Response to Arianna Huffington's Yahoo question

What is the most important but underreported story of the year? (at Yahoo Answers) The war of hearts. US Senator Clinton sponsored an issue of the US Post "Purple Heart" stamp, then a law so they will always print it. Former US Senator wannabee, Bernadette Castro who ran against the former US Senator Patrick Moynihan and lost, then appointed to head the NY State Dept. of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation since, announced the other day that a "Purple Heart Center" will open in the last cantonment of General Washington's troops in New Windsor, NY. Last year, in nearby Newburgh, NY, Senator Clinton explained, while reviewing the re-enactors there at Washington's Headquarters, that that is where General Washington thwarted a plot to make him King to the press. The first ultra-right wing plot in America, I say. Will the kid on the "Castro Convertible" commercials come out and spend her millions again? Source(s): Newburgh papers, EmpireStateNews.net, having slept there in a pup-tent in 9 F one time.

Wreck of the Savannah on different aerial info

Wreck of the Savannah Windows Live Local Link (will open a window in Explorer). It shows apparently, more storm surge damage than the Google Earth set. Will "Old Inlet" become "New Inlet"? And for that matter how many others were there in the past in the "barrier beach"? My Windows Live Local collection

Wreck of the Savannah, "See you in Liverpool"

"The first ocean crossing by a steam-propelled vessel was in 1819, when the Savannah voyaged from Savannah, Ga., to Liverpool in 29 days, 11 hr. It was a full-rigged sailing ship fitted with engines and side paddlewheels; during the crossing the engines were in use for about 85 hr." ("History of the White Star Line") Elsewhere: "1819 After a 29-day voyage, the Savannah steamed into Liverpool, England becoming the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. With smoke billowing from its stacks, the Savannah sailed from its namesake city in Georgia on May 22. Once at sea, however, most of the voyage would be made under sail, as the ship's supply of fuel (coal and wood) was exhausted after 105 hours of steam power." (GeorgiaInfo, The University of Georgia) Wikipedia has a wonderful humorous story about it under "SS Savannah" and under "Passenger ship".

The first "steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean" was later stripped of the machinery that had been designed by a New Jersey engineer and had been cast in a Robert Fulton associate's foundry ( Historic Speedwell Ironworks, Morristown, NJ) by a British firm who bought it. "After only two brief years she ran aground off Long Island and broke into pieces." I read somewhere off Fire Island, near Fireplace it sank in a storm and due to its historical significance (built in New York City at Corlears Hook, though the US "National Maritime Day" May 22 declared by Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1933, celebrates its voyage out of the port of Savannah, Georgia, for Liverpool) some have tried to find it using different techniques.

"The Savannah was lost when she ran aground on Fire Island in 1821, across the bay from a village then known as Fireplace." from Dr. Clive Cussler's site

Also: "In 1962 the first commercial nuclear-powered ship, the NS Savannah, was launched in Camden, New Jersey. Named for the Savannah, the famous 19th century steamship that pioneered transatlantic steam travel, NS Savannah measures 182 m (596 ft) and is powered by nuclear-driven turbines. Although it was an engineering success, NS Savannah proved a commercial failure. It could not carry enough cargo to be competitive and required a larger crew than comparable oil-powered ships." (Encarta entry "Ship")

"NS Savannah remains the only commercial nuclear-powered vessel ever built. Nuclear power proved prohibitively expensive for commercial purposes. The military recognized the potential for nuclear power. Unrestricted by cost, navies of the United States, Russia, Britain, and France developed a variety of naval vessels operated by nuclear power." (Ibid.)

I've put a pushpin in the vicinity of the Atlantic Ocean in line with the toponym "Fireplace Neck" which appears on Bellport Bay. Ironically there is another Fireplace, NY toponym, across the water from Gardiners Island's white windmill, placed on the National Register of Historic Places Dec. 27, 1978. I placed a pushpin near it also. The other Fireplace that appears on maps is just north of Acabonack Harbor south of Hog Creek Point.

Google Earth Board for Savannah location

Back in the early 1980's I recall a gentleman proposing a number of archaeology surveys for the Savannah wreck location that archaeologist and alumnus Edward Johanneman, MA had been forwarded. One an aerial magnetometer survey which I think had been done but had not found anything. The gentleman was referred to as a millionaire. At the time the proposed new Federal wilderness designation, the only one in New York State to this day, for the Fire Island National Seashore, required an archaeological assessment which I carried to the public hearing at the William Floyd High School in Shirley, NY. I also stated that the Suffolk County Archaeology Association was for the new designation for the public record.

"Old Inlet" was through which much produce from "truck farming" had once, in reported upwards of 100 small ships, had been carried to nearby New York City. The story I was told was that a ship had gotten caught up in the inlet, another crashed into it and the whole thing filled in quite quickly, cutting off the former access to the Atlantic Ocean nearby Bellport, NY. Bellport was settled by people who actually solved a similar problem that had occurred in the 17th century! Ship salvors, they were hired to clear the "Old Inlet" and decided to stay in the "Belle Port" according to the story at a real estate office there. It was also known to the native locals for large fish.

As the Long Island Railroad reached easterly it stopped in Patchogue, probably carrying the produce once carried by ship, silk mills there too, where there had been many small mills in small estuaries. In fact I think the second cotton mill in the US was there or something like that. Travelers started to summer vacation in the vicinity of Bellport and the area east of Patchogue became known for its arts and politics. The musician/artists John Lennon and Yoko Ono thought of living there, the former Governor of Massachusetts lives there today, he once a candidate for ambassador to Mexico under President Clinton, Mr. Weld, whose family once had an estate in Smithtown on Long Island, now a Suffolk County Park, Blydenburg Park, and old former water powered industrial center near the NY State center in Hauppauge, NY. The artist who designed the "Atoms for Peace" stamp during the Eisenhower days lived in Bellport and today there are a number of interesting architectural sites, both old and new houses there. A ball bearing was patented there on March 13, 1866, at "Site of the Invention of Ball Bearing," Bellport, Long Island, NY by Oliver Hazard Perry Robinson stated on a small monument erected by the Bellport Brookhaven Historical Society in 1968.

However, with the closing of "Old Inlet" there has been a noticeable marsh land growth and former sediments that washed around pilings and docks have grown up into land where water once flowed according to a letter in the "New Jersey Geologist" I read in Drew University library a number of years ago.

Thirty years ago I won a summer job lottery with Brookhaven Parks, which administers Davis Park, about 7 3/4 miles from Smiths Point County Park. To get there one drove below the high tide line, and not on the trail there known as the "Burma Road" and crosses over the "Old Inlet". It was the summer of "Jaws" and some problems with "tar balls" washing up on the beaches, and I still remember being "on the beach" that day and told that we might have to have shots had we been in the water on the way to Davis Park. Turns out I later met the organizer of the study Mr. Swanson, for the NOAA at Stony Brook University, that determined that most of the material had come from some pier fires in New Jersey, according to the report I have.

I think I met him in a "security breach" at the Foundry Cove in Cold Spring, NY in the EPA National Priority Superfund cleanup of the Marathon Battery Site. That is they came around a fence and had been there already, but the tide was too high to come in under the rail bridge. I also heard that one researcher with him had been the original "finder" of the pollution from the cadmium, supposedly cleaned up once before, when the researcher decided to compare the tidal riparian Foundry Cove with the study site Stony Brook University has in lease, the tidal (now?) "Flax Pond" on the north shore of Long Island on the Long Island Sound near the university. For comparison, to study, and I think how the cove was found to be still contaminated.

Foundry Cove has since been dammed, hauled out mixed with concrete and transported out on rail cars, on the old rail bed once used by the West Point Foundry in the 19th and by the early 20th century. The earthen dam was torn open and the marsh is being restored to its more natural condition. Behind the broken historic stone dike, which was the only way over by foot to Constitution Island before the railroad perhaps, is Constitution Marsh, once a National Audubon holding, now a NY State Park of which its said the dike was for a rice production experiment, however. Constitution Island is clearly still part of West Point Military Academy, as stated on the warning at the railroad bridge egress.

Mrs. Swanson, who I met when they first moved to Long Island from Seattle, WA years ago, showed me some buried tree limbs turning up in the vegetable garden of the Setauket Presbyterian Church, where she was an Elder, and asked if I knew how we might find the locations of the burials in its graveyard as it was known that some of the stones had been moved and replaced during the Revolutionary War and it would be good to be able to verify what had been restored. Since then, great strides have been made in ground-penetrating radar and other remote, non-destructive means of testing that have developed, some of which I have had the opportunity to work with, though under less than ideal circumstances. However, at the time, I thought some illegal builder had buried the trees there, they seemed too new, but maybe they were part of the fort the church once turned into as did the Caroline Anglican church, the second oldest one in the US, a short distance away across the village green, with musket balls still lodged in it and from it. They both have been there since the middle of the 17th century. The Presbyterians when they left the Charles River in Massachusetts. The first minister, a doctor of theology, was of the first graduating class of Harvard University.

Location map techy

New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center NYS Division of Military and Naval Affairs Re: Fort St. George You state: "Fort St. George: 1777, Suffolk County, Mastic, Smith's Point. British, 1777-1780, a triangular fort included existing manor houses in two corners and a fortification in the third. Served as British supply base, destroyed in Nov 1780 raid." http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/forts/maps/fortMapB_LongIsland.html The location map for the Long Island region ("locate by period") places this British site in the middle of the William Floyd Manor, who was perhaps the First New Yorker and the Fourth American to sign the "Declaration of Independence". Although his manor was occupied by British troops and his house used as a stable and the family there since the 17th century, the map should point to the Manor of St. George on the other shore of the peninsula of Mastic/Shirley, NY. I worked in the archaeology of the William Floyd manor for the Suffolk County Archaeology Association and the Denver Service Center of the National Parks Service when it was about to open to the public, after graciously donated by the Floyd family. I was to the commemorative recreation of the events of the seizing of Fort St. George at the "Manor of St. George", which ocurred after American patriots crossed the Long Island Sound from Connecticut in whale boats, marched across Long Island and surprized the sleeping British soldiers on a Sunday morning minimizing bloodshed. Please advise if these events have been misrepresented and the map is correct. George Myers BA Anthropology Stony Brook University Note: The NY Military Museum and Veterans Research Center is located in Saratoga Springs, New York. Saratoga Springs is approximately 25 miles north of Albany, NY.

The Whoosh...for the 21st century

Introduction: Fast, Safe, Clean and Quiet Transport.

Brunel was voted "second greatest Briton of all time in 2002"

Great Science and special aviation museum:

30 June - 2 July, 22.00 - midnight. Film Festival: Trains, Planes & Automobiles FREE Access to Museum Car Parking £2.00/vehicle Film tickets incur a charge. To mark Brunel's 200th birthday this unique event will include big screen films and vintage footage and activities for the children on the theme of Trains, Planes & Automobiles. Featuring Buster Keaton's classic silent 'The General', with live piano accompaniment, Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece 'Dr Stangelove' and Disney Pixar's new animated spectacular 'Cars'. For more information and to book tickets please visit www.trainsplanesautos.co.uk

Wroughton: Events Diary

Response to "Begging the Question" blog

To: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 "This is some nasty--" Not knowing exactly where I am here, I was at the opening of New York state's only run law school when it opened in Buffalo, NY, just after the "police riot" at Attica State Prison not too far from it as an anthropology student from the back doors of Stony Brook University, which got the medical school instead of the law school. What I've read is that the penalty causes more police deaths not less statistically argued in an editorial in the NY Times. The last public hanging was in Mayville, NY (around 1908?) which I was in when a young African-American was going to be "hung" for being HIV positive and sleeping around with underage white girls, fortunately he was wanted in another jurisdiction and was extradited to the Bronx first, where the D.A. often confronts the Governor's "wishes". My elementary school teacher's step-father scooped the press with a camera tied to his calf in Chicago when they gave the first woman there the "chair" and I saw the touched up original as a youngster so I am opposed to it in general, as much of the rest of the world is with whom former President Carter signed the treaty with to limit it to adults. I feel it is still a very important issue and regret the Supreme Court's decision to "bring it back" in what its consequences have been, including Other countries citizens not correctly represented by legal defense from their country of origin (Mexicans in America, the French "20th hijacker", prisoners in Gitmo, etc.) The Buffalo Law School opened behind schedule.

Tahawas, NY

Once nearby the older 19th century McIntyre Iron Works, ("titaniferous magnetite") and the village of Adirondac, the titanium oxide mined here, especially from 1942 to around 1960, was first hauled by horse to ? in the early 20th century, then later by truck into North Creek, NY where garnet is/was mined nearby, and then by a new rail road to here, also legally contested (today the rail only runs from North Creek to Riparius, to the south along the Hudson River as a tourist train). Once, about 1865, maps showed plans for railroads through here to the Lake Ontario port of Ogdensburg, NY, for example, where the artist Frederick Remington, known for his "American West" bronze sculpture, resided, a friend of Theodore Roosevelt's, a museum there today. Windows Live Local collection

Windows Live Link to North Creek, NY

North Creek Railroad Depot

Where after a series of night-time buckboard rides down from Tahawas, near Mt. Marcy, Vice President Theodore Roosevelt read the telegram that informed him, that after eight days, President McKinley had died. He had been shot at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, NY by an anarchist. The President boarded a special train here for Buffalo, NY where he was officially sworn in.

Photos are of North Creek Depot and WorldWind 1.3 NASA 3D from USGS orthophotos in the vicinity of the depot. The white house is gone from the corner as many of the nearby trees there. Nearby is Bennett's airfield, perhaps named after Floyd Bennett? He was born nearby in Warrensburg, NY. The first commercial airfield in NYC was named after him, in Brooklyn, Floyd Bennett Field is now part of the U.S. Gateway National Recreation Area in NY/NJ. Pilot John Glenn once set a transcontinental jet record to or from there, later set records as an astronaut and elected U.S. Senator from Ohio, and an astronaut again on the Space Shuttle. However until the road improvements in the 1930's, horse drawn vehicles left North Creek for Indian Lake, and a stagecoach was running in the early 20th century. I recently found what might have been the factory remains associated with the slaughterhouse, which supplied many of the Adirondack hotels and retreats there as described in the local history of North Creek, originally started in the 1850's as a center for tanning due to the abundance of hemlock trees. Its railhead came with the transcontinental railroad builders and that tanning industry continued until the hemlock bark ran out in the 1880's. Some of the earliest organized skiing occured in North Creek, as trucks and buses took skiers up to the garnet mines where they skied down into the hamlet and rode back up. Trains from NYC left with Saks 5th Avenue and Wall Street ski groups on the train to North Creek, and others also came from around the State. Ski lifts developed to replace the trucking around the mountain, when someone hooked up a V-8 driven wheel and rope, and lifts followed and eventually Gore Mountain opened. However, the large facility has isolated the hamlet's historic ski bowl and urging New York State with a petition to recreate the Ski Bowl by connecting it with the mountain, opening old trails and with minor changes connecting to the new ones of Gore Mountain, which has made snow from the Hudson River, only about forty miles from its source in the "Tear in the Clouds". Associated construction would follow from willing investment which thinks more New Yorkers would come to North Creek instead of spending their money in "nearby" Vermont ski centers. Windows Live Link (Google has yet to show higher resolution for this area around Gore Mountain)

Born on the Fourth of July

  

TMZ

CBS Disses Dan Rather on Last Day - TMZ.com

28. I wonder if my cousin George Murray, who after an Army captain's stint in Korea, and after Signal Corps film editing work ("Seinfeld's" "Kramer" and actor Martin Landau's former service) directing "Huntley and Brinkley" and then producing NBC News, often in Saigon and Houston, knew each other. At least Edwin Newman, who wrote me a nice letter, is not reading Mr. Rather's eulogy at the UN Chapel! Sorry about the ranch he owns, unbelievable. CBS was first in the public libraries here in the Bronx, on City Island, where some boys had just drowned, with the DVD version of the day's events of Sept. 11, 2001, though contributing "5% of the profit to the victims" seemed a little odd, on the back of the set.

The "memogate" debacle was entirely a Trojan Horse in my view, and CBS fell for it, though Michael Wood over at PBS would have us think perhaps the "horse" an earthquake. I like to think it more a Texan "hold 'em up" feint, from those who led by a President collecting twice the salary of the previous President, have alot to lose if their "posse" were to be found led by the wrong man. I for one enjoyed the Texas Rangers as a kid and as an adult, Mr. Rather always reminded me of one, in his serious, thoughtful news presentation. Happy trails, Mr. Rather! Posted at 5:14PM on Jun 20th 2006 by George Myers 0 stars

Thames St., Manhattan, "ground zero"

  

Slate: Jurisprudence: Battle of Hudson Heights

The Hudson Highlands are an important, once strategic part of American history. A Dutch American patriot Bernard Romans was asked to build the fortifications on Constitution Island. From there also stretched a "Great Chain" to the "west point", where the military established an academy in 1803. The chain, one of "many" (3 or 4 that I know of) were to stop the British forces from a "divide and conquer" of the colonies from the north and from the south along the Hudson River. Later, the West Point Foundry, across the Hudson River from the military academy, had one of the first Federal cannon consignments, and in the Civil War, in 1861, was patented the rifled Parrott gun which was use to bombard Charleston, South Carolina with incendiaries before itself exploding. It had been named the "Swamp Angel" by one of its crew, which is where it was and out of range, and written about in a poem by Herman Melville. An EPA remediation was conducted there to remove the cadmium contaminating Foundry Cove and Constitution Marsh, from the production of batteries for NIKE rockets, which I was involved in the archeology of which brings me to this Supreme Court decision. What's next? The Queens Warrant? In Canada, it is (or was) a standing warrant that allows officers on suspicion to search any boat, dwelling or person if there is thought to be any drugs involved without specifically naming the searched. It seems that that "anonymity", perhaps, was at the bottom of the Fourth Amendment, which without the Bill of Rights, New York State, NYC once the first Federal capital (the current Capitol dome was made there in the Bronx under Lincoln) would not have signed the Constitution, which allows for a jury trial for sums over $20 in it. http://fray.slate.com/?id=3936&m=17679523

"The Five Year Mission Continues"

Star Trek New Voyages Interesting accomplishments, for here truly Star Trek survives. A high school acquaintance and fellow Zum Zum worker, a Newfield H.S. alumnus, Doug Drexler, who worked on many Star Trek productions (film and television, and also shared a make-up Oscar for "Dick Tracy" directed and starred in by Warren Beatty, with many other actors and actresses, except Warren Beatty, getting phenomenal character transformations) is producing this which has some of the original (TOS) "Star Trek" actors involved. I once walked into a pet store in the Mall where we both worked with his sister and there was a small chimpanzee there with what looked like blue eyes! I mean the chimp was almost albino, and perhaps inspired others.

They turn the electricity back on to the US embassy in Cuba yet?

Taylor & Francis Group - Article World Archaeology Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group Issue: Volume 33, Number 1 / June 1, 2001 Pages: 44 - 60 Islam, archaeology and slavery in Africa J. Alexander Abstract: Two different types of chattel slavery, those permitted by the Christian and Islamic religions, were introduced into Africa but only the Christian slave trade to the Americas has been studied by archaeologists. The much longer duration (over 1000 years) of the Islamic slave trade to Asia and of the Dar el Islam in North and East Africa is at present known only from literary and eyewitness accounts. It will prove difficult to recognise archaeologically and new techniques will have to be developed. Even more difficult to recognise will be the indigenous forms of slavery which existed in many parts of the continent at the coming of both Christianity and Islam, and the interaction between the three different concepts on which they were based. Keywords: Chattel Slavery Dar El Islam Dar El Mu'HAA Dar El Harb Bilad Es Sudan Zanj Jihad

Magnets?

Dark Reading - Host security - Researchers Find Technique to Quickly Erase Hard Drives - Security I worked with one of these Navy Intelligence Officers from Staten Island, in New Jersey, at a to be upgraded car pool parking lot, full of heavy wires, fiber-optics and minimum security prisoners cutting the grass for the highway in New Jersey; and at the newly opened Fine Arts Center in Newark, NJ, next to the "Ironbound" district, a Portuguese-American neighborhood (so is Farmingville, on Long Island, NY). A judge ordered, so he stood by taking notes, while burials from the 19th century were removed and trucked away by mechanical means impeding the opening of the Center. We also worked together in Neptune, NJ where Jack Nicholson is from (the actor's mom was actually his grandma or aunt or something he found out in the tabloids, and Danny DeVito's mom or aunt or something worked in the same beauty salon with his aunt). If anyone knows where Captain America's mother is please let him know, OK? Beautiful sandy beach right near by Neptune, huge Methodist retreat, it started as tent-houses. Next thing I know Ken, the archaeologist from Staten Island, NY who joined Naval Intelligence, who I last saw in Annesville, NY, stung there by a bee, had crash-landed on Hainan Island in China, in the first months of the President GWB's first year in office. I read it's a big tourist spot too for Chinese citizens, new trains and bridge (?) to it.

Announcing the First Annual "Inspire George Bush Film Festival"

"The Day of the Condor" Peru's agrarian reform day celebrated there. Happenstance I saw it in Buffalo, NY in Applied Anthropology, Cornell University, bought a Peruvian plantation, and reasoned out how things might be changed in "Los Vicos". "Three Days of the Condor" came out about the same time and shortly thereafter (Ed.: not really), after filming in the "War Memorial" stadium in Buffalo, NY, (Ed.: then it was torn down) "The Natural" came out by Robert Redford who was also in the "Three Days of the Condor" film I saw recently in the Staten Island Hotel, where the recruits get to have their meals before they're shipped out to Basic Training, I think a "spillover" from Fort Hamilton where I've also been inspected (Fort Drum, 1983, West Point Academy, Picatinny Arsenal, 2001 after anthrax, etc. pursuing $12 (Ed.: I wish) an hour contract archaeology hole digging jobs). "Very brief introduction to the history of Vicos"

Leonard Nimoy plays a football player (1952)

Francis Goes to West Point: Information From Answers.com The last time I was there, it had been renamed "Buffalo Soldiers Field" where the football is played, after the African American soldiers in the American Army in the West (probably not after the Bob Marley song of the same name, but, who knows?) My favorite was the African American mounted bicycles which the Army tried cross-country back in the early 20th century as a feasibility study. The US Army turned 231 years old this week on Wednesday. New dress blues were announced also for September that go back to its origins apparently. I was standing once in a snow squall across from it on the east side of the Hudson River and two Grumman F-14 "Tomcats" from the Navy buzzed the Army-Navy football game, which was quite a sight to see. (1992?) Last time I dug test holes there, with Panamerican Consultants, we had to climb up Bull Hill, near Camp Buckner, overlooking the 10th Mountain's camp on a nice lake. New communications gear needed a road up there believe me! An "Orient Fishtail" projectile point was found in one of the tests, in two pieces. It is a Late Archaic Transitional point usually, as this one was, made of quartz, that frankly, defies creditable reproduction by a modern person almost to describe it. Thinly worked quartz in a graceful lanceolate blade "merging into a flaring 'fishtail' stem" on the end. I was once part of a volunteer excavation of a great number (for them) nearby the "type site" the Stony Brook Site, that was excavated by a former New York State Archaeologist (he also worked in many sites on Martha's Vineyard, an island in Massachusetts, once part with New York of the Duke of York's holdings, along with Pemaquid, Maine. William Ritchie and New York, published an "Archaeology of Martha's Vineyard" a number of sites, which we used (out of print) as a text in our fieldschool in Long Island archaeology.) At the "Fischetti Site" in West Meadow, near Old Field, NY we found maybe 50 or 60 of them under some aboriginal pottery, on-top of what may have been a "sweat lodge" and perhaps part of the method of preparing the quartz for "knapping". Stratigraphy is very hard to establish on many places on Long Island because of it being entirely glacial outwash, which given the opportunity (no green cover) will move around by water and wind into other places, nearby we found a plain shell below one meter in depth for example, not far from onshore winds and storms from Long Island Sound. What is interesting about finding one in West Point Military Academy grounds is the question of dating them. They were associated with the earliest known "burials complex" out in Orient, New York, at the end of the northern "fluke" of the "fish-shaped" island, where today the ferries leave for the casinos in Connecticut and for the Federal animal disease research laboratory on Plum Island, where its said the Americans and the British had their first skirmish in the American Revolutionary War. The Orient "points" were associated with a burial complex that included steatite (a type of soapstone) cooking bowls, thought to have come from Connecticut across the Long Island Sound in further archaeological research there. In "a Typology and Nomenclature for New York Projectile Points" (revised 1971) by William A. Ritchie, once the aforementioned author and State Archaeologist, it states that the "Orient complex radiocarbon dated between 1044 B.C. +- 300 years...and 763 B.C. +- 220 years." More recently, Professor Dean Snow, a well known archaeologist at Penn State, in State College, PA, found and dated some deposits with "fishtail" shaped projectile points in the Delaware Water Gap to around 500 B.C. "between" New York and New Jersey. I also found one on the RCA David Saronoff Research Center front yard near Princeton, NJ in a gas pipe trench. I worked with one of his students last year on a survey of about 1000 acres of two proposed house development sites, one near Harriman, NY (one a railway tycoon, a more recent one "United States financier who negotiated a treaty with the Soviet Union banning tests of nuclear weapons" who've donated the nearby property for the former Columbia University Business School now left and will probably become in part a park, also said to have donated the land for the sites of the large shopping stores "magnet" there) near Cromwell Lake, and the other, near Woodbury, NY, between Bull Hill on the West Point Military Academy and the National Register, Quaker Meetinghouse, an area bisected by the New York State Thruway.

Allegheny River: micturate in NY it flows past New Orleans

I recall the "Allegheny Airlines" that used to service Albany, Rochester, Buffalo Washington, D.C., (when the crosswinds in Albany came) and MacArthur Airport on Long Island, NY and used to fly on them on occasion 2 hrs 10 minutes from Long Island to Buffalo, NY. They became renamed, and a joke about them used to be "Agony Airlines". Anyway the Allegheny River is a sometimes overlooked part of the state (I did work on some geoarchaeology near there for the Millennium Pipeline project before the Millennium, and wish current archaeology efforts the best, gas will flow from Canada to Cleveland, Ohio to Mount Vernon, NY and places in between someday through it) and just saw this publication western New Yorkers and others might be interested in about the 320 mile long river. "Originating in Potter County, the Allegheny River spans about 320 miles, flowing northwest through New York's southern panel and descending through western Pennsylvania. Proceeding south the river then joins the Monongahela in Pittsburgh to form the Ohio River. Charles E. Williams, a professor of ecology at Clarion University, recently published his first pictorial book in conjunction with the Postcard History Series by Arcadia Publishing (publishers of local and regional history in the United States). The book, "Along the Allegheny River: The Northern Watershed," includes pictures of more than 200 vintage postcards. The images showcase years of history from the river, its landscape and its people, including the timber and oil booms of the late 1800s and early 1900s." http://www.thederrick.com/stories/06152006-4010.shtml

Ombudsmenship

In Canada I found, in the province of New Brunswick, that the ombudsman "a government appointee who investigates complaints by private persons against the government" installed in the local government, at least on Grand Manan Island, (the office just in back of the government run liquor store, that, I was there for the opening of, as the U.S. Selective Service fiddled with my draft number's eligibility, and "we" both changed after that, the legal drinking age; up to 19, 20, and then 21 there.)

I think if we had more "ombudsmenship" in government we would not have runaway elected officials who think they can go ahead with their policies so readily, because more people would be offended that a "middle course" through the issues was not, at the very least considered. My background, raised in Centereach, NY (a place name previous would have duplicated another in New York State according to the Post Office, which once appointed to by the President and just summarily dismissed, oops, there is no legal recourse (Myers vs. a previous White House in an appointment in the State of Washington) requires I speak up for the center of each, so to speak.

Unleash The Ombudsing. And The Not-Just-An-Ombudsing. - Public Eye

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Cinematical: Guilty Pleasures: Popeye

5. Tonight PBS showed "Great Performances: Bill Irwin, Clown Prince" (which with NPR the jakes in the houses in D.C. are trying to kill again) with some commentary from "Popeye" Robin Williams and I too when I came to this must confess I really enjoyed "Popeye" the film. I almost sailed out on a Canada seiner "Casino Royale" (there was some trouble at General Motors on the assembly line when they made the engine the boat was built around, get out the chainsaw and cut a hole in the new deck, them's turnings in the crankcase) and "Popeye" was like a salve, a poultice, a swing-in' a cat in a cemetery with half a bean on a wart remover and that Olive, she's was swell in it too. Posted at 11:02PM on Jun 14th 2006 by George Myers, Jr. 3 stars (Don't know why I got those stars, might be the "John Goldfarb, Please Come Home" post about Shirley MacLaine, she's a reporter from "Strife" magazine in it, the film was sued for using the word "Notre Dame" in New York State)

Shipwreck-CITY OF ATLANTA

Shipwreck of the "City of Atlanta" a freighter sunk by the German U-boat, U-123 on January 19, 1942. It's captain was Master Mariner Leman Chapman Urquhart, a harbor pilot and Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada native (misspelled in Gannon's "Operation Drumbeat") two survivors, loss of 43. The ship was on the way to Savannah, Georgia, from a NYC dock on her regular run. It was built in West Chester, Pennsylvania in 1903, I thought a  large side-wheeler, according to a photo in the library of the National Maritime Historical Society in Peekskill, NY. My grandfather's brother was the captain, and in a twist of fate, a high school associate interviewed the captain of the U-boat in the late 1980's as a television journalist. I'm not sure if the NY Times photo is the ship or not now. (Coastal Survey, Chart 7, Record 674). Google Earth at Latitude 35?23'28.64"N Longitude 75?20'12.52"W

However there is this "Special to the NY Times" January 21, 1942 in the listings of the Association of Underwater Explorers (AUE) web-site and is located on the map of Cape Hatterras here.

Twiggy poster

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Game conference character 2 sexy?

E3 Wonder Woman Booted for dressing too sexy

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Sikorsky Strike and Sea King

Boy was I wrong!

Lockheed martin Presidential helicopter facility opens in Southern Tier

Lockheed Martin Systems Integration’s new $37.4 million Presidential Helicopter Integration Facility in the Village of Owego, Tioga County was officially opened Monday. The new facility will house the integration, testing, and delivery operations for the next–generation “Marine One” helicopter that will be used by the President of the United States.

See Saturday, March 18, 2006 Tax Cuts and the Republican Legacy

CRMarchaeology-NY : Message: Re: "if only I had a degree..."

Re: "if only I had a degree..." I heard that the State of New York is going to require testing at all slopes to develop a model that reflects actual data rather than "thought about" evidence which tends to reinforce what has already been found or not found. There's an interesting GIS going on at the State Historic Site of Olana (Arabic for "place on high") that Frederic Church built, a founder of the Hudson River School of painting, which is some of the first artwork the U.S. Congress bought for itself, his "Niagara" I seem to remember back there when the State first opened it I think, back in 1978. There is a GIS using a visual inventory of anything within four (4) miles of the vista from Olana for possible impacts on the site. Interesting copy of Darwin's "Origin of the Species" there. New regs. maybe 4 miles? Maybe you saw Bernadette Castro, the appointed head of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, who once ran for the US Senate against Senator Patrick Moynihan, and Bob Vela in an episode of "This Old House" at Olana?

G.L.O.R.I.A. Gloria...

The New York Observer's MondoWeiss: Anderson Cooper Poor-Mouths Yoko My cousin Helen Myers once worked for Gloria Vanderbilt, though she got into an argument with her over employee benefits for the people making the "designer jeans" and got to go "free". Terrible about her other son. A friend folk singer was friends with Mrs. Guthrie who has a small apartment at the Dakota and heard the terrible shots that killed John Lennon, she said. She was earlier a few blocks from the shootout between the KKK and the American Communists in Greensboro, NC. That's all the muck I got. Yoko's still has quite an art career (Spain, Yokohama, Australia, that I've seen online). I wonder if ex-Pres. Bill Clinton still stops by the Dakota, friends with some of the building association members. He he...

CBS News PublicEye

The First Amendment -- It's Not Just For Big Media Companies Anymore - Public Eye

2005 4th of July, Senator McCain addressed the British press at the BBC Alistair Cooke Memorial Lecture, which they presented as: "In front of an invited audience at the English Speaking Union in London, on the day that Americans celebrate their independence from Britain 229 years ago, Senator McCain will argue that "to be an American patriot is to support a moral mission at home and abroad". Introduced by broadcaster Nick Clarke, the biographer of Alistair Cooke. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/alistair_cooke_lecture.shtml) To many that moral mission is also the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, which the State of New York would not sign without the other. Many of the issues of the American Revolution have been overlooked I have found, patriot issues just as important there as in Boston and perhaps even more so, were we "divided and conquered" along the Hudson River, north from south.

Hot time, summer in the city...

I was listening to Neil Young's garage again online (nice album easy to listen too on DSL now that I'm on Verizon and just got done with a 103 page spreadsheet of artifacts, or inventory using the free Sun Open Office calc you can get anywhere these days and some serious people are switching to) and I was looking through the Google Gmail and saw this guitar company interesting, Raven West Guitar Co. wow beautiful work and great prices too, not that I could, but Epiphone is giving away 6 Triggerman amps and well if I won one, I'd have to get a guitar and probably would get one of these. The "Sopranos" are coming to A&E after minor dialogue edits, one of the Alumni at Stony Brook University is their Exec VP and GM of A & E Television Network, there's also IMAX Co chairman and Co CEO and Craig Allen WCBS radio meteorologist and others who have made it having a NYC Spring Alumni Reception at Club 101 at 101 Park Avenue and E. 40th St. I'm not going the day after Flag Day. $60 to network good deal for some. Heh they busted "Animal House" at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire today after a 2 year investigation. Food fight! We're finally getting the couple thousand artifacts from a 19th Street site next to or part of Cabrini Hospice, where my grand-dad was last, out of the house Sunday. I have a theory how these things we've been looking at fits the time period when, they announced that for $300 you could get out of the US Draft in the Civil War, the city went crazy, people were shot hung killed, courts martialed etc., like "Gangs of New York" film by Martin Scorcese (which has the US Navy firing a cannon on the citizens which historians say never happened, though a guy protected the "NY Times" with a machine gun) as people went crazy over conscription which if you had the "do re mi" could get out of. There was 'abolitionist coinage" we found once at another filled in cistern circulated to remind people to end slavery. Cisterns were usually for water from roofs and rain, switched over to public water neighborhood by neighborhood, starting with Mr. Aaron Burr's water company that became Chase Manhattan Bank, replacing the spring-fed Collect Pond next to which was the African Burial Ground in the press recently, now a U.S. National Monument Water still springs into basements down there near City Hall Park and used to flood the prison cells of the old "Tombs" the jail there was once was called. Aqueducts replaced Burr's two story giant artificial pond. The old Croton Aqueduct, we've hiked on Saturdays with the Bronx Historical Society, taking the train sometimes to it up in Westchester, ran gravity fed, today part of some pretty posh back-yards now. At Sing-Sing and Ossining, NY you can go into part of it, part of a NY State Urban Park (14 of them, Buffalo NY Theater District, Sacketts Harbor, where the US Navy started War of 1812, etc.) It exhibits the prison regime of the past and some of the "shanks" of today. Along the aqueduct is nearby the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery where "The Ramones" did one of their famous rock videos and well, Joey was sick, died, they named a street off the Bowery after him near soon to go CBGB's, where my friend Nancy and I have had to do some other research. Anyway Sunday we give back all the broken ceramic pottery and flower pots, the glass artifacts are in Joe Diamond's house or lab maybe at New Paltz College, NY or in his house near Hurley, NY (a really old little Dutch European looking village) part of "Tootsie" was filmed there in the bar. His Mom was once showing a house, and there was Jimi Hendrix and a Janis Joplin look-a-like she said, up there in the Catskills in 1968, where Dylan, the Band, the Fugs, etc, and me washing Melmac dishes at Camp Timber Lake, sure thought I saw Mr. Hendrix in a sidewalk cafe in Woodstock, NY the next summer many more saw him. My friend Jeffrey 6' 6" 16 years old African American champion of the camps basketball team from Roosevelt, Long Island, when he wasn't driving the old Army jeep around ferrying horse manure and fixing toilets, befriended me and I had a vacation from the camp in Harlem and Roosevelt. Fun summer...them jeeps had to go. "You can see the hood ornament on the car if you go to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but if you want to look at the engine and see what's making it go, then you go to the Musicians Hall of Fame & Museum." - Neil Young on the opening of the music museum in Nashville, Tennessee

Janeane Garofalo's radio commentary partner on Air America Sam Seder

Comment to: Blogging the Anti-Gay Amendment...From THE Closet Ok who is gay? What if certain acts attributed to homosexuals occur in marriage while a man and a woman are married, will their marriage suddenly become nulls and voids (ah, you folded, spindled or tore that punch card, you are no longer "married" comrade) THX1138-like? Or does a "Marriage Act" (the 18th century one, which left out Scotland and the Jews who had no places to publish "banns," led to crossing rivers "ower bogie" or the border to the blacksmith shop at Gretna Green to marry without a priest instead by a public official, to escape questions by religious people. I wouldn't recommend it looking at New Brunswick Canada's 1791 Marriage Act. Last time I looked the United States was still a secular nation, without mumbo-jumbo about deities and riot-inducing theology, why look at the George Gordon riots in London 1780 for pete-the-dragon's sake, over 500 shot and killed, churches burned, houses torn down, even Newgate prison taken apart quickly with crowbar and sledgehammer over some "down with popery" (in the "Newgate Calendar" and in 18th century graffiti). 6/8/06 Isn't it weird, the Hippocratic Oath (the long version) makes specific reference to those that take the healers oath to be fair and equal with all their patients? ... Whatever houses I may visit, I will come for the benefit of the sick, remaining free of all intentional injustice, of all mischief and in particular of sexual relations with both female and male persons, be they free or slaves. ...

Bleach I couldn't grow up with, iron stains

The Blog | David Mamet: Annals of White-Collar Crime | The Huffington Post

Your honor, Kate Mulaney, sitting next to Susan B. Anthony in Germania Hall in NYC during the Haymarket Riots in Chicago, Illinois, was the first woman elected to a union's management. She organized the "collar workers" of Troy, New York, which bleached, cleaned and ironed the detachable collars there invented that allowed the management class to wear the same shirt more than one day. The accused has shown a blatant disregard for women's history and should be fined for the unequal payment of women in general for their labor and work, even though it's just a bottle of bleach. Her house was recently placed on the American National Register of Historical Places, in Troy, NY. Germania Hall was unceremoniously torn down in the Bowery, where NYC's theater district once was.

1/2 life 2: 1st episode

These citizens left on the other train. 

Dr. Gordon Freeman stacked three boxes up and jumped the fence into the trainyard to look at the train that would take him away with Alyx from the Citadel about to explode into smithereens. He had destroyed the Strider, but there was no evidence of it there. He later found out, if he took one of those  mines in his gravity gun the train would never leave the station, in fact nothing would happen at all.

Half-Life 2: First Episode, from VALVe, just out June 1, 2006