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It just happens. the rain falls on the just and the unjust. It just happens, you can't blame anybody. And even if you can, is that the right way?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_39683\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 331px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/MagoolSm.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-39683\" title=\"MagoolSm\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/MagoolSm-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"220\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Magoolaghan family\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/09/09/san-bruno-stories-she%E2%80%99s-screaming-into-her-cell-phone-and-all-i-heard-was-screaming/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Magoolaghan\u003c/a> lived near Piserchio on Claremont Avenue. His wife, Betty, was eight months pregnant with their fourth child when the explosion rocked their home. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Is there anything that can erase this? You know, I really don't think there is. No,\" he said. \"I don't know what to say, I did not jump into a lawsuit--I know a lot of people did. I know a lot of people a lot further away from me did, who weren't even there when it happened.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Piserchio's kids were 3 and 5 when the blast happened and they remember it well. He says they're largely un-traumatized, but then \"little certain things will happen--you know, you'll go to Great America and they have some ride down there where fire comes up off the water... We all jumped back and almost kind of started to run.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the kids still ask about the park down the street where they used to play and Piserchio tells them, it melted. He says the kids still ask about the \"fire that came into the house.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Piserchio doesn't want to blame or fight PG&E or the insurance company or anyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do I really want to be a cranky old dad in front of my kids? What am I going to teach them how to be cranky? Mad at everybody?... You know kids, sometimes bad things happen. It just happens. the rain falls on the just and the unjust. It just happens, you can't blame anybody. And even if you can, is that the right way?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_39683\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 331px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/MagoolSm.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-39683\" title=\"MagoolSm\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/MagoolSm-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"220\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Magoolaghan family\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/09/09/san-bruno-stories-she%E2%80%99s-screaming-into-her-cell-phone-and-all-i-heard-was-screaming/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Magoolaghan\u003c/a> lived near Piserchio on Claremont Avenue. His wife, Betty, was eight months pregnant with their fourth child when the explosion rocked their home. Betty and the children and ran barefoot from the fireball. The family survived, but their house was irreparably damaged by the blaze and by water from the firefighters. The family recently moved back in to the home they rebuilt in San Bruno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magoolaghan is one of about 350 plaintiffs in a consolidated lawsuit against PG&E. He tells KQED's Tara Siler that he's leaning toward going to trial because he wants to make sure PG&E is held responsible, and that his kids bills are covered if they need long-term therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"PG&E says that they lost their way, so we want to make sure it's not possible for them to lose their way again. Because what happened to us and what happened to our neighborhood and our neighbors should never have to happen to anybody else. We've had to live through this nightmare.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magoolaghan says the family is healing, and that being back in the neighborhood is a blessing and a challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody else is rebuilding and they're tearing up the streets, replacing different pipelines. So there's a lot of dirt and dust and noise in our neighborhood,\" he says. But it's also nice to be home. It's nice to be with our neighbors. It's nice to be part of the community and go to the restaurants we've always gone to.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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(AP) Investigators probing the cause of a blaze at Chevron’s Richmond refinery in Northern California are looking at heaters and responding emergency vehicles as possible ignition sources for the massive vapor cloud that spewed from a leaky pipe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Refineries like Chevron Corp.’s have fired heaters that could have provided a spark for the Aug. 6 inferno, said Don Holmstrom, the lead investigator for the U.S. Chemical Safety Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Typically in refineries there are fired heaters that have an open flame. There are a number of (possible) sources of ignition,” Holmstrom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A responding Chevron fire truck could be another possible spark source, since the 150-to-200-foot-high vapor cloud covered a large area and engulfed more than a dozen workers who narrowly escaped serious injury, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigator said diesel-powered trucks and generators have been ignition sources at other large refinery fires, including at BP’s Texas refinery explosion that killed 15 workers and injured dozens more.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chevron refinery blaze knocked an important refinery unit offline, reducing the facility’s production and sending thousands of people to hospitals with breathing and eye irritation complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average price for a gallon of regular on Wednesday in California was $4.09, up from $3.86 on Aug. 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internal Chevron surveillance video showed the vapor cloud engulfing the area for two minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vapor cloud was estimated to be about as tall as the refinery tower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators want to examine the failed pipe blamed for the blaze, which Chevron chose not to replace nearly a year ago after an inspection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the charred crude unit was still too hazardous to enter on Wednesday, and the distance is still too far for them to be able to make any visual judgments about how the pipe failed, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to structural steel beams melted in the fire, the area is also being compromised by at least two small hydrocarbon leaks. The leaks pose a possible health concern for investigators, and have required them to strap on respirators when entering the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators said the small leaks were not a danger to the nearby community, just to people working in the immediate area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delays are worsening prospects for Chevron’s ability to get the important unit back up and running. It would likely be three to four weeks before the damaged pipe can be removed for forensic testing, Daniel Horowitz, the board’s managing director, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conflagration destroyed an area of the refinery that produces a large amount of the gasoline that satisfies California’s clean-air regulations, which are the toughest in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other parts of the refinery, which supplies 16 percent of California’s daily gas consumption, are still producing fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A key target of the federal investigation is looking at why Chevron had not replaced the decades-old pipe after an inspection last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron examined the 8-inch line that failed and a larger, 12-inch companion line linked to it last year. 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"content": "\u003cp>by Susanne Rust, \u003ca title=\"California Watch\" href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/stanford-researchers-estimate-more-deaths-fukushima-fallout-17146\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_51343\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 230px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/12/JapanNuclearSM4.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51343\" title=\"JapanNuclearSM4\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/12/JapanNuclearSM4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"155\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear plant after earthquake and tsunami. 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Why should this be any different?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get a handle on how the radiation was distributed, Jacobson and Ten Hoeve, another Stanford researcher, used a 3-D global atmospheric model they actively use to track and trace pollutants across the globe. The model is based on more than 20 years of research collected by Jacobson, who is particularly interested in the migration of pollutants from mainland Asia to California.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, when the Fukushima disaster happened, he figured he’d throw radiation into the analysis and build a model that could track the released iodine and cesium.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>Stanford researchers: There could be as many as 30 casualties from radiation exposure in North America.\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Not surprisingly, it moved around in similar fashion to other pollutants, with iodine behaving like a gas and cesium like a particulate. With prevailing westerly winds, only about 19 percent of the fallout made it to land, and the rest drifted out to sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers then combined that information with a standard health-effects model, which is used by public health researchers to estimate exposure to radioactivity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They found that the number of deaths would likely range between 15 and 1,300, with a best estimate of 130, while the number of people acquiring cancer as a result would range between 24 and 2,500, with a best estimate of 180.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most deaths and cancer cases are likely to occur in Japan, but there may be a few in mainland Asia and as far away as North America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These worldwide levels are relatively low,” Hoeve said in a press statement. He said these numbers should “serve to manage the fear in other countries that the disaster had an extensive global reach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The research appears in Tuesday’s journal \u003ca href=\"http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2012/ee/c2ee22019a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Energy and Environmental Science\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Carroll, program director of the Ploughshares Fund, an antinuclear organization, said he thought the casualties seemed a little low and stressed that this kind of epidemiological data is highly uncertain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is extremely difficult to predict the long-term effects of radiation, especially when you start factoring in things like different types of radiation, at different levels, at constant low levels, on different people,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the difference between death by a thousand cuts or death by a guillotine,” he explained. “So much of our data is based on large doses of exposure to radiation, not the constant, low levels. Which cut eventually killed the person? The 999th or the 1,000th?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobson agreed that the epidemiological data is the most uncertain, which is why their projected ranges were so wide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said one of the reasons the deaths may seem so low is that only about 19 percent of the fallout found its way to land; the rest went out to sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the same accident had happened at Diablo Canyon, Jacobson said, 45 percent of the radiation would find its way to land. Therefore, despite the fact that the population density around Diablo Canyon is a fourth of that around the Japanese power plant, the death rate would be 25 percent higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobson said one of the most important factors, however, in keeping deaths from climbing in a disaster like this is a swift government response. And it is likely, in large part, the Japanese government’s response that prevented Fukushima from becoming Chernobyl, where nothing was done to remove people from the surrounding area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Susanne Rust is an investigative journalist for \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/stanford-researchers-estimate-more-deaths-fukushima-fallout-17146\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Now swaths of some popular haunts are closing for good after geologists confirmed that unsuspecting tourists and employees are being lodged in harm's way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, the National Park Service announced that potential danger from the unstable 3,000-foot-tall Glacier Point, a granite promontory that for decades has provided a dramatic backdrop to park events, will leave some of the valley's most popular lodging areas permanently uninhabitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are no absolutely safe areas in Yosemite Valley,\" said Greg Stock, the park's first staff geologist and the primary author of a new study that assesses the potential risk to people from falling rocks in the steep-sided valley. 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The park fenced off 233 of the 600 cabins in the village.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new report, obtained early by The Associated Press, now identifies 18 more that closed on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An examination by the AP after the 2008 fall found park officials were aware of U.S. Geological Survey studies dating back to 1996 that show Glacier Point behind Curry Village was susceptible to rock avalanches. Yet visitors were not warned of the potential danger, and the park service repaired and reused rock-battered cabins.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nRock falls in and around the century-old Curry Village have killed two people and injured two dozen others since 1996. Since officials began keeping track in 1857, 15 people have died throughout the valley and 85 have been injured from falling rocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This new study, prompted by the 2008 Curry event, is the first to assess risk to people. Officials say dangers exist in nearly every national park but they are particularly acute in Yosemite given its unstable geology, which causes rock falls weekly. Park officials will use the study to develop policy that guides future planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yosemite Valley is ringed by 3,000-foot walls of granite. Since the last glacier retreated 15,000 years ago, the biggest factor shaping the most popular tourist destinations in the park has been the sloughing of rock when granite heats and cools and eventually breaks along fissures and cracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stock used laser mapping to create the first detailed look at the cliffs, which ultimately could identify which formations are most vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report shows the greatest dangers are within 180 feet of the base of the cliffs. However, there is a 10 percent chance a potentially deadly boulder will fall outside of the zone every 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the removal of lodging from highly problematic areas and increased awareness, risk can be reduced by up to 95 percent, Stock said. \"That's a huge reduction, but it's not possible to reduce all risk in the park.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of Yosemite's charm is the guest cabins and other structures built around boulders, some the size of houses. It was widely assumed that they could have fallen in one cataclysmic event. The new study concluded that the boulders had fallen over time, and the information was used to delineate the most potentially dangerous areas of the valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's easy now to look around and see all of these rocks and know there's a hazard here, but that hasn't always been the case,\" said park spokesman Scott Gediman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 1980, falling rocks killed three people and injured 19 more on the trail to Yosemite Falls, the icon of the valley and one of the most popular visitor hikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest modern-day rock avalanche occurred in 1987, when an unstable formation called Middle Brother on the north side of the valley launched the equivalent of more than 22,000 dump truck loads of rock onto the main road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year 53 rock falls occurred, including a six-ton boulder that fell in September from the upper Yosemite Falls Trail onto an natural amphitheater. Fragments hit a footbridge where tourists take photos, but no one was injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park officials said two employee dormitories and parts of three others built in 2005 would be closing, which will further exacerbate a critical staff housing shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on the closure list: a half-dozen sites at Camp 4, a $5-a-night camping bargain near El Capitan used mainly by climbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative of the park's concessionaire said visitors with reservations in Curry Village this summer will still get rooms, and that some cabins can be moved to safer areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rooms at the Yosemite Lodge and the historic Ahwahnee Hotel are not in the danger zone. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/Smile.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-59709\" title=\"Smile\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/Smile-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"105\" height=\"105\">\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with an AM post from somewhere in California...\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's such a California story. UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium sits on an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/07/video-uc-berkeley-stadium-birds-eye-view-of-reconstruction/\">earthquake fault line\u003c/a>. It's going to cost about $321 million to renovate. It would be, says the \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304432704577350214257041598.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">Wall Street Journal\u003c/a> today, \"one of the most expensive renovations in college sports history.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university originally intended to fund the project privately, presumably from \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/search?q=bears+fans+berkeley+game+day&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=bYa&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=8TqQT_afMvPciAKX7fzpAg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CAsQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=778\">Bears fans\u003c/a> of the type that regularly clog Berkeley streets on game days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But three years into the fund-raising effort,\" writes Rachel Bachman in the Journal, \"a projected $270 million from the sale of seats has failed to materialize. At the end of December, the school had collected only $31 million... Now it has become clear that the university will have to borrow the vast majority of the money.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If revenue projections fall short and don't cover the bond payments, the shortfall would come from campus funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the state legislature last year slashed hundreds of millions of dollars from the University of California system, tuition at UC schools \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201107151630/a\">rose\u003c/a>, and then \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/11/28/live-reporting-from-uc-regents-teleconference/\">rose\u003c/a> again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nobody argues about the need for seismic upgrades, especially after those Berkeley shakers \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/20/earthquake/\">just a few months ago\u003c/a>, one of which was centered right near the stadium. But some may question whether the university can afford $270 million for a football team right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the loudest critic is Brian Barsky, a computer science professor who's written repeatedly in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailycal.org/tag/brian-barsky/\">Daily Cal\u003c/a> about funding for collegiate athletics. He quoted as saying it's \"disconcerting that the university may be gambling with student fees and other academic funds to cover a massive financial commitment for a football stadium.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Journal does acknowledge the new \u003ca href=\"http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Morning-Buzz/2011/05/03/Pac-12.aspx\">Pac-12 television-rights deal\u003c/a>, expected to nearly double Cal's broadcast revenue before expenses. Will it be enough for the athletic department to wean itself from university support? What's that cliche? Only time will tell...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>UPDATE: \u003c/strong> Herb Berenson of UC Berkeley contacted us after this post to offer some Bear Perspective. The Assistant Athletic Director, and the guy in charge of athletic communications writes the Wall Street Journal article contained \"a number of errors,\" which he itemized thusly:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is the Memorial Stadium project being financed? \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIt has always been the intention to use external financing for the renovation and seismic retrofit of Memorial Stadium. This is common practice in financing many types of capital projects, from large endeavors, such as the Memorial Stadium construction, to smaller ones, including home purchases. The Athletic Department, using non-public funds, will be able to make its debt payments through an increase in operating revenue generated from such avenues as the Endowment Seating Program (ESP) seat sales, enhanced Pac-12 media rights, the institution of a facility fee and donor philanthropy. It should be noted that, to date, the project has been financed using debt at lower interest rates and longer maturities than initially modeled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cal has received $31 million in cash from ESP sales to date. Does this mean the $270 million goal for the program is not realistic? \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAbout 85 percent of ESP participants have chosen to spread their payments over time, which means they are paying annually up to 30 years. As of December 31, Cal had received $31 million in cash from ESP sales, which corresponds to a total projected value of over $144 million to be paid by the end of the payment contracts. The original goal of $270 million remains. The plan has always been for the Athletic Department to use its operating revenues to make debt payments on an annual basis over the next 30-35 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $31 million received also comes four months before the reopening of the stadium. We anticipate the number will assuredly grow as kickoff for the first game of the year approaches and as the football season gets underway. The goal is to sell 90 percent of the available capacity in the ESP sections, and that goal is targeted for June 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Will the campus have to account for any Athletic Department shortfall? \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNo central campus funds have been used to finance this project, and it is intended to be managed so that none will be. The Athletic Department and university have gone to extraordinary lengths to inform interested parties about the financing model, including posting on Calbears.com (see \u003ca title=\"http://www.calbears.com/genrel/sahpc_cms_summary.html\" href=\"http://www.calbears.com/genrel/sahpc_cms_summary.html\">Facilities Project Summary\u003c/a> and \u003ca title=\"http://www.calbears.com/genrel/advancingCalAthletics_esp.html\" href=\"http://www.calbears.com/genrel/advancingCalAthletics_esp.html\">ESP Financial Reports\u003c/a>). This analysis suggests that even under a highly conservative, worst-case scenario, the project does not face a financial problem until at least 2038, and that case assumes that no intervening action is taken over the next 26 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Did the university pledge tuition revenue to obtain debt financing at a lower interest rate? \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAs is standard practice for debt issuance in higher education, all forms of university revenue, including tuition revenue, are pledged.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether or not you think the project is a good idea, I think you'll agree it's worth hearing from all sides, at length.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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But some may question whether the university can afford $270 million for a football team right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the loudest critic is Brian Barsky, a computer science professor who's written repeatedly in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailycal.org/tag/brian-barsky/\">Daily Cal\u003c/a> about funding for collegiate athletics. He quoted as saying it's \"disconcerting that the university may be gambling with student fees and other academic funds to cover a massive financial commitment for a football stadium.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Journal does acknowledge the new \u003ca href=\"http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Morning-Buzz/2011/05/03/Pac-12.aspx\">Pac-12 television-rights deal\u003c/a>, expected to nearly double Cal's broadcast revenue before expenses. Will it be enough for the athletic department to wean itself from university support? What's that cliche? Only time will tell...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>UPDATE: \u003c/strong> Herb Berenson of UC Berkeley contacted us after this post to offer some Bear Perspective. The Assistant Athletic Director, and the guy in charge of athletic communications writes the Wall Street Journal article contained \"a number of errors,\" which he itemized thusly:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is the Memorial Stadium project being financed? \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIt has always been the intention to use external financing for the renovation and seismic retrofit of Memorial Stadium. This is common practice in financing many types of capital projects, from large endeavors, such as the Memorial Stadium construction, to smaller ones, including home purchases. The Athletic Department, using non-public funds, will be able to make its debt payments through an increase in operating revenue generated from such avenues as the Endowment Seating Program (ESP) seat sales, enhanced Pac-12 media rights, the institution of a facility fee and donor philanthropy. It should be noted that, to date, the project has been financed using debt at lower interest rates and longer maturities than initially modeled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cal has received $31 million in cash from ESP sales to date. Does this mean the $270 million goal for the program is not realistic? \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAbout 85 percent of ESP participants have chosen to spread their payments over time, which means they are paying annually up to 30 years. As of December 31, Cal had received $31 million in cash from ESP sales, which corresponds to a total projected value of over $144 million to be paid by the end of the payment contracts. The original goal of $270 million remains. The plan has always been for the Athletic Department to use its operating revenues to make debt payments on an annual basis over the next 30-35 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $31 million received also comes four months before the reopening of the stadium. We anticipate the number will assuredly grow as kickoff for the first game of the year approaches and as the football season gets underway. The goal is to sell 90 percent of the available capacity in the ESP sections, and that goal is targeted for June 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Will the campus have to account for any Athletic Department shortfall? \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNo central campus funds have been used to finance this project, and it is intended to be managed so that none will be. The Athletic Department and university have gone to extraordinary lengths to inform interested parties about the financing model, including posting on Calbears.com (see \u003ca title=\"http://www.calbears.com/genrel/sahpc_cms_summary.html\" href=\"http://www.calbears.com/genrel/sahpc_cms_summary.html\">Facilities Project Summary\u003c/a> and \u003ca title=\"http://www.calbears.com/genrel/advancingCalAthletics_esp.html\" href=\"http://www.calbears.com/genrel/advancingCalAthletics_esp.html\">ESP Financial Reports\u003c/a>). This analysis suggests that even under a highly conservative, worst-case scenario, the project does not face a financial problem until at least 2038, and that case assumes that no intervening action is taken over the next 26 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Did the university pledge tuition revenue to obtain debt financing at a lower interest rate? \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAs is standard practice for debt issuance in higher education, all forms of university revenue, including tuition revenue, are pledged.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether or not you think the project is a good idea, I think you'll agree it's worth hearing from all sides, at length.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Guerrero Gov. Angel Aguirre, who is from Ometepec, was headed there to survey the damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Mexico City, frightened workers and residents poured into the streets of the capital. Telephone service was down in the city and throughout the area where the quake was felt and some neighborhoods were without power, according to Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, who set up a hotline for people to report damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 40 passengers were stranded for a short time on the Mexico City airport air train, but later released. The airport closed for a time but officials said there was no runway damage and they resumed operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samantha Rodriguez, a 37-year old environmental consultant, was evacuated from the 11th floor on the Angel Tower office building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought it was going to pass rapidly but the walls began to thunder and we decided to get out,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexico City, built on a lakebed, was badly damaged in 1985 when an 8.0 earthquake killed at least 10,000 people. In past years, Guerrero has suffered several severe earthquakes, including a 7.9 in 1957 which killed an estimated 68 people, and a 7.4 in 1995 which left three dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday's quake was the strongest shaking felt in the capital since a magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck also in Guerrero in December. Officials said at least three people died in Guerrero, but there were no reports of widespread damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A magnitude-8.0 quake near Manzanillo on Mexico's central Pacific coast killed 51 people in 1995 and a magintude-7.5 quake killed at least 20 people in the southern state of Oaxaca in 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Huajuapan, Guerrero, near the epicenter, hotel manager Marco Antonio Estrada also reported shaken-up guests but no major damage. He said it was longest and strongest he ever felt. People ran out of their homes and cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was very strong, but we didn't see anything fall,\" said Irma Ortiz, who runs a guesthouse in Oaxaca. She said their telephones are down, and that the quake shook them side-to-side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Geological Survey set the preliminary magnitude of the first quake at 7.4 and said the epicenter was 11 miles underground. The survey set the aftershock at 5.1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. President Barack Obama's oldest daughter, Malia, was reported and safe while on vacation with a school group in Oaxaca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groups of women hugged and cried at Mexico City's Angel of Independence monument, where hundreds of people evacuated from office buildings said they never had felt such a strong earthquake. Others typed ferociously on their Blackberries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexico City's airport was closed for a short time but there was no damage to runways and operations were returning to normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oaxaca, Sylvia Valencia was teaching Spanish to five adult students at the Vinigulaza language school when the earthquake hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of us sat down, others ran out,\" she said. \"It was hard, it was strong and it was long.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the shaking stopped, however, she said they found no damage, not in their own classrooms, nor outside in the historical center of the city, so they went back to class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celia Galicia, who works at the U.S. consular office in Oaxaca, had just flown in from Mexico City when it hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said there was panic in the airport, and a dash for the doors. But she said that she saw no damage at the airport and no one was hurt. 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