Fun at BAAD, Dance Show in the Bronx

The Bronx Academy for the Arts and Dance, on Saturday night, May 30th, presented a performance entitled “Dancer from the Dance,” featuring a dance-play based on the Wizard of Oz. The opening piece was Arthur Aviles’ solo dance piece “Intoxicating Calm (1992),” danced by young dancer, Julio César Alegría. As Charles Gonzalez-Rice stated at the beginning of the evening, the Academy is planning to continue as a South Bronx NY institution, as it has for the past 11 years, this time with Arthur Aviles in the role of choreographer.

“Intoxicating Calm” is a very vivid, emotional and startling solo dance performance. At some points the dancer seemed to be a warrior fighting in a forest, including occasional exclamations. This is broken up by periods where the dancer is spinning around and moving faster than slower. The pace of the dance varied quite a bit, with the first portion done to a grainy sort of beat. There is dancing that represents frustration, relaxation, laughing and even a sort of bodily preening. At a point, the dancer pounds on his chest, and silently declares victory in his struggle. Then there is new music of a solo flute, a sheet is pulled out, and the dancer prepares for sleep, finally bowing, praying and celebrating his achievement.

Elizabeth “Macha” Marrero introduced the dance-play the “Super Maéva of Oz,” a spoof on the Wizard of Oz and a musical dance piece in its own right. She describes the piece as taking place in the South Bronx in a tiny ghetto that was peaceful, “though with occasional crime.” A dance film was premiered, entitled “This Pleasant and Grateful Asylum” which began with a joke part with two male dancers shooting paper guns at each other. This then evolved into a very symmetrical dance, to the music of J.S. Bach’s Italian Concerto in F Minor. This dance film, as well as the solo dance previously, is done in the nude.

Arthur Aviles and his Toto (in this case a real dog) opened the Oz show, singing a song to the tune of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” This had to be interrupted by a flash of flames and a comment that the “Bronx is burning again.” The scene segued into the Mahina Movement singing the comical song “I’m Coming Out,” sung to a variant of the old tune of Dorothy explaining how she left Kansas and made it to the Land of Oz. Next, a woman and a man in white and another man in red did a mostly disco dance which also had a lot of humorous elements to it. Part of the fun of the Maéva of Oz is that this is all familiar material and something that even children could enjoy. A male dancer, Kevin Ferguson is dancing Dorothur, with Mr. Amin Jai as Link and Ms. Grisel Prin as Toto. From the music and the film presented in the background, as well as the expressive dancing, the audience got a new vision of the journey of Dorothur through the Land of Oz. For more on BAAD see www.bronxacademyofartsanddance.org or call 718-842-5223.

Out on a Trip, Harlem get this

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Dennis Rivera, the Traitor and Obama Health Care

Is this what New York's Dennis Rivera, of the SEIU 1199 Union, now national head wants? Rationed Nazi style health care, like they do in the United Kingdom but worse. In the UK at least they have a single-payer system. Here will we not have a single-payer system, and also have total looting of health care through a NICE style system. Stop Obama's Health care swindle now.

Tell Obama's friends you do not like Nazi health care at these meetings:

Tuesday, June 2 from 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
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May 30, 2990 (LPAC)--In the course of the decline of the physical economy of Britain over recent decades, a special mechanism was created in 1999—NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence)—to enforce the reduction in medical treatment provided to Britons through its National Health Service (NHS), which was established in 1948. NICE decrees what drugs, devices, surgeries and various treatment practices are approved for the NHS, based on cost considerations, and what will be disallowed.

Better named, Nazi-Inspired Commoner Extermination, the ten-year old NICE has been under attack year after year, by NHS patients, physicians, and hospitals alike. In just a decade, its policies of selective denial of cancer drugs, surgeries, kidney dialysis, and other treatments, have literally increased the death rate for whole age-groups and classes of Britons—which is a Nazi-medicine policy. This was its purpose.

Nevertheless, NICE is now being discussed as the model for inclusion in the U.S. health-care "reform." Those promoting a U.S.-version of the not-so NICE, e.g., a "Federal Health Board," or a Medicare Payment Advisory Commission with teeth, or any such variants, are simply serving the financial interests behind the policy of delimiting care, in order to keep the payment flow going to the "managed care" insurance networks now looting the U.S. medical system to the point of breakdown and death. And to kill people. The record in Britain is clear.

Tony Blair's Nazi NICE

NICE went into operation on April 1, 1999. It was set up through the Health Department of the Tony Blair government (1997-2007), under the propaganda claim that by determining what treatments were to be nationally allowed or not, this would even out the "disparity" in health-care costs and quality from one "post code" to another. As the NICE's own official history chooses to describe it, there was "inappropriate variation in the quality of care and unequal access to new treatment, depending on where you lived ... the government decided to form an organization to improve the quality of care that patients receive from the NHS in England and Wales.... When NICE was first established, many perceived its only role as rationing healthcare. But this was not the case...." (www.nice.org/uk)

What was the case, is that NICE cut care far beyond "rationing," while, at the same time, the physical infrastructure for medical care delivery was being cut back, in terms of staff ratios, diagnostic equipment, numbers of hospital beds, and so on. All the while, NICE has claimed that it is using "clinical effectiveness" among its criteria, but the truth is otherwise. Look at the functioning of the NICE Centre for Health Technology Evaluation, which, in its issuance of formal guidance on what medications will, or will not be allowed, has repeatedly and knowingly caused suffering and death. There are many examples.

* In the case of Alzheimer's disease, NICE has tried to limit patients from using the drugs Aricept, Exelon, and Reminyl, by ruling that they can be prescribed only for those with moderate Alzheimer's symptoms, but not those in the early stages of the disease. NICE dismissively brushed aside the research studies showing that patients have shown an "excellent response to treatment," after just five months.

* In the case of breast cancer, NICE has tried to stop breast cancer patients from access to the drug Herceptin. After a big protest movement, limited NHS use was permitted in 2006.

* In the case of osteoporosis, NICE has restricted the use of the medicine Protelos.

* In the case of kidney cancer, the drug Sutent was disallowed. Following protests by physicians as well as patients, in January 2009, NICE acquiesced to permitting limited use.

* In the case of multiple sclerosis, NICE has ruled out beta interferon treatments for NHS patients. In 2001, it ruled that the "clinical benefits appear to be outweighed by very high costs" of the drug. Whereas 15% of European MS sufferers receive the drug, only 1% of such patients do in the U.K.

Physician Warnings: NICE Kills

A March 2009 European Journal of Cancer editorial attacks NICE, saying that the agency—in its rulings on which treatments are to be accessible, and under what conditions—has become more restrictive, year by year, and increasingly, has based its rulings not on clinical effectiveness, but on cost effectiveness. Last year, to take only one example, NICE rejected four drugs for advanced kidney or lung cancer, while acknowledging, as reported in The Independent of London, that "the drugs do extend life by up to six months, but the money would be better spent on other patients."

NICE has also progressively reduced accessibility of radiology treatments for cancer, causing those who have gone through chemotherapy to wait many months for radiation treatments, or to forgo them entirely. After six years of NICE, the wait for radiology had doubled to six weeks; after ten years, it had nearly doubled again to 11 weeks, according to the (U.S.-based) Commonwealth Foundation.

The results are clear in new, 2008 comparative studies by the Swedish Karolinska Institute and by the British College of Radiologists. Among women, 10-18% fewer Britons survive five years after breast cancer diagnosis, than women in other major European countries or the United States; the rates of survival range from 71% in France, down to 53% in the U.K. Among men, 10% fewer Britons survive various cancers for five years; the survival rates range from 53% in France, down to 43% in the U.K. Hundreds of thousands of lives are cut off early under NICE's rulings.

An article warning the U.S. against the NICE model was written recently by London oncologist, Dr. Karol Sikora, a professor of cancer medicine at the Imperial College School of Medicine. In a May 12, 2009 New Hampshire Union Leader article, "This Health Care 'Reform' Will Kill You," Dr. Sikora said, "As a practicing oncologist, I am forced to give patients older, cheaper medicines. The real cost of this penny-pinching is premature death for thousands of patients—and higher overall health costs than if they had been treated properly...." He added, "If NICE concludes that a new drug gives insufficient bang for the buck, it will not be available through our public National Health Service, which provides care for the majority of Britons....

"Partly as a result of these restrictions on new medicines, British patients die earlier. In Sweden, 60.3 percent of men and 61.7 percent of women survive a cancer diagnosis. In Britain the figure ranges betwwen 40.2 to 48.1 percent for men and 48 to 54.1 percent for women."

To police British physicians and patients, who have repeatedly risen up to protest NICE, a new agency has just gone into operation April 1, 2009, called the "Care Quality Commission." Headed by Barbara Young, Baroness Young of Old Scone, the Commission has a wide range of enforcement powers under her command, to discipline physicians, hospitals and others to stay in line with the NICE and related NHS "cost effectiveness" clampdowns.

NICE Mathematics of Death

Earlier this year, the chairman of NICE since its inception, Sir Michael Rawlins, was confirmed to stay on for another two years. He is playing his part to promote the NICE Nazi-medicine approach in the White House "reform" drive. In April, from London, he made a video presentation to a Health Channel TV Summit on U.S. health-care policy. Time Magazine interviewed Rawlins on March 27, asking, "Why is NICE needed? Shouldn't you get the drugs you need when you are sick, rehardless of cost?"

Rawlins: All health care systems are facing the problem of finite resources and almost infinite demand.... We are best known [for looking] at a new drug, device or diagnostic technique to see whether the increment in the cost of that treatment is worth the increment in the health gain....

Time: How is that measured?

Rawlins: It's based on the cost of a measure called the "quality-adjusted life year." A QALY scores your health on a scale from zero to one: zero if you're dead and one if you're in perfect health. You find out as a result of a treatment where a patient would move up the scale. If you do a hip replacement, the patient might start at 0.5 and go up to 0.7, improving 0.2. You can assume patients live for an average of 15 years following hip replacements. And .2 times 15 equals three quality-adjusted life years. If the hip replacement costs 10,000 GBP [about $15,000] to do, it's 10,000 divided by three, which equals 3,333 GBP [about $5,000]. That figure is the cost per QALY."

Rawlins was asked by the interviewer, "You are basically deciding how much a year of life is worth?" He agreed, admitting that this is "controversial" but it has to be done.

UnitedHealth/AARP—NICE to USA?

One of the collaborators of Rawlins, and originators of NICE, is now playing a leading role in exporting its concept to the United States. Simon Stevens is a British national, who today, is a top vice president for UnitedHealth Group Inc., heading up their Ovations/AARP Medicare division. He worked in the Tony Blair government from 1997 to 2001, as a policy adviser in the Health Department, during which time NICE was established. In 2001, Stevens moved directly to 10 Downing Street, and served until 2004 as Blair's advisor on national health policy. Stevens was considered an architect of what were called NICE "reforms" of the British National Health Service. In January 2007, he moved to Minneapolis, to his top position at UnitedHealth, to continue with his "reform" cost-cutting plans in the United States.

On May 27, Stevens announced proposals for how Medicare could cut costs for seniors, issued as a gesture from one of the top private insurance companies, on how to help President Obama find ways to save the government money, in the President's intended comprehensive health "reform" legislation. Stevens announced that UnitedHealth Group has established a new Center for Health Reform and Modernization to advance ways to cut costs, while providing universal health care coverage.

Stevens said that his proposals could save $540 billion over the next ten years in government health-care spending. Speaking for the UnitedHealth Group, which claims to finance and manage health care for over 70 million Americans, Stevens issued UnitedHealth's report, arguing that many of the cost-saving measures it is already using, could be applied to the Medicare program.

Steven's report sets out 15 steps which he claims, are the way to save over half a trillion dollars. Of his 15 steps, the largest grouping (6 steps) is under the category "Reducing Avoidable and Inappropriate Care."

Stop the nice behavioral scientists, of Obama's NICE killers.

Obama the Super Bailout man for GM

Harlem, aren't you getting tired of those bailouts. They won't even bailout the NY City Subway, but all the financial paper gets bailed out. No Wall St. bailout is too far for the Obama White House. GM's bankruptcy declaration at the beginning of next week became all but inevitable when the Federal government proposed to bailout GM's secured bank creditors—the biggest being J.P. Morgan Chase, Citigroup, and Credit Suisse—at the full face value of their loans. Some bankruptcy! Would even Hank Paulson have gone this far for Wall Street? Maybe we will start to miss Pres. Bush.

In fact, the government-staged bankruptcy of GM has come to look a lot like fascist banker Felix Rohatyn's 2005 plan for the "strategic bankruptcy" of GM's former parts division, Delphi Automotive—with President Obama now trying to play the role of Rohatyn. GM would deliberately be changed into a "lean, global" maker of small, fuel-efficient vehicles with its headquarters in the United States but most of its production operations in Asia and South America, major parts of it sold off quickly in the bankruptcy, and its bank creditors made whole.

Rohatyn Associates' brilliant plan didn't work for Delphi, still in bankruptcy four years later despite the virtual elimination of its U.S. production operations. Obama's won't work for GM's survival either, as the UAW union has belatedly figured out.

The GM bankruptcy was assured today, when the bank creditors decisively refused to take stock equity for their debt. Wall Street Journal sources told the paper that about $30 billion of their debt will be bailed out at "about face value," leaving "only" $10-15 billion of GM creditor-debt unpaid after bankruptcy. After it is over, the US Government will own 70-percent of GM, which will shut down most of its US plans and outsource production, for what is left.

Harlem Can Sell the Download

You may have download-able products to sell online, from Harlem Ny to the world and you can with Cerizmo - Sell Downloads Online. You can sell a lot of different items as long as you have the copyright to these items, or I guess if no one has the copyright to the items. This includes, music and books, software, movies, games and so on. Cerizmo sets up a sub-domain for you and you pay only one charge per month, as low as $15 a month. If you have a huge amount of sales that is more than your category allows, the next month, or in some cases immediately, you are bumped up to a higher billing category. Of course, if you are having many more sales than expected, then you are doing well and it should be no problem to pay a slightly higher fee.

It's interesting to think about these things, and if they are possible. For example, could you write a book and copyright it. Then you could set up a cerizmo sub-domain, or in premium cases use your regular domain to sell you book. If you could promote enough in reality and in virtual reality on the web, perhaps it could be an overnight sensation. I wonder if that has ever happened? That is definitely a case that would be worthwhile to google. The thing to remember is that Cerizmo is a hosted and on-demand service for selling your download-able products. Customers can pay for these products either using major credit cards or pay-pal. They are also to take 7 different currencies, which are all the major English speaking nation currencies and the Euro and Swiss Franc. So set up your virtual reality download store and let the virtual help you to a better reality.

Bloomberg Implies Too Many People, Harlem

Mayor Bloomberg has strongly implied that there are too many people in the world and in places like Harlem NY. He is one of the people at the new Billionaire's Club pushing genocide, baby. The London Times yesterday exposed the genocide agenda of a top secret meeting of 14 of the world's richest people on May 5, 2009, in its story "Billionaire Club in Bid to Curb Population Growth," by John Harlow.

The meeting was convened on the initiative of Forbes' richest man Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, known to friends as the video game killers and which has brainwashed millions of youth through Facebook; Warren Buffet, ranked #2 by Forbes, who has pledged $31 billion, the bulk of his fortune, to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; and David Rockefeller. Rockefeller arranged for the meeting to be held at the home of the President of the private Rockefeller University in New York City. One insider dared to call its participants "the Good Club."

Besides the three conveners, the meeting was attended by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg; George Soros; Peter G. Peterson, the genocidal advocate of government budget cuts who co-founded the Blackstone Group; former hedge fund manager Julian H. Robertson, Jr.; former Cisco Systems Chairman John Morgridge and his wife, Tashia; real estate speculator Eli Broad, and his wife, Edythe; David Rockefeller's son, David Rockefeller, Jr.; media mogul- Ted Turner, and Oprah Winfrey.

"The participants initially refused to reveal details about the meeting, citing an agreement to protect the confidentiality of the discussion," The Times reported. The five-hour meeting started with everyone given 15 minutes to speak about their "causes." Then, over dinner, the Times reported, "taking their cue from Gates, everyone agreed that overpopulation" was the "umbrella cause" that could subsume everyone's concerns.

The meeting has been covered in the NY Post, etc., but the schemes for depopulation has just now been revealed.

Need Some Florida Debt Relief?

If you need some Florida Debt Relief this is a site that has been recommended to me. Debt Relief LLC offers real Florida Debt Relief. The bad economy is not only affecting individuals but is affected entire Home Associations. Properties are getting foreclosed on, and many homeowner associations in Florida feel compelled to by the delinquent properties, in order to keep the neighborhood from falling apart. The amount of foreclosures is absolutely staggering just on condos for example. In Miami, Dade County foreclosures went over 12,000 in 2009, as opposed to about 4,000 of them in 2008. This is expensive for banks, that end of paying $60,000 per foreclosure, including doing things like property maintenance, and the things necessary to market a property and get rid of it from the bank's standpoint.

The idea of Debt Relief LLC is to give debt relief to good people in bad times. You can be advised on how to reduce your debt by as much as 60-percent. Other accounts can be reduced to as much as 40 cents on the dollar. It just goes to show that debt is not the same thing as money or cash. Debt can be forgiven or written off, and in many cases that is just what happens. Not 100-percent of course, but a lot of debt can be written off in Florida and in other states as well. You do not have to become a debt slave in the United States. If you look at our laws, there are no debt prisons, and debt prisoners, as there are to this day in parts of Europe. There is a future for you and your family with proper debt relief.

Harlem, Obama and the British Empire

Harlem Dudes, it is not pleasant, but you should know that Obama is screwed up because he is going along with the British establishment, not just George Soros. Myths about people, myths about Soros's independent effect -- he's not independent! They took a poisonous snake, out of Hitler's pit, and the British now use it to poison people -- biting people, poisoning them. That's Soros. He's not an independent factor. You have to always look at these processes from the standpoint of dynamics.

There's {nothing} on this planet, which is capable of saving this planet from Hell, except what larouchepac.com might be able to accomplish -- nothing! It's going into a Dark Age! It's going in {now}, it's going in {rapidly}, and the human population will soon be less than 2 billion people on this planet -- probably much less. That's within a generation. Fifty years from now, with the way things are going now, you're lucky to have 1 billion people on this
planet! We now have 6.7 -- that's what you're looking at!

That's what you're looking at with the right to die business! You're looking at that {now}! This is Hell!

You look at the President of the United States! That's Hell! You look at the government, look at the majorities in the Congress: That's Hell! It's here! Then you look at Europe: what do you see in Europe, in terms of governments in Europe, leading governments? What do you see in Asia, leading governments? What do you see in Africa? What do you see in South America, Central America? {Is there anybody down there, who has the ability to save even their own section of the world,
from Hell?} None of them!!

We're on the edge of the death of civilization, for some time to come. And it can come on at any time -- {fast}! It's ready to come on, {fast}! You could have a
chain-reaction within a matter of a week or two, breaking out at almost any time. If that chain-reaction occurs, humanity is finished -- finished for generations to come. Entire languages will disappear. Whole parts of the planet will be depopulated. Diseases beyond believe will erupt! Tear through the planet,
with nothing to prevent them from doing so!

Phat Band Width Coming Your Way Harlem

Take a look at the Ultra60 Information Page and get into the groove. We know that reality is getting tough, and it's time for super Harlem Homeboy dude to be able to fly away, so a phat bandwidth is coming your way Harlem. Charter’s Ultra60 Mbps service is the fastest Internet speed in the St. Louis Missouri market and one of the fastest in the U.S. The good news is that this Ultra60 Mbps service is going to be coming your way too some time in 2009.

Charter’s Ultra60 Mbps service is going to rock your world as you are rapidly streaming on the internet the most complicated games. The name of the game is to do the multimedia dance. This speed will enable customers to use the Internet in all new ways including gaming, movies, telecommuting. You can sit around working hard in your underwear with the new Charter cable service. At 60 Mbps, the Internet is a completely different experience. You can multitask, you can sing and soon you can fly, all in an environmentally safe manner. If you are one of those harlem dudes that want to get away and want to fly, this is for you. Keep in touch with Charter Cable's expansion of its market area and the great contests that it is having at Charter’s Twitter Feed.

Charter’s Ultra60 Mbps service is the first of the Phatband speeds that you can get in the Charter Cable revolution. Charter’s PhatBand has turned DSL into an old lady, that is a slow but slightly faster version of dial-up. PhatBand takes broadband to the level where you can fly.







Hardcore Web gamers love PhatBand’s ability to download patches in record time, and virtually eliminates lag in their gaming. DSL technology can’t keep up with cable.

Health Care, Harlem and the Tale of Bogus Baucus

They bailed out the banks. You were happy when you thought they saved your little pimp job downtown, Mr and Mrs Harlem NY. Now you are about to pay the price unless you stop this nonsense. Speaking at a news briefing sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation, and Families USA, Democratic Senator Max Baucus of Montana (aka Bogus) today presented an outline of his "progress" in pushing through the Hitler health plan being promoted by the Obama Administration. The big focus, Bogus said, is to get costs down, and to "align payment with quality." This is the heart of the sophistry. You are supposed to magically know when you need a colonoscopy or when you really have cancer and need tests, that is called quality.

He is working in three areas—delivery of services, coverage, and financing, and argued that the process is "on target" for the crafting of a bill by mid-June. The real guts of his "reform" is to target the "delivery system," which he said is now reimbursing on volume of services, not quality. Everyone should have health care, says Bogus, in the form of health insurance, but not in the form of health care services. That is how they kill you and your loved ones.

A Gratitude Walk for your Job, Harlem

Scrubs is a magazine for nurses, but it has a lot of good ideas for everyone. In the Gratitude Walk it suggests a routine for you to relax and have gratitude for your job. Since there are plenty of nurses and other hospital workers at Columbia Presbyterian, Harlem North General and other hospitals, I think this is relevant to Harlem NY. You might want to take your dog along with you if you have one. With all the recent budget cuts in hospitals and health care programs, such as what just happened in California, you should have some gratitude that you even have a job.

Think about all the frustrations you have with your job. You may have a clerical job at a major New York law firm. Work is slow and you are spending the majority of your time on the job reading a novel and wondering if you will even have this job in six months. That's a different kind of frustrations than exists on most nursing and medical jobs. In nursing jobs there is so much to do because often there are not enough nurses to serve the patients. On the other hand there are a lot of feel good quality about a medical or nursing job. You get to help people directly, you can see in their faces and hear in their voices their gratitude. You work as part of a team and it's a very social job. Most of all, you are learning things every year as technology slowly advances and medical advances allow more lives to be saved or to be prolonged.

Is Harlem Next after California?

The stimulus package is not big enough. The banker's bailout was too big. This is the state of affairs and now we see that Harlem NY could reach the low level of the state of California soon. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger returned home from a White House visit on Wednesday to find that the crash is on. He did not get the dictatorial powers that he wanted. On a state level there is no solution, except drastic cuts in health, education and other programs. They say in the NY Times that California is ungovernable, but the whole country is that way until you put the financial system through a bankruptcy reorganization, and stop the foreclosures of people's homes.


Gov. Schwarzenegger met with legislative leaders to begin cutting and slashing what is left of the state budget.

Time for a Harlem Blockbuster Movie Show

Go to BLOCKBUSTER and get the latest movies on VHS, DVD, and now evne Blu-ray. Note that Blu-ray is not an extra charge like it is at some shops. See some old Harlem classics like Shaft, or perhaps a documentary on the great Duke Ellington. Now you can do this a number of ways. You can go to the store, get a movie, bring in the old one and get a new one. There is now also Blockbuster online. That means that you go to the store and instantly get your movie online. How neat is that?

Do you have a weekly movie night? Do you forget to return your movie and encounter late fees? Forget to mail back the DVD and have to wait for the next one on your list? That's the BLOCKBUSTER online advantage, my friends tell me. By mail is also great is you don't have a Blockbuster store in your area, and still want to work with this great company to see the movie of your choice at home when you want to.

Take a look at some of the new releases on download. For example you may have missed Will Smith in "Seven Pounds." You can go to the blockbuster.com site and look at the trailer, and if you like it you can rent the movie, online right away or go to the store, or get it by mail. The trailers are pretty weird and they are not as short as I thought. You get to see about 3 minutes of the film. "Seven Pounds" is one of those flashback films, where Will Smith comes back. It seems he gets to choose seven people to help, or is it seven women to enjoy. Or perhaps he is beyond all that. Movies are strange, especially when you only see a few minutes of them or a few different scenes. And see the director talk about the film too.

Harlem Facing the Flu, and the Budget Cutters

Harlem is facing the flu. Is the new flu pandemic an environmental issue? It certainly is something happening in the atmosphere and to people, so I would call it in the environment. The flu outbreak presents an unparalleled opportunity to gain knowledge to better protect the public. We will soon see if our hospital beds, butchered by the HMOs and PPOs is adequate to a real pandemic. The spreading H1N1 influenza, now found in 40 countries and confirmed in some 10,000 patients. In the United States, the Strategic National Stockpile contains two drugs for influenza — oseltamivir, known by the trade name Tamiflu, and zanamivir, called Relenza. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Web site recommends that these drugs be given to selected patients who have the flu (and have good enough medical plans and the money to pay for the drugs.) But will a vaccine not be developed at all due to lack of enough production facilities for the regular seasonal flu plus the H1N1 flu.


One of these is how soon the drugs must be used to keep flu from spreading. One clinical trial conducted by the maker of Tamiflu looked at what happened when people in the household of a flu patient were given the drug within two days of the patient’s symptoms. Only 1 percent of them caught the flu. But it’s unusual for healthy people to go to the doctor in the first two days of feeling symptoms of a cold or flu. Now that doctors’ offices are crowded with flu patients, it may be especially difficult to obtain quick medical attention. So we must wonder, if a flu patient doesn’t see a doctor in the first 48 hours, can the drugs still prevent illness and the spread of illness?

Another important question is how well the drugs can work to save lives. In clinical trials conducted by the manufacturer, Tamiflu was shown to shorten the time in which influenza patients have symptoms like fever, headache, cough, muscle ache and fatigue. Patients who received the drug felt ill for 1.3 fewer days, but is it worth it? Sounds like another attack of the budget cutters, they don't want to pay for new drugs.

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What to Do About the Swine Flu

What can Harlem dudes and others in New York City do about the swine flue? Not much of anything it seems. This is a matter of public health. If this flu seems to target teenagers especially, then teenagers will get together in parks, malls and other places, even if school is closed. Here we feel the effects of our broken down public health system. Tamiflu, an antiviral drug exists but is in short supply. The big drug companies are lobbying the authorities to not make a new H1N1 (Swine) flu vaccine. The companies say they have already invested in the seasonal flu vaccine for October. Since the money people are playing games, we will not have an H1N1 vaccine. The seasonal flu vaccine will not work on H1N1 flu.

The moral of this story is to stop shutting down public health, vaccine production and hospital beds. Obama administration needs to stop their push towards health care rationing. Or in plain English, stop Nazi mass murderous health care cuts.

Working on Your Old Car

Many of us Harlem and Bronx NY dudes would like to work on our cars if we could. If you can do it, you may need a Ford Truck Radiator, among other auto parts. I actually got pretty excited when my friends pointed this website out to me, because there are few web sites devoted to a single auto part and actually a single make and style. Ford Truck Radiator, http://www.radiator.com/ford_truck-radiator.html is totally devoted to radiators for Ford Trucks, from Ford Expeditions to the Bronco, Escape and Ranger models. Actually, if you go through the whole process, for example for the Ford Escape year 2006, you find out that there is a radiator available for $130, and also a Condenser available for $130. Now since I am not sure I know much more than that, the next step is to check out the website, and if you have doubts on what radiator to get, call the toll-free hot line and mechanics are waiting on the line to help.

Biking to Work Day in the Bronx NY

The 2009 Bronx Bike to Work Day took place on Friday, May 15th and was part of the Grand Concourse Centennial celebration. The morning was blessed by perfect bike riding weather. It’s one of many events taking place throughout the borough this year celebrating the 100th birthday of the Bronx’s most famous boulevard. It was also part of bike rides taking place this morning throughout the city as part of Bike to Work Day. About 35 bicycle riders participated in Bike Month NYC 2009, with a ride from Kingsbridge Ave. and Grand Concourse to Lou Gehrig Plaza at East 161st St and Grand Concourse. The new Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. rode along with the group and there was a short ceremony at the end of the ride. The Borough President also sponsored breakfast, served outdoors until 10 am. It’s a way of showcasing bicycling as a convenient, healthy and environmentally-friendly form of transportation.

I spoke to one of the riders, Richard Gans who participated in the 16th Annual Bike to Work Day, and this first one with the new Bronx Borough President. Richard spoke of the benefits of biking to work both for health of the rider and reducing car traffic. If you live in the Bronx and work in the Bronx, it’s a great way to save money. Richard is a volunteer with the Transportation Alternatives Organization. He is currently working on laying out the route for the Tour de Bronx mass bicycle ride scheduled to be held in October. His regular job is in the NY City Department of Finance.

The short ceremonial ride was intended to draw attention to the benefits of commuting to work by bike. It kicked off at 7 a.m. from Poe Cottage located at Grand Concourse and Kingsbridge Road. With 185,000 daily cyclists, NYC celebrated Bike to Work Day with rides and six commuter rest-stops, coordinated by Transportation Alternative. For more information on other biking activities, see www.transalt.org or call Wiley Norvell at 646-873-6008.

A Hairy Day in Harlem NY

Don't despair, you could have a hairy day in Harlem NY soon. Get Back Your Lost Hair Now with the product Provillus, which comes in formulas for Men and for Women. Of course, male pattern baldness has been going on for centuries, back in the days of the Roman Empire and before. Have you ever wondered about all those old pictures of laurel leaves on Roman heads, or later of Cardinals with skullcaps and the like. Now, my friends say that this is a product that can really deal with hair loss. The word is that using Provillus you can actual re-grow hair even though you, my Harlem dudes have male pattern baldness.

This is a formula that contains Minoxidil which is the key ingredient in this FDA approved formula. You do not need to get a prescription for this product. Provillus helps to counteract the effects of the male hormone DHT, Dihydrotestostrone. The idea is to prevent the DHT from binding to the hair follicle, and having the hair follicle fall out, and you lose your hair.


Minoxidil, which is an ingredient that is clinically proven, and approved by the FDA for re-growing your hair, inhibits DHT. This works to lengthen the hair growth phase and. You want to lengthen the phase of hair growth, and lessen the phases of hair becoming old and falling out. That is what the product Provillus does. The product also contains a nourishing blend of natural herbs and minerals for your scalp and hair. So hopefully, with the economic situation getting more hairy by the day, at least the top of your head can get hairier too. And that's exactly what you want to do.

India Says No More Economic Reform

As the Indian election goes forward, most politicians say no more economic reform, no more free market speculative experiments. It's something for Harlem and Bronx dudes to keep in mind, when our politicians, including Obama tell us to go for one more round of bail-out of the banks and speculation. The Indian Congress party brags that they are the ones that nationalized the banks in the 1960s, and the Indian Government still owns 70-percent of the banks by deposits.

The BJP is supporting government subsidies for key industries. India’s rise as an economic power has gotten the West hot, but not the Indians. The NY Times crowd can call this traditional socialist-style self-sufficiency policies, but actually it is a reflection of Alexander Hamilton American System style policies. And these government protection policies have sheltered India from some of the worst parts of the global crash. The Wall St bankers can yell reform till their throats hurt, but they had to be bailed out by $8-trillion, now to come out of the American people's hide in the form of Nazi style health care rationing, through HMOs and PPOs.

Some Promotional Gifts for your Harlem Trade Show

Get some Promotional Gifts for your Harlem, Bronx or anywhere trade show. The variety of little items to buy and give away is near endless. I think that the painter's cap that they have for sale at only $1.50 each is very cute. Hats and caps make great giveaways and promotions. Depending on the season and the holiday you can choose. There's even a little leprechaun hat available, all nice and green for St. Paddy's Day promotions.

There are business gifts to choose from that run from the under $10 category, to the $10-25 category, and then to the over $25 category. So you can decide what is in your budget, from pens, to totes to what-not. And yes, I know what you are thinking. Can I put my company logo on these items. The answer is yes. There is free artwork assistance. The name of the game in promotional items is to customize. After all in this tight economy you really do not want to give away much of anything unless it can help advertise your company, and have your logo on it, and if possible your address and phone number too.

Another angle to look at is giving out awards. You know how it is. You have one of those company dinners and you want to give an award to your best supplier or to your best employee. It's not enough to buy a bottle of wine and give the person a handshake, you want to give them a nice looking award that they can put on their mantle-piece and remember for a long time. So take a look at the crystal tower award, that may just fill the bill.

Can Obama Fix Derivatives?

The Obama administration would like to overhaul financial regulations and fix derivatives by having reserves for them. This is totally impossible. As the $150 billion bailout of AIG shows, when derivatives collapse THAT is the level of reserves that you need, an impossible level. Derivatives need to be outlawed, along with the speculative system. It is time to go back to a fixed-rate exchange system, fixing currencies to the dollar again.


But still, Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner said at a banking industry meeting on Wednesday that he is seeking new regulations. The administration asked Congress to move on things like AIG's favorite toy, credit-default swaps, the insurance contracts. (said the NY Times). This is a $680 trillion market, according to the Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland. The market for credit-default swaps amount to $38 trillion. The bubble has popped, the BS is over. Time to go with the geezer.

Payday Loans in the Month of May

Pay Day loans in the month of May, it sounds almost poetic. And now you can get No Fax Loans, which is even better. In case you didn't know, my Harlem and Bronx NY friends, a Pay Day Loan is a short term loan you can get to tied you over when you are short for an important payment. You have to have a job and usually direct deposit of your paycheck into your checking account. But, the good news is that now you do not have to have that nasty little fax machine in your closet that you used to have to bring out to get your pay day loan.

You can actually get these loans from http://www.paydayloansmania.com within minutes. To be clear, this is only a quick infusion of cash. I don't know exactly what the interest rates for these loans are in New York State, but they are generally fairly high, so you should plan on paying them back within a few weeks as most. In other words, this is not a substitute for a mortgage loan or something like that, but it can be useful.

Things Rough for Pottery Barn in the Back Bay

Things are getting rough for Pottery Barn in the Back Bay. They are actually going to shut their store on Newbury St. This is part of the ongoing collapse of retail both in the New York City area, Harlem, and now Boston. Newbury St. is such a fixture of yuppie hangout and conspicuous consumption, but now it is going down along with the financial bubble. Here we see the pitfalls of "free enterprise" in the building of mega-malls all over the place. Pottery Barn also shut a store in the South Shore Plaza in Braintree, Mass. Isn't it time to get a productive economy again, instead of a slave labor, importing overpriced economy?

"We will not be renewing the lease in this location. Our plans for additional Pottery Barn stores in the area are not clear, and so therefore I am not able to speculate," spokeswoman Stephanie O'Brien said.

Virtual PBX Phones for Harlem Business Dudes

Do you need a business phone Harlem NY people? How about a virtual pbx? You could get a Business Phone system, with Virtual PBX services for any business. It uses the magic of the internet and being online. The use of virtual PBX services/ features include the use of toll-free phone numbers through 800PBX.com . Is it a good thing? It's a very good thing for both small and Big businesses which allow you to get all the calls from your customers at a low price. And it keeps you hanging on.

Speech recognition IVR is the type of software you need in your phone service. It's like a space age daydream. You can get speech recognition, and then your customers don't have to use the dial-pad thing or remember extension numbers. They just say "Harry James" or "Freddy Izowitz" or whatever, and they get the person that they want. You can gain orders that way, speech driven IVR, what a way to go.

This is for real, it's not easy when the caller is required to enter the appropriate extension number to get connected. This inconvenience could make you lose some real money. But now with the 800PBX speech enabled IVR system, the user can simply say the name of who he wants to speak with. Let the people get what they want. It's like magic, the system can match the user’s input to the person that is on the list. That could include giving a choice of all matching inputs and confirms the extension number the caller is trying to reach. It's very convenient.

So let's get the deal on Virtual PBX phone systems. It's called hosted phone system, better known as virtual PBX, and it's the way to go. Your telephone system is outsourced. That means that it's on a third party server that can handle a number of businesses. Since the system is not hosted in your office, call forwarding is an absolute must for all virtual PBX systems. That's the nature of the technology. Bring your multiple offices together, offering the same features to all your area offices with this Virtual PBX setup. You can get "call forwarding" features and you can transfer your incoming calls to who is supposed to get it.
The greatest thing is that there are not upfront costs for a virtual PBX system. How about that? I just knew that the internet would solve all my phone problems, from Harlem to my branch office out in Kalamazoo, Michigan. What a groove.

Earth Day South Bronx Style

On Sat. April 25th, there was an Earth Day celebration, sponsored by Nos Quedamos, Waste Management, SOBRO Organization, the YMCA, etc., at St. Mary’s Park, on a warm and sunny afternoon. A large crowd joined the fun with young rap and singing groups performing. Groups rapped “C’mon down and get green,” and similar lines both in English and Spanish. A group manning a table was Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice that is celebrating the opening of a new city Park in June, located at Whitlock, Westchester Ave. and Bronx River Ave, by the #6 subway. Group spokesperson Ms. Dawn Henning said that the park is at the site of a former cement plant. Youth Ministries is currently engaged in projects to reduce the pollution of the Bronx River during rainstorms and sewage overflow, and is located at 1384 Stratford Ave. by East 174th St, or call 718-328-5622.

A young lady from Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance was showing maps of alternative plans to rerouting trucks from the Hunts Point area and the Sheridan Expressway. Waste Management was represented by Mr. Eddy Rogener, the operations manager of Harlem River Transfer Station. He explained how Waste Management is now packing solid waste in 30 railroad cars in order to get their trucks off the road. Eddy explained that this dovetails with Mayor Bloomberg’s “Barrage-Rail Plan.” Trash is collected in Hunts Point, which is also brought in from Brooklyn by rail over the Hell’s Gate Bridge. The trash is then brought by rail north and eventually to Virginia.

The Sustainable South Bronx Organization has watching and commenting on various environmental issues in the South Bronx, such as monitoring the NY Organic Fertilizer Company plant. They are also running a training program in green jobs called B.E.S.T. Trainees get free education on topics such as: basic building construction, energy retrofits, and helping homes to conserve energy. For more information, see www.ssbx.org. The Organization has started its first for-profit venture, SmartRoofs LLC, which installs green roofs that combine roof insulation, and the construction of urban agriculture or foliage on roofs. Their Fab-Labs or Fabrication Laboratories help create products from waste materials that come through the South Bronx. Nearby, the Green Workers Coops were promoting their large Green Home-Depot type store, Rebuilders Source at 461 Timpson Place, near East 147th St and Bruckner Boulevard, which recycles construction materials. For more information call 718-742-1111.

When Your Harlem Money is Funny

What do you do when your Harlem money is funny? Have you ever tried a Payday Loan? These are short term loans that you get against your pay check. The interest rates are high, but since you are going to pay them back in a couple of weeks it is not a big deal. You can get money when you need it for up to $1,500 at a pop. My friends at Apex Pay Day loans has really mastered the art of getting you a fast pay day loans, and now you don't even have to have a fax machine to do it.

In fact, I am looking at the process and what I would have to do if I want to get a pay day loan right this second. You answer the important question of whether you get paid by direct deposit, which in this case is a very good thing. None of these questions are extremely intrusive. They just have to ask about your finances, and yes you need to have a bank account.

Havana on My Mind in Bronx and Harlem

It's nice that the downtown film scene sometimes migrates up north to Harlem and the Bronx. That's exactly what happened at the Bronx Museum on April 17th. Note that this show was curated by Asho Productions. The evening ended with a question and answer session with the two film makers, Freddy Vargas and Tané Martinez. After that, there was an exciting live performance by the band Habana Tres and records spun by DJ Asho.

“Tengo Lo Que Tenía/ I Have What I Had to Have” is a documentary of the life of the Cuban Diva, Xiomara Laugart. Xiomara is from Cuba and now based in New York City. She is very modest, saying that she has never been privileged; she is just “one more black woman who sings.” Xiomara is best known for her portrayal of the late Celia Cruz, the great Cuban salsa singer, in the Broadway play “Celia: A Musical Journey.” The film was directed in 2009 by Ms. Tané Martinez.

The second film is “Pinchos y Rolos/ Hairpins and Rollers,” a hilarious comedy set in Washington Heights, New York City. Maria puts in an ad for a new hairdresser. After several incompetents, she gets a reliable looking young woman, and also a gay man who fits right in with the women. The hairdressers go wild when a “pretty boy” type comes in to seductively sell them hair care products. The salon temporarily turns into a small discothèque. The new female hairdresser, Dolores turns out to be a disaster, and finds out that she is pregnant. She gives a lady a hair treatment that ends up burning the woman’s scalp. She is fired, but claims to have been injured, and demands “workman’s comp.” Other madcap scenes follow, with an old Romeo demanding action from Maria, because her sister owes him money. A man’s girlfriend is followed to the salon by the wife. When the man comes in, a catfight breaks out. Maria ends on Saturday going out on a Romantic date with the hair products salesman.