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Queens Home Team Awarded Top Team at Keller Williams Realty Landmark II for Most Units Sold in 2014!
Jan 29, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
The Queens Home Team at Keller Williams Realty, led by George & Abigail Herrera, were recently honored at the Keller Williams Realty Landmark II awards ceremony in Astoria, NY. Out of 160 Agents, Q...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also known as ObamaCare)
Jan 29, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
Author; Donna Stefans Re:Obamacare The Health insurance reporting requirements on the 2014 tax return are a bit complicated. If you and your family were covered by an employer health care plan for ...
A Different Slant on Class-Based Hiring Discrimination
Jan 29, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Author: Stephen D. Hans Most employers are familiar with the pitfalls of discriminating against applicants in protected classes under Civil Rights laws. For the most part, African Americans, Hispan...
← How Do 2015 Minimum Wage Increases Affect NY Restaurants? Are Employers Free from Liability When Using Staffing Agencies to Terminate Employees?
Jan 23, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 24 24 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 | 53 53 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 | 54 54 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 | 63 63 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 | 70 70 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 | 81 81 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 | 132 132 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...

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A 30-year MidVille tradition - the DANNY BOY'S bus trip to the Meadowlands for all GIANTS home games - faces uncertain times.
Men Among GIANTS
A MidVille Meadowlands Tradition
Dec 11, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 50 50 recommendations | email to a friend
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NFL Pick 'Em: Week 14

Dec 10, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 38 38 recommendations | email to a friend
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Bishop Loughlin’s Jayvaughn Pinkston commits to Villanova
Jayvaughn Pinkston finally reached a decision about his college future, and he won’t be going to Rocky Top.
Dec 10, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 46 46 recommendations | email to a friend
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Games to Watch: December 10-December 16
With games almost every day, and the Big Apple Basketball Challenge this weekend, there will be always be something for a sports lover to watch.
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St. John's vs Georgia live blog
BQE Media's Nigel Chiwaya will be covering the opening game of the Big East-SEC Invitational Live from Madison Square Garden.
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Head coach Don Kent (center) will attempt to lead a young McClancy team back to the Intersectionals
Inexperienced McClancy team will try to win with youth
It was only one year ago when Monsignor McClancy advanced to the Class A intersectional quarterfinals. This year, it’s an entirely different ball game.
Dec 09, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 44 44 recommendations | email to a friend
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DJ Kennedy
DJ Kennedy: Athlete of the Week
This week’s athlete of the week is none other than DJ Kennedy, guard for the St. John’s men’s basketball team. Kennedy, in his junior year with the Red Storm, was instrumental in helping St. John’s...
Dec 03, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 47 47 recommendations | email to a friend
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2009 LAPCHICK Character Award honoree Jack Curran and 2008 inaugural honoree Lou Carnesecca.
A Legacy Continues: The 2009 LAPCHICK Character Awards
Character. It’s probably the most important quality a high school or college coach can possess. Unfortunately, it’s a quality we see less and less of these days, all across the board.
Dec 02, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 44 44 recommendations | email to a friend
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Bottom row – Michael Deck, Dylan Lanigan, Steven Kozlowski, and Daniel Campononi – Top Row – Coach Donald Lawrence, Robert Moncino, Dylan Lawrence, Alex Villano, Brian Hughes, John Caldone, Manager Russell Deck, Eric Butkiewicz, Yobani Artiles, Michael Rossi, Brandon Jimenez, and Coach Keith Moncino.
Queens Bulldogs – 2009 NCYAA Fall Champs
Congratulations go to the Queens Bulldogs for successfully winning the Nassau County Youth Athletic Association (NCYAA) Fall 2009 baseball championship. On November 8th, the Bulldogs won the champi...
Dec 02, 2009 | 2 2 comments | 44 44 recommendations | email to a friend
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Games to Watch: December 3-9
High School basketball makes its return, the Jets take their game overseas, and the local colleges tune up for conference play.
Dec 02, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 32 32 recommendations | email to a friend
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ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE TO HOST 1ST ANNUAL CLASH FOR THE CUP
Intercampus Basketball Game to Support Local Charities on December 12
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NFL Pick 'Em: Week 13

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Jayvaughn Pinkston: One to Watch
Scout.com’s seventh-ranked power forward in the nation, and a senior force at Bishop Loughlin, was expected to sign a letter of intent with Tennessee last week, even calling together a press confer...
Nov 27, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 42 42 recommendations | email to a friend
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Thomas Sylvester Gary Perone honored by the Greater New York Sandlot Athletic Alliance
Angle of the Week
Nov 26, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 46 46 recommendations | email to a friend
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Feat of the Week: Hope wins CYO Championship
Our Lady of Hope 7th grade boys clinched the CYO Diocesan Championship game, defeating St. Francis DeSales 1-0 on November 21. Pictured left to right, Bottom row:Assistant Coach John Kennedy, Conno...
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Obama, Dalai Lama set to attend National Prayer Breakfast
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama will be at the National Prayer Breakfast next week in Washington, the first time the two men have been together in nearly a year.
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Ex-rap mogul 'Suge' Knight arrested in deadly hit-and-run

In this Oct. 30, 2014 file photo, rap music mogul Marion "Suge" Knight appears in court on a traffic warrant, in Las Vegas following his arrest as a fugitive in a California robbery case. A lawyer for Knight says the Death Row Records founder was at the wheel of a car that struck two men, killing one, in a Los Angeles suburb. The accident in Compton occurred shortly before 3 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Marion "Suge" Knight, the former music mogul who created one of hip-hop's leading labels and became the impresario of gangster rap, was arrested Friday on suspicion of hitting and killing a man with his truck and fleeing the scene of the crash near Los Angeles.


2015-01-30 16:31:59 -0500
White House grapples with fraught terrorism language

President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 30, 2015. Twice this month, the White House has publicly grappled with the politically fraught language of terrorism. In the days after a deadly terror spree in Paris, President Barack Obama was criticized for purposely avoiding calling the attacks an example of “Islamic extremism,” settling for the more generic “violent extremism.” This week, the White House struggled to explain why the administration sometimes classifies the Afghan Taliban as a terrorist organization _ and sometimes does not. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)WASHINGTON (AP) — Twice this month, the White House has publicly grappled with the politically fraught language of terrorism.


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