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Brick streets are pretty, hold historic value, but are buggers on a city with a tight budget....
Wow 1 mill for that little section of rd. Council should be hung for paying for that.
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All of these brick streets need to go. The historic value we put on some things just is not worth the cost to taxpayers, the least of which is a street. Rural and Fifth Avenues, the convergence of Beeber and Oliver at Memorial Park all need to go. We are beyond this phase of infrastructure necessity.
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Actually, would you rather pay to asphalt the road every 3-7 years or pay to repair the brick streets that would be good for another 30-50 years? Cities need to look at the life cycle cost of roadways instead of looking for the cheapest initial cost. It's not just about historic value, but long term value with all of these things taken into account. Lot's of other cities throughout the Midwest have kept their brick streets and made sure that repairs to the brick roads were done to specification (utility repairs included).
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PITTSBURGH - Russell Martin is going from a franchise that has won a record 27 World Series titles to a franchise that has endured a record 20 consecutive losing seasons.
Yet Martin, a catcher, said Friday he is excited about joining the Pittsburgh Pirates after finalizing a $17 million, two-year contract as a free agent. Martin spent the last two seasons with the New York Yankees.
"It's going to be different," Martin said. "It's going to be a challenge but I think the Pirates have a young and electric club. There is a lot of talent there and I don't think we're as far away as winning as maybe people outside baseball think we are."
The Pirates are hoping Martin can help get them at least over .500. Their string of losing seasons continued this year when they went from 16 games over .500 at 64-48 on Aug. 8 to a 79-83 finish by losing 35 of their last 50 games.
"There is a lot to like about Russell," Pirates general manager Neal Huntington said. "He handles a pitching staff well, he calls a good game, he throws well, he is capable of hitting the ball out of the ballpark. We're very excited to be able to add him to our club."
Martin, 29, hit a career-low .211 last season for the Yankees but also finished with a career-best 21 home runs. Rod Barajas, the Pirates' primary catcher in 2012, batted .206 with 11 homers.
"It wasn't a very good year," Martin said, "and I know I'm capable of doing better."
Martin gets a $2 million signing bonus payable by Dec. 31 and salaries of $6.5 million next season and $8.5 million in 2014.
Part of the allure of coming to Pittsburgh for Martin was having the chance to play for manager Clint Hurdle. The two developed a relationship at the 2008 All-Star game when Hurdle, then with Colorado, was the National League manager, and Martin, then with the Los Angeles Dodgers, was on the NL squad for the game at Yankee Stadium.
"I always liked the way Clint's teams played when he managed Colorado and I have a lot of respect for him," Martin said. "I just like being around him and I trust him. I'm looking forward to playing for him."
In addition to adding power to the lineup, the Pirates are hopeful Martin can strengthen their defense.
Martin threw out 24 percent of runners attempting to steal last season, nailing 20 of 83, while Barajas threw out just 6 percent at 6 of 99. The major-league average was 27 percent.
"Russell has good arm strength and a quick release but we're going to have to give him help, too," Huntington said. "Our pitchers have to do a better job of holding runners."
Right-hander Jeff Karstens was designated for assignment to clear a roster spot for Martin. Karstens was 5-4 with a 3.97 ERA in 19 games, including 15 starts, last season while spending time on the disabled list with shoulder and groin injuries.
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OAKLAND, Calif. - The Oakland Athletics have acquired right-hander Chris Resop from the Pirates for minor league right-hander Zach Thornton.
Resop was 1-4 with one save and a 3.91 ERA in 61 relief appearances with Pittsburgh last year. Thornton went 4-0 with 16 saves and a 4.53 ERA in 48 relief appearances for Class A Stockton last season.
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BALTIMORE - The Baltimore Orioles have acquired infielder Yamaico Navarro from the Pirates for minor league pitcher Jhondaniel Medina.
The 25-year-old Navarro hit .160 with one homer and four RBIs in 29 games with Pittsburgh last season.
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The Patriot boys basketball team finished as the runner-up for the 2012 Modie Risher Holiday Classic tournament.
Fort Dorchester went 2-1 in the tournament held last week at Burke High School. The Patriots opened the tournament with a convincing 65-34 win over Timberland and defeated Burke 69-49 to advance to the title game, where they fell 87-61 to undefeated South Pointe.
Last week marked the first time this year we had our full roster available to play so it was good to get everybody together finally, Fort Dorchester coach Leon Wheaton said. Overall, we played well. Of course we wanted to win that last one but we had a couple of turnovers and then things started to snowball and the game got away from us quick. South Pointe is a good team that played well in the second half and there are positives we can take away from the tournament. That was a good test for us and will help us when we enter region play.
South Pointe improved to 10-0 on the season while the Fort dropped to 8-5.
The Patriots had major contributions from numerous players. Sophomores Will Munoz and Diamonte Gilliard turned in solid performances despite having seen limited varsity action prior to last week.
Those guys gave us some big minutes, Wheaton said. Eric Heyward had a good tournament and Baptiste Staggers played really hard.
Staggers and Munoz both scored 12 points in the title game to lead the Patriots. Demariez Moorer added 11 points while Ronald Johnson and Charles Johnson both contributed 6. Unfortunately for the Patriots South Pointes Tay Blake, Tyreece Brice and Anthony Johnson also posted double-digit scoring.
Heyward led the Fort scorers against Burke in the semi-finals, finishing with 17 points. Jalen Hooks and Gilliard scored 12 points each as the Patriots had 10 players score for the second straight game.
Against Timberland in the first round, sophomore forward Thad Middleton led Fort Dorchester with 15 points. Moorer added 11 points and Heyward scored 10.
Earlier this season the Patriots also went 2-1 in the Erskine tournament. Wheaton says both tournaments have made his team stronger.
We are starting to click and play the way I expected us to this season, he said. We are finding out who we can depend on and this is the time of year you need to do that.
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The Stetson men's basketball team opens the 2012-13 season on the road at Miami on Friday. The Hatters and the Hurricanes are scheduled to tip off at 5:30 p.m. on ESPN3 in Coral Gables, Fla.
"I think everybody's excited," Stetson head coach Casey Alexander said of the atmosphere surrounding college basketball this time of the year. "It's been a long time since everybody's played their last game. There's a lot of hard work that goes into getting ready for a season, and we're at the end of preseason where we've had a lot of practices, so if you're a basketball fan or a basketball player, it's a fun time. We're certainly excited."
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Drones, which have received gallons of ink and hours of news airtime in the past few months, are decidedly not cute. They are high-power robotic surveillance and killing machines that can be pretty scary, especially when they are accidently targeting civilians in foreign countries and spying on citizens at home.
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"Black Hornet is definitely adding value, especially considering the lightweight nature of it," according to Sergeant Christopher Petherbridge of the Brigade Reconnaissance Force stationed in Afghanistan, and one of the first to use the drone. "We use it to look for insurgent firing points and check out exposed areas of the ground before crossing, which is a real asset. It is very easy to operate and offers amazing capability to the guys on the ground."
Don't be fooled by the toy-like elements of the Black Hornet—this is a sturdy, military-grade piece of equipment. The drone is built to withstand high winds and the harsh environments of Afghanistan.
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In the spirit of our webcast this week, MIT OpenCourseWare, and the start of a new school year we would like to know what classes you've taken online? Was the content of your online class open sourced?
Have you ever taken an online course through MIT's OpenCourseWare? Are you one of the 58,000 people registered for the free, online course, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, at Stanford University? Have you ever tried Khan Academy? Maybe you've taught an online course?
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It's the funniest thing: Khan Academy has gotten me addicted to arithmetic.
It's the perfect thing for me. Bite-sized puzzles, a well-structured incentives ladder, actual learning. It's amazing how much you forget as you get away from school. How do I figure out the lowest common divisor of 16 and 20? It's the kind of thing Khan Academy is perfect at.
My goal is to finish Khan Academy's math program, start to finish, within the next year. And the best part is that I can do it five minutes at a time. That's a powerful learning model.
I've taken a few classes through P2PU (I was on campus for all of my undergrad and grad level courses): Healthy Lifestyles and Digital Journalism. Both had great online content and interesting discussions. The DJ course also had a great facilitator (Joi Ito, who at the time was the CEO of Creative Commons).
Not sure what's next, but anything from P2PU or off the rack from OCW would be worthy (If I could find the time).
I did attend Khan academy, I like it a lot and I'm sure it has greater potential.
I went through Leonard Susskind's Stanford University courses on Quantum Mechanics / General Relativity a couple of years ago which were very interesting and recently i am looking at the P2PU to improve my Django skills and teach others what i know :-)
Recently i have been helping out creating course material for the Federated Social Web study group on the P2PU @
I work at the Rochester Institute of Technology and we offer a number of classes online. In fact, I did my Master's project on re-designing lab based classes around virtualization so that the labs could be done remotely. That project was later turned into a VMware Lab Manager system that we use to offer an entire Master's program through distance learning. I don't know if we technically open source our curriculum but we did share it with a lot of other universities starting their own IT programs.
I'm a high school student and I want to retake one of my courses online. What is the best website for online courses? I've searched some on Google, but they are all for college, or college based.
Hi.....a shout out to Gary, who commented above...
I took my masters program online at RIT. Took 7 years, and we went through several iterations of online tools and a variety of experiences. But I thought the coursework was both rigorous and useful, and I was able to take classes while I was out of the U.S.
I have used MIT OCW... I recently watched a lecture by Alex MacLean that is part of the Photography as Inquiry course; he takes photos from airplanes of cities and has been doing so for decades, and he has some fascinating insights on how our cities have evolved from the sky.
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Name: Dan Albright
School: Chestnut Ridge
Age: 19
Grade: Senior
Sport: Wrestling
Athlete of the week achievement: Albright recorded a key 6-4 decision at 195 pounds in helping lift Ridge to the District 5 team championship win over Bedford. Earlier, he earned a 3-2 decision in a semifinal win over Berlin Brothersvalley and also had a fall in a regular-season win over Tussey Mountain.
Season update: Albright is 25-2 with 14 pins at 195 and 220 pounds.
Coach Greg Lazor's quote: "Dan came to us as a freshman having never wrestled before. He was raw, but he has great strength and determination. He's a hard-nosed kid. To see the improvement he's made through the years has been great. He took some lickings as a sophomore but has gotten better and better, and this year he's really turning it on.''
Favorite teacher: Mr. Clark
Favorite subject: History or English
Favorite movie: All of the "Rocky'' movies
Favorite food: Jim Clark's steak
Favorite song: "Bangarang'' by Skrillex
Outside interests: Playing football, cutting wood, lifting rocks
Favorite professional team: Pittsburgh Steelers
Favorite college team: Alabama
Pro athlete most admired: James Harrison
Best athlete I ever played with: Tyler Dibert
Best athlete I ever competed against: My brother, Teddy Albright
Most influential person on my athletic career: My brother, John Albright
Proudest athletic achievement: "Being a District 5 champ in wrestling as a junior.''
How I got my start in wrestling: "In ninth grade I had never wrestled before, and Coach Lazor was my math teacher and said I should go out for wrestling. I did and fell in love with it.''
Future goal: To place in the top three at states in wrestling.


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Terraced farming in Nepal. Photo credit: Ajay Rai/Wandering Spirits
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The national language of Nepal is known as "Nepali". According to the most recent official
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in 2001, Nepal is home to around 20 million speakers of Nepali. Nepali is the mother tongue for 11 million people, and a
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recognizes Nepali as a major language of India. In Bhutan, while Dzongkha is the national language, Nepali is widely spoken by people from diverse ethnic backgrounds.
Nepali is an Indo-Aryan language, and thus part of a linguistic grouping which includes other South Asian languages such as Hindi, Bengali, Marathi and Gujarati. Modern Indo-Aryan languages derive from Sanskrit, much as modern European languages are related to Latin. Nepali is written in the Devanagari (or 'Nagari') script, which is also used for Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit. Nepali Devanagari has 12 vowels and 36 consonants and is essentially phonetic, meaning that the pronunciation closely maps onto the writing system. The script is written from left to right, with a top line indicating the word boundaries.
Writers such as Laxmi Prasad Devkota, Bhanu Bhakta Acharya and Lekh Nath Paudyal established Nepali as a literary language. Today, Nepali literature is alive and well with many young and active authors publishing in Nepal and abroad.
The Nepali Language At Cornell
Nepali is taught at various levels at Cornell:
NEPAL 1101-1102: Elementary Nepali
NEPAL 2201-2202: Intermediate Nepali Conversation
NEPAL 2203-2204: Intermediate Nepali Composition
NEPAL 3301-3302: Advanced Nepali
NEPAL 4431-4432: Directed Study
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If Buffalo public school leaders eliminate band and orchestra programs from 14 city schools this fall, national music foundations that provide free instruments and support to struggling schools say they will no longer donate to city schools.
Even worse, many schools that have already received more than $1 million in donated instruments through these music charities may be forced give them back.
"We've already contacted our five awarded schools," said Tricia Steel, program director for Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation. "If their program is eliminated, then our instruments need to be returned to us."
A letter was sent out Tuesday to Superintendent Pamela Brown and the Board of Education, signed by the officers and directors of seven music organizations and foundations, urging the district to reconsider its cuts to the music program.
"Buffalo Public Schools' decision to cut these programs roadblocks the progress made by your students over the past decade," the letter states, "and will result in withholding further financial and in-kind support for your district."
Two of the signing organizations, Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation and VH1 Save the Music Foundation, have directly contributed instruments worth more than $1.2 million.
From 1999 to 2001, the VH1 foundation alone provided $1 million in new instruments to jump-start band and orchestra programs in 40 of the district's elementary and middle schools.
That contribution hinged on the district's pledge that it would hire music instructors at all the schools that received instruments. If any school that received a donation subsequently eliminated its band or orchestra program, the district is required by contract to send the donated instruments back.
In the last 10 years, 16 instrumental programs already have been eliminated from Buffalo schools, music teachers said. It's doubtful any of those instruments were ever returned.
"They had faith in us," said Amy Steiner, an instrumental music teacher at International Prep. "They had faith in Buffalo, N.Y., that we were going to have a thriving instrumental music program, and we've just let them down."
Paul E. Cothran, the vice president and executive director of the VH1 foundation, reiterated in a statement Tuesday that the district will receive no further contributions unless it restores music programs.
"The VH1 Save the Music Foundation is hopeful that the district will step back from these damaging and indiscriminate budget cuts as they are damaging not only to the programs but to the students' future," he stated. "While these cuts are in place, they make the district ineligible for any further support from the foundation and our partner organizations."
Steel, the program director for Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation, said her organization contributed 25 instruments worth $20,000 to five Buffalo city schools in 2009 and 2010. Two of those schools – Math, Science and Technology School and International Prep – are in line for band cuts or elimination.
Steel said her foundation hasn't contributed as much to Buffalo as it could.
"This is a small investment compared to what we have awarded in many other districts throughout the nation because district support has been lacking over the years," she said.
And now that the district is in danger of even more dramatic cuts, she said, no schools that have been given instruments through the foundation will be given any more.
"There's really no way we'd even invite them to reapply," she said.
Paul Musilli, owner of the Buffalo Drum Outlet in Depew, which repairs all percussion instruments for the district, said the loss of instrumental music also will have a trickle-down economic impact. Aside from teachers who will lose their jobs, shops that rent, repair and sell musical instruments and parts also will suffer, he said.
Instrumental music programs require a long-term commitment, he added. It takes years for a child to learn to play, and then learn to play as part of a larger group – just like sports, he said. These programs keep kids engaged in learning, he said.
"I think they need to get the message," he said of school officials.
In response to a request to comment Tuesday, Brown issued a brief statement.
"As we have previously stated, we are trying to find funding in order to restore all or some of the instrumental programs in some of our schools," she said.
District spokeswoman Elena Cala said the district's chief academic officer, now retired, had spoken with Cothran of the VH1 Foundation about working with the district to help salvage the band programs in the coming months.
School Board members also approved a resolution last month asking the district to cease paying for teachers' and administrators' cosmetic facial peels and other superficial procedures and to redirect that money to restore music programs. That resolution, however, will require legal vetting and would likely be opposed by the Buffalo Teachers Federation.
Instrumental music advocates will once again lobby for the restoration of funding at today's 5:30 p.m. School Board meeting, which will be covered live on the Buffalo News School Zone blog.
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Dr. Philippe Georgel and Dr. W. Elaine Hardman have received considerable publicity in the past few years over their receipt of a grant from the Department of Defense's Breast Cancer Research Program. Their most recent honor comes in being highlighted in the latest program book for the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs' (CDMRP) Breast Cancer Research Program. Their research, the result of a DoD FY09 Idea Expansion award, is entitled "Maternal Consumption of Omega-3 Fatty Acids May Prevent Breast Cancer in Offspring."
The research of Drs. Hardman and Georgel is directed toward determining which gene expression changes in mice offspring are brought about by feeding pregnant mice a diet that includes canola oil (which contains omega-3) versus a diet that contains corn oil (a control). They then compare the mammary cancer rates of the offspring groups after they are exposed to a carcinogen. Results from their research already indicate differences in microRNA and epigenetic expression in the offspring, as well as changes in the expression of genes related to mammary tumorigenesis, including NF-kappaB.
Congratulations to Dr. Georgel and Dr. Hardman! To read the spotlight on their research in the CDMRP booklet (see page 19), please download the file through this link: http://cdmrp.army.mil/pubs/pips/bcpip.pdf.


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Amid a vibrant, multi-colored backdrop exquisitely crafted out of papier-mâché, glitter and fabric, behold a cast of almost 300 traditionally dressed dimple darlings from nearly every corner of the globe sing a simple song in their native language about universal harmony and dance. Travel to all 7 continents and, by journey's end, see for yourself that it truly is a small world after all.
Bon Voyage! From the snow-capped Swiss Alps to the golden Serengeti, the children of the world are ready to make your acquaintance. During your tour, experience a rainbow of diverse cultures from such far-off locales as:
Before returning home, the children reunite for a grand finale, reminding us of our common bonds of friendship, laughter and happiness—and by seeing the world through the eyes of a child, we are all basically the same.
Disney Characters Some familiar new faces debuted on February 6, 2009 with the addition of dolls representing select Disney and Disney•Pixar characters. Keep an eye out for:
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As you navigate the Seven Seaways, "it's a small world" is lovingly sung by the children in their native languages—including French, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and English. Composers Richard and Robert Sherman came to the conclusion that a single musical theme was the way to bring the song together, thus reinforcing the attraction's larger message of cultural unity and harmony.
The Story Behind the Song Originally, Walt Disney envisioned the world's children singing the national anthem from each country they represented. But he quickly discovered that everyone singing a different tune resulted in a musical cacophony. Walt asked the Sherman brothers, who were hard at work on Mary Poppins, to create a singular song that could be sung by all of the children. The result was "it's a small world"—one of the most well-known songs of all time.
Art Direction With her distinctive use of color, geometric shapes and a simple, child-like art style, Mary Blair was known for her visual aesthetic—felt in every aspect, in every nation, of "it's a small world." As you glide through the many scenes, colored paper in bold hues vividly create collages of some of the world's most beloved countries, giving you the impression of sailing through a classic children's book.
Authentic Attire Under the direction of designer Alice Davis (and her husband Marc Davis), Disney seamstresses gathered and sewed every inch of clothing to create a faithful portrayal of each nation's traditional attire. That's over 300 outfits in all! Authentic materials were used for each region, from silks for the saris of India and fine wool for the Scottish bagpiper.
Due to its immense popularity, the attraction has been replicated in every Disney park around the world and is considered a Walt Disney classic.
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On the night of one of Durango�s biggest triumphs, hosting the first-ever world championship of mountain biking, the sky above Purgatory Mountain �let loose� with a deluge, recalled participants.
People scattered from the storm at the Durango Mountain Resort. By the next morning, Purgatory had gained 18 inches of snow, but had lost the race�s start/finish banner that had been strung between two 40-foot tall poles.
Designed by local artist Metja Swift, it was one of the event�s two banners. The other was hung across Main Avenue and has since become a wall fixture at the Mountain Bike Specialists shop.
A thief in the night apparently had taken the banner that had been photographed with champion Ned Overend crossing the finish line.
�The local organizing committee felt violated by the �prank,�� said Ed Zink, the committee�s chairman and owner of Mountain Bike Specialists.
Efforts were made to �ferret out the culprit� and return the banner to Durango, but leads went cold and hope was fading, Zink recalled.
�We feared the banner was just lying in the back of someone�s closet, or worse had been thrown away by an embarrassed middle-aged couch-surfing ex-racer,� Zink said.
Then came a rendez vous in the French Alps when Durango mountain biker Ned Overend went to the town of Villard-de-Lans in June to commemorate a mountain bicycling championship he won 25 years ago.
Incidentally, the French competition also claims to be the first world championship for mountain biking, but the Durango bases its distinction on being the first competition to be sanctioned by an international governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale, Overend said.
Because the 25th anniversary of the French race celebrated the history of mountain biking, it was fitting that Overend found Durango�s lost banner strung across the main street of Villard-de-Lans. �It was a surprise,� Overend said.
Overend got the banner back during the festival�s ceremonial dinner, but this piece of Durango history has been not been hiding in a trunk in Europe for all these years.
Rather, the banner has been as close as Southern California, stolen by one of the racers from the Durango competition who thought of it as a �big souvenir,� Overend said.
He became remorseful, but did not know how to return it.
Overend got the story from Hans �No Way� Rey, a German mountain-bike stunt performer and celebrity who lives in Los Angeles. �He knew who this guy was and got him to give it up,� Overend said. �Hans thought it would be cool to display the banner at this festival (in France).�
Rey has kept the identity of the thief a secret.
�What difference does it make as this point? It�s just nice to get the banner back,� Overend said.
Zink said there are discussions to display it at the Cycling Village at Fort Lewis College during the USA Pro Cycle Challenge in August.
Durango is the starting point Aug. 20 for the professional bicycle race across the Rockies. The banner will remind people of Durango�s role in mountain-bike racing.
The world championship in 1990 �is key not just to mountain-bike racing, but also to Durango�s part in mountain biking,� Overend said.
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The nuclear crisis in Japan is bringing international attention. And there's plenty of misinformation based on current media reports. We wanted to examine a couple of the top reports circulating, including a report on the risk of a similar disaster occurring in the United States.
I. Is the U.S. at Risk? Do You Want the Truth?
Are you at risk of a quake breaking a nuclear plant's core containment vessel and exposing you to potentially cancer-causing levels of radiation? Yes.
You are also at risk of dying from lightning, getting mauled by a pig, killed by falling coconut, and all myriad of other unforeseen, unlikely events.
But according to a joint U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and U.S. Geological Survey(USGS) report (PDF), the odds of that happening are extraordinarily low. Risk, after all, is an assessment of uncertainty -- not a prediction that something will happen. There's plenty of catastrophic but incredibly unlikely risks we face on a daily basis -- the chance of plant damage in the U.S. is one of them.
The report, which is gaining a great deal of attention in the wake of the Japanese incident, should be considered reassuring, if anything.
According to the report, the greatest risk any plant in the U.S. faces is 1 in 10,000 risk of core damage per year at the perfect frequency. Note this is the probability of core damage, not "large early release" (LER) -- a completed release of radiation into the environment.
MSNBC.com did an excellent job digging up the document. Unfortunately, from they made numerous factual mistakes in interpreting it.
First, their report offers the hyperbole:
It turns out that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has calculated the odds of an earthquake causing catastrophic failure to a nuclear plant here. Each year, at the typical nuclear reactor in the U.S., there's a 1 in 74,176 chance that the core could be damaged by an earthquake, exposing the public to radiation. No tsunami required. That's 10 times more likely than you winning $10,000 by buying a ticket in the Powerball multistate lottery, where the chance is 1 in 723,145.
It turns out that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has calculated the odds of an earthquake causing catastrophic failure to a nuclear plant here. Each year, at the typical nuclear reactor in the U.S., there's a 1 in 74,176 chance that the core could be damaged by an earthquake, exposing the public to radiation. No tsunami required. That's 10 times more likely than you winning $10,000 by buying a ticket in the Powerball multistate lottery, where the chance is 1 in 723,145.
First, all statistic chances are not created equally. There are 104 commercial nuclear power plants in the U.S. (69 pressurized water reactors and 35 boiling water reactors). That means there's roughly 1 in 742 chance per year of core damage -- or roughly 1 in 7.4 chance per century of such an incident at a single plant.
By contrast there are dozens of $10,000 "Powerball multi-state lottery" winners every year and will likely be thousands of winners per century. Thus the comparison itself is a bit puzzling.
But the error runs far deeper.
Note, the report says that the risk is of "the core being damaged by an earthquake, exposing the public to radiation". But as we mentioned earlier, that's not what the report says. The report references the risk of core damage, which does not estimate the actual probability of a "large early release" of radiation at all. As the report says, in the case of core damage, such a release would be a "possibility", but given additional containment measures, would likely be a far lower probability than the cored damage frequency (CDF) estimate.
In other words, the report does not predict the risk of the public being exposed to radiation directly at all.
And the errors continue. The MSNBC report offers a list of plant yearly risks, compiled in handy text format online and in the form of an Excel document. These risks were taken from the report, but they were the risks at a specific earthquake frequency.
For example the most "at risk" plant -- New York's Indian Point 3 plant -- has a 1 in 10,000 annual risk of core damage if an ultra-powerful 10 hz earthquake were to strike (thus this is dubbed the "maximum risk" or "weakest link" model). The actual risk is far lower. The report gives what is likely the most accurate estimate in the form of a weighted average. For example for Indian Point 3, the risk is 1 in 670,000 per year.
Now consider the difference between 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 670,000. We've now gone from 1 in 100 chance of quake core damage per century to 1 in 6,700.
Looking at the actual numbers, this means that the conclusions goes from there would be likely one core damage at a single plant in the U.S. over the next millennia, to that there would likely be none.
II. So Reports are Sensationalized -- Why Should I Care?
Now it would be far too easy to cast a blind eye to this kind of misinformation. All news sites and networks make errors. But the problem is that in the wake of the earthquake the media has seized on this topic with particular sensationalist fervor and offered much speculation and hyperbole.
The net result is that the U.S. public is becoming mistrusting and fearful of nuclear power. Anecdotal evidence of that is given by the run on radiation pills in the U.S.
This could have a tremendous deleterious effect on the energy future and security of the U.S. Nuclear power in the U.S. is arguably the cheapest and most tested form of alternative energy. The U.S. contains many rich deposits of uranium and other fissile isotopes -- enough to drastically reduce the reliance of the U.S. on fossil fuels from volatile foreign sources.
But public fear can and does have a number of direct effects that may sink that effort. First, past efforts to build plants in the 1970s and 1980s led to massive lawsuits that raised costs of construction so high that no new U.S. plants were even seriously considered until a year or two ago.
Finally, the U.S. has its first new plant application in three decades and is preparing to embark on a new era of nuclear energy.
It is important to also consider that fission power is widely viewed by the scientific community as only a stopgap solution that at most will be used for power generation for a couple more centuries before being replaced by fusion power. Nature shows us that fusion is a far more abundant and lucrative source of energy in our universe, so if we can't harness fusion power within 300 years we've done something wrong, given how close we seemingly are.
In other words, nuclear power is a short-term solution and thus risk should only be considered in the short term (as discussed above).
Further, the risks on these new plants will be orders of magnitude less and that they will produce less nuclear waste and more energy.
And last, but not least any discussion of risks should put things in perspective by providing information on equivalent dangers of fossil fuel power generation -- something virtually none have done. As underscored by the recent coal mining disasters in Chile and West Virginia, fossil fuel power is hardly safe and human friendly. Every energy source has a cost. For some alternative energy sources like solar and wind, that cost is high production costs. For fossil fuels, it's loss of life. In total 6,400 people died between 1970 and 1992 during coal mining operations, and 1,200 died extracting natural gas [source].
The importance of the truth and accuracy in this situation cannot be overstated. It is of the utmost importance that the media offers accurate information to the public in countries with nuclear interests, particularly in the wake of the Japanese incident.
III. Confusion in Japan
MSNBC.com and other news organizations are not solely responsible for the confusion and misinformation that's permeating all news outlets. Some of it is coming from those who should be reassuring, not speculating -- the government of Japan.
Japan's Fukushima nuclear plants still face a precarious situation in the wake of the record-setting 9.0 magnitude Sendai earthquake. Smoke has been billowing up from southern Fukushima I's reactor three -- steam from a damaged roof. Now that smoke is steam from broken water pipes in the cooling system of the reactor building.
Japanese officials on earlier today in a report [PDF] suggested that the reactor core may have been released and that radiation could be carried in the steam into the environment endangering the public. But then later in the day, they said that the core was not compromised.
Of course by then a score of outlets had already reported that it was compromised.
Similarly, many reports stated that the reactor rods had "melted down" -- a serious problem. These reports are based on statements made by Japanese officials that the rods may have melted. There is some evidence of this conclusion -- water was observed to have boiled off of some of the rods, leaving them uncooled. But officials don't know or haven't released to what extent the rods have melted.
The levels inside the most radioactive plant reached approximately 6.4 millisieverts per hour, before dropping. To put this in context, a full chest CT scan gives you 7 millisieverts [source] of radiation. In other words, you could work in the most damaged plant with no protective gear and only receive the amount of radiation of a common medical procedure. Now that's absolutely not to say that there aren't more serious risks if certain possibilities play out, but the risk of loss of life from the nuclear accident just isn't there yet.
Ultimately, the fault for these confusing and contradictory reports rest largely on the shoulders of Japan's government and international regulators. They have cooperated to publish contradicting and overly speculative reports.
IV. Conclusions
The situation in Japan is ongoing. Officials are using helicopters and fire-trucks to spray water, and possibly boric acid to cool the smoldering cores. We won't have the final picture of what -- if any -- significant long-term radiation release the reactors will create for some time now.
If the media wants a sensational story, they can get some great coverage of the efforts to contain the overheating rods. But in the interest of accuracy they should beware or offer disclaimers on the statements of government officials, given their contradictory track record. And they should most definitely avoid going out of their way to create more misleading statements themselves by misinterpreting obscure U.S. government reports.
quote: Do you understand what the point of a news agency is? Apparently not... I'll let you in on the secret: it's to make money by entertaining the consumers who pay for it (or watch the advertising).
quote: Yeah, not a real shocker, but it still sucks because a lot of people just eat that crap right up and regurgitate it. No wonder it is so hard to de-regulate nuclear energy when there is such horrible media misinformation.
quote: Yes people are going to keep spouting their BS about anti-nuclear power but if anything, this earthquake in Japan should be a learning experience: DON'T PUT NUCLEAR POWER NEAR NATURAL DISASTER ZONES.
quote: So you see I find it interesting you bring it up. What about the ACR causes you to mention it?
quote: Mostly to blame is to Canadian Federal and Ontario Provincial governments as it is generally seen as their responsibility to shoulder the financial responsibility (and risk) of building the first ACR.
quote: We could cheaply remove virtually all of our dependence on foreign oil if we switched to nuclear.
quote: You do realize that the majority of power used in the US is coal/gas not oil. Oil is primarily used to power our cars and heat. So NO switching to Nuclear would not remove our dependence. Now if you said switching to Nuclear, and mandating a switch to EV's could remove our dependence that would be a truer statement. But simply using Nuclear alone would not accomplish that goal. Arguably the shifting of the US consumer mindset to drive EV's instead of oil powered cars, is a MUCH harder change than using Nuclear power. Unless you propose we force them to via fuel tax or legislation, and I just know you would not want that riiiighhht.
quote: As for coal, interesting you bring that up because coal mining is quite dangerous.
quote: Now I don't blame my relative -- they are no scientist and are only trying to stay informed listening to the news.
quote: while nuclear Chernobyls seem to happen about once every 25 years
quote: Face it, more people have been killed by wind power than nuke power
quote: oh good lord. a pig will not kill hundreds of thousands of people instantly and potentially MILLIONS later on with fatal cancer.
quote: face it nuclear power is DEAD.
quote: I don't know why Jason decided to single out MSNBC when other networks reporting on this has been significantly worse and more sensationalist. Take CNN with their "could it happen here?" and "are we at risk?" headlines for example. Along with their usual "some say" refrain which could make any issue look controversial even when it's not!Of all the coverage I've seen, the coverage by Rachel Maddow of MSNBC has been excellent, as she went into the technical details of how these reactors worked and what fuel rods are, why the word meltdown has been overhyped, and actually invited you know, real experts and asked them to correct her. Show me another network that has invited experts to correct them and you might have a case Jason.
quote: liberal news agency that is against nuclear power because it doesn't mesh well with their liberal and/or environmental drones reporting falsehoods?
quote: It is even more important to understand why this misinformation is being sensationalized. It would be naive to think this is merely an oversight driven by the desire to sensationalize the story for ratings.
quote: Fox, MSNBC, CNN, etc. by and large don't care as much about the environment or politics as they do selling a story.
quote: Great story mick. But Fit is not cheapening it.It would be naive to think this is merely an oversight driven by the desire to sensationalize the story for ratings.
quote: And I think Katie Couric got her CBS job by rolling around on the floor with Coulter in a vintage Batman-TV-Show-style catfight.
quote: The backup generators were flooded by the tsunami and had no protective measures for flooding. (not encased or anything).
quote: This is the one thing I thought was terribly mishandled. Not only should someone have had the foresight to at least try and protect the backup generators from water, there was no backup for the backup.I'm sorry but the cooling system is clearly the biggest source of concern in a nuclear power station, there should have been several levels of redundancy.
quote: tell me about "statistics" in a few weeks after we know the outcome of the current situation.
quote: "statistics" say you won't be killed by a car that's 1 inch away from running you over at 100mph either... until it actually hits you.
quote: a broken dam isn't going to poison hundreds of thousands of people if not more and make LARGE areas of northern Japan uninhabitable for decades or longer.
quote: It may be possible to find a "lives per megawatt" cost of power chart somewhere (I haven't looked),
quote: Are you at risk of a quake breaking a nuclear plant's core containment vessel and exposing you to potentially cancer-causing levels of radiation? Yes. You are also at risk of dying from lightning, getting mauled by a pig, killed by falling coconut, and all myriad of other unforeseen, unlikely events. But according to a joint U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and U.S. Geological Survey(USGS) report (PDF), the odds of that happening are extraordinarily low.


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5 Innocent Words That Need to Be Banned from English: Part 2
A little over a year ago, I wrote about word aversion, a phenomenon that occurs when the physical act of saying a word makes you uncomfortable. Not based on what the word represents, but based on how it feels in your mouth.
After that article ran, I scanned through the comments and found a few suggested additions from readers, scattered among spam advertising a dating website for giants and polite, well-articulated reminders that all of our commenters are much stronger than I am, and that my fear of words is most likely linked to how big of a pussy I must be, (a huge one, it turns out).
I decided to write a sequel to that article based on half of those comments. (The other half will be represented next week in "6 Ways That Daniel is a Vagina [That Might Surprise You].")
#5. Panties
I honestly never had a problem with this word until my last word aversion article ran. When it was published, sans-panties, I received a flood of emails and private messages all wondering why "panties" didn't make it on my list. [Sidebar: You will never see me as disappointed as I was the day I came to work and found 136 emails with "PANTIES" as the subject line and realized Oh. They're talking about the article.] So I sat around and said it out loud a few hundred times, and while I did realize that it's impossible to say it without sounding like either a child or a pedophile, (especially if you say it 100 times in an empty room), it never really bothered me as much as the words in the last list. But that doesn't mean it doesn't bother a crapload of other folks.
Dear HR: This is why "I hate panties" is in my search history.
The panty-hate phenomenon is real; I'm just not part of it. That might be because I'm a man, (or, you know, a dude). Based on what I've read as well as independent research, women don't seem to like saying or hearing the word "panties," while men remain indifferent, perhaps because they become instantly distracted whenever they hear it, for some reason.
What it is:
Underwear for ladies and girls. Not much else I can say about it. If you didn't know what panties were, I'm really sorry that you had to learn it from me. Really sorry.
Use it in an Awful Sentence:
"Your sister and mother are at the mall, shopping for panties."
What it Actually Calls to Mind:
An irritating piece of slang that horrible people would use to describe someone who was acting prissy or cranky. Like, you know how the most annoying character in a sitcom set in an office always accuses someone who's pissed off as having "a case of the Mondays?" If you came to work very irritable, that same person would say "Ooh, call the doctor, it looks like Johnson over here has come down with a case of The Panties, heh heh. Hope it's not contagious, or else we'll have a panty-demic on our hands!"
I sure do hate you, Guy-I-Just-Invented.
#4. Dollop
I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out what exactly about this word bugs me. It's structurally very similar to "gallop," a word with which I have absolutely no qualms. There has to be some awful ingredient in the "dol" part, because every time I say this word now, I feel like I'm trying to swallow my own lips as punishment for giving the word access to the real world.
(The lips are the bouncers of the face, you see.)
What it is:
Dictionary.com defines it as a "shapeless mass or blob of something, esp. soft food," and that's certainly not doing the word any favors. As a rule, I try to avoid using words that could be used to define the amount of matter that a baby threw up.
Use it in an Awful Sentence:
"Doctor? I'm concerned, my 10-month-old just threw up about a dollup of egg yolk and orange pulp. Should I take him to the emergency room?"
No, just bury him and please never call me again, that fictional doctor should have said.
What it Actually Calls to Mind:
You know that loose bit of skin fat that dangles under the chins of old folks, (Not jowls, it's more central than that)? It's like a loose, wrinkly dewlap for old people?
That's a dollop.
#3. Phlegm
I know that the production of phlegm is actually a good thing, that it means your body is trying to fight some kind of infection, but that doesn't make me feel better about it. The way I feel about phlegm protecting my body is the same way I'd feel if the weird, slimey, greasy guy at worked saved me from a burning building. Yes, thank you, I appreciate that, but in the future just... just let me die, I'd rather not be in debt to you.
What it is:
"A liquid secreted by the mucous membranes of mammalians," which is either the definition of phlegm or a list of allergies as written by my boner.
Use it in an Awful Sentence:
I can't come up with anything better than this sentence ripped from a website dedicating to understanding and removing phlegm:
"If the color of your phlegm is brown or gray, it may be your body is expelling tars or resins built up from smoking or inhaling large amounts of dust."
What it Actually Calls to Mind:
A supervillain made entirely out of globs of fat. Plus he's always wet and he stands way too close to you, and his special move is he puts his finger in your mouth and you hate it. And the heroes are all "Oh, crap, The Phlegm is at it again, he's down at the children's hospital and just ... just leaking everywhere, and bumming everyone out. He smells like a bag of butts that got peed on. Last time I fought him he kept trying to pinch my thighs. That's, fuck it, I'm just gonna kill him. Soon as I see him."


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KAILUA-KONA (AP) - A man who was surfing in Kiholo Bay off the Big Island with a friend said he never thought that sharks were a big threat there until he heard his friend scream.
Steve Macres said he was surfing Wednesday with Paul Santos, just as they had done for many years, when the tiger shark, estimated at between 15 feet and 18 feet, attacked.
"I turned around to go on a wave and heard him. I heard that blood-curdling scream. It was just so primordial. It was unbelievable, and it went into an echo so I could tell while he was screaming, he went underwater," Macres told KITV-TV.
Macres said he saw the shark come out of the water, followed by a splash and then nothing. He said he thought his friend was dead and made a quick decision to paddle to shore. About 20 feet away, he decided to turn around to get another look.
"I just see him paddling for me. It was just incredible. It was like he was just born again, I just went, 'Oh God. Thank God.' You know?" said Marcres. "And then he lifted his right arm and his hand was flopping and it was, the bone was connected and it didn't break, but everything else was gone. I go, 'Paddle, Paul, paddle!' "
Santos eventually staggered out of the water and sought help at an estate on the north side of the bay.
Aaron Walters, who works as a chef on an estate on the bay, told the Hawaii Tribune-Herald that he was outside picking herbs when someone called for help and he saw a man running down the beach.
Walters, who moved to the Big Island in November, previously worked as a technician in an emergency room.
"When I got there, they were trying to make a tourniquet," Walters said. "We used the surfboard leash and tied it around his bicep." Beach towels were used to wrap Santos' arm while 911 calls were made.
"All we did was keep him stable, keep him warm," Walters said.
Walters' boss, Adam Atwood, praised his staff for their quick response to the incident. Atwood said the attack happened in murky, shallow waters.
"We do see sharks down there from time to time," Atwood said.
A spokeswoman at Kaiser Permanente's Moanalua Medical Center in Honolulu said Santos was alert and in stable condition with bites to his right arm and leg.
The beach was reopened at 1:30 p.m. Thursday after no sharks were spotted from Kiholo to Spencer Beach Park.


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Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Employees were recognized Monday night at the Dorchester County Council meeting for completing milestone years of service with the county.
The county Employee Longevity Program recognizes long-term employees. While only 10 were present, 33 employees were honored for completing 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years of service with the county during the first quarter of 2014.
Council thanked the employees for their continuous service to the county.
Those recognized were:
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County Council
William Hearn
Deborah Garner
Fleet Services
Kip Carter
Dana Russell
Road Maintenance
John Johnson
Sheriffs Office
Janie Benjamin
Robert Biddle
Kenneth Billings
Terrie Bowers
Richard Darling, Jr.
Charles Frederick
Amanda Inabinett
Sheriff L.C. Knight
Crystal Manning
Lori Miller
Dale Nevins
Tony Phinney
Samuel Richardson
Amy Taylor
Donald Sorenson
Storm Water
Malcolm Boyd
10 years
Lindsay Krakeel
Facilities Maintenance
Edward Ferrell
Risk Management and Safety
Leroy Blake
Douglas Callahan
James Murphy
Storm Water
Gary Campbell
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Shawn Dunnam
15 years
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