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PHILADELPHIA/NEW YORK A portrait of the engineer at the helm of a speeding Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia began to emerge on Thursday as the man's lawyer said his client could not remember the crash, and rescuers pulled an eighth body from the wreckage.
With the engineer facing intense scrutiny over his role in the accident, Philadelphia police said they launched a criminal investigation into Tuesday's crash of the New York-bound train. The locomotive and all seven cars jumped the tracks while barreling into a curve at more than 100 miles per hour (160 km per hour), twice the speed limit. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said the engineer, identified as Brandon Bostian, 32, fully engaged the train's emergency braking system seconds before the wreck. But his attorney, Robert Goggin, said Bostian was unable to recall hitting the brakes or much else about the derailment, which left a trail of twisted metal and human carnage along the tracks, and injured more than 200 people. NTSB member Robert Sumwalt, updating reporters on the board's probe into the cause of the wreck, said the engineer has agreed to be interviewed by agency investigators, who were giving him a day or two to recuperate from his injuries first, and that he was entitled to be accompanied by his lawyer. "We look very much forward to the opportunity to interview him. We appreciate that opportunity. We feel that interview will provide us a lot of information," Sumwalt said. While Bostian recovered in seclusion, bits and pieces about his life started to surface. A University of Missouri graduate with a business degree, he has been an engineer for more than four years after working with Amtrak as a conductor, according to his LinkedIn page. While in college, he worked in a Target Corp (TGT.N) store. Bostian, who hails from Memphis, Tennessee, was described as quiet and unassuming by people who crossed his path in Forest Hills, a middle-class section of Queens where he resides. Jose Quinones, 65, the superintendent of the large brick building where Bostian makes his home, said he was an easy-going tenant who had lived there for two or three years. While polite, Bostian mostly kept to himself, Quinones said. He said he was shocked to learn Bostian was involved in the derailment. "I didn't know he had that kind of job," he said. Three workers at the nearby Gloria Pizza shop said Bostian was a regular customer. "He comes in once or twice a week and orders a slice," said a man named Tony, who did not want to give his last name. "He's a nice guy, polite." But Yochana Mashat, 58, who lives on the same floor as Bostian described his neighbor as standoffish. He said he regularly rode the elevator with Bostian but never spoke to him. "He's like a statue," Mashat said. Hours after the derailment, Bostian blacked out his Facebook Inc (FB.O) profile photo while dozens of his Facebook friends wrote comments, offering condolences and encouragement. Efforts to reach Bostian's relatives and social media connections were unsuccessful. "REMEMBERS COMING INTO THE CURVE" Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter said the engineer spoke briefly with investigators in the hours after the crash but declined to be interviewed in depth. At a news briefing, Police Chief Inspector Joe Sullivan said his department was working with Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams on an investigation. Bostian was cooperating with authorities, according to Goggin, his lawyer, but had no memory of the crash and no explanation for what happened. "He remembers coming into the curve, he remembers attempting to reduce speed, but thereafter he was knocked out just like all the other passengers on the train," Goggin said on ABC's "Good Morning America" program. Bostian, who suffered a concussion and gash to his head, does not recall deploying the emergency brakes, the lawyer said. "We will have to wait for his memory to come back or for other facts to be ascertained by the NTSB," the lawyer said. Sumwalt said it was common for someone to suffer memory loss after a traumatic event. While many questions about Tuesday's wreck remain unanswered, Sumwalt has said the derailment could have been avoided by an advanced safety system called "positive train control" (PTC), which automatically slows or halts trains moving too fast or heading into a danger zone. Amtrak said it aims to have the technology up and running between Washington and Boston by the end of the year, as required by law. For now, the rail line only has intermittent PTC service, an Amtrak official said. Authorities have accounted for all 243 people, including five crew, believed to have been on the train when it crashed, the mayor said. On Thursday morning, a cadaver dog found the body of a passenger in the twisted metal of the first car, Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Derrick Sawyer said. Litigation stemming from the wreck began on Thursday with the filing of a claim against Amtrak by an employee of the railway who said he was riding train No. 188 as a passenger and suffered a traumatic brain injury and other injuries. The lawsuit seeks more than $150,000 in damages. The latest fatality to be identified was Robert Gildersleeve, 45, an executive of the environmental company Ecolab. Mayor Nutter said officials would release no information about the deceased, but seven of them, including Gildersleeve, have been identified by people who knew them. (Additional reporting by Susan Heavey in Washington; Writing by Frank McGurty and Steve Gorman; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe, Toni Reinhold and Lisa Shumaker) Bucks County-raised Chad Kubanoff, having dropped out of the Culinary Institute of America, knocked on the doors of Daniel (in New York) and Alinea (in Chicago) to get his real-world experience in classical and modern cooking.
But it was an episode of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations that really made him attempt something bold: Flying to Vietnam and landing an executive chef's job at a restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City - directing a staff of 18 without knowing the language. "Something got me fired up," Kubanoff said, Eventually, he met and fell in love, and he and his wife, Thuy, founded a tour company called Back of the Bike Tours, showcasing Vietnamese street food. After seven or so years, Kubanoff, now 28, and his wife have relocated to his hometown. The business remains. In March, they hope to open Same Same, a restaurant specializing in Vietnamese street food, at 614 N. Second St. in Northern Liberties. The location was Copper and later Koo Zee Doo before a Mexican joint called El Capitan occupied it for five minutes. Realtor Veronica Gintel Blum of Mallin Panchelli Nadel found him the space; restaurant consultant Harris Eckstut is helping him navigate bureaucracy. Same Same - a riff on a Vietnamese expression ("it's the same, but not the same," Kubanoff explains) - will serve a variety of soups, salads, sandwiches, snacks, desserts and house-made beverages. See the menu here. Most of the menu can be made gluten-free and/or vegetarian. Figure on $7 to $10 per plate. It will be open from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and from 5 to 9 p.m. daily. This article is from wwwphilly.com The two Pennsylvania Horticultural Society pop-up beer gardens are good to go.
Friday, May 29 at 5 p.m. is the soft-opening of the new pop-up in the once-vacant lot at Ninth and Wharton Streets in South Philadelphia, across from Pat's King of Steaks. This one, run by Stephen Simons and David Frank of Khyber Pass, Triangle Tavern, the two Cantinas and Royal Tavern, has sprung its menu, which has local celeb names on a few dishes and a dessert, as well as a children's menu. How South Philly, too, to serve an antipasto at a pop-up beer garden! (Menu from chef Travis Messman, formerly of Supper and Society Hill Society, is here.) The pop-up beer garden at 1438 South St., which was a pop-up last year, as well, opened Thursday, May 28. No further word, by the way, on the previously announced beer garden at Three Logan Square at 18th and Cherry Streets. This article is from wwwphilly.com A ball thrown in the wrong direction, that is, right into your window, a break-in or the occasional Philadelphia stormy winds can all result to shattered windows and glass doors. When this happens, your home or business becomes even more vulnerable against harsh weather and vandals. Prompt response to the situation is, therefore, necessary.
You have several options to resolve the problem at hand. Obviously, you would need to either repair or replace the broken glass. Whatever type of window or door you have at home that needs glass repair or replacement, you can find the right service in Philadelphia. The city's residential architecture is varied from modern lofts to stately colonial houses. Homes, stores and office buildings here make use of a wide variety of glass windows and doors. So, you can expect to find glass repair professionals that can fix anything from awnings, to double-hung windows to glass bay windows, skylights and glass patio doors. If there is a need to replace the broken glass entirely, you will also have plenty of glass replacement options to choose from, including decorative glass panels and tinted glass. However, glass replacement naturally costs more than glass repair. If it's a simple case of drafts, gaps or a small crack on the glass pane, these can be easily repaired without a total window replacement. If you cannot assess on your own whether you really need to replace your entire window or just have it repaired, a glass specialist will be able to help you on this. However, if you are dealing with glass breakage from strong winds and a big storm is already on its way but you may not have time to look for a window glass repair or replacement service in Philadelphia, then it may be best to have the windows boarded up until the bad weather passes. An emergency board-up service is a great temporary solution for whenever glass repair service in Philadelphia is not readily available and you simply cannot leave a broken glass window or door open. This service is also popular in hurricane-prone areas as a preventive measure that helps protect properties from glass breakage. So, it's also a good idea to call for a board-up service ahead of storms so you do not have to worry about glass repairs during bad weather. For break-ins and accidents, calling a window glass repair professional to fix a shattered window glass is the easiest and fastest option. However, the incident may happen very late at night when there is likely no glass repair home service in Philadelphia that is available. In this case, you can call for an emergency board-up service just to secure your property until you can get the glass repaired or replaced. Whether you need glass board up services, glass replacement or glass repair in Philadelphia, you can quickly find what you need through local online directory listings, many of which feature reviews from previous customers, forms to request for quotes as well as interactive maps and driving directions to a particular store. By: Eddie Frank Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com Eddie Frank is an editorial staff member of BoardUp.com, to learn more about emergency board up services in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, PA and emergency board ups visit BoardUp.com or call (877) 30-40-555. After 14 years at 1920 Chestnut St., the swish Le Castagne is shutting down after dinner July 1 to remodel.
(Or to re-Boot itself, as one might describe the invigoration of an Italian restaurant.) The timing makes sense, given the summertime slowdown and the hubbub going on a few doors away as the former Boyd Theatre is torn up. Le Castagne general manager Anthony Masapollo says the bar will be re-faced to allow more leg room. Craftsmen built it in Italy to accommodate patrons who stand and drink, as is customary there. Americans, though, really like to sit and eat. Chef Michael DeLone's menu will become modern - phasing out such house standards as rigatoni alla boscaiola, spaghetti alla Castagne, and petto di pollo alla Castagne - and will include small plates and a tasting menu served at the bar. A mural and cruvinet will be added, and woodwork will be changed. All told, the restaurant will be closed for at least several weeks. The goal is to reopen in time for Center City District Restaurant Week, Aug. 2-7 and Aug. 9-14. For the month of June, Le Castagne will offer its old favorites at dinner in a three-course, $45 prix-fixe. This article is from wwwphilly.com Law's latest prospect update features two obvious names and one quick riser.
It's amazing what continued performance can do for a player's prospect status. By now we're familiar with the scouting reports on both Chih-Wei Hu and Stephen Gonsalves: stats ahead of stuff, and a lack of confidence that the stuff will play at higher levels. The same kind of thing used to be said about Jose Berrios, but those voices have gotten quieter as the months roll along and Berrios just keeps on dominating. Going into the season, looking all the way back to January,Keith Law ranked six Twins on his Top 100 prospect list: Byron Buxton (2), Miguel Sano (15), Alex Meyer (30), Nick Gordon (43), Kohl Stewart (53), and Jose Berrios (97). Yesterday afternoon Law posted an update for his Top 25 prospects, a list that featured Buxton down one spot to number three, Sano up five to number ten, and Berrios...get this...up 72 spots to number 25. (Read the full article here, Insider required - recommended reading.) Buxton Buxton is down a spot for a couple of reasons. Law's top two prospects are Carlos Correa, a 20-year old shortstop drafted the one and only spot ahead Buxton, and Corey Seager, a future-third-baseman-currently-shortstop who looks like a big part of the Dodgers' future. But Law also mentioned Buxton's rust so far this season, and he's right: Buxton regularly took walks in 12% of his plate appearances before being injured most of last season. While he's been better after a slow start, Buxton is still hitting "just" .267/.323/.506 and is walking in a very mediocre 7.7% of plate appearances. There's every chance that Buxton still debuts at some point in 2015, but the Twins aren't going to force anything. Hopefully he continues to hit well and can force the issue. Luckily that's something he's more than capable of doing, as he's riding another hot streak: 12-for-27 in his last six games. Let's see if he can't start leveraging these hot streaks into additional walks as well. Right now he's 13-for-14 in stolen bases and 21 of his 47 hits have gone for extra bases (including 11 triples). Sano After a slow start to the season it may be a surprise to see Miguel Sano climb anyone's list, but as Law points out the slugging third baseman has hit .311/.381/.589 this month. At this point his power numbers aren't entirely back to where they were from 2011-2013, but they're well on their way. He continues to play third base everyday. Law says that Sano is a guy who doesn't "love to play defense," and maybe he's correct. But for now I don't think Sano is going anywhere. On the year, Sano is now hitting .248/.348/.503. Could he earn a promotion to Triple-A in the next month, as Law suggests? Absolutely.But that brings up other issues regarding Minnesota's upcoming roster crunch. It's a time I'm very much looking forward to, but it's going to mean not good things for certain players who have been organizational filler. Berrios Give credit to experts like Law who can admit when, just maybe, recent assessments of a player may not be 100% on the mark.Back in January, Law said this about Berrios: I've seen Berrios a number of times, dating back to the Excellence Games in his native Puerto Rico in 2012, and I've always had a sense Berrios' height and lack of life or plane on his fastball would push him to the bullpen. He has the ceiling of a third or fourth MLB starter if he keeps missing bats and can tighten up both off-speed pitches. That's hardly a damning report, and it's worth noting that height plays a part in how Law evaluates prospects.But Law sounds a bit more optimistic about Berrios now, as a 72-slot jump would indicate: I still have concerns about Berrios' flat fastball making him more prone to hard contact and home runs, but his command and secondary pitches are both clearly good enough for him to pitch in the big leagues as a starter, and if he can keep the ball in the park, he has the potential to be a solid No. 2 starter. If, in the span of nine starts (which is all Berrios has had so far in 2015), a player can up his ceiling from a borderline #3/#4 to a #2, that player is doing something pretty special. Berrios is striking out more than 27% of batters, walking 7.4%, and opponents have posted a .229 batting average against. And this kid, who turns 21 today, is still three and a half years younger than his average competition. Would you ask me to place a friendly wager on which of these three prospects would debut for the Minnesota Twins in 2015, I'd be tempted to take all three. Buxton and Sano are both great position players who can have roles found for them at any time on the Major League roster, once they're ready. Berrios, as young as he is, seems to be undeniable in his results. In some circles he's the least likely to attain a call up, but come September it wouldn't surprise me to see the Twins give him a cup of coffee. Khyber Pass Pub in Old City has been named to Esquire's annual list of the Best Bars in America, in the mag's June/July issue.
It's one of 15 newcomers selected; the editors say they chose "fewer speakeasy-style craft-cocktail bars" this time out. A speakeasy, this is not. "Back in the 1980s," reads Esquire's copy, "the Khyber was where all the punk bands played. Nowadays the bands are gone and it's a lot cleaner. But there's still a great rock 'n' roll jukebox, decent New Orleans food (and cocktails), and a whole lot of craft beer on tap." And do not skip the fresh popped Benton's bacon grease popcorn. This article is from wwwphilly.com LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A Los Angeles Superior Court jury has awarded Marina Rivas over $20
million in the big-rig truck crash that left her catastrophically injured. Ms. Rivas was represented at the three week trial by Panish Shea Boyle LLP attorneys Brian Panish and Spencer Lucas. A J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc. truck driver ran a red light, hit Ms. Rivas' car and then fled from the scene of the accident, leaving Ms. Rivas severely injured. On May 2, 2008, 47-year-old Marina Rivas was driving home from a business trip when she was hit by an 18,000 pound tractor-trailer driven by a J.B. Hunt employee who ran a red light in Pico Rivera, California. The impact destroyed the driver's side of Ms. Rivas' vehicle and the car was pushed through the intersection with such force that it left the roadway and slammed into a pole. Ms. Rivas had to be extracted from the wreckage by fire personnel. The J.B. Hunt driver fled the scene of the accident, making no attempt to report the incident or to render any type of emergency care to Ms. Rivas. The driver pled no contest to a criminal charge of hit and run. After being extracted from her vehicle, Ms. Rivas was taken to the hospital where her diagnoses included subarachnoid hemorrhage, concussion, and retrograde amnesia. She continues to suffer from serious cognitive impairments, chronic physical pain, depression, and other conditions as a result of her injuries. Ms. Rivas has been unable to work since the accident and was required to move in with her cousin who helps care for her financially and physically. J.B. Hunt disputed liability for four years leading up to the trial, claiming both that Ms. Rivas was at fault for the accident and that the truck driver suffered an "emergency medical condition" arising from kidney failure which led him to blackout. Ultimately, Panish Shea BoyleLLP attorneys disproved both of these defenses, and J.B. Hunt admitted liability after the first week of trial. Evidence at trial also demonstrated that the truck driver had been hired and fired by J.B. Hunt twice in the past and had held 15 different jobs in the trucking industry since 1999. He had a history of safety violations, including failing to report and attempting to cover up traffic accidents. J.B. Hunt, a publicly traded company (ticker symbol JBHT) offered only $2,000,000 to settle the case during trial. The jury returned a total award of $20,011,798.17. The jury's award includes over $7,000,000 for Ms. Rivas' future medical expenses and $12,000,000 for her past and future pain and suffering. Ms. Rivas has been actively participating in a brain injury rehabilitation program, where she hopes to be able to continue her recovery with the proceeds from the verdict. Trial counsel Brian Panish stated: "The award will help Ms. Rivas to lead the best life she can under the circumstances. It is unfortunate that it took over 4 years and a full trial to get to this point. We are hopeful that J.B. Hunt will do the right thing and accept the jury's verdict so that Ms. Rivas can start to move on with her life." Marina Rivas v. Jeffrey Gaines and J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. Case No. BC436965 Superior Court of the State of California, Los Angeles County The Hon. Rolf M. Treu, presiding Cheesecake Factory, the first in Center City (there are branches in King of Prussia, WIllow Grove and Cherry Hill), has set a public opening date of June 23.
It will be on the second floor of a new building going up on the southeast corner of 15th and Walnut Streets, and will feature a number of nifty architectural design elements including a second-floor patio that will have retractable glass walls. The exterior will have a dramatic glass door and brushed stainless fin-like fixtures that will cast a warm glow against the restaurant's glass exterior. Access will be through the Walnut Street side, via escalator or elevator. Coincidentally, the upmarket Cheesecake sibling Grand Lux Cafe - there's one now in Cherry Hill - will open in King of Prussia Mall on the same day. Both Cheesecake Factory and Grand Lux Cafe expect to bring more than 500 jobs to the area. This article is from wwwphilly.com |