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Also be on the look out for the midget Mr. T that is almost ALWAYS at the Powerhouse. He's very loud and hangs out with some very questionable characters.
Also be on the look out for the midget Mr. T that is almost ALWAYS at the Powerhouse. He's very loud and hangs out with some very questionable characters.
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4/19/15 - Electric Wizard @ Roxy // 4/22/15 - Faith No More - Wiltern // 5/1/15 - Sleater-Kinney @ Palladium // 5/27/15 - Neutral Milk Hotel @ Warner Grand Theater
6/3/15 - Sufjan Stevens @ Dorothy Chandler
Every time someone either mentions Powerhouse or my girlfriend and I drive by it, we are always reminded of a time we were walking on the opposite side of the street and saw a domestic squabble between a couple, and the girl screeches out "I don't wanna go to Powwwwerrr Houuuuuuse," leading to our best impressions of the girl and her extremely nasally whine.
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Oh Beck, you once stood on the tops of mountains.
I'm in Hollywood right now. Going to take my friends to the powerhouse after this bar lol. Will report back with pics tomorrow or Sunday.
Anyone got some extra lawn seats? Two of my friends are looking to go now.
The powerhouse was crackin. The bartender has a heavy hand, I was pretty buzzed when I walked in. Had an IPA and some of my buddies whiskey ginger and was pretty drunk when I walked out.
I didn't get the proper powerhouse experience. It was jam packed so I didn't get to focus in on the weirdos. Need to go back on a weekday to get the full dive experience.
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Lisa Traiger has been writing about theater and dance since 1985. Currently she contributes a weekly dance column to The Washington Post Weekend section. Her pieces on the cultural and performing arts appear regularly in the Washington Jewish Week and DanceViewTimes.com. She has also written for Moment magazine, Stagebill, Sondheim Review, Asian Week, the Boston Jewish Advocate, the Atlanta Jewish Times, Intermission and the Washington Review. A recipient of two Simon Rockower Awards for Excellence in Arts Criticism from the American Jewish Press Association, she recently earned an M.F.A. in choreography from the University of Maryland, College Park. In 2003, Ms. Traiger was a New York Times Fellow in the Institute for Dance Criticism at the American Dance Festival, Durham, N.C. e-mail : email@example.com A known pacifist, an agnostic and a humanist, Sir Michael Tippett in 1938 composed one of the most deeply moving -- and spiritually uplifting -- contemporary choral works of the 20th century. The London-based composer and conductor, who died in 1998, had worked with unemployed miners during the Depression in the early 1930s. As he watched Nazism and fascism spread throughout Europe as the decade progressed, he sought answers in political activism, even briefly joining the Communist Party. But in 1938, on the eve of World War II, Tippett understood that the way he could best respond to the escalating events was through musical composition. A Child of Our Time, Tippett's first major artistic work, became the voice through which this renowned British composer spoke. On Sunday ,The Washington Chorus, under the direction of Maestro Robert Shafer, marked the 2005 Holocaust Days of Remembrance -- May 1-8 -- as well as the centenary of Tippett's birth with a performance of his 75-minute oratorio. "It's a very, very dramatic piece with the soloists and the orchestra," Shafer said last week. "It's like a small opera, especially the second act, depicting the events leading up to Kristallnacht," the two-night, government-sanctioned destruction of Jewish property and arrest of Jews that took place in November 1938 throughout Germany and Austria. Tippett wrote A Child of Our Time -- the title drawn from an anti-Nazi novel by German writer Odon von Horvath -- as a pacifist's reply to the heartbreaking events that the Nazis used to place blame on Jews for causing Kristallnacht. That complex, compelling snippet of history became the foundation for Tippett's work. Shafer recaps the history: "A series of events in Paris culminated in a 17-year-old Jewish boy -- Herschel Grynszpan -- assassinating a German general because his aunt and uncle, Polish nationals, had been sent back to Poland. "They were living in Germany at the time. And Hitler had expelled all the Polish Jews living in Germany. They went through a horrible ordeal: Of course, Poland wouldn't let them back in the country. So, in retribution, this boy shot an official. And in retribution for that event, the Nazis decided to go on this absolute reign of terror in Germany, smashing store windows and more in that first night, Kristallnacht." Tippett retells that series of events through a dramatic contemporary song cycle. Using as his model Bach's "Passions" and Handel's "Messiah" -- both deeply religious works -- Tippett crafted a three-part oratorio that features a standard baroque formula including recitative for narration, plus moving arias and ensemble singing. But Tippett sought a contemporary means to represent the ingrained moral universality he wanted explicitly expressed. He found traditional liturgical music too stifling and turned instead to traditional Negro spirituals. Gordon Hawkins, a Phoenix-based soloist who has sung with the Metropolitan and the Washington National operas, will fly in from a Miami engagement with the Florida Grand Opera, to sing with the chorus on Sunday. He considers Tippett's use of Negro spirituals a curative: "I think he uses spirituals not only as commentary, but as a healing. There's a difference between those who persecute and those who are persecuted. If [the Negro spirituals] were just for the persecuted, there would be a psalm that said, 'Don't worry, things will be better for you in another lifetime, in another place.' " But, when Hawkins sings the spiritual, "Go Down Moses," it is used not as a palliative, but as a means of igniting the passion to fight back, to challenge what took place in Nazi Germany. "The whole thrust of the piece," he said, "of course, has to be in the context of World War II. While everything happening in the United States [during that period] was in the context of the races, Tippett did not just make a Negro spiritual oratorio. That's not the point. "The point," Hawkins continued, "is the universality: There's a component of the Negro spiritual that contains something in common that we can all simply relate to." Echoing Hawkins, Shafer noted, "Many of these spirituals are very familiar to American audiences -- 'Deep River,' 'Go Down Moses' and others -- so there's an American impact and contribution to the piece. Negro spirituals came out of another time of great oppression with slavery during the 19th century and before." Tippett heard a relationship between this music of oppression and what he saw taking place in Europe, that made him feel comfortable incorporating Negro spirituals into a work detailing a European experience of oppression. "You would think it wouldn't work," Shafer allowed, "but it works beautifully." Ultimately, Shafer, who conducted The Washington Chorus in the D.C. premiere, A Child of Our Time, in 1989 hears the profound moral voice in Tippett's work. "Music," he said, "can hint at the moral message in a special way. Of course, all great composers are gifted at translating the human experience in day-to-day life through notes and words. Tippett was able to translate the experience of the horror of the Holocaust into music." Listening, one feels the many emotional channels of the piece. In Shafer's words, "Stark terror, fear, loving warmth of the mother, and a sense of hope at the end. It's a pretty bleak story, but the hope that Tippett comes to is that we all have a capacity for darkness and we all have a capacity for light. If we accept both sides of ourselves, we can come to some sort of resolution and hope that will make us whole." ----------A Child of Our Time with The Washington Chorus at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. A preconcert discussion, by Murray Horwitz, NPR commentator and director of the American Film Institute's Silver Theatre. The panel features Sally Groves, composer Tippett's publisher; Dennis Marks, a broadcaster who commissioned a film on Tippett; and Bret Werb, musicologist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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Lafayette High's boys and girls soccer teams had not played a match since Dec. 20. The two week-plus break played no effect on them as they swept their Division 3-4A opening matches against Senatobia at William L. Buford Stadium on Tuesday. (January 7, 2015, Page 1B)
ALL-AREA FOOTBALL: Phillips hits stride to run up record season for Chargers
Oxford coach Johnny Hill isn't all that surprised by what his running back was able to do on the football field this season. Not after seeing what he did when he wasn't necessarily the go-to guy. No tailback in school history has run for more yards than Kenzie Phillips did this fall. In just his second season as a full-time starter, the junior set a record with 1,737 yards. His 29 rushing touchdowns are also a new single-season record, breaking his own mark of 24 set just last season. His performance makes him this year's EAGLE Player of the Year. Phillips is the third straight Charger to earn the distinction. (December 23, 2014, Page 1B, 3B)
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Lafayette High's girls soccer team knew it was going to be tested this weekend in the Oxford Showcase and that its perfect record could be in danger of falling. One of those tests came from the Florence Lady Eagles, who handed the Lady Commodores their first loss of the season by the score of 5-3 Saturday morning at FNC Park. Lafayette's boys team went 1-1-1 for the Weekend. (December 21, 2014, Page 4B)
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Once Oxford's boys basketball team stopped thinking and started playing, there wasn't much Lafayette could do to slow the Chargers down. Oxford turned an early seesaw affair into a rout by turning smothering defense into instant offense in an 80-42 victory over the rival Commodores at the Oxford High gym on Friday night that kept the Chargers unbeaten. Their 11-0 record matches the best start to a season in coach Drew Tyler's 18-year tenure. Lafayette High's girls team beat the Lady Chargers 50-47 (December 21, 2014, Page 1B, 2B)
Area soccer teams set for annual Oxford Showcase
Rain or shine, high school teams statewide are going to get in plenty of soccer this weekend in Oxford and the surrounding area. Oxford High School is set to welcome more than 20 schools and 40 teams to town today for the second annual Oxford Showcase. The varsity squads for Oxford and Lafayette as well as some junior varsity teams will compete in the event, which will conclude on Saturday. (December 19, 2014, Page 6, 7)
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'Dores' Pate inks with Meridian CC
The second time proved to be a charm for Abbey Pate. The senior forward for Lafayette High's girls soccer team had a choice to make when it came to continuing her career on the pitch. Pate earned scholarship offers from Northwest Mississippi Community College, Itawamba Community College and Meridian Community College. (December 16, 2014, Page 6)
Oxford routs MA for 10-0 start
The Oxford boys basketball team used a familiar formula to run its win total to double digits Saturday night. The Chargers turned their pressurized defense into runouts and knocked down shots inside and out in their half-court offense to improve to 10-0 with a 69-40 rout of Marshall Academy in the final game of the "O" Town Showdown at the Oxford High gym. Lafayette lost both of its game in the "O" Town Showdown. (December 14, 2014, Page 4B)
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Mark W. LeChevallier
A biofilm is a collection of organic and inorganic, living and dead material collected on a surface. It may be a complete film or, more commonly in water systems, small patches on pipe surfaces. Biofilms in drinking water pipe networks can be responsible for a wide range of water quality and operational problems. Biofilms can be responsible for loss of distribution system disinfectant residuals, increased bacterial levels, reduction of dissolved oxygen, taste and odor changes, red or black water problems due to iron or sulfate-reducing bacteria, microbial-influenced corrosion, hydraulic roughness, and reduced materials life (Characklis and Marshal, 1990).
Microorganisms in biofilms can include bacteria (including coccoid round, rod-shaped, filamentous, and appendaged bacteria), fungi, and higher organisms like nematodes, larvae, and Crustacea. Recently, researchers have shown that viruses and parasites like Cryptosporidium can be trapped in biofilms. Although viruses and Cryptosporidium do not grow in a biofilm, they can attach to biofilms after a contamination event. Therefore, it is important to thoroughly flush the distribution system to remove these organisms following a contamination event.
A primary reason that many water utilities become concerned with biofilms in drinking water systems is due to growth of coliform bacteria in the pipe network. In 1993 in the United States alone, nearly 4,400 water systems affecting 21 million people violated drinking water standards for total coliform bacteria (Pontius, 1995). Similar trends were noted for 1994 and 1995, with over 12,000 systems exceeding accepted coliform levels. Of concern are the nearly 2,000 systems every quarter that are significant noncompliers and repeatedly detect coliform bacteria in finished drinking water. Although some of these systems experience coliform occurrences due to cross connections and other operational defects, a large proportion of the systems can trace their problems to regrowth of the bacteria in distribution system biofilms.
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Biofilms in Drinking Water Distribution Systems: Significance and Control
Mark W. LeChevallier
A biofilm is a collection of organic and inorganic, living and dead material collected on a surface. It may be a complete film or, more commonly in water systems, small patches on pipe surfaces. Biofilms in drinking water pipe networks can be responsible for a wide range of water quality and operational problems. Biofilms can be responsible for loss of distribution system disinfectant residuals, increased bacterial levels, reduction of dissolved oxygen, taste and odor changes, red or black water problems due to iron or sulfate-reducing bacteria, microbial-influenced corrosion, hydraulic roughness, and reduced materials life (Characklis and Marshal, 1990).
Microorganisms in biofilms can include bacteria (including coccoid round, rod-shaped, filamentous, and appendaged bacteria), fungi, and higher organisms like nematodes, larvae, and Crustacea. Recently, researchers have shown that viruses and parasites like Cryptosporidium can be trapped in biofilms. Although viruses and Cryptosporidium do not grow in a biofilm, they can attach to biofilms after a contamination event. Therefore, it is important to thoroughly flush the distribution system to remove these organisms following a contamination event.
A primary reason that many water utilities become concerned with biofilms in drinking water systems is due to growth of coliform bacteria in the pipe network. In 1993 in the United States alone, nearly 4,400 water systems affecting 21 million people violated drinking water standards for total coliform bacteria (Pontius, 1995). Similar trends were noted for 1994 and 1995, with over 12,000 systems exceeding accepted coliform levels. Of concern are the nearly 2,000 systems every quarter that are significant noncompliers and repeatedly detect coliform bacteria in finished drinking water. Although some of these systems experience coliform occurrences due to cross connections and other operational defects, a large proportion of the systems can trace their problems to regrowth of the bacteria in distribution system biofilms.
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Factors Related to Coliform Occurrences
Recent studies have examined data from over 90 water systems (see Figure 10-1) to determine the factors that contribute to the occurrence of coliform bacteria in drinking water (LeChevallier et al., 1996; Volk et al., 1996). These studies have shown that the occurrence of coliform bacteria can be related to the following factors: filtration, temperature, disinfectant type and residual, assimilable organic carbon (AOC) level, corrosion control, and pipe material selection.
Four unfiltered surface water systems were included in one study (LeChevallier et al., 1996) and accounted for 26.6 percent of the total number of bacterial samples collected but 64.3 percent (1,013 of 1,576) of the positive coliform samples. Although the results do not suggest that treatment was inadequate (e.g., coliforms were not related to breakthrough of treatment barriers), the data suggested that filtration may be an important factor in preventing coliform regrowth. Following the study, one of the systems installed filtration and distribution system coliform levels were reduced by a factor of three over the following 18-month interval.
On average, the occurrence of coliform bacteria was significantly higher when water temperatures were >15ºC (See Figure 10-2). However, the minimum temperature at which microbial activity was observed varied from system to system. Systems that typically experienced cold water had increases in coliform occurrences when water temperatures ranged near 10ºC. The strains of coliform bacteria in these systems may be better adapted to grow at lower temperatures (psychrophiles).
Disinfectant Residual and Disinfectant Level
For filtered systems there was a difference between systems that maintained a free chlorine residual and systems that used chloramines. For systems that used free chlorine, 0.97 percent of 33,196 samples contained coliform bacteria, while 0.51 percent of 35,159 samples from chloraminated systems contained coliform bacteria (statistically different at p < .0001). The average density of coliform bacteria was 35 times higher in free chlorinated systems as compared to chloraminated water (0.60 colony-forming units CFUs/100 ml for free chlorinated water, compared to 0.017 CFUs/100 ml for
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Figure 10-1
Location of study sites.
Figure 10-2
Relationship between monthly average water temperature and coliform occurrence.
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chloraminated water). Previous research (LeChevallier et al., 1990; LeChevallier, 1991) has hypothesized that chloramines may be able to better penetrate into distribution system biofilms and inactivate attached bacteria. The fact that different disinfectants may interact differently with biofilms can be related to their different mechanisms of action. Free chlorine, for example, is known to react with natural organic matter to form trihalomethanes (Rook, 1974). Chloramines do not form these products to the same degree. Free chlorine attacks the cytoplasmic membrane of gram-negative bacteria to produce a cellular lesion (injury) that results in an increased sensitivity to surfactants (Zaske et al., 1980). Chloramines do not produce the same type of injury as free chlorine, and the chloramine lesion can be reversed with a reducing agent (sodium sulfite) (Watters et al., 1989). The penetration of free chlorine into a biofilm has been modeled and shown to be limited by its fast reaction rate (LeChevallier, 1991; DeBeer et al., 1994). Essentially free chlorine is consumed before it can react with the bacterial components of the film (Chen and Stewart, 1996). Chloramines, on the other hand, are slower reacting and can diffuse into the biofilm and eventually inactivate attached bacteria. This mechanism has been elegantly demonstrated by researchers at Montana State University using an alginate bead model (Chen and Stewart, 1996). Stewart and colleagues (in press) showed that free chlorine effectively did not penetrate alginate beads containing bacterial cells but that chloramines did penetrate into the alginate material and reduced bacterial levels nearly 1 million-fold over a 60-minute interval (2.5 mg/L chloramines, pH 8.9).
The effectiveness of a chloramine residual for controlling coliform occurrences suspected to be the result of biofilm growth in distribution pipelines is shown in Figure 10-3. The system experienced coliform occurrences even when free chlorine residuals averaged between 2 and 2.5 mg/L in the distribution system. Use of m-T7 medium, a technique that recovers injured bacteria (LeChevallier et al., 1983), showed coliform occurrence rates ranged between 10 and 40 percent even during months when coliforms were not recovered on the standard m-Endo medium. Conversion of the disinfectant to chloramines in June 1993 resulted in dramatic decreases in coliform occurrences measured by both m-Endo and m-T7 media, and the bacteria have not been detected in the finished drinking water for the three years following the change (Norton and LeChevallier, 1997).
In addition to the type of disinfectant used, the residual maintained at the end of the distribution system was also associated with coliform occurrences (LeChevallier et al., 1996). Systems that maintained dead-end free chlorine levels <0.2 mg/L, or monochloramine levels <0.5 mg/L, had substantially more coliform occurrences than systems maintaining higher disinfectant residuals. However, systems with high AOC levels needed to maintain high disinfectant residuals to control coliform occurrences (see Figure 10-4). Therefore, maintenance of a disinfectant residual alone did not ensure that treated waters would be free of coliform bacteria.
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Figure 10-3
Coliform occurrence in a system before and after conversion from chlorine to chloramines.
Figure 10-4
Relationship between AOC and distribution system disinfectant residuals.
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AOC Level
The combined results from two surveys of AOC levels in North American drinking water systems (LeChevallier et al., 1996; Volk et al. 1996) are shown in Figure 10-5. The levels (summarized as the geometric mean based on 12 to 36 samples) range from 20 to 214 μg/L. The results also indicate that the majority of the total AOC results from the growth of the test organism, Spirillum sp. strain NOX. This AOCNOX fraction is influenced by disinfection practices (chlorine, ozone, etc.) and suggests that changes in these practices (i.e., type of disinfectant, point of application, dose) can impact AOC levels in finished drinking water.
High levels of AOC can stimulate bacterial growth in distribution system biofilms (LeChevallier et al., 1996; Volk et al., 1996). On average, free chlorinated systems with AOC levels greater than 100 μg/L had 82 percent more coliform-positive samples, and the coliform densities were 19 times higher than free-chlorinated systems with average AOC levels less than 99 μg/L. However, high levels of AOC alone do not dictate the occurrence of coliform bacteria in drinking water but are only one factor. Figure 10-6 illustrates a decision tree that graphically depicts combinations of threshold values above which the probability of coliform occurrence is increased (Volk et al., 1996). As more of the threshold values are exceeded, the probability of coliform occurrences is increased. Data summarized in Table 10-1 show that the frequency of coliform occurrence was less than 2 percent when no threshold criteria were exceeded and increased to 16 percent when all three criteria were exceeded. The magnitude (number of positive samples per event) also increased with a greater exceedance of threshold criteria. Similar models developed for specific systems have yielded higher predictive probabilities (Volk and Joret, 1992).
Relationship Between Threshold Criteria and Coliform Occurrence
No. Positive Criteria
Total No. of Events
Coliform-Positive Samples
No. of Coliform Episodes
Frequency of Coliform Observation (%)
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Figure 10-5
AOC levels in 94 North American water systems.
Figure 10-6
Decision tree for coliform occurrences in drinking water.
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Corrosion Control and Pipe Materials
Most systems do not measure corrosion rates on a daily basis, so this parameter is difficult to evaluate full-scale. However, recent research has demonstrated that corrosion of iron pipes can influence the effectiveness of chlorine-based disinfectants for inactivation of biofilm bacteria (LeChevallier et al., 1990, 1993). Therefore, the choice of pipe material and the accumulation of corrosion products can dramatically impact the ability to control the effects of biofilms in drinking water systems.
Figure 10-7 shows average monthly corrosion rates (in milles "thousandth of an inch" per year) from a system in Illinois. The conventional plant effluent corrosion rate showed marked seasonal variations. Corrosion rates were the highest during the summer months when, traditionally, the incidence of coliform occurrences are the highest (Figure 10-2). Similar seasonal variations have been observed in other systems (Norton and LeChevallier, 1997).
This variation in corrosion rates is important because the corrosion products react with residual chlorine, preventing the biocide from penetrating the biofilm and controlling bacterial growth. Studies have shown that free chlorine is impacted to a greater extent that monochloramine, although the effectiveness of both disinfectants is impaired if corrosion rates are not controlled (LeChevallier et al., 1990, 1993). Increasing the phosphate-based corrosion inhibitor dose, especially during the summer months, can help reduce corrosion rates (Figure 10-7). In full-scale studies, systems that used a phosphate-based corrosion inhibitor had lower coliform levels than systems that did not practice corrosion control (LeChevallier et al., 1996). In addition to the level of generalized corrosion, localized pitting can provide a protective habitat for bacterial proliferation. The pitting of certain metal pipes can be accelerated by high levels of chloride and sulfate. The ratio of chloride and sulfate to bicarbonate levels is known as the Larson index and can indicate the propensity for pitting corrosion. Research has shown that consideration of the level of generalized corrosion, Larson index, corrosion inhibitor, and disinfectant residual is necessary to accurately predict the inactivation of biofilm bacteria (see Table 10-2) (LeChevallier et al., 1993).
Studies have shown that the Larson index can vary seasonally in drinking water systems, with the highest levels occurring during the summer months (LeChevallier et al., 1993). Factors that can influence the Larson index include anything that increases chloride levels (chlorine disinfection, aluminum or ferric salts) or that changes the alkalinity of the water (lime, soda ash, sodium bicarbonate have a positive influence; hydrofluosilicic acid, chlorine gas, certain coagulants depress alkalinity).
The pipe surface itself can influence the composition and activity of biofilm populations. Studies have shown that biofilms developed more quickly on iron pipe surfaces than on plastic PVC pipes, despite the fact that adequate corrosion control was applied, the water was biologically treated to reduce AOC levels, and chlorine residuals were consistently maintained (Haas et al., 1983; Camper, 1996). This
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Figure 10-7
Increasing phosphate levels can reduce corrosion rates.
Figure 10-8
Microbial populations isolated from PVC (A) or iron pipe (B) surfaces.
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Multiple Linear Regression Modela for Monochloramine Disinfection of Biofilm Bacteria
Log Reduction Viable Counts
Standard Error
Significance Level
Log Larson index
Log corrosion rate
Log monochloramine
Phosphate level
Corrosion in Rsquared
F test:
a Model is based on 18 observations.
Detection Frequency of Slow-Growing Mycobacteria in Water Samples
Percent Samples Containing Slow-Growing Mycobacteria
Disinfectant Type
Nutrient Level
Plant/Well Effluent
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stimulation of microbial communities on iron pipes has been observed by other investigators.
In addition to influencing the development of biofilms, the pipe surface has also been shown to affect the composition of the microbial communities present in the biofilm (see Figure 10-8) (Haas et al., 1983). Iron pipes supported a more diverse microbial population than did PVC pipes. The purpose of these studies is not to indicate that certain pipe materials are preferred over another but to demonstrate the importance of considering the type of materials that come into contact with potable water.
Public Health Significance of Biofilm Control
Growth of coliform bacteria in distribution system biofilms could be considered a nuisance if they had no public health significance. Coliform bacteria have traditionally been used to indicate the adequacy of drinking water treatment. A new interpretation of this indicator concept implies that drinking water is not adequately treated if coliform bacteria can proliferate in distribution system biofilms. One concern is whether opportunistic pathogens such as Legionella pneunophila, Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC), or other microbes can also proliferate.
Members of the M. avium complex (i.e., M. avium and Mycobacterium intracellulare) have been shown to occur in drinking water distribution systems with levels ranging between 0.08 and 4S,000 CFUs/ml (Haas et al., 1983; duMoulin and Stottmeier, 1986; duMoulin et al., 1988; Carson et al., 1988a; Fischeder et al., 1991; von Reyn et al., 1993, 1994; Glover et al., 1994). The greatest increase in M. avium complex infections has been with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients, approximately 25 to 50 percent of whom suffer debilitating and life-threatening MAC infections (Horsburgh, 1991; Nightingale et al., 1992). The organism infects the gastrointestinal or pulmonary tract, suggesting that food or water may be important routes of transmission for AIDS patients.
In an ongoing research study, examination of eight, well-characterized, drinking water systems showed that slow-growing mycobacteria were frequently detected in raw water and in distribution system samples using a chloramine residual (see Table 10-3). Either free-chlorine or ozone treatment appeared to be sufficient to eliminate mycobacteria to below detectable levels in plant effluent levels. The conclusion that chloramines provide a selective advantage for mycobacteria may be premature because of the higher rates of mycobacteria detection in raw water and possible elimination of bacteria that overgrow the selective medium. The reason for the frequent detection of slow-growing mycobacteria in the free-chlorinated groundwater site is unclear but may be due to the low chlorine residuals (average of 0.15 mg/L) observed at this location.
The levels of slow-growing mycobacteria detected in raw water samples and in distribution system samples are shown in Table 10-4. The results show that high levels were detected in a small number of samples. These levels could occur following flushing or other activities that could dislodge biofilm samples or resuspend distribution system sediments. Biofilm Mycobacterium levels ranged from nondetectable to >1,500 CFUs/cm2.
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Using a nested PCR method (Kulski et al., 1995), 304 of the 708 (43 percent) of the water isolates, and 337 of 747 (45 percent) biofilm were identified as members of the genus Mycobacterium. Using both the nested PCR method and a PCR-based technique involving amplification of the 65-kDa heat shock protein gene (hsp-65) followed by digestion of the PCR product with restriction endonucleases (PCR-RE) (Telenti et al., 1993; Steingrube et al., 1995), 20 percent of the water isolates and 64 percent of the biofilm isolates were identified as M. avium or M. intracellulare. Additionally, eight percent of the water isolates were identified as M. kansasii. Ongoing biofilm studies are examining the role of nutrients, pipe material, disinfectant species, and temperature in an effort to better control mycobacteria in drinking water.
Average Density of Slow-Growing Mycobacteria in Water Samples
Slow-Growing Mycobacteria/mLa
Disinfectant Type
Nutrient Level
Plant Effluent
a For samples where slow-growing mycobacteria were detected.
The occurrence of coliform regrowth in distribution systems depends on a complex interaction of chemical, physical, operational, and engineering parameters. No single factor could account for all coliform occurrences, so the water utility operator must consider all of the above parameters in devising a solution to the regrowth problem. Even systems that do not experience coliform problems may want to more closely examine biofilm control strategies and a means of limiting the occurrence of opportunistic pathogens such as Mycobacterium avium complex in drinking water supplies.
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Kurt Svendsen - MD, Corporate Communications & IR Mike Hoffman - Chairman & CEO Renee Peterson - VP, Finance & CFO Analysts Eric Bosshard - Cleveland Research Company Michael Wherley - Janney Capital Robert Kosowski - Sidoti Josh Chan - Raymond James Jim Barrett - CL King & Associates David MacGregor - Longbow Research Presentation Operator Good day ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Toro Company third quarter earnings conference call. My name is Jasmine and I will be your coordinator for today. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. (Operator Instructions) As a reminder, this conference is being recorded for replay purposes. I would now like to turn the presentation over to your host for today's conference to Mr. Kurt D. Svendsen, Managing Director of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations for the Toro Company. Please proceed, Mr. Svendsen. Kurt Svendsen Thank you and good morning. Joining me for our third quarter and earnings call are Mike Hoffman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; Renee Peterson, Chief Financial Officer; Tom Larson, Vice President and Treasurer and Blake Grams, Vice President and Controller. We begin with our customary forward-looking statement policy. During this call we will make certain forward-looking statements which are intended to assist you in understanding the company's results. You are all aware of the inherent difficulties, risks and uncertainties in making predictive statements. The Safe Harbor portion of the Company's earnings release, as well as SEC filings detail some of the important risk factors that may cause actual results to differ from those in our predictions.Check Out Our Best Services for Investors
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The world's largest classic car trade, Techno Classica Essen, starts later this week and Porsche Classic will be on hand to showcase a sampling of their "Classic" original parts and new "Classic Motoroil".
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- Despite losing another injured player, probably for the season, New Jersey Nets general manager Billy King will not make any roster moves and vows that the struggling team will continue to play with the current roster.
King's declaration comes after the team lost reserve guard Keith Bogans to a broken ankle during Wednesday's loss to Detroit. Bogans was just signed as a free agent two weeks ago, but his broken ankle will require surgery on Monday, more than likely ending his season.
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