I've also read "three sheets to the wind" is when a ship was in peril in a storm and could not set an iron anchor (dragged or lost), it would deploy a canvas "sheet" under water in hopes that a prevailing current or sheer drag would keep it off the rocks or other disaster. To set three would have been very unusual and might presage imminent catastrophe. At least that's another interpretation I've read.
9 Common Idioms That Come from Technology - Boing Boing Gadgets
I believe freedom of the press was established to protect the owners, (Zenger was jailed and tried for owning the second printing press in New York which had an opinion about an election) not necessarily its reporters, though I don't think they should be jailed for uncovering a hoax. If the Lewinskys "wanted" to live next door to Bob (loves Viagara) and Libby Dole, and the press reported so, I didn't think the report was a hoax, however, everything else is suspect. Russian Pranksters Sentence Is Suspended - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog
"Workers Memorial Day is held annually to commemorate the 1970 Occupational Safety and Health Act. But city construction workers have never held a Mass of their own before." wcbstv.com - Local Wire
"Workers Memorial Day (U.S. and Canada) commemorates workers killed or injured on the job."
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I think that he would move to New Zealand and take four years out of his life shows how important the project is to him, the prequels. It's a shame the Tolkein family had to sue (and Peter Jackson too I recall) to get proceeds from the multi-million dollar blockbuster, surely setting a new standard for fiscal scandal. Now they just have to find someone to be a young Ian Holm, before he got werry scarwy...
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Seems that the pranksters that we vote for are allowed to hoax us, because they can, and are given a type of social immunity built into the language of "politics" (or its excuse "politics"). And...the guy who falls for it (G. Gorden Liddy who was tricked into recovering a "call girl" photo in the Watergate, where later the Lewinsky family lived) seems to be punished the most for it. Chapstick walkie-talkie mikes come to mind, on exhibit at the National Archives on tour I think. My soapbox or yours?
Russian Students Prank Earns 16 Months in Jail - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog
George Myers - 4/28/2008 1:50 PM
I just came across this the other day about Marlon Brando (he gave a bit of money for water quality in the Whole Earth Almanac I recall) on IMDb:
Sande N. Johnsen updated information by cm-77 (Wed Jun 28 2006 13:41:52)
Date of birth : 07/23/36 Date of Death : 06/11/83
My father grew up in Libertyville Illinois and went to the same High School as Marlon “Buddy” Brando but a few years after Brando graduated.
Shooting for the Vixens was to start on a Monday and casting was done on the previous week end. Hector Elizando got the job because he was the only actor that answered his phone on the Sunday before shooting.
Thank you all for sharing. You are my favorite women in the media. The old Tombs in NYC used to flood periodically from underground streams that still run down there
Whoopi: 'Ma, Don't Freak Out. But, Yes, This Is Marlon Brando' | WOWOWOW
I have enjoyed Mr. Mudd's talks at the "History Channel" which are very educational and helps someone like me who works in "public archaeology" whose cousin George Murray I heard produced CBS' coverage of both the Republican and Democrat's conventions of 1976. His "uncle" my father was only two years older being the youngest of eleven and they used to laugh about it. My dad's Teamster local's leader, a former UPS driver, Ron Carey, was president of the Teamsters Union before its current president, James P. Hoffa, a lawyer who also writes on The Huffington Post. I read his sister is a judge. What a world! Lou Young one of CBS' "street reporters" in NYC and I went to high school together so I thought I'd say I enjoyed the interview and congratulations on the book, I enjoyed Tom Brokaw's autobiography, unfortunately all I have is the story of Edwin Newman reading George Murray's eulogy in the UN Chapel, he read a letter canceling the crew trying to get the "soldiers view" in Vietnam, who once directed "Huntley and Brinkley". Remember When CBS Was The Place To Be? Roger Mudd Does - Media on The Huffington Post
Unbelievable. I once sold "Public Citizen" subscriptions for NY PIRG door-to-door one summer in grad school out of St. James, on Long Island on water quality issues, a concert by Pete Seegar at the end. Well, I'm glad someone is watching all these issues, "Public Citizen" couldn't get established in NY, started by but not connected to Ralph Nader. If the Democrats will take the leadership on these issues, Mr. Nader wouldn't have to be the oldest Presidential candidate in US history, I think we might find. Then again looking at the number and size of these usurpations of the people's power I'm not sure anyone's party can do that. We need some sort of "Power Rangers" maybe or at least a Congressional Committee, which the Founders would have approved of.
I was once in a large Anthropology Dept. (Stony Brook) and for what its worth I remember a very small article in the NY Times that showed that Senator Joe McCarthy was for many years at war with the military industrial complex. As a US Marine in the Pacific (only Marines in Europe guarded embassies) he as a sole surviving machine-gunner deserved a medal which the Corps was not going to give him as there were apparently no witnesses and perhaps for other reasons. It was a very small article in the paper where maybe many would not see it it seemed at the time about 1980 or so. Listen To The Legend - Couric & Co.
Truman followed FDR (still no monument to him in NYC, that my uncle, I a witness to since my father was the youngest of eleven, was a law clerk to FDR) and it seems that the Gallop though it may point to the facts that you can't fool all the people all the time, also might reflect the popularity of the former President and maybe if the current one tomorrow was revealed to be the "Devil" would not surprise anyone in the Press Corps who was to his first "coming out". Katie Couric's Notebook: President's Approval - Couric & Co.
Once to the Choctaw pow-wow near Philadelphia, Mississippi (to a few Shinnecock ones on Long Island, recommended at one time by the US Dept. of Commerce) I asked Iron Eyes Cody for his autograph. He played Crazy Horse in "Sitting Bull" (1954) and shed a tear for the garbage we throw out without thinking. I recall that there was a tribal historian's book, and in it Custer "Son of the Morning Star" as they called him (not sure if Janus-like, the morning and evening are the same) had met with some there in 1876 or so from the piles of clippings and other ephemera the historian had collected. I wonder if, the last in his class at West Point, and remember a former student began the artillery barrage of his former professor at Fort Sumter, SC, if some still had a score to settle with him (i.e., Quantrill, as shown in the John Wayne, Roy Rogers films) since some of the even archeology data, has some problems with the recounting. Would he have watched his men under attack perish in attack as was thought, for example? War is hell as General Tecumseh Sherman I think said (the first in war against property) and a "civil war" perhaps the worst. In this we might agree that General Petraeus has warned us so, our own sometimes, it seems, still being fought.
Petraeus, Custer and You - Dick Cavett - Opinion - New York Times Blog
- currently excavating Native American prehistoric hearths in Pennsylvania
I remember it too, though most of it was hyped info, capitalized on by politicians more recently in the 1980s here in NYC and elsewhere as the "forgotten parade" I think the truth was, it was never a declared war, yet the scale of it overshadowed the sacrifice of those that served, many had been young volunteers and inductees in WWII, the servicemen and women that served in the Korean War a war which still stands without treaty. America basically wanted to fight an air cavalry war in Vietnam, but weather, and translation problems, along with mechanical ones, caused a withdrawal of what I read as all the helicopters (former SOS Colin Powell of the Bronx his son the former FCC chairperson, was ballyhooed for crashing in one I think recall) by 1972.
Blog comment at reporter Lisa Ling's "Trying To Do Good" .
Back in 1963 our teacher showed us a retouched original of a woman in the electric chair being electrocuted, taken from the teacher's father's calf I think, who lifted his trouser leg to get it. He had others, one in Nevada I think, of a large tripod in the desert I think taken from a nearby hill that showed the thousands of people that had showed up in what looked like the proverbial "middle of nowhere" as an outing, some by train, to be at the public execution. I would like to commend the prosecutors, though the alleged crimes are heinous, to react "in-kind" just as horrible. More "Black Widows" Guilty Verdicts, L.A. Jury Convicts Elderly Woman Of 2 More Counts In Murder-For-Profit Scheme - CBS News
The Pentagon is infiltrating the media with pro-war propaganda.
The scheme reaches all the way to the Bush White House, where top officials recruited dozens of "military analysts" to spread favorable views of the war via every major news channel -- without revealing they were working from Pentagon scripts and often lobbying for major military contractors looking to cash in on the war.
This is a violation of every conceivable standard of journalism -- and possibly of federal law.
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P.S. Read the New York Times' front-page exposé: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20generals.html.
Rivets were replaced by nuts and bolts in steel girder construction, specifically in the WTC maybe one of the first to exclusively use nuts and bolts. "Good better best never let it rest" till your good is better and your better is your best (seen on cast water tanks in Australia) leaves out the "best of best" rivets that went into the center section. I wonder if there was a grading of nuts? (and bolts). There's a large nut factory "Star" on the NY State Thruway near Harriman that's been bought by Kiryas Joel the Hasidim town mostly for the wells then the State has to put in a pipe to the aqueduct (Catch 23).
If anyone is wondering that post refers to the "little lady" that President Abraham Lincoln had met that wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and he remarked jokingly as the one who had started the "Civil War" Harriet Beecher Stowe, and not the film of that name in 1903. Lincoln once challenged to a horse race by a bully, brought a carpenter's wooden horse the next day as any horse was permitted. Might be true! He brought the Capitol Dome from the Bronx!
Subject: RFP for West Point Foundry Masonry Ruins
I was just checking the ONVIA guide that lists new proposals and saw that Scenic Hudson has issued a RFP for architectural/engineering services to stabilize masonry ruins at the West Point Foundry Preserve.
You can access it at: www.scenichudson.org/foundryrfp
I printed the map.
I still don’t understand the ownership of the property.
-Nancy
Well (looking at Lucien Freud's paintings on Slate he's 82! S. Freud's grandson escaped to England in 1933 from the Nazis) "synchronicity" the former President of the Psychoanalytic Society Carl Gustav Jung, (MD too a "German" in Switzerland) wrote about it, like us with the same email time on two very different messages. I began with Joel Grossman on that there was a map of architects that had hillside motel/hotel that is the earliest recent (1971) map from a firm in Chicago (the Chicago Bridge and Steel Co., may have owned it? One swing bridge from Cold Spring still swings in New Jersey I think for a RR. They and another were THE primary suppliers to bridges around the world according to SIA, the other I think Bear Mountain Bridge. However: "In 1896/97 J. B. & J. M. Cornell took over the iron foundry at Cold Spring, N. Y. on the Hudson River. The foundry was known as the West Point Foundry Works. These facilities are discussed in the magazine, The Successful American, Vol. III, No. 4, April 1901, p. 202, which also illustrates the extensive works at this location." Later fires at Foundry Cove seem to been disastrous, one of the "Bridge Shop" in 1913. One reportedly, burned for 24 hours and required hundreds of firefighters, of pool chemicals, in the extant concrete "platform". They wanted to open the site to visitors and tours (Brill and Associates hired E. Rutsch et al) and then we also heard of another owner who held Envirosphere to task for not saying acid could recycle the cadmium, and they responded yes but it would require pure sulphuric acid. However I heard it as "the owner said he could do that in his garage and make a bit of money recovering cadmium".
Stony Brook University has a strong (politically too) geology dept. at "Earth and Space Sciences" and hold in study on a 99 lease the "Flax Pond" nearby on Long Island Sound. I recently heard that they were looking for a comparative study and happened upon the Foundry Cove. Then they discovered however that the previous Army Corp of Engineers cleanup had not done a very complete job. Also the Fed "exposure level" was twice the amount the NYS DEP had from lab studies and then the story was clean it up and we'll do it again after the Feds are gone. When we showed up the building was used as a new school book repository and I'm not sure what they did with the pallets of books but the rest of it is gone along with the "vault" they put the first dredging in from the marsh, a concrete catchment behind the factory where closed then probably open cell nickel cadmium batteries were made for the NIKE anti-missile system that once guarded cities here and in Europe during the Cold War. Except it was everywhere not just the marsh at the foot of the drainage. I don't know the particulars the EPA still permits a level of cadmium per year discharged into the environment.
There's always more to the story...
George
and maybe I'll remember it!
Interesting short article with great comments, some very funny!
April 17, 2008
Enter the Pope caption competition
Confusion results in western terms between "rod" and "rood" and apparently at one time "rod" was a unit of brick wall with a method to "estimate the value of a rod of brickwork..." (p. 742) and the measures of "roods" of "superficies...as under"
Followed by very large surfaces, as of countries, are expressed in "square miles" which is shown in conversion as multiples of units of "Square feet";"Square yards";"Square poles";"Square Roods";"Square Acres". This leads to the comment above that "Perhaps the only standard that can be safely referred to at the present day is that belonging to the Royal Astronomical Society."! p. 1224 - From "The Encyclopedia of Architecture - Historical, Theoretical, and Practical -The Classic 1867 Edition" Joseph Gwilt c) 1982 Crown Publishers, Inc.
Aztec Math Used Hearts and Arrows Article Comments Scientific American Community
I was in Mayville, the county seat out on Lake Chautauqua a number of years ago around Halloween, in a diner just down the hill from the last public hanging in the state of New York. Across the street at the county courthouse was the media van with its satellite up link. A young man had been arrested for allegedly knowing he had AIDS, had sex with a 16 year old woman and perhaps others, minors. The then Republican governor of NY, George Pataki, stated publicly that perhaps there should be a death penalty for this, which like the media sometimes is a hell of a way to tamper with "innocent until proven guilty". Fortunately, perhaps the Bronx D.A., who had other "confrontations" with the governor over what some might see as dictated jurisprudent goals for other defendants, extradited the young man on another outstanding charge. Perhaps the courts, and as a minor I saw a smuggled photo by a newsman of the first woman being electrocuted in Cook County, Chicago, Illinois, determine how in this age of visual mass communication, "media trials" can be regulated, before the State of Louisiana, which just released out of solitary of 30 years former social activist Black Panthers and allowed its own prisoners to almost drown in hurricane Katrina (gee hurricanes we never heard of those) dictates another rule of law that with proper medical study may be shown to have a genetic basis, i.e., perhaps a tumor or endocrine disorder, etc. Where will the Supreme Court "draw the line" in incest? Slate -> The Fray -> Jurisprudence
My first reaction was, gee how many virgins does these men "have"? Like the Saudi flyers who brought death and havoc on 9/11/01? In "The War Lord" (1965) Charlton Heston, may he rest in peace, asserts his royal privilege, to usurp the bridegroom's first night and all hell breaks loose among the subjects. I don't think this should be tolerated as a matter of fact and the fact that it started in Western New York, as a New York citizen, an almost constant embarrassment. As a situation of 'frontier' necessity it was tolerated, as a modern "practice" it should be regulated by review and law if desired, in my opinion.
I remember after the Principals, one could take the US Federal civil service exam, called back in the 1970s, P.A.C.E. which tested fundamental understandings of US government and its base of law, i.e., Bill of Rights, etc., (today "PACE" (1992) is the national Paralegal Advanced Competency Exam, the "National Federation of Paralegal Associations ("NFPA") adopted a position on regulation") which was eliminated under the Reagan administration. It was decided that each department would have its own requirements and award additional what had been points (out of 100) for previous service as a US veteran, and the test was eliminated, what from my perspective had been a source for Food Stamp supermarket pickups (armed in a car?) and other government agency employment. It's too bad these people in the White House apparently have never taken one, because it would seem they would not have passed either the old or the new "PACE" exams.
Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup - Politics on The Huffington Post
A cousin a Korean War Army Captain worked for US Army Signal Corps making training films after his service in Korea and became a film editor at NBC, back when TV news was 15 minutes, the station promised "film at eleven" sent on motorcycle, rush delivered, developed and edited. One day at "Huntley and Brinkley" the news director was sick and they asked the film editor George Murray to be the director. They liked him and he went on to later produce NBC News. We heard he was in Houston and Saigon covering the Gemini program that led up to Apollo and the "police action" in Vietnam that turned into a war.
Noted television journalist Edwin Newman read a letter at his eulogy in the UN Chapel, he had died in Mexico City, where his wife, an Avon executive was introducing that product there I was told. I heard that the letter Mr. Newman read, a letter George Murray had to send to his crew in Vietnam spending months of investigation there at risk to life and limb to present the "soldiers point of view" in the Vietnam Conflict (never a Congressional declared war, referred to as "Madison Avenue's War") had to stop as it was canceled by "higher-ups" at NBC. ? General Westmoreland later sued the network for millions over alleged "body count" manipulation when NBC did a retrospective report on the Vietnam debacle, settled, for an undisclosed, unpublished amount. Does the military-industrial complex now own NBC?
Wooops that was Westmoreland vs. CBS (1982) as shown on the cover of "TV Guide" (Forbes)
"Depositions made by Rusk during the trial of William C. Westmoreland vs. CBS Inc., etal., in 1984 may also prove engaging. Rusk was a prolific writer, and many of the articles and book reviews he penned on international issues and foreign policy are included in these files." Dean Rusk Articles and Speeches, 1951-1994 Richard B. Russell LibraryBill Moyers: On Journalism - Media on The Huffington Post
Ed.- George Murray was an award winning news producer (pers. comm. Edwin Newman) and won an award for a production called "Vanishing Americans" about native Americans in the US and the terrible conditions on some of the reservations. A similar sentiment I saw in the old photo album the grand-daughter of one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) showed me, a photo journal album of her grandfather's, at Harvard University, while we dug many test holes a stones throw from Princeton University, NJ, from travels out in the American southwest while undergrads I think she said, where the current "presumptive" Republican candidate for US President is from. I wonder what his record on those issues are?
The Republicans began what had been described as a "sneaky" telephone registration drive in Mississippi in 1979, what some thought litigious. They had banks of phone callers using phone books and asked if they could send a card, and don't quote me here, if the card was not returned it meant you were a ?
I was working in the archeology of the impacts of the since built Tennessee-Tombigbee Barge Canal, as it was called, which tore up NE MS and channelized the Tombigbee River into Alabama and out to Mobile on the Gulf of Mexico. That river runs through "Tennessee" Williams home town of Columbus, MS where I lived for awhile on that phase of archeology nearby the Waverly Plantation, before moving on to Belmont, MS near scenic Tishomingo, where they found Aaron Burr had been after the duel with Alexander Hamilton, from the money available for Bicentennial research in 1976.
The Congress' choice, (or no choice) was between a new technology "energy island" for NYC (a few NYC archeology types worked there in MS where the then "new" Grand Dragon outed and to this day is followed by Southern Poverty Law Center) and barge canal (Tennessee River feeder) in the Tombigbee River, is apparently also for an unforeseen time when the Mississippi becomes useless from drought or deluge. I find it interesting that in Western New York I can dump a pail of water in the Allegheny river and it flows out in New Orleans, Louisiana. Huge drainage. Alec Baldwin: Who Can Beat McCain? - Politics on The Huffington Post
The Planetary Society MER update or click here for film of the Martian sky from the surface. 
Mars from the...to be Space Shuttle rescued Hubble telescope in orbit?
To scale: Earth and Moon distance...
Coming up: Denvention - A Mile Closer to the Stars - 66th World Science Fiction Convention (before the Democrat's convention)
Living in New York State I watched Bernadette Castro run against the Senior US Senator at the time Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and do well on Long Island, I recall because I found myself sleeping on one of her convertible beds and reading a Robert Redford catalog that night there. Why she didn't run against Senator Clinton is odd, though appointed head of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation in my state which working in I think should be split up instead of cloned in other public works depts (DEC etc). Senator Clinton made the Purple Heart stamp permanent and the State of NY has announced a Purple Heart Center to be built at the New Windsor Cantonment, where the troops over-wintered after the treaty was signed with King George, just in case.
Maybe Bernadette Castro should be running now, it would seem more evenly matched, based on the Castro/Moynihan rivalry, both ran and won or lost a race for New York Senator. I'd hate to think we'd elect John McCain based on his similar sounding name John McComb architect:
Alec Baldwin: Who Can Beat McCain? - Politics on The Huffington Post
The next day:
When I first cut and pasted it from Wikipedia the asterisks (bullets) caused the posting to truncate yet was under the requisite number of words, so since it had yet to be moderated I thought the moderator would throw out the first and leave the second. My point is that Bernadette Castro, a furniture heiress from NYC, known for some of the earliest TV commercials in many NYers mind, her jumping up and down on one of their bed/sofas in a long night shirt, an adolescent I think, was the GOP candidate against the "Democrat machine" once upon a time and she spent quite a bit of money. After she lost Senator Moynihan's "replacement" was the former First Lady, and one of the two women at the Watergate hearings, who ran against what the GOP decided was an appropriate candidate, a young inexperienced gentleman from Long Island, as if to say "you win". Anyone can run is a myth we all share, and given the record spending in this campaign you have to wonder if America is going to the "heirs and heiresses".
A new feature inside Windows Live to keep files safe online. I just reloaded Windows XP SP3 after some weirdness shut me out, not too sure what so now I'm trying Windows Live OneCare to safeguard my computer. I included some public stuff someone might be interested in. A little history, a little intrigue, a little music a small quantum of solace. Our Lady of Solace is the nearby parish here. "Seek solace in consumption" was a phrase the anthropologist Marvin Harris of Columbia University once used that stuck in my scarcity driven mind, from "The Rise of Anthropological Theory".
Congratulations! I thought I'd just offer some information about journalism, not that well known perhaps, since 9/11/01 it's been closed up, and recently opened again. I'm talking about City Hall Park in NYC, where City Hall is and I worked in archaeology around the "Search for the Almshouse Cemetery" within for a number of firms, eventually found, and perhaps under, the large bronze statue of Horace Greeley, who's sitting on a sofa. He coined the term often mis-quoted, "Go west young man and grow up with the country". Nearby is a small monument to Joseph Pulitzer, a simple stone block and bronze plaque. "Newspaper Row" used to be across the street where the press was that covered the city. They've since moved the statue of Nathan Hale, whose burial location is still unknown, a patriot from Connecticut, once also held perhaps in the fort in the cemetery "Fort Golgotha" in Huntington, Long Island, by the British Army, who regretted he had but one life to lose for his country, (sometimes changed to "give") before he was hung in Manhattan. Nearby Greeley and Pulitzer, if you will, was a prison the NY Times in 1903 described as "blacker than any Black hole of Calcutta". Nearby on Governors Island is a small swivel gun monument to John Peter Zenger, who owned the second printing press in New York city, an opinion published on it leading, after incarceration and trial, established the "freedom of the press". -30-
19. Recent democratic elections in Bhutan and the upcoming transition to democracy in Nepal may have some influence on the problems there. The Chinese government "let go" Outer Mongolia which is now a democracy, it seems part of the problem. If it were up to me, I would let the Sherpa woman, whose been three times to the top of "Mt. Everest" to carry the torch perhaps. It's been discussed that the Sherpas share linguistic similarities with the Tibetans. Kathmandu had an interesting electrical vehicle program going I read in one of the electric magazines a few years ago. When I was in third grade Edmund Hillary visited our class. He later lost his daughter in Nepal, a wing flap iced up on a small plane. Have you seen an electric airplane motor? I thought I did.
Posted at 3:06PM on Apr 1st 2008 by George Myers
The karma of lithium ion batteries: how Tibet plays a role in green car technology - AutoblogGreen
