Re: "Bombshell 9/11 commission book coming" - Pressing Issues

One of the problems of investigation, is what is under our "noses". I, having worked for a Texas-based power plant builder EBASCO, on the archaeological research of Fort Drum prior to the since relocation from Camp Hale, CO of Senator Bob Dole's paraded US Army 10th Mountain Division, to NY and all the changes, hoped to find more about that. EBASCO was offered apparently free rent in the WTC so to move from 40 Rector Place by then Mayor Koch. I worked in archaeology, across the street from it's former address, and I've read in a tearful posting of a former employee, one of its secretaries, who had moved to the 79th floor, her thankful appreciation of a job (floors 79-94?) A few years later it had moved to New Jersey, perhaps due to "power plant" market forces.

Having worked on the archaeology of Mead Hall at Drew University where the former NJ Governor Kean the now former university president who chaired the 9/11 commission, a university where roses in the US were first cultivated, I half expected a cover-up of people who want to walk away smelling like one. Well I'm glad something is happening, on behalf of its victims, truths still owed, in my opinion.

The ill-advised Emergency Center in Bldg. 7 had a remarkable archaeology, having a 18th c. horse harness recovered from the end of the former dock in its construction, before the Landmarks Commission had an archaeologist. I was denied access with one during its construction to see a wooden ship said to be in it. Later, I found one on the other side of the island, at 175 Water Street.

There's an interesting young "Van the Man" music video with "Them" in the leftside.

From the borough of Edgar Allen Poe, whose cottage was saved by the Shakespeare Society of NY (source: Willa Cather)

Photo: "Taken in Edinburgh, Scotland, from Edinburgh Castle, looking out over the city towards the Firth of forth. Adele McLennan" (Travel Shots at canada.com) They fire a cannon there every day. It's one of the few, if not the only one, in Europe never captured or taken over. Must be the lousy plumbing! Actually it is on a hill, like many. New York Native American "castles" (Castle Hill in the Bronx, NY, where singer/actor Jennifer Lopez is from, about to have twins her dad reports, was seen and recorded as a "castle hill" by explorer Adrian Block. Block Island, Rhode Island is named after him, off Montauk Point, NY, a ferry there too from Montauk) in Upstate New York were on a peninsula with water on three sides. Or they were like the one at Fort Drum, NY, a "palisade village" surrounded by a wall of upright logs. They, however, were moved when the distance to cultivated fields became too long, and soils became depleted from agriculture, at least that's what the exhibit in Canada stated.

Thomas Scott (1774-1823), the younger brother of Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832, known also for "Manners, Customs, and History of the Highlanders of Scotland" of whom Lowland Scots knew little about, the clan MacGregors figures prominently in the film "Rob Roy" starring Liam Neeson) was a friend of the Mohawk on the St. Lawrence River, where I've also done archaeological survey. He spent some time as an army officer in Canada and wrote two letters to Walter Scott one about " A Mohawk Chief" and that he "...preferred the manners of the native Indians to the insipid conversation of our own officers..." - 15 July 1815 and another letter to Walter Scott (no date) about Captain Norton, "A literary Red Indian" (it's titled) "the chief of the Five Nations":

I had the pleasure to be his intimate acquaintance, and he is a man who makes you almost wish to be an Indian chief. What do you think of a man speaking the language of almost twelve Indian nations, English, French, German and Spanish, all well, being in the possession of all modern literature -- having read with delight your Lady of the Lake, translated the same, together with the Scriptures, into Mohawk -- having written a history of the five nations, and a journal of his own travels, now in London, ready for publication, and being at the same time an Indian chief, living as they do and following all their fashions. For, brother, you ask doth he paint himself, scalp, etc. etc.? I answer yea, he doth; and with the most polished manner of civilized life, he would not disdain to partake of the blood of his enemy at the banquet of sacrifice. Yet I admire and love the man, and would cheerfully give fifty guineas that you would see him for one half-hour. He is afraid that the Edinburgh Review will be hard on his book, I promised to write to you to have it reviewed in the Quarterly. It surely is a strange circumstance that an Indian Chief should produce a literary child... (p. 122)

From, A Scottish Postbag: Eight Centuries of Scottish Letters, edited by George Bruce and Paul H. Scott, (and © 1986) published in association with the Scottish Post Office Board and the Saltire Society, by W & R Chambers Ltd., Edinburgh. Printed by Martin's of Berwick.

See: Six Nations "Located on the Grand River, the Six Nations Reserve is the largest First Nations community in Canada." and further about Captain Norton in that site's: St.Paul's, Her Majesty's Chapel of the Mohawks

Ship architecture query

Stylized schematic, "plan and profile" ship rib or frame construction

In the New York State Bear Mountain Park, I helped record the remains of two centerboard Hudson River cargo carriers for the SHPO with Grossman & Associates. The frames were part wood and part iron, without nuts. The pieces were joined with a short rod through the frame sections and then planked on the outside. The centerboard box, to lower and raise the blade in shallow or deep water and counteract the effect on the large sail tipping the hull and to steer, was also made with driven iron rods through wood without end attachments. I was wondering if anyone is familiar with this type of ship construction perhaps made in the West Point Foundry in Cold Spring, NY. They held records in sailing from NYC to West Point. These, seen abandoned in the background of a photo of a Henry Hudson "Halve Moon" replica sailing by Bear Mountain in 1939 (? Worlds Fair in NYC? 330 year anniversary, the 400th next year) were perhaps similar to the circa Civil War constructions used in the "green sand" for iron moulding mined nearby.

I cover the waterfront...

How come the first solar powered boat to cross the Atlantic Ocean arrived last May (2007) and no one heard about it? How come a solar boat the "Loon" traversed the New York State canal system from Oswego to New York's capital, Albany and we didn't hear about it? I remember the first solar boat to circumnavigate Long Island, NY just a year or so ago electric motors from a former torpedo company I think. Maybe President Bush should have. John Ericsson Society, New York, Newsletter, Volume 17 No. 1, Summer 2007. Gus Alm, a once Bronx resident and one of the too few Merchant Mariner Congressional Medal of Honor recipients would have liked to have heard about it!

On hearing the new Bjorn Lynne album "Quiet Places"...

Listening to this interesting composer's "Quiet Places" online, who's now back in his native Norway (I remember the interesting "Norwegian Hall" in St. James, NY I once attended) I seem to recall another composition I once heard, "Pea Point" that I think I might have been to, in Maine, a guy there in a US Army "jungle hammock" with tarp and attached screen netting. "Pea Point" we heard in an "experimental" residential college of the "Visual and Performing Arts" - College B in Buffalo, NY (who will be the "Berkeley of the East"?) There were a couple of other alphabet colleges within the university, a Vico College, a Pre-med College, a Math College, a Women's Studies, "B" also had off-campus attachments, Oakstone Farm for philosophy, the A.C.T. for performance, and was to have been centered in new residential/education facilities designed or assisted by the architecture, also late in arriving. The idea, perhaps, was to put "like-minded" students together. I transferred in from the separate adult Millard Fillmore College night school into the day school after a semester.

One of the classes, a "Seminar in the Arts" was held in one of the lounges of then newly opening dorms and law school, one dorm designed by the architectural firms I.M. Pei, another by Davis-Brody both known in NYC. A different artist would come to the lounge every week from the greater Buffalo, NY area and discuss their work. It was quite an interesting class. We had to read for example an essay written by Leslie Fiedler on the Altamont, California charity concert on the West Coast, produced by the "The Rolling Stones" shown in the documentary "Gimme Shelter". I was not at it, though attended the "Woodstock Music and Arts Fair" in 1969 and had visited a number of times, Woodstock, NY the year before as a summer-camp dishwasher at Timber Lake Camp near Phoenicia, NY when I was sixteen for food and entertainment. I had been hired when a BSA Explorer friend, Louie Lieb, who worked there, suggested it.

Some of the ambient music here and there remind me of the Maine coast, visiting as it were, nearby Grand Manan Island, in the Bay of Fundy, where relatives live, a short way from Campobello Island, but an over two hour ferry ride from Blacks Harbour, historically a closer trip to Eastport, Maine. My cousin was one of the last lighthouse keepers and "right whales" there have a nursery and swim up and down the coast to Florida. DNA studies were done by Guelph University, a crossbow and string would retrieve a small piece of skin to study. Down at "The Whistle" where one can see the Fourth of July fireworks over the US, where the Eddystone Point is, the Grand Manan Channel is deep, and I stood alone not two feet from two whales parked at the shore! Nearby on Indian Beach, I once spread dulse to dry on the large cobbles, having picked the red seaweed with relatives back in 1967 at a lunar low tide, and the Sun, after 29 days of fog and rain, did shine on the larger than ostrich egg size cobbles and dried the edible seaweed now also harvested in the US, some of this music reminds me of the Quoddy tides. Willa Cather once lived nearby in Whale Cove in the only house she ever owned a cottage there near "the hole in the wall". "O Pioneers! " has it's "Norway Creek" Grand Manan its dangerous tides and fogs and people down the island in Seal Cove that sound like 'downeasters" from the States. Seal Cove was settled by a Dr. Faxon, who built the island's first square-rigger but left over the questions of loyalty over the War of 1812 returning to Maine I think which didn't become a state until 1820.

In 1839:

* Maine Gov. John Fairfield (1797-1847) declares war on England, resulting in the bloodless Aroostook War, the result of an ongoing dispute about the northeastern boundary of between Maine and New Brunswick. - Maine Memory Network (mainememory.net Maine's online museum)

A lot of potatoes come from Aroostook. The big highway I-95 ends at the US/Canada border, across the border is Woodstock, New Brunswick.

On WNYC-TV I saw a travel show about Bangor, Maine, home of the famous American horror author Stephen King. I haven't been through there since 1988 when I think he found he had an unwanted guest secreted in his house! They said, Bangor, on the Penobscot River was once the busiest port on the East Coast of the US. Today, it has an international airport.

Global Temperature graphic being discussed on the web

Press Issues

Sometimes I got to be in the middle of great pitched word battles between forces beyond my control, purposefully (?) and that involves what many would, given the choice, maybe walk away from. For example, the environmental health issues that arise alongside large projects that require, by law an archaeological assessment and if needed testing and data recovery, i.e., EPA: Marathon Battery Superfund site in Cold Spring, NY, once also home to the large 19th c. West Point Foundry, across the river from "The Point"; PCB Upper Hudson River cleanup, that for most is just starting, for me start back in the early 1980s on surveys; a few in New Jersey, one on the Delaware River, others in the Hackensack Meadowlands, or next door to some of its most vocal critics, in Neptune, NJ; others involving burials of old New York, it's first Almshouse (or "poorhouse") or in Ohio the buried descendants of the Shakers of Watervliet, in New York, today, a famous arms research arsenal like perhaps another I was on the survey of when non-weapon anthrax was found in the US mails, at Picatinney Arsenal in NJ and the West Point Academy in NY; being inspected then and after to do archaeology there and later at Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, overseen by armed service people there and more recently at Quantico, Virginia, as examples.

Recently I wrote I was hired to do some survey in the Green Mountain National Forest alongside a windfarm there on federal property, for a proposed expansion of the windmills generating electricity for Vermont's Sleepy Hollow Substation, the road nearby. That required carrying screens, shovels and other equipment up on the planned ridges, in what turned out to be light snow, and digging .5m x .5m x 1m deep square shovel-tests and screening all the materials for potential artifacts within GPS found boundaries of former surveys where the impacts of construction are or will be. We three crew had an interesting time there a short distance, enough to pop your ears anyway, from Bennington, Vermont, where snowmobile tours are offered in the winter. Today, most newspapers carry "letters" for a short time and I thought this letter, a "stonecrop" (quarry flower) that I would share to show sometimes this field I work in is not always what it seems:

Not feeling the shame

Editor of the Reformer:

I feel the need to defend myself, my position and to educate your readers, especially the author of the Oct. 10 letter, "Backyard views don't rival climate change." That author, when he wrote "Shame on the letter writer, only thinking of her backyard views," apparently believes my only reason for opposing Deerfield Wind's proposed energy facility project in Searsburg and Readsboro is that my ridgeline view will be ruined. Untrue. For the record, I live within one mile of this proposed project. I would hear the wind turbines from my home but probably not see them. There are many negative aspects of this particular proposed project. Allow me to list some of them here, condensed for space constraints:

1. This proposed project would destroy 80 acres of pristine ridgeline on National Forest Service land. This would set a detrimental precedent for this state and the nation.

2. The U.S. Forest Service's 2006 Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Green Mountain National Forest identifies 37 sites, with a total of 19,700 acres, as viable and suitable locations for wind power development. This proposed site in Searsburg and Readsboro is one of these sites that the Forest Service has classified as "Diverse Forest Use."

3. Seventeen 410-foot-tall turbines are proposed. They would be 100 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty. The existing Searsburg turbines are just under 200 feet tall.

4. The turbines will have red flashing lights per FAA regulations which will make our clear Vermont night skies a thing of the past.

5. Not enough energy will be produced (a potential maximum of only 1.5 percent of Vermont's annual load) to warrant the sacrifice of our National Forest lands.

6. The turbines are so tall that migrating birds and bats will be susceptible to colliding with the rotating blades and killed.

7. The beech stand most used by bears in this state (almost 500 trees) will be destroyed.

8. More than 50 homes are located within one mile of this proposed site.

9. Numerous documented medical studies have shown many adverse health effects of wind power for those living closest to turbines from the noise and shadows of the blades. These include insomnia, irritability, depression and many other conditions.

10. Wind energy is not entirely "clean" energy. Fossil fuels are still required to power the turbines.

11. There are no guarantees that any energy produced will be available to local residents or even other Vermonters. It will be sold to the grid.

12. This proposed site, on National Forest land remember, will be closed to the public, denying all of us our rights to snowmobile, hike, or hunt on that land.

13. When the turbines are finally decommissioned, the area will never return to pre-existing conditions. Tons of concrete and rebar will be left in the ground forever.

14. And, yes, current pristine ridgeline views for miles around will be ruined. These proposed turbines with red flashing lights are so massive that they will be a blight on the land.

In my original letter of Oct. 12, I mentioned that these proposed turbines would be visible from many towns merely to point out that this project will not only affect Searsburg and Readsboro. If turbines are allowed to be built on National Forest land, it will start a freight train of ridgeline industrialization that we will not be able to stop. If the author of "Backyard View" had read my entire letter, he would have read my statement "Alternate energy sources are needed and should be developed, but a wooded ridgeline in a National Forest is definitely not the right place for a wind energy project." As for the giant lit turbines, if the author of "Backyard View," after reading all these negatives and educating himself about wind energy, would still "welcome the day they sit in my fields," then good for him. I think he, and others who feel the same way, should contact wind farm developers and offer their own private land as future sites. That would save me and everyone else fighting this proposed Searsburg/Readsboro project (and there are many of us) a lot of time and money.

Jeanette Lee

Searsburg, Oct. 24

It appeared in Brattleboro Reformer in the 14th of the original states of the United States of America.

I find it an interesting connection between Captain Hulbert, of Bridgehampton, NY, his father a cobbler there next to the Sag Harbor Turnpike, that he who served with the Green Mountain Boys, and it is written that he is said to have submitted a flag for the design of the US Flag, a 19th century facsimile of which purports to represent it in the Suffolk County Museum in Riverhead, Long Island, NY. That "Hulbert Flag" was studied by the Smithsonian Institution textile experts and said to have been made at the earliest, on a 19th century machine loom, casting doubt on the stripes and 13 stars in the shape of the "Seal of Solomon" or what is today called the "Star of David". However, it's known he did submit one and the Green Mountain Boys, had one too, a flag that is, of the stars in a constellation of sorts, the actual placement in the sky one would have to research, perhaps over the mountains near Bennington, Vermont?

One of them, Ethan Allen was reportedly tortured by a British Major Cunningham in the prison once next to City Hall Park, in New York City, which the 1903 NY Times reported as "blacker than any Black hole of Calcutta" (which in itself is also controversial) and that the Major had a predilection for that infamous practice as did many of the armies of the world, less we hope today by agreement, an agreement thought needless by the current administration, it's been reported. Back in 1999, when then Mayor Giuliani came out to visit the "almshouse" burials I was working on that summer, I would sometimes wonder about the remains so close to that infamous prison setting, and wonder if enough forensics were being brought to bear to determine the "facts" temporary though employed, I had researched the "finding" of it, next to Horace Greeley's statue, for a number of years with a number of archaeologists as impacts permitted examination often not in the right location. One would hope no "unknown" Vermont American Revolutionary War soldier is buried in City Hall Park under New Hampshire's Horace Greeley.

Pressing Issues: Did we nearly attack Iraq -- based on prank by 'Filipino Monkey'?

Did we nearly attack Iraq -- based on prank by 'Filipino Monkey'? Shouldn't that be Iran? Back in 1979 we had 80 F-14s there and almost 4000 Grumman employees teaching the Shah's air force how to fly the two-tailed cat (in "Top Gun") which the MSM stated would be blown up if the USSR came near the Iranian border. Thursday, January 24, 2008

Pressing Issues: Did we nearly attack Iraq -- based on prank by 'Filipino Monkey'?

Virgin Galactic Unveils Design For SpaceShipTwo

Steve Fossett would have been thrilled. I spent time online looking for him looking through Amazon TURK images. I would hope a similar on demand hyperspectral imagery might someday aid search-and-rescue, on this platform, perhaps. The overlays I saw of satellite imagery were not “registered” and one-over-another, showed off locations. If it’s what’s used in military intelligence, it should somehow be stopped, though Italy was invaded after the photogrammatic coverage by the German High Command, and they knew where every building was. I worked for a short time in close-range photogrammetry with a Rollei system in archaeology. Canada looked into it after a US military crash in Gander, Newfoundland got them a drubbing from the US, because it was not recorded before the blizzard came, I was taught, while due to language misunderstandings, Avianca 052 crashed nearby on Cove Neck, NY after it ran out of fuel. The Rollei system would allow measurable 3D distances from photos, “photogrammetric” from helicopter flyover after operator and desktop programming with documented optics, why not “edge-of-space” photogrammetry? Virgin Galactic Unveils Design For SpaceShipTwo

Erica Jong: If Men Could Get Pregnant, Abortion Would be a Sacrament - Politics on The Huffington Post

I've also read that in the 1930s an oral contraceptive was available (precursor to the "pill") for the very rich and it was made from a bean and was expensive. It was in an introduction to an evolution of agriculture treatise I once read for grad anthropology at Stony Brook U.

Erica Jong: If Men Could Get Pregnant, Abortion Would be a Sacrament - Politics on The Huffington Post

eggmen

Hello Lou,

Enjoyed your reports. My godfather who just passed away, his wife was a French Jew whose family escaped to Morocco then to NYC, passed away recently. He met her at Tiffany's where they were both salespersons. Tiffany's is expanding with a number of stores nationwide and has invested I thought I read in the diamond mining in Canada near the Great Slave Lake region. Her grandmother, as a little girl, had her portrait painted by Renoir and is in the Louvre in Paris. It came here once to a private gallery, but I missed it. François was a nice woman and her and Uncle Lou Myers spent time in France.

I was reading your posts at CBS and thought maybe someone changed (ah the Internet where you can never be too sure) this and I'm wondering if you meant "yoke" and it was mis-spelled in transcription or just an error. You'd be surprised. I pointed out a mis-spelled word at the Philip K. Dick site, "stores" that should be "stories" how long it can take to change some of this stuff. Then again maybe it's there on purpose the "proverb" -ial egg on the face also seems to be the norm of some of the politics these days why not the news?

"Without their own state, the Palestinians threaten to become a yolk of responsibility for the Israeli state that has governed their fate for the past four decades. If they demand the vote and get it the experiment of a Jewish state would end in under a century."

Sodom and Sodomy

"According to Gen. 18:20-21 and 19:24-28, Sodom was a city in ancient Palestine notorious for its inhospitality, wickedness, and corruption. Its destruction by God was held out as the example of the type of punishment that comes to those who neglect or sin against God. Sin was so great and widespread in Sodom that God could not even find ten righteous persons, who could have saved the city from total destruction."

George

(The Bible should be taught as literature, which is what William Blake thought I think.)

- Sent 1/12/08 to WCBS-TV reporter Lou Young in NYC in response to his post on his report on his part in the news team's web-site. See today: Tens of thousands cross downed Gaza wall It had been "tagged" with Robert Banksy graffiti art, (from Yate near Bristol, England whose Masons, it's reported, Christopher Columbus wrote to before setting out on his voyages of discovery) too.

Bush Exempts Navy From Environmental Law - Topix

They should be honest. The Swedish Navy has a "Stirling engine" submarine that runs quieter than any in the world submerged and is/was in the process of helping design sonar to detect it by the US Navy. If that's what they need it for they should say so. Swedish inventor John Ericsson, a NYC Village resident, sailed into New York with a propeller driven boat while everyone was building paddle-wheels. He designed the "iron clad" USS Monitor built in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, arguably the first cooperative piece-worked project by many companies during the American Civil War. He had been interred in the non-denominational Marble Cemetery until returned to Sweden and a statue of him had been proposed for Theodore Roosevelt Park. President Monroe was also there until the Virginia legislature requested he be moved to the Hollywood Cemetery just before the Civil War. Bush Exempts Navy From Environmental Law - Topix

Huff Radio: Edward R. Murrow Would be a Blogger: How the Internet Revolution is Changing News, Politics & the Way We See the World

It seems however that the MSM has to pickup every stitch from a blog to be effective like ABC did with the "page" scandal they say. However there's a period to those and one might wonder if not blogged then would it have been anyway.

I'm not sure if Murrow would have had a blog. The itsy bitsy tiny little article in the NY Times on page xx that the "gray lady" found found with FOIA (to be even better real soon now, FOIL in NY State) of Joe McCarthy's fight for what he thought he deserved, as a sole survivor, for a medal as a machine gunner, I think might be a lot bigger story in the blog-o-sphere, which also has its fanatics. ...and to all their slips and ships at sea, goodnight. posted 09:31 pm on 12/23/2007

Huff Radio: Edward R. Murrow Would be a Blogger: How the Internet Revolution is Changing News, Politics & the Way We See the World - Media on The Huffington Post

Blogger: Pressing Issues - Post a Comment

"Update: Swift-boating John McCain in South Carolina" George Myers said... I walked into my employers office and there were photos from the possible Amelia Earhart "crash site" island and the people involved. There was also a brochure of people who wanted to bring up former President H.W. Bush's airplane from beneath the sea, lost in WWII. I worked for an archaeologist. I recall at the time that there was OpEd "flak" from someone who served in George HW Bush's air group contesting the official story, said it not correct and there was a responsibility of the former flier, Yale "Skull and Bones" member, CIA director, Vice and then President's version denied, according to his fellow veterans. Anyway TIGHAR is still looking for Earhart and Noonan, and I spent a lot of time on line looking for Steve Fossett. I wonder if they had given back allegedly, Geronimo's skull and all (others?) if this apparent Yale U. feud would have happened (alumni Bushes, Clintons, John Kerry, Ralph Nader, et al.) and if it doesn't inspire more of them?

TREASURED MAPS

January 14, 2008 -- Scott Stringer is a man on a mission: To save the city from getting wiped off the map.

But the weighty task has nothing to do with tidal waves or dirty bombs - the Manhattan borough president is charged with keeping all the official maps of New York County dating back to 1748, many of which have faded and begun to crumble to the point that they are in dire need of preservation. TREASURED MAPS

All The King's Horses - Couric & Co.

I heard that the major part of the US oil actually now comes from Canada. President Bush is on a vacation then for p.r. for Republicans, since he can't seem to find the time to talk with Canada, because, perhaps, they wouldn't follow "him" into Iraq, but cooperated with the international efforts in Afghanistan? Well, you know Air Force One takes a lot of jet fuel to fly, maybe he should be grounded and sent to the room next door?

All The King's Horses - Couric & Co

Chris Weigant: Bursting Bush's Bubble, One ACLU Case At A Time - Politics on The Huffington Post

Working in cultural resources archaeology, I was called to pick up maps in Manhattan to use to research the impacts of the proposed clean-up of the Hudson River of PCBs one day. I got on a bus in the Bronx. President Bush was in town to visit the Catholic Bishop at St. Patrick's Cathedral and the bus pulled up next to the cathedral where I got out to walk a few blocks to the engineering offices of T.A.M.S. (since bought by TYCO and moved near "ground" (hog) "zero") to retrieve the maps to take to the Peebles Island, Waterford, NY offices of NY State to review previous reports on file there, for GE, the client I was told. Well, you should have seen the crowds. Divided they were, those with signs of protest were further up the street and separated from those near the front of the cathedral with signs of "support". I witnessed a similar event when then President Nixon using Air Force One in his re-election campaign (1972) landed at MacArthur Airport on Long Island and the people with signage they didn't want the President to see were moved behind the small grandstand set up for supporters. I'd say the large crowd at St. Patrick's was about 50 -50 in the spring of 2001.

Chris Weigant: Bursting Bush's Bubble, One ACLU Case At A Time - Politics on The Huffington Post

Lawmaker: Missing ammo poses New York harbor danger

Interesting story about Fort Lafayette, now under the Brooklyn side of the Verrazano Bridge, (Brooklyn-Staten Island) told to me one of the reasons for more active preservation law. It was dynamited by Parsons, Inc., so said the field supervisor Petr Glumac, Ph.D. in 1999 while working on the human remains reputedly from the "first Almshouse" in NYC City Hall Park. Some of the local divers still dive "on it" (the fort remains) and bring up fragments I saw on the television, presented by a once high school chum, now investigative journalist, Lou Young. Lawmaker: Missing ammo poses New York harbor danger

A Toilet That Uses 14 Gallons? Oh Gosh! - City Room - Metro - New York Times Blog

As a one time user of the automatic toilet outside of City Hall Park, near where "Newspaper Row" was, the east side near Horace Greeley sitting on his sofa and the monument to Joseph Pulitzer, on top of the human remains of the city's "first Almshouse" I wonder is it heated? One of the ways to control airborne bacteria is with "black light" (UV) which I heard, once requested to inoculate South Koreans for TB, is installed in shopping malls circulation systems there to kill it. Ozone in water takes awhile I saw one manufacturer in Vermont, insists on using it to purify his water once bottled (1/2 hour). The one next to City Hall was removed to make way for the restoration of the current City Hall Park, complete with outlines of former building locations outlined in darker paving stone from Binghamton, NY. I worked on the burials in 1999 when it being transformed, after 9/11, locked up, and just recently reopened. "Go west young man and grow up with the country" he said. A Toilet That Uses 14 Gallons? Oh Gosh! - City Room - Metro - New York Times Blog

The Bronx to Get Another Golf Course in 2010 - New York Magazine's Daily Intelligencer

Has the City answered the original law-suit I read filed, that Ferry Point had been the repository of dangerous chemicals disposed of illegally as was shown to be the case in the landfill once open (between the War Memorial in Pelham Bay Park and the Pelham Bay Bridge, across from the police shooting range on Rodmans Neck, where illegal fireworks were once blown up, blowing over City Island) that had to be "re-mediated" as it was leaking into the surrounding Long Island Sound near City Island, under the then Mayor Dinkins administration? And what of the current scandals in its creation? Just "ah...forgetaboutit" ? The Bronx to Get Another Golf Course in 2010 - New York Magazine's Daily Intelligencer Listening to: WFUV

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Pressing Issues: When Hillary Met Timmy

I think the last comment the most important, especially since I forgot to turn it on. Digital television has come early to NYC and the signals in the air still fade in and out sometimes, one of the "side effects" of 9/11 (must be confusing to the Brits everything there is usually 11/9, the last 11 hour of the 11 day of the 11th month had impeachable Cheney at the Tomb of the Unknown and President Bush in Waco, Texas) and the loss of the huge TV transmitter. One was proposed for Governors Island. Sorry...

She stated that she voted for the Iraq invasion because the White House said they would then put in all the inspectors from the UN and allow them to continue their work. In technical terms she voted for the US to attain "belligerent" status (as Iraq was once when it invaded Kuwait) because she thought the work of the internationally sponsored investigation would have continued.

Pressing Issues: When Hillary Met Timmy

Tony Randall's Widow: We Had Frequent Sex - Entertainment on The Huffington Post

Eli Wallach just received a lifetime achievement award at a film festival in Pennsylvania, Wilkes-Barre, I think I heard on the radio driving back to NYC from Mansfield, PA. He and Clark Gable were good friends. Although I don't know how many awards Mr. Randall had, (or deserved) he surely, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was a wonderful "cultural resource" for New York City and we are grateful for his contribution to the serious side of acting that he established. It was in the early years of theater that the Bowery had many staged productions and theaters. Later, the Yiddish Theater near there, founded by Boris and Bessie Thomashevsky, whose grandson, Michael Tilson Thomas is a classical symphony conductor, survived long enough to give us people like Walter Matthau, part of the original "Odd Couple". Sometimes in America, whole places can be waved away with the wave of a hand or the signing of a bill, and it's important that New York City keep all its theater arts alive, as Tony Randall had stated by example. Tony Randall's Widow: We Had Frequent Sex - Entertainment on The Huffington Post

Wrack My Brain

Interesting song and a little bit of music history. I had been listening to Eric Clapton's 1974 Tempe, Arizona concert "Smiling Away" with Yvonne Elliman (Mary Magdalen in "Jesus Christ Superstar" and hits w/ the Bee Gees). This top 40 hit George Harrison wrote for Ringo? Early music video? Did it kill the radio star?

Amitai Etzioni: You Need Cartoons to Read? - Media on The Huffington Post

I recall working for the US Park Service in Skagway, Alaska, in the archaeology of the Gold Rush "city" it once was like Chaplin's "Gold Rush". About 600 residents are inundated by waves of tourists, similar to the "canals" of people, Claude Levi-Strauss once described Fire Island, NY in the summer. There, next to the riverboat Captain Moore log cabin (moved a short way) that his wife, a Tlingit native and son lived, we found a small newspaper "cartoon" lead plate. Once upon a time, I learned about typesetting in public school. On the small plate (in reverse, so inked printed right) were two boys watching another boy go by who was dressed like the proverbial "Little Lord Fauntleroy". They remarked at in the caption, there goes who or what that never had known what it was like to go barefoot. I thought an interesting "cartoon" perhaps, speculating an offhand reference to the barefooted Tlingit who carried a great number of supplies up the Chilkoot and White Pass trails, when a minimum of a ton, literally, of supplies were required of those crossing the border into Canada, a border that had been recently determined, internationally. Moore, promised 200 acres, thought he was working for Canada when he "found" the trail up over the mountains into the Yukon! I think it is amazing what levels of meaning are supplied and how attention is focused and re-focused in this "brave new medium" which, like the "wizard of Oz" also has someone and agents behind "the curtain" of appearances. It does make the traditional print medium seem more secure. I for one, having read one of the dense sociological works of Mr. Etzioni, probably out of the Whole Earth Catalog recommendation of Stewart Brand, ("The Active Society: A Theory of Societal and Political Processes") have been reminded that books are written by people who are alive and to meet many of them, like here on the Huffington Post, is a thrill, a democratic thrill if I might use that word in another sense than party, almost like a gazillion seminars. Amitai Etzioni: You Need Cartoons to Read? - Media on The Huffington Post

Rolling Stones Rock 'n Roll Mystery

Back in 1969 two friends John and Terry asked if I wanted to go to the Rolling Stones concert in Madison Square Garden, the show held November 28. I did and asked my friend DeeDee if she wanted to go. We parked John's VW by the Queens Shopping Center and took the subway into Manhattan. Stevie Wonder opened for the Rolling Stones. The mystery is here on the Internet. The songs they played, "Jumpin' Jack Flash", "Carol", "Sympathy For the Devil", "Stray Cat Blues", "Love In Vain", "Midnight Rambler" (the reason I remember which show), "Live With Me", "Little Queenie", "Satisfaction", "Honky Tonk Women", "Street Fighting Man", ends there and is listed as an "Incomplete setlist. No tape extant" yet it lists some of the tracks are on "Ya-Ya's" referring to their title I suppose. Next to that "Mick Taylor jams with Jimi Hendrix in the dressing room" in the following, second show. Where's the tape, if there was supposed to be one, and was there one of Jimi and Mick? Interestingly, a BBC recording was released, played on a jazz station I heard up near Harriman, NY a couple of years ago, which has Stevie Wonder on drums and Jimi Hendrix playing along with him, I thought an interesting set, not ever before hearing Stevie Wonder on the drums. Back in 1973 I saw a bootleg vinyl album for sale of one of the Rolling Stones concerts, I wonder was it that one? Someone steal the tape?

Re: Fw: Happy Holidays!

What a year last year was. Nancy couldn't hire me directly so I was hired indirectly by another firm and we went to test down at the Marine Corps College in Quantico, Virginia. When we got there that student opened fire killing 22 people. It was terrible being in Virginia back in April. We drove back and forth for the weekends and were testing in this really nice forest with giant trees with holly trees growing under them. We found some of the Confederate encampments they found on other parts of the woods just up from the Potomac River across from Maryland where they hoped to control the river and access to Washington, D.C. We used a handheld GPS about 5000 bucks dug a lot of holes which is what I do. I've dug more holes maybe than Jim Croce had, who crashed and died 2 weeks before I would have met him in Buffalo, NY probably. An anthro grad student had organized a concert in a movie theater for him. "Bad bad Leroy Brown" is about NYC on the tape I have of him, not Chicago!

We saw Marine One the President's helicopter its stationed there goes back and forth to the White House when called. It's being replaced by a European one that will be assembled and serviced in NY State thanks to Senator Clinton. Bush selected the Euro over the Bridgeport, CT, Sikorsky they're up to their eyeball over Iraq/Afghanistan I imagine wearing out faster than thought. We were part of a survey of a forest harvest at Quantico for a radar upgrade, last I hear they'll fix the radar rather than chop down the magnificent trees and raise the radar tower a bit. We saw the Ospreys (both kinds) before they were sent off to Iraq. (those tilt rotor planes).

Meredith Blake: An Open Letter To JJ Abrams About "Cloverfield"

"Armageddon" was to have the song "Remember Me" (by "Steve Augeri and Journey") in the sound track and appears on the CD but not in the film, unless it was what's on in the NYC cab when "plastered" by a meteor fragment. My family (Steve's married to my cousin Lydia, and left "Journey" recently) went to the show and waited and waited no song. What's up with that? His son Adam Augeri said it was in the cab on the radio. I will accept apologies but only if William Shatner is in the new Star Trek XI film somehow. Huffington Post An Open Letter To JJ Abrams About "Cloverfield"

Erica Jong: Europeans Ask: What Happened to Hillary in Iowa - Politics on The Huffington Post

The band Audience is also popular in Italy, like Ms. Jong's books. I was up in the only wind-farm on federal forest land in the US, in the Green Mountains of Vermont, archaeological testing for additional larger wind generators up on the ridges, in the early snow dusting of November. Watching C-Span, we witnessed the House attempt to impeach Vice-President Cheney, who attended the Memorial Day service at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, while the President went to Waco, Texas. Incidentally, the soldier has been replaced due to DNA testing. What I heard, on the local TV, that is from a large number of statisticians (over 200) that they thought the race would be between Giuliani/Huckabee and Clinton/Clark. Wesley Clark was the former Supreme Commander of NATO and a former Presidential candidate, first in his class at West Point, who beat John Edwards in the primaries in the next state over, New Hampshire, the last time.

The US Constitution was changed with amendment, requiring the two heads of the U.S. to be from the same party, where before, the founders, thought they should or could be from different parties. We focus so much on the top of the command rather than the team they should or could be, in my opinion. Maybe the candidates should announce "their" intentions in courting us! Let's hear who else is or would be next in line, no surprises. Erica Jong: Europeans Ask: What Happened to Hillary in Iowa - Politics on The Huffington Post

G4 - The Feed - Cohen To Play Abbie Hoffman On Film

9:37 AM The play "The Six Wives of Timothy Leary" got pretty good reviews over in the place it (LSD) started, England. Wasn't he one of the upcoming Star Trek XI actors godfather? Yes, Winona Ryder. I like to think of him as a decent author and New Yorker and professor. Jimi Hendrix played bass guitar on one of his recordings so I guess you could call him a recording artist.

10:02 AM There's a reference in "Three Men With Unlimited Capital" after the NY Times ad that started the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in 1969 that alleges Abbie Hoffman wanted a bribe to stay away from it, since he would start trouble he said. It also refers to him playing poker with the NYC police (many undercover there also alleged) regularly. When he died a tribute to him was held at the Palladium, since demolished for NYU dorms next to the German Luchow's Restaurant (1840-1982), on 14th St. in NYC, across the street from the ConEdison Museum and around the corner from the music venue Irving Place. Apparently there was some altercation between him and Pete Townsend of the Who there then, why, what? G4 - The Feed - Cohen To Play Abbie Hoffman On Film

A Drunken Night in Iraq, A Soldier Is Left Behind - Washington Post

Is this not a dereliction of duty in the battlefield? It also seems to be a double standard applied to women soldiers, despite the so-called "universal code of military justice" (was there penetration?) How do we justify that nothing is paid to her child or any support for his or her development and education, left without a mother, and not for any reason of the woman who served our country, other than she had been mislead in the chain-of-command? She was mislead and then she and her child have been assaulted by it. This is more "don't ask don't tell" logic, and a review of all military treatment in regards to gender should be reviewed by the US Congress, in my opinion, having watched Fort Drum go from National Guard and winter training to the land of women in war-paint and carrying the new weapons without even a peep out of politicians. A Drunken Night in Iraq, A Soldier Is Left Behind

Direct from WFUV: Jan. 08 Newsletter

The New York Guitar Festival 2008

January 12 - February 6, New York City opens its heart and ears for the return of the New York Guitar Festival. This year, NYGF kicks off with a free performance January 12 at the World Financial Center's Winter Garden: The Royal Albert Hall Project - a tribute to the music of Bob Dylan with performances by Laura Cantrell, Marshall Crenshaw, Nicole Atkins & Lenny Kaye, Jim Lauderdale, Toshi Reagon, Jesse Harris, Richard Julian & Jim Campilongo, Kelly Joe Phelps, Chocolate Genius, and others.

Wind power can be deadly - Topix

I once read a patent on an alternative standing "wing" design. Even in cross section, a long slot on both sides of the standing wing creates suction when wind passes over it, (used in aircraft for auxiliary power in the air). The "slots" are connected (Bernoulli effect) to a turbine and as the air suction is applied to a turbine connected to a generator, power is created at a distance, on the ground, connected by piping rather than the generator in the air on "modern" wind farm designs. I seem to recall the author thought it would only work in deserts (water's a problem I guess) and a bank of these standing wings could be stood in opportune areas. I was just on an archaeology survey to expand the Deerfield Windfarm on Green Mountain National Forest land in Vermont the only one on federal property in the US to my knowledge. Given a foot in the door, smaller windmills will be added to with wingspans equal to the wings of 747 aircraft. Interesting area outside Bennington, Vermont where the White House "Christmas" tree came from this year, also the ho, ho, ho Green Mountain Forest's 75th anniversary.

Happy Holidays!

Thanks. I had a split fuel line when I got back from Centereach the other day. Gas gushing out of the engine, Nancy's glad I stopped smoking she jokes. I had to have it towed as it was in the alternate side past 9:30am a $55 ticket (double parking is $110 past 11:00am) so I had Nancy's car moved and mine back before 11am. And I'll be moving again in 1/2 hour for tomorrow. Parking's at a premium here too!

Dulse drying on an artificial pebble beach on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada. (VirtualTourist.com)

Panoramas.dk -Christmas - All Saints Day -QTVR photos from the best VR photographers

From Bill Casselman's Canadian Word of the Day a South Street Seaport spirits label from the Great-Western Steam Ship Company of yesteryears. An old style steamboat and an address at 93 Front Street (land-fill, two streets in, Pearl Street was once part of the original shoreline). Nearby was the storefront of the father of the murderer who was responsible for the "Mutiny on the Globe".

From the island of Lesvos...

Michael Dukakis' Hometown of Pelopi (at the bottom next to "Petrified Forest"). He once visited a restaurant nearby here on White Plains Road. Maybe he should have went for a swim in Boston Harbor like Charles Dickens did?