Saturday, March 22, 2014

FLAAR,Guatemala: Yale,University of Pennsylvania Archeologist Nicholas Hellmuth Tells Fibs,Plagiarizes My Pataxte Research - and Loses Tikal Cacao Specimen As Well?! t

FLAAR,Yale,University of Pennsylvania Archeologist Nicholas Hellmuth Tells Fibs,Plagiarizes My Pataxte  Research - and Loses Tikal Cacao  Specimen As Well?!


 MUSEO POPOL VUH - maya-archaeology.org
www.maya-archaeology.org/museums/popolvuh/mayadeath.php
Both are on the campus of the Universidad Francisco Marroquin, Sexta Calle Final, ... Professor Nicholas Hellmuth occasionally gives seminars and archaeology ..... 361 2321The museum is on the same side of the street as the Museo Ixchel ...

When we first innovated or invented cacao honey bars at the Tostaduria in 2005 I was enthused about the fact that we were the  first coffee roaster in the world not only to be roasters of both coffee and cacao beans but more so to have immediately used honey instead of sugar to make a truly natural cacao honey bar for the first time in history to my knowledge.Then by chance I removed the skin of a cacao bean for some resaon(normally unlike the chocolate sugar bar industry we leave the thin skin on and grind it with the bean)and noticed it was WHITE instead of dark ! As I have said before,in my Pataxte article on the indymedias and here I thought it was an 'albino' cacao bean  and somehow even the bitterness of cacao had been bleached out and it tasted like a nut of some kind.
My Guatemala partner took the 'white cacao' back to where we bought our cacao to ask just what it was and he said 'pataxte.That's when I did  google search and found it was mentioned in he Mayan Popul Vuh but still I only found a only a couple of cacao 'pepitas' or seeds - 'beans' -   in  any given hundred pound sack of cacao and  sometimes none at all and our cacao supplier told us he could not get us even a small sack !This gives you just a small idea of just how scarce 'pataxte' or Theobroma bicolor trees are or at least have become sinc mass mono-culture of cotton and cattle and now sugar cane and palms and rubber in lowland Guatemala has come to dominate agriculture and destroy agro-ecosystem diversity and local small scale agricultural subsistance and local subsistance and self sufficiency .

It is also the reason why it took me literally YEARS since 2005 waiting for someone to hear of my seaacrch for a few punds of pataxte seeds and come supply them to me.NO,in the end it was me who would have to go in search of pataxte seeds or 'pepitas'on my own.And with beginners luck I magaged only to get around 15 pounds after 3 or so days of searching around.And the only ones who save the seeds are generall older women who still make a corn-pataxte drink they call 'tiste' and some Cakchiquel Mayan women who informed me they call it 'bek' said they make a tortilla-pataxte drink after corn has been made into tortillas they of course grind the two together and boil with water.So in effect I was the first to my knowlegde to make a solid product using only pataxte and honey as well as cacao-pataxte honey bars.And so I was simply outraged that first Stone who Nicolas Helmuth 'cites' at first as a or the main source of his pataxte as a form of chocolate particularly in solid form when it was me and neither of him or Emily Stone that was presuing and divulging to our coffee and cacao bean clients my concept of a 'white chocolate' - however it is NOT simply white chocolate made with cocao butter fat . milk and sugar but something all completely different with proteins and vitamins and some would highlight even medinal molecules including suphur containing coumpounds and blood pressure lowing and blood body brain circulation 3enhancers as well,etc..So nothing like just 'white chocolte including a less smooth texture etc.. But not bitter like chocolate and almost neutral like the taste of milk or cocoa butter in 'white chocolate'.So when he uses the Antigua Revue as his soap box to keep rubbing an old wound I thought healed after exposing Stone's unethical snooping and usurption of our research AND development and inviting doners to give him or his organixation money for my research and big chocolate to just take over my ideas I was and remain outraged.
Still I  raved about this seed or 'bean' to our clients for years(and have and continue to since 2005 when I was the only one discussing its use as a solid product) in hopes that one of the tourists would find some in their trips outside Antigua and bring some back for me to grind up so I could experiment with making bars with honey out of it and particulaly to  grind it to see if it also had a 'butter' that left it hard after grinding like cocoa butter or if it only had fat in the form of a liquid oil.(A plant that forms a semi hard butter rathan than oil at room temperature  is indeed  a rar property for thos who don't know and exactly what led finally to Dutch maing bar rther than their and Aztecs' centutries old beverage only ou of it since the conquest of the Aztecas,Maya et.al. in the 16th century.) Unfortunately instead of the good travelers and clients  I had come to confide in and apprecite since opning the coffee roaster in 1994 it was a woman from Pennsylvania whose friends were getting into chocolate bar making and who occasionally came in to bother me with giving them  a discount on coffeee that we sell too cheaply at ou asking price as it is.And the appreciation I got was sicking this egotistical  assisistent writing teacher from the University of Pennsylvania on me who had never had an idea of her own in her life and thus had no respect for the ideas of others.She should have graduated from university decades before and yet was still in school because she was incapable of learning on her on which meant incapable of learning at all!And when I told her as I have other Americans and Europeans and Koreans etc. about the threatrs from Israelis I received for exposig stock fraiud apparently I was converted to the enemy in her pea brain.So she goes to the first person(Guatemalan) who  attempted to copy our roasting in Antigua and who coincidentally got into chocolate bars(although made conventionally with cocoa powder,cocoa butter and sugar  I'm glad to say rther than copying our cacao honey method)and tried to make a bar out of patxte before me.But luckily she and he wewe not into grinding and although she apparently found a pataxte fruit or two to get seeds she only made a fool of herself.This led me finally to go out into the remaining cacao area below Lake Atitlan and get with much difficulty finally a few pounds of seed that a few local women used for a corn drink called 'tiste'.No they had never made a bar out of it like chocolate only  drink.
Nicholas Helmuth appeared on his FLAAR internet site almost immediately after I published y research and experiments with pataxte and cited this woman Emily Stone.He appeared to me to be more a Barnum and Bailey con artist than  true archeologist - but hey he went to Yale so what should I have expected ?
Emily Stone decided finally to shut up after my article but now this clown Helmuth took her place and acted like the idea of making a bar from pataxte was his original idea.He 'invited' big chocolate industry to take my idea from me like it was his idea to give away ! THE LOW ETHICAL AND INTELLECTUAL IQ OF THIS HARVARD CON ARTIST HAS REALLY BEEN TOO MUCH. 

 Below is a quote from Nicholas Hellmuth in an article he posted on his FLAAR site shortly after I had posted an article in rebuttle to that of Emily Stone's 'ch ocolateincontext.com'pataxte article with video that says and shows nothng in 2008 which you can find on the link to her pataxte article also below.Funny enough Hellmuth cited her as a or the major source,on pataxte before quietly removing the citation probably after finding my post on indymedias that should have been much stronger about a University of Pennsylvania 'writing assistent teacher' or something like that ripping off my investigation of pataxte and allowing a self promoting pseudo 'archeoligist whose biggeast claim to fame or infamy should 'misplacing a very rare vase or its even rarer contents which was probably cacao as he only in recen years admits or possibly a rare dish of beabs or frijoles which is what he believed for years until other real archeologists documented the very deep connection between the Mayan civilization and cacao  .My article,'Pataxte,(Theobroma Bicolor): Real White Chocolate,Macademia Nut Of The Guatemala Maya ?,had already been out on the indymedia.com for a short while before his FLAAR article appeared citing Ms. Stone.The only reason Emily Stone was able to ripoff  my verbal communication with her was because friends of hers getting into the conventional sugar cocoa powder cocoa butter business came occasionaly to buy coffee at  the Tostaduria Antigua and told her about my discovery of pataxte and how I was saying it could be used as a form of 'white chocolate.
Hellmuth has used the concept ever since as another  means of self promoting himself and has even recently layed claim to being among the few artcheolgists who have documented finding a ceramic asrtifact with cacao residue in Antigua's revuemag.com..In fact he is lieing and has never docomented finding such a vase but instead has admitted to losing one or one that he suspects contained cacao.This is like the big fish that got away but the fisherman still claims-lies to have caught !I f indeed by his disciption that remains on his FLAAR website,(unlike his citation of Emily Stone as his pataxte souirce which has long disappeared),of the contents of .
To quote Mr.Hellmeth or 'Dr' Hellmuth as he and Yale University must jokingly like to call him,'At age 19, while a student at Harvard, working at Tikal twelve months for the University of Pennsylvania, I discovered a polychrome painted Maya vessel filled with food remains. The pot was about half filled with crusted remains of food; in the crust were the hollow shapes of what had once been a bean-like seed.Since this was in 1965, and today it is 2009, I don’t exactly have my field notes handy. But at age 19 I naively assumed these were frijoles (beans) in the pot. As I look back in my memory, I now question whether the “beans” were probably cacao. To tell for sure would require finding the University of Pennsylvania records'......

 Huh?! 'To tell for sure would require finding the University of Pennsylvania records' ,he says ?
Is the University that took him,(and Emily Stone as students and gave them both degrees such a reliable source that all we do - if we were able -  would be to consult their records?!(Are we to believe a Jehova's Witness' claims to having seen Jesus nailed to a cross?! The idiot doesn't seem to realise when the reponsibility to put up or acknowlege one is a making false claims resides with him and not some institution that was foolish enough to place him in a position of responsibility  in a serious archeological dig that so far it appears he blew big time according to his own writing on his FLAAR website !Where is the vase or pot and even if its ingredients can't be fouind why hasn't he located it and submitted it to a chemical analysis for traces of theobromine ? Huh?!


And wasn't it Helmuth's and Stone's prized University Of Pennsylvania - that recently had a pedophile scandal involving a coach? That reminds me of another Nicholas Hellmuth story.He always
uses the revuemag to promote one unproven 'Mayan' plant after another as an aphrodesiac for men or as
he says for the 'libido'.I guess Mr.Yale professor ain't got the word that we are so overpopulated in Guatemala and the world that the LAST thing we need to be searching for as a plant that enhances the 'libido'.

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        1. This 'Dr.' Hellmuth reminds me of those CIA agents in Afghhanistan who in order to engraciate themselves with the warlords who they have helped bring to power in order to oversee and protect the CIA's opium harvest,giveway free viagra in order that these lards can take and rape and impregnate more unlucky young women who happen to have the misfortune of living in the CIA warlords' turf.Nichiolas Hellmuth could be prosecuted by trhe FDA in the USA. 



I was telling this story about the pseudo-archeologist Nicholas Hellmuth losing cacao or bean material and possibly even the pot it was found in to some Mayan women who were askingg if I could sell them some pataxte a short while ago and they were as incredulous about this con artist Nicholas Hellmuth as I was.It felt good not to feel so alone in my outrage.The women reinded me that pataxte is 'bec' in their on Cachiquel Mayan language and asking me if I could sell them some documents just how scarce and in danger of extinction this precious 'pataxte tree,(Theobroma bicolor), related to the cacao bush is actually becoming.And it also explains why after first 'discovering' pataxte for myself in 2005 in cacao that we were roasting that I had bo idea and rlly thought it was an 'albino' chocolate bean that had somehow become bleached white ! It was only by  taking the bean to our source for buying cacao that he infomed us that it was called 'pataxte' which is how I discovered it was mentioned in the Popul Vuh in the first place and quoted that part of the Popul Vuh in my writing on pataxte just before the  self promoting Yale con artist Nicholas Hellmuth did !

Pataxte,(Theobroma Bicolor): Real White Chocolate,Macademia Nut ...

www.phillyimc.org/.../pataxtetheobroma-bicolor-real-white-chocolatema...
Apr 29, 2009 - Cacao Chocolate Guatemala Maya Pataxte Theobroma Bicolor Theobroma Cacao Criollo Theobromine White Chocolate. Pataxte,(Theobroma ..

'' I was blissfully ignorant of pataxte until about three years ago I saw a label on a tree in the nature preserve at the ruins of Takalik Abaj. It labeled a tree as Theobroma and clearly a different species. But the tree was so totally unlike the thousands of Theobroma cacao that I had seen prior to that visit, that I naively assumed the label might have been a mistake.''-Yale 'educated' archeologist Nicholas Hellmuth


Now this about the great  Jungle Jim or Raper of the Lost Arch 'hero',(in his own mind),Nicholas Helmuth from Antigua Guatemala's revuemag.com in which he claims to have read the Popul Vu so many times that he must have it memorized cover to cover.As you can see it says he has read the Popul Vuh ' around a dozen times'.We can only presume his many rading readings only occured less than 3 years ago if he only somehow on his own 'discovered' pataxte around the same time coincidentally that I did !The Popul Vuh's   very brief mention of pataxte has been around for a few centuries since it was put to writing in Spanish by Mayan living in Tecpan Guatemala after being passed on generation to generation verbally in the local Mayan dialect or language .
Certain aspects of the Popul Vuh seem to be confirm   archeological discoveries in the Guatemalan Mayan lowlands from a vase that depicts the head of one of the heroe twins growing out of what to me and others is definitely a cacao bush although the version of the  verbal tradition of Tecpan say his head grows from a pumpkin.Nonetheless the vase is an amazing provides an amazing confirmation of the Mayan cultural continiuty to the present.Also other artistic relief representations of the story of the mythological twins exist in the lowlands of Guatemala as well and those older archeolgical artifacts depict Hunapu's head re-emerging from a cacao plasnt and NOT a pumpkin as is written in the later oral translation of the Popul Vuh .This is probably due to te fact that the peroplke of Tecpan are highlanders and cacao is a lowland tropical plant even though it is indeed mentioned in Popul Vuh as important to ALL Mayan people.
Now back to Mr.Hellmuth.He has clearly stated he thought that the contents of  the ceramic  'pot' he found in Tikal as a student in the 1960's contained beans a legume and NOT cacao.As one wo has had an amateurs interest in rthe Mys for MANY years I confer with the reasoning behind his illogical assumption.In the 1980's the real  imporatance of cacao to the lowland Maya culture was virtuslly unknown ven though Columbus himself wrote of sighting the boat tansport of cacao beans even among the soon to be holocausted Caribe people of the Caribbean islands and even though the evil Spanish conquistador and rapist Hernan Cotez would a little later take cacao back to the king of Spain and introduce sugar cane into Mexico and Meso-America to employ his newly aquired 'Indian' slaves in  the production of on his stolen lands in Morelos Mexico etc..(As an aside one American here in Guatemala actulaly named his chocolate candy bars made with Hernan Cortez' sugar cane and processed cocao powder and cocoa butter after the prtesumed Godess of Mayan cacao 'Ixcacao' !He did not take kindly to my reminding him that Ixcacao would be made literally sick eating cacao that the Aztec and probably Maya ALWAYS drank or ate in unsweetened bitter form - not mention considering trhe source of that unhealthy sugar was Hernan Cortez ! So when I call my cacao - honey bars Maya cacao honey I don't mean the Maya made cacao bars with honey in fact although they had honey produced from small 'stingless' bees we have no reason at all to suspect they were using that honey to sweeten cvacao either in a solid or in a liquid drink preparation.The very fact that people with native American 'indigenous blood and genes are more suseptible than most to diabetes indicates that they had and consumed very low amounts of sugar even in the form of honey,etc..

.Thanks to archeologic findings verbal history and tradition of the  the Popul Vuh is validated on one level and shown to be probably incorrect or modified over time as the legend moves from its source of origen or creation by lowland Mayan culture to the highlands such as Tecpan Guatemala.Cultural relativity one might call it.Below you see a photographic image clearly showing
As for the below one can only ask is how stupid can this Yale 'doctor' get ?It has already been shown that
the Maya while being very god abstract artists so to speak are also or more so very pecise artists whern they want to be.Even they phonetic writing is based upon artistic renditions of very ral objects.The cacao glyph is a fish head and archeologists who know this can very readily recognize this word cacao by recognizing the Mayan scribes' drawing or artistic rendition of a fish head with two dots near the head to remind the reading to repeat the sound ca two times.

Note below and written in stone or ancient fired ceramic which is a much more reliable source than oral tradition whether it be the Popul Vuyh or Bhaga Vad Ghita is Mayan ceramic vase that depicts what is most likely Huanpu's head re-growing friom a cacao bush - NOT a pumpkin.

http://research.mayavase.com/kerrmaya_list.php?rowstart=490&search=maya&vase_number=&date_added=&vase_type=&ms_number=&site=&icon_elements=


Click on the image to view a larger image

Photographs © Justin Kerr

Comments:  After his beheading by the Lords of the Otherworld, Hun Hunaphu's head is hung in a cacao tree.  CLICK for the shape of the vessel


However the point I am making is that Nicholas Hellmuth got 'his idea' of using pataxte as or in a solid bar form from me even if it came through Emily Stone's website that he at first cited and then shortly removed probably upon finding my indymedia article that appeared shortly after her's and shortly before his that even then didn't mention using pataxt in a bar.Sad that Yale and his and Emily Stone's University of Pennsylvania doesn't teach ethics.'Publish or perish.' at any cost.That what they teach.Ha.Even if you haven't done the research and even if you pilfer your subject matter - as long as you don't get caught.

http://www.revuemag.com/2013/08/dr-nicholas-hellmuth/

Dr. Nicholas Hellmuth

 | August 28, 2013
Most people who read the Popol Vuh, the Mayan book of creation, are historians or anthropologists who do so only once to gain an insight into Mesoamerican culture thousands of years ago. Nicholas Hellmuth, Ph.D., has read the text around a dozen times.


Below is a link to a Ms.Emily Stone's frivilous self centered chocolateincontext.com website from 2008  that
Nicholas Hellmuth cited as some sort of credible source on his FLAAR website in 2008 shortly after I posted my article about pataxte or Theobroma bicolor in rebuttal to her plagiarizing my idea that pataxte could not only be a drink as it has been used for historically in both Mexico and Guatemala for centuries although it has been dying out due to the rape of the environment and loss of cultural traditions in both places,
particularly with large mono-cultural agriculturtal projects that dictated the clearing of natural excosystems in general and forest conserving cacao agro-ecosystems in particular.From cattle and cotton on the Pacific coast to a virtual monoculture of Hernan Cortez' introduced sugar cane today.Note that this strange white woman who thinks she is a 'Semite' says just before ripping off my concept of using pataxte as an alternative to white chocolate (that the archeological fraudster Nicholas Hellmuth will later do in her place after I write my article ,'Tony from the Tostaduria Antigua is doing some  strange some  strange stuff with local cacao beans and cinnamon,....' Well the weird thing about this is that Ms.Stone  KNOWS what I'm doing is being the first in Guatemala and as far as I could find on an internet search was to be roasting both cacao as well as our usual many years of coffee roasting in the same roaster and THEN without any cocoa powder or butter and ONLY the natural bean from the very Meso American region where cacao was first used by civilization I was adding honey instead of sugar! In fact the pseudo 'Semite' bimbo Ms.Stone knew that but because she also knew I was a critic of the Israeli government in general and of stock fraud and money laundering operations against Americans I was the enemy - the new 'white Palestinian' to her - even tough I had confided in her as 'my fellow American' that these people were also threatening my life !And while Nicholas Hellmuth has made a living off the historic talents of the Maya rather than any of his own and remained silent while Israelis supplied the arms to the Guatemalan military to mass murder the Maya who he cynically claims to admire he is equally sleazy and has in many ways done to me what he has done to the Maya by ripping off their archeological and cultural excellence foer his own egotistical glory and pocketbook ! Some sick American living in Guatemala  has actually made the claim that the present Maya of modern types aren't the 'real' Maya ! In truth it is white people of European origen who erroneously call themselves 'Jews' and who aided and abetted in,(AND PROFITED FROM), the slaughtering of Mayan people in the 1980's along with the U.S.Bush-Reagan CIA and their right wing Christian helpers who came to convert the Maya  to Protestant Christianity before they were slaughtered so they would be 'saved' before they were slaughtered who are NOT SEMITES (as they erroneously and fraudulently claim in order to justify the occupation of Palestinian lands),as well as to defraud Americans in stock and financial scams when they should never even by allowed in the U.S.in the first place ! Ms.Stone is a ' bimbo' NOT a 'Semite' !













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    Mar 30, 2008 - ... hometown of Antigua took up most of my attention: Tony from the Tostaduria Antigua is doing some strange stuff with local cacao beans and cinnamon, and Greg and Nikol from the Bagel ... posted by Emily Stone at 7:29 AM ...

Chocolate in Context: The Great Guatemalan Pataxte Experiment

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Aug 23, 2008 - "Pataxte" is a local name for theobroma bicolor, a largely ... It tasted vaguely like Passover matzo, which is to say that it didn't taste like much.

Only just now I came across the citing of Emily Stones chocolateincontext.com that I thought Nicholas Helmuth had removed from his site.:










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As you can see if if take the link above Emily Stone who certainly could have benefitted from  a course in  ethics , actually does nothing after visiting our Tostaduria Antigua coffee and cacao roasting  operation which I have come to feel is a lab as much as a roaster but rush to publish her name with pataxte at any cost,even that of doing any real culinary experiments with the plant.My having told her that I believed it could indeed be a 'white chocolate'  led her to rush to get others involved in  processed sugar chocolate here to help her get seeds from the plant just to beat me to finally get samples myself and grind them to see if the butter fast was similar enough to chocolate or cacao to make a bar.She never did that and was so culturo- centric as to conclude that it tasted like an Estern European Jewish 'passover matza' !Considering what Israelis did to the Mayan population of Guatemala in the 1980's while self promoting 'Mayan archeologists' like Nicholas Hellmuth as well as many of Euro Jewish origen such a Emily Stone remained silent is more than sickening.

Unfotunately Stone did noty know how or think to grind the pataxte seed to see if it had cocoa butter properties and in fact can be used for so much more as my article describes after I finally was able to get enough seeds to grind and eperiment with.Even now more research should be done on its nutitional properties including sulpher containing compounds.The few people mainly women who still keep its use alive in the few cacao growing areas of Guatemala only use it for a liquid drink generally with corn or ground tortillas as a base.Just as cacao was taken back to Europe after the conquest with only use as a drink in mind.Still it appears from the recent discovery of the  theobromine molecule  on a Mayan plate that cacao may have also been used in solid food as well or as a mole like sauce that Puebla nuns are given credit for inventing.







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The followig link will give some idea have what I have had to endure since undertaking a personal investigation of U.S.penny stock fraud and Israeli connection at the highest levels to that fraud note that I investigated  for years on pwenny stock message boards particlary one called ragingbull.com before I even began posting on the internet itself.My wolfblitzzer0 alias made Ehud Olmert's and Iraeli President Moshe Katsav's partner in UCSY or Air Water Corp so mad he sued his fellow Zionist Wolf Blitzer and CNN for $100 million in court in 2005 claiming they had an obligation to stop my complaints !It was about that time that one Israeli female government employee and then another and another complained that Israeli President Katsav raped them.In the end they covered up their  stock frauds against Americans using WORTHLESS U.S.PENNY STOCKS but Katsav was xconvicted of rape sometime after Emily Stone undertook to take credit for my investigations into pataxte for herself and in the end so did Yale con artist who lost valuable Tikal organic specimem that could have been cacao or beans both of which would have been of great value to ikmnowledge of the Maya of Tikal.

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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's American Crime Family: 9/11, WTC,'Orthodox Jews',Stock Fraud,Gay Prostitutes and Death Threats

 Had Ehud Olmert been involved in Michael Zwebner's multi-million or centi-million dollar swindle in Israel instead of the USA and had he profited from a stock fraud whose money went to harrass and intimidate and threaten the lives of Israeli citizens as he and his 'business' partners have done to Americans and to pay lawyers(with money from UCSY penny stock scam) in an attempt to suppress Americans Constutional rights to free speech and to hire male prostitutes - he may not have gotten off as lightly as his other partner in U.S. penny stock fraud and money laundering,ex Israeli President Moshe Katsav.


Olmert soap opera tries Israeli judicial system

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Former President Moshe Katzav is serving a long sentence in an Israeli prison after being convicted of rape and other sexual offenses. Former ...


Anyway it was only when someone who knew about my idea of using pataxte to make a pataxte or pataxte cacao honey bar and that it was my idea and not hers  informed me about her website pataxte self promotion that I at least took a trip to find enough pataxte to grind and experiment with it myself.Stone had never even ground the pataxte she got because the person she teamed with to one uop me used cocoa powder and butter and  had never even ground cacao in his life as she apparently had never done herself.In my case I had discovered pataxte by accident in our cacao beans and had to have my Guatemalan partner take it back to the person we bought cacao beans from to see if he knew what it was.I really did think it wqas an 'albino' cacao bean and that somehow iots bitterness of uinsweetened cacao or chocolate had somehow been 'bleached out' as well.The cacao seller informed my partner that it was 'pataxte' and an internet search rvealed that pataxte is Theobroma Bicolor .......

to be continued


  http://www.revuemag.com/2013/08/dr-nicholas-hellmuth/

Dr. Nicholas Hellmuth

 | August 28, 2013
Most people who read the Popol Vuh, the Mayan book of creation, are historians or anthropologists who do so only once to gain an insight into Mesoamerican culture thousands of years ago. Nicholas Hellmuth, Ph.D., has read the text around a dozen times.

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Note that below Nicholas Hellmuth seems to be confusing himself and his reading audience regarding what he terms 'Cacao effigy vessels.I welcome any unbiased botonist to step in as an unbiased expert but what he calls ' Cacao effigy vessels' is in fact pataxte or Therobroma bicolor which is the subject of my dispute with this unethiclal Yale self promoting sheister who has pretended my concept and experiment and creation of pataxte and cacao pataxte bars - in my case using honey - is somehow his or an unnamed sources invention.
The guy is as unethical as Emily Stonw who he at first used as a reference before probably coming across my rebuttal of her unacknowledged theft of my idea that was then mirrored on the probable stock fraudster Gordon's thecholatelife.com who has also along with Yale University 'educated' stock fraudster Mitchell Bodian been promoting the lie and fraud called 'Ghirardelli broma process' to extract cocoa butter from the bean when in fact with the cacao honey bar we made at Tostasduria Antigua in 2005 it is unneccessary to even do the Dutch processed cocoa butter extraction using tons of pressure per square inch and  cocoa powder in the first place and of course no need to use Henan Cotes suger cane that isd destroying large parts of Guatemala and Latin America in general.

Furthermore Hellmuth  acknowleges he and his professors complete ignorance of the importance of cacao to the Maya in the 1960s which is a well known fact to me that he just confirms.He acknowledges here that he NEVER EVEN FOLLOWED UP ON CONFIRMING IF THE MATERIAL IN THE VASE WAS OR NOT CACAO.IF SO HE MAY VERY WELL HAVE HAD THE BEST OR ONLY REAL SAMPLE OF A REAL MASS OF CACAO BEAN MATERIAL IN MAYAN ARCHEOLOGY.ALL OTHER
PROOFS TO MY KNOWLEDGE COME NOT FROM ANY BREAN MATERIAL EXCEPT FOR THE THEOBROMINE ALKALOID ITSELF TAKING FROM SCRAPINGS.RECENTLY WITHOUT EVER PROVIDIDING ANY PROOF BUT OUT OF SHEER SELF AGRANDIZEMENT HE HAS ERRONEOUSLY CLAIMED IN REVUE MAGAZINE ANTIGUA GUATEMALA THAT HE HAD DISCOVERED A VASE WITH CACAO WHEN IN FACT IT APPEARS HE IS STILL FANTASIZING ABOUT THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY .MY SUGGESTION IS THAT HE FINALLY EITHER PUT UP OR SHUT UP ABOUT THAT VASE OR DOCUMENT THE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS THAT CONFIRMS HIS CONTENTION,I PRESUME HIS ARTICLE IS INDEED REFERING TO THE VASE HE HAS NEVER DONE ANY CHEMICAL ANANYSIS OF AND THAT HE HAS NOT EVEN GONE BACK TO TO FIND AND VERIFY THIS   'POLYCHROME PAINTED  MAYA VESSEL FILLED WITH FOOD REMAINS' REALLY DIS HAVE CACAO WHICH HE NOW CLAIMS WHICH WITHOUT VERIFICATION IS JUST LYING !(SOMETHING YALE GRADS SEEM TO BE ALL TO GOOD AT!)



http://www.maya-archaeology.org/FLAAR_Reports_on_Mayan_archaeology_Iconography_publications_books_articles/24_Cacao_Vs_Pataxte_Theobroma_cacao_and_Theobroma_bicolor_Revue_Magazine-Dec-2010.pdf



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There is a cacao tree inside the museum of Copan, Honduras, that flowers and somehow even fruits (how the flowers of a single tree are fertilized I will have to leave to a botanist).
In the last several years pre-Columbian Maya cacao has become a popular topic, after all, most of us drink chocolate and enjoy chocolate candy. Hundreds of books exist on chocolate and many ethnobotanical monographs on cacao and chocolate have been published in the last few years.
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Cacao effigy vessels from a registered collection, La Ruta Maya, photograph by Nicholas Hellmuth.
Cacao in Maya archaeology: cacao seeds in Tikal Burial 196.
My first encounter with Maya cacao was in 1965, at Tikal.At age 19, while a student at Harvard, working at Tikal twelve months for the University of Pennsylvania, I discovered a polychrome painted Maya vessel filled with food remains. The pot was about half filled with crusted remains of food; in the crust were the hollow shapes of what had once been a bean-like seed.
Since this was in 1965, and today it is 2009, I don’t exactly have my field notes handy. But at age 19 I naively assumed these were frijoles (beans) in the pot. As I look back in my memory, I now question whether the “beans” were probably cacao. To tell for sure would require finding the University of Pennsylvania records. I tended to save the contents of any artifact I felt needed more study; since I was only a student, I was petrified of making a mistake, so I put the contents of each area of the burial, and each intact vase, into a separate bag for the lab that I thought might be of future use. It would be interesting if my samples from the vase of the fat man in front of the enthroned figure were still preserved in the bodega of Tikal.
During late 1965, I excavated, and subsequently prepared my undergraduate thesis on this Burial 196, Structure 5D-73, a five-terraced stone-faced pyramid but with no stone temple. This was located facing the side of Temple II (Str. 5D73 was next to the Central Acropolis).
This tomb is known popularly as the Tomb of the Jade Jaguar.
 I am still studying Maya cacao (and jaguars) after all these decades.

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Similarly Nicholas Hellmeth in his writing often repeats the mistake of overly generalizing between cacao or chocolate and pataxte.As I have shown above the ceramics that Hellmuth presents a photo of while going on and on about cacao is really pataxte.Itr is Hellmuth who like his asanine egotistical archeology professors who is confused and I sure wish he would never had decided to plagiarize my discovery that pataxte could be used in bar form including in a cacao pataxte bar mix.If Hellmuth had read the Popul Vul 'a dozen times' why in the heil did it taker him so long to discover it was in the Popul Vuh and how did just simply seeing a tree at a ruina few years ago  after decades in Guatemala lead him to immediately know it had anything to do with the Maya or that they ever used it in anyway.
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I was blissfully ignorant of pataxte until about three years ago I saw a label on a tree in the nature preserve at the ruins of Takalik Abaj. It labeled a tree as Theobroma and clearly a different species. But the tree was so totally unlike the thousands of Theobroma cacao that I had seen prior to that visit, that I naively assumed the label might have been a mistake.-'Archeolgist'(who lost or 'mis-placed a valuable and irreplacable Mayan cacao or bean containing 'pot' while a student excavating at Tikal)

The truth is that Hellmuth never mentioned pataxte until after Emily Stone pilfered the 'pataxe white chocolate' connection from me.
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As for the below one can only ask is how stupid can this Yale 'doctor' get ?It has already been shown that
the Maya while being very god abstract artists so to speak are also or more so very pecise artists whern they want to be.Even they phonetic writing is based upon artistic renditions of very ral objects.The cacao glyph is a fish head and archeologists who know this can very readily recognize this word caco by recognizing the Mayan scribes' drawing or artistic rendition of a fish head with two dots near the head to remind the reading to repeat the sound ca two times.
Similarly Hellmeth in his writing often repeats the mistake of overly generalizing between cacao or chocolate and pataxte.As I have shown above the ceramics that Hellmuth presents a photo of while going on and on about cacao is rally pataxte.Itr is Hellmuth who likew his asanine egotistical archeolgy professors who is confused and I sure wish he would never had decided to plagiarize my discovery that pataxte could be used in bar form including in a cacao pataxte bar mix.If Hellmuth had read the Popul Vul 'a dozen times' why in the heil did it taker him so long to discover it was in the Popul Vuh and how did just simply seeing a tree at a ruina few years ago  after decades in Guatemala lead him to immediately know it had anything to do with the Maya or that they ever used it in anyway.

I have often said not knowing if I am paraphrasing someone else or derived the phrase on my on that if you want a good answer you need to ask a good question.YALE UNIVERSITY 'DR' DICHOLAS HELLLMUTH PROVES MY POIINT BY ASKING HIMSELF AND HIS STUDENTS ABOUT THE STUPIDIST AND SILLIEST QUESTION I CAN IMAGINE REGARDING THE POPUL VUH AND THE MENTIONING THAT THE HEAD  OF ONE OF ITS 'TWIN HEROES' RETURNS AFTER ITS BEHEADING BY 'EVIL ONES' IN 'HELL' IN THE FORM OF A PUMPKIN ON A PUMPKIN PLANT.THE YALE NITWIT AND CON ARTIST NICHOLAS HELMUTH ASKS HIMSELF AND HIS STUDENTS WHETHER THEY CAN FIND A PUMPKIN THAT IS SHAPED IN THE FORM OF A HUMAN HEAD TO PROVE THAT THE POPUL VUH IS LITERALLY CORRECT WHEN ANY NITWIT WOULD KNOW BY NOW IF THEY WERE KEEPING AFIELD OF MAYAN ARCHEOLOGY THAT THE ORIGINAL STORY ORGINATED WITH THE LOWLAND MAYA AND NOT THE HIGHLAND MAYA OF TECPAN EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE ALL MAYAN PEOPLE - AND WE HAVE PROOF DATING BACK FURTHER THAN THE POPUL VUH THROUGH LOWLAND MAYAN CERAMICS AND RELIEFS THAT THE STORY OF POPUL VUH THAT DATES MUCH FURTHER BACK THAN TECPAN ORAL HISTORY AND THE HEAD WAS INDEED GROWING FROM A CACAO BUCH AND NOT A PUMPKIN !THIS GUY IS AS DUMB AS HE IS UNETHICAL AND THAT'S SAYING SOMETHING !


http://www.revuemag.com/2013/08/dr-nicholas-hellmuth/


Most people who read the Popol Vuh, the Mayan book of creation, are historians or anthropologists who do so only once to gain an insight into Mesoamerican culture thousands of years ago. Nicholas Hellmuth, Ph.D., has read the text around a dozen times.
He and his team are committed to separating history from legend by verifying the authenticity of every mention of flora and fauna that decorate the pages of Mayan texts.
“For example: in the Popul Vuh when Hun Hunahpu is playing the ballgame, at one point he has no head—his head is cut off—and his brother goes out and makes a head out of a pumpkin. What we study is: Is that true? Did they have pumpkins shaped like heads?”
In search of the answer, Hellmuth and his team embarked on a month-long field trip traveling all over Guatemala. They studied around 3,000 pumpkins, visited every pumpkin patch in the country and spoke with farmers and locals, before eventually stumbling across what they had been looking for in the back of a truck: a pumpkin shaped like a head.
 Now you can see below a photographic image of a ceramic vase clearly showing 


The truth is that Hellmuth never mentioned pataxte until after Emily Stone pilfered the 'pataxe white chocolate' idea from me.
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 mexico beans archeology




Monday, March 10, 2014

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 5/5/1998 8:00:00 PM
 Yet another post: Equalnet Holding Corp. (Nasdaq: ENET), a
national facilities-based long-distance telecommunications provider, today
announced the completed private placement of 3.4 million shares of common
stock and warrants to purchase 170,000 additional shares of common stock, with
James R. Crane, a private investor for $3.4 million. This private placement
was initiated and committed to in March 1998 and follows the previously
announced investment in Equalnet by the Willis Group.
Proceeds of the $3.4 million from the sales of securities are expected to
be used for general corporate purposes and to partially fund the cash portion
of the proposed purchase by Equalnet of substantially all of the assets of SA
Telecommunications Inc. The closing of the acquisition is subject to approval
by Equalnet's shareholders and certain regulatory authorities.
"The successful and on-schedule completion of our private placement as
well as our pending acquisition of SA Telecommunications is clearly indicative
of our expansion strategy to return the company to profitability," said Robert
H. Turner, President and Chief Executive Officer of Equalnet. "We believe
Equalnet's mission of providing end-to-end telecommunications solutions while
expanding its customer base via telecom acquisitions is significantly enhanced
with this new investment."
Equalnet's core strategy is to build relationships with small to medium-
sized business customers by offering a wide range of telecommunications
products and services; and acquire companies with complementary business lines
serving small to medium-sized businesses.
"We are pleased by the market's acceptance of the company's progress in
implementing its strategy," added Dean H. Fisher, Senior Vice President and
General Counsel of Equalnet, "and we believe this is reflected in Equalnet's
recent stock price increase."
Equalnet has made a number of important announcements including receiving
more than $20 million in new shareholder equity including cash, assets and
converted debt and elected Robert H. Turner, an industry expert with more than
25 years telecommunications experience, as its President and Chief Executive
Officer.

About Equalnet
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Equalnet is a nationwide
telecommunications company employing approximately 100 people in the Houston
area and in its California sales office. The company provides a comprehensive
array of discounted long-distance telecommunications services. Equalnet owns
and operates a domestic network utilizing digital telecommunications switches
deployed in eight major United States cities.......


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From ripoff Report:

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The Crane Family
1500 RANKIN RD HOUSTON, Texas USA

The Crane Family Jim Crane, Jared Crane, Champion Energy, Incite Energy, The Houston Astros, Cirro Energy, Dominion Resources, August Reuss Illegal Cronies: Tales of the Crane Family’s Criminal Activities HOUSTON Texas

Houston, one of America’s most successful cities, is proud of its competitive nature. Only recently have people taken a shine to the value of the city, especially its peaceful prosperity and adaptability in the face of change. Houston has become one of the fastest growing economies in the United States and has taken on the entrepreneurial mantle in many respects, promoting strong culture surrounding energy and healthcare. From restaurants to higher education to civic improvements and general work ethic of our citizenry, Houston is a place both natives and transplants have come to love. But even in the world’s greatest cities scum often exists and thrives somewhere in an office of home, planning the next step toward pillaging the city. In the case of Houston, one element of that scum is just begging to show its true colors. That element is known as the Crane Family.
The Cranes have been in the news fairly often recently, and it hasn’t always been positive. [continued below]....
..... Most Houstonians have come to know their heartlessly incompetent ownership of the Houston Astros. First, Jim Crane moved the team to the American League, rubbing sand in the eyes of fans to get an eight-figure discount on his big ticket purchase. Then, he failed to get the deal done with Comcast, denying the majority the fans the chance to watch the game on television. It’s no wonder he has stuck a hideous eyes of an advertising board in left field and let the team fall apart under the guise of “rebuilding”. The Astros’ payroll is the lowest in all of baseball, even though Crane’s take-home earnings on the value of the franchise last year was in the highest in all of professional sports. Yet baseball is simply one, rather minor arena for the Crane Family’s crimes against Houstonians. A filthy dark cloud has travelled overhead for the Cranes for a long time now, and even Houstonians who were once allies of the family have begun to distance themselves from one of the city’s most shadowy bloodlines. Most notably, Crane and Company have engaged in activities that have bilked Houston taxpayers out of hard earned dollars through illegal, fraudulent activities related to public spending and associated with rather nasty characters in ways that suggest an accomplice relationship rather than mere association. Those crimes are detailed one-by-one below, starting with some things you may know (“Past Crane Family Offenses”) before laying out the smoking gun details of the crime promised in the title of this document.
Past Offenses: Skittish Tactics in violation of Major League Baseball Negotiation Rules & Shady (embarrassing) Activity.
It’s a wonder Jim Crane was able to buy the Houston Astros at all given his previous transgressions toward former owner Drayton McLane. He backed out of his first attempt to buy the team at the 11th hour in 2008. When he finally did buy the team, he continued negotiations beyond the agreement during the final sale. Both of these incidents were detailed in Maury Brown’s (Biz of Baseball) June 2011 article in Forbes Magazine.
The article also covered an ongoing pattern of rather suspicious and untoward business behavior. Crane’s company Eagle Global Logistics (EGL) settled out of court for millions of dollars regarding a case that claimed discrimination against African-Americans, Hispanics, and women of “child-bearing” age. EGL was sued more than ten times subsequently for the same reason. The company has also been on the hook for war profiteering, fixing prices with other logistics companies, poking shareholders in the eye with a clawed finger by self-dealing through a “kangaroo business” transactional process that stacked the deck against 3rd parties and any potential competition in the deal.
Here’s Something You Don’t Know…
As is often the case with double-dealing cross-selling manipulator businessmen, the apple doesn’t fall very far from the tree. Jim Crane’s son and empire heir Jared Crane has some dirt and grime all his own, gathered with his father’s blessing but under his own direction. The younger Crane directly violated compliance and ethics rules of the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC), enforceable by Texas State Law. The State of Texas, it is illegal to apply and attain a PUC Aggregator License and be a principal of a Public Utility Commission of Texas licensed Retail Electric Provider (REP). With willful knowledge of this, Jared Crane’s Incite Energy illegally obtained a PUC Aggregator License in spite of close to a decade of tenure as a Director of Champion Energy (PUCT #10098).
“What’s the issue!?!? à Thuggery!!!
Jared Crane’s company, Incite Energy, just so happens to be the “chosen” broker for all utility services for Minute Maid Park – a contract worth up to and perhaps in excess of $250,000 annually! These contracts were secured due not just to his family connections, but by flagrantly abusing the law in a “Rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul” Ponzi scheme befitting of a modern day Wall Street crook, as not just Incite Energy profited, but so did the Crane Family’s Champion Energy. The deal further lines the pockets of the Cranes with money stolen from the hands of hard-working Astros fans willing to bleed blue for the team, citizens willing to bleed for their great city, and anyone else who works hard to pay for public services in America’s fourth largest city. While the team is taking hard-earned losses on the field, the Cranes are making dishonest gains – For Shame!!!

THE SMOKING GUN
See PUC records on Incite Energy, LLC’s license AG130005 (dates of application, and licensure) as well as Texas Secretary of State Document #800541328 for the infamous overlap in Jared Crane’s ongoing involvement in Champion Energy.
There’s more: Breach of Contract, IP Theft, and Embezzlement in Incite Energy’s Top Brass
Crane’s Incite Energy’s dealings are rife with suspicious activity and its leadership is affiliated with “professionals” molded by or magnetically attracted to the Crane-Style cronyism. Incite’s Director of Commercial Sales August Reuss, previously with Cirro Energy, knowingly logged into Cirro’s accounting database of confidential information and shared countless commercial accounts for his own personal financial gain with you know who, a flagrant violation of ethics and clearly criminal behavior that places Reuss in direct violation of Federal Law. This makes Reuss guilty of breach of contract, confidentiality, and theft of intellectual property, resale of proprietary information and embezzlement. Reuss’ former protégé has been prosecuted already for similar crimes (See Cirro Group, Inc. vs. Jonathan Shushtari, Harris County 2013), sources indicate that Reuss, the main player in this criminal operation, is currently under investigation by Cirro Energy’s parent company Dominion Resources (NYSE: D).
This is not good old-fashioned American Entrepreneurship, but is egregious self-dealing in a large portfolio of Reuss’ immoral portfolio. Worse, it has the potential to have a rippling effect on Dominion Resource’s stock share value, an effect that ill hurt the average everyday shareholder (with losses in revenue close to hundreds of millions of dollars per year) and further fasten the Crane Family’s ironclad hold on its undeserved market share.
Reuss: The Immoral Saint
Reuss tends to often mix business with pleasure, sleeping with subordinate contractors and co-workers in violation of his marital vows, drinking in excess, yet frequenting various Houston religious and charity organizations for business opportunities as he hurtled away his wife and children and into the arms of younger naïve women. Reuss’ wife filed for divorce in Harris County in the fall of 2013. If this wasn’t enough, it is rumored that Reuss also defrauded the Texas State Medicaid office by unethically obtaining health benefits by withholding information that indicated excessive income for benefits claimed. This transgression came at a time of great strain on both the federal and state healthcare systems, particularly, on CHIPS funding. While others in true need struggled to find the time off from multiple jobs to gain these benefits, often on behalf of underprivileged children, Reuss made the only kind of move he knows how: he bilked the system with a bold faced lie, likely to the detriment of those most in need.
Give Houston Justice!
The people of Houston and business professionals considering doing business with the Cranes should be fore-warned against the pitfalls of bartering with mad men. The public should know about the following to better serve the public good:
  1. The direct violation by Jared Crane of Incite Energy of Texas Public Utility Commission of Texas Aggregator-License/REP-affiliation conflict of interest rules and ethics.
  2. The funneling of public dollars directly into the Crane Family’s pockets through questionable contract awarding in utility services.
  3. The outright breach of the law by a Crane Family right-hand man in August Reuss that could result in both incarceration and widespread economic damages.
  4. Reuss’ appeal to holiness in public while double-dealing and engaging in immoral activity in private.
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 http://houston.culturemap.com/news/sports/05-14-11-10-things-you-dont-know-about-new-houston-astros-owner-jim-crane/

Jim Crane is set to become the new owner of the Houston Astros — and the parties involved might even get around to officially announcing it someday.
Current Astros owner Drayton McLane confirmed what's been largely known for weeks Friday, telling reporters at the Pink in the Park charity event at Minute Maid Park that he has an agreement in place to sell the team to Crane. McLane says he expects that the deal will be announced by the middle of next week, which would start the official transfer of the team to Crane and get Major League Baseball's approval process rolling.
It's expected to take a month to six weeks after that announcement for ownership of the team to officially transfer to Crane and his partners in the deal — and there are some high-powered partners — as MLB must approve the deal and the new owners. McLane — "Uncle Drayton" as he's sometimes affectionately, and sometimes derisively, called by fans — has had the final say on Astros' matters for 19 seasons, becoming more of a fixture in Houston sports than most of the town's stadiums.
Everyone has an opinion on McLane. But even many longtime Houstonians don't have much of a read on Jim Crane. Though Crane first moved to Houston in 1982 and built several fortunes here, he doesn't even have a Wikipedia page dedicated to him.
So who is this man of (relative) mystery? Here are 10 things you probably don't know about the soon-to-be new owner of the Houston Astros:
1). Crane actually played the game. At a relatively high level too. No, Crane wasn't close to a Major Leaguer. But Crane was a Division II baseball star at the University of Central Missouri (enrollment 9,088) in the 1970s. He was an honorable mention Division II All-American as a pitcher, going 21-8 with a 2.42 ERA for UCM.
This isn't someone who started loving baseball after he became rich — and capable of putting together a group with the cash and credentials to join MLB's ultra-profitable owner's club.
Crane is still a proud Mule (UCM's mascot), who is certainly aware that Bill Clinton said of his school, "This campus is a place that is creating the possibilities of the future" at a commencement address earlier this month. Clinton probably wasn't talking about the future of the Astros, but it certainly applies.
2). He's the best CEO golfer in the country. There are a ton of high-powered CEOs who love golf — and many of these ultra-competitive souls get quite good at it. But none are quite as good as Crane.
Crane ranked No. 1 in Golf Digest's rankings of the nation's top CEO golfers in 2006 with a 0.8 handicap index (2006 was one of the last times that Golf Digest did the once-regular CEO rankings as executives grew wary of being associated with playing a lot of golf).
At the time of the ranking, Crane revealed that he always kept a set of golf clubs on his private jet.
3). Crane is friends with Tiger Woods' old coach. Celebrity swing coach Butch Harmon may have had a famous falling out with Tiger Woods. But the long-standing friendship of Crane and Harmon is going strong.
After Crane bought the Floridian National Golf Club for $25.6 million from former Dolphins and Marlins owner H. Wayne Huizenga last year, he brought in Harmon to open one of his signature learning centers and teach at the club.
"I've known Jim forever," Harmon said in a press release announcing the deal. "I enjoy the Floridian. I think it's a cool place. I really like what he's trying to do and I'm proud to be part of it. I'm looking forward to spending time there."
4). He came to Houston pulling all his possessions in a U-Haul trailer. Like many Houstonians, Crane is a transplant who followed opportunity to the Bayou City. And he did it traveling in a much different manner than he does these days, driving from Kansas City with that trailer.
5). He sold his first company for more than $300 million. When Crane started Eagle Global Logistics, it wasn't very global. In fact, it had one employee and one truck.
By the time, Crane unloaded his shares of the company it was an international freight power player with 11,000 employees that handled the needs of mammoth clients like Nike, 3M and Target around the world.
6). He has homes in Houston, Pebble Beach and Nantucket. The Pebble Beach estate gives Crane easy access to the golf he loves. The Nantucket residence (which is actually an eight-acre spread with three homes on it) is a particular favorite of Crane's wife Franci, who held memorable 50th and 60th birthday bashes there, that brought many Houstonians into the mix on the island.
7). Crane credits his former college baseball coach with saving him from dropping out of college — twice. The first time was when Crane first showed up on campus and baseball coach Robert Tompkins saw a gifted pitcher who wasn't a great student.
"You know, my grades out of high school weren't fabulous and coach made a special effort to make sure I made it through the first couple semesters," Crane says in a video he filmed for the NCAA that promotes the impact college athletics can have on its participants' lives outside of the playing field.
Crane came even closer to leaving school when tragedy struck his family with the death of his father between his freshman and sophomore year at Central Missouri. Racked with grief, Crane seriously considered staying in St. Louis (where he grew up and his family lived) and not returning to college.
Only Tompkins wasn't having any of that. He drove to St. Louis and talked the pitcher who still holds the school record for strikeouts in a game (18) back.
"Coach made a special effort to say, 'Hey, you need to get back to school and finish school,' " Crane says in the NCAA video.
8). Crane pays back his debts. The small school baseball coach who made such a difference in Crane's life died suddenly at age 55 in 1996 from a massive brain tumor.
Crane gave one of the eulogies at Tompkins' funeral. Soon after, he donated most of the $1.2 million needed to transform the University of Central Missouri's baseball facilities and the complex was renamed Jim Crane Stadium/Robert N. Tompkins field. His coach's legacy would not be forgotten.
Crane, who by every indication usually seeks to avoid interviews, even did that NCAA video which praised Tompkins.
Speaking of that bent for privacy ...
9). Crane's small circle of close friends is extremely loyal. Frank Hevrdejs, the co-founder and chairman of the Houston-based Sterling Group, has been a close friend of Crane's for years. In fact, he's one of the few names that immediately come to mind when people in the know think of Crane's confidants.
That's suddenly made Hevrdejs an extremely popular call for reporters seeking to write stories on the Astros' new owner. When Hevrdejs' assistant Kendal Rotan took a CultureMap call, she noted that Hevrdejs has received a number of interview requests about Crane and turned them all down.
No one is talking about Jim Crane until he wants them to talk.
10. Fourth time's a charm. This isn't Jim Crane's first ownership rodeo. He's tried to buy a Major League Baseball franchise at least three other times. He infamously walked away from a handshake deal with McLane to purchase the Astros in 2008, attempted to buy the Chicago Cubs and was a main player in the Mark Cuban group that chased the Texas Rangers hard.
OK, you probably knew that. But did you realize that Texas Ranger lenders say that Crane, and not the group awarded the team, made the highest bid for Rangers last summer?
No matter now. Crane's baseball dream is coming true. And he will be the unquestioned ownership face of the Astros, something he never would have experienced with Cuban involved in the Rangers.
A certain coach would no doubt be proud.

Watch Jim Crane in a video interview:




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