Classical Music Jan 13 Tali Roth

Tali Roth, classical guitar, will open up the season at #stjohnsvillnyc St Johns in the Village #nyc, Sunday Jan 13 at 3 pm....  see www.ffrcc.org   Great day from the Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture  plus wine and cheese reception.... $20 for whole deal, $10 students, poverty cases.  Free for elementary school students, high school students.

Bronx NY war view in the world

Bronx ny war view looking around the world
War Report For Sunday, March 12, 2017
1) US/NATO v. Russia
2) Syria and the War On ISIS
3) Israel v. Iran

1) US/NATO v. Russia

Two former NATO commanders, Breedlove and Stavridis, argue, in a new report published by RUSI, that NATO needs tot ake steps in the North Atlantic comparable to and in support of the actions it is taking in eastern Europe. “The North Atlantic is NATO’s lifeblood; it is the trans-Atlantic link,” Breedlove wrote in the RUSI report. “After two decades of relative calm, we now see a growing Russian threat to this region. The North Atlantic has become the testing area for Russia’s increasingly sophisticated submarines and aircraft.” Breedlove said that Russia has developed “offensive long-range, high-precision capabilities and is building high-end maritime capabilities that could deny NATO members freedom of maneuver at sea.” The RUSI report, says Stars and Stripes, argues that NATO has overlooked the North Atlantic maritime area, focusing instead on other areas, including Afghanistan, tensions in Ukraine and an alliance effort during the past two and half years to build up land forces along its eastern borders with Russia. “NATO must understand that because the North Atlantic plays an important part in Russian military strategic calculations — as evident in its growing naval and air force laydown — it is essential that the region become more central to NATO’s own planning, deployments and preparations,” Stavridis wrote in his contribution to the report.
To the Russians, this is nothing more than another exercise in NATO fear mongering. "All work is paid for, and this report is no exception. How objective it is and the competency of the person who prepared it is another issue. It's one thing if he has tried to give an objective picture, but if he wanted to spread some fear and think up some stories, that's quite another and it seems to me that in this case, it's most likely the second one," Nikolai Topornin, an associate professor of European Law at the Russian Foreign Ministry's Moscow State Institute of International Relations, told Radio Sputnik, in apparent reference to Breedlove. "The man has simply set himself the task of telling everyone that Russia was violating some kind of strategic standards, is strengthening its military presence, including naval and may constitute some kind of threat," Topornin told Radio Sputnik.

2) Syria and the War On ISIS

Rex Tillerson will be convening a meeting in Washington on March 22 to discuss the war against ISIS. Russia and Iran, two countries with forces directly engaged against ISIS in Syria won‛t be invited, however. Russian Senator Alexei Pushkov commented that it is quite possible to discuss the fight against Daesh without Russia's participation, but it is impossible to defeat them without Russia. Evgeny Satanovsky, head of the Moscow-based Middle East Institute, however, does note that there is US-Russian military cooperation in Syria, but that Trump doesn‛t want to discuss it because of the domestic political climate in Washington.
Fars News, meanwhile, citing something called Hawar news, reports that things aren‛t going swimmingly between the Turks and their proxies in the FSA. Hawar news quoted informed sources as saying that at least sixty Ankara-backed militants in al-Rai town in Northern Aleppo have dropped ties with the Euphrates Shield Operation over low salary and Turkish Army's indifferences to the promises it made to assist the militants.
And a senior official of the PYD warns that Turkey wants to occupy parts of northern Syria. "The territory that Turkey wants to advance to belongs to the Syrian state. These lands are part of Syria's sovereign system. Attacking these lands means attacking a sovereign state," said Ewwas Eli, responsible for foreign relations of the PYD's branch in Kobani. "Turkey wants to occupy Syria."
Meanwhile, the US State Department has declared Hayyat Tahrir al-Sham in a statement published on Friday. The reasoning is simple. The leader of HTS is Mohammad Al-Julani, commander-in-chief of Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham, which was Jabhat al Nusra, which was Al Qaeda, and therefore should still be considered Al Qaeda. Al Masdar published the US statement in Arabic, but I can‛t find it in English.

3) Israel v. Iran

When Netanyahu was in Moscow, last week, he reportedly told Putin that any truce in Syria should see the departure of Iranian and Iranian-backed militias from the country. “We do not want to see Shia Islamic terrorism led by Iran step in to replace Sunni Islamic terrorism,” Netanyahu told the Russian President. “Iran continues attempts to destroy the Jewish state. They speak of this openly and write this in black and white in their newspapers. According to The Independent and other reports, IRGC militias are on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights in the form of a Shiite paramilitary group called the “Golan Liberation Brigade.” Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba, an Iraqi force backed by Iran, is “ready to take action to liberate Golan” from Israeli occupation, according to spokesman quoted by Iranian state media this week. “I made it clear [ti Putin] that regarding Syria, while Israel is not opposed that there should be an agreement there, we strongly oppose the possibility that Iran and its proxies will be left with a military presence in Syria under such an agreement,” Netanyahu said.
While Iranian-backed militias in Syria could probably cause trouble, it seems unlikely to me that they could come anywhere close to invading and capturing the Israeli occupied part of the Golan Heights. They would get pulverized before they got very far.

Spicer Says Still Glass Steagall | Harlem Tee Shirts

Spicer Says Still Glass Steagall | Harlem Tee Shirts



Glass steagall act is still a groove for Trump

Mardi Gras Indians Iko Iko

the story of the mardi gras indians of New Orleans and the song, Iko Iko
http://www.houstonculture.org/laproject/indians.htmlhttp://www.houstonculture.org/laproject/indians.html

A Legacy of Defiance, A Century of Honor: The Mardi Gras Indians (a radio transcript) MYSTERIOUS LANGUAGE OF MARDI GRAS INDIANS Musical Except, "I Know You Mardi Gras" by Bo Dollis and the Wild Magnolias Mardi Gras is difficult for those outside of New Orleans' unique culture to understand. Its traditions come from New Orleans' colonial history and secret societies. Modern events, like the Zulu parade, satirize the city's racist history. Zulu was organized by African-Americans in 1909 to mock the stereotypes Whites held toward Blacks. Still today, members of the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club masquerade in black-face makeup and throw coconuts from floats on Fat Tuesday. This is just one in a long series of puzzling events a tourist may experience during the Mardi Gras season in New Orleans. One cultural phenomenon that is mysterious even to New Orleans locals, and unknown to most outsiders, is the Mardi Gras Indians. The Black Indians have masqueraded at least as long as the Zulus, but their customs, and even much of their musical dialogue, has remained a mystery. The world outside of the Crescent City first heard the language of the Mardi Gras Indians when a popular vocal trio from New Orleans, The Dixie Cups, concluded a string of hits from their album "Chapel of Love" with "Iko Iko" in the spring of 1965. "Iko Iko" was described as "an old Mardi Gras chant that most New Orleans kids had heard all their lives." Sisters Rosa and Barbara Hawkins, and cousin Joan Marie Johnson, chanted the catchy verses during the recording of "Chapel of Love." The song had actually been a local hit for "Sugar Boy" Crawford during New Orleans' Mardi Gras Carnival in 1954 as "Jock-A-Mo." Crawford commented, "'Jockamo-A-Mo' came from two songs that I used to hear the Mardi Gras Indians sing. When I was growing up I lived near the Battle Field where the Indians paraded on Mardi Gras Day." This version by the Dixie Cups remains a commercial success to this day. It features percussion performed on metal chairs and a Coca-Cola bottle similar to the Indians' style. The complex rhythm has been part of the Mardi Gras Indians' heritage for well over 100 years. Musical Except, "Iko Iko" by The Dixie Cups Musical Except, "Hey Hey" by Bo Dollis and the Wild Magnolias

the Crash Continues in Economics and Banking

four laws of Economic Success | Global Warming Debate

the crash continues in economics and banking... time to learn something if you want to survive.... Deutsche bank crash

Nasa Says Global Warming is Not so Hot

Cut and past from Nasa. gov, not so hot indeed, global warming farce.

 

October 6, 2014

RELEASE 14-272

NASA Study Finds Earth’s Ocean Abyss Has Not Warmed

While the upper part of the world’s oceans continue to absorb heat from global warming, ocean depths have not warmed measurably in the last decade. This image shows heat radiating from the Pacific Ocean as imaged by the NASA’s Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System instrument on the Terra satellite. (Blue regions indicate thick cloud cover.)

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Deep sea creatures, like these anemones at a hydrothermal vent, are not yet feeling the heat from global climate change. Although the top half of the ocean continues to warm, the bottom half has not increased measurably in temperature in the last decade.

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The cold waters of Earth’s deep ocean have not warmed measurably since 2005, according to a new NASA study, leaving unsolved the mystery of why global warming appears to have slowed in recent years.
Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, analyzed satellite and direct ocean temperature data from 2005 to 2013 and found the ocean abyss below 1.24 miles (1,995 meters) has not warmed measurably. Study coauthor Josh Willis of JPL said these findings do not throw suspicion on climate change itself.
"The sea level is still rising," Willis noted. "We're just trying to understand the nitty-gritty details."
In the 21st century, greenhouse gases have continued to accumulate in the atmosphere, just as they did in the 20th century, but global average surface air temperatures have stopped rising in tandem with the gases. The temperature of the top half of the world's oceans -- above the 1.24-mile mark -- is still climbing, but not fast enough to account for the stalled air temperatures.
Many processes on land, air and sea have been invoked to explain what is happening to the "missing" heat. One of the most prominent ideas is that the bottom half of the ocean is taking up the slack, but supporting evidence is slim. This latest study is the first to test the idea using satellite observations, as well as direct temperature measurements of the upper ocean. Scientists have been taking the temperature of the top half of the ocean directly since 2005, using a network of 3,000 floating temperature probes called the Argo array.
"The deep parts of the ocean are harder to measure," said JPL's William Llovel, lead author of the study published Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change. "The combination of satellite and direct temperature data gives us a glimpse of how much sea level rise is due to deep warming. The answer is -- not much."
The study took advantage of the fact that water expands as it gets warmer. The sea level is rising because of this expansion and the water added by glacier and ice sheet melt.
To arrive at their conclusion, the JPL scientists did a straightforward subtraction calculation, using data for 2005-2013 from the Argo buoys, NASA's Jason-1 and Jason-2 satellites, and the agency’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites. From the total amount of sea level rise, they subtracted the amount of rise from the expansion in the upper ocean, and the amount of rise that came from added meltwater. The remainder represented the amount of sea level rise caused by warming in the deep ocean.
The remainder was essentially zero. Deep ocean warming contributed virtually nothing to sea level rise during this period.
Coauthor Felix Landerer of JPL noted that during the same period warming in the top half of the ocean continued unabated, an unequivocal sign that our planet is heating up. Some recent studies reporting deep-ocean warming were, in fact, referring to the warming in the upper half of the ocean but below the topmost layer, which ends about 0.4 mile (700 meters) down.
Landerer also is a coauthor of another paper in the same journal issue on 1970-2005 ocean warming in the Southern Hemisphere. Before Argo floats were deployed, temperature measurements in the Southern Ocean were spotty, at best. Using satellite measurements and climate simulations of sea level changes around the world, the new study found the global ocean absorbed far more heat in those 35 years than previously thought -- a whopping 24 to 58 percent more than early estimates.
Both papers result from the work of the newly formed NASA Sea Level Change Team, an interdisciplinary group tasked with using NASA satellite data to improve the accuracy and scale of current and future estimates of sea level change. The Southern Hemisphere paper was led by three scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California.
NASA monitors Earth's vital signs from land, air and space with a fleet of satellites and ambitious airborne and ground-based observation campaigns. NASA develops new ways to observe and study Earth's interconnected natural systems with long-term data records and computer analysis tools to better see how our planet is changing. The agency shares this unique knowledge with the global community and works with institutions in the United States and around the world that contribute to understanding and protecting our home planet.
For more information about NASA's Earth science activities in 2014, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/earthrightnow

For more information on ocean surface topography from space, visit:

http://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov

More information on NASA’s GRACE satellites is available at:

http://grace.jpl.nasa.gov

For more information on the Argo array, visit:

http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/index.html

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Bronx Boxers

Shout out to tomorrows all
Day Bronx Boxers and Music event tomorrow, starting at 1 pm at the Bronx Music Heritage Center (BMHC) at 1303 Louis Nine Blvd, by Freeman St 2 and 5 subway station.

http://ulstermanbooks.com/d-c-whispers-west-wing-livid-military-revolt/

Meanwhile, note the whispers of the military revolt against Obama.

Credit from the Brics

Credit is coming from the Brics nations.  That is how China is changing the world.  That is why Russia is not isolated despite the sanctions from the West.  Get in on the groove for credit and development.  China is not operating on the basis of geopolitics.

Aim of ISIS war is to kill Assad and Syria

The aim of the socalled ISIS war is to kill Assad and destroy the nation of Syria.  ISIS does exist but it is puffed up by aid from Turkey and Saudi Arabia.  ISIS sells oil that goes through Turkey and reaches European markets.

Don’t Try To Control An Uncontrollable War Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron intend to bomb Syria, and kill its elected president says LaRouche. Will congress go along? The truth about 9-11 and the "28 pages" has still yet to see public release! Howard J -- In its development since the mid-July “Fortaleza” summits of the BRICS and supporting nations, the new policy of peace through development for all nations has changed the potential of the whole international situation. The New Silk Road policy of China, which is central to this whole change, is a "Confucian idea of building the future and building a harmonious world order," as Helga Zepp-LaRouche said on returning from a long and groundbreaking visit to China.

"This is a dynamic concept which is not on the same plane, and therefore they don’t look at themselves as being in competition [with other nations], because the New Silk Road is a completely open conception: Everybody is welcome to join it." - Helga Zepp-LaRouche The United States must join this effort, and its new international development banks, to save itself from the collapse and ruin of the trans-Atlantic financial system and economies. But “The idiots on Wall Street don’t want us to do it,” said Lyndon LaRouche during the National Policy Committee discussion. "The idiots will kill us all off, if they can get a chance to do it."  The war Barack Obama and his British imperial superiors are now expanding, has a potentially thermonuclear character, as LaRouche stressed again, and this kind of conflagration generated from one, collapsing part of the planet cannot be stopped from reaching others. Now, on Obama’s specific and insane war mission, LaRouche said that it is absolutely the case that Obama’s new war is, in fact, another regime-change war against Syria, to bring down and kill its president. The British House of Commons research department has issued a report Monday morning, publicized in a London Telegraph article, saying that bombing Syria now, as Cameron and Obama demand, would be illegal and in violation of international law. The fact that this institution did this now, LaRouche said, means that Obama is about to bomb Syria. And a lot of members of the Congress are prepared to sit there and watch it. But once Golem Obama launches it, it’s uncontrollable— uncontrollable by Congress; uncontrollable for the British imperialists, or the Saudi instigators who could destroy themselves; it is not controllable for us. It could mean mass death, including for the United States. Out of control, LaRouche said, is out of control. Obama has already gone far, far too far. His next step could be the end of civilization. Stop him, get him out of office, or the result will be uncontrollable. You can’t take a defensive posture against such a threat. You have to stop it. WE have to stop it. Throw Obama out. Bring out the truth of 9/11 and terrorism. And LaRouche, noted, again, that former President Bill Clinton can understand the role that he has to play in shutting down Obama and replacing him; and that he also is responsible to do that. LaRouche’s movement knows its responsibility in doing this, and has to carry it out now. "What we need in the United States right now is a passion to drive the people of the United States, to create the solution. These are the things that will determine, whether or not the United States will still exist." Share this message to everyone your know (follow link to share) -- tell them to contact their Congressman with one message:  Impeach Obama Now. Thank you for your continued support, LaRouchePAC.com, Editorial Staff

Obama's War and Fraud

Obama has put the US on the road to war insanity in Iraq and Syria.  Obama is saying he will continue to train the "Free Syria" forces to fight both Assad regime of Syria and the new Islamic State.

This means that hundreds of thousands of US troops will soon be again in Iraq and this time Syria.  That is why Pres. Obama wants no debate on a declaration of war or hostilities.  Any substantial debate would reveal that Obama and the British strategy is insane.

The only solution is to impeach Obama, and as US Chief of Staff Martin Dempsey has implied, ally with the real forces of the region, Iraq, Assad's Syria, and Iran, to defeat the IS (Islamic State).

Bronx, you like food?

http://www.realcrash.com/us-railroads-oil-and-grain/

Remember LaRouchePAC's warnings from earlier this year, that President Barack Obama's deal with the Wall Street fracking, grain, and rail cartels threatened food production in the Northern Plains U.S. states?

Obama remains in office, nothing was done, and the pile-up of grain not being shipped on the United States's decrepit, cartel-run, fracking-dedicated rail system is now an even greater threat to your food supply.

Mining to Fusion Power on the Moon

China is taking lunar mining seriously," is the title of an article August 3 in MINING.com."While the U.S.A. dabbles with the idea of lunar mining and both India and Russia have, in the past, floated ideas, China is the only power pushing ahead with an actual program,"the publication says. It is head by a photo on NASA's Robotic Mining Competition and the caption,"China plans to return to the Moon early 2020s. Filling one shuttle's cargo bay with helium-3 could bring the equivalent energy of 1 billion barrels of oil back to Earth."

The article continues,"The Moon is rich in rare earths, titanium, and could support mining with recent evidence of the existence of water; [but] the big prize when excavating the Moon, is helium-3.... [It] is abundant and accessible on the Moon and could be used in nuclear fusion..."

MINING.com then quotes at length from a June 16 article in The Diplomat - Asia/Pacific. Its author is Fabrizio Bozzato, at Tamkang University, Taiwan, and it is entitled "Moon Power: China's Pursuit of Lunar Helium-3." As a caption:"The equitable development of fusion fuel on the moon could be a catalyst for clean energy and a global renaissance."

MINING.com says it"argues China's program to land on the moon within a decade could be a game-changer."

Bozzato wrote,"Lacking an atmosphere, the moon has been bombarded for billions of years by solar winds carrying helium-3. As a result, the dust of the lunar surface is saturated with the gas. It has been calculated that there are about 1,100,000 metric tons of helium-3 on the lunar surface down to a depth of a few meters, and that about 40 tons of helium-3 — enough to fill the cargo bays of two space shuttles — could power the U.S. for a year at the current rate of energy consumption. Given the estimated potential energy of a ton of helium-3 (the equivalent of about 50 million barrels of crude oil), helium-3 fuelled fusion could ... increase mankind's productivity by orders of magnitude."

"However, supplying the planet with fusion power for centuries requires that we first return to the moon. At present, only China has this in mind, with its Chang-e program, a lunar exploration program that will send astronauts to the moon by the early 2020s. If Beijing wins the second race for the moon, and establishes a sustained human outpost conducting helium-3 mining operations, it would establish the same kind of monopoly that in the past created the fortunes of ventures like the East India Company. The ramifications would be significant, to say the least."

Bozzato describes a scenario of China monopoly and international tension over it as put forward by Foreign Policy, but concludes:"Still, this scenario is hardly inescapable. On the contrary, lunar exploration and resource development could end up encouraging international cooperation and build confidence. If the space-faring nations see a common destiny, then creative politics, diplomacy, and new legal frameworks could be used as instruments for good governance and an equitable sharing of the spoils. A new international regime for the joint development of lunar helium-3 would then be viable, with all the possibilities for the planet that would entail."

Schiller Institute Party in NYC

There's a Schiller Institute Party coming up in NYC.  And the theme is that LaRouche says it is time to impeach Obama, and avoid nuclear war and otherwise certain economic devastation.  So we are- Happy- and that's what we gonna do!!!

Why have war and economic collapse when we can work with Russia, China and India and build the Eurasian Landbridge.  The Chinese and Russians have already built billions of dollars of railroad, water and gas and oil projects as outlined in the EIR Eurasian Landbridge conference report of 1997.

Toppling of the British Queen

The name of the game is to topple the British Empire and the queen.  That is the focus of the geezer:

And I'm sure, what we're doing — Kesha's success is underrated, because if you have a bunch of failures, which is the Democrats who voted against her, they are really caught: How can they be in a position, where they are still children of Satan, shall we say, underneath Obama?

So, our situation is, you take in France, as in the case of Marine Le Pen, and you see in the case there, they actually toppled the power of the British interest, by getting the Socialist Party of France (PS) in jeopardy. Because the Socialist Party in France is one of the stooges, has been one of the stooges, as long as they've been in power, for the British Empire.

Biking to Work in the Bronx

I think Biking to work is a big bummer and probably a quick way to get wet in the rain and commit suicide in various ways.  However, the greenies dig it.

Pedal to the Grindstone: Biking to Work

Bike to Work Day, held in New York on May 16^th (last Friday), is a celebration of the bike being an environmental and wallet-friendly option for commuting from your home to your work place.  In honor of this event we had a Q&A session with Laura Solis from Bike New York about traveling via bicycle. Here’s what she said!

 If I live, let’s say 5 miles from my job, how long would it take me to get there? 

 That depends on a few factors. I used to live 5 miles away from my last job. The commute using public transportation would involve either 2 buses and the train or 3 buses and it’d take me just over an hour to get there. When I started riding my bike, it took me roughly 30 minutes on a day when I was being mindful not to break into a sweat. There was this one time it took me only 19 minutes, but I never did quite repeat that great timing. 

Do you remember the first time you biked to work?

The first day I tried it out I actually did it on my day off so that there wasn’t any pressure to get there “on time”. I went on a Sunday morning when traffic would be presumably lightest and I timed myself. I don’t remember what my time was, but I remember giving myself and hour and a half and I had planned 3 rest-stops, including a coffee shop along the way. Whenever I think back to that day, I remember how over prepared I was, how much I had overestimated what 5 miles really felt like, and how I had underestimated myself tremendously.  In the end, I only stopped once, and it was to pat myself on the back and tag a swig of water.

Clearly, biking is a great workout for your legs, but does it tone the jiggle anywhere else?

Biking is a tremendous workout, you will have buns of steel in no time and your abs/core will love you forevermore.

Are there any other benefits to biking besides the workout?

I will say that the money I save on transportation I spend on food to keep me fueled. And the saying “you are what you eat”, couldn’t be more true than when you are riding a bike. If I eat a bacon cheddar burger with fries and a shake before a bike ride, I ride like I just ate a bacon cheddar burger with fries and a shake. The bigger the variety of colors on my plate (not including condiments!) and range of food groups, the more vibrant I feel on my bike.

Ok, this may be a little personal but what about the, well, smell? Any tips?

Hygiene in general is a really big deal to me, whether or not I’m on my bike. With that said, I quickly learned how to ride so that I didn’t break into a sweat, but I also learned what was the best way to get rid of the smell of NYC streets that will latch on to your body if you’re riding through traffic. I stocked up on sun dresses when I started riding a bike because there is NOTHING, like riding a bike in a skirt or a dress. The sheer ventilation that you get in all the necessary places will have you smiling up and down the road. I am more concerned with dirt, which is attracted to you if you are wearing lotion, sunscreen in particular. To remove the grime, which usually only accumulates on a ride greater than 5 miles, I use Action Wipes. Action Wipes are amazing! They remove any evidence of your having been active in a matter of minutes, and it does so using all natural ingredients, without drying your skin while leaving you feeling clean and fresh. They also don’t leave any lint behind, which baby wipes often do, and they’re the perfect texture for sloughing off the grease that will one day end up on your leg.

What are the safest routes in the Bronx? Is there somewhere I can find this information?

The Bronx has a great number of greenways (paths surrounded by greenery) as a result of being the greenest borough! Many folks feel really safe along the greenways because the interaction with traffic is very limited. We’ve got the Bronx River Greenway, Mosholu Parkway Greenway, the Hutchinson River Greenway, and the Pelham Parkway Greenway.  Have you checked out the 2014 NYC Bike Map?!!! The promising green dotted lines indicate forthcoming “potential” bike lanes, including an extension of the existing Hudson River Greenway, which currently ends in Inwood Hill Park in Manhattan, but looks to make its way up to Riverdale. There are also lots of green dots along the Bronx Harlem River Greenway as well! In addition to the Bike Map, ridethecity (website and app), maps out direct, safe and safer routes, respectively. They are still one of my most used #bikenyc resources.

Bike lanes are great, but being safe has a lot to do with feeling safe and feeling safe often comes with knowledge which leads to confidence. You can get this sort of knowledge, and subsequent confidence, by attending free Bike New York Street Skills Class and Street Skills Ride. Honestly, it’s where I picked up most of my tips and tricks, or rather advice and instruction. As much as I love the greenways, and hope for more bike lanes in the Bronx, the existing ones are not currently conducive to an efficient commute for me, so you’ll most often see me on the road, safely alongside the cars, without a bike lane.

If I wanted to take a class to learn more about biking in NYC or find a group to ride with, how could I do that?  

Visit www.bikenewyork.org/education to learn more about biking safely and confidently in NYC for free. We have free classes throughout the five boroughs. Our Community Bike Education Center in the Bronx is located in the southwest playground of Van Cortlandt Park.

If you want to ride with a group, I’d recommend our very own Bike Path Cruise Rides. You can also check out the list of bike clubs on our website. A few of my favorites include Social Cycling NYC, NYC Biketrain and InTandem. They are all filled with good people who are very welcoming to new and experienced cyclists. 

Josh Kaufman does Stevie Wonder

Watching the show, Josh Kaufman, he is doing an imitation of Stevie Wonder.  He really sounds like Stevie Wonder.  But that is not original, hey Harlem and Bronx, don't you know this is a big fake.  #thevoice is a bigger fake than American Idol, where at least they pretend to have an original interpretation.  I guess it is American Ventriloquist. Oh well, that is the news from Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NYC, NY.

Bronx Week opening Party at Bronx Brewery, Bronx Museum

OK, Bronx NY News sent a reporter to the opening of Bronx Week yesterday. It was wild, and it featured Bronx boro pres Ruben Diaz, and honorees David Zayas from the Dexter HBO show, and Swizz Beats, the rapper and producer married to Alicia Keyes.  That guy has 4 kids from 4 different women, so he really likes to reproduce.

Also, the picture of the chair is from the opening at the Bronx Museum of their Beyond the Supersquare exhibit.

Toyota Popularity Contest

They say that Toyota Camry has won the popularity contest.  At $189 a month for a lease, that is not bad.  On the other hand, I'm not sure if my credit can handle it.  Better in NYC to take public transportation.

Then the 2-year old from Christie Street lower east side fell out of the 3rd floor window, but only suffered bumps and bruises.

And the weather is beautiful.  Dont watch Ellen Generes, tooo bad at 4 pm in NYC on Channel 4.

Bullets Over Broadway

Saw the commercial about the New York Broadway show, Bullets Over Broadway.  It shows for sure a lot of singing and dancing.  I like that commercial with the dancers on their backs, and the girls showing off their legs.  Sexy for sure, but is it rational??? Who knows?  Harlem, you can make the journey downtown.

LaRouche in Washington Times

LaRouche in the Washington Times says, save the humans. This whole idea of turning food into gasohol is insane. Starving to death is not the way to help the United States, by any means. Everything that Obama is insisting on, as LaRouche says, must be canceled tomorrow morning. We need the Glass-Stegall, we need the space program. There is a way Bronx and Harlem dudes to continue the human race and expand into near outer space. Go back to Ronald Reagan's Space Defense Initiative, into a Space Defense of Earth (SDE).