What Mid-life Crisis???

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Up, not down: the rise of happiness. A new University of Alberta study finds it gets better as we age, refuting old claims that happiness slumps in mid-life.

Happy people live longer, they are healthier and are more likely to engage positively in their communities, and they also cost less to the health-care system and to society in general. Happy people may be cheap, but does happiness decline as young people move into early adulthood and midlife, and then increase again, as various proponents of the “U-curve of happiness” have argued?

Retirement: USA 50

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Retirement Plan Access and Participation across the 50 States has been studied by Pew and indications are that workers in the United States accumulate the vast majority of their retirement savings through employer-based plans, but large gaps in coverage exist. Pew’s analysis shows that more than 30 million workers report they do not have access to an employer-based retirement plan.

Adios Amigo?

NYC’s El Diario/La Prensa is ober 100 years old and has served as the voice of New York Latinos, especially during the times when they didn’t have a voice.

Founded as a weekly under the title La Prensa in 1913 in lower Manhattan, the newspaper merged with El Diario de New York decades later, leaving it with a compound name.

The paper’s audience has evolved with the times, serving a New York Latino population that has seen distinct waves of Puerto Rican, Dominican, South American and Mexican immigrants

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CIVILITY NOW

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Paranoia and vigilante-like behavior are the tools of destruction that do not necessarily come with bombs, explosions and fallout.

They're dangerous thoughts, attitudes, and prejudices that are found only in the minds of mortals. Prejudices can harm and suspicions destroy.

The thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own. And the pity is that these things cannot always be be controlled.

WHAT'S THE POINT?

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Spending a half million dollars for this? Check out City Island's BELDEN PARK, which cost NYC taxpayers around $420,000.

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Was it worth waiting for? After a half dozen on again and off again announcements over the years, NYC Greenstreets has finally picked on City Island. The citywide program to convert paved, vacant traffic islands and medians into green spaces has nearly finished building on Belden Point.

US FOREIGN POLICY?

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Afghanistan-Why did US announce a 30,000 troop surge to Afghanistan in 2009, only to say they’d be pulled out in 18 months, giving al-Qaida and the Taliban a mental stamina to last at least that long and to plan ahead. Afghanistan is awash in wasted aid programs and corruption. The Taliban is more ascendant in the country than any time since 2001. The Islamic State is increasing its presence, and the U.S. only recently razed a 30-square-mile al-Qaida training camp, which was one of the largest ever to be created.

#SOTU Swan Song

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Tonight's State of The Union will be President Obama's final annual report to Congress. But as he delivers the speech, Iran is holding US military members and we all know what that could mean, if history repeats itself. Stay tuned in with DOSE OF NEWS to see how this plays out https://www.whitehouse.gov/sotu

Iran holding two US Navy boats & crew, Pentagon says, adding it has assurances Tehran will return them "promptly" http://bbc.in/1P8zOt4

Iran flips Obama on eve of big speech http://washex.am/1RBdMGq

US Rail Defects

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Another round of targeted rail inspections intended to improve public safety and reduce potential dangers associated with the transport of crude oil. NY Inspection teams examined 756 crude oil tank cars, approximately 239 miles of track and 51 switches. Overall, state and federal teams uncovered and addressed three critical defects and 66 non-critical defects.

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