Headlines 1/20/12
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SIX US MARINES KILLED. Deadly NATO Chopper Crash.
NEVADA WILDFIRES. High Winds and Flames.
HUMAN REMAINS FOUND. Hollywood Sign.
AUTISM REDEFINED. Families Worried.
GOP DEBATES. Media Fireworks.
HAPPY NEW YEAR OF THE DRAGON 4710
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The Asian Lunar New Year, the Year of the Dragon, will begin next week on January 23, and is celebrated by many Asian ethnic groups including Chinese, Vietnamese and Koreans.
Take a Break
Frustrated? Working too hard? Take a Break!
Bronx Arts Ensemble
SUNDAY, JANUARY 29 at 3 pm • CHAMBER MUSIC
Home of Peter Joseph and Elizabeth Scheuer
4730 Fieldston Road
$25 | Buy Tickets
MARINA PICCININI, Flute
MIZUHO YOSHIMUNE, Piano
ROLANDO ROLIM, Piano
Mozart - Flute Quartet in D Major, K. 285
Chopin - Scherzo No. 2 in b-flat minor, Op. 31
Oliver Caplan - My Elephant Cloud (2011)
Strauss - Violin Sonata in E Flat (Transcribed for Flute and Piano)
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25 at 8 pm
Accessible Pedestrian Signals
Tomorrow, NYC Council Member James Vacca will join Bronx DOT Commissioner Connie Moran at the newly-installed accessible pedestrian signal on Morris Park Avenue, just west of Eastchester Road, in order to highlight the fact that these important devices have now come to the Bronx.
Positive News Coverage
By focusing on poverty, crime and negative behavior, some news outlets fail to give a total portrait of some communities.
Thankfully, overt racism in the press is is rare nowadays and some organizations have made efforts to include people of color in their daily coverage. However, the overwhelming majority of press still emphasizes negative stories like gangs, drugs and violence, sometimes to the exclusion of positive life experiences.
News is about the exception and unusual, but it is also about triumphs and overachievers and other more positive extremes of our everyday life.
Education Assistance
JOURNALISM STUDENTS
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If you're applying act now to save. This is a great opportunity to seek financing for your journalism grad school education.
Scholarship available for Spanish speakers seeking master's degree in journalism at U.S. university.
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Scholarship available for Spanish speakers seeking master's degree in journalism at U.S. university.
Documentary Screening
Columbia J-School, 6:30P Thursday, January 19, Stabile Student Center:
Enter through 115th Street Gate of Columbia University.
The documentary "Under Fire: Journalists in Combat" weaves combat footage with first-hand accounts by journalists who reveal what they saw, thought and felt as they confronted both the savagery of war and the insatiable 24-hour news cycle. The film and discussion are co-sponsored by International News Safety Institute, the OPC and Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Following the film Dr. Anthony Feinstein will talk about the documentary and conduct a Q&A.
NYPD Crime Prevention
The New York City Police Department is developing a new way to seek people who are carrying firearms on the street. They plan to use radiation scanners, which could detect persons carrying guns, according to NYPD's Top Cop.
This cutting edge technology — which works with infrared imaging detects a natural energy, known as terahertz radiation, that emits from a person’s body, Kelly said during his State of the NYPD address.
Because the radiation waves cannot see through metal, a concealed gun could be detected from the image captured by the lens of the detector.
NYC Councilman Vacca On The Move...
NYC Councilman Jimmy Vacca reports that three bills passed and approved by the City Council Comm. on Transportation, which he chairs.
One bill prohibits the city from posting the green-yellowish stickers on your car when you get a ticket for violating alternate side parking regulations.
Another bill says the 30 day time period for paying a ticket only begins after a hearing determining your guilt is held, not from the day the ticket is issued should you claim your innocence.