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Get Smart! Meet the Founders of Mental Floss
WHEN: Wednesday, October 15, 6:30 to 8:00 pm
WHERE: SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street (8th and 9th Aves.)
REGISTER: visit www.cencom.org or e-mail info@cencom.org
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Travel tips for a safe and sane US
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If you are lucky enough to hold one, consider yourself to be traveling in style, even though you may not be sitting in first class. The following are are facts you may not known about your US Passport.
NFL leaves NYC
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The National Football League Draft has decided to drop NYC's The Big Apple and pass to Chicago's Windy City.
The 2015 annual draft is headed west. This will be the first time this event is being held outside New York since 1964, when it was also held back in Chicago.
The draft has been held at Radio City Music Hall for the last nine years, but the NFL move it as a result of a previously booked event. which caused a scheduling conflict.
Fordham films
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Autumn, or Fall, whichever you wish to call it, this is Oscar season. A time of year when studios push their best major motion pictures for favorable critical review.
This season is also when Fordham University’s Rose Hill campus turns all shades of natural colors, turning its distinguished architecture and lush grounds into attractive selling points for prospective students. The Bronx campus is an attractive location for many movie makers.
Filmed at Fordham http://www.theramrealm.com/2013/10/18/filmed-at-fordham/
Pelvic examinations and sexual violence
Women who have a history of violent sexual abuse may suffer emotional distress during a routine pelvic examination. Healthcare providers would benefit from greater awareness of symptoms predictive of examination-related distress in this patient population, according to a study published in Violence and Gender, a new peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers.
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Keeping the faith, hope and charity
With the growing possibility of the local Catholic church closing its doors and dwindling numbers of all religious worshipers in a New York City nautical community, City Images offers the following food for thought.
Reaching out to local worshipers is basically similar, whether in Europe, Asia, or America. Citizens prefer to personally connect with their ministers as well as with members of their congregation and to worship close to their homes, where they are deeply rooted.
Every single child in the city
When it comes to education, we must teach every single student. To make sure that everyone has the opportunity to be successful in life, we have to make changes and sacrfices.
Critics called the plan too ambitious, but with 51,000 four year-olds enrolled in high-quality, full-day pre-k this year, NYC is already taking big strides and the mayor says parents will notice the difference.
Mayor @BilldeBlasio's is looking out for every child in NYC. Parents are noticing: http://on.nyc.gov/1pGGJNw #EducateNYC
Too many obese kids
One in three children in US can be classified as overweight or obese, which puts them at risk for serious health problems. Rosa Cataldo, DO, MPH, Director of the Healthy Weight & Wellness Center at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital, discusses what parents can do now to keep their child at a healthy weight and get them on the road to a healthy life.
The secret is finally out
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US Secret Service Director Julia Pierson, who was originally appointed to fix that broken down federal agency, following a series of sex scandals has now resigned.
The agency's first female director was not able to keep her position following reports which continued raising questions about the performance of the agency.
President Obama concluded that new leadership of that agency was immediately required. Secret Service agent Joseph Clancy, the former head of the Presidential Protective Division will now lead that agency.