There ought to be a law...

I have a couple of hundred cans from beverages everyone sells, from gas-stations to pharmacies, made of aluminum that we pay in NYC 0.05 cents a can for (60 cents a 12 pack case, popular package for the containers, some places, now water bottles are too in New York to help the poor out who collect them, thanks to the Sierra Club I read) anyway I cruised around and around and finally found a parking lot by the Bruckner Expressway in front of a Pathmark grocery, and there was about 4-6 machines and many people with the largest black plastic bags I've ever seen. Why don't they make more of them available somewhere away from major arteries? Should be some sort of requirement, i.e., if the catchment area can create 100,000 cans, maybe it should have a couple of machines. What do you say Mr. "bottler"? (or Dr "bottler"). The small stores will only take 10 or 20 at a time. Is that legal?

Rare sculpture of Tut to be exhibited on Long Island

"The Museum of Long Island Natural Sciences, at Stony Brook University, will be exhibiting a unique portrait sculpture of the pharaoh Tutankhamun, on September 23, 7:00 - 10:00 p.m."

Crawford pow-wow

"Yesterday at Camp Casey was again, naturally, an amazing day. Dennis Means from the A.I.M. came with a group of Native American musicians and they made a presentation to me. He gave me a shawl in the tradition of Tecumseh and he pinned a brooch of 5 stars on it from "One chief to another." He also said we should all change our last names to Sheehan and he will be known as: Dennis Means Sheehan! Sheehan is Gaelic for "Peace" which I think is such a cool thing, and not a coincidence. Casey Sheehan's sacrifice will stand for peace forever."

Where's the Emperor Commodus? (Joaquin Phoenix)

August 11, 2005 - directed the video for 'Tired of Being Sorry' by the band "Ringside"

News from around the world - Los Angeles Times

News from around the world - Los Angeles Times: "Historic New York New York City has opened a Heritage Tourism Center at Broadway and Barclay Street in Lower Manhattan to help visitors learn more about historic attractions downtown and elsewhere in the city. In addition, a new promotion from CityPass and the History Channel hopes to encourage visitors to the Big Apple to take a look at these and other historic attractions." The day before 9/11/01, a French para-sailer got stuck in the Statue of Liberty, who "New York's Finest" disentangled from the torch, and the History Channel (or Discovery?) had a replica of the first submarine "The Turtle" in Castle Clinton at the foot of Manhattan. It was a large barrel with propulsion and attempted to attach a charge to a British warship in NYC's harbor back during the War for Independence. A much finer replica was to follow.

CBS News counters bloggers with 'nonbudsman' | Tech News on ZDNet

Tech News on ZDNet: "CBS News counters bloggers with 'nonbudsman'

CBS blogs the bloggers with a blog "not" of their own.

In Canada "ombudsmen" are there to help the citizen with what might be government problems between offices and departments. If you think for example one department may have treated your "application" (or something else) incorrectly for reasons beyond your control (say your mortgage wasn't approved, or something for what you think is some other "nonofficial" reason) you can seek the independent "ombudsman" to look into it for you. I think in NYC the "Public Advocate" office is a similar office. After all Tammany Hall thought "civil service" the direct root of "Anarchism" when party loyals, returning from service (war and other things) could not be given a job, but had to pass "civil service" tests, which I was taught began in China thousands of years ago to regulate "hydraulic" water, for farming through canal construction, regulation, etc. Like the "Milagro Beanfield War" all over the place.

The Blog | Erica Jong: George in Purgatory | The Huffington Post

"He must really getting into Purgatory recently. New York's Congressman Charles Wrangel, who made sure there'd be no draft apparently, when last year they passed legislation, (he's a Vietnam Veteran from Harlem in Manhattan) said that he's really wondering about Vice President Cheney's abilities of late, and whether he can or is able to understand conversation and other functions, because of his heart condition. At least so said the ticker at the bottom of the screen yesterday."

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" said... ''Return to the Forbidden Planet' opens season for Batavia theater' Coming to a theatre near you! Maybe...Steven should do this musical instead...(based on 'The Tempest' which Aldous Huxley dictated about on his death bed. He claimed it was actually Shakespeare's first play, every thing came after, and because of its controversial topics, put on last). This film could be a good reason to put an outpost on the moon. I worked in 3D from 2D photos computer imagery from a program made by the researcher measuring the laser beams bounced off the Moon from the mirrors left there. Where's the Apollo? All the others were crashed for seismic, where's 'Eagle'? No one knows...(possible plot for a film?) 5:48 PM"

Eagle dies at Aurora zoo; West Nile feared

Trouble in Wayne's World

BAGnewsNotes: Bush In Crawford: Calling It Curtains

"Western White House" reminds me of a ex-Yippie I once met. He (who either tongue-in-cheek or well I don't know) said he was an illigitimate son of George Metesky, "NYC's Mad Bomber" who terrorized the citizenry for 16 years with non-lethal bombs, I think a disgruntled ConEd employee (Con Edison once had the first "White House Press Secretary" George B. Cortelyou as its CEO, according to my research and his standing at its museum on 14th Street there. He once taught shorthand in NYC, before becoming Chairman of the Republican Party among other jobs, 3 Cabinet posts) told me there was a theory about Nixon's "Western White House", San Clemente Island, which also had special ops launched from there Gyrodyne built thingies I think. There, they thought, President Nixon had at one time some sort of secret brain operation, which Yippies knew about but nobody else did. They liked Nixon up until that time, he changed they thought because of it. I hope President Bush isn't pushing President Reagan around in a wheelchair as it was once reported in tabloids President Clinton President Kennedy.

What me worry? Words of Mass Deception?

The Times states "Still, the British hired 30,000 German Hessians to help them battle the revolutionaries in the American War of Independence." In NYC they made them the police, near the Fulton Ferry in Brooklyn where the Explorer's Club used to meet on Doughty Street (he was the first English minister in New Amsterdam, burnt out of Masbeth, Queens). I read 1/2 of them defected over the British Policy. Many of the troops set against Virginians were Irish merceneries according to the remains analyzed at Fort Niagara. Bad policy makes for defection, should we worry? Posted by: George Myers | Aug 27, 2005

BAGnewsNotes: Iraq: The Game

"The Times states 'Still, the British hired 30,000 German Hessians to help them battle the revolutionaries in the American War of Independence.' In NYC they made them the police, near the Fulton Ferry in Brooklyn where the Explorer's Club used to meet on Doughty Street (Rev. Doughty was the first English minister in New Amsterdam, his group of settlers burnt out of Masbeth, Queens). I read as many as 1/2 of yje Hessians over all defected from the British, perhaps over the British Policy. Many of the troops set against Virginians were Irish merceneries according to the remains analyized at Fort Niagara. Bad policy makes for defection, should we worry? ("Virginians were tall, Irish were short")

Brave New Yorkers

Before 9/11/01 I was selected for Grand Jury duty in the Borough of the Bronx one summer (not too bad 4 weeks $40 a day, I was between jobs, there's a "suburban shopping center" across the street now with a food court) and was elected "Foreman" (who I went to school with hello, Fran.) We had about 240 cases brought before us, at which I had to swear in witnesses, either with the ishkabibble or another more "generic" recitation available for the police who choose the option (they should provide better copies). Fortunately, I had an Aussie blue "cobber" around my neck, as the AC wasn't the best, but a whole new facility is going up with a "Bronx High School of Law" in it next door for future hearings. (Hello Bronx Sci-High!) Well, these police were out undercover doing many $5-$20 buys of crack cocaine as street people, much of that junk (that too) coming from gangs in New Jersey, perhaps. Anyway these brave NYers should be commended. However, that doesn't mean I agree with it, when people from NJ can just walk away from the crime without the time. I grew up on the corner of 143rd and Third Ave. in the Patterson Houses there until 3rd grade, out on Long Island. Well, a Mr. Shabazz, he sees this woman, she's real pretty, but she wants some crack. He, a Muslim, thinks the woman really ought to have a beer or something instead and takes the money. He is jumped and wrestled to the ground by the police in waiting. The police are also being secretly video-taped by higher-ups to 'fight corruption' (according to an exclusive to the NY Post, 3000+ videotapes). Mr. Shabazz is locked up and hurt. He comes up to the Grand Jury Room to explain. The woman cop later sues the NYC Police Dept. for forcing her into the role. I have to sign for these 240 cases, for the record, the jurors are anonymous, except for my assistant, I think, who voluteers to work with quadraplegic veterans. These are brave New Yorkers, all of them. Under the US Constitution, one is guaranteed a jury trial for any amount over $20, and I would say these are brave people. Decriminalize some of these charges, will you?

BAGnewsNotes: Your Turn: Facing Fallujah

I was first reminded of 'Blade Runner' the film which revolves around retinal scanning after the 'double' fad (or cloning or the 'doppelganger') and the 'greenhouse factor' come to pass (back in 1980 according to the script, I was a 'Planetary Atmosphere' student during the Mars Viking Lander). Then I thought if all magic is science, science we just haven't seen before, what might someone attribute to this 'science' as they found out about it. Perhaps it should be used while handing out a voter's identification. I read 10 years ago they tried that in Mexico, the card, provided by a US firm, I don't know how well it went. Many are still denied voting rights in the US, after the 'motor voter registration' crusade. 'DECKARD (V.O.) Every government that could was racing to populate their colonial territory. But emigrants needed incentive. Over-population and the greenhouse factor didn't seem to be enough; but owning a human look-a-like had lots of appeal. It was big industry, the competition was stiff and Tyrell was top of the line.' BLADE RUNNER Screenplay by HAMPTON FANCHER July 24, 1980 Brighton Productions Inc. 1420 No. Beachwood Drive Hollywood, Calif. 90028

Re: 250 Water St., Manhattan, NY

Hello Don! Kinda' of late when I decided to send that, "Germania Hall" is just listed as "bowling alley" in City history book that came out, big volume. The National Guard was once just that here in NYC when it was the Capital of the US. The thing is these draft riots were terrible, blacks were killed its said, etc. $300 got you out of the Draft then. Anyway the head of this Guard unit was in "courts martial" for whatever he did with the unit, its hard to get back into those records. Apparently, there were a lot of way Upstate guys in it from Plattsburg, NY etc. They walked to Washington, DC to guard the Capital, and I have this feeling they were guarding landmarks down there. These other State Militias became the "National Guard" in the rest of the country. I met a Resident Advisor who was there at Kent State, and the cop, Sergeant Myers, there says, he could never understand it, there were some rambunctious kids the night before but he had the situation under control! Anyway, I don't think I could get but I might be in Manhattan on Friday, next to the "Irish Punt" on Exchange Place between Broad and William Sts., where the office is on the 13th floor where they pay $13 an hour. Good to hear from you again. Hope things in California are working OK. I am trying to write a history of place after staying there for 2 1/2 days which has an Upper Hudson Railroad, North Creek Railroad Depot Museum, whitewater rafting, and it's trying to get an "interconnect" with Gore Mountain Ski Area, especially since its where the skiing started before shifting up the Peaceful Valley Road. So they have a 200 acre parcel, put houses and retail in, start up the ski lift again and people can get there from 3600 foot high Gore and vice versa. In the meantime I have to figure what if any archaeological resources might be impacted by development, then the State can say they upheld the law. The Mohawk Indians lived nearby, were there when settlers got there. They sold the over 1 million acres to us (The Adirondack Park Agency, part of the oldest state forest preserve in the US is 3X the size of Yellowstone and larger than the Commonwealth of Massachusetts!) Anyway NYers spend 100 million in Vermont each winter, 200 million in private investment wants to get some of them back home.

Re: 250 water St., Manhattan

Hello y'all, That last long winded message went everywhere but to Landmarks! Return to sender the address didn't work though there site invites you to use it. I get carried away sometimes writing early in the AM. Jeeez Louise! Can't talk to your public officials without an appointment! Best regards, George Myers

Hello Landmarks archaeology,

I studied archaeology in fieldschool with Sherene Baugher back before she became the LPC's first archaeologist. My father was born at 660 Water Street on the day after Christmas on his family's kitchen table, the youngest of eleven children to a father who was a real estate reporter and a mother who was once "Bedloe's Nanny" from where she was once the nanny to the caretaker there on Liberty Island. The 660 Water Street location had to be vacated as some of the first City projects, the Alfred E. Smith Houses were built in 1937. Mr Smith grew up across the street from 250 Water Street which brings me to the topic of this email.

In 1994 I sent a copy of my research to Mr. Pagano on the lot bounded by Pearl, Beekman, Water and Peck Slip, one of the last parking lots in Lower Manhattan (though the one behind 40 Exchange Place has gone first) for Greenhouse Consultants Inc., for one of the Milstein family I was given to understand. I had not worked for Greenhouse since then until recently. They have handed me finally, what they say the client "sat on" from 1995 to 2000 when it was finally put together. I warned Mr. Pagano about this and I have found my fears have been proven true. The copy is sub-standard compared to what I had submitted. A similar problem happened at the Bowery in 2000 for Parsons, Inc. research project I worked in partnership with Nancy A. Stehling, MS, RPA, never provided either the opportunity to see edits, or provided with a final copy supplied to the client and to Landmarks for your review I assume. I am not happy about the state of scholarship overview which should be required by law, though I understand the City Charter only gives power to you through the Planning Commission. Common decency might at least have provided copies of both or either reports to the writers. When I think of the amount of large numbers of $'s involved, I just see it as exploitation of the whole process, not just my input, almost a mockery of a sham. Perhaps a guideline to check if what was sent is what you see is needed.

You may or may not know the politics of 250 Water St., where the City's water, from the tunnel under Manhattan being dug must come up there or One Police Plaza, where police park for free in a park once slated to be a public park, Cabrini Park, after the famous women Catholic of NYC. The Dinkins Administration in fact as I recall considered condemning the 250 Water St. site (almost a mockery of the National Register Building across the street 251 Water St., the citation left out of the Greenhouse report, the "250" actually a huge block of addresses formally) on behalf of the greater public need resulting from the rezoning of the tops of older office buildings for apartments, upgraded offices, etc.

I am currently working for Greenhouse Consultants on a a job that once had a Saks Fifth Ave. "Ski Train" come to it, in North Creek, NY in the Southern Adirondacks next door to Gore Mountain. The County, Warren named after a General who died at Bunker Hill, however was actually started by native of NYC and owned the Post Office on Wall Street a Mr. Thurman. Perhaps you could work some intellectual honesty into the review process, I am not happy about 295 Bowery also, perhaps the site of National Guard members called out in the Draft Riots and in defence of Washington, D.C. before mustered out on Brother Island in my borough the Bronx being ignored in the report I researched and prepared. It seems we are becoming to "architectural" and forgetting social history's place in our landscape of ideas. Next door in Germania Hall, Kate Mulaney, her house now on the Register in Troy, NY, sitting next to Susan B. Anthony, once on our $1 coin, was the first women elected to union management. The compulsory participation clause in unions was found un-Constitutional leading to unions run by outsiders. So similarly is our heritage becoming dangerously subject to whatever what company thinks is in its and others best interest. The people who work with the primary and secondary documents should be protected and at least have the opportunity to know what their work is turned into.

I have worked on many, many sites from Fort McHenry, MD to the Waverly Plantation, MS to the Moore Cabin in the Klondike Gold Rush Historic Park, Skagway, Alaska and on sites in Manhattan, i.e., the 175 Water St. Site, the Almshouse Burial Ground for three different "companies," Moore-Jackson Cemetery and elsewhere and I find that some simple rules should be written into the review process so writers also have rights to their literal representations.


Best regards,

George Myers
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Troops' gravestones have Pentagon slogans

AP - ARLINGTON, Virginia - Unlike earlier wars, nearly all Arlington National Cemetery gravestones for troops killed in Iraq or Afghanistan are inscribed with the slogan-like operation names the Pentagon selected to promote public support for the conflicts. Link

Dee Dee's Mom was named Arlington (wouldn't be her Dad would it?)

Gmail - South Central Hisatorical Archaeology Conference

I had the pleasure of meeting the Shelby County historian (Memphis, TN) while working on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Barge Canal archaeology around the Waverly Plantation and Bay Springs, MS with William H. Adams and a number of historical archaeologists. I also had the pleasure of seeing my Uruguayan co-worker there find out that a Fulbright scholar had "taking care" (well the Museum of Man in Paris had something to do with it too) of the hydroelectric dam impacts between Brazil-Uruguay. My point, any way was a question. The Shelby County historian told me that in the Bicentennial, in Tishomingo, MS (NE corner of the state near the highest point and the one of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War, Shiloh, Tennessee, where its said folk music started) was found certain letters published for the bicentennial that had former Vice President Aaron Burr staying in Tishomingo, (also a band) which the historian thought very interesting. Anything further on the executive that led to the amendment requiring the President and Vice President be from the same party (where I hypothesize, the Electoral College was created for a two party Executive Oval Room? I hope you don't mind me chaining this to the announcement. I would recommend "The Bicycle Club" and "Hueys".

Gmail - time capsules and building cornerstones

time capsules and building cornerstones Sarah Miller I'm finishing a paper on a time capsule we recovered last year and was wonder... Jul 14 Ron May Sarah, In this evolving world of Homeland Security, construction at a local s... Jul 17 Ruffino Jane Can I resurrect this post, and this request? I'm interested in references any... 4:31 am (9 hours ago) George Myers to HISTORICAL 11:33 am (2 hours ago) I just saw the site of one that was placed recently, in the Tannery Pond Community Center, a new building over the pond where once hides from all over the world (upwards of 30,000 a year) were tanned in the hamlet of North Creek, NY in the Southern Adirondacks, on the Upper Hudson River, about 40 miles from its origin in the pond, Tear of the Cloud. Hemlock was sawn into 4 foot logs and turned into a "liquor" for tanning there in the 19th century. The 4' logs were sluiced into town from high elevations. In the Community Center (across the street from the Town of Johnsburg Town Hall which is celebrating its bicentennial, 1805) is also a hemlock log with the tree rings counted back in time, it blown over in a storm. I was just there doing research for a Gore Mountain development. George Myers (They ever find the one in the US Capitol? I think they lost one in NYC City Hall too? It wasn't in the Almshouse Cemetery in City Hall Park. Though the Catholic contribution, a stone for the Washington Monument was ditched in the Potomac River by vandals.)

Live From Crawford, Texas…Joan Baez… | The Huffington Post

Last time I was close to Joan Baez was in the mirror dance exercise room at Stony Brook University. She played there in the old gym, where many, many performed in the 60's 70's and 80's (should be on some sort of Register like Electric Lady Land studios in NYC or something) she was giving an interview but had gotten quite hoarse. She tried to tell us (I was working as Gym Security work-study weekends) she had two researchers she hired trying to understand the violence in Ireland. She had a 'Coney Island Girls' jacket on when she first came to check out the 'stage' which to me was funny she came down to the Hogfarm stage at Woodstock where I had seen her last to sing. Wavy Gravy's thing and all that, that's where I sat after hearing the 'Quarry'. Beats me if they paid off Abbie Hoffman not to show up and make trouble. The chain link didn't last long in the heat of the sun, at least that's what I saw, a couple of trailers and the whole deal came down walking along a country road. Posted by: George Myers on August 22, 2005 at 04:43PM"

Gmail - Archaeology and photographs

This is a second try something, went somewhere.

At the West Point Foundry, (in the fifth season of excavation by Michigan Technological University according to the Society of Industrial Archeology, that site in a "sea of brick" [Edward Rutsch et al] from a 24 hour chlorine fire fought by 700 [clippings in the West Point Foundry School Museum] until a fire in 1913 twisted the over 500 ft.(?) long "Bridge Shop" into ruins. alongside the rail yard on foundry fill) on the east side of the Hudson River in Cold Spring, NY (toponym supplied by George Washington) was an EPA sponsored remediation in Foundry Cove, part of the surrounding environs of Constitution Island, which had fortifications designed by forgotten patriot of Dutch heritage, Bernard Romans, predating the Military Academy, ca. 1803.

Grossman and Associates worked on a number of Superfund sites for the EPA from about 1989-1994 while I was employed there. The West Point Foundry under private control patented the large rifled cannon (more like a rifled musket) that was used to win the Civil War. The company recovered, after cartographic research and a magnetometer survey the remains of perhaps of the prototype of the "Swamp Angel" in the Foundry marsh from a photo of a map in the museum. There is some story of "Swamp Angel" inspiring the only known shooting on White House grounds, about a man and a woman, according to a Westchester Historical Society correspondence.

Another part of the site had stereo-pairs photos from about the time the Foundry was for sale (with main offices in NYC) taken from various distances. One was enigmatically showing perhaps four foundry houses though it was thought at first to show only two. The other two, though the heat, haze, some smoke, and some funny developer, were perhaps of the "Virginia" foundation style shown in Glassey's work of Virginia house patterns, a double wing with a central "square" of stone construction, perhaps showing some of the earlier designers there. After the "jungle" was cleared off the hillside, where the hundreds of trucks would be brought down from the high road to construct a dike or dam in the cove to de-water the muds to be combined with concrete and hauled out on the previous rail-bed reutilized, as it was arrived at from study, instead of through the town of Cold Spring, the foundations were photo-grammetrically recorded with a Rolleimetric system in development with the Canadian firm Prometric Technologies of Markham. Ontario who provided the training, advice and expertise we used to record some plans, profiles, and surfaces for 3D reconstruction on Intel 40386/387 computers (earlier cpu and math unit).

I am not familiar with the other design of projecting photos onto the landscape. Many of the plans and profiles I reconstructed didn't end up in the reports since the photos are usually stunning when so well lit. The stereo-pair photos (of which there are others, i.e., "the dynamite gun" made out of pipe sections, when the foundry made many iron building "floor-to-ceiling" supports is documented and an "inventor" of a similar system in Vermont was assassinated in Amsterdam while we were in the field, later Iraq was accused of having similar designs, and other late 19th century arms are seen, perhaps also developed there, where R.P Parrott patented a rifled cannon with an outside band of metal, which was used to win the American Civil War. Though the larger examples are often discussed, it was the smaller mobile 20 pounders which were probably most effective (would explain the 30,000 gun carriages and just over 1 million shells).

If the stereo-pairs of the West Point Foundry in Cold Spring, NY had not existed I doubt as much archaeologically would have been excavated under the greenhouses in the marsh and on the hill next to town and the schoolhouse museum.

I did sign a 10 year silent partner agreement and I don't think any of this discusses the actual remediation designed by Malcolm Pirnie, Inc. so I didn't think permission was needed. But as they say the lawyer that has himself as a client, which I'm not...

George Myers

Sean Penn's Dispatch From Iran... | The Huffington Post

"Thanks Mr. Penn. I haven't heard an eye-witness report from Iran since the early 1980's. On Long Island, about 3,000 Grumman employees once lived in a compound there, training Iranian pilots to fly their F-14 ('Tomcat' 'Topgun' ah, will fall sometimes out of the air, until modified, will be retired over the next few years from the US Navy). The Shah of Iran (General Schwartzkopf's father helped put that system in place in the 1930's, an American Expeditionary Force) had bought 100 of them. The F-14's test pilot and wife, she has a Ph.D. in Anthropology now, were there and on his birthday I was invited over to the house, a grad student at Stony Brook University, which also had a few Iranian students in engineering there, (a Reza ? I remember was going to take a job as a 'Cleaner' which I also took, part of the union, CSEA). We were sitting watching 'ISHI' then the news came on, and it stated we would blow up all the F-14's if the USSR made a move for the Iranian border, after the US Embassy seizure. It stated the air-to-air missile technology was top-secret. Shortly thereafter 'Nuke Iran' bumper stickers appeared. Some odds for then President Carter huh? Let's see if we send five air-craft carriers we'd have the same number of F-14's? ('Anytime, baby' their shoulder patch. It became 'Make my day' I think, a tiger cat in a boxing ring with gloves on). Thanks again. Posted by: George Myers on August 22, 2005 at 12:14PM"

Russia Has Monopoly On Shuttle Program Now That NASA Has Grounded Fleet... | The Huffington Post

"It's not a garbage truck, they're more like B-52's I think, they are always getting upgraded within the initial design, until something better can be designed, like the Russian 'Klyper' which will replace the Soyuz (much 'older' than the Orbiter even, I think) and besides what can haul that much garbage?"

The Blog | Erica Jong: George in Purgatory | The Huffington Post

This song by 'Mantis' reminded me of your story: 'Furnace of Desire' on 'Moonshine Tabernacle'. I lost a friend in a shoot-out in a 'Dante's', a bar in Centereach. Illmars Peipins helped me with that, reading prose from a publication, Ms. Jong also appeared in, 'Center' something, back before 'Fear of Fifty'. I wish her daughter the best of luck in the times that are a changing. I'd like to close with Marianne Faithfull - ['Before the Poison'] 'My Friends Have'. Good night. I must tomorrow write about Gore Mountain history and the A. Hitchcock road there...North Creek, NY is where T. Roosevelt was told Pres. McKinley was dead after the shooting in Buffalo, NY (where Mr. Peipins lived) he had been climbing Mt. Marcy. Posted by: George Myers on August 21, 2005 at 08:34PM

Gmail - Poured Cement Ballast

I was wondering is that how some sites might have been constructed using ships as breakwaters also. One site I happened to come upon in GoogleEarth is on the north shore of Long Island, NY just east of Friars Head and west of Roanoke Point I think. The satellite photo shows 4 or more ships (240'+) sunk to create a secured egg shape (broken at which end? hmm...) harbor. Other than this recent visual, I haven't a clue to their purpose, though I once hear rumors that a sub-base or other coastal defenses were in place near the Old Field Light or further east. Anyone know? If the GoogleEarth program is accessible I have a location for it there under "Fun and Games" (on their BBS).

Man and His Symbols

Always feeling sorry for pandas, and living currently near the world-renown "Bronx Zoo" (which once having saved the American bison from extinction [you can hear a "Bronx cheer" come from one of them if you get close enough] currently has one of the largest collections of "snow leopards" [ounce also in the dictionary] I thought to comment about what I heard about pandas. They have very little time to sleep! They have to eat and eat and eat just to get nutrition from bamboo, which many mammals would find hard to live on. This book/argument might be an example of taking a problem in taxonomy, that is some wonder if the panda's related to the raccoon, some to the bear, so lets really stir it up by introducing "intelligent design" there where there's still research to be done. One was born in the US the other day, a couple of pounds and a foot long. Just for the record the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) won their suit against the wrestlers, though I had some problem with China executing poachers of pandas, they staying the WWF's recognized symbol. "Man and His Symbols"! (kudos to Dr. Carl G. Jung)