“Inspiring talk from the DICE 2011 summit by puppeteer/animator/director John Stevenson, who got his start working on the Muppet Show and is probably best known for co-directing Kung-Fu Panda. In it John discusses his career, his relationship with Jim Henson and why he believes love is the most important element in everything you do.” Puppet Vision Blog. He’s a foul-mouthed, hyper-kinetic curmugeon, and talks about being inspired by Ray Harryhausen’s Cyclops from The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad at age 6, and going on to work with Jim Henson. I haven’t seen Kung-Fu Panda, but now I want to.
This stretch of the promenade looks to be about 90% complete, but the Lower East Side Ecology Center is still being used by the construction crew as their offices.
radiationnetwork.com A map composed of live feeds from digital Geiger counters around the nation. So far they are all reading within the range of normal background radiation. A count of over 100/minute is considered an alert level and the icon for the location will turn red.
Melatonin, Vitamin C, garlic, onions, juicing whole citrus fruits, kelp and nori, and wheat grass juice are some of the simpler nutritional protections recommended for radiation protection by Gary Null. He lists many more 22 minutes into this podcast.
On Sat., March 19, from 5 to 6 PM, anti-war groups will hold a protest rally at the Times Square recruiting station on Military Island, Broadway at 44th St., to demand that all troops be brought home from Iraq and Afghanistan immediately. The event, coordinated by the local chapter of Veterans for Peace and by Grandmothers Against the War, will be held on the day 8 years from the invasion of Iraq by the U.S. on March 19, 2004.
“Thousands of American military and hundreds of thousands of innocent civilian deaths later, it is past time to end these senseless and tragic wars and occupations, bring our exhausted soldiers home and deploy the billions of dollars wasted on these unconscionable interventions to our urgent domestic needs,” said Bill Gilson, Vice President of Chapter 34 of Veterans for Peace NYC.
Cong. Charles Rangel will be a featured speaker, as will State Sen. Bill Perkins. After comments by other political and peace movement leaders and songs provided by the Raging Grannies, promptly at 6 PM patriotic volunteers will commit non-violent civil disobedience.
