Why not grab a freebie on your way home from work? Murray’s Real Salami, a new Grand Central Market-based shop from the same owners as the renowned Murray’s Cheese, is offering free samples of the world’s most expensive ham — Jamón Ibérico de Bellota — as well as a tasting of Vermont Smoke & Cure products on Thursday, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
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A great little addition to the up and coming new businesses on Frederick Douglass Blvd.
This friendly and helpful flower shop carries a nice selection of house plants and a large variety of cut flowers. They deliver various plants and cut flowers to the surrounding area and regularly have a hearty selection of seasonal plants. They also provide services for weddings and other events. Owners Louis Gagliano and Stefan Handl opened this shop 18 months ago and HarlemCondoLife encourages everyone to drop by and check it out.
Hours of operation are Monday through Saturday 11-7 PM and Sunday 12-5 PM.
Harlem Flo
2292 Frederick Douglass Blvd. (at 123rd St.)
New York, NY 10027
212 316 3031
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Women Hip Hop Free Style Artist | Hector Alvarez | Latino Hip Hop | Spanish Rap
Women Hip Hop Free Style ArtistNovember 11, 2008 by Heist
The African American Women in Cinema will screen two relevant and compelling films that highlight the role women have played in the longevity, trends and artistry of Hip Hop. These films open the door to an honest look at the mindset, challenges, and triumphs women have faced from the early days to the present.
With candid interviews with women pioneer hip hop artists Lady B, Schoolly D, Rennie Harris, Bahamadia and Ursula Rucker, as well as emerging hip hop talents such as Versus, Keen of Subliminal Orphans and Michele Byrd-McPhee of Montazh, intercut with scholars, critics and local promoters, these films will educate, entertain and inspire the next generation of female hip hop artist.
The AAWIC International Film Festival is proud to welcome and screen the “Women in Hip Hop Series – Program II”. “If we are going to highlight what women do in this society to make it better, we would be remiss to neglect our contributions to a music genre that touches every society and culture in the world”, says festival founder, Terra Renee.
“She Rhymes Like a Girl”, is Toni Blackman and the FreeStyle Union’s open and candid entry into the world of hip hop. The film’s goal is to empower women to speak their minds in freestyle workshops. This music video/documentary hopes to promote a movement of female MCs. Encouraging women to stand before a mike and speak their truths, share their ideas, thoughts and feelings with the world as their male counterparts do. This film is a part of the Call for Change Series.
Screening Program 2: Saturday, November 15, 2008 – 2:00pm: George Faison Fire House Theatre- 6 Hancock Place, (124th & Morningside) Harlem, NY
Maori Karmael Holmes’ “Scene Not Heard” introduces you to the hip hop movement straight out of Philadelphia. Explaining how Philadelphia artists have made major contributions as emcees, graffiti artists, dancers, and especially as deejays. But somehow Philly has not gotten the kind of props that other cities have, despite its unique proliferation of women emcees, vocalists, poets and deejays. “Scene Not Heard” tells the story of these women, these legends as they struggle to succeed in a male-dominated industry.
Screening Program 2: Saturday, November 15, 2008 – 2:10pm: George Faison Fire House Theatre- 6 Hancock Place, (124th & Morningside) Harlem, NY
The AAWIC Film Festival will also pay honor and screen films by women filmmakers of American, African, Latin and Asian descent, to give them an opportunity to share their cinematic vision with the world and encourage and educate all filmmakers on the contribution of women in films as directors, writers, producers and actresses. On November 15th the AAWIC/SAC Pioneer Award. Award will be given to honorees; Tamar Tunie (Devil’s Advocate, Law & Order), Phyllis Yvonne Stickney (How Stella Got her Groove Back, Linc’s) Patience Ozokwo-Mama G (Authority, Sins of the Father, Apology) and Ini Edo (Worlds Apart, Beautiful Faces, Faces of Beauty).
Please visit www.aawic.org for event schedule including opening night, red carpet screening and closing night award ceremony.
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Massive malaria vaccine trial to begin in Africa
Massive malaria vaccine trial to begin in AfricaBy DONNA BRYSON, Associated Press Donna Bryson,
Associated Press – Mon Nov 10, 2:46 pm ET
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Researchers trying to create the world’s first malaria vaccine are launching a massive medical trial as early as next month involving 16,000 children that could be the largest such trial ever conducted on children in Africa.
British-drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline PLC is teaming with the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, which is an anti-malaria charity funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and clinics and research centers in Africa to develop a malaria vaccine.
“This is probably going to be one of the largest studies in infants and in children in Africa,” said Joe Cohen, a top vaccine researcher for GlaxoSmithKline.
Malaria, caused by parasites and spread by mosquitoes, kills nearly 1 million people every year, most of them children in Africa. The trial may start as early as next month, and should be well under way by January, said Cohen.
The massive vaccine trials will be conducted in Burkina Faso, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania. Dr. Christian Loucq, director of the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, said the project has been working over the past year to upgrade laboratory, computer and other equipment in those countries, train technicians, and even help develop local equivalents of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ensure the trials are properly monitored.
The Malaria Vaccine Initiative has so far spent $107 million on the project and has not yet calculated how much more it will spend. GlaxoSmithKline has spent $300 million so far, and estimates it will spend up to $100 million more.
Researchers working on the trial said in an interview in Johannesburg that much of the groundwork already has been laid in preliminary trials involving 4,000 children conducted since 2003. They said that even if their vaccine does not succeed, the widespread investment needed to conduct the trials means that Africa will be left with better communications, research and other infrastructure that could be used in the search for vaccines against other diseases such as AIDS.
While the researchers were optimistic, it will be several years before they know whether their vaccine candidate is safe and effective enough for wide use.
The preliminary trials showed the vaccine was likely to be at least 30 percent effective against mild malaria cases and about 50 percent effective against severe malaria. That may sound low compared to, for example, the injectable polio vaccine that is at least 90 percent effective. But researchers have found it difficult to pin down a vaccine for parasites, and further tests may show the GlaxoSmithKline candidate is more effective, Cohen said.
Dr. Michel Van Herp, an epidemiologist with the aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres, said a vaccine might have to be more effective than the GlaxoSmithKline candidate has been shown to be so far to be worth the effort of putting it in use. But he acknowledged that matching the effectiveness of the polio vaccine has proven difficult, and said a partially effective vaccine “at least will reduce the workload on the health sector.”
Medecins Sans Frontieres, also known as Doctors Without Borders, is not involved in vaccine research, but is at the forefront of treating malaria among the poor in Africa and elsewhere.
The vaccine would have to be used along with preventive measures like mosquito nets and insecticides to save lives.
Dr. Eusebio Macete, who is director of the Manhica Research Centre in Mozambique and was involved in some of the early field trials, said stopping any percentage of the disease would be welcomed in areas “where people are dying every day of malaria.”
“It’s a huge, huge burden, this disease,” Macete said. “Whatever percentage we can get will be useful in reducing the impact of the disease.”
Wednesday, November 12th 2008, 2:14 AM
Monaster/News
Gene Russianoff
Straphangers could be slammed with a fare hike that jacks the cost of a ride to as much as $3 next year – unless there’s a state bailout, a Daily News analysis reveals.
“We could be looking at the mother of all fare hikes,” said Gene Russianoff of the Straphangers Campaign.
“This whopping increase would likely be coupled with very serious service cuts. In plain English, it could be lots more out of your pocket for the joy of more crowding, longer waits and less reliable service.”
The $2 base fare is the MTA’s most likely target because it hasn’t climbed in five years, while unlimited-ride MetroCards have been boosted three times, most recently in March.
At the time, critics howled that regular riders were being forced to dig deeper, while out-of-towners – who tend to pay per ride – were let off the hook.
Melissa Garcia, 22, a college student from Washington Heights, shuddered at the thought of paying more to ride the subways.
“The economy is in shambles,” she said. “There are no jobs. The price of food is going up. Now, they want to hit us up with this? Please. It’s horrendous.”
Metropolitan Transportation Authority CEO Elliot Sander said Monday the authority’s budget crisis will force it to impose “Draconian” fare hikes and service cuts without an additional $800 million.
Even after making cuts, the MTA will be short about $600 million, agency figures show.
Filling that gap would require a 24% fare hike for MetroCards, train tickets and tolls – if the MTA applied the increase evenly across every category.
The agency hasn’t tended to do that in the past, however.
Instead, the MTA is expected to take aim at the base fare for the biggest percentage increase – bumping it to $2.50 or even $3, a Daily News analysis shows.
An MTA spokesman declined to comment on the figures.
Already grappling with a huge state budget gap, Gov. Paterson formed a commission to find the MTA more money, such as adding tolls on the now free East River bridges or imposing more taxes.
Recommendations are due next month. The MTA has to come up with a balanced fiscal 2009 budget by the end of the year.
Even if the fare leaps to $3, most riders don’t pay the full amount.
The current average cost of a ride is about $1.35; the vast majority of riders get discounts, either by buying at least four rides at a time or using unlimited-ride MetroCards.
Still, the possibility of a 50% hike in the base fare did not sit well with riders.
“I’m on the borderline of middle class and poor,” said Bryan Tate, 36, a mail carrier from Brooklyn.
“You can’t just keep taxing us, fare-hiking us, and asking us for more and more without eventually breaking us,” Tate said. “It’s not fair. You have these Wall Street executives throwing a party with [money they got in] a bailout and we’re left holding the bag.”
With Chad Smith
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