Tutor Perini Corporation was awarded the contract to build The City Island Bridge and is now being awarded another one valued at approximately $60 million. This one is for building a replacement Maintenance of Equipment building at the Hudson Yards site in New York, in connection with the Company’s previously announced Amtrak Tunnel project.
Amazing Jukebox
This a Jukebox; but it is no ordinary jukebox. It will play all of
your favorite songs from 1950 through 1980. Each year has a scroll or drop down box that shows all the great songs for that year. Most years have over 40 songs. There is even a section at the bottom that allows you to listen to show tunes, TV show themes, Doo Wop and several others. This is pretty neat....and it is free. Read the rest of this and then click on the site at the bottom.
New York State Police will use social media to catch wanted individuals across the state. State Police will launch “Warrant Wednesday” on the Division’s Facebook page asking for the public’s help to track down people who have warrants out for arrest.
Featuring Brazilian Virtuoso Romero Lubambo and Jazz Legend Stanley Jordan
As much as I might love a saccharine, completely idealized and utopic love story from time to time ("You've Got Mail" comes to mind at the moment), when making this list, I wanted to go a little deeper.
Love stories without a melancholic undercurrent or, say, a true sense that collapse is imminent lack any sense of realism. So in that spirit, I give you a few recommendations which you may not have seen yet.
FOCAL POINT GALLERY
PRESENTS
"Artist's Choice"
February 7th- 28th
321 City Island Avenue
Opening reception Friday February 7th.
7pm-10pm. There is still time if you are an artist to get your work in.
Deadline Wednesday 5th.
Sochi Russia is the site of The Winter Olympics, which are scheduled to begin is a few days, but someone should notify the Olympic Organizing Committee the place is a mess.
The Winter Olympics Games' organizers may thin they're ready, but some hotel rooms have no light bulbs, no shower curtains, only cold water only and you cant close the doors to keep away stray dogs.
And did we mention their tap water, which looks more like.... Let's clean it up and call it apple juice, or perhaps beer.
Snowplow drivers are having a go at it just to keep ahead of the sleet and ice which has been falling all night.
There is no one else who actually sees the ice and snow firsthand like those people driving the plows.
These dedicated individuals are racing to keep our roads plowed to stay ahead of the fast-falling sleet and snow.
"What's made it hard this year is that the streets keep freezing after it snows," says Guy, a driver who's been at it for nearly 20 years. "It makes it hard to pick up snow." He continues to say...
While many Americans were digging out of their last snowstorm, a new winter storm with snow and lots of ice has arrived at the doorsteps of people living in two dozen states affecting 100 million people from Maine to Colorado.
Forecasters are expecting six inches of snow on portions of New York, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire.
Another wave of rain has moved in under the snow belt, affecting parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kentucky, West Virginia, and others.
Event: Steve Coll and Neil Irwin on “The Alchemist” and Winner of $2,000 Essay Prize Announced
When: February 5, 2014, 6:00pm
Where: World Room, Columbia Journalism School
Please join us on Wednesday, February 5, 2014, at 6 p.m. at Columbia University in New York as Steve Coll, Dean of the Columbia Journalism School, interviews former Knight-Bagehot Fellow Neil Irwin about his new book, The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire. The event will also feature the presentation of a $2000 prize to the winner of the 1st annual Women's Economic Round Table essay contest, open to all Knight-Bagehot Fellows (current and former). The winning entry, about the press and public policy, will be published by the American Institute for Economic Research. Prospective applicants for the 2014-2015 Knight-Bagehot Program are encouraged to attend, and will find details about applying for the Fellowship at www.journalism.columbia.edu
The event will be held in the World Room at the Columbia Journalism School at Broadway and 116th Street in Manhattan, and is free and open to the public. To RSVP, contact Gary Hill at the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship office at gh2206@columbia.edu by January 29.
Event: Perfecting Personality Profiles
When: February 5-6, 2014
Where: Online
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism presents the free, two-day webinar, "Perfecting Personality Profiles.” Jacqui Banszynski, Pulitzer winner and Knight Chair in Editing at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, covers best practices when identifying, sourcing and writing memorable profiles. Register at the main webinar page: http://bit.ly/perfectingprofiles
Event: Advanced Media Training
When: February 8, 2014, 9:00 – 12:00pm
Where: National Press Club Journalism Institute, Washington D.C.
Andrea McCarren, a veteran multimedia journalist and 15-time Emmy Award-winner, will offer an advanced media training class in the National Press Club’s Broadcast Center. This hands-on workshop is for anyone who wants to improve their presentation skills on camera or online. Through practice interviews, you’ll learn:
-How to craft and deliver meaningful sound bytes
-How to be more comfortable and confident on camera
-What to wear and what not to wear
-Tricks of the trade from Andrea’s 30 years of experience in television news
A makeup artist will help prepare you for your on-camera work. After the training session, each participant will be able to access their practice interviews online. Class size is limited. The three-hour session costs $150 for NPC members and $200 for non-members. http://www.press.org/events/advance-media-training-0