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Senior Living & Care... What To Do With So Many Choices? What Does It All Mean?
Dec 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 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 | 22 22 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 | 22 22 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 | 50 50 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 | 56 56 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 | 57 57 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 - $...
The Penalties for Employment Discrimination
Nov 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 131 131 recommendations | email to a friend
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed another suit for employment discrimination which could end up costing the employer hundreds of thousands of dollars.  The suit file...
This Month in Queens Real Estate: November 2013
Nov 11, 2013 | 4 4 comments | 137 137 recommendations | email to a friend
Queens NY Real Estate Market Update The seasonally adjusted rate of Queens home sales increased again in October and continued to increase when compared to year-ago levels, with October marking the...
Wheelchair Lacrosse
Nov 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 126 126 recommendations | email to a friend
For active people who become disabled, it can be hard to give up some favorite activities. When adjusting to life in a wheelchair, though, one thing that remains the same is there are always ways t...
Frequently Asked Questions About New York Employment Law
Nov 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 202 202 recommendations | email to a friend
Author: Stephen D. Hans Employment law can be complex and confusing for both the employer and the employee.  Following, are frequently asked questions concerning employment matters: Is an employer ...

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Bam's Ballyhoo
Dear Editor: In regard to the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's National Security Agency's (NSA) Prism surveillance program, I shall defer my analysis until the court rules in the recen...
Jun 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 182 182 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rockaway Beach isn’t stronger than Sandy
Dear Editor: At this time of the year, I look forward to going to Rockaway Beach to relax and enjoy the summer. I went to the beach the week after Memorial Day weekend, when the beaches are suppose...
Jun 25, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 192 192 recommendations | email to a friend
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Shifty Shelly must be dumped
Dear Editor: Why do most Democratic Assembly members act like chew toys for Speaker Sheldon Silver? He disgraced his party and legislative chamber by paying off Albany sex abuse victims with taxpay...
Jun 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 174 174 recommendations | email to a friend
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Two kinds of candidates
Dear Editor: There are two groups of candidates using different methods to become the next mayor. Democrats Sal Albanese, William Thompson and Erick Salgado, Republicans John Catsimatidis, Joseph L...
Jun 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 176 176 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dispatcher wrong on gay Scout decision
Dear Editor: This is in response to Frederick Bedell's letter in the June 6th edition in which he decries the Boy Scouts' decision to permit gay youth as "opposed to the principles of the Boy Scout...
Jun 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 203 203 recommendations | email to a friend
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Welcome to 1984
Dear Editor: The federal government has been accused of collecting data on all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as w...
Jun 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 204 204 recommendations | email to a friend
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Oppose the WEA
Dear Editor: I am strongly opposed to Governor Andrew Cuomo's "Women's Equality Act" because it includes language to expand abortion in New York State. New York leads the nation in its rate of abor...
Jun 18, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 197 197 recommendations | email to a friend
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ConEd destroying trees
Dear Editor: They’ve struck again: the tree manglers hired by Con Edison to “trim” trees near overhead power lines. Trees are being mutilated and disfigured by the manglers cutting the centers out ...
Jun 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 182 182 recommendations | email to a friend
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Willets Point fiasco
Dear Editor: Community Board 7’s vote two weeks ago to approve by a narrow margin the new expanded Willets Point plan further sealed the Iron Triangle’s fate. Mayor Michael Bloomberg is now in a hu...
Jun 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 224 224 recommendations | email to a friend
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Columnist right on with ferry observations
Dear Editor: I could not agree more with "The Importance of Rockaway Ferry Service" (Strictly Stasi - May 30). Our waterways are an underutilized natural asset which can offer significant transport...
Jun 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 225 225 recommendations | email to a friend
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Boy Scouts made a bad decision
Dear Editor: The Boy Scouts of America approved a resolution to allow gay youth to join the Boy Scouts, but not adults. Now that I find quite troubling. The Boy Scouts made a compromise that, in my...
Jun 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 225 225 recommendations | email to a friend
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Mayor Weiner? Why not!
Dear Editor: The news that former Congressman Anthony Weiner is going to run as a candidate in the New York City mayoral race is good. While his behavior a couple of years ago was not respectable, ...
May 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 204 204 recommendations | email to a friend
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Return PS 130 to District 25
Dear Editor: PS 130, located at 200-01 42nd Avenue in Bayside, currently serves mainly District 25 students. The school, however, is geographically in District 26 and historically was a K-6 and K-8...
May 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 171 171 recommendations | email to a friend
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Save city's newsstands
Dear Editor: Speaker Christine Quinn's recent proposal to allow newsstand operators to sell non-newspaper products for up to $10 versus today's current $5 limit makes sense. Prior to the 1962 newsp...
May 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 171 171 recommendations | email to a friend
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Are we ready?
Dear Editor: Our planet’s climate is changing, and the impact on our daily weather has been extreme. Look at the tornado that hit Brooklyn and Northeast Queens, the Hurricane Sandy disaster, the am...
May 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 181 181 recommendations | email to a friend
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JPMorgan warns 465,000 card users on data loss after cyber attack

People walk inside JP Morgan headquarters in New YorkBy David Henry and Jim Finkle NEW YORK/BOSTON (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co is warning some 465,000 holders of prepaid cash cards issued by the bank that their personal information may have been accessed by hackers who attacked its network in July. The cards were issued for corporations to pay employees and for government agencies to issue tax refunds, unemployment compensation and other benefits. JPMorgan said on Wednesday it detected that its web servers used by its site www.ucard.chase.com had been breached in the middle of September. Bank spokesman Michael Fusco said that in the months since the breach was discovered the bank has been investigating to find out exactly which accounts were involved and what pieces of information could have been taken.


2013-12-05 01:16:34 -0500
Heavy weapons fire heard near Central African Republic capital
BANGUI (Reuters) - Heavy and small arms fire rang out near the capital of Central African Republic on Thursday morning, a Reuters correspondent in Bangui said. It was not immediately clear who was involved in the shooting but residents panicked and former rebels controlling the city scrambled fighters in the direction of the gunfire. The U.N. Security Council is due to vote on Thursday on dispatching French reinforcements to restore order in the country, which has slipped into chaos since mainly Muslim rebels seized power in March, leading to tit-for-tat sectarian violence. ...
2013-12-05 01:06:40 -0500
Australia's Qantas Airways to slash 1,000 jobs

FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2013 file photo, a Qantas plane prepares to take off at Sydney Airport in Sydney, Australia. Qantas Airways said Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 it will slash 1,000 jobs and suffer half-year losses of at least 250 million Australian dollars ($225 million), increasing the likelihood that regulators will throw the flag carrier a lifeline by easing restrictions on foreign ownership. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)SYDNEY (AP) — Qantas Airways said Thursday it will slash 1,000 jobs and suffer half-year losses of at least 250 million Australian dollars ($225 million), increasing the likelihood that regulators will throw the flag carrier a lifeline by easing restrictions on foreign ownership.


2013-12-05 01:05:32 -0500