NO NEWS IS BAD NEWS

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City Island Images is proud to offer "Front Pages" from newspapers all over the globe.

Today's Front Pages - Wednesday, August 08, 2012: 779 front pages from 85 countries.

For copyright protection, watermarks are occasionally placed on front pages that cover news events of historic significance.

Through a special agreement with more than 800 newspapers worldwide, the Newseum displays these front pages each day on its website. The front pages are in their original, unedited form, and some may contain material that is deemed objectionable to some visitors. Discretion is advised.

CITY ISLAND IMAGES 2013 CALENDAR

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Just in time for the holidays and before the new year 2013, City Island Images and local City Island photographer David Gipson are proud to announce the City Island Images 2013 calendar.

Gipson is a native New Yorker, born and bred in the greatest city in the world and lives on City Island with his family. David began taking an interest in photography while in school. A camera given to him by his dad as a teenager, he started his obsession with taking pictures.

LOCAL ALERT - AERIAL SPRAYING

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The NY Department of Health will be conducting aerial larviciding via a low-flying helicopter to help prevent West Nile Virus today, through 8/9/12 and until 8:00 PM daily in Bronx zip codes 10464, 10475.

While days are allotted for this activity, the application may be completed in less time. In the event of inclement weather, spraying may occur during the same hours thru 8/10/12. For more information, visit http://on.nyc.gov/O2Xl3v or call 311.

8/8/12 News & Information Service 24/7

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ANY REASONS AND ALL THE FACTS BEHIND SIKH SHOOTINGS. May Never Be Made Public.
That gunman is dead and there is no trial, so whatever these investigators find out concerning those white supremacist movements may remain a secret.

ERNESTO REACHES LAND. Blowing Across The Yucatan Peninsula.
Hurricane Ernesto weakens into a tropical storm, but moves across the Mexican resort region and is expected to resume hurricane strength when it continues towards the sea.

EGYPT FIRES INTO SINAI. Suspected Islamic Militants.

Syria Medicine Shortage

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The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today said that, according to reports it has received, Syria is experiencing critical shortages in medicines and pharmaceutical products.

“The recent escalation of clashes had resulted in substantial damages to the pharmaceutical plants located in rural Aleppo, Homs and Rural Damascus, where 90 per cent of the country’s plants were located,” a WHO spokesperson, Tarik Jasarevic, told reporters in Geneva today. “Many of these plants had now closed down, thus resulting in a critical shortage of medicines.”

‘Beach Reach’

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NYC Council Member James Vacca will join the Bronx-Einstein Alliance for Tobacco-Free Health and Environmental Services (Bronx BREATHES) at Orchard Beach tomorrow an noon for the first ever “Bronx BREATHES Beach Reach,” to distribute smoking cessation literature and free nicotine patches and gum in order to raise awareness about the dangers of tobacco.

TODAY IN HER & HISTORY

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216 BC Hannibal Barca wins his greatest victory over the Romans at Cannae.
47 BC Caesar defeats Pharnaces at Zela in Syria and declares, "veni, vidi, vici,"
1552 The treaty of Passau gives religious freedom to German Protestants.
1553 An invading French army is destroyed at the Battle of Marciano in Italy.
1589 During France's religious war, a monk stabs and kills King Henry II.
1776 The Continental Congress makes the Declaration of Independence.
1802 Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed "Consul for Life" by the French Senate.

LOCAL ALERT - AERIAL SPRAYING - LOCAL ALERT

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NY Department of Health will be conducting aerial larviciding via a low-flying helicopter to help prevent West Nile Virus today, 8/7/12 through 8/9/12 from DAWN TO DUSK daily in Bronx zip codes 10464, 10475.

While three days are allotted for this activity, the application may be completed in less time. In the event of inclement weather, spraying may occur during the same hours thru 8/10/12. For more information, visit http://on.nyc.gov/O2Xl3v or call 311.

NO NEWS IS BAD NEWS

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City Island Images is proud to offer "Front Pages" from newspapers all over the globe.

Today's Front Pages - Tuesday, August 07, 2012: 779 front pages from 85 countries.

For copyright protection, watermarks are occasionally placed on front pages that cover news events of historic significance.

Through a special agreement with more than 800 newspapers worldwide, the Newseum displays these front pages each day on its website. The front pages are in their original, unedited form, and some may contain material that is deemed objectionable to some visitors. Discretion is advised.

COURT OF DREAMS

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Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe joined Courts of Dreams Foundation Chairman Natasha Cornstein, former New York Knick Larry Johnson, and children from the West Bronx Recreation Center, Mosholu Montefiore Community Center, Riverdale Neighborhood House and Kingsbridge Heights Community Center, to cut the ribbon on a $162,000 renovation at Van Cortlandt Park’s Classic Playground basketball courts. After the ribbon cutting, the New York Knicks Groove Truck hosted a basketball clinic for children attending the event.