Today is the 20th anniversary of National Public Health Week. Obesity, the second leading cause of preventable death in the nation. To prevent childhood obesity families need convenient access to healthy, affordable food. Far too many families are food insecure, meaning parents and children do not always have enough nutritious food to eat each day. In addition, childhood obesity is an epidemic, causing life-threatening health problems such as diabetes and heart conditions.
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Now, Anchorman Brian Williams says he's taking himself off the NBC evening newscast temporarily. Can you believe it? Read all about it: Dose Of News * www.doseofnews.com
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AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom — An online journal of The American Association of University Professors. It is the first journal devoted entirely to the subject of academic freedom and is funded by the AAUP’s Academic Freedom Fund. The journal is available free of charge.
A coalition of 10 news media companies has announce a partnership with Virginia Tech to test unmanned aircraft systems to gather news.
Virginia Tech leads the Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership, one of six test sites established by Congress to collect data on the use of UAS. Congress set up the test sites to assist the Federal Aviation Administration in formulating regulations to integrate UAS into the national airspace.
Many media tools are designed for online mingling, but are also equipped with features that make it easy to ignore your contacts.
Twitter is an example: Click on your former friend’s profile, then click the gear symbol and scroll down to select “mute.” These tweets will disappear from your feed, but they will never know about your action. Facebook has similar options for secretly tuning out specific friends.
Instagram is among the services that do not make this easy, although there are third-party apps that claim to let you filter your feed.
The City Island Chamber of Commerce once again sponsors their Annual Fall Arts & Crafts Fair along the sidewalk in the center of City Island, on September 13th & 14th from 11am to 7pm.
The event will feature fifty artists, craftspeople and local businesses. There will be jewelry, candles, painting, clothing, woodwork, glassware, skincare, face painting, food and more.
Live music will be available and on Sunday we will have a Clam Chowder contest- sample and vote for your favorite one. Free admission. For more info call 718-885-9100 ww.cityislandchamber.org
The City Island Nautical Museum presents The Rosenfeld Collection. This is the largest single collection of maritime photography in the world, and although it is housed at Mystic Seaport, the photographers who created it lived and worked on City Island in The Bronx.
Morris Rosenfeld and his sons helped define maritime art photography. Their images of sailboats, steam yachts, naval vessels, powerboat races, leisure activities, and every America’s Cup Race from 1885 to 1992 are world famous.
This exhibition will feature images of the most beautiful boats created or worked on at the island’s yacht yards, including Dorade, Brilliant, Bolero, and several successful defenders of the America’s Cup. In addition to sailing images, there will be photographs of boat construction and launchings, many of them original prints in the Nautical Museum’s collection, and a unique slide show created by curator Thomas Nye.
As a special feature of the Rosenfeld exhibition on view at the Nautical Museum, curator Tom Nye created this presentation celebrating City Island.
I will not let Detroit go bankrupt.
If you like your doctor, you can keep him. PERIOD.
It was because of a video on the internet.
Raising the debt ceiling is unAmerican
I promise 100% transparency in my administration.
I promise NO NEW TAXES on a family making less than $250K a year.
I will allow 5 days of public comment before I sign any bills.
I will remove earmarks from PORK projects before I sign any bill.
I will end Income Tax for seniors making less than $50K a year.
In today’s world, digital media use begins at a very early age and takes up a large proportion of the informal learning environment, making it essential to assess the effects of the substantial amount of time children engage with media.
A new study provides evidence that, in five days of being limited to in-person interaction without access to any screen-based or media device for communication, preteens improved on measures of nonverbal emotion understanding, significantly more than a control group.
Since the late 1980s, America and the world have been enjoying the benefits of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). These antidepressants — fluoxetine (Prozac), sertraline (Zoloft), paroxetine (Paxil), fluvoxamine (Luvox), citalopram (Celexa), and escitalopram (Lexapro) — are among the world’s most widely prescribed medications. They are remarkably safe and effective. The range of their uses has expanded from depression to anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders, and many other psychiatric conditions.