Spain claims $500 million in sunken treasure

Subject: Re: Spain claims $500 million in sunken treasure From: George Myers Reply-To: Underwater Archaeology Discussion List Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 07:14:59 -0700 June 2 Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924 Google calender: created by: Misc. history What also complicates "Spain" is the the southern "kingdom" of Andalusia, which was held by the Moors and then in treaty joined into the "Spain" (as reported anyway) by an important treaty with Castille, for whom Christopher Columbus ("The Admiral of All the Oceans" a title they would never grant him, though he pursued it) ? It might explain "New World" maize in Arab botanical tracts and represented in some sculpture in India, though both hard to date I was told. Maybe the world was interested in "lunch" at the Castillo de Jaguar, as some European famines have been served later, by wheat from a monopoly in the Hudson River valley, sold as "hard tack". ("The Marine Society of the City of New York - 1770-1995 - A Concise History" by Gerald J. Barry) Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 07:31:20 -0700 I was thinking of a few things, how irrigation techniques and the cultural implications of Cordova and other places in Spain that fell in the unification and whether there may have been a parallel problem in agriculture, in themes of the "origin of the state" and Karl Wittfogel's "hydraulic hypothesis" wherein places like China developed the earliest civil service to manage water resources, as similar research on irrigation in Peru might show there and in Mexico. In the history of the Marine Society of the City of New York, there is a reference to an earlier time in which it is there cited: Bread Basket of the Western World The most significant period of the port's development lay between the years 1815 and 1860. But before we look at those exciting years let's glimpse at the first real prosperity enjoyed by New Yorkers. In 1678, four years after the Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam to the British, the harbor was said to be home to only three ships, eight sloops, and seven boats, evidence, perhaps, that beaver-skin exports hadn't been much of a business. Sixteen years later the totals had soared to 60 ships, 62 sloops, and 40 boats. In between those years, New York had become America's bread basket. Much of the additional shipping in the harbor was needed to carry flour, bread, and hardtack along the Atlantic seaboard and to the West Indies and southern Europe. The Dutch had created a market for New York bread and flour but it was an uneven one until the first English governor Major Edmund Andros, decided in 1678 to standardize and increase production. He achieved this by granting to a few leading citizens exclusive milling and baking rights to the wheat grown in the Hudson Valley. Although the monopoly lasted until only 1694, flour was to be New York's most valuable export for more than a century. Testimony to its importance is found today on the flag of the City of New York which shows a windmill, beavers, and two flour barrels. - (Ibid. p.20) I read further some of the history and the exclusive milling rights were granted to a "German" around near today's West Point Military Academy adjacent in Highland Falls, NY. It's also a leap, since Spain once ruled the Netherlands and was arguably important in the unification of their states seen in an early coin found at the "Augustine Heerman Warehouse Site" (he an ambassador from Maryland, who may have introduced tobacco to the Dutch) in a winter excavation in lower Manhattan. That other agricultural product has come to dominate historical research. Added: I like to add that if "Odyssey" is the same people that came to the "Ronson Ship" in the winter excavations at the "175 Water Street Site" (Joan Geismar, PhD, et al., ca. 1983) that hired a hydraulic scaffold to photograph/film the ship-hulk or a film they were making to document the "18th century trailer truck" and the crew was paid a legal $0.25 to appear in the film...is there some place I could see the footage? I was in the last of three backhoe trenches that found it the "deep tests" permitted with a small backhoe, where in trench #2 were some nice large pieces of "brain coral" probably part of the ballast master's deposits (one of three known nearby). Subject: Dutch routes to New Amsterdam Underwater Archaeology Discussion List Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 10:28:02 -0700 This new research tool Concharto (http://www.concharto.com/) just displayed the locations and sea route of the Dutch to the New Amsterdam colony locations at Fort Nassau and Fort Orange. New Amsterdam colony

Slate -> The Fray -> Today's Blogs

White House Press Secretary

05/28/2008, 9:31 PM The National Archives published an article about the history of this position. It claims that the first was George B. (M.) Cortelyou, who held a number of Cabinet posts, when he invited the press into the White House to discuss President William McKinley's condition after the then attempted assassination at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, NY. Some of the surviving photos show him standing with the President there. He began as a shorthand teacher in NYC, later Chairman of the Republican Party and then under President Theodore Roosevelt, Postmaster General, and one of the early CEOs of Consolidated Edison in NYC (in their museum on 14th and 3rd Ave). He later lived in Huntington, NY at "Harbor Lights" recently for sale for over 3 million. Historians have suggested his role as overlooked in the history of the US during the Spanish-American War and the McKinley-Roosevelt administration, and his role should be examined by historians, even if they are all in shorthand, perhaps. He was descended from the French Surveyor for the Dutch in New Amsterdam (NYC) of what narrowly became a borough, Brooklyn, NY (by a few votes, once a very large city almost to itself). Oddly the article left out the first woman in that role Dee Dee Myers, though she had already vacated it to get married a year or two before the article. Slate -> The Fray -> Today's Blogs

NYC Preservation and Landmarks

Years ago I was at the doctoral defense of Shereen Baugher, PhD, who was since hired as the first New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission Archaeologist, back in the early 1980s when I was in grad school at Stony Brook University. She had also helped teach the prior field-school one summer in Long Island Prehistory, in Mt. Sinai Harbor, NY, run by R. Michael Gramly, PhD. With Wagner College students she excavated "The Prall Site" named for one of Staten Island's early settlers, in Richmondtown, its once Tory capital under British rule, today an historical interpretative center of activities and re-enactments. Staten Island is sometimes jokingly recalled as named when Henry Hudson remarked, "Is stat an island?" and dutifully recorded by his Dutch crew on the "Halve Moon" (it's not). Yearly celebrated as an island in a sail around it to deny a claim to it by the freeholders of New Jersey. Freeholders, the former NJ governor and EPA chief, Christine Todd Whitman, is one, also "own" the "gores" leftover in surveys.

The legal basis for archaeology in NYC was "iffy" as many of the laws of city, state and Federal statutes are used as guidelines for archaeology, but were often written to apply to "standing structures". They have had to be defined as cases, like the African Burial Ground, now a US National Monument, and other efforts around NYC are worked into building and design procedures in what is a cosmopolitan environment. However, not too thrilled am I, with "this is where the water fountain in City Hall Park will be put next week" finding two skeletons, a top each other in the planned outline, inconclusively found within the probable "First Almshouse" cemetery, without what today we might require, more forensic analysis.  NYC Preservation and Landmarks - ArchaeoSeek which said:

So if you have a landmark and preservation organization in your city, town or state, here's what's going on in my "neck of the woods" (from Landmarks West!)

WEDNESDAY at 2:00 PM! Help Restore the Landmarks Preservation Commission's Budget to Preserve Our City

For the second year in a row, LANDMARK WEST! is working with a coalition of over 40 groups representing neighborhoods throughout the city to co-sponsor the Second Annual NYC Preservation Lobby Day on Wednesday, May 28, 2008. A press conference will take place on the steps of City Hall at 2:00 PM. Please join us! Voters make a difference.

Together, we're urging the City Council to RESTORE $300,000 in funding to the Landmarks Preservation commission's 2008-2009 budget! This year, your participation is more important than ever. In 2006, the City Council, led by Council Members Jessica Lappin, Tony Avella and Diana Reyna, allocated $250,000 in additional funds to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's budget, allowing the agency to hire five new full-time staff researchers to aid in their designation efforts. Last year that amount was increased to $300,000, which allowed the LPC to designate more than 1,000 buildings in 2007, a 2,000% increase in buildings since FY2005. Still, despite the amount of much-needed work that these grants have allowed, Mayor Bloomberg has declined to baseline this amount and it has not been included in the Commission's FY09 budget.

Unless we band together in unified support of a well-funded, open, efficient, effective Landmarks Commission, the agency's staff and resources will shrink significantly -- at a time when its workload is higher than ever and the Department of Buildings is issuing record numbers of demolition permits!

WHAT YOU CAN DO TODAY!

1) Call, write, email and/or fax your local council member stating your support for RESTORING $300,000 to the Landmarks Commission's budget. For contact information, go to http://council.nyc.gov/html/members/members.shtml. A sample letter is attached.

2) Send copies of your letters/emails to Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Landmarks Subcommittee Chair Jessica Lappin (contact information on website above). In addition, please send copies to
landmarkwest@landmarkwest.org or 212-875-0209 (fax).

3) Invite council members, neighbors and colleagues to join you at the press conference. May 28, 2:00 PM, on the steps of City Hall.

4) Add your group's name to the coalition supporting the RESTORATION! Send emails to our colleagues at the Historic Districts Council, the citywide advocate for New York's historic neighborhoods - hdc@hdc.org.

SEE YOU ON THE STEPS!

Here's more information on why the Landmarks Commission needs your help (from the Citizens Emergency Committee to Preserve Preservation, www.savelpc.org)

1) The Landmarks Preservation Commission is one of the smallest city agencies in New York, yet its workload is impressively large and growing every day. Their staff and budget have become dangerously small.

2) The Commission's budget has shrunk by 35% since 1990, in constant dollars.

3) The Commission's share of the city budget has shrunk by 52% since 1990. It now occupies just .007% of the entire city budget.

4) The Commission's staff has decreased by 25% since 1990. Over this same time period, the number of applications to repair or modify landmarks (which the Commission regulates) has more than doubled, to 9,000 per year.

5) The Commission has just 52 staff members who watch over more than 23,000 landmarks throughout the five boroughs; only 3 staff members are charged with enforcing the landmarks law.

6) Since 1990, the Commission has increased the revenue it generates for the city from just $10,000 per year to more than $1 million per year. It now raises nearly 1/3 of its agency budget, yet the city continues to deny the Commission the funding and staff it needs. 

Plum Island, NY

McClatchy Washington Bureau | 05/22/2008 | GAO says moving infectious disease lab is risky

Ironically, the first major battle between Great Britain and the American colonists was on Plum Island, in New York it's thought. It's arguably in the middle of 40 million people and yes there have been some power problems supplied from a cable on the mainland, backup generators, labor, etc. I grew up watching "Modern Farmer" which showed the place. One suggestion was to move it to the now unused military property in Rome, NY though a population of albino white-tail deer are what it's known for now, within the perimeter fence (Hannibal and his elephants turned away from the "plague" though leaving Rome intact). Upgrade the research facility was New York Senator Clinton's statement on that issue.

Vincent Bugliosi: George Bush's Unseemly Response to the Suffering He Has Caused - Politics on The Huffington Post

It's hard not to get caught up in the particulars, i.e., angry, about the money from the State sale of the sponsored stadium's team, and the money to buy the former German's turkey ranch in Crawford, Texas so I try to think of singer entertainer Joe Cocker's real cattle ranch in Crawford, Colorado. Money apparently to an arranged sale, the brother owner of CBS wanted the team, but couldn't have it. That was reported by a family historian (I heard the former President's father had a big hand in building Shea Stadium in Queens, NY) who had an interview on the WNYC radio station one day, which he insisted the Bush family had no direct contact with the Nazis in their strategic metals business shut down as a matter of course by the Feds when the second World War broke out, a short time after Pearl Harbor, when Germany declared war on the US. According to the Texas Peerage research, there's only one Bush in Texas a large ranch owner and they're not related. Vincent Bugliosi: George Bush's Unseemly Response to the Suffering He Has Caused - Politics on The Huffington Post

Ed. - added May 29, 2008 What has been left out was the complaints I heard (some of my relatives are Canadians) was the amount of time it took President Bush to acknowledge the errors made by the US National Air Guard from Illinois when it bombed Canadian troops in Afghanistan and killed five of their soldiers. It seemed too long when he could have said it sooner...we're sorry took an inordinate amount of time for someone who seemed to be in command.

Reagonomics...

Trickle-Down? Not Quite. - Couric & Co.

I recall a lunch counter in Jamaica, Queens, NY, before the GSA moved out of the World Trade Center, "to the people" where might be the new Family Court is, across the street from NYC's "Rufus King Manor" park ("...a signer of the Constitution, last Federalist, early abolitionist, Ambassador to Great Britain and candidate for President," and it was the home for, "...one of the first U.S. senators from New York") and the "Reaganomics" lunch item on the menu: a plain hamburger on a plain bun with some ketchup!

Ewan McGregor Joins Amelia Earhart Biopic - Cinematical

If some one's interested further, the archaeological investigation "The Earhart Project" at tighar.org has done recent research and perhaps the film could donate to it some funds. I recall reading in a Westchester, NY paper where she was quoted joking about having a garden in one town and serving the vegetables from her garden in another, the line running through the backyard apparently. Sounds like an interesting biopic and I wish it well, and Gore Vidal too, he was in a few recent films commenting on the lack of coverage the large protests against the US war in Iraq in the media, and also in another flight picture, as Director Josef in "Gattaca" (outside the IMDb box). Ewan McGregor Joins Amelia Earhart Biopic - Cinematical

Sunday fishing and earthquakes? What do you think...

Money Up The River? - Couric & Co.

There was one particular sin which was thought to have had a great concern in bringing about the earthquake - namely, the salmon-fishing practised on the Dee on Sunday. Accordingly, the proprietors of the salmon-fishings were called before the session, and rebuked. ''Some,'' says the session record ''promist absolutely to forbear, both by himselfs and their servands in time coming; other promised to forbear, upon the condition of subseryvant; and some plainly refusit anyway to forbear." - Nov 8, 1608 "Domestic Annals of Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution" by Robert Chambers. 1874. In the footnote: "The fishing of salmon in the river Dee on Sunday was a custom of some antiquity, as it had been expressly warranted by a bull of Pope Nicholas V. in 1451. The privilege was limited to the Sundays of those five months of the year in which salmon most abound; and the first salmon taken each Sunday was to belong to the parish church. The bull recites that both by the canon and the common law, the right of prosecuting the herring-fishing on Sunday was conceded to all the faithful." ? p. 416 On Dec. 1, 1608, shortly thereafter it's cited women were seized as witches and burnt alive, "...albeit they perservered constant in their denial to the end..." in Broughton. Posted by georgejmyers at 03:42 PM : May 25, 2008

A Perfect Day for Bananafish - Journal - deeblog.squarespace.com

A Perfect Day for Bananafish - Journal - deeblog.squarespace.com

I just stumbled into this excellent blog and really enjoyed revisiting Mr. Warren Glass' 10th grade high school English class, where one of the first JROTC Marine Corps in the country was, back in the late 1960s, where else, in Selden, NY named after the judge who testified as a character witness for Susan B. Anthony, when she posed as a man to vote in an election in John Updike's bailiwick, Upstate New York State. What a run-on!

Speaking of runs, I was reading the NY Times (May 25 2008) online and thinking about how Seymour doesn't want anyone to see his tattoo...and saw this in the article on Al Franken, running in Minnesota (where Republicans will meet to presume soon that their candidates' are winners): “But Franken (see more glass) has taken a pounding, getting tattooed by story after story, which is preventing him from making this a referendum on the incumbent.”

Maybe as you say about the war, but about an election?

LISTSERV 15.0 - HISTARCH Archives

LISTSERV 15.0 - HISTARCH Archives

Excellent short history of Herculaneum pottery in Liverpool, England is here:

http://www.toxteth.net/places/liverpool/history/herculaneum.htm

Sir Paul McCartney is probably still chuffed it was selected as a
world-class center of culture this year.

Subject: English pottery without marks

LISTSERV 15.0 - HISTARCH Archives The only makers marks I've seen on 4'x8' plywood sheets on saw-horses (Abraham Lincoln once brought one to a race) full of creamware sherds from ceramic shop deposits at the "175 Water Street" site in NYC had been impressed "Herculaneum" with a green tinge from the glaze apparent on the "creamware". I've also heard here there may have been a small industry in once important South Carolina (not that it isn't today, when ships were at sea in trade then more important than other places perhaps) and considering that British industry was "impounded" often (as in the ordnance industry, some of their workers given false identities and worked in the West Point Foundry in some of the latest issuance of "industrial indenture" known, Rutsch, et al) it's possible. Or like some of the "Chinese" porcelain wares, made by settlers elsewhere i.e., in the Philippines by Chinese crafts-people there. Giraffes in Beijing!

Shatner: JJ Abrams Never Called Me Back | TrekMovie.com

69. George Myers - May 23, 2008

One of the few actors to make a movie in the International language - Esperanto - I was amazed to read at io9 (strung out on Sci-Fi) that when a FOIA request (freedom of information act, “law” in NY) for the entertainment media on the International Space Station was honored, not one Star Trek anything was seen on the list and Sting’s “Walking On the Moon” is listed as “Walking To the Moon”! Maybe we should petition NASA to get something the “Big Giant Head” had something to do with into orbit and save the Universe as we know it.

(Would George Takei actually be Joji Takei?)

National Trust Names (Great Britain)

Welcome to the National Trust Names. website which presents the findings of a project based at University College London (UCL) that is investigating the distribution of surnames in Great Britain, both current and historic. It allows users to search the databases that we have created, and to trace the geography and history of their family names.

Katie Couric's Notebook: Curses! - Couric & Co.

Katie Couric's Notebook: Curses! - Couric & Co. "...origin Greek, neuter of tetragrammatos 'having four letters', from tetra- 'four' + gramma, grammat- 'letter'." - Oxford Dictionary of English. Ms. Simmons said it off-air and considering perhaps Michael Powell, the former head of the FCC, may have left over a similar problem with the administration, as his father General Colin Powell left over Darfur, I am not surprized that "love is just a four letter word..." - Joan Baez

---

Posted by georgejmyers at 09:11 PM : May 18, 2008

CelebWatch: Stardate 05.15.08 | TrekMovie.com

CelebWatch: Stardate 05.15.08 TrekMovie.com#comment-672444

26. George Myers - May 19, 2008

Hello Trek (no Trek on ISS? Why?) I read over at WOWOWOW Whoopi tell a story about Marlon Brando coming to visit her - a day earlier! I am so happy she, who hasn’t been getting any scripts has a job on The View. I once was somewhat obsessed by Barbara Walters dry cleaning having stopped by the place and my girlfriend Dee Dee (never Myers sigh…) family phone was listed as Arlington Walters. Nice interview…thanks Patrick Stewart for putting Macbeth more in perspective…the porter does what? Now if we could get someone like Sarah Bernhardt to be “Hamlet” again…(she saved Mrs. Lincoln).

Phobos-Grunt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Phobos-Grunt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Phobos-Grunt (rus. Фобос-Грунт) is a planned Russian sample return mission to Phobos, one of the moons of Mars. It will be the first Russian interplanetary mission since the failed Mars 96 mission.

Science: Search for Life on Mars - washingtonpost.com

Science: Search for Life on Mars - washingtonpost.com

Marc Kaufman: Good afternoon. Nasa's Phoenix lander is scheduled to touch down near the North Pole of Mars on Sunday. It's on a search for ice, water and ultimately signs of past (or conceivably current) life. This search for life forms beyond Earth is a major emphasis of NASA and the relatively new science of astrobiology is growing fast. We can never tell what missions like Phoenix will find -- or if the lander will even land safely -- but the science is certainly compelling and possibly quite important. On to your questions.

Bronx, N.Y.: Are there any considered plans to land on Phobos and Deimos to set up observation/jump-off missions?

Marc Kaufman: None that I'm aware of. I believe the Russians tried to land on Phobos some years ago and missed. All the information I've read and discussions I've had about a future manned mission to Mars involved a direct flight from Earth -- or from a jump-off station on the moon -- to Mars.

Sojourn in the Solum

Education

Newfield H.S., Marshall Drive, Selden, NY. Advanced placement, Regents scholarship. 1970.

Suffolk County Community College, Selden, NY. Entered the “Marine Technology” program. It needed a bigger boat than the "J. Alfred Prufrock" a Boston Whaler and a donated 23' cabin cruiser. 1970-71.

SUNY at Buffalo/Amherst, Buffalo, NY. “Visual and Performing Arts” residential college, one of many then a few in different fields, i.e, College B, I attended, pre-med, Vico College history, math, women's studies, radicalism, to name most of the alphabet to fit into the plan of the new dormitories on the new North Campus, Amherst, NY where New York State's only Law School was also opening. College B had a satellite at Oakstone Farm, philosophy and A.C.T., the American Contemporary Theater in the city. Dormitory construction behind schedule found commitment in what was an educational philosophy struggle, tiring. 1973-1975.

"Field School In Long Island Prehistory" Team taught with Richard M. Gramly, PhD, the future NYC Landmarks Commission archaeologist and others in Mt. Sinai, NY and visits to other important sites in NY and New Hampshire. 1977.

SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY. BA Anthropology 1978.

SUNY at Stony Brook, Graduate School in Anthropology, 1978-1981. PhD candidate, 51 credits.

Interests: The marine environment and the people who live in it. I investigated the Captain Brewster Hawkins house in Setauket, NY when building upgrades in the Brookhaven Town Historic District had old artifacts showing up in the backyard of the "ship chandlers" thought circa 1840. Setauket was settled in the mid-17th century by mostly Charles River, Massachusetts colonists then. Setauket has so much history, it was once the location of the headquarters of the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities (SPLIA, since relocated). Brewster Hawkins was important in reviving shipbuilding there and resulting industry in Port Jefferson in the 1840s. He built the infamous luxury yacht "Wanderer" that his son Thomas Hawkins was its captain for a year then sold to a Louisiana cotton merchant's broker. Fitted with water tanks in Port Jefferson for trans-Atlantic travel, it became the "last slaver". Boarded by British Navy slavery blockade around 1858, apparently thought an innocent wealthy voyage, it delivered hundreds of the surviving illegal slaves to Jekyll Island, Georgia, that are commemorated there in a large iron cauldron they were fed from. The plaque citation was changed in the early 1960s to "Setauket" from "Port Jefferson" due to the research of a family ascendant (on file in the Emma S. Clark Library). From that large iron cauldron on Jekyll Island they were fed before further enslaved, transported elsewhere. "Wanderer" was a "chess piece" in the ensuing American Civil War, first as a fast blockade runner, after capture, a mail packet in the Union. It sank in a storm off the east coast of Cuba, on Cape Maisi, (Christopher Columbus' "Maysi") located in Guantánamo Province after the civil war, working in the fruit trade. Some of my family live on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada, in the entrance to the Bay of Fundy, often home to five species of whales. My family, from a homestead in Castalia there, once had a house in North Head, sold to teachers, and one in Seal Cove, next to the schoolhouse. Seal Cove was first settled by an American, a Dr. Faxon, in the early 19th century, who reportedly built the islands' first "square-rigger". He moved back to Maine over personal patriotic conflicts in the resulting War of 1812, in part, fought over the "repatriation" of American seamen seized at sea for the British Navy.Languages Studied: High school and college Spanish, some college Portuguese and many in undergrad and grad school Linguistics.Specialized Training: Self-taught in personal computers, computer-aided drafting, geomatics and informatics. 1983 to present.

"Health and Safety for Hazardous Waste Site Investigation Personnel." 1989. Certificate. Bellevue Hospital, NYC class.

Prometric Technologies, Inc., Ontario, Canada, RolleiMetric MR2® close-range photogrammetry. 1989-1994. Various locations.

"Waste Site Health and Safety for Supervisors." 1990. Certificate. Raritan, NJ class.

"Health and Safety Operations at Hazardous Materials Sites." 1990. Certificate. Westchester Fire Training Center, Elmsford, NY.

"Health and Safety Operations at Hazardous Materials Sites." 1991. Certificate. Same location.

Current Organization Membership:

Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology
The Society for Industrial Archeology, Roebling Chapter.
The Planetary Society

Professional Experience in Archaeology: On request

Other Work Experience:

1981 New York Public Interest Group (NYPIRG) St. James, NY. Summertime subscription sales door-to-door of "Public Citizen".

1980 General Contracting employee, house expansion, remodel, etc., laborer, Stony Brook, NY.

1980 Tootsie Taxi, Stony Brook Rail Road Station, nights, Stony Brook, NY.

1980 Middle Country School District, Centereach, NY. Substitute teacher in Social Studies, night janitor Unity Drive School.

1979-1981 Cleaner, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY. Weekends.

1976-1979 Gym Security work study, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY. Weekends 3 years.

1975-1978 Leaseway Trucking, Cleveland, Ohio. Furniture delivery and warehousing for Abraham & Strauss in Brooklyn, NY. Nights, temp.

1976 Summer Brookhaven Town Parks Employee, Coram, NY. Four day labor lottery winner.

1973-1974 United Parcel Service, NY, NY. Furniture warehousing and delivery from Roosevelt Field, NY. Nights and seasonal, temp.

1973-1974 Inter-Residential Council at SUNY Buffalo as the new Amherst Campus opened, North Campus Coordinator, Resident Advisor in new residential education architecture.

1973 Residential education recruitment office work-study, SUNY, Buffalo, NY. Summer.

1970 Gasser & Sons, Inc. Brentwood, NY. Lathe operator. Transportation problems.

1970-1971 Zum Zum Restaurant, Smithaven Mall, NY, cook and night manager, a "Bavarian theme" fast-food franchise of Restaurants Associates, Inc., NY.

1968 Wetsons, Inc., NY. Fast food, started by Margaux Hemingway's husband, Lake Grove, NY.

1968 Timber Lake Camp, Allaben, NY. Summer dishwasher.

Judy, Judy, Judy...no one said it. (Larry Storch did)

Lawrence Schulman (1976) On May 5, 2008, a box set of two compact discs titled Judy Garland: Classiques et Inédits 1929-1956 [Judy Garland: Classic and Previously Unreleased Recordings 1929-1956] was released.

Lawrence Schulman produced this new release, wrote the liner notes that are both in French and in English, and also made the musical selections. Stony Brook University Online Community - Class Notes

ABC News: William Shatner Bares All in New Book

Gee maybe he should have started with the time he swam with the huge "whale-shark" in the Philippines I think, though the film and source disappeared offline, though as a guy who has struggled through anthropology and archaeology, and a Canadian descendant in part from Grand Manan, where the "right whales" have a nursery, I think the Koko story is great even if it's made up. I wrote to Arthur C. Clarke sort of over at "Wired" about it as it reminded me of his story I rediscovered on City Island, NY of herding huge schools of large fish in the future Pacific on "spaceship" Earth in their little nautical bronze park. Nice intro! Posted by: georgejmyersjr 5:26 PM

ABC News: William Shatner Bares All in New Book

Bush Won't Make Gas Prices Forecast - Couric & Co.

Once upon a time a big fight broke out over a Pittston proposal (Brinks is one of their divisions) to build a refinery in Eastport, Maine across the way from Campobello Island, NB, Canada, in some of the highest tides in the world, at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy. They were defeated, however, it seems odd, in retrospect, that there has been a shortage of refineries built in the US since. A spoiled industry holding its breath until there's only too few crew on its tankers and a fourth mate is at the helm, like the Exxon Valdez heading for the Bligh Reef in Alaska? What are we now run by "little" bullies?

The Congressman from the area of Pennsylvania where oil was originally struck (though an "Oil Springs" has been known in New York State since the early 17th century) has the best idea, and there's much natural gas waiting to be discovered just off our eastern US shore. Might stop a methane eruption and tsunami even. Bush Won't Make Gas Prices Forecast - Couric & Co.

I'm Not There Resume

Sojourn in the Solum - pre- 9/11/2001 online resume.

More recent edits resume.

On Faith: Guest Voices: Presidents Should Not Be Liars

Former President Carter inherited a lot of problems in foreign policy. When the "hostage crisis" started, we (almost 4000 Grumman employees, think Apollo LEMS on the Moon) had 80 F-14s on the ground in Iran training them for the Shah, which I recall was to be 100 (Newsday). That was a first in US policy and may be the last time its done. The Iranian students in the US, as they were attending our schools, complained to Henry Kissinger no less that the Savak (secret police) was spying on them in the US. He said there was nothing he could do (on TV). I was sitting with the test pilot of the F-14 (think Tom Cruise "Top Gun" Netherlands pilot enlistments went up as the female costar looked like their princess) at a belated birthday with his wife who had been in Iran, and has now a PhD in Anthropology, when the TV announced it would blow up all the F-14s in Iran if the then USSR made a move for the border they shared. He said the air-to-air missiles in their hands would upset the balance of air power. Well, send in the fleet and find out how many US F-14s can shoot down how many Iranian F-14s? I wonder what the neighbors (Iraq, etc.) thought of all this? Then arms for hostages?

- In memoriam to the Israel pilot who died in our burning space shuttle re-entry, whose notes were found. He flew with other Israeli pilots to form an airliner radar signature through international air space to bomb a French-built Iraqi nuclear reactor many years ago thought to have been making nuclear weapons.

On Faith: Guest Voices: Presidents Should Not Be Liars

Walking To the Moon - What's up with that?

On the sci-fi blog io9 (On the International Space Station, You Can Watch Star Wars But Not Star Trek) there is a report from a FOIA request (US federal "freedom of information act" recently revised, FOIL in New York State: freedom of information law) of the media on the International Space Station which lists "The Police" song as "To" instead of the real title "Walking On the Moon". So considered, the ISS is busted.

Re: grids - Sub-Arch: Underwater Archaeology forum

You could also not. I worked on the "Ronson ship" found in the landfill (former landfall of Manhattan) in December of 1981 and at the time the underwater archaeologists tried to set a grid above the circa 1730s hulk and pull three tapes to measure points that were later calculated on a small handheld calculator. I've since worked on recording using infrared "total stations" (Lietz and Sokkisha which became Sokkia history) and that is a more accurate method. I've read here in the forum there are similar "beacon" systems using other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Another method I've used on land/marsh is the close-range photogrammetry then in development by Rollei. Using a medium format camera and a few relative control points (1 meter rod) in the picture frame it is possible to resolve 3D measurements from photos registered with reseau marks on a digitizing tablet and software that calculates x,y,z from multiple photos. At the time around 1993 I heard Erv Garrison an archaeologist with the NOAA was testing it with a model in a swimming pool for its use in the description, for example, of documenting processes of site changes over time. This set of photos now with another at another time. A similar idea was in using the 35mm version of the documented camera and lens in the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City. It would allow the investigation and measurement of changes in stone block movement after seismic changes I think.

The camera and software was being used by Prometric Technologies of Markham, Ontario and used in the architectural documenting and recording of "as-builts". Personally, I used it on the EPA Superfund Marathon Battery National Priority site in the Foundry Cove of the former West Point Foundry in Cold Spring, NY, where batteries for the Nike anti-missile system were made. I recorded plans and profiles with it in the recovery of either the prototype or of the return of the "Swamp Angel" gun platform found on wooden "grillage" in the marsh edge beneath the remains of the huge "Bridge Shop" which had burned down in the winter of 1912, a large metal working yard where magnetometer surveys, both terrestrial and over water were also part of the archaeological investigation. It was used in the incendiary bombardment of Charleston, SC in 1863, designed by the patentee of the R. P. Parrott "rifled cannon" which had a significant effect on the outcome of the US Civil War. We recovered two empty shells from the site where once President Lincoln had witnessed the firing of 200lb and possibly 300lb shells, across the Hudson River at the properties adjacent to the West Point Military Academy on the west shore.

Peloponessos, Laconia, Sparta

Gerakas is the ancestral home of Telly Savalas

Meiji-Mura

The Museum Meiji-Mura

Mayflower - test

Can Bob Schieffer Save CBS News (Again)? - Media on The Huffington Post

George Murray, directed "Huntley and Brinkley" and award-winning TV producer, according to Edwin Newman, at NBC, produced CBS's coverage of both conventions in 1976. Walter Cronkite is currently a spokesperson for the "Drug Policy Alliance" and supports "its dedication to ending the War on Drugs and replacing it with a new drug policy based on science, compassion, health and human rights." One terrible story, a 16 year old waiting with his mother to talk to a judge in NYC leapt out an open 10th floor window over a marijuana cigarette.

We should not blame the journalists, like the letter Mr. Murray had to write to our journalists in Vietnam, trying to get "the soldier's view" were canceled by "higher-ups" as was read at the eulogy for Mr. Murray by Mr. Newman in the UN Chapel.

I'm not sure what is wrong with the evening news but it might be the "promise" of embedded reporting which might also be canceled by "higher-ups" and by firings, if as reported by the former Manhattan Borough President and NYC mayoral candidate, Ruth Messenger, who states Bronx native and former Secretary of State General Colin Powell, (son Michael Powell once head of the FCC), was fired over his views for needed US involvement in Darfur. She had run against the incumbent, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who I read, also "canceled" the State Comptroller orders to "open the books" before 9/11. Perhaps the "malaise" is in leadership and not TV reporting.

Can Bob Schieffer Save CBS News (Again)? - Media on The Huffington Post

Husseins Execution Was Botched, Judge Says - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog

6. April 29th, 2008 6:52 pm As a sixth grader our teachers father had been a news reporter. In the year of President Kennedy's assassination he showed us some photos, one of a woman being executed in the electric chair, from a hidden camera he had strapped to his leg. I seem to recall it might have made the front page of the Chicago Sun. Another was of a hanging in the American deserts of the Vast Wasteland (by one reporter as part of the US, i.e., The Foundry; Dixie; New England; Ecotopia; etc., from that reporters experience of those areas) where many traveled to.

It almost seems to have hung Saddam Hussein, part of an American ideology, a particular and peculiar historical reference to our own past and the recent history of the State of Texas under now President Bush, whose brother, apparently was a friend of the would-be assassin of former President Ronald Reagan, according some sources online, though the President denied at the time of knowing him.

Why not call for a Congressional Constitutional Committee, in retrospect as an over-site on some of the issues that have arrived resulting from the attack on the original US capital NYC (National Guard origin and where the current Capitol Dome was forged in the Civil War and assembled for President Lincoln for a little over $1 million) and Washington, D.C.? Why not take the issues of national security into both houses and the branches instead of whatever goes on across the street from American University, stays there, like the slogan for Las Vegas? Husseins Execution Was Botched, Judge Says - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog

Lisa Ling - Trying to Do Good - Uber

In 19th century America prison labor was used to create Battery Park in lower Manhattan at the foot of Broadway. I recently watched it being dug for a new subway tunnel on the "swing shift" for archeology, where defensive walls were once filled by prison labor. Elsewhere in prisons then "tinware" was made almost exclusively, and the enameled "tin cup" and other utensils and "holloware" was very much used in American expansion west. ("Go west young man and grow up with the country" - Horace Greeley. His statue is in NYC's "City Hall Park" that section recently reopened after closing on 9/11/2001. A small monument to Joseph Pulitzer is nearby as were the newspapers once). "Recidivism" as the returns to prisons is called could be fought with thought-out work plans and schedules, perhaps as it was in the past. Lisa Ling - Trying to Do Good - Uber

National museums group honors Monitor Center

As a grand-nephew of Master Mariner Leman Chapman Urquhart, a Canadian captain of the "S.S. City of Atlanta" sunk in Jan. 1942 by U-123 off Cape Hatteras, who had been employed as a Savannah, GA harbor pilot, and had left the NYC dock, with the resulting loss of 43, 2 survivors, I applaud this rescue of NYC heritage where it was built, organized among a number of firms, a first. Somewhat connected to its different researchers by participation in another effort, the EPA cleanup of Cold Spring, NY where the West Point Foundry was, I would hope America will be able to settle it's regional differences peaceably. The "last slaver" the luxury yacht "Wanderer" built in Setauket, NY, even boarded by British slavery blockade about 1858, yet delivered what was left of its illegal human cargo to Jekyll Island, Georgia is reflected in my mind in today's illegal international "rendition" flights and worrisome for our own country's fate at the hand of regional sectionalism. National museums group honors Monitor Center - Topix

TriggerStreet profile

Interested in film, was at Gerald O'Grady's Media Center with classes with Paul Sharits, while Hollis Frampton and the Vasulkas were in Buffalo, NY. Also shot video for Stan Vanderbeek's student, some at Watkins Glen Rock Festival, NY Woodstock's post script (1974). Former Korean War Army Captain, a cousin, George Murray, after duty made Army Signal Corps training films, then began film editing at NBC News, directing "Huntley and Brinkley" and producing news for NBC and CBS until 1976, both parties conventions. He died in Mexico City, wife was an Avon executive. Edwin Newman read the eulogy in UN Chapel, canceling "soldiers view" in Vietnam he once wrote stopped by "higher ups".

I worked or trained for awhile in Rollei close-range photogrammetry, the ability to computer reconstruct 3D from multiple photos for crime scene investigation, architecture, science but on archeology sites, on EPA contaminated sites. Thought first needed in Gander, NL after a US service air-crash, when a blizzard stopped a Canadian investigation. Some car crashes in England are so recorded and investigated. (1989-1994; Intel 386). Loved the CBC Mark Hamill narration of forensics, watched "all day" before Flight 800, the memorial there is where we swam in high school, Smith's Point. Mr. Hamill did much of the character voice work for Brent Spiner's "Dreamland" CD recently. Arielman

Lesbos Residents Sue Gay Group Over Using The Term "Lesbian" - Living on The Huffington Post

Ariel freed from a tree by Prospero would want us to know that here on the one wide world web (where's that Ariadne? Swallowing a mouse?) that the island is also called "Lesvos" (Michael Dukakis' hometown of Pelopi, at the bottom next to "Petrified Forest") and can be found on line here: http://www.lesvos.com/forts.html. 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? Ahem, Ariel of course has many manifestations in the collective conscious (Shelley's biography? a very fast car, an old motorcycle, etc.) Thanks Prospero for freeing me from that tree!

Lesbos Residents Sue Gay Group Over Using The Term "Lesbian" - Living on The Huffington Post