Labor Day has come and gone and with it the end to the warmer weather and the lazy pace of the summer season. Summertime has ran out!

School classes are open once again and unfortunately there are many things that just aren't nearly as much fun in the spring, fall, or winter as they are in summer. For example: Independence Day picnics, fireworks, and beer just wouldn't be the same. When summer begins, it seems like it will last forever. But you only a few weeks later, it is over and done.

U.S. Secretaries of State and Defense are reaching out to members of congress as well as European leaders in an attempt to gain support to strike Syria.

The U.S. appears to be ready to respond to chemical attacks to condemned the violence carried out by the Syrian regime and the military claims to be prepared for any contingency involving Syria.

On the other hand, in Russia reiterated the view that the west is rushing to judgment and considering action long before the facts are established.

At age 64, super athlete and long distance swimmer Diana Nyad has become the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a protective shark cage, through the treacherous Florida straights all the way to a Key West beach this afternoon at 2 p.m, nearly 53 hours after jumping into the ocean in Habana for her fifth try in 35 years.

CNN had a great position to record Diana Nyad completing her swim, but didn't get the shot. Nor did CBS, NBC, ABC or Fox. Huh?

Following a busy summer season, City Island began slowing down this Labor Day. The most influential restaurants owner on the island says business is always slow on Labor Day and Sammy Chernin told City Island Images that business was especially slow today due to the wet weather.

The City Island traffic was so light that City Island Images found a News 12 crew doing a live shot on the fact that City Island traffic was virtually non existent due to scattered showers, which kept most folks indoors today.

US workers have a little less to celebrate this Labor Day, as the minimum wages continue to stagnate and productivity gains are captured by investors.

However, despite the growing turmoil in the Middle East and potential Western involvement in the Syrian crisis, the price of oil has been relatively stable.

But as you can plainly see, Orchard Beach was virtually deserted, with more parking attendants, police officers, lifeguards and NYC park personnel on futy than there were beach goers today.

Therefore, for this reason alone its best just to say... Life is a beach!

According to US Bureau of Labor Statistics data, unemployment rates
were lower in July than a year earlier in 320 of this countries compiled
372 metropolitan areas, higher in 38 areas, and unchanged in 14
areas, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Forty-one
areas had jobless rates of at least 10.0 percent, and 34 areas had
rates of less than 5.0 percent. Over the year, 319 areas had increases
in nonfarm payroll employment, 48 had decreases, and 5 had no change.
The national unemployment rate in July was 7.7 percent, not seasonally

Labor productivity - defined as output per hour - rose in wholesale trade and in retail trade but fell
slightly in food services and drinking places in 2012, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
Productivity changes were as follows:

2.5 percent in wholesale trade,
2.4 percent in retail trade, and
-0.1 percent in food services and drinking places.

Productivity grew faster in wholesale trade and retail trade in 2012 than in 2011, as output increased at