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A limited but enthusiastic singer, Babs Gonzales did what he could to popularize bop. He had brief stints with Charlie Barnet and Lionel Hampton, and then led his own group (Three Bips & a Bop) during 1946-1949. They recorded 24 numbers during 1947-1949, including the earliest version of "Oop-Pop-A-Da" and such songs as "Weird Lullaby," "A Lesson in Bopology," "Professor Bop," and "Prelude to a Nightmare"; among his sidemen on these dates were Tadd Dameron, Tony Scott, Roy Haynes, James Moody, J.J. Johnson, Julius Watkins, Sonny Rollins (making his recording debut), Art Pepper, Wynton Kelly, and even Don Redman. However, once the bop "fad" ended, Gonzales became more of a cult figure. He worked with James Moody (1951-1953), recorded with Jimmy Smith and Johnny Griffin, ran his own label (Expubidence), and wrote two autobiographies that were more colorful than accurate. ~ Scott Yanow


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Wayland Baptist University presented Edmond resident Wayne Bristow with the Distinguished Service Alumni Award during its Homecoming festivities Nov. 15.
Founder of Total Life International Ministries, Bristow is a harvest evangelist, author and speaker. He has been in ministry for 46 years, leading more than 1,000 crusades in 34 countries on five continents and much of the United States.
Bristow served in the pastorate for three years and worked for the Foreign Mission Board and the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma before starting his own organization in 1993. He has written several books, including "Total Life Now" in 1996, "Invitation to Christ" in 1998 and "18 Miles from Earth" in 2000, a collection of humorous stories about his childhood in Muleshoe.
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100 years ago today my paternal grandmother Walerya Leszczynska Eliasz came to the USA with my four year old aunt Aleksandra (Alice) in tow on the SS Prinz Adalbert. She arrived in Philadelphia (for some unknown reason) and went to Buffalo to join my grandfather, Jozef and her two brothers and a sister. She arrived on the SS Prinz Adalbert from Hamburg, Germany (port) and her last residence was Pacanow.
So it is safe to say that Stanczyk would not be here today if Walerya had not come to the USA when she did.
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The Ship manifest was also very helpful with its markings that indicated citizenship papers and also showing she came from her father (Tomasz in Pacanow) to her husband (Jozefin Depew, NY).
The Depew, NY address was actually her brother Teofil's address. According to my aunt Bernice, my Busia's brothers had to go get my grandfather (whom I assume was working in Detroit). My grandparents were reunited in Depew and I have their century old photo in an antique oval/bubble frame with "1913" inscribed on the back. It must have been a happy reunion, because my aunt Kitty was born in 1914 in Depew.


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How much baggage can people bring to a first date?
Anyone who's been in that situation can attest to the fact that no matter what lengths we go to hide the quirks that might lead others to label us as neurotic, weird, and downright crazy, they will eventually show up somewhere between the initial meeting and the first kiss.
Whether there will be a next date really depends on what happens in between.
Adam Szymkowicz's play, Nerve takes us on that trajectory of a first date – a carefully constructed analysis of emotions that mirrors the history of a full relationship – all in one evening of drinks, dancing, and confessions.
The play begins with Elliot (Adam Silver) and Susan (Anna Rubley) arriving at a dive bar to get to know each other better after their obligatory first movie together. They originally met on an online dating service. Tension is high as they set out to delve into one another's psyche. In the course of one night, Elliot and Susan proclaim their love for each other, their darkest secrets, and twice share a kiss that changes their lives forever.
Sixth Avenue's Los Angeles premiere of this play, set in New York City, is ideally suited for any major city where large concentrations of single people live their lives in isolation. Szymkowicz's taut comedy touches on our fears and uncertainties about opening up to another human being at the risk of getting hurt. The script is deceptively simple in its execution, but the beauty of the play is in the playwright's ability to transcend the superficial banter of two complete strangers desperately trying to connect and achieving an underlying subtext that gets under your skin and tears away at your own insecurities.
When Elliot jokingly wishes he had a knife to carve their names on the bar table and Susan casually digs out a kitchen knife from her purse, we know that this is not your typical first date yet, in so many others ways, it is.
Adam Silver and Anna Rubley are perfectly matched in the characters of Elliot and Susan. Their great (broad) comedic timing and expertly balanced pathos and sincerity make for a satisfying evening. Silver's sense of urgency translates to a neurotic who hasn't gotten laid in some time, not because he isn't cute (in a nerdy sort of way), but because he just can't seem to learn from his past restraining orders and previous stints in jail.
On the other side of that spectrum, Rubley's Susan vacillates between sensibility and giving in to spontaneity. She juggles suicidal ex-boyfriends while gaining empowerment through cutting her wrists. When she is bored she choreographs dance sequences (wonderfully devised by Laura Harrison) that illustrate her joys and her pains.
Sound designer Cricket S. Meyer's use of 80s power ballads playfully underscore the action on stage and set designer Stephen Gifford's realistic set, which includes an old Wurlitzer jukebox circa 1960s, anchors the play to the reality of the situation.
Michael Matthews's direction steers the whole evening down a roller coaster of emotions that eerily parallels a real first date – almost too eerily. Or perhaps it's just that Szymkowicz has mastered the art of cynicism all too well (when Elliot mentions that love is forever, peals of laughter permeate the audience.) Yes, this is a city of cynics and we can all sympathize with both Elliot and Susan — right up to that first kiss and beyond…excess baggage in tow.
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MIAMI SHORES, Fla. -- Barry University's baseball team exploded for seven runs in the middle innings, and then held off a late-charging Florida Memorial in Tuesday night's 10-6 win at Feinbloom Field.
The Buccaneers (24-15) scored four runs in the fourth inning and three more in the fifth to take a 7-1 lead. Sheehan Planas-Arteaga's one-out double down the right field line broke up a 1-1 tie in the fourth. Luis Arrizurieta's sacrifice fly to center put the Bucs up 4-1. Tyler Kinley's RBI single through the left side, Joe Iorio's RBI double down the left field line on the first pitch he saw and Planas-Arteaga's sacrifice fly in the fifth gave the Bucs a six-run lead.
Florida Memorial (8-35) scored once in the seventh before the Buccaneers tacked on two more in the bottom half of the inning to extend the lead to 9-2. But the Lions sent 10 batters to the plate in the eighth, scoring four runs on two hits, three walks and two hit batsmen to draw within three, 9-6. But Barry reliever Kevin Youst coaxed Florida Memorial's Alejandro Diaz to pop out to end the inning.
Kinley's RBI double to center in the bottom half of the eighth added an insurance run for the Buccaneers, and Youst struck out three batters in the ninth to seal it.
Joeanthony Rivera (3-2) picked up the win in relief, giving up two hits and a walk in two innings of work. Florida Memorial's Hector Antunez (1-4) took the loss after allowing six hits, six runs and a walk in an inning and two-thirds of middle relief.
Planas-Arteaga drove in four runs, going 2 for 4 with a pair of doubles from the leadoff spot. Kinley was 3 for 3 with two RBI. Iorio went 2 for 3 with an RBI and a stolen base. JC Cardenas was 2 for 3 with three runs scored and two stolen bases, and Michael Slabach was 2 for 5 and scored twice.
Barry's Frank Szczepanik worked the sixth and seventh innings, allowing two hits, a run, a walk, while fanning two in a solid effort out of the bullpen. Starter Alex Decker went three innings, allowing a hit, a walk and a run, while striking out five.
Florida Memorial's Omar Cordero went 2 for 4 with two RBI, and Andy Ruiz drove in two runs for the Lions.
The Buccaneers host Lynn in a three-game series beginning 6 p.m. Friday at Feinbloom Field.


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Blowback from Forbes report
But while I decided to formulate some thoughts in the form of Photoshop Wizardry, others decided to pass the time actually coming up with something. A roundup, if you will:
Rob Neyer: ...While the Astros are losing even more games and making even more money than I would have guessed, I'm willing to cut their owner some slack for another year or two, in the absence of new information.
Crawfish Boxes: When the Astros' prospects blossom into a winning core, the money should be there to sustain a long term winning team. I'll wait for that time in the future before I point any anger at the Astros' owners.
And while both of those come with a self-admitted place of incomplete knowledge of the Astros' finances, this one doesn't - Astros President Reid Ryan says that Forbes is totally wrong:
There is no doubt that the numbers are wrong in the Forbes article. If they were right, I'd look like the guy who had done the best job in three months ever (since taking the job in May). The fact is that the numbers are wrong.
Where are they wrong? We're going to have expenses that are higher than our revenues, and that doesn't make (the team) profitable.
So there you have it. Yes, Forbes' numbers are wrong. No, the Astros aren't going to release their financial statements. I'll have more thoughts later tonight, and certainly on tomorrow's Morning Drive.
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Well, I thought that his making money was an example of great stewardship, paying off debt and thus setting up the franchise for financial health. Now, I hear that he can't turn a profit with a miniscule payroll. So, is he a financial badass or what?
- August 26, 2013 at 3:58 PM
Gosh, if we had signed Kyle Loshe for 5/90, then we could have been sitting at around 46 wins (optimistically) about now. And, with the free agency just gone, we could have built an AWESOME bullpen (although K-Rod would have been exactly the signing I thought this front office would have made)
- August 26, 2013 at 4:04 PM
Forbes is assuming that the Astros received $80M from CSN this year. I'm going to go ahead and assume that the Astros did not. I'd be surprised if they have received $1 from CSN this year.
- August 26, 2013 at 4:18 PM
- Mike Castleman Jr. said...
I'm pretty sure that Reid Ryan is speaking from the perspective of "NET INCOME" and not "OPERATING INCOME"
No way their EBITDA is negative
- August 26, 2013 at 4:24 PM
- Mike Castleman Jr. said...
...but at the same time the whole exercise is an excruciating waste of time as the business was a complete "re-do". IMHO...how much money the Astros make is simply immaterial to me.
- August 26, 2013 at 4:31 PM
No doubt they are taking apples and oranges, and Ryan is imperfectly reacting to the negative reaction of the Forbes article.
However, instead of throwing out some claim about losing money, Ryan/Crane should just come clean. If they are using money from whatever source to quickly pay down debt, then they should just say so. Let the public know they have a plan. It can't be worse than the publicity they get otherwise.
If they are indeed losing money as Ryan tried to portray, that just makes them look like fools, and many fans will likely conclude that if they are losing with a small payroll, why would the payroll ever get higher.
Just come clean and treat the fans as adults.
- August 26, 2013 at 4:56 PM
Ryan doesnt say that tbey lost money. Just that the numbers are wrong. I bet they are somewhere closer to $40-50MM
- August 26, 2013 at 6:01 PM
Well, he said:
"We're going to have expenses that are higher than our revenues, and that doesn't make (the team) profitable."
Not being profitable is not very far from losing money.
- August 26, 2013 at 7:05 PM
- MoleBoy said...
"We're going to have expenses that are higher than our revenues, and that doesn't make (the team) profitable."
As I pointed out in the other comments section, Forbes isn't really calling it "profit," but "operating income" since the money the team makes right now is being used to pay off the loan.
Ryan is really dealing more with semantics and probably being truthful about the numbers being wrong, though probably not as much as he seems to be implying.
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Ben S. Bernanke set out seven years ago to demystify the Federal Reserve.
But as the chairman's tenure draws toward a likely close, the central bank's pronouncements can seem as confusing as ever. And some Fed watchers are wondering whether it's possible — or even desirable — to reshape the role of Federal Reserve chairman from inscrutable oracle to open book.
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Bernanke, in remarks Wednesday afternoon at a National Bureau of Economic Research conference in Cambridge, defended his "innovations" in communications policy and efforts to "increase the transparency" of monetary policy. He also took questions to try and clear up the kerfuffle over his recent statements during a news conference on monetary policy last month. "Notwithstanding some volatility that we've seen in the last six weeks, speaking now and explaining what we are doing might have avoided a much more difficult situation," he said.
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The market upheaval that followed his public comments raises questions about whether Bernanke — and whoever succeeds him — should even bother trying to communicate more with the public. The Fed on Wednesday released minutes from its most recent meeting in which board members appeared to hope that Bernanke could lay out a clear path forward for the Fed's asset purchases during his press conference, something that turned out to be much harder than it seemed.
"Bernanke and other central bankers have been looking for this Holy Grail of transparency, a set of numbers that will tell you what that they are going to be doing," said Stephen King, chief economist at HSBC. "But the reality is the central bank operates in an uncertain world where the relationships between numbers are constantly changing," rendering guideposts essentially meaningless.
It is an especially timely question now, given that many top Democrats close to the Obama White House suggest the leading candidate to replace Bernanke is not necessarily current Fed Vice Chairwoman Janet Yellen — as many in the markets expect — but Larry Summers, the outspoken Harvard professor and former Clinton-era Treasury Secretary and senior Obama economic adviser.
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Few Fed watchers think Summers, whose tendency to speak his mind has sometimes landed him in trouble, would be any less inclined to speak at length and on the record about Fed policy than Bernanke. The Fed, the White House and Summers himself, through a spokeswoman, declined to comment. And Summers is also no lock. Other top candidates include TIAA-CREF CEO Roger Ferguson, who would be the first African-American Fed chairmn, former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Princeton's Alan Blinder, among others.
Whoever takes over will do so at a sensitive moment, politically and financially.
The latest flare-up in Fed communications came last month, when Bernanke tried to explain to investors how and when the Fed would start pulling back on its unprecedented policy of buying up billions in Treasury and mortgage bonds to keep interest rates low and boost the economy.
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Stocks quickly tanked and interest rates soared as everyone tried to figure out what exactly Bernanke meant. Some feared the Fed was about to cancel its stimulus policy. Others said it was clear the economy would have to be much stronger for the Fed to back off.
Meanwhile, as mortgage rates rose for average Americans, professional traders, who make money off volatility no matter the direction of the market, raked in the cash.
And whatever Bernanke was really trying to say got lost in translation.
"Transparency is admirable in theory, but I think in practice we're seeing the downside," said Joseph LaVorgna, Deutsche Bank's chief U.S. economist. "The market is smart but impatient. I think when the Fed said to the market that it was going to be open-ended, the market took that literally. Inevitably, when it appears they're pulling back, there are consequences."
It took days and multiple speeches from other Fed governors to calm things down and get stocks moving back up and interest rates at least stabilized, though they remain elevated.
Those consequences now ripple out across the increasingly interconnected global financial system. Europeans, for example, complained that Bernanke's recent remarks sent their own bond yields higher. To critics of the more open communications policy, Bernanke is attempting the impossible by trying to lay out a clear set of targets for inflation, unemployment and other indicators that when reached would signal a change in Fed policy.
Others say Bernanke's innovations, including holding regular press conferences and adopting an inflation target, are a welcome change from the more opaque days of Chairman Alan Greenspan and his predecessors, who made an art of speaking in largely indecipherable code.


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The Relief of Lucknow, 1857
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The Relief of Lucknow, 1857
by Thomas Jones Barker
oil on canvas, 1859
41 1/2 in. x 71 3/8 in. (1054 mm x 1813 mm)
Purchased, 1985
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- Thomas Jones Barker (1815-1882), Painter of portraits and military subjects. Artist associated with 6 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
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- Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Bt (1826-1907), General. Sitter in 2 portraits.
- Colonel Alison. Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Captain Allgood. Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Major Hon. A.H. Anson. Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Sir David Baird, 3rd Bt (1832-1913), Army officer and landowner. Sitter in 5 portraits.
- Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde (1792-1863), Field Marshal. Sitter in 26 portraits.
- Colonel Crawford. Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Captain Forster. Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Sir James Hope Grant (1808-1875), General; brother of Sir Francis Grant. Sitter in 7 portraits.
- William Wilberforce Harris Greathed (1826-1878), Major-General. Sitter in 2 portraits.
- Lieutenant Harwood. Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Sir Henry Havelock, Bt (1795-1857), General. Sitter associated with 6 portraits.
- Hon. Adrian Hope (1821-1858), Soldier. Sitter in 1 portrait.
- John James Hope-Johnstone (1842-1912), Lieutenant and politician. Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Sir John Eardley Wilmot Inglis (1814-1862), Major-General. Sitter in 3 portraits.
- Thomas Henry Kavanagh (1822-1882), Assistant Commissioner at Oudh; awarded civilian VC for his services during The Relief of Lucknow. Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Colonel Little (active 1857). Sitter in 1 portrait.
- James Metcalfe (1817-1888), Lieutenant-Colonel. Sitter in 1 portrait.
- William Robert Moorsom (1834-1858), Aide-de-camp to Sir Henry Havelock. Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Robert Cornelis Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (1810-1890), Field Marshal. Sitter in 27 portraits.
- Sir Henry Wylie Norman (1826-1904), Field Marshal and colonial governor. Sitter in 11 portraits.
- Sir James Outram, 1st Bt (1803-1863), Lieutenant-General. Sitter in 10 portraits.
- Sir William Peel (1824-1858), Naval captain. Sitter in 2 portraits.
- Major Probyn. Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832-1914), Field Marshal. Sitter in 81 portraits.
- Brigadier General Russell (active 1859). Sitter in 1 portrait.
- William Rose Mansfield, 1st Baron Sandhurst (1819-1876), General. Sitter in 5 portraits.
- Patrick Stewart (1832-1865), Soldier. Sitter in 2 portraits.
- Captain Watson (active 1857). Sitter in 1 portrait.
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This painting represents one of the key events of the Indian Rebellion or Mutiny of 1857. The siege of Lucknow, which had lasted from July, was raised by Sir Colin Campbell, the new commander of the British armies, on 17 November. Sir James Outram and Sir Henry Havelock, who died only a week later, had brought reinforcements to bolster the small number of troops initially under siege. British public opinion was profoundly shocked by the scale of the mutiny and by the loss of life on both sides; the massacre of captured Europeans, and the indiscriminate killing of Indian soldiers and civilians by the British armies.
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- Victorian Portraits Resource Pack, p. 22
- Bayly, Christopher, The Raj: India and the British 1600-1947, 1990 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 19 October 1990 - 17 March 1991), p. 247
- Funnell, Peter, Victorian Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery Collection, 1996, p. 22
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 727
- Simon, Jacob, The Art of the Picture Frame: Artists, Patrons and the Framing of Portraits in Britain, 1997 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 8 November 1996 - 9 February 1997), p. 72, 171
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Current affairsFormation of the first Liberal cabinet, following the dissolution of Parliament in light of the Liberal and opposition member Lord Russell's introduction of a resolution arguing for widening the franchise, carried because the Conservatives, the ruling party, only have a minority. Palmerston holds a meeting of Whigs, Peelites and Radicals, from which the Liberal Party is formed, and the Queen later invites him to become Prime Minister.
Art and scienceCharles Darwin's The Origin of the Species is published, in which he sets out his theory of evolution based on the process of natural selection, species mutation, and survival of the fittest.
The engineer Joseph Bazalgette begins work on constructing the London sewerage system, following the 'Big Stink' of the preceding summer. Bazalgette's system, now extended, continues to serve London.
InternationalOutbreak of war between an alliance of France and Italian nationalists, and Austria. Napoleon III signs an armistice with Austria. However, pressure from Britain, supporting Italian unification to counterweight French and Austrian influence, leads to success for Italian nationalists.
The first oil well is drilled in America, after Edwin Drake's discovery in Titusville, Pennsylvania, transforming a quiet farming region into Oil Creek.
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'American Horror Story: Asylum' — Bloody Face Revealed!
Like "Rubber Man" before him, "Bloody Face" has captured the frightful imaginations of 'American Horror Story: Asylum' viewers, who after only four episodes obsess over clues to the masked serial killer's identity. We've certainly been jerked around a bit as to the killer's true visage, even across multiple timelines, but is the mask about to be lifted? According to series creator Ryan Murphy, we won't have long to wait to find out!
For four episodes now of 'American Horror Story: Asylum,' we've been treated to (and gagged at) the grim visage of serial killer "Bloody Face," but when will we get to see the villain's real face? This Wednesday, according to series creator Ryan Murphy's ever-fruitful Twitter! At some point during this Wednesday's "I Am Anne Frank, Pt. 2" we'll learn the true identity of the killer who has thus far been responsible for multiple character deaths, in addition to an engaging mystery.
Of course, even with the killer's identity revealed the mystery wouldn't end there, as we've now apparently seen "Bloody Face" alive and well across two different timelines decades apart. Could there be a supernatural element to his villainy, or is the bloody moniker used by a number of different killers, as seen by the two copycats that – SPOILER ALERT – killed Adam Levine, and Jenna Dewan's Leo and Teresa?
Fans of the first 'American Horror Story' season will remember that "Rubber Man" was eventually unmasked as Tate Langdon (Evan Peters), though it doesn't seem plausible Peters' 'AHS:A' character Kit Walker could be the murderer, despite being accused as such.
Give us your theories on "Bloody Face"s identity, and tune in for the truth this Wednesday night, with 'American Horror Story: Asylum's' latest thriller "I Am Anne Frank Pt. 2!"


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Kevin Grandia | November 30, 2012
By Kevin Grandia • Friday, November 30, 2012 - 10:50
With the ultra-conservative Heartland Institute completely discredited in the US, they are taking their climate change Denial-a-Palooza circus act over to Germany this week.
The Heartland Institute has a long history of attacking conventional science on behalf of their corporate funders, whether it be the link between human activity and climate change or the link between cancer and tobacco smoke.
Covering Heartlands' activities over the last 7 years has been like watching a very, very slow train wreck.
Here's some of the highlights of Heartland's head scratchers:
1. Unabomber Billboard:
In May 2012, Heartland launched a billboard campaign comparing people who acknowledge the scientific reality of manmade climate change to serial killers like the infamous Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski.
There was a huge uproar over the ads, and while Heartland's president Joseph Bast thought it could help raise his organization's profile, there was instead a massive exodus of corporate funders.
2. Denial-a-Palooza:
Each year, Heartland convenes a whole bunch of grumpy old white men, puts them up at a hotel in Times Square or Chicago and the group proceeds to complain to themselves about how climate scientists are all wrong; Al Gore is the devil, and the United Nations is plotting to take over the world.
I have actually attended a couple of Heartland's conferences, which they call the "International Conference on Climate Change," but is perhaps more well known by the name we gave it, "Denial-a-Palooza."
The intensity of crazy conspiracy theories at these meeting makes…. well, Ted Kaczynski look rational.
After 5 years of failing to garner any relevant media coverage, Joseph Bast announced at last year's conference that there would be no more Denial-a-Paloozas.
Good call Joe. (So how to explain this German junket?)
3. Joe Camel is Innocent!
In a 1996 newsletter, Heartland president Joe Bast wrote a "defense of smoking" piece entitled "Joe Camel is Innocent." While Bast and the infamous cigarette cartoon camel may share the same first name, that's not his sole reason for empathy. Bast's defense of cigarettes is more likely on account of the millions of dollars in funding the Heartland Institute has recieved from tobacco companies over the years. (Plus he's a smoker himself.)
In the last two years alone, Heartland has received a combined $200,000 from tobacco giants Altria (previously named Philip Morris) and Reynolds America.
In the Joe Camel memo, Bast writes in defense of using cartoons to advertise cigarette brands to children:
"Last time I checked, people under the age of 18 weren't major buyers of life insurance, household cleaners, automobile rustproofing, or tires - yet Snoopy, Mr. Clean, Rusty Jones, and the Michelin Man are used to promote those products, Joe Camel is innocent!"
Last time I checked, inhaling car insurance doesn't lead to a high risk of developing lung cancer or respiratory disease. And, while Michelin tires are pretty cool, they aren't highly addictive.
4. "Angry Badgers" and Leaked Heartland Memos:
Earlier this year, DeSmogBlog obtained Heartland Institute strategy and funding documents that substantiated in no uncertain terms that the Heartland Institute relies on big money, from big corporations like Microsoft and RJR Tobacco, as well as a large amount specifically dedicated to climate denial that almost certainly flows from the pockets of Chicago industrialist Barre Seid.
The leaked memos went viral and media had a feeding frenzy. Even more funders publicly dropped their support for the Heartland Institute. The documents revealed, among other things, that corporate money was flowing through Heartland to some very prolific climate change deniers, like $90,000 to blogger Anthony Watts and $11,600 a month in funding to Craig Idso who runs a group that argues that increased levels of greenhouse gas are in fact good for the planet.
One leaked memo titled "Operation Angry Badger" talks about a strategy to spend over $600,000 to help defend conservative Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker from a recall effort that was launched after Walker went after the State unions' collective bargaining rights.
5. Pooping in My Salad
In what must go down as a top ten contender for the most tasteless book title ever, Joseph Bast self-published a book in 2006 in "defense of smokers' rights" called "Please Don't Poop in My Salad."
Most ridiculous quote in the book:
No victim of cancer, heart disease, etc. can "prove" his or her cancer or heart disease was caused by exposure to secondhand smoke.
Seriously, you just can't make this stuff up.
We wish the Heartland Institute an enjoyable German vacation this week. Don't let reality spoil the view.
GingerLadySlipper replied on Permalink
Joe Bast & WaPo
Bast wrote a dignified reply, published in Saturday's Washington Post, to an earlier WaPo article about him. He denies receiving much money from industry for denying climate or whatever. He self-lauds his good work in sponsoring scientific conferences.
GingerLadySlipper replied on Permalink
google "joseph bast washington post" within a week
Do write them refuting. I'm consumed with preparing for a course I'm teaching. Hope to get to it.
Kevin Grandia replied on Permalink
writing something now
It was a letter to the editor, which still needs refuting. I thought it was an op-ed, which would have been ridiculous given how discredited Heartland is.
Kevin Grandia replied on Permalink
In the Washington Post?
Do you have a link? Couldn't imagine the Post hosting an OpEd by him.
GingerLadySlipper replied on Permalink
oops see above
for link.


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Living on borrowed water
Last June, poor runoff from an abysmal snowpack was turning Colorado's Yampa River into a hot cesspool, pushing trout and mountain whitefish to the margins of survival. Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the city of Steamboat asked anglers and flotillas of tubing tourists to stay away, to avoid stressing the Yampa's overheating and oxygen-deprived fish.
For long-time recreation outfitter Peter Van de Carr, last summer was looking a lot like 2002, when the Yampa's flow dropped so low that the river smelled like rotting seaweed, as he relayed to Sandra Postel at National Geographic's water blog. In June, with no overheating visitors lazing down the river, the local paper ran a photo of a tanned Van de Carr sitting among coolers and boater accouterment as he strummed his guitar during a slow day at the shop. He told Steamboat Today that he was playing "the stinking river blues."
Then, on June 29 the river began to rise, but it wasn't from the rain everyone had been waiting for. The water was coming from Stagecoach Reservoir, and it was arriving through unusual means. With drought bearing down on the Yampa, the Colorado Water Trust, a non-profit that facilitates water rights transactions on behalf of rivers, scrambled to secure the lease of 4,000 acre feet of unused water from the Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District. The water came from a large lease that wasn't renewed with the water district from the year before, and the Colorado Water Trust put up about $130,000 of private funding from the their partners, and $10,000 from the city of Steamboat to lease it.
It was the first time anyone had used a flexible piece of 2003 Colorado water law, which lets farmers, ranchers, water districts, and others temporarily lease water to the state to help keep rivers flowing. The law was passed on the heels of the 2002 drought, but it took last summer's extreme conditions, legal expertise and fundraising from the Colorado Water Trust, and cooperation with the Colorado Water Conservation Board and the state engineer's office, to put the law to work on the Yampa.
The law that the Colorado Water Trust brought to life is an extension of Colorado's 1973 instream flow program meant to keep some water flowing in rivers. That program grew out of the recognition that the way water laws worked in Colorado encouraged sucking rivers dry. For example, the idea that water has to be put to "beneficial use" usually means taking it out of the river and doing something with it, leaving little behind for rivers. But the instream flow program made keeping water in the river a beneficial use as well.
"We're using a system that has customarily been used to move water out rivers to move water back into rivers," says Amy Beatie, the executive director of the Colorado Water Trust.
Part of the challenge in getting water back into rivers has simply been making people or agencies with water rights aware that they have the option to lease water back to the river. Beatie says that many people they interacted with last year weren't aware of the water trust, or how it operates (it's market-based, voluntary and confidential).
But even if you knew about the Colorado Water Trust, why lease valuable water? There are times when people might not need their full share, and would benefit by leasing it in the short-term. For example, if there's a water shortage and an irrigator can't get their full allocation, they might decide that it's more economical to lease their water, rather than invest in staff and equipment during a year when they wouldn't get to grow much anyway. Agencies can help too, like last year when the Bureau of Land Management found extra water that they will lease out for the Colorado River near Kremmling.
While most water users may be holding onto their resources tightly during drought, the Yampa lease shows how a windfall of water can help carry a river through. The Colorado Water Trust rolled out its request for water again this year and they are also likely helping the Yampa again this summer. The group is also focused on longer-term water transactions, like placing water rights into conservation easements. But even with the money and expertise to put water back into rivers, there's another long-term challenge—getting enough people to think that water is doing valuable work even if it's just flowing downstream.
Sarah Jane Keller is a High Country News intern.
Photo of the Yampa River running through Dinosaur National Monument courtesy of the National Park Service.


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From the mid-1960s, campus museums acquired hundreds of Kolins, including 32 artworks at Brandeis University's The Rose Art Museum. The University's announcement on January 26, 2009, later modified, to deaccession its art collection generated fervent commentary. In this three-part series Framing History, Lisa places the academic museum in historical context, explaining the economic policies and social factors that fueled the explosive growth of campus museums in this era, and highlighting the archival records generated by the museum community. This is part 1 of 3. (Click here to read the original announcement).Vienna Modernist Sacha Kolin: The New York Years
Sacha Kolin (1911-1981), the Paris-born and Vienna-trained Modernist, was one of over 700 visual artists to emigrate from Europe to the United States between 1933 and 1944. Within months of her 1936 arrival in New York City, the young refugee had a solo exhibition of paintings and sculpture at Rockefeller Center's P.E.D.A.C. Galleries. At the 1940 New York World's Fair, Sacha showed among 42 fellow émigrés, including Josef Albers, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Amédée Ozenfant, and Kurt Seligmann. The exhibition "New Americans of Friendship House" was a microcosm of recent art movements and styles of Central Europe: Expressionism, Neue Sachlichkeit, Purism, Surrealism, Wiener Werkstätte, and Bauhaus among them.
In the 1950s, Sacha co-hosted a color workshop with Bauhaus graduate Hannes Beckmann, joined numerous artist associations, and began to exhibit widely in Manhattan, the Hamptons, and Provincetown. Even so, Sacha struggled mightily to find a sustainable niche among Manhattan's galleries, whose tenures were often brief and whose audiences could be dismissive of advanced art and of women artists. She lived and painted in a succession of Upper East Side apartments but was often unable to afford the rent.
By the mid- to late-1960s, the artist then in her fifties, found more salubrious pastures in academic venues. In 1972, Sacha's first career retrospective was held at Southampton College of Long Island University. By the following year, her work had entered the collections of ten campus museums. Three donors gave to Brandeis University's The Rose Art Museum 32 Kolins: the monumental 40 X 68-inch painting The Day Before Tomorrow, a sculpture assemblage of casein on balsa wood with glass objects entitled We, and titled drawings including Blue Walk, Black Seed, and Conversation in Rose Red.
Upon her death at age 69 on Valentine's Day 1981, Sacha left behind a small ardent circle of patrons, about 2,000 artworks in over 60 museums and private collections, and a mountain of debt. I pieced together Sacha's story in part by studying the museums' collection histories and mining records in specialized archives and libraries. Ten lessons to family historians are detailed in my biography Look Up: The Life and Art of Sacha Kolin, which was recently published by Midmarch Arts Press.
Genealogical Challenges Lead to Innovative Methods
As the subject of a genealogical quest, Sacha Kolin is atypical. She was an only child, never married, and had no issue. Her small extended family with Ukrainian ancestral roots resettled for educational and economic opportunities and was scattered by successive wars. In New York City, Sacha's limited exposure as an artist, escalating poverty, and peripatetic residential history further restricted the ordinary information sources.
Challenged by the research constraints, I saw potential for innovations in my field of genealogy. Could I extend the definition of family to glean a fuller and more accurate portrait of the artist? Could I pursue career and institutional records for biographical insights? Could I read Sacha's abstract paintings—subjective and creative expressions—as assiduously as I read her 1911 Parisian birth register?
Fig. 1 Golden Shadows of the Past, 1960, oil, 30 x 30 inches; private collection.
Over many years of study, I located and reunited branches of Sacha's family in Argentina, Brazil, Israel, and the United States; interviewed and corresponded with her affiliates; built a database of artworks; and compiled a substantial archive of life event documents, professional records, and personal ephemera.
Example from The Rose: Framing History
The Rose Museum building in Waltham, Massachusetts, opened in 1961. Leon Mnuchin, Esq., and his wife, Harriet Gevirtz-Mnuchin, provided an early grant used to purchase 21 postwar artworks. Other donors followed. Today, about 85% of the 7,200-piece collection was gifted to The Rose. Many of the postwar artworks were contemporary to the times, created during the 1960s and 1970s by artists perhaps known to the donors.
Sidestepping the recent conflagration regarding The Rose and the University Board's decision—later modified—to deaccession artworks now worth about $350 million, I will frame history to offer a more nuanced appreciation of the academic museum's role in an artist's, in Sacha's, life.
The early 1960s was a time of unprecedented growth in the number of academic museums, fueled by a greater number of academic programs many of which were led by émigré art historians and their protégés; the need for greater access to original works of art for scholarly pursuits and curatorial endeavors, especially on campuses removed from major metropolitan areas; and an increased demand for exhibitions tailored to a larger and more diverse community.
By 1967, over a quarter—about 115—of all American museums were situated on college campuses. Academic museums built and expanded during the era, and who acquired Sacha's artwork, include The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in 1961; the Dickson Art Center's Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts at the University of California-Los Angeles in 1965; the Charles A. Dana Creative Arts Center at Colgate University in 1966; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University in 1973; and the Miami University Art Museum of Miami University in 1978. In 1968, the buildings themselves, such as the Everson Museum designed by I. M. Pei, became the subject of an exhibition "The Architecture of Museums" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Sacha turned to campus museums as a receptive and prestigious audience for her life's work, including large-scale outdoor sculptures (click here to see Cornell University's Going Up and White Batwings, installed in 1978). She was adept at cultivating sponsors, who played a critical role in museum donations and thus, in my research of her life story.
To be continued. Part 2 will be posted on Monday, March 30th at 12:00 AM


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Nobel prize winning economist Milton Friedman would've turned 101-years-old today.
And there are plenty of people who would've loved to have him around today to witness how the Federal Reserve is running monetary policy.
Friedman, who is famous for his ideas on monetarism, was against the idea of a Federal Reserve. However, he did support the expansion of money supply.
Last year, we featured this 1979 interview with a young Phil Donahue, and we bring it to you again.
Donahue challenged Friedman on the principles of capitalism, and he specifically went after the concept of greed.
But Friedman's eloquent response has gone down as one of the finest defenses of capitalism of all time.
"But it seems to reward not virtue as much as it does the ability to manipulate the system," said Donahue.
"And what does reward virtue?" asked Friedman rhetorically. "Does a communist commissary reward virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue?"
"The record of history is absolutely crystal clear," he said.
Watch the whole clip here.
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Dodgers pitcher Josh Beckett was saddened but not shaken at a level some might think. He knew Tony Gwynn and was hit hard by the news Monday that Gwynn had died of cancer.
Yet, what had not really registered with Beckett was an element he shared with Gwynn — the use of smokeless tobacco.
"Probably not as much as it should," Beckett said.
Gwynn blamed his mouth cancer on dipping smokeless tobacco throughout his 20-year Hall of Fame career for the San Diego Padres. Smokeless tobacco is banned in the minors and Major League Baseball no longer permits teams to make it available in clubhouses.
Yet, if its use has diminished in recent years, it still remains. Every clubhouse has players who take chewing tobacco and stuff it on the inside of cheeks, or use the snuff from a can and put it behind lips.
Beckett said he has been dipping since he was 17, but had not made the correlation of his smokeless tobacco use to Gwynn's until asked late Monday. And neither did he suspect the news of Gwynn's death would prove a turning point in his use.
"I could sit here and lie to you and tell you yes, but unfortunately it would be just a straight lie," Beckett said.
"I'm addicted to it. It's more than just the nicotine. It's the oral fixation. I don't think anyone does it just for the nicotine thing, or we'd probably all be on the [nicotine] patch."
For many players, the use of smokeless tobacco becomes entwined with playing the game. It becomes difficult to imagine baseball without it.
Smokeless tobacco has been a sensitive subject for Angels left fielder Josh Hamilton, whose well-chronicled addiction to cocaine and alcohol led to a suspension from baseball from 2003 to 2005 and who has struggled for years with tobacco and caffeine use.
Twice during his career, long hitting slumps coincided with his quitting the use of smokeless tobacco.
"I've wrestled with this issue," Hamilton said. "I have quit, then picked it back up. It's tough. Not saying I couldn't do it, because I've done it, and done it during the season, but it's not an ideal place to quit. Being an alcoholic, I'm not going to go become a bartender and think I'm going to stay sober. It's just tough, plain and simple."
Most players who still use smokeless tobacco say they intend to quit, though not until out of the game. Dodgers Manager Don Mattingly said he started chewing tobacco once he became a major league player, stopped when he retired and started dipping when he became a coach.
Mattingly said he stopped dipping about two years ago.
"I just stopped," he said. "From your own health, you don't want to take chances. Then from a role model standpoint, the TV is always on you and if you're dipping, kids are seeing it. It just got to the point where I didn't want to be that guy."
Dodgers hitting coach Mark McGwire said he tried dipping once.
"First time I tried it I got sick, and that was the last time," McGwire said.
Dodgers bench coach Tim Wallach has three sons who followed him into baseball, but none use smokeless tobacco. He played against Gwynn throughout his 17-year career and always marveled at Gwynn as a player.
"He was a guy that you almost felt like would look around the field and decide which hole he was going to hit," Wallach said. "Everybody talks about slowing the game down, but it was almost like he could slow the ball down."
Dodgers first base coach Davey Lopes coached Gwynn for eight seasons in San Diego.
"Me, coach Gywnn? At what, baserunning?" Lopes said. "We're talking about one of the greatest hitters of all time."
Said Angels Manager Mike Scioscia: "He had no peers as far as what he did in the batter's box. He worked very hard at this game. And everything he did on the field pales in comparison to the type person he was."
Dodgers outfielder Scott Van Slyke dips, as did — and still does — his father, former major league outfielder Andy Van Slyke.
"I like it," he said. "The calming effect, something in your mouth, spitting. I don't know. If I got to the point where I said enough is enough, I don't see that being a problem."
Said Beckett: "I don't know why I started. It's a bad habit. It's horrible. If either one of my daughters wanted to dip, I'm going to tell them it's a bad decision.
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So, the U.S. economy created fewer jobs than expected in January, and even worse, December's dismal reading was barely revised.
Some analysts were blaming the weather, but it's worth pointing out the week in which the Labor Department actually polled companies, it was warmer than normal, according to Goldman Sachs analysts. And goods-producing sectors, including the notoriously weather-impacted construction industry, actually had a good month and added more jobs than the services side of the economy.
One surprise was the 29,000 drop in government payrolls, in part due to a 9,000 drop at the U.S. Postal Service.
— Steve Goldstein and Ruth Mantell
Also read: U.S. adds just 113,000 jobs in January | Reactions to the report
Next: The household survey tells a different story


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I also wish to extend my congratulations to Fedele for his promotion to Renshi 6th Dan, and award of Shihan title by his sensei Jim Hulse at yesterday's event in Natick.
Fedele is a dedicated and higly skilled Uechi-Ka, and it was indeed a pleasure to see him promoted.
Fedele will also test at this year's summer camp for the same rank and title within the IUKF organization.
All the best Fedele.


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Cabinet Mountains Wilderness
IntroductionThe United States Congress designated the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness (map) in 1964 and it now has a total of 93,272 acres. All of this wilderness is located in Montana and is managed by the Forest Service.
DescriptionThe Cabinet Mountains Wilderness is a 35 mile long range of glaciated peaks and valleys trending north and south. The wilderness is framed by the Kootenai River on the north, the Clark Fork River on the south, Highway 2 on the east, and the Bull River and Highway 56 on the west. Elevations range from a low of 2,880 feet to 8,738 feet atop Snowshoe Peak. Designated a Primitive Area in 1935, the 94,272 acre area then became part of the National Wilderness Preservation Act of 1964, and is defined as, "an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain......" The Cabinets obtained their name from early French explorers who noted that the rock formations along the Clark Fork river looked like boxes or cabinets. Most of these rock formations are now under the Cabinet Gorge Reservoir but some are still visible. Variety best describes the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness, ranging from the high, rocky peaks often snowcapped year-round, to groves of huge cedars in the canopied valleys. Hidden in the peaks and ridges are scores of deep blue lakes, feeding clear, cold streams that tumble to moose country below. This Cabinet Mountains have had use through time. The Kootenai Indians used the area to hunt big game. The mountain goat was prized for its pelt and was a rich food source. Many plants adapted only to high altitudes were gathered for food and medicines. Beginning in the 1880's the area was used by Euro Americans. The earliest and most extensive historic use has been mining activity. Mineralization was discovered in the southeast part of the wilderness and since has become known as the Snowshoe Fault. Mining at some scale has occurred along this fault sporadically since the early 1900's. Clean and pure are the simplest and most accurate ways to describe the water that comes out of the wilderness. Past studies have rated this water among the top 5% purest water in the lower 48 states. Bringing your own water or using a water purifier is still recommended. The remnant of one alpine glacier still exists, Blackwell Glacier resides on the north slope of Snowshoe Peak. Other permanent snow fields can be found near Little Ibex lake and Elephant Peak. Patches of snow sheltered by mountainous ramparts are often found in the high country throughout the summer.
Planning to Visit the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness?
- Print a fact sheet
- General things to consider when visiting any wilderness
- Regulations
- Contact the Forest Service
- Visit the National Forest wilderness website
Leave No TraceHow to follow the seven standard Leave No Trace principles differs in different parts of the country (desert vs. Rocky Mountains). Click on any of the principles listed below to learn more about how they apply in the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness.
- Plan Ahead and Prepare
- Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces
- Dispose of Waste Properly
- Leave What You Find
- Minimize Campfire Impacts
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8/11 Trade trivia
Think it's a little weird for Mike Fontenot to be traded from the Cubs to the Giants when both teams are playing each other? The Giants actually have acquired players twice before from teams during series. On July 20, 2008, San Francisco acquired Ray Durham from Milwaukee when the Giants were playing the Brewers. On July 29, 2009, San Francisco dealt for Freddy Sanchez from Pittsburgh when the Giants were playing the Pirates.
— Carrie Muskat
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Not weird at all when they consider Mike's throw out at home Monday to put the game in extra innings and his two run pinch hit double Tuesday which won the game for the Cubs. If you can't beat em, buy em or trade for him.


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Minnesaota Timberwolves Announcer Loses It On-Air Over No Call
So you want to be a professional sports official?
Not only do you have players, coaches, and fans screaming at you for three hours, you occasionally catch the wrath of broadcasters as well.
Case in point: Monday's Mavericks - Timberwolves game in the Twin Cities.
Down 100-98 with three seconds left (at the 1:41 mark in the video above), the Wolves run a play for Kevin Love to tie the game at the buzzer. The shot didn't go, in part, because it looks like Love was fouled on the attempt.
Guess who didn't see a foul? Any of the three officials. Game over.
But things were just getting warmed up for Timberwolves radio announcer Alan Horton, who quickly went from impartial third party to raving lunatic after seeing a replay of the final shot.
The next call in Horton's future may be one from the NBA asking him to put a sock in it next time.


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TVyNovelas, which is considered Latin American's leading tabloid devoted to telenovelas, is reporting that Eduardo Verástegui and Ricky Martin were once an item. Verástegui is the former Mexican boybander and model who acted in a number of novelas and became a star—much with the help of a huge Latin American gay fanbase. The Chasing Papi star later became a born-again Christian, right-wing Republican and heavily campaigned for Proposition 8 to California's Latinos. "The gays MADE Eduardo Verástegui," writes Andrés Duque. "And in return he stabs them in the back."
Oh and just like in Ricky Martin's case, certain rumors have followed Verástegui for many years.
Watch Verástegui push for matrimonio tradicionale in his spot for "Yes on 8", WHEN YOU JUMP ....
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