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Un megafono per le battaglie sociali online. Questo è "Activism", piattaforma nata a Milano 18 mesi fa. Si chiamava PetizioniOnline.it: oggi esiste in 32 nazioni e conta 5 milioni di utenti registrati che la usano per le raccolte firme per le ragioni più disparate.   Massimiliano Squillace e Nicola Di Campli sono i fondatori di "Activism", n...

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For the first time since 2011 the Howard Beach Columbus Day Parade marched down Cross Bay Boulevard on Sunday.A steady stream of red, white and green enveloped the boulevard, along with the sounds of marching bands from local high schools and Franklin K. Lane High School's JROTC troop. Neighborhood schoolchildren from St. Helen and PS 207 joined th...

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Pizza's ugly stepchild is having a moment. Calzones have been undermined by the slice for years — but no more. The puffed, stuffed, half-moon shaped pouch is moving out of its mozzarella and dough comfort zone on the bottom shelf. Contemporary calzone shops are cramming the traditional Italian turnovers with everything from kiwi to pastra...

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L'Italian Business & Invetsment Initiative (IB&II) ha creato dal 2011 un presidio qualificato a New York che svolge due funzioni:   1) Rete di relazioni qualificate con gli operatori finanziari Usa, sia private equity che venture capital, per facilitare l'espansione in quel mercato delle piccole e medie e delle start up italiane in p...

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Since 1991, IAWA has given voice to writers through its literary series every second Saturday of the month. IAWA East is held even months at Sidewalk Café (Oct, Dec) and IAWA West continues at Cornelia Street Café on odd months (Sept, Nov.)   Michael Cirelli is the Executive Director of Urban Word NYC, one of the nation's largest youth liter...

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Gianna Bianco, a 17-year-old Pelham Parkway resident and senior at Maria Regina High School, has been named Miss Columbus for the 38th annual Bronx Columbus Day Parade.   Bianco grew up attending the parade each year, and said she always looked up to Miss Columbus as a model Italian-American girl. She was excited to learn she was eligible th...

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By 1945, things weren't looking good for Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.   He was deposed by the Grand Council of Fascism, arrested by the Italian king, and had just escaped imprisonment with the help of German special forces. Mussolini was headed north with his mistress, Clara Petacci, presumably to seek asylum in Switzerland.

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Nicholas A. Corrado, 90, of New Dorp, a retired deputy commissioner for the city Department of Real Property and adjunct professor, a World War II veteran and family man, died Sunday in Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze.   Born and raised in Brooklyn, he moved to New Dorp in 1969. Mr. Corrado served in the in the U.S. Army for...

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Opening, Saturday, April 11, 2015, 2 p.m. : Denny PizziniDenny Pizzini, who has lived on Staten Island for more than 50 years and is retired from his catalog printing business for some 20 years, is a well known artist in the borough. Among his exquisite collection are his signed edition "dennydolls"© sculptures, that he started creating in the earl...

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During the whole afternoon of next September 9, the conference room of MakeUp in NewYork will be in the colors of Italy. It is only natural when you know what the entire make-up sector owes to the industry of this country. An appointment, which should on no account be missed. Economically, according to the Beauty Report recently produced by Cosmet...

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