Captain's Quarters: Comment on Unclear On The Concept

I once hired a "vet" who had been dishonourably discharged over the same thing. He said it was in the air. Finally the military-industrial complex agreed also the test can be fallible, poppy seeds and all and from the looks of it here maybe "not like you plots" slipped a "mickey" possible. They owed him back pay. Nice guy. Pre-Gulf.

The head of the US German service narco squad was a transfer from Navy at Gitmo. These days officers can leave one for the other apparently. Reminds me of the Luftwaffe transferred to the U-boat corps however... scary in "Operation Drumbeat" the WWII battle of the Atlantic by the historian Michael Gannon. Granddaddy's brother was captain of the "City of Atlanta" early on Jan. '42 torpedoed.

Posted by georgejmyers at July 31, 2007 8:24 PM

Captain's Quarters: Comment on Unclear On The Concept

"OutdoorRugged" Amy Urban's page

The photo of Nomad in the office aquarium for a half hour had me laughing (besides "Nomad" on the Star Trek original series that Captain Kirk had to point out its fallible logic to destroy itself and Kirk thereby saves the Universe, well at least the Alpha Quad) and I recalled how our surveyor built a custom case with a heater under it to keep the HX-20 ("world's first laptop") warm enough to continue to work in the winter connected by a serial cable to a Leitz Elta-38 in "deep winter" excavations in lower Manhattan off of Whitehall and Broad streets. It finally went on the "fritz" in the high summer humidity of the Hudson Valley in Dobbs Ferry, NY when I guess condensation shorted it out and it started printing gibberish on its little paper built-in dot matrix printer, like those on newer cash registers. No one was near it so it was kind of dramatic. The guy from Zeiss had written the BASIC program for it which I had to change a bit once for a NYC datum, Columbus Circle historically was the 0,0 with all directions from there in positive feet (ENSW) not State Plane or UTM. These new data collectors (I've used the Sokkia one when it was Sokkisha, SDR24? after the HX-20) sure are spiffy.

Safe Surrender: "A First Step To A Second Chance"

The NY Times once had an editorial citing a study they did which showed back then that the "death penalty" actually increases the fatalities among police officers. This is a great story and one would hope what the current US President meant when he proposed funding in "faith based charities". I attended grad school in an Anthropology department where a similar program was proposed and observed by June Starr, an anthropologist who did her field-work in changing Turkey, for mediations such as these cited though conducted within the public sphere of law in Suffolk County, New York, that is to point out that it has and could be expanded in the secular sphere also.

Posted by georgejmyers at 05:07 PM : Jul 30, 2007 "Safe Surrender: A First Step To A Second Chance" Couric & Co.

Re: Vasa Problems (underwater archaeology "sub-arch" forum)

Back in the early 1980s a ship was found at the "175 Water Street Site" actually not a single building but a consolidation of previous addresses encompassing a whole old city block in New York City on the edge and resulting building shadow into the South Street Historic District there, a trade-off reported in the press for new zone additional floor(s) for the archaeology, reported in the press after the work. One of the problems with the wood of the "Ronson" ship was that it was supersaturated and its was thought cell wall structure had broken down which leads to structural problems of preservation, which I have no idea how the "apple cheek " bow was conserved reported to be treated at the Newport News Mariner Museum now also in partnership with South Street. On another site, the so-called "Assay Site" after the US Federal use of it also near the Seaport District, and its sand blasted chimney stack recovery and "floating vault" on vertical railroad track as rebar, so one could see under it, thwarting would-be tunnels into it was removed a number of thought British cannons and pieces thereof were brought up by the French firm digging the narrow "slurry wall" into the landfill and chiseled into the bedrock, through a mixture of bentonite and water whose specific gravity keeps surrounding water out of the trench and carries the rock and debris out. The pieces were placed in "coffin liners" modified with spigots to recycle the water and remove salts from them. A company provided a stearate based treatment which we applied and re-immersed the cannon pieces which I was told absorbed the stearin or stearate based solvent thereby displacing the water molecules in the what was becoming porous iron structure. Perhaps something similar might work in wood? Mr. Jed Levin, now with the NPS in Philadelphia, PA, working on the former slave quarters of our first presidents was the person who gave me the can and asked that it be applied. He would have more knowledge of it. The cannons left on a flatbed trailer in their coffin liners for extended treatment in Tallahassee, Florida where they were placed in circulating water tanks I was told. They may have been ballast or dumped before, during or after the American Revolution. Maybe it was WD-34?

Recent steel axes introduced...

Pretty interesting. I had some experience in outdoor survey in archaeology. We used an Epson HX-20 hooked to a Leitz infrared tacheometer back in the mid-1980s and into the 1990s then switched to a Sokkisha which became Sokkia in the co's I worked for in contract archaeology in the mostly NY/NJ area. GPS was just getting on the ground in 1993. I used close-range photogrammetry from Rollei which creates its own coords to trace 3D info from photos on a digitizing tablet, the maths supplemented with other sources, transit and maybe GPS now? Then the digital cameras started really coming. This year I was looking at the Thales with DGPS which reading here seems to be going off the air. Ironically I was using Annapolis signals instead of Alexandria standing near the airfield at Quantico (WAAS?) where the "Marine One" Sea King will someday soon make its last flight replaced with a EU consortium built helicopter assembled and serviced in New York State thanks to Senator Clinton. Having access to a large GTCO digitizing tablet allowed various overlays to be traced "onto" (into) and through trial and error attempts at "predictive" locations of historic and prehistoric resources, using the earlier versions of AutoCAD (2.3? to 13) Idrisi, and Corel scans-to-vector from field drawn profiles and sections, allowed interesting map work. For example, in the testing of designed impacts of the remediation of the National Priority Superfund Marathon Battery Site for the EPA in Cold Spring NY within the former operations of the West Point Foundry. Some of the map work was from a photo of a glass mounted map digitized, and with plotted tree survey and Psion recorded magnetometer survey, allowed the recovery of R. P. Parrott's gun platform "Swamp Angel" on grillage a gun platform prototype from the filled marsh. It was used in the incendiary bombardment of Charleston, South Carolina in 1863 in the American civil war using the Parrott patented rifled cannon, hidden in the marsh, its location there still not recovered. (1989-1994)

Update: EU and US to Agree Satellite Networks Compatibility

Beneath the sidewalks of New York City Hall Park

The walkways in the north side of City Hall Park, closed since 1999, when descriptive excavation of burials by Parsons, Inc. and thought associated with the "First Almshouse" were found relatively near the surface of planned upgrades to the park (retractable stone bollards, similarly as seen on British TV recently destroying a would be truck bomb) will open next week. The statue of Horace Greeley, a monument to Joseph Pulitzer and an American Engineering monument to what was arguably the city's first art museum building, a circular painted scenic vista, I think later owned by PT Barnum of Bridgeport, Connecticut before he moved to larger quarters, once between former British Army barracks, the old city gaol and now currently the Tweed Courthouse and City Hall, will all be on view again. City Hall was designed by the architect of the President George Washington commissioned lighthouse at Montauk Point, John McComb, Jr. and with others also designed the dam so named in NYC the park which it became, today in part the site of the new Yankee Stadium under construction.

A Lower Manhattan Shortcut to Reopen After Seven Years

Northern End of City Hall Park to Reopen

Views of City Hall, "the oldest still in use as one in America" (contested statement, once under mock siege by Bostonians who due to a computer glitch were issued thousands of traffic tickets, for example see "Mr. Bloomberg, Perth Amboy Begs to Differ" )

Happy Birthday Mick Jagger! Thanks for the Rock and Roll Circus! (TV is better than never)

Pan Macmillan announces publication this autumn of the autobiography of one of rock ‘n’ roll’s finest and best-loved -

Ronnie by Ronnie Wood

to be published 12th October 2007 at £20.00

Re: Twentieth Century Fishing Communities (histarch)

You might want to read, "Two Islands: Grand Manan And Sanibel" by Katherine Scherman (1971), one island in the Bay of Fundy (actually an archipelago) with various fishing histories some still working, the other island, off Florida in the US, the first National Wildlife Refuge in the US, though its not an ethnographic study per se but written by a resident of both. Some of my family is from Grand Manan and I had my first cash in hand picking and drying dulse, a red deep depth seaweed, there on Indian Beach in 1967 after a 29 days of fog and rain. Highest tides in the world nearby.

There's a few ethnographies that I recall some from Newfoundland and another from the French "tiny overseas islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon" that may be of interest (dried codfish). Some of the Caribbean ethnographies are interesting such as "Crab Antics: A Caribbean Study of the Conflict Between Reputation and Respectability" in the social anthropology genre.

If you know anyone looking for a fairly new canning factory, there's one in Seal Cove Grand Manan for sale I think belongs to Bumblebee who bought the Connors Brothers (Blacks Harbour, NB) then Brunswick brands. Seal Cove smokehouses there, where they smoke and dry herring in wood sheds, I think have been a part of the "triangle" of trade for many years with the Caribbean, originally settled by "downeasters" from Maine which wasn't a state in the Union until 1820. They say you can hear it still in their voices, unlike "God's Country" up-the-island in North Head and Castalia where the "homestead" was and a few still buried.

Geronimo and the Graverobbers

Posted response to histarch (message link) forum citing Yale Alumni Magazine from last summer: Whose Skull and Bones?

by Kathrin Day Lassila '81 and Mark Alden Branch '86 May/June 2006 Comment: It has been in and out of the media (some of it carried in "Time" magazine, especially when they found on campus a lost cache of medical specimens in a basement room feeding speculation) and there is a petition on behalf of the Apache, his grandson a spokesperson, to further investigate it. Perhaps it should be a NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act) issue, which "ironically" was signed into law by then President ("Poppy") George H.W. Bush whose father, Prescott Bush was allegedly part of it.

The Yale men used to have a flight training base on the Great South Bay on Long Island with a cannon they used to fire into Fire Island and the Great South Bay according to a historian online leaving what the writer said were deadly swirling holes in the water in the Great South Bay. It was in Mastic, NY, near the William Floyd Manor (signer of the "Declaration of Independence" today Mastic/Shirley) part of the Fire Island National Seashore now, where I worked with the NPS in getting it ready for the public with clearance archaeology, and also attended a public hearing on presenting the Suffolk County Archaeological Association for the creation of the National Seashore. It was in the 1930's in the nation's "Cradle of Aviation". Perhaps another reason for creation of New York State's only "Federal wilderness" ordnance had elsewhere been found on the barrier islands, and more recently in the news in redeposited replenishment dredging in New Jersey. The Suffolk County Archaeology Association used to meet then at the Hoyt Farm Nature Center (Town of Smithtown Department of Parks, Smithtown, NY). The Hoyt Farm complex was once owned by a judge I recall. In the vestibule as one walked in (perhaps the same as the "Tomb" mentioned) were two broken US Calvary sabres that allegedly were used by the Apache as "pikes" in a glass cabinet.

George Myers (Not meant for legal fodder, anthropological)

Comment on 'More Things I Would Do As President' Alec Baldwin

First Mr. President you'd have to get rid of the form: "..that delays or denies federal financial aid to would-be students because of drug convictions. This month a committee of the US Senate approved a bill that among other things would remove the "drug question" from the federal financial aid form -- not quite full repeal, but close -- the fight is not over yet..." StopTheDrugWar.org Of course you'd have to get elected too. We may be getting further from equality everyday... some are promised a death penalty (proposed) for killing one "class" of citizens others not. Others are "promised" tens of thousands for education serving a failed foreign policy, that was partially based on promising thousands for info on "terrorists" seized and "renditioned" (is that English?) from other countries we can't even keep the translators of their languages in our military service because we don't like how they answer the sex question, ("Do you still beat your wife? Yes or No?"). We base public education on property values, my Middle Country School District sued only to be told it's "constitutional" in New York State to discriminate in the awards of aid to education based on property values rather than need perhaps or other factors (special needs education, such as second language teaching, etc.) New York started a lottery as an "equalizer" of the inequality. Mr. Baldwin why don't you run for office in New York? We could use someone with your experience perhaps in the legal option of a state constitutional convention to rewrite parts of the thing or a future option required when we can't work it out. Huffington Post Alec Baldwin Blog

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Pelosi Wants to Call Earmarks Something Besides Earmarks; Contest to Pick New Pork Label

Spintags, like skintags! They're benign like Bushies! Lulus (the NY State definition, perks to politicos also an all women's baseball team there once) "Billiflops" like gigaflops but the number of cycles of calculations per bill, i.e., "that bill had had 3 billiflops" ..."and statistics released today said the Congress was now averaging 10 billiflops per bill." "Perky Omens"?  July 23, 7:20 PM Pelosi Wants to Call Earmarks Something Besides Earmarks; Contest to Pick New Pork Label

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Condoleance de tardif par moi tante Francoise

I was sorry to find out today that my godfather, Lewis Myers, had lost his wife over the Fourth of July holiday, out of town in Mirror Lake, New Hampshire. I had just heard from my mother, Adelaide Myers (Urquhart). She was a wonderful lady from France and will be missed I'm sure there too. Her grandmother's portrait as a little girl is in the Louvre, painted by Renoir. Her family I heard had to leave Paris for Morocco for being Jewish in WWII. I last saw her at their anniversary party in the Bronx. I will miss her "bon mot". My  grandmother once was, Lewis Myers' mother, the nanny for the caretaker of the Statue of Liberty, a gift from France, the first electric lighthouse.

In Botswana, Step to Cut AIDS Proves a Formula for Disaster - Washington Post

georgejmyers wrote:

This reminds me of the story about the American boxer Mohamed Ali. There had been "bad" formula dumped in the Third World the scandal story had it. In a marketing plan that made him rich, the story went, enough to invest in desert fighting vehicles, the wave of the then future, Ali marketed many packages of baby formula with his face on them and he became the most recognized American in the that part of the Third World I was told by an American African-American anthropologist. They've (black anthropologists) already had their meetings in Cuba a few years ago.

7/23/2007 12:22:53 AM Link to article

The square root of 2 was Local 141...

My dad once said the Congress ruined unions when mandatory meetings and voting was found "unconstitutional" and representative management took over what members had a hand in running. His local produced the last Teamster president, a former UPS driver, Ron Carey before the current Teamster president, James P. Hoffa, a lawyer, who writes occasionally at the "Huffington Post" online. His sister is a judge. I worked on some of the background history of "Germania Hall" in NYC's Bowery, where Kate Mullaney, sitting next to Susan B. Anthony (the town I went to school in Selden, NY is reportedly named after the judge who was a character witness for Ms. Anthony at trial, who had posed as a man to vote in Upstate New York) and she was the first woman elected to union management. So perhaps the problem is proper representation in whatever is organized, that in itself trouble when contracts are varied and work is in the fates of the amount of "finds" and tasks required to complete the work. Incidentally Kate Mullaney is a symbol of "white collar" labor organizing, her house now on the National Register in Troy, NY where she organized the "recyclable" snap on-off collars washed and bleached in the thousands which permitted the management "class" to wear their shirt more than one day at a time, which was done under deplorable conditions of chemical fumes and heat mostly by women workers I think. The "Germania Hall", next to noted feminist Kate Millet's place (and other artists) came down in the new development of the Bowery recently, though an historic district was declared for the west side of the street, the eastside including the Amato Opera and CBGB's was not in one. There were former Quaker and Methodist cemeteries near the current two marble nondenominational vaults, they were removed out of Manhattan we found in research. Bowery is maybe the "oldest street in America" (CUNY professor entry in Encyclopedia Americana).

The USA has some excellent programs in preservation, however, there seems to be a lack of safeguards to protect research (i.e., no law states what is turned in has to be in a final report in whatever form it was presented or data safeguarded it contained or it's final output approved by the researcher) once it's out of their hands as far as l know. Perhaps in the glacial confluence of labor and management organizations such as ACRA are the way to provide for both "sides". (American Cultural Resources Association, "A trade association for cultural resources consulting firms, promoting the business of archaeology, history, historic preservation, architectural history.")

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Technically I consider myself in the middle as an anthropologist though.

MSNBC - Politics - Rudy Giuliani in 2008?

I have worked in the archaeology often required by law in New York City. I've also "shaped-up" with Teamsters, my dad part of the local (804) that produced it's president before the current one, James P. Hoffa, a UPS driver from Queens, NY, Ron Carey, cleared of any election impropriety during his re-election campaign. Prior to Rudy Giuliani's mayoral term and during it, the Fulton Fish Market, now moved to better facilities and closer to highways in the Bronx, (many a year has passed since a fishing boat docked with catch in the South Street Seaport Historic District, though one was proposed, I think built, but they never came to Brooklyn) the fish market was investigated for organized crime links by the former federal prosecutor Rudolf Giuliani. It's reported after five years of investigations one misdemeanor was charged against one Mr. Cirillo, and the Teamster led unloaders were taken out and replaced by a perhaps personal choice of the then Mayor Giuliani, an entrepreneur of lawn mowing from out on Long Island. With new stipulations, i.e., the business could not be in federal court at the time of hiring, they were even, according to the NY Post reporter, given hi-los that belonged to NYC that were so new they had not even been properly registered for the streets they ran on. A court case ensued by the Teamsters. It was also found, that the hired "firm" was in Federal court for abusing employees, which without clearance, they had been hired to unload the trucks full of fresh fish, now unloaded in the Bronx.

More recently a similar "background check" has shown the primary construction company for the EPA ordered filtration plant of Upstate water, on a selected site from three sites, next to a prison in Westchester, alongside the Harlem River or on the 9 hole golf course of the City's Van Cortlandt Park, the Park chosen over the others, where originally it had been proposed in another neighborhood and fought off, was found to have failed to meet the same criteria and the filtration plant, with a cost of perhaps double ($2 billion) turned over to another firm which will hire and train locals. The difference of the original slightly more costly prison location, which would have had an arguably better benefit to more consumers, paid however to upgrade various Bronx Parks, in general is almost a moot point from a financial perspective, though still a much needed benefit to the parks here.

During his administration I worked in City Hall Park, which they've restored and have created a plaza marked in outline by some of the other places that have been located as part of the landmarked African Burial Ground and The Commons Historic District, such as the prison where Ethan Allen was tortured, the British Army barracks, the "First Almshouse" and the burial ground there I worked on in 1999, that Mayor Giuliani came to visit a couple of times. He also had the flag of Arkansas flown over City Hall while visiting there, considering a run for the US Senate against then former First Lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton. The City Council quickly passed a law that no future mayor could issue a similar order. Currently, needed interior upgrades has City Hall meeting in Brooklyn.

MSNBC - Politics - Rudy Giuliani in 2008?

Comment: Katie: Cliff Notes

Sounds exciting. When I was in Miss Loman's third grade Sir Edmund Hillary visited to tell us how lucky we were to have school on Wood Road (and for that matter wood) and he was going back to Nepal to help build schools there. I think he was with the World Book then, one of the teachers, Mr. Hubbard, used to sell them, handicapped from a Long Island duck farm family but a boxer for Notre Dame. The reason I brought it up was that Senator Hillary Clinton was named by her mother after him I read! We had a local "Ranger Warner" a German mountain-climber as our guide in the Congregationalist "Stockaders" as kids. I think we stayed away from the dangerous stuff, then, but visited around there. In drought the snakes come to lower elevations.

Posted by georgejmyers at 01:11 AM : Jul 09, 2007  at Couric & Co.

The shocking truth about how my pal Jim Morrison REALLY died | the Mail on Sunday

Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison used to perform live together according to one set of recordings (Planet Uranus) and it seems odd that they say Hendrix took a sleeping pill(s) that looked like the one he sometimes took (had played with Eric Burden's "War" that night, still waiting for that recording) but was four times as strong, from Germany, recently announced by a medical examiner? This is terrible news, though I think already placed in view somewhere else. It was (is) a common view that Hendrix died of a heroin overdose (Bayer aspirin and heroin trademarked, what were they thinking?) even though not true. Too bad about Paba skin sunscreen, a cash crop, it was replacing opium poppy growing out there in southwest Asia. Listening to Morrison's band, now with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, tribute to the "Unknown Soldier" and their fan club president, married to Oliver North's "Irangate" Fawn Hall, I have trouble with the description of the crime scene and alleged use. Hmmm...

The shocking truth about how my pal Jim Morrison REALLY died | the Mail on Sunday

Comment on "Surviving Landfall"

Comment on Lou Young's web story on covering a hurricane landfall in Florida posted at WCBS-TV in New York City where he is an investigative reporter. Lou Young Blog: "Surviving Landfall".

Great eyewitness story. I could feel the storm and the terror it would produce. I was once a few times in a different terror in NYC. A storm surge came up and flooded the FDR and my companion and I had just driven through it about 30 minutes before and surely a little later been stuck in it.

My brother Tom once got a follow-up letter from a motel he and the ex stayed in once, the "Attache" next to the "Diplomat" somewhere in Florida. They were celebrating that all the old TV's had been taken out offshore and made into a fish reef so come on down we have new sets! Odd what you recall about Florida, I once traveled down there with our classmate John for spring break in an old VW in 1971. He got a ticket in Daytona for doing 20 in a 10mph. We hung with some Vietnam Vet bikers for awhile in the sticks.

It was shortly after the time him and Chris and Marty rented that "Tea Room" in Coram, NY that you visited I believe in 1976, when I won a 32 hour part-time job lottery for Brookhaven Parks to show they weren't Republican nepotists. That now has a sign attesting to its antiquity and is where Eleanor Roosevelt stopped during the Depression. It was a known solace for those in dire straights, a place one could starving still get a free cup of tea, next to the small brick post office and courtroom barely visible then and now like the "Tea Room" gone from flooding, disrepair and volunteer fire fighting drill. I recall one on the corner of "Old Homestead Lane" and Route 25, abandoned in Lake Grove that was burned one night by the FD.

The brick place in Coram was made from clay dug out of the ground just across Middle Country (25) in the former grass airfield which I sometimes wonder if Mrs. Roosevelt hadn't flown in, she was in the press having flown around at Tuskegee Airmen airfield once with a African-American pilot. They flew later out of North Africa for Italy as bomber escorts. Place is now an archaeology site I guess, I recall your visit. I think I heard the airmen's awards was put off another year? Gee I hope not.

Nancy and I are off to Tuftonboro Neck on Lake Winnipesaukee (like the Martin Scorcese American Express television ad) for the week to a small slab wood cabin a WWII nurse vet had built and left to her father, a former WWII Captain in the Marine Corps in the Pacific. We have to drop some chlorine into the 30' (Ed. - actually 23' deep the tides on Grand Manan are more) hand dug well, it didn't test very well. Interestingly, the Neck, once belonged to one of the first Chief justices of Canada, appointed after he went after (with other mysterious anonymous press help in London) the Governor Wentworth legacy of apparent prior extended family "nepotism".

Nearby Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, is billed as "America's Oldest Summer Resort", due to it's where royal Governor Wentworth had a place on the smaller now Lake Wentworth, with "Stamp Act Island" at its center. He survived the American Revolution the only former royal governor to as a governor, but appointed Governor of Nova Scotia. There's quite a bit of history there and the developer of the D.C. Holocaust Museum had a hand in the Wright Museum of WWII there in Wolfeboro Falls. I've heard Bob and Libby Dole bought a judge's place there a friend of theirs. I've read Wolfeboro is where Coretta King was hidden after the assassination of her husband Martin Luther King, Jr. There's an "ivy league" prep school there and quite a bit of arts organizing concerts and craft fairs etc. The airport's to become a gated community. Lakes Region it's called and not too far from the Science Center (live cougars, bears, raptors, deer, etc.) and Squam Lake where "On Golden Pond" was filmed. (Holderness, New Hampshire)