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Les Burford, a long-time employee at Dallas Power and Light—Bill Aston's boss, friend, teacher, and mentor. Using small boats, they ran rivers together: the Red, the Mississippi, the Ohio, the Atchafalaya. From http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2848092/