Allerton Avenue Festival

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Don’t miss the 6th Annual Allerton Avenue Festival taking place on Sunday, August 25, 2013 from 12pm to 5pm on Allerton Avenue between Wallace and Barnes Avenues.

The purpose of this event is to bring the community together to celebrate the cultural diversity that makes our neighborhoods a great place to live, work and raise a family.

The day will feature an International Food Show with food samplings of African, Albanian, Bangladeshi, Chinese, French, Greek, Indian, Italian, Japanese, Jewish, Latin-American, Thai, and many more cuisines!

City Island Lobster House

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Turn left once you cross over the City Island Bridge and you will find that the Lobster House offers not much more than good views.

Their service was slow and once the Crab Lobster Feast plate arrived, it was incomplete. The taste of the food was mediocre, but at least they offered large portions and the place appeared to be clean. CITY ISLAND LOBSTER HOUSE 691 BRIDGE STREET BRONX, 10464 718-885-1459
On 02/23/2013 NYC Health Department Rated it: A

Benedict Arnold Returns

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St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site
897 S. Columbus Avenue, Mt. Vernon, NY 10550
914-667-4116 www.nps.gov/sapa

For Media & Public

Contact: David Osborn (site manager), at 914-667-4116; dho59stpaul@yahoo.com
Benedict Arnold Returns,
at National Historic Site in Westchester County,
Saturday, September 14

Maritime Labour Convention

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IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu welcomes the entry into force of the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC 2006), adopted by the International Labour Organization (ILO), a sister UN agency to IMO.

“The entry into force of the MLC convention marks significant progress in the recognition of seafarers’ roles and the need to safeguard their well-being and their working conditions. This is a truly important landmark for seafarers; and for shipping, on which the global economy relies,” Mr. Sekimizu said.

10 RULES

ELMORE LEONARD: 10 RULES

1. Never open a book with weather.
2. Avoid prologues.
3. Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue.
4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb "said”…he admonished gravely.
5. Keep your exclamation points. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
6. Never use the words "suddenly" or "all hell broke loose."
7. Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly.
8. Avoid detailed descriptions of characters.
9. Don't go into great detail describing places and things.
10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.

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Family Festival Sails into Town

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Golden autumn sunshine and refreshing ocean breezes create a perfect setting for the Town of Hempstead’s Family Festival by the Sea on Saturday, September 28 and Sunday, September 29 from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., in beautiful Lido Beach. Residents and visitors alike are invited to ride a wave of fun and excitement into Lido Beach Town Park for a weekend of live concerts, delicious food, craft and novelty vendors, sand sculptures, circus entertainers, eating contests and great children’s shows.

TURNINGPOINT IN EGYPT

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The increasing crackdown against Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi will be making these peaceful protestors into martyrs.

While billions of dollars worth of US military aid returns to American companies scattered throughout the states. These dynamics are very general but specifically hurts US. Furthermore, the Egyptian military believes in their heart of hearts that it's the only institution keeping that nation from spiraling into a calamitous period of instability.

GUEROS ONLY?

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Gueros is a Spanish slang term for a fair skinned or light haired person. Although it is not derogatory, it coud be used that way.

Mexico's Aeromexico airline and its advertising agency are apologizing for a producer's casting call requesting that only light-skinned people apply for a planned TV commercial.

Because Mexicans are largely dark-skinned, it is news to us why Mexican television ads routinely feature light-skinned actors, sparking accusations of racial discrimination. Perhaps because the leading Spanish-language TV network has two very popular and successful gueros.

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SUCCESS

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The favorable termination of attempts; the accomplishment of one's goals. The attainment of wealth, position, honors, or status. a performance or achievement that is marked by success, as by the attainment of awards.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Observer, Jan. 15, 1950

Was Lady Diana Murdered?

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Despite a $7 million British and French investigation which concluded an accident caused Diana, al Fayed and their driver Henri Paul's deaths back in 1997, a British news report claims they were allegedly murdered and it was all covered up.

British media is reporting there are new allegations that the couple may have been murdered by British special forces.

Scotland Yard investigators ere looking into new information that has surfaced in connection with the deaths of Diana and al Fayed, but officials wont say much more. Buckingham Palace has declined to comment.

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