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NEW YORK, April 23 (UPI) -- Indiana Pacers swingman Paul George was voted the NBA's Most Improved Player for this past season, the league said Tuesday.
George received 52 first-place votes and had 311 points in finishing ahead of New Orleans guard and Greivis Vasquez (146 points) and Milwaukee center Larry Sanders (141) in the voting.
The award is determined by a vote of writers and broadcasters who cover the NBA.
George, in his third year in the NBA, averaged 17.4 points over 79 games as the Pacers won the Central Division title. He also had career bests in rebounds (7.6 per game), assists (4.1) and steals (1.8).
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"The people have been hoodwinked and trampled upon"
Two editorial comments from the Abingdon Virginian, March 8, 1861.
Many Virginians blamed extremists in both the North and the South for the crisis in the winter of 1860–1861. Referring to public opinion in some of the states that had already seceded by March 1861, Charles B. Coale, editor of the Abingdon Virginian wrote that "It has all been the work of politicians, and the people have been hoodwinked and trampled upon." In an adjacent column Coale commented on the inaugural address of President Abraham Lincoln, which he delivered on March 4, 1861. Virginians' reactions to the address ranged from enthusiasm to condemnation. In Washington County, voters gave Democratic presidential candidate John C. Breckinridge a majority in November 1860 but voted for opponents of secession in the February 4, 1861, election of members of the Virginia Convention.


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But with just two operating dairies in the state, it would seem there much be room for a third.
According to Kawailoa Development, owner of the Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort &; Spa, its business, recreational, environment,and aesthetics would be detrimentally affected by a proposed farm. The potential 582 acre site with 1,800 milking cows would be less than three miles from the resort, according to TheGardenIsland.com.
Kawailoa is attempting to create a 2.5-mile "buffer zone" around its land through a lawsuit, even though its own golf course is on agricultural land and was part of a 1998 Supreme Court classification on its property, in the southeast corner of the island of Kauai - one of Hawaii's westernmost islands.
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But the other dairy on the island, Cloverleaf Dairy, fears what the lower price could mean for competition.
A fourth entity, Mauna Kea Moo, was approved March 17 for a 200 cow farm and creamery on a 1,400 acre Big Island parcel. That farm plans to build a cheese plant.
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Organizations throughout government are reducing the number of data centers they operate and finding savings in a number of areas, perhaps most measurably in the power they consume.
It's not just the number of data centers to be shuttered, but the size of those centers and the energy they consume. Read more.
Agencies can use Energy Savings Performance Contracts, under which they pay for work out of future energy savings. Read more.
The goal of any consolidation project is savings. Here's a checklist to help make sure things go right. Read more.
In Utah, the state government cut $4 million out of its annual IT budget as a result of consolidating 35 data centers and machine rooms into a primary and a failover site to support its 23,000 employees. The consolidation effort involved virtualizing servers, deploying modern storage systems and reducing IT staff by 20 percent.
During this 18-month consolidation effort, Utah decreased the number of physical servers it operates from 1,864 to 591 – a reduction of two-thirds. Utah standardized on HP servers running VMware and Hitachi storage systems.
After the consolidation, Utah upgraded its primary data center to an evaporative water-chilled air conditioning system and deployed hot-and-cold aisle containment. This investment immediately slashed the data center's monthly power bill from $25,000 to $16,500.
"The air conditioning units in the data center consume about 75 percent to 85 percent of the power in the data center,'' said Russell Smith, data center manager. "The capital outlay on the cooling system was $300,000, with $200,000 from [American Recovery and Reinvestment Act] funds. Our ROI was just over a year."
Utah deployed Niagara Framework, an environmental monitoring system, so that it can measure the energy efficiency of its data center and keep tweaking settings to improve it. Currently, the Utah data center's power usage effectiveness (PUE) rating is 1.3, an impressive feat, considering that 1.0 is a perfect score and 1.8 is average for data centers.
"If you look at the modeling we did at the start of the consolidation project, we expected 68 percent energy savings,'' said Dave Fletcher, Utah's chief technology officer. "I assume we achieved at least that much given the amount of servers we reduced and the fact that we closed inefficient machine rooms and moved to a more centrally cooled environment. We estimate we saved the environment about 15 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions a year."
Next on the agenda for Utah is to upgrade to an evaporative air conditioning system at its backup data center to cut costs there. Utah also is testing desktop virtualization with about 1,200 state employees.
Now that it has an efficient and cost effective data center – and 60 percent excess floor space – Utah plans to market private cloud infrastructure services to county and city governments.
"We have a university hospital which has quite a few racks here," Fletcher said. "With our new infrastructure, we can rapidly spin up new services."
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GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- Dwayne Davis scored seven of his 23 points in overtime to help Southern Mississippi reach 20 wins for the fourth consecutive season by defeating East Carolina 86-82 Saturday night.
A jumper by Davis put the Golden Eagles (20-6, 9-2 Conference USA) ahead 80-79 with 1:45 remaining in overtime. He added two free throws on Southern Mississippi's next possession and made 1 of 2 with 15 seconds left after the Pirates (14-10, 5-6) closed it to 83-82 on Robert Sampson's 3-pointer.
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"The light is changing, dear winter people, and the owls are chatting at night," is the lyrical beginning of the weekly menu at Acacia House Inn. On a side street in Bar Harbor, Acacia House is a busy B&B during the height of the season. Unlike many other innkeepers, though, instead of closing the doors and heading south for a much deserved rest, Anna Durand and Ralph McDonnell open the doors to the public three days a week for a breakfast only the winter folk can savor.
The weekly online postings are poetry, written with food love seasoning every word. The entry continues: "The sap isn't running yet, but soon…this weekend's specials will include smoked salmon hash with eggs, hollandaise, and herbed toast points; French toast with homemade quince marmalade filling and cardamom custard; roasted vegetable and Parmesan tart served with fennel salad; and big love and Happy Birthday to Carrie Cross, a winter person wintering in North Carolina."
"I love the food of winter; root vegetables, apples, pears, nuts, meats, and dairy." Anna is squeezing limes for lime curd as she says this, and adds, "I don't use much that isn't local, but lemons and limes are in season now, they are at their prime. They bring a zing and a balance." The breakfasts at Acacia House are intense with winter flavor, and just an occasional accent of the tropical. It is rich food, and redolent of the earth. "I am always trying to find the thing that tastes like dirt, earth." That is the taste from a root cellar, slightly musty, a combination of beets, dried mushrooms, and potatoes. It is a deeply satisfying taste.
Anna's heritage is French, Russian and English, and may account for her affinity for the deep, rich flavors of winter. Her fascination with earth flavors deepened when she was pregnant with her first daughter, and she vividly recalls a craving to eat dirt. Like pickles and ice cream, this is not an uncommon desire among mothers-to-be.
Pregnant or not, dark, concentrated root vegetables and cured meats have a taste many find comforting in the cold months. Anna says in the summer fresh basil and perfect garden tomatoes are delightful, but she just does not connect with them the way she does with winter fare. "In March I get the summer dread," she says. "I know I'll love summer when it is here, but I do not want to see winter go."
Dirt is not on the menu, but a celebration of earth is. Another post reads: "Welcome winter! This weekend we will have spicy sausage hash with sage-fried toast and eggs; cardamom-date French toast; Swedish style pancakes with cranberry jam and rum custard, as well as our usual pancakes, local, organic eggs and bacon, bagel plates, and Dirk's delish Crooked Porch coffee." And Winter Board.
Winter Board is a celebration of the elements. A round plank of wood is the base, akin to a medieval trencher, which was a piece of stale bread used as a plate. Diners at Acacia House do not eat the wooden plate, but it is a nod to the past, and laden with flavors suggesting earth, water and fire. A mound of shaved cabbage and beets, topped with horseradish cream is a snow-capped mountain, representing the earth. Smoked salmon and mussels suggest the fire that preserved them. Fish eggs from fish pulled through the ice of a local cold lake represents water. This work of flavor and art is embellished with a small candle, and a thimble of aquavit—fire and water. Aquavit for breakfast? Anna concedes it is her sense of rightness that requires this, and guests obligingly hoist the small glass and drink the tiny drops that blast them with crisp, clean winter flavor.
The breakfast rooms are vibrant with color, rich deep egg yolk yellow, paprika red-orange, and crisp, clean white trim, a bright contrast to the muted tones of root hash or French toast stuffed with apples and almond paste. Alder twigs drip with twinkling white lights and straw stars. An antique sideboard has fresh coffee and a basket of pastries. The tables are filled with separate parties, but conversation moves from one table to another. These are the Winter People. While not friends or family, somehow everyone feels familiar—if not, they soon will. There is no pressure or expectancy to mingle. A few tables have people staying at the inn. Some are focused on each other, others look around and join the chat. "Are those the pancakes?" someone asks, looking at a stack of Russian ricotta-filled pancakes with tart cherries gracing the top. "Oh, you have to have the pear tart with warm cheese," someone else advises.
Anna and Ralph have been told they should include food photos with their posts, but that would add yet more time marketing, less working with food. It would also take away from the beauty of the word painting. The presentation of each entrée is artistic; a shredded celeriac basket has a sunny poached egg nestled in a bed of spring green spinach, and the entire nest is balanced on a small branching twig. A photo would show that, but the words Anna writes evoke the flavor and the spirit as well as the vision.
Ralph is the front man at the Inn, arranging chairs, taking orders, offering suggestions and seeing that Edith Piaf is on the playlist. He is calm, but never stops moving to see that everyone is taken care of. He and the tiny staff keep the coffee pot full, tables neat, and people smiling. He is the visible partner. Anna usually remains in the kitchen, but is present in every plate that goes out. Recently she took a minute to visit a table, and pulled a soft blue egg from her apron pocket. Gently cupped in her hands, she showed it to a seated diner, who cooed and stroked it.
For both Ralph and Anna, breakfast is a way to stay in touch with the community. "Ralph will come into the kitchen with an order, and tell me what news a guest has shared. I may have time to go out and talk, but if I don't, Ralph keeps me connected," Anna says. She also says he is the practical one, who keeps an eye on business and cash flow. Their decision to offer breakfast to the public was part Anna's love of winter food, and part simply good business. Most Mainers know closing a house down is hard on a building. Plaster freezes then crumbles, woodwork cracks, floors become uneven. Ralph and Anna kept Acacia House heated through the first winter, as low as possible, and the heating bill still had them surprised. Staying open year-round was a common sense decision. "I missed the year-round community. We meet great people visiting and staying with us in the summer, but we were not seeing the year round folk we always connected with at the bakery," Anna says. "And, it paid the fuel bill."
Open year-round is good for the building, and, hopefully, the bottom line. The goal is to have Acacia House support the family, without the need of outside jobs. The real gain, however, is the chance to cook winter food for the winter people, a term they may not have coined, but have made their own. Every week Ralph, Anna, and their kids hot glue a strip of birch bark, a tiny alder catkin, or a dried hemlock twig to the top of the menu. Regulars greet each other, and continue conversations left off a week ago. Every diner feels like more than a customer, they are one of the Winter People, and special. It is this combination of food and spirit that keeps the winter people coming back.
Acacia House Inn is serving Winter People until March 24. Reservations suggested.
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Winter People fare will start again in December 2013, checkout their Facebook page.
More posts from Acacia House ( recipes follow)
"If music be the food of love, play on…Breakfast for Twelfth Night this weekend will include King Cakes: almond meal pancakes with winter fruit compote, cider glaze and whipped cream; turkey hash with onion gravy, eggs and biscuit; and English Breakfast: eggs, bacon, grilled tomato, mushrooms and toast; and Lamb's Wool punch. Enjoy the snow!
Welcome March Lion! Cabin fever specials this weekend: bittersweet chocolate pancakes with raspberry sauce and white chocolate fool; shallot and mushroom frittata with smoked blue cheese and homemade toast; Beech Hill Farm spinach salad with hard cooked egg, pickled onions, marinated fennel, rye points, and dried chile chèvre with lemony mustard seed dressing.
Skates sharpened and ready for the wind to die down….this weekend's specials will include lemon ricotta pancakes with ginger curd and candied lemon peel; moose hash with eggs and white pine beurre blanc; and eggs Benedict with shittakes and Caleb's arugula. See you at Little Long Pond, stay warm!
Welcome Mom, to the inn, and Buttercup to our family. This weekend's menu will include bittersweet chocolate pancakes with coffee butter and hazelnut praline; a savory galette with leeks, greens, and smoked blue cheese; and a Hangtown Fry if I can track down the oyster guy.
Happy Valentine's, beloveds. This weekend we shall have chocolate pancakes with orange coffee butter and hazelnut praline; a frittata with leeks, Chris Brown's bacon, arugula and blue cheese; another round of bubble and squeak; and creamy horseradish polenta with poached eggs, grilled greens, and buttered crumbs in addition to our usual menu.
Bittersweet Pancakes
Melt together 10 Tablespoons butter and 2 oz bittersweet chocolate and let it cool slightly.
Whisk together 4 large eggs
2 cups whole milk
1/2 Tbls. salt
2 Tbls. sugar
1 Tbls. brewed coffee
Whisk in the melted chocolate and butter until completely combined
Combine 1 cup cocoa powder and 1 3/4 cups unbleached white flour in a smaller bowl
Add 2 1/2 Tbls. baking powder
Add the dry ingredients to the wet, then whisk using a back and forth motion – DO NOT STIR! You whisk it back and forth around the bowl, just until thoroughly combined, then take out the whisk and let it puff. Heat a cast iron griddle or skillet to medium/high heat, brush with butter and gently deflate the batter by lifting out spoonfuls of it to cook. You have to spread it to make an even thickness on the griddle. Serve with syrup, whipped cream or orange -coffee butter: mash together 8 Tbls. of unsalted butter, a pinch of salt, the grated rind of an orange, a small handful of instant espresso powder and half a handful of sugar.
Homemade Gravlax (cured salmon):
This takes two days to cure, so you can make it on Friday for Sunday brunch
Use a 1/2 pound filet of salmon, skin on.
Combine: 3 Tbls. chopped fresh dill
1 Tbls. fresh ground pepper – pre-ground doesn't work well
2 Tbls. kosher salt
2 Tbls. sugar
Put the salmon skin side down in a cake pan or ceramic plate with a lip on it. Splash a tablespoon or so of Aquavit or white wine on the salmon, then spread the combined ingredients all over the salmon. Lay a piece of plastic wrap over top of the fish, weight it with another plate and a small weight such as a small frying pan or piece of granite, then refrigerate for two days. When you want to eat it, slice it very thin with a sharp knife at an angle and lift it off the skin.


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Joseph Bast
1976-1984: undergraduate, University of Chicago (incomplete degree)
1984-1994: Co-founding executive director of the Heartland Institute
1994-present: President and CEO of the Heartland Institute
Joseph Bast is president and CEO of the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based think tank that prioritizes campaigns to discredit climate change science, most notably by organizing a series of conferences that reject global warming science. Bast has edited or authored several books casting doubt upon global warming, and leads in publishing anti-climate science newsletters to all state and national elected officials. Bast co-founded the Heartland Institute with the late David Padden, a political ally of the Koch Brothers.
According to Heartland's 2012 budget, Joseph Bast's base-level salary will be $155,930, compared to $149,700 in 2009-2010 and $139,720 in 2008. Bast donates $5,000 back to Heartland each year. Diane Bast, Joseph's wife, has an expected 2012 salary of $96,523 for her work with the Heartland Institute.
Bast claims to have been a "hippie" until 1993. On good leadership at libertarian think tanks such as the Heartland Institute, Joseph Bast explains, "My motto is, you need to find a used car salesman who's a libertarian—an aggressive, articulate guy who wants to build an organization. Academics are almost uniquely not fit to head a think tank. They don't have management or financial skills."
RELATED CONTENT: Greenpeace Investigates Heartland Institute Leaked Documents
"The scientific case against catastrophic global warming is at least as strong as the case for DDT, but the global warming scare hasn't gone away."
"Most scientists do not believe human activities threaten to disrupt the Earth's climate"
"A modest amount of global warming, should it occur, would be beneficial to the natural world and to human civilization."
"The best strategy to pursue is 'no regrets.' The alternative to demands for immediate action to 'stop global warming' is not to do nothing. The best strategy is to invest in atmospheric research now and in reducing emissions sometime in the future if the science becomes more compelling." [emphasis Bast's]
"It is time for common sense to return to the debate over protecting the environment. An excellent first step would be to end the "global warming" scam."
--February 2003: Eight Reasons Why 'Global Warming' Is a Scam, Heartland Institute, Feb. 1, 2003.
"The fear that population growth would overwhelm the planet's limited resources has now been completely debunked."
"A third truth I've discovered is that we will never run out of fossil fuels."
"Carbon dioxide is too small a player in atmosphere dynamics to cause the changes predicted by the alarmists."
"The wind has gone out of the sails of the global warming scare. With every year of satellite data showing no warming, and more and more scientists admitting the computer models are flawed, the claims and predictions of radical environmentalists look more and more foolish."
"Most Americans now know environmentalists are responsible for the forest fires that have destroyed millions of acres of forests in recent years--including much of Yellowstone Park--and thousands of homes and led to the needless and tragic deaths of firefighters."
"The thousands of dollars the free-market environmentalism movement gets from corporations is a pittance compared to the billions of dollars--that's billions with a b, folks--that left-wing environmental groups like the Sierra Club get from socialist philanthropies such as the Pew Trusts, MacArthur Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, and Tides Foundation."
--Heartland President addresses Common-Sense Environmentalism, May 29, 2004.
"We've won the public opinion debate, and we've won the political debate as well. But the scientific debate is a source of enormous frustration."
--Nature, July 27, 2011.
"And of course principals and teachers are biased… most are liberal Democrats, and large majorities of liberal Democrats believe in man-made global warming [ellipses Bast's]."
--Heartland Rebuts Outlandish New York Times Story on Stolen and Fake Documents, Feb. 16, 2012.
Leaked Heartland Institute Budget and Fundraising Plan
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The Heartland Institute had internal budget, fundraising and other documents leaked in February, 2012 that revealed the group's campaign to promote doubt over climate science. This campaign included paying $5,000/month to David Wojick, an official at the US Department of Energy, to write educational lessons for K-12 schools that make claims like "whether humans are changing the climate is a major scientific controversy" and calling reliability of scientific climate models "controversial" (Heartland 2012 Budget). Additionally, Bast claims that Heartland has mailed copies of "The Climate Skeptics Handbook" to every public school board in the U.S. and Canada.
The efforts to undermine the teaching of sound climate science in schools is complimented by American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) legislation titled "The Environmental Literacy Improvement Act." ALEC is a corporate front group that ghostwrites state laws without providing disclosure or lobbying reports. Linked to ALEC is Craig Idso, who promoted climate doubt at ALEC's August, 2011 meeting in New Orleans in a workshop titled "Warming Up to Climate Change: The Many Benefits of Increased Atmospheric CO2." Craig Idso is listed in Heartland's budget to receive $139,200 in 2012 to write reports rejecting climate science. Idso and the U.S. Energy Department's Wojick also share a previous affiliation through the Greening Earth Society, a project of the Western Fuels Association (a coal coalition) to convince consumers that increased human emissions of carbon dioxide benefit the planet as a whole.
Heartland's 2012 budget lists Indur Goklany of the US Interior Department, several university professors and career skeptics like Craig Idso and Fred Singer to write chapters for reports for Heartland's "Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change" (NIPCC). This group writes Climate Change Reconsidered, reports that climate scientist Mark Boslough says contains "fabricated temperature data and doctored graphs that are intended to undermine evidence-based science." Likewise, renowned climate scientist Michael Mann told Nature that the NIPCC reports are "nothing but a mix of myths, half-truths, cherry-picked distortions, and regurgitated climate-change-denial talking points." Nature reports Bast acknowledges "hand-picking data" in NIPCC reports to form anti-scientific arguments on scientific content.
An "anonymous donor," announced by the Daily Kos to be Barre Seid has paid as much as half of Heartland's budget in the past for work relating to denying the scope and scientific evidence of global climate change. Bast's relationship with Barre Seid has been crucial to Heartland's ability to finance this effort, as Heartland's budget fundraising document (see p.5) states: "Renewing him each year and keeping him informed and engaged is a major responsibility of the President. We regularly solicite his ideas for new projects." The fundraising document (p. 18) also shows that Barre Seid pledged the first $100,000 for payments to David Wojick at the U.S. Department of Energy to develop the global warming doubt curricula for schools (see above).
After the leak of Heartland's budget, documents were confirmed to be authentic when scientist Peter Gleick announced that he had tricked Heartland staff into emailing him their documents. Gleick has been the focus of Heartland's response to the leaked documents in order to avoid further scrutiny over their contents.
Conferences Rejecting Climate Science
Since 2008, the Heartland Institute has organized six conferences focused on public relations messaging rejecting the conclusions of climate scientists' research, or as described by Naomi Klein in The Nation, "the premier gathering for those dedicated to denying the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is warming the planet." Demonstrating popular topics at Heartland's gatherings, Klein continues:
Claiming that climate change is a plot to steal American freedom is rather tame by Heartland standards. Over the course of this two-day conference, I will learn that Obama's campaign promise to support locally owned biofuels refineries was really about "green communitarianism," akin to the "Maoist" scheme to put "a pig iron furnace in everybody's backyard" (the Cato Institute's Patrick Michaels). That climate change is "a stalking horse for National Socialism" (former Republican senator and retired astronaut Harrison Schmitt). And that environmentalists are like Aztec priests, sacrificing countless people to appease the gods and change the weather (Marc Morano, editor of the denialists' go-to website, ClimateDepot.com).
Among active scientists studying and publishing material on climate change, Heartland's conferences have been recognized for their unscientific objectives and unusually high financial compensation. Credible climate scientists generally decline repeated invitations to Heartland conferences for this reason. According to a profile in Nature, Joseph Bast has played the central role in organizing and running the first five of these conferences before "stress-related health problems" forced him to be less active in the sixth conference. Demonstrating the success of Heartland's public relations and contrasting failure of their scientific claims, Bast concedes, "We've won the public opinion debate, and we've won the political debate as well. But the scientific debate is a source of enormous frustration." In contrast, Bast told ClimateWire seven months later that "You don't concede the science," while criticizing organizations like the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) for not rejecting outright the scientific premises of global warming.
Heartland's leaked 2012 Proposed Budget indicates there is no financing for an "International Conference on Climate Change" in 2012.
Inconsistent Positions on Global Warming
In two distinct interviews published in two consecutive days, Joseph Bast delivered seemingly conflicting positions statements on climate change:
From a Wall Street Journal Digital Network interview (Feb. 22, 2012):
"We believe that climate has warmed in the second half of the 20th Century, we believe that there is probably a measurable human impact on climate but it's probably very small, we think that natural forces probably overwhelm any impact that human activity can have, that computer models are too unreliable to forecast what the future might hold for climate and finally that a modest amount of warming is probably going to be, on net, beneficial both to human beings and the ecosystem. We think that that's pretty much actually the consensus of working scientists in this area."
In E&E ClimateWire (Feb. 23, 2012):
"As president of the Heartland Institute, Bast has established a no-surrender strategy to challenge the scientific accord that humans are causing a rise in temperatures. He is a bearded Midwesterner with strong suspicions that a small group of politically connected climate scientists are influencing their community's behavior. The result, he thinks, is an outsized, but shrinking, agreement that man's activity is altering the climate.
"I'm confident that the scientific basis behind the threat has pretty much melted away. So I talk about the global warming ... delusion and how it's gradually unwinding," "It's like any other apocalyptic movement. These things crest, and then they start to retreat, until the next apocalyptic movement comes along and gives us something to get all worried about."
ClimateWire also published Bast's criticism of other groups that reject climate science to lesser degrees than the Heartland Institute, saying the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and others engage in "pre-emptive surrender" to not reject global warming as a "scientific myth."
(More quotes from Bast on the topic of climate change can be found below)
Bast promoted Heartland Institute "Talking Points on Global Warming" in 1999.
Opinion-editorial Activism Against Climate Science
Bast frequently responds to newspaper opinion articles that are critical of scientists and public relations consultants who have made careers (paid by fossil fuel interests) promoting unscientific information related to global warming. Repeatedly projecting his own fringe position onto others in order to create confusion over credibility among readers, Bast refuses to acknowledge how an overwhelming majority of active climate researchers and relevant scientific institutions worldwide reject his political positions on global warming, paradoxically accusing those who recognize climate science of being ignorant or deceptive.
For example, Bast attacked climate researcher Matthew England for referring to Heartland as a hub of climate science denial and tobacco apologists. He then promoted the discredited work of Richard Lindzen, Patrick Michaels, and Willie Soon, who have all received direct coal or oil financing to promote global warming doubt, and Roy Spencer, who works for the George C. Marshall Institute, which has received money from ExxonMobil, the Koch family foundations and foundations associated with industrial billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife. In another letter, Bast defends astronaut Harrison Schmitt, a Heartland board member who doesn't have expertise in climatology and now makes a career as a global warming denier. In a similar op-ed response defending Heartland board member and known climate contrarian Harrison Schmitt from criticism that he was making false scientific statements. Bast claimed that "there is no broad agreement as to the causes of the warming, its impacts on human health or animal habitat, whether the warming trend will continue in the 21st century, or, importantly, what if anything should be done about it."
Beyond writing opposition to public opinion editorials, Joseph Bast also seeks debate with stringent scientific publications such as Science and Nature over climate-related news.
- Writing to Nature in response to an article on Bast: Despite Bast's opinion that "we must trust the judgment of scientists working in other fields to form opinions on subjects we are not ourselves expert about," he then mischaracterizes the work of actual climate scientists by claiming they are self-contradictory (Bast has no credentialed training or experience as a scientist). Bast counters the work of scientists with Heartland's own unscientific reports, rhetoric created by the "climategate" email hack (which repeated investigations showed had no implications for the conclusions of climate science), and asserts that scientific experts are "blinded by ideology or careerism are still defending a hypothesis that has been soundly and repeatedly debunked." He concludes by telling Nature that, "Until the journal opens its eyes, it will not be a serious voice on climate science."
- Writing to Science: Despite Heartland's ongoing work promoting climate science doubt in school curricula, Bast writes, "The goal should be to get politics out of the classroom, not protect it by banning debate and censoring objective sources of research." Misrepresenting the [un]certainties of climate science, he also states "Opposing views are pervasive in the scientific literature on climate change, and surveys show there is no agreement – no consensus – on many of the most important issues in the debate." Again, Bast concludes his letter by referencing discredited climate skeptics David Legates and Willie Soon.
In a blog entry titled "February 2003: Eight Reasons Why 'Global Warming' Is a Scam," Bast cites the falsified "Oregon Petition," which included fake names as well as signatories duped into thinking it was a product of the National Academy of Sciences. Bast's "Eight Reasons…" article includes several debunked arguments and a significant mischaracterization of the position of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) through a de-contextualized quote.
Bast co-authored an opinion piece promoting hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas, claiming that the "scientific data supporting the safety of fracking are overwhelming" and dismissing new studies confirming pollution from fracking operations.
Tobacco Industry Apologist
In prior work for the tobacco industry, Joe Bast "staunchly defended 'Joe Camel'," the mascot for Camel cigarettes. Nature writes, "He is among the last public defenders of smoking and has argued that concerns about second-hand smoke are as bogus as those surrounding greenhouse gases."


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SANTA CLARA — Alice and Bryan Young, an aunt and uncle of 49ers tight end Delanie Walker, were killed by an alleged drunk driver after attending Sunday's Super Bowl in New Orleans.
"I'm going to miss y'all but i know they are in a better place," Walker wrote in an Instagram post Wednesday morning. Walker attached a picture he took with aunt and uncle during the 49ers' practice Saturday at the Superdome.
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Over his career, Roethlisberger has averaged 6.7 net yards per attempt (NYPA) and a 3.4% interception rate. In 2009, the league average was 6.2 NYPA and 3.1% int rate. According to my game probability model, all things being equal, Roethlisberger's passing stats would turn an average team into one with a 57% chance of beating an average opponent.
If we replace him with a substitute for a few games, it's hard to predict how the Steelers' passing game would do. But just as an exercise, say their passing game drops by one standard deviation. Their NYPA would be 5.7 and their int rate would be 4.5%. All else equal, this would drop them from a 57% team to a 40% team.
If the suspension, which is expected to be announced later today, were for four games, you could think of it as a 4 * 0.17 = 0.7 win penalty for Pittsburgh.
But there's something unusual about Roethlisberger's replacements over the past several years. Since 2006, Steeler backup QBs have averaged 7.4 NYPA and a 2.1% int rate, a substantial improvement over Roethlisberger's numbers! Charlie Batch, Byron Leftwhich, and Dennis Dixon combined for 1930 yards on 243 attempts. They gave up 5 ints and 54 sack yards. The backup QBs differed from Roethlisberger primarily in int rate and sack rate.
Roethlisberger was sacked on 9.1% of his drop backs, while his replacements were sacked at a 4.0% clip. Assuming a backup, whoever it is, continues to perform so well, he would make a 50% team into a 67% team.
The backups were sometimes playing in lower leverage situations, so it's not fair to expect they would continue to perform as well as they did. It's also likely they would regress to the mean, but it's hard to say by how much.
Still, these numbers might make it easier for the Steelers to consider putting Roethlisberger on the trading block.
For reference, you can see how the Steeler backups compare to Roethlisberger in terms of Win Probability Added (WPA) and Expected Points Added (EPA) over thepast several seasons here.
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The potential for violence after passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and indeed episodes of violence, increased on the border between Missouri and Kansas as both Free Soiler and pro-slavery factions began actively arming themselves. An agent of the New England Emigrant Aid Society in Kansas, Charles L. Robinson, requested with some urgency a shipment of several hundred rifles and field guns.(i) Guns were sent to aid Free Soilers in Kansas often with the support of northeastern clergy and their congregations. Thus Sharps Rifles sent by Henry Ward Beecher's congregation became know as "Beecher Bibles". Likewise, according to Potter, armed militias from the South began forming to support the pro-slavery cause in Kansas. (i)
This post continues the series, "The Sacking of Lawrence May 21, 1856." Read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, and Part 4 here.
ABOUT THE POLITICAL CARTOON: Another Currier satire favoring American party candidate Millard Fillmore. A "buck" (James Buchanan) runs toward the White House, visible in the distance, as the two rival candidates take aim at him with their shotguns. Republican John C. Fremont's gun explodes (left), as he struggles to free himself from a pool of "Black Mud." On the far left his two abolitionist supporters Henry Ward Beecher and editor Horace Greeley are also mired in an "Abolition Bog." Fremont: "Oh! Oh! Oh! I've got Jessie this time–" (a puzzling allusion to his wife Jessie Benton). Greeley: "Oh! Brother Beecher! our Kansas Gun has bursted and upset our gunner. I'm afraid we put in too big a load." Reference is to the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 and the ensuing violence in Kansas, an issue exploited by the Republicans. Beecher: "Confound the Gun! if I can only get out of this muss I'll stick to preaching and let fire-arms alone." The oblique reference to Beecher's part in outfitting armed antislavery emigrants for Kansas is made in more obvious terms in "Col. Fremont's Last Grand Exploring Expedition in 1856" (no. 1856-20). On "Union Rock" (right), which is square in the path toward the White House, stands Millard Fillmore. He aims his flintlock at Buchanan and says confidently, "Ah! Fremont, your sectional Gun has exploded just as I predicted; but my American rifle will bring down that Old Buck." MEDIUM: print on wove paper : lithograph ; image 24 x 39 cm. CREATED/PUBLISHED: N.Y. : Published at No. 2 Spruce Street, [1856] Source: Library of Congress
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While overall fertility rates don't seem to be affected, researchers in Denmark have found that having asthma may lengthen the time it takes some women to conceive. The reason, however, is still a mystery.
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Trying to get pregnant can be easy for some, and difficult for others. Researchers in Denmark analyzed information gathered from over 15,000 women to find out if having asthma plays a part in a woman's chances of getting pregnant — and the answer, based on their findings, is "maybe."
Infertility is generally defined as trying to get pregnant for a year without success, so researchers asked the women in the study if they had ever spent more than a year trying to get pregnant. Women without asthma answered "yes" 21 percent of the time, while women with asthma answered in the affirmative 27 percent of the time. They also found that women were more likely to experience longer waiting times if their asthma was untreated, or if they were over age 30.
However, the overall fertility rate for both groups were essentially the same, with the same average number of children for moms with asthma as well as those without. Study author Dr. Elisabeth Juul Gade, of the Respiratory Research Unit at Bispebjerg University hospital in Copenhagen, said that possibly the women with asthma started having children at a younger age.
The reason behind the trend? Researchers weren't sure. They speculated that women who had frequent attacks likely focus on those first rather than getting pregnant. They also said that asthma can affect more than just the lungs, and the hallmark inflammation of asthma may also impact the uterus.
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Asynchronous transput and gnutls. This work is published from Finland.
GnuTLS is a wonderful thing. It even has a thick manual – but nevertheless its documentation is severely lacking from the programmer's point of view (and there doesn't even seem to be independent howtos floating on the net). My hope is to remedy with this post, in small part, that problem.
I spent the weekend adding STARTTLS support to the NNTP (reading) server component of Alue. Since Alue is written in C++ and uses the Boost ASIO library as its primary concurrency framework, it seemed prudent to use ASIO's SSL sublibrary. However, the result wasn't stable and debugging it looked unappetizing. So, I wrote my own TLS layer on top of ASIO, based on gnutls.
Now, the gnutls API looks like it works only with synchronous transput: all TLS network operations are of the form "do this and return when done"; for example
gnutls_handshake returns once the handshake is finished. So how does one adapt this to asynchronous transput? Fortunately, there are (badly documented) hooks for this purpose.
An application can tell gnutls to call application-supplied functions instead of the
read(2) and
write(2) system calls. Thus, when setting up a TLS session but before the handshake, I do the following:
gnutls_transport_set_ptr(gs, this); gnutls_transport_set_push_function(gs, push_static); gnutls_transport_set_pull_function(gs, pull_static); gnutls_transport_set_lowat(gs, 0);
gs is my private copy of the gnutls session structure, and the
push_static and
pull_static are static member functions in my sesssion wrapper class. The first line tells gnutls to give the current
this pointer (a pointer to the current session wrapper) as the first argument to them. The last line tells gnutls not to try treating the
this pointer as a Berkeley socket.
pull_static static member function just passes control on to a non-static member, for convenience:
ssize_t session::pull_static(void * th, void *b, size_t n) { return static_cast<session *>(th)->pull(b, n); }
The basic idea of the
pull function is to try to return immediately with data from a buffer, and if the buffer is empty, to fail with an error code signalling the absence of data with the possibility that data may become available later (the POSIX
EAGAIN code):
class session { [...] std::vector<unsigned char> ins; size_t ins_low, ins_high; [...] }; ssize_t session::pull(void *b, size_t n_wanted) { unsigned char *cs = static_cast<unsigned char *>(b); if (ins_high - ins_low > 0) { errno = EAGAIN; return -1; } size_t n = ins_high - ins_low < n_wanted ? ins_high - ins_low : n_wanted; for (size_t i = 0; i < n; i++) { cs[i] = ins[ins_low+i]; } ins_low += n; return n; }
ins_low is an index to the
ins vector specifying the first byte which has not already been passed on to gnutls, while
ins_high is an index to the
ins vector specifying the first byte that does not contain data read from the network. The assertions
0 <= ins_low,
ins_low <= ins_high and
ins_high <= ins.size() are obvious invariants in this buffering scheme.
The push case is simpler: all one needs to do is buffer the data that gnutls wants to send, for later transmission:
class session { [...] std::vector<unsigned char> outs; size_t outs_low; [...] }; ssize_t session::push(const void *b, size_t n) { const unsigned char *cs = static_cast<const unsigned char *>(b); for (size_t i = 0; i < n; i++) { outs.push_back(cs[i]); } return n; }
The low water mark
outs_low (indicating the first byte that has not yet been sent to the network) is not needed in the push function. It would be possible for the push callback to signal
EAGAIN, but it is not necessary in this scheme (assuming that one does not need to establish hard buffer limits).
Once gnutls receives an
EAGAIN condition from the pull callback, it suspends the current operation and returns to its caller with the gnutls condition
GNUTLS_E_AGAIN. The caller must arrange for more data to become available to the pull callback (in this case by scheduling an asynchronous write of the data in the
outs buffer scheme and scheduling an asynchronous read to the
ins buffer scheme) and then call the operation again, allowing the operation to resume.
The code so far does not actually perform any network transput. For this, I have written two auxiliary methods:
class session { [...] bool read_active, write_active; [...] }; void session::post_write() { if (write_active) return; if (outs_low > 0 && outs_low == outs.size()) { outs.clear(); outs_low = 0; } else if (outs_low > 4096) { outs.erase(outs.begin(), outs.begin() + outs_low); outs_low = 0; } if (outs_low < outs.size()) { stream.async_write_some (boost::asio::buffer(outs.data()+outs_low, outs.size()-outs_low), boost::bind(&session::sent_some, this, _1, _2)); write_active = true; } } void session::post_read() { if (read_active) return; if (ins_low > 0 && ins_low == ins.size()) { ins.clear(); ins_low = 0; ins_high = 0; } else if (ins_low > 4096) { ins.erase(ins.begin(), ins.begin() + ins_low); ins_high -= ins_low; ins_low = 0; } if (ins_high + 4096 >= ins.size()) ins.resize(ins_high + 4096); stream.async_read_some(boost::asio::buffer(ins.data()+ins_high, ins.size()-ins_high), boost::bind(&session::received_some, this, _1, _2)); read_active = true; }
Both helpers prune the buffers when necessary. (I should really remove those magic 4096s and make them a symbolic constant.)
The data members
read_active and
write_active ensure that at most one asynchronous read and at most one asynchronous write is pending at any given time. My first version did not have this safeguard (instead trying to rely on the ASIO stream
reset method to cancel any outstanding asynchronous transput at need), and the code sent some TLS records twice – which is not good: sending the ServerHello twice is guaranteed to confuse the client.
Once ASIO completes an asynchronous transput request, it calls the corresponding handler:
void session::received_some(boost::system::error_code ec, size_t n) { read_active = false; if (ec) { pending_error = ec; return; } ins_high += n; post_pending_actions(); } void session::sent_some(boost::system::error_code ec, size_t n) { write_active = false; if (ec) { pending_error = ec; return; } outs_low += n; post_pending_actions(); }
Their job is to update the bookkeeping and to trigger the resumption of suspended gnutls operations (which is done by
Now we have all the main pieces of the puzzle. The remaining pieces are obvious but rather messy, and I'd rather not repeat them here (not even in a cleaned-up form). But their essential idea goes as follows:
When called by the application code or when resumed by
post_pending_actions, an asynchronous wrapper of a gnutls operation first examines the session state for a saved error code. If one is found, it is propagated to the application using the usual ASIO techniques, and the operation is cancelled. Otherwise, the wrapper calls the actual gnutls operation. When it returns, the wrapper examines the return value. If successful completion is indicated, the handler given by the application is posted in the ASIO
io_service for later execution. If
GNUTLS_E_AGAIN is indicated,
post_read and
post_write are called to schedule actual network transput, and the wrapper is suspended (by pushing it into a queue of pending actions). If any other kind of failure is indicated, it is propagated to the application using the usual ASIO techniques.
post_pending_actions merely empties the queue of pending actions and schedules the actions that it found in the queue for resumption.
The code snippets above are not my actual working code. I have mainly removed from them some irrelevant details (mostly certain template parameters, debug logging and mutex handling). I don't expect the snippets to compile. I expect I will be able to post my actual git repository to the web in a couple of days.
Please note that my (actual) code has received only rudimentary testing. I believe it is correct, but I won't be surprised to find it contains bugs in the edge cases. I hope this is, still, of some use to somebody 🙂


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Date: August 29, 1856
William Morris Davis wrote to Cyrus K. Holliday in Topeka, Kansas Territory, although Holliday was speaking in Pennsylvania in support of Republican presidential candidate John C. Fremont. Davis praised Holliday's efforts, for he saw both Fremont's election to the presidency and the free statehood of Kansas as steps toward the end of slavery. Williard Filmore, Know-Nothing candidate, had hopeless prospects, and Democrat James Buchanan would be rejected by the masses protesting the current administration, Davis claimed. This letter uses exalted, militant, and religious language to describe territorial and national conflict. Davis also mentioned William Y. Robers (lieutenant governor under the Topeka Constitution), Burlingame, and Cobb.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: Cyrus Kurtz Holliday Collection, #386, Box 1, Folder 3
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Keywords: Buchanan, James, 1791-1868; Davis, William Morris; Election, Presidential, 1856; Fremont, John Charles, 1813-1890; Holliday, Cyrus Kurtz, 1826-1900; Philadelpia, Pennsylvania; Roberts, William Young; Slavery; Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874; Topeka, Kansas Territory
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