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EY Mentors Help Students Map Route to College
Applying to college and selecting a school can be a stressful proposition for any high school student—and when that student is the first person in the family to go to college, navigating that dream, and the thousands of decisions it entails, can be downright daunting.
But when New York City high school senior Taylor Hill, the first person in her family to attend a four-year school, went on her first round of college visits this spring, she felt confident and secure—from her SAT scores, to her scholarship applications, right down to her choice of shower shoes—in every step she took.
That's because Hill didn't have to walk that road alone. Her mentor Jazmine Armijo, of Ernst & Young LLP's College MAP (Mentoring for Access and Persistence) program, walked it with her, every step of the way.
"I always had a passion to go to college and get my four-year degree, but having Jazmine as a mentor was a great help. She was a great stability and a comfort to me when I was applying for college," Hill said. "She gave me one-on-one attention, guided me through the application process, and opened my eyes to opportunities and scholarships I wouldn't have known existed if it weren't for the College MAP program. She definitely opened more doors for me."
This year, Hill was just one of 560 high school juniors and seniors from underserved communities throughout the country who learned to see college as a very real, very achievable goal thanks to EY's College MAP program.
Cosponsored by the nonprofit College for Every Student (CFES) organization, College MAP is a formal mentoring program for underserved students, designed to demystify the process of applying to and paying for college.
Launched in 2009, College MAP encourages low income students who might not have considered applying to college to do so by matching teams of EY mentors, like Armijo, with groups of high school students for monthly sessions focused on accessing higher education.
Mentors instill in students the lifelong benefits of higher education, help them navigate the college application and financial aid process, familiarize them with campus life, and teach the study and persistence skills necessary for long-term success.
Program organizers say the students are a diverse group. They come from 23 different cities, including Chicago, San Jose, New York, Boston, and Denver. Many are first- or second-generation Americans. Numerous students are the first in their families to attend college. Some have endured personal hardships. All require financial aid to complete their education.
College MAP Expands
On June 25, Ernst & Young LLP, at the Clinton Global Initiative America event in Denver, committed to support pathways to employment for at-risk youth by expanding its existing College MAP program, according to EY. (CGI America was established by President Bill Clinton in 2005.)
The program will include four additional schools each year for a three-year period that will affect a total of more than 1,100 students at 35 schools nationally.
EY will also launch the College MAP Collegian program to support college students who have completed the College MAP program during their high school years. The goal of this component is to make certain that once students enter the pipeline of higher education, they are able to thrive and complete college. This commitment is valued at more than $1 million per year for three years.
College MAP, now in its fifth year, currently serves high school juniors and seniors in more than 23 cities nationwide, with 360 EY mentors working with more than 560 students in underserved communities.
More information about other ways Ernst & Young LLP is expanding its youth mentoring programs can be found in a recent EY release.
To date, more than 850 high school seniors from across the United States have successfully completed the two-year College MAP program, and the program is expanding quickly to help others achieve their dream. (See Sidebar.)
Deborah Holmes, EY Americas director of corporate responsibility, said that in addition to helping students, the program was "critically important to the businesses that rely on a highly skilled workforce. By educating tomorrow's workforce, we're helping ensure that the skills and characteristics required to enable businesses and societies to thrive are available."
If College MAP's success is measured in terms of the number of mentees who successfully enroll in college, there is little doubt the program is making a marked difference for participants.
"College MAP has had a profound influence on these students, with more than 90 percent of students who have participated in College MAP accepted and enrolled at a two- or four-year institution," Holmes said. "For the students, the experience is transformative."
The program is also widely embraced by the EY community, Holmes said—perhaps no surprise given the fact that nearly one-third of all EY employees are the first in their families to graduate from college. "They bring a unique passion to helping the next generation of students become college-ready," Holmes said.
That was certainly the case for Armijo, a manager in EY's Financial Services Office—Tax, who jumped at the chance to mentor as way to pass along the passion for education her parents instilled in her, and "pay forward" the community support and scholarships that helped her earn her degree.
"I received a lot of support from my high school and my community to make the transition to college, so when I learned that EY provided the chance to mentor students I knew it was my chance to step forward," Armijo said.
Armijo said she is beyond proud to see her see her mentees, including Hill, grow from the tentative high school students she helped research scholarship opportunities in their NYC classrooms to the independent and confident young men and women taking their first steps on their prospective college campuses.
From the profound—seeing her mentees learn classroom and boardroom etiquette and success strategies— to the everyday—explaining the temperature mode on laundry cycles— Armijo said it has been incredibly fulfilling to see her mentees pass through every stage of their journey.
"Walking with Taylor on campus, I feel like I was witnessing her epiphany; her aha moment," Armijo said. "It was special to just sit back and see her realize 'It's 'really happening for me. I'm going away to the school.' It was incredibly rewarding to see her become her own person; to claim her own maturity; to see what she's gone through on her journey. I'm proud I was able to support her and share that with her."
Both Armijo and Hill, who plans to major in either elementary education or social work, say they know it's a journey many students may not have completed if it weren't for the College MAP program.
"Many low-income students, or first-generation college students, never have the chance to learn about the process of applying to college or the opportunities available to them because no one in their family has gone before them, and the one person who can help them, their high school counselor, often doesn't have the time to give them the individual attention they need to succeed," Armijo said.
But the College Map mentors, Armijo said, with the individual attention they give each student, and their ability to serve as role models, can open a whole new world of possibility, not just for these students, but for their entire families.
"When you open the door for the first person in the family to go to college, you open the door for everyone else that comes after them. It's the ice breaker," Armijo said. "The first person to go to college sets that bar for everyone else that comes after them. It just evolves from there."
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Summary Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit on behalf Chelsea and Jessamy Torres, a married lesbian couple, seeking a birth certificate listing both mothers as parents of their son, born in March 2015.
Lambda Legal joined the legal team representing a total of seven Louisiana same-sex couples and the Forum for Equality Louisiana, the state's LGBT rights organization, in their appeal to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals of last month's U.S. District Court ruling upholding Louisiana's discriminatory marriage ban.
This suit, against the Secretary of Veterans Affairs on behalf of the American Military Partner Association ("AMPA"), argues that the denial of benefits to same-sex spouses of veterans living in states that refuse to recognize their marriages is in violation of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision striking down the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
Lambda Legal has joined a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico seeking the freedom to marry for same-sex couples in Puerto Rico and to compel Puerto Rico to recognize the legal marriages of same-sex couples entered into in other jurisdictions.
Marriage recognition and family law case at the United States Supreme Court seeking accurate birth certificates listing both parents to children born with legally married same-sex couples in Ohio.
Marriage case seeking immediate issuance of marriage license applications for all same-sex couples in Illinois where one or both partners has a terminal illness.
Lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia arguing that West Virginia's marriage ban unfairly discriminates against same-sex couples and their children.
Amicus brief to the Texas Supreme Court in support of the petitions of J.B. and H.B. and Naylor and Daly, two married same-sex couples seeking to get divorced.
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After a busy round of promotional duties, Tom Cruise prepared to leave the UK as he boarded a helicopter at the Battersea Heliport in London on Thursday (April 4).
The 50 year-old actor looked like he came straight from the red carpet as he sported a perfectly fitted grey suit and matching coat as he made his way out to the awaiting transportation.
Continuing to rack up some serious frequent flyer miles, Tom Cruise an d Olga Kurylenko arrived at the big UK premiere of their new movie "Oblivion" this evening (April 4).
The BFI IMAX Theater was replete with fans and press as the "Mission: Impossible" hunk and his "Quantum of Solace" costar got all gussied up and hit the red carpet.
Hoping to ensure international box office success, Tom Cruise attended the premiere of "Oblivion" in Dublin, Ireland on Wednesday (April 3).
The "Mission Impossible" star smiled brightly in a dark gray suit, checked shirt, and gray tie as he posed for pics on the red carpet.
Taking a break from his promotional duties, Tom Cruise visited the Department of Foreign Affairs and Tourism in Dublin, Ireland today (April 3).
The "Top Gun" hunk, who has been busy plugging his new flick "Oblivion," received a Certificate of Irish Ancestry from Minister of Foreign Affairs Eamon Gilmore after tracing his roots back to 12th Century Ireland.
Making their way around Europe, Tom Cruise and Olga Kurylenko showed up at the Austrian premiere of "Oblivion" last night (April 2).
The "Eyes Wide Shut" stud and his gorgeous costar received a warm Vienna welcome as they arrived at the Gartenbaukino and posed for the press.
Showing some love to their Russian fans, Tom Cruise and Olga Kurylenko showed up at the premiere of their new film "Oblivion" in Moscow last night (April 1).
Both in great spirits, the "Minority Report" hunk and his "Quantum of Solace" costar got all gussied up and posed for the paparazzi outside the Oktyabr Cinema Hall.
Kicking off the week with some press duties, Tom Cruise and Olga Kurylenko showed up at a photocall for their new film "Oblivion" today (April 1).
The "Top Gun" hunk and his sexy costar both drew quite a crowd as they smiled and waved to paparazzi and reporters at the Ritz Carlton Hotel.
Continuing promotions for his new flick, Tom Cruise was seen stepping out of his hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Friday (March 29).
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$71.00 for 2 adults and two kids. Everyone over 2 is $17. $5 if you just want to watch. The park is very small. A lazy river, a tiny pool with two basketball hoops, two good slides (one uses rafts the other doesn't), and kids area with two small slides and water sprayers. The deepest water is 3' 6". It...
This waterpark is freezing! Kids don't mind it so much but adults will have a problem with it. The water slide is amazing and everyone had a great time going down it a zillion times.
It is a very small waterpark and extremely hot inside. Plus cost way too much for something so small. Not really adult friendly either.
This is a great water park with three slides, several sprays, a lazy river plus more! If you are staying at Tan-Tar-A, your daily rate is discounted. There is also a very small charge(for us $5) for observers. Which worked well for this grandma! The park was very clean and the staff was helpful & courteous.
My grandson loved it although I felt it was a little on the small side...but it is indoors so I guess that matters.
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The kinetic analysis for dual tracer injection with 2-input compartment model is challenging in order to assess the two different functions In the same time and same situation. In this study, we investigated the possibility of kinetic analysis with two tracers, 18F-FDG and 11C-flumazenil (FMZ), by means of the computer simulation. The reliability of estimated parameters was Investigated for various injection protocols and noise levels. Simulated decaying tissue time activity curves were generated for various injection protocols with input function of FDG and FMZ and true k-values by using the 2-input 3-tissue compartment 5-parameter model, i.e. 2-tissue compartment 3-parameter for FDG and 1-tissue compartment 2-parameter for FMZ. The injection Interval of two tracers was changed from 0 to 20 minutes. The noise was generated depending on the total collected count and added each decaying tissue time activity curve. The rate constants for FDG and FMZ were estimated by nonlinear least square method. The reliability of parameter estimates was evaluated by mean absolute difference between true and estimated value of one thousand runs for each injection protocol and noise level. As a result, it was found that parameters were estimated most reliably when FDG was injected 15 minutes later than FMZ injection. In 5% last frame noise, the mean absolute difference between true and estimated value of Ki, reflecting the uptake of FDG, was about 8%, that of DV, distribution volume of FMZ, was 7%. The reliability was independent on the ratio of administration dose of FDG to that of FMZ. In the simulation study, the possibility of kinetic analysis for dual tracer injection was shown
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Roman altar found on Maryport dig site
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A complete Roman altar, the first to be uncovered since 1870, has been found on Camp Farm in Maryport.
The altar, discovered by Beckfoot volunteer John Murray, has lain buried for uo to 1,600 years.
Tony Wilmott, site director of the Maryport excavation, said that it was the most exciting find he had known in 42 years as an archaeologist and 25 years working on Hadrian's Wall.
He said: "I bought a bottle of whisky at the Birdoswald dig 25 years ago and offered it to the first person to find something like this.
"This time, the whisky went to John Murray."
The excitement started soon after 9am on Wednesday when Mr Murray, 68, who was also responsible for finding a hoard of Roman coins a couple of years ago, was working in a pit previously excavated in Victorian times.
He said: "There was a lot of rock around and I noticed a piece with a line on it. I thought it might be a piece of something."
He called Mr Wilmott and the two men carefully uncovered it.
Mr Wilmott said: "By lunchtime I was so sure of what it was that I went to the Maryport Co-op and bought John his whisky and some bubbly to share with the volunteers when the job was done."
The men worked until after 6pm on Wednesday to get the altar out and then carry it carefully to the nearby Senhouse Roman Museum, where it was kept on Wednesday night.
By 8.30am yesterday there was a line of volunteers queuing at the door to check the find.
Mr Murray said he only became interested in archaeology after he retired six years ago and had never imagined he would find anything as historically important as the altar.
It was lying face down and was surrounded by building stones.
The altar discovered this week was to the god Jupiter and was inscribed on behalf of Attius Tutor from the First Cohort of Baetasian, from the lowlands of Holland. This Roman cohort moved from here to Kent and appeared to be specialists in coastal defence.
The altar is the fourth by Attius Tutor to be found, and three others form part of the Senhouse collection, unearthed in 1870.
There are two other collections of four altars by the same people at the museum – one for Marcus Maenius Agrippa and one for Gaius Caballius Priscus.
Although the altars were found on Camp Farm, owned by Hadrian's Wall Trust in a dig funded by the Senhouse Roman Museum Trust, it is usual for a collection to be kept together.
Museum curator Jane Laskey said she hoped that the altar would be able to be seen by the public at the museum.
Mr Wilmott said it "absolutely confirmed" the idea gained in last year's dig that the Roman altars had not been ritualistically buried but were being used as building material.
But he said it was still no more than speculation that the outline of a building found on the site was Christian. Archeologists last month did find evidence of what appeared to be a Dark Ages Christian burial site.
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Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday exuded confidence the the economy would soon break the double-digit growth barrier and said the stimulus measures will not be fully withdrawn until a robust recovery is achieved.
Mr. Mukherjee, however, remained concerned over high food inflation and the ambiguous nature of recovery in exports due to the uncertainty prevailing in the developed economies.
"...I feel the fundamentals of the economy are strong. The positives from our recent performance outweigh the negatives, so that one can hope to see the economy breaking the double-digit growth barrier in the very near future, which is essential for reducing poverty in the country," Mr. Mukherjee said in his address to the 82nd AGM of FICCI.
The Finance Minister has partially rolled back stimulus sops in the Budget by hiking excise duties by two percentage points across the board, and enhancing tax rates on petroleum products.
On a roll-back of the emergency measures to prop up the economy, the Minister said: "I am committed to fiscal consolidation in the interest of the economy's capacity to sustain growth in the medium to long term.
"But it can be fully effected when the recovery in private demand — both consumption and investment — is sufficiently robust," Mr. Mukherjee said.
Investments have been the key growth driver in the past and will continue to be for at least another 10 years, Mr. Mukherjee said.
Suggesting diversification of the export market, he said, there are some concerns about sustaining the bounce-back seen in exports in November-December 2009 due to uncertainties about the recovery in the developed economies.
"Here again we need to re-look at our strategy. We need to diversify our export markets to recover some of the growth momentum," he said.
The other concern for the economy is the certain persistence in the momentum of food prices, which has been in double digits for several months now, he said.
"On a year-on-year basis, the WPI headline inflation in December 2009 was 7.3 per cent but for the food items it was 19.8 per cent. Thus, unlike the first half of 2008-09 when global cost-push factors resulted in the WPI inflation touching nearly 13 per cent, with inflation in primary and manufactured products just below the overall average," he said.
The upsurge in prices in the second half of 2009-10 has been confined mainly to food items only. The weekly food inflation for February 13 is around 17.58 per cent and that for fuel, power light and lubricants is 9.89 per cent, he said.
"A significant part of this inflation can be explained by supply side bottlenecks in some of the essential commodities, precipitated by the delayed and sub-normal south-west monsoons," he added.
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yeah, only problems with that argument are :
peak safin would've beaten laver @ AO 2005 ......
and laver's main problem, ; at times, going for too much and losing concentration for spells would cost him big time vs nadal who is just too good at focusing on every point and very rarely loses focus
while laver's BH and net play are better than federer's, federer's serve and fh are better ......
also nadal was better on clay in 2006 than he was in 2005 ....
federer/laver are at pretty similar levels on clay IMO, while laver would not face the matchup problem that federer does, still would probably not be enough vs nadal on clay ....especially 2006 onward ...and even in 2005, he'd have to be in absolute top form ...
I think Nadal probably would have beaten Laver most of the time on red clay. It would be interesting in that Laver would have played Nadal very differently than anyone has ever played him. And Laver's forehand was still very powerful especially if he decided to go for that.
Laver probably would have used various drop shots and angles just to bring Nadal up to net. Nadal imo is a very good volleyer but he still is uncomfortable there where forced to be there. Rod would probably use a lot of different angles, volleys when appropriate.
I think Laver would be able to beat Nadal at times on clay. I don't think he would be embarrassed. I believe for example Laver has defeated Rosewall more times than not on clay so Rod was a great clay court player.
One thing for sure, Nadal would face someone with a huge amount of playing styles. He could not get adjust to one style of play. And yes I do think it's very possible Laver was a better clay court player than Federer. Sorry guys but that's how I feel. More solid on both sides, better volley, a little better variety and Laver's forehand was still considered the best in tennis by many in his day so his forehand isn't exactly chopped liver.
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SEPT. 21, 2007--The first presentation in a new lecture series designed in honor of the late Edward N. Peterson (right), a beloved history professor at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and River Falls resident who died in 2005, will feature Peterson's former colleague who is an international Holocaust and genocide expert.
Stephen Feinstein (below, left) of Minneapolis will present, "When 'Never Again' is a Cliché: the Complicated Role of Rescuers in Genocide," at 4:30 p.m. Oct. 2 in the Abbott Concert Hall of the Kleinpell Fine Arts building. A reception will be held at 3:30 p.m. in the KFA lobby.
Feinstein is an emeritus professor of history at UWRF and director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota. As director, he coordinates and presents conferences, lectures, and national exhibits, and conducts and fosters research, scholarship and publications related to genocide. Feinstein has also taught courses on the Holocaust at UWRF.
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best, smallest netbookCan anyone recommend a good, small netbook with stats comparable to similarly priced, cheap laptops? As in, a decent processor, RAM, and, maybe, a full OS (not just a starter package) for less than $300-- around black friday?
I don't need it for gaming or anything heavy like that, but I'd like to be able to watch videos on it as well as use it for work (internet, word processing etc) but I've read that some netbooks have a lot of lag. I have a good laptop already, but I want something VERY small and more portable than what I have (huge 15.6" thinkpad T520) to take notes with anywhere.
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Just about all the netbooks are weak, and that weakness comes from the processor.
The ram is as fast as needed and so are the hard drives, but those little Intel Atoms struggle to do any and every thing.
So, for starters you'd be looking for a unit with something other than an Intel Atom processor, and you'd need to know its relative power.
You can search this CPU chart [cpubenchmark.net], to check any model.
The score system uses an arbitrary number, but it works for comparisons. So if you find that the common Intel Atom N450 scores 300 and you find a netbook with a different CPU that scores 1,000, you'll know that it's 3 times as powerful and pretty decent.
In fact, a score of 1,000 in the Passmark system, marks the beginnings of decent dual core processors.
I have a 13 inch Dell Ultraslim with a processor that scores approx. 1.000, and with a regular hard drive, it's pretty good but with the SSD I installed, it's outright fast, although not exactly powerful and no good for gaming, or Photoshop, etc.
The very lowest you should go, would be a score of 800, and even then, it's on the edge.
To give you an idea how it compares to today's common processors, the common Intel i3, scores approx. 2,300.
PS: I just took a quick look into the latest netbook models and I see that even the most powerful ones, like the Asus 1025ce is underpowered, in fact, I had one here a couple of weeks ago, and it was outright disappointing.
That can mean only one thing, either you will accept it being weak and slow, or you have to go up on size, to the 11.6, or 12 inch, or maybe even to the 13 inchers.
Amongst those, you will find a plethora of fast machines, that are kind of halfway between a netbook and an actual notebook.
The Asus EEE PC 1015PX [allabouteeepc.com] is a 10 inch netbook with a matte screen and should sell for $300 or less. The CPU scores 639, which is double the normal Intel Atom netbook processors. It won't be "The Bomb", but it may be acceptable.
The Asus 1215B EEE PC [Asus 1215B EEE PC] is a 12 incher that has a CPU that scores almost 800, but has vastly superior graphics than the Atoms, and that will help its speed a fair bit. This is the only one that I have found so far, that I would consider acceptable, although I haven't seen the price yet. Assuming it sells for $300 or less, it would be a nice machine to own.
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A couple of weeks ago, there was a slick deal for an Intel 80 gig SSD for $40. Man, what a deal and what a difference that makes to a laptop.
The SSD is certainly something to consider at one point or another, and the hard drive you remove can be put into a $10 USB case and serve as a backup external hard drive.
I have owned some odd 10 netbooks (yes, I know, I'm a freak) and bought and sold another 20 or 30 or so, so I became quite familiar with the market and clients still come back with them for maintenance or repairs. I think they are marvelous machines, except for the slowness. These netbooks marked the beginning of long battery life laptops. I had one Asus that could go an actual 11 hours and the SSD didn't change the batt life, but sure made it a lot faster.
Anyhow, this is getting long, but it's just to explain why I landed up being netbook knowledgeable. I still like them, but really wish they came with more powerful CPU's.
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City Square is the huge (in Waterford terms) indoor shopping mall situated right in the heart of Waterford City, about two minutes walk up most of the side streets leading off the Quay between the Clock Tower and the GPO (General Post Office).
The Mall houses two main anchor tenants - the Dunnes Stores supermarket and department store and the Roches Stores department store. Both of these stores stock a great selection of clothing and shoes for adults and children, and all sorts of household goods. Dunnes supermarket is very well stocked and has an excellent off licence.
In addition to these stores, there are shops of almost any type that you might wish for - jewellers, several boutiques, a toy shop, bookstore, travel agents, record store, video games shop, pharmacy and perfumery - the list goes on. There is one large cafe and several smaller eateries to include a fast food outlet, a juice bar, and a sandwich bar so you won't go hungry and needn't step outside if it's too wet or too cold.
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This headline on a Department of Energy press release from last October was bigger news than it appears on first glance. For the first time, the type of massive storage tank built to hold some of the most radioactive waste in the world was found to be slowly leaking.
The press release -- dated October 22, 2012 -- stressed that no waste had escaped the outer wall of AY-102, a million-gallon-plus tank built in the late 1960s to store waste collected from decades of plutonium production at Hanford. The Energy Department assured the public that no other double-shell tank at Hanford there are 28 in all -- was leaking.
Tom Fletcher, a top official in charge of the Hanford tank farms, was quoted in the release saying the Energy Department was working collaboratively with Washington State Department of Ecology to determine the most effective path forward for AY-102 and ensure that we are effectively protecting the public and the environment.
The press release said the leak was found during a regularly scheduled inspection of AY-102 in August.
But the KING 5 Investigators found that the first evidence that AY-102 was leaking came nearly a year earlier, in October 2011.
Why it took DOE and the private company hired to oversee the tank a full year to conduct a thorough investigation into signs of a leak of highly radioactive waste raises a larger question about the clean-up effort at Hanford a 586 square mile patch of Central Washington that s the most contaminated place in the Western Hemisphere.
That question: How effective is the oversight of the private contractors doing much of the complicated work at Hanford?
First Alarm
When Mike Geffre arrived at his job at Hanford on Oct. 10, 2011, he was told his scheduled duties would have to wait. A specialist with years of experience working with the equipment used to monitor Hanford s most dangerous waste tanks, Geffre was dispatched to check out a leak detection alarm on AY-102.
One of the instruments monitoring the tank s annulus the two-foot space separating the inner and outer shells of AY-102 had triggered an alarm the night before. Since AY-102 is a double-shell tank, the assumption was that the instrument had failed: None of the 28 double-shell tanks had ever leaked at Hanford. They were thought to be the most robust tanks, capable of keeping the worst waste safely contained until the project for disposing it for good is completed.
Geffre expected to confirm the false alarm and make the necessary fix.
We never guessed in a million years that we d have a double-shell tank leak, said Geffre.
But when he arrived at the tank accompanied by a health physics technician an expert in monitoring radiation levels Geffre couldn t find anything wrong with the device, called an ENRAF. Computer diagnostics tests showed it was working properly ... and it was showing one-half-inch of liquid in the tank annulus.
The next step was to raise a part of the ENRAF that was suspended from a shaft that technicians use to lower instruments into the tank space from the ground above. A plummet attached to the ENRAF hangs through the shaft to just above the annulus floor. The physics of displacement allows the ENRAF to detect liquids that come into contact with the plummet.
If no liquid was present in the annulus, Geffre and his colleague would see a clean plummet after they raised it, confirming a false alarm.
That didn t happen. Instead, Geffre and his co-worker saw something troubling through the leaded glass window -- liquid and white crystalline debris on the plummet, which Geffre said appeared to be nuclear waste (Geffre took a photo two days later when he was working again at AY-102). The health physics technician then held up her Geiger counter and recorded radioactive contamination.
We knew that we had a real problem, said Geffre. I knew it was serious because that s what my career has been for the last 25 years -- to monitor these tanks, to check for leaks, to check for temperatures on these tanks, that s what I ve done. I m very thorough, very meticulous about this type of equipment.
The technician s Geiger counter recorded a dose-rate of 4 millirem (mrem) of radiation through the glass. In most environments that would be a small amount of radioactivity. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the average person receives approximately 360 mrem a year from natural radioactive sources and through man-made sources like x-rays, smoke detectors and older TV sets.
But to experts who monitor Hanford s waste tanks day in and day out, the reading was a shock. According to Geffre and other Hanford sources, they d never seen a reading of radioactivity coming from equipment placed in the annulus space of a double-shell tank.
To receive 4 millirems was far exceeding what we thought we d ever see. It was very shocking for us, Geffre said, adding that the experience was surreal.
Hundreds of times we ve calibrated this equipment, hundreds of times we ve done radiation level checks in the annulus [and] nothing is there, nothing, Geffre said. I can t imagine how many times they ve checked, and then all of a sudden I m the person there.
Four millirems is high. You don t expect that in an annulus. That s a lot for a clean space, said another Hanford worker, who requested anonymity before speaking with KING 5.
The annulus area of Hanford s double-shell tanks is expected to be radiation free. The fact that the plummet was emitting radiation was the first major indication that waste from inside AY-102 had leaked.
Of particular concern was that AY-102 is unlike any other underground storage tank at Hanford. It s filled with 850,000 gallons of thermally hot waste considered the most hazardous material at Hanford and, in fact, in the entire country.
This tank is holding the nastiest of all the nasty stuff at Hanford, said Geffre. The chemical radioactivity in this tank is so high that it actually boils by itself. If you could pick one tank you didn t want to leak, this would probably be the one.
Just rainwater
Geffre has 26 years of experience working at Hanford, currently as an employee for Washington River Protection Solutions, a private company that has a contract to manage all the tank farms at the site.
After he spotted what appeared to be waste on the AY-102 ENRAF plummet, Geffre reported his findings to two superiors at the tank farm. According to Geffre, the two men insisted that the instrument must have malfunctioned.
They just kind of sat there and said, Are you sure that thing's calibrated? I said, Yea, I'm sure. I'm the one who does the calibrations on it. I'm the one who takes care of it. Of course I'm sure, Geffre said.
WRPS followed protocol and reported the AY-102 ENRAF alarm to both the federal government and the Washington Department of Ecology, the state agency that shares regulatory authority over Hanford with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
WRPS told Ecology that rainwater most likely seeped into the AY-102 annulus space, not tank waste. The company also said the radioactive readings were probably the result of legacy contamination deposited years ago.
KING 5 requested on camera interviews with the two managers but a company spokesperson declined that request on their behalf.
As for the October 2011 events, experience gained over decades of tank farm operations led us to believe that a small amount of rainwater, not waste, was collecting in the AY-102 annulus, according to a written statement provided by WRPS to KING 5. This was based on recent heavy rainfall, the discovery of water intrusion pathways, known low levels of radioactive cross-contamination between the primary tank and the annulus, and readings from the leak detection system.
Geffre said he argued with his bosses that their assumptions were not based on scientific evidence.
I knew it wasn t rainwater because of the color of the liquid on the plummet and the dose rates were no indication this was rainwater, said Geffre. There was no doubt in my mind that we had a leak, that something was wrong down there.
Geffre wasn t the only WRPS employee to urge a detailed inspection. Gary Tardiff, a WRPS engineer at the tank farm, verbally recommended a video inspection of the AY-102 annulus on Oct. 12 or 13. It didn t happen, even after Tardiff filed a formal request with his company to do so.
At this point in time it would have been beneficial to insert a camera into the annulus to see if the water intrusion could be pinpointed. When Engineering requested a camera to be installed, the AZ (tank farm) Team indicated it would take several days just to plan the work package and would most likely not be in time to determine the source of the water intrusion, wrote Tardiff on Oct 19, 2011.
Officials from WRPS said company managers decided to wait for the next regularly scheduled inspection of the tank in August 2012, ten months after the first alarm sounded.
There was no threat to the environment, the public or our workers. Because of the small amount of any liquid indicated by the ENRAF, its location within the sealed annulus, and the double-filtered ventilation system on the annulus, waiting until a scheduled video inspection in August posed no appreciable risk, WRPS said in its response to KING 5.
More red flags
Company managers stuck to their theory of rainwater and legacy contamination as the cause of the AY-102 alarm, despite more red flags, including the following:
* October 26, 2011 - An alarm on an annulus air monitor went off. The radioactive reading of air particles spiked to the highest levels ever seen in this space by current employees.
* March 10, 2012 The AY-102 ENRAF plummet became glued to the bottom of the annulus, suggesting it might be stuck in dried waste.
* May 24, 2012 - The plummet s wire broke, after which a health physics technician got a reading of 20,000 disintegrations per minute (dpm) on the wire and reel (dpm is the measure of the intensity of the source of radioactivity).
* June 4, 2012 A small camera lowered into the annulus to observe the stuck plummet recorded video of what looked like radioactive waste to many of the employees who viewed it.
(On that video) we could tell it wasn t rainwater. It had a shine to it and you could see a pattern to it so it didn t look like a (clean) metal bottom, said Geffre. But they stuck to their story, which was strange because they stuck to a story they could not prove.
It looked like tank waste to me, said another source who asked to remain anonymous. All the managers did not want that tank to have a leak.
This is evidence that the company was bending over backward to not find the bad news, said Tom Carpenter, executive director of the Hanford Challenge, a watchdog group based in Seattle. This is the mindset at the Hanford site -- of denial.
Of all the pieces of evidence of a leak in the 10 months before a full-scale video inspection was initiated, one stands out above all others, according to nationally recognized experts in the fields of radiation and nuclear physics who examined the evidence for KING 5. They said the contamination reading off a tiny piece of wire on May 24, 2012, should have stopped all the managers in their tracks.
If your equipment s screaming at 20,000 dpm, I really don t know what it s going to take. What s it going to take to wake up and start dealing with the problem? said Marco Kaltofen, a civil engineer and veteran environmental scientist who s conducting a wide-scale radiation research project at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts.
Kaltofen is currently collecting radioactively contaminated items from around the world to study their affects on human health.
Of all the stuff we ve collected from Fukushima, Hanford, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Savannah River [nuclear reservation], even the Soviet Union, I don t think any of the stuff we have would read 20,000 dpm. So that screams, Do something! It literally screams, Kaltofen said. It s hard to believe you could get this much advance warning of a problem and not deal with it.
Media relations representatives from WRPS said their experts disagree. They told KING 5 that a reading would have to be in the millions of dpm to cause alarm.
Contamination readings found on the drum and reel were well below what would have been expected from tank waste, the company said in its statement.
Mixed messages in follow up report
It was not until after the August 2012 scheduled video inspection that WRPS officials notified Washington s Department of Ecology that evidence of a leak had been discovered. It took another two months for the leak to be confirmed to the public.
After the video investigation, WRPS assembled a team of company experts and consultants to compile a Leak Assessment Report for the Department of Energy. In the 445-page report, released on November 7, the authors site several examples of why the company s original assumption -- that rainwater and legacy contamination were the source of the liquid in the AY-102 annulus, not nuclear waste was defensible.
The panel said there were signs that rainwater had entered the tank annulus in the past. In a 2006 examination of AY-102, rust streaks and mineralization were observed in the annulus.
It is likely that soil channels created by...water supply leaks or the annulus ductwork may provide a path for rainfall and snowmelt seepage onto the concrete dome of the tank, wrote the authors.
The Leak Assessment Report also discussed the potential of legacy contamination.
The primary tank headspace and the annulus ventilation system are cross-connected via floor drains in the annulus pump pit and the leak detection pump pit. The cross-connections provide a pathway for contamination to enter the annulus, wrote the authors.
But a close review of the report shows no hard scientific data exists to support these possibilities. In their own report, the authors wrote that there s never been evidence to show rainwater has collected in any measureable way on the AY-102 annulus floor.
Several studies have examined the possibility that a seasonal moisture accumulation and evaporation cycle occurs within the annulus, but the possibility of a net water accumulation cycle has not been demonstrated, wrote the authors.
They also wrote, Water intrusion from rainfall was the suspected cause [of the ENRAF alarm]; however this explanation seems problematic because of the plummet radiation readings where none would be predicted.
The experts also said events in 1976, 1985 and 1986 resulted in low-level contamination in the annulus pump pit and probably the annulus itself, although that has never been scientifically proven. They also noted no contamination has been found in the annulus since an extensive sampling in 1999.
In 1999, contamination surveys of the annulus determined the surfaces were contamination-free, wrote the panel. Generally, equipment removed from the annulus risers has been contamination free.
Nothing added up that said this wasn t a problem, and they just chose not to do anything, said Geffre. That has been my job for 25 years, to keep track of every drop, every ounce, every piece of radiation that is out there. And all of the sudden when we re getting to the point where we re not keeping track of it, something s wrong.
'Making the problem go away'
On October 27, 2011, 18 days after the first leak detector alarm sounded, Geffre s managers instructed him to take on another job to conduct what s called a zero-reset on the ENRAF that sent up the signal that a potential leak was underway. Technicians perform a zero-reset when the equipment has been proven to have drifted out of position and is not accurately detecting any accumulation of liquid.
But that was not the case this time. According to the company s own Leak Assessment Report and documents obtained by KING, the ENRAF was doing its job correctly.
On October 12, 2011, it was determined (the) ENRAF was working properly, wrote WRPS experts in the follow up report.
Despite that, Geffre s managers directed him to program the ENRAF into a less sensitive state, via the zero-reset. This meant the leak detector would no longer sense what was already sitting at the bottom of the annulus. In essence, the equipment was starting from scratch, as if whatever had leaked into the space already didn t exist. In the WRPS Work Order for this action obtained by KING, Geffre wrote in the comment section: Reset zero per engineering direction.
I did it under protest. I tried to tell the managers, to educate them; I even drew diagrams on the white board, said Geffre. This was simply a way of making the problem go away, to make sure the ENRAF didn t go back into alarm unless a lot more liquid piled up.
KING 5 asked WRPS representatives why the instrument technician was ordered to perform this task. The company said the worker had to re-calibrate the equipment to put it back into service. When pressed further by KING, spokesman Jerry Holloway said, We ll have to agree to disagree on this one.
That doesn t make sense. said Geffre. The calibration is a two part step. I had already verified that the ENRAF was in calibration. Doing a zero reset just tells the equipment at what level you want it to start reading a liquid. I told the managers at the time, that by doing this we could miss something important. They didn t want to hear the details. It was a way to stop that alarm from going off again soon-a way to make the problem go away.
A deadly and costly mess
Overseen by three government agencies, operated by private companies, guarded from the public by fences and its own security force, Hanford is a $2 billion-a-year cleanup operation funded by U.S. taxpayers. The project won t be complete until 2040, at the earliest, and some cost projects show the cleanup costing $114 billion by the end of the century.
Contamination at the Hanford Site is the result of the U.S. nuclear bomb program begun during World War II and active until the end of the Cold War. Plutonium production over the course of five decades produced millions of gallons of radioactive waste, the most dangerous of which is contained in the double-shell tanks and more than a hundred single-shell tanks. None of the tanks was expected to contain waste permanently; even double-shell tanks like AY-102 had an estimated lifespan of 25 to 50 years [AY-102 was put into operation in 1971] and were expected to hold the bulk of Hanford s waste until it could be processed by the Waste Treatment Plant, expected to begin operations in 2019.
The fact that a double-shell tank is leaking at the Hanford site is a game changer, said Hanford Challenge s Tom Carpenter.
The leak from AY-102, if it were to corrode the tank s outer shell, could ultimately contaminate groundwater and make its way to the nearby Columbia River.
If the Columbia River gets contaminated it eventually finds its way up here [to Western Washington]. If there's an explosion or fire, it can still come up here. So we're not safe from it, but we need to keep our eye on what we're being told out there, said Carpenter.
But the AY-102 leak is problematic for another reason the multi-billion-dollar plan to permanently dispose of Hanford s radioactive waste depended on using this specific tank as a feeder for the Waste Treatment Plant. A leaking tank can t be used because the process of channeling waste into it from other tanks and agitating it to mix uniformly for transfer to the treatment plant could make any leak larger.
Government agencies support contractor s actions
KING 5 asked the government officials responsible for the operation and oversight of Hanford about the months-long delay in investigating the AY-102 leak.
Both the Energy Department and Washington Ecology stand by the contractor s initial actions.
All responses were factual and displayed that WRPS appropriately generated the needed field planning documents quickly to trouble-shoot, recalibrate, and put back into service the annulus ENRAF, wrote Dieter Bohrmann, an Ecology spokesman. They had radiological monitoring in place as they brought the ENRAF up to visually inspect it. And should waste material have been present at that time, the radiological readings would have been much higher, as indicated in their response.
The Washington State Department of Ecology told KING 5 that it received no additional information until August 2012 about potential warnings of a leak from WRPS beyond the first alarm in October 2011.
On October 13, 2011, WRPS notified the Department of Energy the agency that granted the tank waste contract to WRPS -- that an alarm had sounded. The contractor reported Rainwater intrusion is thought to be the cause of the wetness. A video inspection will be taken...
The video inspection didn t happen until the regularly scheduled review took place 10 months later. There s no mention in this notification to the federal government that the equipment from this space gave off an unexpected reading of radioactivity.
WRPS notified ORP [Dept. of Energy s Office of River Protection] in August 2012 that possible tank material was seen during a visual inspection of the annulus of AY-102. The contractor completed a comprehensive leak assessment of AY-102, wrote Lori Gamache, ORP media representative.
The U.S. Department of Energy said its Hanford operation takes its oversight role seriously.
We are now assessing the adequacy of the double shell tank monitoring program for the underground storage tanks and applying lessons learned from this event to improve processes and procedures, said Tom Fletcher, assistant manager for the Tank Farms Project.
How much has leaked?
The Leak Assessment Team estimated in October 2012 that between 190 and 520 gallons of waste had leaked into the annulus of AY-102. Last week WRPS media representatives Jerry Holloway and John Britton repeated those exact numbers to KING when asked how much had leaked so far. Holloway and Britton said that the tank was still leaking but that there has been no appreciable change since last year. In addition they wrote a significant portion of the liquid has evaporated, leaving about 20 50 gallons of drying waste.
But KING 5 has obtained documents written this month by Washington Department of Ecology s Michelle Hendrickson stating that the amount of waste has increased by a measurable amount.
The area within the annulus that waste occupies has increased approximately 25 percent since Ecology s visit (to the tank farm) on December 27, 2012. This area increased vertically and horizontally where it extends outward in finger channels and near the smaller piece of what appears to be orange insulation foam, wrote Hendrickson in an April 3 letter. Hendrickson is Ecology s Tank System Operations and Closure Engineer, Nuclear Waste Program.
The edges of the waste material are very wet and are changing color. The waste material that was white (indicated dry waste) is now yellow or light green.
Hendrickson sent the letter and accompanying photographs taken by Ecology employees to the Department of Energy. Four WRPS managers were copied on it.
Not only do I think they lied flat out, I think whoever authorized that WRPS statement to the news media- maybe someone from the Department of Energy or the company- should be held accountable and should no longer be working there, said state Rep. Gerry Pollet, D-Seattle.
Pollet is the legislature s top expert on Hanford, a public interest attorney and the executive director of the Hanford citizen watchdog group, Heart of America Northwest. It turns out there has been appreciable change, which should add urgency to the leaking tank and a plan to do something about it. The public needs to know the truth to adequately weigh in on the policy issue here, said Pollett.
In her April 3 letter, Hendrickson urged the federal government to take action.
Ecology strongly encourages the United State Department of Energy to remove the contents [of AY-102] as soon as it is practicable, said Hendrickson.
Experts interviewed by KING 5 said making assumptions at Hanford instead of conducting thorough investigations doesn t cut it at a place with so much at stake.
They ve wasted money, they ve wasted time. We can t afford to do those things out at Hanford. It s too urgent of a problem. All of us have too much invested in that clean up to succeed for that kind of mentality to prevail, said Carpenter.
Every day that you wait (to investigate a leak), it's more material that you have to dispose of, more stuff gets contaminated and the problem gets worse and more expensive and harder to control, said Kaltofen. Time is not our friend. This waste actually gets worse as time goes on. It's hot, it's corrosive, it eats through its container. It can't sit there, or it's going into the Columbia River. There's no other choice.
If your alarm clock goes off, hey, it's time to go to work. If your alarm in the tank goes off, apparently it's time to wait another year, Kaltofen said.


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