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Sunday, 22 September 2013

Harry Babasin, 1921-1988 (American jazz bassist, nicknamed "The Bear")

* In 1947, Harry Babasin recorded the first cello solos known in jazz music, with the Dodo Marmarosa Trio. In order to do so, he tuned his strings in fourths. In later cello ensembles he added a bass player. He and Oscar Pettiford did a session together with two cellos. In the mid-1950s, he put together his own ensemble, Harry Babasin & the Jazzpickers, who played regularly at the Purple Onion in Hollywood; this ensemble released three albums. His career cooled in the 1960s; he supported Bob Hope on USO tours. In the 1970s he and Roy Harte initiated the Los Angeles Theaseum, a jazz archive and preservation society.

Babasin had Mars unaspected in its own sign Aries. Surely the mark of a true pioneer.

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Sunday, 28 July 2013

George P. Mitchell, 1919-2013 (American billionaire, businessman, "fracking" pioneer, philanthropist)

* George P. Mitchell — credited with pioneering the "fracking" business — died on Friday, aged 94, of natural causes. Fracking involves extracting natural gas from shale rock formations in the ground by fracturing it with pressurized liquid, and it has proved very controversial due to its environmental impacts. Mitchell innovated the process called "slick-water fracturing" which has enabled fracked gas to become the fastest growing contributor to total primary energy (TPE) in the USA. In his chart, Mitchell had the first degree of the polemical Scorpio decan of Pisces on his Ascendant, ruled by gassy-watery Neptune opposite his Moon in a T-square to Mercury in Taurus. Another T-square has a Saturn-Uranus opposition with a Mars-Sun conjunction at its apex in earthy Taurus. The "father of fracking" had the paternal Sun in the final degree of the rock-hard Capricorn decan of the Fixed Earth sign. Venus (ruler of his stressed Taurus planets) is conjunct Pluto, Jupiter and the Part of Fortune, all in Cancer in the 4th House, closely conjunct the Venus-Jupiter-Sun stellium in the chart of the USA.

WIKIPEDIA BLURB

George Phydias Mitchell (May 21, 1919 – July 26, 2013) was an American businessman, real estate developer and philanthropist from Texas credited with pioneering the economic extraction of shale gas.

He started an independent oil and gas company, Mitchell Energy & Development Corp. and built it into a Fortune 500 company. He participated in the development of about 10,000 wells, including more than 1000 wildcat wells.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the company pioneered new technology[clarification needed] for horizontal drilling of natural gas. This technique, combined with hydraulic fracturing of rock, makes it possible to economically extract natural gas from shale rock formations. The new approach has been widely adopted by the gas industry and spawned a new gas boom in North America.

In 2004, Forbes magazine estimated his net worth as $1.6 billion, placing him among the 500 richest people worldwide. He has signed The Giving Pledge (making a commitment to give most of his wealth to philanthropic causes).

Thursday, 4 April 2013

Hippolyte Bayard, 1801-1887 (photographer, pioneer)

* Hippolyte Bayard's birth record reveals he was born at "trois heures du matin" (three in the morning). Famous for his Self Portrait as a Drowned Man, he had Neptune rising in Scorpio in mutual reception with Pluto in Pisces.

Hippolyte Bayard (20 January 1801 – 14 May 1887) was a French photographer; a pioneer in the history of photography. He invented his own process known as direct positive printing and presented the world's first public exhibition of photographs on 24 June 1839. He claimed to have invented photography earlier than Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre in France and William Henry Fox Talbot in England, the men traditionally credited with its invention.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

Photo credit: Bayard's 1840 Self Portrait as a Drowned Man.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

Bayard is famous for his 1840 photograph Self Portrait as a Drowned Man (pictured above). On his Ascendant (self), he had Neptune (photograph, portrait) in Scorpio (drowned, dead man). Moreover, Bayard had Neptune in Scorpio in mutual reception with Pluto (death) in Pisces (image). Mars (the pioneer) opposes Neptune.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: André Hypolite Bayard, 20 January 1801, 03:00 (3:00 a.m.) LMT (-0:09:12), Breteuil, France (49n38, 02e18). ASC: 23 Scorpio. RR=AA (from quoted birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes an online picture and transcript of the birth registry entry at Claude Marillier's website <http://http://collodion.claude-marillier.net/PGH/hippolyte_bayard.html>: "Transcription du texte porté au Registre de l'Etat Civil de Breteuil-sur-Noye (Oise). (L'orthographe originale a été respectée.) (En marge :) 27 André (biffé) Hypolite Bayard, 20-1-1801. Du trente Nivose an neuf de la République. Acte de naissance d'André (biffé) Hypolite Bayard, né aujourd'huy, trois heures du matin, fils du citoyen Emmanuel Bayard, juge de paix et de sa (sic) Adélaïde Elisabette Vacousin sa femme demeurant à Breteuil."

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