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Do You Make These Mistakes When You Are Writing A Grant?
Apr 20, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Back by popular demand! Queens Council on the Arts Presents Grant Writing Plus. The spring session of this two-part grant writing workshop brings a close to QCA’s Build Your Own Business (BYOB) wor...
This Month in Queens Real Estate: April 2014
Apr 10, 2014 | 2 2 comments | 117 117 recommendations | email to a friend
April 2014 Queens NY Market Update  The pace of home sales remained sluggish in March according to the most recent data released by the Long Island Board of Realtors. A combination of higher prices...
A meetup that gets results, NOT just motivates then deflates
Apr 08, 2014 | 1 1 comments | 133 133 recommendations | email to a friend
Join Networking For Prosperity & Adventure , a different kind of meetup that shows you the HOW to, not just the fluff of getting you excited in order to set you up for failure. Let's face it, in th...
The Tenor, A Novel by Peter Danish, revisits Maria Callas wartime years
Apr 06, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 146 146 recommendations | email to a friend
     THE TENOR A novel by Peter Danish Based partially on a true episode of Maria Callas’ life, The Tenor is the riveting story of a young Italian man with   a spectacular knack for music and a voi...
Networking for Prosperity & Adventure Meetup in NYC April 9 7PM till 10PM
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Networking for Prosperity & Adventure Meetup in NYC April 9 7PM till 10PM
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Shirley who is a part time employed, motivated leader who is working on a few business ventures in order to be a full time entrepreneur. In spite of many obstacles she is currently working on many ...
What is a retaliation claim and why are they so popular?
Mar 27, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 210 210 recommendations | email to a friend
According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), in 2012, 38 percent of all EEOC claims were for retaliation. The reason retaliation claims have become so popular in recent yea...
Breakfast with the Easter Bunny!
Mar 24, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 230 230 recommendations | email to a friend
St. Stan's Mothers' Club is proud to announce our first BREAKFAST WITH THE EASTER BUNNY! Sunday, April 6th  9AM-12PM $10.00 Per Child 61-17 Grand Avenue, Maspeth
National Labor Relations Board finds employee’s Facebook posts not protected
Mar 19, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 268 268 recommendations | email to a friend
Author: Stephen D. Hans In recent years, thousands of companies have felt the impact of a slumped economy, increased costs and regulations.  These conditions have forced employers to cut costs, red...
Queens Artists Slam at 3rd Space!
Mar 19, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Queens Council on the Arts’ 3rd Space presents a Queens Artists Slam . Come join us as young emergingQueens artists across a range of disciplines come together to share new work and works-in-progre...

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State Senator Tony Avella stands with Co-Presidents of the Presidents Co-Op & Condo Council Robert Friedrich (left) and Warren Schrieber (right).
New tax relief program benefits small homeowners
Condo and co-op communities will see small relief
Apr 23, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Participants at last year's event.
Taste of Queens returns with World’s Fair theme
Capitalizing on the diversity that has become characteristic of the borough, this year’s Taste of Queens event promises to satiate even the pickiest eaters with an even wider array of epicurean off...
Apr 23, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Pols call for additional minimum wage increase
Rally on City Hall steps for $15 an hour
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Queens hosts Vision Zero town hall meeting
Citizens invited to provide input on street safety
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Library officials and the Friends of the Flushing Library cut the ribbon on the new self-check kiosks.
Check it out! Or check it in, you can do both
In a ceremony originally delayed by a winter blizzard, the Queens Library finally got a chance to celebrate the new self check-in and check-out kiosks at its Flushing branch. Visitors to the branch...
Apr 16, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Vietnam vets organize blood drive for Toro
Former group president suffering from war-related cancer
Apr 09, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 54 54 recommendations | email to a friend
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Pictured from left to right are Henry Euler of the Auburndale Improvement Association, Michael Feiner of the Bayside Hills Civic Association, State Senator Tony Avella, and Assemblywoman Nily Rozic.
Study will examine bus service in NE Queens
A grant approved as part of the new state budget will fund a study looking into the effects that bus service cuts had on the residents of northeast Queens. Last week, State Senator Tony Avella anno...
Apr 09, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday that Tom Finkelpearl will head the city's Department of Cultural Affairs. (Photo: Michael O'Kane)
Mayor names new commissioner of Cultural Affairs
Queens Museum wishes good luck to former president
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Airport workers march for higher wages
Underpaid staff anxiously await above-poverty pay and benefits
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Queens World’s Fair anniversary preparations
In anticipation of two World’s Fair anniversaries, Borough President Melinda Katz and Assemblywoman Margaret Markey hosted a press conference at the Queens Museum last Friday to announce the full, ...
Apr 02, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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Molloy celebrates the diversity of its students
Archbishop Molloy High School over the weekend hosted its 34th annual International Day, a celebration of the cultural diversity of the students and the Queens community at large through the sampli...
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St. John's goes bald for a good cause
Annual event raises money for pediatric cancer research
Mar 27, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Flushing resident helps immigrants adjust
After working for large corporation for several years, Flushing resident Alexandra Ruiz felt like she needed a change. So in 2009 she started the nonprofit Immigrant Advancement Matters (IAM) IAM p...
Mar 27, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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State Senator Tony Avella hosted the rally in concert with several community groups and civic associations.
Opponents of Willets West are ready for a fight
Petitioners from in and around Willets Point, including New York State Senator Tony Avella, are digging in for a court battle they hope will halt development of the Willets West mega-mall on public...
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PS 173 students take the pledge.
PS 173 takes a safety pledge
Promise to be vigilant about traffic safety
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Obama calls for peaceful end to island dispute

President Barack Obama, left, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe participate in a joint news conference at the Akasaka State Guest House in Tokyo, Thursday, April 24, 2014. Obama is seeking to reassure Japanese leaders Thursday that he can deliver on his security and economic pledges to Asia even as the crisis in Ukraine demands U.S. attention and resources elsewhere. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)TOKYO (AP) — Standing next to Japan's leader, President Barack Obama affirmed Thursday that the U.S. would be obligated to defend Tokyo in a confrontation with Beijing over a set of disputed islands, but urged all sides to resolve the long-running dispute peacefully.


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Nepal officials go to Everest to try to end crisis

Phinjum Sherpa, 17, daughter of Ang Kaji Sherpa, killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest, lights a butter lamp in front of a portrait of her father in their rented apartment in Katmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, April 23, 2014. Dozens of Sherpa guides packed up their tents and left Mount Everest's base camp Wednesday, after the avalanche deaths of 16 of their colleagues exposed an undercurrent of resentment by Sherpas over their pay, treatment and benefits. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — With the Mount Everest climbing season increasingly in doubt, Nepalese tourism officials traveled to base camp Thursday to negotiate with Sherpas who want to walk off the job after an avalanche killed 16 of the mountain guides.


2014-04-24 01:18:32 -0400
Camilla's brother dies in NY of head injury

FILE - A June 24, 2010 photo from files showing Mark Shand, left, brother of The Duchess of Cornwall showing her an elephant sculpture titled Mr. Cameron as she is escorted around the Elephant Parade exhibition at Chelsea Hospital Gardens. Royal officials in Britain say that the brother of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, has died after sustaining a serious head injury following a fall in New York. Clarence House said that the 62-year-old Mark Shand died in the hospital Wednesday, April 23, 2014, after falling late Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ian Nicholson, Pool, File)NEW YORK (AP) — The Prince of Wales and his wife, Camilla, are "utterly devastated" by the death of her brother, who fell outside a hotel bar, suffering a head injury.


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