DEATH AND TERRORISM IN AFRICA. Nigeria and Kenya.
WASHINGTON POLITICS. Dinner, Jokes, Cheap Shots.
ST LOUIS TENT COLLAPSE. Death At Beer Garden.
BRONX SUBWAY STABBING. Over Cellphone.
OCEAN TRAGEDY. California Yacht Race.
Website: http://www.getmyfbifile.com/ helps you generate letters to send to the FBI to get a copy of your own file. According to the Website, you may have one if you ever participated in a civil rights march or a war protest.
Soon-to-be-graduates and anyone else searching for a job:
A good compilation of advice in job seeking, and not just in your next job but for later as well. From @usnews on 10 smart things new grads should do to get a job.
http://bit.ly/HTvvWZ
10 Smart Things New Grads Should Do to Get a Job - On Careers (usnews.com)
money.usnews.com
You have a lot more control over your job search than you actually realize.
Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. will join New York City Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association President Norman Seabrook, and the Hot 97 Street Soldiers to hold “The Bronx Push 4 Peace” Festival this afternoon.
Literally millions of US families are facing the same decision as students are preparing to go to college this coming fall. And there are many considerations and financial factors which go into choosing where to go to school. The continually rising cost of a higher education and the increasing and sometimes crushing debt that too many students decide to take on to get their advanced degree.
Saturday, April 28
10 a.m.-1 p.m.Volunteer Garden Clean-up Day
Roll up your sleeves and don your gardening gloves to help us keep the garden and grounds of BPMM looking beautiful.
Light breakfast available. Please wear long sleeves, pants, and sturdy footwear and bring work gloves if you have them.
Garden Clean-Up Day sponsored bycon ed horizontal
Cost Free Registration requested 718.885.1461 info@bpmm.org
Exhibition Talk: Florence Boogaerts
Gardens of the World
Sunday, April 29 Florence Boogaerts
4:30 p.m.
US PAKISTAN RELATIONS. Talks Break Down Over Apology.
CHINA HUMAN RIGHTS. High Level Discussions Expected.
USSS STANDARDS. Rules Of Conduct Enhanced.
LOCAL SHUT DOWNS. Forced By TSA And MTA.
POLITICS OR PROGRESS. Which will Triumph?
As you may know, this year's StudentCam competition asked students to create a 5-8 documentary on the topic of the Constitution and why it is important to them. Each morning during the month of April we featured interviews with the top 27 prize winning film makers on C-SPAN's morning program, Washington Journal.
Today's interview with Grand Prize winner Matthew Shimura discussing his video about due process and the Japanese-American internment during World War II marked the culmination of this year's competition.
US Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Queens, the Bronx) today voted against a Republican proposal on student loans, a highly partisan effort that would eliminate critical community preventive health care services in order to extend low interest rates on federally-subsidized student loans. Democrats have been calling for the interest rate to stay low, while Republicans recently supported a budget that would have allowed the rates to double on July 1, 2012.
American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation are partnering to distribute $3 million and engage the public in preserving New York City’s neighborhoods and historic places. The program, called Partners in Preservation, is New York City’s first citywide preservation effort powered by social media asking the public to vote on its favorite historic places.
