US A DEEP DIVIDE

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It is crystal clear the US President lacks the support of Congress. Now Congress has gone home and it is the responsibility of constituents to give their representatives a to do list, since they will not do anything without that clear mandate.

There continues a growing divide between US and many countries, including Brazil, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt...etc.

The people of The United States of America should consider whether the United Nations is still relevant to our future foreign policy.

CITY ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY

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Robert Cox will in a slide presentation show " fifty views of the sun rising over Hart Island Island".
In the last hundred years New York City has buried more than a million poor people there , on Hart Island.
These beautiful pictures will be a"Halloweeen " or "All Souls Day" commemoration to those who are buried there.
Robert Cox, Photographer, Artist and Teacher will also include Artwork and Photography of his own personal choice which is Strange Weird and Abstract (but nothing Goulish!) as part of this Halloween Celebration.

ST PAUL'S CHURCH NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE

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Revolutionary War Encampment at National Historic Site in Westchester County,
Friday night Oct. 18 & Saturday, Oct. 19

US GOVERNMENT OPENS TEMPORARILY

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US Senate and House so called leaders pass a bill to re-open the government and raise the debt ceiling, but only for a few months.

On the 16th day of the US government shutdown, politicians in the Senate and House have finally passed a bill that would reopen the government and avert a potentially cataclysmic default on U.S. debt payments by raising the federal government's debt limit.

City Island Halloween Celebration

Last night I could not sleep. So I was very busy taking about twenty pictures to be used in a photo collage called Autumn Fruit. They look a little like the Italian Renaissance artist Arciibaldi who made mask like surreal pictures of people`s faces out of out of Autumn fruit.

I take many pictures of the sun rising over Hart Island which is across the water from my beach house on City Island next to the Long Island Sound.

A million or more people have been buried on Hart Island by the city over the last 100 years, just over the water. These individuals could not afford a burial elsewhere. However, their records are carefully kept by the city on a computer data base. They will be remembered almost forever.

According to Christian belief, all the dead souls rise up on "All Saints Day Evening," "Holy Evening " or "Halloween". One tradition is that they are actually enjoying themselves back in the world having a party just for the day, starting in the evening for twenty four hours.

In the case of City Island and Hart Island this creates a special consideration.Where are the the million plus dead souls of Hart Island going to go? They cannot all be on Hart Island since is a very small island. There is not even enough standing room only! That can only mean one thing, many of the souls of the dead will be coming to our Halloween Parade on City Island!

On Thursday October 31 Halloween Day I will be giving a talk at the City Island Library "Halloween Sunrise Over Hart Island 2013" It will be a slide show on a large high definition Blue Ray TV set. I will show 500 pictures at 3 second intervals. The show will last about half an hour. There will be hundreds of pictures of dramatic sunrises. I will also show pictures which have a surreal and mysterious theme. These include pictures of some of my own collages "The London Bombing 2006" "Two Bathers", and photos of pictures by Robert Rauchenbergs" " Canyon"and "Bed" Also pictures by the Italian Renaissance Artist Arcibaldi "Winter" "Summer" and "Autumn". Also plenty of photos of desirable Autumn fruit!

Barbara Dolensick, head of the City Island Historical society will also give a talk on the History and significance of Hart Island.

The talk will take place just before the City Island Halloween Parade. The time of the event will be posted by the City Island Library.

Robert G Cox

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POG IS GOP BACKWARDS

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It was once known as the Grand Old Party, but backwards it has a brand new meaning.

POG: Play Online Games POG: Polyphonic Octave Generator POG: Pediatric Oncology Group: POG: Price of Gold. POG: People Other than Grunts. POG: Permanently On the Ground.... A POG sits clueless while operators execute their mission.

GOP leader and US House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has to admit that his divided Republican party had it all backwards and could not win their current budget battle.

Saying he would “absolutely” allow a vote on the US Senate plan even if a majority of his House Republicans do not support the bill. There’s no reason for members to vote no. Boehner expects the vote to happen on Thursday.

Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum

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Edward Ball, Yale professor and author of The Inventor and The Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures, takes us back 130 years to the intriguing story of Eadweard Muybridge who invented stop-motion photography, making motion pictures possible. But he was also a murderer who killed coolly and meticulously, and his trial was a media sensation.

Edward Ball's patron was railroad tycoon (and former California governor) Leland Stanford. Between them, the murderer and the mogul launched the age of visual media.

Book signing and reception after the presentation

DEFAULT TONIGHT

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Once the clock strikes midnight, there is a bad possibility that US may meet with economic chaos and cause a global disaster.

Thursday morning at 12:01a US will be left standing at the precipice because US House of Representatives has abandoned a vote that would have avoided default.

After midnight, there will be no more borrowed cash left to pay the nation’s bills.

The US Treasury warns that failure to raise the nation’s $16.7 trillion debt limit threatens a US credit default that may trigger a global economic crisis.

Slow Zones Must Be Enforced

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NYC's decision to expand Slow Zones to neighborhoods across the city needs to be enforced.

No amount of signs, speed bumps and other traffic-calming measures will do the proper job when idiots and jack asses, who do not know how to read, or do not give a damn about the safety of others insist on driving recklessly.

Until NYPD targets speeders on our local streets. And, as anyone who lives here can attest, speeding is rampant throughout City Island.

VIOLENCE DROPS IN NYC

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There were no reported homicides in any of NYC five boroughs last week, according to NYPD. It was the first homicide-free week this year.

The city has experienced a 26 percent decline in killings. New York has seen 256 homicides thus far, down from 346 in the same time period in 2012. Shootings have declined 23.2 percent, from 1,145 year to year.

But why is it that we can not see a homicide free week every week?

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