OJ Simpson

"I have a theory. Leslie Nielsen of Yellowknife, (so he said) Canada (now the only place in the western hemisphere in commercial diamond mining) used to be a spokesperson for sea otters. Sea otters eat abalone, abalone, one of the most lucrative markets in the tide (I once picked dulse in the Grand Manan Island, N.B., Canada, Bay of Fundy, you have to have sunshine to dry the red seaweed and its only available at certain lunar tides). The lunatic(s) sliced up OJ's wife and friend with an abalone knife for it. I was in Buffalo, NY from 1973-1975 and later would visit."

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Judith Miller is free...

I hope the Washington Post gets an exclusive. Their award-winning investigative department recently published a great piece of research on anthrax, and prior to that the research on the "Wedtech Scandal" here in the Bronx, NY. That was a big boondock boggle, over military bridges (like the ones the cigar smoking character played by Elliot Gould, got from the Brits, "Baileys" I think they're called, in the film, "A Bridge Too Far") supposedly built in an "economic empowerment zone" in the South Bronx, government graft, it was instead. The unsolved anthrax victim, a Vietnamese-American nurse, was from here in the Bronx, NY, Kathy Nguyen. Recently, "conscientious objectors" involved in anthrax experiments, were given medals, according to the WP's book I read from the City Island Public Library. Go get 'em WP!

Dan Rather Wants To Reopen Memogate Investigation But CBS Bosses Have Forbidden Him To…. | The Huffington Post

My cousin George Murray produced the 1976 "dimmycrats and 'publicans" Conventions in 1976 for CBS (said 'Little Lord Fauntleroy' (Cedric Errol Fauntleroy) written by Ms. France(i)s Hodgson Burnett). His wife introduced Avon products in Mexico, where he died. Edwin Newman read at his eulogy in the United Nations Chapel a letter telling his crew in Vietnam (while producing 'NBC Nightly News From New York') that their long investigation into the common soldiers view of the conflict there had been cancelled by 'higher ups'. Strickly speaking, I wasn't at the eulogy. What I think is that the ranchero honchos read CBS's back of the 9/11/01 DVD, and saw '5% of the profits' will go to help those devastated by the events of 9/11/01 (9/10/01 the WTC was up for sale) and decided to do some old fashioned 'range riding' sometimes referred to in the folklore as the 'midnight rider' on Mr. Rather, even though in all of Debrett's 'Texas Peerage' there is one Bush, a cattle king, not related to our schmegegge President. ((Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense) WordWeb 3.03"

Armed and Dangerous - Flipper the firing dolphin let loose by Katrina

Sounds like they should have named the hurricane “George C. Scott� from a film of a similar theme, though I think he lets the dolphins go. “Dolphin� is also the name of pier or post in the water so I also wouldn’t be surprised if this is a “yarn�. However having read “Programming and Meta-programming in the Human Bio-computer� by Dr. John C. Lily, when he was an Army psychiatrist working in LSD-25 and sensory deprivation experiments, the report cited and available through Stewart Brand’s “Whole Earth Catalog� back in the 1970’s, and watching him go on to “The Mind of the Dolphin� research in inter-species communication, I think we can accept that the story is probably true and I would like to object to its praxis, my kin coming from the North Atlantic right whale nursery, Grand Manan Island, NB, Canada.

Go Bill! Another Emmy!

Look at his butt, that scary white eye behind him is. At least the SEC is looking at Tasers and not his butt! I would like to thank them all, his crew, for keeping the question, "Is there anybody out there?" alive long enough to bring back Cosmos, started by the that guy, Carl Sagan, who never said, "...billions and billions" which is actually what our "expedition" to Southwest Asia is costing. General Schwartzkopf's father did it in Iran, then ran the Lindbergh baby kidnapping investigation. Will history repeat itself, said by Karl Marx to always be a tragedy when it does?

Scientists hope to listen for whales so ships can avoid them

Foster's Online, Dover, New Hampshire: "Scientists hope to listen for whales so ships can avoid them" Good shipping whale news...(29,000 moose in Maine can't all be on the roads).

Going Up?

"In April, Otis Elevators celebrated the 150th anniversary of the modern elevator. Primitive elevators have existed since the building of the pyramids. However, in early models, it was common for the cord carrying the cab to break and kill people. This year, the company re-enacted Elisha Graves Otis's safety demonstration at P.T. Barnum's 1853 Crystal Palace Exhibition in New York City. Otis rode a platform in an open shaft and had the cables cut, but instead of his falling, safety gears kicked in and held him. Otis installed the first commercial passenger elevator on March 23, 1857, at a New York City department store. By the 1870s there were 2,000 Otis elevators in service.

There are no federal mandates on elevator safety. The U.S. government doesn't require elevators to be inspected, or that elevator inspectors know what they're doing. It's up to individual states."

One of my uncles, James Myers, whom I've never met, died in an elevator accident in NYC's Hall of Records during WWII, where he was assisting my grandfather, Joseph Myers, a real estate reporter. Jim, the "philosopher" had polio as a youth and was confined to a wheelchair. A famous NY lawyer Basil O'Connor represented the case and was awarded $5000, a lot of money for the time. "Basil (Roman Catholic Church) the bishop of Caesarea who defended the Church against the heresies of the 4th century; a saint and Doctor of the Church (329-379)" WordWeb 3.03

Another uncle, Bill Myers, won a major league baseball contract and was celebrating with the advance in the South Street Seaport area, where our family was then, before moving to the Bronx, when an early morning newspaper delivery truck crashed into their parked car and broke both his legs. So much for the baseball career. We came to the Bronx when the Alfred E. Smith Houses were built (NYC's oldest "projects" named for Al Smith, a famous Catholic politician from Peck Slip originally, celebrated at a dinner every year.) The Peck Slip Post Office there was once the universal address for all parking ticket transactions.

Tell your Ma and tell your Pa, I'm gonna send you back to Arkansas...

Talking about Archaeologists find ancient remains of infants - Science - MSNBC.com I excavated around an adult "twin" burial in City Hall Park, NYC, in 1999, to show its extents, (and others) to get a planned water fountain moved, in the "First Almshouse" cemetery in City Hall's park. Problem is, it was also next to a British Army barracks, the "Village Green" and nearby the Revolutionary War era jail too, so there are also enigmatic burials too. While I was doing so, Mayor Giuliani had the State of Arkansas flag flown over City Hall in 1999. He came out twice, a weekday, and a weekend day to see us. City Councilman Speaker Vallone had legislation immediately passed preventing a mayor from ever ordering a flag flown over City Hall at his or her whim again, the then mayor had called from Arkansas to have it flown. One of the archaeology supervisors was from there. I later had lunch with his former wife's (and newswoman, actor, and former "First Lady" Donna Hanover) police bodyguard in Queens with an investigative journalist. One of the few WWII Merchant Marine Congressional Medal of Honor winners was a friend of our family, Swedish-American, Gus Alm, who lived near the shore on Shore Dr. near Lafayette Ave. in the Bronx, NY. He had been crushed between a boat and ship in a rescue of servicemen from the burning water. There were few medals given to Merchant Mariners I read, who suffered disproportionate losses, and had more people of different ages, than any of the other armed services then and maybe now. My grandfather was in the Merchant Marine for about 20 years enlisted in his 40's, had been "sixteen" in the Canadian Scottish Black Watch troops in the trenches of WWI. His brother, a Master Mariner, was torpedoed while Captain of the "City of Atlanta" off of Cape Hatteras in January, 1942 by U-123, while sailing from NYC to Savannah, Georgia. Two survived out of 45 or 46, he not among the survivors.

Danny Crane, William Shatner's "Boston Legal" role...

Re: POST EMMY STATEMENT 2005 (Score: 1) by georgejmyersjr on Sep 26, 2005 - 10:05 AM It's nice to see Bill get a "piece of the action" from the Federation, though I don't think you could use it in a friendly game of "phizbin". I just wanted to say and thank the guys that ran (or are still running ...stop ...wait) the SciFi Daily blog site, they are some of your most ardent supporters I think from visiting it. If you're a fan, some of the topics and comments are still worth reading and some quite humorous. They affectionately referred to Bill Shatner as the "Shat" (maybe they were sued, doh). Good luck on the further adventures of "Boston Legal" (one of Ms. Locklear's kin, from North Carolina, a Lumbee, was in Bridgewater, NJ talking to the kids while I was there testing for archaeology. They're related to the New York Tuscarora, part of the Iroquois or the "Six Nations" where Bill Shatner came from, Canada. They left after a war broke out.)

MathWorld News: WolframTones launched by Wolfram Research

"MathWorld Headline News WolframTones Launched by Wolfram Research September 12, 2005--Tip a swath of a mathematical pattern onto one side and interpret it as a musical score, say by letting the height of each black square determine the pitch of a corresponding note in some musical scale. For example, consider applying this process to a simple program such as an elementary cellular automaton, illustrated below. What happens?" "Open the pod bay doors HAL" "Dave, I'm in the groove."

Gothamist: Judge Says Fulton Fish Move Is "Fishy"

Gothamist: Judge Says Fulton Fish Move Is "Fishy": "I used to work across the East River dockside for Leaseway of Shaker Heights, Ohio, who delivered furniture for Abraham & Strauss. My Dad routed 30 or 40 delivery trucks around NY. I worked in archaeology in Manhattan, next to the Fulton Fish Market after furniture went South and their delivery went entrepreneur to New Jersey, too far to go. I found a 1730's ship, about 100' long working for the consortium's agent Ronson that became National Westminster Bank, in one of the remaining parking lots down there. Here's what I recall, hopefully politics aside: Former Fed. Rudy Giuliani investigated the market for FIVE years and came up with a misdemeanor against some guy named Cirillo (not one related to me). Then as Mayor he threw the unloaders out for 'bidding conspiracy' of some sort, (apparently they all had similar bids and negotiations to keep everyone working, the last actual fishing boat to pull up to the Fulton Fish Market was back in the 1980's I think, they even built a huge million $ refrigeration dockside facility in Brooklyn thinking they'd get the Gloucester b'hoys to sprint for New York rather than Boston) and imposed some rules. In comes a Long Island self-made lawn-mower business guy who gets the contract, and complimentary hi-los from the NY City Commissary which aren't even registered yet to be on the street, they're so new! Turns out however, the rules are already broken, the contractor is in Federal court over charges he's short-shrifted a number of employees and allegedly broke labor law. So the 'no one is above the law' 'catch 22' is broken on Day 1. The former Teamster unloader operators may still be in court. At the time a former UPS driver (Local 804 the furniture guys were also in) was President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Ron Carey, a NYer who ran to clean it up. He's accused of impropriety during his running against Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. (Mr. Hoffa, current President of the Teamsters is a lawyer, his sister a judge) and after the election found innocent of any wrong-doing. Something smells? I don't think it's the fish.

Army Ignored Capt.'s Claims Of Prisoner Abuse Until He Went Public?| The Huffington Post

Many years ago I came across a "declassified" document, waiting to be taken into "Special Collections" at NY State's Stony Brook University, on Long Island, where I was a student. It was the last issuance of the Nazi High Command to all its bases and officers. The comparison of the statements in it maybe could be compared to ours in Iraq. That section of the library also contains a large collection of "underground" newspapers from the 1960's and 1970's where I might imagine some government agents have gone to research people once in the War Moratorium and Peace Movement, among others, that led to, or were part of, a large "explosion" of journalism, recently attributed to "Watergate". "The Water Gate" was once a hole in the Wall in New Amsterdam (today "Wall Street" reminds us of it), that opened at dawn and closed at dusk, outside of which the English and the Puritan Isaac Allerton, buried at Yale University, kept a warehouse. I imagine they too, might have seen prisoners taken to unseen lock-ups. Later the British hired the Hessians to do the same in NYC and put people in ship-hulks, dis-masted ships in NYC's harbor, for being part of the "insurgency". Ethan Allen was tortured next to today's City Hall Park, in one of the jails, according to the NY Times, 1903. Thank you sir, for, to me, who has been on West Point to clear it for archaeology, in clean-ups after Hurricane Floyd's wreckage, and worked recovering the "Swamp Angel" a Civil War era, bombardment prototype, in the marsh of Constitution Island, in the West Point Foundry, Cold Spring, NY, prior to EPA clean-up of heavy metals dumped in the production of batteries for NIKE missiles, where I would hear the "Pointers Echo" (stayed in it too later), I am thankful that you have the courage to come forward and challenge our elected officials to "reign-in" their policies, which apparently are rotten and may place our troops in all the armed services at risk for torture when captured, no international treaty followed.

IMDb :: The Shipping News

No, I miss some people there, spreading dulse on Indian Beach, living in a 12 room house in Seal Cove, Grand Manan, built on too weak a foundation, it twisted too much in the wind on the concrete, which cracked I think, from putting "sea cobbles" in the mix, they exude salt I think, one became the weakest link in the "chain" of concrete. I didn't own it strictly speaking, my family had it for awhile, it was on a community spring, summer I was there, dry, we all hauled water up from the small artesian well (1/4" copper tubing stuck in the sand) next to the herring smoke houses. Off the Seal Cove breakwater is Wood Island, once about 20 families there abandoned, Outer Wood Island belongs to a Dr. Spacek I think. Kent Island further out is where Bowdoin College of Maine does bird migration studies, part of an Arctic flyway, puffins there too. I think we should have more films from Newfoundland because: "Sir Humphrey Gilbert: English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583)" WordWeb 3.03 They say Seal Cove was orginally settled by an American, Dr. Faxon, who built the first sailing ship on Grand Manan Island. He moved away, though over the War of 1812. They say you can still hear the "Downeast" accent there of Maine in the cove.

The Blog | Paul Krassner: The Parts Left Out | The Huffington Post

"What else was a future best selling author to do? Persistant rumors at camps in the Catskills, said that a certain mineral was added to the food, also in corned beef once, to keep tumescence (?) in control. These camps perhaps had someone on their hired staff (like I, a goyem dishwasher in Timber Lake, once 'Camp Allegro') who claimed to have walked barefoot through the chopped liver served to the staff. That gentleman also kept a small 'belly button lint pillow' from all the fibers that collect in 'innies'. You 'outies' have no idea what that's like, always this hole with this lint... I remember Mr. Richard Portnoy lent me a fisherman's sweater in Cleveland, Ohio without which I may frozen to death on my motorcycle hauling Dee Dee to Buffalo and back and back to New York in October. I'm no spoiler, his complaint was at the end of the book, where it belongs! I mean 'Ulysses' maybe she's dying not what everyone else 'projects'... (Apologies to Mr. Roth for bringing in another author here). So did Odysseus kill her? Posted by: George Myers, Jr. on September 24, 2005 at 10:46am"

Bulb Bubble Trouble Double (Save the Hubble!)

Subject: Bulb Bubble Trouble Double (Save the Hubble!) From: GeorgeJMyersJr-2 Date: Jul 18 2004 8:26PM Wonderful article about a topic that has perplexed me. Recent reports also suggest the Dutch would like not to be reminded of stereotyping which may have resulted from this Pliny the Younger-like "Dearth of Olives" story. After all Tulips are from Turkey! I know in NYC they just planted like a gazillion of them all over and they look wonderful in Stuyvesant Square near the statue of Peter Stuyvesant and his wooden leg, formerly of Curacao before "inheriting" a terrible aftermath of war with the natives from former Governor Kieft, dismissed by the Dutch Company, who wanted a harbinger not. Thanks for helping clear the air, where tobacco, however which wouldn't grow in New Amsterdam (tried in "The Village" by an escaped indentured servant and his "master" from Virginia), became perhaps, another "mania". George Myers

Jefferson Patterson Park & Museum - About the Park

"Good Night and Good Luck" (This Mr. Page, might make you cry, make you sigh, but guaranteed not to make you high.) She was a news associate of Mr. Murrow. Yours, Mr. Jones

Slate Magazine

Slate Magazine: "Subject: New Orleans Relief From: GeorgeJMyersJr-2 Date: Sep 22 2005 1:05PM Economics is not my favorite subject, though the chairman of NY's Stony Brook University's Anthropology Dept. was a Mexican scholar of economic anthropology, studying rural markets, and was in Tibet and actually had to leave in the last Chinese invasion. The cash idea sounds good if there is an infrastructure, say Lowe's, Home Depot, aid partners or such that would supply for it. Otherwise, having been 'below sea level' in 1979 with an approaching hurricane, in the wettest summer in MS yet, I might be inclined to take my pralines out of there, with the money. Some of those big stores too, like K-Mart, Target, and Wal-Mart (who's close-by in Arkansas sitting on huge profits, according to Al Franken, PhD (Hon.), might work up some business consortium with government over-site, to provide the rebuilding. Of course, those canals and levees should have some sort of high-tech scan, maybe they could try (instead of looking inside a pyramid) and they should be a priority by the government. How many times have I had to write and tell them to repair the marshes too, where I was once buried, in a LaFitte cemetery, thank you Mr. President Thomas Jefferson, your wife related to the LaFitte's, got me here for a little while (though dead after a heart attack, probably in a hurricane, off the Yucatan) at least this is the legend, no? Napoleon Bonaparte PS That guard who let me take long walks on the beach and sit for hours, the one who found my long-coat and the sticks holding it up, after my hat blew off, I hope they were lenient with him."

Space Travel Seriously Damages Your Health... | The Huffington Post

"I recall the first VR ('virtual reality') designs was to help re-orient astronauts, explained as providing a reality to practice in, mechanical escalators particularly troublesome, so the story went. When I was studying archaeology they stated that the domesticated animals have a similar response, that is bones do not get as robust from not running on the 'woolly flanks' of the Zagros Mountains, where domestication may have started, in western Iran. Maybe its a blood factor they might find 'talking to the animals'."

Kiehl's of NY and CA

I just saw Shirley MacLaine (always reminded me of Shirley Gloucester who moved away to the heights of Adirondack Drive, Selden, NY, once nearby the home of a Long Island ski-bowl) again on TV on one of those entertainment TV shows this morning after WCBS morning news. I hear Shirley MacLaine's brother might run for Governor of California (Warren Beatty, a friend shared an Oscar for make-up in "Dick Tracy" I'd like to thank him for). That would be good. He's been in some pretty relevant films to politics, especially reading the "Hollywood Reporter" today online, its 75th anniversary. I loved Ms. MacLaine in "John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!" which has a very interesting and informative description and legal history at American composer John Williams.org page, goes into all the details, and from the scene descriptions he scored the music for, one can get a sense of the comedy. Interesting film sued in the "sue me" state (NY) for using "Notre Dame". My 4th and 5th grade teacher, Mr. Hubbard, of the Riverhead, NY duck farms, was an alumnus and sold World Book Encyclopedias, and had now "Sir" Edmund Hillary into our classes.

BAGnewsNotes: Rita Madness

Strangely affecting, the poorest parish in NYC was or is St. Rita's in the South Bronx, where I grew up for a time. The church vaulted ceiling is actually the top of a first floor, the congregants meet on the basement floor. Another parish nearby (St. Anne's?) is where Mother Theresa and Princess Diana once met. The former borough president of the Bronx is running against the current Mayor of NYC. Just before 9/11 it was announced the WTC was being sold, and a major local network queried the candidates running in the primary that followed 9/11 what they would do with the money and were rated by their what's the word, possibilities according to experts. Someone should look closer at NYC, I almost drowned in a small storm's storm surge on the FDR, (we missed it by about 35 minutes) and I have seen whole construction site lots fill with water from the underground streams and surrounding water. Like the former WTC, some of the newer sites are surrounded by subterranean walls, excavated and filled with a bentonite slurry, forcing water out, before they are filled with cages of re-bar and concrete, chiseled down into rock, invented by the French I'm told, having watched a French firm do that near Water Street. Donald Trump at one time wanted to build the world's tallest building on the eastside of lower Manhattan on "pillars" in the East River, but terrorists it was thought might blow it up with a boat, it was thought (before 9/11).

Shirley gets pouty: Vintage Image of the Day

This reminds me of another set of photos I can't recall the photographer's name, a book. Actors were asked what THEY would have liked to be, actors often asked to play parts they probably often would rather not (like John Kerry defending his service record rather than discussing what's really important, or his once former opponent Governor Weld asked by President Clinton to be Ambassador to Mexico only to be "stood up" by the US Senate, roles like that sometimes nobody would want, but imposed by "directors"). Two composed close-ups I recall were one of Paul Newman, who wanted to be like Errol Flynn, so they dressed him like Robin Hood for the close-up, and Shirley MacLaine, who wanted to be the girl with a bee on her nose, her close-up quite cross-eyed forever focused on one spot, instead of having to look all over the place but in the camera I imagine.

So contemporary nuns have sex for money, huh?

While I was walking a nun home one day, The wind acame along and blew her habit away! Apparently she had hair like Chloe Sevigny. That was College St. or Ave. in the South Bronx, NY (hey Hollywood wake up! "A Bronx Tale" had to be filmed in Queens its so changed and I wish I lived in "Fort Apache" Or, thanks Hollywood!) A few years ago Mother Theresa and Princess Diana met in the South Bronx at another convent not the one I was walking up the street with the "flying nuns" of St. Rita's. I wish Ms. Sevigny the best. Now why did I leave that English "jews harp" on the swing?...mutter mutter...

Interesting new cannabis study

I looked at the article (Scientists Discover New Type Of Stronger Cannabis, Dub It Rasta…) and was a little disappointed. Many years ago, the potency of a "cannabis americana" from Kentucky was attested too (US Dispensatory, 1918), and this study leaves out a possible American type, since it is stated elswhere: "The Iroquois used Cannabis sativa medicinally to convince patients that they had recovered. They also found it useful as a stimulant (D. E. Moerman 1986 at efloras.org)". And in light of "Medical Marijuana and the Supreme Court" New England Journal of Medicine, August 19, 2005, I was hoping there was more to the study, though for what it does, examines DNA "races" of marijuana it's commendable. (Same flora reference as above, including the parenthetic reference to the Iroquois: description of cannabis in the flora of North America). Interestingly the plant is classified with what we would call "hops" under "cannabaceae" at least in illustration. Cannabis is "da ma" in Chinese and the hops are "dian lu cao" and "pi jiu hua". (click on picture posted above or search for: foci05-083.gif)

On the President posing with a football...

It seems he's trying very hard in the photo not to look like the Texas peerage. In "Debrett's Texas Peerage" by Hugh Best, Coward-McCann. Inc., New York, 1983, there's a funny photo where all the nouveau-rich oil people attended a gathering and sat on these newly painted benches in their white and seersuckers I imagine, "Sunday best" only when photographed from behind when they stood up with the still wet paint on them, they appeared to have been in the prison uniform of the time, stripes! Apparently there's only one "Bush" in the whole book of 385 pages, a "Mrs. Marsh was the former Wendy Bush, granddaughter of cattle king William Bush. Her mother was the daughter of Joseph Glidden, the inventor of barbed wire." - p. 212.

200-Ft Long Pink Bunny To Stay On Italian Moutainside For 20 Years... | The Huffington Post

"In North Creek, NY where commercial skiing started in 1934, after locals were inspired by the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, there on 'Little Gore' where once Saks 5th Avenue brought NYers up to ski, getting on buses and trucks up to the garnet mine and down the mountain, is a Rabbit Pond!!! Anyway, Gore Mountain Ski Area is today further down Peaceful Valley Road ('Peacefull' on one road-sign) When the V-8 was invented someone hooked up a rope to the bare rear wheel rim and up went the schlushers and down the hill, later lifts were built. They are trying today, in the Town of Johnsburg, to 'interconnect' with Gore Mtn. according to a petition being signed to Governor Pataki. A trail runs up to Rabbit Pond!!! They want to build a ski village there in North Creek, NY where there is a train and ski museum and a train to ride, where Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was told President McKinley had died, shot eight days before at the Pan American Exhibition in Buffalo, NY. Nice place, I was just there for 2 1/2 days doing research out of the Alpine Motel, with a future Polish prosecutor watching the place. Rabbit Pond!!!"

Signed a petition for peace

I have been sort of neutral through much of this thinking, well my father's oncologist Italian Dr. La Pera was over there filming the effects of the first war in Iraq, his doctor friends interviewed by famous television journalist, John McLaughlin, maybe we are doing the "right thing" (pun intended) trying to repair the power plant we had to go and bomb eleven (11) or more times, pollution in the water making many, many children sick, but when I read this report, I had to sign a peace petition for the group demonstrating in Washington, D.C. this weekend. "The Independent" reported $1 billion has been stolen from Iraqi military supplies, more than "food for oil" over 6 or more years. We were right there allowing the theft, its time to protect and preserve our own. Bring them home, then sell them good arms if they need them. We're now responsible for shoddy protection. Not good.

Piracy today is still a serious problem, and has been increasing in recent years, especially in the East Indian Ocean. The last time I checked the statistics over 270 ship piracy incidents had occurred there. With our island base out there, Diego Garcia (where we have spent billions, and currently the natives are suing the British over their relocation from it. http://www.mydiegogarcia.com) you'd think maybe we'd be into bringing those pirates in. Of course historically, piracy had different roots than today, often in a politically incorrect world of slavery and exploitation as a colonial imperative.

Gmail - International Talk like A Pirate Day!

International Talk like A Pirate Day! Another woman pirate from the time of Elizabeth I was the Irish pirate Grace O'Malley (1530-1603). "There came to me a most famous, feminine sea captain. This was a notorious woman in all the coast of Ireland.":- Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland, 1576. A traditional song and greeting *"Oro, se do Bheatha 'Bhaile"* ("Oh-ro, shay dough Va-ha 'Wall-ya") translates to "Hail, you are welcome home" - it is considered a somewhat old-fashioned greeting" The song is "... a celebration of the power & strength of women in general, with particular reference to the famous & brave Grace O'Malley." "Grace eventually became the great warrior sea pirate, commanding her own fleet & sailing out of Clare Island, County Mayo, set in Clew Bay." From: "Proud to be Irish" Pick of the Week for Sunday, August 14th "Oro, se do Bheatha 'Bhaile" sung by Sinead O'Connor Found: http://home.nycap.rr.com/eamonnmcgirr/radio.htm How: Essex County is across the Hudson River from North Creek, NY, which is in Warren County, named after a General who died at Bunker Hill. Near Minerva, NY in Essex County, is a history museum and also a monument to Theodore Roosevelt, where he was when he became President when President McKinley died eight days after being shot at the Pan American Exhibition in Buffalo, NY. Nearby is Irishtown, a settlement of Irish Americans and others. He got on the train in North Creek, NY

It's International Talk Like A Pirate Day

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NASA Estimates $104B Cost To Return Astronauts To Moon

"My WordWeb has it also as 'Phoebus Apollo' I wonder what name they will come up with. My brain remembers '20 billion' for the 'Fire on the Moon'. It would seem to 'discount' (not a word in NASA, where the largest pile of lowest bid parts get to be sent in the most dangerous environment in the Universe - us) any options, other possible ideas, other nations, other scientists, others even input into another process dictated to the U.S. by the Bush administration, who pause to pray to become President when their leader needs his behind operated on, at least George Sr. did on the 'Mount Washington' on Lake Winnepeasauki."

"When I was growing up, the Lunar Excursion Module was very important to us locals, one parent said that it was built all over, by small companies so no one had 'the big picture'. One thing the Navy did was continually look at Grumman's books, but I don't think NASA did, not 'micro-managing' perhaps. That part of Grumman has since left Long Island, NY merging with Northrup. The contest out there is still 'make something from Moon dust' which is interesting. Christa Corrigan McAuliffe, a 'Teacher In Space' participant, (deceased) has a planetarium named for her in Concord, NH. We owe it to those who have gone before to go ahead with a program of manned flight of some sort. We may owe our life on Earth to the Moon, as the ocean tides run every day due to it. The darkside of the Moon was mapped by the USSR way back in 1963 or so, the best place for a telescope would be there they say."

Lives of Saints :: Hator 11

Took a Driver Improvement Program course yesterday from AAA at "Our Lady of Solace" school on the corner of Holland and Morris Park Ave., near where Regis Philbin grew up. I was just looking at the art from Russia now available after perestroika in England and saw this one of "Hator" the only "black" and not realistic nude drawing/or painting at !Art7 online. Google brought this Coptic Church reference: Lives of Saints :: Hator 11: "Because she was barren, she entreated God to take away her shame. So the Lord gave her a daughter that delighted her eyes and the eyes of all mankind; she is the Virgin St. Mary, the Mother of the Savior of the world." A very different version, perhaps.

Curriculum and Protest

"History of slavery in NY 'can't be ignored' BY MARTIN C. EVANS STAFF WRITER September 13, 2005 For years, Mary K. Carter felt that New York's two-century history as a slave state was treated as an embarrassing secret, mostly ignored in school curriculums. "Many people are surprised when you talk about slavery's existence in New York," said Carter, a Freeport resident and retired middle-school teacher in the Rockville Centre school district. "They're surprised because it's taught as something that happened in the South." So when the education department at Hofstra University began working on a curriculum to help school children understand how the enslavement of Africans helped build New York's wealth and power, she joined the team. That curriculum has been named this year's "exemplary social studies program by the nation's largest association of social studies teachers." More at "Newsday" click on link "Curriculum and Protest" at top.

Wash. Post Confirms John Bolton Visited Judy Miller In Jail… "He Doesn't Want To Talk About It"… | The Huffington Post

"Maybe she knows what happened on the flight forced down from Canada into Alaska on 9/11/01 General Richard Myers, formerly of Space Command, testified, (in part) to the Congress about or why the Army requested seismic data and the official facts of the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania differ too. Only reasons I can see for putting an American citizen journalist into prison over unpublished facts. Maybe UN Officer 'Joe' Bolton showed up to get 'the rest of the story'."

"Law Schools Denied Federal Funding After Barring Military Recruiters" in The Huffington Post

"Just before 'Defense Monitor' went off the air on PBS, they reported that the taxpayers of the US were paying about $1 billion a year to fund the JROTC program in 20,000, mostly poor, high schools in the United States. They asked if we were getting our money's worth. Last PBS transmission for them, it seemed! I did some research on this many years ago. When it started there were four, one at my H.S. Newfield, on Marshall Drive in Selden, NY (Selden a judge who testified as a character witness at Susan B. Anthony's trial for posing as a man to vote, a judicial no-no, Newfield the surname of an author who chronicled the 3000 families who left Long Island for Canada in the American Revolution). We had the Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) in 1969-1970 and the head of it drove a red MG a MGB or the C a six cylinder. The Army JROTC was in Connecticut, as it was, in Paul McCartney's managers town. (We had 'Brooklyn Bridge' in Selden perhaps). They kept their equipment (22 rifles and drill rifles behind a makeshift cage in the Civil Defense basement there, also stocked with green cylinders of graham crackers, sanitary napkins, etc., the cans to serve as "potties" during a "new clear" attack. The concrete shed dust I recall. The "cage" for the weapons, had its hinges on the outside, and anyone could have removed weapons and supplies. One of the assassins at Columbine H.S. in Colorado was denied a place in the armed services due to a medication he was given regularly, not on the approved list of medicines. My friend's cousin is married to one of its teachers. The other two, the Air Force and Navy were on the West or Left coast and according to my research, nobody voted for these, they were made available some how to the school board. At the time the US was in a never declared war in Southeast Asia, and quite frankly, I was wondering, amidst the ringing of the 'bomb scare' bells if we would be blown up, a college ROTC had suffered that fate. Well here it is, 20,000 schools later and $1 billion a YEAR, why are they messing with my private(s) law schools?"

Singer Neil Diamond's Alma Mater Now A Squatter

Law Schools Denied Federal Funding After Barring Military Recruiters | The Huffington Post "The issue was thrust back into the public eye again Wednesday, when the Pentagon published in the Federal Register a notice that New York Law School had been placed on a list of higher education institutions that are "ineligible for contracts and grants by reason of a determination by the Secretary of Defense that the institution prohibits or in effect prevents military recruiter access to the campus, students on campus or student directory information."" If I was running one of those law schools, NYU's known "legal" rival Columbia University, which once had as its President, former General Dwight D. Eisenhower, in their archaeology laboratory I once worked in, belonging then to Ralph Solecki, PhD, now in Texas, who the "Clan of the Cave Bear" book was dedicated to, I would like nothing better than to "get them" over at the other law school this way. Ralph Solecki found the Neanderthal burials at Shanidar Cave in the Zagros Mountains(?) in Iraq, once referred to in an article as "Nature's First Flower Children?" because of the flower pollen found in the purposeful burials, leading to a debate on the burial practices of Neanderthals, which recent research has perhaps shown, homo sapiens once bred with. Hey, Columbia, what's with the women's football team there on your new field? Finally going to win a football game, the hard way? You know stuff like that I could do in government to keep my superiors happy.

Water On Mars!

In case you missed it. Polar bear in a snowstorm available offline.

Some local news from around the U.S.

I went to replace a cable TV remote at Cablevision for my landlady, and all the 'Channel 12' local news cars were hybrids, Prius I think. The Sierra Club awhile ago had people adopt a Ford dealership, asking them to write and ask them to do better (my Dad had a red showroom Pinto m.p.g. Pony 5 speed, went 250,000 miles) and they've recently announced they are with the new Ford Explorer hybrid SUV, an approval I guess, not an endorsement. Jimi Hendrix's boyhood home was saved from the wrecking ball by a millionaire (over $1 million) and moved to just outside the cemetery where he reposes, now in new rainbow columns, created by his step-sister and heirs. His natural brother is still fighting over the estate his father Al Hendrix managed I reckon.

FSU Scientist Warns North Atlantic Right Whale Facing Extinction

FSU Scientist Warns North Atlantic Right Whale Facing Extinction

BAGnewsNotes: Fly E.P.A.

BAGnewsNotes: Fly E.P.A.: "Nice to see a C-130 doing something than hauling quantities of Ecstasy back from Germany, as it were recently in Newburgh, NY. They fly over the former Holiday Inn, now Clarion, I was staying in digging hundreds of holes on just over the west perimeter of West Point Military Academy and the other next to Kiryas Joel, NY a Talmudic Jewish settlement, which with savvy worthy of Solomon may have brought the aqueduct to the neighborhood."
By that I meant, according to the local press, which is quite good up there around Harriman, (after Averell Harriman's family he was a "United States financier who negotiated a treaty with the Soviet Union banning tests of nuclear weapons (1891-1986)" an urban policy college at Stony Brook University once named after him, and nearby Museum Village, near Monroe, NY. President Monroe, was a famous NY resident after his Presidency. Sometime after his death, the Virginia legislature voted to have him removed from a marble vault in the secular Bowery cemetery and interred in Hollywood Cemetery in Virginia, at which, the transfer to ship, the whole City of New York turned out for in respect, before the Civil War. The regional press, which is also good, reported that a municipality has to show it can supply water when the aqueduct can't. A "Catch 22", you have to have the water to get the water.
Kiryas Joel, a community of Talmudic scholars and their families, bought a fairly large industrial site, seen from the NY Thruway and along another road, as formerly "Star" manufacturers, reported to have made hardware "nuts" (or bolts?) for $1000, taking over the mortgage and hazardous waste problems that had been stalling its sale. Its other location, has two large wells that can pump 300,000 gallons of water per day, so they could meet the "catch 22" criteria ("Catch 22" author Heller, in his last book, considers writing a novel about his wife's sex life, in "Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man" but instead talks about women in history and literature).

A 20 mile long pipeline could be connected to the north, to the Catskill aqueduct, running roughly west to east in Newburgh, NY. Newburgh is, "A town on the Hudson River in New York; in 1782 and 1783 it was George Washington's headquarters" and also the name of an infamous thwarted "Newburgh Conspiracy" to make George Washington "King" according to New York Senator Hillary Clinton, who also sponsored the "Purple Heart" stamp in the U.S. Post Office. They were "celebrating" the "Purple Heart" at the New Windsor Cantonment while we were nearby and the British Duke of Windsor got remarried. After the Revolutionary War and American Independence, our troops stayed bivouacking for a time after the treaty was signed, just in case the other side was not going to honor it. A tough winter followed molecular archaeology has shown and some historical archaeologists once had a meeting there (the Council for Northeastern Historical Archaeology, CNEHA, of which I am a member). More years ago than I care to admit, and before it was anything more than a parking lot, I camped there in a pup-tent with my Lake Grove Explorers Post 222, (Wing Street School) in the snow (got down to 9 degrees F) on a cancelled winter "jamboree" that the Boy Scouts were supposed to show up at. Not bringing food to be supplied we had bologna and ketchup sandwiches.

The New York Times: Health

"Genetic Tests May Help Solve a Whale Mystery" by Cory Dean Published November 1, 1988.

News from around the world

This just in, "Human founder escapes jail term."

BAGnewsNotes: Bush's UN-doing

"They had that over the shoulder shot on 'The View' on WABC TV this morning. People in the public eye have to watch out, Barbara Walters said, (I was once in her cleaners, nearby a small archaeology lab, next to a once huge musicians union hall in Manhattan) about those over the shoulder shots. Do they have a whole bunch of wooden pencils? Or they get out a sharpener when he breaks the point? I would think another type of pencil would be appropriate, so he can't erase anything, like surveyors I was told once had to do, everything wrong put a line through in case testimony on the survey is required. Thomas Jefferson's father surveyed Virginia, Washington got smallpox the only time he left the country at 16, surveying with a cousin, which became a career of his. Abraham Lincoln was also a surveyor, and the Museum of Surveying in Lansing, Michigan has a new exhibit of his first 'plat' and other artifacts I read. Glad it didn't say 'One if by...two if by...'"

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Re: A Newfoundlander's opinion by - you Just adrift a little, no edits on the recalling of the film, sorry. I can't imagine people having to burn their boats. I studied archaeology with R.M. Gramly, PhD Harvard U., who lost a woman volunteer in Labrador, they think, she fell into the sea or the polar bear seen shortly after her demise, working for the US Smithsonian. It took 24 hours to get a helicopter there. I have kin on Grand Manan Island, where one of my grand-dads, Lawrence Urquhart came from. I studied the last possessions of France in the Western Hemisphere, they are on the south side of Newfoundland, started centuries ago harvesting cod, dried on cobblestone there. I thought the film, filmic, that is dreamlike, not necessarily a reality, more from a over-arching power of subconscious fantasy, creating the "denouments" as the French title suggests, and because of it, thought it, the metaphors which created, regurgitated memory associated with "Newfoundland" in my reality, my subconscious, (comnnected with the arctic fox, perhaps if I was a member of "First Nation"). Though I am here in the Bronx, it still has a way of reminding me of the present. Or an attempt at "what it meant to me" Myers, having tried to film in the 28' tide the comings and goings in a small marble tidal pool. We need more oceanography there and in the North Atlantic, as spawning grounds stretch over international boundaries, and we can't afford to fight for what is left without agreements. Recently a small "lobster" incident happened in international waters over the changing regulations of one country to go to a shared resource at a different time, for longer for example, leaving the other nation's season, perhaps jeopardized by overfishing. The American Coast Guard, also lately under "Homeland Security" will not even voluntarily suggest to ships that they slow to 12 knots in areas of right whales who have a nursery near Grand Manan Island, NB, only 300 left of thousands today, once the "right whale" to harvest because, dead, they float. Guelph University, in a "landmark" study using bolts from a crossbow, tied to a boat, did DNA analysis of their relations wondering if in small number they would die from inbreeding, years ago near Grand Manan. As you know DNA in legal matters has become very important and the association in my mind I have to make, seeing the whales of July at the now automated light my Canadian cousin once manned with family, across the Grand Manan Channel (on the wall in most "Red Lobster" bathrooms) from Campobello Island, FDR's place, there and meeting them the last time I was there over twenty years ago. I also studied film with this guy: S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED

HISTARCH Archives -- September 2005 (#145)

HISTARCH Archives -- September 2005 (#145): "I do think when archaeologists are doing that they should be into walls. I worked on some backyard disturbance of the Captain Brewster Hawkins House in Setauket, NY, a shipbuilder, chandler, who restarted shipbuilding industry there, built 'Wanderer' a luxury yacht, (and others) sold it to a Louisiana cotton merchants agent in 1858, after his son Thomas captained it for a year. It was then outfitted with water tanks in Port Jefferson and reported to have been boarded by a British 'slavery blockade' officer off the coast of Africa. It picked up 600 Africans, 400 survivors landed at Jekyll Island, Georgia in 1858. (Wikipedia) One of the walls upstairs, had some graffiti 'Down with Popery' which was interesting. Lately I've been thinking the water tanks were also mixed with maple 'sirup' (early 20th century spelling in a NY State Agricultural manual). I have also seen the paint section for reconstruction of the so-called 'Tweed Courthouse' (NYC completed by Mayor Fernando Wood) before it was to be a museum of the City, instead of the current mayor ordered Dept. of Education headquarters. Quite a few coats there. Another wall of the old Congregational church whose Stockaders I used to camp with as a tyrol, had the pencil marks of the carpenters, where they did their math. Interestingly, from Setauket, they built it with some of the techniques of shipbuilding."

"Shipping News" comment

I think the film was a metaphor for Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick in the Bay of Fundy, where Willa Cather once had a house (the only one she ever had) on Whale Cove. The house tie-down reminded me of the Swallowtail Light in a film "Hemoglobin" with Rutger Hauer. OK maybe not...but it was weirdly dreamy half Kpaxy like, like Bob Newhart was going to wake up and find out he was in the Marathon Hotel in North Head dreaming of Newfoundland. Many have left since the cod fisheries were closed. A cousin's son lost a Newfie friend to some alcohol and too many Tylenols which led to a liver failure! Unbelievable a young friendly guy. Another friend, run into twice took his little sailboat there to study birds near St. Johns, Newfdld. on an ethology grant from them. Another Canadian taught me Rollei close-range photogrammetry, after Forensics got a drubbing from the US for not recording an aircrash in Gander before the blizzard set in. It's so true, they should make a film about 9/11 in Gander, all those people put up in there private homes helping out while General Myers from Space Command answered Congress questions about a flight forced down over Alaska into Canada (or was it the other way around). Well I enjoyed the "dulse aisling" the film was reminded me of a shore, being at sea over Seal Cove, ("dulse dreaming" [Scot.] having once picked red seaweed at lunar low tides there on Grand Manan after a summer of fog, sundried on Indian Beach, cobbles like ostrich eggs). There all changed places now, I hope eventually for the good. We need international marine management, we're too insular still. The US once paid Greenlanders much dough to stop fishing hoping angler sea salmon would return, blew up dams, brought the mountain to Allah, still no fish. More cooperation is needed.

Hell From

Re: New York archaeology work I have recently left the employ of GCI (13th Floor at 40 Exchange Place, at $13 an hour), in Manhattan, NY just below Wall Street when without notice it was announced the client "had run out of money". I had been employed in fieldwork since early April, 2005 for them, in Highland Mills, NY (in Orange County, NY near Route 17 and the New York Thruway, north of Harriman, one site very close to Kyras Joel the other abutting the West Point Military Academy). I just recently did some research for a proposed ski village in North Creek, NY, (Warren County) near Gore Mountain in the Southern Adirondacks, which is a very historical hamlet with museum and train, where commercial skiing in the east began in 1934. I attended Buffalo University in Buffalo/Amherst, NY from Jan. 1973 to June 1975 before later graduating in Anthropology at Stony Brook University in 1978 and then attended Graduate School in Anthropology there until 1981. I have worked in survey archaeology along Passaic River and Sprout Brook in New Jersey, the St. Lawrence River, in Ogdensburg, and properties along it to Massina, NY, the Hudson River for proposed PCB dredging containment, and the Black River as part of the initial archaeology survey of Fort Drum, NY. I have worked in excavation on multi-component sites in Bowdoin Park, (Dutchess County), in Cold Spring, NY, (Putnam County) and in Dobbs Ferry, NY, (Westchester County) on the east shore of the Hudson River. With Panamerican I worked on the archaeological survey of a part of the Raritan River, in Bridgewater, NJ, and elsewhere, a few years ago. I feel I have enough experience to recognize artifacts and clues to cultural resources that might be encountered in testing. I am currently available for the work.

There be whales, Captain.

From: "George J. Myers, Jr." Date: Mon Sep 12, 2005 9:12 pm Subject: [Grand Manan ] Re: U.S. LNG Import Terminal Briefs (Grand Manan, right whale nursery) I found this over at the Earth Island Institute, my stupid American government at work. I am upset since it seemed some progress had been made on the issue: (they dragged 3 large dead finback whales out of NY Harbor just before 9/11/01, I don't know how many more since) Coast Guard Blocks Right Whale Safety Steps Commandant Spurns NOAA Pleas for Voluntary Advisory Urging Caution Submitted by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility July 11, 2005 Washington, D.C. -- Citing unspecified "national security" concerns, the Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard is refusing to help protect the endangered North Atlantic right whale, according to an exchange of letters released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). This June, the Coast Guard again rebuffed requests to issue an advisory warning ship captains to slow to 12 knots and exercise caution in areas where right whales have been sighted. Ship strikes are the largest known cause of death for the North Atlantic right whale, considered one of the planet's most endangered species with less than 300 animals left in existence. In the past several months, five percent of the total female breeding population has been killed, as well as two near term calves. The single biggest known source of whale strikes is U.S. government vessels, with the Coast Guard and Navy accounting for nearly one-quarter of all reported ship strikes on whales. In a letter dated May 9, 2005 to Admiral Thomas Collins, William Hogarth, head of NOAA Fisheries, wrote that he is "asking once more" for the Coast Guard to be of "assistance in reducing the risk of mortality to right whales as a result of ship strikes." Hogarth sought USCG cooperation in putting out an advisory to shippers that includes "language from NOAA recommending speeds of 12 knots or less in areas used by right whales, when consistent with navigational safety." In a reply dated June 9, 2005, Admiral Collins, the Coast Guard Commandant, objected that taking even this voluntary measure "could be viewed as Coast Guard endorsement of speed restrictions." Collins added that issues "regarding vessel speed or routing regulations" raise "national security," legal and "other policy interests" that "must be considered along with recovery of right whales." "The real message from Admiral Collins is that the Coast Guard leadership places protecting its bureaucratic turf far above protecting the world's threatened natural resources," stated New England PEER Director Kyla Bennett, a former federal biologist whose organization is pushing for adoption of long stalled proposed rules by NOAA that would require reduced ship speeds, rerouting and channel restrictions to minimize ship traffic in sensitive calving and migratory areas. "The American delegation to the International Whaling Commission has condemned Japan for seeking to kill whales for commercial purposes while our Coast Guard supports killing whales to avoid commercial inconvenience." Underlying this interagency dispute is that the Coast Guard and Navy both contend NOAA lacks legal authority over commercial shipping and certainly not over Navy and USCG vessels. In fact, NOAA's stalled proposed rule is premised precisely on the existence of such legal authority. On June 22, NOAA took its first step toward adoption of those rules by publishing a notice it is preparing an Environmental Impact Statement on its right whale ship strike reduction strategy. "The problem is that the right whale has no time left for further political wrangling - it is a species headed straight for extinction," Bennett added, noting that NOAA's experts say the population cannot afford even one more premature death. "Ironically, this year's good news about more than two dozen right whale calves underscores the danger because the calves are the most vulnerable to ship strikes." For more information contact: Chas Offutt Phone: (202) 265-7337

BAGnewsNotes: 9/11 All Over Again entrepreneur

In the early hours of 9/11/01 it was thought 110 million in currency had been stolen from a Russian entrepreneur in the WTC. Turns out he had only removed it for safe keeping, and all those Australians primarily weren't out millions invested in hard currency exchanges. Or, the theft was botched. It is ironic though this figure/foreground it continually represents, us and the WTC, which had many people from around the world in business. It was for sale on 9/09/01 and politicians in the primary (tommorrow is the Democrat primary in NYC) were on a major local network discussing what they were going to do with the money from the sale of the WTC if elected, evaluated by its news department. Then all hell broke loose. Posted by: George Myers | Sep 12, 2005 BAGnewsNotes: 9/11 All Over Again

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory News

"Mud Records New York History" I'm so glad that big earthquake yesterday in Papua New Guinea (PNG) didn't kill all the Mud Men, people who come and dance here sometimes. Our graduate director in Anthropology Paula Brown Glick did her fieldwork in anthropology in Highland New Guinea, where Michael Rockefeller was last seen before disappearing. Margaret Mead had studied in the lowlands. There used to be these salt networks, water dripped through bamboo filled with plant ash, making a salt traded up into the highlands there. Boy did tourism take off there! Wow!

Entrez PubMed

"Medical Marijuana and the Supreme Court" New England Journal of Medicine, August 19, 2005

An Unofficial Dictionary for Marines containing words, phrases and acronyms used by United States Marines through the ages

"Molly Marine. A statue of a Woman Marine located in New Orleans, LA. The first statue of a woman in military service in the United States." Seems appropriate to bring this up.

The Blog | Arianna Huffington: The Judy File: Is Miller Getting Ready to Sing? | The Huffington Post

"In the film 'Beat the Devil' a quartet of international crooks are stranded in Italy. Joined by Bogart and Lollabridgida, the six are headed for Africa, '...presumably to sell vacuum cleaners, but actually to buy land, supposedly loaded with uranium. They are joined by others who supposedly have similar designs.' Year: timeless With Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollabrigida, Robert Morley and Peter Lorre, produced and directed by John Huston, screenplay by Truman Capote from a book by James Helvick and the current administration! Posted by: George Myers on September 10, 2005 at 11:36AM"

Across the Great Digital Divide

"In March, Senator Clinton announced the first access@home project at North Creek in Warren County. Senator Clinton has long championed projects that bring the information superhighway to more remote regions of the state, which is ultimately essential to the economic viability of the region." http://www.empirestatenews.net/News/20050809-8.htm

Good news / Bad news

The Good news: The NYC Parking Violations Bureau (PVB) now prints out tickets that can be read! No more very unreadable and almost illegible scrawl that would not copy even on the darkest setting of a photocopier! I'm not sure how well they standup in rain, but they include a sturdy pre-addressed bright orange envelope. The Bad news: I just got a $45 ticket at 9:33 AM for parking in an alternate side of the street between 9:30 AM and 11:00 AM on every day BUT Wednesday (Miercoles in Spanish close to "Mierkat: A mongoose-like viverrine of South Africa having a face like a lemur and only four toes") Mon. and Thurs., Tues. and Friday. It used to be from 8 AM until 11 AM. If one could not find a parking space, one was allowed to double-park during that time, though technically illegal, and at 11:01 AM tickets are some times given out for "double parking" though many are during the "restrictions" given on the signage. The fine for that is now $105 !!! Good News: I got a ticket for blocking the street sweeper for $45 and not for double-parking at 11:01 for $105. Isn't that great. Not really. If one makes an honest effort to move the car and double parks, because there are no spaces and they never ticket before 11:00 AM, people should perhaps be given a little leeway. Some businesses claim to have been targeted for the "double parking" fine up on Morris Park Avenue where Regis Philbin is seen from time to time and Spike Lee did a film. I just saw his crew down around William and Exchange in Manhattan, in "Making money Manhattan" and want to give a shout out from the "Boogie down Bronx" to Mount Vernon's Denzel Washington. Finally, Manes and all those PVB scandals can rest in peace, computerized tickets! Rejoined "The Planetary Society" can't you tell?

Pentagon "Freedom March" Will Be Fenced In, Require Preregistration... Entire Park Police Force Ready, Threats Of Arrest... | The Huffington Post

Pentagon "Freedom March" Will Be Fenced In, Require Preregistration... Entire Park Police Force Ready, Threats Of Arrest... | The Huffington Post: "They decorate many buldings in DC with yew, 'Yew has an extraordinarily high resistance to urban air pollution. Most of the species are used as ornamentals (Hartzell 1991).' They are from the species Taxus. Levitate the Pentagon!"

BAGnewsNotes: More Shame

"About that watch, it's not black at all. I don't know why I thought it was. And maybe he just got a shot against infection instead of gesturing. I once had HAZMAT training in Elmsford, NY Training Center, 5 stories, Scott air-packs, fit-test for a mask, to do archaeology in EPA sites and I feel for these guys, too, when they can't even use the water everywhere to fight a fire without jeopardizing their health by aerosolising whatever is in the water."

It's a gas gas gas

The weirdest part was walking around the Wall Street area in Manahttan and seeing the armored cars painted "BRINKS a division of Pittston" on their back. My Dad had a friend who used to literally shovel money at the Federal Reserve and his son Jimmy Springett worked for one of those armored car services. He lost a young daughter when she fell into a cesspit, they thought she was lost, ran away or kidnapped on Staten Island. Wall St. today is certainly different, mostly a pedestrian walk, with a lot of people down there where it used to be kind of like the Gene Barry "War of the Worlds" empty much of the time. Buckminster Fuller wanted to put a dome on it have weather under control and have people live in it, instead of going in and out everyday. They're sort of doing that rezoned, upper buildings and new construction. A water tunnel, dug deep into the rock below the City for the last 30 years or so connecting with the older reservoirs, as far away as the Catskills, will come up in either the South Street Seaport Historic District or One Police Plaza, their headquarters, I've read. Funny, my friend now uses "Maingas" in Tuftonboro, NH in her little cabin. For awhile there, with the gas refrigerator and the three gas lights (Humphrey's) it was kind of hard for awhile. "Irving" (I think one of the benefactors of one of Grand Manan's ferries) sells gas in Wolfeboro, NH nearby billed as "America's Oldest Summer Resort" where Governor Wentworth had a place, who then became the only Loyalist Governor to be one after the American Revolution, as governor of Nova Scotia. The others, I don't know.

LNG port may be built at Passamaquoddy Reservation in Maine

Last time I remember there was a real fight over the Pittston refinery they wanted in Eastport, which was a really bad place for it because of tides and smog across the border to Campobello Island, the "Quoddy Tides" reported back in the 1970's. Of course they once were going to build a tidal-power facility at Point Pleasant is it? "Half Moon" a smaller project got built I thought I read. I read also they have solar power out where the Passamaquoddy tribal council meets, on the end of a wharf. Heard some other story too, they learned how to deep water fish from Grand Mananers, one my mother Adelaide's cousin Nolan a "skunkwahagen" brother or something. They used to sell baskets down at Indian beach and I heard an occasional game of baseball was played, maybe in North Head? We have a proposal in Long Island Sound for one of those deep water LNG ports. Some have objected to the cost of armed escort under Homeland Security ($50,000 a delivery) others in the Gulf of Mexico to the process, i.e., it has to be warmed up, with local water, from it's liquid state to a gas to be delivered, and raises the water temperature around the ship enough perhaps to hurt the fish, etc. I think they call it "Broadwater" or something, probably why. The Russians can deliver in 12 or 13 days LNG to the west coast, I read and they're shopping for a terminal in California or Mexico. Interesting development. I thought the next big issue would be petro piped from off Sable Island, once called "the ship graveyard of the Atlantic" but I didn't know it means "sand" in French back then, where the Labrador and Gulfstream currents meet. Talk about fog!

BAGnewsNotes: More Shame

"It was reported in the Canadian press that their "search and rescue" people got in five days before the US military did to help people out in New Orleans according to a Louisiana State Senator. (Reuters Canada) Two large Russian cargo planes flew to Little Rock, Arkansas with 50 tons of humanitarian aid yesterday (Mosnews, though prior, three had been reported prepared). Other aid from other countries, like Sweden, has been held up over permissions (Reuters). Apparently the President likes black faced wrist-watches and maybe has an ache in his elbow, or maybe he's going to flip his arm at us. Years ago Dr. Birdwhistle, one of the fathers of kinesiology (study of movement) filmed and analyzed frame-by-frame the diapering of infants with "safety pins" and the reactions in infant behavior. Someday we will have a President in the White House who was not "safety pinned" is my prediction, or nostalgia might put one back in at least maybe one that "hanging chads" didn't put in."

The Chihuahuan Desert: One of the wonders of the world

1/3 in New Mexico and West Texas, the rest in Mexico. "Thus far, the BLM has failed to engage in consultation. The BLM should undertake curative action immediately to “ensure the identification and consideration� of Native American concerns." GOVERNOR BILL RICHARDSON'S CONSISTENCY REVIEW OF AND RECOMMENDED CHANGES TO THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT'S PROPOSED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLAN AMENDMENT AND FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR FEDERAL FLUID MINERALS LEASING AND DEVELOPMENT IN SIERRA AND OTERO COUNTIES.

Why red heads are picked on?

MATCHING THE COLOR OF EXCAVATED SOIL: CRYPTIC COLORATION IN THE PLAINS POCKET GOPHER (GEOMYS BURSARIUS) Issn: 1545-1542 Journal: Journal of Mammalogy Volume: 81 Issue: 1 Pages: 86-96 Authors: Krupa, James J., Geluso, Kenneth N. DOI: 10.1644/1545-1542(2000)081<0086:MTCOES>2.0.CO;2 ABSTRACT The plains pocket gopher (Geomys bursarius) is a fossorial rodent noted for having a wide range of pelage colors that tend to match the color of soil in which it lives. This phenomenon is considered adaptive as concealing coloration. If being well camouflaged is advantageous, then natural selection should favor a pelage color that specifically matches the color of soil that surrounds pocket gophers when they are most often exposed to the surface. We tested the hypothesis that dorsal coloration of G. bursarius matches color of moist, freshly excavated soil from its burrow more closely than color of drier soils that surround newly formed mounds. Our study examined 5 subspecies that live in soils having different colors (black, dark brown, reddish brown, yellowish brown, and white). The degree of cryptic coloration was quantified using methods that do not reflect biases of color perception by humans. At all locations, color of the pocket gophers' heads was closer to color of dark moist soil than to the color of pale dry soil. The same was true for their backs, except for a brown individual from the black soils of Illinois. "Put a helmet on that rascal." http://www.bioone.org/bioone/?request=get-document&issn=1545-1542&volume=081&issue=01&page=0086

Russian Humanitarian Aid Planes Leave for Shattered U.S. South Coast

MosNews Russian Humanitarian Aid Planes Leave for Shattered U.S. South Coast "Two Ilyushin-76 transport planes left Russia Wednesday with humanitarian aid for victims of Hurricane Katrina in the southern U.S. Almost 50 tons of tents, blankets and food will arrive in the town of Little Rock in Arkansas for distribution."

Space News

This morning I read Governor Richardson of New Mexico was making an announcement of a new spaceport at White Sands I think (a "new" Red Sands I guess like Jimi Hendrix sung about) where a Connecticut company would soon be making launches of research payloads. UP Aerospace is based in Unionville, CT. Here is their site where "business and education" can arrange to launch payloads 100+ miles (yeah Buddy had a birthday) into and back out of space: - - - ======> www.upaerospace.com

Yahoo! Groups : GrandMananIsland

"I've been looking at it and NASA's World Wind 1.3 so I don't get too mad digging shovel tests in places my bosses have barely looked at. Keeps the old sense of humor alive. One place near Friar's Head on the Long Island North Shore in New York has me wondering. There are 4 or more ships about 240 feet long sunk in an open egg shape sort of as a breakwater for what? Coastal homeland security in WWII? Probably or a sub pen or something: lat=40.97292 lon=-72.72443 Or in GoogleEarth 40deg 58min 28.55secs N 72deg 43min 22.03sec W Between Friars Head and Roanoke Point, NY (on land nearby is a small "Reeve Park")."

Remains of Old Ship Found in San Francisco - Yahoo! News

"Remains of Old Ship Found in San Francisco"

Judy Miller: She's 'Worn Out' Writing in Jail

Judy Miller: She's 'Worn Out' Writing in Jail: "NEW YORK At least two reporters who have sent notes or queries to New York Times reporter Judith Miller in detention in Virginia have received form letter replies, thanking them for their interest but suggesting that her hand is 'worn out' from answering other mail or, one imagines, keeping a journal. Here is the note they receive, which identifies Miller as inmate #45560083: 'I would love to answer personally but there is no typewriter in jail and my hand is worn out....Jail is certainly not how I imagined spending the summer, but it was the only course my conscience would allow....Write your senators or members of Congress and urge them to support a federal shield law for reporters.'" I can't believe they did this. I couldn't believe it when I thought they would. I wouldn't believe they'd do it, but they did it. Well, they thought they could and did. Liz Smith gave an address to write to her in her column one day. The NY Times wrote Aug. 29, 2005 in an Op-ed by former Senator Bob Dole that they shouldn't do this. Why did they do this? She wasn't wearing a "Dump Bush" T-shirt or anything, and didn't even write anyone's name down. I didn't get it, still don't. I don't think former Attorney General Meese would have tolerated it, even. Sheesh! Where's the beef?

Let's go to Pluto!

NEW HORIZONS MISSION Shedding Light on Frontier Worlds Participation Certificate Presented to George Myers On September 02, 2005 Thank you for joining the first mission to the last planet! A compact disc bearing your name will be included on the New Horizons spacecraft, set for the first voyage to a new class of planets on the solar system's farthest frontier. Come with us as we complete the reconnaissance of the solar system and unlock the secrets of Pluto, its moon, Charon, and the Kuiper Belt.

Life Matters: The Stony Brook Human Evolution Symposium and Workshop

Convened by Richard Leakey September 27, 2005 "Out of Africa I: Who, Where, and When" Genetic and paleontological evidence indicates that the human lineage diverged from that of the African Apes sometime between 5 and 10 million years ago. For most of our history, human evolution has been an African phenomenon. Until recently, all evidence seemed to indicate that hominids first left Africa approximately one million years ago. However, in the past decade, discoveries in many parts of the world now indicate that the initial dispersal of hominids out of Africa took place nearly a million years earlier. There is now evidence for early hominids or hominid behavior in Israel, the Republic of Georgia, Indonesia, and China between 1.5 and 2.0 million years ago, very soon after the first appearance of the genus Homo in the African fossil record. Stony Brook University Planning Committee Richard Leakey Committee Chair Visiting Professor Anthropology

Unsung Founding Father of America explorer Bartholomew Gosnold

"Clue to earliest American may lie in Suffolk grave..."

Hoffman's Dept. of Interior rewrites its policies

I am deeply concerned about the recent proposal to rewrite the management policies for the National Park Service. The proposed rewrite could have devastating effects on America's national parks, including the protection and preservation of natural, cultural and historic resources. I have worked in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Alaska and New York for the National Parks Service in archaeology for their Denver Service Center. Many of those tasks have been switched into the public sector, employing students and private individuals, which has become a source of support to the general service of preservation in local and larger circles. However, if it becomes as stated the policy of the Dept. Of Interior to turn over wide powers to the business sector to do as it will with the access to national historic and nature sites I am afraid for places like Third House, though a state park, America's first cattle ranch where then to be President Theodore Roosevelt stayed after returning to quarantine with his Rough Riders, in Montauk, NY. Other smaller places like North Creek Railroad Depot Museum, where, as Vice President, he was told in a telegram of the death of President McKinley, shot eight days before in Buffalo, NY, will also be threatened by unregulated development, sweeping them away from the public's enjoyment. I was just in North Creek, NY where the first commercial skiing in the east started in 1934, partly with "ski trains" from NYC, inspired by the Lake Placid Winter Olympics, to the foothills of the Adirondacks, where Roosevelt had been climbing, where Gore Mountain is today and the garnet mines were once. Sincerely, George J. Myers, Jr. BA Anthropology

More BAGnewsNote photos

50 pixels taller, it's not "Citizen Kane" whose foregrounds and backgrounds in that film are mysteriously in focus. Speaking of whom, why did Orson Welles narrate "The Double McGuffin" and why did Hitchcock introduce the term? It carries the plot, but the audience is not interested in it per se, the bag on the train, the attache case in the "Pulp Fiction" perhaps in this photo, the M-16, a once notoriously uncooperative firearm rumored to be produced by Mattel, the toymaker. Is this level of field dress necessary? It looks like a bus stop in Guatemala back when they were having a "civil" war. It was taken as the photographer moved obviously compared to the other a slightly different angle, but very close in time to the other. Was the photographer being dragged away? BagNewsNotes Your Turn: There's Water and There's The Barrel September 6, 2005

Icon Condi

I guess we're not a "k.o.l.k.h.o.z." a former Russian collective farm that will accept barter, which is why the Soviets broke down according to newsman Dave Marsh(?). (3am news shows were then popular on major networks for insomniacs or nightowls) One state wouldn't barter tobacco for cigarettes at the going rate for chickens. "A piece of the action" broke down. We had State currencies once too. She's too steeped perhaps in the former "Politburo". Professional archaeologists were asked to go to the USSR back in 1993-94. My boss went, was there during the siege of their "Whitehouse" that brought Mr. Yeltsin in. He went back again, too, leaving his company up in the air for six weeks, in the middle of EPA work (or lack of, then banks were going to be held responsible (loophole) for contamination and we couldn't afford the insurance anymore) and came back the first time saying something about our troops involved with the bodies he saw. Well the "Kolk" was the "Collect Pond" in New Amsterdam where the "African Burial Ground" was too.

Interesting origin of "stereo" sound perhaps...

Trivia for "Napoléon Bonaparte" (1934) Although the soundtrack to this 1934 release is sometimes called stereophonic, Daniel J. Sherlock writes, "The use by Abel Gance of 'stereophonic' sound in the 1930s was actually a process where notches in the film would trigger a sequencer that would turn on and off various surround speakers for enhanced dramatic effects. All speakers were driven by the same monophonic soundtrack." "Napoléon Bonaparte" (1934) Directed by Abel Gance Writing credits Abel Gance (dialogue) Abel Gance (screenplay)

New algorithm for learning languages | Science Blog

"I once studied syntax and transformational grammar at Stony Brook University, along with other linguistic classes for Anthropology and find this an interesting development. When computer languages got started there was one SNOBOL which processed language, instead of numbers, which I thought might some day be developed, why even Bill Gates once promised a SNOBOL for Windows. (Where is it Mr. Gates?) Well this is interesting I imagine the algorithm is in some version of C+ or something. There was once three or four competing lists of rules for English syntax, about 33 or so, so this is a good thing for computers to do, so to speak, sort of a real-time syntactical concordance analyses. Bravo!" George J Myers, Jr. (my first post here, I'm awed)

Test to Red Ink and Rewrites Too

Red Ink and Rewrites Too

BAGnewsNotes: The Reach Of Compassion

"Ironically, if there is such a thing in this tragedy, George Clooney, who's father was a TV news anchor, was in Venice, Italy to promote his new film about Edward R. Murrow vs. Senator Joe McCarthy (United States politician who unscrupulously accused many citizens of being Communists (1908-1957)) and he and Spike Lee spoke out against the TV news media that has become entertainment oriented rather than providing information for the public to think about. I remember finding an itsy-tiny article in the NY Times back in the 1980's about the Senator's motivation over a medal he thought he was entitled to from WWII, never given. I've seen some of that news history that has fought from the sidelines, a cousin George Murray, a film editor (film at eleven then rush developed, delivered by motorcycle I read) asked to sit in to direct "Huntley and Brinkley" went on to produce "NBC News from NY" and then CBS coverage of the duopoly's conventions. He passed away in Mexico, his wife introduced Avon products there. Edwin Newman read, at his eulogy in the UN Chapel, a letter to an investigative crew in Vietnam working on a common soldiers view of the conflict there, sorrily informing them that their months of work had been cancelled by "higher-ups". Strictly speaking, I wasn't at the eulogy. He had been an Army Captain in the Korean Conflict, then in the Signal Corps creating training films, then an award-winning producer, one "Vanishing Americans" about native Americans, I've been told. Once myself in New Orleans during a hurricane in the "last" oil embargo, it is very disheartening to see, where once I drove back and forth from Columbus, Mississippi, the region in tatters, from the reports I've heard from archaeologists who work in preservation.

Mud

Tagline: EPA you can take our mud, but we want our history preserved. Historic Preservation News Home sought for river artifacts Fort Edward: Supervisor wants historical items housed in new display " "The planned dredging of the Hudson River is expected to uncover numerous historic artifacts in Fort Edward, where the British had a major installation during the French and Indian War, said town Supervisor Merrilyn Pulver." PCB dredging is now planned to start in 2007. Someday Long Islanders will again be able to keep striped bass under 2 feet long. " Full story: Glen Falls Post-Star Contributed by: Maury Thompson This was entered in error. The quoted text was from Maury Thompson, the columnist. I entered the additional info about Long Islanders, etc. I have had trouble with the forms for adding news to that site, the last time the dates for another Fort Edward story came up 00/00/00. Maybe each field shoud be more explanatory, and if a field left out, reviewed.

'Northwest Passage' (Book I -- Rogers' Rangers)

Tagline: Roberts Rogers Rangers and the Northwest Passage

Timing of statue's unveiling upsets Vets
05-28-05 - North America, United States, New York
Fort Edward, NY has Robert Rogers statue unveiling.

05/28/05 Associated Press Chris Carola "FORT EDWARD, N.Y. - Maj. Robert Rogers, the frontiersman whose 18th century manual on guerrilla warfare has become a blueprint for Army Ranger fighting tactics, is getting what some consider a long-overdue honor: a statue in his memory. But some veterans believe unveiling the monument on Memorial Day is insensitive because Rogers was loyal to England during the Revolutionary War. ... Fearing Rogers was a British spy, Washington turned down his request to join the Continental Army at the outset of the American Revolution. Rogers went on to raise a company of loyalist rangers, but failed to have the impact he had in the previous war. A heavy drinker, he died a pauper in England in 1795 and lies buried somewhere beneath the streets of London. ... Controversy aside, a tribute to Rogers is long overdue, said Stephen Brumwell, a British author whose latest book, "White Devil," details the most famous exploit of Rogers' Rangers: the 1759 revenge raid on an Abenaki Indian village in Quebec. The raid that inspired the 1826 novel "The Last of the Mohicans," by James Fenimore Cooper. ... "He earned his statue the hard way," Brumwell said in a telephone interview from his home in the Netherlands. "While others were sitting out the French and Indian War in Boston and New York, he was leading patrols into enemy territory, often in the very depths of winter."

Full story: Sun Herald
Contributed by: Associated Press

American actor Spencer Tracy played him in an arduous Part I of "Northwest Passage" (Part II never was made). The "Sun Herald" is a southern Mississippi newspaper I found the article in. Tagline should probably be "Robert's Rogers Rangers" or "Robert Rogers' Rangers" or something.

"This Is A Desperate Plea For Help"... Times-Picayune Online Reveals Horrors Of Disaster...

"Last time I was in New Orleans, to see a friend off to the Yucatan, I was working in Columbus, Mississippi, near the Waverly Plantation for the archaeology of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Canal, I had been to Memphis, Graceland was closed, out of respect for Elvis' dad who died, the day before. There was a hurricane coming, and staying in the LaSalle Hotel, I watched some of the city being boarded up for the August storm, the wettest summer in Mississippi's history, 1979. The oil embargo was on, and people lined up for gas. In the Times-Picayune Sunday edition was the strangest story. It seems, as the legend goes, President Thomas Jefferson was related by marriage to the LaFitte family, and a 'swap' was made with Napoleon Bonaparte (sticks and his long coat, the guard used to let him walk way off on the beach, where's he going to go?) who had a heart attack within sight of the Yucatan peninsula, off of Mexico. Legend has it, he's buried outside New Orleans in the LaFitte cemetery under another name. Please, Emperor Bush, do all you can for the city! Republican mistakes in policy leading up to the 2005 New Orleans disaster.

North Creek, once the garnet train...

Gore Mountain, Peaceful Valley Road, North Creek, NY 12853 and on the official archives of the National Park Service, (Dept. of the Interior, for whom I've worked for in PA, MD, AK, and NY) National Register of Historic Places, Warren County, NY North Creek Railroad, across the street from the Main Street property is: 38 North Creek Railroad Station Complex Railroad Pl. North Creek 1976-08-27 (put on the Register) There is much info online, including some constructed maps from other resources. After many transactions, Waddell acquires the Durant properties, the man who brought the railroad to North Creek in 1871. Durant helped created the US Transcontinental railroad, and was late for the "Golden Spike" and the photo of the event is composed a short time after the actual joining of the railroad (so is Iwo Jima famous flag composition, after the fact). The National Map online (USGS) shows perhaps (at 1 meter resolution now available) the former dirt road the cattle etc., may have been also brought in by rail. I haven't however been able to get to the bottom of "Bennetts Field" the local airstrip. In Warrensburg, Floyd Bennett was born, who accompanied Admiral Byrd to the North Pole, died of influenza trying to rescue the "Bremen" aircrash in Greenland, buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn in named after him (about 1000 acres of former marsh and islands) and there is a plaque in Warrensburg, NY town green dedicated to him. I'm not sure if he used to fly to North Creek, being close, or they named it after him. Maybe he learned to fly there too back before 1917, when he is listed as formally flying. ...I was just in the middle of figuring out the Henry Ford once wanted (in the 1920's) started titanium mines that ore was taken too North Creek to, for WWII tank camouflage and other uses, when the US government built a R.R. from there to the mines at Tahawas, after the roads were falling apart for "2.5 million" became at least 4.5 million, under the disguise of a "Lead company". NY State lost and won safety compliance at rail crossings with the US owned railroad. Another group sued over the impacts on the Adirondacks, the titanium mine at Sanford Lake, near the former McEntyre Iron mines, that resource, a "titaniferous magnitite" ore, shown to by a "Canadian Indian", Louis Elijah, who found a solid dam of iron water flowed over, around 1815(?), it was reported that the new mining community was to be named after him. Also, "According to historian G.H. Smith, an Indian of the tribe of St. Francis...by way of Indian Pass." It's not far from Mt. Marcy, NY's highest point.