Penn Museum begins ground-breaking project to create underground image of pre-Inca city

Having studied with archaeologist Edward Lanning (author of "Peru Before the Incas" and co-author of "Prehispanic America") and worked for another Peruvianist archaeologist, Joel W. Grossman, Ph.D. (authored the "Western Hemisphere" archaeology Encyclopedia Britannica yearbook entries and other reports) in "contract" archaeology (old New Amsterdam, EPA National Priority clean-up sites NY/NJ, and other compliance research using the then state-of-art, off-the-shelf equipment and new desktop computers, assisting one mapping project of Marajo Island, in Brazil, with archaeologist Anna Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt's grand-daughter) along with the anthropologists who were posed by US government "social scientists" in "Operation Camelot" in Bolivia, and the "applied anthropologists" who worked on "Los Vicos" and the recording of high altitude living in Peru, who are often at risk in a different environmental adaptation, would cheer this effort as do I. One hand washes the other sort of.

Source: Penn Museum begins ground-breaking project to create underground image of pre-Inca city

Newsvine - Curfews Imposed After Saddam's Execution

A few years ago, I was in Mayville, NY site of the last public hanging in New York State, around Halloween, for the geoarchaeology survey of part of the "Millennium Pipeline" natural gas by way of Canada to Cleveland, using mostly pre-existing right of ways, to Mount Vernon, just outside New York City. The press was there at the time, because of an arrest of an HIV positive African-American for sleeping around there with minors. The governor was talking about using the death penalty for it, I'm not sure he knew about the venue, the "last hanging" up behind the diner next to the school.

It's the county seat of Chautauqua County, the origin of the famous circuit of learned talks for free for people in the US in the 19th century over important issues. The defendant was extradited to the Borough of the Bronx, NYC on a prior, where the D.A. had been previously confronted with "death penalty" requests by the now out-going governor and Republican Presidential candidate, George Pataki.

My 6th grade teacher's father was a newspaper photographer for the Chicago Sun and he once showed me some of the prints (not the negatives, press has them) of the "last hanging in Nevada, where thousands of people would come by train." It looked like a biblical wasteland with some sort of tripod in the middle of the whole event taken from atop a hill. He also had taken a small camera into the audience for the first woman to be given the electric chair, it taped to his trouser leg and uncovered long enough to get the horror of it and it was probably put on the front page.

Having grown up tying that hangman's knot, it seems a terrible waste not to get the rest of the story perhaps from the man, who might have been imprisoned instead whom might have written (as he did) a past historical record of the previous Iraqi history from the "top". Others associated, perhaps innocently with the past Iraqi government, are calumniated or "blackened" further.

Source: Newsvine - Curfews Imposed After Saddam's Execution#c452829

Small, smaller, smallest -- The plight of the vaquita

A similar species is in the Bay of Fundy which gets caught in seine net weirs ("works") on Grand Manan Island, NB I was told by a Guelph University researcher. A small harbor porpoise or "skunkwahagen" (a striped dolphin, or after a distant cousin Nolan of whom a Passamaquoddy said swam like one). They were doing DNA studies of North Atlantic "right whales" (right because harpooned they float rather than sink) in their nursery there near Campobello and Grand Manan islands, taking DNA samples with a crossbow and rope attached arrow for taking small skin plugs, before they migrate to Florida. They "dolphins" were often shot in the weirs as they got entangled in the net, and someone was trying to develop a net that would let them free without letting the whole catch go out of the net strung wooden poles of the large weirs.

Source: Small, smaller, smallest -- The plight of the vaquita

Newsvine - Time: Top 10 Underreported Stories

80 (100) F-14 Tomcats sold to Iran's Shah declared obsolete, as the U.S. decommissions its own and opens up F-14 flight simulators in Pensacola, Florida. I once sat with a F-14 test pilot on his birthday when we announced (the media) we would destroy them all if the USSR made a move for the Iran border during the student led crisis (over Savak spies here in the US schools they say) as the air-to-air technology was super secret...doh! Grumman Corporation had a compound of about 4000 employees teaching the Iranian Air Guard how to perhaps acquire up to six targets. About 300 (?) support are required for each pilot in the air. Top Gun story Newsvine. Grumman has since joined with Northrop and EDO with astronaut Neil Armstrong's company since the DOD wants 1/2 billion in business before you bid. Real Texas hold 'em up business. Weren't the Wright brothers bicycle mechanics? There's a piece of their flier on the Moon

Source: Newsvine - Time: Top 10 Underreported Stories

wcbstv.com - Search Expands At WTC After Building Debris Found

Search Expands At WTC After Building Debris Found

Source: wcbstv.com - Search Expands At WTC After Building Debris Found

A See You Next Tuesday at Appomattox

What I recall "at" Appomattox (a river: see US's 1st submarine later "Alligator" considered for use on it in Wikipedia) was that the terms were literally written up by a New York Seneca native American for Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee and that the Union Secretary of War was uninformed and left out. A former Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis, was once the president of the confederacy. Robert E. Lee, once Commandant of West Point Military Academy, in NY, was asked by Lincoln to lead the Union but declined, had been at the trial and hanging of John Brown at the Federal Arsenal at Harpers Ferry. He also lived in Fort Hamilton military facility a house there with his name today and a street, where Enron cost them $20 million in bad orders. His US citizenship has since been restored (Golden Triangle Airport, Freedom Exhibit, Mississippi). Ulysses S. Grant served first at Sacketts Harbor on Lake Ontario and also on Governors Island in NYC harbor, where also southern prisoners were kept and interrogated, General Lee's son said to have been kept in the fort demolished (Fort Lafayette) for the building of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, (Florentine navigator who explored the eastern coast of North America (circa 1485-1528) connecting Brooklyn and Staten Island. So if I were to restart an American civil war I'd start it in NYC where it seems it did once before, this time over the $1 for Governors Island President Clinton offered. Elayne Boosler Huffington Post

Famed NYC Hawk Sees Bald Eagle Soar By

Sometimes seen in the Bronx, the hawks soaring that is, though not sure if it were the Pale Male I've seen, since I once phoned one in dead (before 311) on the Bronx River Parkway by the zoo and botanical gardens. Out in Suffolk County in Smithtown are two bald eagles a male and female that were wounded, one in Alaska that are kept in an outdoor "flyway". Bowdoin Park, formerly J.P. Morgan's plain summer place in Dutchess County, was once a wildlife care center, on the Hudson River ("DEC releases the Hudson River Estuary Wildlife and Habitat Conservation framework") and has since moved to a larger space nearer Kent, NY. The greatest congregation of raptors (and cougars or mountain lions) I've seen are in the New Hampshire Science Center in Holderness, NH near Squam Lake where "On Golden Pond" was filmed. When I was younger, hiking up the "Saddleback" behind Timber Lake Camp, where I washed dishes in Allaben, NY, I stepped out on a rock ledge and my face and a hawk almost shared the same space. At least I didn't fall hundreds of feet to a certain death or get scratched! Here's a report on New York State's report on the recovering bald eagle population, our Nation's symbol (wild turkeys are also being reintroduced and they are asking people if they are seen anywhere please call them and report them even if only a few. Years ago I saw them on the Taconic Parkway by Oliver North's NY place, more recently at the West Point Military Academy and a whole brood of them on the Carroll County Farm in New Hampshire looking for the mattress factory). The Journal News: New York's bald eagles thriving, but still facing challenges

The "Judith Miller Distinguished Journalism Awards"

Last year I was on an archeology survey of a large property to be developed next to Harriman, NY (and adjacent to Hasidim town Kiryas Joel, NY. The Harrimans, its said, "donated" the large crossroads shopping area there) that belongs to one of the Cornell family and important Democrat. It was reported that the Columbia University Business School was abandoning the former Harriman Estate, up on the other hill, to hold classes in more relevant urban environments. "Averell Harriman" is also an urban policy college within the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

I applaud the award idea, so that someway, we remember y'all, we all will be put in prison if his all think any y'all should. Sometimes I wish the "prettiest First Lady" Julia Gardiner Tyler hadn't been so successful in convincing us to admit Texas into the Union. We're being run by "johnny come lately" who've put decent women in prison.

FLURB

FLURB - A Webzine of Astonishing Tales Interesting sci-fi and other stories online. Rudy Rucker's "The Third Bomb" is a very scary story.

"Jokerman" - Music Video Bob Dylan

Lyrics to the song set, against artwork from throughout history, are interspersed with performance footage to create this compelling clip from the Infidels album.

New Program by Computer Scientist Prevents Crashes and Hacker Attacks

I can't recall how many times crashes and other things happened, partly former m-board in a class action suit over capacitors and other more insidious stuff. It became that "blog" looked like a good place to put what I observed to reread. Then I got fired for simply having a "blog" no further explanation, from a "swing shift" (3:30 'til midnight) of archaeology next to the eternal flame and damaged "Sphere" from the WTC in Battery Park for a new subway tunnel. Feels a bit like Lara Croft, a year later! ha ha. Will try DieHard.

Scholars Debate Viking Ships’ Fitness for a 3-Mile Journey

Just as a footnote (I have the "Vasa" book which I wonder if they would chance move). Perhaps you might imagine, we in New York City had a number of archaeological projects in the landfill the Dutch began back in the "swampy" era of Manhattan, mostly near the South Street Seaport, where prevailing winds would carry ships away from docks on the East River (or Sound River, connecting through Hellsgate "light gate" to the "Mediterranean-like" environment of the Long Island Sound) without towing (which would have been required on the Hudson River side) though steam-power opened it up to all sorts of riverside development.

You might imagine my surprise one day walking down to the dock at the South Street Seaport, a museum of ships too, (one the "Peking" might be "returned" to Germany) when there tied up to the dock was a fairly large Norse ship, and instead of the "black" very wooden colored. It had been made in the Midwest of the United States along the lines of the excavated ships and had been sailed through the Great Lakes into New York and was flying an American flag! Fortunately I had a camera to take some pictures for surely someone might think on the recounting I was making it up!

As I recall once a then Mayor Koch issued a proclamation officially apologizing to some Scandinavians that had been arrested like then 80 years past that had been celebrating their crossing of the Atlantic Ocean to New York in a Viking replica and on the way to the ship had been overly boisterous in the early morning hours and had been hauled in. There is a Leif Erikson Park in Brooklyn next to Fort Hamilton and a monument in New Rochelle, NY, not far from the New York City line.

I hope these world heritage artifacts aren't "just moved" and damaged due to all the interesting history associated with them and the various Norwegian Halls in the US. NY Times December 25, 2006

IMDb Safe House (1998)

I rented it from Blockbuster and thought it was an interesting film because it involved interior shots that aren't done so much in this genre from what I've seen. It was a believable story, interesting because of the presentation of computer links that have become important and dangerous ("Carnivore" back then I think used to monitor Internet traffic, Sliwa's "Guardian Angels" watching chat rooms, the current Presidential "pardon" of "secret police tactics" makes the film almost prescient, i.e., a horror we were going to be a part of between "Our Man in Halcyon" (NY Times op-ed on President Bush on a medication that left FBI agents walking armed and forgotten through metal detectors) an impeachment over sex and another George Bush posing on a former German turkey farm in Texas, bought from proceeds of a baseball team CBS' CEO's brother wanted, but the Governor just had to have. I think the Chinese character in one edition of the I Ching I recall was #49 "Revolution" though perhaps Japanese (the computer screen access puzzle). Anyone know?

On another site it says Patrick Stewart made this film 1995/1996. http://nicky_smith.tripod.com/film.html

Graffiti Wall

Re: Texas

Where's the W MD? They found some George W. Bush in Texas who was within 6 months of the Presidents birthday let off on a "practicing without medicine license" charge on a cocaine charge. Sound like GWB or his "Doppelganger" (twin, double)? "W" is a murder/suspense mystery film with Twiggy and others.

by Anonymous at 11:45AM (CST) on Dec 24, 2006

Re: Texas

O. Henry (OH io penit EN tia RY) Thanx Austin, TX.

by Anonymous at 12:48PM (CST) on Dec 24, 2006

Re:

OH io penit EN tia RY (O. Henry the nom de plume of Texas/New York author, William Sydney Porter, a frontier pharmacist, (in North Carolina) when Pepsi was invented) Thanx Austin, TX. Merry Xmas. (Keep Xhristos in Christmas). Ever near Kiehl's Pharmacy in Manhattan (Heidegger there a friend of Governor Shwarzenegger) stop at the Scheffel Hall where O. Henry used to write, and Les Paul used to play.

by Anonymous at 12:57PM (CST) on Dec 24, 2006

Source: Graffiti Wall

Note: When Scheffel Hall had "Fat Tuesdays" club there was a moving hologram of jazz pioneer horn player Dizzy Gillespie. As you walked past the front window "bebop" Dizzy in the hologram would lower his signature trumpet horn and as you walked further past, looking back, Dizzy would smile. It was a very interesting hologram, others usually static, though 3D. There was quite a fight over landmarking the facade from the former "Kleine Deutschland" neighborhood on the Lower East Side, era when O. Henry was there, on Third Ave. near 16th St. Someone should pardon William Sydney Porter.

Newsvine - Greg Palast: Saddam's Weapon of Mass Destruction Found

In the Harvard University archaeological excavation of Nuzi by Dr. Starr in the 1930s, many arrow points were found in the corners of rooms, back when it, near the 20th century Mosul oil fields, in Kirkuk, Iraq was part of the Mitanni kingdom to about 1200 BCE. It's capital has never been found yet, an interesting fragment found between ancient Egypt and Iraq that had a royal wedding planned or thwarted. The capital is said to have been Washukkanni (in Wikipedia) and I read the report while a grad student for Elizabeth Stone, Ph.D. years ago at Stony Brook University in New York where Donny George, an archaeologist and the former head of the antiquities museum in Baghdad that the US led "coalition" allowed to be ransacked is. He was interviewed in the NY Times recently. I guess Iraq like Saudi Arabia has a long history of "bows and arrows" from what I've seen.

Source: Newsvine - Greg Palast: Saddam's Weapon of Mass Destruction Found

Hunting for Chile's First Sub - Divester

Hunting for Chile's First Sub 1866

(See also "American Civil War submarine found" built in New York.)

Years ago I studied with Louis C. Faron at Stony Brook University, who was Julian H. Steward's "last graduate student", an American anthropologist who testified about the travel and settlement patterns of the Shoshone native Americans who ranged over a wide area of resources in different seasons. Louis C. Faron lived then in the Village of Stony Brook, which is also known for its museums and Stanford White designed church, and local zoning Ward Melville "American Philosophical Society" address on historic preservation of Stony Brook. Stanford White a famous architect in some of the public buildings of NYC, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere, lived nearby on an estate in Nissequogue, (also the location start of home "interior decorating" by a woman). It had a very tall shingle covered windmill for pumping water (in Scientific American? 125 feet high? Vandals set it on-fire in the early 1960s, the iron stanchions or feet I've seen, cast in Baltimore, Maryland, as it was either bulldozed or fell over the embankment it had pumped water for the cistern at the "Squash Court". The "feet" are visible along a small path from a small public parking lot, shown to me by a Stony Brook engineering student. The large vane windmill was once a "landmark" and visible across the Long Island Sound, almost like a lighthouse, during daylight hours. I once helped put a new window in the artists studio in the Stanford White estate, though there to cleanup after the patio doors were put in the ceiling of the studio providing for ventilation also, where there had been many small panes.)

Louis C. Faron, whom I once visited for dinner I think, was an ethnographer of the Mapuche "Indians" native Chileans who were in the news recently suing Microsoft for taking their language and writing a version of Windows for it, without their input I suppose. There is quite a fight over "open source" versus Microsoft's software in South America, some countries have preferred Linux where they can see all the code they are using rather than the software code they don't know how is operating, e.g., ATM software has been known to embezzle banks by taking undisclosed amounts, sort like the fractional cents I once heard deposited elsewhere in some programmer's bank account. Another apocryphal story is the line of code that was supposed to have a "," instead a "." in Fortran and the rocket exploded because the proofreader of the code missed it.

Wonder how many other submarines there were in other countries. The Australian Navy says "The Turtle" built during the American Revolutionary War and used unsuccessfully in the New York City harbor against the British Navy was the first. A replica was on exhibit in Castle Clinton, put there by the "History Channel" which also promised a more refined model according to the "NY Daily News" in lower Manhattan the day before September 11, 2001. That day or somewhere around it, it also had a newsworthy item of "NY Bravest" disentangling a French photographer on a motorized parasail from the Statue of Liberty where he was trying to get the "bon photo" I suppose.

Source: Hunting for Chile's First Sub - Divester

Nederlands in Beatles-song

Nederlands in Beatles-song

Het is een weetje voor Beatles- fans, goed voor een avondje Trivial Pursuit: in welk nummer van The Beatles wordt een zinnetje Nederlands gesproken? Het antwoord is I am The Walrus, waar je in de 'dying seconds' iemand duidelijk hoort zeggen: "Dat zouden ze wel willen." Maar wie is het? www.bndestem.nl In English about it at blog krijnen.com

Acoma Pueblo :: New Mexico Tourism Department: Sky City

"...'scuse me while I kiss the sky" - Jimi Hendrix 

Sky City: "Acomans claim that their 70-acre village is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the United States."

Source: Acoma Pueblo :: New Mexico Tourism Department

Wired News: Stop the Christmas Carol Spoofs

Years ago the "Allegheny Portage Railroad" near Cresson, Pennsylvania where Robert Peary, said to be the first man to the North Pole in 1909, was born, the US National Parks Service used to hire an actor to portray Charles Dickens, to give the speech he once gave there at the top of the Alleghenies at the Lemon Tavern. He was popular in the US, once swum in Boston Harbor, and here near Altoona, before the "Horseshoe Bend" railroad engineering, then a series of steam powered inclined planes hauling canal boats on flat cars up over the mountains for Pittsburgh, past where Prince Galatzin, a heir to the Russian throne, a Catholic missionary, paused to drink from the "sinking springs" he gave a talk perhaps from atop the only known "skewed arch bridge" in the Western Hemisphere. They found some wire rope there, probably replaced manila, which went on to build the Brooklyn Bridge and other suspension bridges. - from the ghosts of scary railroads past.

Source: Wired News: Stop the Christmas Carol Spoofs

Guardian Unlimited Book of the week The Dickens of a good show Malcolm Andrews' Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves reveals a love of performance and a delight in the audience, says Simon Callow

The Dickens of a good show Review Guardian Unlimited Books

Special Report: Gun Violence in America: Bad Tidings In the tiny town of North Pole, Alaska, it's Christmas 365 days of the year. Santa is king, schoolchildren are his 'little helpers' replying to letters from around the world - good cheer is a civic duty. So why did six pupils plot a Columbine-style massacre last April? Jon Ronson investigates.

NewMexiKen: December 21st is the birthday

4. George Myers says: (Your comment is awaiting moderation.) "...of Michael Tilson Thomas. The director of the San Francisco Symphony is 62."
December 22, 2006 at 11:00 am

I found in research in the archaeology of NYC’s Bowery, once it’s 1820s theater district, that Michael Tilson Thomas' grandfather was the “father of Yiddish Theater” he the grandson of Boris Thomashefsky, once one of the biggest stars of Yiddish Theater in the United States, where actor Walter Mathau started.

He was once the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra’s conductor where in a “classical influence on rock concert” in Buffalo, NY he also had the John McLaughlin Mahavishnu Orchestra (the piece was later recorded with the London Symphony) that I was to as a arts college inside a university student.

Source: NewMexiKen: December 21st is the birthday

2 bones in WTC manhole first remains recoveries in weeks (yesterday)

In the summer of 1999 a crew of archaeologists for the Landmarks Preservation Commission delineated the "First Almshouse" cemetery human remains in City Hall Park, under renovation and improvement. I personally found a double burial where the location of one of the drinking water fountains was planned and I am under the impression the plans were changed out of respect for the early poor once buried in the Commons, where I have worked a number of times before.

I also volunteered to help after 9/11/01 and was never called asked, informed or any other info. The City Hall Park excavation was supervised by Marilyn London a physical and forensic anthropologists at the Smithsonian Institution. The whole event has been politicized is my only conclusion, almost to get back at the new National Monument next to City Hall, the African Burial Ground.

Source: 2 bones in WTC manhole first remains recoveries in weeks

Blackberry Or Black Pen, Has Political Coverage Really Changed That Much? - Public Eye

Well at least the mimeograph and its solvents have been replaced. I could see where "speed" might effect reporting, say the "fodder shortage" in the former eastern soviets and the breakdown of state-sponsored system of commune barter (Dave Maresh, to start with Al Jazeera, once said one 3 am on a major network) broke down over tobacco and chickens, leading to the collapse of the USSR is just being reported and put together now, it really sometimes is where the attention of the public might be, not so much the story.

The sport of dragging Dan Rather off the scene, however, will have to find another outlet. Why Mr. Rather, didn't you bring up the other letter where George Bush asks to leave the National Guard ("International Guard"? under him) early to attend Harvard for the MBA, where his pal, who is currently in charge of privatizing all the former national businesses in Iraq, went, Mr. Thomas C. Foley, a major Republican Party donor? Maybe you're right, the tech is changin' the times.

Posted by georgejmyers at 09:09 PM : Dec 20, 2006

Source: Blackberry Or Black Pen, Has Political Coverage Really Changed That Much? - Public Eye

Online spelling error

http://www.lennonfbifiles.com/hq15p1summ.html

"peopel" should be "people" as in "power to the people"

Thank you for your efforts, John Lennon inspired me ironically where he was followed, to be a Stony Brook University alumnus. Unfortunately or not his killing inspired me to leave graduate school there and work in the archaeology of New York City which had/has many connections I've learned with Liverpool, England.

George J. Myers, Jr.

Anthropology BA, 1978

It’s All About “You" Time's Person of the Year CBS - Public Eye

Who is You, Yu, Hugh? The Time reported Vermont "dynamite gun" inventor assassinated on the streets of Amsterdam, whose "work" we point out as "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq (or Libya, etc.) which look more like pieces of oil pipeline, as do the columns bolted together for the "dynamite gun" on a barge in the Hudson River on an old stereopticon photo at the West Point Foundry in the 19th century? Where the same foundry was cited in Jules Verne's 1865 "From Earth To The Moon"? Is that "you"? Who once studied with the inventor of America's first submarine "Alligator" lost off Cape Hatteras, N.C.? Once upon a time the Asian Student publication at Stony Brook University was named "Yu" which means harmony, but that's the "yu" an arguably unachievable concept. So it is "you" the reader and not the "Voyager" "you" set free from the "Borg Collective"? You, with a blog, you're fired you? No, that's me. Posted by georgejmyers at 07:52 PM : Dec 19, 2006

Ten Years in Prison for 17-Year-Old Who Had Consensual Oral Sex with 15-Year-Old

Comment on comments at "The Volokh Conspiracy" about the : Ten Years in Prison for 17-Year-Old Who Had Consensual Oral Sex with 15-Year-Old:

Perhaps this has been the result of the "cult of anonymous personality" that the young and others are confronted with due to the "information age" i.e., the Internet (which as I understand it is a myth, hardly anonymous, in criminal investigation, perhaps even more so since "carnivore" and the new Presidential pardon of secret police tactics) and the law should consider what perhaps should be only a civil case, i.e, whose parental guardians were lapse in their evaluation, teaching and judgement that arguably created this situation, i.e., (for the third i.e. strike) what does it say about "responsibility" when underage or "coming to age" individuals act like some adults portrayed in "entertainment"? Where is the "civil responsibility" in this Damocles judgement? In a "criminal" child?

Please Let It Be Whale Vomit, Not Just Sea Junk

In the New York Times: Looks like a supercool liquid (like paraffin [what British call paraffin is "kerosine" in the US, where paraffin is a petroleum wax] and glass - Mr. Wizard ca. 1960?) I've always wondered what this looked like and the fascination it holds. From Montauk Point, found years ago, it's ambergris? Or some early petroleum-related process from Fishers Island, part of Suffolk County, Long Island, nearer to the state of Connecticut however, where petroleum "jelly" was made in the early 20th century? (revised 19 December 2006)

German/English English/German Archaeology Excavation Dictionary

I wish this was available when the Canadians and Americans, Mexicans and Puerto Ricans handed me a Rollei close-range photogrammetric camera and software from a now unified Germany and said "we" were going to do this. It was done with 8"x10" photos taped consecutively to a 48" digitizing tablet and accompanying camera software. Arguably more accurate than US HABS/HAER, its still not in use to my knowledge at the Federal level (including the FBI, though introduced to them by Canadians) in the US though might be in forensic use in Canada. In Great Britain, it is being used in some car accident recordation. As explained to me, it was looked into after a US armed forces crash in Gander, Newfoundland was covered by a blizzard before appropriate investigation could be done. It was thought one could use the RolleiMetric system flying by in a helicopter and with appropriate metrics, fulfill forensic aircraft crash investigation. (Prometric, Andrew Lane, pers. comm. 1989, in Cold Spring, NY shortly before the "Avianca Flight 52...crashed into the town of Cove Neck, Long Island, New York after running out of fuel. 73 out of the 158 passengers and crew on board were killed" in 1990. answers.com).  (not any one's opinion other than my own, because I'm not to have one) Posted 14 December 2006 to Histarch forum. Additions here 19 December 2006)

NASA's "Global Exploration Strategy" for the Moon includes Historic Preservation (but had nothing for Iraq)

135 Historic Preservation: Create international lunar heritage sites to protect the record of early human lunar activity. Create lunar heritage sites at important historical locations on the Moon, such as the Apollo landing sites. Ensure that these sites are preserved in a way that they can be appreciated in the future. Man's first contact with the Moon is an important part of the global history of humankind. Designating these sites as international lunar heritage sites would protect the record of early human lunar activity and preserve our common history. 136 Historic Preservation: Preserve an archive of life on Earth on the Moon to safeguard mankind's biological, historical, cultural, and knowledge base against catastrophic loss. Preserve an archive of life on Earth on the Moon. This archive could include an agricultural cultivar bank, a data back-up site, which would include historical, cultural, and other data, and other archives of life on Earth. Having an off-site back-up of the material of terrestrial life and the data produced by it would safeguard mankind's biological, historical, cultural, and knowledge base against catastrophic loss. In the event of a catastrophic planetary event on Earth, the remains of civilization could potentially reconstruct society as it was before the disaster. 137 Historic Preservation: Preserve regions of the Moon in their natural state to protect them from developing lunar activities. Preserve regions of the Moon in their natural state. Maintain regions of the Moon for future scientific, cultural, recreation, and other uses. Preserving regions of the Moon can protect them from the growing encroachment of lunar activities. Having areas such as these, which are relatively free of contamination from lunar activities, will enable scientific investigations without confounding influences and will preserve a pure lunar environment for humans to experience and enjoy. - From the spreadsheet (watch those spelling errors NASA!) LunarExplorationObjectives.xls From NASA's "Global Exploration Strategy" for the Moon as seen in WIRED (goes PBS Dec. 18, 2006) in "Race To The Moon For Nuclear Fuel". Why didn't the U.S. do this for Iraq before it went into the "Fertile Crescent" and "hilly flanks" of our civilization's origin?

Katie Couric's Notebook: Women At War - Couric & Co.

No militarization without representation. More women should be admitted into the workings of our government. I remember the "Watergate" hearings, which only had two women, current New York Senator and former First Lady Hillary Clinton (named by her mom after the famous Mt. Everest climber, Edmund Hillary who came to talk at in my third grade class in Centereach, NY over 40 years ago) and former Representative Elizabeth Holtzman, surely we could use more women in government. I went to high school in Selden, NY which is named after a judge, who testified as a character witness at Susan B. Anthony's trial, she had posed as a man to vote, before that right was won for women. We had the first Marine Corps JROTC said in the US there but no women were in it then. Someone should investigate the now 20,000 said to be in mostly poor school districts and see how many have women enrolled (at last count "Defense Monitor" on PBS in 1990s, costing $1 billion a year) for officer training.

Posted by georgejmyers at 11:12 PM : Dec 16, 2006

Source: Katie Couric's Notebook: Women At War - Couric & Co.

Can These Rare White Deer Be Saved?, Once Safe On Army Depot, White Deer Could Be Pushed Out By Development - CBS News

Also there's a famous painting that shows terms of peace drawn up with Ulysses S. Grant with Robert E. Lee that was written by a Union Seneca, at Appomattox, Virginia, ending the American Civil War that's interesting. The Secretary of War was mad, he wasn't in on it.

Posted by georgejmyers at 10:27 PM : Dec 16, 2006

"A Native American people formerly inhabiting western New York from Seneca Lake to Lake Erie, with present-day populations in this same area and in southeast Ontario. The Seneca are the westernmost member of the original Iroquois confederacy" -answers.com (alt-click) Sometimes referred to as the Erie, Neutrals or Long-tail cat people, the "Death and Rebirth of the Seneca" in western New York State has been written about the late 18th early 19th century Seneca religion. Maybe Handsome Lake's prayer "The White Dog Sacrifice" at the Iroquoian New Year (February or "ticha" as I recall, the toughest time of the year, as storage ran low) was actually a "deer" since there's no mention of a dog other than in the title in the long "Wotokwaiiendakwa Gaiantguntgwaa" prayer. And unicorns are only on the medieval tapestries in the Cloisters in NYC. Surely they should be preserved!

Posted by georgejmyers at 10:13 PM : Dec 16, 2006

Source: Can These Rare White Deer Be Saved?, Once Safe On Army Depot, White Deer Could Be Pushed Out By Development - CBS News

Response to "Workers Struggle to ID Katrina Victims"

Wonderfully written article human interest article that invokes some of the calamity and pathos that residents there have suffered. Ironically, in a time where we have international troubles over forensics to be proved in other countries, we have very little of our own still financed. If, reportage is held to be true from the NY Daily News, there was forensic fraud over the victims of September 1, 2001. Why we haven't have had proper Federal oversight on our own tragedies is beyond me. Today it was reported by officials, a seawall must be built to protect the Flight 800 Memorial paid for by the victims, at Smiths Point on Fire Island, NY, from erosion, though as first located, would have been further from the beach, changed by them. Benjamin Franklin once had a saying proposed for our first coinage, always in shortage, "Mind Your Business" or it will mind you.

Sat Dec 16, 2006 9:06 PM EST  Newsvine article by AP writer Rukmini Callimachi

South Street Seaport Museum Collection Went To Albany, NY (not upon a pony)

NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12234 An Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer

Research and Collections Technician, SG-14 (3 positions)

LOCATION: Albany, NY SALARY: $35,428*

The New York State Museum is seeking to fill three positions of Research and Collections Technician to be assigned to the recently acquired South Street Seaport Museum Collection (Challenge Fund Project #18). They will be responsible for the identification, care and management of specimens and artifacts. Specific duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

Physical processing of archaeological artifacts in the collection, including cleaning, organizing, labeling, rehousing, and incorporating into Museum storage, using New York State Museum practices;

Identify and catalogue individual archaeological artifacts, which include 17^th-20^th century European, Asian, and American objects and some Native American materials;

Employ excavators notes, diagrams and reports to determine artifact proveniences; Enter catalog and related data into electronic databases;

Photograph objects and scan documents and incorporate images into electronic database; Assist curators and collections staff with exhibits, public programs, tours, researcher visits and requests, and other educational/research activities related to the collections.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: A Bachelor’s degree and one year of experience in assisting in scientific or historical research in the field or in artifact/specimen care and maintenance in the laboratory or museum. E-mail: cgraves2@mail.nysed.gov

courant.com | Landmark Will Get Second Look

Landmark Will Get Second Look

New Haven, Connecticut

U.S. To Reconsider Colt Factory's Status December 16, 2006

Originally from Paterson, New Jersey (where his business at first failed) it's been discovered that he had a big affect on Paterson's business, design and industrial success, building for example, steam locomotives.

Source: courant.com Landmark Will Get Second Look

On Eric Sevareid's eulogy to Walt Disney

December 15, 1966 Walt Disney passed away

Working around NYC in archaeology over the years I sometimes find an interesting story about American History, like Robert E. Lee's son held here in prison during the Civil War, though he, once Commandant of West Point, also lived in Fort Hamilton, a house and street there after him. One southern prisoner remarked on the beauty of Governors Island. It was said, by the Coast Guard grounds-keeper left there after its, now seems, long abandonment, that Walt Disney once "missed the boat" and was held AWOL there in Castle Williams (a fort as Castle Clinton, earlier than Ellis Island, an immigration point of entry, its "twin" today through landfill, as much of NYC shores are, is part of Manhattan island). Perhaps it lead to his career as an ambulance driver in WWI or another "story" about him.

Posted by georgejmyers at 10:51 AM : Dec 16, 2006

Source: Quote For The Day - Couric & Co.

Re:US Supreme Court Lets Stand Pot Dealer's 55-Year Mandatory Minimum Sentence

Son of Miami police chief gets 18 months in prison for drug bust Wednesday December 13, 2006 ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) The son of Miami's police chief has been sentenced to a year and a half in federal prison for trying to buy 400 pounds of marijuana from an undercover agent in a New York City suburb. More of the story at wcbstv.com at link above.

1849 Shipwreck Found in Lake Ontario

Ben Dobbin, AP Business Writer December 11, 2006 "ROCHESTER, N.Y. — After more than 160 years, the twin masts of the Milan still stand erect — all the more remarkable because the commercial sailing ship sits in the dark depths of Lake Ontario." Lake Cayuga salt? From Myers, NY?

Bad Days For Bones

Trump SoHo Project Is on Hold After Discovery of Human Remains Wednesday, December 13, 2006 by David Lombino Staff Reporter of the New York Sun

Reported in the "NY Daily News" also. The original "Sun" building is now a NYC Landmark, connected with the current re-established paper in name, starting on the Internet went from "virtual" to "real" newspaper, my father once delivered four-color Sunday funnies plates for them, my grandfather a real estate reporter for "The Record" and my brother Tom delivered papers for a short-lived "Suffolk Sun".

and:

Old human bones unearthed in Point State Park renovation Remains possibly date to colonial times Thursday, December 14, 2006 by Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

I signed a petition to stop this awhile ago for Fort Pitt in Pittsburgh, which looked very similar in design to Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland.

Further:

Experts out of joint over bones

By Allison M. Heinrichs (click to email)

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Friday, December 15, 2006

and:

Letters to the editor

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Fort Pitt travesty

We preservationists are furious with the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, the Riverlife Task Force and the Allegheny Conference on Community Development for continuing work to fill in the Music Bastion at Point State Park with a chunky mix of rubble likely to damage the 250-year-old handmade bricks ("Group Unhappy With Plan to Dump on Fort Pitt," Dec. 7). http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06341/744212-53.stm

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Outrage over Holocaust conference

Outrage over Holocaust conference

A number of years ago about 1978 or so I was in the Stony Brook University library and noticed a pile of materials about to be catalogued into "Special Collections" where other materials go in the very large library, once touted as one of the 20 or so largest on the east coast (there are separate libraries in Physics, Biology, Earth and Space Sciences, etc., one, a student run "Science Fiction" library, in the renamed "Hendrix College" had a mysterious fire while I was there, I've donated some of my books to the Anthropology Library, Ruth Benedict, named in one of the buildings there).

Attracted to an old soft paper bound typewritten manuscript that had "Declassified" stamped on it, I read part of it. Apparently it was the last issuance of the German High Command to the rest of the leadership in Europe. It went, in English, into the slavery of workers, basically setting the hours that had to be followed. Another part of the "matter of fact" tone of it, as I recall was the admonishment that they stay out of the corn fields of Yugoslavia, apparently where Tito's partisans were inflicting heavy casualties in guerrilla warfare against the occupiers. It made no specific mention of any of the camps or practices there. It was prefaced as the "last issuance" from the "High Command" translated into English I'm sure.

At about the same time, 1978, I recall a new book about the Nuremberg trials by Airey Neave, who was blown up, March 1979, in the Palace of Westminster car park. "As a well-known war hero he was honoured with the role of reading the indictments to the Nazi leaders on trial." and "In his 1978 memoir, Airey Neave, who as a twenty-nine-year-old Oxford lawyer assisted the British prosecutorial staff at Nuremberg..." it says online.

If someone is researching this they might want to check for the document in "Special Collections" section of New York's Stony Brook University, where also, it was stated that a large collection of "underground press newspapers" published during the Vietnam "War" in the United States, are gathered.

Source: BBC NEWS Middle East Outrage over Holocaust conference

Sue the Fed

Almost 35 years later: 

"Governor  George Pataki  and  Attorney General Eliot Spitzer Monday announced  that  New  York  State  has  filed  a lawsuit to ensure that the federal  government  remediates  radioactive waste at a former nuclear fuel reprocessing  facility  in  West  Valley,  Cattaraugus  County, in a timely manner.  The  suit  also  seeks damages for harm the federal government has caused to the State’s natural resources."

Source: EmpireStateNews.net "Pataki, Spitzer announce legal action to ensure radioactive remediation of West Valley site"

On reading Nora Ephron's "Take My Secretary of State, Please"

I once heard about FATT jokes "Funny at the time" which is another phenomenological puzzle about humor. Sigmund Freud once said (or Arthur Koestler) that almost all jokes are at the expense of someone and the funny joke without that mechanism is rare. Of course that's when you stand aside and look at them objectively without peer pressure. Depends how you define the reaction perhaps as much as you analyze the presentation. What's funny here to be alive alert and aggressive may not be funny somewhere else, in Vladivostok or in Elizabethan "England".

I read on the back of a Charlie Chaplin "Goldrush" tape, it's the "yardstick" with which we can judge other film comedies. Having gone through Mt. St. Helens instant dust-bowl on the Plains on a Greyhound bus in 1980 to fly into Skagway, Alaska, to do historical archaeology in the Klondike Goldrush Historic Park, where an American steamboat captain working for Canada, married to a Tlingit woman found the passage over the mountains that caused the rush, only to loose his claim when the border was redrawn, I'd have to agree.

However, to laugh over the parallel to "Beat the Devil" by the Bush administration, (with Bogart, Lorre, Jones, Morley and Gina Lollobrigida who is getting married next year) I cannot. Maybe its the yardstick we should measure the Bush administration by. Huffington Post column.

Picasa2: a test of online Web album

Islands

Long Island Historical Stuff

From Film Finds

Read the Bill

I just sent my member of Congress a letter asking them to cosponsor H.Res. 688. This resolution would require proposed bills to be posted on the Internet for 72 hours before they come up for floor debate. This idea is simple and powerful. This can work. It's led by a new organization called ReadtheBill.org. They are non-partisan and non-ideological. They don't support or oppose bills on substance. They just want transparency. I support this effort. Take a few minutes to go to ReadtheBill.org to check it out. You can urge your House member to cosponsor H.Res. 688, or send the organization a few bucks. This is one way to clean up the mess in Washington, D.C. that can actually work.

Powerful Magnetic Storm Approaches the Earth - Kommersant Moscow

Dec. 08, 2006

Powerful Magnetic Storm Approaches the Earth

Source: Powerful Magnetic Storm Approaches the Earth - Kommersant Moscow

Whenever you do a magnetometer survey, to detect unseen objects under the ground, the optimal method is to have one magnetometer sit onsite recording the shifts in magnetic forces from the Sun, while the other magnetometer is carried across the site in a grid, recording also the time of the readings of the survey, usually automatically. You then subtract the stable magnetometer readings from the one's you surveyed, based on the time they were both recorded. Some days are not good for survey, especially around a lot of surface metal, power lines, large trains going by, tracks, debris and solar events such as this one, but could still be done. When confronted with one magnetometer, I have found that data provided online by the US government can be enough to at least know one way or the other, the "solar minimum" and "solar maximum" effects. However, this is an extreme event occurring at a "minimum" of sunspot activities which have a known 22 year cycle noted throughout the last 400 years or more. (Wikipedia entry)

US Supreme Court Lets Stand Pot Dealer's 55-Year Mandatory Minimum Sentence

Sorry Supreme Court

Comment posted by Anonymous on Sun, 12/10/2006 - 3:47pm

The Chief Justice's brother-in-law died when he drove off the Tappan Zee Bridge in a late model Landrover (Chief Justice Roberts' wife is from the Borough of the Bronx, where "wise-guys" once tried to nullify their case because on the paperwork, "the" was left off, or something like that. It's also where the Capitol Dome was made and then erected by a Bronx firm, Janes and Kirtland, for President Lincoln, replacing the "hat box" there, after a number of other cast iron capital improvements) which we have heard nothing about, occurring prior to his hearings and appointments. Was alcohol to blame or recent "labour" problems at the factory? Why should this man, who hurt no-one physically and probably mentally, at last citation, no one has "drank themselves to death" (also an early colonial term for "smoking") using what used to be part of American history, Kentucky was once known as "The Hemp State" useful when manila rope was unavailable and John Augustus Roebling had yet to invent the wire cable, become hemp's replacement?

I think the Supreme Court should reconsider this case and reflect on the Washington State appellate case they overturned back in the 1970s over the "Peace symbol" placed on the sixth story American flag by a native American, ruling the defendant was within his Constitutional rights of expression. In many jurisdictions it was also once within our thought Bill of Rights right to carry a concealed weapon to protect oneself from outlaws the law had no control over, also depicted in our Hollywood Westerns.

Source: Sentencing: US Supreme Court Lets Stand Pot Dealer's 55-Year Mandatory Minimum Sentence Stop the Drug War (DRCNet)

"Washington in Fairfield" not online

I was looking into a musical, perhaps a historical musical play, which I once found called "Washington in Fairfield" about the times of George Washington in Connecticut where he was during the American Revolutionary War. Connecticut is where King George's Hanover Square, NYC statue was carted away to be melted down into thousands of musket balls, before or after the British Army pulled down and beheaded the statue of William Pitt, a pro-American politician in Parliament (the headless statue is said to be in the New-York Historical Society, once in a famous hotel downtown on view for many years) and came across this interesting play and playwright, "Boston's Brothers in Liberty" by Geralyn Horton, who has had quite an interesting career and written many interesting plays. "The gentleman asks, When were the colonies emancipated? I desire to know when they were made slaves." - William Pitt (1708-1778 "The Great Commoner" in Historical Biographies) Victims of Sept. 11, 2001 World Trade Center disaster are commemorated in a garden in Hanover Square, just recently dedicated by Prince Charles of Great Britain. Today they began the dismantling of the Deutsche Bank building one of the two damaged buildings still left there, and they're finally going to test some other buildings! Does President Bush have a double? We heard Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi head-of-state, had doubles in case of assassination attempts, hearkening in my mind to some of the dramatic roles of alter-leaders, Churchill and dramatic US presidents, such as "Dave" (1993 tagline: "In a country where anybody can become President, anybody just did"). I can't recall if "Washington in Fairfield" was musical comedy about his double. I once stopped by the graveside of James McCrory in Alabama ("He was one of George Washington's body guards at Valley Forge and he served his Country faithfully during that was. Peace to the soldier's dust." - Pickens County, Alabama. They were called "lifeguard" then.) At the time, 1979, someone had recently set a car tire on-fire in front of the family stones, joined together by brick, and the fire had blackened them, and someone left a toy M-16 on a recent child's grave, not sure if they're connected). What today would be called the "Secret Service" protects the "higher-ups" in government, I doubt the current President has a double, but who knows?

Unity08 letter

You might have missed this in the press today it was in the "NY Daily News" and I thought you'd be interested in Unity08, a new citizen-led movement to elect a bi-partisan ticket in the 2008 presidential election in order to put an end to divisive politics and special interest influence. Check it out, sign up, and pass it along: http://www.unity08.com.

There is no reason a Republican and a Democrat can't serve as President and Vice-President, as it was that way in the beginning of our country. One problem has been the Electoral College, which is being changed in Maine, and "As Maine goes, so goes the Nation," in this case one would hope, changing the way Electoral College votes are given ALL to one party or the other. That is being changed to reflect the real % of voters and their ballots to their respective parties. The US citizenship test insists that the Electoral College elects the President and as I understand it, the test is being reformed perhaps to reflect "the people".

I remember H. Ross Perot had a wonderful speech about doing just this on the Internet, he was a fairly successful third party candidate. His loyal voters arguably kept George H. W. Bush out of the Oval Office, and William J. Clinton, once the youngest governor in the U.S. it's occupant instead. H. Ross Perot thought we should have more participatory democracy which this, Unity08, I think is a good example.

George J. Myers

NextEngine Desktop 3D object scanner... Wow!

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Archaeo-astronomy and geophysics?

NASA Media Events at 2006 Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting 

Dec. 11-15, 2006 San Francisco, CA

Killer B's on DVD: Elvira's Movie Macabre, Part 2

1. Elvira was a welcome change when WTXX (20) started coming in on Long Island from Connecticut across the Long Island Sound. Sociologists used to call that corridor in CT up from NYC the a "media alley" of sorts where all the people involved in "media is the message" tended to live (once tax free). It was like having Zacherley on again, the ghoul of B movies in the early 60s and WNEW dj of note in the 70s I think. What a choice "Young Guns" or "Cocktail" or Elvira at the Thousand Island Mall! Glad to see her humor is still alive and not buried in our collective unconscious (if there is one, guns won). Cinematical

Re: "Bushing" cattle 1912 range rider diary

Historical Archaeology forum (histarch)

11/27 "Seventeenth Century Montauk was home to America's first cattle ranching system. Each spring, East Hampton Town colonists would drive cattle across the narrow Napeague strip to let them graze the rugged downs of Montauk. The herds were fenced in Naturally by the surrounding waters. Historic Third House at Theodore Roosevelt County Park originated as the home for these early cattle keepers." http://www.co.suffolk.ny.us/webtemp1.cfm?dept=10&id=888

There's said to be a book of brands that was kept there from the 17th century to around 1960 to register one's mark and adjudicate strays. It was in the State Museum collection it said on-line. In New England there were local little stone fenced in areas a "pound" which strays were taken to, and where one would go first to see if it had been found. I've seen a few marked in New Hampshire.

"Tail Adhesive - The highest strength adhesive for use on tails. Go through procedure of ratting tail, spray light coat to form tail bush, let dry then apply a final heavy coat of Tail Adhesive to set the tail bush. Tail Adhesive also works well to build leg hair..." http://www.sullivansupply.com/Iowa/helpfulhints.aspx Sullivan Supply The Innovative Leader in Livestock Grooming Supplies

Gail & Muriel Carbiener I want to thank everyone who responded to my inquiry of "Bushing Cattle." Sev...Nov 29 (5 days ago) Robert Keeler Hi, Gail, I've enjoyed the information exchange about "bushing" cattle and I ... Nov 30 (4 days ago) I also read that within Smithtown (after "Bull" Smith, a large statue of a bull exists there at the crossroads of now two highways and the Nissequogue River) in the village of Nissequogue, the first native American "reservation" may have been created with the remains of the Weckqueskeck, the local Algonquian speakers of modern Westchester and Bronx Counties, who shared a boundary with the Lenni Lenape to the west (and perhaps down the middle of Manhattan) who were "removed" there after the war conducted under the direction of Dutch Governor Kieft who was recalled by the Dutch West Indies company and government and replaced with the former Governor of Curacao, Peter Stuyvesant. Apparently as England had claims on Long Island as did the Dutch, a treaty was drawn up to relocate those left after a massacre in New Jersey, and its cited that they were relocated there. If you're ever out to what was once "New Village" now Centereach at the Lake Grove Village (1968) end out on Long Island, I hope you stop in at the "Good Steer" restaurant just west of the First Congregational Church, a Brookhaven Historic Site. The rumor was they got it for $1, though I've also read abandoned congregations become the responsibility of the Town of Brookhaven, the largest in area in the State of New York.

Salt Lake Tribune - RFK Jr. delivers fiery green speech

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Robert Kennedy Jr. delivers the keynote speech A Contract With... (Chris Detrick/Salt Lake Tribune)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he has always avoided running for political office, unlike his father and his uncles, John and Ted.
    But watching the Bush administration in action makes it tempting.
    "I feel like somebody's stolen my country," Kennedy, an environmental lawyer and president of the Waterkeeper Alliance, told 300 enthusiastic supporters Sunday evening at Westminster College.

Source: Salt Lake Tribune - RFK Jr. delivers fiery green speech

Re: An E-mail From Iraq

Information about Iraq after "desert storm" was brought forward by "Doctors Without Borders" about the terrible water problems affecting children (in the form of a film documentary by my father's oncologist, according to TV journalist Mr. John McLaughlin) and "Veterans For Peace" an anti-war group of former service-people were installing water purification units in Iraq before the Bush sponsored invasion. I think the effects of the former undeclared war, fought by the former coalition (arguably the US role as paid mercenary) are now being "caught up" with, at least sometimes I think so when I can't stand the "Beat the Devil" scenario started by the Bush administration, kicked off with the murders of a head of state's sons. I hope all the troops come home safe. Dec. 1, 2006 Couric & Co.

Enigmatic Carvings on Underwater Ruins in China Mystify Investigators

The Epoch Times  June 30, 2006

In an underwater investigation in Fuxian Lake, Yunnan Province, China, started on June 13, archeologists discovered remains of a group of huge ancient buildings at the bottom of the lake. In the past few days, the investigation team found numerous regularly placed stones featuring mysterious carvings. The new discoveries proved that the magnificent architecture was built by civilized human beings, but cast doubt on experts' previous suppositions.

Polonium 210 Facts, More Information On Radiation Poisoning - CBS News

As a substitute teacher in middle and high school I once had a health class with film-strip which stated one of the by-products of tobacco combustion is radioactive polonium. It a product that I've read tobacco can be grown on radioactive mine tailings in the US since it's not regulated for production including additives such as sugar producing addictive aldehydes. It was reported to be in tobacco in other news sources.

Source: Polonium 210 Facts, More Information On Radiation Poisoning - CBS News

Katie Couric's Notebook: Civil War? - Couric & Co.

I find it somewhat ironic, as next year is the "200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the British and U.S. Slave Trade 1807-2007" that Madame Secretary is so opposed to describing what may actually be in fact. On the other hand there are many reasons we fail to acknowledge of our own, e.g., the former Cabinet Secretary of War became the Confederate President, the people who fired on Fort Sumter were a student and teacher at West Point noted in argument while there, where some cadets have died in gunnery exercise. I worked at the Point on hurricane damage archaeology there on "anthrax day" and on the archaeology of the "Swamp Angel" prototype, found across the river in the West Point Foundry, Cold Spring, NY while designed EPA cleanup of spilled heavy metals for NIKE missile's batteries was drawn-up a number of years before.

Another Hudson River iron foundry owner designed the gunpowder mill 30 miles outside Atlanta, Georgia, which General Sherman "missed". He designed it from brochures given him from the "Crystal Palace" exhibitions in London. Some historians think the war may have been shortened by as much as two years and Sherman's war on property avoided, etc. A lot of urine was collected for "the cause".

Tim Russett asked Secretary Rice three times if she was running for President and she said no, I hope that hasn't changed.

Posted by georgejmyers at 04:38 PM : Dec 01, 2006

Source: Katie Couric's Notebook: Civil War? - Couric & Co.

Quote For The Day - Couric & Co.

Samuel Clemens, born November 30, 1835

Once upon a time, where the British Embassy compound in New York City was until about 1962, near the Russian one, in the Riverdale part of the Bronx, (where a young JFK lived and played and his father wanted to invest in the film business until the crash of 1929 and they moved away) Samuel Clemens once lived at the mansion inside what today is called Wave Hill, a horticultural center and park. It's said he conducted interviews in a tree-house. There are some magnificent trees there I mapped for a botanist using the new infrared survey instruments back in the 80s. I'm not sure anyone knows which particular tree he was up. Later famous, and NBC Orchestra conductor, Arturo Toscanini also lived there. I'm sure Mark Twain enjoyed the view of the Hudson River from there, just not sure if he ever had a birthday there.

Source: Quote For The Day - Couric & Co.

New Mental Health Guidelines for Troops

Nov. 29, 2006: Lisa Chedekel and Matthew Kauffman of The Hartford Courant reported that the U.S. military has issued sweeping new mental-health guidelines that expand screening for troops being sent to war and set limits on when service members with psychiatric problems can be kept in combat. From "Extra! Extra! Your Guide to the Latest Investigative Work" at Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. http://www.ire.org/ Yesterday was Samuel Clemens' birthday once a "Connecticut Yankee" and a writer known as Mark Twain.