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I really enjoyed this concert by Dub FX and Flower Fairy, street and concert performers from Australia. They generate beats on the fly, check the segment of the video where he sets up the beat for Gingerbread Man. They set up underneath the Krishna Tree in Tompkins Square Park.
Squirrel chillaxing in the sun on the gnarled old Black Locust tree, south side of Tompkins Square Park.
Retired Philadelphia Police Captain gives his opinion on the why and how of the police repression of Occupy Wall Street.
Found her on the mailbox in my apartment’s vestibule. Escorted her outside.
She wants to remind you to come to my tree walk on Saturday.
Some wind last night brought down a large branch of Tompkins Square Park’c central elm, the large tree in the central lawn of the park. Last year a companion elm slightly south of it came down completely.
It’s a beautiful tree, I hope the park’s department arborists don’t think it needs to come down. It doesn’t appear to be hollow, like the giant elm nearby they removed a month ago.
As usual, EV Grieve got the story first.
Hope, I’m not too late.
This is a short post to apologize to Steven the postal worker gathering signatures to save the Post Office from cuts at OWS today. Sorry, I screwed up the audio in your video again. I promise to get it right the next time I see you. Please leave any information you want to get out there in the comments.
Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 (PAEA). Under PAEA, USPS was forced to “prefund its future health care benefit payments to retirees for the next 75 years in an astonishing ten-year time span” — meaning that it had to put aside billions of dollars to pay for the health benefits of employees it hasn’t even hired yet, something “that no other government or private corporation is required to do.”
As consumer advocate Ralph Nader noted, if PAEA was never enacted, USPS would actually be facing a $1.5 billion surplus today
I felt my apartment swaying back and forth slightly, just subtly enough to make me wonder if it was coming from the construction eternally happening on Houston Street. But there was no noise. And confusing me was the lack of reaction from people on the street. The shaking lasted about 10-15 seconds but it never felt I was in danger, so I went to my roof to see what I could see. By the time I got there the people, in the building under construction to become a Union Market on Houston Street and Avenue A, had wisely evacuated.
Cell phone service here was clogged for a half hour. Nuclear plants, near epicenter were automatically shut down, something to keep an eye on.
Update: the power company officials say no release to environment, no damage to plant or dam and back-up diesel is running.
I was walking uptown on Centre Street and happened on this protest outside Manhattan Criminal Court, just when the protesters decided to leave their free-speech pens and take it briefly to the streets.
cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/23/protesters-gather-before-strauss-kahn-hearing/
This raccoon visited our camp every night. She (we decided she looked feminine) seemed almost tame. She boldly walked among us in the dark, showing no fear, only revealing herself by the soft patter of her feet a foot behind us, or her nose gently nuzzling the trash. I suspect other campers gave into her charms and fed her. We named her Cooler.
She wasn’t able to get into the cans.
These defenses kept this raccoon out of the the food, but obviously the bag is at bear dining height and the rocks on the cooler would also be no challenge.
Yelling at her or shining our flashlights in her direction had little effect. But flash photography seemed to annoy her enough to make her go away until I went to sleep.
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