Today's News is Sponsored BY: http://www.steadyelevation.net/ Brooklyn, New York - Now in the final planning stages, the first professional business conference for the Jewish community will be held on May 27, 2007, in the prestigious Marriott New York at the Brooklyn Bridge. Presented by SmartStaff Inc., a virtual office solutions provider based in Brooklyn, the conference was born out of the...

Washington - The Food and Drug Administration is enforcing a new import alert that greatly expands its curtailment of some food ingredients imported from China, authorizing border inspectors to detain ingredients used in everything from noodles to breakfast bars. The new restriction is likely to cause delays in the delivery of raw ingredients for the production of many commonly used...

Health News. New York - Preschoolers today are more likely to have cavities than children did in the early 1990s, possibly because they are drinking more soda and juice drinks and less milk and water with fluoride, according to the most comprehensive government report on oral health in 25 years. The percentage of children ages 2 to 5 who have had at least one cavity in their baby teeth was 28%...

Florida - Florida lawmakers approved a bill that would end a tug of war between the state's doctors and pharmacists and give pharmacists the right to give out flu shots. Florida would join 44 other states that allow pharmacists to give the injections. Gov. Charlie Crist said he plans to sign the bill into law. ''The greatest opportunity to have good healthcare, the better,'' Crist...

Kansas, MO - A former Target employee who was turned down for a private security license and planned to "cause havoc" was identified Monday as the man suspected of killing two people in a crowded mall parking lot before he was shot by police. David W. Logsdon, 51, had been stopped by police while driving the car of his next-door neighbor, who police had found dead in her home hours earlier...

Health Alert. Mount Kisco, NY - Westchester's Health Department today issued a rabies alert to residents who may have had contact with a rabid cat near 757 Armonk Road in Mount Kisco. Officials say the adult male cat was white with a black tail, a black mark on one ear, and a black patch on the middle of its back. The cat was taken to a vet on April 26th showing signs of rabies. The cat was...

New York, NY - Mayor Bloomberg When asked today by a reporter about congestion pricing at a news conference at a Bronx elementary school, Mayor Bloomberg singled one early, hard-line opponent of the plan for a tongue-lashing. "Well, I only know one person who ostensibly is a candidate who is opposed to it," he said, referring to Representative and 2009 mayoral contender Anthony Weiner. "He was...

Kansas City, MO - Anyone familiar with a box of crayons can describe the color "carnation pink" but how many people can make that color appear "correctly" on a document or on a computer display? Xerox Corporation scientists are developing a new technology to make adjusting colors in a document as easy as simply describing the color. Users can type "make the sky a deeper blue" or give a voice...

New York, NY - According to a report to be released by the American Lung Association, the quality of the city's air has gotten worse since last year. The ALA blames the one million homes in the city that use oil heat. They say this fuel accounts for nearly a third of the city's air pollution, which is more than vehicles and power plants put together. The report praises Mayor Michael...

Concord, NH - The state prison should not take away religious diets from sincerely religious inmates, a federal magistrate said in a case involving an orthodox Jew. Inmate Albert Kuperman, whi is serving 3.5 to 7 years, was given three prepackaged kosher meals a day and was allowed to buy kosher items from the prison canteen. But prison officials took Kuperman off the kosher diet three times...

Ottawa, Canada - A Canada-wide arrest warrant has been issued for an American con artist who escaped state custody then claimed refugee status in Canada. Jeremy Clark-Erskine, a 33-year-old fugitive from Indiana state prison, was arrested in Jasper, Alta., last April for carrying false documents, phoney passports and stolen property. He served 21 days in jail. Despite his fugitive status in...

United Kingdom - Two Asian men have been jailed for 12 months after terrorising members of the Jewish, West Indian and white communities with racially abusive phone calls. Mohammed Rizwan, aged 24, of Bond Street, Tunstall, and Baber Mansoor, aged 23, of Knutton Lane, Knutton, made a large number of racially offensive calls to Sidney Morris MBE, the president of Stoke-on-Trent and North...

New York, NY - It would be a good idea for Yeshivas, and Jewish private schools to follow this idea. Mayor Michael Bloomberg is planning to give out 1.8 million "learning environment surveys" to parents, teachers and middle and high school students to get their feedback on city public schools, he just announced at an event in the Bronx. "For any successful organization, finding out what...

Iran - Iran's Telecommunications Ministry will start filtering "immoral" video and audio messages sent via mobile phones, state television reported. The Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, has instructed the ministry to buy the equipment needed to prevent any misuse of Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), it said. MMS allows users to send multimedia messages that include images, video...

Trenton, NJ - Gov. Corzine was just released from the hospital, and he addressed the media in a very emotional tearful speech, saying: "I set a very bad example for youngsters, and I I hope the state of NJ will forgive me. And I assure you I'll work very hard to set the right kind of example." [VIN...