Rolleimetric calibration

Thank you for this. I worked with Prometric of Canada (Andrew Lane and Ray Masigan who worked directly with the German factory) while at Grossman & Associates (Joel) using the Rolleimetric MR2 software back in 1989-1993 or so and last had the 2.0 class at Schneider Optics, Inc. on Long Island, NY. We used the Rollei (I had a computer virus "Blackjack" from a factory disk once) in the archaeology of recording a number of sites and I always wondered how do they calibrate the camera and lens (once high humidity "fritzed" the lens motors on a high tripod and we had it fixed at Rollei in New Jersey, USA). I used it with the earlier issues of AutoCAD from Autodesk in the archaeology of the West Point Foundry, Cold Spring, NY, Mead Hall at Drew University in Madison, NJ, and to record some tidal ship hulks (centerboard cargo carriers seen in the background of an old photo of a replica of the "Halve Maen" (Half Moon) sailing by Bear Mountain Park and Anthony's Nose in the Hudson River circa 1939?) though sometimes just used as a good medium format camera. Most of the photos were developed at 8"x10" and quite expensive on the "dawn of the digital photo". Lost track of what happened, it was in 35mm purchased by the Mexico "Monumentos Patrimonios" (don't quote me on that) to record the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City to document the large stone blocks movements, if any. So this is where each camera and a lens calibration is (was) recorded. imm000_00-6 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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A facebook album I whipped up quickly. Is it really worth that much? Wow!

E! Online Insider Community: Jon Voight: Heartbroken Over Angelina, ...

Perhaps it is because she was conceived while Jon Voight was playing in Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" in Buffalo, NY as Stanley Kowalski (1974)? As I recall two young women came to me and my room-mate and insisted we were in the wrong seats and we had to watch the rest of the performance standing as I recall in the now landmarked theater district (NY State Urban Cultural Park). I did later live in Columbus, Mississippi for a short time in 1979, working near the Waverly Plantation (albino peacocks and Honeybee Hendrix's bees) on the archaeology of the new barge canal, now in Mr. Williams' hometown, running from the Tennessee River to Mobile, Alabama.

Well it was a long time ago, Jon Voight was in "Streetcar" in Buffalo, NY and Buffalo is a lot better today than then (was 15% unemployment, no steel anymore, a subway now instead of a proposed "West Side Highway," a Polish pope since, a new campus and law school in Amherst, the Center for Inquiry for secular humanism, the "police riot" at Attica has worn off a bit, the noted anti-war activism ended, etc.) so it has changed quite a bit. Mr. Voight has been in many interesting roles since, the play I mentioned and the movie starring Marlon Brando had very different endings. I never meant to imply that she's not his, they are both very talented actors in my opinion and wish the best for both of them. They've both been in very interesting artistic "milestones" in cinema, which I was studying on Bailey Ave., next to the campus and Frank Sinatra, Jr.'s "haunt", the "Media Center", one summer tried to turn Buffalo into the Hollywood of the East. Thanks for the comment.

Stop Bush's Warrantless Wiretapping | Democrats.com

     "Her Majesty's Warrant," as served in Canada, is a general permission to search any boat, house or conveyance upon suspicion of it being part of, or in use in, the drug trade. We signed the Fourth Amendment to prevent the use of "warrantless" searches. Either declare a "majesty's warrant" or cease and desist from unlawful and unconstitutional acts. If not, I would suggest we deport the President!

Opening Night of "A Bronx Tale"

Tomorrow night October 25, 2007 "A Bronx Tale" written by Chazz Palminteri and directed by Jerry Zaks will open at the Walter Kerr Theatre at 219 West 48th St. ABronxTaleOnBroadway.com Limited Broadway Engagement - 18 Weeks Only! Maybe you remember that guy... Robert DeNiro? He was in the film, drove a bus.

Valerie Plame Wilson: Why Military Types Should Not Run the CIA - Politics on The Huffington Post

I wish when this happened it didn't sound like the script from "Beat The Devil" (1953) directed by John Huston with Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobridgida, Peter Lorre, and Christopher Morley from the novel by blacklisted writer James Helvick, screenplay by Truman Capote. It too was about uranium in Africa and everyone involved says they're going to there to sell vacuum cleaners (presumably with aluminum tubes) a send-up of the "Maltese Falcon" genre perhaps. I guess we should have known better. However I thought I heard this so-called letter about "yellow-cake" was from Italy. Ms. Lollobridgida, did you con these "experts"? The dates weren't even right.

Jefferson Morley: 'Denied in Full': Federal Judges Grill CIA Lawyers on JFK Secrets - Politics on The Huffington Post

Or was he trying to hit JBK? (Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy). Marvin Kittman spoke to a Marine who also tested the weapon, but whose report was left out of the W.C., who stated something like he would have to have been aiming at the President's wife to hit where the weapon hit on the range. Maybe someone turned a screw here a screw there? It's been stated Marina Oswald had become obsessed with Mrs. Kennedy, to the consternation of LHO? I was supposed to be getting a clarinet lesson from Mr. Abrams off-stage at the Wood Road School when it happened. He didn't show I went back to the classroom with my three piece rented clarinet. Young JFK lived in Riverdale in the Bronx, NYC, his dad wanted to invest in the "talkies" here until the market crashed in 1929 and they moved away.   12:08 pm on 10/23/2007

Huntington, NY

I worked there in the British Revolutionary War era archaeology site, "Fort Golgotha" which was run by the "Queen's Ranger" Benjamin Thompson, later known as the physicist, Count Rumford. The British Army on-top of cemetery hill, were said to have been baking bread on some of the tombstones and a French observer wrote that one winter storm was so strong, the snow rolled up in rolls up the hill. It was also where Nathan Hale was brought to before he was hung in NYC, that burial location still unknown, though a statue bearing some perhaps mythological resemblance was moved to the front of City Hall recently. We recovered in a small excavation, a pin of the "QR" which I gave to Benjamin Thompson's re-enactor, a podiatrist, who was assisting our little cemetery class, to copy, and we affirmed that the fort remains had been plowed over after the war. Previously, some others had been, mistakenly, let into the cemetery to also do "archaeology". The "gifted and talented" Saturday dig for elementary school children results were reported to the State Museums by Edward Johanneman, M.A., who was employed on downstate DOT projects at Stony Brook University, reviewed by Philip Lord, for the NY State Museums.

Re: I'm getting married in the morning

How did it go? They kept playing the marches CD of skirling pipes usually played at funerals etc., written by Wilburforce the former slave runner in "Amazing Grace". I'm a fan of the 200 anniversary of the British outlawing slavery (1807) for what it was worth and for what it stopped, not much huh millions of Africans brought against their will to the Caribbean mostly and through Mexico to the US and even a ship built in Setauket the "Wanderer" a luxury yacht fitted with water tanks in Port Jefferson and boarded by a British Navy vessel in the blockade of slavers in 1858 or so thought that beautiful luxury ship couldn't be...it was and put into Jekyll Island, Georgia, where the captives were fed from a large cast iron pot there in the "playground of the rich" once upon a time and sold into slavery. One set of Doublemint twins are their descendants. It was built by Captain Brewster Hawkins in Setauket, captained by his son Thomas Hawkins for a year, then sold to a Louisiana cotton merchants broker. Very fast, it was used by both sides in the resulting Civil War and sank in a storm off Cape Masai (or Maysi named by Christopher Columbus) on the NE coast of Cuba, involved in the fruit trade in 1869 I read, not far from Guantanamo.

I did some archaeology on the Captain Brewster Hawkins House for a doctor and his wife. He taught psychopharmacology and was head of out-patient services at Stony Brook, a psychiatrist, of Massachusetts, his wife from Virginia. I dug a small unit that became their children's sandbox after a septic system was put in showing a lot of broken stuff from the earlier 1700s in the Brookhaven Town Historic District. "Down With Popery" was scrawled in an upstairs wall under the wall paper.

Captain Brewster Hawkins restarted shipbuilding in Setauket in the 1840s, earlier settled by Charles River, Massachusetts pioneers in the 1660s. It had been built there early in Poquot (where Sri Chinmoy lived who just died the peace activist and guru who broke many physical records) when Port Jefferson was more a "drowned meadow" later dredged out, earlier the focus was more in Setauket though later Port Jefferson built more ship tonnage up until about WWI, shipbuilder John T. Mather's hospital his legacy. Port Jeff even had "The Only" car company which came in second in an early Pike's Peak road race (where "America the Beautiful" is said to have been inspired) Zebulon Pike is buried near Watertown, NY. Welcome back!

I played my "Isle of Skye" CD. I also gave the "Highland Heritage" book by Grace Campbell, my mother's brother Vincent Urquhart brought back from Expo '67 in Montreal I reckon.

Strangely, Vivian started taking pictures with a digital camera and it disappeared. They think the pizza delivery boy took it.

Harvey Wasserman: No Nukes is Back for a Green Armageddon - Politics on The Huffington Post

Growing up near the Shoreham nuclear power plant, costing over $2 billion and never went to full power (5%) on Long Island, NY next to Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe laboratory and would have been power transmitter I have had a few informants tell me things and I've read a few too.

1) The x-rays of the piping was reproduced, i.e., the same x-ray was used for multiple pipes

2) The crankshaft on the huge diesel generator, made in California, was cracked and THE reason the plant could not be brought online, touted by then Democrat Governor Carey as "the safest in the world" which would discharge and take water from the Long Island Sound, so could always be cooled...

3) No proper archaeological survey was done, though a recovery of the site after it was bulldozed was attempted

4) In the middle of construction an equal rights issue arrived and minority workers were hired onto the project

5) The costs of uranium ore (renegotiated by Westinghouse I recall) drove the final cost of the project through the proverbial roof and led to the demise of the utility LILCO (Long Island Lighting Company) to absorb its costs in what many upstanding citizens had invested in.

6) It was discussed to be a "test bed" for dismantling a nuclear power plant, something that had not yet been done and would provide a learning environment for the future tasks of many as they become obsolete elsewhere. I have yet to have heard of that program.

7) When all the utilities met in New York State to discuss the use of Hydro-Quebec (or Quebec-Hydro) electricity, and new power-lines, whose electricity generated from there is in surplus in the summer (primary use is in heating in Canada's winter, electricity from what was once then the world's largest hydroelectric power project built on James Bay, a part of Hudson's Bay) LILCO was the only utility in the state which thought it had capacity enough in the then currently being built Shoreham nuclear power plant and the planned Jamesport nuclear power plant, both on the east end of Long Island to say "no" to cooperating with the rest of the state of New York.

Newsday: State: Suffolk can't tap into the Lloyd Aquifer

Long Island is also known for its "recharge basins" or locally known as sumps, which are created to my knowledge by using a formula for the amount of ground to be covered by asphalt in a specific area and the small "percolation test" performed in a small hole on the property. The rate of "percolation" determines the "recharge basin" design which attempts to guarantee the recharge of the aquifer. While it I think was derived in the 1940s, it perhaps is obsolete. One might argue that the direct pollution of the aquifer is increased by the runoff from vehicles, driveways and yards surrounding the basin. A number of years ago the Army Corps of Engineers did a study of the possibility in an upcoming NYC water shortage crisis, which considered 20 deep wells out in the Pinelands and a pipe down the expressway, which was unacceptable the amount of water a proverbial drop in the bucket. The recommendation was a reorganization of the New England water grid system, many lakes in western Connecticut and Massachusetts are untapped resources not in use by anyone for drinking water. I'm glad a responsible protection of one of the number of aquifers under Long Island is being enforced.

Bill Gates writes - Malaria eraser (as seen in Huffington Post)

I grew up in the New York City area where the history of mosquito control has been an on-going "war" which the Chinese may win, they have invested much in it's demise (malaria), thereby winning and influencing friends and enemies, perhaps. In NYC we had the unfortunate propagation of the West Nile virus (not to be confused with the protozoa) perhaps from the old Flushing Airport in 1999, after the tidal gates were left damaged. As a resident of the Bronx and encountering a number of dead birds around the Bronx Zoo, some specifically in "Old Soldiers Cemetery" a block from the zoo, employed in the archaeological monitoring of a new partial fence, I thought it had maybe come from there. However, most of the human cases came from Queens, NY near the former airport.

My father anecdotally related dusting with DDT the children in Italy for body lice in WWII and thought the controversy much ado about nothing until research revealed in the New York area (first by a woman scientist on Great Gull Island off of Orient Point and Plum Island, i.e. where animal disease is quarantined and studied, in the middle of 40 million people) off of Long Island, NY that it was thinning the shells of various birds, especially the beloved osprey (or sea eagle, which bald eagles sometimes steal food from along the Hudson River) whose flyway (as was Flushing Airport's once) includes the shores of Brazil.

Suffolk County mosquito control has dug hundreds of "canals" in tidal wetlands. Water flows so that mosquito larvae drown presumably or are never there. NYC has had the same treatment. Sickle cell anemia, a heritable consequence of repeated exposures to malaria, red blood cells try to adapt, is a painful genetic consequence I've read. Wiping it out would be a benefit to look forward to, like the Hogfarm bus at Woodstock '69, which was present at the last case thought of smallpox in the world, in India.

I thought this would not post at Huffington Post. Wrong!

US Military Technology Increasingly Being Exported Illegally

Comment: Thanks for the info here in the comments. For a number of years I thought Grumman had 100 F-14As on order for the Shah of Iran and had only 80 delivered which was what the F-14 test pilot Tom Gwynne of the "Cradle of Aviation" museum on Long Island, NY also said in the press recently, that is 80 (reported now 77). Years ago, I was sitting with him on a belated birthday, watching "Ishi - the Last of His Tribe" with his wife, an anthropologist, whom I thought had been in the Grumman compound of about 4000 Americans outside of Tehran, teaching the various tasks required to keep a fighter-bomber in the air, i.e., almost 200 for every pilot, when it was announced on the TV that we would blow-up all of them if the USSR crossed Iran's border, a crisis also echoed here in the US where Iranian exchange students once queried former SOS Henry Kissinger, what he could do about the Shah's Savak (secret police) spying on them here on US campuses, which he said he could do nothing about.

Apparently, Mr. Gwynne I recall, said that the technology of the F-14 was not the problem, the air-to-air missile tech could upset the balance of air defense, the F-14A (with rumored radar "knockdown" countermeasures) had the ability to acquire and track up to six targets at a time. I am glad we did not have to find out, on the other hand, what our fleet F-14s and their recently trained pilots ("Anytime, baby" patches) never faced off though tragically, a desert storm did result in the loss of American servicemen in an ill-fated rescue attempt by helicopters. At the time, "Nuke Iran" bumper stickers started appearing on where I had had some contact with them in work-study and as a taxi driver while a grad student at Stony Brook University on Long Island, NY. One would hope we could have better diplomacy than that. Huffington Post comments on U.S. war tech sales

Today in History: Thrust Beats Sound Twice on Autopia

I think that's supposed to be "It's worth noting..." not "It's worth nothing...". General Yeagar's flight simulator was an interesting complement to "Orbiter" the Space Shuttle sim and others, back in CGA. I still wonder why the X-15 film with Mary Tyler Moore, and the actor who became known as Charles Bronson is not shown more often. The Thrust team also released film of the jet car going through the sound barrier. It was quite interesting.

New York Dolls

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Mr. Melville (or Melco, Thom McCann and others) spoke about development at the American Philosophical Society and described how they would set up zoning in the village of the then Museums of Stony Brook and preserve it from suburban franchise cloning. Maybe some of the larger corporations should look to occupy some of the restored Aurora without the trademark signatures.

ABC News: Flying Car About to Take Off?

It could be an excellent aid to search-and-rescue in some parts of the world. I'm thinking about the area around what was once the "world's largest munitions storage area" in Nevada near Barron Hilton's Flying M Ranch where world record-holder, aviator and businessman Steve Fossett took off from on Sept. 3, 2007 in a small plane to scout out desert lake-beds for a test of the land-speed record, never to be seen again. If one had one of these, some day cheaper than helicopters (all?) and even easier to fly than a conventional airplane, one might imagine landing on numerous roads nearby areas to lend assistance perhaps or a convenient tool to use in location spotting and other emergencies requiring a quicker response than what has been up till now. Glad to hear it was at Oshkosh begosh!

Fun place to see NY Senator Hillary Clinton in a barn...

I just spent five days where Babe Ruth used to go after the season was over, near Mansfield, Pennsylvania I thought you might want to know. "Our Babe: Babe Ruth loved Northern Pennsylvania, where he hunted, fished, and hit the world's longest home run." by Michael Capuzzo in "Mountain Home: Magazine of the Pennsylvania Mountains & New York Finger Lakes FREE" October 2007. It was 86 F in Elmira, NY Monday and by Friday it dropped to 44 where I was staying (across from a new large rustic Harley Davidson dealership) at West's which also has a restaurant, bar, painted ponies, and a great golf package they say.

We were testing for the Dominion gas company there, someone has an idea of turning underground salt into brine then piped to someplace to become salt again and filling the underground caverns with gas from the surrounding pipelines. The salt mines near Lake Cayuga in Myers, New York, filled with water and collapsed a few years ago, and NYC had to import rock salt for its icy roads until another source was found near Letchworth State Park ("...renowned as the "Grand Canyon of the East," which is funny where I just was has the "Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania" which I visited in high school with the class president). Native American burials I heard were found there and after consultation with the Iroquois Council, they were not moved (before 1999).

Oil was found in Pennsylvania first under a salt "dome" that once drilled for though dancing a foot jig on a chisel, I imagine, that drill that hit oil in western Pennsylvania was a little different. Lots of cows and rocky ground up there near the hunting preserve (we saw bison, elk, deer, and who knows what else behind the tall fence, velocitoraptors (happy chickens)? ) near Mann's Hill.

The rock opera? Oh ah freethinker Brian Flemming's Weblog  (coauthor "Bat Boy: The Musical" and called an "atheist" on-line by the Religious Right) has it on his web site "September 29" as "Evel Knieval The Rock Opera" by Jef Bek directed by another coauthor of "Bat Boy: The Musical".

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Who are the brain police? - Frank Zappa

How is this now a question of property is a very strange ruling to my mind. Property is tangible I thought by definition. Are electrons now property? The transference or transubstantiation of property is now invisible and no longer tangible it seems as defined by the law in this excruciating tort and torture has shown in this case. Thumb screws would make more sense in IMHO.

Underwater Archaeology with AutoCAD: The Wreck of HMS Pandora

Dear John Walker:

You might be interested to know that I was an early user of AutoCAD in archaeology though not in underwater archaeology, but later in the marsh of Foundry Cove next to Constitution Island in Cold Spring, NY where the West Point Foundry is/was currently being archaeologically excavated by Michigan Technological University. We (Grossman and Associates, Inc., and others) recovered the "Swamp Angel" gun platform, designed by the patenter of the Parrott rifled cannons used as the "Swamp Angel" in the bombardment of South Carolina in 1863 in the archaeological assistance of the Malcolm Pirnie, Inc. designed remediation of the Marathon Battery National Priority Superfund site for the EPA in 1989-1993. We were also working with Prometric Technologies using the Rolleimetric MR2 close-range photogrammetric camera and software system as provided by the in part by a writer at the time in AutoCAD LISP of an interface for the MR2 system with AutoCAD which was superseded by fairly normal graphics program at Rollei with output that could also be a dxf file. It's been used for as-builts in Canada and the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City perhaps in the 35mm format, we used a medium format special 6006 with five focus settings to document some archaeology at some other places.

Prior to this I used the AutoCAD program I had bought answering an ad in the newspaper alleging the seller was leaving for the West Coast and I purchased it for $500 in 5 1/4" disk form, which later when I tried to upgrade with Washington Computers in NYC (where I worked with an early Elta-38 infrared transit and Epson HX-20 computer in the archaeological recording of the "Augustine Heerman Warehouse" site in old New Amsterdam off Whitehall, Pearl, Bridge and Broad Sts. and depicted the site using AutoCAD software for slides) they stated they could not make sense of what I had purchased and thought it an illegal copy which it probably was. I used it and the transit to map, however, the trees for the botanist and to upgrade an earlier map of the site with tree diameters at the horticultural center at Wave Hill, Inc. in Riverdale in the borough of the Bronx, where I currently reside. It was an interesting survey also of the nearby archaeology in the City park also along and above the Hudson River where I learned that survey 0,0 was once at the center of Columbus Circle! Expressed in positive feet N,S,E and W from there as depicted on the old linen maps accessed through a "need to know" elevator entrance in the Bronx County Courthouse where part of the "Bonfire of the Vanities" was filmed, all coordinates were measured from under the statue of Christopher Columbus I assume. A small change in the BASIC software in the HX-20 could have changed that but I was beyond changing the AutoCAD software!

I actually found an older wreck than the "H.M.S. Pandora" in the landfill of Manhattan in 1981, the so called "Ronson Ship" after the developer who worked for the consortium of banks that came (and went apparently) known as National Westminster Bank here in the US. We located it in December in the last backhoe trench allowed (all three) for "deep testing" in an archaeological testing and excavation on the "175 Water Street" block, run by the archaeologist credited in the film "The Royal Tannebaums". The ship had an apple-cheeked bow and was about 80-100' long, a "trailer truck of the 18th century" which we know little about compared to military ships. I conserved and photographed some of the major pieces and the first 10' of the waterlogged bow was taken for further conservation and to be exhibited at the Newport News Mariner Museum in Virginia before the rest of the emptied out land-filled ship hulk was ripped out from under the skyscraper building steam-powered pile drivers and carted off in March to the land-fill on Staten Island later used for the processing of the material from the attack on the World Trade Center, the Fresh Kills Landfill, said to be the highest point on the US East Coast.

The article inspired a number of people to work in emerging computer technology, AutoCAD and other metrology to record what are sometimes fleeting traces of the past that are in the way of progress and have allowed a new way to graphically depict the efforts.

Personally, after attending a marketing research group (was that near Columbus Circle? hmm...) that eventually resulted in smaller cheaper versions of Autodesk products (i.e., QuickCAD, etc.) I stopped using AutoCAD after the company upgraded to version 12 and Bentley systems called me and suggested for the same upgrade price they would let me have their "piece of the action".

I still have the early 1983 (?) disks, which once ran on my IBM PCjr, with some hardware mods of course, but have not had the opportunity to put down a shovel and actually work in computer graphics for archaeology since 1995 or so which is too bad, there also ought to be a law. I was told the early "Fort Edward PCB Cleanup" set a new standard in mapping reportage, where we had the locational prehistoric data plotted at Metropolitan Life where some entrepreneurs charged a small fee for plotter output.

The disks, by the way, claim to have been version "AUTOCAD 2 (c) 1982,1983,1984 Autodesk, Inc. Version 2.0 (10/09/84) IBM PC" and were only used that I recall perhaps on two projects, Wave Hill and Augustine Heerman Warehouse. The rest of the projects, Mead Hall, Drew University, NJ; West Point Foundry Cove, Cold Spring, NY and others were all done with a legitimate copy which was upgraded and in-house single pen then rented multi-pen plotter and printers and reproduced on an early expensive color photocopy machine for reports. Viva la difference!

New JASDF Stealth Fighter Jet to be "Made In Japan" | Inventor Spot

Recently, I've read the new commander of the American Civil Air Patrol (CAP, part of the US Air Force) is now a woman, a first, appointed to replace another volunteer accused of certification fraud. Japan should have better defense patrols to protect itself, saving American tax dollars in the bargain, I'd imagine. Having eyewitness and fast search and rescue (SAR) capabilities would also be a benefit to all nations, should situations arise. I've been following the disappearance of Steve Fossett and feel this way as a result of my government's inability to locate the world record-holding aviator, who disappeared September 3, 2007 near what was once the "world's largest munitions storage facility" while the US is in an ill-defined war on multiple fronts in southwest Asia. Currently, volunteers are using Amazon's mTurk to scan satellite imagery for him and the plane he took off in and was to return to, Barron Hilton's "Flying M Ranch" in Nevada, USA (the heiress' grandfather).

Watch: Ted Koppel Sounds Off On Dan Rather, His Sexual Prowess - Media on The Huffington Post

I can't see the second video, so let me say I have often thought of these theoretics's: 1) President Bush may have been in physical therapy from an eject, 2) He got out six months early to obtain an MBA at Harvard University and that fact points to another agenda perhaps set by the former CIA director and Vice and then President George H.W. Bush. The "Washington Post" states his friend at Harvard is in charge of privatizing all the former nationalized industries in Iraq and a large Republican party donor, 3) Dan Rather and CBS were under attack for trying to buy the baseball team the Texas Rangers, from whom then Governor Bush earned the money to buy the Crawford ranch (Mr. Rather owns a ranch too where a terrible multiple murder occurred) and he had to make sure his backers ended up in ownership. So when Mr. Rather thinks CBS, Inc. erred in selecting a former official of the George H. W. Bush's (a NY Times op-ed once referred to him as "Our Man in Halcyon" due to his prescription and how the world he assured us was getting safer) to judge his investigative reportage, I feel for him, my cousin once an award-winning NBC News producer (pers. comm. Edwin Newman) and a friend in NYC a "street reporter" for CBS there. Indeed perhaps we could see Mr. Rather as upholding the ethics of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Google Earth Community: Steve Fossett Search

Re: Just curious... [Re: Daydreamer] #1016909 - 10/02/07 11:41 AM Well over 40 yes...but this is should not be important. This is a way has been an embarrassing failure from an outsiders view, where however to improve it is important, as it might just be starting. My father routed furniture deliveries every night in the olden days before the digital revolution. Almost needless to say you don't put the first delivery stop on the truck on first, buried deep in the furniture in the truck, otherwise you'd have to unload the truck at every stop! I see this as a similar problem and part of the problem has been in the delivery of imagery. Micro-satellites might be launched someday or maybe what Stasi (the East German police) stated we use, "sub-orbital satellites" which caused the scramble and shoot-down of Korean Flight 007 from Alaska, resulting from the chase of fired "over the horizon data collectors" becoming an almost routine intercept mission by USSR pilots in that part of the world, picture provided (as reported by a historian of Swedish weather research rocketry which used the phased out Nike missiles, in an official magazine he found there when the wall came down, a Nike launch ring pintle holds up his cabin table in Sweden, which I find ironic having helped find the R.P. Parrott pintle and gun platform in the marsh contaminated by the batteries made for the Nike system in Cold Spring, NY during the archaeological assistance in the design of the EPA clean-up there. See "Swamp Angel" in the US Civil War) but in the meantime when we read of all the materiel used in Iraq to find IED (improvised explosive devices) one has to wonder if there could be a NSAR (office of National Search and Rescue, combining the US Coast Guard and the other services, i.e., National Guard doing that, etc.) More cooperation in resource sharing to protect "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" might be congressionally considered. For example in many places a helicopter may take quite a while to get to you, i.e., Chilkoot Trail in Alaska, for which you will be charged according to the NPS, (build a road to Skagway from Juneau) and Homeland Security also a cooperative protective service involved rather than spying "on our behalf". Looking at all the roads in this area is enough to give one a sense of the numbers of people that might need aid though mostly empty in the imagery. Of course the fact that the rescue "frequency" has not worked out, is also a tragedy. It seems like yesterday way back in the late 1960s us and the Russians were tracking polar bears from satellite (Scientific American) and the Russians worked out an emergency response to radio signals from people in trouble for rescue. Perhaps more international cooperation along those lines would help. Unfortunately, the first three Russian planes supplying aid to the victims of Hurricane Katrina were all that were allowed by the US authorities, though more were offered with relief supplies. Sorry if this is "soap box" I mean no offense to anyone whose tried to help. I've read there's a radio you can talk to the International Space Station from an earth-bound helicopter, developed for people in HAZMAT suits which makes communication impossible. Google Earth Community: STEVE FOSSETT SEARCH-->POST HERE

Esther Dyson: Release 0.9: Airship Tour - Business on The Huffington Post

Hello Ms. Dyson, long time no read...back in MSDOS time I mean. I was just working at Republic Airport, archaeological testing for "new hangars" and right next door was a blimp mast which held the Met-Life (Snoopy) airship and then the Goodyear airship. It's in the lower southeast corner of "New York state's fourth busiest airport" though used only for private and charter, out there in Melville, NY. Maybe they could use that location for some Long Island tours, though currently it's kind of in a remote area of the airport it might not be very soon. I have a friend/reporter who once was in a four airship race around NYC I think the Fuji Film airship won. Thanks for the airship vistas.