Why is it that toppers at City Island Chamber of Commerce are paying $100K to an outside vendor for about a dozen cameras to make secret video recordings to be stored at undisclosed locations? "Mission Impossible", Big Brother is Watching You, or something else altogether?
FYI: Please read the following and reach out to all your contacts. The loss of the Beacon School would mean no place for 1300 children and seniors to go for daily activities. We desperately need to keep this program open.
See below for details and please help where you can.
This affects us all.
Sincerely,
Bob Bieder
CB 10 Youth Chair
45th Pct Council President
Chair, Bronx Merchants Coalition
Greetings, Beautiful People,
Outstanding Local Educators Honored as National Historic Site Commemorates 100th anniversary of landmark Presidential election. Benefit Dinner on Saturday, May 12
The centennial of the Presidential election of 1912, the only quadrennial canvass matching three holders of the nation’s highest office, and successful innovation in the Mt. Vernon public schools are the twin themes of this year’s Historic Benefit Dinner at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site, Saturday, May 12, 5 to 9 PM.
8.6 INDONESIA QUAKE. Aftershocks & Tsunami Warnings.
UN SEEKS IRAN ASSISTANCE. For Syrian Ceasefire.
SANTORUM OUT. Romney Relieved - Two To Go.
ZIMMERMAN LOOSES LAWYERS. Alone in Zone.
BLOOMBERG WANTS IT. Both Ways For NYC.
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Rick Santorum has announced he's stepping aside from his presidential campaign, but those GOP advertisements continue to grow downright nasty as presidential contenders Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul say they will stay in the race. They both seem to think they are the true conservative candidates to beat President Barack Obama in the November general election.
However, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is now closer to being the Republican Party's nominee his summer. But Ron and Newt are hoping there's time left for Republicans to pick a more suitable alternative.
FYI: Media Matters
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/sofia-vergara-monologue/13…
Saturday Night Live: Sofia Vergara Monologue
When SV recalled her journey to the SNL stage all the way from her small town in Colombia, I could not believe it when she used the word "Gonorrea" in the monologue on Saturday Night Live.
What ever happened to broadcast standards and practices?
National Press Foundation will team up with the Regional Reporters Association for two free Webinars on Covering Political Conventions. Anyone heading to Tampa in August or Charlotte in September will pick up valuable tips from our experts.
First, at 11:00 a.m. on April 19, we’ll help you understand the logistics of covering conventions: How to get floor passes; reserving work space; what equipment to bring; how to find your way around; and lots more.
A study linking red meat and mortality lit up the media in more ways than one. Hundreds of media outlets carried reports about the study. Headline writers had a field day, with entries like “Red meat death study,” “Will red meat kill you?” and “Singing the blues about red meat.”
“There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is a miracle.”
— Albert Einstein
“When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them.”
— Mozart
“The weakness of men is the façade of strength; the strength of women is the façade of weakness.”
— Warren Farrell
Exhibition Talk: Mark Morrison
The History and Evolution of Garden Tools
Tuesday, April 17Mark Morrison
7:30 p.m.
Join us for an exhibition talk by landscape architect Mark Morrison, whose collection is now on view at BPMM. In a dynamic presentation on the History and Evolution of Garden Tools, Mark discusses the transition from custom-made to mass-produced, and the impact this has had on our environment.
Volunteer Garden
Clean-Up Day
Saturday, April 28
10 a.m.-1 p.m.
Help keep the garden and grounds at BPMM looking beautiful.
Exhibition Talk