace Anthony Lahey's friend, either. But for many city residents...
May 04, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 48 48 recommendations | email to a friend
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Fire guts a Maspeth landmark
O'Neill's Restaurant catches fire, completely destroyed
May 03, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 55 55 recommendations | email to a friend
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104th Precinct Police Blotter (4/25/11-5/1/11)
Monday, April 25 Bruce Escalante was arrested at 1872 Starr Street for burglary by Detective Clifford. Fiordaliza Almonte was arrested at 1826 George Street for grand larceny by Detective Houlihan....
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Yemen risks disintegration as south rejects Shi'ite group's takeover

Soldiers are seen near the house of Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi in SanaaBy Yara Bayoumy SANAA (Reuters) - No sooner had Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi announced his resignation than his country's tenuous political fabric began to disintegrate.     Provinces across a nation barely held together by a complex web of tribal and religious alliances said they would no longer take military commands from Sanaa after the Iranian-allied Shi'ite Houthi group besieged Hadi's home and palace this week. The emerging fragmentation of the Arabian Peninsula country has sparked fears of the "Somalization" of a state which is home to a revitalized al Qaeda insurgency as well as a neighbor to top oil exporter Saudi Arabia.     For Washington, Yemen's splintering would make it hard to carry out a counter-terrorism strategy against al Qaeda plotters who have targeted it and its ally Saudi Arabia and claimed responsibility for the Jan. 7 Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris. Through Hadi, a supporter of U.S. drone strikes on al Qaeda, Yemen was a top U.S. ally in the Washington's fight against islamist militancy.


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Anti-bailout party the favorite as Greeks cast critical vote

Alexis Tsipras, leader of Greece's Syriza left-wing main opposition party surrounded by photographers reacts as he casts his vote at a polling station in Athens, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015. Greeks were voting Sunday in an early general election crucial for the country's financial future, with the radical left Syriza party of Alexis Tsipras tipped as the favorite to win, although possibly without a large enough majority to form a government. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece voted Sunday in an early general election that could alter the course of the country's struggle with crippling debts, with a radical left party poised to win by promising to rewrite the terms of its international bailout.


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Obama received warmly in India, seeks policy advances

U.S. President Barack Obama folds his hands in a traditional Indian greeting gesture, as Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, center, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi laugh during a ceremonial reception at the Indian presidential Palace in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015. Obama is the first American leader to be invited to attend India's Republic Day festivities, which commence Monday and mark the anniversary of the enactment of the country's democratic constitution. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)NEW DELHI (AP) — President Barack Obama was greeted in India Sunday with an elaborate welcome at the country's sprawling presidential palace, then he solemnly laid a wreath at a memorial honoring the father of India's independence movement, Mahatma Gandhi.


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