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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 | 26 26 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 | 30 30 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 | 28 28 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 | 37 37 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 | 61 61 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 | 64 64 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 | 73 73 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 | 82 82 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 | 92 92 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 | 145 145 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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Drew stuns St. Joe’s with 15-point rally to end game
Four Bears scored in double figures led by a 30-point effort from David Louison (Brooklyn/St. Edmund Prep), but Drew University overcame a 12-point deficit with 4:52 remaining and held the St. Jose...
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Louison of St. Joe's honored
Recognizing his outstanding performance on the hardwood in helping lead the St. Joseph’s College men’s basketball team to a victory over HVIAC rivals Berkeley College, junior David Louison (Brookly...
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LIU Brooklyn heads into NEC play with victory
Brickman reaches 1,000 points for his career
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Lady Bears pick up win
The St. Joseph’s College women’s basketball team halted a two-game losing streak as they defeated Mount Saint Mary College, 70-60, at Brooklyn Tech High School on Saturday evening. The Lady Bears (...
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Dismal first half dooms St. John’s men on the road
Can’t overcome deficit, fall to Georgetown in D.C.
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Amber Thompson had a double-double in the victory over Delaware. (Photo: St. John’s)
St. John’s women fall to 1-1 in Big East
The St. John’s women’s basketball team suffered a heartbreaking 70-65 loss at Xavier in Sunday’s Big East contest and falls to 8-5 overall and 1-1 in the conference. The Red Storm’s bench outscored...
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St. John’s hold off Columbia at the Barclays Center
Headed into the final 40 seconds of the contest with his squad holding a four-point lead, stat-stuffer Sir’Dominic Pointer was still empty in the field goal column. But with the game on the line, t...
Dec 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 129 129 recommendations | email to a friend
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Game high scorer David Louison pushes the ball up the court. (Photo: Anthony Macapugay)
St. Joseph’s dominates in heated conference rivalry
In a game that needed little hype between two longtime rivals playing for the first time at the Barclays Center, St. Joseph’s College grabbed a 75-57 victory over Berkeley College in a Hudson Valle...
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Jacobson sets new season record
AT THE TRACK
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St. John’s has a new three-point record holder
Harrison sets new mark in win over Youngstown St.
Dec 24, 2013 | 2 2 comments | 122 122 recommendations | email to a friend
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David Louison was named Player of the Week. (Photo: St. Joseph’s/Anthony Macapugay)
Three St. Joe’s athletes receive conference accolades
Sophomore Michael Megafu (Brooklyn/Nazareth Regional) was one of three St. Joseph’s College athletes honored recently. Megafu was recognized by the Association of Division III Independents (AD3I) a...
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Decisive win for Strapping Groom
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LIU Brooklyn’s Jason Brickman delivers one of his all-time conference-leading assists.
LIU notches win, Brickman notches career record
Senior point guard Jason Brickman set a new career high with 21 points and broke the Northeast Conference career assists record that had stood for over 25 years in helping the LIU Brooklyn men’s ba...
Dec 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 113 113 recommendations | email to a friend
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In the end, St. John’s can’t stop high-flying Syracuse
A college basketball game is 40 minutes long, and you have to play all 40 of them. Just ask St. John’s head coach Steve Lavin, who kept referring to distinctively different parts of the Red Storm’s...
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Storm women drop two in Holiday Classic
The St. John’s women’s basketball team closed out the sixth annual St. John’s Chartwells Holiday Classic with a 64-51 loss to James Madison at Carnesecca Arena on Sunday afternoon. The Red Storm is...
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Australian Open men's final: LIVE REPORT

This combo shows file photos shows Britain's Andy Murray (L) and Serbia's Novak Djokovic playing during their semi-finals at the 2015 Australian OpenMelbourne (AFP) - 09:05 GMT - Djokovic 3 *Murray 1 - A badly-executed dropshot from Murray and it's 0-30. Some baseline slugging but the Serbian comes out on top with three break points. Murray saves one but can do little with an ungettable return from the world number one.


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Japan mourns Kenji Goto as caring and courageous reporter

FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 30, 2015 file photo, a protester holding a photo of Japanese journalist Kenji Goto who was taken hostage by the Islamic State group appeals to the government to save Goto during a rally in front of the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo. Whether in tsunami-stricken northeastern Japan or conflict-ridden Sierra Leone, it was the story of the vulnerable, the children and the poor that drove the work of Goto. The news of his killing in a video purportedly by Islamic State militants sent Japan into shock and mourning Sunday, Feb. 1, days after his plight as a hostage in Syria united many people in praying for his release. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)TOKYO (AP) — Whether in tsunami-stricken northeastern Japan or conflict-ridden Sierra Leone, the stories of the vulnerable, the children and the poor drove the work of journalist Kenji Goto.


2015-02-01 04:08:14 -0500
Rihanna rocks DirecTV party on eve of Super Bowl
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Rihanna didn't need any help keeping the crowd energized during a pre-Super Bowl performance, but she enlisted Kanye West to raise the tempo even more.
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