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"American Idol" is still television's top talent show, but it may not hold that title for long. The quick ascension of "The Voice" notwithstanding, "Idol" seems to be determined to self-destruct.
In its attempt to reinvent itself this year, "Idol" has sacrificed its integrity. We're not referring to hiring off-the-wall Nicki Minaj as a judge – her wackiness is offset at least partly by another freshman judge, Keith Urban, who has emerged as perhaps the most honest and precise panelist on any reality show.
The changes in rules, I suspect, aren't going to result in massive tune-outs, either. Having the public vote out 10 of the top 20 finalists over the course of one short week, for instance, cuts to the chase quickly – and should give the finalists more air time.
But is there any "Idol" viewer in America who doesn't think the fix is in for ensuring a female "Idol" winner this year? From the outset, "Idol" has proclaimed it the year of the female contestant and it has embellished that thought through every episode so far. Editing can create any perception, and it certainly has cast male contestants in a negative light all season.
Judges also seemed to move the weaker male candidates forward while cutting some that seemed to be locks for the Top 20. Last week, voters had to pick 10 finalists and frankly, at least eight of them should have been women. But rules dictate that the finalists are evenly divided, so there are at least three male vocalists still competing who would have gone home any other year. They, of course, will be fan fodder the first few weeks of the finals, as the female contestants become all that more familiar to viewers. At that point, the two remaining men – my guess is that they will be Curtis Finch Jr. and Burnell Taylor – will be up against five extremely strong, familiar and presumably likeable female contestants, any of whom could pull off a win.
Yes, you say, but the public has the final vote. True, but the public vote has almost always been swayed by judge's comments. And the judges very much seem to want the winner to be a female.
It's early in the competition, but I suspect the four finalists will be Finch, Angela Miller, Candice Glover and Janelle Arthur, with the girls pummeling Finch in the final few voting rounds.
How many viewers are still around by then remains to be seen.
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Remembering their roots
At this year's Grammy Awards "In Memoriam" tribute, photos of the late Donna Summer, Robin Gibb (Bee Gees) and Davy Jones (Monkees) deservedly prompted appreciative rounds of applause. Unfortunately, that same appreciation was not extended to Andy Williams, Earl Scruggs or Kitty Wells – the sparse response would have barely moved the arm on an applause meter. The same sad smattering of noise was given to Patty Andrews (Andrew Sisters), Dorothy McGuire (McGuire Sisters), Herb Reed (The Platters) and Joe South.
And when an image of Patti Page singing "Tennessee Waltz" appeared, the silence was deafening. It most likely wasn't done out of respect as much as it was a collective shrugging of the shoulders, as in "Who is she?"
In contrast, the loudest ovation – by far – was given to the late Adam Yaugh of the Beastie Boys.
Given the average age of the crowd at the Grammys, perhaps that response was to be expected. The music of Yaugh, who was instrumental in the early success of rap, certainly resonated more with the current crop of music talent than Ms. Page.
Still, it is disconcerting that Patti Page was so easily forgotten. After all, she pioneered the recording of multi-track vocals, a process that remains popular today. She also scored nearly 50 hits over a 15-year period – plateaus that most current artists have no chance of achieving. Moreover, at least three of her recordings – "Old Cape Cod," "Allegheny Moon" and "Tennessee Waltz" – have stood the test of time.
Page also hosted her own popular television variety show – as did Andy Williams, whose lack of recognition by the Grammy crowd was truly astonishing. Not only did Williams have dozens of hit records, including the durable "Moon River," he also was a longstanding host of the Grammys. I'm not, by the way, insinuating that today's music stars – Mumford and Sons, fun., Bruno Mars and Rihanna, to mention a few – won't eventually have careers that measure up to Page, Williams and the other "seasoned" stars who seemed to be forgotten at the awards ceremony.
I am suggesting, however, that half a century from now, those currently unstoppable superstars might wish the talent of 2063 would understand and acknowledge their own "roots." A "Who is she?" for Rihanna might seem to be preposterous now, but it could happen. Just ask the relatives of Patti Page.
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That Pennsylvania has a pension problem that is the equivalent of a ticking time bomb is not news. What Gov. Tom Corbett wants to do about it certainly is.
Many have suggested that the state, in an effort to trim future costs that are spiraling out of control, revise the pension systems for public school teachers and state employees so that newly hired workers would not receive the type of defined-benefit pensions enjoyed by current workers, but instead would contribute to 401(k) or similar programs.
Since that's what the vast majority of workers in the private sector are receiving these days, we see no reason why teachers and state workers should expect anything different. But the governor loses our support when he suggests going further and tearing up existing agreements with current teachers and state workers.
There is no doubt that the current situation is dire and untenable.
An Associated Press story that ran on the front page of this paper Tuesday noted that the pensions of current public workers represent an unfunded liability of more than $41 billion. A new report on the teachers' and state employees' pension funds warned of "higher taxes, program cuts, lower business growth and steeper borrowing costs," the AP reported.
The pension report, authored by the governor's budget office, said higher taxes should not be considered as an answer to the problem, but it's difficult to imagine the issues being resolved without an influx of new revenue. Some of that might come from Corbett's plans to privatize the state liquor store system and the state lottery, but that money will go only so far, and the pension issue is not the only concern facing the state, which also, for example, has to deal with rapidly crumbling highways and bridges across the commonwealth.
The report also raised the possibility that the state could rely on "prior court determinations regarding deferred compensation" as a way to revisit benefits promised to current workers and retirees. It provided no details about those "court determinations," but current case law in the state would suggest that's a steep legal hill to climb.
The current problem was created in large part more than a decade ago when then-Gov. Tom Ridge, with bipartisan support in the Legislature, signed a measure greatly improving the pensions of public workers, under the assumption that the huge investment gains being reaped by the state would continue unabated and finance the additional pension burdens. Then the markets crashed, and the "easy money" disappeared. Since then, the Legislature has kicked the can down the road rather than make the difficult decisions necessary to confront the problem. In the meantime, some retirees are reaping – or will be due – annual pensions that can run into six figures.
Many local school districts also failed to keep up with their pensions, and the budget office report paints a grim picture of their futures.
"Increasing pension ... obligations will claim a greater share of school district budgets, crowding out funding for education, whether it is direct classroom instruction, sports, facilities and maintenance, and ultimately put pressure on districts to increase property taxes," it said.
The options are few, and unpleasant, but taking away benefits legally earned by current workers is not the proper course. The state made a deal with teachers and state employees in 2001 that it is morally – and, most likely, legally – bound to keep. The governor and the Legislature should be moving on to other potential solutions.
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She was 14, he was 18. They met at the Genoveva Chavez Community Center, where she was a camp counselor and he just hung around. It beat staying home.
Amanda Ewers and Marino K Leyba Jr., better known as Reno, dated for two years. Actually, they were infatuated. She was pretty, fair and impressionable; he was handsome and intense.
"His energy was in working for his dad, me and music. He was always trying to make music," Ewers, now 19 and living in North Carolina, recalls.
But the relationship had bigger problems than their age difference. "He was one of those guys," Ewers says. "I wasn't allowed to wear anything but sweatpants and big T-shirts when I wasn't with him."
They broke up, Ewers says, after she learned Reno had slept with her best friend. According to a restraining order Ewers' father filed on her behalf, Reno barraged Ewers with calls and text messages. Once she awoke to find handprints on her bedroom window. Twice he threatened suicide. The first time, she called his parents. The second time, she called police.
Two weeks after the breakup, in January 2006, their relationship flamed out where it began, at the Chavez Center.
Reno found Ewers there. He told her he'd obtained a .22-caliber handgun. If the cell phone was his first weapon, this was his second.
"I am not going to go to jail," Reno said, according to the restraining order application. "If the police come after me I am going to blast at them. I will die before I go to jail."
Ewers fled. Despite the no-contact order, Reno continued to call. "It was not a good breakup," Ewers says.
An understatement, sure. But it could have been worse: Reno's next serious relationship ended in blood on May 22, 2009.
That's when police say Reno killed his girlfriend, Sarah Marie Lovato, her unborn child, Isaac, and her father, Bennie Ray Lovato, Sr. Police assume Reno shot the family with a gun he carried working for his father's state-licensed security company.
Ewers was not surprised to learn Reno stood accused of such a horrific crime. Perhaps no one else should have been surprised, either. The story of Reno and Sarah is one of families destroying themselves while their community, looking on, does nothing.
Leyba family members refused to comment for this story, and SFR could not reach Sarah Lovato's immediate family. SFR reconstructed their story using a stack of police reports, court records and other documents available to anyone who cares to look—which only underscores how much happened in the open.
Dozens of cops, lawyers, judges, social workers, teachers, friends and family knew Reno was a troubled kid from a home where terrifying things happened as predictably as birthdays. They knew, from experience, that abuse follows families like a shadow. They knew Reno had a gun.
Granted, hindsight is 20/20, but Reno's threats to Amanda weren't the first warning. The Lovatos' murder was heralded by more red flags than the Beijing Olympics.
Carol Horwitz, the city's domestic and sexual violence liaison, agrees.
"All the neighbors knew, family members knew, community members knew," Horwitz says. "If neighbors had called and said, 'I heard screaming and fighting,' and law enforcement had intervened, and they'd done a lethality assessment: She was pregnant; he didn't want her to be; she had broken up with him and he had access to weapons. If she'd gone to the shelter, she'd still be alive and have had the baby. There were lots of missed opportunities to intervene."
Which leads Horwitz to an inevitable, depressing conclusion: "Our community has not stood up against domestic violence yet," she says. "It's still acceptable. It's still normal and natural and commonsense—that's the way people treat each other."
Santa Fe's already endemic family violence problem appears to have surged with the economic downturn. "It was just one of the busiest years, from July to June, that we've got recorded," Sherry Taylor, executive director of the Esperanza Shelter for Battered Families, says.
Seventeen days after the Lovatos' murders, a pregnant woman was severely beaten. Across town the same day, a man threw boiling water over his ex. And late last month, investigators identified four corpses in a car dredged from Cochiti Lake as a father and sons, missing since 2001; police think he may have drowned them to spite their mother.
Detective Tony Trujillo, who is investigating the Lovatos' murders, calls it a "textbook" domestic violence case. "Unfortunately, there wasn't any police intervention [when] it could've been prevented," Trujillo says. "It's a pattern—a cycle, they call it…There is a history between mom and dad, also."


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If you take it from Taylor Swift, the average 22-year-old journals about feelings, enjoys vintage bikinis and porkpie hats, and has an endless supply of gal pal clones to eat ice cream with.
Not on Conan O'Brien's watch.
The late night funnyman recorded a YouTube clip in response to Swift's music video for "22," a single extolling the ups and downs of her age. (Though, actually, she's 23 now.)
"We're happy, free, confused, and lonely, at the same time," Swift sings. O'Brien, 50, does not share the same experience.
"I know what it's like to be 22, I dont think that's an accurate representation of what its like to be 22." he said, "You're not living in that apartment, you're living in a really crappy $380-a-month apartment in the mid-Wilshire district in Los Angeles," said Conan.
And there aren't any Etsy-curated dishes or vintage soda bottles to be found.
"I didn't see any ramen noodles in that video, because that's all your eating when you're 22," the late-night host insisted.
O'Brien gave a few other choice insights into his young adulthood.
"I didn't see her driving a 1973 Plymouth Valiant, that she bought form some surfers in Santa Monica. You only buy it because it had air conditioning and then the air conditioning didn't work and the surfers laughed when you left," he said.
"You're a freak so no one talks to you. You just sit in your apartment and you watch 'Saved By The Bell' and eat ramen noodles," O'Brien added. "And occasionally you spice it up by having lucky charms ... that's what it's like for everybody when you're 22."
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In the first major announcement on the future of nuclear in the UK since the Fukushima disaster in Japan, the Government outlined the locations deemed suitable for new power stations by 2025, all of which are adjacent to existing nuclear sites.
The eight sites are: Bradwell, Essex; Hartlepool; Heysham, Lancashire; Hinkley Point, Somerset; Oldbury, South Gloucestershire; Sellafield, Cumbria; Sizewell, Suffolk; and Wylfa, Anglesey.
The plans for new nuclear power plants are part of a series of national policy statements on energy which were published today, following a public consultation.
They will be debated and voted on in Parliament, but ministers are hopeful that, with a pro-nuclear majority in the Commons, they will win the argument.
Nuclear power is one of the issues that divided Conservatives and Liberal Democrats when they entered Government together, with the coalition deal allowing a Lib Dem spokesman to speak out against any new nuclear plants, while Lib Dem MPs could abstain on the issue.
Lib Dem Energy Secretary Chris Huhne has since given his backing to new reactors, insisting they would not be subsidised by the taxpayer - although MPs have warned that reform of the electricity market could favour nuclear power and amount to a hidden subsidy.
The Government is planning the new suite of reactors to maintain electricity supplies and cut greenhouse gas emissions as an old generation of power stations is shut down.
The future of nuclear as a power source for countries around the world was called into question earlier this year after the Japanese earthquake and tsunami rocked the reactors at Fukushima, leaving radioactivity leaking from the plant.
Mr Huhne signalled last month that plans for new reactors in the UK were on track after an initial report on Fukushima from nuclear chief inspector Mike Weightman ruled out the need to curtail the operation of nuclear power stations in the UK in light of the situation in Japan.


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It used to be quaint and anachronistic that Tomasita's was housed in an old train station building. Now Rail Runner Express trains come and go all day, picking up and dropping off passengers right behind the restaurant, making the setting feel relevant again. Those trains have been a business boon for Tomasita's, which benefits from hungry commuters just grabbing a quick margarita, as well as tourists who come to sample the famous red and green chile, the smothered enchiladas and the stuffed sopaipillas.
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Bike/coffee shop opening off trail in Cecil
A bicycle rental and coffee shop, Tandem Connection will have its grand opening April 13-14. There will be live music, raffles and kids activities at the Cecil Township shop, which serves the nearby Montour Trail at the intersection of Morganza and Georgetown roads.
It will be the only bike rental site on the trail in Washington County.
Unofficially, the business opened Labor Day weekend, days after couples Seth and Laurie Fosmire and David and Lori Poe closed on the purchase of a century-old building that was originally a mining company store. It was used for other purposes in recent times.
"We set up a tent where we had rentals and snacks," said Seth Fosmire, a Trinity High School graduate.
That lasted until cold weather became entrenched. In the meantime, the new owners undertook the necessary – and widespread – renovations to the building, pushing the grand opening back to mid-April.
"This will be a full-fledged bike shop," Fosmire said. Bike rental and storage will be available in the 10,000-square-foot building, where trail-related merchandise such as hats and T-shirts will be sold. There also will be culinary attractions such as coffee, 16 ice cream flavors, barbecued items and snacks.
The shop will be near the Morganza-Georgetown bridge that opened on the trail in August. Fosmire said the Montour Trail Council owns a small section of the shop's parking lot.
He and David Poe became acquainted years ago while cycling on the trail. Fosmire said Poe once suggested "it would be nice to have a bike shop" near the trail.
Fosmire also works in sales and marketing, his wife is a Christian school employee, Poe is a videographer and Lori Poe is a varsity track coach at Chartiers Valley High School.
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A Fayette County family in litigation over Marcellus Shale and a resident who said a uniformed guard wrote down her license plate number after she stopped her vehicle on a public road near a pipeline project described that and other heavy-handed treatment by a security firm seeking a private detective's license.
Washington County Judge John DiSalle heard several hours of testimony Wednesday about Templar Protection LLC of 1610 Park Ave., Washington, which is seeking the detective license, and another entity with the same address and owners, Templar Inc.
Templar Protection provides contracted security guards, many of whom are retired state troopers, at gas well sites and pipelines while Templar Inc. employs minimum-wage flaggers for traffic control and other duties such as ditch-digging and tree-clearing.
Chief County Detective James McElhaney, who is also a retired state trooper, testified that when he did criminal background checks on the 49 employees of Templar Inc. earlier this year, he found that 32 had a history of arrests ranging from rape, burglary, theft, drugs and assault. Donald Saxton, the attorney representing Templar Protection LLC, objected to McElhaney's testimony as irrelevant because Templar Protection, a separate entity from Templar Inc., is the firm seeking the private detective's license.
"Obviously, they're affiliated," DiSalle ruled, and allowed the chief detective to continue.
"Templar Inc. does not perform any function that comes within the scope of the (private detective's) act," he continued, noting that there is no prohibition keeping employees of the firms from working under the same roof.
The state's law on private detectives requires them to have, along with a clean record, a valid driver's license. McElhaney also read an advertisement for flaggers that required them to have valid driver's licenses, but of the 49, 10 were found lacking.
While McElhaney didn't go as far as his predecessor, Michael Aaron, in recommending Templar Protection not be granted the private detective's license, McElhaney asked the judge to consider several points, including commingling of resources and that the same individual is general manager of both companies.
In evaluating the firm's request for the investigator's license, the judge also heard from David R. Headley of Spring Hill Township, whose mailing address is Smithfield, Fayette County. He asked that the judge deny the request for a detective's license because of ill treatment he, his family and visitors have received as Williams Gas/Laurel Mountain Midstream installed a Marcellus Shale pipeline in his front yard.
Headley, who is litigating the pipeline project in Fayette County court, was told he was on a "watch list." He showed the judge examples of a security guard photographing him; of an armed Templar Protection employee standing on the Headley's front yard which was beyond a gas line easement; and nearby vehicles marked Templar Protection LLC.
"They were supposed to be watching the equipment and all there doing was watching us," testified Headley, who is a former resident of Mt. Morris. "My 4-year-old boy had an injunction against him and my wife had an injunction against her."
The pipe line project is done, Headley said, but he said his goal in coming to court was "to protect someone else from having this happen to them."
The Headleys purchased 115 acres in 2005, moved there in 2007, and sold an easement to Williams Gas, but Headley said, unbeknownst to him, that the land's prior owner had already sold the oil and gas rights to the tract, which includes several wells.
Marigrace Butela of Dunbar Township, Fayette County, said a uniformed man wearing a sidearm recorded her license plate when she stopped her car on Hope Hollow Road.
Craig Southern, one of the principals of Templar Protection LLC, met with Washington County District Attorney Eugene Vittone last August to discuss "technical deficiencies" of the firm's private detective's application.
He described Templar Protection and Templar Inc. as "sister companies, like Sam's and Walmart. On one side we deal with weapons and the other side is common, everyday work."
In Spring Hill Township, he didn't want "local news media, protesters or activists" on the gas line right-of-way and he didn't want damage done to the property.
"I publicly apologize to anyone here that feels they were being harassed."
The commonwealth's concern is Templar would use its separate entities to subvert the purposes of the private detective act," Vittone said, and that John Altman, as manager, oversees both operations. The judge asked Southern, who is from Gilbert, La., why he thought he could operate without a private detective's license in Pennsylvania.
Southern said that in some states, firms are grandfathered. Vittone said Templar Protection "is not providing what is traditionally thought of as private detective services," which typically investigate divorces or workers' compensation cases and that the legislature needs to update the act, especially in light of the growth of the Marcellus Shale industry.
The judge also said the firm acts in a capacity of private security, and he asked both sides to submit legal briefs within 20 days.
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50.9880841N 102.6900887W I called this one Brewer (West) so as not to confuse with Precious Blood Brewer (East Brewer Cemetery) which is a few miles straight East on the Brewer road. You can see both from the road the West one is on the South side and the East one is on the Noth side of the road.
The Brewer post office operated at Sec.18, Twp.23, R.5, W2 between 1911-1939
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Infections are mildly correlated to population, with little evidence supporting warming hypothesis from non-experts
Naegleria fowleri
is one nasty microorganism. A member of the amoeba family, it resides in inland bodies of water in North America. It attacks humans -- particularly young men. An alarmist report, backed by a non-expert, is proclaiming that
global warming
may drive infections. Is this the case? Let's examine the facts.
I. Background
The amoeba enters via the nose and works its way into the brain where it multiplies, slowly killing the victim. The time between infection and onset of symptoms is nearly a week and the symptoms are rather nondescript at first -- headaches, vomiting, and confusion.
Once infected, the host's
brain is literally eaten alive
. The disease is referred to as PAM (primary amebic meningoencephalitis).
[Image Source: Trevor Haggie]
Since 1962 only one patient (out of 128 confirmed infections) has survived and infection by the deadly parasite -- a 99 percent fatality rate. In most cases, the infection isn't even caught. Vanderbilt University medical school professor William Schaffner describes diagnosis as more luck than any other factor, remarking, "It's not something that's necessarily touched on in medical school. You have to really probe what patients were doing in the last several days, you have to ask if they were swimming. Honestly, an accurate diagnosis is basically serendipity."
N. Fowleri
is a deadly amoeba. [Image Source: CDC]
Given the low rate of infections -- and even lower rate of infections that are recognized before death -- treatment is more guesswork than science. Patients are administered a cocktail of antibacterial and antifungal compounds. Jonathan Yoder, an expert with the
Centers for Disease Control
's division of parasitic diseases, describes in
a recent interview
The Verge
, "That's very frustrating for us. Did the treatment only work that one time? Does it work at all? Would other treatments work better? We just don't know."
The potentially bad news is that PAM incidents -- at least correctly diagnosed ones -- are on the rise. Here's a graph with the # of deaths and state of the death by year:
PAM incidents by year [click to enlarge] [Image Source: CDC]
Notice that there were big jumps in confirmed infections in the 1970s and in the 2000s. So what's to blame?
II. Hypothesis: Warming is To Blame
The Verge
has run a rather alarming piece entitled "
Brain-eating amoebas thrive in US lakes as global warming heats waterways
". To be fair they have a source for this --
Travis Heggie
, a
Bowling Green State University
(Ohio) Sports and Leisure professor. Now Professor Heggie has no professional degrees in epidemiology or microbiology, but he tracks
N. fowleri
infections as a hobby.
Yet, he speaks authoritatively, telling
The Verge
, "The climate is changing, and let me tell you, so is this. If warm weather keeps up, I think we'll see N. fowleri popping up farther and farther north."
Is warming to blame for the rise in infections? [Image Source: Tehran Times]
The Verge
's Katie Drummond writes, "That speculation seems to be reinforced by recent cases of PAM, once a health woe confined to fresh water in southern states like Texas and Arizona. In Minnesota, public health officials were stunned to see two fatalities caused by N. fowleri — both young children — in 2010 and 2012. The cases are the only in state history, and occurred about 550 miles farther north than any previous reported PAM fatality in the US."
The author is correct, two infections have occurred in Minnesota which are the only infections reported in Northern states. But note that nowhere in the piece do the real experts -- Dr. Schaffner and Professor Yoder -- suggest that the rise in infections is related to warming (a hypothesis fielded by Professor Heggie alone). Let's dig into whether the rise in infections is truly correlated with warming.
III. The Boy Who Cried Warming (Hypothesis Invalidated)
Let us consider factors that could drive rates of confirmed infections up (along with a suggestion on how it might impact infection rates):
Warming (most
N. fowleri
resides in water 86 degrees and up)
National population (more people would mean more infections, you'd expect)
Urban population (people use more crowded water resources)
Papers on the disease (more interest means more awareness, more confirmations)
Mutations (hardy strains survive in new habitats)
Let's acknowledge, but toss out #5, as we don't have the data to track that.
To analyze this, let's first compile the rate of infections per decade which peaked from 2002-2011, thus far [Sources:
]. For #1 let's take the average rise in surface air temperatures over the U.S. on a decade averaged basis [
]. For #2 we can use widely available census data [
]. For #3 we can use data from a world clearinghouse [
]. For #4 we can use Thomson Reuters "Web of Knowledge" Product.
With this data in hand, we simply analyze the correlation of cases per decade versus influence and here is what we find:
Actually climate change has the
correlation of any examined factor. The strongest correlations are with the population itself (around 0.86), and more specifically with the urban population (around 0.85).
I'd be inclined not to discount the relatively high correlation to the amount of peer-reviewed research published per decade, though it's hard to say whether this is a cause or an effect. Ironically
The Verge
report hints at this. Mr. Yoder comments, "I'll swear my life to that — this is being wrongly diagnosed [for bacterial meningitis]. If someone died of meningitis, I'd suggest looking into that case a little more closely ... and looking at where the brain was eaten away at."
A 1970 study shows that for every 16,000 cases of bacterial meningitis, one was actually a misdiagnosed case of PAM.
But even these correlations are highly speculative when one looks at the graph of change in the various variables, scaled to change in PAM infections per decade:
Is there an outside possibility that warming is having some affect on PAM? Perhaps, but it seems unlikely, given that most cases remain in southern states, some of which have actually cooled (like Georgia):
[Image Source: EPA]
Furthermore, while Minnesota is among the states to have warmed more over the past century, Michigan and the Eastern states have warmed at least as much -- yet had no cases. Michigan and Minnesota have roughly the same number of lakes [Source:
] over 100 acres -- yet there were no infections in Michigan.
In other words, while
N. fowleri
is certainly a poorly understood disease and frightening public health threat. But to blame warming for this disease (or publicize such claims) is highly dubious. Quite simply put, the correlation is weak, as is the supporting evidence for such a claim. It appears this is yet another case of crying wolf.
CDC via Epidemiology and Infection [abstract]
The Verge
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If you want to see the rise of natural gas in power generation, you need look no further than the most recent annual reading of the PJM Interconection.
PJM is the regional transmission organization that coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity in all or parts of 13 states – including all of Pennsylvania – and the District of Columbia.
Formed in the 1920s, PJM is responsible for coordinating and directing the flow of electricity to keep the lights on for about 60 million people in Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kenturcky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia.
That's a lot of power to generate from PJM's members, which include Duke Energy, Duquesne Light, American Electric Power, FirstEnergy and others.
According to an analysis of PJM's generation by fuel source in gigawatt hours, power generators increased their use of natural gas by 35 percent between 2011 and 2012.
Despite a more than one-third increase in output generated by natural gas, coal remains the undisputed king for power generation across PJM, but natural gas is closing fast.
But before gas can surpass coal, it will have to move past nuclear, which holds the No.2 spot as a fuel source in the PJM lineup.
Coal generated a total of 360,306.2 GWh or 46.9 percent of output in 2011, falling to 332,762 or 42.1 percent of total output in 2012, for a 7.6 percent decline over the two years.
Nuclear held down second place with 262,968.3 GWh or 34.2 percent of power generation iin 2011, increasing to 273,372.2 GWh or 34.6 percent last year, a 4 percent gain over the two years.
By comparison, in 2011 natural gas contributed 108,030.2 GWh or 14.1 percent of total energy output.
Last year, natural gas output grew to 146,007 GWh, or 18.5 percent of total output for a 35.2 percent increase over the past two years.
But natural gas definitely has the attention of the power industry.
In an interview with Bloomberg News earlier this month, Jim Rogers, chief executive of Duke Energy, the country's largest supplier of electricity, attributed the rise of natural gas in the fuel mix of power generation to the abundance of domestically produced shale gas, particularly from the Marcellus Shale play.
"Shale gas has been transformative in the U.S.," Rogers said. "It's fundamentally changed the cost of electricity. We (Duke) are today dispatching natural gas before coal – in our history, we have never done that."
As for Pennsylvania, which currently has 37 gas-fired power plants in operation, the addition of more plants appears to be proceeding steadily.
According to information provided by Kevin Sunday, spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection, the agency is currently reviewing nine applications for gas-fired generators, which represent a total capacity of 7049 megawatts.
Sunday said that if all nine of the current applications pass the approval process and are built, they would more than make up for the output of 13 coal-fired plants that have either been recently retired or are scheduled for retirement over the next few years across the state. According to DEP figures, those plants represent 4,820 MW of generating capacity.
The ascendency of natural gas in PJM's fuel generation mix isn't the only notable item in the table, however. While far below the output of coal, natural gas and nuclear plants, renewables are picking up steam in the output mix, according to the PJM chart.
Wind's output in 2011 was 11,561.1 GWh, or 1.5 percent of total fuel generation, moving to 12,633.6 or 1.6 percent of total fuel generation in 2012, a 9.3 percent change in output over the two years.
Solar was the biggest year-over-year percentage gainer in PJM. While it provided only 55.7 GWh in 2011's generating mix, a nearly imperceptible amount, it quadrupled its contribution to 233.5 GWh last year, a 319.1 percent change in output over the two years.
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On the surface, the Canon-McMillan softball team's ascent to one of the state's elite programs might appear to be ahead of schedule.
The Big Macs won their first WPIAL title last season, another this year and will play in today's PIAA Class AAAA championship game for the first time in program history with a roster that's heavy on young talent.
Yet head coach Michele Moeller could not disagree more.
It might appear as though Canon-McMillan arrived here a year or two early, but the truth of the matter is this day has been years in the making, the groundwork laid by several of the team's seniors.
"For us, it doesn't feel like it was quick," Moeller said. "In our eyes, it's been eight years."
That's because Moeller and assistant coach Steve Moskal have been working with the bulk of this senior class since they were 8, 9 and 10 years old.
First baseman Maddie Engel, shortstop Veronica Rothka, catcher Shelby Adams, center fielder Yaszmin Kotar and pitchers Alayna Astuto and Kayla Kiger have all come through the program, trying their best to push it forward and picking up a few key pieces each year.
It's hard to believe now, but Canon-McMillan finished 3-14 when these seniors were freshmen.
The next year, as third baseman Olivia Lorusso, catcher Giorgiana Zeremenko and second baseman Ally Bellaire came aboard, the Big Macs jumped to 10-7 and reached the WPIAL Class AAAA quarterfinals.
Toss in right fielder Abby McCartney and left fielder Tara Fowler the following spring, and the Big Macs moved to the front of the line with their first WPIAL Class AAAA title and a trip to the PIAA semifinals.
"Most of us have been playing together since we were 10 years old," Zeremenko said, talking about a Canonsburg Lady Knights group that included herself, Rothka, Kotar, Engel, Kiger, Astuto and McCartney. "Just that chemistry and how we're all able to bond and pick each other up, how we work well together, has really helped."
Lorusso said that defending the 2012 championship has been more difficult, if for no other reason than because Canon-Mac has been considered the team to beat for much of the season.
Yet no one has.
"We've all been saying, our whole lives, we want to win WPIALs. That's such a big deal," Lorusso said. "States was a dream to be in. I feel that this year was our main year. Last year, we had a very good team, don't get me wrong. But we weren't exactly expecting to go as far as we did. So that was a blessing.
"This year, though, was our chosen year. Everyone who knew us knew that this year was going to be a big year. We expected just as much out of ourselves as everyone else did."
The infrastructure that Canon-McMillan has built was strong enough to weather a few key injuries at the beginning of the season, as Rothka was lost for the year with a torn ACL and Zeremenko missed a significant chunk of the regular season with an impingement to her rotator cuff.
That allowed Linda and Kirsten Rush, a pair of talented freshman, to step into the lineup at shortstop and as the team's designated player, respectively. McCartney shifted behind the plate.
"This year not having Veronica and 'G' early on, to have Kirsten and Linda Rush step in and be the ones to fill those shoes, it's a wonderful thing," Moeller said. "We tend to keep seeing some of those kids coming in."
And the scary part: There's more on the way.
"We're certainly in a better position than we were several years ago," Moeller said.
That much is true, regardless of how long it took to get there.
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