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LIer's YouTube video gets EA Sports' attention
mark.herrmann@newsday.comWhen he saw the little animated Tiger Woods figure walking on water, taking a shot from the lake and sending it into the hole, Bryan Levi instantly called upon his instincts as a serious film student. He immediately reached for his camera. He never...Tags: Maryland, Long Island, Australia (movie), Wii, Mark Shapiro
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New York real estate: Fresh Meadows
Special to amNewYorkThe sprawling, tree-lined boulevards and quaint colonial cottages that color Fresh Meadows' landscape easily recall images of the picturesque, suburban American Dream. Just a hop, skip and a bus ride away from Manhattan's chaos, Fresh Meadows is an...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Long Island, Holliswood, Rape, Francis Lewis
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Duo on scent of a no-show dog
They are the Thelma and Louise of the Vivi vigil. And they're not giving up any time soon. Tina Potter is a schoolbus driver whose depot is near John F. Kennedy International Airport. There, exactly a month and a day ago, a slinky white-and-brindle...Tags: Cinderella, Employees, California, Honda, Oklahoma
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Willow Flycatcher
Field Marks and Similar Species:One of our five Empidonax flycatchers. Members of this group are small and notoriously difficult to identify as they have few distinguishing field marks, and instead a suite of characteristics must be observed to make...Tags: North Carolina, Long Island
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Fresh Meadows
Beginnings: Dutch sailors exploring Flushing Bay in 1628 saw a vast area of marsh and meadow. They called it Vlissingen after a town in Holland. The name means ``salt meadow valley.'' The colony, established in the 1640s and called Flushing by the English...Tags: Clubs and Associations, Benedict Arnold
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Flushing Flora
John Hanc is a regular contributor to Newsday.In 1981, a group of summer interns was clearing an overgrown section in the northern part of Kissena Park in Flushing, when they came upon an area filled with a variety of unusual trees. The students had stumbled on the remnants of Samuel Bowne Parsons'...Tags: Government, Frederick Law Olmsted, Long Island, Nature, Agricultural Research and Technology
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Tennis anyone?
The tennis season at public courts run by the city starts the first Saturday in April and continues to the third Sunday of November.
The city requires permits for their always-in-demand courts, so some patience, determination and will to play is needed...Tags: Jackie Robinson, Bodies of Water, Justice System, Lincoln, Central Park
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