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Roofing 102: Installing A Flat Roof in 10 Steps
Dec 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
Welcome to roofing 102. Today we will be teaching your how to install flat roofing in 10 steps. So to all those do it yourself handy man types; This one goes out to you. 1. Your home is a valuable ...
“TheSpaghetti Set” by Rose Marie Maisto Boyd
Dec 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 31 31 recommendations | email to a friend
It is very refreshing to see that there are still writers who are able to touch us and getting us involved in their imaginary world without offering tales of violence and sex. The Spaghetti Set is ...
What A Private Ambulance in NYC Can Offer
Dec 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 40 40 recommendations | email to a friend
Emergencies are always a tough situation to be in for many reasons. Aside from the anxiety about the thought of a person in pain, there is always the fear for someone’s life. Nowadays, a person act...
Town of Middle Village Christmas Tree Lighting
Dec 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 37 37 recommendations | email to a friend
Middle Village Chamber of Commerce, Middle Village Kiwanis Club and Community United Methodist Church invite you to attend TOWN OF MIDDLE VILLAGE CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING. Join in Christmas Carols, ...
Senior Living & Care... What To Do With So Many Choices? What Does It All Mean?
Dec 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 51 51 recommendations | email to a friend
Author: StefansLawGroup As we age we will find ourselves either making or assisting in complex and important decisions about where we, a family member or even a friend should be living. Changes in ...
Holiday Coat Drive
Dec 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 54 54 recommendations | email to a friend
Holiday Coat Drive   Nov. 18th - Dec. 15th, 2013 Do you have coats that you don't need anymore?  Donate Them! Winter is here and there are people in our community who could use a nice warm coat.  D...
Maspeth Indoor Flea Market
Dec 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 54 54 recommendations | email to a friend
INDOOR FLEA MARKET!!!! Saturday, Dec. 7th  Doors open @ 9AM Indoor flea market featuring gifts for Christmas and more.  Handbags, jewelry, antiques, kids clothes, household items, make-up, fragranc...
Money Saving Winter Roofing Tips- Spot Out Faulty Gutters Yourself
Nov 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 83 83 recommendations | email to a friend
A good roof is perhaps one of the most important investments a homeowner can make. Any good investment requires good maintenance. One of the most crucial factors in upholding a roofing system is th...
St. Margaret's Boy Scout Troop 119
Nov 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 87 87 recommendations | email to a friend
St. Margaret's Boy Scout Troop 119 is almost sixty-nine years old and in the year 2015 we will be celebrating our 70th birthday making us one of the oldest Boy Scout Troops in New York City. Howeve...
Breakfast with St. Nick
Nov 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 86 86 recommendations | email to a friend
St. Stanislaus Kostka Home School Association invites you to attend Breakfast with St. Nick .  Saturday, December 15th  9AM-1PM.  St. Stan's Auditorium, 61-17 Grand Avenue, Maspeth, NY Children - $...

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Ryan Acuna, Chess Champion
At first, Ryan Acuna didn't like chess. Now, he holds the first place trophy from a Chess tournament played at I.S. 318 in Williamsburg. Acuna, who attends Robert F. Wagner Junior Secondary School ...
Feb 22, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
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Pamela Green, Executive Director of the Weeksville Heritage Center
Banker, computer programmer, food bank director, city commissioner and Sesame Street executive — Pamela Green has worn many hats. And now as Executive Director of the Weeksville Heritage Center, sh...
Feb 15, 2011 | 4 4 comments | 40 40 recommendations | email to a friend
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Andrew Appel, Model Student
What do you get when you blend a major in homeland and corporate security with a side gig modeling? You get Andrew Appel, a Breezy Point resident who is signed to Wilhelmina Models, while pursuing ...
Feb 15, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
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Christina Moore, Ms. Brooklyn
Five frenzied months into her reign as Miss Brooklyn, Christina Moore is showing no signs of slowing down- or scaling back her hometown pride. “I am a Brooklyn girl, born and raised in good old Ben...
Feb 08, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 36 36 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dina Rosenbloom, founder of Rattle & Mum
Imagine a progressive community-minded play space where children and their parents alike can bond over music, theater and other lives performance, in between classes and gym time. Dina Rosenbloom a...
Feb 04, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 24 24 recommendations | email to a friend
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Camille Newman, Entrepreneur
For plus-sized women, the fashion options are few and far between. Many designer brands only sell their plus-sized merchandise online. One exclusive Manhattan department store even moved its plus-s...
Jan 25, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
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Andrew Jackson, Executive Director of Langston Hughes Library
Andrew Jackson is man who’s all about Queens. Raised in Queens, he resides in Queens, works at the Queens Library and he recently authored a book about – you guessed it – Queens. Jackson is the exe...
Jan 18, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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Everett Hughes, Principal, J.H.S. 292
Everett Hughes has marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and gone out to dinner with Jackie Robinson. But if you ask Hughes to name his greatest accomplishment, he will surely say transforming J...
Jan 18, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
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David Eng, Record Producer
David Eng could be in Manhattan but he prefers Queens, particularly Flushing and Woodhaven. The record producer has made hits for names like Snow, Salt-N-Pepa, New York Dolls, Marky Mark and KISS. ...
Jan 11, 2011 | 3 3 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
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Professor Matthew K. Gold
Students at the New York City College of Technology have a wealth of new technologies at their disposal and access to Brooklyn's historic waterfront. Now, for the first time, they can combine the t...
Jan 11, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
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Anit Hora, Esthetician
Anit Hora, an that owns Veda Holistics in Williamsburg, received her training from the Aveda Institute in New York. But although that center gave her the professional training needed to start her o...
Jan 04, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
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Alex Ewen, Co-Owner Neir's Tavern
Alex Ewen is a couple of things – a producer and one of the owners of the famed bar, Neir's Tavern in Woodhaven. Ewen, along with David Eng, Loycent Gordon and Andy Bigan own the bar that once set ...
Jan 04, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 30 30 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kevin Joseph, Co-Executive Artistic Director, Purelements
Dance was Kevin Joseph’s ticket out of East New York in the 1980’s. Now it’s the reason he’s returned. Joseph and business partner Lakai Worrell are the co-executive artistic directors and founders...
Dec 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 31 31 recommendations | email to a friend
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Edward Owens, Cross-Country Runner
Edward Owens has a lot to be proud of. At 17, he is one of the fastest cross-country runners in the country. And to have that status just one year after he began cross-country running is a feat in ...
Dec 14, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 31 31 recommendations | email to a friend
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Gloria Rochester, QSCAN Founder
Gloria Rochester had not too long ago emigrated from Jamaica in 1973 when her fourth child was born. It was a time of joy like every other birth, but 18 months later, her daughter, Tyeisha, was dia...
Dec 14, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
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IRS nominee on track for approval despite acrimony

John Koskinen, President Barack Obama's choice to head the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013, before the Senate Finance Committee hearing on his nomination. Koskinen, 74, is a retired corporate and government official with experience managing numerous organizations in crisis. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's choice to head the Internal Revenue Service told senators Tuesday he will work to restore public trust in the agency in the wake of the tea party scandal even as the IRS takes on new responsibilities administering the president's health care law.


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The top iPhone and iPad apps on App Store
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Ukraine's leader makes offer; critics say no deal

Riot police block an opposition tent camp while displacing pro-European Union activists from their barricades at the Ukrainian presidential administration building in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013. Heavily armed riot troops broke into the offices of a top Ukrainian opposition party in Kiev and seized its servers Monday, the party said, as anti-government protests crippled the capital for yet another day. Elsewhere police dismantled or blocked off several small protest tent camps set up near key national government buildings in the city. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Aiming to defuse a political standoff that threatens his leadership, President Viktor Yanukovych called Tuesday for the release of the demonstrators arrested in the massive protests sweeping Kiev and vowed that Ukraine is still interested in integrating with Europe.


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