The two bills, NYPD Police Commissioner William Bratton and Mayor Bill de Blasio have announced a dramatic change to the NYPD’s policy on marijuana possession arrests. Beginning today, November 19, 2014 if police find someone in possession of 25 grams or less of marijuana, the individual will receive a fine, instead of being arrested.
The summons will require a court appearance, along with a $100 fine for a first offense. A second offense carries a fine of $250.
Calling all Artists to take part in 2014 this years Holiday Show at City Island's Focal Point Gallery.
Artist's Choice, Opening Reception Friday, December 5th 7pm-10pm. Refreshments will be served.
This is the biggest show of the year so please come and help celebrate the holidays with art. If you are an Artist, work should be in no later than December 2nd.
Art has to be ready for hanging and there is a $20 fee per piece, and a 30% commission. Call Focal Point Gallery 321 City Island Ave. Bronx NY 10464 (718) 885-1403
101 year young Anna Fuerst, (German Spelling) isn't your typical Mussel Sucker. She is an extremely proud member of City Islanders and Friends Facebook Page based in NYC. https://www.facebook.com/groups/CityIslandBx/
Anna credits being kind and staying healthy for her extremely long life. She will gladly be last turning her back on someone in need. After meeting her in person today, I told her that she has got to be one of the most beautiful people around. Anna is still in shape and proudly keeps the same outfits she graced with her wonderful figure during those earlier years.
USA is freezing, with millions of Americans facing another bitter blast of unseasonably cold air, due to an Arctic blast from the Polar Vortex.
This arctic blast has been responsible for 17 deaths over the past several days. While last week’s freeze focused on the Rockies and the Plains, the Midwest, Northeast and South shivered overnight.
City Images spoke with people in Buffalo and Erie, Pennsylvania, who are literally buried under a couple of feet of snow.
Dictionaries are calling vaping the act of smoking an e-cigarette. Vaping has gone mainstream and it has become the word of the year, according to Oxford.
The usage of the word vape and related terms has shown a marked increase due to the growing public debate on the public dangers and the need for regulation.
The word, which was first used in the 1980s, can be employed as a verb to mean inhaling and exhaling the vapour produced by electronic cigarettes but also as a noun to refer to the devices themselves.
The human oral cavity contains a number of different habitats, including the teeth, gingival sulcus, tongue, cheeks, hard and soft palates, and tonsils, which are colonized by bacteria. The oral microbiome is comprised of over 600 prevalent taxa at the species level, with distinct subsets predominating at different habitats.
What does all this information lead to and what do its findings tell us? Kissing exchanges millions of bacteria. In just seconds, a kiss transfers up to 80 million bacteria, according to a new study published in the journal Microbiome.
WEATHER SUMMARY FOR SOUTHEASTERN NY...NORTHEASTERN NJ AND SOUTHERN CT
RAIN WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT...WITH AN ISOLATED GUSTY THUNDERSTORM
ALSO POSSIBLE MAINLY FOR EASTERN LONG ISLAND AND CONNECTICUT...AS A
COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH. THE RAIN WILL COME TO AN END FROM WEST TO
EAST LATER THIS EVENING...AND BY THE SECOND HALF OF TONIGHT THE
ENTIRE AREA WILL BE DRY AS THE COLD FRONT PUSHES TO THE EAST.
THERE WILL ALSO BE SOME CLEARING LATE TONIGHT. COLD AIR WILL MOVE IN
BEHIND THE FRONT...WITH LOWS RANGING FROM 25 TO 30 INLAND...TO LOWER
30S ALONG THE COAST.
Melody Mills a CUNY Macaulay Honors College at Baruch College, B.A. in psychology and political science, 2014 sees potential in the "street girls" of Lima, Peru, despite their tenuous circumstances.
Living on the capital's streets, the girls are exploited as child labor, and drug addiction many sniff cheap glue called Teracol is common.
This Week in History, Nov 16 - Nov 22
Nov 16, 1532
Pizarro traps Incan emperor Atahualpa. On November 16, 1532, Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish explorer and conquistador, springs a trap on the Incan emperor, Atahualpa. With fewer than 200 men against several thousand, Pizarro lures Atahualpa to a feast in the emperor's honor and then opens fire on the unarmed Incans. Pizarro's men massacre the Incans and capture Atahualpa, forcing him to convert to Christianity before eventually killing him.
Nov 17, 1558
Ruben Blades says he will once again be running for president of Panama. He says this decision to run in 2019, stems from a vision of his country's long-term solutions, which require rewriting codes and renewing diagrams necessary for the administration of the public good, efficiently and transparently. Moreover, he insists it requires a change in national attitude that includes a return to self-love, the love of country and concern for its future.