McCain Spears Hilton!

All three have "recidivist" nightmares, having been incarcerated in some way? I'm just saying, in it they all go to jail for a pot seed in the crack of an old bench car seat. Ah, last episode of Seinfeld...   Comparison Of John Mccain With Britney Spears And Paris Hilton: 10 Ways John McCain Can Be Compared To Paris Hilton & Britney Spears

Hacker Broke Into Pentagon System Searching for Aliens

Per capita Great Britain lead(s) the world in personal computers and many innovations we take for granted have come from there, Sir Sinclair's first GPS for yachts, etc. We live in interesting times. How can the US government be so vulnerable to a 56K modem? Then we should agree that the transmissions of electrons at that rate now results in freedom taken away from an individual for an alarming amount of time for curiosity over what Dr. Carl G. Jung called a "manifestation of the collective unconscious" UFOs, often seen by mentally unbalanced people for ages, and also perpetrated by other people and I dare say governments? If there was no serious "cracking" of codes and these systems were so ridiculously lax in security, I find it hard to believe the this "punishment fits the crime". Maybe other heads should have rolled. American tax money at work, give them a break? We paid Paul Revere for his ride. Newsvine - Hacker Broke Into Pentagon System Searching for Aliens and British Hacker Closer to Facing Trial in America - NY Times

Newsvine - Bush blames Congress for not acting on gas prices

His father signed the 1990 law that made it so, so why is he blaming the Congress? His father also signed the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 1990, which should be used and enforced in the investigation of their "...mutual senior or secret society based at Yale University" (Wikipedia) "Skull and Bones" "fraternity" at Yale University, which allegedly holds parts of the remains of the native North American (Mexico is part of that) chief Geronimo, apparently dug up and "treated" in the club by some of its forbears and apparently used in some ceremony or "rite of passage". Interesting the broken US Cavalry swords, attributed to the Apache "wars" are in the entrance way to the main building of the Hoyt Farm historic site and county holding, once belonging to a judge, in Hauppauge on Long Island in New York state nearby where many of the court and civil proceedings are held. Methinks he protests too much. I wonder if there really is a brand on his buttock?

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I recall the very close hearings that went before in the offshore lease areas in the Gulf of Mexico. There was a concerted effort to open them up but the State of Florida was concerned with pollution from oil affecting its Gulf beaches, wetlands and now I read water supply, i.e., desalination plant in Tampa. More recently I watched the Republican Congressman from where oil was first commercially drilled and used in Titusville, PA, last October on C-Span in Vermont, where there is a wind-farm on Federal Forest land, proposed to be expanded with wind generators taller than the Statue of Liberty I dug test units for. The Congressman had charts and reasons for why we should be drilling for natural gas offshore, primarily the east coast of the US I recall. There's also the scientists who think that a methane eruption from under the sea could cause a terrible increase in global warming along with tsunami damage which could be another reason for a large scale survey for natural gas offshore. I wish the President had followed the gas initiative, most of the oil, by a squeak, comes from Canada I've read.

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Leo DiCaprio Welcoming Another Twilight Zone?

Now that LA had another p-wave, I thought I'd say, even if the stories bear resemblance to the written word by various authors, the dramatic importance of the short-story television play, if you will, interrupted, by "and now a word from our sponsors" (a very funny skit usually preceded the announcement from Alfred Hitchcock that arguably kept the viewer on that network viewing his "Presents") was surely one of the best, and remain almost timeless, which, may have been his intent. A "poor theater" presentation with themes and stories that challenged people to think and react, despite a perhaps observed growing apathy. Scary enough they may have helped the ratings of more sedate shows at the time. Leo DiCaprio Welcoming Another Twilight Zone? | The New York Observer

Shaker child returns to celebrate 90th birthday

They also had a large 900 acres settlement in Watervliet, Ohio outside Dayton, Ohio, near Kettering, named after the founders village in New York state, Watervliet, New York today known more as an arsenal and a weapons research center on the west shore of the Hudson River. I worked there when unmarked graves, a Shaker practice, were disturbed in a miscalculation for a research center for Dayton Power and Light. They had already put up a monument on the edge of the apple orchard, which turned out in the wrong location. We had a remote-sensing ground-penetrating radar survey and 2.1 miles of backhoe trenches dug by three machines just to make sure for the power company one hot September after Labor Day. The gentleman from the power company said they held a patent for condensed or evaporated milk, sold their own seeds and brooms and such from there. I've been to the Canterbury Village too it's an interesting place. Canterbury had an extensive water control system deriving power from water very efficiently, researched and published in the journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology. Additional archaeology has been conducted there recently under a federal roads program headed by David Starbuck who specializes in American "North Country" archaeology. Newsvine - Shaker child returns to celebrate 90th birthday

Newsvine - Carter's new fight, over Ga. dams, a familiar one

Before former President Jimmy Carter became president there was a weird choice before the Congress, back when it became popularly known that a small rare fish could hold up a dam, and the Encyclopedia Britannica published in its yearbook a built dam on the Rappahannock River, that in reality, due to popular outcry was never built, a choice in the Congress between a canal and an island. The canal, which was built, feeds from the waters of the Tennessee River with the Tombigbee River and created a barge canal that runs from northeastern Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico, at Mobile, Alabama, said in case the Mississippi River floods or dries up. I worked on the archaeology of it in 1979, at one site near the Waverly Plantation and the hometown of author "Tennessee" Williams, Columbus, Mississippi. The other, "choice" was an "energy island" for New York City where power generation would be concentrated and cables would carry the electricity to different nodes for the city rather than the various small plants around the city today. Some choice!

Considering the length of time this might be, requiring surveys which actually was the original intent of the current preservation laws, i.e., dam studies, it might make just practical sense to look other places for solutions since there is also as far as I know, no "Federal interpleader law" between the states that could solve it without creating a new TVA Tennessee Valley Authority, which had some of the first archaeology done, I've been told by many African-American women.

Newsvine - Carter's new fight, over Ga. dams, a familiar one

Virgin Galactic Mothership Unveiled by Branson (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

I searched satellite imagery for Steve Fossett, who flew a Virgin sponsored jet around the world non-stop (along with other records) when he disappeared last Sept. 3, 2007 and I found a) the head of US search and rescue was replaced by a woman when it was found he had made fraudulent statements about his career achievements, b) the commercial imagery supplied through Amazon.com left a lot to be desired, i.e., I looked at over 12,000 images that were supposed to be an overlay of pre-day and post day that he disappeared and they very often did not even line up, like astronomers do to see the differences from one day to the next to spot movement, in this case features on the ground, c) compared to Amelia Earhart, in my opinion, perhaps over the sensitive nature of the area of California/Nevada, i.e., once one of the largest munitions storages in the world; practice runway for those elite troops that perished in the desert attempting to free some of the hostages during the 1979 US Embassy crisis; it seemed that there was hardly any government effort in comparison to find the world record holding aviator, or so it seemed. Perhaps on demand remote sensing, i.e., hyperspectral cameras, relatively cheap used in agriculture, geology, etc., onboard a ship like this might also aid future search and rescue efforts and not have to rely on the satellite scheduling bottlenecks and technology.

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Watch The "W." Trailer (VIDEO)

W.
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I hope it's not about that other George W. Bush (6 months age difference) who had a small charge of "practicing medicine without a license" on a drugs charge in Texas. I hope it doesn't have as many murders as "W" which had Twiggy and others of renown in it. Word is single letter movies never do well maybe this will change it. How did Stone get into Greenwich, CT? They must have filmed it somewhere else.

Galerie St. Etienne | Grandma Moses

Galerie St. Etienne | Grandma Moses Interesting gallery, also its founder, is important in the history of aviation, Otto Kallir. I was looking at the art career of Lovis Corinth (interesting Trojan Horse) and found the "...Galerie St. Etienne is the oldest gallery in the United States specializing in Expressionism and Self-Taught Art."

Driver told FBI Bin Ladin's escape was U.S. fault

Driver told FBI Bin Ladin's escape was U.S. fault share.mcclatchydc.com

Did you know, that during the anthrax event in 2001, the large Johnson & Johnson wound research facility was closed by a letter? It was reported in the local press, I was working in nearby Bridgewater, NJ, at Picatinney Arsenal, NJ and the West Point Military Academy during it. It was also reported by the Japanese press, I heard in "The Pointer's Echo" motel, that the US was going into Afghanistan to clean up the airports, which were/are full of former USSR matériel.

Leo DiCaprio Welcoming Another Twilight Zone? | The New York Observer

Leo DiCaprio Welcoming Another Twilight Zone? The New York Observer As a native New Yorker, Rod Serling I recall was from Binghamton, that scary place, no "p" in it, I would welcome it. I lived in new dormitories in Amherst, NY that he wanted to stay in one (Ellicott Complex by then Davis-Brody, the first opened, by I.M. Pei) at a speaking engagement he thought they were so futuristic, in my case more "Twilight Zone" bugs in the elevator circuit, spiders everywhere, downtown Buffalo too. Of course, maybe they could use the soundstage at Pinewood West in that other place with the "p" in it Southampton.

Lets Get Rid of Darwinism

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I just read recently that what Charles Darwin turned to last was the "solum" the soil that contains the roots of plants and the animals and the insects that live in the thin zone of soil above the rock that supports the life that we in turn rely on for sustenance. The Smithsonian Institution just opened an exhibit about the fragile "world" beneath our feet the soil we could lose from over-tilling, overuse, and over treatments of fertilizers and pesticides as we impose our own "evolution" on the creatures that are attracted to it or live in it. That I read was Darwin's last focus of study.

Balloon rides come to New York's Central Park

Newsvine - Balloon rides come to New York's Central Park I recall in I. Stokes "Iconography of Manhattan Island" there was an early hot air balloon riding inside a structure, in the early 19th century. The very short "day book" listing was intriguing. 1819? or something. Like the early "telegraphy" between buildings in City Hall Park, it predated the actual dates for some things we think about. "Only in New York, kids only in New York." - Cindy Adams Reply #1 - Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:50 AM EDT

U.S. Soldiers, Firing at Taxi, Kill Son of Top Iraqi Editor

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Read the Article at HuffingtonPost I feel terrible that we have become an occupying force that has fired upon the innocent. The area was cited in the Britannica as having a very old Catholic settlement there since 300 CE (AD). As a grad student I studied some Iraqi archaeology near Kirkuk and the oil fields of Mosul, the Nuzi site excavated by Starr of Harvard University in the 1930s, where cuneiform tablets were found from circa 1200 BC which provided a window into the daily life there. Part of the Mitanni kingdom, whose capital still hasn't been found. I thought, because it was on a crossroads of various cultures and peoples, a cosmopolitan city, it had been destroyed by more intolerant orthodox forces. Arrowheads were found in every corner of almost every room. Poor kid.

Colonial heritage metaphors used in US military conflicts

Colonial heritage metaphors used in US military conflicts

Gothamist: Weekend Movie Forecast: X-Files or Step Brothers?

Gothamist: Weekend Movie Forecast: X-Files or Step Brothers?

The midnight movies this weekend are Dick Tracy, starring Madonna and Warren Beatty, at the Sunshine, and at the IFC Center there's Wild in the Streets, a 1968 film with Richard Pryor and Shelley Winters that tells the story of a rebellious teen who becomes a rock star and then president of the U.S., at which point he sends the old people to live in retirement homes where they’re force-fed LSD.

A high school friend and co-worker at Zum Zum, a once Bavarian franchise fast-food restaurant, Doug Drexler co-won an Academy Award for the extensive and laborious make-up in Dick Tracy, many of the characters had to have the original comic strip look. He has been nominated up for an Emmy I read for his artistic work on Battlestar Galactica. He has been associated with the Star Trek franchise for many years, who with a neighbor on Long Island had one of the first Star Trek publications, I thought a medical reference guide for "Bones".

Gothamist: Philippe Petit, Man on Wire

Gothamist: Philippe Petit, Man on Wire

Philippe Petit, Man on Wire ("Luke Wirewalker") I remember George Willig too, he climbed to the top on the outside using the automatic washer rails.

Northern Lights Mystery Exposed By Scientists

Interesting it might help contribute to the physics of lightning which was thought cascading from a cosmic ray given the right electrical potentials. I once worked a few magnetometer surveys, and they often require a second stationary recording to compare the background magnetic flux. So to get the results we would subtract the time coded reading from the other reading over which we had conducted the survey. It's usually small in nanoTeslas (parts of One, the combined magnetic value of the planet, also done in gammas a larger measure from magnetics) looking for anomalies in archaeology.  Northern Lights Mystery Exposed By Scientists

Space...the final frontier

Newsvine - Alien contact covered up, says Apollo veteran Edgar Mitchell

Apollo 11 was very scary. As an astronaut following the almost disastrous Apollo 13 mission, Apollo 14, he has a right to believe what he might. However, it might be disingenuous to exploit what Carl G. Jung called a "manifestation of the collective unconscious" i.e., one of those archetypal parts of the human mind that have come out of fear and culture over and over. Like meeting a 5 foot tall bipedal dinosaur, "what might have been" I walked into being moved to an exhibit in Canada. Bringing it up makes the only thing "we have to fear is fear itself" subside perhaps. In that case there's a "wink...wink" part of him that keeps us going boldly where no one has gone before. He certainly has. Growing up in the "Cradle of Aviation" where the LEM came from, I recall seeing a UFO from nearby Gyrodyne, a developer of unmanned helicopters for submarine hunting and "Snoopy" for TV spying in Vietnam, a demo at San Clemente said to have changed President Nixon's view on winning the "war" there. I once saw one flying over the potato fields next to Stony Brook University piloted by one "star man" across the Long Island Sound from Bridgeport, Connecticut and the famous Sikorsky helicopter factory.

New York City when did it start?

Hot History Debate: 1624 or 1625? - City Room - Metro - New York Times Blog

3. July 24th, 2008 2:30 pm I’ve worked in archaeology in public review, though how public is still proving difficult to accomplish, once proposed to be on record in any public library in NYC. In my research on the last remaining parking lot in the South Street Seaport Historic District, I was somewhat inconvenienced when the Main Reading Room was closed for the Rose family renovation. I used the city histories at the Huntington Free Library on Westchester Square in the Bronx, the former ethnology collection of the Heye Foundation since incorporated into the Museum of the American Indian, in part at the Customs House building next to Battery Park and in Washington, D.C., where the Bronx cast and assembled Civil War Capitol Dome is. Nearby was the since “decommissioned” “New York Unearthed” city archaeology museum space near where Herman Melville wrote “Moby-Dick” in the vicinity of 17 State Street. One of the longest serving mayors William Beekman was concerned with the “road to Harlem” which he seemed preoccupied with. He also maintained a lane from the dockside to the Commons for many years while the early street grid was built. The Commons became the location of the later City Hall, and the location of human remains I’ve also worked on. I recall that the actual clearing that was done gets overlooked in the argument of dates. I read that French- speaking Walloons, cited from near the Ardenne forest, and also built the fort. Where later the English would do business in New Amsterdam, the Allerton Warehouse, (Puritan Isaac Allerton is buried next to Yale U. in New Haven, CT.) his agent, Thomas Hall, who escaped from indentured servitude in the Virginia colony, was to whom the land was “sold” (or passed on to) by Marshal Philip du Treaux or as the Dutch called him “du Troy” its written. Nearby were the “old shipwreck” and the first ferry to Brooklyn. Interestingly, some early English settlements have been found to have been on earlier “unknown” French ones. — Posted by George Myers

Pardon Marion Jones

ABC News: USA Head Asks Bush Not to Pardon Jones Why not pardon her? She got caught and surrendered her successes and shows her sorrow. We all were shocked but sports are a large business and businesses are often unregulated until found guilty, then we create new law and punish those that were caught up in the "social contract". I think she's had more than enough punishment for the "system". She's not Barabbas, but a woman competitor. Check the toll booth leaving NY for Connecticut, "Do sports not drugs". How was what she did "drugs"?

Steve Fossett: The Legend Continues

Steve Fossett: The Legend Continues - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog

7. July 23rd, 2008 11:45 am There was also online a large search made from satellite imagery. It was provided through Amazon online, in small sections to search by volunteer, the previous imagery vs. the post event imagery. I looked at about 12,000 I recall. What might be needed is an on-demand hyper-spectral imagery to overlay the base data, then spectral characteristics of the plane might be searchable by computer first narrowing the search. Ironically, that imagery might be provided by Virgin someday from their fledgling near orbit spacecraft or others currently being built. Hyper-spectral imagery is superior in classifying images that the eye might not see, signatures if you will, of paint color, CSI like, perhaps.

NOAA goes diving for U-boats

My grandfather's brother, Master Mariner Leman Chapman Urquhart, was captain of the "City of Atlanta" torpedoed in Jan. 1942 nearby by U-123. The ship had left Manhattan, NY for Savannah, Georgia where he, originally of Castalia, Grand Manan Island, N.B., Canada but a naturalized US citizen, was also a harbor pilot. The large side-wheeler (according to a photo shown to me in the library of the National Maritime Historical Society in Peekskill, NY) built in West Chester, PA in 1904 only had three survivors of the 47 on board, the captain not one of them. I see that it has been or was marked as a hazard to shipping, the intent of its sinking. A high school school chum, an investigative journalist, Lou Young, interviewed the U-123 captain, Reinhard Hardegen, one of the survivors of the "Battle of the Atlantic". Of course these submarine wrecks with torpedoes in them should be seen as very hazardous to the diving public and I am glad there is an assessment of the risks being conducted. (Source: chapter 9, "Where Is the Navy?" in "Operation Drumbeat" (1990) by Michael Gannon. Comment at Topix forum Archaeology) I worked in part with the NOAA archaeologists in Cold Spring, NY who also had input into the creation of the design for remediation of the nickel-cadmium contamination in the waters and marsh around Cold Spring, NY. I worked on the actual survey, in a number of magnetometer surveys, on marsh and on the water, and on the reconstruction of bathymetry from modern and historic data for comparisons to try to ascertain changes from the early days until the present to aid the preservation of the landscape if need be incorporated into the remediation designs. However, it was not well stated that over 1 million explosive shells and 20,000 gun carriages had also been made there. Fortunately, the best metal often includes previous forged metal added to it, and only two large caliber empty shells were encountered during the archaeology phase, though I would have liked to have known! It was not in the "Health and Safety Plan"!

Canadian team wraps up search effort, finds no sign of missing aviator Steve Fossett

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Is media playing fair in campaign coverage?

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Hopefully it is a blessing in disguise. The US boycotted the meeting in May in Dublin, Ireland where more than 100 countries agreed to ban cluster bombs, to be signed in Oslo, Norway in December, which "...include some of Europe's biggest traditional users and stockpilers of the weapons, including France, Germany and the United Kingdom...Some of the world's main producers and stockpilers – including the United States, Russia and China – oppose the move to ban cluster munitions." It is good to see another side to America's position on war in the news for the peaceful effect it might have in some quarters.

Time capsules

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Mexico's president replaced a 1791 time capsule discovered atop Mexico City's cathedral with a new one containing messages from golf star Lorena Ochoa, novelist Carlos Fuentes and a boy genius.

This is wonderful. I once years ago, when Oliver Stone's "JFK" was playing met the head of historical monuments at a close-range photogrammetry update at Schneider Optics in Hauppauge, NY on Long Island. They were interested in recording the stonework inside the Metropolitan Cathedral where the time capsule was found. I've also read there was a fire and the giant pipe organ had to be restored and the US had something to do with. As I recall they wanted to document where the building stones are, and in case some have moved or may move in earth tremors, record those distances. They used a 35mm version of the Rollei metric camera system. I had used a medium format one on a few archaeology sites, one the EPA National Priority Superfund Marathon Battery Site, in Cold Spring, NY on the periphery of the historic West Point Foundry, across the Hudson River from the West Point Military Academy, though Constitution Island to which a "great chain" had once been stretched under the Hudson River to stop the British Navy in the American Revolution is today a part of the Academy. That island, whose fortifications were drawn up by cartographer and Dutch patriot Bernard Romans for General Washington, is next to the former foundry, where many iron things were made, i.e., the US's first locomotive, cannons, sugar mills, iron cladding for ships, tin roofs, boilers, etc., in Cold Spring, NY. Assistance there was also provided by a Mexican archaeologist, who works currently in the prehistory of Mexico there, Victor Ortiz.

We recovered an R.P. Parrott "gun platform" used for the incendiary bombardment of Charleston, South Carolina in 1863 in the American Civil War. It was known as the "Swamp Angel" and the rifled muzzle-loading cannon with brass "sabot" equipped shells exploded on the "island" in the swamp built there for it. The gun is in Trenton, NJ today. Scenic Hudson, Inc. owns the West Point Foundry property today.

My Conversation with Neil Young

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On the St. Louis Walk of Fame

James Buchanan Eads - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mississippi River designs

The Mississippi in the 100-mile-plus stretch between the port of New Orleans, Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico frequently suffered from silting up of its outlets, stranding ships or making parts of the river unnavigable for a period of time. Eads solved the problem with a wooden jetty system that narrowed the main outlet of the river, causing the river to speed up and cut its channel deeper, allowing year-round navigation. Had a similar system been used throughout the entire Mississippi Valley, the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the Great Flood of 1993 and Hurricane Katrina Disaster in 2005 might have been reduced. However, top officials of the Army Corps of Engineers lobbied Congress for levees and flood walls of their own design, which exacerbated these disasters, and against Eads' jetty system, which would have reduced these disasters.

Write your own caption...

Some "Write your own caption" entries: So, you've been standing on his shoulders all along. Well, this is another fine mess you've gotten us into. And so in the early days of radio a mistake was made and "W" for west became the lead call sign letter in the East and "K" the one in the West. Kwest and Weast. Sorry Senator "bush meat" is illegal in the US of A, especially endangered species like that one. Don't mess with me and Texas. I know Walker. And I'm thinking of changing "Hail to the Chief" to "People Who Live In Glass Houses" by John Philip Sousa. Utnapishtim tells Gilgamesh of a plant at the bottom of the ocean that will make him young again. Sorry Senator, Macy's has an "apolitical" clause in its Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons. Senator, that's "chip on your shoulder". "See no evil Miers", and hear "no evil" Gonzalez, will be by in a minute. First Lady Julia Gardiner Tyler lobbied hard for Texas statehood. We got the hood, they got the state, for 2x as many peanuts as for President Clinton! Yes the Old World and the New World monkeys came from the same smaller brain. Getting him to chase Bill's banana paid off! We're in the running! Lorne says, sorry, we already had a Mr. Peepers.

Alice in Texasland

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The 60s revisited (or "recivided") had an adage about "white people go to the White House and black people go to jail". I found the NY Times in 1903 said that the prison on the Commons, now City Hall Park, was "…blacker than any Black Hole of Calcutta" in the American Revolution in NYC, investigating human burials there. Today, "the President has the power to arrest U.S. citizens and legal residents inside the U.S., and imprison them indefinitely in a military prison, without charging them with any crime, based on his assertion that the imprisoned individual is an "enemy combatant." What's the difference between the occupying British and the current administration? A sorry state of affairs, almost "Alice in Texasland" in comparison to the historical facts that formed the nation.

Just For Laughs annual comedy fair in Montreal

Live From Just For Laughs: The Defamer Kathy Griffin Interview

So that's "...turning Japanese, huh?" I didn't know that Joji Bush is the President. I still remember Kathy Griffin routine about the "Twin Doozies" about the Twin Towers at the WTC (off the grid on their own juice and law perhaps) which I thought was very funny at the time (F.A.T.T. a joke so called, I was once told). I went into a restaurant in Montreal, and they had dried seaweed (dulse) as a table snack. They pick that up around the Bay of Fundy...

Wild cat...

I think President Bush and others are disingenuous. Canada is the primary supplier of petroleum, Saudi Arabia very close behind. We killed five Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan and the President took three days to apologize, lending credence to the feeling that he's either not there or not really in charge. I listened to the Congressman from Titusville, Pennsylvania, where oil was first drilled profitably, once by the way drilled by foot, i.e., a jig was danced on the bit to get through the rock, and he was 100% for gas drilling off shore and insisted that natural gas is what we should be looking for. It might also relieve some of the pressure in places, according to scientists that might become methane eruptions undersea that will/would contribute significantly to the "greenhouse warming" effects. The former President was a "wild cat driller" after WWII, and like father like son, just start drilling, anywhere. There's no ships or platforms, sounds like politics as usual, in my opinion. Canada has gas and I worked on the Millennium Pipeline project (Canada-Cleveland,OH-Mount Vernon, NY) still in progress. Whos Backing Gingrichs Drill Here Push? - Dot Earth - Climate Change and Sustainability - New York Times Blog

Trinity and Neo

-->| YOU (JojiMyers) have joined #startrek =-= Topic for #startrek is “all the wookies say i'm pretty fly for a jedi” =-= Topic for #startrek was set by Lycereth on Saturday, July 12, 2008 3:59:02 AM <JojiMyers> I once was a member of Shatner's DVD Horror/Sci-fi club. Once a month one or two DVD's would show up. Lasted about a year. <JojiMyers> Werewolves of Wall Street is my favorite with Eric Roberts <JojiMyers> I worked in the building on the 13th floor it was filmed in with landlady Woodie Allen's ex Louise Lasser Sorry "Wolves of Wall Street" was 2002 film <K`ira> never heard of it <JojiMyers> Its on a corner either 25 William St. or 40 Exchange Place next to the Irish restaurant "Punt" after the previous dollar in Ireland the $ punt now the euro. <JojiMyers> It must have been filmed before 9/11 because Trinity Church has been steam cleaned since <JojiMyers> Greenhouse Consultants, archaeologists, are on the 13th floor. <JojiMyers> Trinty was black from air pollution <JojiMyers> Trinity <JojiMyers> Greenhouse used to be on Trinity Place <JojiMyers> He's from Brooklyn lives in Atlanta. I don't think he's a wolf, maybe he is. I'm a Seawolf from Stony Brook U <JojiMyers> Happy birthday Phoebe Snow!

Brandenburg

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Submitted by georgejmyersjr on Wed, 2008-07-16 17:31. I saw a report from there the new US Embassy is right nearby and set back from the public to protect it. Michael Reagan, former President Reagan's adopted son, was also asking if someone would put up a monument there where his father asked Mikhail Gorbachev, to "tear down this wall" the Berlin Wall, which came down later either on the tide of sentiment read there or inspired by other events? Mr. Gorbachev is getting a Philadelphia "Liberty Award" I read this year. They last met in 1988 on Governors Island in New York City's harbor, offered back to NYC for $1 by former President Clinton. It was finally signed over by the current President Bush (for an undisclosed amount, some of the Congress wanted $1/2 billion for it. Probably a small fee.) I worked in geoarchaeology there when it was empty. There's a monument to the "freedom of the press" in the form of a swivel gun for John Peter Zenger, who arrived there from the German Palatine at the age of 10. Plans for D-Day were said to have been kept there.

W.o.W

Pew Pew: Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World

Maybe it will appear near Grovers Mills, NJ where a tripod water tower was reportedly shot during the transmission of Orson Welles "War of the Worlds" one Halloween. They had a fusion experiment there nearby at Princeton, NJ. It was called Tokomak. I spent some time there digging holes for archaeology for a US Route 1 interchange around the time of the SST Challenger exploded, partly on the RCA Saranoff research center, one of the inventors of color TV and in WWII in charge of large radio transmissions to Europe, bounced over the horizon at night. Might change the predicted timeline for fusion, about let's see, said perhaps 40 years off. Wow!

Whalepower

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Obama the bridge-builder

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One bridge I hope he can help span is the bridge in Hanoi, Vietnam:

"Hanoi's 1.6 Km Long Bien Bridge, designed by Gustave Eiffel, is 100 years old this year. The arches belong to the original French bridge. The foreground is a temporary structure to replace one of the two sections bombed out by the Americans.... who never managed to put the bridge permanently out of action. The French Government is providing restoration money... they'd better hurry up by the look of that sag."

- HopViet Travel - Give the Smile of Vietnam

My cousin, a former Korean War Army Captain was director of "Huntley and Brinkley" TV news and according to Edwin Newman, a noted televison journalist, and an award-winning news producer for NBC in New York. At George Murray's eulogy in the UN Chapel, Mr. Newman read a letter he had to send to a team of journalists in Vietnam, who were there trying to get the "common soldiers view of the conflict" at great risk. They had been cancelled by "the higher-ups". He had died in Mexico, his wife an Avon executive introducing that product there. He also produced both Democrat and Republican parties' convention coverages in 1976 for CBS TV. I missed the eulogy. I would hope that the bridge metaphor will help heal the damages in our respective countries.

New York’s Birth Date: Don’t Go by City’s Seal

New York’s Birth Date - Don’t Go by City’s Seal - NYTimes.com

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New in paperback from Percheron Press . . . NEW YORK CITY NEIGHBORHOODS The 18th Century Nan A. Rothschild Barnard College / Columbia University New York, New York With a New Introduction by the Author from the reviews . . . "This is the first major publication to integrate New York City archaeological data into a broader context . . . At once a long overdue reference for the student of New York City history while at the same time a point of departure for broader studies of urban development." Valerie DeCarlo in American Antiquity "This work is a building block. It raises important questions and proposes a methodology. . . . that makes sense for the analysis of archeological data and the creation of historical ethnography." Barbara J. Little in Science "An impressive view of New York's colonial development oriented toward the interaction between wealth and ethnicity, with insights into urban structure. . . . This book should be of interest to students of cities and urban studies and of New York specifically." Stanley South in American Anthropologist "A welcome addition to the impoverished (quantitatively speaking) or deliciously rich (qualitatively speaking) 1980s' monographs written by historical archaeologists. . . It is an admirable piece of work that builds on 15 years of experience with urban resources." Anne Yentsch in Historical Archaeology A volume in the series Foundations of Archaeology ISBN 978-0-9752738-6-9/paperback/292 pp./illus./est. July 2008/$42.50 Checks or money orders payable in U.S. funds only. For domestic order please add $5.00 postage and handling for the first book and $1.00 for each additional book. For international orders please contact the publisher. New York State residents please add 8.125% sales tax to the entire order, including postage and handling; Canadian residents please add 7% GST. Be sure to include your telephone and fax numbers and your e-mail address with your order. Send orders to: Eliot Werner Publications, Inc. Order Department PO Box 268 Clinton Corners, NY 12514 USA

Jay Leno's Garage - B-24 Liberator

I think it and a P-51 landed at Republic Airport on Long Island last summer. I was working testing the area for hangars that got set aside when they built the second runway. It was like walking around in post Cold War ruins, there had been suburban housing between the blimp mast and the runway. Archeology testing, spent a lot of time after looking for Steve Fossett online at mTurk at Amazon with satellite imagery. My grand-dad fished some B-24 guys out of Flushing Bay, he was a crash-boat captain for surplus PBY's first to regularly fly to Rio de Janeiro. Terrible they let the tide gates fail there, the place is flooded and there's a crane in the middle of the flooded runway! Don't land there! They think West Nile started there in NY sort of like the cholera tea-pump they traced cholera to I think. Dead birds followed, the raven nevermore!

Jay Leno's Garage - B-24 Liberator

Fluted points

Texas Archaeological Dig Challenges Assumptions about First Americans: Scientific American

Some of the "fluted" points look similar to one found in a cornfield across the street from "Jasper Park" in Vera Cruz, PA. The teacher there had shown it to me I was looking at another highway extension to impact jasper mine activities there in the late 1970s. He said U of Penn thought it at least 10,000 years old. He had some carborundum nodules he also collected nearby. It's sometimes called "turtleback" jasper, either from the spotted brown (turns red in heat) or the large nodules were reduced to large "turtles" to carry like one I saw a Maryland flint-knapper had, traded as far away as New England, the state sign says. One of the earliest articles printed in the "American Anthropologist" discussed the pit mines though abandoned about 1640 dated from Dr. Mercer's tree-ring dating a very early citation for that type of dating (190?). He was a large collector of folk art and tools and had a museum nearby.

Vikings

Newsvine - Histories: Viking longships brought rape, pillage and cod

Yes but some archaeology has shown the opposite to be true. Vikings massacred on the beach they landed, large piles of their bones. Vikings landed on Mars in the 1970s looking for life, now they're dead! But seriously, this is a great article, helps me think of the Pilgrims digging up a blond-haired burial on Cape Cod, Massachusetts looking for a place to settle. It is also recorded that Christopher Columbus, doing his homework I guess wrote to the Masonic Order in Bristol, England about voyages out in the Atlantic for fish, it's been reported.

Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader                                                               Mon, 2008-07-14 19:36. He is the oldest citizen to ever run for President I read. So he has the record. There was some weird things going on in the last election, perhaps like the phone jamming of public volunteer services in New Hampshire that would have brought more elderly people to vote that a Republican operative was given time to think about in jail, though unrepentant when released. There's a case in Concord, NH right now that contests Senator John McCain's candidacy based on an "injury" to the plaintiff, which states under law McCain can't be eligible he was born in a "jurisdiction" and not a "territory" that the Panama Canal Zone became, I had a grandfather, a stonemason who worked on it and the Brooklyn Bridge. One thing in the last election "Public Citizen" a consumer's group, came out publicly to state that Ralph Nader had no connection to them politically, he had just started it with the monies from the settlement and was not part of its operations today. I once worked for NYPIRG (New York Public Interest Research Group) in St. James, NY selling "Public Citizen" subscriptions door-to-door one summer on Long Island. At the end of our "water quality" campaign, Pete Seegar and another gave us a concert in the old theater in Riverhead. NYPIRG is usually under attack when it is in part funded by student activities fees yet as a grad student I had a job that summer. I find it a little disturbing that someone like Mr. Nader who wants a "tort" museum in Connecticut, representing the rights of the consumer, today a daunting task without "tort reform" is held often almost contemptuous, when other candidates could see that some people think his candidacy has merit when those issues are not addressed by them. When the President of the Senate, Al Gore, was presented with evidence of a "criminal tampering" with voters in Florida, by an African-American woman I recall, understandably a bind for him, there should have been some mechanism of investigation (Senate, FBI, House committee) rather than recounting the "chads" and votes, in my memory. Three bushes in an arroyo, if you ask me. Nader rallies supporters | share.mcclatchydc.com

Ye olde fur trade...

Material Histories: Scots and Aboriginal peoples in the Canadian Fur-Trade

After long struggle, doctor added to 9/11 victim list - Topix

I've worked on human remains in City Hall Park, next to Horace Greeley's statue in 1999 and many if not all and others were not known about, though the "First Almshouse Cemetery" was known to be on the Commons, near the prison "...blacker than any Black Hole of Calcutta" (NY Times 1903) where Ethan Allen and others may have been tortured in the American Revolution. Other remains were found there too though no dated artifacts to my knowledge. A similar cemetery from the later American Revolution period was found on Governors Island. My point is I've worked on many unmarked areas and just because she's not been found doesn't mean she may not yet be found to have been there, as recent events in the news have shown, including scandalous proceedings by investigators. It should have been a National Priority, like some of the EPA Superfunds I've also worked on. She may have been a very brave woman and perished thus. Just an archaeology tech's view. After long struggle, doctor added to 9/11 victim list - Topix

And it's a one, two, three what are we fighting for?

Investigation: Army Probes Firing of Arlington Whistle-Blower

Coming from a high school with the first Marine Corps JROTC in it (Newfield, Marshall Drive, Selden, NY named after the judge who was character witness at Susan B. Anthony's trial for posing as a man to vote, a judicial "no-no") which promised an all-volunteer service (which one? what if you liked another?) in place of the then current draft (~1970; Selective Service was changed to a "lottery system" by a NY legislator, before sometimes used in place of incarceration) I object to firing her. The National Guard started as guarding the Nation's capital, first NYC, state militias followed. I think they don't want to show what they should have kept at home, the National Guard. In 10 years and over 1 million service people to the Vietnam Conflict, only about 300 were ever National Guard. So last heard from, there was over 20,000 JROTC's in mostly poor schools costing $1 billion (1990s) are they working? Are they the working replacement to a draft? Maybe you can help me. My former girlfriend's home phone was listed under Arlington W. Is Arlington a woman's name or a man's? I know it was once Robert E. Lee's and I saw his granted return to US citizenship letter on the Golden Triangle Airport wall in Mississippi. I really don't know. Do you?

The Woodstock of weather - CNN

Once attending “Planetary Atmospheres” classes during the Vikings landings on Mars and astronomy during the Voyager flyby of Jupiter, I thought I’d pipe up and say Woodstock, NY is a place, the festival in 1969 was dreamed up by “Three men with unlimited capital” (from the advertisement in the NY Times that made it possible and the title of the book describing how it got started and what went “down” written afterwards). I’d been to both, the town the summer before the festival working as a dishwasher at camp Timber Lake, and the music and arts fair the following summer. I think the reason may have been the “sightings” in the town of Dylan, Hendrix, The Band, maybe even Janis Joplin according to one then new real estate agent. Just my two cents on “Woodstock” metaphor. SciTechBlog: Blog Archive - The Woodstock of weather « - Blogs from CNN.com

That would buy a lot of leeks…

Stolen $30M Shakespeare book found –MSNBC

51-year-old man was arrested for the theft of the First Folio edition of 1623

Morman calendar scandal!

It's interesting to think about them, and I often think of them as just in/from Utah. They started near Palmyra, New York (ancient Palmyra in Syria has been shown to have been settled by Hellenic peoples recently, only rumored in historical writings) and have an American historic site in Connecticut, near where the Bush family came from Greenwich, Connecticut the current President Bush's grandfather, a US Senator, who was said helped build Shea Stadium in Queens, NY home of the NY Mets. Steve Young, the famous San Francisco quarterback and lawyer (I think he owns the retail nutrition "Power Bars" franchise) was seen at the Greenwich YMCA along with George H. W. Bush's brother, where the family often has fundraisers, also once the home of the head of the American Communist Party (no connection). When the World's Fair came to New York City around 1962, they had a replica of the Mormon Tabernacle there. I wonder if the President's a convert? Mormon missionary calendar-maker facing discipline

Alec Baldwin: McCain's Problem: Not Age, but Condition - Politics on The Huffington Post

Mr. Baldwin you're right I think. The other day I was reading how Michael Reagan, former President Reagan's son was asking that a memorial be placed where his father had given the famous speech in Berlin asking Mr. Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall (who is being given the Liberty Award this year in Philadelphia, PA) and I realized that the challenges America faces are as hard or harder than the challenges Ronald Reagan saw when he started his campaign in Upstate New York, younger at the time than Mr. McCain, and unusually active, seen in Universal lifting exercise equipment. Given today's challenges, it appears we will need leadership of incredible stamina just to keep up with what may develop at home and abroad. I worked in furniture delivery with Vietnam vets, one a B-52 co-pilot, shot down over the DMZ between North and South Vietnam, under the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn. One was on call as a trouble shooter in Burroughs international monetary mainframes. We, in an incredibly short time, have moved to personal computers, Internet and an amazing set of problems and we might regret having leadership, if it lets us down, that can be instantly assailed. We are today a long ways away from "Huntley & Brinkley" news from New York for 15 minutes. Alec Baldwin: McCain's Problem: Not Age, but Condition - Politics on The Huffington Post

The real case is in Concord, New Hampshire, and there are doubts that they can show "injury" by Senator McCain to the plaintiff who invokes the law that he is ineligible to be President being born in the Panama Canal Zone at the time a jurisdiction not a territory which it became. There has been an interesting politic going on there, where the Doles have a cabin and then Vice-President Bush asked us from the upper deck of the motorship "Mount Washington" in Wolfeboro on Lake Winnepeasauki, to join him in a silent prayer as he was about to assume the control of the country as then President Reagan went under anesthesia for colon operation. Ironically, there were dirty tricks in the last Presidential election that by phone jamming kept public volunteer services from delivering elderly voters to the polls in New Hampshire. That Republican operative did a couple of years in the "big house" and was publicly unrepentant on release.

Indiana Jones And The Fake Crystal Skulls?

I recall a similar artifact, though it was a real skull in a mosaic of turquoise while taking classes with Phil Weigand, PhD who had a "neutron activation of turquoise aboriginal mine sources" NSF grant at the nearby to Stony Brook University, Brookhaven National Lab, home of Garman Harbottle an emeritus chemist in archaeology. Turquoise is problematic in central American archaeology sites, only, to my knowledge, found in the American Southwest, where small mines had been explored by Weigand as a grad student at the University of Illinois with a professor Kelly I think. At the time, "neutron activation" of very small samples (50 mgs or less) was thought, from the trace element analysis in "statistical hyperspace" (think analysis through layers of spreadsheets) would provide a "signature" that could be used to determine fakes from real turquoise artifacts. A similar program is currently being used to relocate sculpture perhaps and heads with their iconoclast's resulting pieces. What resulted is an interesting prehistory of early Mexico and it's links with the American Southwest. Indiana Jones And The Fake Crystal Skulls? | Scientific Blogging

Staten Island Has a Turkey Overpopulation Problem

Staten Island Has a Turkey Overpopulation Problem: Been there seen that. There's some that have come over on the Staten Island Ferry. One was wandering around Battery Park when I was working down there on the "Swing Shift" for the new subway tunnel through the park. Staten Island Has a Turkey Overpopulation Problem -- Daily Intel -- New York News Blog -- New York Magazine

Seasoned Spitz

Seasoned Spitz
Originally uploaded by paulandstorm

I bought a bag of these on the Jefferson Davis Highway working in Quantico, back in April 2007 during that terrible shooting at Virginia Tech (I'm a New Yorker) and went spitting dill pickle flavored Spitz sunflower seeds on the Iwo Jima Trail, where we were testing for archaeology in a tree harvest to aid radar. I heard they're going to fix the radar instead of cutting down the trees where the Rebels had some posts we found and a prehistoric site. Finished the bag at Republic Airport on Long Island later that year, where J.Lo took off recently the dog bit the flight attendant and is suing for $5 million! 1/2 pounder goes a long way!

Daisy, daisy...

Back in Buffalo State College lecture hall was a bank of rear projection screens. Ken Jacobs, indie art film-maker had a stereo projector behind them as part of his tribute to Charles Ives, a live performance piece "Lost Doll Found" and at one point the audience was asked to put on their 3D glasses. His son rode his tricycle out in front of the projector behind the screen and out popped this 3D tricycle and him which this reminded me of. (ca 1974) Buffalo, NY was the "Hollywooden of the East" one summer. Concepts: Tricycles Are Just Bicycles from the Future

Right to know...

In Myers vs. the USA, a federal postmaster in the State of Washington sued the Executive after, having been appointed after a Presidential election, after a few months I think, the sitting President found that, oops he had appointed the wrong hack, I mean postmaster in that state. The Supreme Court determined that since he had been fired for purely "political" reasons, or so to say "that's how it werks" Myers had no case, and was replaced not for incompetence, etc., but because that's the way it is. Read the case when the NY State Law School opened in Amherst, NY a 'burb of Buffalo, NY. Happened to me once on a Little League team. Arianna Huffington: Karl Rove's Contempt for the Constitution and the Public's Right to Know - Politics on The Huffington Post

The Troubles That Mosquitoes Bring - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog

4. July 4th, 2008 10:59 pm

There’s a wonderful trap online that Chinese students “invented”. You mix yeast with sugar, cut a 1 or two liter bottle in half, invert the spout end into the bottom half, with the yeast and tape the edges. The yeast produces CO2 and draws the bugs to the spout and they get trapped in the bottom of the bottle.  — Posted by George Myers   The Troubles That Mosquitoes Bring - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog

Simple mod turns diode into photon counter

I remember reading about these in infra-red tacheometers (or surveyor’s “total stations”) which time the arrival of photons from a corner cube prism use adjustments for the speed of light (altitude and temperature) and with the recorded angles from the circles in the theodolite portion calculate x,y,z coordinates of the target prism, today without a target or from reflective tape. I think of it as more like a “night vision” collector than what they were being called “lasers” though the LED diode was restricted to a specific frequency in infra-red sent through the telescope to the prism and back. the physics arXiv blog » Blog Archive » Simple mod turns diode into photon counter

Spy vs. Spy

We once built submerged chains across the Hudson River that would catch up the large ships of the British Navy led by Admiral Cornwallis in New York city, who according to more recent British forensic research, may have been poisoning King George with the arsenic in his powdered wig. These chains would keep the British forces from a "divide and conquer" action which included the string of British forts above Albany, NY into Canada. General Cornwallis in Virginia, fought us and the French troops who had disembarked in Rhode Island, marched to join General Washington's troops near Kings Ferry on the Hudson in NY and crossing, onto the defeat the other Cornwallis, with the French fleet in Virginia. I cannot believe that an attack by so few "today" can cause so much trouble for so many, without wondering, was that their plan? "Ground zero" is currently across the street from American University at Homeland Security. Why make it everywhere with FISA? Bob Ostertag: A Powerful, Easy Way to Tell Obama to Get FISA Right - Politics on The Huffington Post

"The Thief of Bagdad" Which one?

wcbstv.com - AFI's 2008 List: 100 Greatest Movies Ever

82 of 100 :
"The next notable fantasy film stars Peter Ustinov in the 1924 hit film "The Thief Of Bagdad." AFI placed the film at #9 on the list of classic fantasy films. #9 Fantasy Film." Sir Peter Ustinov was in the 1978 color film "The Thief of Bagdad". Which one is it? 

10-year battle with pain highlights Lyme disease debate

10-year battle with pain highlights Lyme disease debate - CNN.com

Blade Runner umbrella

Blogger: Total Dick-Head

I had to laugh, I landed in a place in "Second Life" and there was "Blade Runner umbrella" which I had to try. I read online they recovered the originals for the film and if you look around there are some new, actually manufactured and for sale! About $25, the shaft lights up, one has a clear umbrella top. Interesting crossover of PKD film prop into the modern use of the day.

Michael Russnow: You Can Be Ticketed for Feeding a Parking Meter After the Time Limit: How Many People Really Know? - Business on The Huffington Post

Here in the Bronx, NYC we have a conundrum of the same. The ticket agents have handhelds that print now (after the suicide of a Queens borough president over a previous one's scandal, gerrymander we share) and Catch 22, if you move the car to the opposite side from 9:30 to 11 am (used to be 8-11) they won't ticket for $45. However if you move and double park your neighbors car for the 1 1/2 hour you will be ticketed at 11:00am for $115 for double parking! I am willing to wager no cars are ticketed before 11:00 am or a small war might erupt, to park within walking distance. However it is illegal to double park at any time anywhere, but many, many have to trying to aid the city street sweeping, garbage pickup, etc. I am currently in possession of an 11:00 am ticket, having parked next to my landlady's and senior citizen's car.  Michael Russnow: You Can Be Ticketed for Feeding a Parking Meter After the Time Limit: How Many People Really Know? - Business on The Huffington Post

From the News in brief: Radio Voice of Vietnam

I found the following after searching for vanbanphapluatmoi.htm "Legal Documents: Law on Cultural Heritage in Vietnam" (2005) which it seems is no longer online. (it was a draft)

Online contest relating to Hanoi’s cultural heritage

An international online contest relating to Hanoi’s historical works and cultural heritage was launched on May 31 to celebrate the coming 1,000th anniversary of the capital city. This is part of a series of contests, held from 2000-2010, for both foreigners and overseas Vietnamese. Entries can be in one of the six languages: Vietnamese, English, Russian, Chinese, French and Esperanto. They should be sent to the organising board no later than August 30. Forty awards will be given to individuals and organizations.

New Rapid Transit

Bus Rapid Transit Debuts in the Bronx | Autopia from Wired.com

Yo here in the boogie-down Bronx where they ran a cable News12 report on this action (get those pit bulls trained) and the ticket dis is only in 'glish though they promise to be soon in 'anish too. The stops are the pits still in some places (literally) and need to be fixed.

Posted by: George Myers | Jul 6, 2008 5:00:41 PM

Gonzo comment

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - The New York Times

I haven't seen it though I've been under the delusion lately that his last type words, after warning us in his last column about gambling on basketball, was "Fourth Amendment" (probably should have been "fourth estate" in my mind) when actually the letterhead was "Fourth Amendment Foundation" and besides the date "counselor" was the only word on the paper. This is available at "Smoking Gun". I once handled close-range photogrammetry equipment (just before the digital revolution in photography) and I have this fear that Dr. Lee, the forensics expert is right. We don't investigate "suicide" scenes very well, almost a forgone conclusion, when, for example he stated Kurt Cobain couldn't have pulled any trigger that drugged. I was somewhat alarmed by the "locked door" with many window panes explanation. With Hunter Thompson, there were many reasons he might have been killed the "Fourth Amendment" one of the more recent ones. Where's the shell? How'd he break a leg? - georgejmyersjr

Duke of Bavaria the new king of England and Scotland?

Duke of Bavaria the new king of England and Scotland?

The Telegraph reports that Gordon Brown may repeal the 1701 Act of Settlement, which banned Catholics from taking the British throne, because it has recently been criticized by church leaders and mainly Scottish MPs for being discriminatory against the religion. But a repeal would mean that the 74-year-old Duke of Bavaria would become the the new King of England and Scotland! More: The Local - The Local's Blog » Bavaria

Chris Weigant: What Would Abbie Hoffman Have Thought Of The Flag Lapel Pin Debate? - Politics on The Huffington Post

"When the trail was held," should be trial. Speaking of trial, there was one before the Supreme Court regarding the flag. A gentleman from Seattle had an American Flag in his window and a small demonstration developed below it because it had the "Peace Sign" on it. It's to represent the semaphore signals, once used to communicate two letters "N" and "D" for "nuclear disarmament" which started in England, the other day had all US nuclear weapons removed from it. The police officer arrived and ticketed the resident with the window display that was upsetting the crowd below, for $75. A native American (or the supporters of his case so named) for $75 went all the way to the Supreme Court. He, and I assume "he" refused to pay the ticket and felt within 'his' rights to have said display in the window. When the new law school opened in Buffalo, NY (technically in Amherst, NY) I read the case. Since there was no actual damage to the flag, the "peace sign" was attached, there was no case against the defendant and the appeals case was dismissed. I remember you today as having fought the good fight from Washington to Washington, D.C. and why I'd wear a flag pin in Canada.

There was a tribute to Abbie Hoffman after his demise at the Palladium in NYC on 14th St. near 3rd Ave. It's since become NYU dormitories across from the ConEd Museum. What a patriot.  Chris Weigant: What Would Abbie Hoffman Have Thought Of The Flag Lapel Pin Debate? - Politics on The Huffington Post

The evolution of a conspiracy theory

BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | The evolution of a conspiracy theory

It wasn't only the Twin Towers that collapsed on September 11. A third World Trade Center tower that wasn't hit by the planes also fell. As a report into Tower 7 prepares to publish its findings, Mike Rudin considers how this conspiracy theory got to be so big.

Comment: The trade-off once was that building in this de-mapped area did not have to follow NYC fire code, emergency lighting in some cases went in after the first attack (read off the electrical grid on their own generators). Over 15,000 gallons of "illegal" diesel fuel was placed in Bldg. 7 by the Giuliani administration who thought it the best place for an emergency command center which could lead to liability questions for NYC (source, NYC private civic, "City Club of New York" meetings once on public television) perhaps instead of for the NY/NJ Port Authority. 

I once visited the site when it was going up after excavations for its basement in the landfill, as much of the areas up to two blocks in and former "slips" are, where it's said digging had revealed a ship hulk and an 18th century horse harness was recovered from the area of a former dock by a Queens County historian/librarian. The harness is in conservation treatment at the Long Island Science Center. The archaeologist and I were not allowed into the site. NYC Landmarks Commission now has an archaeologist (s) on its staff. I went to school with its first one, she's at Cornell University now.

People's Computing Choice Award

Air Hockey Robot: Air Hockey Playing Robot Breaks My Heart

Yo hockey puck! Maybe you should have run this on Dan "Conehead" Asteroid's birthday, Canada Day, July 1. That CEO sure has a Canadian accent methinks. Good innovation though maybe it'll clear debris from airport runways someday (not whole airports like Mirabel, way-out-side Montreal where the Concorde and Freddie Laker's planes used to land) Happy First and Fourth!

Recently on "The Huffington Post"

Spielberg Foundation To Give $1 Million To Jewish Museum That's nice. I worked in public archaeology on the lot he filmed "Batteries Not Included" in the area of NYC called "Alphabet City". It's named that because it's east of the earlier First Ave., can't have "0 Ave." so they went with Ave. A, B, C. They were created after filling in with earth where there had been shipyards along the shore and even a "floating church" for mariners of that persuasion to row over to. One, the Webb shipyard sold many advanced ships to foreign governments because our government was not interested at the time, changed by Theodore Roosevelt and others to "catch up". The Webb Institute of Naval Architecture is on Long Island, NY. I live in the Bronx, where believe it of not, a young John F. Kennedy lived until their family moved away when the market crashed, JFK's father wanted to invest in the "talkies" in NYC. posted 07/03/2008 at 20:13:21 Airline Employees To Stand Trial For 2000 Concorde Crash One would hope it was not because of the "cheap seats". The passengers from Germany I recall, had a package deal whereby they flew to the US and then got on a tour ship, that made the cost of the Concorde a less expensive flight than the usual paying clientèle. posted 07/03/2008 at 10:53:55 I meant if the runway was not swept, or the other jet's repairs were rushed, not that the booking had anything to do with it. There's a new system being tested that "sweeps" the runway electronically every few minutes for debris. posted 07/03/2008 at 11:45:10 Incidentally, I once worked with a Mr. Bruce Bevan, who, among other ground-based remote sensing instruments he has in an "arsenal" (former satellite scientist in archaeology) uses GPR (ground penetrating radar) to look for "voids" that develop or may develop under runways at their heaviest landing points. Last thing you might want is a multi-million dollar fighter hitting the deck hard and the wheel going through the runway. posted 07/03/2008 at 12:19:46 Steve Perry, Sam Cooke, Arnel Pineda, and My Journey To Obsession You know, I have a cousin married to Steve Augeri, the lead vocalist for "Journey" for about seven (?) years who developed a lung ailment and had to leave the tour, and I thought I heard on the radio one day long ago, that Steve Perry was giving impromptu drumming lessons in a San Francisco public high school. Strange what you remember. This looks a little like the Reo-Styx-Journey tour, which was one of the cheaper tickets that summer, wow how they've gotten expensive. I heard Steve Augeri is back working with some of his former band-mates in "Tall Stories". posted 07/03/2008 at 12:40:05 Ed. - I think he was a roadie for Patti LaBelle and once worked in insurance, wrote the life insurance policy for Mick Jagger he once said. Mr. Jagger is known to have cashed his in and restarted the "Rolling Stones" on tours. They (Journey) did a song together for "Armageddon" it's not in the film but on the CD of the soundtrack. I'm still wondering if it was playing in the cab that was hit by the meteor fragment. Beastie Boys put Steve Tyler's song from it it off the charts. They raised quite a lot of money for the fallen Port Authority police officers families after 9/11. Listening to a Brent Spiner (went to school with the Quaid brothers in Houston, TX) "Dreamland" from "The Real Brent Spiner" site.

Musicians Hall of Fame announces new inductees - omg! on Yahoo!

These are, finally I might add, well deserved. Often up here in New York, they were like a warm southern breeze that blows up the leaves and smelt like rain. Musicians Hall of Fame announces new inductees - omg! on Yahoo!

A Window Into Waterboarding - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog

67. July 2nd, 2008 5:54 pm

We can look at it archaeologically and historically in New York City. In the American Revolution, where over 11,000 perished in dis-masted prison ships, there was a prison, today next to the current City Hall, (designed by McComb, I hope his lighthouse commissioned by President Washington survives “earmarks”) that was reported by the NY Times to have been “blacker than any Black Hole of Calcutta” (1903). There was particularly a British Major Cunningham who was infamous for torture, said to have tortured Ethan Allen among others there. Today at the NY State Urban Cultural Park in Ossining, NY there is an exhibit of artifacts from the historic “Sing-Sing” prison (labor from there also used in the Croton Aqueduct). In it is a stone seat that fit around the prisoners throat and head in which water was poured, a basin, where he could almost drown as punishment or for other reasons, (confession?) a practice since outlawed. The major difference, the victim was sitting up.

— Posted by George Myers A Window Into Waterboarding - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog

CBS Evening News Wins Murrow Award For "Best Newscast" - Media on The Huffington Post

Well, she did interview many of the candidates and it was shown online not that its part of the award I gather. The "Couric & Co." site and "Couric's Notebook" is good "journalism" in the midst of one of the most competitive times in it for our attention.

A cousin, George Murray, an award-winning news producer at NBC who directed "Huntley and Brinkley" when drafted from the film editing room, had worked for the US Army Signal Corps training films after serving as a US Army Captain in the Korean War, (pers. comm. from Edwin Newman noted television journalist and author of "Strictly Speaking") was a CBS news producer for the 1976 Republican and Democratic conventions in 1976. I think he would have been happy that there is now so much "enthusiasm" for the news and many sources of it, and of course the new Newseum. The BBC the other day unveiled a lighted modern "torch" (I think) on top of their news building dedicated to the journalists who have died in gathering the information we try to use to make decisions and understand the rest of the story. Congratulations.

However, the "fake" news guys in the current administration should be seen as a reason to be vigilant and wary. How many government reports have been falsely "fielded" and now, especially, a part of the secondary school curriculum, is this the new "Big Brother" they're watching? (lobby scandals) CBS Evening News Wins Murrow Award For "Best Newscast" - Media on The Huffington Post

HISTARCH Archives: Re: urban cemeteries

As I recall in our research we found that one of the cemeteries removed (not very well done, in March according to some witnesses) the Methodist one, had been a "satellite" of the main churchyard on the east side of Second Ave. The church was removed, apparently for a courthouse, today the famous, still in the courthouse architecture, "Anthology Film Archives" (32 Second Ave.) on the corner of 2nd Street and 2nd Ave. (across the street is one of the famous Marble Vault Cemeteries. It has held famous people, i.e., original Maya researcher; John Erickson (inventor in marine technology, "Stirling" air engines and other inventions, a former Village resident, since returned to Sweden. He is credited with being the inventor of the modern ship propeller, the "ironclad" USS Monitor, parts of which recently salvaged and opened on exhibit at Newport News, Virginia by underwater archaeology.) The former courthouse is a venue for all sorts of media, is rentable, and has many donors in the media businesses. When the courthouse was going up, they found that some of the burials had not been removed and called a special session of the New York State Legislature, which determined on vote that the burial(s) were to be handled by the NY State Dept. of Education. Unfortunately, the records of this proceeding burned in an archive fire in Albany, though the results of the hearing were published by the "usual" publishers of government records, so the argument made has been lost to the fire. This was perhaps how the state museum has come to control said "problems" and I wish I could have determined, though we only had the "satellite" to research, what the nature of the interred was and why the whys and wherefores in Albany were determined such. Former President Monroe, before the Civil War was long a resident of NYC and expired was interred in a marble vault cemetery nearby. The Virginia legislature voted to "carry him back to ol' Virginny" to the Hollywood Cemetery there. The whole City of New York stopped to pay its respects as the former President was taken to the dock it's reported. Some of the marble vault remains are still being moved to other locations.

Fortunately for some of this information, the Works Progress Administration (WPA "...after 1939 Work Projects Administration" - Wikipedia) had hired writers to write the ecclesiastical histories of the different denominations in the City of New York, which are on record in the Main Library of the NY Public Library, or we found we would have been clueless on their histories or would have had to devote much more time ascertaining it. It also helped that two recent publications had arrived one on the cemeteries of NYC the other on the history of Quakerism in the City of New York a republication of an earlier history. The Methodist was moved to the recently NY State legislature proscription that they not be larger than 250 acres in any one county, by straddling two, 500 acres, its reported. The Quakers to their lands on the "Coney Island Road" which with additional parkland, became today's "Prospect Park" in Brooklyn, NY.

IYA 2009

IYA 2009 IAU

The International Year of Astronomy 2009

Where Is New Horizons? It's on the way to Pluto (2015) and beyond. It just passed the orbit of Saturn having been gravity boosted by a Jupiter flyby. It is theorized that a interplanetary "solar sail" vessel could catch and pass it if launched today or tomorrow. It uses very little fuel and would not be single meteorite collison incident vulnerable so to speak for its propulsion, much like Earth-bound wind propelled vessel.

NASA to Attempt Historic Solar Sail Deployment

- from Sott.net - the World for People who Think