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Articles for Tuesday, July 1, 2008Homeby Brent Gardner-Smith, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Tuesday, July 1, 2008
A week of intellectual feasting began with a serving of appetizing ideas Monday at the Aspen Institute’s fourth annual Aspen Ideas Festival.
At the opening reception former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said, “We have to use technology to teach our young people about the structures of our government and civic engagement,” noting that her young grandchildren are glued to computer screens.
by Curtis Wackerle, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Despite warnings from the city’s water department about an inefficient delivery system and harmful environmental effects, as well as references to studies that fluorinated water can cause bone cancer, the Aspen City Council decided at a work session Monday that fluoride will continue to be added to the city’s water supply.
The council was considering a proposal from the water department to stop adding about 30 pounds of powdered fluoride each day to the water supply, which brings the amount of fluoride in Aspen tap water to about 0.9 or 1.0 parts per million. Aspen water has a natural fluoride concentration of about 0.3 or 0.4.
Aspen Daily News Staff Report, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Tuesday, July 1, 2008 A man who died after plunging into the Punch Bowl section of the
Roaring Fork River on Independence Pass east of Aspen has been
identified.
Nicholas McChesney, 22, of Aspen died after drowning in the frigid,
whirlpool-like water of the Punch Bowl — a popular spot where residents
and visitors cool off in the summertime. McChesney was with a group of
friends from Longmont when he jumped in first. He reportedly jumped
about 20 feet off a cliff into the water. His friends tried to save him
but were unsuccessful. by Troy Hooper, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Tuesday, July 1, 2008
One of the least-known territories of the former Soviet Union, Tatarstan is making a name for itself as an up-and-coming economy for foreign investors.
“We are trying to be more recognizable,” Tatarstan Prime Minister Rustam Minnikhanov told a crowd of about 80 local residents at a St. Regis luncheon in Aspen yesterday. “We’re trying to integrate in the international society.”
by Curtis Wackerle, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Aspen Forest Service official Tim Lamb worries about a potential influx of travelers this Fourth of July weekend into the high-alpine backcountry, which is still buried in as much as 10 feet of snow.
“It’s a problem,” said Lamb, who has been with the Forest Service in Aspen for 15 years. “I think this weekend could be the culmination of pent-up desire and unrelenting conditions in the backcountry.”
by Catherine Lutz, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Housing, transit and development are key targets
SNOWMASS VILLAGE — A public process to update the town’s goals regarding housing, transportation and evaluating future development reached a key step last night during the Snowmass Village Town Council’s first official review of an updated draft comprehensive plan.
The public review, which will intensify this summer with additional open houses and council meetings, is expected to result in a revised 2008 Comprehensive Plan. The last time the plan was updated was 10 years ago, and the revision will largely address changes that have occurred in the last decade, like the approval of Base Village. The comp plan is meant to guide, but not govern, future development — like the anticipated reconstruction of the Snowmass Mall area — but may lead to changes in the town’s land-use code (which does govern development reviews).
by Tom Buesch Tuesday, July 1, 2008 The story is told that the great German pianist Walter Gieseking (1895-1956) learned to play Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, (Köchel 467, the great “Elvira Madigan”) in five days, ready for performance. With a very minimum of formal training Gieseking became the great interpreter of Debussy in the 20th century. He once said, “I never do technical exercises for I consider them almost wholly superfluous.” This from a man who recorded the complete solo piano music of Mozart, Ravel and Debussy! A set of works by Claude Debussy (1862-1918), recorded in the early 1950s in analog technology by Gieseking at Abbey Road studios, is available from EMI Classics. This disc includes the famous “Children’s Corner Suite” (1908).
We have the chance to hear this charming set of piano pieces performed by one of the great contemporary pianists, Orli Shaham, this Wednesday evening in Harris Hall. Debussy wrote the Children’s Corner Suite, with English titles for each part, for his beloved daughter nicknamed Chou-Chou who died in 1919 at age 13, shortly after the composer himself. As a suite in the “traditional” form, this is a collection of dances, but in the Symbolist style (Debussy didn’t like the painterly term “Impressionist” applied to his works, even though you can sometimes “hear” Manet and Cezzane in his works). The last of the six pieces in this suite, “Golliwog’s Cakewalk,” is a rollicking ragtime tune based on a black minstrel dance in A-B-A form, with a quiet middle section in which you might listen for a parody of the opening notes of Wagner’s Prelude to “Tristan und Isolde,” the famous “Tristan Chord.” The Children’s Corner Suite is just one of the pieces on Wednesday’s program at Harris, and it’s not just for children! From the The Associated Press Tuesday, July 1, 2008 GLENWOOD SPRINGS — Colorado oil and gas regulators are investigating after a carcinogen was found in the drinking water at a cabin.
The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission issued a Notice of Alleged Violation to four energy companies after tests found benzene in water at the cabin outside Parachute in western Colorado. Aspen Daily News Staff Report Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Aspen Music Festival hosts events for families
The Aspen Music Festival will offer several free programs for families this summer.
Businessby Andrew Travers, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Tuesday, July 1, 2008 Life will get a little bit easier for Colorado’s last-minute party
planners and “Sunday Funday” habitués this weekend, as the 75-year-old
ban on Sunday liquor sales is lifted.
But not everyone is happy about the repeal. by Damien Williamson, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Tuesday, July 1, 2008 Aspen Highlands Village has been around for nearly eight years now, and
while shops have come and gone, galleries have changed hands and
restaurants have opened and closed, one thing has remained the same:
Getting people to make the two-mile trek northwest has always been the
tiny village’s greatest challenge.
Often times even in winter — with the massive draw of Aspen Highlands
Mountain and the accompanying Highland Bowl — prodding people to do
anything other than ski has proved difficult for the dozen or so
merchants located at the base of the hill. But now, after village
ownership changed hands last December and commercial renters ditched
marketing firm The Darnauer Group a year and a half ago — the
businesses at the bottom of the mountain are trying to take things into
their own hands. by Rachel Beck, Mountain Business Journal Columnist Tuesday, July 1, 2008 NEW YORK — There is nowhere to hide from inflation.
Prices in one in four countries, many of them in emerging markets, are
accelerating at a double-digit pace, which puts them at least two and a
half times the 4 percent annual U.S. headline inflation rate, according
to new research from Morgan Stanley. by Curt Brandao, Mountain Business Journal Columnist Tuesday, July 1, 2008 Commentary by Curt Brandao
Aspen Daily News Staff Report Tuesday, July 1, 2008 Aspen Daily News Staff Report Tuesday, July 1, 2008 Columnistby Steve Skinner, Aspen Daily News Columnist Tuesday, July 1, 2008 Here’s some advice for anyone leaving me a message: Get on with it or you might lose me. I already cringe every time my cell phone rings. My ring starts with, “If something’s going wrong, you must whip it,” by Devo. And half the time something is going wrong so I’m scared of the phone in the first place.
I think the worst thing you can do to someone on this planet is to waste their precious time, especially on the phone. If you are leaving a message start with your name and phone number and then ramble all you want. At least that way I don’t have to wait while you tell me what you are going to retell me when I call you back. by Richard Cohen, Aspen Daily News Columnist Tuesday, July 1, 2008 The pilgrim is making little progress. In a futile effort to convince
faith-voters that he is one of them, John McCain paid a visit to the
Grahams of North Carolina — father Billy and son Franklin. After the
meeting, not a word was said about the Grahams’ past indiscretions
concerning Muslims or Jews and neither, for that matter, was an
endorsement proffered. The next guest was country singer Ricky Skaggs.
He did better. He got lunch.
McCain plods a cruel treadmill. He has thus far sought the endorsement
of the extremely purple Rev. John Hagee and the equally purple Rev. Rod
Parsley. Both of them were later asked to unendorse on account of the
offensive things they’ve said. But to paraphrase Hyman Roth in “The
Godfather,” this is the business they’re in. Letter to the EditorAspen Daily News Staff Report, Aspen Daily News Columnist Tuesday, July 1, 2008 Editor:
Concerning the mayor’s lost bike, it’s too bad that your city’s so-called mayor’s bike wasn’t permanently lost so that Ireland could drive a real car and experience the real world of making a living in the Aspen valley. Aspen Daily News Staff Report, Aspen Daily News Columnist Tuesday, July 1, 2008 Editor:
This letter is a thanks to all of you who hoped and prayed and kept an eye out for the safe return of my racing bicycle last week. Many of you have said that you felt your faith in this place was rewarded by the return of the bicycle — my faith was rewarded simply by the fact that so many cared. Aspen Daily News Staff Report, Aspen Daily News Columnist Tuesday, July 1, 2008 Editor:
I have just returned from a three-month holiday and all I can say is, “What are you thinking!” Aspen Daily News Staff Report, Aspen Daily News Columnist Tuesday, July 1, 2008 Editor:
Wow! George Carlin was right, that as Americans we have front-row seats to the freak show. And what’s freakier than Dumbya and Co. and corporate media that have collectively wreaked havoc on our Constitution and our way of life for these 7.5 years (it feels like 50). Aspen Daily News Staff Report, Aspen Daily News Columnist Tuesday, July 1, 2008 Editor:
The Pitkin County Democratic Party, Pitkin County for Obama and Hillary Supporters for Obama will have a float, a band and numerous interesting things, including electric cars, NEVs, scooters, motorcycles, dirt bikes and hybrids in the Aspen Fourth of July parade. We would like to invite you to join with us in the parade with your electric or hybrid or other interesting vehicle, bikes, dogs, cats, and friends. Veterans for Obama please march with us! If you would like to join us in the parade, help with voter registration and/or help with decorating the float, please call Camilla Auger at 544-0745. We look forward to seeing you. Happy Fourth of July! Aspen Daily News Staff Report, Aspen Daily News Columnist Tuesday, July 1, 2008 Editor:
In Brent Gardner-Smith’s article of Friday, June 27, about the Cattle Creek Crossing proposal, Pat Smith says, “That’s the point of the whole development — to impact RFTA. Our plan is to build a community for working people who will use the RFTA system.”
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 You wake up feeling renewed and ask yourself if you are the same person as you were yesterday! This weekend, if you relax and let your imagination take over, you could see a friend and or family member far differently. Tonight: Reach for the stars.
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A key person in your life finally reaches out for you. After an unusually tense period, this variation is welcome. Do not withhold, lecture or try to go over what was. Enjoy what is, for goodness sake. Tonight: Enjoy the moment. Give up proselytizing.
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Express your jovial and fun nature. Roar, purr and carry on. Others love it when you act spontaneously and do what you must. Express your depth and caring. Loosen up and deal with a difficult person. With your energy, this person, too, could become more sunny. Tonight: In the whirlwind of living.
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