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HEALTH & WELLNESS SUMMIT

On Saturday, April 6, at Fordham University, Bronx Borough President's Office will host a first ever Bronx Health & Wellness Summit. They have worked hard to put together a comprehensive agenda, one that we feel offers something for everyone.

At the summit, you can learn how your health coverage will change with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, how to effectively continue medical care for your adolescents, how mental health issues are handled to ensure public safety or what classes college students should take to pursue a career in healthcare, the borough's number one employer.

The main goal of this summit is to begin to set your work plan for the coming years, a work plan that will reverse your health indicators and ultimately lead to a better overall quality of life for those that live, work and raise their families in the Bronx. The agenda for the summit has been finalized, so please take a few minutes to register for our Health & Wellness Summit if you haven't already, and sign up for your preferred breakout sessions.

HEALTH & WELLNESS SUMMIT

Bronx Borough President is urging concerned individuals from the Bronx and across the City to register for his upcoming Health & Wellness Summit, to be held at Fordham University’s Rose Hill Campus on Saturday, April 6, 2013, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

“We see this event as a major first step towards a comprehensive health and wellness agenda for not just the Bronx but the entire City, and I urge everyone with an interest in these important topics to sign up for a day of thought-provoking discussion on the health of our City,” said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.

SOCIAL MEDIA WARNING

There have been warnings, but this really exposes how much personal information can be learned about you.

Scary and just look how much 'free' personal info we give out. Everyone who reads your profile can get to know much more about you.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/F7pYHN9iC9I?rel=0

MEDIA MEGA LIST

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Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Albuquerque Tribune
American Enterprise
American Prospect
American Spectator
Arizona Business Gazette
Arizona Republic
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Army Times
Arts & Letters Daily
Asbury Park Press (NJ)
Austin Chronicle
Austin American-Statesman
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlantic Monthly

Baltimore Sun
Billboard
Boston Globe
Boston Herald
Broadcasting and Cable
Buffalo News
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SOCIAL MEDIA MEGASITE

Social networks are more focused on creation and sharing content than in finding it. They also tend to highlight Web-centric communities. The debate over the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP (Intellectual Property) Act also made this year's list, as Twitter was an important center of that debate.

SPEAKING UP FOR EDUCATION

Academic administrators need to fine tune goals and values. It's too easy to say: In our institution, every student learns, or we raise our students to their full potential, without explaining what this actually means, how we reach these goals, achieve wisdom, knowledge, satisfaction and retention.

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ELECTRONIC MEDIA

The first radio transmission was successfully sent on Christmas Eve in 1906. Reginald Fessenden and his team broadcasted a Christmas concert to the united Fruit Company in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea; this caused Fessenden to be radio’s first voice. This broadcast foreshadowed the future of radio. Lee DeForest, Edwin Armstrong, Guglielmo Marconi, Nikola Tesla, David Sarnoff, and Fessenden were all considered to be the fathers of radio and radio as we know it now would not be the same without these men and many others.

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FALL CITY ISLAND ARTS FAIR

FREE Bronx Seaside Trolley on Friday September 7th from 5:30pm to 9:30pm, leaving hourly on the half hour, from Pelham Bay Station and going to The Bartow Pell Mansion Museum then on to City Island for an evening of Art, Music and Fine Dining. Take advantage of special offers when you show your Trolley Card at participating establishments.

Only available from the driver on the Trolley.

Events & Promotions

Bartow Pell Mansion Museum

895 Shore Rd. 718-885-1461

5:30pm - 8:30pm

Singer/songwriters Hannah & Maggie.

LIBERAL ARTS

Meet the Director: Screening of a New Movie LIBERAL ARTS, Followed by a Conversation with Josh Radnor

WHEN: Wednesday, September 5, 7:00 pm (Doors open at 6:30)

WHERE: SVA Theater, 333 West 23rd Street (b'twn. 8th and 9th Aves.)

RSVP: visit www.cencom.org or e-mail info@cencom.org

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Doctor Journalism

Henrik Örnebring is the Axess Research Fellow in Comparative European Journalism at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford. He blogs with a European point of view about general journalism developments, paying particular attention to research and the academic sphere.

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