No Domestic Spying in Ohio Terror Case

I once working in archaeology in NYC almost drove a U-Haul truck onto the Brooklyn Bridge just before rush hour. Imagine my surprise, the sign, with chains hanging from it on the Brooklyn side, the sign said "11'0"" with chains hanging from it to scrape at anything that or larger. I got up on the bridge and on the the metal frame or cage was the sign said "10' Clearance"! I stopped, because the label inside the truck said 10' 6" and backed the truck, with my friend the backhoe engineer Mr. Harvey who served as a West Point MP during WWII, with assistance from the woman Traffic Officer who pulled up behind me just as I got onto the bridge. Apparently "No Commercial Traffic" means all trucks generally. She helped hold traffic while I backed down the bridge and she let me go since the whole "non-event" took about 5 or 10 minutes. We went around the long way with the burlap coffee bean bags for the salt-hay and winter usage to keep the site from freezing up.

The point is, you can't drive most any truck onto the Brooklyn Bridge, it's constantly watched and only large enough for the smallest of trucks. Are we sure this testimony was not made up? Or a fantasy? Newsvine link

12/1/06 Does the testimony show facts of a plot that fits reality, i.e., there are no trucks on the Brooklyn Bridge. The story is a little unbelievable without facts, they were going to use a what with what on a bridge said to have been built to 1000% structural integrity an engineering standard not, to my knowledge, used on other bridges.

Maybe it can't just say on the State regulated signage, "No Trucks" and instead 11' then 10' because Americans drive around in trucks, i.e., SUV's and due to legal language they can't just say so. Say the day as an Afghan-American, the US bombed a hospital twice, (or the power plant in Iraq 11 times) and I call my brother there and say, I'm so mad I want to blow-up the Brooklyn Bridge! Then I tell you I said so. Is that what the story refers to? I don't know its all under War Powers Secrets probably. I didn't know until last year people from 17 nations in the western hemisphere of Japanese ancestry were hauled out of their respective countries in WWII and put in US camps. They unlike, Japanese-Americans finally, were never recompensed for it, though the government just recently admitted its reason was racism. Republicans claim to want to reform the War Powers Act every time they're out of office and seem to use it more than anyone when they're in office.

Tom Wolfe's Sunday NY Times Op-Ed

"Tom Wolfe's full-spread Op-Ed piece in Sunday's New York Times is required reading for anyone who cares about New York City. Period."

"The (Naked) City and the Undead," 11/26/06, pp10-11. A few quotes can hardly do justice to Wolfe's dead-on assessment of the "undead" Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) and its downward spiral." - Landmark West!

I once heard him speak in the Student Union of the University at Buffalo, NY, with Reverend Abernathy back in the early 1970s about their respective views on the causes of urban riots that once (and again) rocked the USA, also researched by a federal commission.

Oneidas excavate non-Native site

"The Oneida Nation recently encountered evidence of non-native historical artifacts on the site of an impending building demolition on its property. As a responsible functioning government, the Nation, in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, followed due diligence and hired an archeological firm to excavate the site to ascertain its significance."

EmpireStateNews.net article

It appears to be a long time...yes it does

NY Daily News City briefs

Lockups not legal, claim protesters

Stung by public demonstrations that followed the 1999 shooting of Amadou Diallo, the Giuliani administration cracked down on subsequent protesters by locking them up overnight, a lawyer charged yesterday.

Following the shooting of Diallo, then-Police Commissioner Howard Safir tossed out the old unwritten policy of releasing demonstrators on a summons or desk appearance hours later, said attorney Alan Levine, who represents 350 protesters in Manhattan Federal Court. The protesters are seeking unspecified damages, claiming their civil rights were violated. -30- Thomas Zambito

Christmas wreath peace sign banned

Homeowners association threatens to impose $25-a-day fine

Denver (AP) - A homeowners association in southwestern Colorado has threatened to fine a resident $25 a day until she removes a Christmas wreath with a peace sign that some say is an anti-Iraq war protest or a symbol of Satan. MSNBC

As I recall, having been interested in Carl G. Jung's paperback "Man and His Symbols" back in Newfield high school (a controversial German associate of Sigmund Freud in the psychoanalytic movement who had his practice in Switzerland and notable patients, e.g. Herman Hesse) I found that the "Peace" symbol represents two semaphore flag positions for "N" and "D" and are said to be an acronym for "nuclear disarmament". Semaphore was used in many places as flags for sending messages, particularly in military signal corps.

Protester immolation virtually unnoticed

By Ashley M. Heher Associated Press Writer

Chicago (AP) "Malachi Ritscher envisioned his death as one full of purpose."

"At 6:30 a.m. on Nov. 3 - four days before an election caused a seismic shift in Washington politics - Ritscher, a frequent anti-war protester, stood by an off-ramp in downtown Chicago near a statue of a giant flame, set up a video camera, doused himself with gasoline and lit himself on fire."

The Journal News News From the Lower Hudson

Hundreds tour homes, go shopping in Cold Spring

By Gary Stern The Journal News

Cold Spring - If you wanted to tour historic homes and start your holiday shopping in this antiques lovers' village, yesterday was simply the day to do it.

The Journal News News From the Lower Hudson

Yoko: In John's memory, say you're sorry on Dec. 8

New York (AP) - John Lennon's widow is calling for the anniversary of his death to become a day of worldwide healing.

The Journal News News From the Lower Hudson

Manifestations of a collective unconscious

English hacker to spend 70 years in U.S. prison for searching Pentagon sites for UFO evidence #Two

If, supposed, the government had cleaned up the toxic waste said to have killed at least two at Area 51 (a "synergetic stew") and admitted it, maybe the curiosity would not exist I feel. "Skunkworks" employees have a lawsuit about the exposure to chemicals in the production of "stealth" tech, which I read, can actually be detected by Australian radar cheaply. This American sentence is way beyond even "Cold War" standards and Great Britain should object to this "scapegoat" unless he figured out how to chase the extra-terrestrials away, then a 70 years sentence is justifiable. As to what security was breached, was it an indefensible one? Sounds almost like a favor, to know is, to be aware that it's not very safe. Remind me to ask and demand the US government tell, even if its soldiers can't.

Re: Wanna help launch a new musical?

Dear Don:

Interesting, I am remiss, I can't recall "Now, Voyager" but I could tell you where Claude Raines went, to Sandwich, New Hampshire, where his last wife was from where he's buried. He remarked he went somewhere as the "Invisible Man" and found out it was true! Or something like that the locals didn't treat him like a cross between a notorious Nazi from South America or the French Vichy officer in "Casablanca" in which of course, now one tells the musician to "play it again Sam" but that somehow came out of the film, not in the film.

Voyager I and II were interesting flybys of Jupiter and after the Viking landing on Mars while also at Stony Brook, important events when studying Astronomy and "Planetary Atmospheres" which believe it or not they called me in to say I hadn't enough science credits for the the B.A. in Anthropology after graduation then added them up, oops yes you do. I was out in the middle of Pennsylvania. We also study archeo-astronomy in North America and there are many examples of how earlier Americans were astronomically more literate than us, though in a different way. We in anthropology / archaeology were studying El Nino (and La Nina, from Peru) when he was still in diapers!

Congratulation on your daughter's Med school prospects. My cousin Dr. Nicholas Cirillo passed away a couple of months ago (last haircut) down in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina he was only in his forties leaving his young son and his wife's previous kids. He was a D.O. and M.D. Doctor of Osteopathy which started in Ohio after the Civil War, and in some places you can find more D.O.s than M.D.'s in the phone book.

Wow, the Marines desks! "Top Gun" must have worked they finally got those old ones out. Interesting work. I haven't had any, last was for Landmark Archaeology in Altamont, NY near Middletown, NY where the photographer who stages those huge groups of naked people photos was born.

In 4th or 5th grade our Wood Road class went to see the musical "Oliver!" with Mr. Hubbard (taught both) a Notre Dame grad who sold World Book Encyclopedia, his family associated with the Big White Duck, (moved into a park, once was a drive-in store) or duck farms of Riverhead. Then we saw "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" with Mr. Lafayette's band at Dawnwood Junior High (after I made myself a "junior" at Catholic Confirmation) and can't recall others, though have been to hundreds of concerts. Here's an interesting site I was looking at (once a member of the "Visual and Performing Arts College" "College B" in the University at Buffalo) that's a listing of musicals: www.musicals101.com great site.

I would give an arm or a leg for a Micah Hawkins' score and libretto ("Pied Piper of Catherine Slip," in NY History journal article) for "Saw Mill River or a Yankee Trick, As It Were Willom" said to be the first successful American opera from a relation of William Sydney Mount, a Setauket, NY American genre painter and where other notables in the arts "once" were (e.g., "Foghat", aka "Savoy Brown" the last band to play the Atrium at the World Trade Center before 9/11/01. Remember that night one of them sat in at Chesters in Setauket with the country "Poco" like band "Stars"?), and perhaps performed in "blackface" (burnt cork). He died of a fever at 44 and as was the custom in the time of cholera, many things were burned.

George Myers

Former N.Y. Times reporter decries Bush policies Published Saturday, November 11, 2006

Liberties suffer, secrecy grows, reporter tells K-State crowd

By Jan Biles
The Capital-Journal

MANHATTAN -- Judith Miller, a former New York Times investigative reporter who went to jail to protect a confidential source, said the balance between national security and civil liberties has been tipped, allowing the Bush administration to become secretive about its decisions, intrusive into public lives and reluctant to share information the public has a right to know.

Miller said many Americans don't understand how their access to information and the freedom of the press have been affected in the past few years.

Further: The Topeka Capital Journal, Kansas

Tibet activist sets himself afire

"Mumbai was once "Bombay" and if it had been Nepal's flags, it would have been two flags, pennants. In Nepal the "Maoists" have brokered a peace with the government. There have been studies that show that at one time, Nepal and Tibet share a road again opened, some of the language hundreds of years ago, where Buddhism it's thought came from to Tibet, was shared." Newsvine comment

It was just a comment about Nepal and Tibet as neighbors. If Maoists (in a Hindu run country) they are and the problems Tibet has with China resulted from the "cultural revolution" and other Chinese "Maoist" involvement in Tibet's heritage and scholarship I meant to suggest that sherpas (in Nepal) and Tibetans share some language which suggests former contact across the Himalayas, what and how I'm not sure.

Sir Edmund Hillary visited my 3rd grade class in 1960 Wood Road Elementary in Centereach, NY and explained how lucky we were to have schools and was and is involved in building schools in Nepal. As an undergraduate anthro major I had a social anthropology class with Rex Jones who wrote with Shirley Jones the "Himalayan Woman" about changing roles partly due to economics among the Limbu people of Nepal.

In the anthropology department at Stony Brook University at the time the chairperson was Pedro Carrasco a Mexican scholar of economic anthropology who I think had to flee on horseback one of the Chinese military invasions of Tibet, where he had been studying their markets. I never asked, but we did have a Tibetan graduate student from U. of Arizona, from Darjeeling, Yugen Gombo, who I heard offhand said some of the "Star Wars" language was Mongolian.

War on Iraq: CBS Owes Ed Bradley an Apology

I think maybe CBS:

a) have General Westmoreland phobia, that is the whole NBC business was sued for the news department by the general when it aired its suspicions in retrospect of the Vietnam "debacle" after the fact, settled for undisclosed millions, over alleged misrepresentations of body counts reported by the people in charge. Its also reported in part on-line. I had a cousin who directed "Huntley and Brinkley" and was an award winning producer for NBC News, George Murray, who had to cancel their investigative journalism of the "common soldiers view" of the Vietnam (undeclared) War canceled by "higher-ups" I heard second hand from someone who attended his eulogy in the United Nations Chapel, from a letter he had to write to the crew who had risked their lives over there for quite a long time according to the eulogizer, also a long-time television journalist, Edwin Newman. George Murray's last contract was producing the coverage of both major parties conventions in 1976 for CBS, or

b) the report I heard on WNYC radio, that CBS's CEO's brother wanted to buy the Texas baseball team, then Governor Bush had to have, then sold to buy the former turkey farm he now lives on, an almost parody of the largest ranch owner in the great state of Texas, owned by a Bush of no relation, has the "higher-ups" in knots. (Newsvine link)

What I can't understand is that the press did print, at least in New York, when President Bush's loyalty was questioned, a letter that asked quite directly, if he could be let out six months earlier to attend Harvard Business School for an MBA. It's since been reported by the "Washington Post" (9/2006)

"The day he arrived in Baghdad, he met with Thomas C. Foley, the CPA official in charge of privatizing state-owned enterprises. (Foley, a major Republican Party donor, went to Harvard Business School with President Bush.) Hallen was shocked to learn that Foley wanted him to take charge of reopening the stock exchange."

"Are you sure?" Hallen said to Foley. "I don't have a finance background."

So I wouldn't be surprized if the Mass. Air Guard let him fly under the radar in a F-102 on the Fourth of July, an unconfirmed sighting. I wonder however if the wrong letter was discussed rather than the "MBA letter".

Jack the Ripper's Face: Reconstructed

There's an interesting sci-fi story "Redchapel" by prolific award winning writer, Michael Resnick in which the fiction (at fictionwise.com) of "Jack the Ripper" is explored. In the story Theodore Roosevelt, then head of the police in New York City (partly true) is asked to investigate the "ripper" story and it's eventually solved. It was done by a mid-wife who has gone bonkers amongst the prostitutes, killing them as she might know how. The story had just came out before the film of Nov. 2001 with Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm, and others, filmed in Prague but set to be about the "ripper" which takes the tact of a cover-up by a royal physician for royal impropriety.

What I can't understand in this is this the New Yard? And is it gone daft? It looks like phrenology and these are the bumps on the head that show a criminal mind and physiology. What a mistake could be done with this it seems to me. I hope it's taken with a grain of aspirin.

Having written and posted that my machine went and rebooted! And Blogger.com was no longer available an engineer is looking at the Error 1-500-3... Weird but true... Newsvine link. "From Hell" is the name of the film.

Re: Open House of Scenic Hudson's West Point Foundry Artifact Collection

Artifacts from the multi-component, multi-site and 1993 final field reports for the EPA, Army Corps of Engineers and other agencies, (involving historical and underwater archaeology) and catalogue were returned to Cold Spring, NY and placed in proper storage. Scenic Hudson currently owns the site which is a field school in industrial archaeology run by Michigan Technological University, publishers of the Society for Industrial Archeology's award winning journal. To quote "the first five locomotives in America were made there" along with sugar production equipment used in Puerto Rico and other difficult to document events (incendiary development, classified rifled cannon production, anything made with iron made there including "tinned roof," boilers, iron columns, the "Swamp Angel" used to bombard Charleston, South Carolina in 1863, over 1 million artillery shells, 30,000 caissons, the "dynamite gun," Jules Verne's "guncotton" buried cannon fired in "From the Earth to the Moon" (1865), etc. It's thought he visited it, as did Abraham Lincoln to see 200 and 300 lb firings) before the Bessemer iron production developments put it out of business though I recall Thomas Edison lost his shirt trying to get iron out of the ground again nearby using electro-magnetism.

The site was cleaned up from cadmium dumped in the Foundry Cove which forms with the US West Point Military Academy holding of Constitution Island.

Scoping Out New Digs In D.C.

(AP)

What a picture! That's the Capitol Dome President Lincoln had built during the Civil War, he thought it an important symbol replacing the "hat box" that was once there. It was made and assembled by the Bronx, NY firm of Janes and Kirtland for little over $1 million, once "removed" from Manhattan in the vicinity of the new National Monument African Burial Ground, (to the "south Bronx") which is also part of the historic City Commons and City Hall Park historic district, newly renovated in 1999, and Nathan Hale's statue has been moved to the front (he regretted having "only one life to lose for his country" then hung, after being brought from the British Fort Golgotha in the Huntington, NY cemetery on Long Island. I worked on the archaeology of that cemetery and at the "first almshouse" one in City Hall Park next to what the NY Times once called the British prison next door "blacker than any black hole of Calcutta." (1903)) Janes and Kirtland in the 1960s made the ubiquitous steel kitchen cabinets found in many places in NYC, and last had an office in the South Street Seaport, once a "showroom" of stoves and other early appliances.

I hope the 110th Congress gets past what "Rolling Stone" called the worst Congress ever, the 109th. Couric & Co.

Former 007 fights to save Elstree studios

Roger Moore is trying to get the Elstree studio "a major cash injection to stay afloat." Sean Connery I read was made a guardian of the film industry on six campuses in Britain. I also heard they're trying to get a buyer for Aston-Martin the famous 007 car. "In its 80-year history, Elstree has played host to such directors as Alfred Hitchcock, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, and such iconic films as Goodbye, Mr Chips, Star Wars and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Before donning the Bond tuxedo, Moore shot 118 episodes of The Saint at Elstree." I thought I read Frank Zappa mention that the film "200 Motels" (Wikipedia reference) was filmed near or on the set of "2001" so maybe he started the rumor that it had been made at Elstree studio. But it wasn't. I hope Roger Moore is at least successful. Elstree Studios, Shenley Road Madame Pompadour (1927) Blackmail (1929) Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) The Hasty Heart (1948) The Dam Busters (1954) Ice-Cold in Alex (1958) Lolita (1962) 633 Squadron (1964) One Million Years B.C. (1966) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Up Pompeii (1971) Murder on the Orient Express (1974) Star Wars (1977) The Empire Strikes Back (1980) The Shining (1980) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Return of the Jedi (1983) Never Say Never Again (1983) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Closer (2004) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (reshoots) The Other Boleyn Girl (2006) Casino Royale (2006)

Shadow Classics on NPR

"Shadow Classics" by Tom Moon is a great site for music NPR is (Yodaesque). I was just listening to A Love Letter to California Pop, from a British Fop and Gregg Allman: A Classic in a Quieter Space. The Allman Brothers play the Beacon Theater in NYC every year to sold-out audience. Yesterday in the NY Daily News they said the Beacon has been leased by the people who own MSG (Cablevision) and may be renamed. I saw my cousin's husband in the NYC premier of "Journey" for the newly recomposed band there, he replaced Steve Perry. The band finally got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. We have two here in the Bronx, one a walk through 100+ bronze statues, the architecture designed by a once Nissequogue, NY resident, Stanford White, (shot dead by a madman) when NYU had a Bronx campus in the University Heights, and another for recent well-known Bronx residents. Free tunes!

Buffalo Yesteryears

O.J. Simpson and Cultural Terrorism - Couric Co. When I was back there in seminary school, not, at the University at Buffalo, that is now also the Center for Inquiry, a secular humanist organization, I recall Mr. Simpson was very popular. What was not popular was drive-by machine gunning of a socialist book store (many of Buffalo's residents are eastern European, Polish, Latvian, etc.) and the suspicious burning of an African-American art exhibit space back in the 1970s when he was playing for the Buffalo football team. This is when Jack Kemp the former Californian football quarterback, a Republican was elected to represent the constituents of the Greater Buffalo area and Erie County, NY. It seems fitting, a former fixture of the lounge of the Watergate in Washington, D.C., Mark Russell, broadcasts political satire from the new Amherst campus built on a former swamp, which was then to have the new subway to it, never done. Personally I sometimes wonder if pissed off abalone hunters went after OJ and his crew for supporting kelp beds and sea otters over their very sharp livelihood.

powered by performancing firefox

200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the British and U.S. Slave Trade 1807-2007

WilberforceCentral.org Wiiliam Wilberforce and the Clapham Group: Their Role in the Abolition of Slavery and the Making of the Better Hour.

Are you worried about space wars?

The peaceful usage of space was/will never be a forgone conclusion. Arthur C. Clarke, who invented the satellite predicted they might actually create a "babel" of languages and "opportunities" for misunderstanding as every group(s) of languages insists on its own telecommunications in space, as it maybe it should. However the more there are the danger of misunderstanding may increase without safeguards of treaty, result in calamity as this current discussion illustrates with it's own misunderstanding of translations.

International treaty in space must continue in America the hopes of "Friendship" and "Freedom" and "Enterprise" in the current climate crisis as we turn around and look at our developments during the "cold war" (perhaps the first war in space already has occurred) and the technologies we mutually have developed that will assure our mutual survival, if we agree to cooperate. Long live Apollo-Soyuz!  MSNBC

Newsvine - First US Newspaper Calls for Complete Independent Council of 9/11

This is a stretch too, however. Not all the victims were American citizens. For example, 110 millions in cash, disappeared and reappeared out of a Russian entrepreneur's business in the WTC, and for awhile, many Australians who had invested in the "ready cash" market were alarmed, only to find the money was actually safely removed after the first impact. I don't recall the actual country-by-country statistics but the British dedicated a small park at Hanover Square in NYC to the victims.

It's similar perhaps to the forced internment issue during WWII. You find out there were Italians and Germans and Japanese ancestry citizens removed from 17 countries in Latin America and only the Japanese-Americans have yet been somewhat compensated.

Source: Newsvine - First US Newspaper Calls for Complete Independent Council of 9/11

Dutch warships...NOT

This is sort of old news (Sept 2006) but Dutch warships NOT...

"JAMESTOWN -- They were known as the "20 and odd," the first African slaves to set foot in North America at the English colony settled in 1607.

For nearly 400 years, historians believed they were transported to Virginia from the West Indies on a Dutch warship. Little else was known of the Africans, who left no trace.

Now, new scholarship and transatlantic detective work have solved the puzzle of who they were and where their forced journey across the Atlantic Ocean began."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/02/AR2006090201097_pf.html

Open House of Scenic Hudson's West Point Foundry Artifact Collection

• When: Saturday, Nov. 18 1 to 5 p.m.
• Where: Cold Spring Village Garage, 49 Fair St.

See artifacts and photographs of the archaeological excavations on display. Light refreshments; tour of the West Point Foundry Preserve at 2 p.m.

• More info: Contact Elizabeth Norris, enorris2000@yahoo.com 917 648 1201
• Sponsored by: The Village of Cold Spring, Scenic Hudson and Putnam County Historical Society & Foundry School Museum. This event is part of Putnam County History Days.

The West Point Foundry Collection contains artifacts unearthed from the West Point Foundry site as part of the Marathon Battery Superfund Cleanup.

Re: U-Boats and Shipwrecks OG WWII

You might want to contact the US "National Maritime Historical Society" in Peekskill, NY which at one of its meetings was related a captured submarine, from WWII (I am interested in Mr. Holland's Torpedo Co., the submarine headquarters once on Broadway in New Suffolk, NY, pre 1903, the origin of the "Silent Service" monument recently placed there attests to it, on the North Fork of Long Island having seen one of his small prototype submarines on exhibit in New Jersey while a math teacher there) which before scuba, was thought to be safe after testing to be sunk in local waters. However, there were live torpedoes still in it and present a hazard to "sport diving" on it. The report was presented at one of the Society's annual meetings and showed the corrosion of the torpedo fuses.
Incidentally, after the submarines left New Suffolk for New London, Connecticut, it was where Albert Einstein (whom I think I read once worked on an Italian torpedo problem? Anyone heard that?) posted a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt warning him of fission experiments in Europe, creating the impetus for the "Manhattan Project" which he would have no part of. He was vacationing across the bay from New Suffolk on Nassau Point. Unfortunately, the country store/post office burned down in the 1990s.

Other Places (A Kind of Alaska)

The actress Cate Blanchett is going to direct the Harold Pinter play "A Kind of Alaska" according to The Carpetbagger, (NY Times blogger who reviews films here) in Sydney, Australia, a country suffering its worst drought in 1000 years. It was put on by the Manhattan Theater Club (in 1984 See Diane Wiest in it here.) In the book description, there is an indirect interesting reference to the Bronx Psychiatric Hospital (I think) that Allen Ginsberg was once in for a short time, over marijuana I think, where Dr. Sacks was who I once listened to his travels to the island of "color blindness" in the Pacific on an audio tape. Today the now former hospital it is becoming part of a high-tech center. From the Amazon Book view here. "A Kind of Alaska was inspired by Awakenings by Oliver Sacks M.D., first published in 1973 by Gerald Duckworth and Co." "In the winter of 1916-17, there spread over Europe, and subsequently over the rest of the world, an extraordinary epidemic illness which presented itself in innumerable forms - as delirium, mania, trances, coma, sleep, insomnia, restlessness, and states of Parkinsonism. It was eventually identified by the great physician Constatin von Economo and named by him encephalitis lethargica, or sleeping sickness." "Over the next ten years almost five million people fell victim to the disease of whom more than a third died. Of the survivors some escaped almost unscathed, but the majority moved in states of deepening illness. The worst-affected sank into singular states of 'sleep' - conscious of their surroundings but motionless, speechless, and without hope or will, confined to asylums or other institutions." "Fifty years later, with the development of the drug L-DOPA, they erupted into life once more."

On this day...History Channel

1775 : Abigail Adams leads rhetorical charge against Britain

Newsvine - May 4th, 1970 - why do we remember?

In American Heritage magazine they recounted some of the events, and an officer Myers of the campus police thought the National Guard an over-reaction to some groups of students who had marched off-campus returning late at night alarming the neighbors I remember the article saying. The National Guard started as that, guarding the new nation at its new capital in New York City after the signing of the Constitution. The Congress recently met after 9/11/01 to sort of point out that the collapse had cracked some of the architecture in Federal Hall on the corner of Wall Street, once the nations first meeting place. The "state militias" developed out of amendment and its right to bear arms.

At the time of Kent State shootings there were some guard serving in Vietnam, though the total was small about 7,000 I think I read over the ten years. Some famous people (and not so) got into the Guard to avoid the Selective Service Draft which I was eligible for (former Vice President Dan Quayle, the current sitting President George W. Bush, and others) though in 1969, my high school, Newfield, had the first JROTC Marine Corps in the country in Selden, NY ironically named for the judge who against judicial taboo was a character witness for Susan B. Anthony at her trial in upstate New York for posing as a man to vote in an election. The Army one was in Paul McCartney's manager's town and the Air Force and Navy were started on the West coast, seen as the beginning of the all-volunteer services and the alternative to the draft. One PBS show "Defense Monitor" stated a number of years ago there are now 20,000 of them in mostly poor school districts and at $1 billion a year, they asked "Are they worth it?" back in the early 1990s.

So is the former campus officer correct? Was it a political show of force for "the whole world is watching." (film "Medium Cool") and an overblown reaction to the times that precipitated the anger on campus resulting in the tragedy? Or a nostalgic look at when "National Guard" meant what it says, to guard the nation, not be part of an expeditionary force in a foreign nation. One unit on NYC Bowery, was called out during the Civil War to guard Washington, D.C., after courts martial in the "draft riots" perhaps an earlier cover-up?

Link to Newsvine - May 4th, 1970 - why do we remember?

Joni Mitchell's 389th Honor...

I met a Canadian Hall of Fame songwriter though I think it was in "Country Western". Mr. Green was/is the primary dulse dealer on Grand Manan Island and had worked in western films in Hollywood years ago. When we met him he gave us a tape of the song, he had come in second for, in the "Write a Province anthem for New Brunswick" contest back in 1988 when we were there last, and some dulse, which is a red seaweed high in minerals that's picked at special low tides and sun-dried. I've seen it as a condiment on a restaurant table in Montreal. I once went picking it near Indian Beach out of a dory across from Campobello Island, in the summer of 1967, only sun that we had that summer. I'm glad Joni Mitchell is finally being recognized, and I don't have to try to make a living "on the tides". Maybe it means they'll take Lightfoot out of the elevators! Rolling Stone

Gulf of Maine

During the Great Depression President FDR authorized a tidal power project in Maine at or near the Passamaquoddy reservation, that was only partially built. The "Half Moon" tidal project was a feasibility study done in the 1970s and I think they have it in place. One of the meeting places I read in the "Quoddy Tides" (some of if not the highest tides in the world) out of Eastport, Maine is at the end of the dock where there is a solar powered lodge. A huge one was once proposed for Nova Scotia but as I recall in "Scientific American" it would have changed the depth of tide in Boston, Massachusetts harbor by 6 inches and from there up the coast a greater change. Some submerged designs in Scotland to me seem the best, the current holds them down to the bottom without superstructure involved. 11/6/06

Newsvine - Tidal Energy Companies Staking Claims

Only One Scar of 9/11 Has Failed to Heal

In the study of urban anthropology (e.g., the "folk urban continuum" around some places) one thing I recall was in certain cities there are "champions" part of the urban phenomena that I imagine goes back to at least the Greco-Roman times and perhaps in the "Fertile Crescent" (Tigris-Euphrates in current day Iraq. Also, perhaps in the first city laid out in a grid on the Indus river, though they perhaps had discovered hypnosis, a cuneiform we still haven't translated might tell) and is still much a part of urban society. Remarkably we maybe should be looking at infrastructure concerns perhaps, the battle royale over the water tunnel to come up in a lot in lower Manhattan, to be taken under the Dinkins admin., owned by developers of Times Square. The rezoning and other needs of what once was a 7AM-7PM city that Buckminster Fuller wanted to put a dome over to save it's costs and make it 24/7, still is waiting for the water to come up there or at One Police Plaza to supply the redevelopment. Huffington Post

NY congressman says no offense intended with Mississippi remark

AP Wire | 11/09/2006 | NY congressman says no offense intended with Mississippi remark 

Andrew H. Green "The Father of Greater New York"

Manhattan Borough Historian Michael Miscione invites you to

A TRIBUTE TO ANDREW H. GREEN, NYC'S FORGOTTEN CIVIC GIANT

Join us in Central Park on Sunday, November 12th as we raise a toast to Andrew H. Green, the unsung 19th century master planner, reformer and preservationist who transformed New York into a world-class city.

The brief ceremony will take place at the Andrew H. Green Memorial Bench, the only public monument to "The Father of Greater New York" in the five boroughs.

Prof. Kenneth T. Jackson, editor of the Encyclopedia of New York City, has called Green, "arguably the most important leader in Gotham's long history." During his fifty-year career, Green steered the creation of some of New York City's foremost parks, cultural institutions and public works. He rescued the city from bankruptcy after the Tweed Ring scandals, and pioneered the historic preservation movement. Most importantly, he masterminded the 1898 consolidation of the five boroughs, a measure that expanded the city's size fivefold.

Lovers of Central Park, Riverside Park, Morningside Park, the New York Public Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, the Bronx Zoo, the Washington Bridge, City Hall and the very five-borough city itself will want to pay their respects to this forgotten civic giant.

Guest speakers to be announced.

WHEN:

Sunday, November 12, 2006 at 1:00p. (Rain date: Sunday, November 19 at 1:00p.)

WHERE:

The Andrew H. Green Memorial Bench, inside Central Park at about 105 Street.

Note: The bench is extremely difficult to find and is not marked on most park maps. Follow the directions below or consult the map at www.andrewhgreen.net

Source:landmarkwest@landmarkwest.org

U.S. Congressman

A look at elections around New York

New York had several in-play congressional races, and the state could end up the deciding factor in the fight for control of the House of Representatives. Among the notable races: ...

19th District: Musician-turned-politician John Hall rode a wave of anti-Iraq sentiment in mounting a tough campaign against 12-year Republican Rep. Sue Kelly. Hall penned the 1970s pop tunes ``Still the One'' and ``Dance with Me.''

He was in the band "Orleans" (Wikipedia)

Source: WCBS-TV New York  (I went to secondary school with an investigative journalist there Lou Young)

Kubrick's work resurrected

I live a block from where Regis Philbin grew up in the Bronx, NY, a part of Kruger Ave. has been renamed after him. Interesting news about another famous Bronx native, Stanley Kubrick was announced the other day: "Three new movies by legendary screenwriter Stanley Kubrick are being brought to the big screen - seven years after his death." Yahoo News UK & Ireland

NBC Chairman Slams The Federal Censorship Commission

This of course is part of the right wing conspiracy that put General Colin Powell's son in charge of the FCC in the 1st GW Bush (2x Clinton's salary) regime. In the Bronx the Jesuit university (Fordham U. and law school) was stopped from finishing an antenna put up next to its football field (for lack of anywhere else to put it) stopped 2/3 of the way finished because it was 11' (feet) too close to the "vista" of the Bronx Botanical Gardens, where people go to look at the ground! The FCC I think concurred despite the dedicated public support of WFUV, which has the oldest continuous sports show on radio (Alan Alda was a DJ there too) and Montefiore Hospital has since provided them with roof space, next to the City Park golf course taken over in part for water filtration (though an equal space next to a prison in Westchester could have served.)

Tuesday, Nov. 7: "Water plant's no job oasis Pol says DEP 'lied' about work opportunities" - Bronx Boro News - weekly supplement to the New York "Daily News" - New York's hometown newspaper.

Live Webcast on History and Archaeology of Jamestown, VA to be held November 9

"A free educational webcast will be offered this Thursday, November 9, 2006 from 1:00-2:00pm EST. The subject of the webcast will be Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in America, which celebrates its 400th anniversary this year." Live webcast info.

Early archaeology computer graphics on Trinity, Manhattan, NY

PenMan

Robot pen plotter was quite an innovation and could "find" the edge of a piece of paper with its sensor. We also had a 3D pointer digitizer in beta from a Connecticut company, which used the potentiometers like those in a "joystick" (or "pots") to transmit the tip location of a pointer attached to a stand.

Ohio, Ohio, Ohio

Ohio was one of the US's first western settlements, and home of John Chapman "Johnny Appleseed" who planted quite a few trees. I heard the Republicans plant quite a few "crowd enhancers" who try to manipulate people during speeches, by using for example vaudeville "slapsticks" that sound like clapping getting the crowd to clap, like a yawn on a bus is seen to spread. I hope what I heard about hacked voting machines there is not widespread. If it is maybe we should have the "purple finger" like the Iraqis had when they went to the polling place, if that would ensure a democratic election.

MSNBC First Read: Ohio, Ohio, Ohio

(Sent Sunday, November 05, 2006 11:07 AM)

RE: WordWeb error

Will fix, thanks.
 Antony Lewis
 Crossword Compiler: http://www.crossword-compiler.com
 WordWeb thesaurus/dictionary: http://wordweb.info
> On Thu Oct 26 17:20:23 2006,
> The following information was submitted:
> word = fluttered
> page =
> xxmailin = georgejmyersjr@gmail.com
> err = 3. Flag the wings rapidly or fly with flapping
> movements         "The seagulls fluttered overhead"  Flap?

The Who vs. the Stones

a+e Interactive The Mercury News

Venue, venue, venue. In the past, the Rolling Stones would fill Madison Square Garden with Stevie Wonder (all-time attendance record is "Mandrill" in DC, or was) the Who would play Stony Brook University (recently placed into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame) and "Led Zeppelin" Carnegie Hall (though Hendrix was booked for two weeks after the "same pill" different dosage death). So I can't judge, Pete looked good onstage at the Brook, as did many other "smaller" bands. And the answer is...

Posted by: George Myers | Nov 4, 2006 11:17:51 AM

Tiny bug attacking hemlock trees in Ky. - Yahoo! News

We're going to need a lot of beetles. I wonder if woolly adelgids "ground zero" may have been in NY's Adirondacks at North Creek, NY, where thousands of animal skins from around the world were tanned with New York hemlock bark in the 1870-1880s, brought in by the railroad to a number of tanneries there.

Link to Tiny bug attacking hemlock trees in Ky. - Yahoo! News

H.R. 1184

As your constituent, I'm writing to urge you to co-sponsor legislation fully repealing the ban on financial aid for college students with drug convictions. Since the penalty was added as an amendment to the Higher Education Act in 1998, nearly 200,000 students have been blocked access to aid, often for relatively minor offenses such as misdemeanor possession.

H.R. 1184, the Removing Impediments to Students' Education (RISE) Act, currently has more than 70 co-sponsors in the U.S. House. This legislation would repeal the HEAR Aid Elimination Penalty and help hardworking and determined individuals get back into school.

As a personal example I offer my own travels to Canada, to be considered. My roommate borrowed an old clunker his father used around the service station to run errands for parts. Crossing the border back into the US, the Customs agent put his hand into the crack of the front bench seat of the car and pulled out what he alleged was a marijuana seed. Strip searches were ordered and the car bought back at book value cost, fortunately a clunker, after spending time in the clink, the four of us and seeing the judge and a legal aid lawyer. I can't imagine being kept from continuing your education for being "in concert" as this legislation is doing.

That's why it is essential that the Aid Elimination Penalty is scrapped altogether. Students who have made mistakes and paid their debt to society should be allowed to get an education and get their lives back on track.

All the national higher education groups have pushed for the repeal of this provision for the past eight years. Numerous addiction recovery, criminal justice, religious, and other experts have insisted that education is one of the best means to reduce crime and drug abuse. Even Congress's own Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance recommended the removal of the drug conviction question from the FAFSA, calling it "irrelevant."

At-risk students can't wait another eight years for Congress to act.

Please co-sponsor H.R. 1184 or similar legislation today.

Thanks for your attention on this important issue. I look forward to hearing your thoughts as soon as you get a chance to share them.

Staten Island, NY

I've worked many times on Staten Island in archaeological testing. The last time was for Panamerican Consultants of Buffalo, NY, testing parts of about 3 miles of the eastern coast of the island for an Army Corps of Engineers study to replace old seawalls and create storm flood buffer zones, in part along the fourth longest boardwalk in the world. Tests were required to 1 meter depth and many were dug close to beach or wetland, however some were in the area between curb and sidewalk. Also on Staten Island I have with crews, and as crew, conducted archaeological tests many times over the years as Staten Island has been further developed. I was first part of the crew involved with testing in the Sandy Ground Historic District said to be New York State's first free African-American community and a number of small prehistoric sites were mitigated and some historic remains tested. It was once to be nominated to the National Register as a district. Nearby was an old blacksmith shop, owned by an over 100 year old African-American that burned down, unfortunately, thought to be at least as old as he was. An interesting fact is that the "Prall Site" on Staten Island in the historic interpretative center and former "Tory capital" of Richmondtown, is where the first Landmarks Preservation Commission archaeologist's doctoral thesis was on at Stony Brook University where I attended grad school. I also visited her while she worked on it with students from Wagner College, and at the animal quarantine center, at Sailors Snug Harbor, and at the NYC "Conference House" on the southern tip of the island, where Benjamin Franklin tried to negotiate a "bloodless revolution". She had team taught my field-school in "Long Island Archaeology" with R. M. Gramly, Ph.D., and Margaret Gwynne, Ph.D.

Clifford Geertz has passed on

Posted to Histarch@asu.edu Once attending Elizabeth Stone, Ph.D. archaeology graduate classes, and studying Harvard University's Dr. Starr's excavations at Nuzi, near Kirkuk, Iraq (and the Mosul oil fields and 3rd century Catholic Christians) I feel a general malaise over the multi-national occupation of the "Fertile Crescent" between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers without any apparent consultation with experts such as the recently deceased Clifford Geertz, who conducted field work in two largely Islamic cultures, Morocco and Indonesia. If a similar "multi-national" board of archaeologists and anthropologists (i.e., who have studied the Kurds I also have to read) had been convened and procedures put in place for protecting international archaeological and people resources, perhaps the level of violence would be lower there.

Bush Moves Toward Martial Law : Is anyone awake?

E Pluribus taxus (yews) unum. From many bushes (the ones around many government buildings landscape) one. One Bush. To paraphrase a stand-up, you remember those people who were lost in the desert for forty years following a bush? Newsvine

Senator John Kerry at Pasadena

To: wcbstvwebteam@cbs.com More hooey from CBS...last time on WNYC it was "CBS's CEO's brother wanted to buy the baseball team George W. Bush just had to have while Texas Governor," they weren't selling strategic metals to the Nazis. Yeah, sure that's why their family office was shut down by the feds at the beginning of WWII. I'm actually surprised by CBS's misinterpretation of the humor that Mr. Kerry failed to deliver just right. My cousin, George Murray, who had been an Army captain in Korea, produced both Democrat and Republican convention coverages for CBS in 1976 his last contract after directing "Huntley and Brinkley" at NBC. His eulogy was read in the UN Chapel by Mr. Edwin Newman I heard. There should have been a more balanced view of the speech he gave as I heard given by US Air Force veteran Randi Rhodes at Air America in NYC 1600AM "on the dial" than headlined as cbsnews.com "Sen. John Kerry told students at Pasadena City College that by rejecting education they can end up in Iraq." which is what he didn't mean, he meant you could end up a President who denies everything he's learned or recently told and plods on in Iraq without learning from his generals. George J. Myers, Jr. BA Anthropology (Why weren't we consulted? Anthropologists that is, my professor is trying to help them piece back our civilizations origin in the "Fertile Crescent" between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.)