gardens, gentrification

The Roving Garden Party

Here is an interesting event I received in an email today. I thought I’d pass the message along for anyone who happens to be in the neighborhood.

Roving Garden Party!
Saturday, June 16th, 2007, 2:00pm, Center of Tompkins Square Park

Join us to loudly celebrate the gardens saved, lost and endangered in the Lower East Side.
On our second annual Roving Garden Party, follow the Rude Mechanical Orchestra, Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir, and Roving Bicycle-Gardens on a parade to visit and celebrate the beautiful gardens that grow in the Lower East Side.
Come with yourself, your friends, family, kids dogs or bike dressed in a garden-themed costume. Party kicks off at 2pm in Tompkins Square Park and continues to various gardens, lost, saved and endangered. We will end at a picnic-party at the Children’s Magical Garden de Carmen Rubio, at the corner of Norfolk and Stanton. More details and participants to be announced. Bring plants, seeds and food to share!
To help plan our second annual Roving Garden Party check back for planning meetings and prop-making workshops TBA or email the Time’s Up! garden committee.
Times Up!
xupgardening@gmail.com

Have a great day.

people

I’ve Been Peopleized

Hey Bloggers, I’ve been Peopleized. I have been been interviewed for a website where people interview people. If you would by any chance be interested in reading No Police State Girls thoughts about blogging, you can read them here. You can also sign up to join Peopleized.com, make interviews and get promoted yourself. You can read lots of interviews on their site, new interviews and most favoured interviews. You can also browse interviews by categories. Their website seems like a great community. Have a great day.

Entertainment, News

The News Room

I am always interested in reading the news. I watch, listen to or read the daily news whenever I can online or in print. Enter The News Room. News you can use. TheNewsRoom’s website is great for reading the news online. Their site has all of the wire news feeds such as Reuters, Associated Press, CBS News, NHL, VIBE, News USA, Medialink, Insider Medicine, Business Wire, Al Bawaba, El Universal and many others that offer video, audio, text, and image news content from the top sources around the world. You can find Local, World, Business, Politics, Health, Science, Entertainment, Life and Sports news at their site. What’s really great and different about this news site is that you can mash and embed news content, text, images, videos and news feeds on to your site and get paid for it. Each time news content mashed from TheNewsRoom is viewed on your site, you earn money via advertising share. You’ll also earn money when someone mashes content from your site and it is viewed on theirs. Now that sounds awesome. You can also earn vacations, cars and other prizes when you participate. There are thousands of videos and articles to choose from. I embedded the following video from their site and their videos are super easy to embed. If you are a website publisher or blogger who wants to earn money by embedding quality news on your site, you can join TheNewsRoom for free, mash for cash and start earning today. This is a sponsored post.

Dafur, genocide, Sudan

Save Darfur

Much has been said about Sudan these days. The title “Save Darfur” is unfortunately to be read in a lot of media outlets. Much has been said, there is a crisis, but has anything been done to end the crisis? Sudan is another genocide and every so often genocides occur in this world for reasons I cannot comprehend. And what is genocide except the killing of a population of people, I cannot understand. Is it a holocaust, a war, and for what reason if any at all? This is a definition for Wikipedia itself. I do not even know the exact story of the genocide in Sudan, only that there are genocide atrocities going on right now in the Darfur region and millions of people are losing their lives and being displaced from their homes. Wikipedia says the government mal military militia militant are attacking the tribes. The BBC News says it is the story of the Janjaweed. The ones protecting them are their very oppressors. This colloquialism term is derived from “Jihadist Mujahideen Riding a Horse.” The term “Janjaweed” was synonymous with bandit, as these horse or camel borne fighters were known to swoop in on farms and steal livestock and raid villages. Does this mean the state sponsored government is solely responsible for the loss of life? And this is all confusing to me. In Sudan, this time the Devil comes on horseback with armed hor-semen. Is this written in prophecy somewhere also as other genocides in other countries in the history of the time? And what does this have to do with a No Police State? Peace on earth. Save Darfur.

music

The Bovine Music Show

Hey Bloggers, if you are looking for some interesting music to listen to today, No Police State Girl’s No Police State song is part of the May 29 edition of Sallymae Hogsby’s Bovine Music Show Podcasts . A variety of homemade music just like Mom used to make!
This podcast features artists Duf Davis & The Book Club, Anti-Gravity Workshop, Ingrown Toenail Tattoo, Napalmed, No Police State Girl, Arnold Mathes, Puppet Griff, Buzzsaw & the Shavings, Les Sourires Trompeurs, Catfish, Colour Kane, Inay. Have a great day.

candles

Eco-Candles

Soy candles, now that’s interesting. I’ve heard of beeswax candles and of course the standard petroleum wax candles, but never soy candles. Soy candles sound way cool because from what I know about the soy bean, it has always been the best alternative for meat products and milk and is a very nutritional and environmentally conscious product with a wide variety of ways that it can be used. One can now find a new line of environmentally conscious soy candles at Caterpillars Creations. They make custom soy candles that are all natural and handcrafted. Caterpillars candles are an alternative to paraffin wax, free of pesticides, herbicides and genetically modified crops. Their scented candles have authentic fragrant oils that are biodegradable, kosher and %100 percent natural. So whether you are looking to relax and unwind or just for that special occasion, Caterpillar candles are there for you. Use coupon code FREE5 and save 5% off your order. This is a sponsored review.

food

The Land of Plenty

And while I am on the topic of food, is the earth really on fire? Literally it may be for there are wildfires raging in several states and countries now. Are forest fires the norm? I am not a scientist and I do not follow the weather pattens of history, only I do see the headlines of global warming everywhere now. And the food crops, the drying and browning of the earth is causing concerns. For feast or famine, the news has it that farmers are in an emergency crisis over the loss of millions of dollars from damaged, destroyed and lost crops this past year from freezes and frosts and farmers in the South are seeing the worst drought they have ever seen in the past thirty years with no end in sight. Yet the supermarkets are stocked to the rim, the restaurant and catering businesses are flourishing, the harvests are plentiful and milk and honey (at least milk) is overflowing freely.

famine, honeybees

The Bees are Dying

I just comprehended from the news yesterday that the bees are dying and that this could mean the end of the human race. I read an article the other day about the honeybees disappearing and dying off but I did not fully register it until yesterday why all of the recent honeybee articles and blog entries. Apparently honeybees are the most important insect to the human food chain. They pollinate %80 of the fruits, vegetables and nuts that we eat and are responsible for a third of the food we eat. No bees, no fruits and vegetables, no cattle, no life. Where have all the flowers gone? Scientists are calling this disappearing, vanishing bee colony syndrome Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). CCD has affected half of the bee population of the United States and parts of Europe. This is the first national affliction and scientists are attributing this to cell phone usage and other factors such as mites, pesticides, genetically modified food and global warming. Bees fly away from their hives and are unable to navigate their way back to their hives due to the interference of radiation from mobile phones and other high tech gadgets that interfere with a bees navigation system. This year hundreds of beekeepers opened their beehives to find empty boxes. Albert Einstein once said “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years left to live.” Are the bees the canary in the coal mine? Is this written in prophecy somewhere? Are the Mayans correct, is 2012 near? Is the earth on fire? Is this the beginning of the end? Will it be bread and water from hereafter? Will everyone in the world give up their cell phones in order to avoid a worldwide famine or will scientists just invent more cloned, fake food? Here is a quote I saw on another website in regards to the bees:
Revelation 6:6
Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a day’s wages, and three quarts of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!”
This passages describe “a time of famine in the last days when life will be reduced to the barest necessities.” Grape and olive oil production will only be minimally impacted by Colony Collapse Disorder while much of the fruit, vegetable and nut production will be severely reduced resulting in famine. These end time biblical prophecies are coming to pass within our own lifetimes. If you believe. Have a great day.

diet, food, nutrition

Food Glorious Food

I am a fan of food. Cooking and eating food is one of the greatest things to do in life. Eat, drink, and be merry…Food is life. Do I ever think about how many calories are in food? Not really, I am not exactly sure what a calorie even is. A calorie could be something about a heat unit in food maybe. Well if one does calorie counting for every single calorie of their food because they are on a diet or for other reasons, MyFitnessPal’s free calorie counter may be just for you. With MyFitnessPal’s calorie counter you can track your diet and your meals quickly and easily. You’ll get the tools you need to lose weight easily. At MyFitnessPal you can learn how to make better food choices and get on the path to a healthier living and lose weight the healthy way and their membership is %100 free. This is a sponsored review.

patriotism

Honoring the Dead and the Fallen?

Today is Memorial Day in America. A celebration of the war day. Another one of those patriotic holidays. The flag wavers are out and yellow ribbons, badges of honor, medals, parades, marches, prayers, patriotic songs, tributes and ceremonies are being broadcast everywhere. The headlines read “Honor the dead soldiers, honor the fallen soldiers and comrades”. Today is the ultimate patriotic fanatic holiday. My question of the day; for what reason is it an honor to volunteer to be fodder for the canon. For what reason is it an honor to die for nothing, to fight for reasons that do not exist, to fight against the flesh for powers that be that one cannot even see. For what reason is it an honor to be so poor that one will volunteer their life in exchange for money after one leaves the service, if one leaves the service. For what reason is it an honor for persons to be brainwashed with propaganda, theirs or mine. For what reason is it an honor to become a violent person and pick up a gun and kill another person for no reason at all. For what reason is it an honor to be a veteran who now make up the majority of the homeless population. For what reason is it an honor to attend one of those military sponsored funerals and cry over the image of a flag that propagates violence, the same flag that caused ones death. For what reason is it an honor to fall and die for nothing. For what reason is it an honor to promote this ideology. What is heroic about all of this? And why does the word “Patriot” have the word “Riot” in it? And why does the word “Military” militant militia have the word “Mal” in it? “Parens Patriarch, Father of our country”, that phrase seems to be the basis of endless deaths of the world. I saw Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 documentary. It is nineteen eighty four and Orwellianism is everywhere at its best today. Is it written somewhere that this must all come to pass? Happy beach bar b queing Memorial day. Peace on earth. And what does this have to do with a No Police State?