Fill Out Your Medical Forms, Harlem

It's nice to know Harlem dudes, that now there is software to fill out medical forms. Check out the ub-04 software and soon you'll be filling out medical billing forms like there's no tomorrow. I don't think it is a secret that there is a tremendous amount of bureaucracy in the medical and dental fields in filling out the forms to private insurance companies and Medicare and Medicaid, in order for the health professionals to get paid. And if you live in Harlem and the Bronx you know there there are a tremendous amount of games both by patients and health professionals over how to pay and how to fill out the forms and on whether the forms get paid on time or not. It is worth your time to check out the ub04 claim form and see how useful this can be. You literally get a standard form that you can fill out on your computer and use it for your records and to make insurance claims if you are a health care professional. Part of the trick is that you are creating templates to use to avoid repetitive tasks. You can click to submit multiple claims and can even submit claims totally electronically without printing the papers at all. That ought to be something you can advertise about that you are saving a tree by not printing out all of those forms. Another useful things is that you can use these forms as input into MS programs like Excel, Word and Access. Make your billing process as electronic as possible, and doctors, dentists and nurses, you will have more time to devote to your patients.

Fun and Games at Hostos College, Bronx NY

Vanessa Gonzalez, co-curator of Hostos Longwood Gallery exhibit

The latest exhibition at the Longwood Gallery at Hostos College is entitled Toys and Games with a Twist. The exhibit opens with the playful Fukuwarai set by the artist Reiko Kawahara. It is a large earthenware face, and viewers get to stick on the facial features like eyes, nose, mouth, and moustache. People stick the earthenware forms with a sort of gum. It could be a bit frustrating, since if one did not use enough sticky gum, the earthenware feature would fall down and shatter on the floor. It’s definitely a hands-on exhibit. Paintings included in the exhibit had the arresting quality of combining painstaking realistic craftsmanship with a fantasy theme. In the painting, Marble Eggs, 2007, by Douglas Newton, a pink table cloth shows through a wine glass, showing the odd focusing of light through the glass. To the side is a rabbit, frozen in time, and in the foreground are the two large marble eggs that are the focus of the picture. Next, in the painting, Sometimes They Like You Back, 2007, by Gigi Chen, realistic young men and women face toys that still look playful, but also lifelike, large and threatening. A funny scene is created with people running from the toys, and yet others embracing toys. It is not clear who is playing with whom. This is, I guess, part of the twisted part in the Toys and Games exhibit title. The twisted part of toys is further examined in issues of beauty and sexuality in the multimedia installation, Mizamerica: Here She Comes, by Hector Canonge. Lines of undressed Barbie Dolls are lined up against the wall under a series of colored lights representing a black-and-white American flag. In the first row, the dolls are all white-skinned, while more recent rows have more dark-skinned Barbies. The implication is that the beauty pageant became racially integrated, though the change is only superficial More edgy exhibits follow, including an electrically animated toy with a man in shorts on all fours, and a woman restraining him with a leash. This is followed by several small fertility goddess statues that seem to have a dual purpose. So the Toys and Games exhibit does have a twist that can be slightly shocking though usually funny and thought provoking. The exhibition is curated by Juanita Lanzo and Vanessa Gonzalez, in partnership with Curate NYC, a juried exhibition and online marketplace that exists to heighten exposure and opportunities for New York City visual artists. Also on display were the portraits of Michael Ferris, a former winner of the BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) Award. Mr. Ferris was giving advice to upcoming contestants for the BRIO awards that include cash prizes. Artists can apply for the 2012 awards, with a deadline of January 27, 2012. Please see http://bronxarts.org for more information. Longwood Gallery is located inside Hostos College at East 149th St and Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY.

The Apple Flap and You

Hey Harlem dudes, we know the truth behind the Apple Flap-- everything in the United States and the West is made by slave labor from China and so on. It's not about Apple, it's about how the British Financial Empire and Prince Philip want to kill you. You are useless, you do not produce, so it is easy to kill you, my Harlem, Bronx, American, and Western friends. Time to put the system through bankruptcy like LaRouche says and go back to building infrastructure, and then help the Chinese colonize Mars.

Get Your Store On Harlem

If you want your brick and mortar store to succeed you need all the proper displays and props. It's worthwhile to find out about the wide selection of retail store supplies at Retail Resource, a great Web site. Mannequins, both in adult and children sizes help set the tone at a clothing store. Jewelry displays can be important when you don't need a whole body display but only the head and neck.A slender fireglass hand could be perfect for displaying bracelets and watches. Even little things like table clothes and backdrops are important to set the mood for serious shopping and the seeking of glamor. I liked that they have a whole category for innovation. to select the backdrop you need or that splash of color to make a whole section of your store work. You'd be surprise how a banner of yellow daisies can evoke summer and femininity. A verticle canvas of an American flag pattern can get Harlem and Bronx dudes all excited for a Fourth of July sale. Hey Harlem dudes, the great thing that I love about this site is that there are no small order fees and there is a 100% money-back guarantee. If you are doing business in the small stores and tiny shops of Harlem's 125 Street, you know that a small order may be all you need to decorate your entire shop.

Just Saw the State of the Union

I just saw the State of the Union address, but it was not the one by Obama. It was the one by the geezer himself, Lyndon LaRouche. Itt reminds me of the title of the book, the Tragedy and the Hope. The tragedy to avoid is imminent economic collapse and nuclear war. The hope is to organize the USA, Russia and China to lead mankind in the colonization of the planet Mars.

Noisy Workplace

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I really have the workplace from hell.  It is at a prominent law firm in new York City that begins with a "C," that's all I can say.  The management at this law firms has the funny idea that their space is as precious as any square foot in Manhattan, although they own floors and floors.  Consequently, there are no dividers for each of the individual computer spots.  There is just too much noise in this place.  I want to have at least a real cubicle, is that so much to ask?  That is why I am going to enter the Pimp My Cube Contest (PMC contest) and I hope that I win it too.  The grand prize is up to $1200 of a package to improve your office, either with technology, furniture or an entertainment package including an espresso machine and a mini-refrigerator.

Another thing is that I am still working on a Windows XP computer.  I'm not saying that it is horrible, and I know that half of the computer world is still on Windows XP, but I think that the time for Windows 7 or even the soon to be Windows 8 is approaching.   If you face similar problems in your office i think you should enter the PMC Contest too.  The proper office you gain may give you a chance to work properly without a huge number of interruptions.  I know how it feels.  Remember that the contest period has already started and will end January 31st at 23 noon, which is less than a week away.  Have your friends check out the PMC videos and vote for you, increasing your chances to win.

First Fridays at Bronx Museum

Get in the groove Harlem and Bronx NY dudes and dudettes, with a free and fun Black History show at the Bronx Museum, at 1040 Grand Concourse at E 165th St, Bronx NY. It may be fun, it may be crazy, but it is a good excuse to get out and get out of the cold. Friday, February 3, 2012, 6:00pm until 10:00pm FIRST FRIDAYS! The Black Power Mixtape Film screening honoring Black History Month THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 mobilizes a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish journalists who came to the US drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution. Gaining access to many of the leaders of the Black Power Movement—Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis and Eldridge Cleaver among them—the filmmakers captured them in intimate moments and remarkably unguarded interviews. Thirty years later, this lush collection was found languishing in the basement of Swedish Television. Director Göran Olsson and co-producer Danny Glover bring this footage to light in a mosaic of images, music and narration chronicling the evolution one of our nation's most indelible turning points, the Black Power movement. Music by Questlove and Om'Mas Keith, and commentary from prominent African-American artists and activists who were influenced by the struggle - including Erykah Badu, Harry Belafonte, Talib Kweli, and Melvin Van Peebles - give the historical footage a fresh, contemporary resonance and makes the film an exhilarating, unprecedented account of an American revolution. 6:00pm DJ Revolution spins on the 1’s & 2’s (Soul, Classic R&B, Hip-Hop) 6:45pm Welcome Remarks 6:50pm Screening of The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (100 min) 8:30pm Q&A with film co-producer Joslyn Barnes (Louverture Films) 8:45pm Performance: GIF (HABANA/HARLEM®) 9:00pm Performance: Latasha N. Nevada Diggs (Burnt Sugar, Black Earth Institute) 9:15pm Performance: Mahogany L. Browne (PoetCD.Com/Nuyorican Poets Café) 9:30pm Performance: C. K~Swift (New Rap Order/ Universal Zulu Nation) 9:45pm Closing Remarks 2nd Floor - North Wing FREE First Fridays! are made possible through the support of The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust and the Simón Bolívar Foundation. Beer has been lovingly provided by Brooklyn Brewery. In collaboration with IFC, and produced in association with Asho Productions.

A Grand Concourse Historic District

Do we really need a Grand Concourse historic district in the Bronx NY? There may be some usefulness there because it would protect the old art deco apartment buildings especially near East 161st and the Bronx Courthouse from being torn down and having real estate speculation. On the other hand, does anyone want to mess with the Bronx anyway? After all this is not Manhattan or even Harlem NY. TESTIMONY OF BRONX BOROUGH PRESIDENT RUBEN DIAZ JR. TO THE CITY COUNCIL SUBCOMMITTEE ON LANDMARKS AND MARITIME USES IN FAVOR OF DESIGNATION OF THE GRAND CONCOURSE HISTORIC DISTRICT January 24, 2012 Last year, I applauded the designation of a Grand Concourse Historic District by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Center, and now I urge its approval by the New York City Council. Designation as a New York City Historic District will complement the Grand Concourse’s already established listing on the National Register of Historic Places. In the future, I hope to see this historic district extended to match the more extensive national register boundaries. This Grand Concourse Historic District is significantly intact, and contains many notable examples of art deco and other classic apartment houses. As I mentioned in my testimony to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, the threats to buildings on the Grand Concourse are in the details. Poorly done renovations and building management with short vision are carving away at the inherent value of this illustrious built environment. As an historic district, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission can guard against ill conceived and undesirable solutions that threaten proper maintenance of these buildings. The area of the new district has been richly added to with the new Yankee Stadium and Gateway Center. The City itself has invested greatly in the area with infrastructure improvements, including improvements to both the concourse roadway and park system. The lower Grand Concourse has also been re-zoned to create a vibrant, mixed-use, mixed-income community with new housing, waterfront open space, and an array of retail services. Its status as an historic district is the finishing touch to the revival of the entire area, and I urge its support. Thank you for your consideration.

Social Marketing in the Middle East

It is time to find out about Internet marketing in the Middle East. Social marketing in the Middle East has become big business. At a recent conference, a speaker from Egypt stated that online spending on media is going up to from between 110 million to 130 million dollars a year. About 100 million Arabs are online, or going to be online by 2015, which is a huge market. Many of those people will be looking at you-tube videos and playing with Facebook and other social media Web sites. The revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and so on made Twitter and Facebook household words in the Middle East, and now some 6 million or more Arabs are using Twitter on a regular basis. Other figures show that 15 million Arabs are now on Facebook. This is a gigantic market that you could ignore at your own peril. Look at what happened to the former president of Egypt, Hosni Muburak, and you will see what I mean. Once all these potential customers are on the Internet, the rules of the game apply in the Middle East, the same as any other place in the world. You have to get your product or company on the first page, or preferably to the top of the search engine list. To do that, you have to sign up with a company that is professionals in th e field of search engine optimization (SEO).

Government Meeting in Kingsbridge Bronx NY

You may want to ask questions at an event on Thursday Jan 19th, at 7:30 pm at the Kingsbridge Center of Israel, 3115 Corlear Avenue (at 231st St). The speakers are NY State Senators Adriano Espaillat and Gustavo Rivera. The big events to be discussed are the upcoming legislative session in Albany and Sen. Espaillat's recent trip to Israel! Along with Housing, Education, Economic (gambling and prostitution) Development, Health Care and the upcoming election year. Did Adriano have a rally with Bibi to start the nuclear war? Is Iran the only target, or also having the US hit Russia and China

Credit Report

Hey have all you Harlem and Bronx NY dudes got your credit report yet. In case you didn't know, there is no excuse since you can get your free credit score. Unless you have been living under a rock somewhere, you know that your credit score is very important in your life. This is what determines if you can get a mortgage on a house, rent a car or sometimes even get a job. A good think to remember when you get your credit report is that it is a fairly complex document. A credit report is just that, a history of your credit transactions. You get to find out that it is public knowledge that you were late in some of your car payments. But, this is the first step toward changing your behavior. If you know that bad action in repaying your loans is going to damage your credit, you may force yourself to pay back your loans on time. It's not easy being the little guy. Big banks make bad loans and get bailed out, but you are expected to repay your loans on time or else suffer in your ability to continue to get credit. The good news is that many companies and credit providers are more interested that you have a steady and long-term job or business, rather than if you didn't pay your credit card off in time. Another interesting fact is that there are three credit bureaus: TransUnion, Experian, and Equifax. The credit scores that they issue are similar, but due to slight differences in methods, the scores are also slightly different. A great thing is that you can get a credit alert to find out if (horrors) someone opens an account in your name. You have to be careful these days, and credit report information is the way to avoid suffering the consequences of identity theft.

Nuclear War Thursday

This Thursday Jan 19th seems like a strange day in the Bronx NY at least, to celebrate an upcoming nuclear war between Iran and the Western powers. Of course the excuse is that poor Israel can't deal with the tension anymore. That is the tone of the meeting sponsored by State Sen. Gustavo Rivera and State Senator Adrien Espaillat at the Kingsbridge Center of Israel, located at 3115 Corlear Ave, near West 231st St., Bronx NY 10463.

A Family Cookbook Project

Check it out, it's kind of crazy, a family cookbook project. You can create and print your own family cookbook. It would have been a great gift for the holidays, but it could be fun anytime.

South Bronx Community Service

WHEDco, the NYC Coalition Against Hunger, and the Southern Boulevard Merchant Association (www.southernboulevard.org) teamed up to make Martin Luther King Day, Monday, January 16th, a day of service to the community. They had volunteers join together for clean-up, and mural painting. They did a clean-up of garbage on Southern Blvd., starting at Jennings St. Southern Boulevard is in pretty good shape, but through carelessness, street garbage often piles up along sidewalk curbs. The street could use sweeping in addition to the regular Sanitation Department activity. Volunteers from WHEDco, Good Shepherd Church, and from the building Intervale Green, at 1330 Intervale Avenue, Bronx, gathered in the Intervale Green community room and got a briefing on the clean-up route, getting rubber gloves and brooms. The young people went out to Southern Boulevard and found plenty of street garbage to pick up and put into trash bags. Despite the sunny but cold weather, they seemed to enjoy it. I got to talk to Ms. Shayla Nastasi, who is volunteering this year at the nonprofit WHEDco through the Americorps program, and oversaw and coordinated activities. She led the Martin Luther King Day activities and also participates in community food assessments, and encouraging healthy food options. Shayla is excited about Intervale Green’s new rooftop garden. Part of the green roof has been turned into family farm plots. Residents get help in harvesting and learning to cook with their produce. Plants grown include tomatoes, eggplant, okra, pepper, green beans, kale, Swiss chard and a local favorite, collard greens. The building at the center of the day’s activities, 1330 Intervale Avenue, known as Intervale Green, is a low-income rental apartment project of WHEDco (Women’s Health and Development Corp). The building has several interesting features including a green roof that was financed with a grant from BOEDC (Bronx Overal Economic Development Corporation). On the roof there is nearly half an acre of green space. At first it was growing general green shrubs and plants, but now a portion of it has been transformed into a rooftop urban farm that harvests fresh vegetables. Intervale Green was completed by WHEDco in 2009. It has 128 affordable apartments, and green features like 85% efficient boilers and hot water heaters, low flow faucets and showerheads, highly energy-efficient windows, and nontoxic building materials. WHEDco also improves conditions in the neighborhood around Intervale Green through activity promoting the commercial revitalization of Southern Boulevard. A fun feature of Intervale Green is the space set aside for art installations like paintings and sculptures. The art form in many of the stairwells is wall murals with interesting messages. This art work was expanded with the painting of a wall mural in a stairwell of Intervale Green on Monday. The mural depicted an ideal grocery store called Bronx Stop. A woman buys vegetables, groceries and fruit. According to one of the people painting, this is part of a long-standing campaign to encourage people in the Bronx to buy healthy food, not greasy fast food, potato chips and candy all the time. Other previously finished murals have messages for a pro-environment lifestyle, and against drug addiction.

Nuclear Games with Iran

Lyndon LaRouche issued a sharp warning today that the world is precariously close to thermonuclear World War III, and that any kind of provocations at this point, particularly in the area of the Persian Gulf and the Straits of Hormuz, would be insane. LaRouche was responding, in part, to reports from a senior U.S. intelligence source that a "pro-war" faction within the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps was contemplating a "limited" military incident in the Straits, to allow them to consolidate power on the eve of the March parliamentary elections. Iran is swept up in an intense political faction fight among rival groupings, going into the crucial elections. "The only people who would benefit from such an irresponsible provocation at this moment would be the worst enemies of Iran," LaRouche warned. "If some element within the Revolutionary Guard were to consciously provoke even a minor incident in the Straits of Hormuz, I would have to ask: Who's side are you on? Are you an Israeli agent?" In the past 48 hours, a number of public calls have been issued for the activation of a war-avoidance back channel between Washington and Tehran, modeled on the Robert Kennedy-Anatoly Dobrinyn channel during the Cuban Missile Crisis, that successfully averted a thermonuclear world war between the United States and the Soviet Union. On Jan. 12, David Ignatius published an explicit call for such a back channel in the Washington Post, and today, former Carter Administration National Security Council staffer Gary Sick published a similar call on CNN. Sick explicitly called for the U.S. and Iran to reach an agreement based on Iran turning over its 20 percent enriched uranium, in exchange for 20 percent enriched nuclear fuel rods, needed for their isotope reactor which is part of Iran's medical system. Lyndon LaRouche gave his full endorsement to that proposal. LaRouche reiterated that the only assured war-avoidance action is the removal of President Barack Obama from office, either through Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, providing for the removal of a President who is no longer mentally fit to do the job, or through impeachment. "President Obama must be removed from office now," LaRouche declared. "He is criminally insane. Remove him from office by prescribed Constitutional means and we have a whole new situation. As long as he remains in office, we are on the very edge of general war, which is why I am issuing this warning against any hot-heads, who might be deluding themselves into thinking that a 'limited' confrontation in the Persian Gulf might be good for business. That is precisely the kind of provocative blunder that can bring us World War III."

Walgreens Problems with Express Scripts

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Walgreens and NYC area Duane Reade stores have not been able to negotiate a contract between Walgreens and Express Scripts.  This is causing many patients to become upset as they are forced to switch pharmacies and possibly drive farther away to get their prescriptions.  Express Scripts serves as the middleman in drug prescriptions, between the patient and the pharmacy.  Their motive in failing to get a contract with Walgreens seems to be to force patients to use the Express Scripts mail order pharmacy.  However, many patients need to get their prescriptions very quickly and at 24-hour pharmacies, something you can obviously not do with mail-order pharmacies.


Many military service men and women are clients of Express Scripts.  This is through the military health insurance program called Tricare.  Express Scripts even refused a special deal to keep prices low for Tricare patients.

In order to avoid some of this disruption and changing of pharmacies, Walgreens is offering Prescription Savings Club at Walgreens  at a special rate of only $5 per individual or $10 per family.  Using this, patients can buy hundreds of brand name and all generic drugs at a low rate that translates to less than $1 a week for the costs of prescription drugs.  For more information on what Walgreens is doing please see Walgreens on Twitter and Walgreens on Facebook to find out the latest.  Note that this situation only affects you if your health care card has the words Express Scripts on it as pharmacy provider, otherwise this situation has no effect on you.

C-Town Helps Give Out Warmth in the Bronx

C-TOWN SUPERMARKET AND HEALTH PLUS GIVE THE GIFT OF WARMTH TO BRONX RESIDENTS The Bronx, NYC – on Saturday - January 14th, the Perez family-owned C-Town Supermarket along with the help of Health Plus, will distribute over 100 coats to Bronx neighborhood residents. Local residents can collect their coats at the C-Town store on East 187th Street & Crescent Avenue, where festivities begin at 10am and included health insurance consultations until noon. Radame Perez, who represents the third generation in his family’s grocery business, expressed the importance of such an event during these tough economic times. “It’s very important that we as a community look out and care for each other,” said Mr. Perez. “While unemployment seems to be on the rise, our winter temperatures are on the decline. That’s why we felt, as a family-owned business and longtime neighbor, the need to help as many of our neighbors as possible to keep warm this winter.” The Perez’s C-Town supermarket has been an active neighborhood store in the heart of the Belmont section of the Bronx and has proudly served the residents of “Little Italy” for over 30 years. “Partnering with Health Plus in this public gesture of giving seemed obvious, as the effects of the bone-chilling cold weather and subsequent health conditions too often correlate,” said Mr. Perez. “This type of effort was the least we could do for many of our patrons.” EVENT INFO: WHAT: Coat Drive for Bronx Residents WHO: C-Town Supermarket & Health Plus WHEN: Saturday, January 14, 2012 TIME: 10am – 2pm WHERE: C-Town at 623 E. 187th Street, Bronx, NY 10458 BEST TIME FOR PRESS: 10am – 12pm

NY CPA Firms for Harlem Dudes

Hey Harlem and Bronx NY dudes, you may find that you need NYC CPA firms. If you have a small business there are a large number of financial tasks that you may find are too complicated to do yourself. If that is so, please check out my friends to learn about their services for tax preparation and overall business and financial advice. In these tough times, Harlem and Bronx dudes with small businesses need all the help they can get. It's interesting that this NY CPA firm, Cohen Greve, has a good number of user endorsements. That can be a good way to make sure that you can get the services you need at a reasonable price. So you should think what you want from an accountant. Do you just want to get your taxes down, or do you need more help than that? It's odd, but I get a lot of reports from small business owners that a good accountant can be the driving force behind the expansion of a business. An accountant can prepare quarterly reports of your profits and losses and give you an idea where to cut costs. He or she can suggest what areas you need to work on in order to increase your sales and to grow. For example, you may want to expand your physical plant and increase your overhead costs. A good accountant can give you an idea on whether such an expansion will help your business. Will the costs be justified in increased profit? Can your business tolerate the associated finance costs. Financial statements are very important to get an accurate idea of how your business is doing. Other related areas for accountant services are estate planning, loans, and dealing with IRS audits.

Sing Your Song Movie

An old Harlem NY dude has made the scene recently with the movie about his career and his civil rights struggle, and that is about Harry Belafonte. It's nice hearing an old man talk about the struggle of Rev. Martin Luther King. I am listening to an interview with Harry Belafonte after the showing of the film about him, Sing Your Song, shown at the Tribeca Film Festival. Belafonte has enough strength to not be bitter, but he is happy about the life he has led. Harry notes that he believes in G-d, a Supreme Being, but told Rev. MLK that he was never a man of the church. For more, see the video of the interview with Harry Belafonte.

SEO Ain't Easy

Search engine optimization (SEO) is still the sports game for Webmasters who want to make their Web site work. As usual, the game revolves around the intense competition to get on the first page of a Google search, and the use of likely key words in Google searches. It's not easy, and this is compounded by the fact that things are changing. It used to be that the trick was to get a lot of links to your Web site. Google did not know if these links were organic, or if someone had conveniently set up a link farm. With the evolving of social networking and technology, the rules of the game have changed. So sports fans, you better find out how to get a home run in the new game. Don't be afraid to surmount the challenges with search optimization, even if you need some help. Everyone in the marketing business knows that he must use SEO (search engine optimization). It's nothing new but the conditions are changing. With Facebook, and Google Plus, things are ust not the same. Also keep your eyes on Panda. I am just learning about Google Plus and its effect on SEO. The key feature is Google +1, which is important. If your company or Web site gets Google +1 followers, your SEO will go up right away. You are saving the cookies and the search engine history and you are letting people know how you feel when you read a favorable review on Yelp. You are getting more and more references if your business first gets an endorsement on the Yelp Web site, and then gets readers of this Yelp review to endorse it by using the Google +1 feature. It can be a bit hard to fathom it immediately, but this good review and then social network endorsement of the good review is how social networking helps your SEO tremendously. Then, the new thing to learn about is Google Panda. This is a Google feature that changes the old game of getting links to your site. Now Google Panda can increase your SEO when it discovers that people are on your Web site for a longer time, and are looking at the Web site in-depth. So try to learn these new SEO tricks and keep up in the competition. Don't get left behind. Another thing to learn about is SEO techniques. The crawlers are still crawling your Web site, but the techniques are getting very sophisticated and you may not know what really works.

Bronx BP with Green Jobs

Picture: from Bronx Borough Pres. Diaz's office, with Dep. BP Aurelia Greene.

Bronx NY and Harlem NY green jobs, I don't know. I really don't believe in green magic, but here is the info Deputy Borough President Aurelia Greene Opens Her Home to share experience after Energy Upgrade.

Today, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. joined Deputy Bronx Borough President Aurelia Greene, the Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation (BOEDC), (NYSERDA), and environmental organization Sustainable South Bronx to launch the “Green Jobs/Green New York” Bronx Outreach Program (GJ/GNY-Bronx).

The goal of the GJGNY-BX Program is to reduce energy usage in Bronx buildings and lower energy costs for Bronx home and building owners. The objective of the program is to promote energy audits with home owners while linking them with contractors to facilitate the process of receiving free audits and energy upgrades or retrofits.

“We are very excited that this borough-wide program will lower the carbon footprint of our community by lowering energy usage. Participating home and building owners will also notice a big difference in their energy bill,” said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.

Several homes and buildings in the Bronx have already gotten free energy assessments and are moving toward retrofits, including the home of Deputy Bronx Borough President Aurelia Greene.

“I had roof and wall insulation work done and I am already noticing a big difference in my home. I am confident that this retrofit will significantly increase the overall energy efficiency of my home while decreasing its greenhouse gas emissions, making the whole house feel a lot warmer during these cold winter months,” said Deputy Bronx Borough President Aurelia Greene.

The BOEDC was awarded $511,460 over two years to implement the “Green Jobs/Green New York” program in the Bronx after a statewide solicitation for proposals released by NYSERDA.

The BOEDC is the only Bronx applicant chosen for this exciting initiative and is working closely with community based environmental group Sustainable South Bronx on its implementation.

“The Green Jobs/Green New York initiative is important, especially in a borough with significant environmental challenges,” said Marlene Cintrón, President of BOEDC. “This will improve our environment while assisting home and building owners looking to lower their energy costs.”

“Green Jobs/Green New York is an important initiative to help New York State make continuing progress toward its aggressive energy efficiency goals,” said Francis J. Murray Jr., President and CEO of NYSERDA.

“We need strong partners like the Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation to help us with grassroots outreach. BOEDC’s deep understanding of the community it serves and residents’ trust in the organization make it an invaluable asset to New York State’s efforts to increase the energy efficiency of our homes and businesses, make us less reliant on fossil fuels, and improve our environment.”

"Sustainable South Bronx is extremely pleased to play a key role in this initiative, which will provide savings to homeowners and businesses while simultaneously promoting the environmental sustainability of the Bronx, “said Michael Brotchner, Executive Director of Sustainable South Bronx.

The program will serve all 12 community boards in the Bronx, with an emphasis on 1-4 unit buildings and small businesses.

The GJ/GNY-Bronx staff team will conduct presentations to community organizations, schools, faith-based organizations, and other stakeholders to provide information on the incentives available through NYSERDA for energy saving measures and describe the process for securing an energy audit.

The staff team will follow-up with interested home and building owners, assisting with paperwork, setting up audit appointments, and securing financing for energy retrofits based upon the audits.

There is no obligation on the part of the home/building owners to implement a retrofit after receiving an audit.

For further information, contact the Green Jobs/Green New York-Bronx Project Manager, Kate Shackford, at (718) 590-3498 or kshackford@boedc.org.

Fun and Games at the Longwood Gallery

The Longwood Gallery, over at Hostos College, Bronx NY is pretty cool. Toys and Games with a Twist is pretty twisted but there is some interesting work there. I liked the painting with the glasses and the two marbles and the rabbit doll. It is filled with so much fantasy but also reality. Looking at a pink cloth through a glass prism produces something for an artist to really work through . This is the interface between art and science. Went to the Longwood Gallery at Hostos College. It was a pretty good show and I am going to write an article about it for the Harlem News. Here is the press release from the Longwood Gallery, located at Hostos College, East 149th St and Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY: Toys & Games with a Twist Toys & Games with a Twist is a multi-media exhibition of paintings, drawings, sculpture, video, and board and video games that investigates and comments on issues of construction of gender roles and stereotypes, consumerism, hierarchies of power, globalization, migration, memory and loss, fantasy, the environment, love, war, violence, urban and popular culture. Artists include: Jennifer Bakalar, daniel Baltzer, Amir Bey, Chris Bors, Peter A. Brinson & Kurosh ValaNejad, Nick Black, Mark Blackshear, Anton Cabaleiro, Melissa A. Calderon, Hector Canonge, Gigi Chen, William Corwin, Regina Farrell, Susan Finch, Orlando Franco, Terri Gold, Rory Golden, Andra Gunraj, Christopher Hart Chambers, Meredith Hedges, Jessica Kaire, Zoe Keramea, nancy koan, Reiko Kawahara, Sujin Lee, Zaun Lee, Cecilia Mandrile, Lawrence Mascia & Clay Ewing, Nao Matsumoto, Ashley McClennon, John Meza, Ira Merritt & Aaron Olshan, Niu Miao & Don Wei Lei, Ricardo Miranda-Zuñiga, Chalice Mitchell, Alfonso Muñoz, Shervone Neckles, Douglas Newton, Erika Pettersen, Dave Rittinger, Margaret Roleke, Peter Rywelski, Miriam Schaer, Jamel Shabazz, StatusHoe Collective, Fred Stesney, Tattfoo Tan, Monica Velez, Jose A. Vicenty, Bree Westphal, and Mary Wharmby. This exhibition was curated by Longwood Gallery Director Juanita Lanzo and Vanessa Gonzalez.

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LaRouche Meetings Again in New York City. NY

Today is the LaRouche meeting in downtown Manhattan, and I am even supposed to pick up Albert P. I don't care, it's nice to get out of the house. I think that someone is giving a presentation on Shakespeare.

Get Obama Out if You are Serious

What do you have to say to the citizen, what's your message? Some pitch? The fact is, that we're not going to survive, unless we establish, not just a Glass-Steagall approach; the situation is very precise. First of all, you can not save the United States from Hell, and yourself from Hell, if you do not cause the removal of this President safely from office. That's your first obligation. But there are other contingencies, that you also have to bring into consideration, at the same time. But if you're not committed to throw this President out of office, immediately, you aren't thinking in a way that's going to produce any results. You can't! From Obama's Removal, to Glass-Steagall All right, that's number one. Now, what do we have to do? You're committed, first of all, you're committed we're going to throw this son-of-a-bitch out of office: Because he's insane, he's a mass murderer, he's worse than Hitler: Therefore, he's got to be thrown out of office. And you want that to happen! That's what you're depending upon! That's what you're going to insist happens! You won't take "no" for an answer: He's thrown out! That's number one. What're you going to do? What you're going to do, very simple, you're to demand Glass-Steagall without any reforms of it. Franklin Roosevelt's Glass-Steagall with no single change in it! Because if you open up a change, somebody else will open up a change, and then you have no real Glass-Steagall! You'll have a mutilated Glass-Steagall that won't mean anything. So, no change! Word for word, jot for jot, tittle for tittle: Everything that was said in Glass-Steagall originally, will be said again, now! With no change in the pitch. That's number one. If you don't do that, you're going to lose! And you've got to think about what I said, "no changes," no backing off, no compromises. That's required. Now, Glass-Steagall will do what, in that way? When done, in that way, presuming this bum is thrown out of office, or is being thrown out office, or suspended from office, what're you going to do next? The problem is, what you do with Glass-Steagall in the form that Roosevelt prescribed it, and did it, means what? It means that you're going to take all the money, that's old and all kinds of money, and you're going to take the money you classify in a certain way, that's all you're going to accept. That's all you're going to save, that's all you're going to defend. You're not going to spend a penny of U.S. assets on bailing out merchant banking or similar kinds of swindles, or gambling. Not a penny! But however, the problem is, when you do that, and you enact Glass-Steagall with that provision in mind, you find that you have saved not enough money in the system, in the commercial banking system and its extensions, to actually revive the economy. All you'll be able to do, is stabilize the economy, at best, at the level it's already at, which is a crashing level. So therefore, you don't stop with Glass-Steagall: You start with it, you don't stop with it!

It's an Outright Deal for Business

It's an outright deal for business when you use an online accounting application. At lot of this stuff you used to do by hand. Then came the day when you could buy software at a computer store and get your accounting and taxes done. Now, the big change is that you can do it all online, sort of in the cloud. This is a big change for small business. You get to try the online accounting for free, and you can keep your free account indefinitely. Otherwise, you can pay $9.95 a month for a full-featured account. Think about it, it is pretty neat. You get to go online and in a purely confidential and safe manner get all the statistics that you need to run your business. You will always be able to know your instantaneous profit or loss margin. You can get that as numbers, are you can get the online accounting program to make a pretty pie chart for you, or a bar diagram, to make the information stand out. That can make things a lot easier for folks that are running their internet-based business from a home office. You may be in your home office and all alone, but you still get the feedback you need. It's like having an accountant in Harlem NY who makes all the statistics you need available all the time. Things are safer and more beautiful when you work from "the cloud." Your information is safe and cannot be destroyed by a computer malfunction or an accident.

Nuclear War Still on the Menu with Obama

LaRouche has again warned that the world is hovering on the brink of thermonuclear extinction, and that the sole source of that danger is the British Empire, with its control over the U.S. arsenal of nuclear weapons via their White House pawn, President Barack Obama. The source of the war danger does not stem from Iran's quest for a nuclear bomb, or Syria's alleged crackdown on peaceful dissenters, or even Israel's obsession to remain the sole nuclear weapons state in the Middle East. The British oligarchy is committed to preventing the Eurasian region, led by China, Russia, India, and other nations of the Asia-Pacific, from emerging from the collapse of the entire trans-Atlantic financial and economic system, as the new center of gravity of world political and economic power. To prevent this from happening, London is committed to starting a thermonuclear conflict pitting the United States against Russia and China. From the standpoint of the British oligarchy, a world of vastly reduced population—under 1 billion inhabitants—is preferable to a prospering world, in which the power of the private financier oligarchy is wiped out. While the overwhelming majority of American citizens and even leading politicians are absolutely clueless about this reality, the same is not true of leading circles in Russia and China, who have made their voices heard, loudly, in recent weeks, in a war-avoidance effort that has been joined by some leading American military and diplomatic circles. But as LaRouche has repeatedly emphasized, dating back to his April 11, 2009 international webcast, the only true war-avoidance option that is sure to avert thermonuclear Armageddon is the immediate removal of President Obama from office—using the provisions of the U.S. Constitution to secure a stable transfer of power, and the launching of an unprecedented global economic recovery. With Obama in office, unfettered by the threat of impeachment or removal under Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, London maintains a precarious finger on the U.S. nuclear trigger. Furthermore, as LaRouche emphasized in a New Year's Day emergency message, if nuclear Armageddon is avoided, the world still faces a plunge into a New Dark Age of famine, disease, and perpetual war—unless the United States leads a fundamental revolution in policy, returning to the American System tradition of a credit system under national banking, and a science-driver program for global economic recovery. - Strategic Warnings - Both Russian and Chinese leaders are keenly aware of the danger of a thermonuclear war, triggered by an Israeli attack on Iran, or other provocations aimed at pitting the United States against the Eurasian superpowers. While Russian-Chinese relations have their own long history of friction, the two nations have reached a consensus that the war danger must be defeated, and have signaled, in a series of public statements and actions, that they are aware of the threats, and will work towards a common war-avoidance effort. On Dec. 26, in one indicative action, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a televised meeting with Dmitri Rogozin, until recently the Russian Ambassador to NATO. Rogozin was recently named deputy prime minister in charge of the defense sector, the nuclear power sector, and the space program. In the meeting, Rogozin pledged to lead a rapid "rebirth of the defense industry," with "one of the most important aspects being, in effect, a new industrialization of the defense industry, which should function as a locomotive to pull the entire Russian economy." A month before his promotion to deputy prime minister, Rogozin had visited the restricted city of Krasnoznamensk to deliver an address before the Aerospace Forces, in which he clearly spelled out the war danger emanating from NATO's pursuit of a missile defense shield in Europe, minus the earlier cooperation with Moscow on a joint defense shield.

Helping my grandparents move

Thanks for the article from Laura Ryan My grandparents are some of the sweetest people. They love life and they love all of their grandkids. I always enjoy seeing them and would do anything to help them out. Last year, they decided to move to Florida, which seems to be what older people choose to do. Nonetheless, they needed a lot of help getting settled. I happily volunteered and spent two weeks getting their new house up and running. I set up all their televisions with direct tv orange park. I organized their kitchen and made sure everything was within their reach. I didn’t want them to have to use to step ladder for anything because you never know what could happen. I even found a nice young boy to mow their lawn twice a month. Even though Florida is not very far away, I still miss them a lot. I loved being able to see them at least once a week and now it seems like its only three times a year. However, I know they are happy and that is the most important thing.

Obama and Nuclear War

A nuclear war is not about racial equality and civil rights, yet Obama the so-called civil rights man is moving for nuclear war. Maybe this shows the idiocy of Aristotlean thought, looking on one concern to the exclusion of all others. If we cared more about progress of the population and the nation, then most environmentalist concerns would be taken up in the course of solving problems. Instead, we have become slaves of the British Financial Empire. LaRouche was right.

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