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Atkins in Aspen
Jeanne McGovern
Aspen Times Staff Writer
T.G.I. Friday's is serving up a complete Atkins-approved menu.
Burger King has a low-carb version of its signature Whopper.
Condiment king H.J. Heinz's One Carb Ketchup will soon be on supermarket shelves.
Even beer has fallen prey to the buzz: Michelob Ultra is the fastest-growing brand in Anheuser-Busch history, selling 400,000 barrels in its first quarter, and both Rolling Rock and Coors have recently entered the low-carb market.
The "Atkins-ization" of the American diet is under way. Local restaurateurs are adapting to the trend, but with a pinch of skepticism.
"You have to give people what they want, so we do have a few dishes on the menu that are no-starch, no-carb. But we're always updating our menu, creating new items … Changing with the times is nothing new," said chef Adam Ort of Range.
David K. Gibson, an instructor at The Cooking School of Aspen, offers a similar take: "We're not doing any low-carb classes in particular, but we have noticed our clientele asking questions like: 'How can I make this low-carb? Or, how can I take this or that out of the recipe?' And we try to accommodate them."
Still others in Aspen's decidedly upscale restaurant business argue that good food has always been, and will always be, good for you " "Atkins-friendly" or not.
"Those diets never came into play when were creating our menu," said Craig Cordts-Pearce, owner of The Wild Fig, a relative newcomer to the local scene. "We make what we like to eat … in fact, our No. 1 seller is pork chops with sweet potatoes."
The Atkins diet " and similar programs like South Beach and Sugar Busters " advises people to limit carbohydrate intake, rather than fat. This means protein-rich foods, like beef and bacon, are staples rather than sins.
"We're a steakhouse, so our menu is definitely high-protein, low-carb … it always has been," said Steak Pit owner Bob Glowacki. "Whether business has increased because of the Atkins diet, that's hard to say. But it has been busy."
With a half-dozen cuts of meat on the menu, The Steak Pit is indeed a low-carb dieter's dream, as long as you bypass the baked potato. The same can't be said for the bins at Bagel Bites, because when it comes to low-carb living, bread and pasta are the forbidden fruit.
"I'd say business has decreased in general over the past few years, but not because people aren't eating bagels," said store owner Matt Haag. "Maybe that's because we've always offered options like wraps, naked sandwiches and scoops [where the bread is scooped out of the inside of the bagel]. Plus, all the diets that seem to pass through are usually just fads."
Nevertheless, times are changing. According to a study by the National Bread Leadership Council, as many as 40 percent of Americans eat less bread than they did a year ago; pasta sales are expected to suffer a similar slide.
Haag's plan for stopping low-carb defectors in their tracks: "We're working on a low-carb bagel right now, and we're planning out a six-item Atkins-approved menu to debut at the same time."
Even the local City Market is getting in the groove, with a healthy portion of aisle three dedicated to Atkins brand foods and other low-carb items.
Food isn't the only fodder for carb counters, though. Alcohol " beer and wine in particular " is a bastion of badness. A 3.5-ounce glass of red wine contains 1.8 grams of carbohydrates; the same size glass of sherry contains 1.4 grams. A 12-ounce beer may contain up to 12.5 grams, while a low-carb beer like Michelob Ultra has only 2.6 grams of carbohydrates per bottle.
"There's a small group of people who drink it sporadically," said Michael "Toast" Puariea, a bartender at Bentley's and the Cooper Street Pier, which both have Michelob Ultra on their libations list. "But I'd say it's one of those one-hit wonders."
Still, it's a trend that local businesses can't ignore. According to Low Carb Living News, Americans spent approximately $1.4 billion on low-carb products in 2003, and an estimated 35 million American adults are currently following some kind of low-carb diet.
The trend is so sweeping, in fact, that just last month some 400 manufacturers, retailers, distributors and health professionals from across the globe gathered in Denver for the first-ever LowCarbiz Summit. They presented their low-carb products, explored emerging trends and networked " all in the name of good health, which in Aspen can have a variety of definitions.
"We haven't had one person complain about our menu," said The Wild Fig's Cordts-Pearce, referencing the restaurant's selection of potato side dishes and french fries. "I'd say it's because people here just like good food."
Jeanne McGovern's e-mail address is jmcgovern@aspentimes.com


The sustainable, resource-conserving buildings of the Central Complex welcome visitors when they arrive at the Wildflower Center. But that's not all: These beautiful spaces — flanked and draped with native plants — house amenities; provide opportunities for education, shopping, respite and refreshment; and include popular areas for weddings, events and conferences.
The buildings and courtyard of the Central Complex opened in 1995 and were designed by Overland Partners. The landscapes and gardens were designed by J. Robert Anderson, FASLA (principal), Eleanor McKinney (EMLA) and Darrel Morrison (FASLA).
Just as native plants evoke a sense of place, the buildings in the Central Complex express the early architecture Central Texas.
Sandstone archways, aqueducts and the Observation Tower reflect the history of Spanish colonial times.
Buildings made of cut limestone reflect the tidy, sturdy buildings German immigrants built in the mid- to late-19th century.
Structures built with convenient, ready-made corrugated tin reflect a regional vernacular that grew from the modernization of ranching and farming in the early 20th century.


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Mike Belitsky is a Canadian musician. He has played drums for a number of bands, including Jellyfishbabies, Jale, Neko Case, and Pernice Brothers, and later The Sadies.

Early life
Belitsky was born in Toronto, Ontario. He attended Concordia University in Montreal.

Career

Belitsky left Concordia in 1987 to join the band Jellyfishbabies, who relocated to Toronto. He later moved to Halifax, drumming in punk bands. In 1996 he became a member of the band Jale, and drummed on their second album, So Wound. A year later he performed at the New York Pop Explosion festival with the band Cheticamp.

By 2004 he was playing with the band Unintended as well as The Sadies.

In 2013 he joined the band The New Mendicants. He toured Spain with the group in 2014, and drummed on their 2014 album Into the Lime.

In 2018 Belitsky injured his shoulder while ice skating, and was unable to perform for several months. Since that time he has continued to play in The Sadies, The Unintended, and The New Mendicants.

Album appearances
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (2006, Anti-)

References

Canadian rock drummers
Canadian male drummers
Living people
Musicians from Halifax, Nova Scotia
Musicians from Toronto
Year of birth missing (living people)
Concordia University alumni

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Fame Game Trends of 2011
Here's your yearly round-up of Fame Game news!
Fashionistas, socialites, philanthropists, magazine editors, politicians and business moguls are among the overall top searched content on FameGame, but it was the wife of Dr. Mehmet Oz, Lisa Oz, who grabbed the top spot.
"The names that people are searching for on Google, and landing on their Fame Game profiles, are always an interesting barometer of what is on people's minds," said Tatiana Platt, a founder of Fame Game. "There was a wide range of industries reflected in this year's results, but yet another member of the cast of Bravo's "Real Housewives of New York City" made it on the Top 10 list: Aviva Drescher."

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Two-thirds of the way through the season, and the Championship promotion race continues to be too close to call. At one stage, Leeds and Norwich looked like runaway favourites to go up, but they've been reeled back in by the sides below them. Now going up is make or break for those two, who might not get another opportunity this good.
The table is finely balanced after another big weekend at the top. We're looking over all of the contenders for promotion and reflecting on their latest results. Here's our review of the latest Championship action and the battle for the Premier League.
Sunday saw a clash between two sides who are in very different places right now. Struggling Ipswich prop up the table, and they travelled to promotion chasing Norwich in the East Anglian derby. These clashes have been tight in recent years, but this game was anything but. The Canaries were 3-0 winners, showing their class as they cruised back to the top of the table.
It was a rowdy clash, with a touchline fracas seeing Ipswich manager Paul Lambert sent to the stands against his former side. The Scot is set to take Ipswich down this term, while his old club are bound for the Premier League.
Teemu Pukki made the difference for the Canaries, scoring twice in the rout. He remains in the running to top the scoring charts, after putting one of the league's worst defences to the sword. He's added a bit of class up front, which helped Norwich leap back into first place in the Championship. That has put the pressure back onto Leeds ahead of the upcoming midweek round of fixtures.
Leeds United had previously edged out in front, after they claimed a point on Saturday. Their weekend clash with a tricky visit to playoff hopefuls Middlesbrough, a side who aren't too far behind in the race for the top two. They pressed their case for automatic promotion in this one, troubling Leeds with a series of chances.
Middlesbrough dominated the opening half, but they had to wait until two minutes into the second before breaking the deadlock. A wonderful effort from Lewis Wing put them in front. However, that seemed to awaken Leeds. Middlesbrough held back – in typical Tony Pulis style – and it cost them. The equaliser came in the 101st minute, putting Leeds top of the pile. Given the circumstances, it looked like a good point. However, they head into Wednesday's clash with Swansea knowing that they sit two points shy at the top now.
It's a point we've been making all season, but you do have to wonder if Marcelo Bielsa's demands are too much for a Championship side. Leeds showed the ability to play like the Argentine wanted in the earlier stages of the campaign. As the season has gone on, his high intensity style seems to be hampering their promotion hopes.
The Championship weekend kicked off with a thriller, as Sheffield United drew 3-3 at Aston Villa. The two sides are each hoping for a return to the Premier League. Third placed United are hoping to edge into second, while 10th placed Villa want to go one better than last season's play-off final defeat. In this clash, was the Blades who made the sharpest start.
Billy Sharp scored a hat-trick in their visit to Villa Park, putting the Blades 3-0 up with just over an hour gone. That was a message to the sides around them, as the Blades showed Leeds and Norwich what they could do. With 10 minutes to go, a 3-0 lead should have given them three points. However, Villa sparked a fightback, scoring what seemed like a consolation in the 82nd minute. They were able to claw their way back to 3-3, with Andre Green levelling in added time. In the end, it was a thriller which did very little for either side's ambitions.
There was a less intense, but more effective statement made by West Brom on Saturday. They claimed a narrow 1-0 win at fellow relegated side Stoke, which left them five points shy of Leeds with a game in hand. Darren Moore's side are now out of the cup and focused on promotion, a bid they're aiming to continue in Tuesday's live Sky clash with Nottingham Forest.
Bristol City kept their reputation as the form team in the Championship, winning for the eighth game in a row. They were 1-0 victors at Blackburn, with Eros Pisano bagging the winner that kept them inside the top six. It was a clash game with plenty of chances, eventually decided by a set-piece.
While it wasn't the weekend's most open encounter, it was a big result for the league. We've seen the same top six largely all season. Norwich and Leeds at the top, Sheffield United, West Brom and Middlesbrough following. Derby went relatively unchallenged, until now. The Robins are in fine form, and they're aiming to make sixth their own in the coming weeks. We see them picking up yet another win this week, as they push for a Premier League place.
Derby continued to push for sixth themselves on Saturday. They saw off Hull 2-0, despite facing a few hairy moments at the back. They had Martin Waghorn to thank for the victory, as he scored both goals for Frank Lampard's side as the Rams stayed level on points with Bristol City. They're outside of the top six by just two goals, but they have another 16 games to force their way back in.
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Evolution of French fashion from 16th to 19th century
France was a standout amongst the most fiery and imaginative countries in Western history. The regularly developing French attire custom has remained a motivation for fashionistas, says Abarrna Devi R.
Mold is a vital piece of the general public and culture in France and goes about as one of the center brand pictures for the nation. High fashion and pret-a-doorman have French birthplaces. France has created numerous famous originators and French structures have been ruling the mold world since the fifteenth century. The French form industry has developed its notoriety in style and advancement and remained a vital social fare for more than four centuries. Originators like Gabrielle Bonheur 'Coco' Chanel, Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Thierry Herms and Louis Vuitton have established probably the most renowned and mainstream mold brands.
In the sixteenth century, mold garments in France managed differentiate textures, conflicts, trims and different frill. Outline, which alludes to the line of a dress or the piece of clothing's general shape, was wide and conelike for ladies and square for men during the 1530s. Around the center of that decade, a tall and tight line with a V-molded midsection showed up. Concentrating on the shoulder point, sleeves and skirts for ladies were extended. Unsettles got related with accessory of a shirt and was molded with clear overlap. An unsettle, lace, or furbelow is a segment of texture, ribbon or strip firmly accumulated or creased on one edge and connected to an article of clothing, bedding, or other material as a type of cutting.
External dress for ladies was described by a free or fitted outfit over an underskirt. During the 1560s, trumpet sleeves were rejected and the outline ended up tight and enlarged with focus in shoulder and hip.
Somewhere in the range of 1660 and 1700, the more established outline was supplanted by a long, lean line with a low abdomen for the two people. A low-body, firmly bound dress was plaited behind, with the underskirt circled upon a pannier (some portion of a skirt circled up round the hips) secured with a shirt. The dress was joined by dark calfskin shoes. Winter dress for ladies was cut with hide. Overskirt was moved back in later 50% of the decades, and stuck up with the vigorously embellished underskirt. Be that as it may, around 1650, full, free sleeves turned out to be longer and more tightly. The dress firmly embraced the body with a low and wide neck area and balanced shoulder.
Men's garments did not change much in the main portion of the seventeenth century. In 1725, the skirts of the coat went about as a pannier. This was realized by making five or six folds expanded by paper or horsehair and by the dark lace worn around the neck to give the impact of the decoration. A cap conveyed under the arm and a wig added to the appeal. At court functions, ladies wore a huge coat weaved with gold that was open in the front and fastened with a belt or a midriff band. The light coat was figure-embracing with more tightly sleeves. It was anticipated in the back with a twofold line of silk or metal catches in different shapes and sizes.
French design fluctuated somewhere in the range of 1750 and 1775. Expound court dresses with charming hues and embellishment characterized style. During the 1750s, the span of band skirts got littler and was worn with formal dresses with side-circles. Utilization of petticoats and breeches proceeded. A low-neck outfit was worn over a slip amid this period. Sleeves were cut with ornaments or unsettles with fine material joined to the frock sleeves. The neck area was fitted with cut texture or ribbon unsettle and a neckerchief (scarf).
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Q: Famous deaf mathematicians? There are some really inspiring examples of blind mathematicians. However in my experience I also think problems inside my head using words. So I was wondering if there are some examples of deaf mathematicians who nonetheless where able to make advancements in mathematics.
Regards.

A: This is actually a very good question. For those of you who think there's nothing about being deaf that prevents you from doing math, this may very well be true for those who are heard of hearing (meaning, able to communicate through speech, but with some difficulty). It may also be true for those who become completely deaf at a later age, though I don't know much about that.
However, for those who are born deaf and grow up with American Sign Language (ASL) as their only means of communication, there are definitely some obstacles. First, ASL does not simply mean taking an English sentence and replacing each word with its sign-language equivalent. It has an entirely different grammatical structure from any spoken language, and for that reason, many Deaf people (the capital D is used to denote those whose primary language is ASL and who are part of Deaf culuture), who have never heard English spoken, do not achieve complete fluency in written English, though many achieve proficiency.
This means that Deaf people who want to do math cannot study it in their own language. And if they want to study math in English, they have to learn English without ever hearing it spoken, and more difficult still, without ever having another spoken language to compare it to. Again, many Deaf people have learned written English well enough to communicate, but it's not a first langauge. Add to that the fact that a Deaf mathematician would have a very difficult time speaking to a mathematician who did not know ASL, and would probably only be able to do it in writing.
You'll notice none of the people mentioned in the answers were born deaf. And being born deaf is decently common. It's a recessive gene, but it's hereditary.
I'm not saying it's impossible, and I don't really know how difficult it is or isn't, since I'm not Deaf, but I can certainly at least see some reasons why it could be difficult. So if I heard of someone born Deaf, who never heard a language spoken, and who nevertheless became a mathematician, I'd probably be every bit as impressed as I would be at hearing of a blind mathematician.

A: Oliver Heaviside, Kathleen Ollerenshaw, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Guillaume Amontons. See also this list of deaf scientists by scientific field.

A: Gerrit van der Mey was a Dutch deaf-blind mathematician, who made progress in early computer science.
http://www-set.win.tue.nl/UnsungHeroes/heroes/vdmey.html

A: Answering "I wonder if there are any Deaf professors at Gallaudet who do active research? They seem to offer courses in complex analysis and abstract algebra there, according to their website at least." ... there is at least one that I know of at this time.  Over the years there have been a number of deaf math professors at Gallaudet, several with PhDs.  But admittedly few continued to do serious research in their fields.

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A couple of news stories this week about Virgin Galactic's progress in putting tourists into space raises the perennial question: Can it made safe? Flying in space will never be truly safe, but then again, flying in the atmosphere is not completely safe, either. There are risks involved any time you accelerate a person to speeds faster than they can walk, and lift them higher than a few feet above the surface. If things go wrong, people can and will get hurt. I made it my profession to hurtle human beings into low Earth orbit for over three decades, with the entire weight and support of the United States government and some of the best operational and engineering minds in the world. Yet we still lost two spacecraft and 14 lives.
This needs to be remembered if you are currently holding a reservation or are currently on standby for a flight on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShip Two. Or perhaps you know someone considering such a flight. For those frequent travelers who have the entire airline safety briefing memorized and can recite it along with the flight attendant, it would pay to take notice that on a supersonic lob into space, the risks are real. Listening up might be worthwhile.
A lot can go wrong when you release the kind of energy that it takes to accelerate a fair-sized craft to Mach 5, thrust it out of the sensible atmosphere, then recover it with a high-heat reentry. I have listened to airplane pilots discussing the risk of having to make sure that you make it to the runway, seeing as how without power, an airplane is a glider. But that's really the least of it. Any good glider pilot can assure having enough energy to make the runway, once the aircraft's glide performance is understood. In space flight, the real risks include things like transonic loss of control, depressurization, high-energy propulsion systems–the list goes on.
If you study the history of the X-15 program, you can see the number of times when fuel valves froze, auxiliary power units overheated, and instruments rolled over and died. Granted, we are 50 years beyond that time, and our knowledge of systems and equipment design has progressed by leaps and bounds. But the problem with experimental aviation is always that you don't know what you don't know, and it is hard to anticipate something that hasn't happened yet, despite the fact that afterwards, it will seem like it was obvious.
Paul Dye knows a thing or two about flight safety. The former Space Shuttle Flight Director now flies a two-seater he built himself (Credits: Paul Dye).
Passengers signing up for a flight to space need to understand that risk of the unknown. In truth, for many, that's the attraction of the thing. People pay lots of money to participate in risky sports and adventure travel. The fact that people fly airplanes generally means that they are willing to accept some risk. But most of the risks of aviation are known and can be mitigated by careful design, good maintenance, and responsible piloting judgment. The same is true about spaceflight, but there are also risks that are not yet known. Sign up for a flight with your eyes wide open to that fact, and enjoy the ride. Buy a ticket thinking that this is just another tourist flight, and you are doing yourself (and your family) an injustice.
Fortunately, I am confident that Virgin Galactic is doing what they can to mitigate the risks associated with this high-energy activity. Although I have no direct inside information on their design or operations, I know well the people who do. Mike Moses, their head of operations, was a Flight Controller for me in the Shuttle program, and went on to be selected as a Flight Director, sharing my chair for several years before going on to be the Deputy Director of the Space Shuttle Program in Florida. Last week's announcement that Virgin had selected Richard "CJ" Sturckow as one of its pilots gave me even more faith in the operation. CJ is an experienced Shuttle Commander who I worked with closely for many years. He sat next to me in Mission Control for numerous flights and training session as my Capcom, and I learned how he thinks and evaluates risk during countless hours of simulated terror and uneventful flight. With guys like this onboard, Virgin as going to be in good hands. They can't make it "safe," but they certainly can make it "safer." And the people involved in flying in the machine will have a clear picture of the risks involved, what has and can be done to mitigate them and where the unknowns still lie.
Personally, I wish Virgin, SpaceX, Orbital, and all the rest, the best of fortune. If humankind's destiny is in the stars, the near-term driver will be the commercial companies trying to make a go of it in the competitive world of space flight. National programs are great for original exploration and inspiration, but just as we have commercial airlines, we need to have commercial space lines and yes, space tourism. People and companies need to be allowed to take risks that they understand in order to progress. Mistakes and accidents will occur, and we will lose lives. But that has always been true on the cutting edge. That's how we advance. What we need to make sure of is that the people involved understand the risk–and the uncertainty factor — going in. And then, we should applaud as they push the envelope for the next generation.
Paul Dye is editor of KITPLANES and a retired veteran NASA Flight Director. Opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Space Safety Magazine, the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety, or the International Space Safety. This article originally appeared in AVweb Insider. It is republished with permission of the editor.


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Anglo For Your Ear: Sweet Sensation's "Sad Sweet Dreamer" and Marcel King's "Reach For Love"
One of my fave Brit bloggers is Marcello Carlin, writer of the brilliant music blog, The Church of Me. He has another blog, The Blue in the Air, and there, he alerts us to a little-known classic, "Reach For Love" by British soul singer Marcel King.
King was the young lead singer for a British '70s soul band modeled after The Jackson Five. They were called Sweet Sensation and were best-known for 1974 hit, "Sad Sweet Dreamer." They faded into obscurity in the late '70s and eventually split up. However, in 1984, Marcel King released an unexpected solo single, "Reach For Love" on Tony Wilson's Factory Records. Carlin writes:
Produced by Bernard Sumner, it received enthusiastic, if slightly baffled, notices in the music press but sold minimally, even though it filled the floor of the Haçienda regularly; to this day [Happy Mondays lead singer] Shaun Ryder regards it as the best record Factory ever released…
Listening to "Reach For Love" now, it seems like a pop single just slightly out of its time – it should have been a huge hit, but Factory's legendarily crap distribution and marketing facilities militated against that, as did lack of radio play. There is also the question of whether "Reach For Love" was slightly too intense a song and performance to become that huge a hit.
Well, you be the judge. Below I've posted the videos for "Sad Sweet Dreamer" (mislabeled as Sweet Sensations) and "Reach For Love." The "Reach For Love" clip isn't an offical video; it's just an homage from a YouTube user who's really into analog technology. No matter; the song is great. (FYI: Marcel King tragically died in 1995 of a brain hemorrhage at age 38.)
Sweet Sensation – "Sad Sweet Dreamer"
Marcel King – "Reach For Love"
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Oil risks rolls on Vermont's rails
Even Vermont's modest railroads face safety challenges with oil cargo
Oil risks rolls on Vermont's rails Even Vermont's modest railroads face safety challenges with oil cargo Check out this story on burlingtonfreepress.com: http://bfpne.ws/1ozb6uh
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Bernie Kennedy, a safety analyst with the U.S. Department of Transportation, describes the vulnerabilities of a tank car to members of local fire departments during a training session in Burlington in mid-2014. Federal and stage laws regulate the storage and transport of hazardous materials.(Photo: GLENN RUSSELL/FREE PRESS FILE)Buy Photo
North Dakota Bakken crude, anyone? Not in our backyard.
But yes: Across Lake Champlain, riding the shoreline rails in New York, shipments of the volatile fuel oil are on the rise.
Residents of Plattsburgh, N.Y., are calling for assurances that the increased passage of relatively light, gassy crude to the transhipment port of Albany will be uneventful.
Those concerns have spread.
RELATED: The risk to Lake Champlain
A recent series of rail training exercises for Chittenden County firefighters began with a cautionary tale: last summer's railside conflagration that destroyed downtown Lac Megantic, Québec.
Repeatedly, during the course of several days at the Burlington railyard, Federal Railroad Administration safety expert Rick Towle circled back to the incident.
The lethal combination of ample fuel, human error and inadequately armored tank cars, he told emergency workers, can too easily be replicated elsewhere.
"This is a whole new world for the railroads," Towle said.
The wake-up calls are overdue, said Mollie Matteson, a Richmond-based scientist with the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity.
"In terms of safety, this is an under-regulated, 19th-century industry," Matteson said. "Oversight hasn't caught up with the volume and volatility of the cargoes. I think the public has been deliberately kept in the dark."
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Unlike New York, Vermont isn't a candidate as a conduit for large-scale shipments of Bakken crude or Alberta tar-sands oil. But it's no secret that a derailment of tank cars into Lake Champlain, spread by wind and currents, would threaten already-struggling lake ecosystems far beyond a crash site.
Trains on this side of the lake could raise hell, too, added federal transportation safety analyst Bernie Kennedy.
A projected slide showing the innards of a typical locomotive illustrated Kennedy's point. Even toting grain cars, a train's engine presents a whopping potential for fire and toxic spills.
A locomotive's low-slung fuel tank holds up to 6,000 gallons of diesel, 410 gallons of lubricating oil, 50 gallons of battery acid and 380 gallons of coolant, according to the Federal Railroad Administration.
Beats a barge
Tracks following the gentle grades of waterways and wetlands give railroads an advantage of efficiencies, Kennedy said — but also raise the risks of pollution while shortening emergency response times.
On a daily basis, petroleum products of a more refined sort are freighted up and down the east coast of Lake Champlain. The region's gasoline, diesel and heating oil — necessities — reach these parts in tank cars.
During the first three-quarters of the 20th century, most of our hydrocarbons of choice arrived by barge.
Trains took over as a more stable, environmentally friendly alternative.
As with barges, rail-borne oil today is defined by its proponents and detractors as a busy junction of cost, benefit, safety and risk.
A kerosene tanker truck takes on fuel at the Vermont Rail System yard earlier this month. (Photo: GLENN RUSSELL/FREE PRESS )
Pay at the pump
Safety comes first, said Selden Houghton, assistant vice president of Burlington-based Vermont Rail System.
With "a tremendous amount of oversight" from the Federal Railroad Administration, the company regularly holds safety training with all of the municipalities on its 350 miles of track, Houghton continued.
"The cost of education far outweighs the cost of an incident," he said.
Another cost looms larger on the bottom line: a fast-tracked replacement of tank cars deemed too weakly shielded to protect a flammable cargo.
That surcharge, Houghton said, likely will show up on consumers' fuel bills.
Department of Homeland Security restrictions kept Houghton from disclosing the logistics of petroleum shipments — the contents and quantities — but he volunteered that volumes fluctuate with demand and season, and regional markets are nowhere near as large as the flush of crude from the continent's interior.
Fuels that arrive by rail are pumped into fleets of tanker trucks, either at the Burlington yard or at the Global LP "tank farm" storage site on Flynn Avenue, due east of Oakledge Park.
From there, the inflammables hit the road — safely, more often than not, but subject to chance encounters with other, smaller petroleum-powered vehicles.
Brion Muzzy, operations manager for Vermont Railway, said that, as a motorist, his options are limited in the ranks of the big rigs: "What if that big trailer starts to fantail? I'm a fried egg."
Contact Joel Banner Baird at 660-1843 or joelbaird@FreePressMedia.com. Follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/vtgoingup.
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Lady Mats Climb to First
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"Since we have a lot of young players, we are doing really well working as a team," said captain McKenna DeBack '10. "We are building and improving, and working hard in practices."
This season, the four returning seniors are the team's secret weapons. With Shelby Church '10 in goal, Katherine Cuyler '10 commanding the defense, Marissa Crosetti '10 leading the midfield, and DeBack up top at forward, the Lady Mats are the team to beat this year.
"We (the four remaining seniors) play possession style and are all comfortable playing this way because we've played together for years," said Crosetti. "We are all trying to return back to the way we played at Lamorinda (Soccer Club)."
Even though the Lady Mats lost to Campolindo on Dec. 16, by a score of 1-2, the Cougars remain their main rival. "Although Campolindo is our toughest competition this year, the season is all up in the air and many teams who beat us earlier are losing now," said DeBack.
Another unique aspect of the team is the number of siblings and underclassmen.
"We have twins and some players who don't play club soccer, in addition to many freshmen on the team," added DeBack. "We are a brand new team starting out fresh and when we (the seniors) graduate, it will be a very young team."
The Lady Mats tied with Las Lomas (0-0) on Wed. Jan. 13. and tied with Alhambra (0-0) on Fri. Jan. 15.
Once again, the three Lamorinda high school girls' soccer teams are at the top of the league standings. In DFAL, Miramonte sits in first with a record of 5-2-2. They are closely followed by Campolindo, who holds a record of 5-3-1, and Acalanes, who is 4-2-2.
On Monday, Feb. 1, when the Lady Mats rematched Campolindo, DeBack scored two goals and Coco Pearce '13 scored one goal in the second half. The Mats came out victorious, with a final score of 3-1.
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SEABROOK — The family of a Seabrook, New Hampshire, security guard who disappeared eight years ago is offering a $5,000 reward for information locating his remains.
Pishon disappeared from his post at the former Venture Corp. in Seabrook early on July 5, 2000.
Last year, his parents had him declared legally dead. This year, they are launching a campaign called Bring Curt Home with a web site www.findcurt.com. They are hoping someone will step forward so they can give him a proper burial.
Each year on the anniversary of his disappearance, the family has reached out to Seabrook residents for help.
"As far as having a big push now � there is never a timeline for finding a son," said his mother Astrid Pishon. "In my heart, I know someone will come forward because it is the right thing to do, and such actions are what truly distinguishes us from the uncivilized."
The Pishon family has ties to Seabrook dating back three generations and believes someone in town knows what happened.
Though the family believes he was murdered, Seabrook police consider the disappearance a missing persons case. There were hints of foul play, but no evidence. He was last seen about 2 a.m. after reporting his car had been torched.
Pishon, an Army veteran, left the Concord Police Department after 10 years following a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis in 1994. He worked as a security guard for Reliable Security Guard Agency and was on duty on the third shift at Venture Corp., a now-defunct company which manufactured plastic parts for automobiles, when he disappeared.
"We have placed signs in the Seacoast area and have bought advertisements in the local papers to help spread the word," said Nicholas Pishon Jr., Curt's brother, who organized the campaign.
"We again mark this sad time with hopes and prayers that someone will help us discover what happened to Curt and help us bring him home," said his mother, Astrid Pishon.


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Book Review: Wildflowers of Northern California's Wine Country and North Coast Ranges
by Sue Rosenthal
Wildflowers of Northern California's Wine Country and North Coast Ranges, by Reny Parker, New Creek Ranch Press, 2007, 282 pages, $24.95 www.renyswildflowers.com
Reny Parker is passionate about wildflowers. For 17 years, she has found and photographed them in their wild habitats around her home territory. Those images form the heart of her new pictorial and descriptive guide to 358 species of native flowers from Marin, Sonoma, Napa, and Mendocino counties. Within its pages are representatives of 83 plant families, mostly annual wildflowers but also woody perennials, vines, shrubs, trees, grasses, ferns, and several problematic exotic weeds.
Parker has made it easy for even a beginner to find a particular flower in the guide. Plants are grouped by flower color and by number of petals. Species that appear similar are placed near each other, so they can be compared easily.
Nontechnical descriptions of the species, composed by some of the region's best native plant specialists, accompany the photographs, often with additional information about a plant's rarity, natural and human history, and garden-worthiness, and always including bloom time and native counties. Other tidbits of information are fun and interesting: Who knew that sneezeweed (Helenium bolanderi) got its common name from its former use as powdered snuff? Or that bitter root (Lewisia rediviva), named for explorer Meriwether Lewis (who described the plant as "naucious to my pallate"), was a food staple for Native Americans? Following the main body of the book are lists and maps of wildflower hot spots in the four counties.
Wildflower guide photos are often more about education than artistry, with poor lighting, competing backgrounds, and repetitive bull's-eye placement of their subjects. In comparison, Parker's beautifully composed images stand out as lovely little works of art. Each reflects Parker's devotion to her subject and her goal of inspiring others "to care for these delicate gifts of nature and preserve them and their habitats for future generations."
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Cocktails And Conversation: Meet Sports Journalist Jason Pugh
by Josh Cohen | Nov 2019	| DIGITAL EDITION
WHO: Multi-media journalist, ESPN 106.3FM on WPTV NewsChannel 5 and FOX 29 television sportscaster and radio personality Jason Pugh.
WHAT: The Café Boulud White Cosmopolitan paired with the mezze plate of hummus, baba ghanoush, lavash and herb falafel; the charcuterie of selected house-cured meats and pâtés; and the Peekytoe Crab Capellini with fennel, bottarga, and Espelette pepper beurre blanc.
WHERE: Café Boulud at The Brazilian Court Hotel, 301 Australian Ave., Palm Beach / 561.655.6060 / cafeboulud.com / @CafeBouludPB
1 The moment I knew I wanted to become a sportscaster was: the first day I interned at ESPN West Palm. It was the day after the Miami Heat had lost to the Detroit Pistons in the 2005 Eastern Conference Finals. I watched Evan Cohen (5 p.m. to 6 p.m. ESPN 106.3FM host) do a three-hour radio show taking calls from angry Heat fans the entire time. I said to myself afterward, "This is what I want to do."
2 What I remember most about my first time on live television is: just how nervous I was. There were a ton of college football bowl games on that day because it was Jan. 1, 2010. I was shaking when I got off the air from the adrenaline. It was exhilarating.
3 As a former college football player, some people might be surprised to know that when it comes to sports, I'm a huge fan of: the Washington Capitals. I never really watched hockey before I moved to D.C. Growing up in North Florida, hockey isn't really a thing. When I got to Washington, the Capitals were my favorite team to cover. The players were down to earth, and everyone in the organization was super professional and nice. I was thrilled when they won the Stanley Cup.
4 Whether I was covering the Redskins, Capitals, Wizards and Nationals in Washington, or the world's greatest golfers and tennis players here in West Palm Beach, I once got a little nervous in the presence of: Tiger Woods. He held his annual tournament at Congressional while I was working in D.C. I was super nervous because I had to go first. I'd never met him before. I'd only seen him on TV. It was by far my most nerve-wracking interview ever. I think I asked him a total of three questions and that was it.
5 People may see me on NewsChannel 5 and Fox 29, and hear me on ESPN 106.3FM, but what most people don't realize about doing this job is: the tons of work that goes into making a good show. Most people think you just hop on the radio or TV and start talking. There's so much that goes on behind the scenes, editing video and sound, writing scripts, creating graphics, putting together a rundown. It's also extremely gratifying to tell someone's story to the community. That never gets old.
A native of Atlantic Beach in North Florida, Jason Pugh attended Florida Atlantic University where he studied Mass Communications and played football. He began his on-air career at ESPN West Palm in 2007, before relocating to Washington, D.C. in 2012 to become a weekend sports anchor and reporter at NBC 4 WRC-TV. In 2018 he made his return to ESPN West Palm, where he currently serves as producer, anchor and on-air host for ESPN 106.3 on WPTV NewsChannel 5, FOX 29 and ESPN 106.3FM radio. A board member of Inner City Youth Golfers' Inc., Pugh is actively involved in mentoring youth. He currently resides in West Palm Beach.
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Combine liquid ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake vigorously; strain into a carafe. Place orchid ice ball in a martini glass, pour contents of carafe directly over ice ball.
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                    <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
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                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>com.google.code.findbugs</groupId>
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                <exclusion>
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                <exclusion>
                    <!-- The one in hadoop-common conflicts with jersey-bundle. -->
                    <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
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                <exclusion>
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                    <groupId>com.google.code.findbugs</groupId>
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                     javax.ws.rs.core.Application.getProperties method
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                     that is used by newer Jetty. -->
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                <exclusion>
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                <exclusion>
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        </profile>
        <!-- Includes hadoop-azure and hadoop-azure-datalake for accessing HDFS with wasb://, abfs://, and adl:// filesystems -->
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            </activation>
            <dependencies>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
                    <artifactId>hadoop-azure</artifactId>
                    <version>${ranger.hadoop.version}</version>
                    <exclusions>
                        <exclusion>
                            <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
                            <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
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                        <exclusion>
                            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
                            <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
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                <dependency>
                    <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
                    <artifactId>hadoop-azure-datalake</artifactId>
                    <version>${ranger.hadoop.version}</version>
                    <exclusions>
                        <exclusion>
                            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
                            <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
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                <dependency>
                    <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
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                    <version>${ranger.hadoop.version}</version>
                    <exclusions>
                      <exclusion>
                          <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
                          <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
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            <id>include-hadoop-ozone</id>
            <activation>
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                <dependency>
                    <groupId>org.apache.ozone</groupId>
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                    <version>${ranger.gcs.version}</version>
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        </profile>
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How data and digital platforms are changing life sciences
Joseph Brookes / February 5, 2019
Home > Analytics > How data and digital platforms are changing life sciences
Data platforms and emerging technology are set to revolutionise life sciences, according to one of the world's largest providers of clinical trials.
With a well established software-as-a-service platform, Medidata Solutions is now turning its attention to how it can better utilise the trove of data it is collecting.
Medidata pioneered clinical trials as a software service in the 90s and has grown to be one of the market leaders. In 2017 all of the top 15 selling pharmaceutical drugs were developed with Medidata technology, according to the company, which holds the majority of top US pharmaceutical companies as customers.
Today the company is confident its platform, users and data have reached a point where nascent technology like machine learning can be effective.
"With all of these people and all of this data… going through our platform we realised that we should be able to do something," said Medidata Solutions co-founder and president, Glen de Vries. "We should be able to do something better than just looking at data in a traditional way."
One early example is the ability to identify biomarkers of patients by collating data on immune diseases, including from non-traditional sources like a patient genes. By analysing a large amount of diverse data the platform was able to "cluster" patients who had better responded to treatment of the rare disease into subsets. Doing so identified a subset of patients where the response rate to medication more than doubled.
Medidata Solutions co-founder and president, Glen de Vries. Supplied.
"I see that as actually delivering on this idea of precision medicine," de Vries said.
"We came up with a way to use all this data to do a better job of giving the right patient the right treatment at the right time."
The key to success with the application of emerging technology like AI and machine learning to data sets is data quality, to go along with quantity, de Vries said.
Medidata has amassed data from over 16,000 studies run on its platforms – representing over half of the current research being funded by the life science industry, according to the company. 4,000 clinical research coordinators and investigators are certified on the Medidata platform in Australia, supporting both global and local trials.
But the data quality — data comes from rigorously regulated scientific trials — is just as important as quantity, a point others often overlook, de Vries said.
"If you look at big data, if you look at artificial intelligence — call it whatever you want or what you want to connect to it — it's computer science and it's statistics."
"Both computer science and statistics suffer from garbage in, garbage out."
Collecting, "cleaning" and storing the data in an accessible way extends its benefits to others as well, according to de Vries. He explained platforms users' ability to access historical data of previous trials was cutting down redundant trials and unnecessary control cases.
Importantly, he says, it's also breaking down the "siloed thinking" of pharmaceutical companies, which in the past have found it challenging to collaborate with one another.
Building platforms
De Vries said Medidata owes much of its current position to its early establishment. Founded in 1999 as an extension of Oceantek, also co-founded by De Vries five years earlier, Medidata was developed as a solution to the lag between getting research findings and the treatment of patients.
"There really wasn't any platform — I don't think we were even using the term platform in the world then — to do that," de Vries explained.
The founders decided to build it themselves, initially with web and mobile applications as cloud wasn't available at the time. When cloud did become available, it offered a viable solution for Medidata's technologically conservative clients, mostly pharmaceutical organisations.
"The idea of them running a web-based application out of their own data centre was something they weren't interested in so we actually wound up, because of our clients, in what would become known as a cloud business model."
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RandBall Q+A with ex-Viking Stalin Colinet: "We royally screwed that up."
RandBall: So what exactly is your role with the NCSA?
Stalin Colinet: I'm an educational speaker. My role is to educate student-athletes and their families on how to navigate the recruiting process. … In my experience, the parents really don't have any way to navigate this, and the kids have misinformation. We make sure parents are aware of the rules and NCAA guidelines. I'm a firm believer that if everyone's on the same page, they make good decisions.
RB: What are the eye-openers for them?
SC: Kids think they can rely on their athletic ability … but if you're just an average student, you're going to really have to hit a home run on the SAT or ACT. And imagine if you're a poor test-taker.
RB: What was your recruiting experience like?
SC: It was unreal. For me, growing up in New York, I started getting letters my junior year. At first, you're very enthused because you think everyone's recruiting you. You get a standardized letter, you think that's full-blown recruitment, but it just means you're on a list somewhere. Full-blown recruitment is hand-written letters, phone calls … and when I got to that point, it really intensified. It's really overwhelming to even have 5 or 10 schools interested. You have to do what's best for you. For me, it was going to a school with an academic foundation. … I can't say I was a good (high school) student in the beginning. One thing that really struck me was the coach from Indiana came in and was recruiting another player and in the process started to recruit me. And he didn't want to know my 40 time or how many tackles I had. He wanted to know my GPA. It was around 2.2, and he said, "You can't play for me, son." That was my 'a-ha' moment. And I started to turn around my academics wound up with a 3.2 by the end of my career, and that helped me get to Boston College.
RB: I read that you were the first Dominican player to be drafted and play in the NFL. I didn't realize that – is it true?
SC: Oh yeah. I recall getting to Minnesota on draft day, and my teammate and fellow draft pick Tony Williams … he was like, "Where are you from?" … My mom is from the Dominican Republic and my dad is from Haiti. He was like, "Wow, where is that?" The island is a baseball island. We put out baseball players, just like New York is known for basketball players. There are a few of us that really gravitated toward a physical sport. I played baseball and basketball, but I felt at home on a football field. … I spent most of my summers in the Dominican, and I got to see different things. In New York, you almost get numb to other cultures, but going to Dominican really helped. People might not be wealthy in terms of dollars, but they are in terms of love. It was an eye-opener for me. Here I was in New York taking things for granted.
RB: OK, last thing. I know 1998 was your second year in the league and you were with the Vikings. Sorry to go there, but do you still think about that season and the way it ended?
SC: Mike, I do. And it breaks my heart. The better team lost that game. If we would have played 10 more times, we'd wipe the floor with them 10 times. We royally screwed that up. From the coaching staff all the way down to the players. The touchdown at end of the half switched the momentum. … The game should have never came down to a kick. That game was supposed to be a blowout. That breaks my heart. I was a game away from the Super Bowl. … Watching the (2009 NFC title game) game made me sick to my stomach. It brought up the memories. We really thought we were the better team. We started off like it, but we got complacent, and they picked up momentum. They felt like they deserved to be there, and they thought we were looking past them.
Thursday (NHL playoffs) edition: Wha' Happened?
Monday (Greatest Twins regular-season wins) edition: Wha' Happened?