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This is a bit of old news, but here’s the details from the NYTimes.com Day after day, night after night, Francisco Hernandez Jr. rode the subway. He had a MetroCard, $10 in his pocket and a book bag on his lap. As the human tide flowed and ebbed around him, he sat impassively, a gangly 13-year-old [...] In a scathing press release, Fiorello Laguardia Republican Club Chairman/Founder Arnaldo A. Ferrero criticized the paltry turnout for the Bay Ridge anti-healthcare protest. Pointing out that organizers had sent over 20,000 notifications through email, the turnout of about 40 protesters was a huge dissapointment. Mr. Ferrero goes on to call the ordeal “downright embarrassing, demeaning and even detrimental” Check out the full Press Release [...] The internet is a great tool, except for one little flaw. It is saturated with humans and their own personal, unsubstantiated opinions. There once was a time when that opinion might never go any further than the fool’s, who thought it, front porch. It might just be one of those family secrets that everyone knows about and are conscience enough to never mention that topic when that crazy uncle is around. When outsiders would come for a visit, they might have gotten stopped at the door before entering and warned not to mention anything about “the lake.” But now that crazy uncle has a computer with internet access and has a “Creature in the Lake” website that gets over 15-thousand hits a [...] MASSAGE WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, at 6pm at the Center for Family Life 443 39th Street (between 3rd and 4th Aves), 3rd Floor, Brooklyn · Learn how to PREPARE to give a massage by STRETCHING, getting FOCUSED, and learning to pay ATTENTION to others. · Learn how to give YOURSELF massages with your hands and simple tools like tennis balls or doorways · Learn how to give OTHERS massages in your home · Learn other methods to RELAX and TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF better Please RSVP to [...] For the previous fifteen months, I had been living in Spain. And whilst there, I decided, “hey, why not take advantage of their universal healthcare system?” And so I did. Three doctor visits, a full blood analysis, and one prescribed medication cost me a complete total of two euros, or roughly three dollars and fifty cents. That’s right, $3.50. You can’t even get a slice of pizza and a soda can in the city for [...] |
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