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Today is Labor Day, the holiday saluting U.S. workers. The following services will be affected: • City, state and federal offices and courts will be closed. No mail will be delivered. • All Chicago libraries will be closed, and there will be no garbage pickup. • City and suburban schools, public and private, will be closed. • Banks and financial markets are closed. • The CTA and Metra will be on Sunday/holiday schedules. • Today is the final day that lifeguards will patrol Chicago’s public ..read more

What’s changed since the first local Labor Day parade, in New York in 1882, is the very nature of labor. Go searching for Labor Day history — on the Department of Labor Web site, for instance — and you invariably come across a quotation from one of the founders of the American Federation of Labor, Peter McGuire. Labor Day, he said, was meant to honor those “who from rude nature have delved and carved all the grandeur we behold.” ..read more

Watch Summer of 42 now! This is a very exciting movie to watch. Many will love this movie because it is full of good and hot scenes. You better grab the opportunity to watch it now at the link given which contains the full video in high definition format! Watch Summer of 42 ! Read the summary below: Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of ‘42 ..read more

Summer always has been my mile marker. 1958? First kid on the block with a Hula Hoop. 1966? First wreck, days after passing driver’s test. 1974? On Daytona’s beach when Richard Nixon resigns. 1980? Float down the Ohio on a flatboat. 1983? Get to pilot the Goodyear blimp. 1993? Fall in love again. But of all the summers, none was as eventful as 1969. It was my “Summer of ‘42,” if you’ll recall that coming-of-age flick. I grew up ..read more

‘+’> ‘); } –> The man who led the Defense Department’s response to Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters will be the featured speaker for the next installment of the “Issues+Answers” lecture series Tuesday night. Retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré will give his lecture “The Art of Crisis Leadership: Lessons Learned Building a Culture of Preparedness” at 7 p.m. at the University of Southern Mississippi in Long Beach. Honoré spent 37 years in the U.S. Army, and commanded Joint ..read more

Video (57 sec) , Mass whale stranding in New Zealand 20 Aug 2010: Dozens of pilot whales have died after after they were washed up on to an isolated beach in northern New Zealand. Rescuers are trying to save the remaining survivors

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Sept. 3, 2010 | (0) Comments KISS and Lady Gaga may have drawn bigger crowds Thursday night, but they didn’t quite corner the local market on campy excess. The surf was up at Off the Wall Theatre, where playwright Charles Busch’s “Psycho Beach Party” has crashed ashore for a 10-day run under Jeremy Welter’s direction. Busch, who has treated the world to “Vampire Lesbians of Sodom” and “Die! Mommy! Die!,” has never met a Hollywood artifact he couldn’t blow ..read more

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Some would say it is akin to standing in front of a Mack Truck to collect the insurance money. Is it worth it? A mismatch — on the surface, at least — happens all over the college football landscape in the first few weeks of the season. With Big East Conference member and No. 25-ranked West Virginia taking on Division I-AA Coastal Carolina (5-6 last year), the game Saturday might turn a bit lopsided in the ..read more

New York City ANDREW GLOVER YOUTH PROGRAM STREET FAIR , on Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Fourth Avenue, between 8th and 14th Streets, East Village. BRAZILIAN CULTURE, MIDTOWN AND DOWNTOWN, with “Lavagem da Rua 46” (“the Cleansing of 46th Street”) on Saturday, a warmup for Sunday’s Brazilian Day blowout; costumed performers begin the cleansing at 44th Street and Avenue of the Americas and proceed to a stage at Madison Avenue and 46th Street, where a concert follows; ..read more

BP Resumes Work on Failed Gulf Oil Well VOA News 02 September 2010 Oil company BP has begun removing a temporary cap and failed safety valve from the ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. Company spokesman Neil Chapman told VOA the work began shortly before midday Thursday.  He said he expects the procedure to take most of the day. The safety valve, known as a blowout preventer, is a device designed to shut down an oil well ..read more

ROYAL PALM BEACH, FLORIDA–(Marketwire – 09/02/10) – The Medical Tourism Association announced today that over seventy countries have confirmed participation in the 3rd Annual World Medical Tourism and Global Healthcare Congress in Los Angeles, California, USA, September 22nd-24th, 2010. The congress is made up of three conferences 1) Medical Tourism Conference, 2) Expatriate Healthcare Travel …

Read more here: Over 70 Countries Converge to Craft a Truly Global Congress