Claire Shulman Builds The Flushing Meadows Corona Park Aquatic Center
Former Queens Borough President Claire Shulman describes how she used $8 million from the United States Tennis Association and a birthday present from Mayor Giuliani to build a state of the art and incredibly popular swimming pool and ice skating rink in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
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NYC Parks Adult Lap Swim Awards and National Parks Forever Stamps
New York City Parks Adult Lap Swim program gives fitness-minded adults the chance to take to the water without interruption from other swimmers. Participants who swim 25 miles or more over the summer will receive a free-t-shirt and prizes will be awarded to the top three male and female distance swimmers at each pool program. For more info go to nycgovparks.org
National Park Service
The United States Postal Service helped the National Park Service
celebrate its 100th anniversary with the dedication of the pane of 16 National Parks forever stamps. The first-day-of-issue ceremony took place in New York City at the World Stamp Show-NY 2016- which is the world's largest stamp show and is only held once a decade in the United States.
Ordering First-Day-of-Issue Postmarks
Customers have until Aug. 2nd, 2016 to obtain the first-day-of-issue postmark by mail. Affix the stamps to envelopes of your choice, address the envelopes to yourself or others, and place them in a larger envelope addressed to:
National Parks Stamps
Special Events Coordinator
380 West 33rd Street
New York, NY 10199-9998
After applying the first-day-of issue postmark, the Postal Service will return the envelopes through the mail. There is no charge for the postmark up to a quantity of 50. there is a 5-cent charge for each additional postmark over 50.
Girls Trip - Oregon Coast
Girls trip, Katy & Cheryl Cruising the Oregon Coast from Portland to Astoria to Newport, Whale watching, Sea Lions, Seals, Lighthouses, Bridges, Beach, Ocean
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NY Police Deploy to Protect President Obama
On September 18, 2012, President Barack Obama appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman. In order to do so, he needed to be protected while in transit from the Waldorf Astoria Hotel to the David Letterman studios across town. Here, you will see the rank and file of New York's finest deploy throughout midtown Manhattan. Safe tour, all!
Flushing, Queens
Flushing is a neighborhood in the north-central part of the New York City borough of Queens, in the United States. While much of the neighborhood is residential, Downtown Flushing, centered on the northern end of Main Street, is a large commercial and retail area and is the fourth largest central business district in New York City.
Flushing's diversity is reflected by the numerous ethnic groups that reside there, including people of Asian, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, European, and African American ancestry. It is part of the Fifth Congressional District, which encompasses the entire northeastern shore of Queens County, and extends into neighboring Nassau County. Flushing is served by five railroad stations on the Long Island Rail Road Port Washington Branch, as well as the New York City Subway's IRT Flushing Line, which has its terminus at Main Street. The intersection of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue is the third busiest intersection in New York City, behind Times and Herald Squares.
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Alden North Shore Short-term Rehabilitation and Health Care Center
Guests who come to Alden North Shore for short-term rehabilitation benefit from a new state-of-the-art Therapy Gym and Occupational Therapy Room. We specialize in short-term orthopedic recovery and post-acute services. Private rooms available - make a reservation today!
Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
Pauline Kael called him “the greatest American screenwriter.” Jean-Luc Godard said he was “a genius” who “invented 80% of what is used in Hollywood movies today.” With credits that include Scarface, Twentieth Century and Notorious, novelist, reporter, and playwright Ben Hecht also emerged during WWII as an outspoken crusader for the imperiled Jews of Europe and later became a fierce propagandist for pre-1948 Palestine’s Jewish terrorist underground.
Adina Hoffman spoke with Phillip Lopate on February 12, 2019 at the Center for Jewish History about her new biography of this charismatic and contradictory figure, who came to embody much that defined America—especially Jewish America—in his time.
Roosevelt Island
Roosevelt Island is a narrow island in New York City's East River. It lies between Manhattan Island to its west and the borough of Queens on Long Island to its east, and is part of the borough of Manhattan. Running from the equivalent of Manhattan Island's 46th to East 85th Streets, it is about 2 miles (3.2 km) long, with a maximum width of 800 feet (240 m), and a total area of 147 acres (0.59 km2). Together with Mill Rock, Roosevelt Island constitutes Manhattan's Census Tract 238, which has a land area of 0.279 sq mi (0.72 km2). and had a population of 9,520 in 2000 according to the US Census. The Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation estimated its population was about 12,000 in 2007.
The island was called Minnehanonck by the Lenape and Varkens Eylandt (Hog Island) by New Netherlanders, and during the colonial era and later as Blackwell 's Island. It was known as Welfare Island from 1921 to 1971. It was re-named Roosevelt Island in 1971 after Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Here be Dragons 2018: Track A
Sea monsters such as the kraken, prister, and rosmarus indicated uncharted territory on elaborate new maps of the world in medieval times. Despite many advances in mapping technology and data acquisition in the last 500 years, our ocean remains largely uncharted and poorly understood.
Here be Dragons convened explorers, innovators, artists, scientists, and storytellers to identify the uncharted territories that still exist in ocean exploration and storytelling. In response, MIT students will work with explorers to develop and present collaborative projects to deploy new and emerging technologies in the field that address gaps in our understanding and sharing of the ocean. Select proposals will be funded for Rapid Field Deployments.
In collaboration with the National Geographic Society and New England Aquarium.
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House Floor Session 3/28/19
MESSAGES FROM THE SENATE.
07:35 - Conference Committee Report on SF1743: Snow day relief bill; calculation of days and hours of instruction for students affected by snow days during the 2018-2019 school year modification.
CALENDAR FOR THE DAY.
24:28 - SF307 (Pelowski) Disaster contingency account money transferred.
Runs 1 hour, 33 minutes.
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Oregon State University | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:14 1 History
00:01:23 1.1 Early years
00:03:14 1.2 Oregon State
00:04:39 2 Campuses
00:04:48 2.1 Main campus (Corvallis)
00:05:38 2.2 Branch campus (Bend)
00:06:06 2.3 Ecampus (online)
00:06:44 3 Organization and administration
00:06:55 3.1 Colleges and schools
00:07:33 3.2 Extension Service program
00:08:13 3.3 Funding
00:09:54 3.4 International partnerships
00:10:23 4 Academic profile
00:10:33 4.1 Admissions
00:11:28 4.2 Teaching
00:11:45 4.3 Research
00:15:53 4.4 Military
00:17:32 4.5 Libraries
00:17:59 4.6 Rankings and recognition
00:19:14 5 Student life
00:22:11 5.1 Student government
00:22:41 5.2 Diversity
00:23:22 6 Athletics
00:27:07 7 People
00:27:16 7.1 Faculty and staff
00:28:32 7.2 Alumni
00:29:04 7.2.1 Arts and entertainment
00:29:49 7.2.2 Business
00:30:54 7.2.3 Military
00:31:55 7.2.4 Politics
00:32:58 7.2.5 Science and engineering
00:34:31 7.2.6 Sports
00:36:49 7.2.7 Others
00:37:28 8 Points of interest
00:37:59 9 See also
00:38:18 10 Further reading
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Oregon State University (OSU) is a public research university in Corvallis, Oregon. The university offers more than 200 undergraduate degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees. It is also the largest university in the state, with a total enrollment exceeding 28,000. More than 230,000 students have graduated from OSU since its founding. The Carnegie Foundation designates Oregon State University as a Community Engagement university and classifies it as a doctoral university with a status of Highest research activity.OSU is one of 73 land-grant universities in the United States. The school is also a sea-grant, space-grant, and sun-grant institution, making it one of only three U.S. institutions to obtain all four designations and one of two public universities to do so. (Cornell and Penn State are the only others with similar designation; Penn State is the only public university with matching designations.) OSU received $441 million in research funding for the 2017 fiscal year.
Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)
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Dr. Ross Lubrani is a 1997 graduate of Ohio University with a pre-med based B.S. degree in Biology. He graduated Cum Laude with emphasis in physiology and anatomy. In June of 2001, a Doctor of Chiropractic degree was obtained(Injury Care Elyria Specialist) at Life University. During the course of study at Life University, Dr. Lubrani applied special interest to both extremity and pediatric adjusting techniques. He has post-graduate certification in many different techniques including physical therapeutics. The highlight of his schooling was being selected to participate in the Mission of Lights trip to Brazil that sought to educate and provide care to the Brazilian population. Upon graduation, Dr. Lubrani has practiced in Georgia and California before returning to his home state of Ohio. He currently holds license in three states (Injury Care Elyria Specialist) and is also certified in physical therapeutics and continues to pursue his post-graduate studies.