tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93332022024-03-23T13:11:00.775-05:00Red Ink and Rewrites? We don't need no...Some recent thoughts and sites I've come up with and across. Everything on 11/26/04 and before was all entered on 11/26/04 from ClipCache Plus from XRayz Software.George Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07167669826031076860noreply@blogger.comBlogger2416125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9333202.post-16774927483829806082021-08-26T12:36:00.001-05:002021-08-26T12:49:19.006-05:00Zum Zum George Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07167669826031076860noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9333202.post-12886916099490601132019-11-21T10:01:00.001-05:002019-11-21T10:01:38.284-05:00STAR TREK CONCERT | Prague | 2-11-2016George Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07167669826031076860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9333202.post-78435141737992158032018-09-23T00:32:00.001-05:002018-09-23T08:55:33.870-05:00Rewrites...red ink."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."
Unfortunately, for some reasons, I have blogged, (George Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07167669826031076860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9333202.post-88878291706257416512017-06-26T17:45:00.002-05:002021-10-10T10:20:38.540-05:00Truckin'...I missed Anthony Burgess' "Creative Writing" class at the university in Buffalo, NY in 1975 or so. It had been rumored he would teach at CUNY in the NY Times Sunday Book Review. I had been there for some new "residential education" and a "Seminar in the Arts" led by Esther Schwartz. Each week a new artist, i.e., Leslie Fiedler, percussionist in the symphony, architect, etc., would come to talk atGeorge Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07167669826031076860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9333202.post-12853724852311693622015-02-26T19:04:00.000-05:002015-02-26T19:07:18.318-05:00The origin of HIV goes further back...A purported history of HIVGeorge Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07167669826031076860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9333202.post-53086109754726441062014-11-22T13:18:00.001-05:002014-11-22T13:26:12.670-05:00Daytonian in Manhattan: The Federal Survivor at No. 37 East 7th. StreetWhile at Grossman & Associates, Inc., (16th St. and Third Ave.) we used to get our AutoCAD updates from here. I think we also leased a wide pen plotter from them.George Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07167669826031076860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9333202.post-20522699561578349042014-10-26T13:16:00.003-05:002014-11-22T13:26:59.362-05:00
Aerial practice target range on Long Island from a USGS map. Some of the smaller "white" outlines are to scale aircraft carrier and other vessels outlines, created in the Pine Barrens probably for WWII said out of painted rocks. Anyone seen them? Large stones are in such short supply there early formal gravestones had to come from Connecticut across the Long Island Sound, it once part of that George Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07167669826031076860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9333202.post-40316589489774871382014-04-01T23:23:00.001-05:002014-11-22T13:27:30.422-05:00Ground-Breaking 3D Scan of Mysterious Hell-Fire CavesGround-Breaking 3D Scan of Mysterious Hell-Fire CavesGeorge Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07167669826031076860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9333202.post-74868624264374411062013-08-02T10:05:00.001-05:002013-08-02T10:28:14.884-05:00Supreme Court Ethics Act Proposed In Response To Controversial Behavior By Justices Scalia, Thomas
I'm sure Charles Reich who served as Justice Hugo Black's clerk, when he wrote "The Greening of America" did not mean that they change the color of money and it become focus of ethics in the Supreme Court. I'm also sure that Chief Justice Roberts' wife who is also quite a legal scholar from the street I live on in the Bronx, in NYC, would also hope that the her husband's tenure is not marked by George Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07167669826031076860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9333202.post-15665042115347904532013-07-27T09:04:00.001-05:002013-08-02T10:25:44.849-05:00The Surprising Weekend Habits Of Highly Effective People
Lies, lies and lawyers, I think got Samuel Clemens. He owned for a short while Wave Hill house in Riverdale, the Bronx, where a young JFK also lived until the market crashed and his dad could not invest in the "talkies" as he had planned. Mr. Clemens used to relax in a tree house on the grounds and invited the press up for a cup of tea according to its history today a center of horticulture and George Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07167669826031076860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9333202.post-31651295175252999462013-06-14T14:48:00.001-05:002013-06-14T14:48:21.650-05:00On “A genetic history of leprosy”Is there anything therefore to the fact that the North American armadillo can be the only known other carrier of leprosy (Hansen’s disease)? There was recent early evidence thought in an early tomb in Israel from 2000 years ago. It’s thought as many as 40 million armadillos were around back then. Could it be the original trans-species disease? Scientific American: The Scicurious Brain George Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07167669826031076860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9333202.post-52718700338284943072013-06-07T23:31:00.001-05:002013-06-07T23:50:28.384-05:00All Hands on Deck for the SS United StatesAll Hands on Deck for the SS United StatesGeorge Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07167669826031076860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9333202.post-25874903299609132912013-06-07T15:00:00.001-05:002013-06-07T23:42:34.907-05:00New Hampshire Emancipates 18th-Century SlavesNew Hampshire Emancipates 18th-Century Slaves Part of the Portsmouth's new African Burial Ground ceremony.George Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07167669826031076860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9333202.post-5037339245319310682013-06-07T14:54:00.001-05:002013-06-07T23:41:40.185-05:00Roman concreteStony Brook University did a fairly long term study of the use of concrete, a catalyst and coal ash which did not affect the soil it was in. Proposed was seawalls and other mediating structures.
I read a woman in a private company had invented a mixing machine that incorporated small pieces of metal, based on stress and need, in the concrete as it was transported to the forms. The shapes were George Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07167669826031076860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9333202.post-46915440818311899362013-06-07T14:20:00.001-05:002013-06-07T14:20:39.486-05:00The Great Civil War LieNY Times: Disunion: One of the North's worries was the ability of Great Britain to build large dangerous ships. One, in particular, the Scorpion class, with more modern cannon turrets vs. the deck mounted rails for large ordnance, was stopped, though two were built and later used by the British Navy as shown in Wikipedia. One built and completed, the CSS Alabama, created havoc in the Atlantic George Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07167669826031076860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9333202.post-91726808442381181402013-06-07T13:35:00.001-05:002013-06-08T09:59:14.837-05:00George Takei “Heroes come in many forms…”As Norman Yoshio Mineta, the former Democrat Cabinet member under both George W. Bush and William J. Clinton explained, it was, I think he meant, as if Japanese-Americans were then not allowed to own property in California, unless there really was a law like that. Some have suggested Anglo farmers wanted Mexicans and Mexican-Americans to work on their farms, not Japanese-Americans and FDR George Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07167669826031076860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9333202.post-87039076406012897612013-02-27T11:01:00.001-05:002013-02-27T11:01:47.520-05:00Memories Of The '93 World Trade Center Bombing“I recall seeing the smoke from 3rd Ave. and 16th St. We went home from work, my friend was on jury duty and used to work in the upper floors (89-93?) for EBASCO a Texas based power plant design company formerly at 40 Rector St. across the street where we had worked on Trinity, according to a former secretary who remorsefully blogged after 9/11 she had been thankful for her job in the WTC, Mayor George Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07167669826031076860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9333202.post-33435503920299844862013-02-25T19:36:00.001-05:002013-02-25T19:36:12.129-05:00WNYC News Deadly Topography: The Staten Island Neighborhood Where 11 Died During SandyI worked in October 2003 on an archeology survey for the Army Corps of Engineers, by Panamerican Consultants, Inc., (their Buffalo, NY office) done by law, to precede the building of storm wall placements and flood buffer areas along the shore. We shovel-tested from "South Beach" south to "Oakwood Beach" and the sewerage treatment plant there next to "Great Kills Park". Other areas, around Floyd George Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07167669826031076860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9333202.post-3804689621671950502013-02-13T08:59:00.000-05:002013-04-30T11:36:07.383-05:00William Shatner's conversation with Canadian Astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield, in case you missed it!Nice interview. I worked in HAZMAT in the early 1990s and was shown that when people wore the then highest protection, Level A, there was no way to communicate by radio, and one relied on gestures. A company came up with a radio which they stated could communicate with the ISS from a helicopter, for use in HAZMAT. Of course I wonder if that actually happened, but I could sleep a little George Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07167669826031076860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9333202.post-52170320140681398312013-02-01T10:55:00.001-05:002013-02-13T09:01:49.166-05:00Columbia Shuttle Disaster Remembered 10 Years After Tragedy Killed Seven AstronautsI was trying to dig test holes in the frozen ground in the Princeton Nursery as ordered when NASA orbiter Challenger burned up. In the frozen launch later of the Space Shuttle Columbia, you would have thought, it had an advantage, it could be seen in space, by the ISS. It should have been of course, and some rescue mission launched instead of the tragedy ten years ago. I wonder did the mission toGeorge Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07167669826031076860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9333202.post-1149297685384013322012-10-11T16:29:00.000-05:002012-10-15T19:56:32.341-05:00Errors and omission, red ink and rewrites
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I was pleased to hear the Tesla workshop at Wardenclyffe, near the shut Shoreham, NY nuclear plant and Brookhaven National Laboratory has been saved for a science museum. Designed by his friend the famous architect Stanford White, perhaps it might be listed in a national register of historic places too, as many of Stanford White's are. Years ago, the Suffolk County Archaeology Association George Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07167669826031076860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9333202.post-10115155183051319422012-10-03T21:04:00.000-05:002012-10-05T22:29:14.276-05:00Soapy SmithHistarch Subject: New Book by Cathy Spude
The University of Oklahoma Press has just published my new book, "That Fiend in Hell": Soapy Smith in Legend. Soapy Smith's story is well-known to people who like popular culture, and those who are familiar with Alaskan history. As an anthropologist, I show how his legend grew out of the myth of the American West to make him a character the likes of George Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07167669826031076860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9333202.post-1416409506096001942012-10-03T13:57:00.002-05:002012-10-03T17:47:38.377-05:00USS Constitution and others...This summer's issue of "Sea History" published by the National Maritime Historical Society, located in Peekskill, NY has some interesting entries in "Ship Notes, Seaport & Museum News" some in regards to the USS Constitution some to the RMS Titanic in its recent summer 2012 issue.
First the Battleship Iowa has officially been transferred from the US Navy to the Pacific Battleship George Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07167669826031076860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9333202.post-48912761753819965242012-10-03T07:37:00.003-05:002012-10-03T08:50:34.616-05:00GPS - ESRI Portal? - Hello MelbourneSorry this is so late. I have checked through ESRI for some of the GIS use in the field I've done with AECOM on a temp basis, that is I'm hired usually for the field part of archaeology testing which has required civilian GPS on Federal DoD land that is changing as bases are reevaluated or "closed". I was just reading the FAA is in charge of disbursement in the civilian GPS and has been holding George Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07167669826031076860noreply@blogger.com0